Purple Patch Podcast

This week, it's part two of our double-header on resilience. If you missed last week's episode on developing resilience within yourself, you can listen HERE.

In part two, we think beyond ourselves, …

This episode is part one of a two-part episode on RESILIENCE.

There are two arms of building resilience:

• Resilience for yourself - Your platform to develop performance

• Resilience for others - Gui…

As the daily reality of living in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic starts to settle in, we appreciate that this is an incredibly challenging time for everyone. It is one that we will unite and s…

This BONUS episode is from a LIVE "Meetings with Matt Office Hours" recorded on Monday, March 18th, 2020. 

Many of us have lost our compass -- events canceled, training roadmap destroyed, access comp…

This is a time for resilience and call-to-action from Coach Matt Dixon and Purple Patch Fitness. 

What should you do as a performance-minded individual in these uncertain times?

Matt Dixon outlines a…

Live from our recent Kona Empowerment Camp, Matt speaks with long-time Purple Patch athlete and CEO of ChargePoint, Pasquale Romano, about integrating sport into a time-starved life. 

It's a conversa…

You hold a power of influence that is greater than you can imagine. Even if you're not in a traditional position of leadership, you can enable quiet change by what you do more than what you say.

In t…

Andy Blow, Founder and CEO of Precision Hydration, makes a return visit to the Purple Patch Podcast to discuss sweat testing and practical application with multiple case studies.

Discussion topics in…

If you are one of the many triathletes who struggle with the swim portion of a triathlon, you are likely an adult onset swimmer, the subject for this week's episode.

If you didn’t grow up with the gr…

Your athletic journey should be one of longterm development and integration into life. Ultimately, a healthy journey will expand your life view, improve your health and energy, and create a sustained…

Did you know that winning can be a highly frustrating experience for a champion? Hard to believe, right? How is that even possible?

Today, Matt parks this episode right at the intersection of measuri…

Matt celebrates YOU, the loyal Purple Patch podcast listener. He also reflects and reviews some of the key takeaways from the first 100 shows, along with the history and philosophies that have shaped…

Matt discusses the long-term evolution of athletes with two real-life case studies of everyday people and athletes who reimagined and reinvented their approach to performance. The goal with each of t…

This foundational episode of the new year introduces your path-to-performance optimization for 2020 and it's all anchored around four magic words. Yes. four critical words.

These words set the tone f…

Tom Andrews is founder of TJA Leadership - a leadership strategy firm that works with some of the largest corporations and executives in big moments of change.

His vast and varied list of clients inc…

Matt Dixon is back with his 2020 Holiday Gift Guide centered around his four pillars of performance.

These ideas aren’t quick fixes or magic shortcuts to performance success. They are simple, actiona…

In this episode, which is a sequel to our original  Episode 47 on "Childhood Development in Sport," Matt explores three critical components of development in kids in sport:

• Performance anxiety
• Spor…

In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States, we’re taking the week off and featuring a few “Best of” segments from recent episodes. The common themes throughout? 

Elite behavior, e…

Two Purple Patch athletes, Sandy Holbrook James and Sarah Gott, share their journeys of integrating multisport into their time-starved lives and how they both transformed from recreational athletes t…

In this powerful episode on healthy development and mindset in sport, Matt outlines optimal coaching habits for creating healthy athletes, lists the top 10 key habits that support longterm health, an…