{"podcast":{"title":"The Winning Coach with Pat Rigsby","slug":"the-fitness-business-school-with-pat-rigsby-6575010","podcast_index_feed_id":6575010,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/84801/rss","website_url":"http://patrigsby.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/0/7/f/407fbc7acd8b4aed16c3140a3186d450/Untitled_design_57.png","author":"Pat Rigsby","episode_count":772,"summary":"The Winning Coach with Pat Rigsby — for sports-minded entrepreneurs, coaches, and high performers who want to build better teams, better businesses, and better lives. Find out more at www.PatRigsby.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-06T16:20:28.343921+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fitness-business-school-with-pat-rigsby-6575010"},"episode":{"title":"The Winning Coach - 05 - Make The Big Time Where You Are","slug":"the-winning-coach-05-make-the-big-time-where-you-are","published_at":"2026-06-29T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fitness-business-school-with-pat-rigsby-6575010/the-winning-coach-05-make-the-big-time-where-you-are","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fitness-business-school-with-pat-rigsby-6575010","url":"https://idealbusiness.libsyn.com/the-winning-coach-05-make-the-big-time-where-you-are","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/idealbusiness/pod_-_The_Winning_Coach_-_05_-_Make_the_Big_Time_Where_You_Are.mp3?dest-id=405133","summary":"Make the Big Time Where You Are | Why the Best Coaches & Entrepreneurs Stop Chasing the Next Opportunity Everyone wants a bigger opportunity—a larger business, more clients, a better job, or the next big breakthrough. But what if the fastest path to those opportunities is becoming exceptional exactly where you are? In this episode of The Winning Coach , Pat Rigsby shares one of the most impactful lessons of his coaching and business career: Make the big time where you are. Drawing from his experience as the youngest college baseball head coach in the country, Pat explains how he went from constantly chasing the next opportunity to building a nationally competitive program by maximizing the resources he already had. He then connects that same philosophy to over two decades of coaching fitness business owners and entrepreneurs, showing why sustainable success comes from mastering your current situation before looking for something bigger. Along the way, he shares stories from elite baseball coaches, successful gym owners, and respected business leaders who built remarkable careers by focusing on excellence, player development, operational systems, and long-term thinking instead of constantly pursuing the next shiny object. If you're a gym owner, entrepreneur, business coach, leader, or anyone striving to build something meaningful, this episode offers a practical blueprint for creating opportunities through consistent execution rather than constant expansion. In this episode you'll discover: Why \"the grass is greener\" thinking limits your growth The leadership lesson that changed Pat's coaching career How maximizing today's opportunities creates tomorrow's success Why the best business owners build systems before they scale Lessons from successful college baseball coache…","meta_description":"Make the Big Time Where You Are | Why the Best Coaches & Entrepreneurs Stop Chasing the Next Opportunity Everyone wants a bigger opportunity—a larger busi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":532,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-fitness-business-school-with-pat-rigsby-6575010/episodes/the-winning-coach-05-make-the-big-time-where-you-are/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fitness-business-school-with-pat-rigsby-6575010/the-winning-coach-05-make-the-big-time-where-you-are.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}