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Our Life After Hockey Program: The transition from ‘an athlete’s world’ to ‘the real world’ requires a paradigm shift. With guidance, clear focus, and determination the transition can bring great fulfillment, purpose, and joy. Developing a new and healthy sense of identity, creating stability, and choosing your next career in your life after hockey require clear strategy and execution.. Our Life After Hockey and Athlete Career Transition Program takes you through a comprehensive step by step process. We offer development support to committed current and former pro hockey players. Rather than searching for purpose in your new life, create a purpose filled life.
Engage fully in this Life After Hockey Program, (Athlete Career Transition Program). I believe you are on the ground floor of a movement that will change the fate of transitioning athletes around the world. The energy you invest will impact the course of your life in ways you may never have imagined. You are capable of writing a new chapter abundant in happiness, joy, fulfillment, and contentment. I hope you will become an ambassador to help athletes following in your footsteps. To be in service of others is one of life’s most meaningful endeavors. Click here to learn more about our Athlete Career Transition Services.
We owe a great deal to the game of hockey. We’ve had amazing life experiences. The general population may never understand the strength of personal bonds we’ve created. Our interpersonal skills and belief in ‘team’ developed through our sport. Hockey has kept us out of trouble, taught us to respect authority, and instilled the value of disciplined commitment. It’s let us to dream big, set goals, and stick with them against enormous odds.
As hockey players we learn to thrive in uncertainty. The next day may bring a trade or injury, a new opportunity, new contract, fame and recognition. We live out of hotels, strangers’ homes, and countless apartments. We put our bodies on the line and our futures on hold, leave family and friends behind for the love of the game and the chance of a pro contract. A hockey player lives with uncertainty because that is what an athlete does.
For many of us it has been an incredible ride, yet that looming uncertainty of our next chapter feels beyond our control. We’ve learned lessons acquired skills, and forged strong bonds. Yet many players leave the game feeling alone, let down, unappreciated, misled, and unprepared for life’s next chapter. For many hockey players, the game finishes with us before we’re ready to be finished with it. Very few athletes leave their sport with all they dreamed of accomplishing.
Even for those of us who feel ready to leave our playing days behind, we may not feel ready for the real work that lies ahead. Jobs, careers, education, financial responsibilities, and managing relationships in our new reality weigh heavily upon us. Furthermore, we must adapt to the loss of identity, reduced social network, lack of recognition and new uncertainties. Many players experience a lull. The phone rings less, the game goes on without us. We wonder if anyone will miss us. It doesn’t have to be this way.
You are not alone, strange, or incompetent. What if a Life After Hockey Program could support players to connect with the strength and skills already inside of them? I asked myself that for years. Now it’s here. We help you discover and maximize your true potential as citizens of your local and global communities. Just like your hockey career, you’ll need to put in the time and do the work. We’re not handing out jobs to a line up of athletes. We are here to help you drive your mission forward.
A Certified Executive Coach holds you capable of finding clarity, creating solutions to challenges, and building a plan to move forward. We engage you in thought provoking reflective dialogue that puts you in the driver seat. The right self awareness and action plan lead to incredible results. This Life After Hockey Program is only for current and former professional hockey players ready to take responsible positive action in their transition to life after hockey.
We have created a low barrier to entry into this program with our 5 Stage Pathway Online Course. The course will begin to shift your paradigm and set you up for success. A larger and more impactful commitment combines the 5 Stage Pathway Course with life changing one on one coaching sessions. Your best option? Get Started Now.
Nate Leslie – Life After Hockey & Athlete Career Transition Program Creator.
Certified Executive Coach (CEC) | Associate Certified Coach (ACC) – International Coach Federation (ICF) | Master’s Degree – International Education (M.Ed.) | Owner – Leslie Global Sports – | Owner/Director – West Coast Hockey Prep Camp
Inside the Athlete Career Transition Network you’ll have access to many professionals we have curated to support our athletes. Below you’ll find a playlist of interviews with some hockey players who have transitioned really well.