Living Out Your Why | Coach Kurt Hines on Calling, Leadership, and Coaching Beyond the Scoreboard

What if coaching was never about wins and losses? In this powerful conversation, Play Beautiful welcomes Coach Kurt Hines — husband, father, teacher, author, and one of the most purpose-driven leaders in sports today. Known for his message “Called to Empower: The Power of Why,” Coach Hines shares the deeply personal journey that shaped his life, his leadership, and his mission to use football as a platform to serve people — not ego. This episode goes far beyond X’s and O’s. Coach Hines opens up about his troubled youth, arrests, fighting, and the moment a police officer challenged him to grow up — a turning point that changed his life trajectory. From there, he shares how coaching became a calling, not a career, and why the scoreboard can never measure a coach’s true success. We talk about: • Why most coaches unintentionally damage culture • The danger of ego in leadership • Coaching as ministry (even without religion) • The firing that confirmed his purpose • How to build psychological safety in teams • What athletes actually need from coaches • Why championships can cost you your family • And the one question every coach should ask every day Coach Hines explains that a coach’s true job is not developing athletes — it’s developing people.