Season 2, Ep. 2 | The Play Sheet: A Conversation with Brian Hurtak
In this episode, I sit down with Brian Hurtak—Fortune 100 executive, community leader, dad, and author of The Play Sheet.
Brian brings forward a grounded, honest conversation on what it means to carry the weight of work, family, ambition, and expectations—and still show up with intention.
Inspired by the structure of football, and how coaches coach, The Play Sheet isn't a sports book. It's a life book. A practical, clear-eyed framework designed to help overloaded professionals cut through noise and make the right call—whether at work, at home, or in the sometimes precious minutes we get with our kids at the end of a long day.
We talk attitude, adjustments, and those sand-in-the-gears moments when what used to work doesn’t anymore—and how to respond. Brian shares real-life plays he runs in his parenting, marriage, and leadership, and why he keeps his play sheets visible in the most ordinary parts of his day.
This one’s for anyone wanting to live more intentionally, not just drift through the day running out the clock.
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Show Notes
Brian Hurtak is a Fortune 100 business executive with more than fifteen years of experience and an MBA from the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
He has ties to football institutions like St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Valdosta State University. He currently lives with his wife, Erica, and their two children in south Texas, where he also has ties to several schools under the Friday night lights.
He was named “40 Under 40” by the San Antonio Business Journal, co-chaired the forty-fifth class of Leadership San Antonio, and serves on numerous nonprofit boards, including San Antonio Sports.
Key More Elephant Takeaways in this Episode:
Brian outlines the importance of stating with your ethos—have a clear sense of what you are trying to achieve—and how to emulate a football coach’s play sheet to organise and maximise the outcomes
We discuss how leadership so often happens in the ordinary moments and growth is by making adjustments.
Brian shares the intentionality around balance across life’s quadrants and how planning and aligning outcomes drives peak performance and connection.
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Transcript
More Elephant Intro
[00:00:38] Jason Rudman: In this latest conversation on More Elephant, I'm joined by Brian Hurtak. Brian is a Fortune 100 business executive.
He has ties to football institutions at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale. Currently resides in Texas with his wife and two kids, and has been named 40 under 40 by the San Antonio Business Journal. Co-chair, the 45th class of Leadership San Antonio, which I have no doubt we're gonna get into and serves on numerous nonprofit boards, including San Antonio Sports.
The reason he's here today is he's adding author to that. On January the seventh, he released his first book. A simple resource for overloaded professionals, where he attempts to give us some hacks in this Tetris playing life, where we try to manage professional life, home life, our kids, if we have them, everything around us. I often feel overloaded trying to figure out how I make all of this work in a 24-hour period. And I wish there were 26 hours in the day.
Brian is here to bring forward a very, very simple analogy, which is from September to January, every year in professional football. And then throughout the year in college football, high school, football, even flag football. Every single coach has a play sheet, and that simple hack might help us unburden, actually deload, and de-stress our lives.
So Brian, welcome to the More Elephant podcast.
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