Life Lessons from Pickleball™
Life Lessons from Pickleball™
Shelley Maurer and Sher Emerick
E95: Thomas Yelloweyes: From Rock Bottom to Night Train Pickleball
30 minutes Posted Feb 17, 2026 at 11:00 am.
Welcome & Book Announcement
Introducing Thomas Yellow Eyes
Childhood Trauma And Foster Care
Injuries, Burnout, And Hitting Bottom
Stumbling Onto Pickleball Community
Finding Belonging And Support
Processing Loss And Healing
Becoming A Healer Not A Wounder
The Birth Of Night Train Pickleball
Accidental Clinics And Early Growth
Naming Night Train And Identity
The Five-Tier Method Problem To Solve
Ratings, Assessment, And Program Design
Build The Floor Then Raise The Ceiling
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How can pickleball help someone rebuild their life, rediscover purpose, and become the kind of coach who changes other people’s lives too? In this episode, Thomas Yelloweyes shares his extraordinary story of trauma, foster care, loss, survival, and reinvention. Thomas opens up about growing up in the foster care system, facing deep instability and heartbreak from an early age, and later finding himself at another rock-bottom moment as an adult, living out of his car, searching for direction, ...