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    <title>The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast</title>
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    <description>The Official Long-Form Podcast of Brian Cain, MPM, #1 Best-Selling Author, Creator of The Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaching Certification and The 30 Days to Mental Performance for Athletes Course.

The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast is dedicated to helping you reach your maximum potential through mastering the 10 pillars (skills) of mental performance.&amp;nbsp;

Brian Cain has worked with the top coaches and athletes in professional, collegiate and high school sports on building an elite mindset and the routines, habits and culture they need to win.

His client list includes 6 UFC mixed martial arts World Champions, 10 NCAA National Champions, 4 MLB Cy Young Award winners, a Heisman Trophy winner, Olympic gold medalists, and top performing school, corporations and law enforcement teams from around the globe.

Also be sure to check out Brian's daily podcast, The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.</description>
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    <itunes:summary>The Official Long-Form Podcast of Brian Cain, MPM, #1 Best-Selling Author, Creator of The Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaching Certification and The 30 Days to Mental Performance for Athletes Course.

The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast is dedicated to helping you reach your maximum potential through mastering the 10 pillars (skills) of mental performance.&amp;nbsp;

Brian Cain has worked with the top coaches and athletes in professional, collegiate and high school sports on building an elite mindset and the routines, habits and culture they need to win.

His client list includes 6 UFC mixed martial arts World Champions, 10 NCAA National Champions, 4 MLB Cy Young Award winners, a Heisman Trophy winner, Olympic gold medalists, and top performing school, corporations and law enforcement teams from around the globe.

Also be sure to check out Brian's daily podcast, The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.</itunes:summary>
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      <![CDATA[<p>The Official Long-Form Podcast of Brian Cain, MPM, #1 Best-Selling Author, Creator of The Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaching Certification and The 30 Days to Mental Performance for Athletes Course.</p><p><br></p><p>The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast is dedicated to helping you reach your maximum potential through mastering the 10 pillars (skills) of mental performance.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Brian Cain has worked with the top coaches and athletes in professional, collegiate and high school sports on building an elite mindset and the routines, habits and culture they need to win.</p><p><br></p><p>His client list includes 6 UFC mixed martial arts World Champions, 10 NCAA National Champions, 4 MLB Cy Young Award winners, a Heisman Trophy winner, Olympic gold medalists, and top performing school, corporations and law enforcement teams from around the globe.</p><p><br></p><p>Also be sure to check out Brian's daily podcast, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a>.</p>]]>
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      <title>Wake Up And Execute | Matthew Liberatore &amp; Brian Cain</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, brought to you by Pison, Brian is joined by Matthew Liberatore, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. Matthew was selected 16th overall in the 2018 MLB Draft by the Tampa Bay Rays out of high school and later traded to the Cardinals, where he has continued to develop into a key piece of their pitching staff.

In this episode, Brian and Matthew dive deep into the mental side of baseball, discussing the strategies and techniques that help him stay locked in on the mound, perform under pressure, and execute when it matters most.

In this podcast, Brian and Matthew discuss:
• The Most Beneficial Mental Performance Techniques Matthew Uses
• How He Brings Structure To His Process and Training
• The Power of In-Game Routines for Staying Present and Locked In
• Why Execution is the Key to Success in Baseball and Life
• The One Mental Game Skill Every Baseball Player Should Focus On

Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak.

📲 Follow Matthew Liberatore on Instagram: @matthew_liberatore
📲 Follow Brian Cain On Instagram: @briancainpeak
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:16:17 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Wake Up And Execute | Matthew Liberatore &amp; Brian Cain</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, brought to you by Pison, Brian is joined by Matthew Liberatore, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. Matthew was selected 16th overall in the 2018 MLB Draft by the Tampa Bay Rays out of high school and later traded to the Cardinals, where he has continued to develop into a key piece of their pitching staff.

In this episode, Brian and Matthew dive deep into the mental side of baseball, discussing the strategies and techniques that help him stay locked in on the mound, perform under pressure, and execute when it matters most.

In this podcast, Brian and Matthew discuss:
• The Most Beneficial Mental Performance Techniques Matthew Uses
• How He Brings Structure To His Process and Training
• The Power of In-Game Routines for Staying Present and Locked In
• Why Execution is the Key to Success in Baseball and Life
• The One Mental Game Skill Every Baseball Player Should Focus On

Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak.

📲 Follow Matthew Liberatore on Instagram: @matthew_liberatore
📲 Follow Brian Cain On Instagram: @briancainpeak
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, brought to you by Pison, Brian is joined by Matthew Liberatore, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. Matthew was selected 16th overall in the 2018 MLB Draft by the Tampa Bay Rays out of high school and later traded to the Cardinals, where he has continued to develop into a key piece of their pitching staff.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Brian and Matthew dive deep into the mental side of baseball, discussing the strategies and techniques that help him stay locked in on the mound, perform under pressure, and execute when it matters most.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast, Brian and Matthew discuss:</p><p>• The Most Beneficial Mental Performance Techniques Matthew Uses</p><p>• How He Brings Structure To His Process and Training</p><p>• The Power of In-Game Routines for Staying Present and Locked In</p><p>• Why Execution is the Key to Success in Baseball and Life</p><p>• The One Mental Game Skill Every Baseball Player Should Focus On</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak.</p><p><br></p><p>📲 Follow Matthew Liberatore on Instagram: @matthew_liberatore</p><p>📲 Follow Brian Cain On Instagram: @briancainpeak</p><p>⌚Lean More About <a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <title>The Mindset Behind The #1 Pickleball Team In The World</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Pison, Brian is joined by World Champion pickleball icons and brothers Ben and Collin Johns.

Collin Johns made his professional debut at the 2019 US Open and quickly climbed the ranks to become one of the sport’s most accomplished doubles players. A former professional tennis player and collegiate coach, Collin’s deep understanding of strategy, discipline, and adaptability has driven him to over 25 professional titles alongside his brother. He’s also a leader in developing and certifying pickleball professionals across the country.

Ben Johns, widely regarded as the greatest pickleball player of all time, has redefined dominance in the sport. With over 120 professional titles, including 21 Triple Crowns and the longest win streak in singles history, Ben’s mental toughness, innovation, and commitment to excellence have set a new standard.

Together, they’ve built an unmatched partnership on the court and a legacy off it through ventures like Pickleball 360 and their dedication to growing the game. Today, we’ll dive into their journey, their mental frameworks for success, and how they’ve used mindset and preparation to consistently perform at the highest level.

In this podcast, Brian, Collin and Ben discuss:

What is the mental game of tennis and pickleball

The balance of automatic competitive state vs. overthinking

Focusing on the small task at hand to take your mind off the big picture

The Inner Game of Tennis, The Talent Code, Talent Is Overrated, Bounce, Winning Ugly

The impact of John Wooden on Collin’s coaching performance

The difference between college and professional tennis culture and mindset

Finding the balance between caring and not caring

How to use fear as fuel and separating who you are and what you do

How to process losing and failure?

How coaching collegiate tennis helped Collin in his career as a pickleball player

How Ben uses Pison to manage his readiness, reaction time and improving variables in competition.

How to get yourself more cognitively ready for performance

The impact of measurements on performance

The importance of repetition and deliberate practice


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

👉You can engage with Collin on Instagram @CollinJohns_PB
👉You can engage with Ben on Instagram @BenJohns_PB - and YouTube BenJohnsPickleBall
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:25:59 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Pison, Brian is joined by World Champion pickleball icons and brothers Ben and Collin Johns.

Collin Johns made his professional debut at the 2019 US Open and quickly climbed the ranks to become one of the sport’s most accomplished doubles players. A former professional tennis player and collegiate coach, Collin’s deep understanding of strategy, discipline, and adaptability has driven him to over 25 professional titles alongside his brother. He’s also a leader in developing and certifying pickleball professionals across the country.

Ben Johns, widely regarded as the greatest pickleball player of all time, has redefined dominance in the sport. With over 120 professional titles, including 21 Triple Crowns and the longest win streak in singles history, Ben’s mental toughness, innovation, and commitment to excellence have set a new standard.

Together, they’ve built an unmatched partnership on the court and a legacy off it through ventures like Pickleball 360 and their dedication to growing the game. Today, we’ll dive into their journey, their mental frameworks for success, and how they’ve used mindset and preparation to consistently perform at the highest level.

In this podcast, Brian, Collin and Ben discuss:

What is the mental game of tennis and pickleball

The balance of automatic competitive state vs. overthinking

Focusing on the small task at hand to take your mind off the big picture

The Inner Game of Tennis, The Talent Code, Talent Is Overrated, Bounce, Winning Ugly

The impact of John Wooden on Collin’s coaching performance

The difference between college and professional tennis culture and mindset

Finding the balance between caring and not caring

How to use fear as fuel and separating who you are and what you do

How to process losing and failure?

How coaching collegiate tennis helped Collin in his career as a pickleball player

How Ben uses Pison to manage his readiness, reaction time and improving variables in competition.

How to get yourself more cognitively ready for performance

The impact of measurements on performance

The importance of repetition and deliberate practice


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

👉You can engage with Collin on Instagram @CollinJohns_PB
👉You can engage with Ben on Instagram @BenJohns_PB - and YouTube BenJohnsPickleBall
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Pison, Brian is joined by World Champion pickleball icons and brothers Ben and Collin Johns.</p><p><br></p><p>Collin Johns made his professional debut at the 2019 US Open and quickly climbed the ranks to become one of the sport’s most accomplished doubles players. A former professional tennis player and collegiate coach, Collin’s deep understanding of strategy, discipline, and adaptability has driven him to over 25 professional titles alongside his brother. He’s also a leader in developing and certifying pickleball professionals across the country.</p><p><br></p><p>Ben Johns, widely regarded as the greatest pickleball player of all time, has redefined dominance in the sport. With over 120 professional titles, including 21 Triple Crowns and the longest win streak in singles history, Ben’s mental toughness, innovation, and commitment to excellence have set a new standard.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, they’ve built an unmatched partnership on the court and a legacy off it through ventures like Pickleball 360 and their dedication to growing the game. Today, we’ll dive into their journey, their mental frameworks for success, and how they’ve used mindset and preparation to consistently perform at the highest level.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast, Brian, Collin and Ben discuss:</p><ul>
<li>What is the mental game of tennis and pickleball</li>
<li>The balance of automatic competitive state vs. overthinking</li>
<li>Focusing on the small task at hand to take your mind off the big picture</li>
<li>The Inner Game of Tennis, The Talent Code, Talent Is Overrated, Bounce, Winning Ugly</li>
<li>The impact of John Wooden on Collin’s coaching performance</li>
<li>The difference between college and professional tennis culture and mindset</li>
<li>Finding the balance between caring and not caring</li>
<li>How to use fear as fuel and separating who you are and what you do</li>
<li>How to process losing and failure?</li>
<li>How coaching collegiate tennis helped Collin in his career as a pickleball player</li>
<li>How Ben uses Pison to manage his readiness, reaction time and improving variables in competition.</li>
<li>How to get yourself more cognitively ready for performance</li>
<li>The impact of measurements on performance</li>
<li>The importance of repetition and deliberate practice</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>👉You can engage with Collin on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/collinjohns_pb/?hl=en">@CollinJohns_PB</a></p><p>👉You can engage with Ben on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/benjohns_pb/?hl=en">@BenJohns_PB</a> - and YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@BenJohns_pb">BenJohnsPickleBall</a></p><p>⌚Lean More About <a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Dorfman 03 - Al Leiter - Know Your Job</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian continues a tribute series to one of his mentors and a mental performance coaching icon, Harvey Dorfman.  

Al Leiter pitched in Major League Baseball from 1987-2005, was a 2x All-Star, a 3x World Series Champion, and New York Mets Hall of Famer.  Leiter worked closely with Harvey and attributes a lot of his success over his career to his work on the mental game with Harvey.

In this episode Al &amp; Brian discuss:

The moment Al knew he needed help with mental performance

The 3 day think tank that Al and Harvey at his house in Prescot, Arizona

Getting clarity on your job as a pitcher

Being mentally and physically prepared to execute a pitch

What made Harvey so special in Al’s eyes

The listen and call you on your shit balance

Professional athletes need and want to hear the truth

Getting down to straight talk

How you feel vs. how you behave

Harvey’s two two processes for development

Controlling what you can control

Self-promotion vs. doing the work as a mental performance coach

Al’s advice for mental performance coaches


Conversations, Content and Careers - The Life and Legacy of Harvey Dorfman is a series in which Brian interviews former players and staff who had their careers positively impacted by Harvey.  Go inside the conversations, the content and the careers forever changed by one of the greatest mental performance coaches who ever lived.

Check out Harvey’s Books on Amazon

📕The Mental Game of Baseball
📕The Mental Keys to Hitting
📕The Mental ABCs of Pitching
📕Coaching The Mental Game
📕Copying It Down
📕Each Branch, Each Needle
📕Babbling Echoes
📕Persuasion of My Days

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Dorfman 03 - Al Leiter - Know Your Job</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian continues a tribute series to one of his mentors and a mental performance coaching icon, Harvey Dorfman.  

Al Leiter pitched in Major League Baseball from 1987-2005, was a 2x All-Star, a 3x World Series Champion, and New York Mets Hall of Famer.  Leiter worked closely with Harvey and attributes a lot of his success over his career to his work on the mental game with Harvey.

In this episode Al &amp; Brian discuss:

The moment Al knew he needed help with mental performance

The 3 day think tank that Al and Harvey at his house in Prescot, Arizona

Getting clarity on your job as a pitcher

Being mentally and physically prepared to execute a pitch

What made Harvey so special in Al’s eyes

The listen and call you on your shit balance

Professional athletes need and want to hear the truth

Getting down to straight talk

How you feel vs. how you behave

Harvey’s two two processes for development

Controlling what you can control

Self-promotion vs. doing the work as a mental performance coach

Al’s advice for mental performance coaches


Conversations, Content and Careers - The Life and Legacy of Harvey Dorfman is a series in which Brian interviews former players and staff who had their careers positively impacted by Harvey.  Go inside the conversations, the content and the careers forever changed by one of the greatest mental performance coaches who ever lived.

Check out Harvey’s Books on Amazon

📕The Mental Game of Baseball
📕The Mental Keys to Hitting
📕The Mental ABCs of Pitching
📕Coaching The Mental Game
📕Copying It Down
📕Each Branch, Each Needle
📕Babbling Echoes
📕Persuasion of My Days

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, </em>Brian continues a tribute series to one of his mentors and a mental performance coaching icon, Harvey Dorfman.  </p><p><br></p><p>Al Leiter pitched in Major League Baseball from 1987-2005, was a 2x All-Star, a 3x World Series Champion, and New York Mets Hall of Famer.  Leiter worked closely with Harvey and attributes a lot of his success over his career to his work on the mental game with Harvey.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode Al &amp; Brian discuss:</p><ul>
<li>The moment Al knew he needed help with mental performance</li>
<li>The 3 day think tank that Al and Harvey at his house in Prescot, Arizona</li>
<li>Getting clarity on your job as a pitcher</li>
<li>Being mentally and physically prepared to execute a pitch</li>
<li>What made Harvey so special in Al’s eyes</li>
<li>The listen and call you on your shit balance</li>
<li>Professional athletes need and want to hear the truth</li>
<li>Getting down to straight talk</li>
<li>How you feel vs. how you behave</li>
<li>Harvey’s two two processes for development</li>
<li>Controlling what you can control</li>
<li>Self-promotion vs. doing the work as a mental performance coach</li>
<li>Al’s advice for mental performance coaches</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><em>Conversations, Content and Careers - The Life and Legacy of Harvey Dorfman</em> is a series in which Brian interviews former players and staff who had their careers positively impacted by Harvey.  Go inside the conversations, the content and the careers forever changed by one of the greatest mental performance coaches who ever lived.</p><p><br></p><p>Check out Harvey’s Books on Amazon</p><p><br></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mental-Game-Baseball-Guide-Performance-ebook/dp/B071YMVF93?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3vIASwnj_QguhEWHmEjJuLdIrxNf-hTb8F9XGgsP_9jgrVuCVErQRM0b-bbXu5DPwJuk8wU8Ot9zPNUHo0wKpLBy_JHtTVRpQcCbPSrin64bO5XgcZCaYMn88ONQDwaG.bHrGQlbhgenBfbBiIsA_lbU-HJ2jogv-_NQ3MwEOo6g&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR">The Mental Game of Baseball</a></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mental-Keys-Hitting-Performance-Enhancement-ebook/dp/B073HQ8H9D?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3vIASwnj_QguhEWHmEjJuLdIrxNf-hTb8F9XGgsP_9jgrVuCVErQRM0b-bbXu5DPwJuk8wU8Ot9zPNUHo0wKpLBy_JHtTVRpQcCbPSrin64bO5XgcZCaYMn88ONQDwaG.bHrGQlbhgenBfbBiIsA_lbU-HJ2jogv-_NQ3MwEOo6g&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR">The Mental Keys to Hitting</a></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mental-ABCs-Pitching-Performance-Enhancement-ebook/dp/B0718XDMK7?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3vIASwnj_QguhEWHmEjJuLdIrxNf-hTb8F9XGgsP_9jgrVuCVErQRM0b-bbXu5DPwJuk8wU8Ot9zPNUHo0wKpLBy_JHtTVRpQcCbPSrin64bO5XgcZCaYMn88ONQDwaG.bHrGQlbhgenBfbBiIsA_lbU-HJ2jogv-_NQ3MwEOo6g&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR">The Mental ABCs of Pitching</a></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Mental-Game-H-Dorfman-ebook/dp/B072L2LGHK?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3vIASwnj_QguhEWHmEjJuLdIrxNf-hTb8F9XGgsP_9jgrVuCVErQRM0b-bbXu5DPwJuk8wU8Ot9zPNUHo0wKpLBy_JHtTVRpQcCbPSrin64bO5XgcZCaYMn88ONQDwaG.bHrGQlbhgenBfbBiIsA_lbU-HJ2jogv-_NQ3MwEOo6g&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR">Coaching The Mental Game</a></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Copying-Down-Anecdotal-H-Dorfman-ebook/dp/B0044R9I5S?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3vIASwnj_QguhEWHmEjJuLdIrxNf-hTb8F9XGgsP_9jgrVuCVErQRM0b-bbXu5DPwJuk8wU8Ot9zPNUHo0wKpLBy_JHtTVRpQcCbPSrin64bO5XgcZCaYMn88ONQDwaG.bHrGQlbhgenBfbBiIsA_lbU-HJ2jogv-_NQ3MwEOo6g&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR">Copying It Down</a></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Each-Branch-Needle-Anecdotal-Memoir-ebook/dp/B003TFE1Q2?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3vIASwnj_QguhEWHmEjJuLdIrxNf-hTb8F9XGgsP_9jgrVuCVErQRM0b-bbXu5DPwJuk8wU8Ot9zPNUHo0wKpLBy_JHtTVRpQcCbPSrin64bO5XgcZCaYMn88ONQDwaG.bHrGQlbhgenBfbBiIsA_lbU-HJ2jogv-_NQ3MwEOo6g&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR">Each Branch, Each Needle</a></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Babbling-Echoes-Soundings-Yesteryear-Dorfman-ebook/dp/B00AAS6I58/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ASZTV1Q2O45Q&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wyc20Qu_cRpT53gNkXLE20mJO5JpA_yPqJE4ucqOVMo.XXFB4gUrIV6ZSHnPT2Mwr2LKBvcDYYog86LEwQqMeFA&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Babbling+Echoes&amp;qid=1712855231&amp;s=digital-text&amp;sprefix=babbling+echoes%2Cdigital-text%2C179&amp;sr=1-1">Babbling Echoes</a></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Persuasion-My-Days-Anecdotal-Memoir/dp/0761829806?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3vIASwnj_QguhEWHmEjJuLdIrxNf-hTb8F9XGgsP_9jgrVuCVErQRM0b-bbXu5DPwJuk8wU8Ot9zPNUHo0wKpLBy_JHtTVRpQcCbPSrin64bO5XgcZCaYMn88ONQDwaG.bHrGQlbhgenBfbBiIsA_lbU-HJ2jogv-_NQ3MwEOo6g&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR">Persuasion of My Days</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>⌚Lean More About <a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p>]]>
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      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, Brian discusses what Mental Performance Coaches can do to help their athletes return to play from injury.

In this episode Brian shares 10 ways you can help your athletes during a return to play from injury.

1. Goal Setting for Rehab Progress: Encourage them to set specific, measurable, and realistic goals related to their rehab progress, focusing on what they can control. This keeps them motivated and provides structure.

2. Visualization and Imagery: Teach the athlete to use mental imagery to “rehearse” their sport. Visualizing movements, techniques, and successful performances can help maintain muscle memory and increase mental toughness.

3. Mindfulness and Meditation: Introduce mindfulness techniques to help them stay present and manage the emotional challenges of being injured. It can improve emotional regulation, reduce stress, and improve focus during recovery.

4. Developing Self-Awareness: Use journaling or reflective practices to increase their awareness of their mental and emotional states. This can help them understand their mental habits and areas for growth.

5. Positive Self-Talk: Help the athlete develop a positive internal dialogue, even during challenging times. This reinforces resilience and combats negative thoughts associated with injury.

6. Cognitive Restructuring: Teach them how to reframe negative or unproductive thoughts (e.g., “I’m missing out” to “I’m using this time to build mental strength”). This fosters a growth mindset.

7. Confidence Building: Work on confidence by reviewing past successes, identifying strengths, and setting small, achievable mental goals. This helps them regain belief in their abilities during recovery.

8. Resilience Training: Encourage mental toughness training by discussing setbacks as opportunities for growth. Use adversity stories or case studies from other athletes who’ve overcome injury.

9. Maintaining Team Connection: Encourage them to stay involved with the team, whether by attending practices, engaging with teammates, or taking on a mentorship role. This keeps them connected and mentally engaged.

10. Focus on Skill Development: Work on building mental skills such as focus, concentration, and emotional regulation. Use this time to train these areas, as they will be useful when they return to competition.

Each strategy helps the athlete stay mentally sharp while navigating the psychological challenges of injury recovery.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips you can use as a mental performance coach to help your athletes close the gap from where they are to where they want to be and to maximize their potential.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
👍 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course
💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course</description>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, Brian discusses what Mental Performance Coaches can do to help their athletes return to play from injury.

In this episode Brian shares 10 ways you can help your athletes during a return to play from injury.

1. Goal Setting for Rehab Progress: Encourage them to set specific, measurable, and realistic goals related to their rehab progress, focusing on what they can control. This keeps them motivated and provides structure.

2. Visualization and Imagery: Teach the athlete to use mental imagery to “rehearse” their sport. Visualizing movements, techniques, and successful performances can help maintain muscle memory and increase mental toughness.

3. Mindfulness and Meditation: Introduce mindfulness techniques to help them stay present and manage the emotional challenges of being injured. It can improve emotional regulation, reduce stress, and improve focus during recovery.

4. Developing Self-Awareness: Use journaling or reflective practices to increase their awareness of their mental and emotional states. This can help them understand their mental habits and areas for growth.

5. Positive Self-Talk: Help the athlete develop a positive internal dialogue, even during challenging times. This reinforces resilience and combats negative thoughts associated with injury.

6. Cognitive Restructuring: Teach them how to reframe negative or unproductive thoughts (e.g., “I’m missing out” to “I’m using this time to build mental strength”). This fosters a growth mindset.

7. Confidence Building: Work on confidence by reviewing past successes, identifying strengths, and setting small, achievable mental goals. This helps them regain belief in their abilities during recovery.

8. Resilience Training: Encourage mental toughness training by discussing setbacks as opportunities for growth. Use adversity stories or case studies from other athletes who’ve overcome injury.

9. Maintaining Team Connection: Encourage them to stay involved with the team, whether by attending practices, engaging with teammates, or taking on a mentorship role. This keeps them connected and mentally engaged.

10. Focus on Skill Development: Work on building mental skills such as focus, concentration, and emotional regulation. Use this time to train these areas, as they will be useful when they return to competition.

Each strategy helps the athlete stay mentally sharp while navigating the psychological challenges of injury recovery.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips you can use as a mental performance coach to help your athletes close the gap from where they are to where they want to be and to maximize their potential.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
👍 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course
💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Climbing A Mountain With No Summit - Coach Steven Cutter, Lansing Community College</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Pison, Brian is joined by Lansing Community College Head Baseball Coach Steven Cutter.  Coach Cut has led the Stars to 2 Juco College World Series Appearances and the #2 overall best winning percentage in Juco Baseball the last 3 years.

In this Podcast Brian and Coach Cut discuss:

Coach Cut’s unique journey into coaching baseball and mental performance

Attraction to mental performance

Stacking bricks and building consistency

Growth vs. fixed mindset and using Carol Dweck’s mindset achievement

Modeling theory and the process of development, caught vs. taught

The importance of time management, organization, and intentionality of process

Journals that players can use for the season and life

The importance of setting core principles of Uncommon, Selfless, and Excellence

Climbing a mountain with no summit

The dangers of complacency

Compete to a standard, not a scoreboard

The mindset of Compete with vs. competing against

Cognitive performance and work with Pison

The combination of cognitive training and mental performance training

You have to learn and be it before you can teach it

Eliminating The G Word from your program


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

👉Connect with Coach Cut on Instagram
👉Connect with Coach Cut on X
👉Connect With Coach Cut At His Website
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Pison, Brian is joined by Lansing Community College Head Baseball Coach Steven Cutter.  Coach Cut has led the Stars to 2 Juco College World Series Appearances and the #2 overall best winning percentage in Juco Baseball the last 3 years.

In this Podcast Brian and Coach Cut discuss:

Coach Cut’s unique journey into coaching baseball and mental performance

Attraction to mental performance

Stacking bricks and building consistency

Growth vs. fixed mindset and using Carol Dweck’s mindset achievement

Modeling theory and the process of development, caught vs. taught

The importance of time management, organization, and intentionality of process

Journals that players can use for the season and life

The importance of setting core principles of Uncommon, Selfless, and Excellence

Climbing a mountain with no summit

The dangers of complacency

Compete to a standard, not a scoreboard

The mindset of Compete with vs. competing against

Cognitive performance and work with Pison

The combination of cognitive training and mental performance training

You have to learn and be it before you can teach it

Eliminating The G Word from your program


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

👉Connect with Coach Cut on Instagram
👉Connect with Coach Cut on X
👉Connect With Coach Cut At His Website
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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<li>Coach Cut’s unique journey into coaching baseball and mental performance</li>
<li>Attraction to mental performance</li>
<li>Stacking bricks and building consistency</li>
<li>Growth vs. fixed mindset and using Carol Dweck’s mindset achievement</li>
<li>Modeling theory and the process of development, caught vs. taught</li>
<li>The importance of time management, organization, and intentionality of process</li>
<li>Journals that players can use for the season and life</li>
<li>The importance of setting core principles of Uncommon, Selfless, and Excellence</li>
<li>Climbing a mountain with no summit</li>
<li>The dangers of complacency</li>
<li>Compete to a standard, not a scoreboard</li>
<li>The mindset of Compete with vs. competing against</li>
<li>Cognitive performance and work with Pison</li>
<li>The combination of cognitive training and mental performance training</li>
<li>You have to learn and be it before you can teach it</li>
<li>Eliminating The G Word from your program</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>👉Connect with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/coach_cutter/">Coach Cut on Instagram</a></p><p>👉Connect with <a href="https://x.com/coachcutter5?lang=en">Coach Cut on X</a></p><p>👉Connect With <a href="https://www.coachcutter.com/">Coach Cut At His Website</a></p><p>⌚Lean More About <a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Why Should You Work With A Mental Performance Coach?</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian discusses why you should work with a Mental Performance Coach. 

👉Athlete or parent of an athlete? ⁠Join Brian’s exclusive one-on-one coaching program⁠
✅ Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 
⌚Learn More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 20:20:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian discusses why you should work with a Mental Performance Coach. 

👉Athlete or parent of an athlete? ⁠Join Brian’s exclusive one-on-one coaching program⁠
✅ Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 
⌚Learn More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Awareness, The Foundation of Athletic Development with Donovan Santas </title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian is joined by Donovan Santas. Over his 21-year-long career in professional baseball in different capacities, Donovan has seen some of the most momentous changes and shifts in the sports industry – from how strength training is implemented to how the strength &amp; conditioning coach’s role has gained prominence to the importance of mental performance and cognitive training.  

Donovan has worked with the Cleveland Indians, Toronto Bluejays, and New York Yankees as a strength and conditioning coach and assistant director of player health and performance.

In this episode, Brian and Donovan talk about…

The evolution of baseball-specific training and conditioning

How the role of the strength and conditioning coach has expanded over the years

What a training program looked like 20 years ago versus how it looks today

Training with Pison

Readiness assessment and testing

The go-no-go test for performance

Cognitive assessment

Fatigue management

The power of breathing and the impact of the Functional Movement Screening FMS

Recovery modalities, what works, and what’s best for you as an athlete.

Sleep and the impact on performance

The role mental performance plays in professional baseball player development

The mental game of pitcher Roy Halladay, Cy Young Winner - Working With Harvey


What Makes Roy Run? - Sports Illustrated Article about Roy Halladay



Connect with Donovan Santas:
Donovan Santas on LinkedIn
Donovan Santas on Instagram
Email - donovan.santas@gmail.com

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:56:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Awareness, The Foundation of Athletic Development with Donovan Santas </itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian is joined by Donovan Santas. Over his 21-year-long career in professional baseball in different capacities, Donovan has seen some of the most momentous changes and shifts in the sports industry – from how strength training is implemented to how the strength &amp; conditioning coach’s role has gained prominence to the importance of mental performance and cognitive training.  

Donovan has worked with the Cleveland Indians, Toronto Bluejays, and New York Yankees as a strength and conditioning coach and assistant director of player health and performance.

In this episode, Brian and Donovan talk about…

The evolution of baseball-specific training and conditioning

How the role of the strength and conditioning coach has expanded over the years

What a training program looked like 20 years ago versus how it looks today

Training with Pison

Readiness assessment and testing

The go-no-go test for performance

Cognitive assessment

Fatigue management

The power of breathing and the impact of the Functional Movement Screening FMS

Recovery modalities, what works, and what’s best for you as an athlete.

Sleep and the impact on performance

The role mental performance plays in professional baseball player development

The mental game of pitcher Roy Halladay, Cy Young Winner - Working With Harvey


What Makes Roy Run? - Sports Illustrated Article about Roy Halladay



Connect with Donovan Santas:
Donovan Santas on LinkedIn
Donovan Santas on Instagram
Email - donovan.santas@gmail.com

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</itunes:summary>
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<li>The evolution of baseball-specific training and conditioning</li>
<li>How the role of the strength and conditioning coach has expanded over the years</li>
<li>What a training program looked like 20 years ago versus how it looks today</li>
<li>Training with Pison</li>
<li>Readiness assessment and testing</li>
<li>The go-no-go test for performance</li>
<li>Cognitive assessment</li>
<li>Fatigue management</li>
<li>The power of breathing and the impact of the Functional Movement Screening FMS</li>
<li>Recovery modalities, what works, and what’s best for you as an athlete.</li>
<li>Sleep and the impact on performance</li>
<li>The role mental performance plays in professional baseball player development</li>
<li>The mental game of pitcher Roy Halladay, Cy Young Winner - Working With Harvey</li>
<li>
<em>What Makes Roy Run?</em> - <a href="https://vault.si.com/vault/2010/04/05/what-makes-roy-run">Sports Illustrated Article about Roy Halladay</a>
</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Connect with Donovan Santas:</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/donovan-santas-a4b47141/">Donovan Santas on LinkedIn</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/donovan.santas/">Donovan Santas on Instagram</a></p><p>Email - donovan.santas@gmail.com</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p>⌚Lean More About <a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 26 - Moving From Perfection to Progress</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, Brian discusses everything you need to know about helping your athletes move from a perfectionist mindset into one of progress.  If you work with perfectionistic clients and athletes, this is a must listen.

1. Shift from Perfection to Progress

2. Emphasize Process Over Outcome

3. Set Realistic and Flexible Goals

4. Normalize Mistakes as Part of Growth

5. Practice Self-Compassion

6. Use Visualization for Handling Imperfection

7. Develop a Routine for Letting Go

8. Challenge All-or-Nothing Thinking

9. Implement Mindfulness Practices

10. Celebrate Effort and Commitment

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 26 - Moving From Perfection to Progress</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, Brian discusses everything you need to know about helping your athletes move from a perfectionist mindset into one of progress.  If you work with perfectionistic clients and athletes, this is a must listen.

1. Shift from Perfection to Progress

2. Emphasize Process Over Outcome

3. Set Realistic and Flexible Goals

4. Normalize Mistakes as Part of Growth

5. Practice Self-Compassion

6. Use Visualization for Handling Imperfection

7. Develop a Routine for Letting Go

8. Challenge All-or-Nothing Thinking

9. Implement Mindfulness Practices

10. Celebrate Effort and Commitment

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus</em>, Brian discusses everything you need to know about helping your athletes move from a perfectionist mindset into one of progress.  If you work with perfectionistic clients and athletes, this is a must listen.</p><p><br></p><p>1. Shift from Perfection to Progress</p><p><br></p><p>2. Emphasize Process Over Outcome</p><p><br></p><p>3. Set Realistic and Flexible Goals</p><p><br></p><p>4. Normalize Mistakes as Part of Growth</p><p><br></p><p>5. Practice Self-Compassion</p><p><br></p><p>6. Use Visualization for Handling Imperfection</p><p><br></p><p>7. Develop a Routine for Letting Go</p><p><br></p><p>8. Challenge All-or-Nothing Thinking</p><p><br></p><p>9. Implement Mindfulness Practices</p><p><br></p><p>10. Celebrate Effort and Commitment</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">YouTube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email</a></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 25 - Winning The Battle Within - Self-Talk Training For Coaches</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, Brian discusses everything you need to know about winning the battle within and improving your athletes' self-talk.


Self-Talk Patterns.

Reframing

Affirmations

Mental Imagery

Cue Words or The 3 Keys To Keep It Simple

Modeling

Self-Compassion - The Friend/Teammate Technique

Shadow reps

What If &amp; What Is

Reflective Reinforcement


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 25 - Winning The Battle Within - Self-Talk Training For Coaches</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, Brian discusses everything you need to know about winning the battle within and improving your athletes' self-talk.


Self-Talk Patterns.

Reframing

Affirmations

Mental Imagery

Cue Words or The 3 Keys To Keep It Simple

Modeling

Self-Compassion - The Friend/Teammate Technique

Shadow reps

What If &amp; What Is

Reflective Reinforcement


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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<li>Self-Talk Patterns.</li>
<li>Reframing</li>
<li>Affirmations</li>
<li>Mental Imagery</li>
<li>Cue Words or The 3 Keys To Keep It Simple</li>
<li>Modeling</li>
<li>Self-Compassion - The Friend/Teammate Technique</li>
<li>Shadow reps</li>
<li>What If &amp; What Is</li>
<li>Reflective Reinforcement</li>
</ol><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">YouTube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Sleep Science, Fatigue Management and Elite Performance With Alison Brager Ph.D.</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Pison, the world's first cognitive performance tracker, Brian is joined by Military Scientist Alison Brager Ph.D.  

Alison is one of the world’s leading authorities on sleep science, fatigue management, and elite performance. Her ability to blend science with action and application is second to none and in this podcast, she shares science-backed practical tips anyone who wants to be elite can use to gain an edge..

In this Podcast Brian and Alison discuss:

Alison’s training tips for fatigue management and optimal performance


Pison the world's first cognitive performance tracker.

The mental aspects of NASCAR driving

Active recovery techniques you can use for improved performance

How to improve sleep performance and the stages of sleep

The GO-NOGO Test, PVT, and their predictive impacts on performance

The Combined Goal of 25% Deep Non REM and 25% REM Sleep

The Use of Pink Noise for advanced sleep

The importance of structure and time management in recovery 

Her book Meathead: Unraveling the Athletic Brain


The NCAA Mental Health program and issues with mental health

Kobe Bryant, Video Games and Reaction Time Training


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

👉Connect with Alison Brager Ph.D. on Instagram 
👉Connect with Alison Brager Ph.D. on X
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Sleep Science, Fatigue Management and Elite Performance With Alison Brager Ph.D.</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Pison, the world's first cognitive performance tracker, Brian is joined by Military Scientist Alison Brager Ph.D.  

Alison is one of the world’s leading authorities on sleep science, fatigue management, and elite performance. Her ability to blend science with action and application is second to none and in this podcast, she shares science-backed practical tips anyone who wants to be elite can use to gain an edge..

In this Podcast Brian and Alison discuss:

Alison’s training tips for fatigue management and optimal performance


Pison the world's first cognitive performance tracker.

The mental aspects of NASCAR driving

Active recovery techniques you can use for improved performance

How to improve sleep performance and the stages of sleep

The GO-NOGO Test, PVT, and their predictive impacts on performance

The Combined Goal of 25% Deep Non REM and 25% REM Sleep

The Use of Pink Noise for advanced sleep

The importance of structure and time management in recovery 

Her book Meathead: Unraveling the Athletic Brain


The NCAA Mental Health program and issues with mental health

Kobe Bryant, Video Games and Reaction Time Training


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

👉Connect with Alison Brager Ph.D. on Instagram 
👉Connect with Alison Brager Ph.D. on X
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by <a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison</a>, the world's first cognitive performance tracker, Brian is joined by Military Scientist Alison Brager Ph.D.  </p><p><br></p><p>Alison is one of the world’s leading authorities on sleep science, fatigue management, and elite performance. Her ability to blend science with action and application is second to none and in this podcast, she shares science-backed practical tips anyone who wants to be elite can use to gain an edge..</p><p><br></p><p>In this Podcast Brian and Alison discuss:</p><ul>
<li>Alison’s training tips for fatigue management and optimal performance</li>
<li>
<a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison</a> the world's first cognitive performance tracker.</li>
<li>The mental aspects of NASCAR driving</li>
<li>Active recovery techniques you can use for improved performance</li>
<li>How to improve sleep performance and the stages of sleep</li>
<li>The GO-NOGO Test, PVT, and their predictive impacts on performance</li>
<li>The Combined Goal of 25% Deep Non REM and 25% REM Sleep</li>
<li>The Use of Pink Noise for advanced sleep</li>
<li>The importance of structure and time management in recovery </li>
<li>Her book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Meathead-Unraveling-Athletic-Allison-Brager/dp/149086444X"><em>Meathead: Unraveling the Athletic Brain</em></a>
</li>
<li>The NCAA Mental Health program and issues with mental health</li>
<li>Kobe Bryant, Video Games and Reaction Time Training</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>👉Connect with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/docjockzzz/?hl=en">Alison Brager Ph.D. on Instagram </a></p><p>👉Connect with <a href="https://x.com/docjockzzz?lang=en">Alison Brager Ph.D. on X</a></p><p>⌚Lean More About <a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 24 - 10 Tips To Improve Your Focus</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation, Brian discusses everything you need to know about goal setting.

In this podcast, Brian discusses 10 Tips for Improving Focus
1) Set Clear Goals:
Define what you need to accomplish. Break larger tasks into smaller, manageable goals to keep your focus sharp.

2) Eliminate Distractions:
Identify and remove distractions from your environment. Turn off notifications, close unnecessary tabs, and create a dedicated workspace.

3) Practice Mindfulness and Meditation:
Regular mindfulness exercises and meditation can improve concentration by training your brain to stay focused on the present moment.

4) Take Regular Breaks:
Use techniques like the Pomodoro Technique—work for 25 minutes, then take a 5-minute break. This helps maintain high levels of focus and prevents burnout.

5) Prioritize Your Tasks:
Use tools like the Eisenhower Matrix to prioritize tasks based on urgency and importance, ensuring you focus on what truly matters.

6) Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle:
Regular exercise, a balanced diet, and adequate sleep are crucial for maintaining cognitive function and focus.

7) Stay Hydrated:
Dehydration can impair cognitive abilities. Keep a water bottle handy and drink water throughout the day.

8) Use Focus-Enhancing Tools:
Tools like noise-canceling headphones, focus apps, and productivity timers can help you stay on track and minimize interruptions.

9) Practice Single-Tasking:
Focus on one task at a time instead of multitasking. Completing tasks sequentially can improve the quality of your work and enhance concentration.

10) Set a Routine:
Establish a daily routine that includes specific times for work, breaks, and leisure. Consistency can help your brain know when it’s time to focus and when to relax.
By incorporating these tips into your daily life, you can significantly enhance your ability to concentrate and achieve your goals more efficiently. Remember, improving focus is a continuous process that requires patience and practice.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 24 - 10 Tips To Improve Your Focus</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation, Brian discusses everything you need to know about goal setting.

In this podcast, Brian discusses 10 Tips for Improving Focus
1) Set Clear Goals:
Define what you need to accomplish. Break larger tasks into smaller, manageable goals to keep your focus sharp.

2) Eliminate Distractions:
Identify and remove distractions from your environment. Turn off notifications, close unnecessary tabs, and create a dedicated workspace.

3) Practice Mindfulness and Meditation:
Regular mindfulness exercises and meditation can improve concentration by training your brain to stay focused on the present moment.

4) Take Regular Breaks:
Use techniques like the Pomodoro Technique—work for 25 minutes, then take a 5-minute break. This helps maintain high levels of focus and prevents burnout.

5) Prioritize Your Tasks:
Use tools like the Eisenhower Matrix to prioritize tasks based on urgency and importance, ensuring you focus on what truly matters.

6) Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle:
Regular exercise, a balanced diet, and adequate sleep are crucial for maintaining cognitive function and focus.

7) Stay Hydrated:
Dehydration can impair cognitive abilities. Keep a water bottle handy and drink water throughout the day.

8) Use Focus-Enhancing Tools:
Tools like noise-canceling headphones, focus apps, and productivity timers can help you stay on track and minimize interruptions.

9) Practice Single-Tasking:
Focus on one task at a time instead of multitasking. Completing tasks sequentially can improve the quality of your work and enhance concentration.

10) Set a Routine:
Establish a daily routine that includes specific times for work, breaks, and leisure. Consistency can help your brain know when it’s time to focus and when to relax.
By incorporating these tips into your daily life, you can significantly enhance your ability to concentrate and achieve your goals more efficiently. Remember, improving focus is a continuous process that requires patience and practice.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience. We are teaming up to offer a FREE Group Coaching Program teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills and organize your process for coaching success. This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.

⁠💰 Click Here to Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, </em>brought to you by <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Fundraising University</a> and <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">The Coaching Matters Foundation</a>, Brian discusses everything you need to know about goal setting.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast, Brian discusses 10 Tips for Improving Focus</p><p><strong>1) Set Clear Goals:</strong></p><p>Define what you need to accomplish. Break larger tasks into smaller, manageable goals to keep your focus sharp.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>2) Eliminate Distractions:</strong></p><p>Identify and remove distractions from your environment. Turn off notifications, close unnecessary tabs, and create a dedicated workspace.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>3) Practice Mindfulness and Meditation:</strong></p><p>Regular mindfulness exercises and meditation can improve concentration by training your brain to stay focused on the present moment.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>4) Take Regular Breaks:</strong></p><p>Use techniques like the Pomodoro Technique—work for 25 minutes, then take a 5-minute break. This helps maintain high levels of focus and prevents burnout.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>5) Prioritize Your Tasks:</strong></p><p>Use tools like the Eisenhower Matrix to prioritize tasks based on urgency and importance, ensuring you focus on what truly matters.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>6) Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle:</strong></p><p>Regular exercise, a balanced diet, and adequate sleep are crucial for maintaining cognitive function and focus.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>7) Stay Hydrated:</strong></p><p>Dehydration can impair cognitive abilities. Keep a water bottle handy and drink water throughout the day.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>8) Use Focus-Enhancing Tools:</strong></p><p>Tools like noise-canceling headphones, focus apps, and productivity timers can help you stay on track and minimize interruptions.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>9) Practice Single-Tasking:</strong></p><p>Focus on one task at a time instead of multitasking. Completing tasks sequentially can improve the quality of your work and enhance concentration.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>10) Set a Routine:</strong></p><p>Establish a daily routine that includes specific times for work, breaks, and leisure. Consistency can help your brain know when it’s time to focus and when to relax.</p><p>By incorporating these tips into your daily life, you can significantly enhance your ability to concentrate and achieve your goals more efficiently. Remember, improving focus is a continuous process that requires patience and practice.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Fundraising University</a> and <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">The Coaching Matters Foundation</a> share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience. We are teaming up to offer a <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">FREE Group Coaching Program</a> teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills and organize your process for coaching success. This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.</p><p><br></p><p>⁠💰 Click Here to <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">YouTube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email</a></p>]]>
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      <title>The 5Ps of Peak Performance - Mark Budzinski, Toronto Blue Jays </title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Toronto Blue Jays 1st Base Coach Mark “Bud” Budzinski to discuss the mental aspects of baseball and The 5Ps of Peak Performance.  

Preparation, Perspective, Present Moment Focus, Performance and Pison.  Bud shares how he maximizes mental performance with Pison the world's first cognitive performance tracker.

In this Podcast, Brian and Bud discuss:

The importance of being where your feet are

The power of perspective

The role kids can play in your perspective if you let it

Being where your feet are

What he learned from The Great Charlie Mahar when in Cleveland

The role physical triggers can play in your performance

Running an after-action review “AAR” to learn from each day

How the mental game has evolved over time


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

👉Connect with Mark Budzinski on Instagram 
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The 5Ps of Peak Performance - Mark Budzinski, Toronto Blue Jays </itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Toronto Blue Jays 1st Base Coach Mark “Bud” Budzinski to discuss the mental aspects of baseball and The 5Ps of Peak Performance.  

Preparation, Perspective, Present Moment Focus, Performance and Pison.  Bud shares how he maximizes mental performance with Pison the world's first cognitive performance tracker.

In this Podcast, Brian and Bud discuss:

The importance of being where your feet are

The power of perspective

The role kids can play in your perspective if you let it

Being where your feet are

What he learned from The Great Charlie Mahar when in Cleveland

The role physical triggers can play in your performance

Running an after-action review “AAR” to learn from each day

How the mental game has evolved over time


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

👉Connect with Mark Budzinski on Instagram 
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a>, Brian is joined by Toronto Blue Jays 1st Base Coach Mark “Bud” Budzinski to discuss the mental aspects of baseball and The 5Ps of Peak Performance.  </p><p><br></p><p>Preparation, Perspective, Present Moment Focus, Performance and Pison.  Bud shares how he maximizes mental performance with <a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison</a> the world's first cognitive performance tracker.</p><p><br></p><p>In this Podcast, Brian and Bud discuss:</p><ul>
<li>The importance of being where your feet are</li>
<li>The power of perspective</li>
<li>The role kids can play in your perspective if you let it</li>
<li>Being where your feet are</li>
<li>What he learned from The Great Charlie Mahar when in Cleveland</li>
<li>The role physical triggers can play in your performance</li>
<li>Running an after-action review “AAR” to learn from each day</li>
<li>How the mental game has evolved over time</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>👉Connect with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/markbudz/?hl=en">Mark Budzinski on Instagram </a></p><p>⌚Lean More About <a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</a></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>2571</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 23 - Everything You Need To Know About Goal Setting</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation, Brian discusses everything you need to know about goal setting.

👉Click here to get Brian Cain’s Free Video on The MVP Process

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

Telescope and Microscope goals

The SMART Framework

The 3 critical areas of goal setting

How to beat the best in the world

The story of the wise man and the punk kid


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience.  We are teaming up to offer a FREE Group Coaching Program teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills, and organize your process for coaching success.  This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.

⁠💰 Click Here to Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 23 - Everything You Need To Know About Goal Setting</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation, Brian discusses everything you need to know about goal setting.

👉Click here to get Brian Cain’s Free Video on The MVP Process

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

Telescope and Microscope goals

The SMART Framework

The 3 critical areas of goal setting

How to beat the best in the world

The story of the wise man and the punk kid


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience.  We are teaming up to offer a FREE Group Coaching Program teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills, and organize your process for coaching success.  This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.

⁠💰 Click Here to Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, </em>brought to you by <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Fundraising University</a> and <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">The Coaching Matters Foundation</a>, Brian discusses everything you need to know about goal setting.</p><p><br></p><p>👉Click here to get Brian Cain’s Free Video on <a href="http://briancain.com/mvp">The MVP Process</a></p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast, Brian discusses:</p><ul>
<li>Telescope and Microscope goals</li>
<li>The SMART Framework</li>
<li>The 3 critical areas of goal setting</li>
<li>How to beat the best in the world</li>
<li>The story of the wise man and the punk kid</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Fundraising University</a> and <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">The Coaching Matters Foundation</a> share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience.  We are teaming up to offer a <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">FREE Group Coaching Program</a> teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills, and organize your process for coaching success.  This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.</p><p><br></p><p>⁠💰 Click Here to <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">YouTube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 22 - The Ideal Day</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation, Brian discusses why you don’t need adrenaline for optimal performance, you need intention..

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

Knowing How You Work Best

Time Blocking

The Daily Routines You MUST Have to Optimize Your Performance


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience. We are teaming up to offer a FREE Group Coaching Program teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills, and organize your process for coaching success. This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.

⁠💰 Click Here to Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 22 - The Ideal Day</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation, Brian discusses why you don’t need adrenaline for optimal performance, you need intention..

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

Knowing How You Work Best

Time Blocking

The Daily Routines You MUST Have to Optimize Your Performance


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience. We are teaming up to offer a FREE Group Coaching Program teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills, and organize your process for coaching success. This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.

⁠💰 Click Here to Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, </em>brought to you by <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Fundraising University</a> and <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">The Coaching Matters Foundation</a>, Brian discusses why you don’t need adrenaline for optimal performance, you need intention..</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast, Brian discusses:</p><ul>
<li>Knowing How You Work Best</li>
<li>Time Blocking</li>
<li>The Daily Routines You MUST Have to Optimize Your Performance</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Fundraising University</a> and <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">The Coaching Matters Foundation</a> share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience. We are teaming up to offer a <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">FREE Group Coaching Program</a> teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills, and organize your process for coaching success. This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.</p><p><br></p><p>⁠💰 Click Here to <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">YouTube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 21 - Culture Doesn't Beat Strategy...</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation, Brian discusses how culture doesn’t beat strategy...

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

The 5 stages of culture development in detail

Becoming the average of those you associate with most

The deadly culture killers of BCD


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience.  We are teaming up to offer a FREE Group Coaching Program teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills, and organize your process for coaching success.  This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.

⁠💰 Click Here to Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation, Brian discusses how culture doesn’t beat strategy...

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

The 5 stages of culture development in detail

Becoming the average of those you associate with most

The deadly culture killers of BCD


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience.  We are teaming up to offer a FREE Group Coaching Program teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills, and organize your process for coaching success.  This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.

⁠💰 Click Here to Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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<li>The 5 stages of culture development in detail</li>
<li>Becoming the average of those you associate with most</li>
<li>The deadly culture killers of BCD</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Fundraising University</a> and <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">The Coaching Matters Foundation</a> share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience.  We are teaming up to offer a <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">FREE Group Coaching Program</a> teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills, and organize your process for coaching success.  This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.</p><p><br></p><p>⁠💰 Click Here to <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">YouTube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email</a></p>]]>
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      <title>The Best Book of 2024 - Push The Sled</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by authors DJ and Craig Hiller to talk about their book Push The Sled, The 7 Skills to Build an Elevated Mindset and amplify performance in any sport.

In this podcast, Brian, DJ, and Craig talk about:

1. The Benefits of Being Deeply Curious
Accepting The Feedback Without Pushback

2. Focus and Awareness

Control The Controllables

Mastering The Controllables

APE - Attitude, Presence and Effort


3. Process Over Outcome
The Steps

4. Self Control &amp; Discipline

You Have to Be In Control of Yourself So You Can Control Yourself

Recognize Your Signal Lights

The Rule of Two Easies


5. Visualization

Breath Work

Box Breathing

6-2-8


6. Routines and Habits
The Success Checklist

7. Unshakable self confidence

Confidence Is A Choice

BFS - Body Language, Focus, Self-Talk

The Confidence Resume

Mind Movies


You can connect with DJ and Craig and pick up your copy of Push The Sled at PushTheSled.com - You can contact DJ by email at djhillier22@gmail.com and on Instagram @DeeJayHillier You can also check out their podcast The Mindset Advantage.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes' performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
🏆 Join Brian’s FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email.
👍 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course
💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course
⛳ Take Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
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🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The Best Book of 2024 - Push The Sled</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by authors DJ and Craig Hiller to talk about their book Push The Sled, The 7 Skills to Build an Elevated Mindset and amplify performance in any sport.

In this podcast, Brian, DJ, and Craig talk about:

1. The Benefits of Being Deeply Curious
Accepting The Feedback Without Pushback

2. Focus and Awareness

Control The Controllables

Mastering The Controllables

APE - Attitude, Presence and Effort


3. Process Over Outcome
The Steps

4. Self Control &amp; Discipline

You Have to Be In Control of Yourself So You Can Control Yourself

Recognize Your Signal Lights

The Rule of Two Easies


5. Visualization

Breath Work

Box Breathing

6-2-8


6. Routines and Habits
The Success Checklist

7. Unshakable self confidence

Confidence Is A Choice

BFS - Body Language, Focus, Self-Talk

The Confidence Resume

Mind Movies


You can connect with DJ and Craig and pick up your copy of Push The Sled at PushTheSled.com - You can contact DJ by email at djhillier22@gmail.com and on Instagram @DeeJayHillier You can also check out their podcast The Mindset Advantage.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes' performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
🏆 Join Brian’s FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email.
👍 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course
💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course
⛳ Take Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast </em>brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by authors DJ and Craig Hiller to talk about their book <em>Push The Sled, The 7 Skills to Build an Elevated Mindset and amplify performance in any sport.</em></p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast, Brian, DJ, and Craig talk about:</p><p><br></p><p>1. <strong>The Benefits of Being Deeply Curious</strong></p><ul><li>Accepting The Feedback Without Pushback</li></ul><p><br></p><p>2. <strong>Focus and Awareness</strong></p><ul>
<li>Control The Controllables</li>
<li>Mastering The Controllables</li>
<li>APE - Attitude, Presence and Effort</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>3. <strong>Process Over Outcome</strong></p><ul><li>The Steps</li></ul><p><br></p><p>4. <strong>Self Control &amp; Discipline</strong></p><ul>
<li>You Have to Be In Control of Yourself So You Can Control Yourself</li>
<li>Recognize Your Signal Lights</li>
<li>The Rule of Two Easies</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>5. <strong>Visualization</strong></p><ul>
<li>Breath Work</li>
<li>Box Breathing</li>
<li>6-2-8</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>6. <strong>Routines and Habits</strong></p><ul><li>The Success Checklist</li></ul><p><br></p><p>7. <strong>Unshakable self confidence</strong></p><ul>
<li>Confidence Is A Choice</li>
<li>BFS - Body Language, Focus, Self-Talk</li>
<li>The Confidence Resume</li>
<li>Mind Movies</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>You can connect with DJ and Craig and pick up your copy of <em>Push The Sled </em>at<a href="http://pushthesled.com"> PushTheSled.com </a>- You can contact DJ by email at <a href="mailto:djhillier22@gmail.com">djhillier22@gmail.com</a> and on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/deejayhillier/">@DeeJayHillier </a>You can also check out their podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mindset-advantage/id1420211275"><em>The Mindset Advantage.</em></a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes' performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>🏆 Join Brian’s <a href="http://mpm.briancain.com/join-group-coaching?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=podcasst&amp;utm_campaign=mpm+gc&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">YouTube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email.</a></p><p>👍 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/coach-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+coach&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course</a></p><p>💪 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+athlete&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course</a></p><p>⛳ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=golf+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Golf Masterclass</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 20 - The Secret of Success in One Word</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation, Brian the secret of success in one word… Consistency.

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

The ABCs of Consistency

The Ideal Day

Showing Up The Best Version of You


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience.  We are teaming up to offer a FREE Group Coaching Program teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills, and organize your process for coaching success.  This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.

⁠💰 Click Here to Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 20 - The Secret of Success in One Word</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation, Brian the secret of success in one word… Consistency.

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

The ABCs of Consistency

The Ideal Day

Showing Up The Best Version of You


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience.  We are teaming up to offer a FREE Group Coaching Program teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills, and organize your process for coaching success.  This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.

⁠💰 Click Here to Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, </em>brought to you by <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Fundraising University</a> and <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">The Coaching Matters Foundation</a>, Brian the secret of success in one word… Consistency.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast, Brian discusses:</p><ul>
<li>The ABCs of Consistency</li>
<li>The Ideal Day</li>
<li>Showing Up The Best Version of You</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Fundraising University</a> and <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">The Coaching Matters Foundation</a> share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience.  We are teaming up to offer a <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">FREE Group Coaching Program</a> teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills, and organize your process for coaching success.  This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.</p><p><br></p><p>⁠💰 Click Here to <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">YouTube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 19 - You Don't Need Adrenaline... You Need This Instead</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation, Brian discusses why you don’t need adrenaline for optimal performance, you need intention..

In this podcast Brian discusses:

How adrenaline can hurt you more than it helps you

The critical areas to set your intention

Defining success for yourself

The importance of knowing your core principles


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience.  We are teaming up to offer a FREE Group Coaching Program teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills and organize your process for coaching success.  This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.

⁠💰 Click Here to Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, You Tube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:42:50 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 19 - You Don't Need Adrenaline... You Need This Instead</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation, Brian discusses why you don’t need adrenaline for optimal performance, you need intention..

In this podcast Brian discusses:

How adrenaline can hurt you more than it helps you

The critical areas to set your intention

Defining success for yourself

The importance of knowing your core principles


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Fundraising University and The Coaching Matters Foundation share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience.  We are teaming up to offer a FREE Group Coaching Program teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills and organize your process for coaching success.  This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.

⁠💰 Click Here to Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, You Tube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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<li>How adrenaline can hurt you more than it helps you</li>
<li>The critical areas to set your intention</li>
<li>Defining success for yourself</li>
<li>The importance of knowing your core principles</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Fundraising University</a> and <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">The Coaching Matters Foundation</a> share the same passion that we do for supporting coaches and educational athletic experience.  We are teaming up to offer a <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">FREE Group Coaching Program</a> teaching you how to coach mental performance, build entrepreneurial skills and organize your process for coaching success.  This opportunity is limited to just 50 members of our mental performance community, so please click on the link below to take advantage of this amazing educational opportunity.</p><p><br></p><p>⁠💰 Click Here to <a href="https://events.coachingmatters.org/webinar-registration#section-VRJCX4O-hD">Join The FREE Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">You Tube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Riding The Raged Edge of Control - NASCAR Driver Anthony Alfredo</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by NASCAR Driver Anthony Alfredo to discuss the mental aspects of racing, riding the raged edge of control, and how Anthony trains his mental game and cognitive performance with Pison the world's first cognitive performance tracker.

In this Podcast Brian and Anthony discuss:

Anthony’s mental training through simulation

The mental aspects of NASCAR driving

Riding and living on the raged edge of control

How Anthony trains his cognitive performance with Pison

How Anthony uses Mental Imagery

The culture and trust you must build with your team

Eliminating fear and coming back after adversity


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

👉Connect with Anthony Alfredo on Instagram 
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Riding The Raged Edge of Control - NASCAR Driver Anthony Alfredo</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by NASCAR Driver Anthony Alfredo to discuss the mental aspects of racing, riding the raged edge of control, and how Anthony trains his mental game and cognitive performance with Pison the world's first cognitive performance tracker.

In this Podcast Brian and Anthony discuss:

Anthony’s mental training through simulation

The mental aspects of NASCAR driving

Riding and living on the raged edge of control

How Anthony trains his cognitive performance with Pison

How Anthony uses Mental Imagery

The culture and trust you must build with your team

Eliminating fear and coming back after adversity


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

👉Connect with Anthony Alfredo on Instagram 
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a>, Brian is joined by NASCAR Driver <a href="https://x.com/anthonyalfredo?lang=en">Anthony Alfredo</a> to discuss the mental aspects of racing, riding the raged edge of control, and how Anthony trains his mental game and cognitive performance with <a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison</a> the world's first cognitive performance tracker.</p><p><br></p><p>In this Podcast Brian and Anthony discuss:</p><ul>
<li>Anthony’s mental training through simulation</li>
<li>The mental aspects of NASCAR driving</li>
<li>Riding and living on the raged edge of control</li>
<li>How Anthony trains his cognitive performance with Pison</li>
<li>How Anthony uses Mental Imagery</li>
<li>The culture and trust you must build with your team</li>
<li>Eliminating fear and coming back after adversity</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>👉Connect with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/anthonyalfredo/?hl=en">Anthony Alfredo on Instagram </a></p><p>⌚Lean More About <a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</a></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 18 - How to Become Unforgettable</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian discusses how you can become unforgettable and more consistent with doing what you know is good for you.

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

How to be more consistent

How to stop forgetting to do the things that are good for you

How to make and great habits atomic habits style

The Habit Loop

B=MAP Process


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian discusses how you can become unforgettable and more consistent with doing what you know is good for you.

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

How to be more consistent

How to stop forgetting to do the things that are good for you

How to make and great habits atomic habits style

The Habit Loop

B=MAP Process


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, </em>brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian discusses how you can become unforgettable and more consistent with doing what you know is good for you.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast, Brian discusses:</p><ul>
<li>How to be more consistent</li>
<li>How to stop forgetting to do the things that are good for you</li>
<li>How to make and great habits atomic habits style</li>
<li>The Habit Loop</li>
<li>B=MAP Process</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">YouTube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 17 - How to Elevate Your Life In 2 Minutes a Day</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian discusses how you can elevate your life in just 2 minutes a day.

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

The Cainer - Brian’s cold plunge protocol that you can use to elevate your life in just two minutes a day

1. One word Focus

2. Setting your intentional 3 keys to keep it simple

3. Creating your 3 personal affirmations

4. Celebrating your 3 daily wins

5. Building an attitude of gratitude

6. Reflecting through the start, stop, continue process

7. HAGL Statements

The 3 keys to ownership

1. I Know It

2. I Do It

3. I Own It


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 17 - How to Elevate Your Life In 2 Minutes a Day</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian discusses how you can elevate your life in just 2 minutes a day.

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

The Cainer - Brian’s cold plunge protocol that you can use to elevate your life in just two minutes a day

1. One word Focus

2. Setting your intentional 3 keys to keep it simple

3. Creating your 3 personal affirmations

4. Celebrating your 3 daily wins

5. Building an attitude of gratitude

6. Reflecting through the start, stop, continue process

7. HAGL Statements

The 3 keys to ownership

1. I Know It

2. I Do It

3. I Own It


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, </em>brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian discusses how you can elevate your life in just 2 minutes a day.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast, Brian discusses:</p><ul>
<li>The Cainer - Brian’s cold plunge protocol that you can use to elevate your life in just two minutes a day</li>
<li>1. One word Focus</li>
<li>2. Setting your intentional 3 keys to keep it simple</li>
<li>3. Creating your 3 personal affirmations</li>
<li>4. Celebrating your 3 daily wins</li>
<li>5. Building an attitude of gratitude</li>
<li>6. Reflecting through the start, stop, continue process</li>
<li>7. HAGL Statements</li>
<li>The 3 keys to ownership</li>
<li>1. I Know It</li>
<li>2. I Do It</li>
<li>3. I Own It</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">YouTube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 16 - The Best 90 Days of Your Life</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, Brian discusses how to structure the best 90 days of your life so you can absolutely dominate and achieve your goals.

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

The 4-Step Personal Development Formula

Getting Clear on Who You Are and What You Want

Creating Your Personal Mission

Uncovering Your Vision

Identify Your Core Principles

Being Intentional and Playing Offense With Your Time

Using The Success Checklist - The Habit Share App


Reflecting and Refocusing on a Daily Basis


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
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💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, Brian discusses how to structure the best 90 days of your life so you can absolutely dominate and achieve your goals.

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

The 4-Step Personal Development Formula

Getting Clear on Who You Are and What You Want

Creating Your Personal Mission

Uncovering Your Vision

Identify Your Core Principles

Being Intentional and Playing Offense With Your Time

Using The Success Checklist - The Habit Share App


Reflecting and Refocusing on a Daily Basis


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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<li>The 4-Step Personal Development Formula</li>
<li>Getting Clear on Who You Are and What You Want</li>
<li>Creating Your Personal Mission</li>
<li>Uncovering Your Vision</li>
<li>Identify Your Core Principles</li>
<li>Being Intentional and Playing Offense With Your Time</li>
<li>Using <a href="https://habitshareapp.com/">The Success Checklist - The Habit Share App</a>
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<li>Reflecting and Refocusing on a Daily Basis</li>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 15 - How To Start Your MPM Coaching Sessions</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, Brian discusses where to start your MPM coaching sessions.

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

What’s on Your Mind

The KENS Assessment

Well Better How Assessments

The Success Checklist - The Habit Share App

What to charge for your coaching sessions?


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:33:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 15 - How To Start Your MPM Coaching Sessions</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus, Brian discusses where to start your MPM coaching sessions.

In this podcast, Brian discusses:

What’s on Your Mind

The KENS Assessment

Well Better How Assessments

The Success Checklist - The Habit Share App

What to charge for your coaching sessions?


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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<li>What’s on Your Mind</li>
<li>The KENS Assessment</li>
<li>Well Better How Assessments</li>
<li><a href="https://habitshareapp.com/">The Success Checklist - The Habit Share App</a></li>
<li>What to charge for your coaching sessions?</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">YouTube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Dorfman 02 - The One Book That Changes Baseball Players Lives with Sean Casey</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian continues a tribute series to Harvey Dorfman, one of his mentors and a mental game of baseball coaching icon.  

Joining Brian today is Sean Casey. “Case” played Major League Baseball from 1997-2008, was a 3x All-Star, a Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer, hit .302 for his career, and says he would have NEVER made it to MLB without daily reading one of Harvey’s books and working with him during his career.

In this episode Sean &amp; Brian discuss:

The three keys to keep it simple

See The Ball, Be Easy, Hammer It

Getting and grading your best looks at the plate 1-5.

Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable

How what you measure improves

Working with Sean and his Breakthrough Pro Program


Conversations, Content, and Careers - The Life and Legacy of Harvey Dorfman is a series in which Brian interviews former players and staff who had their careers positively impacted by Harvey.  

Check out Harvey’s Books on Amazon
📕The Mental Game of Baseball
📕The Mental Keys to Hitting
📕The Mental ABCs of Pitching
📕Coaching The Mental Game
📕Copying It Down
📕Each Branch, Each Needle
📕Babbling Echoes
📕Persuasion of My Days

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 
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🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
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⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Dorfman 02 - The One Book That Changes Baseball Players Lives with Sean Casey</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian continues a tribute series to Harvey Dorfman, one of his mentors and a mental game of baseball coaching icon.  

Joining Brian today is Sean Casey. “Case” played Major League Baseball from 1997-2008, was a 3x All-Star, a Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer, hit .302 for his career, and says he would have NEVER made it to MLB without daily reading one of Harvey’s books and working with him during his career.

In this episode Sean &amp; Brian discuss:

The three keys to keep it simple

See The Ball, Be Easy, Hammer It

Getting and grading your best looks at the plate 1-5.

Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable

How what you measure improves

Working with Sean and his Breakthrough Pro Program


Conversations, Content, and Careers - The Life and Legacy of Harvey Dorfman is a series in which Brian interviews former players and staff who had their careers positively impacted by Harvey.  

Check out Harvey’s Books on Amazon
📕The Mental Game of Baseball
📕The Mental Keys to Hitting
📕The Mental ABCs of Pitching
📕Coaching The Mental Game
📕Copying It Down
📕Each Branch, Each Needle
📕Babbling Echoes
📕Persuasion of My Days

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, </em>Brian continues a tribute series to Harvey Dorfman, one of his mentors and a mental game of baseball coaching icon.  </p><p><br></p><p>Joining Brian today is Sean Casey. “Case” played Major League Baseball from 1997-2008, was a 3x All-Star, a Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer, hit .302 for his career, and says he would have NEVER made it to MLB without daily reading one of Harvey’s books and working with him during his career.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode Sean &amp; Brian discuss:</p><ul>
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<li>See The Ball, Be Easy, Hammer It</li>
<li>Getting and grading your best looks at the plate 1-5.</li>
<li><a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</a></li>
<li>How what you measure improves</li>
<li>Working with Sean and his <a href="https://www.seancaseylive.com/breakthroughpro">Breakthrough Pro</a> Program</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><em>Conversations, Content, and Careers - The Life and Legacy of Harvey Dorfman</em> is a series in which Brian interviews former players and staff who had their careers positively impacted by Harvey.  </p><p><br></p><p>Check out Harvey’s Books on Amazon</p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mental-Game-Baseball-Guide-Performance-ebook/dp/B071YMVF93?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3vIASwnj_QguhEWHmEjJuLdIrxNf-hTb8F9XGgsP_9jgrVuCVErQRM0b-bbXu5DPwJuk8wU8Ot9zPNUHo0wKpLBy_JHtTVRpQcCbPSrin64bO5XgcZCaYMn88ONQDwaG.bHrGQlbhgenBfbBiIsA_lbU-HJ2jogv-_NQ3MwEOo6g&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR">The Mental Game of Baseball</a></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mental-Keys-Hitting-Performance-Enhancement-ebook/dp/B073HQ8H9D?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3vIASwnj_QguhEWHmEjJuLdIrxNf-hTb8F9XGgsP_9jgrVuCVErQRM0b-bbXu5DPwJuk8wU8Ot9zPNUHo0wKpLBy_JHtTVRpQcCbPSrin64bO5XgcZCaYMn88ONQDwaG.bHrGQlbhgenBfbBiIsA_lbU-HJ2jogv-_NQ3MwEOo6g&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR">The Mental Keys to Hitting</a></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mental-ABCs-Pitching-Performance-Enhancement-ebook/dp/B0718XDMK7?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3vIASwnj_QguhEWHmEjJuLdIrxNf-hTb8F9XGgsP_9jgrVuCVErQRM0b-bbXu5DPwJuk8wU8Ot9zPNUHo0wKpLBy_JHtTVRpQcCbPSrin64bO5XgcZCaYMn88ONQDwaG.bHrGQlbhgenBfbBiIsA_lbU-HJ2jogv-_NQ3MwEOo6g&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR">The Mental ABCs of Pitching</a></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Mental-Game-H-Dorfman-ebook/dp/B072L2LGHK?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3vIASwnj_QguhEWHmEjJuLdIrxNf-hTb8F9XGgsP_9jgrVuCVErQRM0b-bbXu5DPwJuk8wU8Ot9zPNUHo0wKpLBy_JHtTVRpQcCbPSrin64bO5XgcZCaYMn88ONQDwaG.bHrGQlbhgenBfbBiIsA_lbU-HJ2jogv-_NQ3MwEOo6g&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR">Coaching The Mental Game</a></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Copying-Down-Anecdotal-H-Dorfman-ebook/dp/B0044R9I5S?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3vIASwnj_QguhEWHmEjJuLdIrxNf-hTb8F9XGgsP_9jgrVuCVErQRM0b-bbXu5DPwJuk8wU8Ot9zPNUHo0wKpLBy_JHtTVRpQcCbPSrin64bO5XgcZCaYMn88ONQDwaG.bHrGQlbhgenBfbBiIsA_lbU-HJ2jogv-_NQ3MwEOo6g&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR">Copying It Down</a></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Each-Branch-Needle-Anecdotal-Memoir-ebook/dp/B003TFE1Q2?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3vIASwnj_QguhEWHmEjJuLdIrxNf-hTb8F9XGgsP_9jgrVuCVErQRM0b-bbXu5DPwJuk8wU8Ot9zPNUHo0wKpLBy_JHtTVRpQcCbPSrin64bO5XgcZCaYMn88ONQDwaG.bHrGQlbhgenBfbBiIsA_lbU-HJ2jogv-_NQ3MwEOo6g&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR">Each Branch, Each Needle</a></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Babbling-Echoes-Soundings-Yesteryear-Dorfman-ebook/dp/B00AAS6I58/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ASZTV1Q2O45Q&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wyc20Qu_cRpT53gNkXLE20mJO5JpA_yPqJE4ucqOVMo.XXFB4gUrIV6ZSHnPT2Mwr2LKBvcDYYog86LEwQqMeFA&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Babbling+Echoes&amp;qid=1712855231&amp;s=digital-text&amp;sprefix=babbling+echoes%2Cdigital-text%2C179&amp;sr=1-1">Babbling Echoes</a></p><p>📕<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Persuasion-My-Days-Anecdotal-Memoir/dp/0761829806?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3vIASwnj_QguhEWHmEjJuLdIrxNf-hTb8F9XGgsP_9jgrVuCVErQRM0b-bbXu5DPwJuk8wU8Ot9zPNUHo0wKpLBy_JHtTVRpQcCbPSrin64bO5XgcZCaYMn88ONQDwaG.bHrGQlbhgenBfbBiIsA_lbU-HJ2jogv-_NQ3MwEOo6g&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR">Persuasion of My Days</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review, and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 14 - Recommit Don't Recreate</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus brought to you by Fundraising University , Brian discusses the importance of making a recommitment vs. a recreation.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 20:05:29 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 14 - Recommit Don't Recreate</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus brought to you by Fundraising University , Brian discusses the importance of making a recommitment vs. a recreation.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus </em>brought to you by Fundraising University <em>, </em>Brian discusses the importance of making a recommitment vs. a recreation.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations, and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">YouTube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Unleashing Your Cognitive Performance - David Cipoletta</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by David Cipoletta, Co-Founder &amp; Chief Technology Officer of Pison the world's first cognitive performance tracker.

In this Podcast Brian and David discuss:

Tracking The Nervous System vs. Blood Flow

Mental Fatigue, Sleep and Their Role In Cognitive Performance

The Importance of Objectifying Your Mental State and Cognition

Identifying Your Circadian Rhythms and When You Are Sharpest During The Day

Cognitive Readiness and The Snapshot of Mental Processing Time

Cognitive Agility and The “Go-No-Go” Test 

Cognitive Focus and The “PVT” - Psycho Vigilance Test

How Anthony Alfredo has used Pison to Improve NASCAR Performance


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Unleashing Your Cognitive Performance - David Cipoletta</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by David Cipoletta, Co-Founder &amp; Chief Technology Officer of Pison the world's first cognitive performance tracker.

In this Podcast Brian and David discuss:

Tracking The Nervous System vs. Blood Flow

Mental Fatigue, Sleep and Their Role In Cognitive Performance

The Importance of Objectifying Your Mental State and Cognition

Identifying Your Circadian Rhythms and When You Are Sharpest During The Day

Cognitive Readiness and The Snapshot of Mental Processing Time

Cognitive Agility and The “Go-No-Go” Test 

Cognitive Focus and The “PVT” - Psycho Vigilance Test

How Anthony Alfredo has used Pison to Improve NASCAR Performance


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a>, Brian is joined by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcipoletta/">David Cipoletta</a>, Co-Founder &amp; Chief Technology Officer of <a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison</a> the world's first cognitive performance tracker.</p><p><br></p><p>In this Podcast Brian and David discuss:</p><ul>
<li>Tracking The Nervous System vs. Blood Flow</li>
<li>Mental Fatigue, Sleep and Their Role In Cognitive Performance</li>
<li>The Importance of Objectifying Your Mental State and Cognition</li>
<li>Identifying Your Circadian Rhythms and When You Are Sharpest During The Day</li>
<li>Cognitive Readiness and The Snapshot of Mental Processing Time</li>
<li>Cognitive Agility and The “Go-No-Go” Test </li>
<li>Cognitive Focus and The “PVT” - Psycho Vigilance Test</li>
<li>How Anthony Alfredo has used Pison to Improve NASCAR Performance</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>⌚Lean More About <a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</a></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Sport Nutrition Domination - Twin Fitness and Nutrition</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Michelle Hutton and Kristie Winter of Twin Fitness and Nutrition. Brian Kristie and Michelle discuss fueling for elite performance and the specialized performance nutrition concierge service Michelle and Kristie provide to some of the top-performing athletes Brian works with.

In this podcast, Brian, Michelle and Kristie discuss:


The Role of Macro Nutrients in Performance

The Role of Insulin in Performance

The Difference Between Simple and Complex Carbs

What It Actually Means to Eat Clean

The Role of Complete Proteins in Muscle Mass and Strength and Fat Loss

The Role of Fat in Your Performance Diet

The Role of Omega-3 in Decreasing inflammation



You can engage with Michelle and Kristie on Instagram @EliteNutrition_TF and at their website TwinFitness.com

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
⁠💰 Learn More About Joining The Team at Fundraising University</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 20:11:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Sport Nutrition Domination - Twin Fitness and Nutrition</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Michelle Hutton and Kristie Winter of Twin Fitness and Nutrition. Brian Kristie and Michelle discuss fueling for elite performance and the specialized performance nutrition concierge service Michelle and Kristie provide to some of the top-performing athletes Brian works with.

In this podcast, Brian, Michelle and Kristie discuss:


The Role of Macro Nutrients in Performance

The Role of Insulin in Performance

The Difference Between Simple and Complex Carbs

What It Actually Means to Eat Clean

The Role of Complete Proteins in Muscle Mass and Strength and Fat Loss

The Role of Fat in Your Performance Diet

The Role of Omega-3 in Decreasing inflammation



You can engage with Michelle and Kristie on Instagram @EliteNutrition_TF and at their website TwinFitness.com

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
⁠💰 Learn More About Joining The Team at Fundraising University</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast </em>brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Michelle Hutton and Kristie Winter of Twin Fitness and Nutrition. Brian Kristie and Michelle discuss fueling for elite performance and the specialized performance nutrition concierge service Michelle and Kristie provide to some of the top-performing athletes Brian works with.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast, Brian, Michelle and Kristie discuss:</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>The Role of Macro Nutrients in Performance</li>
<li>The Role of Insulin in Performance</li>
<li>The Difference Between Simple and Complex Carbs</li>
<li>What It Actually Means to Eat Clean</li>
<li>The Role of Complete Proteins in Muscle Mass and Strength and Fat Loss</li>
<li>The Role of Fat in Your Performance Diet</li>
<li>The Role of Omega-3 in Decreasing inflammation</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Michelle and Kristie on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/elitenutrition_tf/">@EliteNutrition_TF</a> and at their website <a href="http://twinfitness.com">TwinFitness.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Joining The Team at Fundraising University</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 13 - The Four Fundamentals</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus brought to you Fundraising University , Brian discusses the importance of mastering the four fundamentals of optimal living.


Eating for performance

Movement and sweat before screens

Mindset and your daily routines

Sleep and simplifying sleep science


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🦸Get The Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
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🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, You Tube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 13 - The Four Fundamentals</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus brought to you Fundraising University , Brian discusses the importance of mastering the four fundamentals of optimal living.


Eating for performance

Movement and sweat before screens

Mindset and your daily routines

Sleep and simplifying sleep science


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🦸Get The Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, You Tube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus </em>brought to you Fundraising University <em>, </em>Brian discusses the importance of mastering the four fundamentals of optimal living.</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>Eating for performance</li>
<li>Movement and sweat before screens</li>
<li>Mindset and your daily routines</li>
<li>Sleep and simplifying sleep science</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>🦸Get The <a href="https://www.heroic.us/optimize/letsgo?fpr=briancain">Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free</a></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team</a></p><p>⌚Lean More About <a href="https://pison.com/">Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">You Tube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email</a></p>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>908</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Dorfman 01 - My Life Changed Forever By One Man</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian kicks off a tribute series to one of his mentors and a mental game of baseball coaching icon in Harvey Dorfman.  

Conversations, Content and Careers - The Life and Legacy of Harvey Dorfman is a series in which Brian interviews former players and staff who had their careers positively impacted by Harvey.  

Go inside the conversations, the content and the careers forever changed by one of the greatest mental performance coaches who ever lived.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Check out Harvey’s Books on Amazon

📕The Mental Game of Baseball
📕The Mental Keys to Hitting
📕The Mental ABCs of Pitching
📕Coaching The Mental Game
📕Copying It Down
📕Each Branch, Each Needle
📕Babbling Echoes
📕Persuasion of My Days
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:14:07 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Dorfman 01 - My Life Changed Forever By One Man</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian kicks off a tribute series to one of his mentors and a mental game of baseball coaching icon in Harvey Dorfman.  

Conversations, Content and Careers - The Life and Legacy of Harvey Dorfman is a series in which Brian interviews former players and staff who had their careers positively impacted by Harvey.  

Go inside the conversations, the content and the careers forever changed by one of the greatest mental performance coaches who ever lived.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Check out Harvey’s Books on Amazon

📕The Mental Game of Baseball
📕The Mental Keys to Hitting
📕The Mental ABCs of Pitching
📕Coaching The Mental Game
📕Copying It Down
📕Each Branch, Each Needle
📕Babbling Echoes
📕Persuasion of My Days
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</itunes:summary>
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Save $200</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Cognitive Performance Optimization With Pison - Marc Deschenes</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Marc Deschenes VP of Sport Operations with Pison the world's first cognitive performance tracker.

In this Podcast Brian and Marc discuss:

Marc’s journey through professional baseball and into performance analytics

The Pison story and the importance of cognitive performance tracking

What readiness is and why it’s important to your performance

The Big 12 and SEC Teams using this technology for a competitive advantage

Agility “Go-No-Go”, and why testing your agility before performance is critical to your success

Focus, the role it plays in performance and how to improve it.


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Cognitive Performance Optimization With Pison - Marc Deschenes</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>Cognitive Performance Optimization With Pison</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Marc Deschenes VP of Sport Operations with Pison the world's first cognitive performance tracker.

In this Podcast Brian and Marc discuss:

Marc’s journey through professional baseball and into performance analytics

The Pison story and the importance of cognitive performance tracking

What readiness is and why it’s important to your performance

The Big 12 and SEC Teams using this technology for a competitive advantage

Agility “Go-No-Go”, and why testing your agility before performance is critical to your success

Focus, the role it plays in performance and how to improve it.


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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<li>Marc’s journey through professional baseball and into performance analytics</li>
<li>The Pison story and the importance of cognitive performance tracking</li>
<li>What readiness is and why it’s important to your performance</li>
<li>The Big 12 and SEC Teams using this technology for a competitive advantage</li>
<li>Agility “Go-No-Go”, and why testing your agility before performance is critical to your success</li>
<li>Focus, the role it plays in performance and how to improve it.</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>⌚Lean More About <a href="https://pison.com/?utm_source=Brian_Cain&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=Mental_Performance_Daily">Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</a></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 12 - Don't Let The Start Stop You</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus brought to you Fundraising University , Brian discusses the importance taking action and not letting the start be what stops you.  This weeks topics include:


The daily routine that Brian follows to Dominate The Day

The three Dr. Rob Gilbert resources that have changed Brian’s life

Q&amp;A from MPM Coaches about the mental game and reprogramming your brain


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
📕Dr. Gilbert’s If You Want to Win Tomorrow, Read This Book Tonight
🎤Dr. Gilbert’s Success Hotline Podcast
📕Dr. Gilbert’s Gilbert on Greatness Book - Contact Dr. Gilbert (SendMeAStory@aol.com)
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, You Tube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</description>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus brought to you Fundraising University , Brian discusses the importance taking action and not letting the start be what stops you.  This weeks topics include:


The daily routine that Brian follows to Dominate The Day

The three Dr. Rob Gilbert resources that have changed Brian’s life

Q&amp;A from MPM Coaches about the mental game and reprogramming your brain


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
📕Dr. Gilbert’s If You Want to Win Tomorrow, Read This Book Tonight
🎤Dr. Gilbert’s Success Hotline Podcast
📕Dr. Gilbert’s Gilbert on Greatness Book - Contact Dr. Gilbert (SendMeAStory@aol.com)
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, You Tube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus </em>brought to you Fundraising University <em>, </em>Brian discusses the importance taking action and not letting the start be what stops you.  This weeks topics include:</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>The daily routine that Brian follows to Dominate The Day</li>
<li>The three Dr. Rob Gilbert resources that have changed Brian’s life</li>
<li>Q&amp;A from MPM Coaches about the mental game and reprogramming your brain</li>
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      <title>Eleat Sports Nutrition - Angie Asche</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Angie Asche MS, RD, CSSD of Eleat Sports Nutrition. Brian and Angie discuss fueling for elite performance.

You can engage with Angie on instagram @eleatnutrition, by email angie@eleatnutrition.com and at her website, you can also pick up her book Fuel Your Body on Amazon.  

In this podcast, Ashley and Brian discuss:


How to take control of your personal nutrition performance.

The four different components on a winning plate

What are Macros and why are they important to your fueling as an athlete?

The difference between simple and complex carbohydrates through digestion

Fats and the difference good fats and bad fats

Why whole fruits are athletes best friends for hydration and micronutrients

The importance of 1G per protein per body weight and when to jack up the protein grams

The role of bloodwork when it comes to dialing in your nutrition plan and the frequency of testing

That and much, much more


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
⁠💰 Learn More About Joining The Team at Fundraising University</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Eleat Sports Nutrition - Angie Asche</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Angie Asche MS, RD, CSSD of Eleat Sports Nutrition. Brian and Angie discuss fueling for elite performance.

You can engage with Angie on instagram @eleatnutrition, by email angie@eleatnutrition.com and at her website, you can also pick up her book Fuel Your Body on Amazon.  

In this podcast, Ashley and Brian discuss:


How to take control of your personal nutrition performance.

The four different components on a winning plate

What are Macros and why are they important to your fueling as an athlete?

The difference between simple and complex carbohydrates through digestion

Fats and the difference good fats and bad fats

Why whole fruits are athletes best friends for hydration and micronutrients

The importance of 1G per protein per body weight and when to jack up the protein grams

The role of bloodwork when it comes to dialing in your nutrition plan and the frequency of testing

That and much, much more


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
⁠💰 Learn More About Joining The Team at Fundraising University</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast </em>brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Angie Asche MS, RD, CSSD of Eleat Sports Nutrition. Brian and Angie discuss fueling for elite performance.</p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Angie on instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/eleatnutrition/?hl=en">@eleatnutrition</a>, by email <a href="mailto:angie@eleatnutrition.com">angie@eleatnutrition.com</a> and at her <a href="https://eleatnutrition.com/">website</a>, you can also pick up her book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fuel-Your-Body-Performance-Nutritious/dp/1572842962/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2RkYRG3OrUtHrh0XKugUyytI5bpcjfU3xDpO3T-6K9nGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.QvxOpCz9FtzluGJooGobHpybVhZh9DYsKATSMyqVQyE&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;hvadid=580628663709&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9029978&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=13206436083318433758&amp;hvtargid=kwd-1175783189930&amp;hydadcr=15526_13517424&amp;keywords=fuel+your+body+angie+asche&amp;qid=1710887473&amp;sr=8-1"><em>Fuel Your Body</em></a><em> </em>on Amazon.  </p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast, Ashley and Brian discuss:</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>How to take control of your personal nutrition performance.</li>
<li>The four different components on a winning plate</li>
<li>What are Macros and why are they important to your fueling as an athlete?</li>
<li>The difference between simple and complex carbohydrates through digestion</li>
<li>Fats and the difference good fats and bad fats</li>
<li>Why whole fruits are athletes best friends for hydration and micronutrients</li>
<li>The importance of 1G per protein per body weight and when to jack up the protein grams</li>
<li>The role of bloodwork when it comes to dialing in your nutrition plan and the frequency of testing</li>
<li>That and much, much more</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Joining The Team at Fundraising University</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 11 - The Power of Process</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus brought to you Fundraising University , Brian discusses the importance and power of your process.  This weeks topics include:


The 3 critical times during your day to get things done

The 3 area you must set behavior goals for fulfillment and optimal living

The one coaching lesson Brian learned from Marshall Goldsmith that changed his career

The correlation between process, preparation and production

What Brian has and suggest you have as a part of your personal checklist for success


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 07:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 11 - The Power of Process</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Reflect &amp; Refocus brought to you Fundraising University , Brian discusses the importance and power of your process.  This weeks topics include:


The 3 critical times during your day to get things done

The 3 area you must set behavior goals for fulfillment and optimal living

The one coaching lesson Brian learned from Marshall Goldsmith that changed his career

The correlation between process, preparation and production

What Brian has and suggest you have as a part of your personal checklist for success


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email</itunes:summary>
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<li>The 3 critical times during your day to get things done</li>
<li>The 3 area you must set behavior goals for fulfillment and optimal living</li>
<li>The one coaching lesson Brian learned from Marshall Goldsmith that changed his career</li>
<li>The correlation between process, preparation and production</li>
<li>What Brian has and suggest you have as a part of your personal checklist for success</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team</a></p><p>⌚Lean More About <a href="https://pison.com/">Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">Youtube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email</a></p>]]>
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      <title>The What’s Next Mindset with Parker Byrd - The First College Baseball Player Ever To Play With A Prosthetic Leg</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Parker Byrd, the first college baseball player ever to play with a prosthetic leg.  Byrd plays at East Carolina University, one of the top programs in the Nation and discusses:


How he survived a near death boating accident

The power of a “What’s Next” mindset

The importance of goal setting for motivation

How the “Inch By Inch” mindset served him well in the darkest hours

The need to simply stack wins when facing adversity in life

How he has benefited from the “Jocko GOOD” mindset

Seeing everything in life as a blessing

That and much, much more


You can connect with Parker Byrd on instagram here and also email him directly at info@parkerbyrd16.com

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
⁠💰 Learn More About Joining The Team at Fundraising University</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The What’s Next Mindset with Parker Byrd - The First College Baseball Player Ever To Play With A Prosthetic Leg</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Parker Byrd, the first college baseball player ever to play with a prosthetic leg.  Byrd plays at East Carolina University, one of the top programs in the Nation and discusses:


How he survived a near death boating accident

The power of a “What’s Next” mindset

The importance of goal setting for motivation

How the “Inch By Inch” mindset served him well in the darkest hours

The need to simply stack wins when facing adversity in life

How he has benefited from the “Jocko GOOD” mindset

Seeing everything in life as a blessing

That and much, much more


You can connect with Parker Byrd on instagram here and also email him directly at info@parkerbyrd16.com

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
⁠💰 Learn More About Joining The Team at Fundraising University</itunes:summary>
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<li>How he survived a near death boating accident</li>
<li>The power of a “What’s Next” mindset</li>
<li>The importance of goal setting for motivation</li>
<li>How the “Inch By Inch” mindset served him well in the darkest hours</li>
<li>The need to simply stack wins when facing adversity in life</li>
<li>How he has benefited from the “Jocko GOOD” mindset</li>
<li>Seeing everything in life as a blessing</li>
<li>That and much, much more</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>You can connect with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/parkerbyrdd/?hl=en">Parker Byrd on instagram</a> here and also email him directly at info@parkerbyrd16.com</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p>💪 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+athlete&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Joining The Team at Fundraising University</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 10 - Get Out of Your Head</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast R&amp;R brought to you Fundraising University , Brian does a Reflect and Refocus on what he’s learning, working on, reflecting on and focusing on to get better.  This weeks topics include:


March Madness

Performance Journaling

Getting Out of Your Head &amp; Onto Paper


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
📘Click here to learn more about performance journaling
📺Click here to see the video about Cubs Pitcher Jameson Taillon
🥊Click here to listen to UFC Fighter Sean Brady &amp; Brian Cain full length episode
🥊Click here to listen to UFC Fighter Sean Brady on Joe Rogan talk about affirmations
📘Click here to see a visual example of The Daily Journaling format</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:34:06 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 10 - Get Out of Your Head</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast R&amp;R brought to you Fundraising University , Brian does a Reflect and Refocus on what he’s learning, working on, reflecting on and focusing on to get better.  This weeks topics include:


March Madness

Performance Journaling

Getting Out of Your Head &amp; Onto Paper


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

⁠💰 Learn More About Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team
⌚Lean More About Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable
📘Click here to learn more about performance journaling
📺Click here to see the video about Cubs Pitcher Jameson Taillon
🥊Click here to listen to UFC Fighter Sean Brady &amp; Brian Cain full length episode
🥊Click here to listen to UFC Fighter Sean Brady on Joe Rogan talk about affirmations
📘Click here to see a visual example of The Daily Journaling format</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast R&amp;R </em>brought to you Fundraising University <em>, </em>Brian does a Reflect and Refocus on what he’s learning, working on, reflecting on and focusing on to get better.  This weeks topics include:</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>March Madness</li>
<li>Performance Journaling</li>
<li>Getting Out of Your Head &amp; Onto Paper</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Fundraising University and How You Can Join The Team</a></p><p>⌚Lean More About <a href="https://pison.com/">Pison, The World’s First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable</a></p><p>📘Click here to <a href="https://briancain.com/blog/performance-journaling.html">learn more about performance journaling</a></p><p>📺Click here to <a href="https://youtu.be/wYmfQdm_QeM">see the video about Cubs Pitcher Jameson Taillon</a></p><p>🥊Click here to listen to <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/having-something-to-go-the-mental-edge-of-ufc/id1499162056?i=1000638789031">UFC Fighter Sean Brady &amp; Brian Cain full length episode</a></p><p>🥊Click here to listen to <a href="https://youtu.be/yXRNwxNzy3Q?si=g0DsJw0YC-G5B-fQ">UFC Fighter Sean Brady on Joe Rogan talk about affirmations</a></p><p>📘Click here to see a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C48YOOarYvW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link">visual example of The Daily Journaling format</a></p>]]>
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      <title>How to Win The Mental Game of Baseball - Kurt Suzuki</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by former Major League Baseball player Kurt Suzuki.  Kurt and Cain met when they were both in their first year at Cal State Fullerton in the fall of 2001.  Kurt went on to be a NCAA National Champion (2004) a MLB World Series Champion (2019) and played over 15 MLB Seasons becoming an All-Star in 2014.  In this podcast Kurt and Cain talk about:


How the mental game is the most important aspect of MLB

The mindset it takes to thrive in a game built on failure

What Kurt took from the mental game at Fullerton to his 15+ year Pro career

How to get the monkey off your back

The importance of a “So What Next Pitch” mindset

Living in the moment, not the past or the future

The need to have a focal point in your pre-pitch routine and release

The critical importance of sticking to the process

Reflecting on lessons learned from the 2004 NCAA National Championship

How to simplifying things in a complex analytical game

Staying neutral vs. Riding the baseball roller coaster

What it takes mentally to play 162

Striving for perfection and accepting greatness

The importance of a post game recovery process and routine

How having children changes your mindset and motivations as a professional athlete

Having doubt, yellow lights and talking to yourself not listening

How to take the emotion of results out of your game and stick to the present, process and stay positive

How the fear of failure will cost you your career or bring you to another level, all in how you process it

That and much, much more


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
👍 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course
💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
⁠💰 Learn More About Joining The Team at Fundraising University</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:27:57 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>How to Win The Mental Game of Baseball - Kurt Suzuki</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian is joined by former Major League Baseball player Kurt Suzuki.  Kurt and Cain met when they were both in their first year at Cal State Fullerton in the fall of 2001.  Kurt went on to be a NCAA National Champion (2004) a MLB World Series Champion (2019) and played over 15 MLB Seasons becoming an All-Star in 2014.  In this podcast Kurt and Cain talk about:


How the mental game is the most important aspect of MLB

The mindset it takes to thrive in a game built on failure

What Kurt took from the mental game at Fullerton to his 15+ year Pro career

How to get the monkey off your back

The importance of a “So What Next Pitch” mindset

Living in the moment, not the past or the future

The need to have a focal point in your pre-pitch routine and release

The critical importance of sticking to the process

Reflecting on lessons learned from the 2004 NCAA National Championship

How to simplifying things in a complex analytical game

Staying neutral vs. Riding the baseball roller coaster

What it takes mentally to play 162

Striving for perfection and accepting greatness

The importance of a post game recovery process and routine

How having children changes your mindset and motivations as a professional athlete

Having doubt, yellow lights and talking to yourself not listening

How to take the emotion of results out of your game and stick to the present, process and stay positive

How the fear of failure will cost you your career or bring you to another level, all in how you process it

That and much, much more


Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
👍 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course
💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
⁠💰 Learn More About Joining The Team at Fundraising University</itunes:summary>
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<li>How the mental game is the most important aspect of MLB</li>
<li>The mindset it takes to thrive in a game built on failure</li>
<li>What Kurt took from the mental game at Fullerton to his 15+ year Pro career</li>
<li>How to get the monkey off your back</li>
<li>The importance of a “So What Next Pitch” mindset</li>
<li>Living in the moment, not the past or the future</li>
<li>The need to have a focal point in your pre-pitch routine and release</li>
<li>The critical importance of sticking to the process</li>
<li>Reflecting on lessons learned from the 2004 NCAA National Championship</li>
<li>How to simplifying things in a complex analytical game</li>
<li>Staying neutral vs. Riding the baseball roller coaster</li>
<li>What it takes mentally to play 162</li>
<li>Striving for perfection and accepting greatness</li>
<li>The importance of a post game recovery process and routine</li>
<li>How having children changes your mindset and motivations as a professional athlete</li>
<li>Having doubt, yellow lights and talking to yourself not listening</li>
<li>How to take the emotion of results out of your game and stick to the present, process and stay positive</li>
<li>How the fear of failure will cost you your career or bring you to another level, all in how you process it</li>
<li>That and much, much more</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p>👍 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/coach-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+coach&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course</a></p><p>💪 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+athlete&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Joining The Team at Fundraising University</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 09 - Dominating The Depot</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast R&amp;R, Brian does a Reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, reflecting on and focusing on to get better. This weeks topics include:

What The Home Depot Doesn’t Want You To Know 

Lighting Strikes Self Talk

Spring Training Updates

A Vision Coming To Fruition

Fundraising University

Someone Has to Be First

Looking For Help

Confidence… What Everyone Wants…

Confidence… What Nobody Understands


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

👂Listen to Brian and Jim Rome on The Reinvention Project
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
⁠💰 Learn More About Joining The Team at Fundraising University</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 16:49:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 09 - Dominating The Depot</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast R&amp;R, Brian does a Reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, reflecting on and focusing on to get better. This weeks topics include:

What The Home Depot Doesn’t Want You To Know 

Lighting Strikes Self Talk

Spring Training Updates

A Vision Coming To Fruition

Fundraising University

Someone Has to Be First

Looking For Help

Confidence… What Everyone Wants…

Confidence… What Nobody Understands


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

👂Listen to Brian and Jim Rome on The Reinvention Project
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
⁠💰 Learn More About Joining The Team at Fundraising University</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast R&amp;R, </em>Brian does a Reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, reflecting on and focusing on to get better. This weeks topics include:</p><ul>
<li>What The Home Depot Doesn’t Want You To Know </li>
<li>Lighting Strikes Self Talk</li>
<li>Spring Training Updates</li>
<li>A Vision Coming To Fruition</li>
<li>Fundraising University</li>
<li>Someone Has to Be First</li>
<li>Looking For Help</li>
<li>Confidence… What Everyone Wants…</li>
<li>Confidence… What Nobody Understands</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>👂Listen to <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-reinvention-project-with-jim-rome/id1554555142?i=1000645599969">Brian and Jim Rome on The Reinvention Project</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p>⁠💰 Learn More About <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fundraisingu/sales-rep-prospecting">Joining The Team at Fundraising University</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Bloodwork and Food Sensitivity Reading and Optimal Performance With Chris Tally</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian is joined by Chris Tally of Precision Food Works and Chris and Brian do a deep dive into Brian’s blood work and food sensitivity testing.  Watch as Chris coaches Brian on hsi test results and helps game plan nutrition and supplementation for optimal performance.  This is a deep, deep dive into nutritional science and an episode designed for the elite performer who wants to take their nutrition and supplementation to the next level.

IN THIS PODCAST WE DISCUSS:
Reading Brian’s December 2023 Blood Work
Reading Brian’s December 2023 Food Sensitivity Test
The Changes in Brian’s blood work over two years
And more

You can reach Chris Tally via email at chris@precisionfoodworks.com

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Bloodwork and Food Sensitivity Reading and Optimal Performance With Chris Tally</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian is joined by Chris Tally of Precision Food Works and Chris and Brian do a deep dive into Brian’s blood work and food sensitivity testing.  Watch as Chris coaches Brian on hsi test results and helps game plan nutrition and supplementation for optimal performance.  This is a deep, deep dive into nutritional science and an episode designed for the elite performer who wants to take their nutrition and supplementation to the next level.

IN THIS PODCAST WE DISCUSS:
Reading Brian’s December 2023 Blood Work
Reading Brian’s December 2023 Food Sensitivity Test
The Changes in Brian’s blood work over two years
And more

You can reach Chris Tally via email at chris@precisionfoodworks.com

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak</itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Art of Optimal Health and Recovery - Robby Besner</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian is joined by Robby Besner Co-Founder and Device Developer of Therasage to talk about performance recovery.


The relationship between toxicity and inflammation

How the infrared spectrum can mobilize the toxins in your body

The proper sequencing and duration of various therapies

Circadian rhythms, the pineal gland, melatonin and serotonin

Maintaining the constitution of your biological clock

The difference between optimal and practical application of modalities

Emotional transformation from the cold therapy experience and shiver response

You can learn more about Therasage on instagram


You can reach Brian Cain via instagram @BrianCainPeak 



Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:01:05 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian is joined by Robby Besner Co-Founder and Device Developer of Therasage to talk about performance recovery.


The relationship between toxicity and inflammation

How the infrared spectrum can mobilize the toxins in your body

The proper sequencing and duration of various therapies

Circadian rhythms, the pineal gland, melatonin and serotonin

Maintaining the constitution of your biological clock

The difference between optimal and practical application of modalities

Emotional transformation from the cold therapy experience and shiver response

You can learn more about Therasage on instagram


You can reach Brian Cain via instagram @BrianCainPeak 



Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

🥶 Get 10% Off TheraFrost Inflatable, Self Cleaning Cold Tank Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK
🥵 Get 10% Off Thera360Plus Personal Sauna #1 Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK
⚡🚨Get 10% Off TheraPro PEMF Red Light Mat Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</itunes:summary>
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<li>How the infrared spectrum can mobilize the toxins in your body</li>
<li>The proper sequencing and duration of various therapies</li>
<li>Circadian rhythms, the pineal gland, melatonin and serotonin</li>
<li>Maintaining the constitution of your biological clock</li>
<li>The difference between optimal and practical application of modalities</li>
<li>Emotional transformation from the cold therapy experience and shiver response</li>
<li>You can learn more about <a href="https://www.instagram.com/therasageinfrared/?hl=en">Therasage on instagram</a>
</li>
<li>You can reach Brian Cain via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">instagram @BrianCainPeak </a>
</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a>.  </p><p><br></p><p>🥶 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraFrost Inflatable, Self Cleaning Cold Tank </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>🥵 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">Thera360Plus Personal Sauna #1 </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>⚡🚨Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraPro PEMF Red Light Mat</a> Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 08 - Producers and Operators</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast R&amp;R, Brian does a Reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, reflecting on and focusing on to get better. This weeks topics include:


CK Cain’s Winter Production

Congrats Captain 99/7500

Be The General (Give Orders) &amp; The Soldier (Execute)

Producers vs. Operators

If I ______ Than I Will _________

212 - Give A Little More

Be The Anchor of Your Life

Scott Battas - EAT - Energy, Attitude, Toughness

Push The Rock

The Walking Journal

Garbage Time

Lesson Learned From Frozen II

Traction By Gino Wickman

HRV Is Climbing… GOOD

Brian’s Success Checklist

Protein House Macros


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:58:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast R&amp;R, Brian does a Reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, reflecting on and focusing on to get better. This weeks topics include:


CK Cain’s Winter Production

Congrats Captain 99/7500

Be The General (Give Orders) &amp; The Soldier (Execute)

Producers vs. Operators

If I ______ Than I Will _________

212 - Give A Little More

Be The Anchor of Your Life

Scott Battas - EAT - Energy, Attitude, Toughness

Push The Rock

The Walking Journal

Garbage Time

Lesson Learned From Frozen II

Traction By Gino Wickman

HRV Is Climbing… GOOD

Brian’s Success Checklist

Protein House Macros


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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<li>CK Cain’s Winter Production</li>
<li>Congrats Captain 99/7500</li>
<li>Be The General (Give Orders) &amp; The Soldier (Execute)</li>
<li>Producers vs. Operators</li>
<li>If I ______ Than I Will _________</li>
<li>212 - Give A Little More</li>
<li>Be The Anchor of Your Life</li>
<li>Scott Battas - EAT - Energy, Attitude, Toughness</li>
<li>Push The Rock</li>
<li>The Walking Journal</li>
<li>Garbage Time</li>
<li>Lesson Learned From Frozen II</li>
<li>Traction By Gino Wickman</li>
<li>HRV Is Climbing… GOOD</li>
<li>Brian’s Success Checklist</li>
<li>Protein House Macros</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Having Something To Go, The Mental Edge of UFC Fighter Sean Brady</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian is joined by Mixed Martial Arts and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) superstar Sean Brady. Sean recently won the biggest fight of his career and in this podcast he discusses his work with Brian Cain and Having Something To Go to, To Create a Mental Edge. 

ADVISORY: This Podcast Episode Contains Adult Language

SEAN BRADY &amp; BRIAN CAINTALK ABOUT:

The tipping point when Sean knew he needed a mental coach


How you can lose a fight before it has started


Fighting not to lose vs fighting to win vs. fight cause you love to fight


The danger of expectations vs the freedom of execution



Having something to go to when it gets hard, cause it will get hard

The importance of fighting your fight and how ultimate effort is ultimate victory


The power of IDGAF


How to make a loss the best thing that ever happened to you

Where his belief comes from vs where it used to come from

The dangers of outcome based thinking

How and why he calls Success Hotline


How and why he listens to MPD Podcast



How and why he does Concentration Grids to train fight day focus


How and why he keeps a detailed Success Checklist


Why he touches Brian’s 30 Day Athletes Program on a daily basis.



Why he choose Brian Cain as his mental coach

Affirmation training and the custom affirmations he engrained into his self-talk for this fight

Training his affirmations with cold tank training and sauna work 


The importance of the deep breathe and why he uses meditation to develop mind control

Why he watches a mind movie as a part of his training

How he uses mental imagery and visualization


Fight day simulation and walking through the walk out in training

What it’s like getting inside the UFC Octagon and his pre-fight routine

The importance of controlling what you can control


Sean’s answer to the million dollar question


And more…


You can follow Sean Brady on instagram @SeanBradyMMA

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
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      <itunes:title>Having Something To Go, The Mental Edge of UFC Fighter Sean Brady</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian is joined by Mixed Martial Arts and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) superstar Sean Brady. Sean recently won the biggest fight of his career and in this podcast he discusses his work with Brian Cain and Having Something To Go to, To Create a Mental Edge. 

ADVISORY: This Podcast Episode Contains Adult Language

SEAN BRADY &amp; BRIAN CAINTALK ABOUT:

The tipping point when Sean knew he needed a mental coach


How you can lose a fight before it has started


Fighting not to lose vs fighting to win vs. fight cause you love to fight


The danger of expectations vs the freedom of execution



Having something to go to when it gets hard, cause it will get hard

The importance of fighting your fight and how ultimate effort is ultimate victory


The power of IDGAF


How to make a loss the best thing that ever happened to you

Where his belief comes from vs where it used to come from

The dangers of outcome based thinking

How and why he calls Success Hotline


How and why he listens to MPD Podcast



How and why he does Concentration Grids to train fight day focus


How and why he keeps a detailed Success Checklist


Why he touches Brian’s 30 Day Athletes Program on a daily basis.



Why he choose Brian Cain as his mental coach

Affirmation training and the custom affirmations he engrained into his self-talk for this fight

Training his affirmations with cold tank training and sauna work 


The importance of the deep breathe and why he uses meditation to develop mind control

Why he watches a mind movie as a part of his training

How he uses mental imagery and visualization


Fight day simulation and walking through the walk out in training

What it’s like getting inside the UFC Octagon and his pre-fight routine

The importance of controlling what you can control


Sean’s answer to the million dollar question


And more…


You can follow Sean Brady on instagram @SeanBradyMMA

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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<li>The tipping point when Sean <strong>knew he needed a mental coach</strong>
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<li>How you can<strong> lose a fight before it has started</strong>
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<li>Fighting<strong> not to lose</strong> vs fighting <strong>to win</strong> vs. fight c<strong>ause you love to fight</strong>
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<li>The <strong>danger of expectations</strong> vs the f<strong>reedom of execution</strong>
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<li>
<strong>Having something to go to </strong>when it gets hard, cause it will get hard</li>
<li>The importance of <strong>fighting your fight </strong>and how <strong>ultimate effort is ultimate victory</strong>
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<li>The power of <strong>IDGAF</strong>
</li>
<li>How to make a loss <strong>the best thing that ever happened</strong> to you</li>
<li>Where <strong>his belief comes from</strong> vs where it used to come from</li>
<li>The <strong>dangers of outcome</strong> based thinking</li>
<li><strong>How and why he calls Success Hotline</strong></li>
<li>
<strong>How and why he listens to </strong><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159"><strong>MPD Podcast</strong></a>
</li>
<li>
<strong>How and why he does </strong><a href="https://briancain.com/cgrid"><strong>Concentration Grids</strong></a><strong> to train fight day focus</strong>
</li>
<li><strong>How and why he keeps a detailed Success Checklist</strong></li>
<li>
<strong>Why he touches Brian’s </strong><a href="https://briancain.com/30dayathletescourse"><strong>30 Day Athletes Program</strong></a><strong> on a daily basis.</strong>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Why he choose Brian Cai</strong>n as his mental coach</li>
<li>Affirmation training and <strong>the custom affirmations</strong> he engrained into his self-talk for this fight</li>
<li>Training his affirmations with <strong>cold tank training</strong> and <strong>sauna work </strong>
</li>
<li>The importance of the deep breathe and why he uses <strong>meditation</strong> to develop mind control</li>
<li>Why he <strong>watches a mind movie</strong> as a part of his training</li>
<li>How he uses <strong>mental imagery</strong> and <strong>visualization</strong>
</li>
<li><strong>Fight day simulation and walking through the walk out in training</strong></li>
<li>What it’s like <strong>getting inside the UFC Octagon</strong> and his pre-fight routine</li>
<li>The importance of <strong>controlling what you can control</strong>
</li>
<li>Sean’s answer to <strong>the million dollar question</strong>
</li>
<li>And more…</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>You can follow Sean Brady on instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/seanbradymma/?hl=en">@SeanBradyMMA</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159"><em>The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</em></a></p>]]>
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      <title>Elite Level MLB Mental Performance Execution With Jake Fraley</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian is joined by Cincinnati Reds outfielder Jake Fraley. Jake and Brian dive into all things mental game and you get a great in depth look at what Major League Baseball player mental performance execution at elite level looks like.

Jake and Brian talk about:

The 4 stages of buy in Jake had to go through to buy into mental training

How Jakes has used Cain’s 30 Day Athlete’s Program daily for 3 years

Why the mental game is like an onion and you have to peal back the layers

Jake’s 3 keys to keep it simple and the note card he keeps in his pocket during games

The impact of Sean Casey on Jake’s career from a one day meet up in Pittsburgh

Jake’s pre-pitch routine and release at the plate

The importance of having a focal point that you can use 

Having a final “TIF” - thought, Image, feel

The importance of custom mental Imagery training audios

The importance of watching a personal mind movie on a consistent basis

Jake’s performance journaling process that he works on a daily basis in and out of the season

Using the 3 keys to keep it simple for life

The need to time block your days

The daily 5pm Saber Fight of hIs life

How time is the great separator, 86,400 seconds, 168 hours a week

Why he loves the success checklist and the habit share app

How the mental performance skills he learned through baseball and helping him in life



Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:56:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Elite Level MLB Mental Performance Execution With Jake Fraley</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian is joined by Cincinnati Reds outfielder Jake Fraley. Jake and Brian dive into all things mental game and you get a great in depth look at what Major League Baseball player mental performance execution at elite level looks like.

Jake and Brian talk about:

The 4 stages of buy in Jake had to go through to buy into mental training

How Jakes has used Cain’s 30 Day Athlete’s Program daily for 3 years

Why the mental game is like an onion and you have to peal back the layers

Jake’s 3 keys to keep it simple and the note card he keeps in his pocket during games

The impact of Sean Casey on Jake’s career from a one day meet up in Pittsburgh

Jake’s pre-pitch routine and release at the plate

The importance of having a focal point that you can use 

Having a final “TIF” - thought, Image, feel

The importance of custom mental Imagery training audios

The importance of watching a personal mind movie on a consistent basis

Jake’s performance journaling process that he works on a daily basis in and out of the season

Using the 3 keys to keep it simple for life

The need to time block your days

The daily 5pm Saber Fight of hIs life

How time is the great separator, 86,400 seconds, 168 hours a week

Why he loves the success checklist and the habit share app

How the mental performance skills he learned through baseball and helping him in life



Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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<li>The 4 stages of buy in Jake had to go through to buy into mental training</li>
<li>How Jakes has used Cain’s 30 Day Athlete’s Program daily for 3 years</li>
<li>Why the mental game is like an onion and you have to peal back the layers</li>
<li>Jake’s 3 keys to keep it simple and the note card he keeps in his pocket during games</li>
<li>The impact of Sean Casey on Jake’s career from a one day meet up in Pittsburgh</li>
<li>Jake’s pre-pitch routine and release at the plate</li>
<li>The importance of having a focal point that you can use </li>
<li>Having a final “TIF” - thought, Image, feel</li>
<li>The importance of custom mental Imagery training audios</li>
<li>The importance of watching a personal mind movie on a consistent basis</li>
<li>Jake’s performance journaling process that he works on a daily basis in and out of the season</li>
<li>Using the 3 keys to keep it simple for life</li>
<li>The need to time block your days</li>
<li>The daily 5pm Saber Fight of hIs life</li>
<li>How time is the great separator, 86,400 seconds, 168 hours a week</li>
<li>Why he loves the success checklist and the habit share app</li>
<li>How the mental performance skills he learned through baseball and helping him in life</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159"><em>The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</em></a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 07 - Strategy Beats Talent</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian does a reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, reflection on and focusing on to get better. This weeks topics include:


How strategy beats talent

How to deliver a killer speech from memory

The 3 steps to memorize anything

How to create confidence

Being a specialist vs. a generalist

And more…


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak</description>
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How strategy beats talent

How to deliver a killer speech from memory

The 3 steps to memorize anything

How to create confidence

Being a specialist vs. a generalist

And more…


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak</itunes:summary>
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<li>How strategy beats talent</li>
<li>How to deliver a killer speech from memory</li>
<li>The 3 steps to memorize anything</li>
<li>How to create confidence</li>
<li>Being a specialist vs. a generalist</li>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 06 - Belief In Yourself and Your Process</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian does a reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, reflection on and focusing on to step into the best version of himself.  This weeks topics include:


The Key to Washington Football’s undefeated season

How Alabama upset #1 Georgia

Sean Brady’s DOMINATING UFC Performance

Resetting Your Standards

Inspecting What You Expect

The 3 Traits of Greatness

The 3 Steps to Goal Getting

10K Per Day Challenge

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      <itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian does a reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, reflection on and focusing on to step into the best version of himself.  This weeks topics include:


The Key to Washington Football’s undefeated season

How Alabama upset #1 Georgia

Sean Brady’s DOMINATING UFC Performance

Resetting Your Standards

Inspecting What You Expect

The 3 Traits of Greatness

The 3 Steps to Goal Getting

10K Per Day Challenge

Why I Love Ancore Fitness

⚓ Get $50 Off AnCore Home Gym Pulley System Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK

🦸Get The Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free



Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

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<li>The Key to Washington Football’s undefeated season</li>
<li>How Alabama upset #1 Georgia</li>
<li>Sean Brady’s DOMINATING UFC Performance</li>
<li>Resetting Your Standards</li>
<li>Inspecting What You Expect</li>
<li>The 3 Traits of Greatness</li>
<li>The 3 Steps to Goal Getting</li>
<li>10K Per Day Challenge</li>
<li>Why I Love Ancore Fitness</li>
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      <title>Training Your Mental Health for Elite Performance - Lane Johnson Philadelphia Eagles</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian Cain sits down with Lane Johnson 4x NFL Pro-Bowl Selection, Super Bowl Champion, Offensive Tackle and Captain of the Philadelphia Eagles.

In this podcast, Brian and Lane discuss training your mental health for elite performance and discuss:

What sound mental health really is

The importance of routines and habits in mental health

Alleviating anxiety through taking action

The importance of focusing on process over outcome

Lane’s daily routines

Upgrading your relationship with Anxiety

Where confidence really comes from

How to use concentration grids to train focus

The role of meditation, mental imagery and breathing

Faking it till you make it and how to act confident

The need to separate who and do

Kooth - App For Mental Health



Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.



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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:09:18 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Training Your Mental Health for Elite Performance - Lane Johnson Philadelphia Eagles</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian Cain sits down with Lane Johnson 4x NFL Pro-Bowl Selection, Super Bowl Champion, Offensive Tackle and Captain of the Philadelphia Eagles.

In this podcast, Brian and Lane discuss training your mental health for elite performance and discuss:

What sound mental health really is

The importance of routines and habits in mental health

Alleviating anxiety through taking action

The importance of focusing on process over outcome

Lane’s daily routines

Upgrading your relationship with Anxiety

Where confidence really comes from

How to use concentration grids to train focus

The role of meditation, mental imagery and breathing

Faking it till you make it and how to act confident

The need to separate who and do

Kooth - App For Mental Health



Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

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<li>What sound mental health really is</li>
<li>The importance of routines and habits in mental health</li>
<li>Alleviating anxiety through taking action</li>
<li>The importance of focusing on process over outcome</li>
<li>Lane’s daily routines</li>
<li>Upgrading your relationship with Anxiety</li>
<li>Where confidence really comes from</li>
<li>How to use concentration grids to train focus</li>
<li>The role of meditation, mental imagery and breathing</li>
<li>Faking it till you make it and how to act confident</li>
<li>The need to separate who and do</li>
<li><a href="https://www.kooth.com/">Kooth - App For Mental Health</a></li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>🦸Get The <a href="https://www.heroic.us/optimize/letsgo?fpr=briancain">Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free</a></p><p><br></p><p>🥶 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraFrost Inflatable, Self Cleaning Cold Tank </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p><br></p><p>🥵 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">Thera360Plus Personal Sauna #1 </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p><br></p><p>⚡🚨Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraPro PEMF Red Light Mat</a> Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p><br></p><p>❓Click Here <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeX075fvElP6cdOkRrXYBfOjoBv-87iBv5tHzXpMHcRhaPgQA/viewform">to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p><br></p><p>🏆 Join Brian’s <a href="http://mpm.briancain.com/join-group-coaching?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=podcasst&amp;utm_campaign=mpm+gc&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University</a></p><p><br></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">You Tube</a></p><p><br></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email.</a></p><p><br></p><p>👍 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/coach-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+coach&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course</a></p><p><br></p><p>💪 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+athlete&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course</a></p><p><br></p><p>⛳ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=golf+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Golf Masterclass</a></p><p><br></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p><br></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Hiring a Personal High Performance Director - Tom Newman</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian is joined by his personal high performance coach and director of sport science Tom Newman.


The personal history between Brian Cain and Tom Newman

Who is Tom Newman?

What is a personal high performance director

The importance of DexaFit Scans

Taking a sweat test for optimal hydration strategies

The custom recovery road map and recovery spectrum

Custom cold tank protocols and the reason for cold tank training

The difference between red light vs. near infrared (you can’t see) sauna protocols

The recovery benefits of a float tank and sensory deprivation

You can reach Tom Newman via email at sandbata@gmail.com


You can reach Brian Cain via instagram @BrianCainPeak 



Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Hiring a Personal High Performance Director - Tom Newman</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian is joined by his personal high performance coach and director of sport science Tom Newman.


The personal history between Brian Cain and Tom Newman

Who is Tom Newman?

What is a personal high performance director

The importance of DexaFit Scans

Taking a sweat test for optimal hydration strategies

The custom recovery road map and recovery spectrum

Custom cold tank protocols and the reason for cold tank training

The difference between red light vs. near infrared (you can’t see) sauna protocols

The recovery benefits of a float tank and sensory deprivation

You can reach Tom Newman via email at sandbata@gmail.com


You can reach Brian Cain via instagram @BrianCainPeak 



Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

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❓Click Here to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
🏆 Join Brian’s FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, You Tube
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💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course
⛳ Take Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
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🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-brian-cain-mental-performance-mastery-podcast/id1499162056"><em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast</em></a> Brian is joined by his personal high performance coach and director of sport science Tom Newman.</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>The personal history between Brian Cain and Tom Newman</li>
<li>Who is Tom Newman?</li>
<li>What is a personal high performance director</li>
<li>The importance of DexaFit Scans</li>
<li>Taking a sweat test for optimal hydration strategies</li>
<li>The custom recovery road map and recovery spectrum</li>
<li>Custom cold tank protocols and the reason for cold tank training</li>
<li>The difference between red light vs. near infrared (you can’t see) sauna protocols</li>
<li>The recovery benefits of a float tank and sensory deprivation</li>
<li>You can reach Tom Newman via email at <a href="mailto:sandbata@gmail.com">sandbata@gmail.com</a>
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<li>You can reach Brian Cain via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">instagram @BrianCainPeak </a>
</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a>.  </p><p><br></p><p>🥶 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraFrost Inflatable, Self Cleaning Cold Tank </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>🥵 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">Thera360Plus Personal Sauna #1 </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>⚡🚨Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraPro PEMF Red Light Mat</a> Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>🦸Get The <a href="https://www.heroic.us/optimize/letsgo?fpr=briancain">Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free</a></p><p>❓Click Here <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeX075fvElP6cdOkRrXYBfOjoBv-87iBv5tHzXpMHcRhaPgQA/viewform">to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>🏆 Join Brian’s <a href="http://mpm.briancain.com/join-group-coaching?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=podcasst&amp;utm_campaign=mpm+gc&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">You Tube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email.</a></p><p>👍 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/coach-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+coach&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course</a></p><p>💪 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+athlete&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course</a></p><p>⛳ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=golf+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Golf Masterclass</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 05: Your Gratitude Practice</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian does a weekly reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, struggling with and reflecting on. This weeks topics include:


Why gratitude works

Your gratitude top 10

How to dial in yourself and those you love for 2024


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2023 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 05: Your Gratitude Practice</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian does a weekly reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, struggling with and reflecting on. This weeks topics include:


Why gratitude works

Your gratitude top 10

How to dial in yourself and those you love for 2024


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

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👍 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course
💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course
⛳ Take Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</itunes:summary>
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<li>Why gratitude works</li>
<li>Your gratitude top 10</li>
<li>How to dial in yourself and those you love for 2024</li>
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      <title>Josh Jung - The Mental Game Intentions of An All Star and World Series Champion</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian Cain welcomes back 2023 MLB All-Star and World Series Champion Josh Jung of The Texas Rangers.

Josh and Brian talk about Josh’s mental game and what helped him have an all-star and world series championship winning season including:


The role of sleep tracking in performance

The role of recovery over the grind of a season

The importance of setting your intentions every day

Josh’s journaling process and getting out of your head and onto paper

The benefits of slowing down

Josh’s one word focus for the 2023 season

Josh’s 3 keys to keep it simple at the plate

Why Josh makes a vision board and puts this in his locker

The need to keep a success checklist and use the habit share app


Why we need to write HAGL statements

MITs and most important tasks

Affirmation writing

Advice for navigating and overcoming injuries

The collective mindset that the world series champions adopted that won then the ring



If you missed Josh and Brian’s first podcast from 2020, about Going from undrafted to the 1st round you can listen to that here.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

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❓Click Here to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD
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🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:07:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Josh Jung - The Mental Game Intentions of An All Star and World Series Champion</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian Cain welcomes back 2023 MLB All-Star and World Series Champion Josh Jung of The Texas Rangers.

Josh and Brian talk about Josh’s mental game and what helped him have an all-star and world series championship winning season including:


The role of sleep tracking in performance

The role of recovery over the grind of a season

The importance of setting your intentions every day

Josh’s journaling process and getting out of your head and onto paper

The benefits of slowing down

Josh’s one word focus for the 2023 season

Josh’s 3 keys to keep it simple at the plate

Why Josh makes a vision board and puts this in his locker

The need to keep a success checklist and use the habit share app


Why we need to write HAGL statements

MITs and most important tasks

Affirmation writing

Advice for navigating and overcoming injuries

The collective mindset that the world series champions adopted that won then the ring



If you missed Josh and Brian’s first podcast from 2020, about Going from undrafted to the 1st round you can listen to that here.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

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🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast </em>Brian Cain welcomes back 2023 <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mlb/?hl=en">MLB</a> All-Star and World Series Champion <a href="https://www.instagram.com/josh6jung/?hl=en">Josh Jung</a> of The <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rangers/?hl=en">Texas Rangers</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>Josh and Brian talk about Josh’s mental game and what helped him have an all-star and world series championship winning season including:</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>The role of sleep tracking in performance</li>
<li>The role of recovery over the grind of a season</li>
<li>The importance of setting your intentions every day</li>
<li>Josh’s journaling process and getting out of your head and onto paper</li>
<li>The benefits of slowing down</li>
<li>Josh’s one word focus for the 2023 season</li>
<li>Josh’s 3 keys to keep it simple at the plate</li>
<li>Why Josh makes a vision board and puts this in his locker</li>
<li>The need to keep a success checklist and use the <a href="https://habitshareapp.com/">habit share app</a>
</li>
<li>Why we need to write HAGL statements</li>
<li>MITs and most important tasks</li>
<li>Affirmation writing</li>
<li>Advice for navigating and overcoming injuries</li>
<li>The collective mindset that the world series champions adopted that won then the ring</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-non-drafted-to-1st-rd-pick-the-mental-game-of-josh-jung/id1499162056?i=1000521202330">If you missed Josh and Brian’s first podcast from 2020, about <em>Going from undrafted to the 1st round </em>you can listen to that here.</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>🥶 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraFrost Inflatable, Self Cleaning Cold Tank </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>🥵 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">Thera360Plus Personal Sauna #1 </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>⚡🚨Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraPro PEMF Red Light Mat</a> Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>🦸Get The <a href="https://www.heroic.us/optimize/letsgo?fpr=briancain">Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free</a></p><p>❓Click Here <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeX075fvElP6cdOkRrXYBfOjoBv-87iBv5tHzXpMHcRhaPgQA/viewform">to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>🏆 Join Brian’s <a href="http://mpm.briancain.com/join-group-coaching?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=podcasst&amp;utm_campaign=mpm+gc&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">You Tube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email.</a></p><p>👍 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/coach-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+coach&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course</a></p><p>💪 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+athlete&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course</a></p><p>⛳ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=golf+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Golf Masterclass</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 04: One Percent Better</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian does a weekly reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, struggling with and reflecting on.  This weeks topics include:


A 3 Day Seminar Outline

Why Gritty Beats Pretty

3 Mindsets Learned from Ironman Arizona 

It’s a SCAM

Welcome To The MPM Certification

Dexa Scans

Blood Work &amp; Supplements

The 4 Step Success Formula


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 01:06:35 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 04: One Percent Better</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian does a weekly reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, struggling with and reflecting on.  This weeks topics include:


A 3 Day Seminar Outline

Why Gritty Beats Pretty

3 Mindsets Learned from Ironman Arizona 

It’s a SCAM

Welcome To The MPM Certification

Dexa Scans

Blood Work &amp; Supplements

The 4 Step Success Formula


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

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❓Click Here to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD
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🏆 Join Brian’s FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University
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👍 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course
💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course
⛳ Take Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast </em>Brian does a weekly reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, struggling with and reflecting on.  This weeks topics include:</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>A 3 Day Seminar Outline</li>
<li>Why Gritty Beats Pretty</li>
<li>3 Mindsets Learned from Ironman Arizona </li>
<li>It’s a SCAM</li>
<li>Welcome To The MPM Certification</li>
<li>Dexa Scans</li>
<li>Blood Work &amp; Supplements</li>
<li>The 4 Step Success Formula</li>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 03: Decisions Not Sacrifices</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian does a weekly reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, struggling with and reflecting on. This weeks topics include:


The 3 Disciplines In Life

Recovery Protocols

Getting Your Baseline For Health &amp; Fitness

PGA Tour Top 10 Finishes

MLB GM Meetings

The 10 Lessons From Navy Seal Community

Making Decisions, Not Sacrifices to Be Great


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:37:15 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 03: Decisions Not Sacrifices</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian does a weekly reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, struggling with and reflecting on. This weeks topics include:


The 3 Disciplines In Life

Recovery Protocols

Getting Your Baseline For Health &amp; Fitness

PGA Tour Top 10 Finishes

MLB GM Meetings

The 10 Lessons From Navy Seal Community

Making Decisions, Not Sacrifices to Be Great


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

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🦸Get The Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free
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⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast </em>Brian does a weekly reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, struggling with and reflecting on. This weeks topics include:</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>The 3 Disciplines In Life</li>
<li>Recovery Protocols</li>
<li>Getting Your Baseline For Health &amp; Fitness</li>
<li>PGA Tour Top 10 Finishes</li>
<li>MLB GM Meetings</li>
<li>The 10 Lessons From Navy Seal Community</li>
<li>Making Decisions, Not Sacrifices to Be Great</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p>🥶 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraFrost Inflatable, Self Cleaning Cold Tank </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>🥵 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">Thera360Plus Personal Sauna #1 </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>⚡🚨Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraPro PEMF Red Light Mat</a> Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>🦸Get The <a href="https://www.heroic.us/optimize/letsgo?fpr=briancain">Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free</a></p><p>❓Click Here <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeX075fvElP6cdOkRrXYBfOjoBv-87iBv5tHzXpMHcRhaPgQA/viewform">to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>🏆 Join Brian’s <a href="http://mpm.briancain.com/join-group-coaching?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=podcasst&amp;utm_campaign=mpm+gc&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">You Tube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email.</a></p><p>👍 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/coach-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+coach&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course</a></p><p>💪 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+athlete&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course</a></p><p>⛳ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=golf+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Golf Masterclass</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p>]]>
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      <title>The ABC's of Mental Performance Mastery </title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian breaks down the ABC’s of Mental Performance Mastery (MPM). This is a compilation of Brian's Mental Performance Daily Episodes.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:33:54 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The ABC's of Mental Performance Mastery </itunes:title>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian breaks down the ABC’s of Mental Performance Mastery (MPM). This is a compilation of Brian's Mental Performance Daily Episodes.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

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🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Mastery Podcast</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 02: It's A Hole In ONE</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian does a weekly reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, struggling with and reflecting on. This weeks topics include:


Brian’s first hole in one

Miss Rachel and Toddler Education

The Foundation of Mental Health

Controlling What You Can Control

The Missing Link In Mental Health

Lesson on Living From UFC Hall of Famer

Choosing Your Core Principles


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2023 20:35:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian does a weekly reflect and refocus on what he’s learning, working on, struggling with and reflecting on. This weeks topics include:


Brian’s first hole in one

Miss Rachel and Toddler Education

The Foundation of Mental Health

Controlling What You Can Control

The Missing Link In Mental Health

Lesson on Living From UFC Hall of Famer

Choosing Your Core Principles


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

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⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</itunes:summary>
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<li>Brian’s first hole in one</li>
<li>Miss Rachel and Toddler Education</li>
<li>The Foundation of Mental Health</li>
<li>Controlling What You Can Control</li>
<li>The Missing Link In Mental Health</li>
<li>Lesson on Living From UFC Hall of Famer</li>
<li>Choosing Your Core Principles</li>
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      <title>Reflect &amp; Refocus 01: Charting An Intentional Direction Through Reflection</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian does a weekly review on what he’s learning, working on and reflecting on. Topics include:


Lessons learned from Ken Ravizza

Controlling What You Can Control

The Great Mickey Rivers

The Existential Man

Tom Brady &amp; Winning Culture

Marshall Goldsmith and The Success Checklist

LT Jonathan Falcone and Assigning Every Minute A Task

Brian Johnson, Heroic and Philosophers Notes

Who will win the world series?

What Cainer’s calendar looks like on a weekly basis

What Cainer is working on with his clients this week


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:03:38 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>October 27, 2023 - Weekly Review With Brian Cain</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian does a weekly review on what he’s learning, working on and reflecting on. Topics include:


Lessons learned from Ken Ravizza

Controlling What You Can Control

The Great Mickey Rivers

The Existential Man

Tom Brady &amp; Winning Culture

Marshall Goldsmith and The Success Checklist

LT Jonathan Falcone and Assigning Every Minute A Task

Brian Johnson, Heroic and Philosophers Notes

Who will win the world series?

What Cainer’s calendar looks like on a weekly basis

What Cainer is working on with his clients this week


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

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🦸Get The Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free
❓Click Here to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD
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👍 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course
💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course
⛳ Take Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</itunes:summary>
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<li>Lessons learned from Ken Ravizza</li>
<li>Controlling What You Can Control</li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K7fT6ZbmrmG8opoRYKuIew5jzuK1ud9-/view?usp=drive_link">The Great Mickey Rivers</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_jFTg9rkfNNahcIFttCaXS88i6owybNK/view?usp=drive_link">The Existential Man</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liz8rZx1NJ8&amp;t=3356s">Tom Brady &amp; Winning Culture</a></li>
<li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bc145-marshall-goldsmith-what-got-you-here-wont-get/id1499162056?i=1000465634420">Marshall Goldsmith and The Success Checklist</a></li>
<li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mindset-it-takes-to-go-from-a-garbage-truck-to/id1499162056?i=1000504454294">LT Jonathan Falcone and Assigning Every Minute A Task</a></li>
<li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unleashing-your-inner-hero-with-brian-johnson/id1499162056?i=1000632316092">Brian Johnson, Heroic and Philosophers Notes</a></li>
<li>Who will win the world series?</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ft-RXhQdCU">What Cainer’s calendar looks like on a weekly basis</a></li>
<li>What Cainer is working on with his clients this week</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p>🥶 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraFrost Inflatable, Self Cleaning Cold Tank </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>🥵 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">Thera360Plus Personal Sauna #1 </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>⚡🚨Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraPro PEMF Red Light Mat</a> Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>🦸Get The <a href="https://www.heroic.us/optimize/letsgo?fpr=briancain">Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free</a></p><p>❓Click Here <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeX075fvElP6cdOkRrXYBfOjoBv-87iBv5tHzXpMHcRhaPgQA/viewform">to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>🏆 Join Brian’s <a href="http://mpm.briancain.com/join-group-coaching?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=podcasst&amp;utm_campaign=mpm+gc&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">You Tube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email.</a></p><p>👍 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/coach-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+coach&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course</a></p><p>💪 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+athlete&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course</a></p><p>⛳ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=golf+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Golf Masterclass</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p>]]>
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      <title>From Non-Drafted To 1st Rd Pick To World Series, The Mental Game of Josh Jung</title>
      <description>(This episode is a re-run. Original airdate was May 10, 2021 - In honor of Josh Jung playing in his first World Series game tonight.)

Josh Jung attended Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio, Texas where he starred in both baseball and football. Not drafted out of high school in the 2016 MLB draft, he enrolled at Texas Tech University to play college baseball for the Red Raiders.

In 2017, as a freshman at Texas Tech, Jung started all 62 games at third base, batting .306 with six home runs and 43 RBIs. He was named the Big 12 Freshman of the Year and was named a Freshman All-American by multiple outlets including Collegiate Baseball and Perfect Game/Rawlings.

As a sophomore in 2018, Jung once again started all 65 of Texas Tech's games at third base, slashing .392/.491/.639 with 12 home runs and 80 RBIs. He was named to the All-Big 12 First Team, and was once again named an All-American by outlets such as Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball. He played for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team that summer.

Jung was named a preseason All-American by Perfect Game, Baseball America, D1Baseball.com, and Collegiate Baseball prior to his junior year. During the season, he missed two games due to a quadricep strain, ending his streak of 139 consecutive starts. After returning, he moved to shortstop. He was named the 2019 Big 12 Co-Player of the Year after batting .333 with nine home runs and 49 RBIs through 49 games.

He was named an All-American by Baseball America, D1Baseball.com, Perfect Game, ABCA, and NCBWA. Jung was the recipient of the 2019 Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award, which honors the top Division I baseball player within Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma each season.

Jung finished his junior year slashing .343/.474/.636 with 15 home runs and 58 RBIs in 64 games. Considered one of the top prospects for the 2019 MLB draft, he was selected by the Texas Rangers in the first round, with the eighth overall pick.

On July 3, 2019, Jung signed with the Rangers for a $4.4 million signing bonus.

On July 10, 2019, Jung made his professional debut with the Arizona League Rangers of the Rookie-level Arizona League, hitting a home run in his first professional at-bat.

On October 27, 2023, Jung plays in his first ever World Series with the Texas Rangers.

Josh has been a student of the Mental Game of Baseball since he was 11 years old and started with my PRIDE (Personal Responsibility In Daily Excellence) Program. He is as invested into Mental Performance as any athlete I have ever worked with.

In this podcast recorded live in front of close to 500 high school baseball coaches and players we talk about…


The Importance of daily mental performance training

Separating what you do and who you are

The importance of self-talk, perspective and routines

How to overcome the biggest challenges you face in baseball and life

How the mental game helped him go from Non-drafted out of HS to 8th overall


And much much more….

You can engage with Josh Jung on instagram @Josh6Jung and with Brian Cain @BrianCainPeak.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:03:35 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>(This episode is a re-run. Original airdate was May 10, 2021 - In honor of Josh Jung playing in his first World Series game tonight.)

Josh Jung attended Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio, Texas where he starred in both baseball and football. Not drafted out of high school in the 2016 MLB draft, he enrolled at Texas Tech University to play college baseball for the Red Raiders.

In 2017, as a freshman at Texas Tech, Jung started all 62 games at third base, batting .306 with six home runs and 43 RBIs. He was named the Big 12 Freshman of the Year and was named a Freshman All-American by multiple outlets including Collegiate Baseball and Perfect Game/Rawlings.

As a sophomore in 2018, Jung once again started all 65 of Texas Tech's games at third base, slashing .392/.491/.639 with 12 home runs and 80 RBIs. He was named to the All-Big 12 First Team, and was once again named an All-American by outlets such as Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball. He played for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team that summer.

Jung was named a preseason All-American by Perfect Game, Baseball America, D1Baseball.com, and Collegiate Baseball prior to his junior year. During the season, he missed two games due to a quadricep strain, ending his streak of 139 consecutive starts. After returning, he moved to shortstop. He was named the 2019 Big 12 Co-Player of the Year after batting .333 with nine home runs and 49 RBIs through 49 games.

He was named an All-American by Baseball America, D1Baseball.com, Perfect Game, ABCA, and NCBWA. Jung was the recipient of the 2019 Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award, which honors the top Division I baseball player within Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma each season.

Jung finished his junior year slashing .343/.474/.636 with 15 home runs and 58 RBIs in 64 games. Considered one of the top prospects for the 2019 MLB draft, he was selected by the Texas Rangers in the first round, with the eighth overall pick.

On July 3, 2019, Jung signed with the Rangers for a $4.4 million signing bonus.

On July 10, 2019, Jung made his professional debut with the Arizona League Rangers of the Rookie-level Arizona League, hitting a home run in his first professional at-bat.

On October 27, 2023, Jung plays in his first ever World Series with the Texas Rangers.

Josh has been a student of the Mental Game of Baseball since he was 11 years old and started with my PRIDE (Personal Responsibility In Daily Excellence) Program. He is as invested into Mental Performance as any athlete I have ever worked with.

In this podcast recorded live in front of close to 500 high school baseball coaches and players we talk about…


The Importance of daily mental performance training

Separating what you do and who you are

The importance of self-talk, perspective and routines

How to overcome the biggest challenges you face in baseball and life

How the mental game helped him go from Non-drafted out of HS to 8th overall


And much much more….

You can engage with Josh Jung on instagram @Josh6Jung and with Brian Cain @BrianCainPeak.</itunes:summary>
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<li>The Importance of daily mental performance training</li>
<li>Separating what you do and who you are</li>
<li>The importance of self-talk, perspective and routines</li>
<li>How to overcome the biggest challenges you face in baseball and life</li>
<li>How the mental game helped him go from Non-drafted out of HS to 8th overall</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>And much much more….</p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Josh Jung on instagram @Josh6Jung and with Brian Cain @BrianCainPeak.</p>]]>
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      <title>Unleashing Your Inner Hero With Brian Johnson</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian Cain sits down with Brian Johnson to talk about how you can Unleash Your Inner Hero.

Brian Johnson is the Founder &amp; CEO of Heroic Public Benefit Corporation and the author of Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential. He’s 50% Philosopher + 50% CEO and 101% committed to helping create a world in which 51% of humanity is flourishing by the year 2051. As a Founder/CEO he’s raised $25M+, made crowdfunding history, and built and sold two social platforms. As a Philosopher/teacher, he’s helped millions of people from around the world, trained 10,000+ Heroic Coaches from 100+ countries and created a protocol that science says changes lives. 

In this podcast, Brian (Cain) and Brian (Johnson) discuss:

Brian’s path to being a Heroic Guide

A quick tattoo tour and his ultimate commitments

The cardinal virtues

The 3 key areas of Energy, Work and Love

His Daily Routine and Process for Personal Growth

His PEMF and NanoV protocols

His cold plunge protocol

His sauna protocols

How to increase recovery and HRV

How he uses Blood Flow Restriction

The Supplements he is currently taking

His diet evolutions from vegan to meat eater

Tips for everyday optimizers

The Heroic Coach Program

The Heroic App and Success Checklist

His new book Arete


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

💥Engage With Brian Johnson and Heroic on Instagram
🦸Get The Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free
📕 Get Brian Johnson’s Book Arete: Activate Your Human Potential Here on Amazon
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❓Click Here to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD
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🏆 Join Brian’s FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University
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👍 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course
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⛳ Take Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
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🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:10:42 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Unleashing Your Inner Hero With Brian Johnson</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian Cain sits down with Brian Johnson to talk about how you can Unleash Your Inner Hero.

Brian Johnson is the Founder &amp; CEO of Heroic Public Benefit Corporation and the author of Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential. He’s 50% Philosopher + 50% CEO and 101% committed to helping create a world in which 51% of humanity is flourishing by the year 2051. As a Founder/CEO he’s raised $25M+, made crowdfunding history, and built and sold two social platforms. As a Philosopher/teacher, he’s helped millions of people from around the world, trained 10,000+ Heroic Coaches from 100+ countries and created a protocol that science says changes lives. 

In this podcast, Brian (Cain) and Brian (Johnson) discuss:

Brian’s path to being a Heroic Guide

A quick tattoo tour and his ultimate commitments

The cardinal virtues

The 3 key areas of Energy, Work and Love

His Daily Routine and Process for Personal Growth

His PEMF and NanoV protocols

His cold plunge protocol

His sauna protocols

How to increase recovery and HRV

How he uses Blood Flow Restriction

The Supplements he is currently taking

His diet evolutions from vegan to meat eater

Tips for everyday optimizers

The Heroic Coach Program

The Heroic App and Success Checklist

His new book Arete


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

💥Engage With Brian Johnson and Heroic on Instagram
🦸Get The Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free
📕 Get Brian Johnson’s Book Arete: Activate Your Human Potential Here on Amazon
🥶 Get 10% Off TheraFrost Inflatable, Self Cleaning Cold Tank Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK
🥵 Get 10% Off Thera360Plus Personal Sauna #1 Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK
⚡🚨Get 10% Off TheraPro PEMF Red Light Mat Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK
❓Click Here to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
🏆 Join Brian’s FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, You Tube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email.
👍 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course
💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course
⛳ Take Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast </em>Brian Cain sits down with Brian Johnson to talk about how you can <em>Unleash Your Inner Hero</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>Brian Johnson is the Founder &amp; CEO of Heroic Public Benefit Corporation and the author of <a href="https://heroic.us/book">Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential</a>. He’s 50% Philosopher + 50% CEO and 101% committed to helping create a world in which 51% of humanity is flourishing by the year 2051. As a Founder/CEO he’s raised $25M+, made crowdfunding history, and built and sold two social platforms. As a Philosopher/teacher, he’s helped millions of people from around the world, trained 10,000+ Heroic Coaches from 100+ countries and created a protocol that science says changes lives. </p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast, Brian (Cain) and Brian (Johnson) discuss:</p><ul>
<li>Brian’s path to being a Heroic Guide</li>
<li>A quick tattoo tour and his ultimate commitments</li>
<li>The cardinal virtues</li>
<li>The 3 key areas of Energy, Work and Love</li>
<li>His Daily Routine and Process for Personal Growth</li>
<li>His PEMF and NanoV protocols</li>
<li>His cold plunge protocol</li>
<li>His sauna protocols</li>
<li>How to increase recovery and HRV</li>
<li>How he uses Blood Flow Restriction</li>
<li>The Supplements he is currently taking</li>
<li>His diet evolutions from vegan to meat eater</li>
<li>Tips for everyday optimizers</li>
<li>The Heroic Coach Program</li>
<li>The Heroic App and Success Checklist</li>
<li>His new book Arete</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>💥Engage With <a href="https://www.instagram.com/heroicbrian/">Brian Johnson and Heroic on Instagram</a></p><p>🦸Get The <a href="https://www.heroic.us/optimize/letsgo?fpr=briancain">Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free</a></p><p>📕 Get Brian Johnson’s Book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Aret%C3%A9-Activate-Your-Heroic-Potential/dp/B0C75GW5X3/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=arete&amp;qid=1697737296&amp;sr=8-1-spons&amp;sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&amp;psc=1"><em>Arete: Activate Your Human Potential</em></a><em> </em>Here on Amazon</p><p>🥶 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraFrost Inflatable, Self Cleaning Cold Tank </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>🥵 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">Thera360Plus Personal Sauna #1 </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>⚡🚨Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraPro PEMF Red Light Mat</a> Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>❓Click Here <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeX075fvElP6cdOkRrXYBfOjoBv-87iBv5tHzXpMHcRhaPgQA/viewform">to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>🏆 Join Brian’s <a href="http://mpm.briancain.com/join-group-coaching?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=podcasst&amp;utm_campaign=mpm+gc&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">You Tube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email.</a></p><p>👍 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/coach-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+coach&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course</a></p><p>💪 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+athlete&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course</a></p><p>⛳ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=golf+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Golf Masterclass</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Using Fear As Fuel: The Mental Performance Training That Helped AJ Johnson Capture a Professional Bowling Association (PBA) Tour Title</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Professional Bowler AJ Johnson. Johnson is a member of Team USA Bowling and has been on the PBA Tour for nearly a decade. Having recently won his first PBA Tour Title at The Lucky Larson Masters in Helsingborg, Sweden Johnson shares how he has learned to use Fear as Fuel and unveils The Mental Performance Training that he did with Cain that helped him to capture his first professional bowling tour championship.
In this podcast Johnson and Cain talk about:

Learning and training to use fear as fuel


The importance of having something to go to when it gets hard


Building routines pre comp, in comp and post comp for consistency

Moving your mindset from comparison into competition


Having a physical trigger to flip the switch from person to performer and showering well

The purpose of a daily success checklist for optimal performance and confidence

Confidence moving from being a feeling into something that you do and a way of life

Why and how to use mental imagery as a part of your preparation

Keeping a one word focus to ground you


Time blocking and planning your day in advance to help turn your brain off

6-2-8 breathing

The 3 Keys to Keep It Simple


Separation from enhanced preparation


Getting One Percent Better


Why his listens to The Mental Performance Daily Podcast



Intentional performance journaling and MORE…


You can engage with AJ Johnson: 
Instagram = @AJ_JohnsonPBA
Twitter = @AJ_JohnsonPBA
TikTok = @AJ_JohsnonPBA

You can engage with Brian Cain
Instagram @BrianCainPeak
Twitter @BrianCainPeak
Facebook @BrianCainPeak 
Or at BrianCain.com

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🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:41:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Using Fear As Fuel: The Mental Performance Training That Helped AJ Johnson Capture a Professional Bowling Association (PBA) Tour Title</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Professional Bowler AJ Johnson. Johnson is a member of Team USA Bowling and has been on the PBA Tour for nearly a decade. Having recently won his first PBA Tour Title at The Lucky Larson Masters in Helsingborg, Sweden Johnson shares how he has learned to use Fear as Fuel and unveils The Mental Performance Training that he did with Cain that helped him to capture his first professional bowling tour championship.
In this podcast Johnson and Cain talk about:

Learning and training to use fear as fuel


The importance of having something to go to when it gets hard


Building routines pre comp, in comp and post comp for consistency

Moving your mindset from comparison into competition


Having a physical trigger to flip the switch from person to performer and showering well

The purpose of a daily success checklist for optimal performance and confidence

Confidence moving from being a feeling into something that you do and a way of life

Why and how to use mental imagery as a part of your preparation

Keeping a one word focus to ground you


Time blocking and planning your day in advance to help turn your brain off

6-2-8 breathing

The 3 Keys to Keep It Simple


Separation from enhanced preparation


Getting One Percent Better


Why his listens to The Mental Performance Daily Podcast



Intentional performance journaling and MORE…


You can engage with AJ Johnson: 
Instagram = @AJ_JohnsonPBA
Twitter = @AJ_JohnsonPBA
TikTok = @AJ_JohsnonPBA

You can engage with Brian Cain
Instagram @BrianCainPeak
Twitter @BrianCainPeak
Facebook @BrianCainPeak 
Or at BrianCain.com

🥶 Get 10% Off TheraFrost Inflatable, Self Cleaning Cold Tank Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK
🥵 Get 10% Off Thera360Plus Personal Sauna #1 Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK
⚡🚨Get 10% Off TheraPro PEMF Red Light Mat Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK
🦸Get The Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free
❓Click Here to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD
💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200
🏆 Join Brian’s FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University
💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, You Tube
📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email.
👍 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course
💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course
⛳ Take Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of <em>The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast</em> Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Professional Bowler AJ Johnson. Johnson is a member of Team USA Bowling and has been on the PBA Tour for nearly a decade. Having recently won his first PBA Tour Title at The Lucky Larson Masters in Helsingborg, Sweden Johnson shares how he has learned to use Fear as Fuel and unveils The Mental Performance Training that he did with Cain that helped him to capture his first professional bowling tour championship.</p><p>In this podcast Johnson and Cain talk about:</p><ul>
<li>Learning and training to <strong>use fear as fuel</strong>
</li>
<li>The importance of <strong>having something to go to</strong> when it gets hard</li>
<li>
<strong>Building routines</strong> pre comp, in comp and post comp for consistency</li>
<li>Moving your mindset from <strong>comparison into competition</strong>
</li>
<li>Having a <strong>physical trigger to flip the switch </strong>from person to performer and showering well</li>
<li>The purpose of a <strong>daily success checklist </strong>for optimal performance and confidence</li>
<li>Confidence <strong>moving from being a feeling into something that you do</strong> and a way of life</li>
<li>Why and how to use <strong>mental imagery</strong> as a part of your preparation</li>
<li>Keeping a <strong>one word focus </strong>to ground you</li>
<li>
<strong>Time blocking and planning your day in advance</strong> to help turn your brain off</li>
<li><strong>6-2-8 breathing</strong></li>
<li>The <strong>3 Keys to Keep It Simple</strong>
</li>
<li>Separation from<strong> enhanced preparation</strong>
</li>
<li>Getting <strong>One Percent Better</strong>
</li>
<li>Why his listens to <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Intentional performance journaling</strong> and MORE…</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>You can engage with AJ Johnson: </p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/aj_johnsonpba/?hl=en">Instagram = @AJ_JohnsonPBA</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/AJ_JohnsonPBA">Twitter = @AJ_JohnsonPBA</a></p><p>TikTok = <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@aj_johnsonpba">@AJ_JohsnonPBA</a></p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram @BrianCainPeak</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter @BrianCainPeak</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook @BrianCainPeak </a></p><p>Or at <a href="https://briancain.com/">BrianCain.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>🥶 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraFrost Inflatable, Self Cleaning Cold Tank </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>🥵 Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">Thera360Plus Personal Sauna #1 </a>Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>⚡🚨Get 10% Off <a href="https://bit.ly/465cz2E">TheraPro PEMF Red Light Mat</a> Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK</p><p>🦸Get The <a href="https://www.heroic.us/optimize/letsgo?fpr=briancain">Heroic App &amp; Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free</a></p><p>❓Click Here <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeX075fvElP6cdOkRrXYBfOjoBv-87iBv5tHzXpMHcRhaPgQA/viewform">to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD</a></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻 </a>Join Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p>🏆 Join Brian’s <a href="http://mpm.briancain.com/join-group-coaching?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=podcasst&amp;utm_campaign=mpm+gc&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University</a></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">You Tube</a></p><p>📧 Sign up for<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Brian’s MPM email.</a></p><p>👍 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/coach-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+coach&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course</a></p><p>💪 Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+athlete&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course</a></p><p>⛳ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=golf+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Golf Masterclass</a></p><p>⚾ Take Brian’s <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p>🎤 Follow Brian’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <title>3 Lessons You Can Use Warfighter Cognitive Performance Training - Dr. Brittany Loney</title>
      <description>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Brittany Loney, cognitive performance coach to elite Warriors, to talk about the mindset, routines, and training of elite warriors. 

Brittany has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Learning Systems from The Florida State University, an M.A. in Kinesiology with an emphasis on performance psychology from California State University, Fresno, an M.S. in Exercise Science from Florida State University, and a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Texas State University where she was also a NCAA Division 1 basketball player. 

Brittany is the director and creator of the Elite Cognition and Human Optimization (ECHO) program at Core One. She has over 18 years of experience training high performers from a vast array of communities, such as elite warriors, Olympic athletes, high-level coaches, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and C-Suite Executives. 

For the past 13+ years, Brittany has been developing and implementing cognitive training programs within the national security and government sectors. She helped develop and taught curriculum for NATO’s Inaugural Mental Performance and Resiliency Course. 

Brittany focuses her efforts towards serving those who operate within dynamic high stakes environments where people are a critical capability and human error is a legitimate risk to self or mission. 

Her specialty is building, refining, and implementing large-scale performance programs and thrives in environments where the concept of cognitive performance is novel. She routinely consults with an array of personnel, from military to sports to business, to bring about the effective assimilation of cognitive performance principles to advance both individual and organizational effectiveness. 

Over her career, Brittany and her team were embedded within highly selective hiring processes and arduous training pipelines. During this time, they refined a 360 degree approach to developing adaptive experts across a multitude of domains. The team worked extensively with trainees, instructors, course planners, and leadership to assimilate deliberate practice principles, adaptability research, and growth cultivation throughout the entire developmental process. 

Brittany will share some of the best practices and lessons learned garnered through their integration with some of the nation’s most exceptional training.

Maximum cohesive functioning is a prerequisite for any team to be greater than the sum of its parts. Over the past decade, Brittany and her team were immersed in organizations where their program was leveraged to facilitate desired cultural shifts and organizational end-states. 

She will discuss interpersonal adaptability and adjusting communication styles, building unsung hero attributes, and refining team culture, values, systems, and processes to ensure optimal collective performance.

Brittany looks forward to sharing with our community best practices and lessons learned related to training adaptive experts and building cultures that raise the tide.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 11:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>3 Lessons You Can Use Warfighter Cognitive Performance Training - Dr. Brittany Loney</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Brittany Loney, cognitive performance coach to elite Warriors, to talk about the mindset, routines, and training of elite warriors. 

Brittany has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Learning Systems from The Florida State University, an M.A. in Kinesiology with an emphasis on performance psychology from California State University, Fresno, an M.S. in Exercise Science from Florida State University, and a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Texas State University where she was also a NCAA Division 1 basketball player. 

Brittany is the director and creator of the Elite Cognition and Human Optimization (ECHO) program at Core One. She has over 18 years of experience training high performers from a vast array of communities, such as elite warriors, Olympic athletes, high-level coaches, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and C-Suite Executives. 

For the past 13+ years, Brittany has been developing and implementing cognitive training programs within the national security and government sectors. She helped develop and taught curriculum for NATO’s Inaugural Mental Performance and Resiliency Course. 

Brittany focuses her efforts towards serving those who operate within dynamic high stakes environments where people are a critical capability and human error is a legitimate risk to self or mission. 

Her specialty is building, refining, and implementing large-scale performance programs and thrives in environments where the concept of cognitive performance is novel. She routinely consults with an array of personnel, from military to sports to business, to bring about the effective assimilation of cognitive performance principles to advance both individual and organizational effectiveness. 

Over her career, Brittany and her team were embedded within highly selective hiring processes and arduous training pipelines. During this time, they refined a 360 degree approach to developing adaptive experts across a multitude of domains. The team worked extensively with trainees, instructors, course planners, and leadership to assimilate deliberate practice principles, adaptability research, and growth cultivation throughout the entire developmental process. 

Brittany will share some of the best practices and lessons learned garnered through their integration with some of the nation’s most exceptional training.

Maximum cohesive functioning is a prerequisite for any team to be greater than the sum of its parts. Over the past decade, Brittany and her team were immersed in organizations where their program was leveraged to facilitate desired cultural shifts and organizational end-states. 

She will discuss interpersonal adaptability and adjusting communication styles, building unsung hero attributes, and refining team culture, values, systems, and processes to ensure optimal collective performance.

Brittany looks forward to sharing with our community best practices and lessons learned related to training adaptive experts and building cultures that raise the tide.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Brittany Loney, cognitive performance coach to elite Warriors, to talk about the mindset, routines, and training of elite warriors. </p><p><br></p><p>Brittany has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Learning Systems from The Florida State University, an M.A. in Kinesiology with an emphasis on performance psychology from California State University, Fresno, an M.S. in Exercise Science from Florida State University, and a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Texas State University where she was also a NCAA Division 1 basketball player. </p><p><br></p><p>Brittany is the director and creator of the Elite Cognition and Human Optimization (ECHO) program at Core One. She has over 18 years of experience training high performers from a vast array of communities, such as elite warriors, Olympic athletes, high-level coaches, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and C-Suite Executives. </p><p><br></p><p>For the past 13+ years, Brittany has been developing and implementing cognitive training programs within the national security and government sectors. She helped develop and taught curriculum for NATO’s Inaugural Mental Performance and Resiliency Course. </p><p><br></p><p>Brittany focuses her efforts towards serving those who operate within dynamic high stakes environments where people are a critical capability and human error is a legitimate risk to self or mission. </p><p><br></p><p>Her specialty is building, refining, and implementing large-scale performance programs and thrives in environments where the concept of cognitive performance is novel. She routinely consults with an array of personnel, from military to sports to business, to bring about the effective assimilation of cognitive performance principles to advance both individual and organizational effectiveness. </p><p><br></p><p>Over her career, Brittany and her team were embedded within highly selective hiring processes and arduous training pipelines. During this time, they refined a 360 degree approach to developing adaptive experts across a multitude of domains. The team worked extensively with trainees, instructors, course planners, and leadership to assimilate deliberate practice principles, adaptability research, and growth cultivation throughout the entire developmental process. </p><p><br></p><p>Brittany will share some of the best practices and lessons learned garnered through their integration with some of the nation’s most exceptional training.</p><p><br></p><p>Maximum cohesive functioning is a prerequisite for any team to be greater than the sum of its parts. Over the past decade, Brittany and her team were immersed in organizations where their program was leveraged to facilitate desired cultural shifts and organizational end-states. </p><p><br></p><p>She will discuss interpersonal adaptability and adjusting communication styles, building unsung hero attributes, and refining team culture, values, systems, and processes to ensure optimal collective performance.</p><p><br></p><p>Brittany looks forward to sharing with our community best practices and lessons learned related to training adaptive experts and building cultures that raise the tide.</p>]]>
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      <title>You Are The Edge! Mental Performance Training With 6x NCAA National Champion Coach Tom Haley OU Gym</title>
      <description>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by University of Oklahoma Gymnastics Asst. coach Tom Haley to talk about coaching mental performance. 
Tom Haley has been with Oklahoma for 18 years and led the Sooners to 6 NCAA National Championships, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023.
In this call Coach Haley and Brian talk about:

Creating a culture of consistency

Obstacles to an individual sport athlete learning team culture

Teaching WE before me

How Every Year Is Different, But Adversity Is Always A Part of Every Season

Why The Closer You Get To Winning, The Harder Winning Gets

Doing a team Vision board 

Having a team one word focus

How To Combat Complacency

Mental Preparation

Making everything you do good enough to win a national championship

Self-talk, routines, imagery and process

The Importance of Looking For An Edge inside of yourself to get to the next level

When You Measure You Can Make Changes

Using wearable technology to improve your sleep and health

Why It’s Important To Sweep The Sheds and Give Your Team A Chance To Take Ownership</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>You Are The Edge! Mental Performance Training With 6x NCAA National Champion Coach Tom Haley OU Gym</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by University of Oklahoma Gymnastics Asst. coach Tom Haley to talk about coaching mental performance. 
Tom Haley has been with Oklahoma for 18 years and led the Sooners to 6 NCAA National Championships, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023.
In this call Coach Haley and Brian talk about:

Creating a culture of consistency

Obstacles to an individual sport athlete learning team culture

Teaching WE before me

How Every Year Is Different, But Adversity Is Always A Part of Every Season

Why The Closer You Get To Winning, The Harder Winning Gets

Doing a team Vision board 

Having a team one word focus

How To Combat Complacency

Mental Preparation

Making everything you do good enough to win a national championship

Self-talk, routines, imagery and process

The Importance of Looking For An Edge inside of yourself to get to the next level

When You Measure You Can Make Changes

Using wearable technology to improve your sleep and health

Why It’s Important To Sweep The Sheds and Give Your Team A Chance To Take Ownership</itunes:summary>
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<li>Creating a culture of consistency</li>
<li>Obstacles to an individual sport athlete learning team culture</li>
<li>Teaching WE before me</li>
<li>How Every Year Is Different, But Adversity Is Always A Part of Every Season</li>
<li>Why The Closer You Get To Winning, The Harder Winning Gets</li>
<li>Doing a team Vision board </li>
<li>Having a team one word focus</li>
<li>How To Combat Complacency</li>
<li>Mental Preparation</li>
<li>Making everything you do good enough to win a national championship</li>
<li>Self-talk, routines, imagery and process</li>
<li>The Importance of Looking For An Edge inside of yourself to get to the next level</li>
<li>When You Measure You Can Make Changes</li>
<li>Using wearable technology to improve your sleep and health</li>
<li>Why It’s Important To Sweep The Sheds and Give Your Team A Chance To Take Ownership</li>
</ul>]]>
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      <title>Coaching Mental Performance With FSU Softball Mental Performance Coach Ellie Cooper, MPM</title>
      <description>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Florida State Softball Director of Mental Performance and Player Development Ellie Cooper to talk about coaching mental performance. 
As the Player Performance Director, Cooper focuses on implementing and developing the mental game and player performance while assisting with technology, video and the day-to-day operations of Florida State softball.
Cooper was a member of the Seminoles from 2014-17 and was on staff as a Student Assistant during the Seminoles’ 2018 National Championship run.
During her time at Florida State, she was named to the All-ACC team twice (2015 and 2016) and was named a member of the NFCA Southeast All-Region Second Team in 2016. During her time in Tallahassee, she hit .319 with 122 RBI, 31 doubles, seven triples and seven home runs while getting on base 41.7 percent of the time. Cooper was a mainstay at second base, playing in 243 games in her career and finishing with a .960 fielding percentage.
In her four seasons at FSU, the Noles won four ACC Championships and reached four NCAA Super Regionals with two trips to the Women’s College World Series.

NOTES FROM CALL WITH COACH COOPER
How to deal with the pressure of living your dream
How 75% of Her Time Is Invested Into Your Mental Performance Coaching
The Importance of Having A Classroom Session 1x a Week With Mental Performance
The Importance of Body Language
The Program FSACC Core Values &amp; Culture -
The Importance of Routines 
Why The Team Read It Takes What It Takes This Fall
Creating A Culture Calendar
The Tough As Shit Socks
The One More Board
Breathing
T-Shirts With Slogans
The Process Based Scoring Sheet
“Tell the Truth Tuesdays” sharing your “safeties” (blue angels) for practicing normalizing accountability/vulnerability/ownership and using them as moments of growth</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2023 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Coaching Mental Performance With FSU Softball Mental Performance Coach Ellie Cooper, MPM</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Florida State Softball Director of Mental Performance and Player Development Ellie Cooper to talk about coaching mental performance. 
As the Player Performance Director, Cooper focuses on implementing and developing the mental game and player performance while assisting with technology, video and the day-to-day operations of Florida State softball.
Cooper was a member of the Seminoles from 2014-17 and was on staff as a Student Assistant during the Seminoles’ 2018 National Championship run.
During her time at Florida State, she was named to the All-ACC team twice (2015 and 2016) and was named a member of the NFCA Southeast All-Region Second Team in 2016. During her time in Tallahassee, she hit .319 with 122 RBI, 31 doubles, seven triples and seven home runs while getting on base 41.7 percent of the time. Cooper was a mainstay at second base, playing in 243 games in her career and finishing with a .960 fielding percentage.
In her four seasons at FSU, the Noles won four ACC Championships and reached four NCAA Super Regionals with two trips to the Women’s College World Series.

NOTES FROM CALL WITH COACH COOPER
How to deal with the pressure of living your dream
How 75% of Her Time Is Invested Into Your Mental Performance Coaching
The Importance of Having A Classroom Session 1x a Week With Mental Performance
The Importance of Body Language
The Program FSACC Core Values &amp; Culture -
The Importance of Routines 
Why The Team Read It Takes What It Takes This Fall
Creating A Culture Calendar
The Tough As Shit Socks
The One More Board
Breathing
T-Shirts With Slogans
The Process Based Scoring Sheet
“Tell the Truth Tuesdays” sharing your “safeties” (blue angels) for practicing normalizing accountability/vulnerability/ownership and using them as moments of growth</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Gold Medal Mindset, How to Win In Sports, Business and Life - 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Borden</title>
      <description>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Borden to talk about building a gold medal mindset in sports, business and life. 
Amanda was captain of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team, dubbed the Magnificent Seven (including members Dominique Moceanu, Amy Chow, Jaycie Phelps, Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller and Kerri Strug), which took home the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. 
Along with their gold, they made history by becoming the first U.S. Womenʼs Gymnastics team ever to win an Olympic games. Amanda describes the experience as, “the biggest moment of my gymnastics career and one of the biggest moments in women’s gymnastics history.”
Amanda proved herself to be a steady and consistent gymnast from the start of her training at Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy. Her talent and ability led her to be named to the National Team six times and the World Championship Team three times, eventually reaching the pinnacle of her career as Team Captain of the history making, 1996 Gold Medal Olympic Team. 
USA Gymnastics also named Amanda Sportswoman of the Year in 1995.
After the 1996 Gold Medal win, Amanda appeared in numerous national tours and television appearances and was featured on the Wheaties Cereal Box. 
She graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University with a degree in elementary education. She was honored by Arizona State University with the Alumni Achievement Award for her success and contributions in business and the community. 
As the owner of Gold Medal Gymnastics Academy, with two locations in Tempe and Chandler Arizona, Borden has combined her educational training with her athletic expertise and continues to serve as a gymnastics and cheerleading commentator for CBS Sports, Fox Sports, ESPN, NBC and the PAC-12 Network.
While proud of her past, Borden says her focus now is on the next generation of athletes: “My goal is to touch the lives of children all across Arizona to help them reach their goals, whatever they may be”.
In addition, Amanda is a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame and US Olympic Hall of Fame. Most recently, she won an Emmy Award for her coverage and color commentary of NCAA gymnastics.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Gold Medal Mindset, How to Win In Sports, Business and Life - 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Borden</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Borden to talk about building a gold medal mindset in sports, business and life. 
Amanda was captain of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team, dubbed the Magnificent Seven (including members Dominique Moceanu, Amy Chow, Jaycie Phelps, Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller and Kerri Strug), which took home the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. 
Along with their gold, they made history by becoming the first U.S. Womenʼs Gymnastics team ever to win an Olympic games. Amanda describes the experience as, “the biggest moment of my gymnastics career and one of the biggest moments in women’s gymnastics history.”
Amanda proved herself to be a steady and consistent gymnast from the start of her training at Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy. Her talent and ability led her to be named to the National Team six times and the World Championship Team three times, eventually reaching the pinnacle of her career as Team Captain of the history making, 1996 Gold Medal Olympic Team. 
USA Gymnastics also named Amanda Sportswoman of the Year in 1995.
After the 1996 Gold Medal win, Amanda appeared in numerous national tours and television appearances and was featured on the Wheaties Cereal Box. 
She graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University with a degree in elementary education. She was honored by Arizona State University with the Alumni Achievement Award for her success and contributions in business and the community. 
As the owner of Gold Medal Gymnastics Academy, with two locations in Tempe and Chandler Arizona, Borden has combined her educational training with her athletic expertise and continues to serve as a gymnastics and cheerleading commentator for CBS Sports, Fox Sports, ESPN, NBC and the PAC-12 Network.
While proud of her past, Borden says her focus now is on the next generation of athletes: “My goal is to touch the lives of children all across Arizona to help them reach their goals, whatever they may be”.
In addition, Amanda is a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame and US Olympic Hall of Fame. Most recently, she won an Emmy Award for her coverage and color commentary of NCAA gymnastics.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Borden to talk about building a gold medal mindset in sports, business and life. </p><p>Amanda was captain of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team, dubbed the Magnificent Seven (including members Dominique Moceanu, Amy Chow, Jaycie Phelps, Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller and Kerri Strug), which took home the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. </p><p>Along with their gold, they made history by becoming the first U.S. Womenʼs Gymnastics team ever to win an Olympic games. Amanda describes the experience as, “the biggest moment of my gymnastics career and one of the biggest moments in women’s gymnastics history.”</p><p>Amanda proved herself to be a steady and consistent gymnast from the start of her training at Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy. Her talent and ability led her to be named to the National Team six times and the World Championship Team three times, eventually reaching the pinnacle of her career as Team Captain of the history making, 1996 Gold Medal Olympic Team. </p><p>USA Gymnastics also named Amanda Sportswoman of the Year in 1995.</p><p>After the 1996 Gold Medal win, Amanda appeared in numerous national tours and television appearances and was featured on the Wheaties Cereal Box. </p><p>She graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University with a degree in elementary education. She was honored by Arizona State University with the Alumni Achievement Award for her success and contributions in business and the community. </p><p>As the owner of Gold Medal Gymnastics Academy, with two locations in Tempe and Chandler Arizona, Borden has combined her educational training with her athletic expertise and continues to serve as a gymnastics and cheerleading commentator for CBS Sports, Fox Sports, ESPN, NBC and the PAC-12 Network.</p><p>While proud of her past, Borden says her focus now is on the next generation of athletes: <em>“My goal is to touch the lives of children all across Arizona to help them reach their goals, whatever they may be”.</em></p><p>In addition, Amanda is a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame and US Olympic Hall of Fame. Most recently, she won an Emmy Award for her coverage and color commentary of NCAA gymnastics.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Leadership and Culture Is HS Sports - Part 2 of 2 - Russ Waterman, MPM - John Woods, MPM</title>
      <description>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Libertyville HS Director of Athletics John Woods, MPM. Brian and Coach Woods discuss leadership and culture in athletic administration. Libertyville High School in Illinois has 1,850 Student Athletes, 92 Teams, 31 Sports, over 150 coaches and ONE PROGRAM

In this call Coach Woods discusses:

What Is Culture?

Going from Good to Great

Process over outcome

The Core Values of PROGRAM

ONE PROGRAM: Passion Respect ONE Grit, Reliable, Accountable and Mindful

The Importance of Branding

The Process of Creating a department mission, vision and core principles.

Why It’s so much easier to establish a culture than maintaining one

The PROGRAM &amp; 10 PILLARS of Libertyville HS Culture

Creating A Student Leadership and Developmental Curriculum

The importance of having connection before you start working on correction

Buy In Fades, Belief Sticks

Faith In The Future Creates Power in The Present

The Importance of Coaching For Significance vs. Satisfaction and Success

How to use The MVP Process With Your First and 2nd Year Teachers

How to Brand Your School With Core Principles

The Importance of Mid-Season Feedback Form


Questions To Ask Yourself

Am I a final product - as good as I will ever be?

Where am I putting legitimate effort into getting better?

How hard and how often am I working at it?

How do I know if I am making progress toward my goals?



Contact Coach Woods
John Woods
john.woods@d128.org 
217-840-7084</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Leadership and Culture Is HS Sports - Part 2 of 2 - Russ Waterman, MPM - John Woods, MPM</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Libertyville HS Director of Athletics John Woods, MPM. Brian and Coach Woods discuss leadership and culture in athletic administration. Libertyville High School in Illinois has 1,850 Student Athletes, 92 Teams, 31 Sports, over 150 coaches and ONE PROGRAM

In this call Coach Woods discusses:

What Is Culture?

Going from Good to Great

Process over outcome

The Core Values of PROGRAM

ONE PROGRAM: Passion Respect ONE Grit, Reliable, Accountable and Mindful

The Importance of Branding

The Process of Creating a department mission, vision and core principles.

Why It’s so much easier to establish a culture than maintaining one

The PROGRAM &amp; 10 PILLARS of Libertyville HS Culture

Creating A Student Leadership and Developmental Curriculum

The importance of having connection before you start working on correction

Buy In Fades, Belief Sticks

Faith In The Future Creates Power in The Present

The Importance of Coaching For Significance vs. Satisfaction and Success

How to use The MVP Process With Your First and 2nd Year Teachers

How to Brand Your School With Core Principles

The Importance of Mid-Season Feedback Form


Questions To Ask Yourself

Am I a final product - as good as I will ever be?

Where am I putting legitimate effort into getting better?

How hard and how often am I working at it?

How do I know if I am making progress toward my goals?



Contact Coach Woods
John Woods
john.woods@d128.org 
217-840-7084</itunes:summary>
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<li>What Is Culture?</li>
<li>Going from Good to Great</li>
<li>Process over outcome</li>
<li>The Core Values of PROGRAM</li>
<li class="ql-indent-1">ONE PROGRAM: Passion Respect ONE Grit, Reliable, Accountable and Mindful</li>
<li>The Importance of Branding</li>
<li>The Process of Creating a department mission, vision and core principles.</li>
<li>Why It’s so much easier to establish a culture than maintaining one</li>
<li>The PROGRAM &amp; 10 PILLARS of Libertyville HS Culture</li>
<li>Creating A Student Leadership and Developmental Curriculum</li>
<li>The importance of having connection before you start working on correction</li>
<li>Buy In Fades, Belief Sticks</li>
<li>Faith In The Future Creates Power in The Present</li>
<li>The Importance of Coaching For Significance vs. Satisfaction and Success</li>
<li>How to use The MVP Process With Your First and 2nd Year Teachers</li>
<li>How to Brand Your School With Core Principles</li>
<li>The Importance of Mid-Season Feedback Form</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Questions To Ask Yourself</strong></p><ul>
<li>Am I a final product - as good as I will ever be?</li>
<li>Where am I putting legitimate effort into getting better?</li>
<li>How hard and how often am I working at it?</li>
<li>How do I know if I am making progress toward my goals?</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Contact Coach Woods</strong></p><p>John Woods</p><p><a href="mailto:john.woods@d128.org">john.woods@d128.org</a> </p><p>217-840-7084</p>]]>
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      <title>Leadership and Culture Is HS Sports - Part 1 of 2 - Russ Waterman, MPM</title>
      <description>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Eastmont HS Director of Athletics Russ Waterman, MPM. Brian and Coach Waterman discuss leadership and culture in athletic administration and:


Why you must love em’ in order to lead em’

Being a Transformational vs. Transactional Coach

Principle vs. Preference based focus

The Motto of “Don’t Stop Believing”

What Does Mental Toughness Actually Mean?

Why your culture is what you accept, not what you say

The importance of officials recognition

The importance of taking care of yourself first.


CALL RESOURCES

Power Point

Wildcats Today, Wildcats For Life Video

Eastmond High School MVP Process



How and Why Culture is King 

Eastmont MVP Process "Wildcats Today Wildcats for Life" 

Bag Tags

Signs and Messaging

Bracelets 

Swag for athletes based on WILDCATS principles

What you accept is the culture you have (Culture Guardrails) 

Cain on Campus / Fundraiser University

Group Coaching Calls 

Coaches Council 

1st Monday of the month with one core principle on agenda for discussion 

Head Coach "Check-in All in" meetings (20 minutes max) 

In season 1x a week in person or online 

Out of season 1x a month in person or online 

Eastmont Leadership Academy 

Intentional instruction on being a responsible and accountable athlete (30 day Athletes course, MPM, Jeff Janssen)

2x a month at 7:30 am with breakfast served.

WILDCATS of the Month 

 Athlete chosen based on exhibiting core principle and performance

Mental Performance Mastery in Action 

Showcase 1 MPM strategy/Pillar being used by programs 

Programs responded (Boys and Girls Soccer, Volleyball, Track &amp; Field, Cross Country, Softball, Baseball, Boys Golf, Cheer, Wrestling, Tennis, Boys Basketball) 

Fundraiser University experience 
explain the experience and importance 

Investing in YOU - Walking the Walk
Russ Waterman taking Care of Russ Waterman</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Leadership and Culture Is HS Sports - Part 1 of 2 - Russ Waterman, MPM</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Eastmont HS Director of Athletics Russ Waterman, MPM. Brian and Coach Waterman discuss leadership and culture in athletic administration and:


Why you must love em’ in order to lead em’

Being a Transformational vs. Transactional Coach

Principle vs. Preference based focus

The Motto of “Don’t Stop Believing”

What Does Mental Toughness Actually Mean?

Why your culture is what you accept, not what you say

The importance of officials recognition

The importance of taking care of yourself first.


CALL RESOURCES

Power Point

Wildcats Today, Wildcats For Life Video

Eastmond High School MVP Process



How and Why Culture is King 

Eastmont MVP Process "Wildcats Today Wildcats for Life" 

Bag Tags

Signs and Messaging

Bracelets 

Swag for athletes based on WILDCATS principles

What you accept is the culture you have (Culture Guardrails) 

Cain on Campus / Fundraiser University

Group Coaching Calls 

Coaches Council 

1st Monday of the month with one core principle on agenda for discussion 

Head Coach "Check-in All in" meetings (20 minutes max) 

In season 1x a week in person or online 

Out of season 1x a month in person or online 

Eastmont Leadership Academy 

Intentional instruction on being a responsible and accountable athlete (30 day Athletes course, MPM, Jeff Janssen)

2x a month at 7:30 am with breakfast served.

WILDCATS of the Month 

 Athlete chosen based on exhibiting core principle and performance

Mental Performance Mastery in Action 

Showcase 1 MPM strategy/Pillar being used by programs 

Programs responded (Boys and Girls Soccer, Volleyball, Track &amp; Field, Cross Country, Softball, Baseball, Boys Golf, Cheer, Wrestling, Tennis, Boys Basketball) 

Fundraiser University experience 
explain the experience and importance 

Investing in YOU - Walking the Walk
Russ Waterman taking Care of Russ Waterman</itunes:summary>
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<li>Why you must love em’ in order to lead em’</li>
<li>Being a Transformational vs. Transactional Coach</li>
<li>Principle vs. Preference based focus</li>
<li>The Motto of “Don’t Stop Believing”</li>
<li>What Does Mental Toughness Actually Mean?</li>
<li>Why your culture is what you accept, not what you say</li>
<li>The importance of officials recognition</li>
<li>The importance of taking care of yourself first.</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><strong>CALL RESOURCES</strong></p><ul>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18CnlbT-swJQogXoclY_pxQR_5NpaR4QSCes3Ld7ja2g/edit#slide=id.g22b23343c9b_0_50">Power Point</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G4_nlKZXGNvNA-Q7vxK_z-pxdsCyE_0x/view?usp=share_link">Wildcats Today, Wildcats For Life Video</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zuKtjmCTK5ucj1Z6VA7jegZFgm-irAyLnybReIBF9xg/edit?usp=share_link">Eastmond High School MVP Process</a></li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>How and Why Culture is King </strong></p><ul>
<li>Eastmont MVP Process "Wildcats Today Wildcats for Life" </li>
<li>Bag Tags</li>
<li>Signs and Messaging</li>
<li>Bracelets </li>
<li>Swag for athletes based on WILDCATS principles</li>
</ul><p><strong>What you accept is the culture you have (Culture Guardrails) </strong></p><ul>
<li>Cain on Campus / Fundraiser University</li>
<li>Group Coaching Calls </li>
<li>Coaches Council </li>
<li class="ql-indent-1">1st Monday of the month with one core principle on agenda for discussion </li>
<li>Head Coach "Check-in All in" meetings (20 minutes max) </li>
<li class="ql-indent-1">In season 1x a week in person or online </li>
<li class="ql-indent-1">Out of season 1x a month in person or online </li>
<li>Eastmont Leadership Academy </li>
<li class="ql-indent-1">Intentional instruction on being a responsible and accountable athlete (30 day Athletes course, MPM, Jeff Janssen)</li>
<li class="ql-indent-1">2x a month at 7:30 am with breakfast served.</li>
<li>WILDCATS of the Month </li>
<li class="ql-indent-1"> Athlete chosen based on exhibiting core principle and performance</li>
</ul><p><strong>Mental Performance Mastery in Action </strong></p><ul>
<li>Showcase 1 MPM strategy/Pillar being used by programs </li>
<li>Programs responded (Boys and Girls Soccer, Volleyball, Track &amp; Field, Cross Country, Softball, Baseball, Boys Golf, Cheer, Wrestling, Tennis, Boys Basketball) </li>
</ul><p><strong>Fundraiser University experience </strong></p><ul><li>explain the experience and importance </li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Investing in YOU - Walking the Walk</strong></p><ul><li>Russ Waterman taking Care of Russ Waterman</li></ul>]]>
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      <title>How to Design and Deliver a Mental Performance Program as a Coach - Jeff Jones, MPM</title>
      <description>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Jeff Jones, MPM, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Arkansas State University. You can follow Coach Jones on twitter @jonesyjeff1
Brian and “Jonesy” talk how the custom created “8 Play Mental Performance Program” coach Jones runs at Arkansas State and the role he plays in mental performance training as the strength and conditioning coach
Read More About Coach Jeff Jones Here -&gt; 

8 Plays - The Mental Conditioning Program for Arkansas State Football

Talk To Yourself, Don’t Listen

8 Weeks on Wednesdays in The Summer


At End of Lift - The Introduction to the 8 plays
We have thousands of thoughts a day - Roughly 80% are ANTS - Automatic Negative Thoughts…
70-80% are the same thoughts each day… we want to change the way we think - don't listen, talk to yourself.

Week #1 - Setting The Foundation - Intro To The Mental Game

Play #1 - Awareness 
What you are aware of you can improve, what you are unaware of you can’t improve.
Video helps to increase awareness - Let them see their body language
You have to be aware before you can improve.  
Awareness is the first step to growth.
What do you do well?
Well, Better, How also helps create awareness.
Helps Facilitate some 1-1 conversations, what are you really good at.
Person, Man - Player
What do you do well?  What can you do better?  How can you do it better
Body Lanuage, effort, not bought in


Play #2 - Motivation
It’s your job to motivate yourself.
Going on a mission. 
Discipline and motivation - It’s your job to motivate you.
YOU are the only person you will be the rest of your life.
MVP Process
You are the only person with you the rest of your life… What is your why?  What is your purpose?  WHY DO YOU DO WHAT YOU DO? Why do you coach HS?
1-1 Conversations With Players AFTER The Play Gets installed.  Facilitates coaches engagement with Players.
Mission, Values, Principles - Banquet Speech
Better People, produce More
Personal Development comes before professional development

Play #3 - Confidence
Act Confidently
Body Language, Self-Talk, Focus,
Get To Do vs. Have To Do
Act Dif
You will never outperform your self confidence - Gary Mack - Mind Gym
5 Keys to Confidence - (1) Preparation (2) Past Performances (3) Body Language (4) Self-Talk (5) Inner Circle - Who You Roll With….

Play #4 - Discipline
Discipline Over Default.  We are fighting auto piolet and impulse.
If you are not disciplined you will be disappointed.  Laser Focus - DIALED… Consistent Day in and Day out....
Default - Always battling human nature… Casual, Auto-Piolet-Impulsive…
Principle Over Preference…
We Put four plays into our training

Play #5 - Focus
Focus Determines Future
What you focus on grows, where your focus goes, energy flows.
Bring The Juice - Coaching Focus &amp; Discipline - Gratitude.
GOOD
What you focus on grows.
Today + Today + Today = Results
BrianCain.com/cgrid

Play #6 - Emotional Toughness
E+R=O Event +Response = Outcome
How do I respond in a way That’s above the line… My best response
Control The Controllables

Play #7 - Visualization -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ1u9qxkThg 
FOOTBALL IMAGERY


Play #8 - Habits and Routines
You are what you repeat.

Habit Share App - #1 App I use to help people create better habits

HOW TO IMPLEMENT
Daily, Weekly Micro Coaching 
The Play, The Skill, Talk About it - Individual conversations

The Skeleton Files - To Teach and Memorize The 8 Plays</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>How to Design and Deliver a Mental Performance Program as a Coach - Jeff Jones, MPM</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Jeff Jones, MPM, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Arkansas State University. You can follow Coach Jones on twitter @jonesyjeff1
Brian and “Jonesy” talk how the custom created “8 Play Mental Performance Program” coach Jones runs at Arkansas State and the role he plays in mental performance training as the strength and conditioning coach
Read More About Coach Jeff Jones Here -&gt; 

8 Plays - The Mental Conditioning Program for Arkansas State Football

Talk To Yourself, Don’t Listen

8 Weeks on Wednesdays in The Summer


At End of Lift - The Introduction to the 8 plays
We have thousands of thoughts a day - Roughly 80% are ANTS - Automatic Negative Thoughts…
70-80% are the same thoughts each day… we want to change the way we think - don't listen, talk to yourself.

Week #1 - Setting The Foundation - Intro To The Mental Game

Play #1 - Awareness 
What you are aware of you can improve, what you are unaware of you can’t improve.
Video helps to increase awareness - Let them see their body language
You have to be aware before you can improve.  
Awareness is the first step to growth.
What do you do well?
Well, Better, How also helps create awareness.
Helps Facilitate some 1-1 conversations, what are you really good at.
Person, Man - Player
What do you do well?  What can you do better?  How can you do it better
Body Lanuage, effort, not bought in


Play #2 - Motivation
It’s your job to motivate yourself.
Going on a mission. 
Discipline and motivation - It’s your job to motivate you.
YOU are the only person you will be the rest of your life.
MVP Process
You are the only person with you the rest of your life… What is your why?  What is your purpose?  WHY DO YOU DO WHAT YOU DO? Why do you coach HS?
1-1 Conversations With Players AFTER The Play Gets installed.  Facilitates coaches engagement with Players.
Mission, Values, Principles - Banquet Speech
Better People, produce More
Personal Development comes before professional development

Play #3 - Confidence
Act Confidently
Body Language, Self-Talk, Focus,
Get To Do vs. Have To Do
Act Dif
You will never outperform your self confidence - Gary Mack - Mind Gym
5 Keys to Confidence - (1) Preparation (2) Past Performances (3) Body Language (4) Self-Talk (5) Inner Circle - Who You Roll With….

Play #4 - Discipline
Discipline Over Default.  We are fighting auto piolet and impulse.
If you are not disciplined you will be disappointed.  Laser Focus - DIALED… Consistent Day in and Day out....
Default - Always battling human nature… Casual, Auto-Piolet-Impulsive…
Principle Over Preference…
We Put four plays into our training

Play #5 - Focus
Focus Determines Future
What you focus on grows, where your focus goes, energy flows.
Bring The Juice - Coaching Focus &amp; Discipline - Gratitude.
GOOD
What you focus on grows.
Today + Today + Today = Results
BrianCain.com/cgrid

Play #6 - Emotional Toughness
E+R=O Event +Response = Outcome
How do I respond in a way That’s above the line… My best response
Control The Controllables

Play #7 - Visualization -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ1u9qxkThg 
FOOTBALL IMAGERY


Play #8 - Habits and Routines
You are what you repeat.

Habit Share App - #1 App I use to help people create better habits

HOW TO IMPLEMENT
Daily, Weekly Micro Coaching 
The Play, The Skill, Talk About it - Individual conversations

The Skeleton Files - To Teach and Memorize The 8 Plays</itunes:summary>
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<li>Talk To Yourself, Don’t Listen</li>
<li>8 Weeks on Wednesdays in The Summer</li>
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      <title>Culture, Connection and Competition - Chad Morris</title>
      <description>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Texas HS HOF Football Coach and former Clemson OC and SMU and Arkansas HC Chad Morris.

Brian and Chad talk about creating culture, connection and the mental performance aspects of competition.  

MAIN POINTS FROM CALL

The Culture of SMU Football - MVP Process

The Hand To Memorize Core Principles

The Pony Up Creed Before Games

Building Connection

The Why We Play Wall

The One Word Focus

Who You Play For 

Habit Share

Mental Reps

The MVP Process

Lessons From Being a Coach That Apply To All Arenas of Life


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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Culture, Connection and Competition - Chad Morris</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Texas HS HOF Football Coach and former Clemson OC and SMU and Arkansas HC Chad Morris.

Brian and Chad talk about creating culture, connection and the mental performance aspects of competition.  

MAIN POINTS FROM CALL

The Culture of SMU Football - MVP Process

The Hand To Memorize Core Principles

The Pony Up Creed Before Games

Building Connection

The Why We Play Wall

The One Word Focus

Who You Play For 

Habit Share

Mental Reps

The MVP Process

Lessons From Being a Coach That Apply To All Arenas of Life


💻Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200

🏆Join Brian’s FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University

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💪Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course

⛳Take Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass

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🎤Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Mastery Podcast</itunes:summary>
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<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VlYSCQwqa6OfHvjW2bpyIvEVh4rm2EMb/view?usp=share_link">The Culture of SMU Football - MVP Process</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O8_XpuKU9zDZNwiAE-XBoN3sLn-qRsnx/view?usp=share_link">The Hand To Memorize Core Principles</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bSKRHs8JwrdNhHuEbXLkzxdFkJm6iZKo/view?usp=share_link">The Pony Up Creed Before Games</a></li>
<li>Building Connection</li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7iSTLAsKWMuUUxpM05uZW9iNmc/view?usp=share_link&amp;resourcekey=0-CuGW_KC34muTAzB4XmGbKw">The Why We Play Wall</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zK-HM5M5rf22ptfnHn-ntuA_V5s7b7Uf/view?usp=share_link">The One Word Focus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7iSTLAsKWMud09XMlVYeEprM0U/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-afaTD3Y_ARBCFO0XCJ4PkQ">Who You Play For </a></li>
<li>Habit Share</li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fMHpBCQeaox6K_F7mPL_qUFRK1EfZRBM/view?usp=share_link">Mental Reps</a></li>
<li>The MVP Process</li>
<li>Lessons From Being a Coach That Apply To All Arenas of Life</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">💻Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p><br></p><p>🏆<a href="http://mpm.briancain.com/join-group-coaching?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=podcasst&amp;utm_campaign=mpm+gc&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">Join Brian’s FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University</a></p><p><br></p><p>💻Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">You Tube</a></p><p><br></p><p>📧<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">Sign up for Brian’s MPM email.</a></p><p><br></p><p>👍<a href="https://briancain.com/coach-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+coach&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course</a></p><p><br></p><p>💪<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+athlete&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course</a></p><p><br></p><p>⛳<a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=golf+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">Take Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass</a></p><p><br></p><p>⚾<a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-brian-cain-mental-performance-mastery-podcast/id1499162056">🎤Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Mastery Podcast</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Creating Confidence, Consistency and Culture with 6x MLB All-Star - Lance Berkman</title>
      <description>Creating Confidence, Consistency and Culture with 6x MLB All-Star - Lance Berkman

In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by 6x MLB All-Star, World Series Champion, MLB Comeback Player of the Year and current Houston Christian University Head Baseball coach Lance Berkman.  

Lance is a also a former high school head coach and D3 college coach who has seen baseball and coaching at all levels.  In this group coaching call, Brian and Lance talk about creating confidence, consistency and culture as well as the mental performance strategies Lance used as a player and what strategies uses currently as a NCAA D1 Head Baseball Coach.

The biggest differences between coaching at the HS and college level and how as a professional coach you are more psychologist than coach

Developing a mental game is a toolbox and choosing what tools to use

What separates the good from the great at the professional level

The HCU Baseball Culture of Work, Aggression, Responsibility, Service

How to silence the noise and focus on what’s important in that moment

The importance of focusing on controlables and why everything else is just a distraction


The 3Bs of hitting and how to overcome fear of an outcome

Breathe

Ball

Back Through The Middle


Why as a competitive you are always going to be nervous and you must learn to use that fear as fuel

What confidence really is and it’s not something you feel it’s something you do 

The importance of and use of visualization

What it means to “have an approach” and a detailed discussion of Lance’s 7 hitting approaches

CALL RESOURCES

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HCU Baseball Culture - Click Here
Work                   Leave Nothing To Chance
Aggression         Beat Em’ To The Punch
Responsibility     If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me
Service               Who Can I Serve Today

Lances 7 Hitting Approaches - Click Here

Heroic Book Summaries - Click Here

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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2023 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Creating Confidence, Consistency and Culture with 6x MLB All-Star - Lance Berkman</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Creating Confidence, Consistency and Culture with 6x MLB All-Star - Lance Berkman

In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by 6x MLB All-Star, World Series Champion, MLB Comeback Player of the Year and current Houston Christian University Head Baseball coach Lance Berkman.  

Lance is a also a former high school head coach and D3 college coach who has seen baseball and coaching at all levels.  In this group coaching call, Brian and Lance talk about creating confidence, consistency and culture as well as the mental performance strategies Lance used as a player and what strategies uses currently as a NCAA D1 Head Baseball Coach.

The biggest differences between coaching at the HS and college level and how as a professional coach you are more psychologist than coach

Developing a mental game is a toolbox and choosing what tools to use

What separates the good from the great at the professional level

The HCU Baseball Culture of Work, Aggression, Responsibility, Service

How to silence the noise and focus on what’s important in that moment

The importance of focusing on controlables and why everything else is just a distraction


The 3Bs of hitting and how to overcome fear of an outcome

Breathe

Ball

Back Through The Middle


Why as a competitive you are always going to be nervous and you must learn to use that fear as fuel

What confidence really is and it’s not something you feel it’s something you do 

The importance of and use of visualization

What it means to “have an approach” and a detailed discussion of Lance’s 7 hitting approaches

CALL RESOURCES

To learn more about fundraising university please email - zsorensen@fundraisingu.net

HCU Baseball Culture - Click Here
Work                   Leave Nothing To Chance
Aggression         Beat Em’ To The Punch
Responsibility     If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me
Service               Who Can I Serve Today

Lances 7 Hitting Approaches - Click Here

Heroic Book Summaries - Click Here

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🎤Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Mastery Podcast</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Creating Confidence, Consistency and Culture with 6x MLB All-Star - Lance Berkman</p><p><br></p><p>In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by 6x MLB All-Star, World Series Champion, MLB Comeback Player of the Year and current Houston Christian University Head Baseball coach Lance Berkman.  </p><p><br></p><p>Lance is a also a former high school head coach and D3 college coach who has seen baseball and coaching at all levels.  In this group coaching call, Brian and Lance talk about creating confidence, consistency and culture as well as the mental performance strategies Lance used as a player and what strategies uses currently as a NCAA D1 Head Baseball Coach.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>The biggest differences between coaching at the HS and college level and how as a professional coach you are more psychologist than coach</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Developing a mental game is a toolbox and choosing what tools to use</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>What separates the good from the great at the professional level</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The HCU Baseball Culture of Work, Aggression, Responsibility, Service</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>How to silence the noise and focus on what’s important in that moment</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The importance of focusing on controlables and why everything else is just a distraction</li></ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>The 3Bs of hitting and how to overcome fear of an outcome</li>
<li class="ql-indent-1">Breathe</li>
<li class="ql-indent-1">Ball</li>
<li class="ql-indent-1">Back Through The Middle</li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Why as a competitive you are always going to be nervous and you must learn to use that fear as fuel</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>What confidence really is and it’s not something you feel it’s something you do </li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The importance of and use of visualization</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>What it means to “have an approach” and a detailed discussion of Lance’s 7 hitting approaches</li></ul><p><br></p><p>CALL RESOURCES</p><p><br></p><p>To learn more about fundraising university please email - <a href="mailto:zsorensen@fundraisingu.net">zsorensen@fundraisingu.net</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uV8IDq14yC6ioWzxWqS9S0zHO7PQ8eDF9LCoDwW-KL8/edit?usp=sharing">HCU Baseball Culture - Click Here</a></p><p>Work                   Leave Nothing To Chance</p><p>Aggression         Beat Em’ To The Punch</p><p>Responsibility     If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me</p><p>Service               Who Can I Serve Today</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/11kkDBdqcLsq_RxjRYl-DoJ9qegUqh4dh/view?usp=sharing">Lances 7 Hitting Approaches - Click Here</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://trckhrc.us/?a=81&amp;c=5&amp;p=r&amp;s1=">Heroic Book Summaries - Click Here</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://mpm.briancain.com/bunker-login">Log Into Your MPM Group Coaching Dashboard</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Follow @BrianCainPeak on Twitter</a></p><p><br></p><p>Want to access the full interview ? </p><p>Simply join <a href="https://mpm.briancain.com/email1674143740053">Brian’s Free Group Coaching Program brought to you by Fundraising University </a>and you can find this interview and many others in your personal dashboard.</p><p><br></p><p>💻<a href="https://briancain.com/certification?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=insider's+list&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List &amp; Save $200</a></p><p><br></p><p>🏆 <a href="http://mpm.briancain.com/join-group-coaching?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=podcasst&amp;utm_campaign=mpm+gc&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">Join Brian’s FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University</a></p><p><br></p><p>💻 Follow Brian on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrianCainPeakPerformance/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianCainPeak/playlists?view=58">You Tube</a></p><p><br></p><p>📧<a href="https://briancain.com/join?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=join&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">Sign up for Brian’s MPM email.</a></p><p><br></p><p>👍<a href="https://briancain.com/coach-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+coach&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b"> Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course</a></p><p><br></p><p>💪<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=3+day+athlete&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course</a></p><p><br></p><p>⛳ <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=golf+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">Take Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass</a></p><p><br></p><p>⚾<a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass?utm_medium=radio&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=baseball+masterclass&amp;utm_content=mpd&amp;utm_term=b">Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</a></p><p><br></p><p>🎤<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-brian-cain-mental-performance-mastery-podcast/id1499162056">Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Mastery Podcast</a></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Chance Favors The Prepared - 3x MLB All-Star Matt Carpenter’s Mental Approach To Performance</title>
      <description>Chance Favors The Prepared - 3x MLB All-Star Matt Carpenter’s Mental Approach To Performance
In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by 3x MLB All-Star and World Series Champion Matt Carpenter of the San Diego Padres. Cain and “Carp” discuss the mindset and strategies he has implemented over the years for overcoming and overachieving on and off the field.  

MAIN POINTS FROM CALL

Being Elite is A Lifestyle, Not An Event

Failure Is Feedback

Make Your Mess, Your Masterpiece

Adversity Is Your Advantage

The Truth Hurts AND The Truth Can Set You Free

Make The Most of Your Opportunities Everyday

Acceptance Helps To Create Freedom

Finish The Job, Do The Work and See It Through</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Chance Favors The Prepared - 3x MLB All-Star Matt Carpenter’s Mental Approach To Performance
In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by 3x MLB All-Star and World Series Champion Matt Carpenter of the San Diego Padres. Cain and “Carp” discuss the mindset and strategies he has implemented over the years for overcoming and overachieving on and off the field.  

MAIN POINTS FROM CALL

Being Elite is A Lifestyle, Not An Event

Failure Is Feedback

Make Your Mess, Your Masterpiece

Adversity Is Your Advantage

The Truth Hurts AND The Truth Can Set You Free

Make The Most of Your Opportunities Everyday

Acceptance Helps To Create Freedom

Finish The Job, Do The Work and See It Through</itunes:summary>
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<li>Being Elite is A Lifestyle, Not An Event</li>
<li>Failure Is Feedback</li>
<li>Make Your Mess, Your Masterpiece</li>
<li>Adversity Is Your Advantage</li>
<li>The Truth Hurts AND The Truth Can Set You Free</li>
<li>Make The Most of Your Opportunities Everyday</li>
<li>Acceptance Helps To Create Freedom</li>
<li>Finish The Job, Do The Work and See It Through</li>
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      <title>The #1 Mental Performance Drill You Should Do For Yourself and Your Program</title>
      <description>In this live group coaching call, Brian Cain teaches you one of the fundamental strategies he has used to help coaches and executives create the culture they want for themselves and their organizations. The MVP Process.

CALL RESOURCES

Mental Performance Daily Podcast 2 Week Mini-Seminar on The MVP Process

Downloadable MVP Process Template &amp; Instructional Video


CALL AGENDA
How The Program Works?



STEP #1 - Register For The Group Coaching Program

https://mpm.briancain.com/email1674143740053



STEP #2 - Check Your Email To Confirm Your Registration and Create Your Username and Password for Your Account.



STEP #3 - Login to your account


https://mpm.briancain.com/membership-access1674051408365?page_id=57960291&amp;page_key=1ddnkc7xp9u67ovp&amp;login_redirect=1 




STEP #4 - Check the Group Coaching Dashboard for all call recordings from June 2022 (You can start today or go back and catch up) and for upcoming call dates and times so that we don’t overload you with email.

https://mpm.briancain.com/bunker-login


The #1 Mental Performance Drill You Should Do in 2023?

The Performance Pathway

The 6C’s of Leadership

Culture By Definition

The 5 Steps Culture By Definition


5 Steps To Establish &amp; Enhance The Right Culture


#1 Identify Your MVP Process

Mission - Why do you do what you do, what’s on your gravestone

Vision - What do you want to accomplish, what’s on your resume

Core Principles - How will you show up everyday?



#2 Define Your Organizational Core Principles



#3 Describe Above and Below The Line Behaviors

Above The Line = Winning, Intentional, Discipline Behavior

Below The Line = Losing, Reactive, Undisciplined Behavior




#4 Assess Behavior &amp; Performance

1-10 - Start Stop Continue

1-10 - Well Better How

Self Assessment, Peer Assessment, 360 Assessments



#5 Create Growth Plans

Use What You Learned In The Assessment

Create Your Plan

Determine Accountability Partner(s)

Update Success Checklist / Habit Share




Prevent The 3 Culture Killers


No BCD - Blame, Complain, Defensive

Me Over We Mentality

Energy Suckers vs Energy Givers



MVP Process Examples

Personal

Mike Bahun

Success checklist 

168 

ATracker 

Habit share 

Well better how 



Team

Ohio State Baseball

Libertyville HS - John Woods

St. Joseph HS - Kevin Guzzo



Organizational

Fundraising University


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</description>
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      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this live group coaching call, Brian Cain teaches you one of the fundamental strategies he has used to help coaches and executives create the culture they want for themselves and their organizations. The MVP Process.

CALL RESOURCES

Mental Performance Daily Podcast 2 Week Mini-Seminar on The MVP Process

Downloadable MVP Process Template &amp; Instructional Video


CALL AGENDA
How The Program Works?



STEP #1 - Register For The Group Coaching Program

https://mpm.briancain.com/email1674143740053



STEP #2 - Check Your Email To Confirm Your Registration and Create Your Username and Password for Your Account.



STEP #3 - Login to your account


https://mpm.briancain.com/membership-access1674051408365?page_id=57960291&amp;page_key=1ddnkc7xp9u67ovp&amp;login_redirect=1 




STEP #4 - Check the Group Coaching Dashboard for all call recordings from June 2022 (You can start today or go back and catch up) and for upcoming call dates and times so that we don’t overload you with email.

https://mpm.briancain.com/bunker-login


The #1 Mental Performance Drill You Should Do in 2023?

The Performance Pathway

The 6C’s of Leadership

Culture By Definition

The 5 Steps Culture By Definition


5 Steps To Establish &amp; Enhance The Right Culture


#1 Identify Your MVP Process

Mission - Why do you do what you do, what’s on your gravestone

Vision - What do you want to accomplish, what’s on your resume

Core Principles - How will you show up everyday?



#2 Define Your Organizational Core Principles



#3 Describe Above and Below The Line Behaviors

Above The Line = Winning, Intentional, Discipline Behavior

Below The Line = Losing, Reactive, Undisciplined Behavior




#4 Assess Behavior &amp; Performance

1-10 - Start Stop Continue

1-10 - Well Better How

Self Assessment, Peer Assessment, 360 Assessments



#5 Create Growth Plans

Use What You Learned In The Assessment

Create Your Plan

Determine Accountability Partner(s)

Update Success Checklist / Habit Share




Prevent The 3 Culture Killers


No BCD - Blame, Complain, Defensive

Me Over We Mentality

Energy Suckers vs Energy Givers



MVP Process Examples

Personal

Mike Bahun

Success checklist 

168 

ATracker 

Habit share 

Well better how 



Team

Ohio State Baseball

Libertyville HS - John Woods

St. Joseph HS - Kevin Guzzo



Organizational

Fundraising University


Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</itunes:summary>
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<li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-1-way-you-can-dominate-2023/id1578012159?i=1000592345387">Mental Performance Daily Podcast 2 Week Mini-Seminar on The MVP Process</a></li>
<li><a href="https://briancain.com/mvp">Downloadable MVP Process Template &amp; Instructional Video</a></li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><strong>CALL AGENDA</strong></p><ul><li>How The Program Works?</li></ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>
<strong>STEP #1 </strong>- Register For The Group Coaching Program</li>
<li><a href="https://mpm.briancain.com/email1674143740053">https://mpm.briancain.com/email1674143740053</a></li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul><li>
<strong>STEP #2</strong> - Check Your Email To Confirm Your Registration and Create Your Username and Password for Your Account.</li></ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>
<strong>STEP #3</strong> - Login to your account</li>
<li>
<a href="https://mpm.briancain.com/membership-access1674051408365?page_id=57960291&amp;page_key=1ddnkc7xp9u67ovp&amp;login_redirect=1">https://mpm.briancain.com/membership-access1674051408365?page_id=57960291&amp;page_key=1ddnkc7xp9u67ovp&amp;login_redirect=1</a> </li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>
<strong>STEP #4</strong> - Check the Group Coaching Dashboard for all call recordings from June 2022 (You can start today or go back and catch up) and for upcoming call dates and times so that we don’t overload you with email.</li>
<li><a href="https://mpm.briancain.com/bunker-login">https://mpm.briancain.com/bunker-login</a></li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>The #1 Mental Performance Drill You Should Do in 2023?</strong></li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The Performance Pathway</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The 6C’s of Leadership</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Culture By Definition</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The 5 Steps Culture By Definition</li></ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>5 Steps To Establish &amp; Enhance The Right Culture</li>
<li>
<strong>#1 Identify</strong> Your MVP Process</li>
<li>Mission - Why do you do what you do, what’s on your gravestone</li>
<li>Vision - What do you want to accomplish, what’s on your resume</li>
<li>Core Principles - How will you show up everyday?</li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul><li>
<strong>#2 Define</strong> Your Organizational Core Principles</li></ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>
<strong>#3 Describe</strong> Above and Below The Line Behaviors</li>
<li>Above The Line = Winning, Intentional, Discipline Behavior</li>
<li>Below The Line = Losing, Reactive, Undisciplined Behavior</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>
<strong>#4 Assess</strong> Behavior &amp; Performance</li>
<li>1-10 - Start Stop Continue</li>
<li>1-10 - Well Better How</li>
<li>Self Assessment, Peer Assessment, 360 Assessments</li>
<li><br></li>
<li><strong>#5 Create Growth Plans</strong></li>
<li>Use What You Learned In The Assessment</li>
<li>Create Your Plan</li>
<li>Determine Accountability Partner(s)</li>
<li>Update Success Checklist / <a href="https://habitshareapp.com/">Habit Share</a>
</li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>Prevent The 3 Culture Killers</li>
<li>
<strong>No BCD</strong> - Blame, Complain, Defensive</li>
<li>Me Over We Mentality</li>
<li>Energy Suckers vs Energy Givers</li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>MVP Process Examples</li>
<li>Personal</li>
<li>Mike Bahun</li>
<li><a href="https://habitshareapp.com/">Success checklist </a></li>
<li>168 </li>
<li><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/atracker-time-tracker/id522008611">ATracker </a></li>
<li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-brian-cain-mental-performance-mastery-podcast/id1499162056">Habit share </a></li>
<li>Well better how </li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>Team</li>
<li>Ohio State Baseball</li>
<li>Libertyville HS - John Woods</li>
<li>St. Joseph HS - Kevin Guzzo</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>Organizational</li>
<li>Fundraising University</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Building A Program of Excellence Mike Bianco - Ole Miss Baseball</title>
      <description>Mike Bianco is the head baseball coach at Ole Miss and lead the Rebels to the 2022 NCAA Baseball National Championship.  He discusses Building a Program of Excellence and specific strategies you can use to help build a winning culture in your organization.
Coach Bianco and Brian discuss:

Having a System

Telling Stories - Warwick The Mule

Hold The Rope

The Next 200 Feet

Motivational Strategies You Can Use With Your Team

The Importance of Using Books and Reading With Your Team

The Power of Routines &amp; Breathing


The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.
July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2.  As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 
To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here 
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.
For more from Brian Cain Peak Performance, visit BrianCain.com</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 23:25:10 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Mike Bianco is the head baseball coach at Ole Miss and lead the Rebels to the 2022 NCAA Baseball National Championship.  He discusses Building a Program of Excellence and specific strategies you can use to help build a winning culture in your organization.
Coach Bianco and Brian discuss:

Having a System

Telling Stories - Warwick The Mule

Hold The Rope

The Next 200 Feet

Motivational Strategies You Can Use With Your Team

The Importance of Using Books and Reading With Your Team

The Power of Routines &amp; Breathing


The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.
July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2.  As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 
To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here 
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.
For more from Brian Cain Peak Performance, visit BrianCain.com</itunes:summary>
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<li>Having a System</li>
<li>Telling Stories - Warwick The Mule</li>
<li>Hold The Rope</li>
<li>The Next 200 Feet</li>
<li>Motivational Strategies You Can Use With Your Team</li>
<li>The Importance of Using Books and Reading With Your Team</li>
<li>The Power of Routines &amp; Breathing</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p>Together, <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.</p><p>July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2.  As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. </p><p>To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link <a href="https://coachingmatters.org/register-here">https://coachingmatters.org/register-here</a> </p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p>For more from Brian Cain Peak Performance, visit BrianCain.com</p>]]>
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      <title>Steve Smothermon, MPM - "Bring The Juice - Spirituality In Coaching Mental Performance"</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian is joined by Steve Smothermon Jr., MPM.  Steve is the author and creator of The Bring The Juice Coaching Process and is one of the leaders in connecting spirituality and mental performance coaching.

You can learn more about Steve and his Bring The Juice program by clicking here.

Steve’s Website -&gt; https://www.btjperformance.com/ 

Bring The Juice Daily Podcast -&gt; https://www.btjperformance.com/dailyjuice 

@steve_btj on instagram or twitter

juicecoach1@gmail.com


You will learn more about Steve’s Bring The Juice core principles below.

Antifragile Mindset

Present Moment Focus

Pro-Active Process

Leadership

Enthusiasm

The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  

Fundraising University is looking for talented individuals to join the team. Specifically, a Financial Controller, Operations Manager and Executive Assistant to founder, Mike Bahun

Fundraising University is also looking for members to join the team in the North &amp; West Suburbs of Chicago, North Dakota, Ohio, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Arizona &amp; Georgia as well as Columbia, South Carolina and Charleston South Carolina

Fundraising University is looking to add franchise owners as well as corporate sales reps who would like to transition into franchise ownership in the future.  They are looking for people who are self-starters, competitive, coachable, organized and can show empathy to the student athlete experience.

To learn more about the opportunities available, please visit https://coachingmatters.org/join-our-mission 
 
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.

July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2.  As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 

To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here 

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this May.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 23:47:21 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Steve Smothermon, MPM - "Bring The Juice - Spirituality In Coaching Mental Performance"</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian is joined by Steve Smothermon Jr., MPM.  Steve is the author and creator of The Bring The Juice Coaching Process and is one of the leaders in connecting spirituality and mental performance coaching.

You can learn more about Steve and his Bring The Juice program by clicking here.

Steve’s Website -&gt; https://www.btjperformance.com/ 

Bring The Juice Daily Podcast -&gt; https://www.btjperformance.com/dailyjuice 

@steve_btj on instagram or twitter

juicecoach1@gmail.com


You will learn more about Steve’s Bring The Juice core principles below.

Antifragile Mindset

Present Moment Focus

Pro-Active Process

Leadership

Enthusiasm

The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  

Fundraising University is looking for talented individuals to join the team. Specifically, a Financial Controller, Operations Manager and Executive Assistant to founder, Mike Bahun

Fundraising University is also looking for members to join the team in the North &amp; West Suburbs of Chicago, North Dakota, Ohio, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Arizona &amp; Georgia as well as Columbia, South Carolina and Charleston South Carolina

Fundraising University is looking to add franchise owners as well as corporate sales reps who would like to transition into franchise ownership in the future.  They are looking for people who are self-starters, competitive, coachable, organized and can show empathy to the student athlete experience.

To learn more about the opportunities available, please visit https://coachingmatters.org/join-our-mission 
 
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.

July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2.  As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 

To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here 

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this May.</itunes:summary>
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<li>Steve’s Website -&gt; <a href="https://www.btjperformance.com/">https://www.btjperformance.com/</a> </li>
<li>Bring The Juice Daily Podcast -&gt; <a href="https://www.btjperformance.com/dailyjuice">https://www.btjperformance.com/dailyjuice</a> </li>
<li>@steve_btj on instagram or twitter</li>
<li>juicecoach1@gmail.com</li>
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      <title>Lessons Learned From A Lifetime of Coaching - Dave Serrano - Coaching Matters</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian sits down with former UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton and University of Tennessee Baseball Head Baseball Coach Dave Serrano to talk about lessons learned from a lifetime of coaching NCAA Baseball. 

In this episode Dave shares strategies that you can use as a coach to grow yourself and your program.

Dave was a part of leading 3 college world series programs to Omaha, The University of Tennessee and Cal State Fullerton as an assistant and UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton as a head coach. In this podcast he discusses:

Doing Whatever It Takes To Pursue What You Love

The Dangers of Pursuing Your DREAM vs. Being Where Your Feet Are

Understand Who You Are, Where You Came From and Why You Do What You Do

Being Grounded Is More Valuable Than Reaching For Bigger


The ONE Book That Has Changed Coach Serrano’s Life - Heads Up Baseball


Breathe, Control What You Can Control, Stay Present


The Competition Between The Lines &amp; In Life Is Real

When You Know It’s No Longer About You

How To Manage A High Stress Position SEC Coach


The 3MS for Post Retirement That Dave Learned From Drew Brees

Mastery - What To Do In Your Life

Mentorship - What You Do When You Are Coaching

Making A Difference - What To Do Post Retirement


Advice For Young Dads…

Work Life Balance vs. Work Life Integration

Working The Process and Avoiding The Results Trap

You Can Learn More About Coach Dave Serrano at DaveSerranoCoaching.com


Family Always Comes First, Team Always Comes Second

Don’t Let The Scoreboard Judge You

Stand For What You Stand For, Don’t Let The Scoreboard Change You From Who You Are

The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  

Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.

July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2. As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 

To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here 

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:34:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Lessons Learned From A Lifetime of Coaching - Dave Serrano - Coaching Matters</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian sits down with former UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton and University of Tennessee Baseball Head Baseball Coach Dave Serrano to talk about lessons learned from a lifetime of coaching NCAA Baseball. 

In this episode Dave shares strategies that you can use as a coach to grow yourself and your program.

Dave was a part of leading 3 college world series programs to Omaha, The University of Tennessee and Cal State Fullerton as an assistant and UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton as a head coach. In this podcast he discusses:

Doing Whatever It Takes To Pursue What You Love

The Dangers of Pursuing Your DREAM vs. Being Where Your Feet Are

Understand Who You Are, Where You Came From and Why You Do What You Do

Being Grounded Is More Valuable Than Reaching For Bigger


The ONE Book That Has Changed Coach Serrano’s Life - Heads Up Baseball


Breathe, Control What You Can Control, Stay Present


The Competition Between The Lines &amp; In Life Is Real

When You Know It’s No Longer About You

How To Manage A High Stress Position SEC Coach


The 3MS for Post Retirement That Dave Learned From Drew Brees

Mastery - What To Do In Your Life

Mentorship - What You Do When You Are Coaching

Making A Difference - What To Do Post Retirement


Advice For Young Dads…

Work Life Balance vs. Work Life Integration

Working The Process and Avoiding The Results Trap

You Can Learn More About Coach Dave Serrano at DaveSerranoCoaching.com


Family Always Comes First, Team Always Comes Second

Don’t Let The Scoreboard Judge You

Stand For What You Stand For, Don’t Let The Scoreboard Change You From Who You Are

The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  

Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.

July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2. As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 

To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here 

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</itunes:summary>
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<li>The ONE Book That Has Changed Coach Serrano’s Life - <em>Heads Up Baseball</em>
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<li><em>Breathe, Control What You Can Control, Stay Present</em></li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The Competition Between The Lines &amp; In Life Is Real</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>When You Know It’s No Longer About You</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>How To Manage A High Stress Position SEC Coach</li></ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>The 3MS for Post Retirement That Dave Learned From Drew Brees</li>
<li>Mastery - What To Do In Your Life</li>
<li>Mentorship - What You Do When You Are Coaching</li>
<li>Making A Difference - What To Do Post Retirement</li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Advice For Young Dads…</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Work Life Balance vs. Work Life Integration</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Working The Process and Avoiding The Results Trap</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>You Can Learn More About Coach Dave Serrano at <a href="https://www.daveserranocoaching.com/">DaveSerranoCoaching.com</a>
</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Family Always Comes First, Team Always Comes Second</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Don’t Let The Scoreboard Judge You</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Stand For What You Stand For, Don’t Let The Scoreboard Change You From Who You Are</li></ul><p><br></p><p>The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.</p><p><br></p><p>July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2. As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. </p><p><br></p><p>To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link <a href="https://coachingmatters.org/register-here">https://coachingmatters.org/register-here</a> </p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p>]]>
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      <title>Building A Culture and Mental Game System In Your Program - Jim Schlossnagle</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian is joined by Texas AM Baseball Coach Jim Schlossnagle.  

Coach Schloss lead TCU to the NCAA College World Series in 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and in year one at Texas AM in 2021.  

He orchestrated one of the biggest turn arounds in college baseball history at Texas AM as the Aggies were picked to finish 13th out of 13 in the SEC and they finished 2nd in the SEC, won the West which put 4 teams in Omaha and finished 3rd in the Nation.

The 8x Conference Coach of The Year and 2016 NCAA National Coach of The Year has been investing into mental performance coaching since 2006.

Topics Discussed:


When is it time to bring in a guest speaker or outside consultant to work with your program

How has the mental game evolved over 17 years of college coaching

The importance of a language and terminology of the program

How to get Buy In from your staff and players as it relates to culture and mental game

The role of self-awareness and humility in being coached

Play for each other and play to a standard, not a scoreboard

Building a Player Led vs. Coach Fed Culture

The Best Team To Coach Is A Team You Can Trust

Captains vs. Leadership Council

The Program Belongs To The Coach, The Team Belongs To The Players

How did Covid change the mental game and what we do

Doing Weekly Zooms and defining - “Zoom Excellence”

How to Build The Mental Game In With The Time You Have

Using The Classroom As A Coach

What you permit, you promote


The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  

Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.

July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2.  As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 

To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here 

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

For more from Brian Cain Peak Performance, visit BrianCain.com</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 23:54:19 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Building A Culture and Mental Game System In Your Program - Jim Schlossnagle</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian is joined by Texas AM Baseball Coach Jim Schlossnagle.  

Coach Schloss lead TCU to the NCAA College World Series in 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and in year one at Texas AM in 2021.  

He orchestrated one of the biggest turn arounds in college baseball history at Texas AM as the Aggies were picked to finish 13th out of 13 in the SEC and they finished 2nd in the SEC, won the West which put 4 teams in Omaha and finished 3rd in the Nation.

The 8x Conference Coach of The Year and 2016 NCAA National Coach of The Year has been investing into mental performance coaching since 2006.

Topics Discussed:


When is it time to bring in a guest speaker or outside consultant to work with your program

How has the mental game evolved over 17 years of college coaching

The importance of a language and terminology of the program

How to get Buy In from your staff and players as it relates to culture and mental game

The role of self-awareness and humility in being coached

Play for each other and play to a standard, not a scoreboard

Building a Player Led vs. Coach Fed Culture

The Best Team To Coach Is A Team You Can Trust

Captains vs. Leadership Council

The Program Belongs To The Coach, The Team Belongs To The Players

How did Covid change the mental game and what we do

Doing Weekly Zooms and defining - “Zoom Excellence”

How to Build The Mental Game In With The Time You Have

Using The Classroom As A Coach

What you permit, you promote


The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  

Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.

July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2.  As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 

To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here 

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

For more from Brian Cain Peak Performance, visit BrianCain.com</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode Brian is joined by Texas AM Baseball Coach Jim Schlossnagle.  </p><p><br></p><p>Coach Schloss lead TCU to the NCAA College World Series in 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and in year one at Texas AM in 2021.  </p><p><br></p><p>He orchestrated one of the biggest turn arounds in college baseball history at Texas AM as the Aggies were picked to finish 13th out of 13 in the SEC and they finished 2nd in the SEC, won the West which put 4 teams in Omaha and finished 3rd in the Nation.</p><p><br></p><p>The 8x Conference Coach of The Year and 2016 NCAA National Coach of The Year has been investing into mental performance coaching since 2006.</p><p><br></p><p>Topics Discussed:</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>When is it time to bring in a guest speaker or outside consultant to work with your program</li>
<li>How has the mental game evolved over 17 years of college coaching</li>
<li>The importance of a language and terminology of the program</li>
<li>How to get Buy In from your staff and players as it relates to culture and mental game</li>
<li>The role of self-awareness and humility in being coached</li>
<li>Play for each other and play to a standard, not a scoreboard</li>
<li>Building a Player Led vs. Coach Fed Culture</li>
<li>The Best Team To Coach Is A Team You Can Trust</li>
<li>Captains vs. Leadership Council</li>
<li>The Program Belongs To The Coach, The Team Belongs To The Players</li>
<li>How did Covid change the mental game and what we do</li>
<li>Doing Weekly Zooms and defining - “Zoom Excellence”</li>
<li>How to Build The Mental Game In With The Time You Have</li>
<li>Using The Classroom As A Coach</li>
<li>What you permit, you promote</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><br></p><p>Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><br></p><p>Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.</p><p><br></p><p>July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2.  As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. </p><p><br></p><p>To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here </p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>For more from Brian Cain Peak Performance, visit BrianCain.com</p>]]>
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      <title>Building A Program With Intentional Culture - Cliff Godwin, ECU Baseball</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian is joined by Cliff Godwin, the head baseball coach at East Carolina University. Brian and Cliff talk about Building a Program With Intentional Culture. Brian and Cliff talk about:


The Book Coaching Third and the impact it makes in ECU Baseball players

The ECU Pirates Mission and motto for the program

Toughness Over Talent

Player Over Starter

Accept or Execute Your Role 

Out Team The Other Team

Out Compete The Competition - Jordan Points - MJ Award

MJ Points Breakdown

The Department of Defense T-Shirt

Having grace with the guys who you are coaching


The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  

Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.

July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2. As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 

To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here 

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 23:53:43 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Building A Program With Intentional Culture - Cliff Godwin, ECU Baseball</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian is joined by Cliff Godwin, the head baseball coach at East Carolina University. Brian and Cliff talk about Building a Program With Intentional Culture. Brian and Cliff talk about:


The Book Coaching Third and the impact it makes in ECU Baseball players

The ECU Pirates Mission and motto for the program

Toughness Over Talent

Player Over Starter

Accept or Execute Your Role 

Out Team The Other Team

Out Compete The Competition - Jordan Points - MJ Award

MJ Points Breakdown

The Department of Defense T-Shirt

Having grace with the guys who you are coaching


The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  

Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.

July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2. As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 

To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here 

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode Brian is joined by Cliff Godwin, the head baseball coach at East Carolina University. Brian and Cliff talk about <em>Building a Program With Intentional Culture. </em>Brian and Cliff talk about:</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>The Book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Third-Keith-LeClair-Story/dp/0982635303">Coaching Third</a> and the impact it makes in ECU Baseball players</li>
<li>The <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7iSTLAsKWMuUUo3UU93ZXllT0E?resourcekey=0-S-m-3Xl6Qdu39LwBM8G1SQ">ECU Pirates Mission</a> and motto for the program</li>
<li>Toughness Over Talent</li>
<li>Player Over Starter</li>
<li>Accept or Execute Your Role </li>
<li>Out Team The Other Team</li>
<li>Out Compete The Competition - Jordan Points - MJ Award</li>
<li>MJ Points Breakdown</li>
<li>The Department of Defense T-Shirt</li>
<li>Having grace with the guys who you are coaching</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.</p><p><br></p><p>July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2. As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. </p><p><br></p><p>To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link <a href="https://coachingmatters.org/register-here">https://coachingmatters.org/register-here</a> </p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p>]]>
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      <title>The Power of Moments 6-6 - Connection - Connection - Create Shared Meaning, Deepen Ties, Making Moments Matter - Real Estate Mental Performance</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast Erin and Brian talk about The Power of Moments and continue their 6 part mini series on The Power of Moments by Dan and Chip Heath.  

In this episode they discuss creating moments of connection through shared meaning, deepening ties and making moments matter.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2022 19:58:30 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The Power of Moments 6-6 - Connection - Connection - Create Shared Meaning, Deepen Ties, Making Moments Matter - Real Estate Mental Performance</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast Erin and Brian talk about The Power of Moments and continue their 6 part mini series on The Power of Moments by Dan and Chip Heath.  

In this episode they discuss creating moments of connection through shared meaning, deepening ties and making moments matter.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast Erin and Brian talk about The Power of Moments and continue their 6 part mini series on <em>The Power of Moments </em>by Dan and Chip Heath.  </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode they discuss creating moments of connection through shared meaning, deepening ties and making moments matter.</p><p><br></p><p>Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.</p><p><br></p><p>Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</p>]]>
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      <title>The Power of Moments 5-6 - Pride - Recognizing Others, Multiplying Milestones and Practicing Courage - Real Estate Mental Performance</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast Erin and Brian talk about The Power of Moments and continue their 6 part mini series on The Power of Moments by Dan and Chip Heath.  

In this episode they discuss creating moments of pride through recognizing others, multiplying milestones and practicing courage.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 20:12:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The Power of Moments 5-6 - Pride - Recognizing Others, Multiplying Milestones and Practicing Courage - Real Estate Mental Performance</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast Erin and Brian talk about The Power of Moments and continue their 6 part mini series on The Power of Moments by Dan and Chip Heath.  

In this episode they discuss creating moments of pride through recognizing others, multiplying milestones and practicing courage.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast Erin and Brian talk about The Power of Moments and continue their 6 part mini series on <em>The Power of Moments </em>by Dan and Chip Heath.  </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode they discuss creating moments of pride through recognizing others, multiplying milestones and practicing courage.</p><p><br></p><p>Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.</p><p><br></p><p>Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</p>]]>
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      <title>You Don’t LUCK Into Anything - Creating A Winning Culture In Your Program - Bill Mosiello - Ohio State Baseball </title>
      <description>In this episode Ohio State University Baseball Coach Bill Mosiello shares strategies you can use to:

Be the best assistant coach you can be

Master the mental aspects of coaching

Create a championship culture

Build better people through coaching


The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.

To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here 

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance

Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s  FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes

Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s  FREE Golf Masterclass

Are you a baseball player or coach? join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:51:03 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>You Don’t LUCK Into Anything - Creating A Winning Culture In Your Program - Bill Mosiello - Ohio State Baseball </itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Ohio State University Baseball Coach Bill Mosiello shares strategies you can use to:

Be the best assistant coach you can be

Master the mental aspects of coaching

Create a championship culture

Build better people through coaching


The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.

To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here 

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance

Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s  FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes

Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s  FREE Golf Masterclass

Are you a baseball player or coach? join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass</itunes:summary>
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<li>Be the best assistant coach you can be</li>
<li>Master the mental aspects of coaching</li>
<li>Create a championship culture</li>
<li>Build better people through coaching</li>
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      <description>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast Erin and Brian talk about The Power of Moments and continue their 6 part mini series on The Power of Moments by Dan and Chip Heath.  

In this episode they discuss creating moments through insight, tripping over the truth and stretching for insight.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</description>
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In this episode they discuss creating moments through insight, tripping over the truth and stretching for insight.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</itunes:summary>
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      <description>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast Erin and Brian talk about The Power of Moments and continue their 6 part mini series on The Power of Moments by Dan and Chip Heath.  

In this episode they discuss creating moments through elevation, building peaks and breaking the script.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</description>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast Erin and Brian talk about The Power of Moments and continue their 6 part mini series on The Power of Moments by Dan and Chip Heath.  

In this episode they discuss creating moments through elevation, building peaks and breaking the script.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</itunes:summary>
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      <description>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast Erin and Brian talk about The Power of Moments and continue their 6 part mini series on The Power of Moments by Dan and Chip Heath.  

In this episode they discuss creating moments by defining moments and thinking in moments.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</description>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast Erin and Brian talk about The Power of Moments and continue their 6 part mini series on The Power of Moments by Dan and Chip Heath.  

In this episode they discuss creating moments by defining moments and thinking in moments.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</itunes:summary>
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      <description>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast, Keith, Erin and Brian talk about The Power of Moments and start their 6 part mini series on The Power of Moments by Dan and Chip Heath.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</description>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast, Keith, Erin and Brian talk about The Power of Moments and start their 6 part mini series on The Power of Moments by Dan and Chip Heath.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</itunes:summary>
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      <description>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast, Erin and Brian talk about how you can create progression through recession by establishing healthy and sustainable systems of performance personally and professionally.
Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.
Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.
Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</description>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast, Erin and Brian talk about how you can create progression through recession by establishing healthy and sustainable systems of performance personally and professionally.
Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.
Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.
Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</itunes:summary>
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      <description>In this episode, the first episode of The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2, Brian is joined by top high school coach, mental performance coach and Fundraising University Team Member Justin Tucker to talk about 5 Strategies You Can Use To Become The Best Version of You.
The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.
July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2.  As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 
To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here 
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:10:36 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>5 Strategies You Can Use To Become The Best Version of You - Justin Tucker, MPM</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode, the first episode of The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2, Brian is joined by top high school coach, mental performance coach and Fundraising University Team Member Justin Tucker to talk about 5 Strategies You Can Use To Become The Best Version of You.
The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program, Season #2 is brought to you by Fundraising University.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching opportunities around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed as a coach, business owner and competitor.
July 2022 marked the beginning of Coaching Matters Season #2.  As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 
To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/register-here 
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Grit - Get Ready It's Tough... and Will Be Worth It - Real Estate Mental Performance</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast, Keith, Erin and Brian talk about the importance of trusting your systems during challenging times, grit, perspective, recommitting to your commitments everyday and not rising to the occasion, but sinking to your levels of training.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 18:50:29 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Grit - Get Ready It's Tough... and Will Be Worth It - Real Estate Mental Performance</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast, Keith, Erin and Brian talk about the importance of trusting your systems during challenging times, grit, perspective, recommitting to your commitments everyday and not rising to the occasion, but sinking to your levels of training.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>10 Principles For Designing Productive Practices - Greg Owen</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian talks with Greg Owen, MPM, Athletic Director at Starkville High School, Sarkville MS about designing productive practices that give you the best chance for success.

July 2022 will mark the end of Season #1 of our Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program.  We have thoroughly enjoyed our time together over this past year. The final Season #1 Coaching Matters call will be on June 20, 2022.

As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 

This particular group will be invited to one Coaching Matters call per month as well as one Power Hour Mental Performance Training Call per month with me as your guide and trainer.

These calls will focus on personal development as well as development in a coaching role. 

To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/join-our-mission 
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:37:42 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>10 Principles For Designing Productive Practices - Greg Owen</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian talks with Greg Owen, MPM, Athletic Director at Starkville High School, Sarkville MS about designing productive practices that give you the best chance for success.

July 2022 will mark the end of Season #1 of our Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program.  We have thoroughly enjoyed our time together over this past year. The final Season #1 Coaching Matters call will be on June 20, 2022.

As we transition into Season #2, starting on July 11, 2022 our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 

This particular group will be invited to one Coaching Matters call per month as well as one Power Hour Mental Performance Training Call per month with me as your guide and trainer.

These calls will focus on personal development as well as development in a coaching role. 

To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/join-our-mission 
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Bringing Calm to Chaos - Real Estate Mental Performance</title>
      <description>Bringing Calm to Chaos - Real Estate Mental Performance

In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast, Keith, Erin and Brian talk about bringing calm to chaos, planting seeds of success on a daily basis and redefining what it means to WIN.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 19:17:14 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Bringing Calm to Chaos - Real Estate Mental Performance</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>Bringing Calm to Chaos - Real Estate Mental Performance

In this episode of The Team Allie Beth Allman Real Estate Mental Performance Podcast, Keith, Erin and Brian talk about bringing calm to chaos, planting seeds of success on a daily basis and redefining what it means to WIN.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Entrepreneur and Leadership Mindset With Jeremy Carey, CEO, Ironclad</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program and Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian Cain, MPM discusses The Entrepreneur and Leadership Mindset, Leading Yourself First So You Grow As Fast As Your Business with Jeremy Carey, CEO of Ironclad.  
You can learn more and engage with Jeremy on instagram and twitter @ThisIsIronclad and online at https://thisisironclad.com/
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 01:12:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The Entrepreneur and Leadership Mindset With Jeremy Carey, CEO, Ironclad</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program and Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian Cain, MPM discusses The Entrepreneur and Leadership Mindset, Leading Yourself First So You Grow As Fast As Your Business with Jeremy Carey, CEO of Ironclad.  
You can learn more and engage with Jeremy on instagram and twitter @ThisIsIronclad and online at https://thisisironclad.com/
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program and Podcast brought to you by Fundraising University, Brian Cain, MPM discusses <em>The Entrepreneur and Leadership Mindset, Leading Yourself First So You Grow As Fast As Your Business </em>with Jeremy Carey, CEO of Ironclad.  </p><p>You can learn more and engage with Jeremy on instagram and twitter<a href="https://www.instagram.com/thisisironclad/?hl=en"> @ThisIsIronclad</a> and online at <a href="https://thisisironclad.com/">https://thisisironclad.com/</a></p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p>]]>
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      <title>The Certainty of Uncertainty - Real Estate Mental Performance Mastery</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast, Keith, Erin and Brian talk about the mindsets that help you create certainty during times of uncertainty.


Compete Don’t Compare

Attitude Is A Decisions - The Negative News Cycle

Process Over Outcome

Adversity Is Our Advantage

White Collar Look, Blue Collar Work

Be Comfortable Being Uncomfortable


Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:17:01 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The Certainty of Uncertainty - Real Estate Mental Performance Mastery</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast, Keith, Erin and Brian talk about the mindsets that help you create certainty during times of uncertainty.


Compete Don’t Compare

Attitude Is A Decisions - The Negative News Cycle

Process Over Outcome

Adversity Is Our Advantage

White Collar Look, Blue Collar Work

Be Comfortable Being Uncomfortable


Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast, Keith, Erin and Brian talk about the mindsets that help you create certainty during times of uncertainty.</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>Compete Don’t Compare</li>
<li>Attitude Is A Decisions - The Negative News Cycle</li>
<li>Process Over Outcome</li>
<li>Adversity Is Our Advantage</li>
<li>White Collar Look, Blue Collar Work</li>
<li>Be Comfortable Being Uncomfortable</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.</p><p><br></p><p>Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</p>]]>
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      <title>Hyper Optimization - Matt Morse</title>
      <description>In this episode you learn the fundamentals needed to Hyper Optimize Your Digital and Physical Environments and Strategies to increase your levels of growth and productivity with Matt Morse, CEO of Kaifect a Digital Media and Branding Agency in Nashville, TN. Matt will share practical strategies you can use to Hyper Optimize your physical and digital environments so your brand and program can stand out in a world of distraction.
Matt Morse works with competitive entrepreneurs to build businesses, multiply profits, and maximize impact. Through the process of Hyper Optimization combined with injecting creative and strategic actions into their businesses, Matt has helped people around the world to accomplish astonishing levels of growth and productivity.
In this fast-paced, 30-minute presentation, you will discover actionable strategies that coaches and entrepreneurs can implement immediately to Hyper Optimize their physical and digital environments for maximum productivity and performance on a daily basis.
Check out Matt’s Notes Here -&gt; https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRlYJUyioG3k2rUpGbYO_dV0eJBQmLbMIMCjvLUri6koZ_uuCSgKaJjBEIWhd_REu0ONTsmXev_Y3wZ/pub
Engage With Matt on Instagram Here -&gt; https://www.instagram.com/hyperoptimize/
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.
Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.
If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course
If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf
If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 00:42:36 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Hyper Optimization - Matt Morse</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode you learn the fundamentals needed to Hyper Optimize Your Digital and Physical Environments and Strategies to increase your levels of growth and productivity with Matt Morse, CEO of Kaifect a Digital Media and Branding Agency in Nashville, TN. Matt will share practical strategies you can use to Hyper Optimize your physical and digital environments so your brand and program can stand out in a world of distraction.
Matt Morse works with competitive entrepreneurs to build businesses, multiply profits, and maximize impact. Through the process of Hyper Optimization combined with injecting creative and strategic actions into their businesses, Matt has helped people around the world to accomplish astonishing levels of growth and productivity.
In this fast-paced, 30-minute presentation, you will discover actionable strategies that coaches and entrepreneurs can implement immediately to Hyper Optimize their physical and digital environments for maximum productivity and performance on a daily basis.
Check out Matt’s Notes Here -&gt; https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRlYJUyioG3k2rUpGbYO_dV0eJBQmLbMIMCjvLUri6koZ_uuCSgKaJjBEIWhd_REu0ONTsmXev_Y3wZ/pub
Engage With Matt on Instagram Here -&gt; https://www.instagram.com/hyperoptimize/
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.
Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.
If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course
If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf
If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode you learn the fundamentals needed to Hyper Optimize Your Digital and Physical Environments and Strategies to increase your levels of growth and productivity with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mattmorse_17/?hl=en">Matt Morse, CEO of Kaifect</a> a Digital Media and Branding Agency in Nashville, TN. Matt will share practical strategies you can use to Hyper Optimize your physical and digital environments so your brand and program can stand out in a world of distraction.</p><p>Matt Morse works with competitive entrepreneurs to build businesses, multiply profits, and maximize impact. Through the process of Hyper Optimization combined with injecting creative and strategic actions into their businesses, Matt has helped people around the world to accomplish astonishing levels of growth and productivity.</p><p>In this fast-paced, 30-minute presentation, you will discover actionable strategies that coaches and entrepreneurs can implement immediately to Hyper Optimize their physical and digital environments for maximum productivity and performance on a daily basis.</p><p>Check out Matt’s Notes Here -&gt; <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRlYJUyioG3k2rUpGbYO_dV0eJBQmLbMIMCjvLUri6koZ_uuCSgKaJjBEIWhd_REu0ONTsmXev_Y3wZ/pub">https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRlYJUyioG3k2rUpGbYO_dV0eJBQmLbMIMCjvLUri6koZ_uuCSgKaJjBEIWhd_REu0ONTsmXev_Y3wZ/pub</a></p><p>Engage With Matt on Instagram Here -&gt; https://www.instagram.com/hyperoptimize/</p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p>Together, <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Teamwork Makes The Dream Work - Real Estate Mental Performance Mastery</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast Erin and Brian talk about the mindset shift from buyer vs. seller to teamwork making the dreamwork and a lesson learned from an agent who did over $550MM in 2022.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2022 22:03:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Teamwork Makes The Dream Work - Real Estate Mental Performance Mastery</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast Erin and Brian talk about the mindset shift from buyer vs. seller to teamwork making the dreamwork and a lesson learned from an agent who did over $550MM in 2022.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast Erin and Brian talk about the mindset shift from buyer vs. seller to teamwork making the dreamwork and a lesson learned from an agent who did over $550MM in 2022.</p><p><br></p><p>Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.</p><p><br></p><p>Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</p>]]>
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      <title>Expectation and Execution - Real Estate Mental Performance Mastery</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast Erin and Brian talk about the mindset shift from expectation to execution and the core four fundamentals of optimal living that agents must execute NOW to give themselves the best chance for success tomorrow.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2022 19:13:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Expectation and Execution - Real Estate Mental Performance Mastery</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast Erin and Brian talk about the mindset shift from expectation to execution and the core four fundamentals of optimal living that agents must execute NOW to give themselves the best chance for success tomorrow.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast Erin and Brian talk about the mindset shift from expectation to execution and the core four fundamentals of optimal living that agents must execute NOW to give themselves the best chance for success tomorrow.</p><p><br></p><p>Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.</p><p><br></p><p>Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</p>]]>
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      <title>The Sleep Solution - Dr. Chris Winter</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian is joined by Dr. Chris Winter, the owner of Charlottesville Neurology and Sleep Medicine clinic and CNSM Consulting. Dr. Winter’s current research focuses on sleep and athletic performance. 
He has served as a consultant for several baseball teams including the Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, Philadelphia Phillies, Tampa Bay Rays and Pittsburgh Pirates
In addition to MLB teams, he has worked with the (NBA) Chicago Bulls, Oklahoma City Thunder, Indiana Pacers, Charlotte Hornets, and Washington Wizards, (NHL) Washington Capitals, New York Rangers, and the Florida Panthers. In the (NFL) with the Chicago Bears and the Baltimore Ravens and with USA Women’s Soccer.
His debut book, The Sleep Solution, Why Your Sleep Is Broken and How To Fix It was an Amazon best seller. His new book The Rested Child: Why Your Tired, Wired, or Irritable Child May Have a Sleep Disorder–And How to Help was released August, 2021.
(https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Solution-Why-Your-Broken/dp/0399583610/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Sleep+Solution&amp;qid=1626191205&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1) 
(https://www.amazon.com/Rested-Child-Tired-Irritable-Disorder/dp/0593330072/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Rested+Child&amp;qid=1626191174&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1) 
In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching Session, Dr. Winter will share practical sleep strategies you can use to get a good nights rest, increase recovery and give yourself the best chance for success.
Topics discussed are:

The importance of starting your day at a specific and consistent time

The time in your life when sleep gets ruined

Why your brain needs a sleep schedule

Keeping a sleep diary

Creating an elite sleep environment

The ideal room temperature for sleep

Melatonin as a sleep timing device

The 3 main stages of sleep

Control the variables that are within our control with sleep


The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Once again, we would like to recognize Fundraising University and owner, Mike Bahun as the official sponsor for the Coaching Matters Group Coaching Podcast. 
Fundraising University is looking to team up with members of our Coaching Matters Communities for 3 Main roles.
ROLE #1 5 Franchise Owners to run fundraisers in your local territory.
ROLE #2: 10 Corporate Reps to run Fundraising University fundraisers in your local territory
ROLE #3 Ambassador coaches who have contacts with coaches or clubs looking to do fundraisers that might be able to introduce these contacts to local fundraising university reps and be eligible to receive a % of the sale… if interested, Click here to contact Fundraising University https://coachingmatters.org/join-the-mission 

UPDATE
July 2022 will mark the end of Season #1 of our Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program. We have thoroughly enjoyed our time together over this past year. The final season #1 Coaching Matters call will be on June 20th. 
As we transition into season #2, our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 
This particular group will be invited to one Coaching Matters call per month as well as one Power Hour Mental Performance Training Call per month with me as your guide and trainer.
These calls will focus on personal development as well as development in a coaching role. 
To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/join-our-mission </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2022 00:23:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The Sleep Solution - Dr. Chris Winter</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian is joined by Dr. Chris Winter, the owner of Charlottesville Neurology and Sleep Medicine clinic and CNSM Consulting. Dr. Winter’s current research focuses on sleep and athletic performance. 
He has served as a consultant for several baseball teams including the Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, Philadelphia Phillies, Tampa Bay Rays and Pittsburgh Pirates
In addition to MLB teams, he has worked with the (NBA) Chicago Bulls, Oklahoma City Thunder, Indiana Pacers, Charlotte Hornets, and Washington Wizards, (NHL) Washington Capitals, New York Rangers, and the Florida Panthers. In the (NFL) with the Chicago Bears and the Baltimore Ravens and with USA Women’s Soccer.
His debut book, The Sleep Solution, Why Your Sleep Is Broken and How To Fix It was an Amazon best seller. His new book The Rested Child: Why Your Tired, Wired, or Irritable Child May Have a Sleep Disorder–And How to Help was released August, 2021.
(https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Solution-Why-Your-Broken/dp/0399583610/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Sleep+Solution&amp;qid=1626191205&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1) 
(https://www.amazon.com/Rested-Child-Tired-Irritable-Disorder/dp/0593330072/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Rested+Child&amp;qid=1626191174&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1) 
In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching Session, Dr. Winter will share practical sleep strategies you can use to get a good nights rest, increase recovery and give yourself the best chance for success.
Topics discussed are:

The importance of starting your day at a specific and consistent time

The time in your life when sleep gets ruined

Why your brain needs a sleep schedule

Keeping a sleep diary

Creating an elite sleep environment

The ideal room temperature for sleep

Melatonin as a sleep timing device

The 3 main stages of sleep

Control the variables that are within our control with sleep


The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Once again, we would like to recognize Fundraising University and owner, Mike Bahun as the official sponsor for the Coaching Matters Group Coaching Podcast. 
Fundraising University is looking to team up with members of our Coaching Matters Communities for 3 Main roles.
ROLE #1 5 Franchise Owners to run fundraisers in your local territory.
ROLE #2: 10 Corporate Reps to run Fundraising University fundraisers in your local territory
ROLE #3 Ambassador coaches who have contacts with coaches or clubs looking to do fundraisers that might be able to introduce these contacts to local fundraising university reps and be eligible to receive a % of the sale… if interested, Click here to contact Fundraising University https://coachingmatters.org/join-the-mission 

UPDATE
July 2022 will mark the end of Season #1 of our Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program. We have thoroughly enjoyed our time together over this past year. The final season #1 Coaching Matters call will be on June 20th. 
As we transition into season #2, our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. 
This particular group will be invited to one Coaching Matters call per month as well as one Power Hour Mental Performance Training Call per month with me as your guide and trainer.
These calls will focus on personal development as well as development in a coaching role. 
To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link https://coachingmatters.org/join-our-mission </itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode Brian is joined by Dr. Chris Winter, the owner of Charlottesville Neurology and Sleep Medicine clinic and CNSM Consulting. Dr. Winter’s current research focuses on sleep and athletic performance. </p><p>He has served as a consultant for several baseball teams including the Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, Philadelphia Phillies, Tampa Bay Rays and Pittsburgh Pirates</p><p>In addition to MLB teams, he has worked with the (NBA) Chicago Bulls, Oklahoma City Thunder, Indiana Pacers, Charlotte Hornets, and Washington Wizards, (NHL) Washington Capitals, New York Rangers, and the Florida Panthers. In the (NFL) with the Chicago Bears and the Baltimore Ravens and with USA Women’s Soccer.</p><p>His debut book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Solution-Why-Your-Broken/dp/0399583610/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Sleep+Solution&amp;qid=1626191205&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1"><strong><em>The Sleep Solution, Why Your Sleep Is Broken and How To Fix It</em></strong></a><em> </em>was an Amazon best seller. His new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rested-Child-Tired-Irritable-Disorder/dp/0593330072/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Rested+Child&amp;qid=1626191174&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1"><strong><em>The Rested Child: Why Your Tired, Wired, or Irritable Child May Have a Sleep Disorder–And How to Help</em></strong></a> was released August, 2021.</p><p><em>(</em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Solution-Why-Your-Broken/dp/0399583610/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Sleep+Solution&amp;qid=1626191205&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1"><em>https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Solution-Why-Your-Broken/dp/0399583610/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Sleep+Solution&amp;qid=1626191205&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1</em></a><em>) </em></p><p>(<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rested-Child-Tired-Irritable-Disorder/dp/0593330072/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Rested+Child&amp;qid=1626191174&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1">https://www.amazon.com/Rested-Child-Tired-Irritable-Disorder/dp/0593330072/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Rested+Child&amp;qid=1626191174&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1</a>) </p><p>In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching Session, Dr. Winter will share practical sleep strategies you can use to get a good nights rest, increase recovery and give yourself the best chance for success.</p><p>Topics discussed are:</p><ul>
<li>The importance of starting your day at a specific and consistent time</li>
<li>The time in your life when sleep gets ruined</li>
<li>Why your brain needs a sleep schedule</li>
<li>Keeping a sleep diary</li>
<li>Creating an elite sleep environment</li>
<li>The ideal room temperature for sleep</li>
<li>Melatonin as a sleep timing device</li>
<li>The 3 main stages of sleep</li>
<li>Control the variables that are within our control with sleep</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p>Once again, we would like to recognize Fundraising University and owner, Mike Bahun as the official sponsor for the Coaching Matters Group Coaching Podcast. </p><p>Fundraising University is looking to team up with members of our Coaching Matters Communities for 3 Main roles.</p><p><strong>ROLE #1 </strong>5 Franchise Owners to run fundraisers in your local territory.</p><p><strong>ROLE #2: </strong>10 Corporate Reps to run Fundraising University fundraisers in your local territory</p><p><strong>ROLE #3 </strong>Ambassador coaches who have contacts with coaches or clubs looking to do fundraisers that might be able to introduce these contacts to local fundraising university reps and be eligible to receive a % of the sale… if interested, Click here to contact Fundraising University <a href="https://coachingmatters.org/join-the-mission">https://coachingmatters.org/join-the-mission</a> </p><p><br></p><p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p><p>July 2022 will mark the end of Season #1 of our Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program. We have thoroughly enjoyed our time together over this past year. The final season #1 Coaching Matters call will be on June 20th. </p><p>As we transition into season #2, our Coaching Matters calls will be reserved for Coaching Matters Ambassadors, Fundraising University customers, Fundraising University employees &amp; Franchise Owners. </p><p>This particular group will be invited to one Coaching Matters call per month as well as one Power Hour Mental Performance Training Call per month with me as your guide and trainer.</p><p>These calls will focus on personal development as well as development in a coaching role. </p><p>To find out how to become a Coaching Matters Ambassador or Fundraising University Representative, please click this link <a href="https://coachingmatters.org/join-our-mission">https://coachingmatters.org/join-our-mission</a> </p>]]>
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      <title>Leaving Your Legacy - Real Estate Mental Performance Mastery</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast Erin and Brian talk about leaving a legacy and the #1 most beneficial app you can get on your phone to increase awareness and create the behavior consistency that will drive your business.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Leaving Your Legacy - Real Estate Mental Performance Mastery</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast Erin and Brian talk about leaving a legacy and the #1 most beneficial app you can get on your phone to increase awareness and create the behavior consistency that will drive your business.

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast Erin and Brian talk about leaving a legacy and the #1 most beneficial app you can get on your phone to increase awareness and create the behavior consistency that will drive your business.</p><p><br></p><p>Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.</p><p><br></p><p>Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</p>]]>
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      <title>Creating The Competitive Advantage - Real Estate Mental Performance Mastery</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast, Keith, Erin and Brian talk about gaining a competitive edge by doing a little a lot and making the best investment you can make as a real estate agent. They also discuss:

The 4 Stages of Buy In

Not For Me

Ok For Others

I’ll Try It

I Can’t Believe I Did It Any Other Way


The Optimize Book Summaries App

Create An Account Here For Free -&gt; http://optimize.me/cain 

Books Mentioned


Legacy - James Kerr


The One Thing - Gary Keller


Success Is A Lifestyle, Not An Event

Better People = Better Agents

Rule #1 - You must be in control of yourself before you can control your performance.

Rule #2 - You have very little control of what goes on around you but total control of how you choose to respond to it.

E+R=O - Event + Response = Outcome

Next Episode: The #1 Result Driver In 20 Years of MPM Coaching that You Can Use TODAY!!!

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:37:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Creating The Competitive Advantage - Real Estate Mental Performance Mastery</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast, Keith, Erin and Brian talk about gaining a competitive edge by doing a little a lot and making the best investment you can make as a real estate agent. They also discuss:

The 4 Stages of Buy In

Not For Me

Ok For Others

I’ll Try It

I Can’t Believe I Did It Any Other Way


The Optimize Book Summaries App

Create An Account Here For Free -&gt; http://optimize.me/cain 

Books Mentioned


Legacy - James Kerr


The One Thing - Gary Keller


Success Is A Lifestyle, Not An Event

Better People = Better Agents

Rule #1 - You must be in control of yourself before you can control your performance.

Rule #2 - You have very little control of what goes on around you but total control of how you choose to respond to it.

E+R=O - Event + Response = Outcome

Next Episode: The #1 Result Driver In 20 Years of MPM Coaching that You Can Use TODAY!!!

Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.

Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.

Brian Cain, MPM, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Allie Beth Allman Podcast, Keith, Erin and Brian talk about gaining a competitive edge by doing a little a lot and making the best investment you can make as a real estate agent. They also discuss:</p><p><br></p><p>The 4 Stages of Buy In</p><ol>
<li>Not For Me</li>
<li>Ok For Others</li>
<li>I’ll Try It</li>
<li>I Can’t Believe I Did It Any Other Way</li>
</ol><p><br></p><p>The Optimize Book Summaries App</p><ol><li>
<a href="http://optimize.me/cain">Create An Account Here For Free</a> -&gt; <a href="http://optimize.me/cain">http://optimize.me/cain</a> </li></ol><p><br></p><p>Books Mentioned</p><ol>
<li>
<a href="https://www.heroic.us/optimize/pn/legacy-james-kerr">Legacy</a> - James Kerr</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.heroic.us/optimize/pn/the-one-thing-gary-keller-jay-papasan">The One Thing </a>- Gary Keller</li>
</ol><p><br></p><p>Success Is A Lifestyle, Not An Event</p><p><br></p><p>Better People = Better Agents</p><p><br></p><p>Rule #1 - You must be in control of yourself before you can control your performance.</p><p><br></p><p>Rule #2 - You have very little control of what goes on around you but total control of how you choose to respond to it.</p><p><br></p><p>E+R=O - Event + Response = Outcome</p><p><br></p><p>Next Episode: The #1 Result Driver In 20 Years of MPM Coaching that You Can Use TODAY!!!</p><p><br></p><p>Keith Conlon, MPM is President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates and has helped lead the firm to record sales and unprecedented growth. Over the course of his tenure, the brokerage surpassed over $3.8 billion in sales in 2021, and launched offices in Southlake and Lakewood, and has grown to include nearly 400 agents.</p><p><br></p><p>Erin Young has a proven track record of working with discerning clientele. Before transferring to New York, she sold luxury condominium space at the W Dallas and W Austin Hotel and Residences. Prior to her jaunt at the W, Erin successfully developed and integrated a sales and marketing strategy, which allowed her to sell out half of a large condo development in eight weeks that were unsold for 18 months prior to her appointment on the project.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, is one of the World’s leading mental performance coaches who helps agents take principles proven in elite performance arenas and apply them to their everyday performance through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week Keith, Erin and Brian bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering the mental aspects of real estate performance and helping you to develop the leadership and mental performance skills you need to succeed.</p>]]>
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      <title>Be Extreme If You Want To Win Big - Dr. Rob Gilbert</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian is joined by Creator of The Success Hotline, Professor of Sport Psychology at Montclair State and author of If You Want to Win Tomorrow, Read This Book Tonight, the one and only Dr. Rob Gilbert.
You can join The Success Hotline here in Apple podcasts and here in Spotify.
In this podcast, Dr. Gilbert talks about:


The difference between being a whisper or a shout

Shifting from improvement to break thoughts

Not putting in time, but putting INTO time

Why he records success hotline every day since 1992

Listening or talking to yourself

The importance of being extreme

The mindset shift from greatness is borned to it’s a trained skill

The importance of getting others to believe

The two types of people who you don’t want to take advice from

Why you should only hir3 3%ers


The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.
Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 02:45:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Be Extreme If You Want To Win Big - Dr. Rob Gilbert</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian is joined by Creator of The Success Hotline, Professor of Sport Psychology at Montclair State and author of If You Want to Win Tomorrow, Read This Book Tonight, the one and only Dr. Rob Gilbert.
You can join The Success Hotline here in Apple podcasts and here in Spotify.
In this podcast, Dr. Gilbert talks about:


The difference between being a whisper or a shout

Shifting from improvement to break thoughts

Not putting in time, but putting INTO time

Why he records success hotline every day since 1992

Listening or talking to yourself

The importance of being extreme

The mindset shift from greatness is borned to it’s a trained skill

The importance of getting others to believe

The two types of people who you don’t want to take advice from

Why you should only hir3 3%ers


The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
Together, Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.
Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode Brian is joined by Creator of The Success Hotline, Professor of Sport Psychology at Montclair State and author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Rob-Gilbert/e/B00LNQEV9G/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1"><em>If You Want to Win Tomorrow, Read This Book Tonight</em></a><em>, </em>the one and only Dr. Rob Gilbert.</p><p>You can join The Success Hotline here in <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/success-hotline-with-dr-rob-gilbert/id1532154557">Apple</a> podcasts and here in <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0jgcS1TQ3qIiq4J1Z8VckP?si=QhWhrGI-QNCglpKceMc8-w&amp;nd=1">Spotify</a>.</p><p>In this podcast, Dr. Gilbert talks about:</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>The difference between being a whisper or a shout</li>
<li>Shifting from improvement to break thoughts</li>
<li>Not putting in time, but putting INTO time</li>
<li>Why he records success hotline every day since 1992</li>
<li>Listening or talking to yourself</li>
<li>The importance of being extreme</li>
<li>The mindset shift from greatness is borned to it’s a trained skill</li>
<li>The importance of getting others to believe</li>
<li>The two types of people who you don’t want to take advice from</li>
<li>Why you should only hir3 3%ers</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p>Together, <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p>]]>
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      <title>Creating A Competitive Edge - Heath Autrey</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian is joined by Heath Autrey, MPM to discuss Creating A Competitive Edge: 10 Ways to Develop More Mentally Tough Players, Create A Competitive Advantage and Win More Often
Heath is one of Texas High School Baseball’s most respected and winningest coaches. He is a highly sought after clinician and speaker who has coached baseball at every level. In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching Session, Heath will breakdown:

The REAL Battle We Face as Coaches and Athletes

How you can train to separate yourself from the competition

The importance of knowing your why.

How to train an elite mindset and equip your players minds for battle vs. mediocrity

The Value of Instant Feedback and Non-Negotiables In Your HS Program

How to play offense on defense and dictate the pace on both sides of the competition

How focusing on the process helps you as a leader and competitor get more done on a daily basis and allows you to become the best version of yourself.


You can connect with Heath Autrey, MPM Corsicana High School Baseball Head Coach

Email: HEATH.AUTREY@YAHOO.COM
TWITTER: @HAUTREY11
FACEBOOK: HEATH AUTREY
Cell: (972) – 921 - 0895
The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/basebal</description>
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      <itunes:title>Creating A Competitive Edge - Heath Autrey</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian is joined by Heath Autrey, MPM to discuss Creating A Competitive Edge: 10 Ways to Develop More Mentally Tough Players, Create A Competitive Advantage and Win More Often
Heath is one of Texas High School Baseball’s most respected and winningest coaches. He is a highly sought after clinician and speaker who has coached baseball at every level. In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching Session, Heath will breakdown:

The REAL Battle We Face as Coaches and Athletes

How you can train to separate yourself from the competition

The importance of knowing your why.

How to train an elite mindset and equip your players minds for battle vs. mediocrity

The Value of Instant Feedback and Non-Negotiables In Your HS Program

How to play offense on defense and dictate the pace on both sides of the competition

How focusing on the process helps you as a leader and competitor get more done on a daily basis and allows you to become the best version of yourself.


You can connect with Heath Autrey, MPM Corsicana High School Baseball Head Coach

Email: HEATH.AUTREY@YAHOO.COM
TWITTER: @HAUTREY11
FACEBOOK: HEATH AUTREY
Cell: (972) – 921 - 0895
The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/basebal</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode Brian is joined by Heath Autrey, MPM to discuss <em>Creating A Competitive Edge: 10 Ways to Develop More Mentally Tough Players, Create A Competitive Advantage and Win More Often</em></p><p>Heath is one of Texas High School Baseball’s most respected and winningest coaches. He is a highly sought after clinician and speaker who has coached baseball at every level. In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching Session, Heath will breakdown:</p><ol>
<li>The REAL Battle We Face as Coaches and Athletes</li>
<li>How you can train to separate yourself from the competition</li>
<li>The importance of knowing your why.</li>
<li>How to train an elite mindset and equip your players minds for battle vs. mediocrity</li>
<li>The Value of Instant Feedback and Non-Negotiables In Your HS Program</li>
<li>How to play offense on defense and dictate the pace on both sides of the competition</li>
<li>How focusing on the process helps you as a leader and competitor get more done on a daily basis and allows you to become the best version of yourself.</li>
</ol><p><br></p><p>You can connect with Heath Autrey, MPM Corsicana High School Baseball Head Coach</p><p><br></p><p>Email: HEATH.AUTREY@YAHOO.COM</p><p>TWITTER: <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/hautrey11">@HAUTREY11</a></p><p>FACEBOOK: HEATH AUTREY</p><p>Cell: (972) – 921 - 0895</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/coaching-matters">The Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program</a> is brought to you by Fundraising University and <a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain Peak Performance</a>. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/basebal</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Self Care In Coaching - Steve "Wojo" Wojciechowski - Coaching Matters</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Coaching Matters Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Steve “Wojo” Wojciechowski. Wojo is one of the most respected players in Duke Basketball history. The 1998 NCAA Defensive Player of The Year started his coaching career at Duke in 1999 and helped the Blue Devils to the NCAA National Championship in 2001 and 2010. Was also a part of the Team USA Olympic Basketball Program and helped coach the red, white and blue to the Olympic Gold Medal in 2008 and 2012. Wojo was the head basketball coach at Marquette University from 2014-2021.

In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching Session, Wojo will discuss the lessons he has learned in his illustrious college basketball career and the strategies he uses to optimize his performance. Topics will include:

His daily self-care routines and journaling process

The importance of exercise, meditation, yoga

What 3 lessons he learned from playing for and working with Coach K

Wojo’s 3 part meditation practice around peace, presence and process

The difference between reacting and responding as a leader

What he knows now he wishes he knew when he was coaching

The importance of getting clear on what’s important and organizing your day around them


Specific strategies you can use to invest into yourself so that you can invest into others and be the best version of yourself as a coach.

And much more…


The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  

Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball
 </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2022 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Self Care In Coaching - Steve "Wojo" Wojciechowski - Coaching Matters</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Coaching Matters Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Steve “Wojo” Wojciechowski. Wojo is one of the most respected players in Duke Basketball history. The 1998 NCAA Defensive Player of The Year started his coaching career at Duke in 1999 and helped the Blue Devils to the NCAA National Championship in 2001 and 2010. Was also a part of the Team USA Olympic Basketball Program and helped coach the red, white and blue to the Olympic Gold Medal in 2008 and 2012. Wojo was the head basketball coach at Marquette University from 2014-2021.

In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching Session, Wojo will discuss the lessons he has learned in his illustrious college basketball career and the strategies he uses to optimize his performance. Topics will include:

His daily self-care routines and journaling process

The importance of exercise, meditation, yoga

What 3 lessons he learned from playing for and working with Coach K

Wojo’s 3 part meditation practice around peace, presence and process

The difference between reacting and responding as a leader

What he knows now he wishes he knew when he was coaching

The importance of getting clear on what’s important and organizing your day around them


Specific strategies you can use to invest into yourself so that you can invest into others and be the best version of yourself as a coach.

And much more…


The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  

Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Coaching Matters Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Brian is joined by Steve “Wojo” Wojciechowski. Wojo is one of the most respected players in Duke Basketball history. The 1998 NCAA Defensive Player of The Year started his coaching career at Duke in 1999 and helped the Blue Devils to the NCAA National Championship in 2001 and 2010. Was also a part of the Team USA Olympic Basketball Program and helped coach the red, white and blue to the Olympic Gold Medal in 2008 and 2012. Wojo was the head basketball coach at Marquette University from 2014-2021.</p><p><br></p><p>In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching Session, Wojo will discuss the lessons he has learned in his illustrious college basketball career and the strategies he uses to optimize his performance. Topics will include:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>His daily self-care routines and journaling process</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The importance of exercise, meditation, yoga</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>What 3 lessons he learned from playing for and working with Coach K</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Wojo’s 3 part meditation practice around peace, presence and process</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The difference between reacting and responding as a leader</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>What he knows now he wishes he knew when he was coaching</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The importance of getting clear on what’s important and organizing your day around them</li></ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>Specific strategies you can use to invest into yourself so that you can invest into others and be the best version of yourself as a coach.</li>
<li>And much more…</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p> </p>]]>
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      <title>Charting Your Course &amp; Hitting Your Target: Goal Setting Strategies That Deliver Results With Brian Cain, MPM</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian Cain, MPM The World’s Leading Mental Performance Coach discusses Charting Your Course &amp; Hitting Your Target: Goal Setting Strategies That Deliver Results. Brian covers:

REVIEW: THE 4 STEP GOAL FORMULA
#1 Set Your Intention

#2 Schedule Your Time In Blocks

THE FOCUS FUNNEL - MULTIPLY TIME

Eliminate

Automate

Delegate

Procrastinate

Concentrate


#3 Track Your Behavior &amp; GPS Yourself Back on Course

#4 Reflect &amp; Refocus Yourself Back On The Path


GOAL SETTING THAT GETS RESULTS

Set Outcome Goals

Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Annual MITs - Most Important Tasks



Set Process Goals

AM Routine Execution

When You Are At Your Best What 3-5 Things Are You Doing Daily?

When You Fall Off The Wagon and BEAT YOURSELF, What Do You Let Happen That You Need to Work Against (Your Kryptonite)

Create Success Systems For Consistency


The Bigger Your Goals, The Tighter Your Process Needs To Be

To Be Consistent Over Time You Must Describe What You Do As A Process


3 STEPS TO GOAL GETTING

Make A Commitment

Set YOUR Goals


Know WHY You Want These Goals

Know WHO Benefits If You Achieve Them

Know WHO Suffers If You Fall Short


Make It Public

Create Positive Pressure For Yourself

Surround Yourself With People Who Have A Similar Mission As You

You Become The Average of The 5 People You Associate With Most

You Become The Average of The 5 Things You Do Most



Make It Happen With Daily Execution

Reverse Engineer Your Plan From Outcome To Today

Work The Staircase


Know The Plan That You Use To Get Started WILL NOT BE What Gets You To The Finish - Plans Are Made To Get Started - USE The Most Fuel

Prioritize &amp; Execute

Safe Guard Your Time

Find What You Love To Do &amp; Do It!!!

Stop Watching TV and Thinking You Need Time To Relax Feeling Sorry For Yourself

Check Your 3 E Ratio - Education, Energy, Entertainment

Be Kind and Nice To Yourself AND Don’t Accept Your Own BS

Your future, your success depends on a lot of factors and the most important factor has always been and will always be… YOU!

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Charting Your Course &amp; Hitting Your Target: Goal Setting Strategies That Deliver Results With Brian Cain, MPM</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian Cain, MPM The World’s Leading Mental Performance Coach discusses Charting Your Course &amp; Hitting Your Target: Goal Setting Strategies That Deliver Results. Brian covers:

REVIEW: THE 4 STEP GOAL FORMULA
#1 Set Your Intention

#2 Schedule Your Time In Blocks

THE FOCUS FUNNEL - MULTIPLY TIME

Eliminate

Automate

Delegate

Procrastinate

Concentrate


#3 Track Your Behavior &amp; GPS Yourself Back on Course

#4 Reflect &amp; Refocus Yourself Back On The Path


GOAL SETTING THAT GETS RESULTS

Set Outcome Goals

Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Annual MITs - Most Important Tasks



Set Process Goals

AM Routine Execution

When You Are At Your Best What 3-5 Things Are You Doing Daily?

When You Fall Off The Wagon and BEAT YOURSELF, What Do You Let Happen That You Need to Work Against (Your Kryptonite)

Create Success Systems For Consistency


The Bigger Your Goals, The Tighter Your Process Needs To Be

To Be Consistent Over Time You Must Describe What You Do As A Process


3 STEPS TO GOAL GETTING

Make A Commitment

Set YOUR Goals


Know WHY You Want These Goals

Know WHO Benefits If You Achieve Them

Know WHO Suffers If You Fall Short


Make It Public

Create Positive Pressure For Yourself

Surround Yourself With People Who Have A Similar Mission As You

You Become The Average of The 5 People You Associate With Most

You Become The Average of The 5 Things You Do Most



Make It Happen With Daily Execution

Reverse Engineer Your Plan From Outcome To Today

Work The Staircase


Know The Plan That You Use To Get Started WILL NOT BE What Gets You To The Finish - Plans Are Made To Get Started - USE The Most Fuel

Prioritize &amp; Execute

Safe Guard Your Time

Find What You Love To Do &amp; Do It!!!

Stop Watching TV and Thinking You Need Time To Relax Feeling Sorry For Yourself

Check Your 3 E Ratio - Education, Energy, Entertainment

Be Kind and Nice To Yourself AND Don’t Accept Your Own BS

Your future, your success depends on a lot of factors and the most important factor has always been and will always be… YOU!

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode Brian Cain, MPM The World’s Leading Mental Performance Coach discusses Charting Your Course &amp; Hitting Your Target: Goal Setting Strategies That Deliver Results. Brian covers:</p><p><br></p><p><strong>REVIEW: THE 4 STEP GOAL FORMULA</strong></p><p>#1 Set Your Intention</p><p><br></p><p>#2 Schedule Your Time In Blocks</p><p><br></p><p><strong>THE FOCUS FUNNEL - MULTIPLY TIME</strong></p><ol>
<li>Eliminate</li>
<li>Automate</li>
<li>Delegate</li>
<li>Procrastinate</li>
<li>Concentrate</li>
</ol><p><br></p><p>#3 Track Your Behavior &amp; GPS Yourself Back on Course</p><p><br></p><p>#4 Reflect &amp; Refocus Yourself Back On The Path</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>GOAL SETTING THAT GETS RESULTS</strong></p><ol>
<li>Set Outcome Goals</li>
<li>Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Annual MITs - Most Important Tasks</li>
</ol><p><br></p><ol>
<li>Set Process Goals</li>
<li>AM Routine Execution</li>
<li>When You Are At Your Best What 3-5 Things Are You Doing Daily?</li>
<li>When You Fall Off The Wagon and BEAT YOURSELF, What Do You Let Happen That You Need to Work Against (Your Kryptonite)</li>
<li>Create Success Systems For Consistency</li>
</ol><p><br></p><ol><li>The Bigger Your Goals, The Tighter Your Process Needs To Be</li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li>To Be Consistent Over Time You Must Describe What You Do As A Process</li></ol><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>3 STEPS TO GOAL GETTING</strong></p><ol>
<li>Make A Commitment</li>
<li>Set YOUR Goals</li>
</ol><p><br></p><ol><li>Know WHY You Want These Goals</li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li>Know WHO Benefits If You Achieve Them</li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li>Know WHO Suffers If You Fall Short</li></ol><p><br></p><ol>
<li>Make It Public</li>
<li>Create Positive Pressure For Yourself</li>
<li>Surround Yourself With People Who Have A Similar Mission As You</li>
<li>You Become The Average of The 5 People You Associate With Most</li>
<li>You Become The Average of The 5 Things You Do Most</li>
</ol><p><br></p><ol>
<li>Make It Happen With Daily Execution</li>
<li>Reverse Engineer Your Plan From Outcome To Today</li>
<li>Work The Staircase</li>
</ol><p><br></p><ol><li>Know The Plan That You Use To Get Started WILL NOT BE What Gets You To The Finish - Plans Are Made To Get Started - USE The Most Fuel</li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li>Prioritize &amp; Execute</li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li>Safe Guard Your Time</li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li>Find What You Love To Do &amp; Do It!!!</li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li>Stop Watching TV and Thinking You Need Time To Relax Feeling Sorry For Yourself</li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li>Check Your 3 E Ratio - Education, Energy, Entertainment</li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li>Be Kind and Nice To Yourself AND Don’t Accept Your Own BS</li></ol><p><br></p><p>Your future, your success depends on a lot of factors and the most important factor has always been and will always be… YOU!</p><p><br></p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p>]]>
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      <title>Creating a Competitive Edge In Baseball and Life Through Mental Performance Training - Sean Casey</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian is joined by Sean Casey. 

“Case“ is a former Major League Baseball first baseman for the Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, and Boston Red Sox. 

He was selected to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game three times during his career, is a lifetime .300 Hitter with over 100 HRs and 700 RBIs and is currently a broadcaster and commentator for the MLB Network. 

As a player who experienced the benefits of working with a mental performance coach during his career, on this call he talks about Creating a Competitive Edge Through Mental Performance Training and the following ideas.


Why he took an approach of It’s Me vs. Me

How can you at the end of the day be satisfied with just being you and sticking to your approach

Why he took a deep breath every pitch and why he subscribes to the breathe or die mentality

The connection between the eyes and the brain and the importance of present moment focus

When you should gear it up and when you should slow it down

How to avoid the trap of getting caught up in what everyone else things

The importance of being quiet, taking a breath, slowing down, seeing the ball and being easy

Leaders are readers, Case shares some of his favorite books

The importance of a daily meditation and journaling practice

Asking yourself the right questions vs. always going to “My swing is off”

The story of the buffalo and the cows

Easy has a cost

Three realities for baseball, (1) endless failure, (2) endless work, (3) endless uncertainty


SEAN CASEY MLB NETWORK HITTING MINDSET VIDEO -&gt; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNyrLMjw-xw

Questions To Ask Yourself About The Hitting Process BEFORE You Go Get Into Your Swing

Are You Taking A Breath &amp; Am I In The Present &amp; In Control of Myself

Is Your Foot On The Gas (Yes, Yes, Yes NO)

Are You Seeing The Ball

Are You Swinging at Strikes

Is Your Routine On Point &amp; Am I In The Present &amp; In Control of Myself

Is Your Plan to Look Away &amp; React In, Or Do YOU have A Clear Process

What’s Wrong With My Swing Is A Dangerous Place To Be as a Player


The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Creating a Competitive Edge In Baseball and Life Through Mental Performance Training - Sean Casey</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian is joined by Sean Casey. 

“Case“ is a former Major League Baseball first baseman for the Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, and Boston Red Sox. 

He was selected to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game three times during his career, is a lifetime .300 Hitter with over 100 HRs and 700 RBIs and is currently a broadcaster and commentator for the MLB Network. 

As a player who experienced the benefits of working with a mental performance coach during his career, on this call he talks about Creating a Competitive Edge Through Mental Performance Training and the following ideas.


Why he took an approach of It’s Me vs. Me

How can you at the end of the day be satisfied with just being you and sticking to your approach

Why he took a deep breath every pitch and why he subscribes to the breathe or die mentality

The connection between the eyes and the brain and the importance of present moment focus

When you should gear it up and when you should slow it down

How to avoid the trap of getting caught up in what everyone else things

The importance of being quiet, taking a breath, slowing down, seeing the ball and being easy

Leaders are readers, Case shares some of his favorite books

The importance of a daily meditation and journaling practice

Asking yourself the right questions vs. always going to “My swing is off”

The story of the buffalo and the cows

Easy has a cost

Three realities for baseball, (1) endless failure, (2) endless work, (3) endless uncertainty


SEAN CASEY MLB NETWORK HITTING MINDSET VIDEO -&gt; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNyrLMjw-xw

Questions To Ask Yourself About The Hitting Process BEFORE You Go Get Into Your Swing

Are You Taking A Breath &amp; Am I In The Present &amp; In Control of Myself

Is Your Foot On The Gas (Yes, Yes, Yes NO)

Are You Seeing The Ball

Are You Swinging at Strikes

Is Your Routine On Point &amp; Am I In The Present &amp; In Control of Myself

Is Your Plan to Look Away &amp; React In, Or Do YOU have A Clear Process

What’s Wrong With My Swing Is A Dangerous Place To Be as a Player


The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode Brian is joined by Sean Casey. </p><p><br></p><p>“Case“ is a former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_baseman">first baseman</a> for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Indians">Cleveland Indians</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox">Boston Red Sox</a>. </p><p><br></p><p>He was selected to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game">Major League Baseball All-Star Game</a> three times during his career, is a lifetime .300 Hitter with over 100 HRs and 700 RBIs and is currently a broadcaster and commentator for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB_Network">MLB Network</a>. </p><p><br></p><p>As a player who experienced the benefits of working with a mental performance coach during his career, on this call he talks about Creating a Competitive Edge Through Mental Performance Training and the following ideas.</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>Why he took an approach of It’s Me vs. Me</li>
<li>How can you at the end of the day be satisfied with just being you and sticking to your approach</li>
<li>Why he took a deep breath every pitch and why he subscribes to the breathe or die mentality</li>
<li>The connection between the eyes and the brain and the importance of present moment focus</li>
<li>When you should gear it up and when you should slow it down</li>
<li>How to avoid the trap of getting caught up in what everyone else things</li>
<li>The importance of being quiet, taking a breath, slowing down, seeing the ball and being easy</li>
<li>Leaders are readers, Case shares some of his favorite books</li>
<li>The importance of a daily meditation and journaling practice</li>
<li>Asking yourself the right questions vs. always going to “My swing is off”</li>
<li>The story of the buffalo and the cows</li>
<li>Easy has a cost</li>
<li>Three realities for baseball, (1) endless failure, (2) endless work, (3) endless uncertainty</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>SEAN CASEY MLB NETWORK HITTING MINDSET VIDEO -&gt; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNyrLMjw-xw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNyrLMjw-xw</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Questions To Ask Yourself About The Hitting Process BEFORE You Go Get Into Your Swing</strong></p><ul>
<li>Are You Taking A Breath &amp; Am I In The Present &amp; In Control of Myself</li>
<li>Is Your Foot On The Gas (Yes, Yes, Yes NO)</li>
<li>Are You Seeing The Ball</li>
<li>Are You Swinging at Strikes</li>
<li>Is Your Routine On Point &amp; Am I In The Present &amp; In Control of Myself</li>
<li>Is Your Plan to Look Away &amp; React In, Or Do YOU have A Clear Process</li>
<li>What’s Wrong With My Swing Is A Dangerous Place To Be as a Player</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>2902</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Clarifying and Implementing A Winning Culture With Chris Lavoie, MPM</title>
      <description>In this episode, Chris Lavoie, MPM, Director of Athletic at The Tampa Preparatory School in Tampa, Florida discusses how to clarify and implement a winning culture.  Chris shares the exact process he used to establish the 15 core principles of The TERPS4LIFE culture within the Tampa Prep athletic department as well as:


2 critical lessons he learned from Joe Maddon and Tony Dungy

How do get buy in when you are creating a new culture

How he markets the TERPS4LIFE culture with The TERPS4LIFE Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/terps4life-daily/id1581338792

How most schools and organization get it totally wrong when talking about mission and vision

Why setting an intentional athletic department core principles is critical to your departments success

A staggering statistic about who 80% of college students said was most impactful outside of their parents when in high school

The importance of high school sports and that we are the only event where we bring outside people onto our campus

The section of the media that proves the importance of high school sports


The MVP Process and culture video he created that is changing high school sports and athletic department culture

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Clarifying and Implementing A Winning Culture With Chris Lavoie, MPM</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode, Chris Lavoie, MPM, Director of Athletic at The Tampa Preparatory School in Tampa, Florida discusses how to clarify and implement a winning culture.  Chris shares the exact process he used to establish the 15 core principles of The TERPS4LIFE culture within the Tampa Prep athletic department as well as:


2 critical lessons he learned from Joe Maddon and Tony Dungy

How do get buy in when you are creating a new culture

How he markets the TERPS4LIFE culture with The TERPS4LIFE Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/terps4life-daily/id1581338792

How most schools and organization get it totally wrong when talking about mission and vision

Why setting an intentional athletic department core principles is critical to your departments success

A staggering statistic about who 80% of college students said was most impactful outside of their parents when in high school

The importance of high school sports and that we are the only event where we bring outside people onto our campus

The section of the media that proves the importance of high school sports


The MVP Process and culture video he created that is changing high school sports and athletic department culture

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode, Chris Lavoie, MPM, Director of Athletic at The Tampa Preparatory School in Tampa, Florida discusses how to clarify and implement a winning culture.  Chris shares the exact process he used to establish the 15 core principles of The TERPS4LIFE culture within the Tampa Prep athletic department as well as:</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>2 critical lessons he learned from Joe Maddon and Tony Dungy</li>
<li>How do get buy in when you are creating a new culture</li>
<li>How he markets the TERPS4LIFE culture with The TERPS4LIFE Podcast</li>
<li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/terps4life-daily/id1581338792">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/terps4life-daily/id1581338792</a></li>
<li>How most schools and organization get it totally wrong when talking about mission and vision</li>
<li>Why setting an intentional athletic department core principles is critical to your departments success</li>
<li>A staggering statistic about who 80% of college students said was most impactful outside of their parents when in high school</li>
<li>The importance of high school sports and that we are the only event where we bring outside people onto our campus</li>
<li>The section of the media that proves the importance of high school sports</li>
<li>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JBsla2rn3WOevBvpHnY5yCYOJFxIYR0f9opR4dR-6io/edit?usp=sharing">The MVP Process</a> and <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/18SlPa2rpxtnVFAxnpqmcGA_WYyIXacyq/view?usp=sharing">culture video</a> he created that is changing high school sports and athletic department culture</li>
</ul><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Leadership Skill Development Through Mental Performance - Mike Bahun CEO Fundraising University</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian Cain, MPM host of the Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program talks with Mike Bahun, Assistant Baseball Coach at The University of Michigan and CEO of Fundraising University.  Mike discusses developing leadership skills through application of The 10 Pillars of Mental Performance Mastery and gives you 5 clear and distinct calls to action to work on your leadership skills.

Develop and Design Your Personal MVP Process

Develop and Design Your Business MVP Process

Establish A Routine and Set of Behavioral Success Metrics Using Habit Share


Listen To Brian Cain’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast

Join The Coaching Matters 2022 Weekly Leadership Development Book List Using The Optimize App


Join Our Coaching Matters FREE Group Coaching Calls Every Other Week -&gt; BrianCain.com/Coaching-Matters


RESOURCES

Slides From Mike’s Presentation

Personal MVP Process Template 

Business MVP Process Template

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
You can view all Coaching Matters Group Coaching Calls on Our YouTube Channel
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Leadership Skill Development Through Mental Performance - Mike Bahun CEO Fundraising University</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian Cain, MPM host of the Coaching Matters Group Coaching Program talks with Mike Bahun, Assistant Baseball Coach at The University of Michigan and CEO of Fundraising University.  Mike discusses developing leadership skills through application of The 10 Pillars of Mental Performance Mastery and gives you 5 clear and distinct calls to action to work on your leadership skills.

Develop and Design Your Personal MVP Process

Develop and Design Your Business MVP Process

Establish A Routine and Set of Behavioral Success Metrics Using Habit Share


Listen To Brian Cain’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast

Join The Coaching Matters 2022 Weekly Leadership Development Book List Using The Optimize App


Join Our Coaching Matters FREE Group Coaching Calls Every Other Week -&gt; BrianCain.com/Coaching-Matters


RESOURCES

Slides From Mike’s Presentation

Personal MVP Process Template 

Business MVP Process Template

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
You can view all Coaching Matters Group Coaching Calls on Our YouTube Channel
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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</li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Listen To Brian Cain’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li>Join The Coaching Matters 2022 <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing">Weekly Leadership Development Book List</a> Using <a href="http://optimize.me/cain">The Optimize App</a>
</li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li>Join Our Coaching Matters FREE Group Coaching Calls Every Other Week -&gt; <a href="https://briancain.com/coaching-matters">BrianCain.com/Coaching-Matters</a>
</li></ol><p><br></p><p><strong>RESOURCES</strong></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_anhK34zZNOgrGgx6jV_SH8ozYftIU9m/edit#slide=id.p2">Slides From Mike’s Presentation</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nxtAMqeBdhGejk8fGvmJCnUrw32pOMZb4VTqgReZNUE/edit">Personal MVP Process Template</a> </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PIjra8gMr32MN4-xvKYIKfLCG0C1BgWgcB8MVCxGQfs/edit?usp=sharing">Business MVP Process Template</a></p><p><br></p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRvSL4GdceA4j7iGfsDN47N94mbiKfUqE">You can view all Coaching Matters Group Coaching Calls on Our YouTube Channel</a></p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>How To Make 2022 The Best Year of Your Coaching Career</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian Cain, MPM shares specific strategies you can use to help make 2022 the best year of your coaching career. 

RESOURCES

Brian’s Power Point From This Call

Personal MVP Process Template

Team MVP Process Template

Sample Ideal Day Schedule

Well Better How Reflection Journal Template

Optimize Book Summaries FREE App

Optimize Recommended Book List For 2022


CONCEPTS


The One Word Brand Strategy

The 1% Intention

The Optimize Book of The Week

The 4 Step Goal Formula

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
You can view all Coaching Matters Group Coaching Calls on Our YouTube Channel
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>How To Make 2022 The Best Year of Your Coaching Career</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian Cain, MPM shares specific strategies you can use to help make 2022 the best year of your coaching career. 

RESOURCES

Brian’s Power Point From This Call

Personal MVP Process Template

Team MVP Process Template

Sample Ideal Day Schedule

Well Better How Reflection Journal Template

Optimize Book Summaries FREE App

Optimize Recommended Book List For 2022


CONCEPTS


The One Word Brand Strategy

The 1% Intention

The Optimize Book of The Week

The 4 Step Goal Formula

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
You can view all Coaching Matters Group Coaching Calls on Our YouTube Channel
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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<li>The One Word Brand Strategy</li>
<li>The 1% Intention</li>
<li>The Optimize Book of The Week</li>
<li>The 4 Step Goal Formula</li>
</ol><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p>You can view all Coaching Matters Group Coaching Calls on<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRvSL4GdceA4j7iGfsDN47N94mbiKfUqE"> </a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRvSL4GdceA4j7iGfsDN47N94mbiKfUqE">Our YouTube Channel</a></p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>The Role of Soul CBD in Elite Performance - Mike Lee - Professional Boxer</title>
      <description>In this special episode of Mental Performance Mastery, Brian Cain sits down with former world-ranked professional boxer (with a career record of 21-1) and serial entrepreneur, Mike Lee, whose company SOUL CBD is the proud sponsor of Mental Performance Daily.

As a fighter, Mike Lee has fought in some of the world’s most iconic arenas for millions of fans, including bouts in Madison Square Garden, Cowboys Stadium, The MGM Grand. and more. 

Mike’s career nearly ended in 2014 when he was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease For the next two years, Mike was in and out of hospitals. After getting burnt out by all of the extended treatments and various medications, Mike began looking for natural alternatives to what the doctors had been suggesting, and eventually discovered CBD. 

The health breakthroughs he experienced—and Mike’s business background—led to the founding SOUL CBD with his sister Angie. Soul CBD is a company dedicated to helping others through the pursuit of relief and better living, powered by CBD.

Now, you can try Soul CBD, with a special discount. Go to mysoulcbd.com/cain15 for 15% off your order. That's mysoulcbd.com/cain15 for 15% off.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The Role of Soul CBD in Elite Performance - Mike Lee - Professional Boxer</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In this special episode of Mental Performance Mastery, Brian Cain sits down with former world-ranked professional boxer (with a career record of 21-1) and serial entrepreneur, Mike Lee, whose company SOUL CBD is the proud sponsor of Mental Performance Daily.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this special episode of Mental Performance Mastery, Brian Cain sits down with former world-ranked professional boxer (with a career record of 21-1) and serial entrepreneur, Mike Lee, whose company SOUL CBD is the proud sponsor of Mental Performance Daily.

As a fighter, Mike Lee has fought in some of the world’s most iconic arenas for millions of fans, including bouts in Madison Square Garden, Cowboys Stadium, The MGM Grand. and more. 

Mike’s career nearly ended in 2014 when he was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease For the next two years, Mike was in and out of hospitals. After getting burnt out by all of the extended treatments and various medications, Mike began looking for natural alternatives to what the doctors had been suggesting, and eventually discovered CBD. 

The health breakthroughs he experienced—and Mike’s business background—led to the founding SOUL CBD with his sister Angie. Soul CBD is a company dedicated to helping others through the pursuit of relief and better living, powered by CBD.

Now, you can try Soul CBD, with a special discount. Go to mysoulcbd.com/cain15 for 15% off your order. That's mysoulcbd.com/cain15 for 15% off.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this special episode of Mental Performance Mastery, Brian Cain sits down with former world-ranked professional boxer (with a career record of 21-1) and serial entrepreneur, Mike Lee, whose company SOUL CBD is the proud sponsor of Mental Performance Daily.</p><p><br></p><p>As a fighter, Mike Lee has fought in some of the world’s most iconic arenas for millions of fans, including bouts in Madison Square Garden, Cowboys Stadium, The MGM Grand. and more. </p><p><br></p><p>Mike’s career nearly ended in 2014 when he was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease For the next two years, Mike was in and out of hospitals. After getting burnt out by all of the extended treatments and various medications, Mike began looking for natural alternatives to what the doctors had been suggesting, and eventually discovered CBD. </p><p><br></p><p>The health breakthroughs he experienced—and Mike’s business background—led to the founding SOUL CBD with his sister Angie. Soul CBD is a company dedicated to helping others through the pursuit of relief and better living, powered by CBD.</p><p><br></p><p>Now, you can try Soul CBD, with a special discount. Go to <a href="http://mysoulcbd.com/cain15">mysoulcbd.com/cain15</a> for 15% off your order. That's <a href="http://mysoulcbd.com/cain15">mysoulcbd.com/cain15</a> for 15% off.</p>]]>
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      <title>The Mental Performance Benefits of CBD</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian discusses his relationship with the nutritional supplement CBD and four mental performance benefits that you can start taking advantage of from this great supplement.

In this podcast Brian also mentions The Mental Performance Daily Podcast and a podcast he did with Soul CBD CEO and Top Raked Professional Boxer Mike Lee. 

If you are looking to try Soul CBD, head to MySoulCBD.com/cain15 for %15 off your next order.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast The Mental Performance Daily Podcast

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:00:48 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The Mental Performance Benefits of CBD</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian discusses his relationship with the nutritional supplement CBD and four mental performance benefits that you can start taking advantage of from this great supplement.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian discusses his relationship with the nutritional supplement CBD and four mental performance benefits that you can start taking advantage of from this great supplement.

In this podcast Brian also mentions The Mental Performance Daily Podcast and a podcast he did with Soul CBD CEO and Top Raked Professional Boxer Mike Lee. 

If you are looking to try Soul CBD, head to MySoulCBD.com/cain15 for %15 off your next order.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast The Mental Performance Daily Podcast

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian discusses his relationship with the nutritional supplement CBD and four mental performance benefits that you can start taking advantage of from this great supplement.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast Brian also mentions <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a> and a podcast he did with <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-interview-mike-lee-professional-boxer-and-soul/id1578012159?i=1000541645683">Soul CBD CEO and Top Raked Professional Boxer Mike Lee</a>. </p><p><br></p><p>If you are looking to try Soul CBD, head to <a href="https://www.mysoulcbd.com/pages/cain15">MySoulCBD.com/cain15</a> for %15 off your next order.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159"><em>The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</em></a></p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>9 Lessons From 9 of College Baseball's Best Coaches</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian takes you behind the scenes and teaches you 9 lessons he has learned from working with 9 of college baseball’s best coaches.  Find out what life changing strategies Brian has learned and uses from college baseball juggernauts Skip Bertman (LSU), Mike Bianco (Ole Miss), Augie Garido (Fullerton &amp; Texas), Tim Corbin (Vanderbilt), Gary Gilmore, (Coastal Carolina), Cliff Godwin (ECU), Erik Bakich (Michigan), Pat Casey (Oregon State) and Jim Schlossnagle (TCU &amp; Texas A&amp;M).

THE 9 LESSONS

1.BERTMAN - Without a Vision Your People, Your Program and Your Career Will Perish
2.BIANCO - Systems, Stories, R.E.B.S. and The Next 200 Feet
3.GARRIDO - The Process is Nameless, Faceless and Fearless
4.CORBIN - Do Common Things With An Uncommon Attention to Detail and Effort
5.GILMORE - The Best Team Never Wins, It’s The Team Who Plays The Best
6.GODWIN - Don’t Just Have A Mission Statement, Be On A Mission
7.BAKICH - Character &amp; Leadership Are Trainable Skills
8.CASEY - If You Want Better Competitors, Compete More In Practice
9.SCHLOSSNAGLE - The Compound Effect of Leaving It Better Than You Found It

Per mentioned in the call, please visit BrianCain.com/9lessons for a copy of the slides and resources Brian mentions on the call.

Please also visit Optimize.me/cain to join the Optimize App for FREE.

You can also check out last weeks Coaching Matters Group Coaching call with Erik Bakich here.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>9 Lessons From 9 of College Baseball's Best Coaches</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian takes you behind the scenes and teaches you 9 lessons he has learned from working with 9 of college baseball’s best coaches.  Find out what life changing strategies Brian has learned and uses from college baseball juggernauts Skip Bertman (LSU), Mike Bianco (Ole Miss), Augie Garido (Fullerton &amp; Texas), Tim Corbin (Vanderbilt), Gary Gilmore, (Coastal Carolina), Cliff Godwin (ECU), Erik Bakich (Michigan), Pat Casey (Oregon State) and Jim Schlossnagle (TCU &amp; Texas A&amp;M).

THE 9 LESSONS

1.BERTMAN - Without a Vision Your People, Your Program and Your Career Will Perish
2.BIANCO - Systems, Stories, R.E.B.S. and The Next 200 Feet
3.GARRIDO - The Process is Nameless, Faceless and Fearless
4.CORBIN - Do Common Things With An Uncommon Attention to Detail and Effort
5.GILMORE - The Best Team Never Wins, It’s The Team Who Plays The Best
6.GODWIN - Don’t Just Have A Mission Statement, Be On A Mission
7.BAKICH - Character &amp; Leadership Are Trainable Skills
8.CASEY - If You Want Better Competitors, Compete More In Practice
9.SCHLOSSNAGLE - The Compound Effect of Leaving It Better Than You Found It

Per mentioned in the call, please visit BrianCain.com/9lessons for a copy of the slides and resources Brian mentions on the call.

Please also visit Optimize.me/cain to join the Optimize App for FREE.

You can also check out last weeks Coaching Matters Group Coaching call with Erik Bakich here.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode Brian takes you behind the scenes and teaches you 9 lessons he has learned from working with 9 of college baseball’s best coaches.  Find out what life changing strategies Brian has learned and uses from college baseball juggernauts Skip Bertman (LSU), Mike Bianco (Ole Miss), Augie Garido (Fullerton &amp; Texas), Tim Corbin (Vanderbilt), Gary Gilmore, (Coastal Carolina), Cliff Godwin (ECU), Erik Bakich (Michigan), Pat Casey (Oregon State) and Jim Schlossnagle (TCU &amp; Texas A&amp;M).</p><p><br></p><p><strong>THE 9 LESSONS</strong></p><p><br></p><p>1.BERTMAN - Without a Vision Your People, Your Program and Your Career Will Perish</p><p>2.BIANCO - Systems, Stories, R.E.B.S. and The Next 200 Feet</p><p>3.GARRIDO - The Process is Nameless, Faceless and Fearless</p><p>4.CORBIN - Do Common Things With An Uncommon Attention to Detail and Effort</p><p>5.GILMORE - The Best Team Never Wins, It’s The Team Who Plays The Best</p><p>6.GODWIN - Don’t Just Have A Mission Statement, Be On A Mission</p><p>7.BAKICH - Character &amp; Leadership Are Trainable Skills</p><p>8.CASEY - If You Want Better Competitors, Compete More In Practice</p><p>9.SCHLOSSNAGLE - The Compound Effect of Leaving It Better Than You Found It</p><p><br></p><p>Per mentioned in the call, please visit <a href="http://briancain.com/9lessons">BrianCain.com/9lessons</a> for a copy of the slides and resources Brian mentions on the call.</p><p><br></p><p>Please also visit <a href="http://optimize.me/cain">Optimize.me/cain</a> to join the Optimize App for FREE.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjIKW3TU2sA">You can also check out last weeks Coaching Matters Group Coaching call with Erik Bakich here.</a></p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Building A Winning Culture and Player Development Process With Michigan Baseball Coach Erik Bakich</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian sits down with 2019 NCAA Baseball National Coach of The Year, Erik Bakich, Head Baseball Coach at The University of Michigan. Bakich played at East Carolina University and after a short stint in professional baseball he went on to be an assistant coach at Clemson and Vanderbilt before taking over The University of Maryland and now Michigan. Bakich is one of the top coaches in all of collegiate sports when it comes to building a championship culture and coaching the mental game.

You can join The Optimize app for FREE, mentioned in this podcast by Brian and Erik by clicking here.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  

Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball

Coaching 3rd Book

If you wanna have a really good team, you have to have a bunch of really good teammates. How do you build that?

How do you build great teammates &amp; incorporate culture?

Part of something bigger than themselves

Give each team a #

Teach leadership &amp; life skills, better individual people make a better team (sum)

Leave the jersey in a better place

Talking legacy</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Building A Winning Culture and Player Development Process With Michigan Baseball Coach Erik Bakich</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian sits down with 2019 NCAA Baseball National Coach of The Year, Erik Bakich, Head Baseball Coach at The University of Michigan. Bakich played at East Carolina University and after a short stint in professional baseball he went on to be an assistant coach at Clemson and Vanderbilt before taking over The University of Maryland and now Michigan. Bakich is one of the top coaches in all of collegiate sports when it comes to building a championship culture and coaching the mental game.

You can join The Optimize app for FREE, mentioned in this podcast by Brian and Erik by clicking here.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  

Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball

Coaching 3rd Book

If you wanna have a really good team, you have to have a bunch of really good teammates. How do you build that?

How do you build great teammates &amp; incorporate culture?

Part of something bigger than themselves

Give each team a #

Teach leadership &amp; life skills, better individual people make a better team (sum)

Leave the jersey in a better place

Talking legacy</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode Brian sits down with 2019 NCAA Baseball National Coach of The Year, Erik Bakich, Head Baseball Coach at The University of Michigan. Bakich played at East Carolina University and after a short stint in professional baseball he went on to be an assistant coach at Clemson and Vanderbilt before taking over The University of Maryland and now Michigan. Bakich is one of the top coaches in all of collegiate sports when it comes to building a championship culture and coaching the mental game.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://optimize.me/cain">You can join The Optimize app for FREE, mentioned in this podcast by Brian and Erik by clicking here.</a></p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Third-Keith-LeClair-Story/dp/0982635303/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Keith+LeClair&amp;qid=1638839125&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1"><strong>Coaching 3rd Book</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p>If you wanna have a really good team, you have to have a bunch of really good teammates. How do you build that?</p><p><br></p><p>How do you build great teammates &amp; incorporate culture?</p><ul>
<li>Part of something bigger than themselves</li>
<li>Give each team a #</li>
<li>Teach leadership &amp; life skills, better individual people make a better team (sum)</li>
<li>Leave the jersey in a better place</li>
<li>Talking legacy</li>
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      <title>Mental Performance Update With Brian Cain</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian provides an in-depth update on what’s happening in Mental Performance Mastery including some amazing FREE opportunities below that you will want to take advantage of below.

The Mental Performance Daily Podcast

Brian Cain's Baseball Group Coaching Program

The Coaching Matters Free Group Coaching Program

The Coaching Matters Podcast

Zach Sorensen, Atlanta Braves Head of MPM Group Coaching Call Recording

The ABCA National Baseball Coaches Convention FREE Resources &amp; Live Event Ticket

Optimize With Brian Johnson FREE

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast The Mental Performance Daily Podcast

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:35:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Mental Performance Update With Brian Cain</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Mental Performance Update With Brian Cain</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian provides an in-depth update on what’s happening in Mental Performance Mastery including some amazing FREE opportunities below that you will want to take advantage of below.

The Mental Performance Daily Podcast

Brian Cain's Baseball Group Coaching Program

The Coaching Matters Free Group Coaching Program

The Coaching Matters Podcast

Zach Sorensen, Atlanta Braves Head of MPM Group Coaching Call Recording

The ABCA National Baseball Coaches Convention FREE Resources &amp; Live Event Ticket

Optimize With Brian Johnson FREE

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast The Mental Performance Daily Podcast

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><br></p><p>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian provides an in-depth update on what’s happening in Mental Performance Mastery including some amazing FREE opportunities below that you will want to take advantage of below.</p><p><br></p><ul><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li><a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-group-coaching">Brian Cain's Baseball Group Coaching Program</a></li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li><a href="https://briancain.com/coaching-matters">The Coaching Matters Free Group Coaching Program</a></li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/23vnpZRtvYsPiTcMyfVGP8">The Coaching Matters Podcast</a></li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRvSL4GdceA4j7iGfsDN47N94mbiKfUqE">Zach Sorensen, Atlanta Braves Head of MPM Group Coaching Call Recording</a></li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li><a href="https://briancain.com/abca">The ABCA National Baseball Coaches Convention FREE Resources &amp; Live Event Ticket</a></li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li><a href="https://optimize.me/cain">Optimize With Brian Johnson FREE</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159"><em>The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</em></a></p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p>]]>
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      <title>Everyday Wisdom With UFC Champion and Hall of Famer Forrest Griffin</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian sits down with UFC Hall of Famer, World Champion and MMA Icon Forrest Griffin. Forrest Griffin is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2013. He currently serves as the Vice President of Athlete Development for the UFC Performance Institute.  

He’s the author of, one of the funniest books I have ever read, Got Fight, and was a former Georgia police officer before taking the world and the octagon by storm when he first rose to prominence after winning the first season of The Ultimate Fighter. In the tournament finals, he defeated Stephan Bonnar, live on Spike TV which is widely credited as sparking the success of the UFC. 

In this podcast Forrest and I discuss:

Going from being a nursing major to UFC Hall of Famer

Battling Pre-Fight Nervous Energy and Channeling that Into Fuel

How Money Starts Making Everything More Real &amp; Moves You From Passion to Performance

The Lessons Learned Form Forrest’s Rock Climbing Experience and the key lessons in not looking up or down

How The Great Ones Lose Themselves In The Details

Faking It It Till You Feeling &amp; The Power of Self-Talk

Compartmentalization and separating who you are in and outside of the cage

How Routines make doing the extraordinary ordinary

Forrest mental performance bathtub routine for eliminating negative self-talk and doubt

How to learn from losing and using failure as positive feedback

The importance of being a shark and always hunting your next target with focus

Failing forward and living what you are teaching so others will listen to you


Please welcome to the Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, From Athens Georgia, by way of Las Vegas, Nevada, he is the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, The UFC Hall of Famer, Forrest Griffin.

You can engage with Forrest on twitter and instagram @ForrestGriffin Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast The Mental Performance Daily Podcast

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:11:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Everyday Wisdom With UFC Champion and Hall of Famer Forrest Griffin</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian sits down with UFC Hall of Famer, World Champion and MMA Icon Forrest Griffin.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian sits down with UFC Hall of Famer, World Champion and MMA Icon Forrest Griffin. Forrest Griffin is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2013. He currently serves as the Vice President of Athlete Development for the UFC Performance Institute.  

He’s the author of, one of the funniest books I have ever read, Got Fight, and was a former Georgia police officer before taking the world and the octagon by storm when he first rose to prominence after winning the first season of The Ultimate Fighter. In the tournament finals, he defeated Stephan Bonnar, live on Spike TV which is widely credited as sparking the success of the UFC. 

In this podcast Forrest and I discuss:

Going from being a nursing major to UFC Hall of Famer

Battling Pre-Fight Nervous Energy and Channeling that Into Fuel

How Money Starts Making Everything More Real &amp; Moves You From Passion to Performance

The Lessons Learned Form Forrest’s Rock Climbing Experience and the key lessons in not looking up or down

How The Great Ones Lose Themselves In The Details

Faking It It Till You Feeling &amp; The Power of Self-Talk

Compartmentalization and separating who you are in and outside of the cage

How Routines make doing the extraordinary ordinary

Forrest mental performance bathtub routine for eliminating negative self-talk and doubt

How to learn from losing and using failure as positive feedback

The importance of being a shark and always hunting your next target with focus

Failing forward and living what you are teaching so others will listen to you


Please welcome to the Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, From Athens Georgia, by way of Las Vegas, Nevada, he is the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, The UFC Hall of Famer, Forrest Griffin.

You can engage with Forrest on twitter and instagram @ForrestGriffin Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast The Mental Performance Daily Podcast

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</itunes:summary>
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<li>Going from being a nursing major to UFC Hall of Famer</li>
<li>Battling Pre-Fight Nervous Energy and Channeling that Into Fuel</li>
<li>How Money Starts Making Everything More Real &amp; Moves You From Passion to Performance</li>
<li>The Lessons Learned Form Forrest’s Rock Climbing Experience and the key lessons in not looking up or down</li>
<li>How The Great Ones Lose Themselves In The Details</li>
<li>Faking It It Till You Feeling &amp; The Power of Self-Talk</li>
<li>Compartmentalization and separating who you are in and outside of the cage</li>
<li>How Routines make doing the extraordinary ordinary</li>
<li>Forrest mental performance bathtub routine for eliminating negative self-talk and doubt</li>
<li>How to learn from losing and using failure as positive feedback</li>
<li>The importance of being a shark and always hunting your next target with focus</li>
<li>Failing forward and living what you are teaching so others will listen to you</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Please welcome to the Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, From Athens Georgia, by way of Las Vegas, Nevada, he is the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, The UFC Hall of Famer, Forrest Griffin.</p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Forrest on <a href="https://twitter.com/ForrestGriffin?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">twitter </a>and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/forrestgriffin/?hl=en">instagram @ForrestGriffin</a> Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to also check out Brian’s short form daily podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159"><em>The Mental Performance Daily Podcast</em></a></p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p>]]>
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      <title>Q&amp;A on Culture, Team Building with 4x State Champion Tim Albertson</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian is joined by 4x State Championship winning coach and athletic director Tim Albertson.  Tim Albertson, MPM is the Athletic Director at Stowe High School in Stowe, Vermont and received his Masters in Sports Administration from Southern New Hampshire University.  Currently a Baseball Coach for the Bases Loaded Bulldogs Travel Organization, Tim was the Head Baseball Coach at Champlain Valley Union High School for 13 years.

He led the Red Hawks to 4 State Championships (2012, 2013, 2019, 2021) and was a 5x Metro Coach of the Year.  He has also coached Wrestling and Football.  In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching and Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Coach Albertson will discuss Team Building &amp; Culture Development Strategies for All Coaches

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2021 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Q&amp;A on Culture, Team Building with 4x State Champion Tim Albertson</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian is joined by 4x State Championship winning coach and athletic director Tim Albertson.  Tim Albertson, MPM is the Athletic Director at Stowe High School in Stowe, Vermont and received his Masters in Sports Administration from Southern New Hampshire University.  Currently a Baseball Coach for the Bases Loaded Bulldogs Travel Organization, Tim was the Head Baseball Coach at Champlain Valley Union High School for 13 years.

He led the Red Hawks to 4 State Championships (2012, 2013, 2019, 2021) and was a 5x Metro Coach of the Year.  He has also coached Wrestling and Football.  In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching and Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Coach Albertson will discuss Team Building &amp; Culture Development Strategies for All Coaches

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode Brian is joined by 4x State Championship winning coach and athletic director Tim Albertson.  Tim Albertson, MPM is the Athletic Director at Stowe High School in Stowe, Vermont and received his Masters in Sports Administration from Southern New Hampshire University.  Currently a Baseball Coach for the Bases Loaded Bulldogs Travel Organization, Tim was the Head Baseball Coach at Champlain Valley Union High School for 13 years.</p><p><br></p><p>He led the Red Hawks to 4 State Championships (2012, 2013, 2019, 2021) and was a 5x Metro Coach of the Year.  He has also coached Wrestling and Football.  In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching and Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Coach Albertson will discuss Team Building &amp; Culture Development Strategies for All Coaches</p><p><br></p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Creating Championship Culture &amp; Team Building With 4x State Champion Tim Albertson</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian is joined by 4x State Championship winning coach and athletic director Tim Albertson.  Tim Albertson, MPM is the Athletic Director at Stowe High School in Stowe, Vermont and received his Masters in Sports Administration from Southern New Hampshire University.  Currently a Baseball Coach for the Bases Loaded Bulldogs Travel Organization, Tim was the Head Baseball Coach at Champlain Valley Union High School for 13 years.

He led the Red Hawks to 4 State Championships (2012, 2013, 2019, 2021) and was a 5x Metro Coach of the Year.  He has also coached Wrestling and Football.  In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching and Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Coach Albertson will discuss Team Building &amp; Culture Development Strategies for All Coaches

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Creating Championship Culture &amp; Team Building With 4x State Champion Tim Albertson</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian is joined by 4x State Championship winning coach and athletic director Tim Albertson.  Tim Albertson, MPM is the Athletic Director at Stowe High School in Stowe, Vermont and received his Masters in Sports Administration from Southern New Hampshire University.  Currently a Baseball Coach for the Bases Loaded Bulldogs Travel Organization, Tim was the Head Baseball Coach at Champlain Valley Union High School for 13 years.

He led the Red Hawks to 4 State Championships (2012, 2013, 2019, 2021) and was a 5x Metro Coach of the Year.  He has also coached Wrestling and Football.  In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching and Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Coach Albertson will discuss Team Building &amp; Culture Development Strategies for All Coaches

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Q&amp;A With World Series Winning MPM Coach Zach Sorensen</title>
      <description>In this episode Zach Sorensen, MPM The Head of Mental Performance With The 2021 World Series Champion Atlanta Braves takes questions from our audience about coaching mental performance, he PHENOM system and framework and what it takes to be a successful mental performance mastery (MPM) coach.

You can get Zach’s daily podcast The Hard 90 here

You can get his book, The Hard 90 here

You can check out his website here
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Q&amp;A With World Series Winning MPM Coach Zach Sorensen</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Zach Sorensen, MPM The Head of Mental Performance With The 2021 World Series Champion Atlanta Braves takes questions from our audience about coaching mental performance, he PHENOM system and framework and what it takes to be a successful mental performance mastery (MPM) coach.

You can get Zach’s daily podcast The Hard 90 here

You can get his book, The Hard 90 here

You can check out his website here
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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      <title>World Series Winning Mental Performance With Zach Sorensen, MPM</title>
      <description>In this episode Zach Sorensen, MPM The Head of Mental Performance With The 2021 World Series Champion Atlanta Braves talks about the mental performance coaching strategies he uses with the coaches and athletes he works with.  He shares insight into coaching mental performance at the Major League Level and what it takes to develop a high level of compete and mental toughness in those you coach.

You can get Zach’s daily podcast The Hard 90 here

You can get his book, The Hard 90 here

You can check out his website here
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2021 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>World Series Winning Mental Performance With Zach Sorensen, MPM</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode Zach Sorensen, MPM The Head of Mental Performance With The 2021 World Series Champion Atlanta Braves talks about the mental performance coaching strategies he uses with the coaches and athletes he works with.  He shares insight into coaching mental performance at the Major League Level and what it takes to develop a high level of compete and mental toughness in those you coach.

You can get Zach’s daily podcast The Hard 90 here

You can get his book, The Hard 90 here

You can check out his website here
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Enthusiasm - How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian discusses the importance of enthusiasm and acting differently than how you feel, a concept from 1947 and a chapter from How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success in Selling by Frank Bettger. This chapter and podcast is suggested to be listened to 5 days a week for 5 weeks to completely change your mindset around feeling enthusiastic towards acting enthusiastic.

You can purchase How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success In Selling on Amazon here.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 18:44:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Enthusiasm - How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian discusses the importance of enthusiasm and acting differently than how you feel, a concept from 1947 and a chapter from How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success in Selling by Frank Bettger.  </itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian discusses the importance of enthusiasm and acting differently than how you feel, a concept from 1947 and a chapter from How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success in Selling by Frank Bettger. This chapter and podcast is suggested to be listened to 5 days a week for 5 weeks to completely change your mindset around feeling enthusiastic towards acting enthusiastic.

You can purchase How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success In Selling on Amazon here.

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian discusses the importance of enthusiasm and acting differently than how you feel, a concept from 1947 and a chapter from <em>How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success in Selling </em>by Frank Bettger. This chapter and podcast is suggested to be listened to 5 days a week for 5 weeks to completely change your mindset around feeling enthusiastic towards acting enthusiastic.</p><p><br></p><p>You can purchase <a href="https://amzn.to/3CH1QNh"><em>How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success In Selling</em> on Amazon here<em>.</em></a></p><p><br></p><p>Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p>]]>
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      <title>Execution - The Mental ABC's of Pitching</title>
      <description>In this episode of The Mental Performance Podcast Brian reads a chapter from The Mental ABC’s of Pitching by Harvey Dorfman. The chapter on “Execution” is one that Brian has all of his baseball and softball pitchers and pitching coaches listen to on a weekly basis as it helps to simplify and clarify the importance of controlling what you can control and executing one pitch at a time.

You can purchase The Mental ABC’s of Pitching on Amazon here.

Brian mentions a podcast episode he recorded with 2021 MLB All-Star Pitcher Corbin Burnes of The Milwaukee Brewers. You can access that podcast here.

You can also access Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast here.

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 16:27:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Execution - The Mental ABC's of Pitching</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode of The Mental Performance Podcast Brian reads a chapter from The Mental ABC’s of Pitching by Harvey Dorfman</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode of The Mental Performance Podcast Brian reads a chapter from The Mental ABC’s of Pitching by Harvey Dorfman. The chapter on “Execution” is one that Brian has all of his baseball and softball pitchers and pitching coaches listen to on a weekly basis as it helps to simplify and clarify the importance of controlling what you can control and executing one pitch at a time.

You can purchase The Mental ABC’s of Pitching on Amazon here.

Brian mentions a podcast episode he recorded with 2021 MLB All-Star Pitcher Corbin Burnes of The Milwaukee Brewers. You can access that podcast here.

You can also access Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast here.

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball

Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.  

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Transformational vs Transactional Coaching Q&amp;A With Mik Aoki - Part 2-2</title>
      <description>In this episode Morehead State University Baseball Coach Mik Aoki and Brian Cain have a Q&amp;A session with our listeners about transformational vs. transactional coaching, building culture and how to give those you lead the best chance for success as people, students and players.
With a pedigree encompassing more than 450 collegiate wins and more than 50 draft picks by Major League organizations, Mik Aoki is now in his third year as head baseball coach at Morehead State.  Aoki (A-Oh-key) led the baseball program at Notre Dame for nine seasons after serving as the head coach at Boston College for four campaigns. 
He also held the head coaching spot at Columbia. Forty of his players over his time as a head coach have been named all-conference.  Aoki piloted the Irish to 248 wins while seeing 26 of his student-athletes drafted into MLB organizations, including a first-round pick. Four of his players went on to stints with Major League teams, including current Notre Dame alums Caven Biggio (Toronto) and Trey Mancini (Baltimore).
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Transformational vs Transactional Coaching Q&amp;A With Mik Aoki - Part 2-2</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Morehead State University Baseball Coach Mik Aoki and Brian Cain have a Q&amp;A session with our listeners about transformational vs. transactional coaching, building culture and how to give those you lead the best chance for success as people, students and players.
With a pedigree encompassing more than 450 collegiate wins and more than 50 draft picks by Major League organizations, Mik Aoki is now in his third year as head baseball coach at Morehead State.  Aoki (A-Oh-key) led the baseball program at Notre Dame for nine seasons after serving as the head coach at Boston College for four campaigns. 
He also held the head coaching spot at Columbia. Forty of his players over his time as a head coach have been named all-conference.  Aoki piloted the Irish to 248 wins while seeing 26 of his student-athletes drafted into MLB organizations, including a first-round pick. Four of his players went on to stints with Major League teams, including current Notre Dame alums Caven Biggio (Toronto) and Trey Mancini (Baltimore).
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Transformational vs Transactional Coaching With Mik Aoki Part 1-2</title>
      <description>In this episode Morehead State University Baseball Coach Mik Aoki shares his experiences in transformational coaching, building culture and how to give those you lead the best chance for success as people, students and players.
With a pedigree encompassing more than 450 collegiate wins and more than 50 draft picks by Major League organizations, Mik Aoki is now in his third year as head baseball coach at Morehead State. Aoki (A-Oh-key) led the baseball program at Notre Dame for nine seasons after serving as the head coach at Boston College for four campaigns. 
He also held the head coaching spot at Columbia. Forty of his players over his time as a head coach have been named all-conference. Aoki piloted the Irish to 248 wins while seeing 26 of his student-athletes drafted into MLB organizations, including a first-round pick. Four of his players went on to stints with Major League teams, including current Notre Dame alums Caven Biggio (Toronto) and Trey Mancini (Baltimore).
In addition to on-field success, Aoki’s Notre Dame clubs raised more than $75,000 for charity from 2014-19, including awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease). In 2018 and 2019, the baseball team won “The Trophy” at ND for the team most committed to community service. In 2018, his team alone logged more than 1,000 hours of community service. His teams also consistently turned in 3.0 or better team grade point averages.
Aoki has been a strong advocate for the Pete Frates #3 Fund since the diagnosis of his former outfielder, Pete Frates, with ALS in 2012. Frates was a freshman at Boston College during Aoki’s first season as BC and served as team captain on the 2007 Eagles squad which was Aoki’s first as head coach. Since Frates’ diagnosis and ultimate death from ALS, Aoki has helped raise thousands for the foundation to help offset his medical costs and fund research for a cure to ALS.
In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching and Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Coach Aoki will discuss Transformational vs. Transactional Coaching: Using Sport To Teach Life
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.
If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course
If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf
If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Transformational vs Transactional Coaching With Mik Aoki Part 1-2</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Morehead State University Baseball Coach Mik Aoki shares his experiences in transformational coaching, building culture and how to give those you lead the best chance for success as people, students and players.
With a pedigree encompassing more than 450 collegiate wins and more than 50 draft picks by Major League organizations, Mik Aoki is now in his third year as head baseball coach at Morehead State. Aoki (A-Oh-key) led the baseball program at Notre Dame for nine seasons after serving as the head coach at Boston College for four campaigns. 
He also held the head coaching spot at Columbia. Forty of his players over his time as a head coach have been named all-conference. Aoki piloted the Irish to 248 wins while seeing 26 of his student-athletes drafted into MLB organizations, including a first-round pick. Four of his players went on to stints with Major League teams, including current Notre Dame alums Caven Biggio (Toronto) and Trey Mancini (Baltimore).
In addition to on-field success, Aoki’s Notre Dame clubs raised more than $75,000 for charity from 2014-19, including awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease). In 2018 and 2019, the baseball team won “The Trophy” at ND for the team most committed to community service. In 2018, his team alone logged more than 1,000 hours of community service. His teams also consistently turned in 3.0 or better team grade point averages.
Aoki has been a strong advocate for the Pete Frates #3 Fund since the diagnosis of his former outfielder, Pete Frates, with ALS in 2012. Frates was a freshman at Boston College during Aoki’s first season as BC and served as team captain on the 2007 Eagles squad which was Aoki’s first as head coach. Since Frates’ diagnosis and ultimate death from ALS, Aoki has helped raise thousands for the foundation to help offset his medical costs and fund research for a cure to ALS.
In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching and Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Coach Aoki will discuss Transformational vs. Transactional Coaching: Using Sport To Teach Life
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.
If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course
If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf
If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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      <title>BALL Mental Imagery Session With Brian Cain</title>
      <description>In this episode.... Brian Cain, MPM The world’s leading authority on Mental Performance Mastery takes you through the BALL Mental Imagery and Meditation process he uses with all of his athletes.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BALL Mental Imagery Session With Brian Cain</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode.... Brian Cain, MPM The world’s leading authority on Mental Performance Mastery takes you through the BALL Mental Imagery and Meditation process he uses with all of his athletes.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode.... Brian Cain, MPM The world’s leading authority on Mental Performance Mastery takes you through the BALL Mental Imagery and Meditation process he uses with all of his athletes.</p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Mental Imagery Training With Brian Cain</title>
      <description>In this episode, Brian Cain, MPM The world’s leading authority on Mental Performance Mastery shares how as coaches and athletes you can develop the skills of Mental Imagery to improve confidence and enhance performance through a more detailed and advanced form of preparation.  Brian walks you through:


The difference between active and passive mental imagery

Why every team he consults with does shadow work on a daily basis

The 5 skills we build while doing shadow work

The 4 steps to effective mental imagery that all coaches can use (Ball Technique)

The #1 drill injured athletes can do to increase and accelerate their return to play

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Mental Imagery Training With Brian Cain</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode, Brian Cain, MPM The world’s leading authority on Mental Performance Mastery shares how as coaches and athletes you can develop the skills of Mental Imagery to improve confidence and enhance performance through a more detailed and advanced form of preparation.  Brian walks you through:


The difference between active and passive mental imagery

Why every team he consults with does shadow work on a daily basis

The 5 skills we build while doing shadow work

The 4 steps to effective mental imagery that all coaches can use (Ball Technique)

The #1 drill injured athletes can do to increase and accelerate their return to play

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode, Brian Cain, MPM The world’s leading authority on Mental Performance Mastery shares how as coaches and athletes you can develop the skills of Mental Imagery to improve confidence and enhance performance through a more detailed and advanced form of preparation.  Brian walks you through:</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>The difference between active and passive mental imagery</li>
<li>Why every team he consults with does shadow work on a daily basis</li>
<li>The 5 skills we build while doing shadow work</li>
<li>The 4 steps to effective mental imagery that all coaches can use (Ball Technique)</li>
<li>The #1 drill injured athletes can do to increase and accelerate their return to play</li>
</ul><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Culture Q&amp;A With Coach Leslie Huntington &amp; Brian Cain</title>
      <description>This is a continuation of the last episode and a Q&amp;A with Brian Cain and Coach Leslie Huntington,MPM.  She has been the head softball coach at  the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for over 20 years. She is the Blugolds’ all-time winningest coach and earned her 500th career win on February 20th, 2021. In addition, Huntington will be inducted into the NFCA Hall of Fame in December, 2021.
In 2008, Huntington led the Blugolds to an NCAA Division III national championship, the first in program history. In 2007 the team finished third in the nation.  Between 2004-2006, Huntington received three WIAC Coach of the Year awards in a row, each year the Blugolds won WIAC titles, the first time in WIAC history a team won three straight. 
In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching and Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Coach Huntington will discuss Better Players, Better People: Mental Skills Training Coaches Can Use In Everyday Practice and the Importance of Competition vs. Comparison.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Culture Q&amp;A With Coach Leslie Huntington &amp; Brian Cain</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>This is a continuation of the last episode and a Q&amp;A with Brian Cain and Coach Leslie Huntington,MPM.  She has been the head softball coach at  the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for over 20 years. She is the Blugolds’ all-time winningest coach and earned her 500th career win on February 20th, 2021. In addition, Huntington will be inducted into the NFCA Hall of Fame in December, 2021.
In 2008, Huntington led the Blugolds to an NCAA Division III national championship, the first in program history. In 2007 the team finished third in the nation.  Between 2004-2006, Huntington received three WIAC Coach of the Year awards in a row, each year the Blugolds won WIAC titles, the first time in WIAC history a team won three straight. 
In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching and Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Coach Huntington will discuss Better Players, Better People: Mental Skills Training Coaches Can Use In Everyday Practice and the Importance of Competition vs. Comparison.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>This is a continuation of the last episode and a Q&amp;A with Brian Cain and Coach Leslie Huntington,MPM.  She has been the head softball coach at  the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for over 20 years. She is the Blugolds’ all-time winningest coach and earned her 500th career win on February 20th, 2021. In addition, Huntington will be <a href="https://www.blugolds.com/general/2020-21/releases/20201215gkx56d">inducted into the NFCA Hall of Fame in December, 2021.</a></p><p>In 2008, Huntington led the Blugolds to an NCAA Division III national championship, the first in program history. In 2007 the team finished third in the nation.  Between 2004-2006, Huntington received three WIAC Coach of the Year awards in a row, each year the Blugolds won WIAC titles, the first time in WIAC history a team won three straight. </p><p>In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching and Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Coach Huntington will discuss Better Players, Better People: Mental Skills Training Coaches Can Use In Everyday Practice and the Importance of Competition vs. Comparison.</p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Compete Don’t Compare With Coach Leslie Huntington</title>
      <description>Leslie Huntington,MPM has been the head softball coach at  the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for over 20 years. She is the Blugolds’ all-time winningest coach and earned her 500th career win on February 20th, 2021. In addition, Huntington will be inducted into the NFCA Hall of Fame in December, 2021.
In 2008, Huntington led the Blugolds to an NCAA Division III national championship, the first in program history. In 2007 the team finished third in the nation.  Between 2004-2006, Huntington received three WIAC Coach of the Year awards in a row, each year the Blugolds won WIAC titles, the first time in WIAC history a team won three straight. 
In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching and Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Coach Huntington will discuss Better Players, Better People: Mental Skills Training Coaches Can Use In Everyday Practice and the Importance of Competition vs. Comparison.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Compete Don’t Compare With Coach Leslie Huntington</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Leslie Huntington,MPM has been the head softball coach at  the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for over 20 years. She is the Blugolds’ all-time winningest coach and earned her 500th career win on February 20th, 2021. In addition, Huntington will be inducted into the NFCA Hall of Fame in December, 2021.
In 2008, Huntington led the Blugolds to an NCAA Division III national championship, the first in program history. In 2007 the team finished third in the nation.  Between 2004-2006, Huntington received three WIAC Coach of the Year awards in a row, each year the Blugolds won WIAC titles, the first time in WIAC history a team won three straight. 
In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching and Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Coach Huntington will discuss Better Players, Better People: Mental Skills Training Coaches Can Use In Everyday Practice and the Importance of Competition vs. Comparison.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Leslie Huntington,MPM has been the head softball coach at  the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for over 20 years. She is the Blugolds’ all-time winningest coach and earned her 500th career win on February 20th, 2021. In addition, Huntington will be <a href="https://www.blugolds.com/general/2020-21/releases/20201215gkx56d">inducted into the NFCA Hall of Fame in December, 2021.</a></p><p>In 2008, Huntington led the Blugolds to an NCAA Division III national championship, the first in program history. In 2007 the team finished third in the nation.  Between 2004-2006, Huntington received three WIAC Coach of the Year awards in a row, each year the Blugolds won WIAC titles, the first time in WIAC history a team won three straight. </p><p>In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching and Podcast Sponsored By Fundraising University, Coach Huntington will discuss Better Players, Better People: Mental Skills Training Coaches Can Use In Everyday Practice and the Importance of Competition vs. Comparison.</p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Golf MPM - #11 - Your Habits Reflect Your Mission</title>
      <description>In The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the MPM Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, College Golf Coach to discuss the three most critical aspects of golfer development (#1) swing management, (#2) course management and (#3) self management so you can get the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #11, Brian Cain breaks down the importance of habit formation in your development as a golfer and shares multiple apps and strategies you can use to develop the habits that you and your game need to go low.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
 
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
 
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes of the Golf MPM Podcast at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:22:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In episode #11, Brian Cain breaks down the importance of habit formation in your development as a golfer and shares multiple apps and strategies you can use to develop the habits that you and your game need to go low.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the MPM Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, College Golf Coach to discuss the three most critical aspects of golfer development (#1) swing management, (#2) course management and (#3) self management so you can get the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #11, Brian Cain breaks down the importance of habit formation in your development as a golfer and shares multiple apps and strategies you can use to develop the habits that you and your game need to go low.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
 
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
 
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes of the Golf MPM Podcast at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the MPM Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, College Golf Coach to discuss the three most critical aspects of golfer development (#1) swing management, (#2) course management and (#3) self management so you can get the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  </p><p><br></p><p>In episode #11, Brian Cain breaks down the importance of habit formation in your development as a golfer and shares multiple apps and strategies you can use to develop the habits that you and your game need to go low.</p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (<a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a>) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ducoachcarp">@ducoachcarp</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://nofilter.net/profile/D6afhuvdduQaK2LMRIvgea95HGq1">You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".</a></p><p> </p><p>You can also check out our previously recorded episodes of the Golf MPM Podcast at<a href="https://briancain.com/blog/category/golf"> BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Golf MPM - #10 - Mental Resilience</title>
      <description>The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #10, Cain joins St. Joseph High School Golf Coach Kevin Guzzo to talk about Mental Resilience in golf and the role that the pre-shot and post shot routine in competing one shot at a time and how you can build resilience on the range.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
 
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
 
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2021 02:10:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Golf MPM - #10 - Mental Resilience</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #10, Cain joins St. Joseph High School Golf Coach Kevin Guzzo to talk about Mental Resilience in golf and the role that the pre-shot and post shot routine in competing one shot at a time and how you can build resilience on the range.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
 
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
 
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  </p><p><br></p><p>In episode #10, Cain joins St. Joseph High School Golf Coach Kevin Guzzo to talk about Mental Resilience in golf and the role that the pre-shot and post shot routine in competing one shot at a time and how you can build resilience on the range.</p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (<a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a>) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ducoachcarp">@ducoachcarp</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://nofilter.net/profile/D6afhuvdduQaK2LMRIvgea95HGq1">You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".</a></p><p> </p><p>You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at<a href="https://briancain.com/blog/category/golf"> BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Routines &amp; Habits of Excellence With Brian Cain - Part 2-2</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian Cain fields questions from coaches and athletes about elite routines and habits of excellence. 

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Routines &amp; Habits of Excellence With Brian Cain - Part 2-2</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian Cain fields questions from coaches and athletes about elite routines and habits of excellence. 

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><br></p><p>In this episode Brian Cain fields questions from coaches and athletes about elite routines and habits of excellence. </p><p><br></p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>How You Behave Determines What You Achieve</title>
      <description>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I breakdown the importance of your day to day and moment to moment behaviors and how those align with your achievements. I also share one of my favorite stories about a successful business entrepreneur who learned early enough in life the power of expectations and behaviors. Winners act like winners long before they are winners. It’s how you behave that determines what you achieve.

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.

ATHLETES: Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? 

If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.

In this program, I’ll show you how to:

Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena

Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis

Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.

Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete 


COACHES: Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.
If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.
Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:

Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.



Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.



Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.

Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>How You Behave Determines What You Achieve</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I breakdown the importance of your day to day and moment to moment behaviors and how those align with your achievements.  I also share one of my favorite stories about a successful business entrepreneur who learned early enough in life the power of expectations and behaviors.  Winners act like winners long before they are winners.  It’s how you behave that determines what you achieve.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I breakdown the importance of your day to day and moment to moment behaviors and how those align with your achievements. I also share one of my favorite stories about a successful business entrepreneur who learned early enough in life the power of expectations and behaviors. Winners act like winners long before they are winners. It’s how you behave that determines what you achieve.

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.

ATHLETES: Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? 

If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.

In this program, I’ll show you how to:

Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena

Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis

Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.

Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete 


COACHES: Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.
If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.
Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:

Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.



Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.



Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.

Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification </itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I breakdown the importance of your day to day and moment to moment behaviors and how those align with your achievements. I also share one of my favorite stories about a successful business entrepreneur who learned early enough in life the power of expectations and behaviors. Winners act like winners long before they are winners. It’s how you behave that determines what you achieve.</p><p><br></p><p>Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>ATHLETES:</strong> Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? </p><p><br></p><p>If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.</p><p><br></p><p>In this program, I’ll show you how to:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>COACHES: Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.</p><p>If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.</p><p>Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:</p><ul>
<li>Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.</li>
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<li>Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.</li>
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<li>Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.</li>
</ul><p>Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification </p>]]>
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      <title>Golf MPM - #9 - Phil’s Major Win</title>
      <description>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #9, Cain &amp; Carp discuss the history 2021 PGA Championship victory by Phil Mickelson in which he became the oldest player to ever win a major. They talk about Phil’s mindset, his use of visualization and more.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
 
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
 
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:58:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Golf MPM - #9 - Phil’s Major Win</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In episode #9, Cain &amp; Carp discuss the history 2021 PGA Championship victory by Phil Mickelson in which he became the oldest player to ever win a major.  They talk about Phil’s mindset, his use of visualization and more.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #9, Cain &amp; Carp discuss the history 2021 PGA Championship victory by Phil Mickelson in which he became the oldest player to ever win a major. They talk about Phil’s mindset, his use of visualization and more.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
 
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
 
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  </p><p><br></p><p>In episode #9, Cain &amp; Carp discuss the history 2021 PGA Championship victory by Phil Mickelson in which he became the oldest player to ever win a major. They talk about Phil’s mindset, his use of visualization and more.</p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (<a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a>) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ducoachcarp">@ducoachcarp</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://nofilter.net/profile/D6afhuvdduQaK2LMRIvgea95HGq1">You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".</a></p><p> </p><p>You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at<a href="https://briancain.com/blog/category/golf"> BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Routines &amp; Habits of Excellence With Brian Cain Part 1-2</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian Cain breaks down how to establish elite routines and habits of excellence.  He focuses on the AM and PM Routines, Pre and Post Competition Routines, In Competition Routines and the Release Routine as well as discusses triggers and two of his favorite books The Power of Habit and Tiny Habits.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Routines &amp; Habits of Excellence With Brian Cain  Part 1-2</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian Cain breaks down how to establish elite routines and habits of excellence.  He focuses on the AM and PM Routines, Pre and Post Competition Routines, In Competition Routines and the Release Routine as well as discusses triggers and two of his favorite books The Power of Habit and Tiny Habits.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode Brian Cain breaks down how to establish elite routines and habits of excellence.  He focuses on the AM and PM Routines, Pre and Post Competition Routines, In Competition Routines and the Release Routine as well as discusses triggers and two of his favorite books <em>The Power of Habit </em>and <em>Tiny Habits.</em></p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Golf MPM - #8 - Winning Conference</title>
      <description> In the Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #8, Cain &amp; Carp breakdown the process that led to Coach Carp’s University of Denver Men’s Golf Program winning The Summit League Conference Championship and his teams performance at the Washington Regional where they were 2 strokes away from becoming the 1st 13-see to ever make it to the NCAA National Championships.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
 
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
 
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:22:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Golf MPM - #8 - Winning Conference</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In episode #8, Cain &amp; Carp breakdown the process that led to Coach Carp’s University of Denver Men’s Golf Program winning The Summit League Conference Championship and his teams performance at the Washington Regional where they were 2 strokes away from becoming the 1st 13-see to ever make it to the NCAA National Championships.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary> In the Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #8, Cain &amp; Carp breakdown the process that led to Coach Carp’s University of Denver Men’s Golf Program winning The Summit League Conference Championship and his teams performance at the Washington Regional where they were 2 strokes away from becoming the 1st 13-see to ever make it to the NCAA National Championships.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
 
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
 
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf
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        <![CDATA[<p><strong> </strong>In the Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  </p><p><br></p><p>In episode #8, Cain &amp; Carp breakdown the process that led to Coach Carp’s University of Denver Men’s Golf Program winning The Summit League Conference Championship and his teams performance at the Washington Regional where they were 2 strokes away from becoming the 1st 13-see to ever make it to the NCAA National Championships.</p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (<a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a>) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ducoachcarp">@ducoachcarp</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://nofilter.net/profile/D6afhuvdduQaK2LMRIvgea95HGq1">You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".</a></p><p> </p><p>You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at<a href="https://briancain.com/blog/category/golf"> BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</a></p><p> </p>]]>
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      <title>Baseball MPM - #8 - The Power of Accountability</title>
      <description>In The Baseball MPM Podcast With Cain &amp; Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM Athletes Program and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, MLB Network Analyst and one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use to master mental performance both on and off the baseball field.

In Episode #8 - The Power of Accountability Cain and Caesy are joined by 2x MLB All-Star, 2013 NL Batting Champion and Minesota Twins Hall of Famer Michael Cuddyer. Cuddyer was the 9th overall pick in the 1997 MLB Draft and played from 2001-2015 with the Twins, Mets and Rockies.  

Cuddyer gives a lot of credit to his mental performance training and the mental game strategies he used to help him win the 2013 NL batting title and in this podcast he shares what made such a big difference for him and how he went from going 3-70 in his first year of pro baseball to being one of the most feared hitters in the game.

In this podcast Cain, Casey and Cuddyer talk about: 

Finding a routine and going deep under the water in season

Intentionally disrupting your routines so you don’t become a slave to the routine

How self-talk and confidence are the separator at the highest level

The biggest challenges you face coming out of HS into pro baseball

The importance of having something to go to when it gets hard

Controlling what you can control and managing all of the variables you can control in performance

“DigMe” Tapes and watching your personal highlights to help with preparation and performance

The power of profanity and having an alter ego

Breathing, meditation and knowing how to stay in control of yourself

Triggers to start an at-bat process nad get yourself dialed in when it matters

Figuring out what the catcher is trying to do to you when at the plate so you can hunt a pitch or guess as a performance strategy

A strategy for holding yourself accountable that YOU MUST use as a player

Why it’s so much easier to let yourself down than an accountability partner.

The difference between wanting success and deserving success

How to use pressure, stress and the competition to increase your energy

Self-talk and what Cuddy learned from an MMA Fighter that changed his career

Mastering the process of the at bat so you can treat game 2 of the season and game 7 of the World Series as the same.

Building the body armour of what you can control and why by being a good teammate, smiling and using others as a strategy you can lock yourself into your own performance.

How baseball breeds anxiety and excitement in players

Why you shouldn’t bring a butter knife to a gun fight

What Cuddy learned from Derek Jeter’s 58 errors in one season at SS that changed his career

Why it’s imperative to work on your mental game and DO THE DRILLS it takes to become mentally tough

When an at-bat starts and the importance of preparation


You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak), Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb) and Michael Cuddyer (@mcuddy23) on instagram and twitter.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 21:19:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Baseball MPM - #8 - The Power of Accountability</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In Episode #8 - The Power of Accountability Cain and Caesy are joined by 2x MLB All-Star, 2013 NL Batting Champion and Minesota Twins Hall of Famer Michael Cuddyer.  Cuddyer was the 9th overall pick in the 1997 MLB Draft and played from 2001-2015 with the Twins, Mets and Rockies.  </itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In The Baseball MPM Podcast With Cain &amp; Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM Athletes Program and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, MLB Network Analyst and one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use to master mental performance both on and off the baseball field.

In Episode #8 - The Power of Accountability Cain and Caesy are joined by 2x MLB All-Star, 2013 NL Batting Champion and Minesota Twins Hall of Famer Michael Cuddyer. Cuddyer was the 9th overall pick in the 1997 MLB Draft and played from 2001-2015 with the Twins, Mets and Rockies.  

Cuddyer gives a lot of credit to his mental performance training and the mental game strategies he used to help him win the 2013 NL batting title and in this podcast he shares what made such a big difference for him and how he went from going 3-70 in his first year of pro baseball to being one of the most feared hitters in the game.

In this podcast Cain, Casey and Cuddyer talk about: 

Finding a routine and going deep under the water in season

Intentionally disrupting your routines so you don’t become a slave to the routine

How self-talk and confidence are the separator at the highest level

The biggest challenges you face coming out of HS into pro baseball

The importance of having something to go to when it gets hard

Controlling what you can control and managing all of the variables you can control in performance

“DigMe” Tapes and watching your personal highlights to help with preparation and performance

The power of profanity and having an alter ego

Breathing, meditation and knowing how to stay in control of yourself

Triggers to start an at-bat process nad get yourself dialed in when it matters

Figuring out what the catcher is trying to do to you when at the plate so you can hunt a pitch or guess as a performance strategy

A strategy for holding yourself accountable that YOU MUST use as a player

Why it’s so much easier to let yourself down than an accountability partner.

The difference between wanting success and deserving success

How to use pressure, stress and the competition to increase your energy

Self-talk and what Cuddy learned from an MMA Fighter that changed his career

Mastering the process of the at bat so you can treat game 2 of the season and game 7 of the World Series as the same.

Building the body armour of what you can control and why by being a good teammate, smiling and using others as a strategy you can lock yourself into your own performance.

How baseball breeds anxiety and excitement in players

Why you shouldn’t bring a butter knife to a gun fight

What Cuddy learned from Derek Jeter’s 58 errors in one season at SS that changed his career

Why it’s imperative to work on your mental game and DO THE DRILLS it takes to become mentally tough

When an at-bat starts and the importance of preparation


You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak), Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb) and Michael Cuddyer (@mcuddy23) on instagram and twitter.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In The Baseball MPM Podcast With Cain &amp; Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM Athletes Program and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, MLB Network Analyst and one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use to master mental performance both on and off the baseball field.</p><p><br></p><p>In Episode #8 - The Power of Accountability Cain and Caesy are joined by 2x MLB All-Star, 2013 NL Batting Champion and Minesota Twins Hall of Famer Michael Cuddyer. Cuddyer was the 9th overall pick in the 1997 MLB Draft and played from 2001-2015 with the Twins, Mets and Rockies.  </p><p><br></p><p>Cuddyer gives a lot of credit to his mental performance training and the mental game strategies he used to help him win the 2013 NL batting title and in this podcast he shares what made such a big difference for him and how he went from going 3-70 in his first year of pro baseball to being one of the most feared hitters in the game.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast Cain, Casey and Cuddyer talk about: </p><ul>
<li>Finding a routine and going deep under the water in season</li>
<li>Intentionally disrupting your routines so you don’t become a slave to the routine</li>
<li>How self-talk and confidence are the separator at the highest level</li>
<li>The biggest challenges you face coming out of HS into pro baseball</li>
<li>The importance of having something to go to when it gets hard</li>
<li>Controlling what you can control and managing all of the variables you can control in performance</li>
<li>“DigMe” Tapes and watching your personal highlights to help with preparation and performance</li>
<li>The power of profanity and having an alter ego</li>
<li>Breathing, meditation and knowing how to stay in control of yourself</li>
<li>Triggers to start an at-bat process nad get yourself dialed in when it matters</li>
<li>Figuring out what the catcher is trying to do to you when at the plate so you can hunt a pitch or guess as a performance strategy</li>
<li>A strategy for holding yourself accountable that YOU MUST use as a player</li>
<li>Why it’s so much easier to let yourself down than an accountability partner.</li>
<li>The difference between wanting success and deserving success</li>
<li>How to use pressure, stress and the competition to increase your energy</li>
<li>Self-talk and what Cuddy learned from an MMA Fighter that changed his career</li>
<li>Mastering the process of the at bat so you can treat game 2 of the season and game 7 of the World Series as the same.</li>
<li>Building the body armour of what you can control and why by being a good teammate, smiling and using others as a strategy you can lock yourself into your own performance.</li>
<li>How baseball breeds anxiety and excitement in players</li>
<li>Why you shouldn’t bring a butter knife to a gun fight</li>
<li>What Cuddy learned from Derek Jeter’s 58 errors in one season at SS that changed his career</li>
<li>Why it’s imperative to work on your mental game and DO THE DRILLS it takes to become mentally tough</li>
<li>When an at-bat starts and the importance of preparation</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (<a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a>), Sean Casey (<a href="https://linktr.ee/Seancasey21">@themayorsofficemlb</a>) and Michael Cuddyer (<a href="https://twitter.com/mcuddy23">@mcuddy23</a>) on instagram and twitter.</p>]]>
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      <title>Leadership Q&amp;A With Dr. Barry Davis &amp; Brian Cain - Part 2-2</title>
      <description>In this question and answer session Dr. Barry Davis, head baseball coach at Rider University and Brian Cain, MPM discuss leadership and improving your leadership skillset as a coach.

Dr. Barry Davis has transformed the Rider University Baseball program into a consistent contender in the Metro-Atlantic Conference (MAAC), winning three conference tournament championships, two regular-season championships, and qualifying for 10 conference tournaments.

Davis, the holder of a 962-646 career record, has been a head coach for 32 years, having led three different programs at three different levels. In his first 11 years, he led Gloucester County College (Rowan College of South Jersey) to unprecedented success, followed by four years at NAIA (now Division II) Georgia Southwestern State University.

Davis is also a member of the coveted 900-win club and one of the most sought after clinicians in college baseball.  He is also a member of four Hall of Fames, beginning with his induction into the Gloucester County College Sports Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Gloucester County Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.  His alma mater, Bridgewater College, inducted him into their Hall of Fame in 2014, and the National Junior College Athletic Association Baseball Coaches enshrined Davis in their Hall of Fame in 2016.

In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching With Coaches, Coach Davis will share five strategies to increase your leadership skillset.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

New Coaches: If you’re interested in how Fundraising University can help you raise $10-$45,000 in JUST ONE HOUR, Please visit www.fundraisingu.net  and click on “Start Fundraiser” to sign up today and help your program “Dream Big, Raise More”!

Current Coaches: If you would like to be a Coaching Matters Ambassador Coach in your state and earn $5,000 - $20,000 part-time, Contact Mike Bahun (mbahun@fundraisingu.net) to inquire about our NEW Ambassador Coach program!

Fundraising University is always looking for individuals who are competitive, empathetic, organized, self-starters, and teachable to partner with:

Current Coaches: Contact Mike Bahun (mbahun@fundraisingu.net) to inquire about Assistant Coach or Area Representative positions openings with Fundraising University. Please visit https://fundraisingu.net/franchising/ to find out more about becoming a Fundraising University franchise owner.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Leadership Q&amp;A With Dr. Barry Davis &amp; Brian Cain  - Part 2-2</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this question and answer session Dr. Barry Davis, head baseball coach at Rider University and Brian Cain, MPM discuss leadership and improving your leadership skillset as a coach.

Dr. Barry Davis has transformed the Rider University Baseball program into a consistent contender in the Metro-Atlantic Conference (MAAC), winning three conference tournament championships, two regular-season championships, and qualifying for 10 conference tournaments.

Davis, the holder of a 962-646 career record, has been a head coach for 32 years, having led three different programs at three different levels. In his first 11 years, he led Gloucester County College (Rowan College of South Jersey) to unprecedented success, followed by four years at NAIA (now Division II) Georgia Southwestern State University.

Davis is also a member of the coveted 900-win club and one of the most sought after clinicians in college baseball.  He is also a member of four Hall of Fames, beginning with his induction into the Gloucester County College Sports Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Gloucester County Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.  His alma mater, Bridgewater College, inducted him into their Hall of Fame in 2014, and the National Junior College Athletic Association Baseball Coaches enshrined Davis in their Hall of Fame in 2016.

In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching With Coaches, Coach Davis will share five strategies to increase your leadership skillset.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

New Coaches: If you’re interested in how Fundraising University can help you raise $10-$45,000 in JUST ONE HOUR, Please visit www.fundraisingu.net  and click on “Start Fundraiser” to sign up today and help your program “Dream Big, Raise More”!

Current Coaches: If you would like to be a Coaching Matters Ambassador Coach in your state and earn $5,000 - $20,000 part-time, Contact Mike Bahun (mbahun@fundraisingu.net) to inquire about our NEW Ambassador Coach program!

Fundraising University is always looking for individuals who are competitive, empathetic, organized, self-starters, and teachable to partner with:

Current Coaches: Contact Mike Bahun (mbahun@fundraisingu.net) to inquire about Assistant Coach or Area Representative positions openings with Fundraising University. Please visit https://fundraisingu.net/franchising/ to find out more about becoming a Fundraising University franchise owner.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this question and answer session Dr. Barry Davis, head baseball coach at Rider University and Brian Cain, MPM discuss leadership and improving your leadership skillset as a coach.</p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Barry Davis has transformed the Rider University Baseball program into a consistent contender in the Metro-Atlantic Conference (MAAC), winning three conference tournament championships, two regular-season championships, and qualifying for 10 conference tournaments.</p><p><br></p><p>Davis, the holder of a 962-646 career record, has been a head coach for 32 years, having led three different programs at three different levels. In his first 11 years, he led Gloucester County College (Rowan College of South Jersey) to unprecedented success, followed by four years at NAIA (now Division II) Georgia Southwestern State University.</p><p><br></p><p>Davis is also a member of the coveted 900-win club and one of the most sought after clinicians in college baseball.  He is also a member of four Hall of Fames, beginning with his induction into the Gloucester County College Sports Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Gloucester County Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.  His alma mater, Bridgewater College, inducted him into their Hall of Fame in 2014, and the National Junior College Athletic Association Baseball Coaches enshrined Davis in their Hall of Fame in 2016.</p><p><br></p><p>In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching With Coaches, Coach Davis will share five strategies to increase your leadership skillset.</p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><br></p><p>New Coaches: If you’re interested in how Fundraising University can help you raise $10-$45,000 in JUST ONE HOUR, Please visit <a href="http://www.fundraisingu.net">www.fundraisingu.net</a>  and click on “Start Fundraiser” to sign up today and help your program “Dream Big, Raise More”!</p><p><br></p><p>Current Coaches: If you would like to be a Coaching Matters Ambassador Coach in your state and earn $5,000 - $20,000 part-time, Contact Mike Bahun (<a href="mailto:mbahun@fundraisingu.net">mbahun@fundraisingu.net</a>) to inquire about our NEW Ambassador Coach program!</p><p><br></p><p>Fundraising University is always looking for individuals who are competitive, empathetic, organized, self-starters, and teachable to partner with:</p><p><br></p><p>Current Coaches: Contact Mike Bahun (<a href="mailto:mbahun@fundraisingu.net">mbahun@fundraisingu.net</a>) to inquire about Assistant Coach or Area Representative positions openings with Fundraising University. Please visit <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/franchising/">https://fundraisingu.net/franchising/ </a>to find out more about becoming a Fundraising University franchise owner.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Trade Expectation for Execution If You Want Results</title>
      <description>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I breakdown the expectation trap and how you can change your life and your performance by giving up expectations and focusing solely on execution of your process.

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.

ATHLETES: Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? 

If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.

In this program, I’ll show you how to:

Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena

Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis

Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.

Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete 

COACHES: Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.

If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.
Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:

Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.



Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.



Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.


Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 16:32:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Trade Expectation for Execution If You Want Results</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I breakdown the expectation trap and how you can change your life and your performance by giving up expectations and focusing solely on execution of your process.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I breakdown the expectation trap and how you can change your life and your performance by giving up expectations and focusing solely on execution of your process.

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.

ATHLETES: Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? 

If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.

In this program, I’ll show you how to:

Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena

Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis

Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.

Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete 

COACHES: Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.

If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.
Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:

Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.



Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.



Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.


Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification </itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I breakdown the expectation trap and how you can change your life and your performance by giving up expectations and focusing solely on execution of your process.</p><p><br></p><p>Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>ATHLETES:</strong> Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? </p><p><br></p><p>If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.</p><p><br></p><p>In this program, I’ll show you how to:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete </p><p><br></p><p><strong>COACHES: </strong>Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.</p><p><br></p><p>If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.</p><p>Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:</p><ul>
<li>Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.</li>
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<li>Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.</li>
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<li>Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification </p>]]>
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      <title>5 Strategies to Increase Your Leadership Skillset with Dr. Barry Davis Part 1-2</title>
      <description>In this episode Dr. Barry Davis, head baseball coach at Rider University shares 5 Strategies to Increase Your Leadership Skillset.

Dr. Barry Davis has transformed the Rider University Baseball program into a consistent contender in the Metro-Atlantic Conference (MAAC), winning three conference tournament championships, two regular-season championships, and qualifying for 10 conference tournaments.

Davis, the holder of a 962-646 career record, has been a head coach for 32 years, having led three different programs at three different levels. In his first 11 years, he led Gloucester County College (Rowan College of South Jersey) to unprecedented success, followed by four years at NAIA (now Division II) Georgia Southwestern State University.

Davis is also a member of the coveted 900-win club and one of the most sought after clinicians in college baseball. He is also a member of four Hall of Fames, beginning with his induction into the Gloucester County College Sports Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Gloucester County Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. His alma mater, Bridgewater College, inducted him into their Hall of Fame in 2014, and the National Junior College Athletic Association Baseball Coaches enshrined Davis in their Hall of Fame in 2016.

In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching With Coaches, Coach Davis will share five strategies to increase your leadership skillset.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

New Coaches: If you’re interested in how Fundraising University can help you raise $10-$45,000 in JUST ONE HOUR, Please visit www.fundraisingu.net and click on “Start Fundraiser” to sign up today and help your program “Dream Big, Raise More”!

Current Coaches: If you would like to be a Coaching Matters Ambassador Coach in your state and earn $5,000 - $20,000 part-time, Contact Mike Bahun (mbahun@fundraisingu.net) to inquire about our NEW Ambassador Coach program!

Fundraising University is always looking for individuals who are competitive, empathetic, organized, self-starters, and teachable to partner with:

Current Coaches: Contact Mike Bahun (mbahun@fundraisingu.net) to inquire about Assistant Coach or Area Representative positions openings with Fundraising University. Please visit https://fundraisingu.net/franchising/ to find out more about becoming a Fundraising University franchise owner.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>5 Strategies to Increase Your Leadership Skillset with Dr. Barry Davis  1-2</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode Dr. Barry Davis, head baseball coach at Rider University shares 5 Strategies to Increase Your Leadership Skillset.

Dr. Barry Davis has transformed the Rider University Baseball program into a consistent contender in the Metro-Atlantic Conference (MAAC), winning three conference tournament championships, two regular-season championships, and qualifying for 10 conference tournaments.

Davis, the holder of a 962-646 career record, has been a head coach for 32 years, having led three different programs at three different levels. In his first 11 years, he led Gloucester County College (Rowan College of South Jersey) to unprecedented success, followed by four years at NAIA (now Division II) Georgia Southwestern State University.

Davis is also a member of the coveted 900-win club and one of the most sought after clinicians in college baseball. He is also a member of four Hall of Fames, beginning with his induction into the Gloucester County College Sports Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Gloucester County Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. His alma mater, Bridgewater College, inducted him into their Hall of Fame in 2014, and the National Junior College Athletic Association Baseball Coaches enshrined Davis in their Hall of Fame in 2016.

In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching With Coaches, Coach Davis will share five strategies to increase your leadership skillset.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.

New Coaches: If you’re interested in how Fundraising University can help you raise $10-$45,000 in JUST ONE HOUR, Please visit www.fundraisingu.net and click on “Start Fundraiser” to sign up today and help your program “Dream Big, Raise More”!

Current Coaches: If you would like to be a Coaching Matters Ambassador Coach in your state and earn $5,000 - $20,000 part-time, Contact Mike Bahun (mbahun@fundraisingu.net) to inquire about our NEW Ambassador Coach program!

Fundraising University is always looking for individuals who are competitive, empathetic, organized, self-starters, and teachable to partner with:

Current Coaches: Contact Mike Bahun (mbahun@fundraisingu.net) to inquire about Assistant Coach or Area Representative positions openings with Fundraising University. Please visit https://fundraisingu.net/franchising/ to find out more about becoming a Fundraising University franchise owner.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode Dr. Barry Davis, head baseball coach at Rider University shares 5 Strategies to Increase Your Leadership Skillset.</p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Barry Davis has transformed the Rider University Baseball program into a consistent contender in the Metro-Atlantic Conference (MAAC), winning three conference tournament championships, two regular-season championships, and qualifying for 10 conference tournaments.</p><p><br></p><p>Davis, the holder of a 962-646 career record, has been a head coach for 32 years, having led three different programs at three different levels. In his first 11 years, he led Gloucester County College (Rowan College of South Jersey) to unprecedented success, followed by four years at NAIA (now Division II) Georgia Southwestern State University.</p><p><br></p><p>Davis is also a member of the coveted 900-win club and one of the most sought after clinicians in college baseball. He is also a member of four Hall of Fames, beginning with his induction into the Gloucester County College Sports Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Gloucester County Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. His alma mater, Bridgewater College, inducted him into their Hall of Fame in 2014, and the National Junior College Athletic Association Baseball Coaches enshrined Davis in their Hall of Fame in 2016.</p><p><br></p><p>In this Coaching Matters Group Coaching With Coaches, Coach Davis will share five strategies to increase your leadership skillset.</p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><br></p><p>New Coaches: If you’re interested in how Fundraising University can help you raise $10-$45,000 in JUST ONE HOUR, Please visit <a href="http://www.fundraisingu.net">www.fundraisingu.net</a> and click on “Start Fundraiser” to sign up today and help your program “Dream Big, Raise More”!</p><p><br></p><p>Current Coaches: If you would like to be a Coaching Matters Ambassador Coach in your state and earn $5,000 - $20,000 part-time, Contact Mike Bahun (<a href="mailto:mbahun@fundraisingu.net">mbahun@fundraisingu.net</a>) to inquire about our NEW Ambassador Coach program!</p><p><br></p><p>Fundraising University is always looking for individuals who are competitive, empathetic, organized, self-starters, and teachable to partner with:</p><p><br></p><p>Current Coaches: Contact Mike Bahun (<a href="mailto:mbahun@fundraisingu.net">mbahun@fundraisingu.net</a>) to inquire about Assistant Coach or Area Representative positions openings with Fundraising University. Please visit <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/franchising/">https://fundraisingu.net/franchising/ </a>to find out more about becoming a Fundraising University franchise owner.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Golf MPM - #7 - Cain's 1st PGA Caddie Experience</title>
      <description>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #7, Cain’s 1st PGA Caddie Experience Cain and Carp talk about what Cain learned from caddying for Brady Schnell on the Korn Ferry Tour in Las Vegas.

In this podcast we breakdown:

The margin for error and the fierce competition on the tour

How separation is in preparation

Creating a tournament day routine

The post round routine and importance of the debrief


You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf
 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 20:16:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Golf MPM - #7 - Cain's 1st PGA Caddie Experience</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In episode #7, Cain’s 1st PGA Caddie Experience Cain and Carp talk about what Cain learned from caddying for Brady Schnell on the Korn Ferry Tour in Las Vegas.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #7, Cain’s 1st PGA Caddie Experience Cain and Carp talk about what Cain learned from caddying for Brady Schnell on the Korn Ferry Tour in Las Vegas.

In this podcast we breakdown:

The margin for error and the fierce competition on the tour

How separation is in preparation

Creating a tournament day routine

The post round routine and importance of the debrief


You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf
 
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        <![CDATA[<p>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  </p><p><br></p><p>In episode #7, Cain’s 1st PGA Caddie Experience Cain and Carp talk about what Cain learned from caddying for Brady Schnell on the Korn Ferry Tour in Las Vegas.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast we breakdown:</p><ul>
<li>The margin for error and the fierce competition on the tour</li>
<li>How separation is in preparation</li>
<li>Creating a tournament day routine</li>
<li>The post round routine and importance of the debrief</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (<a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a>) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ducoachcarp">@ducoachcarp</a>).</p><p>Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. </p><p><a href="https://nofilter.net/profile/D6afhuvdduQaK2LMRIvgea95HGq1">You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".</a></p><p>You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at<a href="https://briancain.com/blog/category/golf"> BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p>]]>
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      <title>Q&amp;A With Brian Cain, Mental Performance Coach</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian Cain leads a question and answer session with our live audience about mental performance, culture and creating a championship program.

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Q&amp;A With Brian Cain, Mental Performance Coach</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian Cain leads a question and answer session with our live audience about mental performance, culture and creating a championship program.

The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode Brian Cain leads a question and answer session with our live audience about mental performance, culture and creating a championship program.</p><p><br></p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Baseball MPM - #7 - The MLB Pitching Mindset</title>
      <description>In episode #7 the Baseball MPM Podcast with Cain and Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought after MPM Coaches and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use both on and off the field. 

In this episode Cain and Casey are joined by former Major League Baseball Player Jason Grilli. Grilli was the 4th overall pick in the 1997 MLB Draft, an all-star in 2013 and competed for 18 seasons at the MLB Level.

In this podcast episode we talk about: 

Taking pride in representing your family name and how it’s the name on the back that allows you to represent the name on the front of the jersey.

The mentality that drove Jason to compete for 18 seasons and overcome 4 career ending surgeries

The difference in mentality of being a starter vs. being a reliever

Clear communication in setting yourself up for success

Weekly preparation and attention to detail

The importance of playing mental games with yourself to get you focused and locked in and controlling the controllables

The role that routine plays in helping you to feel successful and confident as an athlete

Why you want to break your season up into 100 at bat increments

At the end of the day it’s You vs. You...

The lesson Jason learned from rapper Ice-T about a F$ck It mentality

Why a lion never loses sleep over the opinions of sheep

Managing the disappointment, frustration and adversity of injuries and taking a one pitch at a time to that rehab.

Gods going to give me nothing I can’t handle

The opinions of others only matter if you allow them to affect you

Why you should never solicit feedback from spectators, keep your opinions in the arena

How to use love as energy



You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak), Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb) and Jason Grilli (@grillcheese49) on Instagram and Twitter.

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:41:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Baseball MPM - #7 - The MLB Pitching Mindset</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In episode #7 the Baseball MPM Podcast with Cain and Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought after MPM Coaches and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use both on and off the field. </itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In episode #7 the Baseball MPM Podcast with Cain and Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought after MPM Coaches and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use both on and off the field. 

In this episode Cain and Casey are joined by former Major League Baseball Player Jason Grilli. Grilli was the 4th overall pick in the 1997 MLB Draft, an all-star in 2013 and competed for 18 seasons at the MLB Level.

In this podcast episode we talk about: 

Taking pride in representing your family name and how it’s the name on the back that allows you to represent the name on the front of the jersey.

The mentality that drove Jason to compete for 18 seasons and overcome 4 career ending surgeries

The difference in mentality of being a starter vs. being a reliever

Clear communication in setting yourself up for success

Weekly preparation and attention to detail

The importance of playing mental games with yourself to get you focused and locked in and controlling the controllables

The role that routine plays in helping you to feel successful and confident as an athlete

Why you want to break your season up into 100 at bat increments

At the end of the day it’s You vs. You...

The lesson Jason learned from rapper Ice-T about a F$ck It mentality

Why a lion never loses sleep over the opinions of sheep

Managing the disappointment, frustration and adversity of injuries and taking a one pitch at a time to that rehab.

Gods going to give me nothing I can’t handle

The opinions of others only matter if you allow them to affect you

Why you should never solicit feedback from spectators, keep your opinions in the arena

How to use love as energy



You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak), Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb) and Jason Grilli (@grillcheese49) on Instagram and Twitter.

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</itunes:summary>
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<li>Taking pride in representing your family name and how it’s the name on the back that allows you to represent the name on the front of the jersey.</li>
<li>The mentality that drove Jason to compete for 18 seasons and overcome 4 career ending surgeries</li>
<li>The difference in mentality of being a starter vs. being a reliever</li>
<li>Clear communication in setting yourself up for success</li>
<li>Weekly preparation and attention to detail</li>
<li>The importance of playing mental games with yourself to get you focused and locked in and controlling the controllables</li>
<li>The role that routine plays in helping you to feel successful and confident as an athlete</li>
<li>Why you want to break your season up into 100 at bat increments</li>
<li>At the end of the day it’s You vs. You...</li>
<li>The lesson Jason learned from rapper Ice-T about a F$ck It mentality</li>
<li>Why a lion never loses sleep over the opinions of sheep</li>
<li>Managing the disappointment, frustration and adversity of injuries and taking a one pitch at a time to that rehab.</li>
<li>Gods going to give me nothing I can’t handle</li>
<li>The opinions of others only matter if you allow them to affect you</li>
<li>Why you should never solicit feedback from spectators, keep your opinions in the arena</li>
<li>How to use love as energy</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak), Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb) and Jason Grilli (@grillcheese49) on Instagram and Twitter.</p><p><br></p><p>Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</p>]]>
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      <title>Simplifying A Mental Toughness Training Plan For HS Coaches</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian Cain, Host of The Coaching Matters Podcast takes us through his 10 Pillars of Mental Performance Mastery Coaching System.



Why Coaching Matters

Critical, Impactful and Influential Period of Time In Life

What is Mental Performance?

Most Miss-Undrestood Aspect of Coaching

6 Inches That Control The 6 Feet Below

More Than Hanging a Quote

The Missing Link In Athletic Performance

Stand Up - Sit Down at What %


Drills -&gt; Skills -&gt; Skillset


Drills -&gt; 10 Mental Skills -&gt; Mental Toughness Skillset

1. Elite Mindset

Mental Performance Daily Podcast


Instagram, Twitter @BrianCainPeak

Success Hotline



2. Motivation &amp; Commitment

Motivation Comes After….. Movement Begins

Actions -&gt; Feelings

Feelings -&gt; ACtions

Telescope &amp; Microscope Goals



3. Focus &amp; Awareness

BrianCain.com/Cgrid



4. Self-Control and Discipline

Make Your Bed

E+R=O



5. Process Over Outcome

Control What You Can Control



6. Meditation &amp; Mental Imagery

6-2-8 Breathing &amp; Mind Movie When Head Hits Pillow



7. Routines &amp; Habits of Excellence

Habit Share App

Corbin Burnes Success Checklist



8. Time Management &amp; Organization

Plan Tomorrow tonight




9. Leadership

The 6 C’s of Leadership



10. The Right Culture

Principle of Preference? What Are Your Core Principles?


The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Simplifying A Mental Toughness Training Plan For HS Coaches</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian Cain, Host of The Coaching Matters Podcast takes us through his 10 Pillars of Mental Performance Mastery Coaching System.



Why Coaching Matters

Critical, Impactful and Influential Period of Time In Life

What is Mental Performance?

Most Miss-Undrestood Aspect of Coaching

6 Inches That Control The 6 Feet Below

More Than Hanging a Quote

The Missing Link In Athletic Performance

Stand Up - Sit Down at What %


Drills -&gt; Skills -&gt; Skillset


Drills -&gt; 10 Mental Skills -&gt; Mental Toughness Skillset

1. Elite Mindset

Mental Performance Daily Podcast


Instagram, Twitter @BrianCainPeak

Success Hotline



2. Motivation &amp; Commitment

Motivation Comes After….. Movement Begins

Actions -&gt; Feelings

Feelings -&gt; ACtions

Telescope &amp; Microscope Goals



3. Focus &amp; Awareness

BrianCain.com/Cgrid



4. Self-Control and Discipline

Make Your Bed

E+R=O



5. Process Over Outcome

Control What You Can Control



6. Meditation &amp; Mental Imagery

6-2-8 Breathing &amp; Mind Movie When Head Hits Pillow



7. Routines &amp; Habits of Excellence

Habit Share App

Corbin Burnes Success Checklist



8. Time Management &amp; Organization

Plan Tomorrow tonight




9. Leadership

The 6 C’s of Leadership



10. The Right Culture

Principle of Preference? What Are Your Core Principles?


The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Together, each week Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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<li>Why Coaching Matters</li>
<li>Critical, Impactful and Influential Period of Time In Life</li>
<li>What is Mental Performance?</li>
<li>Most Miss-Undrestood Aspect of Coaching</li>
<li>6 Inches That Control The 6 Feet Below</li>
<li>More Than Hanging a Quote</li>
<li>The Missing Link In Athletic Performance</li>
<li>Stand Up - Sit Down at What %</li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Drills -&gt; Skills -&gt; Skillset</li></ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>Drills -&gt; 10 Mental Skills -&gt; Mental Toughness Skillset</li>
<li>1. Elite Mindset</li>
<li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-performance-daily-with-brian-cain/id1578012159">Mental Performance Daily Podcast</a></li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/direct/requests/">Instagram</a>, Twitter @BrianCainPeak</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0jgcS1TQ3qIiq4J1Z8VckP?si=QhWhrGI-QNCglpKceMc8-w&amp;nd=1">Success Hotline</a></li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>2. Motivation &amp; Commitment</li>
<li>Motivation Comes After….. Movement Begins</li>
<li>Actions -&gt; Feelings</li>
<li>Feelings -&gt; ACtions</li>
<li>Telescope &amp; Microscope Goals</li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>3. Focus &amp; Awareness</li>
<li><a href="https://briancain.com/cgrid">BrianCain.com/Cgrid</a></li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>4. Self-Control and Discipline</li>
<li>Make Your Bed</li>
<li>E+<strong>R</strong>=O</li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>5. Process Over Outcome</li>
<li>Control What You Can Control</li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>6. Meditation &amp; Mental Imagery</li>
<li>6-2-8 Breathing &amp; Mind Movie When Head Hits Pillow</li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>7. Routines &amp; Habits of Excellence</li>
<li><a href="https://habitshareapp.com/">Habit Share App</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBfCMJ_rPuY">Corbin Burnes Success Checklist</a></li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>8. Time Management &amp; Organization</li>
<li>Plan Tomorrow tonight</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>9. Leadership</li>
<li>The 6 C’s of Leadership</li>
</ul><p><br></p><ul>
<li>10. The Right Culture</li>
<li>Principle of Preference? What Are Your Core Principles?</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance.  Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p>Together, each week <a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>How Baseball Players Can Win the Mental Game</title>
      <description>Zach Sorensen is a former Major League Baseball Player with the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels. The 3x All-American at Wichita State has worked as a mental performance coach with the Texas Rangers and is currently serving in that capacity with the Atlanta Braves. He is also the best selling author of The Hard 90, How To Prepare, Compete and Progress in the Mental Game.

In this 3rd episode of a 3-part-podcast, Zach shares how baseball players can better develop the mental game skills they need to give themselves the best chance for success. You can engage with Zach through his website zsorensen.com and check out his book The Hard 90 on Amazon and his podcast The Hard 90.

If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a review and be sure to connect with Brian Cain on Twitter and Instagram @BrianCainPeak and at BrianCain.com

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2021 20:26:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>How Baseball Players Can Win The Mental Game</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In this 3rd of a 3-part-podcast, Zach shares how baseball players can better develop the mental game skills they need to give themselves the best chance for success.  You can engage with Zach through his website zsorensen.com and check out his book The Hard 90 on Amazon and his podcast The Hard 90.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Zach Sorensen is a former Major League Baseball Player with the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels. The 3x All-American at Wichita State has worked as a mental performance coach with the Texas Rangers and is currently serving in that capacity with the Atlanta Braves. He is also the best selling author of The Hard 90, How To Prepare, Compete and Progress in the Mental Game.

In this 3rd episode of a 3-part-podcast, Zach shares how baseball players can better develop the mental game skills they need to give themselves the best chance for success. You can engage with Zach through his website zsorensen.com and check out his book The Hard 90 on Amazon and his podcast The Hard 90.

If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a review and be sure to connect with Brian Cain on Twitter and Instagram @BrianCainPeak and at BrianCain.com

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Why Coaching Matters - Mike Bahun, CEPO Fundraising University</title>
      <description>In this episode Brian Cain, host of The Coaching Matters Podcast is joined by Fundraising University CEO Mike Bahun to talk about why Coaching Matters and the importance, influence and impact that high school coaches and activities directors have in our educational system and the role they play in life skill development.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Why Coaching Matters - Mike Bahun, CEPO Fundraising University</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode Brian Cain, host of The Coaching Matters Podcast is joined by Fundraising University CEO Mike Bahun to talk about why Coaching Matters and the importance, influence and impact that high school coaches and activities directors have in our educational system and the role they play in life skill development.
The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  
Fundraising University works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.

Fundraising University and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.

Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak 

Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.

If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.

If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course

If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf

If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this episode Brian Cain, host of The Coaching Matters Podcast is joined by Fundraising University CEO Mike Bahun to talk about why Coaching Matters and the importance, influence and impact that high school coaches and activities directors have in our educational system and the role they play in life skill development.</p><p>The Coaching Matters Podcast is brought to you by Fundraising University and Brian Cain Peak Performance. Coaching Matters is a nonprofit foundation whose primary purpose is to help coaches, athletes and activities directors succeed in their programs, schools and communities.  </p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> works to help you raise the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with the least amount of interference, to support coaches and activities directors in enhancing the student experience and life-skill development that is a critical component of our educational system.</p><p><a href="https://briancain.com/">Brian Cain, MPM</a>, the World’s leading mental performance coach and former high school athletic director works to educate, empower and energize you to be your best through his 10 pillars of mental performance mastery system.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://fundraisingu.net/">Fundraising University</a> and Brian Cain bring you interviews, question and answer sessions and group coaching around mastering mental performance, creating culture and developing the leadership skills you need to succeed.</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to join Brian’s email list at <a href="https://briancain.com/join">BrianCain.com/join</a> so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, <a href="https://briancain.com/certification">join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List </a>and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are an athlete, join Brian’s 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance at<a href="https://briancain.com/athlete-offer"> BrianCain.com/free-athletes-course</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration">BrianCain.com/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Announcement! Brian Has a Brand New Podcast: Mental Performance Daily</title>
      <description>We have a major announcement! Brian Cain has a brand new podcast: Mental Performance Daily.

Oftentimes, what separates truly elite performers from everyone else isn’t talent, luck or connections, it’s preparation. In this new podcast, listeners get to hear short, daily messages from one of the leading mental performance coaches in the world. 

For years, these 3-minute daily meditations, motivational messages and mental performance tips have been reserved for star athletes, leading corporate executives and high-profile coaches, but now IRONCLAD is bringing these messages to everyone through a daily video and audio podcast.

In this new IRONCLAD original podcast, listeners can close the gap between what each day has in store and what they're truly capable of achieving. 

Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 15:43:32 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>We have a major announcement! Brian Cain has a brand new podcast: Mental Performance Daily.

Oftentimes, what separates truly elite performers from everyone else isn’t talent, luck or connections, it’s preparation. In this new podcast, listeners get to hear short, daily messages from one of the leading mental performance coaches in the world. 

For years, these 3-minute daily meditations, motivational messages and mental performance tips have been reserved for star athletes, leading corporate executives and high-profile coaches, but now IRONCLAD is bringing these messages to everyone through a daily video and audio podcast.

In this new IRONCLAD original podcast, listeners can close the gap between what each day has in store and what they're truly capable of achieving. 

Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>We have a major announcement! Brian Cain has a brand new podcast: Mental Performance Daily.</p><p><br></p><p>Oftentimes, what separates truly elite performers from everyone else isn’t talent, luck or connections, it’s preparation. In this new podcast, listeners get to hear short, daily messages from one of the leading mental performance coaches in the world. </p><p><br></p><p>For years, these 3-minute daily meditations, motivational messages and mental performance tips have been reserved for star athletes, leading corporate executives and high-profile coaches, but now IRONCLAD is bringing these messages to everyone through a daily video and audio podcast.</p><p><br></p><p>In this new IRONCLAD original podcast, listeners can close the gap between what each day has in store and what they're truly capable of achieving. </p><p><br></p><p>Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts. </p>]]>
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      <title>Baseball MPM - #6 - Exit Your Comfort Zone</title>
      <description>In episode #6 of The Baseball MPM Podcast With Cain and Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought-after MPM Coaches is joined by Eric Byrnes as a pinch hitter in place of Sean “The Mayor” Casey for this episode.

Eric Byrnes is a former Major League Baseball Player with over a decade of service in the big leagues. Since his retirement from baseball he has been an analyst with the MLB Network and continually challenged himself to exit his comfort zone. Byrnes has completed multiple 100mile runs, a triathlon across america and set the world record for speed golf and complete 245 holes in 12 hours.

In this podcast we dive into the importance of challenging yourself, exiting your comfort zone and the key aspects of Byrnes daily routines that keep him sharp, in shape and at the forefront of the relentless energy movement.

Other key aspects of our call are:

The importance of consistency

Establishing a routine - what’s now, what’s next

You Can’t Force It, If You Need To Stumble Forward, Stumble Forward

The importance of accountability partners and team

The critical importance of taking massive action and just doing it

The mindset that today is going to be a great day

How to make brushing your teeth - An exercise to get present

How Byrnes uses Coffee, Reflexology Board, The Quote of The Day

Why it’s massively important to get outside - Sweat Before Screens

Why to Check Your Calendar The Night Before

The importance of keeping a Capture List and a detailed Calendar

Time is our most precious resource, how to use it properly

Why we want to have a routine and be really good at adapting and adjusting

We are constantly creating the energy in the energy cycle

The More Energy You Give -&gt; The More Energy You Get

Concepts must be scientifically grounded - Stands up to the reality 



You Become The Average of the 5 People You Hang Out With

The Importance of Dopamine Jumps

How Kobe Bryant


You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) Eric Byrnes (@ebyrnes22) and Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb) and Zach Sorensen (@zsorensen4) on instagram and twitter. 


Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2021 19:16:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Baseball MPM - #6 - Exit Your Comfort Zone</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:subtitle> In episode #6 of The Baseball MPM Podcast With Cain and Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought-after MPM Coaches is joined by Eric Byrnes as a pinch hitter in place of Sean “The Mayor” Casey for this episode.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In episode #6 of The Baseball MPM Podcast With Cain and Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought-after MPM Coaches is joined by Eric Byrnes as a pinch hitter in place of Sean “The Mayor” Casey for this episode.

Eric Byrnes is a former Major League Baseball Player with over a decade of service in the big leagues. Since his retirement from baseball he has been an analyst with the MLB Network and continually challenged himself to exit his comfort zone. Byrnes has completed multiple 100mile runs, a triathlon across america and set the world record for speed golf and complete 245 holes in 12 hours.

In this podcast we dive into the importance of challenging yourself, exiting your comfort zone and the key aspects of Byrnes daily routines that keep him sharp, in shape and at the forefront of the relentless energy movement.

Other key aspects of our call are:

The importance of consistency

Establishing a routine - what’s now, what’s next

You Can’t Force It, If You Need To Stumble Forward, Stumble Forward

The importance of accountability partners and team

The critical importance of taking massive action and just doing it

The mindset that today is going to be a great day

How to make brushing your teeth - An exercise to get present

How Byrnes uses Coffee, Reflexology Board, The Quote of The Day

Why it’s massively important to get outside - Sweat Before Screens

Why to Check Your Calendar The Night Before

The importance of keeping a Capture List and a detailed Calendar

Time is our most precious resource, how to use it properly

Why we want to have a routine and be really good at adapting and adjusting

We are constantly creating the energy in the energy cycle

The More Energy You Give -&gt; The More Energy You Get

Concepts must be scientifically grounded - Stands up to the reality 



You Become The Average of the 5 People You Hang Out With

The Importance of Dopamine Jumps

How Kobe Bryant


You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) Eric Byrnes (@ebyrnes22) and Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb) and Zach Sorensen (@zsorensen4) on instagram and twitter. 


Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</itunes:summary>
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<li>You Can’t Force It, If You Need To Stumble Forward, Stumble Forward</li>
<li>The importance of accountability partners and team</li>
<li>The critical importance of taking massive action and just doing it</li>
<li>The mindset that today is going to be a great day</li>
<li>How to make brushing your teeth - An exercise to get present</li>
<li>How Byrnes uses Coffee, Reflexology Board, The Quote of The Day</li>
<li>Why it’s massively important to get outside - Sweat Before Screens</li>
<li>Why to Check Your Calendar The Night Before</li>
<li>The importance of keeping a Capture List and a detailed Calendar</li>
<li>Time is our most precious resource, how to use it properly</li>
<li>Why we want to have a routine and be really good at adapting and adjusting</li>
<li>We are constantly creating the energy in the energy cycle</li>
<li>The More Energy You Give -&gt; The More Energy You Get</li>
<li>Concepts must be scientifically grounded - Stands up to the reality </li>
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<li>You Become The Average of the 5 People You Hang Out With</li>
<li>The Importance of Dopamine Jumps</li>
<li>How Kobe Bryant</li>
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      <title>Golf MPM - #6 - How Golf Coaches Can Win The Fall Season</title>
      <description>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #6, How Golf Coaches Can Win The Fall Season, Cain and Carp share ideas on how coaches can maximize the most important fall in the history of college golf coming out of a global pandemic.

In this podcast we breakdown:
How To Approach The Biggest Tournament Of The Year

The Importance of Clarifying &amp; Implementing A Culture

A 3-Step Formula To Reflect Upon Each Round

What Kobe Says About Losing - The Process &amp; Reflection

Our NEW Group Coaching Program Covering the 10 Pillars of Mental Performance Mastery for Golf

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@trakecarpenter).
 
For more on Brian, Trake, and the Mental Game of Golf, head to BrianCain.com/golf and watch our FREE 40-minute Golf Masterclass.
 
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:32:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Golf MPM - #6 - How Golf Coaches Can Win The Fall Season</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/3d53a19c-ef09-11eb-8c3e-63937b01850a/image/Cain_Podcast_Graphic.jpeg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  </itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #6, How Golf Coaches Can Win The Fall Season, Cain and Carp share ideas on how coaches can maximize the most important fall in the history of college golf coming out of a global pandemic.

In this podcast we breakdown:
How To Approach The Biggest Tournament Of The Year

The Importance of Clarifying &amp; Implementing A Culture

A 3-Step Formula To Reflect Upon Each Round

What Kobe Says About Losing - The Process &amp; Reflection

Our NEW Group Coaching Program Covering the 10 Pillars of Mental Performance Mastery for Golf

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@trakecarpenter).
 
For more on Brian, Trake, and the Mental Game of Golf, head to BrianCain.com/golf and watch our FREE 40-minute Golf Masterclass.
 
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  </p><p><br></p><p>In episode #6, How Golf Coaches Can Win The Fall Season, Cain and Carp share ideas on how coaches can maximize the most important fall in the history of college golf coming out of a global pandemic.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast we breakdown:</p><ul><li>How To Approach The Biggest Tournament Of The Year</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The Importance of Clarifying &amp; Implementing A Culture</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>A 3-Step Formula To Reflect Upon Each Round</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>What Kobe Says About Losing - The Process &amp; Reflection</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Our NEW Group Coaching Program Covering the 10 Pillars of Mental Performance Mastery for Golf</li></ul><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (<a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a>) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/trakecarpenter/">@trakecarpenter</a>).</p><p> </p><p>For more on Brian, Trake, and the Mental Game of Golf, head to <a href="http://briancain.com/golf">BrianCain.com/golf</a> and watch our FREE 40-minute Golf Masterclass.</p><p> </p><p>You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at<a href="https://briancain.com/blog/category/golf"> BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>How Baseball Coaches Can Win the Mental Game</title>
      <description> Zach Sorensen is a former Major League Baseball Player with the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels. The 3x All-American at Wichita State has worked as a mental performance coach with the Texas Rangers and is currently serving in that capacity with the Atlanta Braves. He is also the bestselling author of The Hard 90, How To Prepare, Compete and Progress in the Mental Game.

In this 2nd of a 3-part-podcast, Zach shares how baseball coaches can better coach the mental game in their players. You can engage with Zach through his website zsorensen.com and check out his book The Hard 90 on Amazon and his podcast The Hard 90.

If you enjoyed the Mental Performance Mastery podcast, please leave us a review and be sure to connect with Brian Cain on Twitter and Instagram @BrianCainPeak and at BrianCain.com

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>How Baseball Coaches Can Win the Mental Game</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In this 2nd of a 3-part-podcast, Zach shares how baseball coaches can better coach the mental game in their players. You can engage with Zach through his website zsorensen.com and check out his book The Hard 90 on Amazon and his podcast The Hard 90.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary> Zach Sorensen is a former Major League Baseball Player with the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels. The 3x All-American at Wichita State has worked as a mental performance coach with the Texas Rangers and is currently serving in that capacity with the Atlanta Braves. He is also the bestselling author of The Hard 90, How To Prepare, Compete and Progress in the Mental Game.

In this 2nd of a 3-part-podcast, Zach shares how baseball coaches can better coach the mental game in their players. You can engage with Zach through his website zsorensen.com and check out his book The Hard 90 on Amazon and his podcast The Hard 90.

If you enjoyed the Mental Performance Mastery podcast, please leave us a review and be sure to connect with Brian Cain on Twitter and Instagram @BrianCainPeak and at BrianCain.com

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><strong> </strong>Zach Sorensen is a former Major League Baseball Player with the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels. The 3x All-American at Wichita State has worked as a mental performance coach with the Texas Rangers and is currently serving in that capacity with the Atlanta Braves. He is also the bestselling author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/HARD-90-Prepare-Compete-Progress/dp/B08CG7LMP8"><em>The Hard 90, How To Prepare, Compete and Progress in the Mental Game</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><br></p><p>In this 2nd of a 3-part-podcast, Zach shares how baseball coaches can better coach the mental game in their players. You can engage with Zach through his website <a href="http://phenomsports.com/">zsorensen.com </a>and check out his book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/HARD-90-Prepare-Compete-Progress/dp/B08CG7LMP8"><em>The Hard 90 </em>on Amazon</a> and his <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3EF1lNXoaHqhjS3drpp9yL">podcast <em>The Hard 90</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><br></p><p>If you enjoyed the Mental Performance Mastery podcast, please leave us a review and be sure to connect with Brian Cain on <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianCainPeak">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/">Instagram</a> <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> and at <a href="https://briancain.com/">BrianCain.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Golf MPM - #5 - DECADE Course Management</title>
      <description>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #5 Cain and Carp are joined by Scott Fawcett of Decade Golf, the greatest course management system in golf. Scott has worked with Will Zalatoris who finished second in the 2021 Masters, Bryson DeChambeau and an army of other PGA superstars.  

In this podcast we breakdown:

The one book that Scott gifts to all of the golfers he works with

The challenges of golf being that it’s the only sport that’s not played on a unified court

Trusting a conscious repeatable process vs emotion

Identifying the process of DECADE, Distance, Expectation, Correct Target, Analyze, Discipline, Execute

How 3 Hours of Meditation helped Will Zalatoris to finish 2nd in The Masters

The importance of process and discipline

Recognizing thought patterns before the get out of control

Removing the outside noise with routines

The discrepancy in pure talent/ball striking from a good college player to the PGA/KFT Tour

What a college golf team should do during a practice round on a new course

The lowest hanging fruit for someone trying to break 80/90/100 when it comes to course strategy


You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@TrakeCarpenter) and with Scott Fawcett on Twitter @ScottFawcett and via email scott@playinglesson.com
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf


Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:06:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Golf MPM - #5 - DECADE Course Management</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In episode #5 Cain and Carp are joined by Scott Fawcett of Decade Golf, the greatest course management system in golf.  Scott has worked with Will Zalatoris who finished second in the 2021 Masters, Bryson DeChambeau and an army of other PGA superstars.  </itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #5 Cain and Carp are joined by Scott Fawcett of Decade Golf, the greatest course management system in golf. Scott has worked with Will Zalatoris who finished second in the 2021 Masters, Bryson DeChambeau and an army of other PGA superstars.  

In this podcast we breakdown:

The one book that Scott gifts to all of the golfers he works with

The challenges of golf being that it’s the only sport that’s not played on a unified court

Trusting a conscious repeatable process vs emotion

Identifying the process of DECADE, Distance, Expectation, Correct Target, Analyze, Discipline, Execute

How 3 Hours of Meditation helped Will Zalatoris to finish 2nd in The Masters

The importance of process and discipline

Recognizing thought patterns before the get out of control

Removing the outside noise with routines

The discrepancy in pure talent/ball striking from a good college player to the PGA/KFT Tour

What a college golf team should do during a practice round on a new course

The lowest hanging fruit for someone trying to break 80/90/100 when it comes to course strategy


You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@TrakeCarpenter) and with Scott Fawcett on Twitter @ScottFawcett and via email scott@playinglesson.com
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf


Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  </p><p><br></p><p>In episode #5 Cain and Carp are joined by Scott Fawcett of Decade Golf, the greatest course management system in golf. Scott has worked with Will Zalatoris who finished second in the 2021 Masters, Bryson DeChambeau and an army of other PGA superstars.  </p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast we breakdown:</p><ul>
<li>The one book that Scott gifts to all of the golfers he works with</li>
<li>The challenges of golf being that it’s the only sport that’s not played on a unified court</li>
<li>Trusting a conscious repeatable process vs emotion</li>
<li>Identifying the process of DECADE, Distance, Expectation, Correct Target, Analyze, Discipline, Execute</li>
<li>How 3 Hours of Meditation helped Will Zalatoris to finish 2nd in The Masters</li>
<li>The importance of process and discipline</li>
<li>Recognizing thought patterns before the get out of control</li>
<li>Removing the outside noise with routines</li>
<li>The discrepancy in pure talent/ball striking from a good college player to the PGA/KFT Tour</li>
<li>What a college golf team should do during a practice round on a new course</li>
<li>The lowest hanging fruit for someone trying to break 80/90/100 when it comes to course strategy</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (<a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a>) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@TrakeCarpenter) and with Scott Fawcett on Twitter @ScottFawcett and via email scott@playinglesson.com</p><p>Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. </p><p><a href="https://nofilter.net/profile/D6afhuvdduQaK2LMRIvgea95HGq1">You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".</a></p><p>You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at<a href="https://briancain.com/blog/category/golf"> BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</p>]]>
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      <title>Baseball MPM - #5 - Everyday Is Opening Day</title>
      <description>In The Baseball Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast With Cain &amp; Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought after MPM Coaches and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use both on and off the field. 

In Episode #5 - Everyday Is Opening Day Cain &amp; Casey are joined by former Major League Baseball Player and current Atlanta Braves Major League MPM Coach Zach Sorensen, MPM.  

Cain, Casey and Sorensen discuss how to prepare for opening day and most importantly how to treat everyday as if it was opening day.

Join three of the best minds in the mental game of baseball as they dive into:

Performance Routines

Competing with confidence

Choosing your response to adversity

How to succeed and talk to yourself when you aren’t getting the results you want.  

The advantages of betting on yourself and following your process

How you must be the best mental performance coach you have ever have

The importance of going from mentally small to mentally strong

And much, much more.


Thank you for listening to The Baseball Mental Performance Mastery Podcast With Cain &amp; Casey on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow us on social media, Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) Zach Sorensen (@zsorensen4) and Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb)

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 21:58:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Baseball MPM - #5 - Everyday Is Opening Day</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In Episode #5 - Everyday Is Opening Day Cain &amp; Casey are joined by former Major League Baseball Player and current Atlanta Braves Major League MPM Coach Zach Sorensen, MPM.  </itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In The Baseball Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast With Cain &amp; Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought after MPM Coaches and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use both on and off the field. 

In Episode #5 - Everyday Is Opening Day Cain &amp; Casey are joined by former Major League Baseball Player and current Atlanta Braves Major League MPM Coach Zach Sorensen, MPM.  

Cain, Casey and Sorensen discuss how to prepare for opening day and most importantly how to treat everyday as if it was opening day.

Join three of the best minds in the mental game of baseball as they dive into:

Performance Routines

Competing with confidence

Choosing your response to adversity

How to succeed and talk to yourself when you aren’t getting the results you want.  

The advantages of betting on yourself and following your process

How you must be the best mental performance coach you have ever have

The importance of going from mentally small to mentally strong

And much, much more.


Thank you for listening to The Baseball Mental Performance Mastery Podcast With Cain &amp; Casey on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow us on social media, Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) Zach Sorensen (@zsorensen4) and Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb)

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In The Baseball Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast With Cain &amp; Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought after MPM Coaches and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use both on and off the field. </p><p><br></p><p>In Episode #5 - Everyday Is Opening Day Cain &amp; Casey are joined by former Major League Baseball Player and current Atlanta Braves Major League MPM Coach Zach Sorensen, MPM.  </p><p><br></p><p>Cain, Casey and Sorensen discuss how to prepare for opening day and most importantly how to treat everyday as if it was opening day.</p><p><br></p><p>Join three of the best minds in the mental game of baseball as they dive into:</p><ul>
<li>Performance Routines</li>
<li>Competing with confidence</li>
<li>Choosing your response to adversity</li>
<li>How to succeed and talk to yourself when you aren’t getting the results you want.  </li>
<li>The advantages of betting on yourself and following your process</li>
<li>How you must be the best mental performance coach you have ever have</li>
<li>The importance of going from mentally small to mentally strong</li>
<li>And much, much more.</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Thank you for listening to The Baseball Mental Performance Mastery Podcast With Cain &amp; Casey on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow us on social media, Brian Cain (<a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a>) Zach Sorensen (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/zsorensen4/?hl=en">@zsorensen4</a>) and Sean Casey (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/themayorsofficemlb/?hl=en">@themayorsofficemlb</a>)</p><p><br></p><p>Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</p>]]>
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      <title>How MPM Coaches Can Win the Mental Game of Baseball</title>
      <description>Zach Sorensen, MPM is a former Major League Baseball Player. The 3x All-American at Wichita State has worked as a mental performance coach with the Texas Rangers and is currently serving in that capacity with the Atlanta Braves. He is also the best selling author of The Hard 90, How To Prepare, Compete and Progress in the Mental Game.

In this 1st episode of a 3-part-podcast series with Zach, he shares how Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches can produce results in coaching the mental game in their players and staff. 

You can engage with Zach through his website zsorensen.com and check out his book The Hard 90 on Amazon and his podcast The Hard 90.  

If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a review and be sure to connect with Brian Cain on @BrianCainPeak and at BrianCain.com

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:03:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>How MPM Coaches Can Win the Mental Game of Baseball</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>Zach Sorensen, MPM is a former Major League Baseball Player. The 3x All-American at Wichita State has worked as a mental performance coach with the Texas Rangers and is currently serving in that capacity with the Atlanta Braves. </itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Zach Sorensen, MPM is a former Major League Baseball Player. The 3x All-American at Wichita State has worked as a mental performance coach with the Texas Rangers and is currently serving in that capacity with the Atlanta Braves. He is also the best selling author of The Hard 90, How To Prepare, Compete and Progress in the Mental Game.

In this 1st episode of a 3-part-podcast series with Zach, he shares how Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches can produce results in coaching the mental game in their players and staff. 

You can engage with Zach through his website zsorensen.com and check out his book The Hard 90 on Amazon and his podcast The Hard 90.  

If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a review and be sure to connect with Brian Cain on @BrianCainPeak and at BrianCain.com

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Zach Sorensen, MPM is a former Major League Baseball Player. The 3x All-American at Wichita State has worked as a mental performance coach with the Texas Rangers and is currently serving in that capacity with the Atlanta Braves. He is also the best selling author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/HARD-90-Prepare-Compete-Progress/dp/B08CG7LMP8"><em>The Hard 90, How To Prepare, Compete and Progress in the Mental Game</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><br></p><p>In this 1st episode of a 3-part-podcast series with Zach, he shares how Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches can produce results in coaching the mental game in their players and staff. </p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Zach through his website <a href="http://phenomsports.com/">zsorensen.com</a> and check out his book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/HARD-90-Prepare-Compete-Progress/dp/B08CG7LMP8"><em>The Hard 90 </em>on Amazon</a> and his <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3EF1lNXoaHqhjS3drpp9yL">podcast <em>The Hard 90</em></a><em>.  </em></p><p><br></p><p>If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a review and be sure to connect with Brian Cain on <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> and at <a href="https://briancain.com/">BrianCain.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Golf MPM - #4 - At Your Best</title>
      <description>In the Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #4 Cain and Carp discuss the mindset of playing your best when it means the most. Coach Carp shares specific drills he does with his golfers to help them learn to handle the pressure of playing championship golf and attacking the course and going low. We also break down how to develop the mindset you need to compete on the biggest stage in golf or the biggest stage in your life.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).

Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Golf MPM - #4 - At Your Best</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In episode #4 Cain and Carp discuss the mindset of playing your best when it means the most.  Coach Carp shares specific drills he does with his golfers to help them learn to handle the pressure of playing championship golf and attacking the course and going low.  We also break down how to develop the mindset you need to compete on the biggest stage in golf or the biggest stage in your life.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In the Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode #4 Cain and Carp discuss the mindset of playing your best when it means the most. Coach Carp shares specific drills he does with his golfers to help them learn to handle the pressure of playing championship golf and attacking the course and going low. We also break down how to develop the mindset you need to compete on the biggest stage in golf or the biggest stage in your life.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).

Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In the Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  </p><p><br></p><p>In episode #4 Cain and Carp discuss the mindset of playing your best when it means the most. Coach Carp shares specific drills he does with his golfers to help them learn to handle the pressure of playing championship golf and attacking the course and going low. We also break down how to develop the mindset you need to compete on the biggest stage in golf or the biggest stage in your life.</p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (<a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a>) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ducoachcarp">@ducoachcarp</a>).</p><p><br></p><p>Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. </p><p><a href="https://nofilter.net/profile/D6afhuvdduQaK2LMRIvgea95HGq1">You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".</a></p><p>You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at<a href="https://briancain.com/blog/category/golf"> BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p>Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</p>]]>
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      <title>Baseball MPM - #4 - Your Ideal Life</title>
      <description>In episode #4 of In The Baseball MPM Podcast with Cain &amp; Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought after MPM Coaches, and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, one of baseball’s all-time best hitters, talk about success strategies you can use both on and off the field to create your ideal life and give yourself the best chance for success.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb) on Instagram and Twitter.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Baseball MPM - #4 - Your Ideal Life</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In episode #4 of In The Baseball MPM Podcast with Cain &amp; Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought after MPM Coaches, and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, one of baseball’s all-time best hitters, talk about success strategies you can use both on and off the field to create your ideal life and give yourself the best chance for success.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In episode #4 of In The Baseball MPM Podcast with Cain &amp; Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought after MPM Coaches, and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, one of baseball’s all-time best hitters, talk about success strategies you can use both on and off the field to create your ideal life and give yourself the best chance for success.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb) on Instagram and Twitter.</itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>1514</itunes:duration>
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      <title>The 3 Pillars of Elite Results</title>
      <description>Todd Cetnar, founder and CEO of Cetnar Consulting Group, has 25+ years leading strategic growth with prominent companies and sports teams across the globe. Today, Todd sits as a Vice President of Sales for a leading medical device company managing over $300M.

Todd is a former professional basketball player and 3x Hall-of-Famer who played throughout Europe. Now, as a corporate executive, Todd combined the skill sets learned in both arenas to formulate the framework called the 3 Pillars of Elite Results.

Todd travels globally to help corporate executives, organizations, coaches and sports teams reach the highest level in their career or sport by mastering an elite mindset, elite leadership skills and building an elite culture.

In this podcast recorded live with an audience of 50+ MPM Certified Coaches Todd and Brian breakdown how he arrived at the 3 pillars of elite results as his process and framework, his journey to becoming a #1 bestselling author, and the mindset shifts that he coaches in his clients to help them get massive results fast.

You can connect with Brian Cain on twitter and instagram @BrianCainPeak and with Todd Cetnar on instagram @ToddCetnar and at his website cetnarconsultinggroup.com

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2021 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The 3 Pillars of Elite Results</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In this podcast recorded live with an audience of 50+ MPM Certified Coaches Todd and Brian breakdown how he arrived at the 3 pillars of elite results as his process and framework, his journey to becoming a #1 bestselling author, and the mindset shifts that he coaches in his clients to help them get massive results fast.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Todd Cetnar, founder and CEO of Cetnar Consulting Group, has 25+ years leading strategic growth with prominent companies and sports teams across the globe. Today, Todd sits as a Vice President of Sales for a leading medical device company managing over $300M.

Todd is a former professional basketball player and 3x Hall-of-Famer who played throughout Europe. Now, as a corporate executive, Todd combined the skill sets learned in both arenas to formulate the framework called the 3 Pillars of Elite Results.

Todd travels globally to help corporate executives, organizations, coaches and sports teams reach the highest level in their career or sport by mastering an elite mindset, elite leadership skills and building an elite culture.

In this podcast recorded live with an audience of 50+ MPM Certified Coaches Todd and Brian breakdown how he arrived at the 3 pillars of elite results as his process and framework, his journey to becoming a #1 bestselling author, and the mindset shifts that he coaches in his clients to help them get massive results fast.

You can connect with Brian Cain on twitter and instagram @BrianCainPeak and with Todd Cetnar on instagram @ToddCetnar and at his website cetnarconsultinggroup.com

Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Todd Cetnar, founder and CEO of Cetnar Consulting Group, has 25+ years leading strategic growth with prominent companies and sports teams across the globe. Today, Todd sits as a Vice President of Sales for a leading medical device company managing over $300M.</p><p><br></p><p>Todd is a former professional basketball player and 3x Hall-of-Famer who played throughout Europe. Now, as a corporate executive, Todd combined the skill sets learned in both arenas to formulate the framework called the 3 Pillars of Elite Results.</p><p><br></p><p>Todd travels globally to help corporate executives, organizations, coaches and sports teams reach the highest level in their career or sport by mastering an elite mindset, elite leadership skills and building an elite culture.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast recorded live with an audience of 50+ MPM Certified Coaches Todd and Brian breakdown how he arrived at the 3 pillars of elite results as his process and framework, his journey to becoming a #1 bestselling author, and the mindset shifts that he coaches in his clients to help them get massive results fast.</p><p><br></p><p>You can connect with Brian Cain on twitter and instagram <a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a> and with Todd Cetnar on instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/toddcetnar/">@ToddCetnar</a> and at his website <a href="https://www.cetnarconsultinggroup.com/">cetnarconsultinggroup.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. Go to https://organifi.com/mentalperformance for 20% off.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>3695</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Golf MPM - #3 - No Double Bogeys</title>
      <description>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode 3, Cain and Carp discuss the mindset of playing to avoid double bogey vs. going for birdie and the difference that this mindset shift can make in your scoring. They also discuss how making committed swings to conservative targets can completely lower your handicap and help you to GO LOW.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 19:52:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Golf MPM - #3 - No Double Bogeys</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In episode 3,  Cain and Carp discuss the mindset of playing to avoid double bogey vs. going for birdie and the difference that this mindset shift can make in your scoring. They also discuss how making committed swings to conservative targets can completely lower your handicap and help you to GO LOW.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  

In episode 3, Cain and Carp discuss the mindset of playing to avoid double bogey vs. going for birdie and the difference that this mindset shift can make in your scoring. They also discuss how making committed swings to conservative targets can completely lower your handicap and help you to GO LOW.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. 
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  </p><p><br></p><p>In episode 3, Cain and Carp discuss the mindset of playing to avoid double bogey vs. going for birdie and the difference that this mindset shift can make in your scoring. They also discuss how making committed swings to conservative targets can completely lower your handicap and help you to GO LOW.</p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (<a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a>) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ducoachcarp">@ducoachcarp</a>).</p><p>Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest. </p><p><a href="https://nofilter.net/profile/D6afhuvdduQaK2LMRIvgea95HGq1">You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".</a></p><p>You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at<a href="https://briancain.com/blog/category/golf"> BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1908</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Baseball MPM - #3 - The Art of Coaching </title>
      <description>In The Baseball MPM Podcast With Cain &amp; Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM Athletes Program and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, MLB Network Analyst and one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use to master mental performance both on and off the baseball field.

In episode #3 - The Art of Coaching, Cain &amp; Casey do an in depth breakdown of “The Art of Coaching” an HBO Documentary about Nick Saban and Bill Belichick.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak), Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb)</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2021 21:54:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Baseball MPM - #3 - The Art of Coaching </itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In episode #3 - The Art of Coaching, Cain &amp; Casey do an in depth breakdown of “The Art of Coaching” an HBO Documentary about Nick Saban and Bill Belichick.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In The Baseball MPM Podcast With Cain &amp; Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM Athletes Program and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, MLB Network Analyst and one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use to master mental performance both on and off the baseball field.

In episode #3 - The Art of Coaching, Cain &amp; Casey do an in depth breakdown of “The Art of Coaching” an HBO Documentary about Nick Saban and Bill Belichick.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak), Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb)</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In The Baseball MPM Podcast With Cain &amp; Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM Athletes Program and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, MLB Network Analyst and one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use to master mental performance both on and off the baseball field.</p><p><br></p><p>In episode #3 - The Art of Coaching, Cain &amp; Casey do an in depth breakdown of “The Art of Coaching” an HBO Documentary about Nick Saban and Bill Belichick.</p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (<a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a>), Sean Casey (<a href="https://linktr.ee/Seancasey21">@themayorsofficemlb</a>)</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>From HS Baseball to 1st Round MLB Pick: The Mindset Mastery of Cole Winn </title>
      <description>In 2017, Cole Winn’s Jr. year of HS at Silver Creek High School in Longmont, Colorado, he was 9–0 with a 0.73 ERA with 95 strikeouts in ​47 2⁄3 innings, and hit .388 with two home runs and 19 RBIs, earning himself the title of Colorado's Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year.

He moved to California for his Sr. year and attended Lutheran High School of Orange County in Orange, California. That year he was 8–2 on the mound with a 0.20 ERA and was named California's Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year and Baseball America's High School Player of the Year.  

Winn was selected 15th overall by the Texas Rangers in the 2018 MLB draft and signed for $3.15 million. Winn was ranked as the #89 overall prospect in baseball by MLB Pipeline in their preseason 2019 Top 100 list and ranked as the #72 overall prospect in baseball by ESPN's Keith Law in his preseason 2019 Top 100 list.
 
I first met Cole when we sat next to each other randomly at a Notre Dame vs. UNC basketball game in South Bend. That was in the winter of his So. year in HS. We have worked together since. 
 
In this podcast Cole breaks down all things mental game including:


The Importance of a daily mental performance training program

Why and how he learned to compete one pitch at a time


The importance of self-talk, perspective and routines


How to become a machine of consistency


The importance of the breath as a pitcher


And much much more….



You can engage with Cole on instagram @cole_winn</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 20:04:36 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>From HS Baseball to 1st Round MLB Pick: The Mindset Mastery of Cole Winn </itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In 2017, Cole Winn’s Jr. year of HS at Silver Creek High School in Longmont, Colorado, he was 9–0 with a 0.73 ERA with 95 strikeouts in ​47 2⁄3 innings, and hit .388 with two home runs and 19 RBIs, earning himself the title of Colorado's Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In 2017, Cole Winn’s Jr. year of HS at Silver Creek High School in Longmont, Colorado, he was 9–0 with a 0.73 ERA with 95 strikeouts in ​47 2⁄3 innings, and hit .388 with two home runs and 19 RBIs, earning himself the title of Colorado's Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year.

He moved to California for his Sr. year and attended Lutheran High School of Orange County in Orange, California. That year he was 8–2 on the mound with a 0.20 ERA and was named California's Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year and Baseball America's High School Player of the Year.  

Winn was selected 15th overall by the Texas Rangers in the 2018 MLB draft and signed for $3.15 million. Winn was ranked as the #89 overall prospect in baseball by MLB Pipeline in their preseason 2019 Top 100 list and ranked as the #72 overall prospect in baseball by ESPN's Keith Law in his preseason 2019 Top 100 list.
 
I first met Cole when we sat next to each other randomly at a Notre Dame vs. UNC basketball game in South Bend. That was in the winter of his So. year in HS. We have worked together since. 
 
In this podcast Cole breaks down all things mental game including:


The Importance of a daily mental performance training program

Why and how he learned to compete one pitch at a time


The importance of self-talk, perspective and routines


How to become a machine of consistency


The importance of the breath as a pitcher


And much much more….



You can engage with Cole on instagram @cole_winn</itunes:summary>
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<li>The Importance of a <strong>daily mental performance training </strong>program</li>
<li>Why and how he learned to compete <strong>one pitch at a time</strong>
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<li>The importance of <strong>self-talk, perspective and routines</strong>
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<li>How to <strong>become a machine of consistency</strong>
</li>
<li>The importance of <strong>the breath as a pitcher</strong>
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<li><strong>And much much more….</strong></li>
</ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Cole on instagram @cole_winn</p>]]>
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      <title>Golf MPM - #2 - Play Golf vs. Golf Swing</title>
      <description>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  
In episode #2 Cain and Carp discuss the difference physically and mentally in playing golf vs playing golf swing and why most golfers fall into the “golf swing” trap when they struggle and how you can stay in the “playing golf” mindset.
You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest.
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2021 21:04:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Golf MPM - #2 - Play Golf vs. Golf Swing</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode Cain and Carp discuss the difference physically and mentally in playing golf vs playing golf swing and why most golfers fall into the “golf swing” trap when they struggle and how you can stay in the “playing golf” mindset.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  
In episode #2 Cain and Carp discuss the difference physically and mentally in playing golf vs playing golf swing and why most golfers fall into the “golf swing” trap when they struggle and how you can stay in the “playing golf” mindset.
You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest.
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  </p><p>In episode #2 Cain and Carp discuss the difference physically and mentally in playing golf vs playing golf swing and why most golfers fall into the “golf swing” trap when they struggle and how you can stay in the “playing golf” mindset.</p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (<a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a>) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ducoachcarp">@ducoachcarp</a>).</p><p>Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest.</p><p><a href="https://nofilter.net/profile/D6afhuvdduQaK2LMRIvgea95HGq1">You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".</a></p><p>You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at <a href="https://briancain.com/blog/category/golf">BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Golf MPM - #1 - The One Shot Warrior</title>
      <description>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  
In episode #1 Cain and Carp discuss the mindset of being a one shot warrior, how to REALLY compete one shot at a time and the golf stats that show you where you can get the most strokes gained on the competition.
You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest.
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2021 20:58:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Golf MPM - #1 - The One Shot Warrior</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode Cain and Carp discuss the mindset of being a one shot warrior, how to REALLY compete one shot at a time and the golf stats that show you where you can get the most strokes gained on the competition.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  
In episode #1 Cain and Carp discuss the mindset of being a one shot warrior, how to REALLY compete one shot at a time and the golf stats that show you where you can get the most strokes gained on the competition.
You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (@ducoachcarp).
Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest.
You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".
You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In The Golf MPM Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and 30 Days to MPM For Athletes Program joins co-host Trake “Carp” Carpenter, Head Men’s Golf Coach at The University of Denver to discuss all things related to golf swing, course and self management and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  </p><p>In episode #1 Cain and Carp discuss the mindset of being a one shot warrior, how to REALLY compete one shot at a time and the golf stats that show you where you can get the most strokes gained on the competition.</p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (<a href="https://linktr.ee/briancainpeak">@BrianCainPeak</a>) and Trake “Carp” Carpenter (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ducoachcarp">@ducoachcarp</a>).</p><p>Want to join The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast live and participate in the podcast recording? There’s a new podcasting platform built to engage with listeners in real time. It’s called The NoFilter Network and I’m hosting this podcast there and we'd love to have you as a guest.</p><p><a href="https://nofilter.net/profile/D6afhuvdduQaK2LMRIvgea95HGq1">You can reserve your ticket to be on the show by clicking here and searching for recording dates and times in the "upcoming events section".</a></p><p>You can also check out our previously recorded episodes at <a href="https://briancain.com/blog/category/golf">BrianCain.com/blog/category/golf</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>From Non-Drafted To 1st Rd Pick, The Mental Game of Josh Jung</title>
      <description>Josh Jung attended Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio, Texas where he starred in both baseball and football.  Not drafted out of high school in the 2016 MLB draft, he enrolled at Texas Tech University to play college baseball for the Red Raiders.
 
In 2017, as a freshman at Texas Tech, Jung started all 62 games at third base, batting .306 with six home runs and 43 RBIs.  He was named the Big 12 Freshman of the Year and was named a Freshman All-American by multiple outlets including Collegiate Baseball and Perfect Game/Rawlings.
 
As a sophomore in 2018, Jung once again started all 65 of Texas Tech's games at third base, slashing .392/.491/.639 with 12 home runs and 80 RBIs. He was named to the All-Big 12 First Team, and was once again named an All-American by outlets such as Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball.  He played for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team that summer.
 
Jung was named a preseason All-American by Perfect Game, Baseball America, D1Baseball.com, and Collegiate Baseball prior to his junior year.  During the season, he missed two games due to a quadricep strain, ending his streak of 139 consecutive starts.   After returning, he moved to shortstop.  He was named the 2019 Big 12 Co-Player of the Year after batting .333 with nine home runs and 49 RBIs through 49 games.
 
He was named an All-American by Baseball America, D1Baseball.com, Perfect Game, ABCA, and NCBWA. Jung was the recipient of the 2019 Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award, which honors the top Division I baseball player within Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma each season.
 
Jung finished his junior year slashing .343/.474/.636 with 15 home runs and 58 RBIs in 64 games.  Considered one of the top prospects for the 2019 MLB draft,  he was selected by the Texas Rangers in the first round, with the eighth overall pick.
 
On July 3, 2019, Jung signed with the Rangers for a $4.4 million signing bonus.
 
On July 10, 2019, Jung made his professional debut with the Arizona League Rangers of the Rookie-level Arizona League, hitting a home run in his first professional at-bat.

Josh has been a student of the Mental Game of Baseball since he was 11 years old and started with my PRIDE (Personal Responsibility In Daily Excellence) Program.  He is as invested into Mental Performance as any athlete I have ever worked with.

In this podcast recorded live in front of close to 500 high school baseball coaches and players we talk about…

The Importance of daily mental performance training


Separating what you do and who you are


The importance of self-talk, perspective and routines


How to overcome the biggest challenges you face in baseball and life

How the mental game helped him go from Non-drafted out of HS to 8th overall


And much much more….

You can engage with Josh Jung on instagram @Josh6Jung and with Brian Cain @BrianCainPeak</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 21:12:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>From Non-Drafted To 1st Rd Pick, The Mental Game of Josh Jung</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>Josh has been a student of the Mental Game of Baseball since he was 11 years old and started with my PRIDE (Personal Responsibility In Daily Excellence) Program.  He is as invested into Mental Performance as any athlete I have ever worked with.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Josh Jung attended Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio, Texas where he starred in both baseball and football.  Not drafted out of high school in the 2016 MLB draft, he enrolled at Texas Tech University to play college baseball for the Red Raiders.
 
In 2017, as a freshman at Texas Tech, Jung started all 62 games at third base, batting .306 with six home runs and 43 RBIs.  He was named the Big 12 Freshman of the Year and was named a Freshman All-American by multiple outlets including Collegiate Baseball and Perfect Game/Rawlings.
 
As a sophomore in 2018, Jung once again started all 65 of Texas Tech's games at third base, slashing .392/.491/.639 with 12 home runs and 80 RBIs. He was named to the All-Big 12 First Team, and was once again named an All-American by outlets such as Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball.  He played for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team that summer.
 
Jung was named a preseason All-American by Perfect Game, Baseball America, D1Baseball.com, and Collegiate Baseball prior to his junior year.  During the season, he missed two games due to a quadricep strain, ending his streak of 139 consecutive starts.   After returning, he moved to shortstop.  He was named the 2019 Big 12 Co-Player of the Year after batting .333 with nine home runs and 49 RBIs through 49 games.
 
He was named an All-American by Baseball America, D1Baseball.com, Perfect Game, ABCA, and NCBWA. Jung was the recipient of the 2019 Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award, which honors the top Division I baseball player within Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma each season.
 
Jung finished his junior year slashing .343/.474/.636 with 15 home runs and 58 RBIs in 64 games.  Considered one of the top prospects for the 2019 MLB draft,  he was selected by the Texas Rangers in the first round, with the eighth overall pick.
 
On July 3, 2019, Jung signed with the Rangers for a $4.4 million signing bonus.
 
On July 10, 2019, Jung made his professional debut with the Arizona League Rangers of the Rookie-level Arizona League, hitting a home run in his first professional at-bat.

Josh has been a student of the Mental Game of Baseball since he was 11 years old and started with my PRIDE (Personal Responsibility In Daily Excellence) Program.  He is as invested into Mental Performance as any athlete I have ever worked with.

In this podcast recorded live in front of close to 500 high school baseball coaches and players we talk about…

The Importance of daily mental performance training


Separating what you do and who you are


The importance of self-talk, perspective and routines


How to overcome the biggest challenges you face in baseball and life

How the mental game helped him go from Non-drafted out of HS to 8th overall


And much much more….

You can engage with Josh Jung on instagram @Josh6Jung and with Brian Cain @BrianCainPeak</itunes:summary>
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</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Separating <strong>what you do and who you are</strong>
</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The importance of <strong>self-talk, perspective and routines</strong>
</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>How to <strong>overcome the biggest challenges you face </strong>in baseball and life</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>How <strong>the mental game helped him go from Non-drafted out of HS to 8th overall</strong>
</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>And much much more….</strong></li></ul><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Josh Jung on instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/josh6jung/">@Josh6Jung</a> and with Brian Cain <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/">@BrianCainPeak</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Baseball MPM - #2 - Becoming A Machine of Routine</title>
      <description>In episode #2 of Coffee with Cain and Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought after MPM Coaches and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use both on and off the field to become a machine of routine. 

The secrets of success are hidden in the routines of our daily lives, Cain and Casey breakdown the routines that helped Casey become a lifetime .300 hitter in Major League Baseball and the routines that they both keep in their personal and professional lives as a mental performance coach and as an analyst with the MLB Network.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb) on instagram and twitter.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 21:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Baseball MPM - #2 - Becoming A Machine of Routine</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In episode #2 of Coffee with Cain and Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought after MPM Coaches and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use both on and off the field to become a machine of routine. 

The secrets of success are hidden in the routines of our daily lives, Cain and Casey breakdown the routines that helped Casey become a lifetime .300 hitter in Major League Baseball and the routines that they both keep in their personal and professional lives as a mental performance coach and as an analyst with the MLB Network.

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb) on instagram and twitter.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In episode #2 of Coffee with Cain and Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought after MPM Coaches and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use both on and off the field to become a machine of routine. </p><p><br></p><p>The secrets of success are hidden in the routines of our daily lives, Cain and Casey breakdown the routines that helped Casey become a lifetime .300 hitter in Major League Baseball and the routines that they both keep in their personal and professional lives as a mental performance coach and as an analyst with the MLB Network.</p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb) on instagram and twitter.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>The Mental Performance Training Behind Baseball’s Biggest Story of 2021</title>
      <description>Corbin Burnes burst onto the Major League Baseball scene in 2018 when he went 7-0 with a 2.61 ERA helping the Milwaukee Brewers to a NL Central league championship and a game 7 in the NLCS vs the LA Dodgers.
2019 was not as kind to the right handed pitcher. Corbin started the season in the starting rotation for the Brewers and ended the year with a 1-5 record and 8.82 ERA, one of the worst ERA’s for any starting pitcher in the game. After being sent down to the minor leagues and back to the bullpen, the Brewers eventually sent Corbin to their pitching lab in Arizona.
While visiting the lab at the Brewers spring training complex in Arizona, I met with Corbin at my house for the first time. We went to work on refining his mental game and routines both on and off the field.
After a successful shortened season in 2020 where he was 6th in the NL Cy Young voting, 2021 brought even more success. Corbin set a MLB record for starting pitchers by recording 49K’s (and counting) before issuing his first walk, besting the previous record of 36.
When you combine the 2020 and 2021 seasons, he is 3rd in the MLB in wins above replacement (WAR) at 3.7, which is only slightly behind Cy Young Award winners Shane Bieber (4.4) and Jacob deGrom (4.3).  
You could say that the turnaround has been completed, yet Corbin would tell you the turnaround is always under construction and that there’s no finish line in the race he is running.
In this podcast, Corbin and I talk about the mental performance skills he works to develop to give him the best chance for success on the mound including:

What he uses most from The 30 Days to MPM for Athletes Program and why he looks at it every day



His Daily Routines on and off the field including his AM and PM Routine



What he tracks with his Daily Success Checklist




Why he reads The Daily Stoic, The Mental ABCs of Pitching and specifically the chapter on execution



Why he calls Dr. Rob Gilbert and Success Hotline as a part of his daily drive



What he learned from UFC Champion Georges St-Pierre about self-control, Signal Lights and Mental Bricks



How he uses the Calm meditation app, as a part of his recovery protocol



How and when he uses mental imagery, visualization and his mind movie




How and why he uses concentration grids as a part of his mental performance training program



Why and how he does weekly shadow bullpens to increase preparation and confidence



What he does for a well, better, how post pitching performance analysis to keep him focused on the process




The details of his 120 hour routine between starts



His pre-inning, pre-batter, pre-pitch routines




What he does between innings in the dugout



How his understanding and commitment to process has evolved over his career



How he manages the pressure, stress and expectations that come with being a front line starter in the Major Leagues



What he has learned in his career that he wishes he knew when he was an amateur player in high school and college



What he loves about golf and how he uses golf as a training ground for his mental game 


And much much more...

.
You can follow Corbin Burnes on instagram @CorbinBurnes and Brian Cain @BrianCainPeak.
.
If you want to develop a mental game training program similar to what Corbin Burnes is working with, go to BrianCain.com/baseball for my FREE baseball masterclass to get started.
.
If you enjoyed this episode of The Brian Cain Mental Performance Podcast, please leave us a review and be sure to visit BrianCain.com/blog for more episodes with top coaches and athletes who are seeing results from their work on the mental game.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2021 20:16:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The Mental Performance Training Behind Baseball’s Biggest Story of 2021</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>Corbin Burnes is in the midst of the biggest turn around in baseball history in this podcast he shares his mental preparation game plan...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Corbin Burnes burst onto the Major League Baseball scene in 2018 when he went 7-0 with a 2.61 ERA helping the Milwaukee Brewers to a NL Central league championship and a game 7 in the NLCS vs the LA Dodgers.
2019 was not as kind to the right handed pitcher. Corbin started the season in the starting rotation for the Brewers and ended the year with a 1-5 record and 8.82 ERA, one of the worst ERA’s for any starting pitcher in the game. After being sent down to the minor leagues and back to the bullpen, the Brewers eventually sent Corbin to their pitching lab in Arizona.
While visiting the lab at the Brewers spring training complex in Arizona, I met with Corbin at my house for the first time. We went to work on refining his mental game and routines both on and off the field.
After a successful shortened season in 2020 where he was 6th in the NL Cy Young voting, 2021 brought even more success. Corbin set a MLB record for starting pitchers by recording 49K’s (and counting) before issuing his first walk, besting the previous record of 36.
When you combine the 2020 and 2021 seasons, he is 3rd in the MLB in wins above replacement (WAR) at 3.7, which is only slightly behind Cy Young Award winners Shane Bieber (4.4) and Jacob deGrom (4.3).  
You could say that the turnaround has been completed, yet Corbin would tell you the turnaround is always under construction and that there’s no finish line in the race he is running.
In this podcast, Corbin and I talk about the mental performance skills he works to develop to give him the best chance for success on the mound including:

What he uses most from The 30 Days to MPM for Athletes Program and why he looks at it every day



His Daily Routines on and off the field including his AM and PM Routine



What he tracks with his Daily Success Checklist




Why he reads The Daily Stoic, The Mental ABCs of Pitching and specifically the chapter on execution



Why he calls Dr. Rob Gilbert and Success Hotline as a part of his daily drive



What he learned from UFC Champion Georges St-Pierre about self-control, Signal Lights and Mental Bricks



How he uses the Calm meditation app, as a part of his recovery protocol



How and when he uses mental imagery, visualization and his mind movie




How and why he uses concentration grids as a part of his mental performance training program



Why and how he does weekly shadow bullpens to increase preparation and confidence



What he does for a well, better, how post pitching performance analysis to keep him focused on the process




The details of his 120 hour routine between starts



His pre-inning, pre-batter, pre-pitch routines




What he does between innings in the dugout



How his understanding and commitment to process has evolved over his career



How he manages the pressure, stress and expectations that come with being a front line starter in the Major Leagues



What he has learned in his career that he wishes he knew when he was an amateur player in high school and college



What he loves about golf and how he uses golf as a training ground for his mental game 


And much much more...

.
You can follow Corbin Burnes on instagram @CorbinBurnes and Brian Cain @BrianCainPeak.
.
If you want to develop a mental game training program similar to what Corbin Burnes is working with, go to BrianCain.com/baseball for my FREE baseball masterclass to get started.
.
If you enjoyed this episode of The Brian Cain Mental Performance Podcast, please leave us a review and be sure to visit BrianCain.com/blog for more episodes with top coaches and athletes who are seeing results from their work on the mental game.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Corbin Burnes burst onto the Major League Baseball scene in 2018 when he went 7-0 with a 2.61 ERA helping the Milwaukee Brewers to a NL Central league championship and a game 7 in the NLCS vs the LA Dodgers.</p><p>2019 was not as kind to the right handed pitcher. Corbin started the season in the starting rotation for the Brewers and ended the year with a 1-5 record and 8.82 ERA, one of the worst ERA’s for any starting pitcher in the game. After being sent down to the minor leagues and back to the bullpen, the Brewers eventually sent Corbin to their pitching lab in Arizona.</p><p>While visiting the lab at the Brewers spring training complex in Arizona, I met with Corbin at my house for the first time. We went to work on refining his mental game and routines both on and off the field.</p><p>After a successful shortened season in 2020 where he was 6th in the NL Cy Young voting, 2021 brought even more success. Corbin set a MLB record for starting pitchers by recording 49K’s (and counting) before issuing his first walk, besting the previous record of 36.</p><p>When you combine the 2020 and 2021 seasons, he is 3rd in the MLB in wins above replacement (WAR) at 3.7, which is only slightly behind Cy Young Award winners Shane Bieber (4.4) and Jacob deGrom (4.3).  </p><p>You could say that the turnaround has been completed, yet Corbin would tell you the turnaround is always under construction and that there’s no finish line in the race he is running.</p><p>In this podcast, Corbin and I talk about the mental performance skills he works to develop to give him the best chance for success on the mound including:</p><ul>
<li>What he uses most from <a href="https://briancain.com/30dayathletescourse">The 30 Days to MPM for Athletes Program</a> and why he looks at it every day</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>His <strong>Daily Routines</strong> on and off the field including his AM and PM Routine</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>What he tracks with his <a href="https://briancain.com/blog/way-of-life.html">Daily Success Checklist</a>
</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>Why he reads <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Stoic-Meditations-Wisdom-Perseverance/dp/0735211736/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Daily+Stoic&amp;qid=1620132936&amp;sr=8-1">The Daily Stoic</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mental-ABCs-Pitching-Performance-Enhancement/dp/1630761842/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjw4cOEBhDMARIsAA3XDRh_lLZUtAq563c64X32Cw3FX9UH6qyuh8ijjZoSJcBSlf9-oz510-IaAkJSEALw_wcB&amp;hvadid=241917168127&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9030174&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=7267085672251018077&amp;hvtargid=kwd-4916349866&amp;hydadcr=22567_10346631&amp;keywords=the+mental+abcs+of+pitching&amp;qid=1620132913&amp;sr=8-1">The Mental ABCs of Pitching</a> and specifically the chapter on execution</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>Why he calls Dr. Rob Gilbert and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0jgcS1TQ3qIiq4J1Z8VckP?si=QhWhrGI-QNCglpKceMc8-w&amp;nd=1">Success Hotline</a> as a part of his daily drive</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>What he learned from <a href="https://briancain.com/blog/mental-performance-coaching-case-study.html">UFC Champion Georges St-Pierre</a> about self-control, <a href="https://briancain.com/blog/go-green-and-get-your-mind-right.html">Signal Lights</a> and Mental Bricks</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>How he uses the Calm <strong>meditation</strong> app, as a part of his recovery protocol</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>How and when he uses <strong>mental imagery</strong>, <strong>visualization</strong> and his <strong>mind movie</strong>
</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>How and why he uses <a href="https://briancain.com/cgrid">concentration grids</a> as a part of his mental performance training program</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>Why and how he does weekly <a href="https://briancain.com/blog/the-number-one-drill-you-can-do-to-develop-mentally-tough-pitchers.html">shadow bullpens</a> to increase preparation and confidence</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>What he does for a <strong>well, better, how post pitching performance analysis</strong> to keep him <strong>focused on the process</strong>
</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>The details of his <strong>120 hour routine</strong> between starts</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>His <strong>pre-inning, pre-batter, pre-pitch routines</strong>
</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>What he does <strong>between innings</strong> in the dugout</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>How his understanding and <strong>commitment to process</strong> has evolved over his career</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>How he <strong>manages the pressure, stress and expectations</strong> that come with being a front line starter in the Major Leagues</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>What he has learned in his career that <strong>he wishes he knew when he was an amateur player</strong> in high school and college</li>
<li><br></li>
<li>What he loves about golf and <strong>how he uses golf as a training ground for his mental game </strong>
</li>
<li><strong>And much much more...</strong></li>
</ul><p>.</p><p>You can follow Corbin Burnes on instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/corbinburnes/?hl=en"><strong>@CorbinBurnes</strong></a> and Brian Cain <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/?hl=en">@BrianCainPeak</a>.</p><p>.</p><p>If you want to develop a mental game training program similar to what Corbin Burnes is working with, go to <a href="https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass">BrianCain.com/baseball for my FREE baseball masterclass</a> to get started.</p><p>.</p><p>If you enjoyed this episode of The Brian Cain Mental Performance Podcast, please leave us a review and be sure to visit <a href="https://briancain.com/blog">BrianCain.com/blog</a> for more episodes with top coaches and athletes who are seeing results from their work on the mental game.</p>]]>
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      <title>Baseball MPM - #1 - Winning The Mental Game of Baseball and Life</title>
      <description>In episode #1 of Baseball Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) with Cain and Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought after MPM Coaches and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use both on and off the field to give yourself the best chance for success.

Joining Cain and Casey today are TX Rangers MLB Player Nick Solak, one of the World’s most respected vision performance coaches Dr. Ryan Harrison of @SlowTheGameDown and one of the top up incoming D1 college baseball head coaches, former TCU and University of Houston assistant coach and current University of Incarnate Word head baseball coach, Ryan Shotzberger.

In this podcast Cain, Casey, Shotz, Harry and Solak do a deep dive into all things mental game of baseball, routine, process, coaching the mental game and competing one pitch at a time

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb) on instagram and twitter.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Baseball MPM - #1 - Winning The Mental Game of Baseball and Life</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>In episode #1 of Baseball Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) with Cain and Casey, Brian Cain, creator of the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coaches Certification and one of the World’s most sought after MPM Coaches and Sean “The Mayor” Casey, one of baseball’s all-time best hitters talk about success strategies you can use both on and off the field to give yourself the best chance for success.

Joining Cain and Casey today are TX Rangers MLB Player Nick Solak, one of the World’s most respected vision performance coaches Dr. Ryan Harrison of @SlowTheGameDown and one of the top up incoming D1 college baseball head coaches, former TCU and University of Houston assistant coach and current University of Incarnate Word head baseball coach, Ryan Shotzberger.

In this podcast Cain, Casey, Shotz, Harry and Solak do a deep dive into all things mental game of baseball, routine, process, coaching the mental game and competing one pitch at a time

You can engage with Brian Cain (@BrianCainPeak) and Sean Casey (@themayorsofficemlb) on instagram and twitter.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Mental Game Success Strategies of Baseball’s Best Hitter</title>
      <description>Sean “The Mayor” Casey played MLB from 1997-2008 with The Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox.  Casey, a 3x MLB All-Star has a career batting average of .302, hit 130 HRs and drove in 735 RBI.  In 1995 Casey’s Jr. year of college at the University of Richmond, the left handed hitter won the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) conference triple crown hitting .461.

The 2nd-round-pick of the Cleveland Indians in 1995, Casey was named the friendliest player in baseball in 2007 by Sports Illustrated in a players poll..  Along with his nice and friendly personality, Casey was also a fierce competitor and one of the best left on left hitters, always hitting over .300 against hall of fame left handed pitchers.

Casey was and still is an avid student of mental performance.  In his current career as an analyst across MLB Network's programming, he will frequently talk about the mental side of the game and his work with two icons in the field, Harvey Dorfman and Dr. Bill Harrison.  

In this podcast we talk about…

Why and how to keep the process bigger than the end result and mechanics

The importance of watching positive video of yourself as a hitter and not getting lost in the mechanical breakdown

The role confidence plays in hitting success


Simplifying your approach at the plate with 3 simple strategies 

The power of positive mental imagery


Using fear and negative energy as chips on your shoulder and motivation

And much more…

﻿You can engage with Sean Casey on instagram @TheMayorsOffice and with Brian Cain @BrianCainPeak</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 18:45:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Sean “The Mayor” Casey played MLB from 1997-2008 with The Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox.  Casey, a 3x MLB All-Star has a career batting average of .302, hit 130 HRs and drove in 735 RBI.  In 1995 Casey’s Jr. year of college at the University of Richmond, the left handed hitter won the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) conference triple crown hitting .461.

The 2nd-round-pick of the Cleveland Indians in 1995, Casey was named the friendliest player in baseball in 2007 by Sports Illustrated in a players poll..  Along with his nice and friendly personality, Casey was also a fierce competitor and one of the best left on left hitters, always hitting over .300 against hall of fame left handed pitchers.

Casey was and still is an avid student of mental performance.  In his current career as an analyst across MLB Network's programming, he will frequently talk about the mental side of the game and his work with two icons in the field, Harvey Dorfman and Dr. Bill Harrison.  

In this podcast we talk about…

Why and how to keep the process bigger than the end result and mechanics

The importance of watching positive video of yourself as a hitter and not getting lost in the mechanical breakdown

The role confidence plays in hitting success


Simplifying your approach at the plate with 3 simple strategies 

The power of positive mental imagery


Using fear and negative energy as chips on your shoulder and motivation

And much more…

﻿You can engage with Sean Casey on instagram @TheMayorsOffice and with Brian Cain @BrianCainPeak</itunes:summary>
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<strong>Simplifying your approach </strong>at the plate with 3 simple strategies </li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The power of <strong>positive mental imagery</strong>
</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Using fear and negative energy as <strong>chips on your shoulder </strong>and motivation</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>And much more…</strong></li></ul><p><br></p><p>﻿You can engage with Sean Casey on instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/themayorsofficemlb/">@TheMayorsOffice</a> and with Brian Cain <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/">@BrianCainPeak</a> </p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Update On Podcast - What's Going On Moving Forward...</title>
      <description>Brian gives you an update on what's coming up in the Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast including his new Baseball MPM Podcast with MLB Network Analyst and lifetime .300+ hitter Sean Casey  and his new Golf MPM Podcast with College Golf Coach Trake Carpenter.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2021 22:37:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>How Mental Performance Can Improve Sleep, Recovery and the Results Your Clients Get on a Daily Basis</title>
      <description>In this podcast, Brian Cain joins Nick Lamb, creator of the sleep coach summit and four top sleep and recovery coaches to talk about the 10 pillars of mental performance mastery and their effect on sleep.

In this podcast we discuss…

How your mindset can affect the quality of your sleep and recovery

Why all coaches are really mental performance coaches when it comes to results

How to get “buy in” from those who you coach

And much more…</description>
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      <itunes:title>How Mental Performance Can Improve Sleep, Recovery and the Results Your Clients Get on a Daily Basis</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this podcast, Brian Cain joins Nick Lamb, creator of the sleep coach summit and four top sleep and recovery coaches to talk about the 10 pillars of mental performance mastery and their effect on sleep.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this podcast, Brian Cain joins Nick Lamb, creator of the sleep coach summit and four top sleep and recovery coaches to talk about the 10 pillars of mental performance mastery and their effect on sleep.

In this podcast we discuss…

How your mindset can affect the quality of your sleep and recovery

Why all coaches are really mental performance coaches when it comes to results

How to get “buy in” from those who you coach

And much more…</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this podcast, Brian Cain joins Nick Lamb, creator of the sleep coach summit and four top sleep and recovery coaches to talk about the 10 pillars of mental performance mastery and their effect on sleep.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast we discuss…</p><ul>
<li>How your mindset can affect the quality of your sleep and recovery</li>
<li>Why all coaches are really mental performance coaches when it comes to results</li>
<li>How to get “buy in” from those who you coach</li>
<li>And much more…</li>
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      <title>Mind, Body, Spirit - A Recipe for Major League Success</title>
      <description>Zach Brandon is the mental skills coordinator for the Arizona Diamondbacks, where he helps baseball’s best players reach their maximum potential. Zach’s approach to developing a strong mind, body and spirit is as applicable to life as it is on the diamond.

Prior to his current role in professional baseball, Zach served as a Mental Conditioning Coach at the IMG Academy where he worked with athletes and coaches in baseball, basketball, tennis, and track &amp; field. 

He was a college baseball player and received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Linfield College and holds a Master’s degree in Kinesiology and Applied Sport Psychology from Cal State Fullerton where he studied under the guidance of Dr. Ken Ravizza.

In this podcast, Zach discusses

How to direct your attention when it matters on the right thing at the right time

Why positive and negative thinking can both help performance

The importance of a holistic approach to developing mind, body and spirit


Perspective and the importance of of developing it vs. being defined by it


Why it’s better to have the right question than have the right answer


And much more...


You can engage with Zach on Twitter @MVP_Mindset and with Brian Cain on twitter and instagram @BrianCainePeak</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2021 21:42:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Mind, Body, Spirit - A Recipe for Major League Success</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Zach Brandon is the mental skills coordinator for the Arizona Diamondbacks, where he helps baseball’s best players reach their maximum potential.  Zach’s approach to developing a strong mind, body and spirit is as applicable to life as it is on the diamond.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Zach Brandon is the mental skills coordinator for the Arizona Diamondbacks, where he helps baseball’s best players reach their maximum potential. Zach’s approach to developing a strong mind, body and spirit is as applicable to life as it is on the diamond.

Prior to his current role in professional baseball, Zach served as a Mental Conditioning Coach at the IMG Academy where he worked with athletes and coaches in baseball, basketball, tennis, and track &amp; field. 

He was a college baseball player and received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Linfield College and holds a Master’s degree in Kinesiology and Applied Sport Psychology from Cal State Fullerton where he studied under the guidance of Dr. Ken Ravizza.

In this podcast, Zach discusses

How to direct your attention when it matters on the right thing at the right time

Why positive and negative thinking can both help performance

The importance of a holistic approach to developing mind, body and spirit


Perspective and the importance of of developing it vs. being defined by it


Why it’s better to have the right question than have the right answer


And much more...


You can engage with Zach on Twitter @MVP_Mindset and with Brian Cain on twitter and instagram @BrianCainePeak</itunes:summary>
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<li>How to <strong>direct your attention </strong>when it matters on the right thing at the right time</li>
<li>Why <strong>positive and negative thinking </strong>can both help performance</li>
<li>The importance of a holistic approach to <strong>developing mind, body and spirit</strong>
</li>
<li>Perspective and the importance of of <strong>developing it vs. being defined by it</strong>
</li>
<li>Why it’s <strong>better to have the right question than have the right answer</strong>
</li>
<li><strong>And much more...</strong></li>
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      <title>Don’t Count the Days, Make the Days Count</title>
      <description>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode, I break down the importance of the day and why the biggest day of your life… is always today.

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.

ATHLETES: What YOU should do now…

Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? 

If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.

In this program, I’ll show you how to:


Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena

Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis

Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.


Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete 
COACHES: What you should do now...

Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I'll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.

If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.

Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:

Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.

Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.

Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.

﻿
Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2021 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Don’t Count the Days, Make the Days Count</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode, I break down the importance of the day and why the biggest day of your life… is always today.

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.

ATHLETES: What YOU should do now…

Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? 

If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.

In this program, I’ll show you how to:


Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena

Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis

Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.


Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete 
COACHES: What you should do now...

Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I'll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.

If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.

Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:

Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.

Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.

Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.

﻿
Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode, I break down the importance of the day and why the biggest day of your life… is always today.</p><p><br></p><p>Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>ATHLETES:</strong> What YOU should do now…</p><p><br></p><p>Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? </p><p><br></p><p>If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.</p><p><br></p><p>In this program, I’ll show you how to:</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena</li>
<li>Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis</li>
<li>Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete </p><br><p><strong>COACHES: What you should do now...</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I'll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.</p><p><br></p><p>If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.</p><p><br></p><p>Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:</p><ul>
<li>Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.</li>
<li>Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.</li>
<li>Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.</li>
</ul><p>﻿</p><p>Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification</p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Mental Performance Strategies from Combat and Baseball for Life</title>
      <description>Dr. Doug Chadwick is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point where he was a standout football player on Army’s nationally ranked team. He is currently the Director of Mental Skills Development for the Colorado Rockies. 

After graduating from West Point, Doug studied economics at the University of Oklahoma and kinesiology and applied sport psychology at Cal State Fullerton under the tutelage of Dr. Ken Ravizza. He then went on to receive his Ph.D. from The University of Georgia.

In this podcast we talk about

How you can be in one of three places at any given time, but only one helps your performance

The important of the intentional breath and intentional conscious thought

How counting your breaths can be a mental performance weapon in combat and on the baseball field

The importance of connecting what we do in the classroom to competition

His 3 step after action review and the importance of accurate self-reflection

And much more…</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:38:49 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Dr. Doug Chadwick is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point where he was a standout football player on Army’s nationally ranked team. He is currently the Director of Mental Skills Development for the Colorado Rockies. 

After graduating from West Point, Doug studied economics at the University of Oklahoma and kinesiology and applied sport psychology at Cal State Fullerton under the tutelage of Dr. Ken Ravizza. He then went on to receive his Ph.D. from The University of Georgia.

In this podcast we talk about

How you can be in one of three places at any given time, but only one helps your performance

The important of the intentional breath and intentional conscious thought

How counting your breaths can be a mental performance weapon in combat and on the baseball field

The importance of connecting what we do in the classroom to competition

His 3 step after action review and the importance of accurate self-reflection

And much more…</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Dr. Doug Chadwick is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point where he was a standout football player on Army’s nationally ranked team. He is currently the Director of Mental Skills Development for the Colorado Rockies. </p><p><br></p><p>After graduating from West Point, Doug studied economics at the University of Oklahoma and kinesiology and applied sport psychology at Cal State Fullerton under the tutelage of Dr. Ken Ravizza. He then went on to receive his Ph.D. from The University of Georgia.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast we talk about</p><ul>
<li>How you can be in one of three places at any given time, but only one helps your performance</li>
<li>The important of the intentional breath and intentional conscious thought</li>
<li>How counting your breaths can be a mental performance weapon in combat and on the baseball field</li>
<li>The importance of connecting what we do in the classroom to competition</li>
<li>His 3 step after action review and the importance of accurate self-reflection</li>
<li>And much more…</li>
</ul>]]>
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      <title>Be the MVP of Your Own Life</title>
      <description>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I break down how you can become the MVP of your own life by identifying your mission, vision and core principles.

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2021 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Be the MVP of Your Own Life</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I break down how you can become the MVP of your own life by identifying your mission, vision and core principles.

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I break down how you can become the MVP of your own life by identifying your mission, vision and core principles.</p><p><br></p><p>Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.</p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>From MLB Player to MLB MPM Coach, Sorenson Shares System For Developing Winners</title>
      <description>Zach Sorensen is a former Major League Baseball Player with the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels. The 3x All-American at Wichita State has worked as a mental performance coach with the Texas Rangers and is currently serving in that capacity with the Atlanta Braves.

Zach’s path from playing to doing his masters degree in sport psychology to becoming a MPM Certified coach to working in the minor leagues and now the major leagues is a path we can call learn from.

In this podcast Zach and I discuss:

The 7 Step Process he uses for developing mental performance

What he learned from hall of fame players about the importance of learning

3 Critical questions we must ask if we want to be effective as a MPM Coach

The importance of focusing on process and the controllables


And much more…

You can engage with Zach through his website Zsorensen.com and check out his book The Hard 90 on Amazon.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:12:31 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Zach Sorensen is a former Major League Baseball Player with the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels. The 3x All-American at Wichita State has worked as a mental performance coach with the Texas Rangers and is currently serving in that capacity with the Atlanta Braves.

Zach’s path from playing to doing his masters degree in sport psychology to becoming a MPM Certified coach to working in the minor leagues and now the major leagues is a path we can call learn from.

In this podcast Zach and I discuss:

The 7 Step Process he uses for developing mental performance

What he learned from hall of fame players about the importance of learning

3 Critical questions we must ask if we want to be effective as a MPM Coach

The importance of focusing on process and the controllables


And much more…

You can engage with Zach through his website Zsorensen.com and check out his book The Hard 90 on Amazon.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Zach Sorensen is a former Major League Baseball Player with the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels. The 3x All-American at Wichita State has worked as a mental performance coach with the Texas Rangers and is currently serving in that capacity with the Atlanta Braves.</p><p><br></p><p>Zach’s path from playing to doing his masters degree in sport psychology to becoming a MPM Certified coach to working in the minor leagues and now the major leagues is a path we can call learn from.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast Zach and I discuss:</p><ul>
<li>The 7 Step Process he uses for developing mental performance</li>
<li>What he learned from hall of fame players about the importance of learning</li>
<li>3 Critical questions we must ask if we want to be effective as a MPM Coach</li>
<li>The importance of focusing on process and the controllables</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>And much more…</p><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Zach through his website Zsorensen.com and check out his book <em>The Hard 90 </em>on Amazon.</p>]]>
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      <title>3 Lessons Learned From Olympic Success</title>
      <description>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I breakdown the three biggest takeaways I learned from reading No Limits by 28x Olympic medalist Michel Phelps.

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2021 21:40:59 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I breakdown the three biggest takeaways I learned from reading No Limits by 28x Olympic medalist Michel Phelps.

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I breakdown the three biggest takeaways I learned from reading <em>No Limits </em>by 28x Olympic medalist Michel Phelps.</p><p><br></p><p>Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.</p>]]>
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      <title>MPM Athlete To MPM Coach, Turning Passion to Profession</title>
      <description>Kris Goodman is a mental performance coach in the Tampa Bay Rays organization. Goodman was a stand out player at The University of Iowa where I had the privilege of working with him as the team's mental performance consultant. “Goody” would go on to be selected by the Miami Marlins in the 2015 MLB draft. 

After his professional career, he went on to receive his masters in applied sport psychology at Minnesota State, Mankato. In this podcast, “Goody” shares how he has parlayed his mental performance experiences as a player into his passion and now his profession.

In this podcast “Goody” and I discuss:

When does an at-bat start and the key components of an at-bat routine

The power of visualization and relaxation training

The use of association and triggers and their role in competing one pitch at a time

How to stay alert, calm, poised and engaged at the same time

And much more…


You can engage with Kris Goodman on Twitter @KrisGoodman_ and on Instagram Kris_Goodman_</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 18:49:06 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>Kris Goodman is a mental performance coach in the Tampa Bay Rays organization. Goodman was a stand out player at The University of Iowa where I had the privilege of working with him as the team's mental performance consultant. “Goody” would go on to be selected by the Miami Marlins in the 2015 MLB draft. 

After his professional career, he went on to receive his masters in applied sport psychology at Minnesota State, Mankato. In this podcast, “Goody” shares how he has parlayed his mental performance experiences as a player into his passion and now his profession.

In this podcast “Goody” and I discuss:

When does an at-bat start and the key components of an at-bat routine

The power of visualization and relaxation training

The use of association and triggers and their role in competing one pitch at a time

How to stay alert, calm, poised and engaged at the same time

And much more…


You can engage with Kris Goodman on Twitter @KrisGoodman_ and on Instagram Kris_Goodman_</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><strong>Kris Goodman </strong>is a mental performance coach in the Tampa Bay Rays organization. Goodman was a stand out player at The University of Iowa where I had the privilege of working with him as the team's mental performance consultant. “Goody” would go on to be selected by the Miami Marlins in the 2015 MLB draft. </p><p><br></p><p>After his professional career, he went on to receive his masters in applied sport psychology at Minnesota State, Mankato. In this podcast, “Goody” shares how he has parlayed his mental performance experiences as a player into his passion and now his profession.</p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast “Goody” and I discuss:</p><ul>
<li>When does an at-bat start and the key components of an at-bat routine</li>
<li>The power of visualization and relaxation training</li>
<li>The use of association and triggers and their role in competing one pitch at a time</li>
<li>How to stay alert, calm, poised and engaged at the same time</li>
<li>And much more…</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>You can engage with Kris Goodman on Twitter @KrisGoodman_ and on Instagram Kris_Goodman_</p>]]>
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      <title>Elite vs. Average Mindset… Which Do You Have?</title>
      <description>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I breakdown the difference between an elite and an average mindset. Listen closely and try to identify which one you have.

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.

ATHLETES: What YOU should do now…

Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? 

If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.

In this program, I’ll show you how to:

Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena.

Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis.

Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.

Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete 

COACHES: What YOU should do now…
Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.
If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.
Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:
Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.

Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.

Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.

Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:14:31 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I breakdown the difference between an elite and an average mindset. Listen closely and try to identify which one you have.

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.

ATHLETES: What YOU should do now…

Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? 

If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.

In this program, I’ll show you how to:

Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena.

Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis.

Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.

Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete 

COACHES: What YOU should do now…
Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.
If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.
Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:
Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.

Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.

Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.

Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I breakdown the difference between an elite and an average mindset. Listen closely and try to identify which one you have.</p><p><br></p><p>Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>ATHLETES:</strong> What YOU should do now…</p><p><br></p><p>Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? </p><p><br></p><p>If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.</p><p><br></p><p>In this program, I’ll show you how to:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena.</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis.</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete </p><p><br></p><p><strong>COACHES:</strong> What YOU should do now…</p><p>Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.</p><p>If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.</p><p>Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:</p><ul><li>Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification</p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Ball field to boardroom, MPM success strategies for results in sports, business and life with Keith Conlon, MPM</title>
      <description> Keith Conlon is a business leader who first honed his mental performance skills on the baseball field, while playing at TCU and professionally.
As President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates in Dallas, Texas he’s helped lead the Real Estate firm to record sales that surpassed over $2 billion in 2018 and again in 2020.
Conlon, recently named named one of Dallas’ the Top 20 Under 40 professionals is a mental performance mastery (MPM) certified coach, husband, father of two and bring a unique perspective to mental performance having used his training for success both on the ball field and in the board room.
In this podcast, Keith and I discus:

The importance of routines, consistency and getting results


The similarities of what he did as an athlete to what he does today in real estate


The biggest challenge he faces on a daily basis in real estate and how to overcome them


What he does on a daily basis as part of his personal success process


And much more…</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Ball field to boardroom, MPM success strategies for results in sports, business and life with Keith Conlon, MPM</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary> Keith Conlon is a business leader who first honed his mental performance skills on the baseball field, while playing at TCU and professionally.
As President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates in Dallas, Texas he’s helped lead the Real Estate firm to record sales that surpassed over $2 billion in 2018 and again in 2020.
Conlon, recently named named one of Dallas’ the Top 20 Under 40 professionals is a mental performance mastery (MPM) certified coach, husband, father of two and bring a unique perspective to mental performance having used his training for success both on the ball field and in the board room.
In this podcast, Keith and I discus:

The importance of routines, consistency and getting results


The similarities of what he did as an athlete to what he does today in real estate


The biggest challenge he faces on a daily basis in real estate and how to overcome them


What he does on a daily basis as part of his personal success process


And much more…</itunes:summary>
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<li>The importance of <strong>routines, consistency and getting results</strong>
</li>
<li>The <strong>similarities</strong> of what he did as an <strong>athlete</strong> to what he does today in <strong>real estate</strong>
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<li>The <strong>biggest challenge</strong> he faces on a daily basis in real estate and <strong>how to overcome them</strong>
</li>
<li>What he does on a daily basis as part of <strong>his personal success process</strong>
</li>
<li><strong>And much more…</strong></li>
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      <title>From the Ballfield to the Boardroom, MPM Strategies That Work in Sports, Business and Life</title>
      <description>Keith Conlon is a business leader who first honed his mental performance skills on the baseball field, while playing at TCU and professionally.
As President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates in Dallas, Texas he's helped lead the Real Estate firm to record sales that surpassed over $2 billion in 2018 and again in 2020.
Conlon, recently named named one of Dallas’ the Top 20 Under 40 professionals is a mental performance mastery (MPM) certified coach, husband, father of two and bring a unique perspective to mental performance having used his training for success both on the ball field and in the board room.
In this podcast, Keith and I discuss:

The importance of routines, consistency and getting results

The similarities of what he did as an athlete to what he does today in real estate

The biggest challenge he faces on a daily basis in real estate and how to overcome it

What he does on a daily basis as part of his personal success process

And much more...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2021 22:11:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Keith Conlon is a business leader who first honed his mental performance skills on the baseball field, while playing at TCU and professionally.
As President of Allie Beth Allman &amp; Associates in Dallas, Texas he's helped lead the Real Estate firm to record sales that surpassed over $2 billion in 2018 and again in 2020.
Conlon, recently named named one of Dallas’ the Top 20 Under 40 professionals is a mental performance mastery (MPM) certified coach, husband, father of two and bring a unique perspective to mental performance having used his training for success both on the ball field and in the board room.
In this podcast, Keith and I discuss:

The importance of routines, consistency and getting results

The similarities of what he did as an athlete to what he does today in real estate

The biggest challenge he faces on a daily basis in real estate and how to overcome it

What he does on a daily basis as part of his personal success process

And much more...</itunes:summary>
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<li>The importance of routines, consistency and getting results</li>
<li>The similarities of what he did as an athlete to what he does today in real estate</li>
<li>The biggest challenge he faces on a daily basis in real estate and how to overcome it</li>
<li>What he does on a daily basis as part of his personal success process</li>
<li>And much more...</li>
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      <title>Create More Success by Keeping a Success Journal</title>
      <description>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I share one of the best strategies I use with my top performing clients to help them create more success for themselves.

ATHLETES: What YOU should do now…

Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? 

If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.

In this program, I’ll show you how to:


Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena

Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis

Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.


Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete 

COACHES: What YOU should do now…

Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.
If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.
Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:

Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.

Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.

Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.


Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:45:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I share one of the best strategies I use with my top performing clients to help them create more success for themselves.

ATHLETES: What YOU should do now…

Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? 

If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.

In this program, I’ll show you how to:


Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena

Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis

Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.


Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete 

COACHES: What YOU should do now…

Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.
If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.
Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:

Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.

Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.

Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.


Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I share one of the best strategies I use with my top performing clients to help them create more success for themselves.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>ATHLETES:</strong> What YOU should do now…</p><p><br></p><p>Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? </p><p><br></p><p>If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my <em>30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program</em> is for you.</p><p><br></p><p>In this program, I’ll show you how to:</p><p><br></p><ul>
<li>Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena</li>
<li>Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis</li>
<li>Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete </p><p><br></p><p><strong>COACHES: </strong>What YOU should do now…</p><p><br></p><p>Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.</p><p>If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.</p><p>Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:</p><ul>
<li>Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.</li>
<li>Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.</li>
<li>Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification</p><p><br></p><p>Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.</p>]]>
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      <title>Creativity, Consistency, Intentionality and Other Prerequisites for Becoming Elite at What You Do</title>
      <description>Jeremy Carey is the founder of Ironclad, a content company that makes films, series, and original content with the mission of challenging audiences to live a life of purpose and impact. 
Along with partnering with brands like Under Armour, the Navy SEAL Foundation, Blackhawk, Garmin and dozens of others, Jeremy and his team at Ironclad also produce original series and podcasts like this one, where audiences get insights into the lives of elite performers. Their motto: Defending freedom through content. 
Jeremy is a 1-1 coaching client and personal friend whose passion for growth, development, productivity and creativity is contagious. 

In this podcast we talk about…

How Jeremy went from selling t-shirts at skateboard events to running one of the most successful film teams on the planet

The importance of scheduled creativity and personal growth space and time

Consistency, routine and process, the keys to unlocking your best self

How iron sharpens iron and the importance of the company you keep

His mission, vision and core principles as they relate to success


And much more…

Be sure to follow Jeremy and Ironclad on Instagram @thisisironclad.</description>
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      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Jeremy Carey is the founder of Ironclad, a content company that makes films, series, and original content with the mission of challenging audiences to live a life of purpose and impact. 
Along with partnering with brands like Under Armour, the Navy SEAL Foundation, Blackhawk, Garmin and dozens of others, Jeremy and his team at Ironclad also produce original series and podcasts like this one, where audiences get insights into the lives of elite performers. Their motto: Defending freedom through content. 
Jeremy is a 1-1 coaching client and personal friend whose passion for growth, development, productivity and creativity is contagious. 

In this podcast we talk about…

How Jeremy went from selling t-shirts at skateboard events to running one of the most successful film teams on the planet

The importance of scheduled creativity and personal growth space and time

Consistency, routine and process, the keys to unlocking your best self

How iron sharpens iron and the importance of the company you keep

His mission, vision and core principles as they relate to success


And much more…

Be sure to follow Jeremy and Ironclad on Instagram @thisisironclad.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Jeremy Carey is the founder of Ironclad, a content company that makes films, series, and original content with the mission of challenging audiences to live a life of purpose and impact. </p><p>Along with partnering with brands like Under Armour, the Navy SEAL Foundation, Blackhawk, Garmin and dozens of others, Jeremy and his team at Ironclad also produce original series and podcasts like this one, where audiences get insights into the lives of elite performers. Their motto: Defending freedom through content. </p><p>Jeremy is a 1-1 coaching client and personal friend whose passion for growth, development, productivity and creativity is contagious. </p><p><br></p><p>In this podcast we talk about…</p><ul>
<li>How Jeremy went from selling t-shirts at skateboard events to running one of the most successful film teams on the planet</li>
<li>The importance of scheduled creativity and personal growth space and time</li>
<li>Consistency, routine and process, the keys to unlocking your best self</li>
<li>How iron sharpens iron and the importance of the company you keep</li>
<li>His mission, vision and core principles as they relate to success</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>And much more…</p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to follow Jeremy and Ironclad on Instagram @thisisironclad.</p>]]>
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      <title>Bas Rutten: Inside The Mind of a UFC World Champion &amp; MMA Hall of Famer</title>
      <description>Bas Rutten is a MMA Legend, UFC World Champion and UFC Hall of Fame fighter.

The retired dutch MMA fighter, taekwondo black belt, muay thai kickboxer and professional wrestler was a UFC Heavyweight Champion, a three-time King of Pancrase world champion and finished his career on a unthinkable 22 fight unbeaten streak (21 wins, 1 draw).

Fight Metrix, the official statistics provider for the UFC ran the numbers on Rutten’s career and statistically proved that he belongs not only in the UFC hall of fame, but near or on top of the list of greatest fighter of all time.

In the 4-hours, 27-minutes and 8-seconds he spent as a professional fighter, Rutten scored 13 knockdowns without getting dropped himself, his significant strike accuracy was 70.6%, the highest Fight Metric has ever recorded. He attempted a record 53 submissions and successfully swept his opponents a record 46 times.

He is currently a co-host of Inside MMA and is known for his charisma, good looks, great dance moves and devastating liver kicks. He has capitalized on his celebrity status since retiring from fighting in 1999 working as an MMA commentator, appearing in numerous television shows, movies, and video games.

Welcome to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Podcast.... FIGHTING out of Tilburg, Netherlands, The FORMER UFC Heavyweight Champion, Former 3x King of Pancrase and UFC Hall of Famer… Bas ‘El Guapo” Rutten

You can engage with Bas on twitter @BasRuttenMMA with Brian Cain on twitter and instagram @BrianCainPeak</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2021 01:15:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Bas Rutten: Inside The Mind of a UFC World Champion &amp; MMA Hall of Famer</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>Learn the mental performance strategies MMA World Champion Bas Rutten used inside the Octagon </itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Bas Rutten is a MMA Legend, UFC World Champion and UFC Hall of Fame fighter.

The retired dutch MMA fighter, taekwondo black belt, muay thai kickboxer and professional wrestler was a UFC Heavyweight Champion, a three-time King of Pancrase world champion and finished his career on a unthinkable 22 fight unbeaten streak (21 wins, 1 draw).

Fight Metrix, the official statistics provider for the UFC ran the numbers on Rutten’s career and statistically proved that he belongs not only in the UFC hall of fame, but near or on top of the list of greatest fighter of all time.

In the 4-hours, 27-minutes and 8-seconds he spent as a professional fighter, Rutten scored 13 knockdowns without getting dropped himself, his significant strike accuracy was 70.6%, the highest Fight Metric has ever recorded. He attempted a record 53 submissions and successfully swept his opponents a record 46 times.

He is currently a co-host of Inside MMA and is known for his charisma, good looks, great dance moves and devastating liver kicks. He has capitalized on his celebrity status since retiring from fighting in 1999 working as an MMA commentator, appearing in numerous television shows, movies, and video games.

Welcome to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Podcast.... FIGHTING out of Tilburg, Netherlands, The FORMER UFC Heavyweight Champion, Former 3x King of Pancrase and UFC Hall of Famer… Bas ‘El Guapo” Rutten

You can engage with Bas on twitter @BasRuttenMMA with Brian Cain on twitter and instagram @BrianCainPeak</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Creating Consistency to Improve Results</title>
      <description>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I share the #1 strategy I use personally and with my clients to create consistency and improve results.

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.

ATHLETES: What YOU should do now…

Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? 

If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.

In this program, I’ll show you how to:

Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena

Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis

Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.

Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete 

COACHES: What you should do now…

Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.
If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.
Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:
Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.

Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.

Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.

Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification</description>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I share the #1 strategy I use personally and with my clients to create consistency and improve results.

Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.

ATHLETES: What YOU should do now…

Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? 

If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.

In this program, I’ll show you how to:

Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena

Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis

Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists who I coach.

Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete 

COACHES: What you should do now…

Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification.
If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.
Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:
Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.

Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.

Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.

Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Creating a Culture of Process by Coaching the Mental Game of Baseball</title>
      <description>Todd Whitting is the head baseball coach at The University of Houston. In his career be has been a part of programs that have won 21 conference regular-season and tournament championships, competed in 17 NCAA Regionals, six NCAA Super Regionals and one NCAA College World Series.

Coach Whitting is one of the most respected coaches in the game. Before the coronavirus cut the 2020 season short, his team won at least 32 games in 7 consecutive seasons. 

Throughout his career he has coached or signed six first round draft picks and 17 Major Leaguers including nine at Houston. He’s also a husband and father of five. I’ve worked with Coach Whitting closely since 2006 and in this podcast we discuss:

How to create a culture of process and one pitch at a time

How to build the mental game into your daily practice routine as a coach

How to get “buy in” from your players

The importance of small, slow, daily repetition and consistency in training mindset

What your primary role is as head coach when it comes to coaching the mental game

And much more…</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2021 22:11:06 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Todd Whitting is the head baseball coach at The University of Houston. In his career be has been a part of programs that have won 21 conference regular-season and tournament championships, competed in 17 NCAA Regionals, six NCAA Super Regionals and one NCAA College World Series.

Coach Whitting is one of the most respected coaches in the game. Before the coronavirus cut the 2020 season short, his team won at least 32 games in 7 consecutive seasons. 

Throughout his career he has coached or signed six first round draft picks and 17 Major Leaguers including nine at Houston. He’s also a husband and father of five. I’ve worked with Coach Whitting closely since 2006 and in this podcast we discuss:

How to create a culture of process and one pitch at a time

How to build the mental game into your daily practice routine as a coach

How to get “buy in” from your players

The importance of small, slow, daily repetition and consistency in training mindset

What your primary role is as head coach when it comes to coaching the mental game

And much more…</itunes:summary>
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<li>How to create a culture of process and one pitch at a time</li>
<li>How to build the mental game into your daily practice routine as a coach</li>
<li>How to get “buy in” from your players</li>
<li>The importance of small, slow, daily repetition and consistency in training mindset</li>
<li>What your primary role is as head coach when it comes to coaching the mental game</li>
<li>And much more…</li>
</ul>]]>
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      <title>The #1 Mindset Shift That Will Change Your Life for the Better RIGHT NOW!</title>
      <description>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I share the #1 mindset shift that will change your life for the better RIGHT NOW!
When I ask my clients, whether professional athletes, coaches or corporate warriors what the #1 most impactful take away from out work together has been, this is their answer about 80% of the time.
Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.

ATHLETES: What YOU should do now…
Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? 
If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.
In this course, I’ll show you how to:

Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena

Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis

Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like I do with some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists.


Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete 

COACHES: What you should do now…Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification
If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.
Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:

Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.

Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.

Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.


Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2021 19:13:34 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I share the #1 mindset shift that will change your life for the better RIGHT NOW!
When I ask my clients, whether professional athletes, coaches or corporate warriors what the #1 most impactful take away from out work together has been, this is their answer about 80% of the time.
Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.

ATHLETES: What YOU should do now…
Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? 
If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.
In this course, I’ll show you how to:

Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena

Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis

Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like I do with some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists.


Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete 

COACHES: What you should do now…Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification
If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.
Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:

Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.

Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.

Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.


Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In this short “Mental Minute” podcast episode I share the #1 mindset shift that will change your life for the better RIGHT NOW!</p><p>When I ask my clients, whether professional athletes, coaches or corporate warriors what the #1 most impactful take away from out work together has been, this is their answer about 80% of the time.</p><p>Thank you for listening to the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast on the Ironclad Content Network. If you liked this show, be sure to leave us a rating and a review and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter @BrianCainPeak.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>ATHLETES:</strong> What YOU should do now…</p><p>Want to learn how to be the most mentally tough athlete you know? </p><p>If you found this podcast helpful and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance strategies as an athlete, my 30 Days to Mental Performance Mastery Program is for you.</p><p>In this course, I’ll show you how to:</p><ul>
<li>Compete with unshakable confidence each and every time you step into the arena</li>
<li>Perform at your best when it means the most—on a consistent basis</li>
<li>Create the elite mindset, routines, and habits of excellence you need to reach your potential and get the most our of your ability like I do with some of top athletes in the world, from UFC Champions to Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award Winners, and over 900 pro sport draft selections and Olympic Medalists.</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Join the top athletes in the world today at BrianCain.com/athlete </p><p><br></p><p>COACHES: What you should do now…Want to learn more coaching strategies to master the mental side of performance? Join my COACHES INSIDERS LIST and I’ll keep you updated on my next Mental Performance Mastery Certification</p><p>If you found this podcast helpful, and you’re interested in more cutting-edge mental performance coaching strategies, the MPM Certification is for you.</p><p>Inside the course, I’ll show you how to:</p><ul>
<li>Get your athletes to perform their best when it means the most by using a SYSTEM to create an elite mindset.</li>
<li>Compete at a higher level, more consistently—while managing distractions and adversity—by establishing the right routines.</li>
<li>Create the championship culture you need to develop elite athletic leaders and cultivate a clear vision that keeps everyone motivated and juiced up.</li>
</ul><p><br></p><p>Learn the systems and secrets I use to help the top coaches in the world compete at an elite level—year after year -&gt; BrianCain.com/certification</p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>The Mindset It Takes to Go From a Garbage Truck to the Ivy League, Wall Street and Being a Naval Warship Lieutenant</title>
      <description>Jonathan Falcone has a resume that includes working on a garbage truck, an Ivy League championship as a lacrosse goalie at Yale, a Masters degree from Princeton, a stint on Wall Street, a career as a Naval Officer and a start-up founder.
He’s a proud husband, father, a writer, musician and instructor at the Naval War College. To say Jonathan Falcone is a success could be the understatement of the century. 
I first met Jonathan when I worked with the Yale Lacrosse program and we stayed in contact throughout his career and his journal to become a lieutenant in the US Navy.
In this podcast we talk about…

The mental performance skills he used as a lacrosse goalie

What he took from our work at Yale and used in the US Navy

The importance of routines and consistency as a leader

Why and how he keeps a journal and meditates

The importance of getting outside of your comfort zone

And much more…</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:37:41 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The Mindset It Takes to Go From a Garbage Truck to the Ivy League, Wall Street and Being a Naval Warship Lieutenant</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>Jonathan Falcone has a resume that includes working on a garbage truck, an Ivy League championship as a lacrosse goalie at Yale, a Masters degree from Princeton, a stint on Wall Street, a career as a Naval Officer and a start-up founder.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Jonathan Falcone has a resume that includes working on a garbage truck, an Ivy League championship as a lacrosse goalie at Yale, a Masters degree from Princeton, a stint on Wall Street, a career as a Naval Officer and a start-up founder.
He’s a proud husband, father, a writer, musician and instructor at the Naval War College. To say Jonathan Falcone is a success could be the understatement of the century. 
I first met Jonathan when I worked with the Yale Lacrosse program and we stayed in contact throughout his career and his journal to become a lieutenant in the US Navy.
In this podcast we talk about…

The mental performance skills he used as a lacrosse goalie

What he took from our work at Yale and used in the US Navy

The importance of routines and consistency as a leader

Why and how he keeps a journal and meditates

The importance of getting outside of your comfort zone

And much more…</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Jonathan Falcone has a resume that includes working on a garbage truck, an Ivy League championship as a lacrosse goalie at Yale, a Masters degree from Princeton, a stint on Wall Street, a career as a Naval Officer and a start-up founder.</p><p>He’s a proud husband, father, a writer, musician and instructor at the Naval War College. To say Jonathan Falcone is a success could be the understatement of the century. </p><p>I first met Jonathan when I worked with the Yale Lacrosse program and we stayed in contact throughout his career and his journal to become a lieutenant in the US Navy.</p><p>In this podcast we talk about…</p><ul>
<li>The mental performance skills he used as a lacrosse goalie</li>
<li>What he took from our work at Yale and used in the US Navy</li>
<li>The importance of routines and consistency as a leader</li>
<li>Why and how he keeps a journal and meditates</li>
<li>The importance of getting outside of your comfort zone</li>
<li>And much more…</li>
</ul>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>4553</itunes:duration>
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      <title>The #1 Mental Performance Mindset That Will Immediately Get You Closer to Your Goals</title>
      <description>Today I share with you the #1 mental performance mindset that will immediately get you closer to your goals. Committing to this one mindset shift will decrease stress, increase performance and allow you to stop living in the land of “When I” which only slows your progress as it’s never achievable. This conscious shift is responsible for much of my clients massive results and life changing elite mindset development.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2020 20:33:39 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Today I share with you the #1 mental performance mindset that will immediately get you closer to your goals. Committing to this one mindset shift will decrease stress, increase performance and allow you to stop living in the land of “When I” which only slows your progress as it’s never achievable. This conscious shift is responsible for much of my clients massive results and life changing elite mindset development.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Today I share with you the #1 mental performance mindset that will immediately get you closer to your goals. Committing to this one mindset shift will decrease stress, increase performance and allow you to stop living in the land of “When I” which only slows your progress as it’s never achievable. This conscious shift is responsible for much of my clients massive results and life changing elite mindset development.</p>]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>133</itunes:duration>
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      <title>5 Strategies To Increase Your Leadership Skill with Dr Barry Davis</title>
      <description>To Dr. Barry Davis is the head baseball coach at Rider University where he has led the Broncs to two conference tournament championships, two regular season championships and has qualified for nine conference tournaments including 8 of the last 12 years. 
A member of the elite 900-wins in college baseball coaching club, six of his players have gone on to be selected in the Major League Baseball draft. 
A leader with a true growth mindset, Dr. Davis also holds a Master’s degree in Education and a Ph D. in Sports Leadership
In this podcast we break down his doctoral dissertation research including interviews with college baseballs top coaches from The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Louisville, Vanderbilt, Coastal Carolina, St. Johns University, Ole Miss, South Carolina and Duke about leadership, culture and what separates championship teams from those who fall short.
Dr. Davis identifies five themes from his research and interviews with these top college baseball coaches including:

1. Leadership and leadership development

2. Consistency and communication

3. Standards of excellence and how we do things on a daily basis

4. Acquiring The right people for your program

5. A growth mindset… searching for more to better themselves…
This is one podcast that’s a must listen for any coach who wants to create a program of success, influence and impact.
You can connect with Dr. Barry Davis on twitter @BarryDavis42</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:35:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>To Dr. Barry Davis is the head baseball coach at Rider University where he has led the Broncs to two conference tournament championships, two regular season championships and has qualified for nine conference tournaments including 8 of the last 12 years. 
A member of the elite 900-wins in college baseball coaching club, six of his players have gone on to be selected in the Major League Baseball draft. 
A leader with a true growth mindset, Dr. Davis also holds a Master’s degree in Education and a Ph D. in Sports Leadership
In this podcast we break down his doctoral dissertation research including interviews with college baseballs top coaches from The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Louisville, Vanderbilt, Coastal Carolina, St. Johns University, Ole Miss, South Carolina and Duke about leadership, culture and what separates championship teams from those who fall short.
Dr. Davis identifies five themes from his research and interviews with these top college baseball coaches including:

1. Leadership and leadership development

2. Consistency and communication

3. Standards of excellence and how we do things on a daily basis

4. Acquiring The right people for your program

5. A growth mindset… searching for more to better themselves…
This is one podcast that’s a must listen for any coach who wants to create a program of success, influence and impact.
You can connect with Dr. Barry Davis on twitter @BarryDavis42</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>To Dr. Barry Davis is the head baseball coach at Rider University where he has led the Broncs to two conference tournament championships, two regular season championships and has qualified for nine conference tournaments including 8 of the last 12 years. </p><p>A member of the elite 900-wins in college baseball coaching club, six of his players have gone on to be selected in the Major League Baseball draft. </p><p>A leader with a true growth mindset, Dr. Davis also holds a Master’s degree in Education and a Ph D. in Sports Leadership</p><p>In this podcast we break down his doctoral dissertation research including interviews with college baseballs top coaches from The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Louisville, Vanderbilt, Coastal Carolina, St. Johns University, Ole Miss, South Carolina and Duke about leadership, culture and what separates championship teams from those who fall short.</p><p>Dr. Davis identifies five themes from his research and interviews with these top college baseball coaches including:</p><p><br></p><p>1. Leadership and leadership development</p><p><br></p><p>2. Consistency and communication</p><p><br></p><p>3. Standards of excellence and how we do things on a daily basis</p><p><br></p><p>4. Acquiring The right people for your program</p><p><br></p><p>5. A growth mindset… searching for more to better themselves…</p><p>This is one podcast that’s a must listen for any coach who wants to create a program of success, influence and impact.</p><p>You can connect with Dr. Barry Davis on twitter @BarryDavis42</p>]]>
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      <title>The #1 Most Important Aspect of my AM Routine</title>
      <description>Today I share with you the #1 most important aspect of my AM routine. I call it #SweatBeforeScreens It’s a concept I’ve been implementing with more intention since March 2020 (Per Covid-19) because I have had more control over my schedule.

I find that when I #SweatBeforeScreens I have more energy, better focus, increased ability to take on stress which is called resilience, I am more friendly and maybe most important, I am more present and productive.

Some days it’s a run, others it’s yoga or a quick 5x5x5 lift where I will do 5 exercises, 5 reps and 5 sets of each. The key here, as it is for most aspects of life is consistency. I have tested this myself and with many of my clients and they report similar experiences.

Once I get in front of a laptop, phone, (I don’t do TV much, but if I do, that fits here as well) or start my work day… I have a VERY hard time stopping and then reinvesting into myself.

If you are struggling with a consistent workout routine or struggling with simply making the amount of intentional investment into yourself that your life deserves, give #SweatBeforeScreens a try. You won’t be disappointed.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:12:20 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The #1 Most Important Aspect of my AM Routine</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Today I share with you the #1 most important aspect of my AM routine. I call it #SweatBeforeScreens It’s a concept I’ve been implementing with more intention since March 2020 (Per Covid-19) because I have had more control over my schedule.

I find that when I #SweatBeforeScreens I have more energy, better focus, increased ability to take on stress which is called resilience, I am more friendly and maybe most important, I am more present and productive.

Some days it’s a run, others it’s yoga or a quick 5x5x5 lift where I will do 5 exercises, 5 reps and 5 sets of each. The key here, as it is for most aspects of life is consistency. I have tested this myself and with many of my clients and they report similar experiences.

Once I get in front of a laptop, phone, (I don’t do TV much, but if I do, that fits here as well) or start my work day… I have a VERY hard time stopping and then reinvesting into myself.

If you are struggling with a consistent workout routine or struggling with simply making the amount of intentional investment into yourself that your life deserves, give #SweatBeforeScreens a try. You won’t be disappointed.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Today I share with you the #1 most important aspect of my AM routine. I call it #SweatBeforeScreens It’s a concept I’ve been implementing with more intention since March 2020 (Per Covid-19) because I have had more control over my schedule.</p><p><br></p><p>I find that when I #SweatBeforeScreens I have more energy, better focus, increased ability to take on stress which is called resilience, I am more friendly and maybe most important, I am more present and productive.</p><p><br></p><p>Some days it’s a run, others it’s yoga or a quick 5x5x5 lift where I will do 5 exercises, 5 reps and 5 sets of each. The key here, as it is for most aspects of life is consistency. I have tested this myself and with many of my clients and they report similar experiences.</p><p><br></p><p>Once I get in front of a laptop, phone, (I don’t do TV much, but if I do, that fits here as well) or start my work day… I have a VERY hard time stopping and then reinvesting into myself.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are struggling with a consistent workout routine or struggling with simply making the amount of intentional investment into yourself that your life deserves, give #SweatBeforeScreens a try. You won’t be disappointed.</p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <title>Mental Performance Strategies That Work In and Out of the UFC Octagon</title>
      <description>John Makdessi is a veteran of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).  I’ve had the privilege of working with John for the better part of his professional fighting career.  He is both an MPM athlete and a MPM coach.
One of the most dedicated and disciplined professional athletes I’ve worked with in MMA John has utilized his MPM training to help in win both in and out of the octagon.
In this podcast we talk about…

The use mental imagery and visualization

The power of creating a vision and advertising that vision to yourself

The importance of routines and consistency as a an athlete

Why keeping a journal is a benefit in and out of the octagon

MPM Strategies you can use when rehabbing from injury

And much more…

You can engage with John at twitter @JohnMakdessi and on his website www.johnmakdessi.com</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2020 21:02:07 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Mental Performance Strategies That Work In and Out of the UFC Octagon</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>John Makdessi is a veteran of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).  I’ve had the privilege of working with John for the better part of his professional fighting career.  He is both an MPM athlete and a MPM coach.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>John Makdessi is a veteran of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).  I’ve had the privilege of working with John for the better part of his professional fighting career.  He is both an MPM athlete and a MPM coach.
One of the most dedicated and disciplined professional athletes I’ve worked with in MMA John has utilized his MPM training to help in win both in and out of the octagon.
In this podcast we talk about…

The use mental imagery and visualization

The power of creating a vision and advertising that vision to yourself

The importance of routines and consistency as a an athlete

Why keeping a journal is a benefit in and out of the octagon

MPM Strategies you can use when rehabbing from injury

And much more…

You can engage with John at twitter @JohnMakdessi and on his website www.johnmakdessi.com</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>John Makdessi is a veteran of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).  I’ve had the privilege of working with John for the better part of his professional fighting career.  He is both an MPM athlete and a MPM coach.</p><p>One of the most dedicated and disciplined professional athletes I’ve worked with in MMA John has utilized his MPM training to help in win both in and out of the octagon.</p><p>In this podcast we talk about…</p><ul>
<li>The use mental imagery and visualization</li>
<li>The power of creating a vision and advertising that vision to yourself</li>
<li>The importance of routines and consistency as a an athlete</li>
<li>Why keeping a journal is a benefit in and out of the octagon</li>
<li>MPM Strategies you can use when rehabbing from injury</li>
<li>And much more…</li>
</ul><p>You can engage with John at twitter @JohnMakdessi and on his website www.johnmakdessi.com</p>]]>
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      <title>How Mental Performance Can Make You Perfect In The Pandemic</title>
      <description>Todd Church, Head Girls Soccer Coach at Strongsville High School in Strongsville, Ohio found perfection in the Pandemic. Todd led his program to their 5th state championship in a remarkable 20-0 season.

In this podcast we are joined by Church, Strongsville Athletic Director Denny Ziegler, MPM, the teams four senior captains and their top assistant coach who is also a father of one of the teams captains.

In this podcast, we hear directly from these coaches and players about what specific mental performance drills they did to stay connected during the pandemic and how they choose to make the adversity their advantage.

In this podcast we talk about…

The use of boat crews and moving from coach fed to player led

NDCQ - Not Dead, Can’t Quit Mindset

The power that comes from focusing on what we can do vs. can’t do

How to stay connected with your teammates during a lockdown

Soccer specific MPM strategies to create a competitive advantage

And much more...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 21:22:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>How Mental Performance Can Make You Perfect In The Pandemic</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle>Todd Church, Head Girls Soccer Coach at Strongsville High School in Strongsville, Ohio found perfection in the Pandemic. Todd led his program to their 5th state championship in a remarkable 20-0 season.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Todd Church, Head Girls Soccer Coach at Strongsville High School in Strongsville, Ohio found perfection in the Pandemic. Todd led his program to their 5th state championship in a remarkable 20-0 season.

In this podcast we are joined by Church, Strongsville Athletic Director Denny Ziegler, MPM, the teams four senior captains and their top assistant coach who is also a father of one of the teams captains.

In this podcast, we hear directly from these coaches and players about what specific mental performance drills they did to stay connected during the pandemic and how they choose to make the adversity their advantage.

In this podcast we talk about…

The use of boat crews and moving from coach fed to player led

NDCQ - Not Dead, Can’t Quit Mindset

The power that comes from focusing on what we can do vs. can’t do

How to stay connected with your teammates during a lockdown

Soccer specific MPM strategies to create a competitive advantage

And much more...</itunes:summary>
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<li>The use of boat crews and moving from coach fed to player led</li>
<li>NDCQ - Not Dead, Can’t Quit Mindset</li>
<li>The power that comes from focusing on what we can do vs. can’t do</li>
<li>How to stay connected with your teammates during a lockdown</li>
<li>Soccer specific MPM strategies to create a competitive advantage</li>
<li>And much more...</li>
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      <title>How to Win the 90% of Baseball That Is the Mental Game</title>
      <description>Bob Tewksbury is an icon in the field of mental performance in baseball. Largely considered one of the best control pitchers of all time and best mental performance coaches in the sport. He was a 1992 MLB All-Star and in the last century, no pitcher has a lower ratio of base on balls per innings pitched.
“Tewks” had a playing career that spanned from 1986 to 1998 in which he racked up 812 strikeouts. After his career he went back to school at Boston University and earned a masters degree in applied sport psychology. He has worked as a mental performance coach with the Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants and currently serves in that capacity with the Chicago Cubs.
He’s the author of “90% Mental” and in this podcast we discuss:


The Flow State and having a good shitty day


Slowing the game down and the power of simplicity



Anchor statements and the power of self-talk


The 3 critical questions every athlete must ask themselves to perform consistently

And much more…</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2020 01:26:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>How to Win the 90% of Baseball That Is the Mental Game</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:subtitle> Largely considered one of the best control pitchers of all time and best mental performance coaches in the sport, Bob Tewksbury was a 1992 MLB All-Star and in the last century, no pitcher has a lower ratio of base on balls per innings pitched.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Bob Tewksbury is an icon in the field of mental performance in baseball. Largely considered one of the best control pitchers of all time and best mental performance coaches in the sport. He was a 1992 MLB All-Star and in the last century, no pitcher has a lower ratio of base on balls per innings pitched.
“Tewks” had a playing career that spanned from 1986 to 1998 in which he racked up 812 strikeouts. After his career he went back to school at Boston University and earned a masters degree in applied sport psychology. He has worked as a mental performance coach with the Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants and currently serves in that capacity with the Chicago Cubs.
He’s the author of “90% Mental” and in this podcast we discuss:


The Flow State and having a good shitty day


Slowing the game down and the power of simplicity



Anchor statements and the power of self-talk


The 3 critical questions every athlete must ask themselves to perform consistently

And much more…</itunes:summary>
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<li>
<strong>The Flow State</strong> and having a good shitty day</li>
<li>
<strong>Slowing the game down</strong> and the <strong>power of simplicity</strong>
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<li>
<strong>Anchor statements</strong> and the power of<strong> self-talk</strong>
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<li>The<strong> 3 critical questions</strong> every athlete must ask themselves to perform consistently</li>
<li><strong>And much more…</strong></li>
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      <title>12 Ideas That Will Change Your Life</title>
      <description>Want to change your life? Start by implementing these 12 big ideas. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:40:14 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>Want to change your life? Start by implementing these 12 big ideas. </itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Want to change your life? Start by implementing these 12 big ideas. </p>]]>
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      <title>Mark Glicini's Humble Greatness </title>
      <description>Mark Glicini is one of the fiercest professional lacrosse players in the sport and frankly one of the most competitive athlete I have ever had the privilege of working with.  I started with Mark when he was a Yale University Lacrosse Player. The former Yale star and highly decorated high school athlete, currently plays plays for the Chaos Lacrosse Club in the Premier Lacrosse League. 
Mark is also a member of the San Diego Seals in the National Lacrosse League, and was recently selected to participate in the United States Men's National Lacrosse Team in The World Games in summer of 2022. In addition to being a lacrosse star, he’s also the host of the podcast “Grateful and Full of Greatness” is a certified mental performance coach and a leader in the field of mental performance mastery.  
In this episode Mark takes us inside how he trains for mental performance, the keys that fuel his competitive spirit, his use of meditation and how he used the mental game to catapult himself to win the Pat Tillman Memorial run in New York City.  </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:48:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Mark Glicini is one of the fiercest professional lacrosse players in the sport and frankly one of the most competitive athlete I have ever had the privilege of working with.  I started with Mark when he was a Yale University Lacrosse Player. The former Yale star and highly decorated high school athlete, currently plays plays for the Chaos Lacrosse Club in the Premier Lacrosse League. 
Mark is also a member of the San Diego Seals in the National Lacrosse League, and was recently selected to participate in the United States Men's National Lacrosse Team in The World Games in summer of 2022. In addition to being a lacrosse star, he’s also the host of the podcast “Grateful and Full of Greatness” is a certified mental performance coach and a leader in the field of mental performance mastery.  
In this episode Mark takes us inside how he trains for mental performance, the keys that fuel his competitive spirit, his use of meditation and how he used the mental game to catapult himself to win the Pat Tillman Memorial run in New York City.  </itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Mark Glicini is one of the fiercest professional lacrosse players in the sport and frankly one of the most competitive athlete I have ever had the privilege of working with.  I started with Mark when he was a Yale University Lacrosse Player. The former Yale star and highly decorated high school athlete, currently plays plays for the Chaos Lacrosse Club in the Premier Lacrosse League. </p><p>Mark is also a member of the San Diego Seals in the National Lacrosse League, and was recently selected to participate in the United States Men's National Lacrosse Team in The World Games in summer of 2022. In addition to being a lacrosse star, he’s also the host of the podcast “Grateful and Full of Greatness” is a certified mental performance coach and a leader in the field of mental performance mastery.  </p><p>In this episode Mark takes us inside how he trains for mental performance, the keys that fuel his competitive spirit, his use of meditation and how he used the mental game to catapult himself to win the Pat Tillman Memorial run in New York City.  </p>]]>
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      <title>Mental Performance Minutes: Who Am I?... I Am Habit.</title>
      <description>The bigger your goal is, the stronger your mindset and habits need to be. Today, Brian Cain shares a poem that will help you get your mindset and your goals into alignment. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2020 15:53:44 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>The bigger your goal is, the stronger your mindset and habits need to be. Today, Brian Cain shares a poem that will help you get your mindset and your goals into alignment. </itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The bigger your goal is, the stronger your mindset and habits need to be. Today, Brian Cain shares a poem that will help you get your mindset and your goals into alignment. </p>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>434</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Donene Taylor: A Champion's Heart</title>
      <description>For more than 20 years, today’s guest Donene Taylor has been a member of the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association. In 2016, at the age of 52, she took the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association World Champion Tie Down Calf Roper title and is a 4-time WPRA Mountain States Circuit Champion Tie Down Calf Roper.
But, in addition to her impressive list of accolades, Donene is also a sought-after speaker, and is the author of the book “Heart of a Champion Proven Strategies to Help You Discover the Heart of a Champion That Beats Within You” which outlines the mental performance techniques she used to achieve her goals--and explains how you can achieve yours as well.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:53:40 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>For more than 20 years, today’s guest Donene Taylor has been a member of the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association. In 2016, at the age of 52, she took the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association World Champion Tie Down Calf Roper title and is a 4-time WPRA Mountain States Circuit Champion Tie Down Calf Roper.
But, in addition to her impressive list of accolades, Donene is also a sought-after speaker, and is the author of the book “Heart of a Champion Proven Strategies to Help You Discover the Heart of a Champion That Beats Within You” which outlines the mental performance techniques she used to achieve her goals--and explains how you can achieve yours as well.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>For more than 20 years, today’s guest Donene Taylor has been a member of the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association. In 2016, at the age of 52, she took the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association World Champion Tie Down Calf Roper title and is a 4-time WPRA Mountain States Circuit Champion Tie Down Calf Roper.</p><p>But, in addition to her impressive list of accolades, Donene is also a sought-after speaker, and is the author of the book “Heart of a Champion Proven Strategies to Help You Discover the Heart of a Champion That Beats Within You” which outlines the mental performance techniques she used to achieve her goals--and explains how you can achieve yours as well.</p>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>2849</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Mental Performance Minutes: What Are You Working For? </title>
      <description>Are you living your dream? Are you truly fulfilled? Are you as present as you want to be? 
On today’s Mental Performance Minute, Brian Cain deliverables a parable that will challenge how you think about ambition and contentment. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:28:04 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>Are you living your dream? Are you truly fulfilled? Are you as present as you want to be? 
On today’s Mental Performance Minute, Brian Cain deliverables a parable that will challenge how you think about ambition and contentment. </itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>259</itunes:duration>
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      <title>NFL Star Courtland Sutton’s Elite Mindset </title>
      <description>Today’s guest is a Pro Bowl receiver for the Denver Broncos. Before the NFL, Courtland Sutton was a breakout star at SMU, where he caught more than 30 touchdowns and racked up more than 3,200 receiving yards. He’s an electrifying player, who led all wide receivers in the NFL in broken tackles on receptions. 
Today on the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, we hear how he developed his truly elite mindset. (Note, this interview was recorded in June of 2020.)</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2020 21:30:51 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Today’s guest is a Pro Bowl receiver for the Denver Broncos. Before the NFL, Courtland Sutton was a breakout star at SMU, where he caught more than 30 touchdowns and racked up more than 3,200 receiving yards. He’s an electrifying player, who led all wide receivers in the NFL in broken tackles on receptions. 
Today on the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, we hear how he developed his truly elite mindset. (Note, this interview was recorded in June of 2020.)</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Today’s guest is a Pro Bowl receiver for the Denver Broncos. Before the NFL, Courtland Sutton was a breakout star at SMU, where he caught more than 30 touchdowns and racked up more than 3,200 receiving yards. He’s an electrifying player, who led all wide receivers in the NFL in broken tackles on receptions. </p><p>Today on the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, we hear how he developed his truly elite mindset. (Note, this interview was recorded in June of 2020.)</p>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>3309</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Mental Performance Minutes: Know Your Value</title>
      <description>On today's Mental Performance Minute, mental performance mastery coach Brian Cain tells viewers a parable that will help them reframe how they value their time --- and their life's passions.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:10:14 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>On today's Mental Performance Minute, mental performance mastery coach Brian Cain tells viewers a parable that will help them reframe how they value their time --- and their life's passions.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>On today's Mental Performance Minute, mental performance mastery coach Brian Cain tells viewers a parable that will help them reframe how they value their time --- and their life's passions. </p>]]>
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      <title>Dr. Rob Gilbert Returns! </title>
      <description>This week, on a very special episode of the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, renowned professor of sports psychology Dr. Rob Gilbert returns--along with some of the athletes and elite performers he's influenced over the years. Hear some of some Dr. Gilbert's most life-changing messages, and how you can apply his teachings to your life.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:58:16 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>This week, on a very special episode of the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, renowned professor of sports psychology Dr. Rob Gilbert returns--along with some of the athletes and elite performers he's influenced over the years. Hear some of some Dr. Gilbert's most life-changing messages, and how you can apply his teachings to your life.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>This week, on a very special episode of the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, renowned professor of sports psychology Dr. Rob Gilbert returns--along with some of the athletes and elite performers he's influenced over the years. Hear some of some Dr. Gilbert's most life-changing messages, and how you can apply his teachings to your life.</p>]]>
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      <title>Understanding the MOOMBA Disease: Mental Performance Minutes </title>
      <description>There is a disease that could be holding you back from achieving your dreams and doing the things you say you’re going to do.
On this week’s mental performance minute, Brian Cain explains why you need to understand the danger of MOOMBA disease. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:39:39 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>There is a disease that could be holding you back from achieving your dreams and doing the things you say you’re going to do.
On this week’s mental performance minute, Brian Cain explains why you need to understand the danger of MOOMBA disease. </itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>There is a disease that could be holding you back from achieving your dreams and doing the things you say you’re going to do.</p><p>On this week’s mental performance minute, Brian Cain explains why you need to understand the danger of MOOMBA disease. </p>]]>
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      <title>Dr. Rob Gilbert on the Life-Changing Power of Stories </title>
      <description>If you’ve listened to this podcast for any length of time, then you are probably already familiar with the work of Dr. Rob Gilbert the creator of the Success Hotline. References to his show are common among the athletes who are guests—and for good reason. 
Success Hotline is so popular among everyone from athletes to CEOs because its simple, concise messages manage to both inspire listeners and equip them with knowledge and insights into success, leadership, motivation, overcoming adversity and more. Listeners can call the number directly 973-743 4690 or listen to the messages on his Success Hotline podcast. 
We’re proud present Brian Cain’s interview with Dr. Rob Gilbert.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:40:31 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>If you’ve listened to this podcast for any length of time, then you are probably already familiar with the work of Dr. Rob Gilbert the creator of the Success Hotline. References to his show are common among the athletes who are guests—and for good reason. 
Success Hotline is so popular among everyone from athletes to CEOs because its simple, concise messages manage to both inspire listeners and equip them with knowledge and insights into success, leadership, motivation, overcoming adversity and more. Listeners can call the number directly 973-743 4690 or listen to the messages on his Success Hotline podcast. 
We’re proud present Brian Cain’s interview with Dr. Rob Gilbert.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Mental Performance Minutes: The Most Important Investment You Can Make</title>
      <description>What would you do if you had to spend $86,400 every day? How would you invest it? How would you spend it?

On this week's Mental Performance Minute, Brian Cain explains the most important investment you can make ... and how you take control of your day-to-day life and strategically tackle your life goals.</description>
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      <itunes:summary>What would you do if you had to spend $86,400 every day? How would you invest it? How would you spend it?

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      <title>Pro Bowler Missy Parkin's Unstoppable Drive</title>
      <description>Our guest today is a PWBA professional bowler and a trailblazing athlete who is the first woman to join the men’s PBA Tour.
Missy Parkin won the prestigious USBC Queens, is a member of Team USA along with being an entrepreneur, a wife, a proud mom. She also been named to Bowlers Journal International magazine list of Top 100 coaches 8 different times. Today, she opens up about her life, career, and the mental performance techniques that have helped lead to her success.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2020 21:16:36 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Our guest today is a PWBA professional bowler and a trailblazing athlete who is the first woman to join the men’s PBA Tour.
Missy Parkin won the prestigious USBC Queens, is a member of Team USA along with being an entrepreneur, a wife, a proud mom. She also been named to Bowlers Journal International magazine list of Top 100 coaches 8 different times. Today, she opens up about her life, career, and the mental performance techniques that have helped lead to her success.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Learn the "6 C's" of Trust - Mental Performance Minutes</title>
      <description>How can you build trust with people in your life? This week on the Mental Performance Minute, acclaimed mental performance coach Brian Cain explains how learning--and practicing--the "6 C's" can change your life and your relationships.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:16:46 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>How can you build trust with people in your life? This week on the Mental Performance Minute, acclaimed mental performance coach Brian Cain explains how learning--and practicing--the "6 C's" can change your life and your relationships.</itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>260</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Mental Performance Minutes: The Illusion of Choice</title>
      <description>On the new Mental Performance Minute from Brian Cain, we learn about the illusion of choice, and what it has to do with your success. 

For more incredible content from Brian Cain, be sure to check out https://briancain.com/ and follow him on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:17:55 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>On the new Mental Performance Minute from Brian Cain, we learn about the illusion of choice, and what it has to do with your success. 

For more incredible content from Brian Cain, be sure to check out https://briancain.com/ and follow him on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>On the new Mental Performance Minute from Brian Cain, we learn about the illusion of choice, and what it has to do with your success. </p><p><br></p><p>For more incredible content from Brian Cain, be sure to check out <a href="https://briancain.com/">https://briancain.com/</a> and follow him on Instagram here: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/">https://www.instagram.com/briancainpeak/</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Jason Fowler's Inspirational Journey</title>
      <description>Jason Fowler is one of the most inspiring athletes the world. Over the last four decades, he’s competed in more than 1,200 endurance races, won multiple Ironman World Championships in Kona, has competed in the Boston Marathon 16 times, and before the age of 17, he’d already competed in more than 1,000 motocross races, winning eight New England Motocross Championships. 

His accomplishments are all the more incredible when hear Jason’s story. He was paralyzed from the chest down following a motorcycle accident when he was just 17. However, within six months, he was competing in endurance races in the handcycle division. He also holds an MBA from Boston University and a highly sought after inspirational speaker and coach.

Today, hear about Jason Fowler’s incredible journey.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2020 21:21:08 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Jason Fowler is one of the most inspiring athletes the world. Over the last four decades, he’s competed in more than 1,200 endurance races, won multiple Ironman World Championships in Kona, has competed in the Boston Marathon 16 times, and before the age of 17, he’d already competed in more than 1,000 motocross races, winning eight New England Motocross Championships. 

His accomplishments are all the more incredible when hear Jason’s story. He was paralyzed from the chest down following a motorcycle accident when he was just 17. However, within six months, he was competing in endurance races in the handcycle division. He also holds an MBA from Boston University and a highly sought after inspirational speaker and coach.

Today, hear about Jason Fowler’s incredible journey.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Jason Fowler is one of the most inspiring athletes the world. Over the last four decades, he’s competed in more than 1,200 endurance races, won multiple Ironman World Championships in Kona, has competed in the Boston Marathon 16 times, and before the age of 17, he’d already competed in more than 1,000 motocross races, winning eight New England Motocross Championships. </p><p><br></p><p>His accomplishments are all the more incredible when hear Jason’s story. He was paralyzed from the chest down following a motorcycle accident when he was just 17. However, within six months, he was competing in endurance races in the handcycle division. He also holds an MBA from Boston University and a highly sought after inspirational speaker and coach.</p><p><br></p><p>Today, hear about Jason Fowler’s incredible journey.</p>]]>
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      <title>Basketball Star Markus Howard’s Humble Focus </title>
      <description>Markus Howard is one of the most prolific players in college basketball history. He played college basketball at Marquette University and sits atop the historic Big East Conference as it’s all-time leading scorer. Over Howard’s four years in Milwaukee, he averaged more than 21 points per game, was named Big East Player of The Year, was a 2-time All-American and finished his career 21st ALL TIME in NCAA history in scoring.

But as impressive as Markus Howard is on the floor, he is equally, if not more, impressive off of it. e founded the Fellowship of Christian Athletes club at Marquette, has been on mission trips to Costa Rica, and continually gives back to others, utilizing his platform to inspire, impact, and influence in a positive way.

Today on the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery podcast, we’re excited to bring you NCAA legend, Markus Howard. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2020 20:41:13 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Markus Howard is one of the most prolific players in college basketball history. He played college basketball at Marquette University and sits atop the historic Big East Conference as it’s all-time leading scorer. Over Howard’s four years in Milwaukee, he averaged more than 21 points per game, was named Big East Player of The Year, was a 2-time All-American and finished his career 21st ALL TIME in NCAA history in scoring.

But as impressive as Markus Howard is on the floor, he is equally, if not more, impressive off of it. e founded the Fellowship of Christian Athletes club at Marquette, has been on mission trips to Costa Rica, and continually gives back to others, utilizing his platform to inspire, impact, and influence in a positive way.

Today on the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery podcast, we’re excited to bring you NCAA legend, Markus Howard. </itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Markus Howard is one of the most prolific players in college basketball history. He played college basketball at Marquette University and sits atop the historic Big East Conference as it’s all-time leading scorer. Over Howard’s four years in Milwaukee, he averaged more than 21 points per game, was named Big East Player of The Year, was a 2-time All-American and finished his career 21st ALL TIME in NCAA history in scoring.</p><p><br></p><p>But as impressive as Markus Howard is on the floor, he is equally, if not more, impressive off of it. e founded the Fellowship of Christian Athletes club at Marquette, has been on mission trips to Costa Rica, and continually gives back to others, utilizing his platform to inspire, impact, and influence in a positive way.</p><p><br></p><p>Today on the Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery podcast, we’re excited to bring you NCAA legend, Markus Howard. </p>]]>
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      <title>Mental Performance Minutes: The Two Wolves</title>
      <description>On the new Mental Performance Minute from Brian Cain, learn how the tale of two wolves can help equip you to live the life you want.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:39:54 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>On the new Mental Performance Minute from Brian Cain, learn how the tale of two wolves can help equip you to live the life you want.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>On the new Mental Performance Minute from Brian Cain, learn how the tale of two wolves can help equip you to live the life you want.</p>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>335</itunes:duration>
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      <title>The Unshakable Resolve of Skeleton Racer Megan Henry</title>
      <description>Today’s guest is a star of one of the most exciting—and most dangerous—sports on the planet, skeleton. Unlike other winter sliding sports like luge and bobsleigh, the skeleton is a single-person event, where nothing separates the rider from the rock hard ice below them but a small sled that blasts just inches above the track as riders can reach up to 80 miles per hour—while riding head first. As a member of Team USA, Megan Henry is of the sport’s most recognizable stars, but she’s just as impressive away from the track as she is on it. But, to get to where she is today, Megan has had to overcome obstacles that most people can’t imagine.

Today on the podcast, Megan Henry opens about being a soldier, overcoming a life-threatening medical condition, and how mental performance has helped her fight through adversity.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 21:39:15 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Today’s guest is a star of one of the most exciting—and most dangerous—sports on the planet, skeleton. Unlike other winter sliding sports like luge and bobsleigh, the skeleton is a single-person event, where nothing separates the rider from the rock hard ice below them but a small sled that blasts just inches above the track as riders can reach up to 80 miles per hour—while riding head first. As a member of Team USA, Megan Henry is of the sport’s most recognizable stars, but she’s just as impressive away from the track as she is on it. But, to get to where she is today, Megan has had to overcome obstacles that most people can’t imagine.

Today on the podcast, Megan Henry opens about being a soldier, overcoming a life-threatening medical condition, and how mental performance has helped her fight through adversity.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Mental Performance Minutes: Set Your One Word Principal</title>
      <description>On the new Mental Performance Minute from Brian Cain, learn how setting a one word principle can set a new tone for your life--and your career.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:16:30 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>On the new Mental Performance Minute from Brian Cain, learn how setting a one word principle can set a new tone for your life--and your career.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>From no chance to NFL, how MPM helped the LA Rams Justin Lawler on and off the field</title>
      <description>Justin Lawler has achieved success at every level of football, including the NFL, where he plays outside linebacker and special teams for the Los Angeles Rams. But, before the NFL, he was a breakout star at Texas’ Pottsboro High School where he was also a power-lifter in addition to playing football. He went on to become a first-team all-conference player at SMU, where in his senior year alone, he recorded 74 tackles and 9 and a half sacks. 
In this podcast he talks about how he utilizes the 10 pillars of mental performance mastery as a football player on and off the field to give him the best chance for success.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2020 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>From no chance to NFL, how MPM helped the LA Rams Justin Lawler on and off the field</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:summary>Justin Lawler has achieved success at every level of football, including the NFL, where he plays outside linebacker and special teams for the Los Angeles Rams. But, before the NFL, he was a breakout star at Texas’ Pottsboro High School where he was also a power-lifter in addition to playing football. He went on to become a first-team all-conference player at SMU, where in his senior year alone, he recorded 74 tackles and 9 and a half sacks. 
In this podcast he talks about how he utilizes the 10 pillars of mental performance mastery as a football player on and off the field to give him the best chance for success.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Building True Strength with the Rams' Justin Lawler</title>
      <description>Our guest today has achieved success at every level of football, including the NFL, where he plays outside linebacker and special teams for the Los Angeles Rams. But, before the NFL, he was a breakout star at Texas’ Pottsboro High School where he was also a power-lifter in addition to playing football. He went on to become a first-team all-conference player at SMU, where in his senior year alone, he recorded 74 tackles and 9 and a half sacks. 

Today, we hear how Justin Lawler pursued his dreams, overcame obstacles, and fought to inspire others.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2020 21:09:29 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Our guest today has achieved success at every level of football, including the NFL, where he plays outside linebacker and special teams for the Los Angeles Rams. But, before the NFL, he was a breakout star at Texas’ Pottsboro High School where he was also a power-lifter in addition to playing football. He went on to become a first-team all-conference player at SMU, where in his senior year alone, he recorded 74 tackles and 9 and a half sacks. 

Today, we hear how Justin Lawler pursued his dreams, overcame obstacles, and fought to inspire others.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Mental Performance Minutes: Life Is a Strategy Game</title>
      <description>On today’s Mental Performance Minute from The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery podcast, Brian explains why life is a strategy game—and, how you can develop a strategy to achieve your goals.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2020 20:25:11 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Why you should always learn to "sharpen your ax" ...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>On today’s Mental Performance Minute from The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery podcast, Brian explains why life is a strategy game—and, how you can develop a strategy to achieve your goals.</itunes:summary>
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      <description>Tom Murphy isn’t just an accomplished athlete; he’s also a passionate believer in instilling greatness into others. After a successful athletic career that’s included being an NCAA All-American wrestler, a star of Spike TV’s “The Ultimate Fighter 2”, and high profile fights in the UFC, Tom has turned his attention to business and his anti-bullying organization Sweethearts &amp; Heroes. Today, we learned what drives him, and how we can all make an impact in the lives of others. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:08:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:episode>72</itunes:episode>
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      <title>Mental Performance Minutes: The Law of the Jungle</title>
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      <description>On today’s episode, Brian Cain explains how understanding the parable of “The Law of the Jungle” can transform how you see yourself and your talents.
This season on The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, we’re bringing you new special shorts every other week—mental performance minutes that will help you take your life and career to the next level.</description>
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      <itunes:title>Mental Performance Minutes: The Law of the Jungle</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:episode>71</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>On today’s episode, Brian Cain explains how understanding the parable of “The Law of the Jungle” can transform how you see yourself and your talents.
This season on The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, we’re bringing you new special shorts ...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>On today’s episode, Brian Cain explains how understanding the parable of “The Law of the Jungle” can transform how you see yourself and your talents.
This season on The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, we’re bringing you new special shorts every other week—mental performance minutes that will help you take your life and career to the next level.</itunes:summary>
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This season on The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, we’re bringing you new special shorts every other week—mental performance minutes that will help you take your life and career to the next level.]]>
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      <itunes:duration>400</itunes:duration>
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      <title>From no chance to NFL, how MPM helped the LA Rams Justin Lawler on and off the field</title>
      <description>Justin Lawler has achieved success at every level of football, including the NFL, where he plays outside linebacker and special teams for the Los Angeles Rams. But, before the NFL, he was a breakout star at Texas’ Pottsboro High School where he was also a power-lifter in addition to playing football. He went on to become a first-team all-conference player at SMU, where in his senior year alone, he recorded 74 tackles and 9 and a half sacks. 
In this podcast he talks about how he utilizes the 10 pillars of mental performance mastery as a football player on and off the field to give him the best chance for success.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>From no chance to NFL, how MPM helped the LA Rams Justin Lawler on and off the field</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:summary>Justin Lawler has achieved success at every level of football, including the NFL, where he plays outside linebacker and special teams for the Los Angeles Rams. But, before the NFL, he was a breakout star at Texas’ Pottsboro High School where he was also a power-lifter in addition to playing football. He went on to become a first-team all-conference player at SMU, where in his senior year alone, he recorded 74 tackles and 9 and a half sacks. 
In this podcast he talks about how he utilizes the 10 pillars of mental performance mastery as a football player on and off the field to give him the best chance for success.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Humble Stardom of Baseball’s Bobby Witt Jr.</title>
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      <description>Bobby Witt Jr. is one of the most exciting young athletes in the country, and was recently the No. 2 overall pick in the MLB draft by the Kansas City Royals organization. 
As a high school star in Texas, Bobby was named the Gatorade National High School Athlete of the Year, he helped Team USA take home the gold medal at the COPABE Pan-American Championships, he won the High School Home Run Derby at Nationals Park and was named MVP at the Under Armour All-America Baseball Game at Wrigley Field. But, despite the accolades, if there’s one thing people know about Bobby, it’s not just his skill on the field--it’s humility and his team-first approach to the game. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:07:20 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>The Humble Stardom of Baseball’s Bobby Witt Jr.</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:episode>70</itunes:episode>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Bobby Witt Jr. is one of the most exciting young athletes in the country, and was recently the No. 2 overall pick in the MLB draft by the Kansas City Royals organization. 
As a high school star in Texas, Bobby was named the Gatorade National High School ...</itunes:subtitle>
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As a high school star in Texas, Bobby was named the Gatorade National High School Athlete of the Year, he helped Team USA take home the gold medal at the COPABE Pan-American Championships, he won the High School Home Run Derby at Nationals Park and was named MVP at the Under Armour All-America Baseball Game at Wrigley Field. But, despite the accolades, if there’s one thing people know about Bobby, it’s not just his skill on the field--it’s humility and his team-first approach to the game. </itunes:summary>
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As a high school star in Texas, Bobby was named the Gatorade National High School Athlete of the Year, he helped Team USA take home the gold medal at the COPABE Pan-American Championships, he won the High School Home Run Derby at Nationals Park and was named MVP at the Under Armour All-America Baseball Game at Wrigley Field. But, despite the accolades, if there’s one thing people know about Bobby, it’s not just his skill on the field--it’s humility and his team-first approach to the game. ]]>
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      <title>MMA Legend Vitor Belfort </title>
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      <description>Originally hailing from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Vitor “The Phenom” Belfort is a world champion MMA fighter, who is currently a member of the One Championship organization. For more than two decades, he’s dominated the octagon, having faced off—and beaten—some of the most legendary names in the sport. 
He is a both a former UFC Light heavyweight, the UFC 12 tournament heavyweight champion, and is in the top three all time in UFC finishes. On today’s podcast, Vitor opens about his legendary career, the faith motivates him, and the mental performance techniques he’s utilized along the way.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2020 20:01:17 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>MMA Legend Vitor Belfort </itunes:title>
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      <itunes:episode>69</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Originally hailing from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Vitor “The Phenom” Belfort is a world champion MMA fighter, who is currently a member of the One Championship organization. For more than two decades, he’s dominated the octagon, having faced off—and beaten...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Originally hailing from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Vitor “The Phenom” Belfort is a world champion MMA fighter, who is currently a member of the One Championship organization. For more than two decades, he’s dominated the octagon, having faced off—and beaten—some of the most legendary names in the sport. 
He is a both a former UFC Light heavyweight, the UFC 12 tournament heavyweight champion, and is in the top three all time in UFC finishes. On today’s podcast, Vitor opens about his legendary career, the faith motivates him, and the mental performance techniques he’s utilized along the way.</itunes:summary>
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He is a both a former UFC Light heavyweight, the UFC 12 tournament heavyweight champion, and is in the top three all time in UFC finishes. On today’s podcast, Vitor opens about his legendary career, the faith motivates him, and the mental performance techniques he’s utilized along the way.]]>
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      <title>Hockey Trailblazer Lyndsey Fry</title>
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      <description>Lyndsey Fry is only 27 years old, but she’s already accomplished more than many people attempt in a lifetime. She played Division 1 hockey at Harvard and holds an MBA from Arizona State University. She also won a silver medal as a member of the Team USA winter Olympics in 2014. After college she launched her own business—Lyndsey Fry Hockey—where she trains the next generation of women’s hockey players at camps around the country. 
An advocate for women and girls hockey the Hockey Ambassador and Advisor to the President/CEO for the Arizona Coyotes, a member of the NHL’s first Female Hockey Advisory Committee and was a part of a team that brought the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association to Arizona. She’s also a speaker, mental performance coach and hosts the podcast The Lyndsey Fry Hockey Audio Experience. Hear how she overcome adversity to become one of hockey’s most important trailblazers.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 20:27:38 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Hockey Trailblazer Lyndsey Fry</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:episode>68</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Lyndsey Fry is only 27 years old, but she’s already accomplished more than many people attempt in a lifetime. She played Division 1 hockey at Harvard and holds an MBA from Arizona State University. She also won a silver medal as a member of the Team USA ...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Lyndsey Fry is only 27 years old, but she’s already accomplished more than many people attempt in a lifetime. She played Division 1 hockey at Harvard and holds an MBA from Arizona State University. She also won a silver medal as a member of the Team USA winter Olympics in 2014. After college she launched her own business—Lyndsey Fry Hockey—where she trains the next generation of women’s hockey players at camps around the country. 
An advocate for women and girls hockey the Hockey Ambassador and Advisor to the President/CEO for the Arizona Coyotes, a member of the NHL’s first Female Hockey Advisory Committee and was a part of a team that brought the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association to Arizona. She’s also a speaker, mental performance coach and hosts the podcast The Lyndsey Fry Hockey Audio Experience. Hear how she overcome adversity to become one of hockey’s most important trailblazers.</itunes:summary>
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An advocate for women and girls hockey the Hockey Ambassador and Advisor to the President/CEO for the Arizona Coyotes, a member of the NHL’s first Female Hockey Advisory Committee and was a part of a team that brought the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association to Arizona. She’s also a speaker, mental performance coach and hosts the podcast The Lyndsey Fry Hockey Audio Experience. Hear how she overcome adversity to become one of hockey’s most important trailblazers. ]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1938</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Softball Star Taylor Dockins’ Inspiration Journey  </title>
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      <description>Taylor Dockins is one of the most inspiring people you will likely ever encounter. During high school, she was one of the most dominate athletes in the country, winning the Gatorade National Player of the Year Award. Today, she is a star for the Cal State Fullerton team.
All of this is impressive, but it’s even more inspiring when you learn that since high school, Taylor has been battling a rare form of cancer, and she regularly undergoes chemotherapy treatments while also balancing life as an elite student athlete. But, perhaps the most inspiring thing about Taylor isn’t what she’s accomplished on the field or even in her personal life—it’s the positive spirit she brings to everything she does. On the new episode of The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, we’re proud to bring you her story.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2020 21:46:53 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Softball Star Taylor Dockins’ Inspiration Journey  </itunes:title>
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      <itunes:episode>67</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>Taylor Dockins is one of the most inspiring people you will likely ever encounter. During high school, she was one of the most dominate athletes in the country, winning the Gatorade National Player of the Year Award. Today, she is a star for the Cal State Fullerton team.
All of this is impressive, but it’s even more inspiring when you learn that since high school, Taylor has been battling a rare form of cancer, and she regularly undergoes chemotherapy treatments while also balancing life as an elite student athlete. But, perhaps the most inspiring thing about Taylor isn’t what she’s accomplished on the field or even in her personal life—it’s the positive spirit she brings to everything she does. On the new episode of The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, we’re proud to bring you her story.</itunes:summary>
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All of this is impressive, but it’s even more inspiring when you learn that since high school, Taylor has been battling a rare form of cancer, and she regularly undergoes chemotherapy treatments while also balancing life as an elite student athlete. But, perhaps the most inspiring thing about Taylor isn’t what she’s accomplished on the field or even in her personal life—it’s the positive spirit she brings to everything she does. On the new episode of The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, we’re proud to bring you her story.]]>
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      <title>Rich Franklin - A Championship Mindset</title>
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      <description>Rich Franklin is an MMA legend. He’s currently a Vice President of One Championship, he’s a three-time world champ, and he’s a member of the UFC Hall of Fame. In this episode, Rich opens about some of his biggest matches, discusses the obstacles he’s overcome, and explains how mental performance techniques helped him in his career. (Episode 165)</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 21:18:48 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Rich Franklin - A Championship Mindset</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:episode>66</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Rich Franklin is an MMA legend. He’s currently a Vice President of One Championship, he’s a three-time world champ, and he’s a member of the UFC Hall of Fame. In this episode, Rich opens about some of his biggest matches, discusses the obstacles he’s ove...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Rich Franklin is an MMA legend. He’s currently a Vice President of One Championship, he’s a three-time world champ, and he’s a member of the UFC Hall of Fame. In this episode, Rich opens about some of his biggest matches, discusses the obstacles he’s overcome, and explains how mental performance techniques helped him in his career. (Episode 165)</itunes:summary>
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      <title>New Season Trailer! </title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/new-season-trailer-1588021854/</link>
      <description>A new season of the podcast is coming! This season, we're featuring all new interviews with Olympians, UFC champions, elite performers, professional athletes, and more about how they've used mental performance techniques to overcome adversity and achieve their goals—and how you can too. If you’re looking for a podcast that will inspire you to achieve more and give you insights into the methods employed by some of the world’s most successful people, then be sure to subscribe now to Brian Cain's Mental Performance Podcast. </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2020 21:10:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>New Season Trailer! </itunes:title>
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      <itunes:episode>65</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>A new season of the podcast is coming! This season, we're featuring all new interviews with Olympians, UFC champions, elite performers, professional athletes, and more about how they've used mental performance techniques to overcome adversity and achieve...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>A new season of the podcast is coming! This season, we're featuring all new interviews with Olympians, UFC champions, elite performers, professional athletes, and more about how they've used mental performance techniques to overcome adversity and achieve their goals—and how you can too. If you’re looking for a podcast that will inspire you to achieve more and give you insights into the methods employed by some of the world’s most successful people, then be sure to subscribe now to Brian Cain's Mental Performance Podcast. </itunes:summary>
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      <title>BC164 - Mental Performance Secrets of Professional Athletes</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc164-mental-performance-secrets-of-professional-athletes/</link>
      <description>MENTAL PERFORMANCE SECRETS OF PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES WITH ZACH SORENSEN, MPM
In this episode of the MPM Coach Spotlight Podcast, I have the pleasure of talking with MPM Certified Coach Zach Sorenson. 
Zach is a former Major League Baseball player with the Cleveland Indians and The Los Angeles Angels. He also worked as the Texas Rangers’ minor league Mental Performance Coach in 2018. Zach’s experience both coaching professional athletes and competing as one gives him unique insight into what mental performance secrets the pros use to compete at the highest level. 
In this episode, he’ll share what he’s learned and how you can use these same strategies with your athletes.  
SORENSEN PODCAST NOTES
1:15 - “Don’t hit me the ball”—The surprising truth about how even major league players fall into the trap of negative thinking 
1:40 - The life-changing advice Zach was given by Toronto Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro about how to find your passion2:00 - The biggest “gap” Zach sees in sports—from high school through the pros—and why there is no amount of physical preparation that will replace this crucial aspect of performance
3:00 - Do you need a masters in sport psychology to coach mental performance?
4:00 - The difference between a master’s degree and the MPM Cert Course… and which one holds more value in the real world
4:40 - The key difference between a sport psychologist and a mental performance coach—and why knowing this is crucial for your career 
6:50 - The ONE surprising piece of advice two of the world’s top baseball players would give to help athletes get from where they are to where they want to be
8:00 - The key to maximizing your time when you’re busy so that you can accomplish everything you want and need to do each day 
9:00 - Why most people struggle with time management (and the shift you need to make to instantly be more productive)
9:10 - A simple formula you can use to guarantee greater productivity 
10:30 - The coaching triad—and how most are completely overlooking one of these crucial aspects of coaching
11:15 - Why “Get 1% better every day” is motivational BS, and how you can take this from a “great idea” and put it into action 
12:45 - Stop guessing: Here’s exactly how to KNOW if you are getting better this week
13:30 - How doing pushups can teach you a foundational principle that will allow you to improve any part of your life—predictably and consistently
14:05 - A simple and easy way to check if your clients and athletes are getting better with intention
14:30 - The #1 way to build confidence (works for every athlete, at every level)
15:30 - What you need to know to be a successful MPM coach
16:15 - How do you create the right culture in your program? It’s all laid out in the MPM certification
16:45 - The MPM cert is not a textbook... it specifically gives you the tools, strategies, and resources you need to get real results in the real world
17:40 - Zach’s advice for people who are on the fence about the importance of coaching mental performance
18:10 - TCU Baseball Head Coach Jim Schlossnagle says mental performance coaching and the MPM system is life changing
You can connect with Zach via email zach@phenomsports.com and on Twitter @zsorensenphenom and on Instagram and Facebook @zsorensen.phenomsports
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 20:42:59 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC164 - Mental Performance Secrets of Professional Athletes</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:episode>64</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>MENTAL PERFORMANCE SECRETS OF PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES WITH ZACH SORENSEN, MPM
In this episode of the MPM Coach Spotlight Podcast, I have the pleasure of talking with MPM Certified Coach Zach Sorenson. 
Zach is a former Major League Baseball player with the...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>MENTAL PERFORMANCE SECRETS OF PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES WITH ZACH SORENSEN, MPM
In this episode of the MPM Coach Spotlight Podcast, I have the pleasure of talking with MPM Certified Coach Zach Sorenson. 
Zach is a former Major League Baseball player with the Cleveland Indians and The Los Angeles Angels. He also worked as the Texas Rangers’ minor league Mental Performance Coach in 2018. Zach’s experience both coaching professional athletes and competing as one gives him unique insight into what mental performance secrets the pros use to compete at the highest level. 
In this episode, he’ll share what he’s learned and how you can use these same strategies with your athletes.  
SORENSEN PODCAST NOTES
1:15 - “Don’t hit me the ball”—The surprising truth about how even major league players fall into the trap of negative thinking 
1:40 - The life-changing advice Zach was given by Toronto Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro about how to find your passion2:00 - The biggest “gap” Zach sees in sports—from high school through the pros—and why there is no amount of physical preparation that will replace this crucial aspect of performance
3:00 - Do you need a masters in sport psychology to coach mental performance?
4:00 - The difference between a master’s degree and the MPM Cert Course… and which one holds more value in the real world
4:40 - The key difference between a sport psychologist and a mental performance coach—and why knowing this is crucial for your career 
6:50 - The ONE surprising piece of advice two of the world’s top baseball players would give to help athletes get from where they are to where they want to be
8:00 - The key to maximizing your time when you’re busy so that you can accomplish everything you want and need to do each day 
9:00 - Why most people struggle with time management (and the shift you need to make to instantly be more productive)
9:10 - A simple formula you can use to guarantee greater productivity 
10:30 - The coaching triad—and how most are completely overlooking one of these crucial aspects of coaching
11:15 - Why “Get 1% better every day” is motivational BS, and how you can take this from a “great idea” and put it into action 
12:45 - Stop guessing: Here’s exactly how to KNOW if you are getting better this week
13:30 - How doing pushups can teach you a foundational principle that will allow you to improve any part of your life—predictably and consistently
14:05 - A simple and easy way to check if your clients and athletes are getting better with intention
14:30 - The #1 way to build confidence (works for every athlete, at every level)
15:30 - What you need to know to be a successful MPM coach
16:15 - How do you create the right culture in your program? It’s all laid out in the MPM certification
16:45 - The MPM cert is not a textbook... it specifically gives you the tools, strategies, and resources you need to get real results in the real world
17:40 - Zach’s advice for people who are on the fence about the importance of coaching mental performance
18:10 - TCU Baseball Head Coach Jim Schlossnagle says mental performance coaching and the MPM system is life changing
You can connect with Zach via email zach@phenomsports.com and on Twitter @zsorensenphenom and on Instagram and Facebook @zsorensen.phenomsports
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        <![CDATA[MENTAL PERFORMANCE SECRETS OF PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES WITH ZACH SORENSEN, MPM
In this episode of the MPM Coach Spotlight Podcast, I have the pleasure of talking with MPM Certified Coach Zach Sorenson. 
Zach is a former Major League Baseball player with the Cleveland Indians and The Los Angeles Angels. He also worked as the Texas Rangers’ minor league Mental Performance Coach in 2018. Zach’s experience both coaching professional athletes and competing as one gives him unique insight into what mental performance secrets the pros use to compete at the highest level. 
In this episode, he’ll share what he’s learned and how you can use these same strategies with your athletes.  
SORENSEN PODCAST NOTES
1:15 - “Don’t hit me the ball”—The surprising truth about how even major league players fall into the trap of negative thinking 
1:40 - The life-changing advice Zach was given by Toronto Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro about how to find your passion2:00 - The biggest “gap” Zach sees in sports—from high school through the pros—and why there is no amount of physical preparation that will replace this crucial aspect of performance
3:00 - Do you need a masters in sport psychology to coach mental performance?
4:00 - The difference between a master’s degree and the MPM Cert Course… and which one holds more value in the real world
4:40 - The key difference between a sport psychologist and a mental performance coach—and why knowing this is crucial for your career 
6:50 - The ONE surprising piece of advice two of the world’s top baseball players would give to help athletes get from where they are to where they want to be
8:00 - The key to maximizing your time when you’re busy so that you can accomplish everything you want and need to do each day 
9:00 - Why most people struggle with time management (and the shift you need to make to instantly be more productive)
9:10 - A simple formula you can use to guarantee greater productivity 
10:30 - The coaching triad—and how most are completely overlooking one of these crucial aspects of coaching
11:15 - Why “Get 1% better every day” is motivational BS, and how you can take this from a “great idea” and put it into action 
12:45 - Stop guessing: Here’s exactly how to KNOW if you are getting better this week
13:30 - How doing pushups can teach you a foundational principle that will allow you to improve any part of your life—predictably and consistently
14:05 - A simple and easy way to check if your clients and athletes are getting better with intention
14:30 - The #1 way to build confidence (works for every athlete, at every level)
15:30 - What you need to know to be a successful MPM coach
16:15 - How do you create the right culture in your program? It’s all laid out in the MPM certification
16:45 - The MPM cert is not a textbook... it specifically gives you the tools, strategies, and resources you need to get real results in the real world
17:40 - Zach’s advice for people who are on the fence about the importance of coaching mental performance
18:10 - TCU Baseball Head Coach Jim Schlossnagle says mental performance coaching and the MPM system is life changing
You can connect with Zach via email zach@phenomsports.com and on Twitter @zsorensenphenom and on Instagram and Facebook @zsorensen.phenomsports
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      <title>BC163 - Generating Influence, Impact and Income with MPM Certified Coach Tyler Pazik</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc163-generating-influence-impact-and-income-with-mpm-certified-coach-tyler-pazik/</link>
      <description>BC163 - GENERATING INFLUENCE, IMPACT, AND INCOME WITH MPM CERTIFIED COACH TYLER PAZIK
In this episode of the MPM Coach Spotlight Podcast, I have the pleasure of talking with MPM Certified Coach Tyler Pazik. 
In a short time, Tyler has built a very impressive client list, including a Heisman Trophy winner, teams from Power 5 conferences including TCU, Notre Dame and Oklahoma, and Team USA Bowling (to name a few). 
In this episode, we dive into the life-changing experience Tyler has had as an MPM Coach—personally and professionally. He also dishes on how his experience with the MPM Certification differed from his Master of Sport Psychology degree at TCU, and he gets real about advice for those weighing the options between joining the MPM Certification or starting a master’s program (his answer may surprise you). 
If you’ve ever wondered how becoming a certified MPM Coach could impact your influence, success, and income, you don’t want to miss this episode and you sure don’t want to miss our episode with Ethan Miller, MPM who shares how he has already made 10x what he invested into his MPM Coaching Certification.
PAZIK PODCAST NOTES
0:52 - Tyler’s evolution into sport psychology and mental performance mastery.
1:40 - The one key element of Tyler’s mental game that allowed him to succeed in D1 baseball.
2:10 - Why just focusing on the physical side of performance is a mistake… and how that realization led Tyler to the mental game. 
2:40 - The 3 areas of sport psychology you need to know and the ONE to excel in as a coach.
4:05 - How the MPM Certification has helped Tyler get better results and grow his business.
5:05 - The difference between theory and application—and how the MPM Certification teaches the practical application you will actually use in the field.
5:50 - The crucial piece that’s missing from academic programs (and how the MPM Certification delivers in this area BIG time). 
6:15 - Tyler’s advice for coaches and trainers thinking of a master’s degree vs. the MPM Certification.
9:45 - Coaching is playing follow the leader… the MPM Certification is that proven leader to follow.
10:25 - Tyler’s go-to mental performance strategies for helping teams consistently play at a higher level. 
12:10 - The #1 mental performance strategy Tyler uses when competing in ultra-marathons.
14:35 - The importance of having a concrete mental performance strategy to go to under stress and high-pressure situations. 
15:20 - A crucial aspect of coaching that you should NEVER overlook. 
17:00 - Is mental performance a job… or a way of life? 
18:20 - The best advice Tyler has ever received as an MPM coach.
19:50 - The benefits of attending Total Immersion Events and how it helps you keep stepping up the ladder.
21:00 - The lifecycle of becoming a mental performance coach.
You can connect with Tyler by email Tyler@PazikPerformanceGroup.com, by calling 847-922-1371, or by engaging with him on Instagram at PazikPepTalk.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2019 16:53:51 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC163 - Generating Influence, Impact and Income with MPM Certified Coach Tyler Pazik</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:episode>63</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>BC163 - GENERATING INFLUENCE, IMPACT, AND INCOME WITH MPM CERTIFIED COACH TYLER PAZIK
In this episode of the MPM Coach Spotlight Podcast, I have the pleasure of talking with MPM Certified Coach Tyler Pazik. 
In a short time, Tyler has built a very impres...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>BC163 - GENERATING INFLUENCE, IMPACT, AND INCOME WITH MPM CERTIFIED COACH TYLER PAZIK
In this episode of the MPM Coach Spotlight Podcast, I have the pleasure of talking with MPM Certified Coach Tyler Pazik. 
In a short time, Tyler has built a very impressive client list, including a Heisman Trophy winner, teams from Power 5 conferences including TCU, Notre Dame and Oklahoma, and Team USA Bowling (to name a few). 
In this episode, we dive into the life-changing experience Tyler has had as an MPM Coach—personally and professionally. He also dishes on how his experience with the MPM Certification differed from his Master of Sport Psychology degree at TCU, and he gets real about advice for those weighing the options between joining the MPM Certification or starting a master’s program (his answer may surprise you). 
If you’ve ever wondered how becoming a certified MPM Coach could impact your influence, success, and income, you don’t want to miss this episode and you sure don’t want to miss our episode with Ethan Miller, MPM who shares how he has already made 10x what he invested into his MPM Coaching Certification.
PAZIK PODCAST NOTES
0:52 - Tyler’s evolution into sport psychology and mental performance mastery.
1:40 - The one key element of Tyler’s mental game that allowed him to succeed in D1 baseball.
2:10 - Why just focusing on the physical side of performance is a mistake… and how that realization led Tyler to the mental game. 
2:40 - The 3 areas of sport psychology you need to know and the ONE to excel in as a coach.
4:05 - How the MPM Certification has helped Tyler get better results and grow his business.
5:05 - The difference between theory and application—and how the MPM Certification teaches the practical application you will actually use in the field.
5:50 - The crucial piece that’s missing from academic programs (and how the MPM Certification delivers in this area BIG time). 
6:15 - Tyler’s advice for coaches and trainers thinking of a master’s degree vs. the MPM Certification.
9:45 - Coaching is playing follow the leader… the MPM Certification is that proven leader to follow.
10:25 - Tyler’s go-to mental performance strategies for helping teams consistently play at a higher level. 
12:10 - The #1 mental performance strategy Tyler uses when competing in ultra-marathons.
14:35 - The importance of having a concrete mental performance strategy to go to under stress and high-pressure situations. 
15:20 - A crucial aspect of coaching that you should NEVER overlook. 
17:00 - Is mental performance a job… or a way of life? 
18:20 - The best advice Tyler has ever received as an MPM coach.
19:50 - The benefits of attending Total Immersion Events and how it helps you keep stepping up the ladder.
21:00 - The lifecycle of becoming a mental performance coach.
You can connect with Tyler by email Tyler@PazikPerformanceGroup.com, by calling 847-922-1371, or by engaging with him on Instagram at PazikPepTalk.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[BC163 - GENERATING INFLUENCE, IMPACT, AND INCOME WITH MPM CERTIFIED COACH TYLER PAZIK
In this episode of the MPM Coach Spotlight Podcast, I have the pleasure of talking with MPM Certified Coach Tyler Pazik. 
In a short time, Tyler has built a very impressive client list, including a Heisman Trophy winner, teams from Power 5 conferences including TCU, Notre Dame and Oklahoma, and Team USA Bowling (to name a few). 
In this episode, we dive into the life-changing experience Tyler has had as an MPM Coach—personally and professionally. He also dishes on how his experience with the MPM Certification differed from his Master of Sport Psychology degree at TCU, and he gets real about advice for those weighing the options between joining the MPM Certification or starting a master’s program (his answer may surprise you). 
If you’ve ever wondered how becoming a certified MPM Coach could impact your influence, success, and income, you don’t want to miss this episode and you sure don’t want to miss our episode with Ethan Miller, MPM who shares how he has already made 10x what he invested into his MPM Coaching Certification.
PAZIK PODCAST NOTES
0:52 - Tyler’s evolution into sport psychology and mental performance mastery.
1:40 - The one key element of Tyler’s mental game that allowed him to succeed in D1 baseball.
2:10 - Why just focusing on the physical side of performance is a mistake… and how that realization led Tyler to the mental game. 
2:40 - The 3 areas of sport psychology you need to know and the ONE to excel in as a coach.
4:05 - How the MPM Certification has helped Tyler get better results and grow his business.
5:05 - The difference between theory and application—and how the MPM Certification teaches the practical application you will actually use in the field.
5:50 - The crucial piece that’s missing from academic programs (and how the MPM Certification delivers in this area BIG time). 
6:15 - Tyler’s advice for coaches and trainers thinking of a master’s degree vs. the MPM Certification.
9:45 - Coaching is playing follow the leader… the MPM Certification is that proven leader to follow.
10:25 - Tyler’s go-to mental performance strategies for helping teams consistently play at a higher level. 
12:10 - The #1 mental performance strategy Tyler uses when competing in ultra-marathons.
14:35 - The importance of having a concrete mental performance strategy to go to under stress and high-pressure situations. 
15:20 - A crucial aspect of coaching that you should NEVER overlook. 
17:00 - Is mental performance a job… or a way of life? 
18:20 - The best advice Tyler has ever received as an MPM coach.
19:50 - The benefits of attending Total Immersion Events and how it helps you keep stepping up the ladder.
21:00 - The lifecycle of becoming a mental performance coach.
You can connect with Tyler by email Tyler@PazikPerformanceGroup.com, by calling 847-922-1371, or by engaging with him on Instagram at PazikPepTalk.]]>
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      <title>BC162 - The Joe Louis Story - Finish Them Off</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc162-the-joe-lewis-story-finish-them-off/</link>
      <description>In BC158 you learned about the importance of Surviving The Assault and Working The Cut.   
In BC 162 we take a lesson from one of the greatest fighters of all time and Finish Them Off!
Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship from 1937 to 1949.  His 12 years of dominance is the longest reign ever by a heavyweight champion.
In his career, he won 66 fights - 49 by knockout, 10 coming in the first round.
He had an efficient boxing style, he was a master of the fundamentals.
The boxing analysts say he has the best ENERGY of any boxer, better than Tyson, better than Ali because he was always moving forward, he was Always on The Attack.
When he got close to the finish he said that he used to be able to smell the KO coming.
Champions can tell when finish is near.  They channel that into a laser like focus on winning punches and executing one punch at a time. 
Louis is one of the greatest of all time and life all the great ones who ever live, there can be no greatness without adversity.
June 19, 1936 Louis lost by KO in the 12 RD to German fighter Max Schmeling.  The Loss is what propelled Lewis to his 12 years of DOMINANCE.
Two years later on June 22, 1938 with a sold out crowd of 70,000 in Yankee Stadium Louis won by 1st Rd KO.
In that 12 year span, he defended his title 25 times and won 22 by KO.
WORK THE CUT &amp; FINISH THEM OFF!!!
 </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2019 15:21:59 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC162 - The Joe Louis Story - Finish Them Off</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:episode>62</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In BC158 you learned about the importance of Surviving The Assault and Working The Cut.   
In BC 162 we take a lesson from one of the greatest fighters of all time and Finish Them Off!
Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship from 1937 to 1949....</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In BC158 you learned about the importance of Surviving The Assault and Working The Cut.   
In BC 162 we take a lesson from one of the greatest fighters of all time and Finish Them Off!
Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship from 1937 to 1949.  His 12 years of dominance is the longest reign ever by a heavyweight champion.
In his career, he won 66 fights - 49 by knockout, 10 coming in the first round.
He had an efficient boxing style, he was a master of the fundamentals.
The boxing analysts say he has the best ENERGY of any boxer, better than Tyson, better than Ali because he was always moving forward, he was Always on The Attack.
When he got close to the finish he said that he used to be able to smell the KO coming.
Champions can tell when finish is near.  They channel that into a laser like focus on winning punches and executing one punch at a time. 
Louis is one of the greatest of all time and life all the great ones who ever live, there can be no greatness without adversity.
June 19, 1936 Louis lost by KO in the 12 RD to German fighter Max Schmeling.  The Loss is what propelled Lewis to his 12 years of DOMINANCE.
Two years later on June 22, 1938 with a sold out crowd of 70,000 in Yankee Stadium Louis won by 1st Rd KO.
In that 12 year span, he defended his title 25 times and won 22 by KO.
WORK THE CUT &amp; FINISH THEM OFF!!!
 </itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[In BC158 you learned about the importance of Surviving The Assault and Working The Cut.   
In BC 162 we take a lesson from one of the greatest fighters of all time and Finish Them Off!
Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship from 1937 to 1949.  His 12 years of dominance is the longest reign ever by a heavyweight champion.
In his career, he won 66 fights - 49 by knockout, 10 coming in the first round.
He had an efficient boxing style, he was a master of the fundamentals.
The boxing analysts say he has the best ENERGY of any boxer, better than Tyson, better than Ali because he was always moving forward, he was Always on The Attack.
When he got close to the finish he said that he used to be able to smell the KO coming.
Champions can tell when finish is near.  They channel that into a laser like focus on winning punches and executing one punch at a time. 
Louis is one of the greatest of all time and life all the great ones who ever live, there can be no greatness without adversity.
June 19, 1936 Louis lost by KO in the 12 RD to German fighter Max Schmeling.  The Loss is what propelled Lewis to his 12 years of DOMINANCE.
Two years later on June 22, 1938 with a sold out crowd of 70,000 in Yankee Stadium Louis won by 1st Rd KO.
In that 12 year span, he defended his title 25 times and won 22 by KO.
WORK THE CUT &amp; FINISH THEM OFF!!!
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      <itunes:duration>329</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC161 - MPM Coach Spotlight: Ethan Miller</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc161-mpm-coach-spotlight-ethan-miller/</link>
      <description>Ethan Miller is one of the first coaches to complete our MPM Certification Course and one of the most active MPM Certified coaches at spreading his influence and impact while making an income from mental performance coaching.  
His full-time job is as the Athletic Director, Health and Physical Education Teacher and Varsity Baseball Coach at Central Springs High School in Manley, Iowa.  One of the most motivated and committed coaches I have ever worked with, Miller is also and the co-author of The Mental Game of Athletic Administration and the author of It Doesn't Happen By Accident: The 6 Keys to ​Leading with Intention and It Doesn't Happen By Accident: Living a Life of Purpose.
In this MPM Coach Spotlight Podcast, Ethan shares his journey into MPM Certification and how he has earned 20x what he invested into the MPM Certification in less than 90 days from enrolling in the course.
 
ETHAN MILLER PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
 2:20 - You are already coaching mental performance you just don’t know it or do it intentionally
3:20 - The difference between motivational speaker BS and field tested strategy and system that gets results
3:50 - Motivation gets you started, commitment keeps you going
4:00 - Why people fail at sticking to their programs and goals
4:40 - The missing piece in moving from average to elite
5:20 - The problem with many sport psychology graduate programs
6:20 - Ethan's story and journey into mental performance mastery
7:20 - The GAP that athletes and coaches must close to achieve optimal performance
8:30 - How ONE COMMENT changed his life and can change the life of your clients and athletes
9:10 - Mental Performance Mastery is a lifestyle, not a course
10:40 - The 4 Stages of Buy In and how Ethan went through these in his life and used the MPM Manual
11:08 - Closing the zone of proximal development
11:28 - Trained or untrained, mental performance mastery is not a condition, it’s state
12:20 - How to become unstoppable and more valuable as a coach or trainer
13:20 - Having something to go to so you can be at your best when it means the most
14:10 - Growing your business and making money as a mental performance coach
14:45 - Being mission driven and in service to others is the pathway to getting paid
15:15 - Building your business as a Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Certified Coach
16:00 - Improving communication and coaching
16:50 - The high you can’t buy that you get from coaching and mental performance training
17:30 - Advice for people looking to get into mental performance coaching
17:50 - The 3 ways that people leave you determines how long they will stay with you.
18:40 - The MPM Certification is FINALLY a ONE CLEAR PLAN to help us in coaching
19:00 - Ethan’s experience in sport psychology academic classrooms… 
19:35 - Not a one and done certification, a lifestyle vs. an event - on going coaching and mentorship
20:10 - Having an accessible expert as a mentor to help you along the way
20:30 - Constant development and growth - The Success Cycle
21:40 - Don’t get into this income, get into the outcome - influence and impact before income
 
Connect with Ethan Miller:
Online www.Ethan-Miller.com
E-Mail = Ethan@Ethan-Milller.com
Twitter = @EthanMiller_20
Instagram = @EMiller2020
 
If you want to grow your impact, influence and income like Ethan, join other top coaches and trainers in my Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Certification Course.  Click here to join our insiders list, be notified of when the next course will be available and save $200 off your course registration.
Connect with Cain at BrianCain.com and on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @BrianCainPeak</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:24:52 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC161 - MPM Coach Spotlight: Ethan Miller</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:episode>61</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Ethan Miller is one of the first coaches to complete our MPM Certification Course and one of the most active MPM Certified coaches at spreading his influence and impact while making an income from mental performance coaching.  
His full-time job is as th...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Ethan Miller is one of the first coaches to complete our MPM Certification Course and one of the most active MPM Certified coaches at spreading his influence and impact while making an income from mental performance coaching.  
His full-time job is as the Athletic Director, Health and Physical Education Teacher and Varsity Baseball Coach at Central Springs High School in Manley, Iowa.  One of the most motivated and committed coaches I have ever worked with, Miller is also and the co-author of The Mental Game of Athletic Administration and the author of It Doesn't Happen By Accident: The 6 Keys to ​Leading with Intention and It Doesn't Happen By Accident: Living a Life of Purpose.
In this MPM Coach Spotlight Podcast, Ethan shares his journey into MPM Certification and how he has earned 20x what he invested into the MPM Certification in less than 90 days from enrolling in the course.
 
ETHAN MILLER PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
 2:20 - You are already coaching mental performance you just don’t know it or do it intentionally
3:20 - The difference between motivational speaker BS and field tested strategy and system that gets results
3:50 - Motivation gets you started, commitment keeps you going
4:00 - Why people fail at sticking to their programs and goals
4:40 - The missing piece in moving from average to elite
5:20 - The problem with many sport psychology graduate programs
6:20 - Ethan's story and journey into mental performance mastery
7:20 - The GAP that athletes and coaches must close to achieve optimal performance
8:30 - How ONE COMMENT changed his life and can change the life of your clients and athletes
9:10 - Mental Performance Mastery is a lifestyle, not a course
10:40 - The 4 Stages of Buy In and how Ethan went through these in his life and used the MPM Manual
11:08 - Closing the zone of proximal development
11:28 - Trained or untrained, mental performance mastery is not a condition, it’s state
12:20 - How to become unstoppable and more valuable as a coach or trainer
13:20 - Having something to go to so you can be at your best when it means the most
14:10 - Growing your business and making money as a mental performance coach
14:45 - Being mission driven and in service to others is the pathway to getting paid
15:15 - Building your business as a Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Certified Coach
16:00 - Improving communication and coaching
16:50 - The high you can’t buy that you get from coaching and mental performance training
17:30 - Advice for people looking to get into mental performance coaching
17:50 - The 3 ways that people leave you determines how long they will stay with you.
18:40 - The MPM Certification is FINALLY a ONE CLEAR PLAN to help us in coaching
19:00 - Ethan’s experience in sport psychology academic classrooms… 
19:35 - Not a one and done certification, a lifestyle vs. an event - on going coaching and mentorship
20:10 - Having an accessible expert as a mentor to help you along the way
20:30 - Constant development and growth - The Success Cycle
21:40 - Don’t get into this income, get into the outcome - influence and impact before income
 
Connect with Ethan Miller:
Online www.Ethan-Miller.com
E-Mail = Ethan@Ethan-Milller.com
Twitter = @EthanMiller_20
Instagram = @EMiller2020
 
If you want to grow your impact, influence and income like Ethan, join other top coaches and trainers in my Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Certification Course.  Click here to join our insiders list, be notified of when the next course will be available and save $200 off your course registration.
Connect with Cain at BrianCain.com and on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @BrianCainPeak</itunes:summary>
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His full-time job is as the Athletic Director, Health and Physical Education Teacher and Varsity Baseball Coach at Central Springs High School in Manley, Iowa.  One of the most motivated and committed coaches I have ever worked with, Miller is also and the co-author of The Mental Game of Athletic Administration and the author of It Doesn't Happen By Accident: The 6 Keys to ​Leading with Intention and It Doesn't Happen By Accident: Living a Life of Purpose.
In this MPM Coach Spotlight Podcast, Ethan shares his journey into MPM Certification and how he has earned 20x what he invested into the MPM Certification in less than 90 days from enrolling in the course.
 
ETHAN MILLER PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
 2:20 - You are already coaching mental performance you just don’t know it or do it intentionally
3:20 - The difference between motivational speaker BS and field tested strategy and system that gets results
3:50 - Motivation gets you started, commitment keeps you going
4:00 - Why people fail at sticking to their programs and goals
4:40 - The missing piece in moving from average to elite
5:20 - The problem with many sport psychology graduate programs
6:20 - Ethan's story and journey into mental performance mastery
7:20 - The GAP that athletes and coaches must close to achieve optimal performance
8:30 - How ONE COMMENT changed his life and can change the life of your clients and athletes
9:10 - Mental Performance Mastery is a lifestyle, not a course
10:40 - The 4 Stages of Buy In and how Ethan went through these in his life and used the MPM Manual
11:08 - Closing the zone of proximal development
11:28 - Trained or untrained, mental performance mastery is not a condition, it’s state
12:20 - How to become unstoppable and more valuable as a coach or trainer
13:20 - Having something to go to so you can be at your best when it means the most
14:10 - Growing your business and making money as a mental performance coach
14:45 - Being mission driven and in service to others is the pathway to getting paid
15:15 - Building your business as a Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Certified Coach
16:00 - Improving communication and coaching
16:50 - The high you can’t buy that you get from coaching and mental performance training
17:30 - Advice for people looking to get into mental performance coaching
17:50 - The 3 ways that people leave you determines how long they will stay with you.
18:40 - The MPM Certification is FINALLY a ONE CLEAR PLAN to help us in coaching
19:00 - Ethan’s experience in sport psychology academic classrooms… 
19:35 - Not a one and done certification, a lifestyle vs. an event - on going coaching and mentorship
20:10 - Having an accessible expert as a mentor to help you along the way
20:30 - Constant development and growth - The Success Cycle
21:40 - Don’t get into this income, get into the outcome - influence and impact before income
 
Connect with Ethan Miller:
Online www.Ethan-Miller.com
E-Mail = Ethan@Ethan-Milller.com
Twitter = @EthanMiller_20
Instagram = @EMiller2020
 
If you want to grow your impact, influence and income like Ethan, join other top coaches and trainers in my Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Certification Course.  Click here to join our insiders list, be notified of when the next course will be available and save $200 off your course registration.
Connect with Cain at BrianCain.com and on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @BrianCainPeak]]>
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      <title>BC160 - The Law of The Golf Course</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc160-the-law-of-the-golf-course/</link>
      <description>Are you going through life playing golf on a course with no holes?  Mental Performance Coach Brian Cain shares an analogy you can use about having goals, sharpening your focus and playing to win the day. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2018 23:28:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC160 - The Law of The Golf Course</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:episode>60</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Are you going through life playing golf on a course with no holes?  Mental Performance Coach Brian Cain shares an analogy you can use about having goals, sharpening your focus and playing to win the day. </itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Are you going through life playing golf on a course with no holes?  Mental Performance Coach Brian Cain shares an analogy you can use about having goals, sharpening your focus and playing to win the day. </itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>195</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC159 - Acres of Diamonds</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc159-acres-of-diamonds/</link>
      <description>Mental Performance Coach Brian Cain shares how we might just be sitting on an acre of diamonds.  Start looking inside for answers vs looking outside.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2018 21:48:24 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC159 - Acres of Diamonds</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:episode>59</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Mental Performance Coach Brian Cain shares how we might just be sitting on an acre of diamonds.  Start looking inside for answers vs looking outside.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Mental Performance Coach Brian Cain shares how we might just be sitting on an acre of diamonds.  Start looking inside for answers vs looking outside.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Mental Performance Coach Brian Cain shares how we might just be sitting on an acre of diamonds.  Start looking inside for answers vs looking outside.</p>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>241</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC158 - Work The Cut</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc158-work-the-cut/</link>
      <description>Mental Performance Coach Brian Cain shares one of his favorite mindsets about keeping the process bigger than the outcome.  If you want to get the knockout and win, you must simply work the cut.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2018 21:32:24 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC158 - Work The Cut</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:episode>58</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Mental Performance Coach Brian Cain shares one of his favorite mindsets about keeping the process bigger than the outcome.  If you want to get the knockout and win, you must simply work the cut.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Mental Performance Coach Brian Cain shares one of his favorite mindsets about keeping the process bigger than the outcome.  If you want to get the knockout and win, you must simply work the cut.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Mental Performance Coach Brian Cain shares one of his favorite mindsets about keeping the process bigger than the outcome.  If you want to get the knockout and win, you must simply work the cut.</p>]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>250</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC157 - Brian Cain - Your 1% Intention</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc157-brian-cain-your-1-intention/</link>
      <description>In this episode, Cain shares what it means to set "Your 1% Intention" so that you can get a head start on 2019 and give yourself the best chance for success:
YOU WILL LEARN:
The MVP Process
One Word Focus
Well Better How Growth Plan
Investing 1% of Your Day
No Days Off November
Decision Made December
 
Engage with Cain at BrianCain.com and on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @BrianCainPeak</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 14:54:03 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC157 - Brian Cain - Your 1% Intention</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:episode>57</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Cain shares what it means to set "Your 1% Intention" so that you can get a head start on 2019 and give yourself the best chance for success:
YOU WILL LEARN:
The MVP Process
One Word Focus
Well Better How Growth Plan
Investing 1% of Your ...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode, Cain shares what it means to set "Your 1% Intention" so that you can get a head start on 2019 and give yourself the best chance for success:
YOU WILL LEARN:
The MVP Process
One Word Focus
Well Better How Growth Plan
Investing 1% of Your Day
No Days Off November
Decision Made December
 
Engage with Cain at BrianCain.com and on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @BrianCainPeak</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[In this episode, Cain shares what it means to set "Your 1% Intention" so that you can get a head start on 2019 and give yourself the best chance for success:
YOU WILL LEARN:
The MVP Process
One Word Focus
Well Better How Growth Plan
Investing 1% of Your Day
No Days Off November
Decision Made December
 
Engage with Cain at BrianCain.com and on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @BrianCainPeak]]>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC156 - Brenda Tracy - Sexual Assault, Physical Violence and Set The Expectation</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc156-brenda-tracy-sexual-assault-physical-violence-and-set-the-expectation/</link>
      <description>TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Introduction
04:44 – Brenda Tracy Background and Story
08:03 – Set The Expectation Campaign at SetTheExpectation.com
11:48 – What do you need to have your own Set The Expectation game?
12:48 – The power of the t-shirt and what it says
14:03 – When should you start educating the athletes?
17:13 – what should a coach do to Set The Expectation?
19:33 – How you can help Brenda Tracy spread the message
23:04 – Raising awareness in schools – by the numbers
24:54 – “The Red Zone”
26:34 – The importance of men taking action
31:14 – Where to go to support the Set The Expectation campaign
32:59 – Engage with Brenda on social media</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2018 06:30:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC156 - Brenda Tracy - Sexual Assault, Physical Violence and Set The Expectation</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:episode>56</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Introduction
04:44 – Brenda Tracy Background and Story
08:03 – Set The Expectation Campaign at SetTheExpectation.com
11:48 – What do you need to have your own Set The Expectation game?
12:48 – The power of the t-shirt and what it says
...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Introduction
04:44 – Brenda Tracy Background and Story
08:03 – Set The Expectation Campaign at SetTheExpectation.com
11:48 – What do you need to have your own Set The Expectation game?
12:48 – The power of the t-shirt and what it says
14:03 – When should you start educating the athletes?
17:13 – what should a coach do to Set The Expectation?
19:33 – How you can help Brenda Tracy spread the message
23:04 – Raising awareness in schools – by the numbers
24:54 – “The Red Zone”
26:34 – The importance of men taking action
31:14 – Where to go to support the Set The Expectation campaign
32:59 – Engage with Brenda on social media</itunes:summary>
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00:00 – Introduction
04:44 – Brenda Tracy Background and Story
08:03 – Set The Expectation Campaign at SetTheExpectation.com
11:48 – What do you need to have your own Set The Expectation game?
12:48 – The power of the t-shirt and what it says
14:03 – When should you start educating the athletes?
17:13 – what should a coach do to Set The Expectation?
19:33 – How you can help Brenda Tracy spread the message
23:04 – Raising awareness in schools – by the numbers
24:54 – “The Red Zone”
26:34 – The importance of men taking action
31:14 – Where to go to support the Set The Expectation campaign
32:59 – Engage with Brenda on social media]]>
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      <title>BC155. Eric Byrnes - The Mindset for Ultramarathoning and Life</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc155-eric-byrnes-the-mindset-for-ultramarathoning-and-life/</link>
      <description>On this episode, Brian converses with Eric Byrnes - a retired Major League Baseball player, current analyst on MLB Network, and one of the most genuine human beings on this planet.
 
00:00 - Cain and Eric talk ultra training
02:56 - Diamond To The Rough
04:12 - The history behind The Western States 100
05:43 - What does walking and exercising do for the brain?
09:01 - How does Eric use the hot tub and sauna for recovery?
10:29 - How is the ultra mindset different from the baseball mindset?
13:37 - If Eric could go back and do over the MLB, what would he do differently?
15:25 - The importance of The MOMENT
16:10 - “The Zone” and “Raising Your Basement”
18:53 - Eric’s take on the meaning of life
20:14 - The importance of movement and modeling healthy behaviors/choices for your athletes.
26:00 - Closing Comments - Watch Diamond To The Rough</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 06:01:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC155. Eric Byrnes - The Mindset for Ultramarathoning and Life</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:episode>55</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>On this episode, Brian converses with Eric Byrnes - a retired Major League Baseball player, current analyst on MLB Network, and one of the most genuine human beings on this planet.
 
00:00 - Cain and Eric talk ultra training
02:56 - Diamond To The Rough
...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>On this episode, Brian converses with Eric Byrnes - a retired Major League Baseball player, current analyst on MLB Network, and one of the most genuine human beings on this planet.
 
00:00 - Cain and Eric talk ultra training
02:56 - Diamond To The Rough
04:12 - The history behind The Western States 100
05:43 - What does walking and exercising do for the brain?
09:01 - How does Eric use the hot tub and sauna for recovery?
10:29 - How is the ultra mindset different from the baseball mindset?
13:37 - If Eric could go back and do over the MLB, what would he do differently?
15:25 - The importance of The MOMENT
16:10 - “The Zone” and “Raising Your Basement”
18:53 - Eric’s take on the meaning of life
20:14 - The importance of movement and modeling healthy behaviors/choices for your athletes.
26:00 - Closing Comments - Watch Diamond To The Rough</itunes:summary>
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02:56 - Diamond To The Rough
04:12 - The history behind The Western States 100
05:43 - What does walking and exercising do for the brain?
09:01 - How does Eric use the hot tub and sauna for recovery?
10:29 - How is the ultra mindset different from the baseball mindset?
13:37 - If Eric could go back and do over the MLB, what would he do differently?
15:25 - The importance of The MOMENT
16:10 - “The Zone” and “Raising Your Basement”
18:53 - Eric’s take on the meaning of life
20:14 - The importance of movement and modeling healthy behaviors/choices for your athletes.
26:00 - Closing Comments - Watch Diamond To The Rough]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:30:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:episode>54</itunes:episode>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:episode>53</itunes:episode>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:episode>47</itunes:episode>
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Why Andrew chose to attend a D3 school.
The routines he has in place to succeed in the NFL.
The experiences that have shaped him into the player and man he is today.
And much more...</description>
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You will learn...
Why Andrew chose to attend a D3 school.
The routines he has in place to succeed in the NFL.
The experiences that have shaped him into the player and man he is today.
And much more...</itunes:summary>
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Why Andrew chose to attend a D3 school.
The routines he has in place to succeed in the NFL.
The experiences that have shaped him into the player and man he is today.
And much more...
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    <item>
      <title>BC. 141 Dr. James Maas - Sleep, The Missing Link in Peak Performance</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-141-dr-james-maas-sleep-the-missing-link-in-peak-performance/</link>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC. 141 Dr. James Maas - Sleep, The Missing Link in Peak Performance</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:episode>41</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/c96b29c4-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-4797e9dbdc70/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Featured_Image_Dr_James_Maas_Square_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary></itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
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      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>3373</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-141-dr-james-maas-sleep-the-missing-link-in-peak-performance/]]></guid>
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    <item>
      <title>BC 140. Brian &amp; Erin Cain | Family Values, Travel, Meditation, and Yoga</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-140-brian-erin-cain-family-values-travel-meditation-and-yoga/</link>
      <description>A special relationship podcast episode featuring Brian's wife Erin "The Bear".
 
Learn about...
The origins of "The Bear" and how the nickname came to fruition.
A "90 Day Getaway" and why it is so important to their relationship.
Their daily checklists.
The core principles of the Cain's.
The biggest challenges in their relationship.
And more...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 140. Brian &amp; Erin Cain | Family Values, Travel, Meditation, and Yoga</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/c9ac9b16-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-bbe1c4223afa/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Featured_Image_Erin_Cain_Square_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>A special relationship podcast episode featuring Brian's wife Erin "The Bear".
 
Learn about...
The origins of "The Bear" and how the nickname came to fruition.
A "90 Day Getaway" and why it is so important to their relationship.
Their daily checklists.
...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>A special relationship podcast episode featuring Brian's wife Erin "The Bear".
 
Learn about...
The origins of "The Bear" and how the nickname came to fruition.
A "90 Day Getaway" and why it is so important to their relationship.
Their daily checklists.
The core principles of the Cain's.
The biggest challenges in their relationship.
And more...</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[A special relationship podcast episode featuring Brian's wife Erin "The Bear".
 
Learn about...
The origins of "The Bear" and how the nickname came to fruition.
A "90 Day Getaway" and why it is so important to their relationship.
Their daily checklists.
The core principles of the Cain's.
The biggest challenges in their relationship.
And more...
]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>1182</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-140-brian-erin-cain-family-values-travel-meditation-and-yoga/]]></guid>
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    <item>
      <title>BC 139. Greg McMichael | The Major League Transition</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-139-greg-mcmichael-the-major-league-transition/</link>
      <description>Former Major League pitcher and 1995 World Series champion with the Atlanta Braves, Greg McMichael joins Brian for a fantastic episode on baseball, the mental game, and life after sports.
 
Discover...
The extreme adversity that Greg overcame to reach the Major Leagues.
An amazing story about how Greg thought his career might be over, but he continued to pursue his goals and ended up being an integral part of the '95 World Series champion Atlanta Braves.
Greg's unique perspective on the mental game.
The #1 way Greg measures success today...his answer will likely surprise you.
And more...
 
To contact Greg, Email him at Greg.McMichael@Braves.com</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 139. Greg McMichael | The Major League Transition</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/ca050616-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-7b475954fe6f/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Featured_Image_Greg_McMichael_Square_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>Former Major League pitcher and 1995 World Series champion with the Atlanta Braves, Greg McMichael joins Brian for a fantastic episode on baseball, the mental game, and life after sports.
 
Discover...
The extreme adversity that Greg overcame to reach th...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Former Major League pitcher and 1995 World Series champion with the Atlanta Braves, Greg McMichael joins Brian for a fantastic episode on baseball, the mental game, and life after sports.
 
Discover...
The extreme adversity that Greg overcame to reach the Major Leagues.
An amazing story about how Greg thought his career might be over, but he continued to pursue his goals and ended up being an integral part of the '95 World Series champion Atlanta Braves.
Greg's unique perspective on the mental game.
The #1 way Greg measures success today...his answer will likely surprise you.
And more...
 
To contact Greg, Email him at Greg.McMichael@Braves.com</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[Former Major League pitcher and 1995 World Series champion with the Atlanta Braves, Greg McMichael joins Brian for a fantastic episode on baseball, the mental game, and life after sports.
 
Discover...
The extreme adversity that Greg overcame to reach the Major Leagues.
An amazing story about how Greg thought his career might be over, but he continued to pursue his goals and ended up being an integral part of the '95 World Series champion Atlanta Braves.
Greg's unique perspective on the mental game.
The #1 way Greg measures success today...his answer will likely surprise you.
And more...
 
To contact Greg, Email him at Greg.McMichael@Braves.com]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>2075</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-139-greg-mcmichael-the-major-league-transition/]]></guid>
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    <item>
      <title>BC 138. Chris Villarreal | Fear &amp; Confidence Are NOT Mutually Exclusive</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-138-chris-villarreal-fear-confidence-are-not-mutually-exclusive/</link>
      <description>Former Performance Course Athlete turned Army Ranger, Chris Villarreal joins the Peak Performance Podcast for one of the best episodes of the year.
 
You will discover...
The life lessons Chris has learned as an Army Ranger.
The importance of visualization and how he utilized it as an athlete and in the military.
A fascinating story of a police officer falling back on his training and habits.
Why confidence and fear are not mutually exclusive.
The power and weight of body language in sports and in the military.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 138. Chris Villarreal | Fear &amp; Confidence Are NOT Mutually Exclusive</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/ca9d5ea2-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-6f423b586623/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Featured_Image_Chris_Villarreal_Square_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>Former Performance Course Athlete turned Army Ranger, Chris Villarreal joins the Peak Performance Podcast for one of the best episodes of the year.
 
You will discover...
The life lessons Chris has learned as an Army Ranger.
The importance of visualizati...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Former Performance Course Athlete turned Army Ranger, Chris Villarreal joins the Peak Performance Podcast for one of the best episodes of the year.
 
You will discover...
The life lessons Chris has learned as an Army Ranger.
The importance of visualization and how he utilized it as an athlete and in the military.
A fascinating story of a police officer falling back on his training and habits.
Why confidence and fear are not mutually exclusive.
The power and weight of body language in sports and in the military.</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[Former Performance Course Athlete turned Army Ranger, Chris Villarreal joins the Peak Performance Podcast for one of the best episodes of the year.
 
You will discover...
The life lessons Chris has learned as an Army Ranger.
The importance of visualization and how he utilized it as an athlete and in the military.
A fascinating story of a police officer falling back on his training and habits.
Why confidence and fear are not mutually exclusive.
The power and weight of body language in sports and in the military.
]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>1702</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-138-chris-villarreal-fear-confidence-are-not-mutually-exclusive/]]></guid>
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    <item>
      <title>BC 137. Monica Abbott | Million Dollar Mental Game</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-137-monica-abbott-million-dollar-mental-game/</link>
      <description>Monica Abbott is the D1 Softball All-Time Career Leader in Wins, Strikeouts, Shutouts, Innings Pitched, Games Started, and Games Pitched.  After her collegiate career, she signed the most lucrative contract ever paid by an individual American Professional.
 
In this episode, you will learn...
How Monica went through the 4 Stages of Buy In before participating in mental training.
The situations she visualizes and puts herself through (both negative and positive) before going out to pitch.
When she uses visualization and breathing outside of softball.
Monica's definition of success both on and off the field.
And more...
 
If you want more, visit MonicaAbbott.com
Follow Monica on Twitter @MonicaAbbott</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 137. Monica Abbott | Million Dollar Mental Game</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cb849d12-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-b7f5943e06d4/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Featured_Image_Monica_Abbott_Square_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>Monica Abbott is the D1 Softball All-Time Career Leader in Wins, Strikeouts, Shutouts, Innings Pitched, Games Started, and Games Pitched.  After her collegiate career, she signed the most lucrative contract ever paid by an individual American Professiona...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Monica Abbott is the D1 Softball All-Time Career Leader in Wins, Strikeouts, Shutouts, Innings Pitched, Games Started, and Games Pitched.  After her collegiate career, she signed the most lucrative contract ever paid by an individual American Professional.
 
In this episode, you will learn...
How Monica went through the 4 Stages of Buy In before participating in mental training.
The situations she visualizes and puts herself through (both negative and positive) before going out to pitch.
When she uses visualization and breathing outside of softball.
Monica's definition of success both on and off the field.
And more...
 
If you want more, visit MonicaAbbott.com
Follow Monica on Twitter @MonicaAbbott</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[Monica Abbott is the D1 Softball All-Time Career Leader in Wins, Strikeouts, Shutouts, Innings Pitched, Games Started, and Games Pitched.  After her collegiate career, she signed the most lucrative contract ever paid by an individual American Professional.
 
In this episode, you will learn...
How Monica went through the 4 Stages of Buy In before participating in mental training.
The situations she visualizes and puts herself through (both negative and positive) before going out to pitch.
When she uses visualization and breathing outside of softball.
Monica's definition of success both on and off the field.
And more...
 
If you want more, visit MonicaAbbott.com
Follow Monica on Twitter @MonicaAbbott]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>1722</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-137-monica-abbott-million-dollar-mental-game/]]></guid>
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    <item>
      <title>BC 136. Bobby Maximus | The Importance Of Ruthless Self-Work</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-136-bobby-maximus-the-importance-of-ruthless-self-work/</link>
      <description>Brian sits down with one of the elite Peak Performers in the world, Bobby Maximus.  Bobby is a former police officer turned UFC fighter and is now the General Manager and founder of Gym Jones.
 
You will learn...
The importance of ruthless self-evaluation.
Bobby's story and what drives him to be elite.
A few techniques to help you develop more positive thoughts throughout the day.
What a bed and a cell phone charger have in common.
And more...
 
Learn more about Bobby's Training Shoe on LaloTactical.com.
Find Bobby's book Maximus Body here.
Follow Bobby on Twitter @BobbyMaximus
Follow Bobby on Instagram @BobbyMaximus</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 136. Bobby Maximus | The Importance Of Ruthless Self-Work</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cbf01286-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-fb94ec9539d6/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Featured_Image_Bobby_Maximus_Square_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>Brian sits down with one of the elite Peak Performers in the world, Bobby Maximus.  Bobby is a former police officer turned UFC fighter and is now the General Manager and founder of Gym Jones.
 
You will learn...
The importance of ruthless self-evaluatio...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Brian sits down with one of the elite Peak Performers in the world, Bobby Maximus.  Bobby is a former police officer turned UFC fighter and is now the General Manager and founder of Gym Jones.
 
You will learn...
The importance of ruthless self-evaluation.
Bobby's story and what drives him to be elite.
A few techniques to help you develop more positive thoughts throughout the day.
What a bed and a cell phone charger have in common.
And more...
 
Learn more about Bobby's Training Shoe on LaloTactical.com.
Find Bobby's book Maximus Body here.
Follow Bobby on Twitter @BobbyMaximus
Follow Bobby on Instagram @BobbyMaximus</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[Brian sits down with one of the elite Peak Performers in the world, Bobby Maximus.  Bobby is a former police officer turned UFC fighter and is now the General Manager and founder of Gym Jones.
 
You will learn...
The importance of ruthless self-evaluation.
Bobby's story and what drives him to be elite.
A few techniques to help you develop more positive thoughts throughout the day.
What a bed and a cell phone charger have in common.
And more...
 
Learn more about Bobby's Training Shoe on LaloTactical.com.
Find Bobby's book Maximus Body here.
Follow Bobby on Twitter @BobbyMaximus
Follow Bobby on Instagram @BobbyMaximus]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>2515</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-136-bobby-maximus-the-importance-of-ruthless-self-work/]]></guid>
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    <item>
      <title>BC 135. Zach Sorensen | The Process Of Becoming Successful In Baseball</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-135-zach-sorensen-the-process-of-becoming-successful-in-baseball/</link>
      <description>One of the brightest minds in baseball, Zach Sorensen joins Brian on this episode of the Peak Performance Podcast to discuss the process of becoming successful in baseball.  Zach was a 2nd round MLB Draft Pick out of Wichita State and went on to play a couple years in Major League Baseball for the Indians and Angels.
 
Learn...
Where Zach was first introduced to the mental game and when he realized the importance of it.
How to become a true self-evaluator
A story of overcoming extreme adversity on the biggest stage of his life in the College World Series.
A valuable lesson he learned from playing with Manny Ramirez.
A great story about the significance of a drain behind 2nd base on Wichita State's field.
And more...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 135. Zach Sorensen | The Process Of Becoming Successful In Baseball</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cc301228-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-b789a5a99618/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Featured_Image_Zach_Sorensen_Square_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>One of the brightest minds in baseball, Zach Sorensen joins Brian on this episode of the Peak Performance Podcast to discuss the process of becoming successful in baseball.  Zach was a 2nd round MLB Draft Pick out of Wichita State and went on to play a c...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>One of the brightest minds in baseball, Zach Sorensen joins Brian on this episode of the Peak Performance Podcast to discuss the process of becoming successful in baseball.  Zach was a 2nd round MLB Draft Pick out of Wichita State and went on to play a couple years in Major League Baseball for the Indians and Angels.
 
Learn...
Where Zach was first introduced to the mental game and when he realized the importance of it.
How to become a true self-evaluator
A story of overcoming extreme adversity on the biggest stage of his life in the College World Series.
A valuable lesson he learned from playing with Manny Ramirez.
A great story about the significance of a drain behind 2nd base on Wichita State's field.
And more...</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[One of the brightest minds in baseball, Zach Sorensen joins Brian on this episode of the Peak Performance Podcast to discuss the process of becoming successful in baseball.  Zach was a 2nd round MLB Draft Pick out of Wichita State and went on to play a couple years in Major League Baseball for the Indians and Angels.
 
Learn...
Where Zach was first introduced to the mental game and when he realized the importance of it.
How to become a true self-evaluator
A story of overcoming extreme adversity on the biggest stage of his life in the College World Series.
A valuable lesson he learned from playing with Manny Ramirez.
A great story about the significance of a drain behind 2nd base on Wichita State's field.
And more...
]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>1522</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-135-zach-sorensen-the-process-of-becoming-successful-in-baseball/]]></guid>
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    <item>
      <title>BONUS NFCA Podcast</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bonus-nfca-podcast/</link>
      <description>Listen to this BONUS Podcast episode that Brian is featured in with the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BONUS NFCA Podcast</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>bonus</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/ccb1d056-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-77daaed19a55/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Featured_Image_NFCA_Square_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>Listen to this BONUS Podcast episode that Brian is featured in with the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Listen to this BONUS Podcast episode that Brian is featured in with the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[<p>Listen to this BONUS Podcast episode that Brian is featured in with the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.</p>]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>2778</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bonus-nfca-podcast/]]></guid>
      <enclosure url="https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/track/8E31D3/traffic.megaphone.fm/MTCLLC6791717910.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>BC 134. Dave Hilton | Mental Game Lessons From Playing &amp; Coaching In Pro Baseball</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-134-dave-hilton-mental-game-lessons-from-playing-coaching-in-pro-baseball/</link>
      <description>Dave Hilton is the former #1 overall pick in the 1971 MLB Draft and has endless knowledge on the mental game.  He has seen it all in professional baseball and knows what the best do to get their mind right to perform.
 
You will discover...
Dave's 5 Categories for Mindset Skills.
What Mindfulness is and how to access it.
The best mental game tip you can teach a player or utilize as a player.
Signaling and how it can help you be in the present moment.
The similarities among the BEST in Major League Baseball.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 134. Dave Hilton | Mental Game Lessons From Playing &amp; Coaching In Pro Baseball</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cd0a7b48-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-af41faf9baff/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Featured_Image_Dave_Hilton_Square_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>Dave Hilton is the former #1 overall pick in the 1971 MLB Draft and has endless knowledge on the mental game.  He has seen it all in professional baseball and knows what the best do to get their mind right to perform.
 
You will discover...
Dave's 5 Cate...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Dave Hilton is the former #1 overall pick in the 1971 MLB Draft and has endless knowledge on the mental game.  He has seen it all in professional baseball and knows what the best do to get their mind right to perform.
 
You will discover...
Dave's 5 Categories for Mindset Skills.
What Mindfulness is and how to access it.
The best mental game tip you can teach a player or utilize as a player.
Signaling and how it can help you be in the present moment.
The similarities among the BEST in Major League Baseball.</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[Dave Hilton is the former #1 overall pick in the 1971 MLB Draft and has endless knowledge on the mental game.  He has seen it all in professional baseball and knows what the best do to get their mind right to perform.
 
You will discover...
Dave's 5 Categories for Mindset Skills.
What Mindfulness is and how to access it.
The best mental game tip you can teach a player or utilize as a player.
Signaling and how it can help you be in the present moment.
The similarities among the BEST in Major League Baseball.
]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>1448</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>BC 133. 8 Benefits Of Being Data Informed #Pillar4</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-133-8-benefits-of-being-data-informed-pillar4/</link>
      <description>In this solo podcast, Brian informs you on #Pillar4 from the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance, Know Your Numbers.  You will discover the 8 Benefits of Being Data Informed and how to apply them to your everyday life.
 
The 8 Benefits of Being Data Informed...
Measurement = Motivation
What you measure gets done.
Numbers tell the truth and they lack emotion.
Chart your course and track your progress.
And more...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 133. 8 Benefits Of Being Data Informed #Pillar4</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cd96d48a-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-6b226cd33771/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>In this solo podcast, Brian informs you on #Pillar4 from the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance, Know Your Numbers.  You will discover the 8 Benefits of Being Data Informed and how to apply them to your everyday life.
 
The 8 Benefits of Being Data Informed....</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this solo podcast, Brian informs you on #Pillar4 from the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance, Know Your Numbers.  You will discover the 8 Benefits of Being Data Informed and how to apply them to your everyday life.
 
The 8 Benefits of Being Data Informed...
Measurement = Motivation
What you measure gets done.
Numbers tell the truth and they lack emotion.
Chart your course and track your progress.
And more...</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[In this solo podcast, Brian informs you on #Pillar4 from the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance, Know Your Numbers.  You will discover the 8 Benefits of Being Data Informed and how to apply them to your everyday life.
 
The 8 Benefits of Being Data Informed...
Measurement = Motivation
What you measure gets done.
Numbers tell the truth and they lack emotion.
Chart your course and track your progress.
And more...
]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>693</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-133-8-benefits-of-being-data-informed-pillar4/]]></guid>
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      <title>BC 132. Ray Thoma - Floating To Another Level</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-132-ray-thoma-floating-to-another-level/</link>
      <description>Former Professional baseball player Ray Thoma sits down with Brian to discuss his motivation for getting into float therapy and why it is for you...
 
Learn about...
Mindfulness and how it effects your performance.
Why Ray got into float therapy.
The answers to the biggest questions people have about float therapy.
And much more...
 
WATCH this video on Steph Curry and Harrison Barnes and why they float.
READ this article on Tom Brady and why he floats.
 </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 132. Ray Thoma - Floating To Another Level</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/ce00424e-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-a3b0e60dffee/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Featured_Image_Ray_Thoma_Square_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>Former Professional baseball player Ray Thoma sits down with Brian to discuss his motivation for getting into float therapy and why it is for you...
 
Learn about...
Mindfulness and how it effects your performance.
Why Ray got into float therapy.
The ans...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Former Professional baseball player Ray Thoma sits down with Brian to discuss his motivation for getting into float therapy and why it is for you...
 
Learn about...
Mindfulness and how it effects your performance.
Why Ray got into float therapy.
The answers to the biggest questions people have about float therapy.
And much more...
 
WATCH this video on Steph Curry and Harrison Barnes and why they float.
READ this article on Tom Brady and why he floats.
 </itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[Former Professional baseball player Ray Thoma sits down with Brian to discuss his motivation for getting into float therapy and why it is for you...
 
Learn about...
Mindfulness and how it effects your performance.
Why Ray got into float therapy.
The answers to the biggest questions people have about float therapy.
And much more...
 
WATCH this video on Steph Curry and Harrison Barnes and why they float.
READ this article on Tom Brady and why he floats.
 ]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>1243</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-132-ray-thoma-floating-to-another-level/]]></guid>
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    <item>
      <title>BC 131. Raúl Ibañez - The Mental Game of a 19 Year MLB Player</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-131-raul-ibanez-the-mental-game-of-a-19-year-mlb-player/</link>
      <description>In one of the best podcasts of the year, Brian talks with form Major League All-Star Raúl Ibañez on the mental game and how it was an intregal part to his sustained success...
 
You will learn about:
A fascinating story Raúl tells of how he developed his obsession with baseball.
His thoughts on the mental game and how it is "everything" to have success.
A great story about Mike Trout and what makes him the best player in the game today.
How Raúl defines success without baseball.
His answer to the Million Dollar Question.
 
Follow Ibañez on Twitter @RaulIbanezMLB</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 131. Raúl Ibañez - The Mental Game of a 19 Year MLB Player</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/ce880a76-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-371e92793e6f/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Featured_Image_Raul_Ibanez_Square_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>In one of the best podcasts of the year, Brian talks with form Major League All-Star Raúl Ibañez on the mental game and how it was an intregal part to his sustained success...
 
You will learn about:
A fascinating story Raúl tells of how he developed his...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In one of the best podcasts of the year, Brian talks with form Major League All-Star Raúl Ibañez on the mental game and how it was an intregal part to his sustained success...
 
You will learn about:
A fascinating story Raúl tells of how he developed his obsession with baseball.
His thoughts on the mental game and how it is "everything" to have success.
A great story about Mike Trout and what makes him the best player in the game today.
How Raúl defines success without baseball.
His answer to the Million Dollar Question.
 
Follow Ibañez on Twitter @RaulIbanezMLB</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[In one of the best podcasts of the year, Brian talks with form Major League All-Star Raúl Ibañez on the mental game and how it was an intregal part to his sustained success...
 
You will learn about:
A fascinating story Raúl tells of how he developed his obsession with baseball.
His thoughts on the mental game and how it is "everything" to have success.
A great story about Mike Trout and what makes him the best player in the game today.
How Raúl defines success without baseball.
His answer to the Million Dollar Question.
 
Follow Ibañez on Twitter @RaulIbanezMLB]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>2364</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-131-raul-ibanez-the-mental-game-of-a-19-year-mlb-player/]]></guid>
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    <item>
      <title>BC 130. Lonni Alameda, FSU Softball - Growing The Game &amp; Running A Championship Program</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-130-lonni-alameda-fsu-softball-growing-the-game-running-a-championship-program/</link>
      <description>One of the best college softball coaches in the country, Florida State's Lonni Alameda, sits down with Brian on this episode of the Peak Performance Podcast...
 
Discover...
The impact that the late, great Harvey Dorfman had on Lonni.
Florida State's core values and how they came up with them.
The idea of a "One More Board."
Coach Alameda's unique answer to The Million Dollar Question.
and more...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 130. Lonni Alameda, FSU Softball - Growing The Game &amp; Running A Championship Program</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cefa37cc-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-032bad6884ba/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Featured_Image_Lonnie_Alameda_Square_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>One of the best college softball coaches in the country, Florida State's Lonni Alameda, sits down with Brian on this episode of the Peak Performance Podcast...
 
Discover...
The impact that the late, great Harvey Dorfman had on Lonni.
Florida State's cor...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>One of the best college softball coaches in the country, Florida State's Lonni Alameda, sits down with Brian on this episode of the Peak Performance Podcast...
 
Discover...
The impact that the late, great Harvey Dorfman had on Lonni.
Florida State's core values and how they came up with them.
The idea of a "One More Board."
Coach Alameda's unique answer to The Million Dollar Question.
and more...</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[One of the best college softball coaches in the country, Florida State's Lonni Alameda, sits down with Brian on this episode of the Peak Performance Podcast...
 
Discover...
The impact that the late, great Harvey Dorfman had on Lonni.
Florida State's core values and how they came up with them.
The idea of a "One More Board."
Coach Alameda's unique answer to The Million Dollar Question.
and more...
]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>2494</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-130-lonni-alameda-fsu-softball-growing-the-game-running-a-championship-program/]]></guid>
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    <item>
      <title>BC 129. What Is Automobile University?</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-129-what-is-automobile-university/</link>
      <description>Brian answers the often asked queston, "what is Automobile University?" in this Podcast episode...
 
He goes in depth on:
The book that has been a game changer in his life
Valuable podcasts that Brian listens to (besides the Peak Performance Podcast)
Tangible action steps to turn your vehicle into Automobile University</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 129. What Is Automobile University?</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cf197eac-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-f333328c36b9/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>Brian answers the often asked queston, "what is Automobile University?" in this Podcast episode...
 
He goes in depth on:
The book that has been a game changer in his life
Valuable podcasts that Brian listens to (besides the Peak Performance Podcast)
Tan...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Brian answers the often asked queston, "what is Automobile University?" in this Podcast episode...
 
He goes in depth on:
The book that has been a game changer in his life
Valuable podcasts that Brian listens to (besides the Peak Performance Podcast)
Tangible action steps to turn your vehicle into Automobile University</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[Brian answers the often asked queston, "what is Automobile University?" in this Podcast episode...
 
He goes in depth on:
The book that has been a game changer in his life
Valuable podcasts that Brian listens to (besides the Peak Performance Podcast)
Tangible action steps to turn your vehicle into Automobile University
]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>768</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-129-what-is-automobile-university/]]></guid>
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    <item>
      <title>BC 128. Ken Ravizza - Why The Mental Game Is So Important</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-128-ken-ravizza-why-the-mental-game-is-so-important/</link>
      <description>Brian takes you back to an interview with his mentor, Dr. Ken Ravizza on the importance of the mental game.
 
You will learn:
Ken's answer to the question, "why is the mental game so important?"
An important question to ask your players to understand their mental state
How to maintain to confidence when you aren't seeing results
The importance of teaching the WHY</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 128. Ken Ravizza - Why The Mental Game Is So Important</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cf319e10-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-77639935681d/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Featured_Image_Ken_Ravizza_Square_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>Brian takes you back to an interview with his mentor, Dr. Ken Ravizza on the importance of the mental game.
 
You will learn:
Ken's answer to the question, "why is the mental game so important?"
An important question to ask your players to understand the...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Brian takes you back to an interview with his mentor, Dr. Ken Ravizza on the importance of the mental game.
 
You will learn:
Ken's answer to the question, "why is the mental game so important?"
An important question to ask your players to understand their mental state
How to maintain to confidence when you aren't seeing results
The importance of teaching the WHY</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[Brian takes you back to an interview with his mentor, Dr. Ken Ravizza on the importance of the mental game.
 
You will learn:
Ken's answer to the question, "why is the mental game so important?"
An important question to ask your players to understand their mental state
How to maintain to confidence when you aren't seeing results
The importance of teaching the WHY
]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>2379</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-128-ken-ravizza-why-the-mental-game-is-so-important/]]></guid>
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    <item>
      <title>BC 127. ABCA CFTC Podcast</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-127-abca-cftc-podcast/</link>
      <description>The script is flipped once again in this podcast as Brian is interviewed by Jeremy Sheetinger of the ABCA's Calls From The Clubhouse Podcast...
 
You will learn...
The tipping point that lead to Brian's journey into the Mental Game.
The expensive experience Brian learned while playing college baseball.
The 3 P's of Championship Baseball that he learned from George Horton.
How to stay prepared for your opportunity to play.
The emotions Brian experiences when teams he works with square off with one another.
Subscribe to the Calls From The Clubhouse Podcast
Follow the ABCA on Twitter @ABCA1945</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 127. ABCA CFTC Podcast</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cf8cca6a-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-b3cff26b1b4e/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Featured_Image_ABCA_CFTC_Square_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>The script is flipped once again in this podcast as Brian is interviewed by Jeremy Sheetinger of the ABCA's Calls From The Clubhouse Podcast...
 
You will learn...
The tipping point that lead to Brian's journey into the Mental Game.
The expensive experie...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>The script is flipped once again in this podcast as Brian is interviewed by Jeremy Sheetinger of the ABCA's Calls From The Clubhouse Podcast...
 
You will learn...
The tipping point that lead to Brian's journey into the Mental Game.
The expensive experience Brian learned while playing college baseball.
The 3 P's of Championship Baseball that he learned from George Horton.
How to stay prepared for your opportunity to play.
The emotions Brian experiences when teams he works with square off with one another.
Subscribe to the Calls From The Clubhouse Podcast
Follow the ABCA on Twitter @ABCA1945</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The script is flipped once again in this podcast as Brian is interviewed by Jeremy Sheetinger of the ABCA's Calls From The Clubhouse Podcast...
 
You will learn...
The tipping point that lead to Brian's journey into the Mental Game.
The expensive experience Brian learned while playing college baseball.
The 3 P's of Championship Baseball that he learned from George Horton.
How to stay prepared for your opportunity to play.
The emotions Brian experiences when teams he works with square off with one another.
Subscribe to the Calls From The Clubhouse Podcast
Follow the ABCA on Twitter @ABCA1945]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>3770</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-127-abca-cftc-podcast/]]></guid>
      <enclosure url="https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/track/8E31D3/traffic.megaphone.fm/MTCLLC8712971533.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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      <title>BC 126. Brian Cain On Rutten and Renallo - Cain Talks MMA Mindset WIth The UFC Hall of Famer</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-126-brian-cain-on-rutten-and-renallo-cain-talks-mma-mindset-with-the-ufc-hall-of-famer/</link>
      <description>In this episode, Brian flips the script as he features the episode of the Rutten &amp; Ranallo Podcast he was a guest on.  Brian shares great stories about his life growing up and the moment that changed Georges St. Pierre's life.
Follow Brian on Twitter @BrianCainPeak
Follow Rutten &amp; Ranallo on Twitter @Rutten_Ranallo
Subscribe to Brian's Monday Message here
You will learn about...
Brian's background growing up and what he planned to do with his life before becoming a Peak Performance Coach
How Georges St. Pierre overcame the worst thing that ever happened to him while working with Brian
The Big ABC's and how they lead to him finishing an IronMan
The 2 Tips that any person can do to maximize each day
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Cain: He gets done about five minutes later and I hand him the brick. I go “Georges I want you to hold this brick out in front of you for like five seconds, can you do that?” He’s like “right here in front of this restaurant in front of all these people you want me to hold the brick?” I said “yeah hold it five seconds.” So he holds it up. I go “put your arm down, now hold it up for like 50 seconds.” He holds it up no problem.
I go “how about five minutes?” He goes “I could do that but I don’t want to hold that up here I’m embarrassed.” I said “well how about you hold that thing for five weeks, what do you think would happen?” He goes “shit that’s impossible.” I go “Georges that’s exactly what you’re doing, Matt Serra beat you five weeks ago and you’ve been carrying this mental brick ever since. You can’t see it but you can feel it and it’s wearing you down.”
Rutten: The person we have as our guest today is a guy who was a standout pitcher at the University of Vermont where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education and Exercise Science that later earned a Masters in Applied Sports Psychology and Kinesiology from California State Fullerton.
He is a motivation speaker, a brain repairman or Mental Coach as you guys all call it (I just came up with a funnier name), he is a bestselling author whose specialization is working with different athletes from around the world and in any sport. Yes, even in Mixed Martial Arts. He works with our beloved Georges St. Pierre and he’s just an all around good guy who likes to help people overcome their problems. Boys and girls here we are, Brian Cain. 
Brian I know I probably didn’t mention many more thing you have achieve and do like your Iron Man but welcome to the show my friend. How are things over there in Richmond, Vermont if I’m not mistaken?
Cain: Well you are mistaken my friend. I’m actually in Southlake, Texas. I moved out of Vermont when I got tired of the cold. I moved down here to Southlake which is about 15 minutes from the Dallas-Fort Worth airport so that I could travel to the left and right coasts of this great country and be able to get around and spread the message of Peak Performance and help athletes and people to achieve their best.
A little bit hard getting out of the great state of Vermont - I miss that place - but as they say if you want to win you’ve got to focus on what is important now which is being where my feet are here in Southlake, Texas, ready to Dominate the Day and fire it up the B on this podcast with you my friend.
Rutten: Boom. I love it. That’s the same thing with the weather, for me it was. I am from Holland and of course business opportunities, that is why I moved here - California. You can’t beat the weather. That’s the one thing here.
Cain: I actually had a stint in Holland. I coached there for eight weeks in a place called Appledorn. Are you familiar with that?
Rutten: Absolutely not.
Cain: It’s about an hour outside of Amsterdam which I’m sure you’re familiar with.
Rutten: Oh you mean Holland? Oh I thought Apple -  yeah Appledorn of course I know. In Holland. I thought you meant California. But how did you like Holland?
Cain: One of the greatest places on planet Earth. I absolutely loved it. The people were fantastic, the food was off the charts, and man I can’t wait to go back. It was unbelievable.
Rutten: Nice. Alright. Listen let’s start at the beginning. I always want to know what kind of person you were when you were 12 years old in high school. did you want to be a fireman? Police officer? Astronaut? What were you like as a kid?
Cain: Well those are two different questions. As a kid I was kind of a shithead. I wasn’t actually the most honest kid, I wasn’t the greatest kid. I got by probably athletically on talent.
But what did I want to do? I wanted to be a Major League Baseball player. I think here in the States everybody who grows up whether their sport is football, basketball, or baseball, and now even in MMA that is what they want to do. They want to be a professional athlete. So growing up all my eggs were in that basket of being a baseball player.
I got a scholarship (as you mentioned earlier) to go the University of Vermont. I actually got my number retired there recently, Bas, but only got my number retired because they cut the freaking program. There is no more baseball at the university. So me and all my teammates got our numbers retired.
The best part about going to Vermont was experiencing the worst thing that happened to me and to my life at that point. My junior year I had a shoulder surgery. As a pitcher that basically means your career is over. At that time I read the writing on the wall, you’re not going to play pro sports, and I had to take that motivation and drive that I had for baseball and put it into something else.
Luckily for me I’ve had tremendous mentors along the way from my high school football coach to my academic advisor, Declan Connolly, one of the top exercise physiologists in the world at the University of Vermont. He said “Brian I know you’ve got to put that somewhere, how about sports psychology, it’s something that you’re into.”
So that put me on a path out to Cal State Fullerton where I studied under a guy by the name of Ken Ravizza and Ken Ravizza was a professor at Fullerton and he’s actually right now in the dugout with the Chicago Cubs  working with that team. I got to be a grad assistant baseball coach at Cal State Fullerton.
In that year of 2002-2003, that two year period, I learned the system and the process that I teach now in the mental game whether it’s with (as you mentioned earlier) GSP or with top college football programs or other sports to help people to play their best when it means the most and live in that present moment. So that was kind of my path.
I never wanted to get into sports psychology. I wanted to be a baseball player and then a baseball coach. But when I got into it what I realized was what really to me going wasn’t necessarily teaching somebody how to throw a curveball or hit the ball the other way but how to be more consistent and how to handle adversity and how to have more confidence and have better routines so that when they step on the mound or they step in the cage all that training that they go through really comes to fruition and they get to go out there and perform at their best.
Rutten: So it was something that you thought maybe if you look back on it did you think “hey that could have helped me personally as well when I was pitching?”
Cain: Oh there is no question. It’s that age old question - and I’d like to ask you this at some point - what do you know now you wish you knew then? I go around - and the majority of the teams I work with are college baseball teams. It’s just the way it worked. I like working with everybody. My passion is helping people not necessarily baseball players in specific but that just happens to be where my target market is right now. That and probably MMA. With those baseball players I always say man if I could go back and speak to the 18, 17, 22 year old Brian Cain I would say control what you can control, let go of the things that you can’t, and don’t count the days make the days count. Focus on what you need to do today because today + today + today = your career.
Rutten: That’s a big thing with you. You truly want to live in the now. That’s the real power. I hear it from so many different people. They all say you have to live right now in the moment. Like you said to 200 yards. Every time you just add 200 yards. Baby steps.
Cain: It’s like if you’re driving down the road and you’re leaving Los Angeles in complete dark tonight at midnight and you’re driving to Dallas, Texas, and all of a sudden BAM all the lights go out in the country you can still drive to Dallas in the complete darkness because your headlights let you see the next 200 feet. And if you just focus on the next 200 feet eventually you’ll get to where you want to guy.
I’ll use GSP. He’s been vocal and talked about this. When he beat Matt Hughes to win the UFC title he lost his focus a little bit and then went out and lost to Matt Serra in his next fight. What we learned is that the best fighter never wins. It’s the guy who fights the best. That separation is in preparation. If you ask Georges he will tell you that the best thing that ever happened to him in his career was getting knocked out by Matt Serra in the first round at UFC 67 because what that did is that put him on a path to become a master of preparation. That’s where (I think) champions are made. It’s what Muhammad Ali said “there are a lot of hours and a lot of training that goes in to allow me to dance under those lights when everyone sees.”
Rutten: Yeah. Speaking of GSP when did you meet him? Were you already interested in Mixed Martial Arts? Was it a sport that you liked or did he come to you? He contacted you? You contacted him? You saw maybe something about him?
Cain: Well it’s funny. I go all the way back to the first UFCs when Royce Gracie was tapping people out with his gi and there was no gloves and all that. I was probably 10-12 years old. We were at my buddy’s house and there were like 10 of us packed into the basement and he’s got the cable converter, the black box, that allows you to get pay-per-view channels for free because none of us could afford it in a small town. We’re watching the UFC and we’re like “who is this guy.” At a young age I was like wow that is awesome.
As I got into high school and college I lost track a little bit of the UFC and what was going on. Then what really turned me back on to UFC was I was an athletic director and one of our high school football coaches came in and said “dude you’ve got to see this, did you see this fight between Matt Hughes and Frank Trigg II?” UFC 52 (I think it was) where he gets the knee in the groin and comes back and Hughes wins the fight. I watched that and said “man that can be so useful to so many teams because of the response to adversity.” We use an acronym that I’m sure you’ll love, Bas. It’s E + R (which stands for event plus response) = outcome.
When I met Georges was fast-forward probably eight years later after seeing that fight for the first time between Hughes and Trigg. I’m teaching a sports psychology class at the University of Vermont. I showed that video. We were talking about response to adversity and one of the ladies in the class goes “I’m a strength coach and I train a UFC fighter.” I’m like we’re in Vermont, you’re lying, there are no UFC fighters in Vermont. It’s too small of a state. She goes “this guy Tom Murphy, he was an All-American wrestler in college and he is on the Ultimate Fighter 2 reality show.” So Tom Murphy and I end up connecting. Tom was a Masters in Psychology and very educated and very driven. Burlington, Vermont is only an hour and a half south of Montreal. So I started working with Tom.
Right at about that time I got connected somehow (I think through MySpace) with David “The Crow” Loiseau. I started going to Montreal with Tom to watch him train. I hooked up with Loiseau and he came back after he lost to Rich Franklin and then Mike Swick and he came back and won a fight outside of the UFC after that so we had some good chemistry going. Right about then is when Georges lost to Matt Serra. I remember we were going up there to go to breakfast and Tom and Loiseau have been saying “man you’ve got to get with Georges” even before he lost.
We went up there to breakfast one day and sat down and I was asking Georges amongst thousands of people coming to get his autograph, always trying to eat his eggs, and we were talking about his loss to Matt Serra. I’m like “hey man how has that affected you since, is that all you’ve been thinking about or are you over it, what’s going on.” He’s like “man it’s the worst thing that ever happened to me for my career I can’t believe that I let this guy who won a reality fight, won a reality TV show, get in the octagon with me, I let down all my fans, I can’t wait to get back there and kick his ass,” all this stuff.
Rutten: Great impression by the way.
Cain: Thank you. As he’s saying all this stuff I took out a black brick. I had taken a brick that you see in a house, painted it black, and I’m writing down on it with a silver Sharpie all the stuff that he is saying. He gets done about five minutes later and I hand him the brick. I go “Georges I want you to hold this brick out in front of you for like five seconds, can you do that?” He’s like “right here in front of this restaurant in front of all these people you want me to hold the brick?” I said “yeah hold it five seconds.” So he holds it up.
I go “put your arm down, now hold it up for like 50 seconds.” He holds it up no problem. I go “how about five minutes?” He goes “I could do that but I don’t want to hold that up here I’m embarrassed.” I said “well how about you hold that thing for five weeks, what do you think would happen?” He goes “shit that’s impossible.” I go “Georges that’s exactly what you’re doing, Matt Serra beat you five weeks ago and you’ve been carrying this mental brick ever since. You can’t see it but you can feel it and it’s wearing you down.”
What you have to do is you have to go from being frustrated to being fascinated. You have to make this not the worst thing to ever happen to you but the best thing that ever happened to you and you have to do that by being like a scientist who is on an airplane. When the airplane crashes they go looking for what? They go looking for the black box to find out why the plane crashed.
As we sat there 90 minutes, two hours later, we’re still talking about why he lost that fight. It went all the way back through some of the things that he has never talked about, just a lot of the things like preparation and focus and some of the things that he had done in other fights. But his goal was to win a World Championship and he did. And he forgot to reset the bar. That day he said “my goal is not to be a UFC Champion but to be the greatest Mixed Martial Arts fighter of all time. Then moving forward from there he just went on a tear and was dominating.
The thing that was awesome about Georges was he was such a great student. He surrounded himself with the right people and he was never defending a title. He was always going to win a title. Everybody talks about Georges being mentally weak - his opponents say that. I can tell you what, that is the furthest thing from the truth. That guy is a learner, that guy is committed to excellence, he is probably the most committed human being and athlete I have ever been around. As you know he is just one of the most genuine and polite/nice guys you’ll ever meet in your life.
Rutten: He started being way more calculated after the Matt Serra fight. That is why a lot of people complained. They say “yeah but he doesn’t stop people anymore before he did that.” I say listen he fights the best guys on the planet. You’re seeing it the wrong way. Once you fight the top guys on the planet all the time, yeah, you try to knock people out. There is a lot of room for mistakes in Mixed Martial Arts. Any little thing can happen. Since there are so many different techniques in all areas one little mistake is all it takes. But his focus is insane.
What I like about him also is that he’s like Oscar de la Hoya. He would come and every fight he has something new that he worked on. With the Koscheck fight I always said he does what he normally does, but then he has a few techniques that he uses like spinning back into the body. He established a jab which just beat the crap out of him with that jab in that fight and he never did that before. After that you will see it back here and there but then there are 2-3 other things that he worked on. Every time he is evolving. That is the great thing about Georges.
Cain: No question. Constantly evolving and surrounding himself with the greatest. 
Everybody asks me, I get that question all the time. “Hey you worked with St. Pierre, what does he do?” Whether it’s MMA fighters going “what does he do that I need to be doing” or athletes in every sport wants to know what Georges done because he’s one of the greatest of all time in any sport. The thing I say to them is it’s like when he would go to boxing he’d do it with Olympic boxers in Montreal or he’d go out to LA and work with Freddie Roach (he is one of the greatest). He would train with Olympic wrestlers. He would train with Olympic judokai. He’d go train with Olympic gymnasts. He’d run with Olympic sprinters. Everywhere he went he was on the short end of the stick. He was always on the learning end.
We talk about in life there are winners and learners. A lot of guys’ egos are too big to be able to put them in an environment because they don’t want to lose. He would go in there and he would learn, he would learn, he would learn. When he got in the MMA world and put it all together he became unstoppable.
Rutten: That is what I really enjoy about him. I used to do the same and put myself in the worst position in the ground fighting. That was it with me. I was lying on my back, I let anybody take a position over me, whatever they wanted, then I was going to go for a submission because that is where you have to work on it.
Exactly like you said. People like to do what they are comfortable with to do, what their first choice is. That’s why I don’t like it when you see strikers going great at Mixed Martial Arts knocking people out but once they go to the ground they lose by submission. I go dude you can’t see a pattern here? You can’t say “okay let’s work on the ground game?” Strike and you’re going to win already. Let’s work on the ground game. Let’s become Mixed Martial Arts (because Mixed Martial Arts, that’s what they call it).
Is there a difference? That brick thing, that would catch my attention right away. If you would talk to me like that you would go like “oh okay yeah I know that’s 100% right” but then Georges also has a completely different mindset than others. So every person you have to treat different I assume right? It has to be.
Cain: Yeah. There are some certain principles that apply to any sport and any athletes such as stay in the present moment, control what you can control, think about confidence as a choice and confidence as something that you do with your body language focus and self talk instead of something that you feel or something that you get.
The majority of fighters that I’ve worked with - and I’ve had a privileged to be with six guys that have won the UFC Gold - to see them all in the locker room before a fight they all handle it differently. They’ll all have a little bit of nervous energy, they’ll all have a little bit of self doubt, but what they’ve learned is that they have to fake it until they find it.
What you have to do to be successful in my opinion (and I can only speak from my experience) in this field of Peak Performance and sports psychology is you have to invest time with the athletes, step into their world, and get to know who they are.
That was the beauty about working with Georges is I would buzz up to Montreal on a weekend and I would stay in his house and I would watch him train. I’d be with him in the presence of him for like 10 hours and I might not even talk to him once. I’m just watching and seeing how he interacts with people and listening to how he does interviews and trying to kind of gauge where his mindset is at. Then we’d go grab some sushi or something and I would unload on him and be like “hey man here is what I am hearing you say, is that where your focus really is at or what is going on?”
He was so much of a learner and so much of a student. You have to work with an individual. You’re not working with a damn textbook. I think that is what people who spend all their time in academia who then come in and try to work in Peak Performance or sports psychology with athletes, they come in and they’re trying to do a diagnosis and trying to use some freaking protocol or a textbook instead of getting to know the person and helping the person close the gap from where they are to where they want to be.
Rutten: Is there also a pattern that comes back in any profession? Even public speaking. Are the things that you do with Georges (for instance, because we all know Georges here at Mixed Martial Arts) that you use the same techniques on a guy who is afraid of public speaking and he has to overcome that?
Cain: For sure. Some of which would be mental imagery. I believe everything happens twice. People call it mental imagery or visualization or mental rehearsal but essentially what it is is it’s in your mind playing a highlight video of you going out and performing the way you want to perform because everything happens twice - first in your mind then in reality. Neurons that wire together or neurons that fire together that we use when we’re doing mental imagery are going to wire together so that when you walk out there you’re like “I’ve been here before.”
The other thing we do is we practice body language. I’ve got a split screen video I wish I could show you of Georges walking to the cage against Matt Serra. That’s UFC 67. Maybe it was 69. I don’t remember which one it was when he lost to Serra. Then at 74 when he fought Koscheck the first time. You see a remarkable difference in body language. His head is down. He’s looking side to side in the first one. In the second one you see him just kind of laser focused on the octagon.
Here is one of the coolest things that we did that morning. I’d like to know if you ever did this, Bas. As a UFC fighter - I equate it to baseball players. Imagine going through spring training eight weeks for one at-bat. That is what MMA is. You go through an entire spring training of eight week training camp for one fight. If you don’t practice walking to the octagon and you go down there and try to do it the first time - remind me to tell you a story about Brandon Thatch and his UFC debut - you’re going to shit your pants when you walk down there.
So many guys walk into the cage and the music is blaring and their lights are flashing and the crowd is there and the camera is in your face and if you’ve never done that or practiced that it can be overwhelming. Then you go in there and all of a sudden you’re fighting not to lose instead of just going out there and letting it rip and fighting to win.
What we did at UFC 74 that morning was like 10:00 in the morning we go down to the locker room and take Georges through a quick little mental imagery and visualize yourself having the fight tonight then we practiced walking to the cage. He put his headphones in and listened to his walk out song and he would go down to the cage, get up in the cage, and simulate if he was going to circle left or circle right. We’d basically do everything up until the stare down. Then when Herb Dean or whoever would say “let’s get it on” then at that point just instinct and training takes over. But you can lose the fight before that. You can’t win it before that but you can definitely lose it before that.
So I think that role play and mental imagery and what I would call “mental rehearsal” in the walk through, it’s like a pitcher throwing a bullpen with no ball, a UFC fighter walking to the cage is huge in terms of building their confidence and giving them a routine of something to go to that when they go to do it they’ve done it before.
Rutten: Exactly. I’m a firm believer in that as well. Body language is everything. I say to help the women on the street “walk powerful” not scared/looking around because if there is a bad guy he is going to know if he sees the body language speaking, okay, it’s going to be a fight, they’re going to go to the next victim who is weaker so to say.
Cain: Totally. I mean I have worked with a candidate (woman) in the Miss America pageant and it’s the same thing. When you walk out there you’ve got to walk out there and own that stage and you’ve got to have that edge even though you’re nervous. You’re like the duck whose feet underneath the water are going 100 miles an hour but up above you are calm, cool, and collected. Fake it till you find it.
Rutten: Also a thing is that I call it a poker face in my classes. If I start flinching then you’re telling your brain there is something wrong. Not that there is something wrong but your brain identifies it with something is wrong. If you don’t walk strong you’re kind of telling your brain already “hey you’re not strong.” If you just project and get stronger, first of all it’s great for intimidation, but also for yourself because now you’ve trained your own brain that you’re the man. That’s how you have to walk around. You’re going to have to go to that fight.
I always tell people when they say to me “oh if you were to fight this 300 pound guy who knows this and this” I say “I’ll win.” They go “why would you say that?” “Every fight I should say that.” If I go to a fight and there is a little percent of a chance that I think I might lose this fight that’s going to haunt me. I’m going to get in trouble. That little voice, that 1%, is going to start talking to me. You want to be 100% committed and knowing that you’re going to win. You start there with that with body language.
Cain: No doubt. I talked about confidence is state, so is depression. I’ll talk about confidence as a state of doing BFS - body language, focus, and self talk. How do we train body language? You practice walking big. How do we train focus? I give every athlete signs to put up around their house. Just pieces of paper in the bathroom, on their driver’s steering wheel, and their bedroom, and when they see it they have to tell themselves that. Something like “act differently than how you feel” or “confidence is a choice” or “trust your training,” these different little triggers and mindsets I want them to have that direct the focus.
The other thing I would do a lot, Bas (and Rich Franklin used to use this a lot when he was fighting), was I would take like a - if he says “hey I’m going to do 20 minutes of roadwork four days a week where I’m just going to go out and run” I would make a 20 minute audio over music that he likes with positive suggestions of things that I wanted him to be reminded of. Things like when you’re carrying yourself always walk with big body language (like we’re talking about). Or know that confidence is a choice. Or know that your focus determines your future so focus on what you want versus what you want to avoid and on the things that you can control. So it was all those little things.
Then there would be a lot of technical MMA things that he would tell me that I would say as well over that besides just the mental game stuff. It was kind of like that constant repetition that he would hear when he was running. Georges would listen to it when he was driving or flying all over the country training in New York or Albuquerque or Montreal wherever it was. That is kind of that consistent training of the self talk but also the focus.
Rutten: And you talked about Rich Franklin and you had six more fighters you said. All these fighters do you train - because this is a question I always get crazy from. With me everything is calmness. Calmness is the key to success is tell everybody. If you had for instance one of those six guys (and we don’t need to know names because some of them of course want to stay incognito so to say) is there a way for these guys if they need to really get angry for a fight that you keep that or able to able to flip that and let them see that once they’re calm and relaxed it’s way more effective and they become way more effective?
Cain: Yeah I would agree with the statement that the more calm and relaxed you are - I say the more in control you are. In control is closer probably to the common relaxed than it is to the fired up and jacked up ready to go fucking murder somebody. That is what drunk fans think that you need to get into that type of state to compete. When you talk to Dan Severn and Dan would talk about how he would be asleep in the locker room or Couture in a similar type of state where it would be really chill and relaxed and visualize - and those are some of the best.
So one of the things that I’ve done is in interviews with some of those guys the UFC champions and top ranked fighters like yourself - which is awesome that I hear you say this, you’re a former UFC Champion yourself - is to then take that and go share what you’re saying with some of the young fighters and go “look man success leaves clues, look at what the best guys have done.” Every guy is not that way. There are some others guys that want to fight more out of hatred. But sometimes that’s hard to get into. Sometimes you can’t get yourself there.
My statement to them always, Bas, is you’ve got to be in control of yourself before you can control your performance and you’re going out there and your toughest opponent is yourself. Your goal is go out, fight your fight, perform at your best whether you’re fighting your number one enemy or you’re fighting a guy who is in a black ninja spirit suit and you can’t tell who it is. You’re out there fighting your fight and let everything else take care of itself. Strip away the emotion because emotion hurts you more than it helps you in a fight.
Rutten: 100% I love it. I need to know before I forget this question. The first guy you treated ever, once you did this as a job, was it sports? Was he a lawyer? What kind of person was that? I just want to know that.
Cain: I would call it coaching more than - I would never refer to it as “treating.” I call it coaching. You’ve got a strength coach, you’ve got a striking coach, you’ve got a strength and conditioning coach, you’ve got a Muay Thai coach, well who is your mental coach? As you know (as Georges would say) training for a fight is 90% physical 10% mental. Once the plane lands in Vegas it becomes 90% mental 10% physical. Who is helping you with that mental side of the game?
The first guy I worked with. Let me think about that. It’s been so long, since like 2003. I would say I think it was the UC Irvine baseball team maybe back in like 2004 and their head coach Dave Serrano. They went to the College World Series in 2007. He is now out at the University of Tennessee. The first guy in MMA was David Loiseau I believe.
Rutten: Okay. Yeah David is a great guy.
Cain: Phenomenal.
Rutten: And you’re an author as well. I go on your website. How many books did you do? Like 14-15? And really well books. You’re roofing all the top charts.
Cain: Yeah I lost count I think around 33. I think we’re somewhere between 36 and 40. It’s funny because I always wanted to write a book. When my mother passed away on August 2, 2010 I said “man I kind of let mom down, she didn’t get a chance to read my first book.” I remember I got the phone call at 4:00 AM. She had passed away. I couldn’t go back to sleep obviously so I rolled out, I took out my laptop, and I wrote the dedication to her.
Then I got a phone call two days later. You talk about a sense of urgency. I got a phone call two days later from the National Softball Coaches Convention and they said “hey Brian would you be our keynote speaker” and I said “I’d love to is there any chance we could do a book signing after.” They go “oh we didn’t know you had a book.” I go “I will by then.”
So I gave myself two months to write the book, one month to get it printed. Had the book there, sold it, it became a number one bestseller. It’s called Toilets, Bricks, Fish Hooks and Pride: The Peak Performance Toolbox Exposed. I’ll give you a dollar if you can spit that one back.
Rutten: Wow.
Cain: It’s like anything else. It’s like once you write the first one it becomes addicting and you just keep going because people give you great feedback. You have a positive impact on the lives of others and that has always been my mission is to educate, empower, and energize others to a lifestyle of excellence and fulfillment. Books are a way to do that. Podcasts are a way to do that. I’m just trying to execute my mission today so thanks for giving me the opportunity.
Rutten: Yeah. I do exactly the same thing. For me it stems from my asthma disease and just going to the restroom that would be a nightmare for me but now also. And I do baby steps. Now I have programs. I say I’m going to be kicking a head one and a half minutes with 30 seconds break. There is no way I can do this right now. But I start with baby steps. I start one minute, one minute rest. One minute, one minute rest. I do this for 15 runs (so half an hour) then I go to one minute and five seconds and I take a 55 second break. Slowly but surely I go to that one minute. Now I told myself I’m going to do it and I said I’ll give it three months.
Once you do that - what you said, you commit yourself. You say “you know what I want to do a book signing.” They go “do you have a book?” “No I don’t.” But at that time you’ll have it because now you’ve committed to it. I think that is a really important habit to have as any person, any profession for that matter.
Cain: No question. I like to try and share as many nuggets with your listeners as I can. One of them is called the Big ABCs. The Big ABCs are act big, breathe big, and commit big. Act big - we’ve talked a lot about body language here already. Breathe big - when you bring oxygen into your system it helps you to slow down and get back in control. Commit big - set big goals. That’s why I signed up to do the Iron Man, Bas. Six or seven weeks ago I didn’t own a bike, I didn’t know how to swim, I had to get a swimming lesson, I had to go buy a bike.
Rutten: So when did you start the swimming?
Cain: I started swimming August 1st which is when I had my first lesson in swimming. I wasn’t getting drowned. I would get in the pool but I wouldn’t go anywhere. I couldn’t breathe with my head in the water. I just was kind of there. Then I got a coach.
There are so many lessons I’ve learned through this Iron Man training one of which is surround yourself with the right people and get a coach. What does every MMA fighter have? A coach. What does every Olympic athlete that was in Rio have? A coach. So I went and got a swimming coach, I went and got a bike coach (it happens to be the same guy), then I got a nutrition coach. It’s the best thing I think I’ve done for myself in a long time. I’m in the best shape of my life. The more energy I get.
I worked out for six hours today already. It was a 90 minute swim, 3 hour bike, and then a 90 minute run, so that, and then when we get done tonight I’ve got to go get another 90 minute swim in because I missed it yesterday. It’s a lot. It’s been a lot. My wife has been phenomenal in terms of support. She gets it. She was a hockey player. But it’s setting a big goal that scares the hell out of you and going to get it.
Rutten: It’s crazy. Three months. That’s pretty much three months you gave yourself to swim well and swim for 90 minutes. That’s kind of insane if you really think about it.
Cain: And bike for 112 miles which is the biggest challenge.
Rutten: Oh just 112?
Cain: And go run a marathon which I have done marathons before so it’s - but to put them all together in a row is going to be a fun challenge so I’m looking forward to it.
Rutten: Okay. So now you’re talking about that and physical activity yourself as well. Food - this is also not only important for the body but very important for the brain. Of course we hear about sardines, berries, walnuts, all these things are really good for the mental health, is that something you focus on with the fighters or with any athlete for that matter?
Cain: Most of the fighters I’ve worked with have whether they’re working with Dolce or working with someone in the field of nutrition, so when they are I don’t like to cross pollinate. I let them do their job and I try to do mine. When I’m working with a fighter who maybe is a guy who is just kind of getting going and doesn’t have access to a nutritionalist I’ll work with them on a program. Often these guys have come from wrestling so they know their bodies really well and weight management and all that.
But the thing that I lean on is macro nutrition. I was 240 pounds five years ago with a 44 inch freaking waist and a slob. Someone said to me “Brian if you want to be a Peak Performance coach you’ve got to live it, leaders are not fat.” I said “fuck that’s straight on man, you’ve got it.” So I started getting it going again. I started working out again. I started eating right. I was single. My meal was a large pizza and a six pack of beer. So I turned that around. Right now I’m getting 225 grams of protein, 180 grams of carbs, and 48 grams of fat, then on top of that I’ll fuel myself with a little bit of food based on each hour. I’m trying to get into a fat cutting program and trying to get down to 180. I was 183.5 this morning so it’s working.
The article I go by (if people want to find it) is if they Google “to build a beast” by Jordan Feigenbaum. It gives a chart in there where they can calculate their macro nutrition. All macro nutrition is is understanding your fat, carb, and protein. Anything more than that and it’s going to become too difficult. I basically make myself a menu. I eat the same thing every day at the same time. I eliminate the guesswork and I save time, I save money from doing it that way, and I feel fantastic.
Rutten: Thinking about your own training there is this method that you use adding the word “yet” to it. I cannot be a champion yet. I cannot throw a 90 mile per hour fastball yet. Did you say to yourself I cannot swim 90 minutes yet? Did you use those kinds of tricks on your own brain as well?
Cain: I don’t call it “tricks” I call it “conditioning.” It’s like anything else. You don’t rise to the occasion you sink to your levels of training and habits. Habitually I have intentionally trained myself to when adversity happens think that it’s good, that adversity is to my advantage, to when I can’t do something to say “yet” because anything is possible it just hasn’t happened yet. I think that is the mentality to have. But that mentality needs to be trained. It’s like anything else. It’s not tricks. I know you introduced me -
Rutten: It’s like tricking the brain. It’s what I do myself all the time.
Cain: It’s conditioning and it’s in a game with yourself. You introduced me as a motivational speaker which kind of drives me nuts because it’s not - I don’t think motivational speaking works. I think what it is is it’s conditioning. There is a three step process to maximum growth and here is how the three step process would go for people who want to make a change in their life.
Number one is have a total immersion learning experience. Go to a seminar. Go to a training camp. Find a coach. After the total immersion learning experience - we’ve all been to these seminars. You run seminars. I run seminars. People come and then a year later we get with them like “what are you doing?” “Well I kind of fell off.” Well the reason why they fall off is they don’t do step number two which is spaced repetition.
You have to do a little a lot. They go to a seminar then they have to do a little a lot whether it’s read a chapter a week, whether it’s watch my Monday Message video that they can sign up and enjoy and get the same Monday Message video that I send to Georges St. Pierre, the same Monday Message video that goes to all the athletes I work with at www.BrianCain.com/Monday. Or listen to a podcast once a week. That is spaced repetition. 
Then they’ve got to have an accountability partner and a plan to continue to grow. They can’t just get the learning experience. They need to have the spaced repetition after and the plan to grow.
Rutten: Wow. It’s like almost what Bruce Lee said, “I’m not afraid of the guy who knows 1000 kicks I’m afraid of the guy who knows one kick but practices it 1000 times.”
Cain: Amen.
Rutten: You just said it but what would be one thing that you say okay this is for any person? Would that be living in the moment? Would that be the best thing that any person can do?
Cain: I would say it would be two things. It would be control what you can control - let go of the things you can’t control, focus on what you can. The second one would be exactly what you said. I would word it as don’t count the days, make the days count. It’s amazing what you can get done in one day when you have a focus. It’s amazing what you can get done in one day when you map out every minute of your day from the time you wake up until you go to bed. I call it your 168 hour a week plan.
There are 168 hours in a week. Show me when you’re going to wake up, when you’re going to go to bed every day, and what you’re going to do in between and you’re going to have a hell of a week. A hell of a week leads to a hell of a month which leads to a hell of a year which leads to a hell of a career.
Rutten: Nice. And the speaking of hell and you said week, I just want to say - because that 200 yard line thing from you is going to come back. I joined the Special Forces, the Navy SEALS, all these guys, and I asked them about the Hell Week. I said “what goes on in your mind, do you just decide to make it to the next day?” He said “no it’s the next meal.” You just focus on the next meal. You say “before this next meal is going to come I’m not going to quit.” So they’re using it everywhere.
Cain: I spent a lot of time researching in the Special Forces and the SEALS and you’re absolutely right. They just say the next evolution. What am I trying to do right now? I’m trying to run up this sand hill. What am I trying to do right now? I’m trying to run down this sand hill. I’m not thinking about the whole mountain of get through Hell Week and I’m not thinking about winning a UFC world title. That’s exactly what happened to Georges when he lost to Serra. He was like “man I can’t wait to get back and win my title.” I go “Georges your next fight is not a title fight, you’re not going to win the title in your next fight so focusing on the title right now is only hurting you.”
Rutten: Nice. I love it. Don’t look past the fight that you have coming up. That’s what I say. Actually I hear Georges St. Pierre saying it as well in interviews. They say “oh if you win this you are going to be set up for a title” and the first thing he says is “no we’re focusing on this fight right now.” I’m pretty sure he said it because he’s working with you.
Brian, I enjoyed it very much my friend. We’ve got to call it quits. We cannot go too long on this one. We would love to have you back. I would love to have you back one time with Renallo even here because he is the master at digging into the mind and asking questions. Plus you would be very interested to dig in is crazy mind because he is something. I already told you in an email.
Cain: I might be afraid of what I find but I would be fired up to do that.
Rutten: Everybody, I see it every week. It’s a very scary thing.
Cain: That’s awesome.
Rutten: Alright my friend. Thank you so much. Very informative. I hope a lot of fighters are going to listen to this because it’s all in the mind. I’m telling you, everybody. People say oh it’s 50% physical 50% mental. I say it’s all 100% in the mind. In order to make the decision to go to your gym that already happens in your mind. To get out of bed happens in the mind. It’s all the mind because that controls the body. I hope you say the same.
Cain: No question. I say mind control leads to body control leads to skill control. If you want to execute inside of the octagon with your skills you’ve got to take care of your body but in order to take care of your body you’ve first got to get your mind in the right place. If anyone is looking to help get their mind right send them over to www.BrianCain.com and have them join other great MMA fighters and the world champions with the Monday Message that they can join right there. They can contact me through the website.
I have a lot of respect for Mixed Martial Artists. I think what they do is for me the most pure sport that there is. I love working with MMA fighters of all levels because it’s such an amazing sport that I’ve never had a chance to do and I’m not sure I could do. But I love working with those guys because of the effort that it takes and the life lessons that are there and what they can get out of that. It’s awesome.
Rutten: People at home should really check out everything you do. I was going over the videos and I actually gave that video to my daughter - the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 breathing technique. I said “this is going to help you a lot” because she is one of those people who shoots right away into a wrong decision. I said “just calm down and listen to this” and she said “wow that sounds really good.” And that was just one video and there is a lot of them out there.
Cain: What sport does she play?
Rutten: None. She doesn’t do any sports. Right now they started softball actually with a bunch of friends. They are doing it among two teams but they are all friends doing it so not under a guide or a coach.
Cain: Fantastic. Well I’ll drop something in the mail for you also so you can get a little bit more of the mental game. I think you’ll like it.
Rutten: I would love that. Thank you so much my friend.</description>
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      <itunes:title>BC 126. Brian Cain On Rutten and Renallo - Cain Talks MMA Mindset WIth The UFC Hall of Famer</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Brian flips the script as he features the episode of the Rutten &amp; Ranallo Podcast he was a guest on.  Brian shares great stories about his life growing up and the moment that changed Georges St. Pierre's life.
Follow Brian on Twitter @Br...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode, Brian flips the script as he features the episode of the Rutten &amp; Ranallo Podcast he was a guest on.  Brian shares great stories about his life growing up and the moment that changed Georges St. Pierre's life.
Follow Brian on Twitter @BrianCainPeak
Follow Rutten &amp; Ranallo on Twitter @Rutten_Ranallo
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You will learn about...
Brian's background growing up and what he planned to do with his life before becoming a Peak Performance Coach
How Georges St. Pierre overcame the worst thing that ever happened to him while working with Brian
The Big ABC's and how they lead to him finishing an IronMan
The 2 Tips that any person can do to maximize each day
 
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Cain: He gets done about five minutes later and I hand him the brick. I go “Georges I want you to hold this brick out in front of you for like five seconds, can you do that?” He’s like “right here in front of this restaurant in front of all these people you want me to hold the brick?” I said “yeah hold it five seconds.” So he holds it up. I go “put your arm down, now hold it up for like 50 seconds.” He holds it up no problem.
I go “how about five minutes?” He goes “I could do that but I don’t want to hold that up here I’m embarrassed.” I said “well how about you hold that thing for five weeks, what do you think would happen?” He goes “shit that’s impossible.” I go “Georges that’s exactly what you’re doing, Matt Serra beat you five weeks ago and you’ve been carrying this mental brick ever since. You can’t see it but you can feel it and it’s wearing you down.”
Rutten: The person we have as our guest today is a guy who was a standout pitcher at the University of Vermont where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education and Exercise Science that later earned a Masters in Applied Sports Psychology and Kinesiology from California State Fullerton.
He is a motivation speaker, a brain repairman or Mental Coach as you guys all call it (I just came up with a funnier name), he is a bestselling author whose specialization is working with different athletes from around the world and in any sport. Yes, even in Mixed Martial Arts. He works with our beloved Georges St. Pierre and he’s just an all around good guy who likes to help people overcome their problems. Boys and girls here we are, Brian Cain. 
Brian I know I probably didn’t mention many more thing you have achieve and do like your Iron Man but welcome to the show my friend. How are things over there in Richmond, Vermont if I’m not mistaken?
Cain: Well you are mistaken my friend. I’m actually in Southlake, Texas. I moved out of Vermont when I got tired of the cold. I moved down here to Southlake which is about 15 minutes from the Dallas-Fort Worth airport so that I could travel to the left and right coasts of this great country and be able to get around and spread the message of Peak Performance and help athletes and people to achieve their best.
A little bit hard getting out of the great state of Vermont - I miss that place - but as they say if you want to win you’ve got to focus on what is important now which is being where my feet are here in Southlake, Texas, ready to Dominate the Day and fire it up the B on this podcast with you my friend.
Rutten: Boom. I love it. That’s the same thing with the weather, for me it was. I am from Holland and of course business opportunities, that is why I moved here - California. You can’t beat the weather. That’s the one thing here.
Cain: I actually had a stint in Holland. I coached there for eight weeks in a place called Appledorn. Are you familiar with that?
Rutten: Absolutely not.
Cain: It’s about an hour outside of Amsterdam which I’m sure you’re familiar with.
Rutten: Oh you mean Holland? Oh I thought Apple -  yeah Appledorn of course I know. In Holland. I thought you meant California. But how did you like Holland?
Cain: One of the greatest places on planet Earth. I absolutely loved it. The people were fantastic, the food was off the charts, and man I can’t wait to go back. It was unbelievable.
Rutten: Nice. Alright. Listen let’s start at the beginning. I always want to know what kind of person you were when you were 12 years old in high school. did you want to be a fireman? Police officer? Astronaut? What were you like as a kid?
Cain: Well those are two different questions. As a kid I was kind of a shithead. I wasn’t actually the most honest kid, I wasn’t the greatest kid. I got by probably athletically on talent.
But what did I want to do? I wanted to be a Major League Baseball player. I think here in the States everybody who grows up whether their sport is football, basketball, or baseball, and now even in MMA that is what they want to do. They want to be a professional athlete. So growing up all my eggs were in that basket of being a baseball player.
I got a scholarship (as you mentioned earlier) to go the University of Vermont. I actually got my number retired there recently, Bas, but only got my number retired because they cut the freaking program. There is no more baseball at the university. So me and all my teammates got our numbers retired.
The best part about going to Vermont was experiencing the worst thing that happened to me and to my life at that point. My junior year I had a shoulder surgery. As a pitcher that basically means your career is over. At that time I read the writing on the wall, you’re not going to play pro sports, and I had to take that motivation and drive that I had for baseball and put it into something else.
Luckily for me I’ve had tremendous mentors along the way from my high school football coach to my academic advisor, Declan Connolly, one of the top exercise physiologists in the world at the University of Vermont. He said “Brian I know you’ve got to put that somewhere, how about sports psychology, it’s something that you’re into.”
So that put me on a path out to Cal State Fullerton where I studied under a guy by the name of Ken Ravizza and Ken Ravizza was a professor at Fullerton and he’s actually right now in the dugout with the Chicago Cubs  working with that team. I got to be a grad assistant baseball coach at Cal State Fullerton.
In that year of 2002-2003, that two year period, I learned the system and the process that I teach now in the mental game whether it’s with (as you mentioned earlier) GSP or with top college football programs or other sports to help people to play their best when it means the most and live in that present moment. So that was kind of my path.
I never wanted to get into sports psychology. I wanted to be a baseball player and then a baseball coach. But when I got into it what I realized was what really to me going wasn’t necessarily teaching somebody how to throw a curveball or hit the ball the other way but how to be more consistent and how to handle adversity and how to have more confidence and have better routines so that when they step on the mound or they step in the cage all that training that they go through really comes to fruition and they get to go out there and perform at their best.
Rutten: So it was something that you thought maybe if you look back on it did you think “hey that could have helped me personally as well when I was pitching?”
Cain: Oh there is no question. It’s that age old question - and I’d like to ask you this at some point - what do you know now you wish you knew then? I go around - and the majority of the teams I work with are college baseball teams. It’s just the way it worked. I like working with everybody. My passion is helping people not necessarily baseball players in specific but that just happens to be where my target market is right now. That and probably MMA. With those baseball players I always say man if I could go back and speak to the 18, 17, 22 year old Brian Cain I would say control what you can control, let go of the things that you can’t, and don’t count the days make the days count. Focus on what you need to do today because today + today + today = your career.
Rutten: That’s a big thing with you. You truly want to live in the now. That’s the real power. I hear it from so many different people. They all say you have to live right now in the moment. Like you said to 200 yards. Every time you just add 200 yards. Baby steps.
Cain: It’s like if you’re driving down the road and you’re leaving Los Angeles in complete dark tonight at midnight and you’re driving to Dallas, Texas, and all of a sudden BAM all the lights go out in the country you can still drive to Dallas in the complete darkness because your headlights let you see the next 200 feet. And if you just focus on the next 200 feet eventually you’ll get to where you want to guy.
I’ll use GSP. He’s been vocal and talked about this. When he beat Matt Hughes to win the UFC title he lost his focus a little bit and then went out and lost to Matt Serra in his next fight. What we learned is that the best fighter never wins. It’s the guy who fights the best. That separation is in preparation. If you ask Georges he will tell you that the best thing that ever happened to him in his career was getting knocked out by Matt Serra in the first round at UFC 67 because what that did is that put him on a path to become a master of preparation. That’s where (I think) champions are made. It’s what Muhammad Ali said “there are a lot of hours and a lot of training that goes in to allow me to dance under those lights when everyone sees.”
Rutten: Yeah. Speaking of GSP when did you meet him? Were you already interested in Mixed Martial Arts? Was it a sport that you liked or did he come to you? He contacted you? You contacted him? You saw maybe something about him?
Cain: Well it’s funny. I go all the way back to the first UFCs when Royce Gracie was tapping people out with his gi and there was no gloves and all that. I was probably 10-12 years old. We were at my buddy’s house and there were like 10 of us packed into the basement and he’s got the cable converter, the black box, that allows you to get pay-per-view channels for free because none of us could afford it in a small town. We’re watching the UFC and we’re like “who is this guy.” At a young age I was like wow that is awesome.
As I got into high school and college I lost track a little bit of the UFC and what was going on. Then what really turned me back on to UFC was I was an athletic director and one of our high school football coaches came in and said “dude you’ve got to see this, did you see this fight between Matt Hughes and Frank Trigg II?” UFC 52 (I think it was) where he gets the knee in the groin and comes back and Hughes wins the fight. I watched that and said “man that can be so useful to so many teams because of the response to adversity.” We use an acronym that I’m sure you’ll love, Bas. It’s E + R (which stands for event plus response) = outcome.
When I met Georges was fast-forward probably eight years later after seeing that fight for the first time between Hughes and Trigg. I’m teaching a sports psychology class at the University of Vermont. I showed that video. We were talking about response to adversity and one of the ladies in the class goes “I’m a strength coach and I train a UFC fighter.” I’m like we’re in Vermont, you’re lying, there are no UFC fighters in Vermont. It’s too small of a state. She goes “this guy Tom Murphy, he was an All-American wrestler in college and he is on the Ultimate Fighter 2 reality show.” So Tom Murphy and I end up connecting. Tom was a Masters in Psychology and very educated and very driven. Burlington, Vermont is only an hour and a half south of Montreal. So I started working with Tom.
Right at about that time I got connected somehow (I think through MySpace) with David “The Crow” Loiseau. I started going to Montreal with Tom to watch him train. I hooked up with Loiseau and he came back after he lost to Rich Franklin and then Mike Swick and he came back and won a fight outside of the UFC after that so we had some good chemistry going. Right about then is when Georges lost to Matt Serra. I remember we were going up there to go to breakfast and Tom and Loiseau have been saying “man you’ve got to get with Georges” even before he lost.
We went up there to breakfast one day and sat down and I was asking Georges amongst thousands of people coming to get his autograph, always trying to eat his eggs, and we were talking about his loss to Matt Serra. I’m like “hey man how has that affected you since, is that all you’ve been thinking about or are you over it, what’s going on.” He’s like “man it’s the worst thing that ever happened to me for my career I can’t believe that I let this guy who won a reality fight, won a reality TV show, get in the octagon with me, I let down all my fans, I can’t wait to get back there and kick his ass,” all this stuff.
Rutten: Great impression by the way.
Cain: Thank you. As he’s saying all this stuff I took out a black brick. I had taken a brick that you see in a house, painted it black, and I’m writing down on it with a silver Sharpie all the stuff that he is saying. He gets done about five minutes later and I hand him the brick. I go “Georges I want you to hold this brick out in front of you for like five seconds, can you do that?” He’s like “right here in front of this restaurant in front of all these people you want me to hold the brick?” I said “yeah hold it five seconds.” So he holds it up.
I go “put your arm down, now hold it up for like 50 seconds.” He holds it up no problem. I go “how about five minutes?” He goes “I could do that but I don’t want to hold that up here I’m embarrassed.” I said “well how about you hold that thing for five weeks, what do you think would happen?” He goes “shit that’s impossible.” I go “Georges that’s exactly what you’re doing, Matt Serra beat you five weeks ago and you’ve been carrying this mental brick ever since. You can’t see it but you can feel it and it’s wearing you down.”
What you have to do is you have to go from being frustrated to being fascinated. You have to make this not the worst thing to ever happen to you but the best thing that ever happened to you and you have to do that by being like a scientist who is on an airplane. When the airplane crashes they go looking for what? They go looking for the black box to find out why the plane crashed.
As we sat there 90 minutes, two hours later, we’re still talking about why he lost that fight. It went all the way back through some of the things that he has never talked about, just a lot of the things like preparation and focus and some of the things that he had done in other fights. But his goal was to win a World Championship and he did. And he forgot to reset the bar. That day he said “my goal is not to be a UFC Champion but to be the greatest Mixed Martial Arts fighter of all time. Then moving forward from there he just went on a tear and was dominating.
The thing that was awesome about Georges was he was such a great student. He surrounded himself with the right people and he was never defending a title. He was always going to win a title. Everybody talks about Georges being mentally weak - his opponents say that. I can tell you what, that is the furthest thing from the truth. That guy is a learner, that guy is committed to excellence, he is probably the most committed human being and athlete I have ever been around. As you know he is just one of the most genuine and polite/nice guys you’ll ever meet in your life.
Rutten: He started being way more calculated after the Matt Serra fight. That is why a lot of people complained. They say “yeah but he doesn’t stop people anymore before he did that.” I say listen he fights the best guys on the planet. You’re seeing it the wrong way. Once you fight the top guys on the planet all the time, yeah, you try to knock people out. There is a lot of room for mistakes in Mixed Martial Arts. Any little thing can happen. Since there are so many different techniques in all areas one little mistake is all it takes. But his focus is insane.
What I like about him also is that he’s like Oscar de la Hoya. He would come and every fight he has something new that he worked on. With the Koscheck fight I always said he does what he normally does, but then he has a few techniques that he uses like spinning back into the body. He established a jab which just beat the crap out of him with that jab in that fight and he never did that before. After that you will see it back here and there but then there are 2-3 other things that he worked on. Every time he is evolving. That is the great thing about Georges.
Cain: No question. Constantly evolving and surrounding himself with the greatest. 
Everybody asks me, I get that question all the time. “Hey you worked with St. Pierre, what does he do?” Whether it’s MMA fighters going “what does he do that I need to be doing” or athletes in every sport wants to know what Georges done because he’s one of the greatest of all time in any sport. The thing I say to them is it’s like when he would go to boxing he’d do it with Olympic boxers in Montreal or he’d go out to LA and work with Freddie Roach (he is one of the greatest). He would train with Olympic wrestlers. He would train with Olympic judokai. He’d go train with Olympic gymnasts. He’d run with Olympic sprinters. Everywhere he went he was on the short end of the stick. He was always on the learning end.
We talk about in life there are winners and learners. A lot of guys’ egos are too big to be able to put them in an environment because they don’t want to lose. He would go in there and he would learn, he would learn, he would learn. When he got in the MMA world and put it all together he became unstoppable.
Rutten: That is what I really enjoy about him. I used to do the same and put myself in the worst position in the ground fighting. That was it with me. I was lying on my back, I let anybody take a position over me, whatever they wanted, then I was going to go for a submission because that is where you have to work on it.
Exactly like you said. People like to do what they are comfortable with to do, what their first choice is. That’s why I don’t like it when you see strikers going great at Mixed Martial Arts knocking people out but once they go to the ground they lose by submission. I go dude you can’t see a pattern here? You can’t say “okay let’s work on the ground game?” Strike and you’re going to win already. Let’s work on the ground game. Let’s become Mixed Martial Arts (because Mixed Martial Arts, that’s what they call it).
Is there a difference? That brick thing, that would catch my attention right away. If you would talk to me like that you would go like “oh okay yeah I know that’s 100% right” but then Georges also has a completely different mindset than others. So every person you have to treat different I assume right? It has to be.
Cain: Yeah. There are some certain principles that apply to any sport and any athletes such as stay in the present moment, control what you can control, think about confidence as a choice and confidence as something that you do with your body language focus and self talk instead of something that you feel or something that you get.
The majority of fighters that I’ve worked with - and I’ve had a privileged to be with six guys that have won the UFC Gold - to see them all in the locker room before a fight they all handle it differently. They’ll all have a little bit of nervous energy, they’ll all have a little bit of self doubt, but what they’ve learned is that they have to fake it until they find it.
What you have to do to be successful in my opinion (and I can only speak from my experience) in this field of Peak Performance and sports psychology is you have to invest time with the athletes, step into their world, and get to know who they are.
That was the beauty about working with Georges is I would buzz up to Montreal on a weekend and I would stay in his house and I would watch him train. I’d be with him in the presence of him for like 10 hours and I might not even talk to him once. I’m just watching and seeing how he interacts with people and listening to how he does interviews and trying to kind of gauge where his mindset is at. Then we’d go grab some sushi or something and I would unload on him and be like “hey man here is what I am hearing you say, is that where your focus really is at or what is going on?”
He was so much of a learner and so much of a student. You have to work with an individual. You’re not working with a damn textbook. I think that is what people who spend all their time in academia who then come in and try to work in Peak Performance or sports psychology with athletes, they come in and they’re trying to do a diagnosis and trying to use some freaking protocol or a textbook instead of getting to know the person and helping the person close the gap from where they are to where they want to be.
Rutten: Is there also a pattern that comes back in any profession? Even public speaking. Are the things that you do with Georges (for instance, because we all know Georges here at Mixed Martial Arts) that you use the same techniques on a guy who is afraid of public speaking and he has to overcome that?
Cain: For sure. Some of which would be mental imagery. I believe everything happens twice. People call it mental imagery or visualization or mental rehearsal but essentially what it is is it’s in your mind playing a highlight video of you going out and performing the way you want to perform because everything happens twice - first in your mind then in reality. Neurons that wire together or neurons that fire together that we use when we’re doing mental imagery are going to wire together so that when you walk out there you’re like “I’ve been here before.”
The other thing we do is we practice body language. I’ve got a split screen video I wish I could show you of Georges walking to the cage against Matt Serra. That’s UFC 67. Maybe it was 69. I don’t remember which one it was when he lost to Serra. Then at 74 when he fought Koscheck the first time. You see a remarkable difference in body language. His head is down. He’s looking side to side in the first one. In the second one you see him just kind of laser focused on the octagon.
Here is one of the coolest things that we did that morning. I’d like to know if you ever did this, Bas. As a UFC fighter - I equate it to baseball players. Imagine going through spring training eight weeks for one at-bat. That is what MMA is. You go through an entire spring training of eight week training camp for one fight. If you don’t practice walking to the octagon and you go down there and try to do it the first time - remind me to tell you a story about Brandon Thatch and his UFC debut - you’re going to shit your pants when you walk down there.
So many guys walk into the cage and the music is blaring and their lights are flashing and the crowd is there and the camera is in your face and if you’ve never done that or practiced that it can be overwhelming. Then you go in there and all of a sudden you’re fighting not to lose instead of just going out there and letting it rip and fighting to win.
What we did at UFC 74 that morning was like 10:00 in the morning we go down to the locker room and take Georges through a quick little mental imagery and visualize yourself having the fight tonight then we practiced walking to the cage. He put his headphones in and listened to his walk out song and he would go down to the cage, get up in the cage, and simulate if he was going to circle left or circle right. We’d basically do everything up until the stare down. Then when Herb Dean or whoever would say “let’s get it on” then at that point just instinct and training takes over. But you can lose the fight before that. You can’t win it before that but you can definitely lose it before that.
So I think that role play and mental imagery and what I would call “mental rehearsal” in the walk through, it’s like a pitcher throwing a bullpen with no ball, a UFC fighter walking to the cage is huge in terms of building their confidence and giving them a routine of something to go to that when they go to do it they’ve done it before.
Rutten: Exactly. I’m a firm believer in that as well. Body language is everything. I say to help the women on the street “walk powerful” not scared/looking around because if there is a bad guy he is going to know if he sees the body language speaking, okay, it’s going to be a fight, they’re going to go to the next victim who is weaker so to say.
Cain: Totally. I mean I have worked with a candidate (woman) in the Miss America pageant and it’s the same thing. When you walk out there you’ve got to walk out there and own that stage and you’ve got to have that edge even though you’re nervous. You’re like the duck whose feet underneath the water are going 100 miles an hour but up above you are calm, cool, and collected. Fake it till you find it.
Rutten: Also a thing is that I call it a poker face in my classes. If I start flinching then you’re telling your brain there is something wrong. Not that there is something wrong but your brain identifies it with something is wrong. If you don’t walk strong you’re kind of telling your brain already “hey you’re not strong.” If you just project and get stronger, first of all it’s great for intimidation, but also for yourself because now you’ve trained your own brain that you’re the man. That’s how you have to walk around. You’re going to have to go to that fight.
I always tell people when they say to me “oh if you were to fight this 300 pound guy who knows this and this” I say “I’ll win.” They go “why would you say that?” “Every fight I should say that.” If I go to a fight and there is a little percent of a chance that I think I might lose this fight that’s going to haunt me. I’m going to get in trouble. That little voice, that 1%, is going to start talking to me. You want to be 100% committed and knowing that you’re going to win. You start there with that with body language.
Cain: No doubt. I talked about confidence is state, so is depression. I’ll talk about confidence as a state of doing BFS - body language, focus, and self talk. How do we train body language? You practice walking big. How do we train focus? I give every athlete signs to put up around their house. Just pieces of paper in the bathroom, on their driver’s steering wheel, and their bedroom, and when they see it they have to tell themselves that. Something like “act differently than how you feel” or “confidence is a choice” or “trust your training,” these different little triggers and mindsets I want them to have that direct the focus.
The other thing I would do a lot, Bas (and Rich Franklin used to use this a lot when he was fighting), was I would take like a - if he says “hey I’m going to do 20 minutes of roadwork four days a week where I’m just going to go out and run” I would make a 20 minute audio over music that he likes with positive suggestions of things that I wanted him to be reminded of. Things like when you’re carrying yourself always walk with big body language (like we’re talking about). Or know that confidence is a choice. Or know that your focus determines your future so focus on what you want versus what you want to avoid and on the things that you can control. So it was all those little things.
Then there would be a lot of technical MMA things that he would tell me that I would say as well over that besides just the mental game stuff. It was kind of like that constant repetition that he would hear when he was running. Georges would listen to it when he was driving or flying all over the country training in New York or Albuquerque or Montreal wherever it was. That is kind of that consistent training of the self talk but also the focus.
Rutten: And you talked about Rich Franklin and you had six more fighters you said. All these fighters do you train - because this is a question I always get crazy from. With me everything is calmness. Calmness is the key to success is tell everybody. If you had for instance one of those six guys (and we don’t need to know names because some of them of course want to stay incognito so to say) is there a way for these guys if they need to really get angry for a fight that you keep that or able to able to flip that and let them see that once they’re calm and relaxed it’s way more effective and they become way more effective?
Cain: Yeah I would agree with the statement that the more calm and relaxed you are - I say the more in control you are. In control is closer probably to the common relaxed than it is to the fired up and jacked up ready to go fucking murder somebody. That is what drunk fans think that you need to get into that type of state to compete. When you talk to Dan Severn and Dan would talk about how he would be asleep in the locker room or Couture in a similar type of state where it would be really chill and relaxed and visualize - and those are some of the best.
So one of the things that I’ve done is in interviews with some of those guys the UFC champions and top ranked fighters like yourself - which is awesome that I hear you say this, you’re a former UFC Champion yourself - is to then take that and go share what you’re saying with some of the young fighters and go “look man success leaves clues, look at what the best guys have done.” Every guy is not that way. There are some others guys that want to fight more out of hatred. But sometimes that’s hard to get into. Sometimes you can’t get yourself there.
My statement to them always, Bas, is you’ve got to be in control of yourself before you can control your performance and you’re going out there and your toughest opponent is yourself. Your goal is go out, fight your fight, perform at your best whether you’re fighting your number one enemy or you’re fighting a guy who is in a black ninja spirit suit and you can’t tell who it is. You’re out there fighting your fight and let everything else take care of itself. Strip away the emotion because emotion hurts you more than it helps you in a fight.
Rutten: 100% I love it. I need to know before I forget this question. The first guy you treated ever, once you did this as a job, was it sports? Was he a lawyer? What kind of person was that? I just want to know that.
Cain: I would call it coaching more than - I would never refer to it as “treating.” I call it coaching. You’ve got a strength coach, you’ve got a striking coach, you’ve got a strength and conditioning coach, you’ve got a Muay Thai coach, well who is your mental coach? As you know (as Georges would say) training for a fight is 90% physical 10% mental. Once the plane lands in Vegas it becomes 90% mental 10% physical. Who is helping you with that mental side of the game?
The first guy I worked with. Let me think about that. It’s been so long, since like 2003. I would say I think it was the UC Irvine baseball team maybe back in like 2004 and their head coach Dave Serrano. They went to the College World Series in 2007. He is now out at the University of Tennessee. The first guy in MMA was David Loiseau I believe.
Rutten: Okay. Yeah David is a great guy.
Cain: Phenomenal.
Rutten: And you’re an author as well. I go on your website. How many books did you do? Like 14-15? And really well books. You’re roofing all the top charts.
Cain: Yeah I lost count I think around 33. I think we’re somewhere between 36 and 40. It’s funny because I always wanted to write a book. When my mother passed away on August 2, 2010 I said “man I kind of let mom down, she didn’t get a chance to read my first book.” I remember I got the phone call at 4:00 AM. She had passed away. I couldn’t go back to sleep obviously so I rolled out, I took out my laptop, and I wrote the dedication to her.
Then I got a phone call two days later. You talk about a sense of urgency. I got a phone call two days later from the National Softball Coaches Convention and they said “hey Brian would you be our keynote speaker” and I said “I’d love to is there any chance we could do a book signing after.” They go “oh we didn’t know you had a book.” I go “I will by then.”
So I gave myself two months to write the book, one month to get it printed. Had the book there, sold it, it became a number one bestseller. It’s called Toilets, Bricks, Fish Hooks and Pride: The Peak Performance Toolbox Exposed. I’ll give you a dollar if you can spit that one back.
Rutten: Wow.
Cain: It’s like anything else. It’s like once you write the first one it becomes addicting and you just keep going because people give you great feedback. You have a positive impact on the lives of others and that has always been my mission is to educate, empower, and energize others to a lifestyle of excellence and fulfillment. Books are a way to do that. Podcasts are a way to do that. I’m just trying to execute my mission today so thanks for giving me the opportunity.
Rutten: Yeah. I do exactly the same thing. For me it stems from my asthma disease and just going to the restroom that would be a nightmare for me but now also. And I do baby steps. Now I have programs. I say I’m going to be kicking a head one and a half minutes with 30 seconds break. There is no way I can do this right now. But I start with baby steps. I start one minute, one minute rest. One minute, one minute rest. I do this for 15 runs (so half an hour) then I go to one minute and five seconds and I take a 55 second break. Slowly but surely I go to that one minute. Now I told myself I’m going to do it and I said I’ll give it three months.
Once you do that - what you said, you commit yourself. You say “you know what I want to do a book signing.” They go “do you have a book?” “No I don’t.” But at that time you’ll have it because now you’ve committed to it. I think that is a really important habit to have as any person, any profession for that matter.
Cain: No question. I like to try and share as many nuggets with your listeners as I can. One of them is called the Big ABCs. The Big ABCs are act big, breathe big, and commit big. Act big - we’ve talked a lot about body language here already. Breathe big - when you bring oxygen into your system it helps you to slow down and get back in control. Commit big - set big goals. That’s why I signed up to do the Iron Man, Bas. Six or seven weeks ago I didn’t own a bike, I didn’t know how to swim, I had to get a swimming lesson, I had to go buy a bike.
Rutten: So when did you start the swimming?
Cain: I started swimming August 1st which is when I had my first lesson in swimming. I wasn’t getting drowned. I would get in the pool but I wouldn’t go anywhere. I couldn’t breathe with my head in the water. I just was kind of there. Then I got a coach.
There are so many lessons I’ve learned through this Iron Man training one of which is surround yourself with the right people and get a coach. What does every MMA fighter have? A coach. What does every Olympic athlete that was in Rio have? A coach. So I went and got a swimming coach, I went and got a bike coach (it happens to be the same guy), then I got a nutrition coach. It’s the best thing I think I’ve done for myself in a long time. I’m in the best shape of my life. The more energy I get.
I worked out for six hours today already. It was a 90 minute swim, 3 hour bike, and then a 90 minute run, so that, and then when we get done tonight I’ve got to go get another 90 minute swim in because I missed it yesterday. It’s a lot. It’s been a lot. My wife has been phenomenal in terms of support. She gets it. She was a hockey player. But it’s setting a big goal that scares the hell out of you and going to get it.
Rutten: It’s crazy. Three months. That’s pretty much three months you gave yourself to swim well and swim for 90 minutes. That’s kind of insane if you really think about it.
Cain: And bike for 112 miles which is the biggest challenge.
Rutten: Oh just 112?
Cain: And go run a marathon which I have done marathons before so it’s - but to put them all together in a row is going to be a fun challenge so I’m looking forward to it.
Rutten: Okay. So now you’re talking about that and physical activity yourself as well. Food - this is also not only important for the body but very important for the brain. Of course we hear about sardines, berries, walnuts, all these things are really good for the mental health, is that something you focus on with the fighters or with any athlete for that matter?
Cain: Most of the fighters I’ve worked with have whether they’re working with Dolce or working with someone in the field of nutrition, so when they are I don’t like to cross pollinate. I let them do their job and I try to do mine. When I’m working with a fighter who maybe is a guy who is just kind of getting going and doesn’t have access to a nutritionalist I’ll work with them on a program. Often these guys have come from wrestling so they know their bodies really well and weight management and all that.
But the thing that I lean on is macro nutrition. I was 240 pounds five years ago with a 44 inch freaking waist and a slob. Someone said to me “Brian if you want to be a Peak Performance coach you’ve got to live it, leaders are not fat.” I said “fuck that’s straight on man, you’ve got it.” So I started getting it going again. I started working out again. I started eating right. I was single. My meal was a large pizza and a six pack of beer. So I turned that around. Right now I’m getting 225 grams of protein, 180 grams of carbs, and 48 grams of fat, then on top of that I’ll fuel myself with a little bit of food based on each hour. I’m trying to get into a fat cutting program and trying to get down to 180. I was 183.5 this morning so it’s working.
The article I go by (if people want to find it) is if they Google “to build a beast” by Jordan Feigenbaum. It gives a chart in there where they can calculate their macro nutrition. All macro nutrition is is understanding your fat, carb, and protein. Anything more than that and it’s going to become too difficult. I basically make myself a menu. I eat the same thing every day at the same time. I eliminate the guesswork and I save time, I save money from doing it that way, and I feel fantastic.
Rutten: Thinking about your own training there is this method that you use adding the word “yet” to it. I cannot be a champion yet. I cannot throw a 90 mile per hour fastball yet. Did you say to yourself I cannot swim 90 minutes yet? Did you use those kinds of tricks on your own brain as well?
Cain: I don’t call it “tricks” I call it “conditioning.” It’s like anything else. You don’t rise to the occasion you sink to your levels of training and habits. Habitually I have intentionally trained myself to when adversity happens think that it’s good, that adversity is to my advantage, to when I can’t do something to say “yet” because anything is possible it just hasn’t happened yet. I think that is the mentality to have. But that mentality needs to be trained. It’s like anything else. It’s not tricks. I know you introduced me -
Rutten: It’s like tricking the brain. It’s what I do myself all the time.
Cain: It’s conditioning and it’s in a game with yourself. You introduced me as a motivational speaker which kind of drives me nuts because it’s not - I don’t think motivational speaking works. I think what it is is it’s conditioning. There is a three step process to maximum growth and here is how the three step process would go for people who want to make a change in their life.
Number one is have a total immersion learning experience. Go to a seminar. Go to a training camp. Find a coach. After the total immersion learning experience - we’ve all been to these seminars. You run seminars. I run seminars. People come and then a year later we get with them like “what are you doing?” “Well I kind of fell off.” Well the reason why they fall off is they don’t do step number two which is spaced repetition.
You have to do a little a lot. They go to a seminar then they have to do a little a lot whether it’s read a chapter a week, whether it’s watch my Monday Message video that they can sign up and enjoy and get the same Monday Message video that I send to Georges St. Pierre, the same Monday Message video that goes to all the athletes I work with at www.BrianCain.com/Monday. Or listen to a podcast once a week. That is spaced repetition. 
Then they’ve got to have an accountability partner and a plan to continue to grow. They can’t just get the learning experience. They need to have the spaced repetition after and the plan to grow.
Rutten: Wow. It’s like almost what Bruce Lee said, “I’m not afraid of the guy who knows 1000 kicks I’m afraid of the guy who knows one kick but practices it 1000 times.”
Cain: Amen.
Rutten: You just said it but what would be one thing that you say okay this is for any person? Would that be living in the moment? Would that be the best thing that any person can do?
Cain: I would say it would be two things. It would be control what you can control - let go of the things you can’t control, focus on what you can. The second one would be exactly what you said. I would word it as don’t count the days, make the days count. It’s amazing what you can get done in one day when you have a focus. It’s amazing what you can get done in one day when you map out every minute of your day from the time you wake up until you go to bed. I call it your 168 hour a week plan.
There are 168 hours in a week. Show me when you’re going to wake up, when you’re going to go to bed every day, and what you’re going to do in between and you’re going to have a hell of a week. A hell of a week leads to a hell of a month which leads to a hell of a year which leads to a hell of a career.
Rutten: Nice. And the speaking of hell and you said week, I just want to say - because that 200 yard line thing from you is going to come back. I joined the Special Forces, the Navy SEALS, all these guys, and I asked them about the Hell Week. I said “what goes on in your mind, do you just decide to make it to the next day?” He said “no it’s the next meal.” You just focus on the next meal. You say “before this next meal is going to come I’m not going to quit.” So they’re using it everywhere.
Cain: I spent a lot of time researching in the Special Forces and the SEALS and you’re absolutely right. They just say the next evolution. What am I trying to do right now? I’m trying to run up this sand hill. What am I trying to do right now? I’m trying to run down this sand hill. I’m not thinking about the whole mountain of get through Hell Week and I’m not thinking about winning a UFC world title. That’s exactly what happened to Georges when he lost to Serra. He was like “man I can’t wait to get back and win my title.” I go “Georges your next fight is not a title fight, you’re not going to win the title in your next fight so focusing on the title right now is only hurting you.”
Rutten: Nice. I love it. Don’t look past the fight that you have coming up. That’s what I say. Actually I hear Georges St. Pierre saying it as well in interviews. They say “oh if you win this you are going to be set up for a title” and the first thing he says is “no we’re focusing on this fight right now.” I’m pretty sure he said it because he’s working with you.
Brian, I enjoyed it very much my friend. We’ve got to call it quits. We cannot go too long on this one. We would love to have you back. I would love to have you back one time with Renallo even here because he is the master at digging into the mind and asking questions. Plus you would be very interested to dig in is crazy mind because he is something. I already told you in an email.
Cain: I might be afraid of what I find but I would be fired up to do that.
Rutten: Everybody, I see it every week. It’s a very scary thing.
Cain: That’s awesome.
Rutten: Alright my friend. Thank you so much. Very informative. I hope a lot of fighters are going to listen to this because it’s all in the mind. I’m telling you, everybody. People say oh it’s 50% physical 50% mental. I say it’s all 100% in the mind. In order to make the decision to go to your gym that already happens in your mind. To get out of bed happens in the mind. It’s all the mind because that controls the body. I hope you say the same.
Cain: No question. I say mind control leads to body control leads to skill control. If you want to execute inside of the octagon with your skills you’ve got to take care of your body but in order to take care of your body you’ve first got to get your mind in the right place. If anyone is looking to help get their mind right send them over to www.BrianCain.com and have them join other great MMA fighters and the world champions with the Monday Message that they can join right there. They can contact me through the website.
I have a lot of respect for Mixed Martial Artists. I think what they do is for me the most pure sport that there is. I love working with MMA fighters of all levels because it’s such an amazing sport that I’ve never had a chance to do and I’m not sure I could do. But I love working with those guys because of the effort that it takes and the life lessons that are there and what they can get out of that. It’s awesome.
Rutten: People at home should really check out everything you do. I was going over the videos and I actually gave that video to my daughter - the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 breathing technique. I said “this is going to help you a lot” because she is one of those people who shoots right away into a wrong decision. I said “just calm down and listen to this” and she said “wow that sounds really good.” And that was just one video and there is a lot of them out there.
Cain: What sport does she play?
Rutten: None. She doesn’t do any sports. Right now they started softball actually with a bunch of friends. They are doing it among two teams but they are all friends doing it so not under a guide or a coach.
Cain: Fantastic. Well I’ll drop something in the mail for you also so you can get a little bit more of the mental game. I think you’ll like it.
Rutten: I would love that. Thank you so much my friend.</itunes:summary>
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Brian's background growing up and what he planned to do with his life before becoming a Peak Performance Coach
How Georges St. Pierre overcame the worst thing that ever happened to him while working with Brian
The Big ABC's and how they lead to him finishing an IronMan
The 2 Tips that any person can do to maximize each day
 
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Cain: He gets done about five minutes later and I hand him the brick. I go “Georges I want you to hold this brick out in front of you for like five seconds, can you do that?” He’s like “right here in front of this restaurant in front of all these people you want me to hold the brick?” I said “yeah hold it five seconds.” So he holds it up. I go “put your arm down, now hold it up for like 50 seconds.” He holds it up no problem.
I go “how about five minutes?” He goes “I could do that but I don’t want to hold that up here I’m embarrassed.” I said “well how about you hold that thing for five weeks, what do you think would happen?” He goes “shit that’s impossible.” I go “Georges that’s exactly what you’re doing, Matt Serra beat you five weeks ago and you’ve been carrying this mental brick ever since. You can’t see it but you can feel it and it’s wearing you down.”
Rutten: The person we have as our guest today is a guy who was a standout pitcher at the University of Vermont where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education and Exercise Science that later earned a Masters in Applied Sports Psychology and Kinesiology from California State Fullerton.
He is a motivation speaker, a brain repairman or Mental Coach as you guys all call it (I just came up with a funnier name), he is a bestselling author whose specialization is working with different athletes from around the world and in any sport. Yes, even in Mixed Martial Arts. He works with our beloved Georges St. Pierre and he’s just an all around good guy who likes to help people overcome their problems. Boys and girls here we are, Brian Cain. 
Brian I know I probably didn’t mention many more thing you have achieve and do like your Iron Man but welcome to the show my friend. How are things over there in Richmond, Vermont if I’m not mistaken?
Cain: Well you are mistaken my friend. I’m actually in Southlake, Texas. I moved out of Vermont when I got tired of the cold. I moved down here to Southlake which is about 15 minutes from the Dallas-Fort Worth airport so that I could travel to the left and right coasts of this great country and be able to get around and spread the message of Peak Performance and help athletes and people to achieve their best.
A little bit hard getting out of the great state of Vermont - I miss that place - but as they say if you want to win you’ve got to focus on what is important now which is being where my feet are here in Southlake, Texas, ready to Dominate the Day and fire it up the B on this podcast with you my friend.
Rutten: Boom. I love it. That’s the same thing with the weather, for me it was. I am from Holland and of course business opportunities, that is why I moved here - California. You can’t beat the weather. That’s the one thing here.
Cain: I actually had a stint in Holland. I coached there for eight weeks in a place called Appledorn. Are you familiar with that?
Rutten: Absolutely not.
Cain: It’s about an hour outside of Amsterdam which I’m sure you’re familiar with.
Rutten: Oh you mean Holland? Oh I thought Apple -  yeah Appledorn of course I know. In Holland. I thought you meant California. But how did you like Holland?
Cain: One of the greatest places on planet Earth. I absolutely loved it. The people were fantastic, the food was off the charts, and man I can’t wait to go back. It was unbelievable.
Rutten: Nice. Alright. Listen let’s start at the beginning. I always want to know what kind of person you were when you were 12 years old in high school. did you want to be a fireman? Police officer? Astronaut? What were you like as a kid?
Cain: Well those are two different questions. As a kid I was kind of a shithead. I wasn’t actually the most honest kid, I wasn’t the greatest kid. I got by probably athletically on talent.
But what did I want to do? I wanted to be a Major League Baseball player. I think here in the States everybody who grows up whether their sport is football, basketball, or baseball, and now even in MMA that is what they want to do. They want to be a professional athlete. So growing up all my eggs were in that basket of being a baseball player.
I got a scholarship (as you mentioned earlier) to go the University of Vermont. I actually got my number retired there recently, Bas, but only got my number retired because they cut the freaking program. There is no more baseball at the university. So me and all my teammates got our numbers retired.
The best part about going to Vermont was experiencing the worst thing that happened to me and to my life at that point. My junior year I had a shoulder surgery. As a pitcher that basically means your career is over. At that time I read the writing on the wall, you’re not going to play pro sports, and I had to take that motivation and drive that I had for baseball and put it into something else.
Luckily for me I’ve had tremendous mentors along the way from my high school football coach to my academic advisor, Declan Connolly, one of the top exercise physiologists in the world at the University of Vermont. He said “Brian I know you’ve got to put that somewhere, how about sports psychology, it’s something that you’re into.”
So that put me on a path out to Cal State Fullerton where I studied under a guy by the name of Ken Ravizza and Ken Ravizza was a professor at Fullerton and he’s actually right now in the dugout with the Chicago Cubs  working with that team. I got to be a grad assistant baseball coach at Cal State Fullerton.
In that year of 2002-2003, that two year period, I learned the system and the process that I teach now in the mental game whether it’s with (as you mentioned earlier) GSP or with top college football programs or other sports to help people to play their best when it means the most and live in that present moment. So that was kind of my path.
I never wanted to get into sports psychology. I wanted to be a baseball player and then a baseball coach. But when I got into it what I realized was what really to me going wasn’t necessarily teaching somebody how to throw a curveball or hit the ball the other way but how to be more consistent and how to handle adversity and how to have more confidence and have better routines so that when they step on the mound or they step in the cage all that training that they go through really comes to fruition and they get to go out there and perform at their best.
Rutten: So it was something that you thought maybe if you look back on it did you think “hey that could have helped me personally as well when I was pitching?”
Cain: Oh there is no question. It’s that age old question - and I’d like to ask you this at some point - what do you know now you wish you knew then? I go around - and the majority of the teams I work with are college baseball teams. It’s just the way it worked. I like working with everybody. My passion is helping people not necessarily baseball players in specific but that just happens to be where my target market is right now. That and probably MMA. With those baseball players I always say man if I could go back and speak to the 18, 17, 22 year old Brian Cain I would say control what you can control, let go of the things that you can’t, and don’t count the days make the days count. Focus on what you need to do today because today + today + today = your career.
Rutten: That’s a big thing with you. You truly want to live in the now. That’s the real power. I hear it from so many different people. They all say you have to live right now in the moment. Like you said to 200 yards. Every time you just add 200 yards. Baby steps.
Cain: It’s like if you’re driving down the road and you’re leaving Los Angeles in complete dark tonight at midnight and you’re driving to Dallas, Texas, and all of a sudden BAM all the lights go out in the country you can still drive to Dallas in the complete darkness because your headlights let you see the next 200 feet. And if you just focus on the next 200 feet eventually you’ll get to where you want to guy.
I’ll use GSP. He’s been vocal and talked about this. When he beat Matt Hughes to win the UFC title he lost his focus a little bit and then went out and lost to Matt Serra in his next fight. What we learned is that the best fighter never wins. It’s the guy who fights the best. That separation is in preparation. If you ask Georges he will tell you that the best thing that ever happened to him in his career was getting knocked out by Matt Serra in the first round at UFC 67 because what that did is that put him on a path to become a master of preparation. That’s where (I think) champions are made. It’s what Muhammad Ali said “there are a lot of hours and a lot of training that goes in to allow me to dance under those lights when everyone sees.”
Rutten: Yeah. Speaking of GSP when did you meet him? Were you already interested in Mixed Martial Arts? Was it a sport that you liked or did he come to you? He contacted you? You contacted him? You saw maybe something about him?
Cain: Well it’s funny. I go all the way back to the first UFCs when Royce Gracie was tapping people out with his gi and there was no gloves and all that. I was probably 10-12 years old. We were at my buddy’s house and there were like 10 of us packed into the basement and he’s got the cable converter, the black box, that allows you to get pay-per-view channels for free because none of us could afford it in a small town. We’re watching the UFC and we’re like “who is this guy.” At a young age I was like wow that is awesome.
As I got into high school and college I lost track a little bit of the UFC and what was going on. Then what really turned me back on to UFC was I was an athletic director and one of our high school football coaches came in and said “dude you’ve got to see this, did you see this fight between Matt Hughes and Frank Trigg II?” UFC 52 (I think it was) where he gets the knee in the groin and comes back and Hughes wins the fight. I watched that and said “man that can be so useful to so many teams because of the response to adversity.” We use an acronym that I’m sure you’ll love, Bas. It’s E + R (which stands for event plus response) = outcome.
When I met Georges was fast-forward probably eight years later after seeing that fight for the first time between Hughes and Trigg. I’m teaching a sports psychology class at the University of Vermont. I showed that video. We were talking about response to adversity and one of the ladies in the class goes “I’m a strength coach and I train a UFC fighter.” I’m like we’re in Vermont, you’re lying, there are no UFC fighters in Vermont. It’s too small of a state. She goes “this guy Tom Murphy, he was an All-American wrestler in college and he is on the Ultimate Fighter 2 reality show.” So Tom Murphy and I end up connecting. Tom was a Masters in Psychology and very educated and very driven. Burlington, Vermont is only an hour and a half south of Montreal. So I started working with Tom.
Right at about that time I got connected somehow (I think through MySpace) with David “The Crow” Loiseau. I started going to Montreal with Tom to watch him train. I hooked up with Loiseau and he came back after he lost to Rich Franklin and then Mike Swick and he came back and won a fight outside of the UFC after that so we had some good chemistry going. Right about then is when Georges lost to Matt Serra. I remember we were going up there to go to breakfast and Tom and Loiseau have been saying “man you’ve got to get with Georges” even before he lost.
We went up there to breakfast one day and sat down and I was asking Georges amongst thousands of people coming to get his autograph, always trying to eat his eggs, and we were talking about his loss to Matt Serra. I’m like “hey man how has that affected you since, is that all you’ve been thinking about or are you over it, what’s going on.” He’s like “man it’s the worst thing that ever happened to me for my career I can’t believe that I let this guy who won a reality fight, won a reality TV show, get in the octagon with me, I let down all my fans, I can’t wait to get back there and kick his ass,” all this stuff.
Rutten: Great impression by the way.
Cain: Thank you. As he’s saying all this stuff I took out a black brick. I had taken a brick that you see in a house, painted it black, and I’m writing down on it with a silver Sharpie all the stuff that he is saying. He gets done about five minutes later and I hand him the brick. I go “Georges I want you to hold this brick out in front of you for like five seconds, can you do that?” He’s like “right here in front of this restaurant in front of all these people you want me to hold the brick?” I said “yeah hold it five seconds.” So he holds it up.
I go “put your arm down, now hold it up for like 50 seconds.” He holds it up no problem. I go “how about five minutes?” He goes “I could do that but I don’t want to hold that up here I’m embarrassed.” I said “well how about you hold that thing for five weeks, what do you think would happen?” He goes “shit that’s impossible.” I go “Georges that’s exactly what you’re doing, Matt Serra beat you five weeks ago and you’ve been carrying this mental brick ever since. You can’t see it but you can feel it and it’s wearing you down.”
What you have to do is you have to go from being frustrated to being fascinated. You have to make this not the worst thing to ever happen to you but the best thing that ever happened to you and you have to do that by being like a scientist who is on an airplane. When the airplane crashes they go looking for what? They go looking for the black box to find out why the plane crashed.
As we sat there 90 minutes, two hours later, we’re still talking about why he lost that fight. It went all the way back through some of the things that he has never talked about, just a lot of the things like preparation and focus and some of the things that he had done in other fights. But his goal was to win a World Championship and he did. And he forgot to reset the bar. That day he said “my goal is not to be a UFC Champion but to be the greatest Mixed Martial Arts fighter of all time. Then moving forward from there he just went on a tear and was dominating.
The thing that was awesome about Georges was he was such a great student. He surrounded himself with the right people and he was never defending a title. He was always going to win a title. Everybody talks about Georges being mentally weak - his opponents say that. I can tell you what, that is the furthest thing from the truth. That guy is a learner, that guy is committed to excellence, he is probably the most committed human being and athlete I have ever been around. As you know he is just one of the most genuine and polite/nice guys you’ll ever meet in your life.
Rutten: He started being way more calculated after the Matt Serra fight. That is why a lot of people complained. They say “yeah but he doesn’t stop people anymore before he did that.” I say listen he fights the best guys on the planet. You’re seeing it the wrong way. Once you fight the top guys on the planet all the time, yeah, you try to knock people out. There is a lot of room for mistakes in Mixed Martial Arts. Any little thing can happen. Since there are so many different techniques in all areas one little mistake is all it takes. But his focus is insane.
What I like about him also is that he’s like Oscar de la Hoya. He would come and every fight he has something new that he worked on. With the Koscheck fight I always said he does what he normally does, but then he has a few techniques that he uses like spinning back into the body. He established a jab which just beat the crap out of him with that jab in that fight and he never did that before. After that you will see it back here and there but then there are 2-3 other things that he worked on. Every time he is evolving. That is the great thing about Georges.
Cain: No question. Constantly evolving and surrounding himself with the greatest. 
Everybody asks me, I get that question all the time. “Hey you worked with St. Pierre, what does he do?” Whether it’s MMA fighters going “what does he do that I need to be doing” or athletes in every sport wants to know what Georges done because he’s one of the greatest of all time in any sport. The thing I say to them is it’s like when he would go to boxing he’d do it with Olympic boxers in Montreal or he’d go out to LA and work with Freddie Roach (he is one of the greatest). He would train with Olympic wrestlers. He would train with Olympic judokai. He’d go train with Olympic gymnasts. He’d run with Olympic sprinters. Everywhere he went he was on the short end of the stick. He was always on the learning end.
We talk about in life there are winners and learners. A lot of guys’ egos are too big to be able to put them in an environment because they don’t want to lose. He would go in there and he would learn, he would learn, he would learn. When he got in the MMA world and put it all together he became unstoppable.
Rutten: That is what I really enjoy about him. I used to do the same and put myself in the worst position in the ground fighting. That was it with me. I was lying on my back, I let anybody take a position over me, whatever they wanted, then I was going to go for a submission because that is where you have to work on it.
Exactly like you said. People like to do what they are comfortable with to do, what their first choice is. That’s why I don’t like it when you see strikers going great at Mixed Martial Arts knocking people out but once they go to the ground they lose by submission. I go dude you can’t see a pattern here? You can’t say “okay let’s work on the ground game?” Strike and you’re going to win already. Let’s work on the ground game. Let’s become Mixed Martial Arts (because Mixed Martial Arts, that’s what they call it).
Is there a difference? That brick thing, that would catch my attention right away. If you would talk to me like that you would go like “oh okay yeah I know that’s 100% right” but then Georges also has a completely different mindset than others. So every person you have to treat different I assume right? It has to be.
Cain: Yeah. There are some certain principles that apply to any sport and any athletes such as stay in the present moment, control what you can control, think about confidence as a choice and confidence as something that you do with your body language focus and self talk instead of something that you feel or something that you get.
The majority of fighters that I’ve worked with - and I’ve had a privileged to be with six guys that have won the UFC Gold - to see them all in the locker room before a fight they all handle it differently. They’ll all have a little bit of nervous energy, they’ll all have a little bit of self doubt, but what they’ve learned is that they have to fake it until they find it.
What you have to do to be successful in my opinion (and I can only speak from my experience) in this field of Peak Performance and sports psychology is you have to invest time with the athletes, step into their world, and get to know who they are.
That was the beauty about working with Georges is I would buzz up to Montreal on a weekend and I would stay in his house and I would watch him train. I’d be with him in the presence of him for like 10 hours and I might not even talk to him once. I’m just watching and seeing how he interacts with people and listening to how he does interviews and trying to kind of gauge where his mindset is at. Then we’d go grab some sushi or something and I would unload on him and be like “hey man here is what I am hearing you say, is that where your focus really is at or what is going on?”
He was so much of a learner and so much of a student. You have to work with an individual. You’re not working with a damn textbook. I think that is what people who spend all their time in academia who then come in and try to work in Peak Performance or sports psychology with athletes, they come in and they’re trying to do a diagnosis and trying to use some freaking protocol or a textbook instead of getting to know the person and helping the person close the gap from where they are to where they want to be.
Rutten: Is there also a pattern that comes back in any profession? Even public speaking. Are the things that you do with Georges (for instance, because we all know Georges here at Mixed Martial Arts) that you use the same techniques on a guy who is afraid of public speaking and he has to overcome that?
Cain: For sure. Some of which would be mental imagery. I believe everything happens twice. People call it mental imagery or visualization or mental rehearsal but essentially what it is is it’s in your mind playing a highlight video of you going out and performing the way you want to perform because everything happens twice - first in your mind then in reality. Neurons that wire together or neurons that fire together that we use when we’re doing mental imagery are going to wire together so that when you walk out there you’re like “I’ve been here before.”
The other thing we do is we practice body language. I’ve got a split screen video I wish I could show you of Georges walking to the cage against Matt Serra. That’s UFC 67. Maybe it was 69. I don’t remember which one it was when he lost to Serra. Then at 74 when he fought Koscheck the first time. You see a remarkable difference in body language. His head is down. He’s looking side to side in the first one. In the second one you see him just kind of laser focused on the octagon.
Here is one of the coolest things that we did that morning. I’d like to know if you ever did this, Bas. As a UFC fighter - I equate it to baseball players. Imagine going through spring training eight weeks for one at-bat. That is what MMA is. You go through an entire spring training of eight week training camp for one fight. If you don’t practice walking to the octagon and you go down there and try to do it the first time - remind me to tell you a story about Brandon Thatch and his UFC debut - you’re going to shit your pants when you walk down there.
So many guys walk into the cage and the music is blaring and their lights are flashing and the crowd is there and the camera is in your face and if you’ve never done that or practiced that it can be overwhelming. Then you go in there and all of a sudden you’re fighting not to lose instead of just going out there and letting it rip and fighting to win.
What we did at UFC 74 that morning was like 10:00 in the morning we go down to the locker room and take Georges through a quick little mental imagery and visualize yourself having the fight tonight then we practiced walking to the cage. He put his headphones in and listened to his walk out song and he would go down to the cage, get up in the cage, and simulate if he was going to circle left or circle right. We’d basically do everything up until the stare down. Then when Herb Dean or whoever would say “let’s get it on” then at that point just instinct and training takes over. But you can lose the fight before that. You can’t win it before that but you can definitely lose it before that.
So I think that role play and mental imagery and what I would call “mental rehearsal” in the walk through, it’s like a pitcher throwing a bullpen with no ball, a UFC fighter walking to the cage is huge in terms of building their confidence and giving them a routine of something to go to that when they go to do it they’ve done it before.
Rutten: Exactly. I’m a firm believer in that as well. Body language is everything. I say to help the women on the street “walk powerful” not scared/looking around because if there is a bad guy he is going to know if he sees the body language speaking, okay, it’s going to be a fight, they’re going to go to the next victim who is weaker so to say.
Cain: Totally. I mean I have worked with a candidate (woman) in the Miss America pageant and it’s the same thing. When you walk out there you’ve got to walk out there and own that stage and you’ve got to have that edge even though you’re nervous. You’re like the duck whose feet underneath the water are going 100 miles an hour but up above you are calm, cool, and collected. Fake it till you find it.
Rutten: Also a thing is that I call it a poker face in my classes. If I start flinching then you’re telling your brain there is something wrong. Not that there is something wrong but your brain identifies it with something is wrong. If you don’t walk strong you’re kind of telling your brain already “hey you’re not strong.” If you just project and get stronger, first of all it’s great for intimidation, but also for yourself because now you’ve trained your own brain that you’re the man. That’s how you have to walk around. You’re going to have to go to that fight.
I always tell people when they say to me “oh if you were to fight this 300 pound guy who knows this and this” I say “I’ll win.” They go “why would you say that?” “Every fight I should say that.” If I go to a fight and there is a little percent of a chance that I think I might lose this fight that’s going to haunt me. I’m going to get in trouble. That little voice, that 1%, is going to start talking to me. You want to be 100% committed and knowing that you’re going to win. You start there with that with body language.
Cain: No doubt. I talked about confidence is state, so is depression. I’ll talk about confidence as a state of doing BFS - body language, focus, and self talk. How do we train body language? You practice walking big. How do we train focus? I give every athlete signs to put up around their house. Just pieces of paper in the bathroom, on their driver’s steering wheel, and their bedroom, and when they see it they have to tell themselves that. Something like “act differently than how you feel” or “confidence is a choice” or “trust your training,” these different little triggers and mindsets I want them to have that direct the focus.
The other thing I would do a lot, Bas (and Rich Franklin used to use this a lot when he was fighting), was I would take like a - if he says “hey I’m going to do 20 minutes of roadwork four days a week where I’m just going to go out and run” I would make a 20 minute audio over music that he likes with positive suggestions of things that I wanted him to be reminded of. Things like when you’re carrying yourself always walk with big body language (like we’re talking about). Or know that confidence is a choice. Or know that your focus determines your future so focus on what you want versus what you want to avoid and on the things that you can control. So it was all those little things.
Then there would be a lot of technical MMA things that he would tell me that I would say as well over that besides just the mental game stuff. It was kind of like that constant repetition that he would hear when he was running. Georges would listen to it when he was driving or flying all over the country training in New York or Albuquerque or Montreal wherever it was. That is kind of that consistent training of the self talk but also the focus.
Rutten: And you talked about Rich Franklin and you had six more fighters you said. All these fighters do you train - because this is a question I always get crazy from. With me everything is calmness. Calmness is the key to success is tell everybody. If you had for instance one of those six guys (and we don’t need to know names because some of them of course want to stay incognito so to say) is there a way for these guys if they need to really get angry for a fight that you keep that or able to able to flip that and let them see that once they’re calm and relaxed it’s way more effective and they become way more effective?
Cain: Yeah I would agree with the statement that the more calm and relaxed you are - I say the more in control you are. In control is closer probably to the common relaxed than it is to the fired up and jacked up ready to go fucking murder somebody. That is what drunk fans think that you need to get into that type of state to compete. When you talk to Dan Severn and Dan would talk about how he would be asleep in the locker room or Couture in a similar type of state where it would be really chill and relaxed and visualize - and those are some of the best.
So one of the things that I’ve done is in interviews with some of those guys the UFC champions and top ranked fighters like yourself - which is awesome that I hear you say this, you’re a former UFC Champion yourself - is to then take that and go share what you’re saying with some of the young fighters and go “look man success leaves clues, look at what the best guys have done.” Every guy is not that way. There are some others guys that want to fight more out of hatred. But sometimes that’s hard to get into. Sometimes you can’t get yourself there.
My statement to them always, Bas, is you’ve got to be in control of yourself before you can control your performance and you’re going out there and your toughest opponent is yourself. Your goal is go out, fight your fight, perform at your best whether you’re fighting your number one enemy or you’re fighting a guy who is in a black ninja spirit suit and you can’t tell who it is. You’re out there fighting your fight and let everything else take care of itself. Strip away the emotion because emotion hurts you more than it helps you in a fight.
Rutten: 100% I love it. I need to know before I forget this question. The first guy you treated ever, once you did this as a job, was it sports? Was he a lawyer? What kind of person was that? I just want to know that.
Cain: I would call it coaching more than - I would never refer to it as “treating.” I call it coaching. You’ve got a strength coach, you’ve got a striking coach, you’ve got a strength and conditioning coach, you’ve got a Muay Thai coach, well who is your mental coach? As you know (as Georges would say) training for a fight is 90% physical 10% mental. Once the plane lands in Vegas it becomes 90% mental 10% physical. Who is helping you with that mental side of the game?
The first guy I worked with. Let me think about that. It’s been so long, since like 2003. I would say I think it was the UC Irvine baseball team maybe back in like 2004 and their head coach Dave Serrano. They went to the College World Series in 2007. He is now out at the University of Tennessee. The first guy in MMA was David Loiseau I believe.
Rutten: Okay. Yeah David is a great guy.
Cain: Phenomenal.
Rutten: And you’re an author as well. I go on your website. How many books did you do? Like 14-15? And really well books. You’re roofing all the top charts.
Cain: Yeah I lost count I think around 33. I think we’re somewhere between 36 and 40. It’s funny because I always wanted to write a book. When my mother passed away on August 2, 2010 I said “man I kind of let mom down, she didn’t get a chance to read my first book.” I remember I got the phone call at 4:00 AM. She had passed away. I couldn’t go back to sleep obviously so I rolled out, I took out my laptop, and I wrote the dedication to her.
Then I got a phone call two days later. You talk about a sense of urgency. I got a phone call two days later from the National Softball Coaches Convention and they said “hey Brian would you be our keynote speaker” and I said “I’d love to is there any chance we could do a book signing after.” They go “oh we didn’t know you had a book.” I go “I will by then.”
So I gave myself two months to write the book, one month to get it printed. Had the book there, sold it, it became a number one bestseller. It’s called Toilets, Bricks, Fish Hooks and Pride: The Peak Performance Toolbox Exposed. I’ll give you a dollar if you can spit that one back.
Rutten: Wow.
Cain: It’s like anything else. It’s like once you write the first one it becomes addicting and you just keep going because people give you great feedback. You have a positive impact on the lives of others and that has always been my mission is to educate, empower, and energize others to a lifestyle of excellence and fulfillment. Books are a way to do that. Podcasts are a way to do that. I’m just trying to execute my mission today so thanks for giving me the opportunity.
Rutten: Yeah. I do exactly the same thing. For me it stems from my asthma disease and just going to the restroom that would be a nightmare for me but now also. And I do baby steps. Now I have programs. I say I’m going to be kicking a head one and a half minutes with 30 seconds break. There is no way I can do this right now. But I start with baby steps. I start one minute, one minute rest. One minute, one minute rest. I do this for 15 runs (so half an hour) then I go to one minute and five seconds and I take a 55 second break. Slowly but surely I go to that one minute. Now I told myself I’m going to do it and I said I’ll give it three months.
Once you do that - what you said, you commit yourself. You say “you know what I want to do a book signing.” They go “do you have a book?” “No I don’t.” But at that time you’ll have it because now you’ve committed to it. I think that is a really important habit to have as any person, any profession for that matter.
Cain: No question. I like to try and share as many nuggets with your listeners as I can. One of them is called the Big ABCs. The Big ABCs are act big, breathe big, and commit big. Act big - we’ve talked a lot about body language here already. Breathe big - when you bring oxygen into your system it helps you to slow down and get back in control. Commit big - set big goals. That’s why I signed up to do the Iron Man, Bas. Six or seven weeks ago I didn’t own a bike, I didn’t know how to swim, I had to get a swimming lesson, I had to go buy a bike.
Rutten: So when did you start the swimming?
Cain: I started swimming August 1st which is when I had my first lesson in swimming. I wasn’t getting drowned. I would get in the pool but I wouldn’t go anywhere. I couldn’t breathe with my head in the water. I just was kind of there. Then I got a coach.
There are so many lessons I’ve learned through this Iron Man training one of which is surround yourself with the right people and get a coach. What does every MMA fighter have? A coach. What does every Olympic athlete that was in Rio have? A coach. So I went and got a swimming coach, I went and got a bike coach (it happens to be the same guy), then I got a nutrition coach. It’s the best thing I think I’ve done for myself in a long time. I’m in the best shape of my life. The more energy I get.
I worked out for six hours today already. It was a 90 minute swim, 3 hour bike, and then a 90 minute run, so that, and then when we get done tonight I’ve got to go get another 90 minute swim in because I missed it yesterday. It’s a lot. It’s been a lot. My wife has been phenomenal in terms of support. She gets it. She was a hockey player. But it’s setting a big goal that scares the hell out of you and going to get it.
Rutten: It’s crazy. Three months. That’s pretty much three months you gave yourself to swim well and swim for 90 minutes. That’s kind of insane if you really think about it.
Cain: And bike for 112 miles which is the biggest challenge.
Rutten: Oh just 112?
Cain: And go run a marathon which I have done marathons before so it’s - but to put them all together in a row is going to be a fun challenge so I’m looking forward to it.
Rutten: Okay. So now you’re talking about that and physical activity yourself as well. Food - this is also not only important for the body but very important for the brain. Of course we hear about sardines, berries, walnuts, all these things are really good for the mental health, is that something you focus on with the fighters or with any athlete for that matter?
Cain: Most of the fighters I’ve worked with have whether they’re working with Dolce or working with someone in the field of nutrition, so when they are I don’t like to cross pollinate. I let them do their job and I try to do mine. When I’m working with a fighter who maybe is a guy who is just kind of getting going and doesn’t have access to a nutritionalist I’ll work with them on a program. Often these guys have come from wrestling so they know their bodies really well and weight management and all that.
But the thing that I lean on is macro nutrition. I was 240 pounds five years ago with a 44 inch freaking waist and a slob. Someone said to me “Brian if you want to be a Peak Performance coach you’ve got to live it, leaders are not fat.” I said “fuck that’s straight on man, you’ve got it.” So I started getting it going again. I started working out again. I started eating right. I was single. My meal was a large pizza and a six pack of beer. So I turned that around. Right now I’m getting 225 grams of protein, 180 grams of carbs, and 48 grams of fat, then on top of that I’ll fuel myself with a little bit of food based on each hour. I’m trying to get into a fat cutting program and trying to get down to 180. I was 183.5 this morning so it’s working.
The article I go by (if people want to find it) is if they Google “to build a beast” by Jordan Feigenbaum. It gives a chart in there where they can calculate their macro nutrition. All macro nutrition is is understanding your fat, carb, and protein. Anything more than that and it’s going to become too difficult. I basically make myself a menu. I eat the same thing every day at the same time. I eliminate the guesswork and I save time, I save money from doing it that way, and I feel fantastic.
Rutten: Thinking about your own training there is this method that you use adding the word “yet” to it. I cannot be a champion yet. I cannot throw a 90 mile per hour fastball yet. Did you say to yourself I cannot swim 90 minutes yet? Did you use those kinds of tricks on your own brain as well?
Cain: I don’t call it “tricks” I call it “conditioning.” It’s like anything else. You don’t rise to the occasion you sink to your levels of training and habits. Habitually I have intentionally trained myself to when adversity happens think that it’s good, that adversity is to my advantage, to when I can’t do something to say “yet” because anything is possible it just hasn’t happened yet. I think that is the mentality to have. But that mentality needs to be trained. It’s like anything else. It’s not tricks. I know you introduced me -
Rutten: It’s like tricking the brain. It’s what I do myself all the time.
Cain: It’s conditioning and it’s in a game with yourself. You introduced me as a motivational speaker which kind of drives me nuts because it’s not - I don’t think motivational speaking works. I think what it is is it’s conditioning. There is a three step process to maximum growth and here is how the three step process would go for people who want to make a change in their life.
Number one is have a total immersion learning experience. Go to a seminar. Go to a training camp. Find a coach. After the total immersion learning experience - we’ve all been to these seminars. You run seminars. I run seminars. People come and then a year later we get with them like “what are you doing?” “Well I kind of fell off.” Well the reason why they fall off is they don’t do step number two which is spaced repetition.
You have to do a little a lot. They go to a seminar then they have to do a little a lot whether it’s read a chapter a week, whether it’s watch my Monday Message video that they can sign up and enjoy and get the same Monday Message video that I send to Georges St. Pierre, the same Monday Message video that goes to all the athletes I work with at www.BrianCain.com/Monday. Or listen to a podcast once a week. That is spaced repetition. 
Then they’ve got to have an accountability partner and a plan to continue to grow. They can’t just get the learning experience. They need to have the spaced repetition after and the plan to grow.
Rutten: Wow. It’s like almost what Bruce Lee said, “I’m not afraid of the guy who knows 1000 kicks I’m afraid of the guy who knows one kick but practices it 1000 times.”
Cain: Amen.
Rutten: You just said it but what would be one thing that you say okay this is for any person? Would that be living in the moment? Would that be the best thing that any person can do?
Cain: I would say it would be two things. It would be control what you can control - let go of the things you can’t control, focus on what you can. The second one would be exactly what you said. I would word it as don’t count the days, make the days count. It’s amazing what you can get done in one day when you have a focus. It’s amazing what you can get done in one day when you map out every minute of your day from the time you wake up until you go to bed. I call it your 168 hour a week plan.
There are 168 hours in a week. Show me when you’re going to wake up, when you’re going to go to bed every day, and what you’re going to do in between and you’re going to have a hell of a week. A hell of a week leads to a hell of a month which leads to a hell of a year which leads to a hell of a career.
Rutten: Nice. And the speaking of hell and you said week, I just want to say - because that 200 yard line thing from you is going to come back. I joined the Special Forces, the Navy SEALS, all these guys, and I asked them about the Hell Week. I said “what goes on in your mind, do you just decide to make it to the next day?” He said “no it’s the next meal.” You just focus on the next meal. You say “before this next meal is going to come I’m not going to quit.” So they’re using it everywhere.
Cain: I spent a lot of time researching in the Special Forces and the SEALS and you’re absolutely right. They just say the next evolution. What am I trying to do right now? I’m trying to run up this sand hill. What am I trying to do right now? I’m trying to run down this sand hill. I’m not thinking about the whole mountain of get through Hell Week and I’m not thinking about winning a UFC world title. That’s exactly what happened to Georges when he lost to Serra. He was like “man I can’t wait to get back and win my title.” I go “Georges your next fight is not a title fight, you’re not going to win the title in your next fight so focusing on the title right now is only hurting you.”
Rutten: Nice. I love it. Don’t look past the fight that you have coming up. That’s what I say. Actually I hear Georges St. Pierre saying it as well in interviews. They say “oh if you win this you are going to be set up for a title” and the first thing he says is “no we’re focusing on this fight right now.” I’m pretty sure he said it because he’s working with you.
Brian, I enjoyed it very much my friend. We’ve got to call it quits. We cannot go too long on this one. We would love to have you back. I would love to have you back one time with Renallo even here because he is the master at digging into the mind and asking questions. Plus you would be very interested to dig in is crazy mind because he is something. I already told you in an email.
Cain: I might be afraid of what I find but I would be fired up to do that.
Rutten: Everybody, I see it every week. It’s a very scary thing.
Cain: That’s awesome.
Rutten: Alright my friend. Thank you so much. Very informative. I hope a lot of fighters are going to listen to this because it’s all in the mind. I’m telling you, everybody. People say oh it’s 50% physical 50% mental. I say it’s all 100% in the mind. In order to make the decision to go to your gym that already happens in your mind. To get out of bed happens in the mind. It’s all the mind because that controls the body. I hope you say the same.
Cain: No question. I say mind control leads to body control leads to skill control. If you want to execute inside of the octagon with your skills you’ve got to take care of your body but in order to take care of your body you’ve first got to get your mind in the right place. If anyone is looking to help get their mind right send them over to www.BrianCain.com and have them join other great MMA fighters and the world champions with the Monday Message that they can join right there. They can contact me through the website.
I have a lot of respect for Mixed Martial Artists. I think what they do is for me the most pure sport that there is. I love working with MMA fighters of all levels because it’s such an amazing sport that I’ve never had a chance to do and I’m not sure I could do. But I love working with those guys because of the effort that it takes and the life lessons that are there and what they can get out of that. It’s awesome.
Rutten: People at home should really check out everything you do. I was going over the videos and I actually gave that video to my daughter - the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 breathing technique. I said “this is going to help you a lot” because she is one of those people who shoots right away into a wrong decision. I said “just calm down and listen to this” and she said “wow that sounds really good.” And that was just one video and there is a lot of them out there.
Cain: What sport does she play?
Rutten: None. She doesn’t do any sports. Right now they started softball actually with a bunch of friends. They are doing it among two teams but they are all friends doing it so not under a guide or a coach.
Cain: Fantastic. Well I’ll drop something in the mail for you also so you can get a little bit more of the mental game. I think you’ll like it.
Rutten: I would love that. Thank you so much my friend.]]>
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      <description>In this episode, Brian talks with former UFC World Champion and Hall of Famer Bas Rutten.  Bas has great knowledge of the mind from a fighter's point of view and shares many applicable traits that translate from fighting to life.
Follow Bas on Twitter @BasRuttenMMA
Visit Bas' Website BasRutten.com
Listen to the Rutten &amp; Ranallo Podcast
You will learn about...
The #1 factor to be successful in a fight
The importance of thinking you are not as good as you really are
Tricking your brain into enjoying something you normally hate
The #1 trait that all the best fighters have in common
Bas' answer to "The Million Dollar Question"
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Rutten: So then I started tricking my brain. Constantly every time when I was really tired I’d go “oh yeah I love it!” I love it. I would tell myself the whole time “I love it” and, boom, suddenly I started catching on. Then I started enjoying getting tired. Now I needed to get tired. It got me a high getting really extremely tired. So I just forced myself. I always tell people I’m really good at telling myself what to do. Apparently I believe myself as well because it works, it works all the time.
Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance Coach here and this week we’re honored to have as our guest on the Peak Performance Podcast an MMA legend, UFC World Champion, and UFC Hall of Famer, Bas Rutten.
Bas is a retired Dutch MMA fighter, a taekwondo black belt, Muay Thai kick boxer, and former professional wrestler. He was a UFC Heavyweight Champion and a three time King of Pancrase World Champion and finished his career with an unthinkable 22 fight unbeaten streak. Fight Metrics, the official statistics provider for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, ran numbers on Rutten’s career. Check this out; they statistically proved that he belongs not only in the UFC Hall of Fame but near or on top of the list of the greatest fighters of all time.
In the 4 hours 27 minutes and 8 seconds he spent as a professional fighter Rutten scored 13 knockdowns without getting dropped himself. His significant strike accuracy was 70.6, the highest fight metric ever recorded. He attempted a record 53 submissions and successfully swept his opponents a record 46 times.
He is currently a co-host of Inside MMA and is known for his charisma, good looks, great dance moves, and devastating liver kicks. He has capitalized on his celebrity status since retiring from fighting in 1999, working as an MMA commentator and appearing in numerous television shows, movies, and video games. A living legend.
 
Please welcome to the Peak Performance fighting out of Tilburg, Netherlands, the former UFC Heavyweight Champion, former three time King of Pancrase, and UFC Hall of Famer, Bas “El Guapo” Rutten. Bas, thanks for joining us on the podcast man.
Rutten: That was crazy! I love those statistics. You know that was the first time I actually found out things about myself when I heard those statistics. I went “man that’s actually pretty cool.” Very nice. Thank you very much Mr. Buffer.
Cain: Fantastic. Well Bas thanks for joining us here. For all of our listeners that are mostly coaches and athletes they all watch the UFC, they all watch Mixed Martial Arts fighting, and they all want to know how much of that is a mindset, how much  of that is a mental game? What do you think?
Rutten: It’s all about the mind. Everything is created in the mind. I always tell the fighters we’re just talking about it everyone says “oh it’s a 50/50, 50% physical, 50% mental.” I say it’s not. I say everything happens in the mind. The decision for you to get out of bed in the morning to get your breakfast is made up in the mind. Once you can control that then it’s going to be perfect because then you can be calm.
I talk about this many times. Calmness beats everything. When I see fighters getting beat up by the coaches and they’re hitting themselves in the faces I think it’s maybe for them to realize that they’re in the moment at this moment but it doesn’t work for me. You start over committing to punches. The mind is the master in everything in life. That is what I always say.
Cain: When did you learn that? Si that something you had a coach ingrain in you or did you always kind of have that sort of ice in your veins cool mentality?
Rutten: That is the weirdest thing. I was a super aggressive fighter in Holland when I was Thai boxing. Literally I would come out very technical, I would play my game, I would get hit once and I would destroy the guy. It worked really well in the first 12 fights because I knocked them out all in the first round except for one. So that worked really well. But once you start fighting really tough competition that’s going to be a problem.
Then at one time - it was I also had a reason. I was partying, I didn’t train for three years, and apparently I accepted a fight because I was drunk and didn’t know I accepted it. Two and a half weeks before the fight this promoter calls me “hey where do I send the posters to?” I said “what do you mean, what posters?” He said “from the fight.” I said “which fight.” He says “your fight.” I said “am I fighting?” So then we went over that and I realized oh yeah I kind of said that so I’m going to have to do this fight. When is the fight? In two and a half weeks. I shouldn’t have done that fight.
Anyway I lost. That pretty much changed everything. I didn’t want to fight in Holland anymore because the throwback I had from one loss was insane. Everybody said suddenly I was the worst fighter. They forgot about the first 12 fights.
Then when Mixed Martial Arts came along I started fighting in Japan. I think it’s maybe something with the audience. It was totally calm. While I was fighting I would realize this is the craziest thing ever, I was so focused I heard everybody talking.
There is this moment where I drop him with an eight count, he goes down, and your inner body wants to say run to the corner because there in Japan there were eight counts. If you run to your corner as soon as you hit the corner that is when they start counting eight. So eight counts. That means every fighter most of the time they run to their corner in order to give the guy on the floor the least amount of time to recoup. But for some reason I was thinking “no I’m going to throw it the other way” so I stepped over him, I gave him this look, I made eye contact, and then I walked really slowly back to my corner. I thought that will intimidate this guy way more than when I run to the corner.
When I came out of the fight - which I stopped in 43 seconds - and later on saw the magazines two months later they sent me the magazines from the fight and I saw my facial expressions and I had no facial expressions. Every Thai boxing match that I had in the past I look like a complete animal. My face is screaming when I knock people out. Then there suddenly in Japan it was total calmness. There was no facial expression.
That is why I always come up with that name the poker face. I truly believe that was when I really started putting things together. I was in complete control. It was really weird.
Cain: Fighters that you’ve trained and fighters that you work with how do you get them to learn that? how do you get them to understand that you’ve got to be in control of yourself because you can control your performance and then learn how to control themselves?
Rutten: It’s a hard thing. Again the poker face comes. There are a lot of times where if they hit back and they have to go really hard on the back they’re not allowed to make grimaces in their faces. It needs to stay calm. Everything needs to be calm. You need to tell your brain that you’re okay. Once you start squeezing your face muscles you’re telling your brain it’s not okay. But the more calm you are, the more relaxed you are, the faster your reflexes are working for you.
The things is - and you especially know this with mental coaching as well of course - that a fighter can be really good in the gym. I can tell him all the tricks and everything works perfectly in the gym and sometimes you think “oh man this guy is going to go far.” But then the first fight comes along. The first fight is very understandable. Everybody has that. But once you go to the second and third fight and you cannot control those emotions then it’s going to be very hard for a fighter to fight out later on.
What I’m saying is that you see these guys who you think they’re going to be world champions but they can’t perform under pressure. What I do then to the fighter - because most of the time they’re so proud that they’re going to fight they tell everybody they’re going to fight. “This is my first fight, I’m going to rip his head, I’m going to do this and that.” I always tell them don’t say that. All of these words you’re going to have to eat up at the moment you’re going to walk into the cage. Now all these people that you’re talking to they’re going to be in the audience there. Guess what? Now you can’t lose because you said you were going to hit his head up, you’re going to do this, you’re going to do that. I said all that pressure you are going to carry to the cage. Most of the time that is exactly what happens and then they lose.
So then I tell them okay the next fight you won’t tell anybody that you’re going to fight and we’re going to take a fight out of state where nobody knows you. if you win when you come back you can say “hey I just won a fight.” IF you lose you don’t even have to tell anybody. Most of the time that trick works really well because then there is no pressure. People don’t fight for themselves. People fight for the audience.
My biggest trick, what I always said is that I fight for me. It sounds very egomaniacal but it’s not because - they say “but you have to fight for your family because they need money.” No. Once I start being bothered by those kinds of problems I don’t perform at my best. But once I fight for myself and I don’t care what people say - because I learned that in all the Thai boxing, I stepped away from it - then that’s it. Then you’re much calmer and then you can compete at your very best.
Cain: I think that is such a great point too that you make that you’ve got to go out there and you’ve got to fight for yourself because you are the only one who is in there. I hear fighters a lot of times will say that “my toughest opponent is me and my focus is on there, going out there, and executing what I need to execute in my game plan.”
When you would fight did you have a game plan that you went out there to try to implement specifically for your opponent or was your game plan kind of the “I’m going to become the best Mixed Martial Artist I can be and go out there and just trust my training and let it happen?”
Rutten: Trust my training, especially when I started learning the ground game. I had this thing - and I still do it. I always think that I’m not as good as I really am. I think it’s a very important thing because I think people in general always think they’re way better than they are. For me that was a way of always pushing the limits, always going harder and harder.
I think it's very important to train your brain like that and make sure you know everything. Once I start doing the ground then everything started coming together and I got obsessed with the ground fighting. That is when I really started getting confident and that is where the real me was born.
I always say it’s not about that, it’s about loving something. For instance in school what were the subjects you sucked at? They were always subjects that you had no interest for. All the ones that you excelled in were the ones that you thought were fun to do. It’s the same as fighting. If you’re only doing striking because you feel great at striking but you neglected the ground fighting - what I did in the beginning, I didn’t really like the ground fighting - but then I have all these ways to force myself. I start tricking my brain (so to say) and I say “wait a minute I’m going to see if I can force myself to like it.”
For instance I did this with getting tired. I did not like getting tired. Since I had severe asthma as a kid that’s probably where it comes from. But in fighting that is not a good thing. you’re going to get really tired. So then I started tricking my brain. Constantly every time when I was really tired I’d go “oh yeah I love it!” I love it. I would tell myself the whole time “I love it” and, boom, suddenly I started catching on. Then I started enjoying getting tired. Now I needed to get tired. It got me a high getting really extremely tired. So I just forced myself. I always tell people I’m really good at telling myself what to do. Apparently I believe myself as well because it works, it works all the time.
Cain: Are there ways that you actually train that self talk? Are there things that you do to help you with that or is that something that you just kind of figured out over the course of your career?
Rutten: It’s been always there. I think it all comes from - with the asthma attacks for instance. I would lay in bed just sitting up. I needed to recoup from that. For like a minute I needed to catch my breath. That is how bad my asthma was. I couldn’t eat. It was very hard for me to drink. Most of the time you dip a sponge in water and you hope that you can get it in because you’re breathing 24/7. But I was always telling my mind “listen this is just for a week or for eight days, there are people out there that have it all year long.” I had eczema (horrible skin disease) everywhere on my face, my hands, I had to wear gloves, I got bullied a lot because of it because they thought I was a leper. That’s what they called me. I always thought people have it worse. There are people who have it worse.
I think my brain training started there. I told myself “no, don’t go down.” Some people who say I had asthma when I was a kid and that’s why it doesn’t go very well for me in life, that’s BS. You’ve got to step away from it. The glass has always been half full with me and I’ve been always that guy. It’s just tricking the brain. Maybe it’s not even tricking. You just talk to yourself and if you just lay it out then it’s not really that bad.
If you really go over a fight - this is what I tell my students. I say “what is the worst thing that can happen?” “I’m going to get knocked out.” “Well apparently you’re not going to feel that.” That is what people say. So what is the next thing? Tapping? Is that really so bad? If you let your arm be broken that is a really bad thing but for the rest that’s it. you can lose these two ways. You know what really is bad? When somebody completely dominates you. he knocks you down, he steps back, he tells you get back up because he just wants to beat you up. That would be really bad. But with great matchmaking that will never happen. most of the time that little talk will do something to them and that little talk I just had to myself before a fight. In the beginning when you’re nervous I would just say “what is the worst thing that could happen, there is a referee.”
That is why I didn’t want to fight in the first UFC because the referee couldn’t step in. People go “oh I think it’s cool, I think it’s tough when you do that.” I think it’s stupid when you do that. we saw many occasions somebody gets knocked out and when he’s out he’s getting drilled in the face 6-7 more times. Well that could be permanent and I have a family that I love very much. I’m not one of those guys who says “I’ll die in the cage.” Not me dude. I would like to be with my family. If there is a way I can get out of it I’m going to be out of it. It’s going to be tough because I’m not going to let you finish me. But that I thought was very dangerous. Once they had a referee what is the worst thing that can happen? The referees are going to jump in and that’s about it.
It’s your ego. Once you can step away from your ego - and again this is people outside, this is your family, friends, everybody who knows it better but has never been in a gym they’re complaining about you. Once you realize that those people don’t know anything, they don’t know, they never did it, so why would you be bothered by what they’re saying? When you let that go that is freedom.
Cain: I love that. that is fantastic. Bas, talk a little bit about the maturity of the athlete and learning to just simply control what you can control and let go of what you can’t.
Rutten: It’s just getting better all the time. I always mention Oscar de la Hoya, Georges St. Pierre, there’s all these bunch of fighters that always learn new things. Evolving. It’s all about that. They all know it. They all say it in interviews - other guys - but they don’t do it. That I don’t like.
You have a guy - oh hit him in the belly because if you hit that guy he went five times down with a liver shot so chance are you can drop him with a liver shot again. Can you imagine if you would be that person that they’re talking about? If somebody says “oh if you fight Bas Rutten hit him in the liver and he is going to go down?” I would make sure 100% that you could never hit me in the liver. But for some reason that person every time they can drop him to his liver. This is a real person as well.
I go work on your weaknesses. It’s so in your face but people don’t do it. Once you do it, truly do what you’re preaching - well everybody can be good. I’m just a guy like anybody else. It’s just hard work and dedication.
Cain: You run a podcast that is one of the best out there. On your podcast you’ve had guests like UFC fighter and champion Dan Severn. You’ve had Royce Gracie on there. You’ve had WWE Ike on and creator of the yes chant Daniel Bryan. You’ve interviewed Dan Henderson who just had a great fight with Michael Bisping. What are some of the things that you have learned that have stuck with you from interviewing some of these icons in the world of Mixed Martial Arts and wrestling?
Rutten: We all have the same mindset. Especially if you talk to the good guys. If you talk to beginner fighters they will have completely different answers than once they start maturing as well. They realize that talking can put a lot of pressure on you. If you talk like that to Dan Severn, Dan Henderson, all these guys, Frank Shamrock - Frank is a good friend of us as well - they’re all calm, they’re all relaxed. It’s simply just looking at other people. I’ve been doing that my entire life.
In an interview if you hear somebody - any artist. It doesn’t matter what artist we’re talking about. It can be a musician, an actor, whatever. They always say “don’t give up.” They all say that. There is always that moment of I wanted to quit but then I pushed a little further and, boom, suddenly there was the success. Once you start listening you realize that hundreds of great stars are saying all the same thing - don’t give up. So you put it in your mind - don’t give up. If you talk to a Dan Henderson, yeah, that’s calmness. Dan Severn, calm. You already touched Renico too. We didn’t have him on our show. But also everything is about calmness.
Automatically if you go - I did it a long time back but I’m pretty sure that every other athlete that is coming up right now (Mixed Martial Artist) they should listen to that because they all pick out that similarity thing which is being calm and just pushing. We’re nothing special. Just put a lot of hard work in. That’s the trick.
Cain: Bas I always like to ask my guests what is the book that you would gift the most to other people? Or what are the books that have had the biggest impact in your life?
Rutten: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I really took that to heart. And another book is The Greatest Salesman In the World, I really like that as well. It takes ten months to read for the fact that every chapter (and there are ten chapters) you are going to have to read three times a day. It takes about five minutes to read. You have to do it when you wake up, and then you have to do it during the day, then before you go to sleep. Matthew McConaughey was in The Actor’s Studio and he was talking about that book and I go “hey I would love to have that book.” These are all things that I already did. But what you’re doing is you’re just training your brain because once you read it three times a day, in like 12-13 days you’ve memorized it. You can literally just say it without the book. Then you’re telling yourself. It always helps to revisit moments, things that you already knew but you forgot.
It’s like when I teach seminars I tell people “bring a notepad because I’m going to be here, I’m going to give you your money’s worth, if I really want to teach you’re going to get five techniques in the next five hours and you guys are not going to like it so let’s write down what we’re doing, let’s give you 30 techniques so you’re going to get your money’s worth.” But if you don’t have a notepad you’re going to forge the first ten techniques. You’re going to forget because it’s going to be an overload.
That’s what it is with this book. You know it. but once you read it you go “oh man yeah I used to do that but why don’t I do this anymore?” You’re training your brain. So those two books I always tell people to get them.
Cain: Fantastic. Both of them are in my collection for sure and I would echo the same message. Both fantastic books. Bas, I also like to ask our guests what are some of the habits that you have in your life or maybe you had when you were still fighting, what are some of the habits that have helped you to be the best in the world?
Rutten: Everything with me is about habits. I think that habits are the most important thing there is. It’s creating good habits.
I have this speech that I do for these kids when they go from high school. I talk to these kids from high school to college and it’s like 500-600 kids that I’m talking to. I open with this one. I say “by show of hands who woke up this morning, hit the snooze button, then ten minutes later hit it again, then ten minutes later hit it again, then maybe after the third or fourth time you get up” and, boom, 90% of the hands went up. I said “that is a bad habit and you can change that habit, in a week it will be gone.” Before you go to sleep now tonight you’re going to tell yourself “tomorrow when I hit the alarm button I’m going to sit up in bed and I’m going to walk out.” The first time is a little hard. The second day it’s easier. The third day is a lot easier, and in seven days you’ve created a new habit.
The great thing is you can do this with anything in life. It’s just switching bad habits into great habits. That’s what I did my whole life. I just find my routine. Like my stretching routine. Many people always ask “what is it because you’re always talking about this.” My stretching routine has always been the same from the first day I started competing professionally till now I do the same thing. They say “why, you have to do all these others stretches.” I say “this stretching routine (it’s a short one, it’s a ten minute stretch) never gave me any injuries, why would I change a winning thing?” That is what I do with everything. I’m always pushing the habits.
I tell myself tonight or today, this morning, I’m going to do twelve rounds on the back as hard as I can; Because I trained my brain to do whatever I tell myself to do I have to do it. I’m so bad that if I would not do it, if I would stop at eleven, I can literally not look at myself in the mirror that night because I am ashamed of myself. That is how much I have trained myself to do what I tell me to do. Being on time. Those are things that everybody should do. Why would you be late? I’m on time for you. You be there on time for me. That is why they invented time by the way. It’s things like that.
Once you do that for a week - I have guys from Brazil who never did that but (trust me) a week or two weeks with me - Marco Ruas, he showed up every single time on time. This is very hard for a guy who had been 40 years living in Brazil and who don’t do that because it’s just not in their culture. They don’t do it. But once you do it - once I am training at 3:00 and he comes in at 3:45 and I’m almost out now, I’m almost done with my workout. “Yeah but I just arrived here.” Yeah, I said 3:00. Now on the second day suddenly they are there at 3:00 because otherwise they’re not going to have a workout. That is the way I do it.
To me they say “Bas I’ll be there at 11:00 but wait 5-10 minutes.” No, you said you were going to be there at 11:00. I’ll be there at 11:00 and you be there at 11:00 and if you’re not I’m leaving. “Yeah but can you wait till I’m there?” No, you be there at 11:00. Those things you can train with everything in life. I truly believe if you do that with your training methods you just become a great guy in whatever sport you do.
Cain: You talked about the importance of being on time, the importance of hitting your alarm clock, getting your feet on the ground, going out and attacking the day, you talked about the importance of habits. What are some of the other fundamentals that have helped you to be so successful? What are some of the other fundamentals that you’ve seen that if our listeners would apply in their life (maybe it’s journaling, maybe it’s having a coach, any of those things that you’ve seen) that would help them to close the gap from where they are to where they want to be?
Rutten: With me it’s really weird. I taught everything myself. I taught the ground fighting myself. I had a coach in Holland and Amsterdam but I went there twelve times in my entire life.
It was just watching things. Don’t be afraid of seeing something and thinking “that’s it.” Just because somebody does it or somebody writes it that doesn’t mean it’s true. “I read on the internet” yeah, okay, never mind. I need some proof. That is what I’m doing. What I did with ground fighting for instance is I would simply see at technique and then I would say to a friend of mine “do it on me, I can do this and I can escape.” Then okay “how can I prevent this?” Then I start working with it. I think that is the most important thing.
Now the good thing was that I didn’t have a teacher so that means I wasn’t offending anybody. I understand if you have a big name fighter to look up to you have to do it his way or the highway. A great coach would say - like I say, I teach only twice a week but I tell my students “go anywhere you want, any gym, go anywhere you want, don’t worry that I’m going to be angry” because I know deep down inside I know they’re not going to get anywhere else what they’re going to get with me. If I’m invested in something I’m invested. If I commit it commit. There you go. That’s the habits. Since I didn’t have that coach I couldn’t offend anybody. I would say “I can make this better.” “Oh that’s an ego thing.” No it’s not an ego thing. This is just from a long time ago and I think I can make it better. Once you start working with it you start understanding it better.
You know the thing that I always say to people as well is everything has a reason. A submission works a certain way. You have to understand a submission. And 90%-100% of the fighters will say “no I understand.” No you don’t understand. You know what it looks like and you know - because if you know it more people would get tapped with a simple figure four arm bar. But they do it wrong. The head should be in the line or lower than your shoulders. If the head is higher people escape.
You watch UFC, Bellator, big organizations; once they go for submission they do it wrong. This is a white belt move. They don’t understand how it works. If they would understand what would happen if they bring that hand down, wow, now you can lift the elbow two inches. If you bring the hand up you can lift the elbow all the way elbow and they roll out. I mean once you understand that then it’s easier to absorb the techniques.
Because I taught everything myself I was understanding it because I’d say “okay it hurts there, it hurts there, okay I can do this to escape, try to stop me now, okay, yeah that’s a good one but still I can escape.” Then I would go for an escape and right into a counter technique. Okay now he knows this. Let’s see if I can do another counter technique. Wait a minute, a straight arm bar. Okay. I roll with my guy. I do it three times on him. Suddenly he knows (of course) what I am going to do because I have a certain path to that straight arm bar. Okay so now he can stop me. Wait a minute, let’s create a different way to do that same arm bar. Okay. I get creative. Find another way. Now I tap him again also 3-4 times (because my guy was a good guy as well). Okay now I’ve got two ways. Let’s create another way. Once you start throwing those 1, 2, 3, sometimes even four different set ups for the same technique, once you start mixing those up then you’re going to be successful because then you’re spinning the head of your opponent.
If there is just one way to do it well everybody knows that way. How many times do you see a guy getting submitted by a certain technique that nobody did before then for two weeks straight everybody is getting submitted with that technique and then everybody is gone again because everybody knows the defense. That is what I’m saying.
In the beginning (all the way at the beginning) I made the mistake of learning to escape the arm bar. Thankfully once I started committing and I got obsessed with ground fighting - oh man I love it. It’s the worst thing that I cannot do it anymore because of my neck. Once I got obsessed with it I realized it’s better to learn the arm bar because if you understand the mechanics of an arm bar you automatically know how to stay out of it or how to escape it.
Cain: I love how much of a learner you were coming up and being self taught and teaching yourself how to use all those different ground fighting techniques. Bas now that you’re retired from MMA - I believe it was in 1999, is that right?
Rutten: Yes. Then I made one more fight in 2006. I thought I was injury free but all the injuries came back. It was good. I stopped him in the first round. But it was really god telling me okay it’s done, you’ve got to stop.
Cain: You can see that fight if you go to YouTube. You see he finishes it with a leg kick I believe it was wasn’t it?
Rutten: That’s it. That’s the one.
Cain: Love it. It’s fantastic. How do you, now that you’re retired from MMA - I think a lot of fighters I’ve worked with their only definition of success for their life is if they get to wear a gold belt around their waist. Then for some of them that happens and for some of them it doesn’t. How do you define success for yourself now with where you’re at in life?
Rutten: That’s a big one. How do you define success. Whatever you love to do if you can make that your profession I would say that is it. Reaching your goal of what you really want to do in life, what makes you happy. If you can make that into - there is this saying that if you - how does it say? If you make your hobby your profession you never go a day to work. That’s it. That’s what people say. But I think you have to choose it for the right reason. When you want to do something because money or fame is attached to it that’s great but if you don’t love it you’re not really going to commit.
That’s what I always tell the people in school. You excel at the things that you like and you don’t excel at the things that you don’t like so pick something that you love to do. It’s not all about fame and money. it’s about being a good person to others and just doing what you need to do because that you can take to your grave. That is fame for me.
People say “Bas Rutten? Oh he was a nice guy, helped everybody, was always on top of his things,” after they do a whole list about my persona and how I helped people and what I tried to do and then at the end they might say “oh you know what he could kick some ass too.” The most important to me is to be there for other people and to help. If you find something that you really love to do and you can excel at that that is the definition of success to me.
Cain: Love that. That’s fantastic. Thanks for that. I’ve only got two more questions here for you Bas. The next question is what is the difference between you had a chance to fight in the UFC and fight in Pancrase and you also had a professional wrestling career. Like Brock Lesnar you both held the UFC Heavyweight Championship. What is the difference as an athlete in MMA and also in going into pro wrestling?
Rutten: Thankfully I did it in Japan and in Japan they call it “strong style” and that means they use real submission moves. You know beforehand of course who is going to win. I could never do this here in America. It’s a different style. I don’t know this style because it’s not close to being real for me. In Japan - well it’s all real moves that everybody uses so then it’s great.
What I did realize though is that I had way more injuries in pro wrestling than I did in real fighting. The reason is very simple, you let yourself get hit - something that I did not do in fighting. If you don’t treat it as a real fight it’s like - how do I say that? If you don’t show respect to a small weight - all the problems in the gym always happen with small weights. Why? Because people don’t respect it. If it’s a heavy weight now you watch your posture and you watch everything perfect. But if you pick up a little five pound weight and you do it a little wrong by you don’t squat your legs and bop something suddenly happens.
That’s the same in pro wrestling. If you don’t respect it - let me tell you these guys here and over there in Japan also, the falls they make are real falls, trust me. People break their leg all the time, they have injuries all the time, because they do it 200-220 times a year. They just travel to the next show on a daily basis. Oh now my knee is hurt from the fight. Well guess what you’re going to have to do ten more in these next two weeks then you’re going to have a five day break then you’re going to start again. Injury prone, very injury prone.
That’s what happened with me. The first one I broke a disc in my back. without surgery they healed it. Then I ruptured an eyeball. Somebody had his finger in my eye because I didn’t block it because it was in the script (so to say) that he was going to hit me in the face. The third one was I ruptured my eardrum. The same thing, an open hand strike to my ear which I didn’t block and my ear drum was broken for 6-7 years. I could not fix it because I was travelling so much and flying so much that they can’t fix it because every time you go up and you put a patch on it (so to say) it will explode again (or have the chance to explode, to open up again) so it was useless. Those were just my first three pro wrestling matches.
My wife actually told me “why don’t you go back to real fighting, you have more injuries now than you’ve ever had in real fighting.” That I would say is the biggest difference. But then again real fighting you have to really commit and you didn’t have to do it in pro wrestling. You can get by with just your basic shape, something that you cannot do in real fighting. You always have to push. My big rule is you can never have enough stamina in Mixed Martial Arts or any fighting for that matter.
Cain: Awesome. Bas, I just realized that you are also a culinary chef. Is that something that you go to to kind of help you escape the pressure and the competitiveness of MMA? Where did you get turned on to culinary chef?
Rutten: That was my thing when I was a kid. I wanted to become a culinary chef. It was from like 6-10 then it went away and suddenly it came back around 17 and I went to culinary school. Then I started working at 20-21. I started working in kitchens. One thing led to another. I had a fall out with one of the cooks who was also the owner who I helped for like two years I worked there.
 
I was a really good person to him because whatever I commit myself to I really try to do well so I was a good cook. I could do - literally my record was 42 people in one night that I did by myself. This is appetizers, main courses, and I would get them. Not at the same time of course. A table of three there. Four there. Three. I would take pride in that to see how many people I could do by myself.
Then there was one day that - on a Tuesday for instance never were there more than eight people that came in. So I would prepare for 25 people just to make sure. Put the mise en place, that’s how they call it in French, that is the preparation for all the sauces that you have at the ready - the basic sauces because from a basic sauce you can make all these other sauces. There are a whole bunch of things that you have to prepare. For some reason that day like 30 people can in so I ran out of the preparation that I had.
I ran inside the house which is where the head cook lived (the chef cook and he was a boss as well) and he started yelling at me in the kitchen. I said “listen let’s stop yelling, let’s take care of these people first, and once we take care of these people you can start yelling at me and tell me what I did wrong.” “NO!” and he kept screaming at me. I said “dude we’ve got to do business here” and he kept on going. He said “you do whatever I tell you to do” and I said “that is actually not the case.” He grabbed a big bowl of butter and he said “if I throw this on the ground and I tell you to clean it up you’re going to clean it up.”  So I walked over to him, I hit the bowl of butter out of his hand, and I said “ask me.” That was the last day I worked. It was already the time also that I found martial arts so then I went away.
I was heartbroken because of it. I did so much for that person and for them to treat me like that - he was paging me (there were pagers at the time) but I didn’t react anymore. I said “no that was not cool.” I tried to save it but that was it. I don’t even know why this story came up. It’s probably fresh in my head and still aggravating me.
But yes, at home I like to cook. I like to do little things. I like to have friends over sometimes and then surprise them with a nice little appetizer, a nice bouillon that I made for three days. I made it very strong, a very nice one, and a good appetizer. Then the main course and I wrap it up with a great dessert homemade by Bas. That’s kind of cool. Most of them don’t know - well all my good friends know but if you have friends who don’t know it that’s kind of cool because they go “you did this” and then they realize that was actually my profession.
Cain: That’s unbelievable. I never knew that. unbelievable. A friend of mine who is one of the top coaches in the country, Joe Amplo at Marquette University, he is also a certified chef, certified culinary expert. I’ll tell you what being able to sit down and have some food that he has prepared is unbelievable.
Bas, thank you for taking the time. Our last question here my friend is that if you could remove the skull cap of everybody listening to this - again out audience is coaches, athletes, people that you are. You’re talking to yourself. If you could plant one seed inside of their head about something that you know now with the life experience that you’ve had that you wish you knew when you were younger, that if that seed would germinate and they would do it and it would improve their life what would that seed be?
Rutten: This is a thing I use. I have no clue who said it. It’s one line and I tell everybody it and that should straighten everybody out. Just say “how do you want to be remembered.” Just tell that person “how do you want to be remembered.” If you catch the person at the time that he is drunk and crazy then go “do you want to be remembered like that.” If you’re a fighter or an athlete (let’s say a fighter) do you want to be remembered as the guy who was cheating? Who had a lot of talent but never really trained hard so that’s why you lost? Or do you want to be remembered as a good fighter? Even when you don’t become a champion that guy that every champion is afraid of even because they know that if they go to step in with you they’re going to have a hard time. This guy is always on.
That is a big question in everything you do. How do you want to be remembered when you’re dead and people are talking about you? Then you can make your decision. if you decide to stay partying well that’s how they’re going to remember you. If you think that’s cool - “that guy had a great brain but he threw his life away at partying,” I think that’s a stupid thing to write on a tombstone. So hopefully most of the time that straightens people out.
Cain: So I have to ask you how do you want to be remembered?
Rutten: I kind of mentioned on that. I want to be remembered as the guy who was a good guy, who would hold doors open for people. If an older person comes on the bus and there’s no space I will be the guy who stands up right away. I’ve been shouting to youngsters saying “get up there is a whole group of old people coming, your parents didn’t tell you anything?” I’m the guy who always tries to save everybody.
If people do something stupid in traffic and they start flipping me off and then suddenly they challenge me I go out and I always put my hands up and say “guys” - because once I step out they realize they made a mistake - but I go “no I just want to talk to you” and then I explain to them what was going on. I say “why on earth would you be so angry?” I always explain it to them and all of them 100% always go “yeah that was kind of stupid.” I say “I know, next time just think about you don’t know situations from people.”
 
People cutting off on the right, the left, and they’re flying through traffic. Yeah 90% of the time it’s just an A-hole, it’s just a bad person, I don’t like it. but I guarantee you there is that 10% chance that maybe somebody in a car there has a delivery, the baby is almost coming. That could be the reason he is speeding up. Until you don’t know exactly what goes on you shouldn’t judge. Once you start living like that I think you’re a good person. That is how I want to be remembered.
People say “yeah he was a good dude, he helped people.” The emails I get from people who have kids or the kids who are emailing me who have the skin disease, who have the asthma, it’s an insane amount but I always make time and I always make sure that I answer them because it’s going to help them. If you can do that and then at the end like I said before they’ll say “you know what he was actually a pretty good fighter as well.” I think the most important thing is being a decent person to humanity. Do your part in humanity (I always say) then do the rest.
Cain: I love it. Bas Rutten, you’re off the hot seat my friend. Thank you so much for taking the time to be a guest on the Peak Performance Podcast. So much good stuff that you just gave to our listeners. I love that question of how do you want to be remembered. As you’re saying that I’m sitting here just taking notes and that is a question that I think our listeners have to go ask themselves.
 
With every podcast I try to summarize with what I think the number one take home was and I’m not sure I’m going to be able to do it with this podcast because there was so much great stuff. I would encourage our listeners to start with how do you want to be remembered. And make sure you go over to www.BasRutten.com, check out his podcast, also follow him on Twitter @BasRuttenMMA. Bas, thank you so much. I can’t thank you enough.
Rutten: Godspeed Brian. I appreciate it. I loved it. Thank you very much.</description>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Brian talks with former UFC World Champion and Hall of Famer Bas Rutten.  Bas has great knowledge of the mind from a fighter's point of view and shares many applicable traits that translate from fighting to life.
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode, Brian talks with former UFC World Champion and Hall of Famer Bas Rutten.  Bas has great knowledge of the mind from a fighter's point of view and shares many applicable traits that translate from fighting to life.
Follow Bas on Twitter @BasRuttenMMA
Visit Bas' Website BasRutten.com
Listen to the Rutten &amp; Ranallo Podcast
You will learn about...
The #1 factor to be successful in a fight
The importance of thinking you are not as good as you really are
Tricking your brain into enjoying something you normally hate
The #1 trait that all the best fighters have in common
Bas' answer to "The Million Dollar Question"
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Rutten: So then I started tricking my brain. Constantly every time when I was really tired I’d go “oh yeah I love it!” I love it. I would tell myself the whole time “I love it” and, boom, suddenly I started catching on. Then I started enjoying getting tired. Now I needed to get tired. It got me a high getting really extremely tired. So I just forced myself. I always tell people I’m really good at telling myself what to do. Apparently I believe myself as well because it works, it works all the time.
Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance Coach here and this week we’re honored to have as our guest on the Peak Performance Podcast an MMA legend, UFC World Champion, and UFC Hall of Famer, Bas Rutten.
Bas is a retired Dutch MMA fighter, a taekwondo black belt, Muay Thai kick boxer, and former professional wrestler. He was a UFC Heavyweight Champion and a three time King of Pancrase World Champion and finished his career with an unthinkable 22 fight unbeaten streak. Fight Metrics, the official statistics provider for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, ran numbers on Rutten’s career. Check this out; they statistically proved that he belongs not only in the UFC Hall of Fame but near or on top of the list of the greatest fighters of all time.
In the 4 hours 27 minutes and 8 seconds he spent as a professional fighter Rutten scored 13 knockdowns without getting dropped himself. His significant strike accuracy was 70.6, the highest fight metric ever recorded. He attempted a record 53 submissions and successfully swept his opponents a record 46 times.
He is currently a co-host of Inside MMA and is known for his charisma, good looks, great dance moves, and devastating liver kicks. He has capitalized on his celebrity status since retiring from fighting in 1999, working as an MMA commentator and appearing in numerous television shows, movies, and video games. A living legend.
 
Please welcome to the Peak Performance fighting out of Tilburg, Netherlands, the former UFC Heavyweight Champion, former three time King of Pancrase, and UFC Hall of Famer, Bas “El Guapo” Rutten. Bas, thanks for joining us on the podcast man.
Rutten: That was crazy! I love those statistics. You know that was the first time I actually found out things about myself when I heard those statistics. I went “man that’s actually pretty cool.” Very nice. Thank you very much Mr. Buffer.
Cain: Fantastic. Well Bas thanks for joining us here. For all of our listeners that are mostly coaches and athletes they all watch the UFC, they all watch Mixed Martial Arts fighting, and they all want to know how much of that is a mindset, how much  of that is a mental game? What do you think?
Rutten: It’s all about the mind. Everything is created in the mind. I always tell the fighters we’re just talking about it everyone says “oh it’s a 50/50, 50% physical, 50% mental.” I say it’s not. I say everything happens in the mind. The decision for you to get out of bed in the morning to get your breakfast is made up in the mind. Once you can control that then it’s going to be perfect because then you can be calm.
I talk about this many times. Calmness beats everything. When I see fighters getting beat up by the coaches and they’re hitting themselves in the faces I think it’s maybe for them to realize that they’re in the moment at this moment but it doesn’t work for me. You start over committing to punches. The mind is the master in everything in life. That is what I always say.
Cain: When did you learn that? Si that something you had a coach ingrain in you or did you always kind of have that sort of ice in your veins cool mentality?
Rutten: That is the weirdest thing. I was a super aggressive fighter in Holland when I was Thai boxing. Literally I would come out very technical, I would play my game, I would get hit once and I would destroy the guy. It worked really well in the first 12 fights because I knocked them out all in the first round except for one. So that worked really well. But once you start fighting really tough competition that’s going to be a problem.
Then at one time - it was I also had a reason. I was partying, I didn’t train for three years, and apparently I accepted a fight because I was drunk and didn’t know I accepted it. Two and a half weeks before the fight this promoter calls me “hey where do I send the posters to?” I said “what do you mean, what posters?” He said “from the fight.” I said “which fight.” He says “your fight.” I said “am I fighting?” So then we went over that and I realized oh yeah I kind of said that so I’m going to have to do this fight. When is the fight? In two and a half weeks. I shouldn’t have done that fight.
Anyway I lost. That pretty much changed everything. I didn’t want to fight in Holland anymore because the throwback I had from one loss was insane. Everybody said suddenly I was the worst fighter. They forgot about the first 12 fights.
Then when Mixed Martial Arts came along I started fighting in Japan. I think it’s maybe something with the audience. It was totally calm. While I was fighting I would realize this is the craziest thing ever, I was so focused I heard everybody talking.
There is this moment where I drop him with an eight count, he goes down, and your inner body wants to say run to the corner because there in Japan there were eight counts. If you run to your corner as soon as you hit the corner that is when they start counting eight. So eight counts. That means every fighter most of the time they run to their corner in order to give the guy on the floor the least amount of time to recoup. But for some reason I was thinking “no I’m going to throw it the other way” so I stepped over him, I gave him this look, I made eye contact, and then I walked really slowly back to my corner. I thought that will intimidate this guy way more than when I run to the corner.
When I came out of the fight - which I stopped in 43 seconds - and later on saw the magazines two months later they sent me the magazines from the fight and I saw my facial expressions and I had no facial expressions. Every Thai boxing match that I had in the past I look like a complete animal. My face is screaming when I knock people out. Then there suddenly in Japan it was total calmness. There was no facial expression.
That is why I always come up with that name the poker face. I truly believe that was when I really started putting things together. I was in complete control. It was really weird.
Cain: Fighters that you’ve trained and fighters that you work with how do you get them to learn that? how do you get them to understand that you’ve got to be in control of yourself because you can control your performance and then learn how to control themselves?
Rutten: It’s a hard thing. Again the poker face comes. There are a lot of times where if they hit back and they have to go really hard on the back they’re not allowed to make grimaces in their faces. It needs to stay calm. Everything needs to be calm. You need to tell your brain that you’re okay. Once you start squeezing your face muscles you’re telling your brain it’s not okay. But the more calm you are, the more relaxed you are, the faster your reflexes are working for you.
The things is - and you especially know this with mental coaching as well of course - that a fighter can be really good in the gym. I can tell him all the tricks and everything works perfectly in the gym and sometimes you think “oh man this guy is going to go far.” But then the first fight comes along. The first fight is very understandable. Everybody has that. But once you go to the second and third fight and you cannot control those emotions then it’s going to be very hard for a fighter to fight out later on.
What I’m saying is that you see these guys who you think they’re going to be world champions but they can’t perform under pressure. What I do then to the fighter - because most of the time they’re so proud that they’re going to fight they tell everybody they’re going to fight. “This is my first fight, I’m going to rip his head, I’m going to do this and that.” I always tell them don’t say that. All of these words you’re going to have to eat up at the moment you’re going to walk into the cage. Now all these people that you’re talking to they’re going to be in the audience there. Guess what? Now you can’t lose because you said you were going to hit his head up, you’re going to do this, you’re going to do that. I said all that pressure you are going to carry to the cage. Most of the time that is exactly what happens and then they lose.
So then I tell them okay the next fight you won’t tell anybody that you’re going to fight and we’re going to take a fight out of state where nobody knows you. if you win when you come back you can say “hey I just won a fight.” IF you lose you don’t even have to tell anybody. Most of the time that trick works really well because then there is no pressure. People don’t fight for themselves. People fight for the audience.
My biggest trick, what I always said is that I fight for me. It sounds very egomaniacal but it’s not because - they say “but you have to fight for your family because they need money.” No. Once I start being bothered by those kinds of problems I don’t perform at my best. But once I fight for myself and I don’t care what people say - because I learned that in all the Thai boxing, I stepped away from it - then that’s it. Then you’re much calmer and then you can compete at your very best.
Cain: I think that is such a great point too that you make that you’ve got to go out there and you’ve got to fight for yourself because you are the only one who is in there. I hear fighters a lot of times will say that “my toughest opponent is me and my focus is on there, going out there, and executing what I need to execute in my game plan.”
When you would fight did you have a game plan that you went out there to try to implement specifically for your opponent or was your game plan kind of the “I’m going to become the best Mixed Martial Artist I can be and go out there and just trust my training and let it happen?”
Rutten: Trust my training, especially when I started learning the ground game. I had this thing - and I still do it. I always think that I’m not as good as I really am. I think it’s a very important thing because I think people in general always think they’re way better than they are. For me that was a way of always pushing the limits, always going harder and harder.
I think it's very important to train your brain like that and make sure you know everything. Once I start doing the ground then everything started coming together and I got obsessed with the ground fighting. That is when I really started getting confident and that is where the real me was born.
I always say it’s not about that, it’s about loving something. For instance in school what were the subjects you sucked at? They were always subjects that you had no interest for. All the ones that you excelled in were the ones that you thought were fun to do. It’s the same as fighting. If you’re only doing striking because you feel great at striking but you neglected the ground fighting - what I did in the beginning, I didn’t really like the ground fighting - but then I have all these ways to force myself. I start tricking my brain (so to say) and I say “wait a minute I’m going to see if I can force myself to like it.”
For instance I did this with getting tired. I did not like getting tired. Since I had severe asthma as a kid that’s probably where it comes from. But in fighting that is not a good thing. you’re going to get really tired. So then I started tricking my brain. Constantly every time when I was really tired I’d go “oh yeah I love it!” I love it. I would tell myself the whole time “I love it” and, boom, suddenly I started catching on. Then I started enjoying getting tired. Now I needed to get tired. It got me a high getting really extremely tired. So I just forced myself. I always tell people I’m really good at telling myself what to do. Apparently I believe myself as well because it works, it works all the time.
Cain: Are there ways that you actually train that self talk? Are there things that you do to help you with that or is that something that you just kind of figured out over the course of your career?
Rutten: It’s been always there. I think it all comes from - with the asthma attacks for instance. I would lay in bed just sitting up. I needed to recoup from that. For like a minute I needed to catch my breath. That is how bad my asthma was. I couldn’t eat. It was very hard for me to drink. Most of the time you dip a sponge in water and you hope that you can get it in because you’re breathing 24/7. But I was always telling my mind “listen this is just for a week or for eight days, there are people out there that have it all year long.” I had eczema (horrible skin disease) everywhere on my face, my hands, I had to wear gloves, I got bullied a lot because of it because they thought I was a leper. That’s what they called me. I always thought people have it worse. There are people who have it worse.
I think my brain training started there. I told myself “no, don’t go down.” Some people who say I had asthma when I was a kid and that’s why it doesn’t go very well for me in life, that’s BS. You’ve got to step away from it. The glass has always been half full with me and I’ve been always that guy. It’s just tricking the brain. Maybe it’s not even tricking. You just talk to yourself and if you just lay it out then it’s not really that bad.
If you really go over a fight - this is what I tell my students. I say “what is the worst thing that can happen?” “I’m going to get knocked out.” “Well apparently you’re not going to feel that.” That is what people say. So what is the next thing? Tapping? Is that really so bad? If you let your arm be broken that is a really bad thing but for the rest that’s it. you can lose these two ways. You know what really is bad? When somebody completely dominates you. he knocks you down, he steps back, he tells you get back up because he just wants to beat you up. That would be really bad. But with great matchmaking that will never happen. most of the time that little talk will do something to them and that little talk I just had to myself before a fight. In the beginning when you’re nervous I would just say “what is the worst thing that could happen, there is a referee.”
That is why I didn’t want to fight in the first UFC because the referee couldn’t step in. People go “oh I think it’s cool, I think it’s tough when you do that.” I think it’s stupid when you do that. we saw many occasions somebody gets knocked out and when he’s out he’s getting drilled in the face 6-7 more times. Well that could be permanent and I have a family that I love very much. I’m not one of those guys who says “I’ll die in the cage.” Not me dude. I would like to be with my family. If there is a way I can get out of it I’m going to be out of it. It’s going to be tough because I’m not going to let you finish me. But that I thought was very dangerous. Once they had a referee what is the worst thing that can happen? The referees are going to jump in and that’s about it.
It’s your ego. Once you can step away from your ego - and again this is people outside, this is your family, friends, everybody who knows it better but has never been in a gym they’re complaining about you. Once you realize that those people don’t know anything, they don’t know, they never did it, so why would you be bothered by what they’re saying? When you let that go that is freedom.
Cain: I love that. that is fantastic. Bas, talk a little bit about the maturity of the athlete and learning to just simply control what you can control and let go of what you can’t.
Rutten: It’s just getting better all the time. I always mention Oscar de la Hoya, Georges St. Pierre, there’s all these bunch of fighters that always learn new things. Evolving. It’s all about that. They all know it. They all say it in interviews - other guys - but they don’t do it. That I don’t like.
You have a guy - oh hit him in the belly because if you hit that guy he went five times down with a liver shot so chance are you can drop him with a liver shot again. Can you imagine if you would be that person that they’re talking about? If somebody says “oh if you fight Bas Rutten hit him in the liver and he is going to go down?” I would make sure 100% that you could never hit me in the liver. But for some reason that person every time they can drop him to his liver. This is a real person as well.
I go work on your weaknesses. It’s so in your face but people don’t do it. Once you do it, truly do what you’re preaching - well everybody can be good. I’m just a guy like anybody else. It’s just hard work and dedication.
Cain: You run a podcast that is one of the best out there. On your podcast you’ve had guests like UFC fighter and champion Dan Severn. You’ve had Royce Gracie on there. You’ve had WWE Ike on and creator of the yes chant Daniel Bryan. You’ve interviewed Dan Henderson who just had a great fight with Michael Bisping. What are some of the things that you have learned that have stuck with you from interviewing some of these icons in the world of Mixed Martial Arts and wrestling?
Rutten: We all have the same mindset. Especially if you talk to the good guys. If you talk to beginner fighters they will have completely different answers than once they start maturing as well. They realize that talking can put a lot of pressure on you. If you talk like that to Dan Severn, Dan Henderson, all these guys, Frank Shamrock - Frank is a good friend of us as well - they’re all calm, they’re all relaxed. It’s simply just looking at other people. I’ve been doing that my entire life.
In an interview if you hear somebody - any artist. It doesn’t matter what artist we’re talking about. It can be a musician, an actor, whatever. They always say “don’t give up.” They all say that. There is always that moment of I wanted to quit but then I pushed a little further and, boom, suddenly there was the success. Once you start listening you realize that hundreds of great stars are saying all the same thing - don’t give up. So you put it in your mind - don’t give up. If you talk to a Dan Henderson, yeah, that’s calmness. Dan Severn, calm. You already touched Renico too. We didn’t have him on our show. But also everything is about calmness.
Automatically if you go - I did it a long time back but I’m pretty sure that every other athlete that is coming up right now (Mixed Martial Artist) they should listen to that because they all pick out that similarity thing which is being calm and just pushing. We’re nothing special. Just put a lot of hard work in. That’s the trick.
Cain: Bas I always like to ask my guests what is the book that you would gift the most to other people? Or what are the books that have had the biggest impact in your life?
Rutten: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I really took that to heart. And another book is The Greatest Salesman In the World, I really like that as well. It takes ten months to read for the fact that every chapter (and there are ten chapters) you are going to have to read three times a day. It takes about five minutes to read. You have to do it when you wake up, and then you have to do it during the day, then before you go to sleep. Matthew McConaughey was in The Actor’s Studio and he was talking about that book and I go “hey I would love to have that book.” These are all things that I already did. But what you’re doing is you’re just training your brain because once you read it three times a day, in like 12-13 days you’ve memorized it. You can literally just say it without the book. Then you’re telling yourself. It always helps to revisit moments, things that you already knew but you forgot.
It’s like when I teach seminars I tell people “bring a notepad because I’m going to be here, I’m going to give you your money’s worth, if I really want to teach you’re going to get five techniques in the next five hours and you guys are not going to like it so let’s write down what we’re doing, let’s give you 30 techniques so you’re going to get your money’s worth.” But if you don’t have a notepad you’re going to forge the first ten techniques. You’re going to forget because it’s going to be an overload.
That’s what it is with this book. You know it. but once you read it you go “oh man yeah I used to do that but why don’t I do this anymore?” You’re training your brain. So those two books I always tell people to get them.
Cain: Fantastic. Both of them are in my collection for sure and I would echo the same message. Both fantastic books. Bas, I also like to ask our guests what are some of the habits that you have in your life or maybe you had when you were still fighting, what are some of the habits that have helped you to be the best in the world?
Rutten: Everything with me is about habits. I think that habits are the most important thing there is. It’s creating good habits.
I have this speech that I do for these kids when they go from high school. I talk to these kids from high school to college and it’s like 500-600 kids that I’m talking to. I open with this one. I say “by show of hands who woke up this morning, hit the snooze button, then ten minutes later hit it again, then ten minutes later hit it again, then maybe after the third or fourth time you get up” and, boom, 90% of the hands went up. I said “that is a bad habit and you can change that habit, in a week it will be gone.” Before you go to sleep now tonight you’re going to tell yourself “tomorrow when I hit the alarm button I’m going to sit up in bed and I’m going to walk out.” The first time is a little hard. The second day it’s easier. The third day is a lot easier, and in seven days you’ve created a new habit.
The great thing is you can do this with anything in life. It’s just switching bad habits into great habits. That’s what I did my whole life. I just find my routine. Like my stretching routine. Many people always ask “what is it because you’re always talking about this.” My stretching routine has always been the same from the first day I started competing professionally till now I do the same thing. They say “why, you have to do all these others stretches.” I say “this stretching routine (it’s a short one, it’s a ten minute stretch) never gave me any injuries, why would I change a winning thing?” That is what I do with everything. I’m always pushing the habits.
I tell myself tonight or today, this morning, I’m going to do twelve rounds on the back as hard as I can; Because I trained my brain to do whatever I tell myself to do I have to do it. I’m so bad that if I would not do it, if I would stop at eleven, I can literally not look at myself in the mirror that night because I am ashamed of myself. That is how much I have trained myself to do what I tell me to do. Being on time. Those are things that everybody should do. Why would you be late? I’m on time for you. You be there on time for me. That is why they invented time by the way. It’s things like that.
Once you do that for a week - I have guys from Brazil who never did that but (trust me) a week or two weeks with me - Marco Ruas, he showed up every single time on time. This is very hard for a guy who had been 40 years living in Brazil and who don’t do that because it’s just not in their culture. They don’t do it. But once you do it - once I am training at 3:00 and he comes in at 3:45 and I’m almost out now, I’m almost done with my workout. “Yeah but I just arrived here.” Yeah, I said 3:00. Now on the second day suddenly they are there at 3:00 because otherwise they’re not going to have a workout. That is the way I do it.
To me they say “Bas I’ll be there at 11:00 but wait 5-10 minutes.” No, you said you were going to be there at 11:00. I’ll be there at 11:00 and you be there at 11:00 and if you’re not I’m leaving. “Yeah but can you wait till I’m there?” No, you be there at 11:00. Those things you can train with everything in life. I truly believe if you do that with your training methods you just become a great guy in whatever sport you do.
Cain: You talked about the importance of being on time, the importance of hitting your alarm clock, getting your feet on the ground, going out and attacking the day, you talked about the importance of habits. What are some of the other fundamentals that have helped you to be so successful? What are some of the other fundamentals that you’ve seen that if our listeners would apply in their life (maybe it’s journaling, maybe it’s having a coach, any of those things that you’ve seen) that would help them to close the gap from where they are to where they want to be?
Rutten: With me it’s really weird. I taught everything myself. I taught the ground fighting myself. I had a coach in Holland and Amsterdam but I went there twelve times in my entire life.
It was just watching things. Don’t be afraid of seeing something and thinking “that’s it.” Just because somebody does it or somebody writes it that doesn’t mean it’s true. “I read on the internet” yeah, okay, never mind. I need some proof. That is what I’m doing. What I did with ground fighting for instance is I would simply see at technique and then I would say to a friend of mine “do it on me, I can do this and I can escape.” Then okay “how can I prevent this?” Then I start working with it. I think that is the most important thing.
Now the good thing was that I didn’t have a teacher so that means I wasn’t offending anybody. I understand if you have a big name fighter to look up to you have to do it his way or the highway. A great coach would say - like I say, I teach only twice a week but I tell my students “go anywhere you want, any gym, go anywhere you want, don’t worry that I’m going to be angry” because I know deep down inside I know they’re not going to get anywhere else what they’re going to get with me. If I’m invested in something I’m invested. If I commit it commit. There you go. That’s the habits. Since I didn’t have that coach I couldn’t offend anybody. I would say “I can make this better.” “Oh that’s an ego thing.” No it’s not an ego thing. This is just from a long time ago and I think I can make it better. Once you start working with it you start understanding it better.
You know the thing that I always say to people as well is everything has a reason. A submission works a certain way. You have to understand a submission. And 90%-100% of the fighters will say “no I understand.” No you don’t understand. You know what it looks like and you know - because if you know it more people would get tapped with a simple figure four arm bar. But they do it wrong. The head should be in the line or lower than your shoulders. If the head is higher people escape.
You watch UFC, Bellator, big organizations; once they go for submission they do it wrong. This is a white belt move. They don’t understand how it works. If they would understand what would happen if they bring that hand down, wow, now you can lift the elbow two inches. If you bring the hand up you can lift the elbow all the way elbow and they roll out. I mean once you understand that then it’s easier to absorb the techniques.
Because I taught everything myself I was understanding it because I’d say “okay it hurts there, it hurts there, okay I can do this to escape, try to stop me now, okay, yeah that’s a good one but still I can escape.” Then I would go for an escape and right into a counter technique. Okay now he knows this. Let’s see if I can do another counter technique. Wait a minute, a straight arm bar. Okay. I roll with my guy. I do it three times on him. Suddenly he knows (of course) what I am going to do because I have a certain path to that straight arm bar. Okay so now he can stop me. Wait a minute, let’s create a different way to do that same arm bar. Okay. I get creative. Find another way. Now I tap him again also 3-4 times (because my guy was a good guy as well). Okay now I’ve got two ways. Let’s create another way. Once you start throwing those 1, 2, 3, sometimes even four different set ups for the same technique, once you start mixing those up then you’re going to be successful because then you’re spinning the head of your opponent.
If there is just one way to do it well everybody knows that way. How many times do you see a guy getting submitted by a certain technique that nobody did before then for two weeks straight everybody is getting submitted with that technique and then everybody is gone again because everybody knows the defense. That is what I’m saying.
In the beginning (all the way at the beginning) I made the mistake of learning to escape the arm bar. Thankfully once I started committing and I got obsessed with ground fighting - oh man I love it. It’s the worst thing that I cannot do it anymore because of my neck. Once I got obsessed with it I realized it’s better to learn the arm bar because if you understand the mechanics of an arm bar you automatically know how to stay out of it or how to escape it.
Cain: I love how much of a learner you were coming up and being self taught and teaching yourself how to use all those different ground fighting techniques. Bas now that you’re retired from MMA - I believe it was in 1999, is that right?
Rutten: Yes. Then I made one more fight in 2006. I thought I was injury free but all the injuries came back. It was good. I stopped him in the first round. But it was really god telling me okay it’s done, you’ve got to stop.
Cain: You can see that fight if you go to YouTube. You see he finishes it with a leg kick I believe it was wasn’t it?
Rutten: That’s it. That’s the one.
Cain: Love it. It’s fantastic. How do you, now that you’re retired from MMA - I think a lot of fighters I’ve worked with their only definition of success for their life is if they get to wear a gold belt around their waist. Then for some of them that happens and for some of them it doesn’t. How do you define success for yourself now with where you’re at in life?
Rutten: That’s a big one. How do you define success. Whatever you love to do if you can make that your profession I would say that is it. Reaching your goal of what you really want to do in life, what makes you happy. If you can make that into - there is this saying that if you - how does it say? If you make your hobby your profession you never go a day to work. That’s it. That’s what people say. But I think you have to choose it for the right reason. When you want to do something because money or fame is attached to it that’s great but if you don’t love it you’re not really going to commit.
That’s what I always tell the people in school. You excel at the things that you like and you don’t excel at the things that you don’t like so pick something that you love to do. It’s not all about fame and money. it’s about being a good person to others and just doing what you need to do because that you can take to your grave. That is fame for me.
People say “Bas Rutten? Oh he was a nice guy, helped everybody, was always on top of his things,” after they do a whole list about my persona and how I helped people and what I tried to do and then at the end they might say “oh you know what he could kick some ass too.” The most important to me is to be there for other people and to help. If you find something that you really love to do and you can excel at that that is the definition of success to me.
Cain: Love that. That’s fantastic. Thanks for that. I’ve only got two more questions here for you Bas. The next question is what is the difference between you had a chance to fight in the UFC and fight in Pancrase and you also had a professional wrestling career. Like Brock Lesnar you both held the UFC Heavyweight Championship. What is the difference as an athlete in MMA and also in going into pro wrestling?
Rutten: Thankfully I did it in Japan and in Japan they call it “strong style” and that means they use real submission moves. You know beforehand of course who is going to win. I could never do this here in America. It’s a different style. I don’t know this style because it’s not close to being real for me. In Japan - well it’s all real moves that everybody uses so then it’s great.
What I did realize though is that I had way more injuries in pro wrestling than I did in real fighting. The reason is very simple, you let yourself get hit - something that I did not do in fighting. If you don’t treat it as a real fight it’s like - how do I say that? If you don’t show respect to a small weight - all the problems in the gym always happen with small weights. Why? Because people don’t respect it. If it’s a heavy weight now you watch your posture and you watch everything perfect. But if you pick up a little five pound weight and you do it a little wrong by you don’t squat your legs and bop something suddenly happens.
That’s the same in pro wrestling. If you don’t respect it - let me tell you these guys here and over there in Japan also, the falls they make are real falls, trust me. People break their leg all the time, they have injuries all the time, because they do it 200-220 times a year. They just travel to the next show on a daily basis. Oh now my knee is hurt from the fight. Well guess what you’re going to have to do ten more in these next two weeks then you’re going to have a five day break then you’re going to start again. Injury prone, very injury prone.
That’s what happened with me. The first one I broke a disc in my back. without surgery they healed it. Then I ruptured an eyeball. Somebody had his finger in my eye because I didn’t block it because it was in the script (so to say) that he was going to hit me in the face. The third one was I ruptured my eardrum. The same thing, an open hand strike to my ear which I didn’t block and my ear drum was broken for 6-7 years. I could not fix it because I was travelling so much and flying so much that they can’t fix it because every time you go up and you put a patch on it (so to say) it will explode again (or have the chance to explode, to open up again) so it was useless. Those were just my first three pro wrestling matches.
My wife actually told me “why don’t you go back to real fighting, you have more injuries now than you’ve ever had in real fighting.” That I would say is the biggest difference. But then again real fighting you have to really commit and you didn’t have to do it in pro wrestling. You can get by with just your basic shape, something that you cannot do in real fighting. You always have to push. My big rule is you can never have enough stamina in Mixed Martial Arts or any fighting for that matter.
Cain: Awesome. Bas, I just realized that you are also a culinary chef. Is that something that you go to to kind of help you escape the pressure and the competitiveness of MMA? Where did you get turned on to culinary chef?
Rutten: That was my thing when I was a kid. I wanted to become a culinary chef. It was from like 6-10 then it went away and suddenly it came back around 17 and I went to culinary school. Then I started working at 20-21. I started working in kitchens. One thing led to another. I had a fall out with one of the cooks who was also the owner who I helped for like two years I worked there.
 
I was a really good person to him because whatever I commit myself to I really try to do well so I was a good cook. I could do - literally my record was 42 people in one night that I did by myself. This is appetizers, main courses, and I would get them. Not at the same time of course. A table of three there. Four there. Three. I would take pride in that to see how many people I could do by myself.
Then there was one day that - on a Tuesday for instance never were there more than eight people that came in. So I would prepare for 25 people just to make sure. Put the mise en place, that’s how they call it in French, that is the preparation for all the sauces that you have at the ready - the basic sauces because from a basic sauce you can make all these other sauces. There are a whole bunch of things that you have to prepare. For some reason that day like 30 people can in so I ran out of the preparation that I had.
I ran inside the house which is where the head cook lived (the chef cook and he was a boss as well) and he started yelling at me in the kitchen. I said “listen let’s stop yelling, let’s take care of these people first, and once we take care of these people you can start yelling at me and tell me what I did wrong.” “NO!” and he kept screaming at me. I said “dude we’ve got to do business here” and he kept on going. He said “you do whatever I tell you to do” and I said “that is actually not the case.” He grabbed a big bowl of butter and he said “if I throw this on the ground and I tell you to clean it up you’re going to clean it up.”  So I walked over to him, I hit the bowl of butter out of his hand, and I said “ask me.” That was the last day I worked. It was already the time also that I found martial arts so then I went away.
I was heartbroken because of it. I did so much for that person and for them to treat me like that - he was paging me (there were pagers at the time) but I didn’t react anymore. I said “no that was not cool.” I tried to save it but that was it. I don’t even know why this story came up. It’s probably fresh in my head and still aggravating me.
But yes, at home I like to cook. I like to do little things. I like to have friends over sometimes and then surprise them with a nice little appetizer, a nice bouillon that I made for three days. I made it very strong, a very nice one, and a good appetizer. Then the main course and I wrap it up with a great dessert homemade by Bas. That’s kind of cool. Most of them don’t know - well all my good friends know but if you have friends who don’t know it that’s kind of cool because they go “you did this” and then they realize that was actually my profession.
Cain: That’s unbelievable. I never knew that. unbelievable. A friend of mine who is one of the top coaches in the country, Joe Amplo at Marquette University, he is also a certified chef, certified culinary expert. I’ll tell you what being able to sit down and have some food that he has prepared is unbelievable.
Bas, thank you for taking the time. Our last question here my friend is that if you could remove the skull cap of everybody listening to this - again out audience is coaches, athletes, people that you are. You’re talking to yourself. If you could plant one seed inside of their head about something that you know now with the life experience that you’ve had that you wish you knew when you were younger, that if that seed would germinate and they would do it and it would improve their life what would that seed be?
Rutten: This is a thing I use. I have no clue who said it. It’s one line and I tell everybody it and that should straighten everybody out. Just say “how do you want to be remembered.” Just tell that person “how do you want to be remembered.” If you catch the person at the time that he is drunk and crazy then go “do you want to be remembered like that.” If you’re a fighter or an athlete (let’s say a fighter) do you want to be remembered as the guy who was cheating? Who had a lot of talent but never really trained hard so that’s why you lost? Or do you want to be remembered as a good fighter? Even when you don’t become a champion that guy that every champion is afraid of even because they know that if they go to step in with you they’re going to have a hard time. This guy is always on.
That is a big question in everything you do. How do you want to be remembered when you’re dead and people are talking about you? Then you can make your decision. if you decide to stay partying well that’s how they’re going to remember you. If you think that’s cool - “that guy had a great brain but he threw his life away at partying,” I think that’s a stupid thing to write on a tombstone. So hopefully most of the time that straightens people out.
Cain: So I have to ask you how do you want to be remembered?
Rutten: I kind of mentioned on that. I want to be remembered as the guy who was a good guy, who would hold doors open for people. If an older person comes on the bus and there’s no space I will be the guy who stands up right away. I’ve been shouting to youngsters saying “get up there is a whole group of old people coming, your parents didn’t tell you anything?” I’m the guy who always tries to save everybody.
If people do something stupid in traffic and they start flipping me off and then suddenly they challenge me I go out and I always put my hands up and say “guys” - because once I step out they realize they made a mistake - but I go “no I just want to talk to you” and then I explain to them what was going on. I say “why on earth would you be so angry?” I always explain it to them and all of them 100% always go “yeah that was kind of stupid.” I say “I know, next time just think about you don’t know situations from people.”
 
People cutting off on the right, the left, and they’re flying through traffic. Yeah 90% of the time it’s just an A-hole, it’s just a bad person, I don’t like it. but I guarantee you there is that 10% chance that maybe somebody in a car there has a delivery, the baby is almost coming. That could be the reason he is speeding up. Until you don’t know exactly what goes on you shouldn’t judge. Once you start living like that I think you’re a good person. That is how I want to be remembered.
People say “yeah he was a good dude, he helped people.” The emails I get from people who have kids or the kids who are emailing me who have the skin disease, who have the asthma, it’s an insane amount but I always make time and I always make sure that I answer them because it’s going to help them. If you can do that and then at the end like I said before they’ll say “you know what he was actually a pretty good fighter as well.” I think the most important thing is being a decent person to humanity. Do your part in humanity (I always say) then do the rest.
Cain: I love it. Bas Rutten, you’re off the hot seat my friend. Thank you so much for taking the time to be a guest on the Peak Performance Podcast. So much good stuff that you just gave to our listeners. I love that question of how do you want to be remembered. As you’re saying that I’m sitting here just taking notes and that is a question that I think our listeners have to go ask themselves.
 
With every podcast I try to summarize with what I think the number one take home was and I’m not sure I’m going to be able to do it with this podcast because there was so much great stuff. I would encourage our listeners to start with how do you want to be remembered. And make sure you go over to www.BasRutten.com, check out his podcast, also follow him on Twitter @BasRuttenMMA. Bas, thank you so much. I can’t thank you enough.
Rutten: Godspeed Brian. I appreciate it. I loved it. Thank you very much.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[In this episode, Brian talks with former UFC World Champion and Hall of Famer Bas Rutten.  Bas has great knowledge of the mind from a fighter's point of view and shares many applicable traits that translate from fighting to life.
Follow Bas on Twitter @BasRuttenMMA
Visit Bas' Website BasRutten.com
Listen to the Rutten &amp; Ranallo Podcast
You will learn about...
The #1 factor to be successful in a fight
The importance of thinking you are not as good as you really are
Tricking your brain into enjoying something you normally hate
The #1 trait that all the best fighters have in common
Bas' answer to "The Million Dollar Question"
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Rutten: So then I started tricking my brain. Constantly every time when I was really tired I’d go “oh yeah I love it!” I love it. I would tell myself the whole time “I love it” and, boom, suddenly I started catching on. Then I started enjoying getting tired. Now I needed to get tired. It got me a high getting really extremely tired. So I just forced myself. I always tell people I’m really good at telling myself what to do. Apparently I believe myself as well because it works, it works all the time.
Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance Coach here and this week we’re honored to have as our guest on the Peak Performance Podcast an MMA legend, UFC World Champion, and UFC Hall of Famer, Bas Rutten.
Bas is a retired Dutch MMA fighter, a taekwondo black belt, Muay Thai kick boxer, and former professional wrestler. He was a UFC Heavyweight Champion and a three time King of Pancrase World Champion and finished his career with an unthinkable 22 fight unbeaten streak. Fight Metrics, the official statistics provider for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, ran numbers on Rutten’s career. Check this out; they statistically proved that he belongs not only in the UFC Hall of Fame but near or on top of the list of the greatest fighters of all time.
In the 4 hours 27 minutes and 8 seconds he spent as a professional fighter Rutten scored 13 knockdowns without getting dropped himself. His significant strike accuracy was 70.6, the highest fight metric ever recorded. He attempted a record 53 submissions and successfully swept his opponents a record 46 times.
He is currently a co-host of Inside MMA and is known for his charisma, good looks, great dance moves, and devastating liver kicks. He has capitalized on his celebrity status since retiring from fighting in 1999, working as an MMA commentator and appearing in numerous television shows, movies, and video games. A living legend.
 
Please welcome to the Peak Performance fighting out of Tilburg, Netherlands, the former UFC Heavyweight Champion, former three time King of Pancrase, and UFC Hall of Famer, Bas “El Guapo” Rutten. Bas, thanks for joining us on the podcast man.
Rutten: That was crazy! I love those statistics. You know that was the first time I actually found out things about myself when I heard those statistics. I went “man that’s actually pretty cool.” Very nice. Thank you very much Mr. Buffer.
Cain: Fantastic. Well Bas thanks for joining us here. For all of our listeners that are mostly coaches and athletes they all watch the UFC, they all watch Mixed Martial Arts fighting, and they all want to know how much of that is a mindset, how much  of that is a mental game? What do you think?
Rutten: It’s all about the mind. Everything is created in the mind. I always tell the fighters we’re just talking about it everyone says “oh it’s a 50/50, 50% physical, 50% mental.” I say it’s not. I say everything happens in the mind. The decision for you to get out of bed in the morning to get your breakfast is made up in the mind. Once you can control that then it’s going to be perfect because then you can be calm.
I talk about this many times. Calmness beats everything. When I see fighters getting beat up by the coaches and they’re hitting themselves in the faces I think it’s maybe for them to realize that they’re in the moment at this moment but it doesn’t work for me. You start over committing to punches. The mind is the master in everything in life. That is what I always say.
Cain: When did you learn that? Si that something you had a coach ingrain in you or did you always kind of have that sort of ice in your veins cool mentality?
Rutten: That is the weirdest thing. I was a super aggressive fighter in Holland when I was Thai boxing. Literally I would come out very technical, I would play my game, I would get hit once and I would destroy the guy. It worked really well in the first 12 fights because I knocked them out all in the first round except for one. So that worked really well. But once you start fighting really tough competition that’s going to be a problem.
Then at one time - it was I also had a reason. I was partying, I didn’t train for three years, and apparently I accepted a fight because I was drunk and didn’t know I accepted it. Two and a half weeks before the fight this promoter calls me “hey where do I send the posters to?” I said “what do you mean, what posters?” He said “from the fight.” I said “which fight.” He says “your fight.” I said “am I fighting?” So then we went over that and I realized oh yeah I kind of said that so I’m going to have to do this fight. When is the fight? In two and a half weeks. I shouldn’t have done that fight.
Anyway I lost. That pretty much changed everything. I didn’t want to fight in Holland anymore because the throwback I had from one loss was insane. Everybody said suddenly I was the worst fighter. They forgot about the first 12 fights.
Then when Mixed Martial Arts came along I started fighting in Japan. I think it’s maybe something with the audience. It was totally calm. While I was fighting I would realize this is the craziest thing ever, I was so focused I heard everybody talking.
There is this moment where I drop him with an eight count, he goes down, and your inner body wants to say run to the corner because there in Japan there were eight counts. If you run to your corner as soon as you hit the corner that is when they start counting eight. So eight counts. That means every fighter most of the time they run to their corner in order to give the guy on the floor the least amount of time to recoup. But for some reason I was thinking “no I’m going to throw it the other way” so I stepped over him, I gave him this look, I made eye contact, and then I walked really slowly back to my corner. I thought that will intimidate this guy way more than when I run to the corner.
When I came out of the fight - which I stopped in 43 seconds - and later on saw the magazines two months later they sent me the magazines from the fight and I saw my facial expressions and I had no facial expressions. Every Thai boxing match that I had in the past I look like a complete animal. My face is screaming when I knock people out. Then there suddenly in Japan it was total calmness. There was no facial expression.
That is why I always come up with that name the poker face. I truly believe that was when I really started putting things together. I was in complete control. It was really weird.
Cain: Fighters that you’ve trained and fighters that you work with how do you get them to learn that? how do you get them to understand that you’ve got to be in control of yourself because you can control your performance and then learn how to control themselves?
Rutten: It’s a hard thing. Again the poker face comes. There are a lot of times where if they hit back and they have to go really hard on the back they’re not allowed to make grimaces in their faces. It needs to stay calm. Everything needs to be calm. You need to tell your brain that you’re okay. Once you start squeezing your face muscles you’re telling your brain it’s not okay. But the more calm you are, the more relaxed you are, the faster your reflexes are working for you.
The things is - and you especially know this with mental coaching as well of course - that a fighter can be really good in the gym. I can tell him all the tricks and everything works perfectly in the gym and sometimes you think “oh man this guy is going to go far.” But then the first fight comes along. The first fight is very understandable. Everybody has that. But once you go to the second and third fight and you cannot control those emotions then it’s going to be very hard for a fighter to fight out later on.
What I’m saying is that you see these guys who you think they’re going to be world champions but they can’t perform under pressure. What I do then to the fighter - because most of the time they’re so proud that they’re going to fight they tell everybody they’re going to fight. “This is my first fight, I’m going to rip his head, I’m going to do this and that.” I always tell them don’t say that. All of these words you’re going to have to eat up at the moment you’re going to walk into the cage. Now all these people that you’re talking to they’re going to be in the audience there. Guess what? Now you can’t lose because you said you were going to hit his head up, you’re going to do this, you’re going to do that. I said all that pressure you are going to carry to the cage. Most of the time that is exactly what happens and then they lose.
So then I tell them okay the next fight you won’t tell anybody that you’re going to fight and we’re going to take a fight out of state where nobody knows you. if you win when you come back you can say “hey I just won a fight.” IF you lose you don’t even have to tell anybody. Most of the time that trick works really well because then there is no pressure. People don’t fight for themselves. People fight for the audience.
My biggest trick, what I always said is that I fight for me. It sounds very egomaniacal but it’s not because - they say “but you have to fight for your family because they need money.” No. Once I start being bothered by those kinds of problems I don’t perform at my best. But once I fight for myself and I don’t care what people say - because I learned that in all the Thai boxing, I stepped away from it - then that’s it. Then you’re much calmer and then you can compete at your very best.
Cain: I think that is such a great point too that you make that you’ve got to go out there and you’ve got to fight for yourself because you are the only one who is in there. I hear fighters a lot of times will say that “my toughest opponent is me and my focus is on there, going out there, and executing what I need to execute in my game plan.”
When you would fight did you have a game plan that you went out there to try to implement specifically for your opponent or was your game plan kind of the “I’m going to become the best Mixed Martial Artist I can be and go out there and just trust my training and let it happen?”
Rutten: Trust my training, especially when I started learning the ground game. I had this thing - and I still do it. I always think that I’m not as good as I really am. I think it’s a very important thing because I think people in general always think they’re way better than they are. For me that was a way of always pushing the limits, always going harder and harder.
I think it's very important to train your brain like that and make sure you know everything. Once I start doing the ground then everything started coming together and I got obsessed with the ground fighting. That is when I really started getting confident and that is where the real me was born.
I always say it’s not about that, it’s about loving something. For instance in school what were the subjects you sucked at? They were always subjects that you had no interest for. All the ones that you excelled in were the ones that you thought were fun to do. It’s the same as fighting. If you’re only doing striking because you feel great at striking but you neglected the ground fighting - what I did in the beginning, I didn’t really like the ground fighting - but then I have all these ways to force myself. I start tricking my brain (so to say) and I say “wait a minute I’m going to see if I can force myself to like it.”
For instance I did this with getting tired. I did not like getting tired. Since I had severe asthma as a kid that’s probably where it comes from. But in fighting that is not a good thing. you’re going to get really tired. So then I started tricking my brain. Constantly every time when I was really tired I’d go “oh yeah I love it!” I love it. I would tell myself the whole time “I love it” and, boom, suddenly I started catching on. Then I started enjoying getting tired. Now I needed to get tired. It got me a high getting really extremely tired. So I just forced myself. I always tell people I’m really good at telling myself what to do. Apparently I believe myself as well because it works, it works all the time.
Cain: Are there ways that you actually train that self talk? Are there things that you do to help you with that or is that something that you just kind of figured out over the course of your career?
Rutten: It’s been always there. I think it all comes from - with the asthma attacks for instance. I would lay in bed just sitting up. I needed to recoup from that. For like a minute I needed to catch my breath. That is how bad my asthma was. I couldn’t eat. It was very hard for me to drink. Most of the time you dip a sponge in water and you hope that you can get it in because you’re breathing 24/7. But I was always telling my mind “listen this is just for a week or for eight days, there are people out there that have it all year long.” I had eczema (horrible skin disease) everywhere on my face, my hands, I had to wear gloves, I got bullied a lot because of it because they thought I was a leper. That’s what they called me. I always thought people have it worse. There are people who have it worse.
I think my brain training started there. I told myself “no, don’t go down.” Some people who say I had asthma when I was a kid and that’s why it doesn’t go very well for me in life, that’s BS. You’ve got to step away from it. The glass has always been half full with me and I’ve been always that guy. It’s just tricking the brain. Maybe it’s not even tricking. You just talk to yourself and if you just lay it out then it’s not really that bad.
If you really go over a fight - this is what I tell my students. I say “what is the worst thing that can happen?” “I’m going to get knocked out.” “Well apparently you’re not going to feel that.” That is what people say. So what is the next thing? Tapping? Is that really so bad? If you let your arm be broken that is a really bad thing but for the rest that’s it. you can lose these two ways. You know what really is bad? When somebody completely dominates you. he knocks you down, he steps back, he tells you get back up because he just wants to beat you up. That would be really bad. But with great matchmaking that will never happen. most of the time that little talk will do something to them and that little talk I just had to myself before a fight. In the beginning when you’re nervous I would just say “what is the worst thing that could happen, there is a referee.”
That is why I didn’t want to fight in the first UFC because the referee couldn’t step in. People go “oh I think it’s cool, I think it’s tough when you do that.” I think it’s stupid when you do that. we saw many occasions somebody gets knocked out and when he’s out he’s getting drilled in the face 6-7 more times. Well that could be permanent and I have a family that I love very much. I’m not one of those guys who says “I’ll die in the cage.” Not me dude. I would like to be with my family. If there is a way I can get out of it I’m going to be out of it. It’s going to be tough because I’m not going to let you finish me. But that I thought was very dangerous. Once they had a referee what is the worst thing that can happen? The referees are going to jump in and that’s about it.
It’s your ego. Once you can step away from your ego - and again this is people outside, this is your family, friends, everybody who knows it better but has never been in a gym they’re complaining about you. Once you realize that those people don’t know anything, they don’t know, they never did it, so why would you be bothered by what they’re saying? When you let that go that is freedom.
Cain: I love that. that is fantastic. Bas, talk a little bit about the maturity of the athlete and learning to just simply control what you can control and let go of what you can’t.
Rutten: It’s just getting better all the time. I always mention Oscar de la Hoya, Georges St. Pierre, there’s all these bunch of fighters that always learn new things. Evolving. It’s all about that. They all know it. They all say it in interviews - other guys - but they don’t do it. That I don’t like.
You have a guy - oh hit him in the belly because if you hit that guy he went five times down with a liver shot so chance are you can drop him with a liver shot again. Can you imagine if you would be that person that they’re talking about? If somebody says “oh if you fight Bas Rutten hit him in the liver and he is going to go down?” I would make sure 100% that you could never hit me in the liver. But for some reason that person every time they can drop him to his liver. This is a real person as well.
I go work on your weaknesses. It’s so in your face but people don’t do it. Once you do it, truly do what you’re preaching - well everybody can be good. I’m just a guy like anybody else. It’s just hard work and dedication.
Cain: You run a podcast that is one of the best out there. On your podcast you’ve had guests like UFC fighter and champion Dan Severn. You’ve had Royce Gracie on there. You’ve had WWE Ike on and creator of the yes chant Daniel Bryan. You’ve interviewed Dan Henderson who just had a great fight with Michael Bisping. What are some of the things that you have learned that have stuck with you from interviewing some of these icons in the world of Mixed Martial Arts and wrestling?
Rutten: We all have the same mindset. Especially if you talk to the good guys. If you talk to beginner fighters they will have completely different answers than once they start maturing as well. They realize that talking can put a lot of pressure on you. If you talk like that to Dan Severn, Dan Henderson, all these guys, Frank Shamrock - Frank is a good friend of us as well - they’re all calm, they’re all relaxed. It’s simply just looking at other people. I’ve been doing that my entire life.
In an interview if you hear somebody - any artist. It doesn’t matter what artist we’re talking about. It can be a musician, an actor, whatever. They always say “don’t give up.” They all say that. There is always that moment of I wanted to quit but then I pushed a little further and, boom, suddenly there was the success. Once you start listening you realize that hundreds of great stars are saying all the same thing - don’t give up. So you put it in your mind - don’t give up. If you talk to a Dan Henderson, yeah, that’s calmness. Dan Severn, calm. You already touched Renico too. We didn’t have him on our show. But also everything is about calmness.
Automatically if you go - I did it a long time back but I’m pretty sure that every other athlete that is coming up right now (Mixed Martial Artist) they should listen to that because they all pick out that similarity thing which is being calm and just pushing. We’re nothing special. Just put a lot of hard work in. That’s the trick.
Cain: Bas I always like to ask my guests what is the book that you would gift the most to other people? Or what are the books that have had the biggest impact in your life?
Rutten: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I really took that to heart. And another book is The Greatest Salesman In the World, I really like that as well. It takes ten months to read for the fact that every chapter (and there are ten chapters) you are going to have to read three times a day. It takes about five minutes to read. You have to do it when you wake up, and then you have to do it during the day, then before you go to sleep. Matthew McConaughey was in The Actor’s Studio and he was talking about that book and I go “hey I would love to have that book.” These are all things that I already did. But what you’re doing is you’re just training your brain because once you read it three times a day, in like 12-13 days you’ve memorized it. You can literally just say it without the book. Then you’re telling yourself. It always helps to revisit moments, things that you already knew but you forgot.
It’s like when I teach seminars I tell people “bring a notepad because I’m going to be here, I’m going to give you your money’s worth, if I really want to teach you’re going to get five techniques in the next five hours and you guys are not going to like it so let’s write down what we’re doing, let’s give you 30 techniques so you’re going to get your money’s worth.” But if you don’t have a notepad you’re going to forge the first ten techniques. You’re going to forget because it’s going to be an overload.
That’s what it is with this book. You know it. but once you read it you go “oh man yeah I used to do that but why don’t I do this anymore?” You’re training your brain. So those two books I always tell people to get them.
Cain: Fantastic. Both of them are in my collection for sure and I would echo the same message. Both fantastic books. Bas, I also like to ask our guests what are some of the habits that you have in your life or maybe you had when you were still fighting, what are some of the habits that have helped you to be the best in the world?
Rutten: Everything with me is about habits. I think that habits are the most important thing there is. It’s creating good habits.
I have this speech that I do for these kids when they go from high school. I talk to these kids from high school to college and it’s like 500-600 kids that I’m talking to. I open with this one. I say “by show of hands who woke up this morning, hit the snooze button, then ten minutes later hit it again, then ten minutes later hit it again, then maybe after the third or fourth time you get up” and, boom, 90% of the hands went up. I said “that is a bad habit and you can change that habit, in a week it will be gone.” Before you go to sleep now tonight you’re going to tell yourself “tomorrow when I hit the alarm button I’m going to sit up in bed and I’m going to walk out.” The first time is a little hard. The second day it’s easier. The third day is a lot easier, and in seven days you’ve created a new habit.
The great thing is you can do this with anything in life. It’s just switching bad habits into great habits. That’s what I did my whole life. I just find my routine. Like my stretching routine. Many people always ask “what is it because you’re always talking about this.” My stretching routine has always been the same from the first day I started competing professionally till now I do the same thing. They say “why, you have to do all these others stretches.” I say “this stretching routine (it’s a short one, it’s a ten minute stretch) never gave me any injuries, why would I change a winning thing?” That is what I do with everything. I’m always pushing the habits.
I tell myself tonight or today, this morning, I’m going to do twelve rounds on the back as hard as I can; Because I trained my brain to do whatever I tell myself to do I have to do it. I’m so bad that if I would not do it, if I would stop at eleven, I can literally not look at myself in the mirror that night because I am ashamed of myself. That is how much I have trained myself to do what I tell me to do. Being on time. Those are things that everybody should do. Why would you be late? I’m on time for you. You be there on time for me. That is why they invented time by the way. It’s things like that.
Once you do that for a week - I have guys from Brazil who never did that but (trust me) a week or two weeks with me - Marco Ruas, he showed up every single time on time. This is very hard for a guy who had been 40 years living in Brazil and who don’t do that because it’s just not in their culture. They don’t do it. But once you do it - once I am training at 3:00 and he comes in at 3:45 and I’m almost out now, I’m almost done with my workout. “Yeah but I just arrived here.” Yeah, I said 3:00. Now on the second day suddenly they are there at 3:00 because otherwise they’re not going to have a workout. That is the way I do it.
To me they say “Bas I’ll be there at 11:00 but wait 5-10 minutes.” No, you said you were going to be there at 11:00. I’ll be there at 11:00 and you be there at 11:00 and if you’re not I’m leaving. “Yeah but can you wait till I’m there?” No, you be there at 11:00. Those things you can train with everything in life. I truly believe if you do that with your training methods you just become a great guy in whatever sport you do.
Cain: You talked about the importance of being on time, the importance of hitting your alarm clock, getting your feet on the ground, going out and attacking the day, you talked about the importance of habits. What are some of the other fundamentals that have helped you to be so successful? What are some of the other fundamentals that you’ve seen that if our listeners would apply in their life (maybe it’s journaling, maybe it’s having a coach, any of those things that you’ve seen) that would help them to close the gap from where they are to where they want to be?
Rutten: With me it’s really weird. I taught everything myself. I taught the ground fighting myself. I had a coach in Holland and Amsterdam but I went there twelve times in my entire life.
It was just watching things. Don’t be afraid of seeing something and thinking “that’s it.” Just because somebody does it or somebody writes it that doesn’t mean it’s true. “I read on the internet” yeah, okay, never mind. I need some proof. That is what I’m doing. What I did with ground fighting for instance is I would simply see at technique and then I would say to a friend of mine “do it on me, I can do this and I can escape.” Then okay “how can I prevent this?” Then I start working with it. I think that is the most important thing.
Now the good thing was that I didn’t have a teacher so that means I wasn’t offending anybody. I understand if you have a big name fighter to look up to you have to do it his way or the highway. A great coach would say - like I say, I teach only twice a week but I tell my students “go anywhere you want, any gym, go anywhere you want, don’t worry that I’m going to be angry” because I know deep down inside I know they’re not going to get anywhere else what they’re going to get with me. If I’m invested in something I’m invested. If I commit it commit. There you go. That’s the habits. Since I didn’t have that coach I couldn’t offend anybody. I would say “I can make this better.” “Oh that’s an ego thing.” No it’s not an ego thing. This is just from a long time ago and I think I can make it better. Once you start working with it you start understanding it better.
You know the thing that I always say to people as well is everything has a reason. A submission works a certain way. You have to understand a submission. And 90%-100% of the fighters will say “no I understand.” No you don’t understand. You know what it looks like and you know - because if you know it more people would get tapped with a simple figure four arm bar. But they do it wrong. The head should be in the line or lower than your shoulders. If the head is higher people escape.
You watch UFC, Bellator, big organizations; once they go for submission they do it wrong. This is a white belt move. They don’t understand how it works. If they would understand what would happen if they bring that hand down, wow, now you can lift the elbow two inches. If you bring the hand up you can lift the elbow all the way elbow and they roll out. I mean once you understand that then it’s easier to absorb the techniques.
Because I taught everything myself I was understanding it because I’d say “okay it hurts there, it hurts there, okay I can do this to escape, try to stop me now, okay, yeah that’s a good one but still I can escape.” Then I would go for an escape and right into a counter technique. Okay now he knows this. Let’s see if I can do another counter technique. Wait a minute, a straight arm bar. Okay. I roll with my guy. I do it three times on him. Suddenly he knows (of course) what I am going to do because I have a certain path to that straight arm bar. Okay so now he can stop me. Wait a minute, let’s create a different way to do that same arm bar. Okay. I get creative. Find another way. Now I tap him again also 3-4 times (because my guy was a good guy as well). Okay now I’ve got two ways. Let’s create another way. Once you start throwing those 1, 2, 3, sometimes even four different set ups for the same technique, once you start mixing those up then you’re going to be successful because then you’re spinning the head of your opponent.
If there is just one way to do it well everybody knows that way. How many times do you see a guy getting submitted by a certain technique that nobody did before then for two weeks straight everybody is getting submitted with that technique and then everybody is gone again because everybody knows the defense. That is what I’m saying.
In the beginning (all the way at the beginning) I made the mistake of learning to escape the arm bar. Thankfully once I started committing and I got obsessed with ground fighting - oh man I love it. It’s the worst thing that I cannot do it anymore because of my neck. Once I got obsessed with it I realized it’s better to learn the arm bar because if you understand the mechanics of an arm bar you automatically know how to stay out of it or how to escape it.
Cain: I love how much of a learner you were coming up and being self taught and teaching yourself how to use all those different ground fighting techniques. Bas now that you’re retired from MMA - I believe it was in 1999, is that right?
Rutten: Yes. Then I made one more fight in 2006. I thought I was injury free but all the injuries came back. It was good. I stopped him in the first round. But it was really god telling me okay it’s done, you’ve got to stop.
Cain: You can see that fight if you go to YouTube. You see he finishes it with a leg kick I believe it was wasn’t it?
Rutten: That’s it. That’s the one.
Cain: Love it. It’s fantastic. How do you, now that you’re retired from MMA - I think a lot of fighters I’ve worked with their only definition of success for their life is if they get to wear a gold belt around their waist. Then for some of them that happens and for some of them it doesn’t. How do you define success for yourself now with where you’re at in life?
Rutten: That’s a big one. How do you define success. Whatever you love to do if you can make that your profession I would say that is it. Reaching your goal of what you really want to do in life, what makes you happy. If you can make that into - there is this saying that if you - how does it say? If you make your hobby your profession you never go a day to work. That’s it. That’s what people say. But I think you have to choose it for the right reason. When you want to do something because money or fame is attached to it that’s great but if you don’t love it you’re not really going to commit.
That’s what I always tell the people in school. You excel at the things that you like and you don’t excel at the things that you don’t like so pick something that you love to do. It’s not all about fame and money. it’s about being a good person to others and just doing what you need to do because that you can take to your grave. That is fame for me.
People say “Bas Rutten? Oh he was a nice guy, helped everybody, was always on top of his things,” after they do a whole list about my persona and how I helped people and what I tried to do and then at the end they might say “oh you know what he could kick some ass too.” The most important to me is to be there for other people and to help. If you find something that you really love to do and you can excel at that that is the definition of success to me.
Cain: Love that. That’s fantastic. Thanks for that. I’ve only got two more questions here for you Bas. The next question is what is the difference between you had a chance to fight in the UFC and fight in Pancrase and you also had a professional wrestling career. Like Brock Lesnar you both held the UFC Heavyweight Championship. What is the difference as an athlete in MMA and also in going into pro wrestling?
Rutten: Thankfully I did it in Japan and in Japan they call it “strong style” and that means they use real submission moves. You know beforehand of course who is going to win. I could never do this here in America. It’s a different style. I don’t know this style because it’s not close to being real for me. In Japan - well it’s all real moves that everybody uses so then it’s great.
What I did realize though is that I had way more injuries in pro wrestling than I did in real fighting. The reason is very simple, you let yourself get hit - something that I did not do in fighting. If you don’t treat it as a real fight it’s like - how do I say that? If you don’t show respect to a small weight - all the problems in the gym always happen with small weights. Why? Because people don’t respect it. If it’s a heavy weight now you watch your posture and you watch everything perfect. But if you pick up a little five pound weight and you do it a little wrong by you don’t squat your legs and bop something suddenly happens.
That’s the same in pro wrestling. If you don’t respect it - let me tell you these guys here and over there in Japan also, the falls they make are real falls, trust me. People break their leg all the time, they have injuries all the time, because they do it 200-220 times a year. They just travel to the next show on a daily basis. Oh now my knee is hurt from the fight. Well guess what you’re going to have to do ten more in these next two weeks then you’re going to have a five day break then you’re going to start again. Injury prone, very injury prone.
That’s what happened with me. The first one I broke a disc in my back. without surgery they healed it. Then I ruptured an eyeball. Somebody had his finger in my eye because I didn’t block it because it was in the script (so to say) that he was going to hit me in the face. The third one was I ruptured my eardrum. The same thing, an open hand strike to my ear which I didn’t block and my ear drum was broken for 6-7 years. I could not fix it because I was travelling so much and flying so much that they can’t fix it because every time you go up and you put a patch on it (so to say) it will explode again (or have the chance to explode, to open up again) so it was useless. Those were just my first three pro wrestling matches.
My wife actually told me “why don’t you go back to real fighting, you have more injuries now than you’ve ever had in real fighting.” That I would say is the biggest difference. But then again real fighting you have to really commit and you didn’t have to do it in pro wrestling. You can get by with just your basic shape, something that you cannot do in real fighting. You always have to push. My big rule is you can never have enough stamina in Mixed Martial Arts or any fighting for that matter.
Cain: Awesome. Bas, I just realized that you are also a culinary chef. Is that something that you go to to kind of help you escape the pressure and the competitiveness of MMA? Where did you get turned on to culinary chef?
Rutten: That was my thing when I was a kid. I wanted to become a culinary chef. It was from like 6-10 then it went away and suddenly it came back around 17 and I went to culinary school. Then I started working at 20-21. I started working in kitchens. One thing led to another. I had a fall out with one of the cooks who was also the owner who I helped for like two years I worked there.
 
I was a really good person to him because whatever I commit myself to I really try to do well so I was a good cook. I could do - literally my record was 42 people in one night that I did by myself. This is appetizers, main courses, and I would get them. Not at the same time of course. A table of three there. Four there. Three. I would take pride in that to see how many people I could do by myself.
Then there was one day that - on a Tuesday for instance never were there more than eight people that came in. So I would prepare for 25 people just to make sure. Put the mise en place, that’s how they call it in French, that is the preparation for all the sauces that you have at the ready - the basic sauces because from a basic sauce you can make all these other sauces. There are a whole bunch of things that you have to prepare. For some reason that day like 30 people can in so I ran out of the preparation that I had.
I ran inside the house which is where the head cook lived (the chef cook and he was a boss as well) and he started yelling at me in the kitchen. I said “listen let’s stop yelling, let’s take care of these people first, and once we take care of these people you can start yelling at me and tell me what I did wrong.” “NO!” and he kept screaming at me. I said “dude we’ve got to do business here” and he kept on going. He said “you do whatever I tell you to do” and I said “that is actually not the case.” He grabbed a big bowl of butter and he said “if I throw this on the ground and I tell you to clean it up you’re going to clean it up.”  So I walked over to him, I hit the bowl of butter out of his hand, and I said “ask me.” That was the last day I worked. It was already the time also that I found martial arts so then I went away.
I was heartbroken because of it. I did so much for that person and for them to treat me like that - he was paging me (there were pagers at the time) but I didn’t react anymore. I said “no that was not cool.” I tried to save it but that was it. I don’t even know why this story came up. It’s probably fresh in my head and still aggravating me.
But yes, at home I like to cook. I like to do little things. I like to have friends over sometimes and then surprise them with a nice little appetizer, a nice bouillon that I made for three days. I made it very strong, a very nice one, and a good appetizer. Then the main course and I wrap it up with a great dessert homemade by Bas. That’s kind of cool. Most of them don’t know - well all my good friends know but if you have friends who don’t know it that’s kind of cool because they go “you did this” and then they realize that was actually my profession.
Cain: That’s unbelievable. I never knew that. unbelievable. A friend of mine who is one of the top coaches in the country, Joe Amplo at Marquette University, he is also a certified chef, certified culinary expert. I’ll tell you what being able to sit down and have some food that he has prepared is unbelievable.
Bas, thank you for taking the time. Our last question here my friend is that if you could remove the skull cap of everybody listening to this - again out audience is coaches, athletes, people that you are. You’re talking to yourself. If you could plant one seed inside of their head about something that you know now with the life experience that you’ve had that you wish you knew when you were younger, that if that seed would germinate and they would do it and it would improve their life what would that seed be?
Rutten: This is a thing I use. I have no clue who said it. It’s one line and I tell everybody it and that should straighten everybody out. Just say “how do you want to be remembered.” Just tell that person “how do you want to be remembered.” If you catch the person at the time that he is drunk and crazy then go “do you want to be remembered like that.” If you’re a fighter or an athlete (let’s say a fighter) do you want to be remembered as the guy who was cheating? Who had a lot of talent but never really trained hard so that’s why you lost? Or do you want to be remembered as a good fighter? Even when you don’t become a champion that guy that every champion is afraid of even because they know that if they go to step in with you they’re going to have a hard time. This guy is always on.
That is a big question in everything you do. How do you want to be remembered when you’re dead and people are talking about you? Then you can make your decision. if you decide to stay partying well that’s how they’re going to remember you. If you think that’s cool - “that guy had a great brain but he threw his life away at partying,” I think that’s a stupid thing to write on a tombstone. So hopefully most of the time that straightens people out.
Cain: So I have to ask you how do you want to be remembered?
Rutten: I kind of mentioned on that. I want to be remembered as the guy who was a good guy, who would hold doors open for people. If an older person comes on the bus and there’s no space I will be the guy who stands up right away. I’ve been shouting to youngsters saying “get up there is a whole group of old people coming, your parents didn’t tell you anything?” I’m the guy who always tries to save everybody.
If people do something stupid in traffic and they start flipping me off and then suddenly they challenge me I go out and I always put my hands up and say “guys” - because once I step out they realize they made a mistake - but I go “no I just want to talk to you” and then I explain to them what was going on. I say “why on earth would you be so angry?” I always explain it to them and all of them 100% always go “yeah that was kind of stupid.” I say “I know, next time just think about you don’t know situations from people.”
 
People cutting off on the right, the left, and they’re flying through traffic. Yeah 90% of the time it’s just an A-hole, it’s just a bad person, I don’t like it. but I guarantee you there is that 10% chance that maybe somebody in a car there has a delivery, the baby is almost coming. That could be the reason he is speeding up. Until you don’t know exactly what goes on you shouldn’t judge. Once you start living like that I think you’re a good person. That is how I want to be remembered.
People say “yeah he was a good dude, he helped people.” The emails I get from people who have kids or the kids who are emailing me who have the skin disease, who have the asthma, it’s an insane amount but I always make time and I always make sure that I answer them because it’s going to help them. If you can do that and then at the end like I said before they’ll say “you know what he was actually a pretty good fighter as well.” I think the most important thing is being a decent person to humanity. Do your part in humanity (I always say) then do the rest.
Cain: I love it. Bas Rutten, you’re off the hot seat my friend. Thank you so much for taking the time to be a guest on the Peak Performance Podcast. So much good stuff that you just gave to our listeners. I love that question of how do you want to be remembered. As you’re saying that I’m sitting here just taking notes and that is a question that I think our listeners have to go ask themselves.
 
With every podcast I try to summarize with what I think the number one take home was and I’m not sure I’m going to be able to do it with this podcast because there was so much great stuff. I would encourage our listeners to start with how do you want to be remembered. And make sure you go over to www.BasRutten.com, check out his podcast, also follow him on Twitter @BasRuttenMMA. Bas, thank you so much. I can’t thank you enough.
Rutten: Godspeed Brian. I appreciate it. I loved it. Thank you very much.]]>
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      <description>In this episode, Brian talks with Mixed Martial Arts fighter Charlie "The Spaniard" Brenneman and his remarkable story going from working his dream job as a Spanish teacher, to winning UFC fights in the Octagon.
Follow Charlie on Twitter @SpaniardMMA
Follow Charlie on Instagram @MMASpaniard
Check out his website Charlie-Brenneman.com
You will learn about...
Charlie's journey going from Spanish teacher to UFC fighter
Charlie's 5 Elements of Excellence that have lead him to great success
Charlie's AM and PM routines
Charlie's daily video posted on Facebook and YouTube where he shares knowledge from the book he is reading that day
How you can have Charlie come speak to your team or school
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Brenneman: That result is there. We want it, we want it, we want it. But just above that - slightly more important than that - is the process, is the pursuit of that goal not the attainment of that goal.
Cain: This is Brian Cain with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest, Charlie “The Spaniard” Brenneman, has not only fought the who’s-who in the Mixed Martial Arts world as a UFC veteran but he is also a former high school teacher. Charlie has a fascinating story that has come out with his book Driven: My Unlikely Journey from Classroom To Cage. Charlie, I’m just fired up to have you on. Thanks for making the time to be a part of the Peak Performance Podcast.
Brenneman: It’s my pleasure to be here. I love talking to likeminded people and you’re one of them so I’m happy to be here.
Cain: Well Charlie if you would for our listeners they probably have seen you in the cage. They’ve seen you with the who’s-who in the UFC from Johny Hendricks and Anthony “Rumble” Johnson. What they probably don’t know is your story up until that point in the UFC. Could you give kind of a quick snapshot of your career as a high school/college athlete, into teaching, and then what kind of got you into MMA?
Brenneman: I’m from central Pennsylvania. I grew up in a small town. I’m a wrestler. Even today when I speak one of my lines is “I’m a wrestler who learned to fight.” That is basically what I did. The sport of wrestling taught me mental toughness, it taught me mindset, it taught me discipline, sacrifice. Those are the things that I carried up with me through high school. I would always come close to achieving my goals but I would fall short. I started to keep track and understand that the reason I was falling short was because I ultimately lacked the self confidence at the highest level.
I ended up losing a state title two years in a row in high school. I took my athletic career into wrestling and for my first four years of my collegiate wrestling I red shirted a year. I completely underperformed. The last year it was like I had a mental breakthrough that really changed my last year, it changed the trajectory of my future. I ended up capping off my college career in a great way. I still felt short of my goal but I finished in a round of twelve at Division One Nationals. Then I thought it was all done. I thought all that discipline and sacrifice was over. I was ready to go home. I was ready to get fat and sit on the couch.
After about a year of doing that I realized that I needed something. I needed to compete again. Around that time the sport of Mixed Martial Arts was starting to come to the forefront and started to kind of make a little bit of progress in the mainstream. Then literally one day I decided I’m going to leave my Spanish teaching position and I’m going to be a UFC fighter.
Up until two years ago it’ll be my last fight but I spent the last decade training with, competing against, fighting, beating, losing to, the biggest baddest toughest fighters in the world. I came from a small town, became a teacher, then fighting, and now I’m on the other side of it where I’m kind of taking everything I learned, condensing it, and delivering it through speaking and mentoring.
Cain: I know we just kind of got off of a good discussion before we got onto the podcast. What are some of the key principles that when you’re going in to speak to a school or you’re going in to work with a team what are some of the key principles - basically your framework, Charlie, that you share with them that made you successful that you know if they would adopt and they’ll heed to you teachings you know that they’ll be more successful. What are some of those key principles or key concepts within your framework?
Brenneman: So what I did when I had my last fight and I thought “what am I going to do,” the first thing I did was I sat down and I literally wrote a book. I had had so many questions about I left my job, I got called crazy, I got called stupid, I got called all kinds of things because it was against the norm. So I sat down and I wrote a book about it. I’m a note taker and I’m a writer so I condensed all of the notes, the principles, the things that I’ve recorded over the years and I boiled them down into five what I call “elements of excellence.” Those things together create a fighter’s mindset.
When you’re talking about a fighter’s mindset you think of the best fighters in the world. There is this resilience and perseverance and mental toughness and discipline - all these things. But the five things that I really focus on is the idea of a vision, knowing where you want to go, always having that North Star.
The next thing is your core values whether it’s in your personal life, whether it’s in your athletic life, your professional life. I read a lot of books and so many of them focus on this idea of core values, knowing who you truly are and being that person in competition.
The next one is defining success. To me that took me a lifetime of winning and losing. That took me a lifetime of competing to really truly appreciate the process versus the outcome.
The fourth one is living with accountability. To me accountability - when I decided to leave my teaching position and I decided to literally drive into the unknown, this unknown world, it was all on me. It was on my shoulders. I had no paycheck. I had no leads. I had to create it. So that idea of accountability, (as Jocko Willink in Extreme Ownership says) assuming extreme ownership in everything you do and say.
Then the last part - I don’t want to say the most powerful, but - is the idea of surrounding yourself with the best every day. Even today in my life connecting with you, connecting with other speakers and mentors and podcasters, I’m obsessed with surrounding myself with the best. Looking at the best in the world then literally trying to talk to them. The first two guys I communicated with in Mixed Martial Arts were Eddie Alvarez and Frankie Edgar. Eddie is the current UFC Champion. Frankie is one of the best in history. So I believe in the power of influence.
Those five elements are kind of my keys to living with a fighter’s mindset.
Cain: I love that. I think you hit the nail right on the head and as it ties back with what a lot of our listeners have gone through and are familiar with some of the work that I’ve done with the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance and in talking about vision and values (that’s Pillar #2) and kind of defining your success is that process. The process over the outcome. Then surrounding yourself with the best. As we say you become the average of the five people that you hang out with most.
In one of the books that you mentioned from Jocko Willink about extreme ownership, one of the top reads (I think) from people in our Inner Circle and people that are going to be listening to this podcast. I’m assuming you’ve seen his video where he talks about good and making adversity your advantage. What are some of the other best books that you’ve read that have had the biggest impact on your mindset?
Brenneman: I literally read every morning. It’s one of the things I started doing 42 days ago. I read every morning. I’ve been reading for years and years and one of the things I’ve been doing is making a daily video summarizing and applying what I have read that day to everyday life. There are 100 books I could say.
 
Some of the coolest recent ones that I’ve read, The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday. It talks about using adversity to your advantage. Certainly The Obstacle Is The Way. Start With Why by Simon Sinek which just really gets back to kind of along the lines of your values. Figure out what’s your purpose. Why do I get up every morning at 4:30? Why do I still do treadmill sprint workouts when I have no fight? Really getting to the core of that.
 
I’ll give you a third one. The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson talks about small consistent actions repeated over a long period of time resulting in giant results. Those are three of the top ones. Reading is a habit that I would encourage everyone to get into.
Cain: Those are definitely four books that are in my library and four books that I think many of our listeners have gone through. It’s funny, The Slight Edge is a book that was given to SMU’s athletic director, Rick Hart, gave that book to all of their coaches. Then The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday, he’s got another book The Ego Is The Enemy that the TCU athletic director gave to all of their coaches. So you’re reading books, Charlie, that are right up there with our audience.
The videos that you make, is that something that you put out on social media and  something that our listeners could follow along as well so they could kind of learn through what they’re learning?
Brenneman: Absolutely. I’m glad that you mentioned that. I do Facebook Live. I tested it out a little with Periscope, a little with Facebook Live, and I seem to get the most views on Facebook Live. From there I upload them to YouTube so you can subscribe to me on YouTube to get them on a daily basis or you can follow me on my personal page, Charlie Brenneman, or my business page, Charlie “The Spaniard” Brenneman.
Every morning 5:30 I’m there with a smile on my face kind of reciting. I feel kind of weird because I’ve been an athlete, I’ve been a fighter, that’s what I do, but I get so amped up about reading and learning and just pushing it out. So yeah I put them out every day on my social media.
Cain: I love it. So your social media. The best place for people to follow you. What is your Twitter handle?
Brenneman: @SpaniardMMA. My website www.Charlie-Brenneman.com has all of my links in the upper right-hand corner. I’m SpaniardMMA across the board. Instagram I’m MMASpaniard because I can’t get SpaniardMMA so that is the only hiccup.
Cain: Then your YouTube channel is SpaniardMMA?
Brenneman: Yep. If you just search Charlie Brenneman or SpaniardMMA on YouTube it will come up.
Cain: Awesome. I think that would be something that our listeners definitely will want to follow. I didn’t realize you did that so that is going to be something I go and get on for sure and check those out in the morning. You talk about getting up every morning and doing a video at 5:30. You sound like you’re a machine of routine. Tell us about your morning routine and kind of what you do on a daily basis.
Brenneman: This is something for the listeners out there. I’m a fan of Gary Vaynerchuk who - you can call him an internet marketer, entrepreneur, he’s a lot of things. One of the things that I learned from him - actually I didn’t learn it from him. I felt comfortable because I heard him reaffirm it, this idea of trying a bunch of different things.
The very first person who turned me on to this idea of a morning routine is Hal Elrod in The Miracle Morning. Since then I’ve tried maybe 10-20 different routines in the morning. For me basically it’s simple. My alarm is set for 4:30 every morning. I get up early every morning. On Sundays I sleep in till a whopping 6:00 or 6:30. There is really only two things: I drink 32 ounces of water basically right out of the gate and I read for at least 30 minutes a day. Those two things when it’s completely quiet, when the bids aren’t even chirping, it’s dark, I’m sitting here with water, a coffee, and my book. If I can get that in my day then that puts me up in the right direction.
Cain: Hal Elrod, one of my favorite books The Miracle Morning where he talks about the acronym SAVERS. The first S is silence, the A if affirmation (so positive), the V is visualization, the E is exercise, the R is that you read, and the last S is that you scribe and you write and you actually do that without knowing and putting it to the SAVERS acronym that Hal talks about in The Miracle Morning. You’re actually doing that on a daily basis. Maybe instead of writing you’re speaking into your video and putting it out there for others which is probably a more easier digestible way for people to learn these days. But I love that morning routine.
What about your PM routine? Do you have a shutdown routine at the end of the day to help you kind of log off and get more dialed in with your family?
Brenneman: We just had a son three weeks ago and I have a daughter that is three years old. Where I’m at in this phase of my life I’m probably done fighting for several different reasons. I realize it’s like the work is there, the tasks are there, and I could literally work every hour of every day. This is a transition period for me and my wife. We’ve seen in the last decade when it went from teaching to fighting and fighting now into speaking and mentoring that these different transition phases - and they’re tough. For any goal driven person in a relationship who has a family it’s tough. It’s not easy.
What we’ve done is develop - that’s partially the reason I get up at 4:30 in the morning, so I have the time to do the things I need to do. But I really - we’re recording now in the PM and this is an anomaly. I normally shut off by - I’m done with my workout by 5:30 and then it’s all family. Just because if I didn’t draw that hard line it would go on forever. Mixing that business and family time is just not a winner in our home.
Cain: That one hit me pretty hard as I’m sitting here on a cruise and I’m looking at my wife who is sitting out on the balcony waiting for me to get done doing work so that I can take her to dinner. I think you hit the nail on the head.
For the coaches that are listening to this you’ve got to have that hard shutdown routine. You’ve got to have that time in your day where you said “hey what’s done is done and what’s not done can be put off until tomorrow” because if you don’t draw that hard line you’re right, you could literally work 24 hours in a day when you’re uber motivated and a guy who is excited to go out there and make a difference which our listeners are. So I think I they can start to learn about that shutdown routine as well. That’s going to be important.
Now when you shut down at 5:30 after that workout are you done with technology and you’re turning off the computer and the email and the cell phone and all that so you can engage? Or do you still have that digital distraction sometimes?
Brenneman: Yeah I’m not going to sit here and say I’m perfect by any means. But no, my objective is to - I actually am up in my office right now (it’s on the third floor of my house) and I leave my computer up here because what I’ve found is that when I would bring my computer downstairs I would be tempted. If my wife went in to get something to eat or to fix something to eat I’d be tempted to hop on my computer and check my email real quick. So by leaving it up here in the attic it’s kind of the idea of if you don’t want to eat junk food don’t keep it in your cupboards. It’s that same idea. If I don’t want to be on my computer I should leave it upstairs. So I do that.
My cell phone, I’ve flirted with some different strategies here and there but it’s in my pocket but I’ve done a good enough job - and I know this from my wife saying “you know what you’ve done a really great job in the last couple months of staying off your cell phone after hours.” The computer is the hard up in the attic. The cell phone is just in awareness that I’m aware of how much I’m on it.
Cain: Love it. That’s awesome. That’s great advice for everybody. Charlie, if we can let’s go back to your I think you call them your five “elements of excellence?” Is that right?
Brenneman: Yep.
Cain: And with the five elements of excellence - vision, core values, defining success, living with accountability, and surrounding yourself with the best - how do you define success for yourself?
Brenneman: Whenever you’re explaining it you kind of mention the process. What happened to me is from a young age, honestly from the earliest I can remember I was dead set on getting straight As and I was dead set on winning a state championship in wrestling. Those were my goals. I would achieve those goals often but I would fall short of those goals almost as often. One of the things I tell coaches and parents as often as I can is expose your kids - both your real kids and your athletes - expose them to winning and losing as often as possible. That builds resilience and that builds mental fortitude.
What I learned - honestly the heartbreak of losing two state titles, especially the second one, in high school. I was an 18 year old kid and you would think as a 35 year old man who experienced all this other stuff in the last 15 years those two nights I can’t think of a more painful athletic night than those two nights. I still kept going. I still kept moving forward, keeping my values, having that vision clear of who and what I wanted to be. But it wasn’t until I was fighting.
You see in UFC you fight but every 3-5 months. So what would happen is I would win a fight, I would come home and I would feel like a million bucks. That was great, I had money, this and that. But then if I lost I would come home and just feel like absolute garbage. Like absolute terrible garbage. Everything was terrible. Then after that happening 3, 4, 5 times I started to - honestly it was like I just got fed up with it and I thought “there has to be another way to do this because this is not worth it, this up and down is not worth being a professional fighter.” Then it was like one day it clicked and it was like “wait a minute that’s silly” to judge my self worth, to judge my feeling, to judge my mental state on the winning and the losing is wrong. I truly believe it’s wrong.
That’s where it goes back to the process that you mentioned and Nick Saban mentions it. The idea of defining success to me - and whether you want to quote John Wooden also - is the process. Putting in the work on a daily, on an hourly, on a minute basis to produce that result in the end. That result is there. We want it, we want it, we want it. But just above that - slightly more important than that - is the process, is the pursuit of that goal not the attainment of that goal.
Cain: I love that. You just mentioned two of the greatest coaches of all time (I think) in Saban and Wooden. Wooden, since we mentioned books and I’m keeping a list of your books that you mentioned here which we’ll put out in the notes with this episode, is one of John Wooden’s books A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On And Off the Court. It’s a little blue book. it’s fantastic.
Brenneman: Yep. Blue and yellow.
Cain: Yeah you got it. Then Nick Saban’s book How Good Do You Want to Be I think is one of the best that I’ve ever read as well. The one I have has this cover of him at LSU on it. I know the new one has him in Alabama. So he talked about the process and I think you’re so spot on with that. What about your core values?
Brenneman: I was going to say another just little caveat I wanted to throw in there is this idea of excellence. Honestly when I started this pursuit (speaking and mentoring etc.) the term “excellence,” (“elements of excellence” hence the Elements of Excellence) that word really stuck to me. That stuck with me. As a kid my parents taught me, one, do the best you can in everything you do, and two, inspire other people to do the same. It was like those were kind f the two things that I thought were normal. I thought “oh yes every person does their best and every person inspires other people.” I just thought that was normal. This standard of excellence I’ve carried with me in my life.
None of us are perfect. I’ve done less than perfect things and haven’t maintained that standard. But I believe in operating with a mindset of excellence on a daily basis. It’s like you know the cliché you shoot for the stars, you miss, you still land hot. If your objective, if your mission is excellence you’re going to be good across the board no matter what. I really want to stress and emphasize the importance of setting your bar at excellence.
Cain: I love that. Skip Bertman, who was the baseball coach at LSU for a number of years, I had a dream come true and got a chance to do a book with him within the last year. One of the things that Skip talked about is he says there are three doors you can go through. You can go through the door of win, you can go through the door of loss, or you can go through the door of excellence. Excellence is bigger than winning. Sometimes you can give an excellent performance and not win. I’m sure in the octagon you’ve had those fights where you’ve gone out there and fought great and fought the way you wanted to and because of the judges or because the other guy was just a little bit better that night it didn’t go the way you wanted it to.
But I think that happens in athletics all the time is that the process doesn’t always lead to the result but the process does give you the best chance to get the result. I think if you’re committed to excellence and being the best that you possibly can be and have that growth mindset you’re going to be able to achieve a lot more over the marathon than the person who is focused on win-loss. Would you agree?
Brenneman: Absolutely. 100%. The process versus the achievement or the process versus the outcome, yeah, it’s - and I’m not saying this to make myself feel better because I lost three fights in a row to end my career. I’m not saying this to make the listeners feel good about themselves because they lost and they need a pat on the back. I’m saying this because it’s tried and true from experience. This is what I learned. This is what the most successful people in the world have learned. If you’re not going to take it from me take it from Saban, take it from Wooden, take it from all of these other people who say the same thing.
Cain: No question. We use a term a lot that says “success leaves clues.” You’ve reaffirmed and (I think) brought to the table a lot of the same concludes that we try to teach and that coaches try to teach. But coaches that are listening to this and myself, I’ve never stepped in the octagon. I’ve been on either side of the octagon - fence, corner, and some guys - but you’ve been in there with the who’s-who of MMA.
For the coaches or the teachers or the athletic directors listening to this if they wanted to bring you in to deliver your message on the five elements of excellence and talk about the importance of vision, talk about core values and knowing who you are, redefining success as it relates to the process and the pursuit of excellence, being more accountable (which I know every coach has issues with trying to grow accountability in their program), and then talking about that surrounding yourself with the best and you becoming one of those people that those coaches associate with, what is the best way for people to get a hold of you and do you go in and speak to schools and do you go in and work with athletes and programs? Talk a little bit more about that process and how they can get you and what you do when you go in there.
Brenneman: I appreciate that. absolutely that is what I do. If you go to my website www.Charlie-Brenneman.com it’s very simple to navigate. There is a contact tab up top. Contact me. Speaking events, workshops, mentoring, it’s right there for you to clearly define why you’re making contact.
Honestly one of the more enjoyable things I do is these workshops, these fighter’s mindset workshops. There are six one hour sessions. I take them through the elements of excellence. I cap it off with a leadership session. It works great with coaches and it works great with athletes.
One of the things I’ve learned from experience and I’ve heard said across the board is these success principles, these fighter mindset principles, they’re going to work for you in high school athletics, they’re going to work for you in college athletics, they’re going to work for you in a coaching position, in a professional position, they’re success principles that don’t falter. They work across the board.
It’s awesome. For much of my life I was the guy in the fire. I was the guy in the octagon. I was the guy on TV. And I loved it, trust me. It was awesome. I loved every second of it. But now that I’m able to kind of 10x, 20x, 1,000x, 1,000,000x that into affecting people around me - I don’t want to say it’s more enjoyable but it’s just slowly becoming more enjoyable.
Cain: I think they say that the true measure of a man’s life is the positive impact that he’s had on others. You have a positive impact through inspiration. When you’re in the cage and you’re fighting it’s entertaining but I think you being able to take your experience, Charlie, of what you’ve done and what you’ve learned through that journey of being an elite MMA warrior and a guy who has fought the best of the best. You are in there with a UFC World Champion and Johny Hendricks. You are in there with Anthony Johnson who I think was a World Champion as well?
Brenneman: He was almost. He still might be. Well first of all I fought him at 170 lbs. Now he’s at 205 lbs. So he’s the number one contender at 205.
Cain: I remember the days of him and his weight class changing. He’s probably at his natural weight now of 205. I can only imagine how much of a beast he was at 170.
But being able to have gone through and done that and now being able to take what you’ve learned from all the punches and the trials and tribulations and now being able to decipher that into the five elements of excellence and share that with young people who are in the pursuit of excellence (and for coaches who are trying to support their young people in pursuit of excellence) I think is fantastic. The beauty of just getting to know you a little bit here on the podcast today and in our time before is you were also a high school teacher and you are able to communicate that and you can communicate it in Spanish. It’s something that I think is very unique.
I will say having spent a lot of time in MMA there is not a lot of UFC fighters that I’d be comfortable with having been a former athletic director rolling them out in front of my coaches or rolling them out in front of my students because some of them - the full student body that would be non athletes - and having you go out there to talk about the five elements of excellence, that fits across the board. And the fact that you have been in a classroom and are comfortable in that setting and know what is appropriate to do with high school student athletes and high school students I think makes you at least at the top of my list of people that I would bring in to speak to my student athletes and coaches if I were still a high school athletic director.
So Charlie, I’m fired up to have had the opportunity to get to know you. I appreciate you making time. I apologize for keeping you past 5:30 so please apologize to your wife for me.
Brenneman: No worries.
Cain: For all of our listeners again you want to follow him at @SpaniardMMA on YouTube, SpaniardMMA, and go to www.Charlie-Brenneman.com. Looking forward to getting you back on here as a repeat guest. This is one of my favorite podcasts we’ve done and it’s exciting for me personally having watched you fight and compete in the cage as much as I have to be able to get you on a podcast here. It’s very impressive to get to meet the guy who was inside of the cage. Pretty cool.
Brenneman: I appreciate it. One more thing I don’t think I mentioned at all is my podcast The Fighter’s Mindset: The Spaniard Podcast. What I do is I dive deep into - it’s called A Fighter’s Mindset and to be honest I was debating whether to call it that because it’s not about fighting. It’s about applying the mindset, a fighter’s mindset, to everyday life whether it’s competition in sports, competition in life, being a better father, you name it. It’s those ideas - self confidence, perseverance, resilience - all those things that make us successful inside the octagon, translating that into sports and other areas of life. You can also find that on the podcast page on my website or check us out on iTunes at A Fighter’s Mindset: The Spaniard Podcast.
Cain: Fantastic. I’m fired up. I’m going to get on the bike tomorrow morning and pound it out as I’m training for an Iron Man coming up here and I’m going to listen to episodes on there.
Brenneman: Nice.
Cain: Yeah I don’t know how nice it is. It’s a pain in the ass really.
Brenneman: I hear you.
Cain: But it’s just something you set a goal and you want to go do it and it’s something I’m not sure I can finish so we’re going to find out here. But I’m going to work the process and give myself the best chance for success and that’s all I can ask. I believe that if I do that I’ll cross the finish line. I think if you keep sticking to the process and doing what you’re doing you’re going to have a tremendous impact and influence on a lot of people’s lives out there.
Charlie, thanks for your humility, thanks for your commitment to excellence, and thanks for being a guest on the Peak Performance Podcast.
Brenneman: My pleasure. I want to throw this last thing out there. I am not okay with having fought the best guys in the world. I wanted to beat them. I wanted to win a world championship but I didn’t. That fire and that passion is coming out of me and I’m instilling it in other people. That is what’s driving me every morning to get up at 4:30 and to keep doing these sprint workouts is to share that with the up and coming group of kids and coaches that still have that opportunity.
Cain: Wow I hate to say this but I guess I’m thankful for the fact that you never got the chance to put the UFC Gold around your waist because if you weren’t on the mission that you’re on right now I don’t think you would have impacted as many people’s lives as you’re going to. So maybe the best thing that never happened to you was winning a UFC title because you are going to influence and impact a hell of a lot more people by what you’re doing now (I think) than you would if you were still in the cage my friend.
Brenneman: The obstacle is the way. Let’s end it with that.</description>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Brian talks with Mixed Martial Arts fighter Charlie "The Spaniard" Brenneman and his remarkable story going from working his dream job as a Spanish teacher, to winning UFC fights in the Octagon.
Follow Charlie on Twitter @SpaniardMMA
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode, Brian talks with Mixed Martial Arts fighter Charlie "The Spaniard" Brenneman and his remarkable story going from working his dream job as a Spanish teacher, to winning UFC fights in the Octagon.
Follow Charlie on Twitter @SpaniardMMA
Follow Charlie on Instagram @MMASpaniard
Check out his website Charlie-Brenneman.com
You will learn about...
Charlie's journey going from Spanish teacher to UFC fighter
Charlie's 5 Elements of Excellence that have lead him to great success
Charlie's AM and PM routines
Charlie's daily video posted on Facebook and YouTube where he shares knowledge from the book he is reading that day
How you can have Charlie come speak to your team or school
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Brenneman: That result is there. We want it, we want it, we want it. But just above that - slightly more important than that - is the process, is the pursuit of that goal not the attainment of that goal.
Cain: This is Brian Cain with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest, Charlie “The Spaniard” Brenneman, has not only fought the who’s-who in the Mixed Martial Arts world as a UFC veteran but he is also a former high school teacher. Charlie has a fascinating story that has come out with his book Driven: My Unlikely Journey from Classroom To Cage. Charlie, I’m just fired up to have you on. Thanks for making the time to be a part of the Peak Performance Podcast.
Brenneman: It’s my pleasure to be here. I love talking to likeminded people and you’re one of them so I’m happy to be here.
Cain: Well Charlie if you would for our listeners they probably have seen you in the cage. They’ve seen you with the who’s-who in the UFC from Johny Hendricks and Anthony “Rumble” Johnson. What they probably don’t know is your story up until that point in the UFC. Could you give kind of a quick snapshot of your career as a high school/college athlete, into teaching, and then what kind of got you into MMA?
Brenneman: I’m from central Pennsylvania. I grew up in a small town. I’m a wrestler. Even today when I speak one of my lines is “I’m a wrestler who learned to fight.” That is basically what I did. The sport of wrestling taught me mental toughness, it taught me mindset, it taught me discipline, sacrifice. Those are the things that I carried up with me through high school. I would always come close to achieving my goals but I would fall short. I started to keep track and understand that the reason I was falling short was because I ultimately lacked the self confidence at the highest level.
I ended up losing a state title two years in a row in high school. I took my athletic career into wrestling and for my first four years of my collegiate wrestling I red shirted a year. I completely underperformed. The last year it was like I had a mental breakthrough that really changed my last year, it changed the trajectory of my future. I ended up capping off my college career in a great way. I still felt short of my goal but I finished in a round of twelve at Division One Nationals. Then I thought it was all done. I thought all that discipline and sacrifice was over. I was ready to go home. I was ready to get fat and sit on the couch.
After about a year of doing that I realized that I needed something. I needed to compete again. Around that time the sport of Mixed Martial Arts was starting to come to the forefront and started to kind of make a little bit of progress in the mainstream. Then literally one day I decided I’m going to leave my Spanish teaching position and I’m going to be a UFC fighter.
Up until two years ago it’ll be my last fight but I spent the last decade training with, competing against, fighting, beating, losing to, the biggest baddest toughest fighters in the world. I came from a small town, became a teacher, then fighting, and now I’m on the other side of it where I’m kind of taking everything I learned, condensing it, and delivering it through speaking and mentoring.
Cain: I know we just kind of got off of a good discussion before we got onto the podcast. What are some of the key principles that when you’re going in to speak to a school or you’re going in to work with a team what are some of the key principles - basically your framework, Charlie, that you share with them that made you successful that you know if they would adopt and they’ll heed to you teachings you know that they’ll be more successful. What are some of those key principles or key concepts within your framework?
Brenneman: So what I did when I had my last fight and I thought “what am I going to do,” the first thing I did was I sat down and I literally wrote a book. I had had so many questions about I left my job, I got called crazy, I got called stupid, I got called all kinds of things because it was against the norm. So I sat down and I wrote a book about it. I’m a note taker and I’m a writer so I condensed all of the notes, the principles, the things that I’ve recorded over the years and I boiled them down into five what I call “elements of excellence.” Those things together create a fighter’s mindset.
When you’re talking about a fighter’s mindset you think of the best fighters in the world. There is this resilience and perseverance and mental toughness and discipline - all these things. But the five things that I really focus on is the idea of a vision, knowing where you want to go, always having that North Star.
The next thing is your core values whether it’s in your personal life, whether it’s in your athletic life, your professional life. I read a lot of books and so many of them focus on this idea of core values, knowing who you truly are and being that person in competition.
The next one is defining success. To me that took me a lifetime of winning and losing. That took me a lifetime of competing to really truly appreciate the process versus the outcome.
The fourth one is living with accountability. To me accountability - when I decided to leave my teaching position and I decided to literally drive into the unknown, this unknown world, it was all on me. It was on my shoulders. I had no paycheck. I had no leads. I had to create it. So that idea of accountability, (as Jocko Willink in Extreme Ownership says) assuming extreme ownership in everything you do and say.
Then the last part - I don’t want to say the most powerful, but - is the idea of surrounding yourself with the best every day. Even today in my life connecting with you, connecting with other speakers and mentors and podcasters, I’m obsessed with surrounding myself with the best. Looking at the best in the world then literally trying to talk to them. The first two guys I communicated with in Mixed Martial Arts were Eddie Alvarez and Frankie Edgar. Eddie is the current UFC Champion. Frankie is one of the best in history. So I believe in the power of influence.
Those five elements are kind of my keys to living with a fighter’s mindset.
Cain: I love that. I think you hit the nail right on the head and as it ties back with what a lot of our listeners have gone through and are familiar with some of the work that I’ve done with the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance and in talking about vision and values (that’s Pillar #2) and kind of defining your success is that process. The process over the outcome. Then surrounding yourself with the best. As we say you become the average of the five people that you hang out with most.
In one of the books that you mentioned from Jocko Willink about extreme ownership, one of the top reads (I think) from people in our Inner Circle and people that are going to be listening to this podcast. I’m assuming you’ve seen his video where he talks about good and making adversity your advantage. What are some of the other best books that you’ve read that have had the biggest impact on your mindset?
Brenneman: I literally read every morning. It’s one of the things I started doing 42 days ago. I read every morning. I’ve been reading for years and years and one of the things I’ve been doing is making a daily video summarizing and applying what I have read that day to everyday life. There are 100 books I could say.
 
Some of the coolest recent ones that I’ve read, The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday. It talks about using adversity to your advantage. Certainly The Obstacle Is The Way. Start With Why by Simon Sinek which just really gets back to kind of along the lines of your values. Figure out what’s your purpose. Why do I get up every morning at 4:30? Why do I still do treadmill sprint workouts when I have no fight? Really getting to the core of that.
 
I’ll give you a third one. The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson talks about small consistent actions repeated over a long period of time resulting in giant results. Those are three of the top ones. Reading is a habit that I would encourage everyone to get into.
Cain: Those are definitely four books that are in my library and four books that I think many of our listeners have gone through. It’s funny, The Slight Edge is a book that was given to SMU’s athletic director, Rick Hart, gave that book to all of their coaches. Then The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday, he’s got another book The Ego Is The Enemy that the TCU athletic director gave to all of their coaches. So you’re reading books, Charlie, that are right up there with our audience.
The videos that you make, is that something that you put out on social media and  something that our listeners could follow along as well so they could kind of learn through what they’re learning?
Brenneman: Absolutely. I’m glad that you mentioned that. I do Facebook Live. I tested it out a little with Periscope, a little with Facebook Live, and I seem to get the most views on Facebook Live. From there I upload them to YouTube so you can subscribe to me on YouTube to get them on a daily basis or you can follow me on my personal page, Charlie Brenneman, or my business page, Charlie “The Spaniard” Brenneman.
Every morning 5:30 I’m there with a smile on my face kind of reciting. I feel kind of weird because I’ve been an athlete, I’ve been a fighter, that’s what I do, but I get so amped up about reading and learning and just pushing it out. So yeah I put them out every day on my social media.
Cain: I love it. So your social media. The best place for people to follow you. What is your Twitter handle?
Brenneman: @SpaniardMMA. My website www.Charlie-Brenneman.com has all of my links in the upper right-hand corner. I’m SpaniardMMA across the board. Instagram I’m MMASpaniard because I can’t get SpaniardMMA so that is the only hiccup.
Cain: Then your YouTube channel is SpaniardMMA?
Brenneman: Yep. If you just search Charlie Brenneman or SpaniardMMA on YouTube it will come up.
Cain: Awesome. I think that would be something that our listeners definitely will want to follow. I didn’t realize you did that so that is going to be something I go and get on for sure and check those out in the morning. You talk about getting up every morning and doing a video at 5:30. You sound like you’re a machine of routine. Tell us about your morning routine and kind of what you do on a daily basis.
Brenneman: This is something for the listeners out there. I’m a fan of Gary Vaynerchuk who - you can call him an internet marketer, entrepreneur, he’s a lot of things. One of the things that I learned from him - actually I didn’t learn it from him. I felt comfortable because I heard him reaffirm it, this idea of trying a bunch of different things.
The very first person who turned me on to this idea of a morning routine is Hal Elrod in The Miracle Morning. Since then I’ve tried maybe 10-20 different routines in the morning. For me basically it’s simple. My alarm is set for 4:30 every morning. I get up early every morning. On Sundays I sleep in till a whopping 6:00 or 6:30. There is really only two things: I drink 32 ounces of water basically right out of the gate and I read for at least 30 minutes a day. Those two things when it’s completely quiet, when the bids aren’t even chirping, it’s dark, I’m sitting here with water, a coffee, and my book. If I can get that in my day then that puts me up in the right direction.
Cain: Hal Elrod, one of my favorite books The Miracle Morning where he talks about the acronym SAVERS. The first S is silence, the A if affirmation (so positive), the V is visualization, the E is exercise, the R is that you read, and the last S is that you scribe and you write and you actually do that without knowing and putting it to the SAVERS acronym that Hal talks about in The Miracle Morning. You’re actually doing that on a daily basis. Maybe instead of writing you’re speaking into your video and putting it out there for others which is probably a more easier digestible way for people to learn these days. But I love that morning routine.
What about your PM routine? Do you have a shutdown routine at the end of the day to help you kind of log off and get more dialed in with your family?
Brenneman: We just had a son three weeks ago and I have a daughter that is three years old. Where I’m at in this phase of my life I’m probably done fighting for several different reasons. I realize it’s like the work is there, the tasks are there, and I could literally work every hour of every day. This is a transition period for me and my wife. We’ve seen in the last decade when it went from teaching to fighting and fighting now into speaking and mentoring that these different transition phases - and they’re tough. For any goal driven person in a relationship who has a family it’s tough. It’s not easy.
What we’ve done is develop - that’s partially the reason I get up at 4:30 in the morning, so I have the time to do the things I need to do. But I really - we’re recording now in the PM and this is an anomaly. I normally shut off by - I’m done with my workout by 5:30 and then it’s all family. Just because if I didn’t draw that hard line it would go on forever. Mixing that business and family time is just not a winner in our home.
Cain: That one hit me pretty hard as I’m sitting here on a cruise and I’m looking at my wife who is sitting out on the balcony waiting for me to get done doing work so that I can take her to dinner. I think you hit the nail on the head.
For the coaches that are listening to this you’ve got to have that hard shutdown routine. You’ve got to have that time in your day where you said “hey what’s done is done and what’s not done can be put off until tomorrow” because if you don’t draw that hard line you’re right, you could literally work 24 hours in a day when you’re uber motivated and a guy who is excited to go out there and make a difference which our listeners are. So I think I they can start to learn about that shutdown routine as well. That’s going to be important.
Now when you shut down at 5:30 after that workout are you done with technology and you’re turning off the computer and the email and the cell phone and all that so you can engage? Or do you still have that digital distraction sometimes?
Brenneman: Yeah I’m not going to sit here and say I’m perfect by any means. But no, my objective is to - I actually am up in my office right now (it’s on the third floor of my house) and I leave my computer up here because what I’ve found is that when I would bring my computer downstairs I would be tempted. If my wife went in to get something to eat or to fix something to eat I’d be tempted to hop on my computer and check my email real quick. So by leaving it up here in the attic it’s kind of the idea of if you don’t want to eat junk food don’t keep it in your cupboards. It’s that same idea. If I don’t want to be on my computer I should leave it upstairs. So I do that.
My cell phone, I’ve flirted with some different strategies here and there but it’s in my pocket but I’ve done a good enough job - and I know this from my wife saying “you know what you’ve done a really great job in the last couple months of staying off your cell phone after hours.” The computer is the hard up in the attic. The cell phone is just in awareness that I’m aware of how much I’m on it.
Cain: Love it. That’s awesome. That’s great advice for everybody. Charlie, if we can let’s go back to your I think you call them your five “elements of excellence?” Is that right?
Brenneman: Yep.
Cain: And with the five elements of excellence - vision, core values, defining success, living with accountability, and surrounding yourself with the best - how do you define success for yourself?
Brenneman: Whenever you’re explaining it you kind of mention the process. What happened to me is from a young age, honestly from the earliest I can remember I was dead set on getting straight As and I was dead set on winning a state championship in wrestling. Those were my goals. I would achieve those goals often but I would fall short of those goals almost as often. One of the things I tell coaches and parents as often as I can is expose your kids - both your real kids and your athletes - expose them to winning and losing as often as possible. That builds resilience and that builds mental fortitude.
What I learned - honestly the heartbreak of losing two state titles, especially the second one, in high school. I was an 18 year old kid and you would think as a 35 year old man who experienced all this other stuff in the last 15 years those two nights I can’t think of a more painful athletic night than those two nights. I still kept going. I still kept moving forward, keeping my values, having that vision clear of who and what I wanted to be. But it wasn’t until I was fighting.
You see in UFC you fight but every 3-5 months. So what would happen is I would win a fight, I would come home and I would feel like a million bucks. That was great, I had money, this and that. But then if I lost I would come home and just feel like absolute garbage. Like absolute terrible garbage. Everything was terrible. Then after that happening 3, 4, 5 times I started to - honestly it was like I just got fed up with it and I thought “there has to be another way to do this because this is not worth it, this up and down is not worth being a professional fighter.” Then it was like one day it clicked and it was like “wait a minute that’s silly” to judge my self worth, to judge my feeling, to judge my mental state on the winning and the losing is wrong. I truly believe it’s wrong.
That’s where it goes back to the process that you mentioned and Nick Saban mentions it. The idea of defining success to me - and whether you want to quote John Wooden also - is the process. Putting in the work on a daily, on an hourly, on a minute basis to produce that result in the end. That result is there. We want it, we want it, we want it. But just above that - slightly more important than that - is the process, is the pursuit of that goal not the attainment of that goal.
Cain: I love that. You just mentioned two of the greatest coaches of all time (I think) in Saban and Wooden. Wooden, since we mentioned books and I’m keeping a list of your books that you mentioned here which we’ll put out in the notes with this episode, is one of John Wooden’s books A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On And Off the Court. It’s a little blue book. it’s fantastic.
Brenneman: Yep. Blue and yellow.
Cain: Yeah you got it. Then Nick Saban’s book How Good Do You Want to Be I think is one of the best that I’ve ever read as well. The one I have has this cover of him at LSU on it. I know the new one has him in Alabama. So he talked about the process and I think you’re so spot on with that. What about your core values?
Brenneman: I was going to say another just little caveat I wanted to throw in there is this idea of excellence. Honestly when I started this pursuit (speaking and mentoring etc.) the term “excellence,” (“elements of excellence” hence the Elements of Excellence) that word really stuck to me. That stuck with me. As a kid my parents taught me, one, do the best you can in everything you do, and two, inspire other people to do the same. It was like those were kind f the two things that I thought were normal. I thought “oh yes every person does their best and every person inspires other people.” I just thought that was normal. This standard of excellence I’ve carried with me in my life.
None of us are perfect. I’ve done less than perfect things and haven’t maintained that standard. But I believe in operating with a mindset of excellence on a daily basis. It’s like you know the cliché you shoot for the stars, you miss, you still land hot. If your objective, if your mission is excellence you’re going to be good across the board no matter what. I really want to stress and emphasize the importance of setting your bar at excellence.
Cain: I love that. Skip Bertman, who was the baseball coach at LSU for a number of years, I had a dream come true and got a chance to do a book with him within the last year. One of the things that Skip talked about is he says there are three doors you can go through. You can go through the door of win, you can go through the door of loss, or you can go through the door of excellence. Excellence is bigger than winning. Sometimes you can give an excellent performance and not win. I’m sure in the octagon you’ve had those fights where you’ve gone out there and fought great and fought the way you wanted to and because of the judges or because the other guy was just a little bit better that night it didn’t go the way you wanted it to.
But I think that happens in athletics all the time is that the process doesn’t always lead to the result but the process does give you the best chance to get the result. I think if you’re committed to excellence and being the best that you possibly can be and have that growth mindset you’re going to be able to achieve a lot more over the marathon than the person who is focused on win-loss. Would you agree?
Brenneman: Absolutely. 100%. The process versus the achievement or the process versus the outcome, yeah, it’s - and I’m not saying this to make myself feel better because I lost three fights in a row to end my career. I’m not saying this to make the listeners feel good about themselves because they lost and they need a pat on the back. I’m saying this because it’s tried and true from experience. This is what I learned. This is what the most successful people in the world have learned. If you’re not going to take it from me take it from Saban, take it from Wooden, take it from all of these other people who say the same thing.
Cain: No question. We use a term a lot that says “success leaves clues.” You’ve reaffirmed and (I think) brought to the table a lot of the same concludes that we try to teach and that coaches try to teach. But coaches that are listening to this and myself, I’ve never stepped in the octagon. I’ve been on either side of the octagon - fence, corner, and some guys - but you’ve been in there with the who’s-who of MMA.
For the coaches or the teachers or the athletic directors listening to this if they wanted to bring you in to deliver your message on the five elements of excellence and talk about the importance of vision, talk about core values and knowing who you are, redefining success as it relates to the process and the pursuit of excellence, being more accountable (which I know every coach has issues with trying to grow accountability in their program), and then talking about that surrounding yourself with the best and you becoming one of those people that those coaches associate with, what is the best way for people to get a hold of you and do you go in and speak to schools and do you go in and work with athletes and programs? Talk a little bit more about that process and how they can get you and what you do when you go in there.
Brenneman: I appreciate that. absolutely that is what I do. If you go to my website www.Charlie-Brenneman.com it’s very simple to navigate. There is a contact tab up top. Contact me. Speaking events, workshops, mentoring, it’s right there for you to clearly define why you’re making contact.
Honestly one of the more enjoyable things I do is these workshops, these fighter’s mindset workshops. There are six one hour sessions. I take them through the elements of excellence. I cap it off with a leadership session. It works great with coaches and it works great with athletes.
One of the things I’ve learned from experience and I’ve heard said across the board is these success principles, these fighter mindset principles, they’re going to work for you in high school athletics, they’re going to work for you in college athletics, they’re going to work for you in a coaching position, in a professional position, they’re success principles that don’t falter. They work across the board.
It’s awesome. For much of my life I was the guy in the fire. I was the guy in the octagon. I was the guy on TV. And I loved it, trust me. It was awesome. I loved every second of it. But now that I’m able to kind of 10x, 20x, 1,000x, 1,000,000x that into affecting people around me - I don’t want to say it’s more enjoyable but it’s just slowly becoming more enjoyable.
Cain: I think they say that the true measure of a man’s life is the positive impact that he’s had on others. You have a positive impact through inspiration. When you’re in the cage and you’re fighting it’s entertaining but I think you being able to take your experience, Charlie, of what you’ve done and what you’ve learned through that journey of being an elite MMA warrior and a guy who has fought the best of the best. You are in there with a UFC World Champion and Johny Hendricks. You are in there with Anthony Johnson who I think was a World Champion as well?
Brenneman: He was almost. He still might be. Well first of all I fought him at 170 lbs. Now he’s at 205 lbs. So he’s the number one contender at 205.
Cain: I remember the days of him and his weight class changing. He’s probably at his natural weight now of 205. I can only imagine how much of a beast he was at 170.
But being able to have gone through and done that and now being able to take what you’ve learned from all the punches and the trials and tribulations and now being able to decipher that into the five elements of excellence and share that with young people who are in the pursuit of excellence (and for coaches who are trying to support their young people in pursuit of excellence) I think is fantastic. The beauty of just getting to know you a little bit here on the podcast today and in our time before is you were also a high school teacher and you are able to communicate that and you can communicate it in Spanish. It’s something that I think is very unique.
I will say having spent a lot of time in MMA there is not a lot of UFC fighters that I’d be comfortable with having been a former athletic director rolling them out in front of my coaches or rolling them out in front of my students because some of them - the full student body that would be non athletes - and having you go out there to talk about the five elements of excellence, that fits across the board. And the fact that you have been in a classroom and are comfortable in that setting and know what is appropriate to do with high school student athletes and high school students I think makes you at least at the top of my list of people that I would bring in to speak to my student athletes and coaches if I were still a high school athletic director.
So Charlie, I’m fired up to have had the opportunity to get to know you. I appreciate you making time. I apologize for keeping you past 5:30 so please apologize to your wife for me.
Brenneman: No worries.
Cain: For all of our listeners again you want to follow him at @SpaniardMMA on YouTube, SpaniardMMA, and go to www.Charlie-Brenneman.com. Looking forward to getting you back on here as a repeat guest. This is one of my favorite podcasts we’ve done and it’s exciting for me personally having watched you fight and compete in the cage as much as I have to be able to get you on a podcast here. It’s very impressive to get to meet the guy who was inside of the cage. Pretty cool.
Brenneman: I appreciate it. One more thing I don’t think I mentioned at all is my podcast The Fighter’s Mindset: The Spaniard Podcast. What I do is I dive deep into - it’s called A Fighter’s Mindset and to be honest I was debating whether to call it that because it’s not about fighting. It’s about applying the mindset, a fighter’s mindset, to everyday life whether it’s competition in sports, competition in life, being a better father, you name it. It’s those ideas - self confidence, perseverance, resilience - all those things that make us successful inside the octagon, translating that into sports and other areas of life. You can also find that on the podcast page on my website or check us out on iTunes at A Fighter’s Mindset: The Spaniard Podcast.
Cain: Fantastic. I’m fired up. I’m going to get on the bike tomorrow morning and pound it out as I’m training for an Iron Man coming up here and I’m going to listen to episodes on there.
Brenneman: Nice.
Cain: Yeah I don’t know how nice it is. It’s a pain in the ass really.
Brenneman: I hear you.
Cain: But it’s just something you set a goal and you want to go do it and it’s something I’m not sure I can finish so we’re going to find out here. But I’m going to work the process and give myself the best chance for success and that’s all I can ask. I believe that if I do that I’ll cross the finish line. I think if you keep sticking to the process and doing what you’re doing you’re going to have a tremendous impact and influence on a lot of people’s lives out there.
Charlie, thanks for your humility, thanks for your commitment to excellence, and thanks for being a guest on the Peak Performance Podcast.
Brenneman: My pleasure. I want to throw this last thing out there. I am not okay with having fought the best guys in the world. I wanted to beat them. I wanted to win a world championship but I didn’t. That fire and that passion is coming out of me and I’m instilling it in other people. That is what’s driving me every morning to get up at 4:30 and to keep doing these sprint workouts is to share that with the up and coming group of kids and coaches that still have that opportunity.
Cain: Wow I hate to say this but I guess I’m thankful for the fact that you never got the chance to put the UFC Gold around your waist because if you weren’t on the mission that you’re on right now I don’t think you would have impacted as many people’s lives as you’re going to. So maybe the best thing that never happened to you was winning a UFC title because you are going to influence and impact a hell of a lot more people by what you’re doing now (I think) than you would if you were still in the cage my friend.
Brenneman: The obstacle is the way. Let’s end it with that.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[In this episode, Brian talks with Mixed Martial Arts fighter Charlie "The Spaniard" Brenneman and his remarkable story going from working his dream job as a Spanish teacher, to winning UFC fights in the Octagon.
Follow Charlie on Twitter @SpaniardMMA
Follow Charlie on Instagram @MMASpaniard
Check out his website Charlie-Brenneman.com
You will learn about...
Charlie's journey going from Spanish teacher to UFC fighter
Charlie's 5 Elements of Excellence that have lead him to great success
Charlie's AM and PM routines
Charlie's daily video posted on Facebook and YouTube where he shares knowledge from the book he is reading that day
How you can have Charlie come speak to your team or school
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Brenneman: That result is there. We want it, we want it, we want it. But just above that - slightly more important than that - is the process, is the pursuit of that goal not the attainment of that goal.
Cain: This is Brian Cain with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest, Charlie “The Spaniard” Brenneman, has not only fought the who’s-who in the Mixed Martial Arts world as a UFC veteran but he is also a former high school teacher. Charlie has a fascinating story that has come out with his book Driven: My Unlikely Journey from Classroom To Cage. Charlie, I’m just fired up to have you on. Thanks for making the time to be a part of the Peak Performance Podcast.
Brenneman: It’s my pleasure to be here. I love talking to likeminded people and you’re one of them so I’m happy to be here.
Cain: Well Charlie if you would for our listeners they probably have seen you in the cage. They’ve seen you with the who’s-who in the UFC from Johny Hendricks and Anthony “Rumble” Johnson. What they probably don’t know is your story up until that point in the UFC. Could you give kind of a quick snapshot of your career as a high school/college athlete, into teaching, and then what kind of got you into MMA?
Brenneman: I’m from central Pennsylvania. I grew up in a small town. I’m a wrestler. Even today when I speak one of my lines is “I’m a wrestler who learned to fight.” That is basically what I did. The sport of wrestling taught me mental toughness, it taught me mindset, it taught me discipline, sacrifice. Those are the things that I carried up with me through high school. I would always come close to achieving my goals but I would fall short. I started to keep track and understand that the reason I was falling short was because I ultimately lacked the self confidence at the highest level.
I ended up losing a state title two years in a row in high school. I took my athletic career into wrestling and for my first four years of my collegiate wrestling I red shirted a year. I completely underperformed. The last year it was like I had a mental breakthrough that really changed my last year, it changed the trajectory of my future. I ended up capping off my college career in a great way. I still felt short of my goal but I finished in a round of twelve at Division One Nationals. Then I thought it was all done. I thought all that discipline and sacrifice was over. I was ready to go home. I was ready to get fat and sit on the couch.
After about a year of doing that I realized that I needed something. I needed to compete again. Around that time the sport of Mixed Martial Arts was starting to come to the forefront and started to kind of make a little bit of progress in the mainstream. Then literally one day I decided I’m going to leave my Spanish teaching position and I’m going to be a UFC fighter.
Up until two years ago it’ll be my last fight but I spent the last decade training with, competing against, fighting, beating, losing to, the biggest baddest toughest fighters in the world. I came from a small town, became a teacher, then fighting, and now I’m on the other side of it where I’m kind of taking everything I learned, condensing it, and delivering it through speaking and mentoring.
Cain: I know we just kind of got off of a good discussion before we got onto the podcast. What are some of the key principles that when you’re going in to speak to a school or you’re going in to work with a team what are some of the key principles - basically your framework, Charlie, that you share with them that made you successful that you know if they would adopt and they’ll heed to you teachings you know that they’ll be more successful. What are some of those key principles or key concepts within your framework?
Brenneman: So what I did when I had my last fight and I thought “what am I going to do,” the first thing I did was I sat down and I literally wrote a book. I had had so many questions about I left my job, I got called crazy, I got called stupid, I got called all kinds of things because it was against the norm. So I sat down and I wrote a book about it. I’m a note taker and I’m a writer so I condensed all of the notes, the principles, the things that I’ve recorded over the years and I boiled them down into five what I call “elements of excellence.” Those things together create a fighter’s mindset.
When you’re talking about a fighter’s mindset you think of the best fighters in the world. There is this resilience and perseverance and mental toughness and discipline - all these things. But the five things that I really focus on is the idea of a vision, knowing where you want to go, always having that North Star.
The next thing is your core values whether it’s in your personal life, whether it’s in your athletic life, your professional life. I read a lot of books and so many of them focus on this idea of core values, knowing who you truly are and being that person in competition.
The next one is defining success. To me that took me a lifetime of winning and losing. That took me a lifetime of competing to really truly appreciate the process versus the outcome.
The fourth one is living with accountability. To me accountability - when I decided to leave my teaching position and I decided to literally drive into the unknown, this unknown world, it was all on me. It was on my shoulders. I had no paycheck. I had no leads. I had to create it. So that idea of accountability, (as Jocko Willink in Extreme Ownership says) assuming extreme ownership in everything you do and say.
Then the last part - I don’t want to say the most powerful, but - is the idea of surrounding yourself with the best every day. Even today in my life connecting with you, connecting with other speakers and mentors and podcasters, I’m obsessed with surrounding myself with the best. Looking at the best in the world then literally trying to talk to them. The first two guys I communicated with in Mixed Martial Arts were Eddie Alvarez and Frankie Edgar. Eddie is the current UFC Champion. Frankie is one of the best in history. So I believe in the power of influence.
Those five elements are kind of my keys to living with a fighter’s mindset.
Cain: I love that. I think you hit the nail right on the head and as it ties back with what a lot of our listeners have gone through and are familiar with some of the work that I’ve done with the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance and in talking about vision and values (that’s Pillar #2) and kind of defining your success is that process. The process over the outcome. Then surrounding yourself with the best. As we say you become the average of the five people that you hang out with most.
In one of the books that you mentioned from Jocko Willink about extreme ownership, one of the top reads (I think) from people in our Inner Circle and people that are going to be listening to this podcast. I’m assuming you’ve seen his video where he talks about good and making adversity your advantage. What are some of the other best books that you’ve read that have had the biggest impact on your mindset?
Brenneman: I literally read every morning. It’s one of the things I started doing 42 days ago. I read every morning. I’ve been reading for years and years and one of the things I’ve been doing is making a daily video summarizing and applying what I have read that day to everyday life. There are 100 books I could say.
 
Some of the coolest recent ones that I’ve read, The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday. It talks about using adversity to your advantage. Certainly The Obstacle Is The Way. Start With Why by Simon Sinek which just really gets back to kind of along the lines of your values. Figure out what’s your purpose. Why do I get up every morning at 4:30? Why do I still do treadmill sprint workouts when I have no fight? Really getting to the core of that.
 
I’ll give you a third one. The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson talks about small consistent actions repeated over a long period of time resulting in giant results. Those are three of the top ones. Reading is a habit that I would encourage everyone to get into.
Cain: Those are definitely four books that are in my library and four books that I think many of our listeners have gone through. It’s funny, The Slight Edge is a book that was given to SMU’s athletic director, Rick Hart, gave that book to all of their coaches. Then The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday, he’s got another book The Ego Is The Enemy that the TCU athletic director gave to all of their coaches. So you’re reading books, Charlie, that are right up there with our audience.
The videos that you make, is that something that you put out on social media and  something that our listeners could follow along as well so they could kind of learn through what they’re learning?
Brenneman: Absolutely. I’m glad that you mentioned that. I do Facebook Live. I tested it out a little with Periscope, a little with Facebook Live, and I seem to get the most views on Facebook Live. From there I upload them to YouTube so you can subscribe to me on YouTube to get them on a daily basis or you can follow me on my personal page, Charlie Brenneman, or my business page, Charlie “The Spaniard” Brenneman.
Every morning 5:30 I’m there with a smile on my face kind of reciting. I feel kind of weird because I’ve been an athlete, I’ve been a fighter, that’s what I do, but I get so amped up about reading and learning and just pushing it out. So yeah I put them out every day on my social media.
Cain: I love it. So your social media. The best place for people to follow you. What is your Twitter handle?
Brenneman: @SpaniardMMA. My website www.Charlie-Brenneman.com has all of my links in the upper right-hand corner. I’m SpaniardMMA across the board. Instagram I’m MMASpaniard because I can’t get SpaniardMMA so that is the only hiccup.
Cain: Then your YouTube channel is SpaniardMMA?
Brenneman: Yep. If you just search Charlie Brenneman or SpaniardMMA on YouTube it will come up.
Cain: Awesome. I think that would be something that our listeners definitely will want to follow. I didn’t realize you did that so that is going to be something I go and get on for sure and check those out in the morning. You talk about getting up every morning and doing a video at 5:30. You sound like you’re a machine of routine. Tell us about your morning routine and kind of what you do on a daily basis.
Brenneman: This is something for the listeners out there. I’m a fan of Gary Vaynerchuk who - you can call him an internet marketer, entrepreneur, he’s a lot of things. One of the things that I learned from him - actually I didn’t learn it from him. I felt comfortable because I heard him reaffirm it, this idea of trying a bunch of different things.
The very first person who turned me on to this idea of a morning routine is Hal Elrod in The Miracle Morning. Since then I’ve tried maybe 10-20 different routines in the morning. For me basically it’s simple. My alarm is set for 4:30 every morning. I get up early every morning. On Sundays I sleep in till a whopping 6:00 or 6:30. There is really only two things: I drink 32 ounces of water basically right out of the gate and I read for at least 30 minutes a day. Those two things when it’s completely quiet, when the bids aren’t even chirping, it’s dark, I’m sitting here with water, a coffee, and my book. If I can get that in my day then that puts me up in the right direction.
Cain: Hal Elrod, one of my favorite books The Miracle Morning where he talks about the acronym SAVERS. The first S is silence, the A if affirmation (so positive), the V is visualization, the E is exercise, the R is that you read, and the last S is that you scribe and you write and you actually do that without knowing and putting it to the SAVERS acronym that Hal talks about in The Miracle Morning. You’re actually doing that on a daily basis. Maybe instead of writing you’re speaking into your video and putting it out there for others which is probably a more easier digestible way for people to learn these days. But I love that morning routine.
What about your PM routine? Do you have a shutdown routine at the end of the day to help you kind of log off and get more dialed in with your family?
Brenneman: We just had a son three weeks ago and I have a daughter that is three years old. Where I’m at in this phase of my life I’m probably done fighting for several different reasons. I realize it’s like the work is there, the tasks are there, and I could literally work every hour of every day. This is a transition period for me and my wife. We’ve seen in the last decade when it went from teaching to fighting and fighting now into speaking and mentoring that these different transition phases - and they’re tough. For any goal driven person in a relationship who has a family it’s tough. It’s not easy.
What we’ve done is develop - that’s partially the reason I get up at 4:30 in the morning, so I have the time to do the things I need to do. But I really - we’re recording now in the PM and this is an anomaly. I normally shut off by - I’m done with my workout by 5:30 and then it’s all family. Just because if I didn’t draw that hard line it would go on forever. Mixing that business and family time is just not a winner in our home.
Cain: That one hit me pretty hard as I’m sitting here on a cruise and I’m looking at my wife who is sitting out on the balcony waiting for me to get done doing work so that I can take her to dinner. I think you hit the nail on the head.
For the coaches that are listening to this you’ve got to have that hard shutdown routine. You’ve got to have that time in your day where you said “hey what’s done is done and what’s not done can be put off until tomorrow” because if you don’t draw that hard line you’re right, you could literally work 24 hours in a day when you’re uber motivated and a guy who is excited to go out there and make a difference which our listeners are. So I think I they can start to learn about that shutdown routine as well. That’s going to be important.
Now when you shut down at 5:30 after that workout are you done with technology and you’re turning off the computer and the email and the cell phone and all that so you can engage? Or do you still have that digital distraction sometimes?
Brenneman: Yeah I’m not going to sit here and say I’m perfect by any means. But no, my objective is to - I actually am up in my office right now (it’s on the third floor of my house) and I leave my computer up here because what I’ve found is that when I would bring my computer downstairs I would be tempted. If my wife went in to get something to eat or to fix something to eat I’d be tempted to hop on my computer and check my email real quick. So by leaving it up here in the attic it’s kind of the idea of if you don’t want to eat junk food don’t keep it in your cupboards. It’s that same idea. If I don’t want to be on my computer I should leave it upstairs. So I do that.
My cell phone, I’ve flirted with some different strategies here and there but it’s in my pocket but I’ve done a good enough job - and I know this from my wife saying “you know what you’ve done a really great job in the last couple months of staying off your cell phone after hours.” The computer is the hard up in the attic. The cell phone is just in awareness that I’m aware of how much I’m on it.
Cain: Love it. That’s awesome. That’s great advice for everybody. Charlie, if we can let’s go back to your I think you call them your five “elements of excellence?” Is that right?
Brenneman: Yep.
Cain: And with the five elements of excellence - vision, core values, defining success, living with accountability, and surrounding yourself with the best - how do you define success for yourself?
Brenneman: Whenever you’re explaining it you kind of mention the process. What happened to me is from a young age, honestly from the earliest I can remember I was dead set on getting straight As and I was dead set on winning a state championship in wrestling. Those were my goals. I would achieve those goals often but I would fall short of those goals almost as often. One of the things I tell coaches and parents as often as I can is expose your kids - both your real kids and your athletes - expose them to winning and losing as often as possible. That builds resilience and that builds mental fortitude.
What I learned - honestly the heartbreak of losing two state titles, especially the second one, in high school. I was an 18 year old kid and you would think as a 35 year old man who experienced all this other stuff in the last 15 years those two nights I can’t think of a more painful athletic night than those two nights. I still kept going. I still kept moving forward, keeping my values, having that vision clear of who and what I wanted to be. But it wasn’t until I was fighting.
You see in UFC you fight but every 3-5 months. So what would happen is I would win a fight, I would come home and I would feel like a million bucks. That was great, I had money, this and that. But then if I lost I would come home and just feel like absolute garbage. Like absolute terrible garbage. Everything was terrible. Then after that happening 3, 4, 5 times I started to - honestly it was like I just got fed up with it and I thought “there has to be another way to do this because this is not worth it, this up and down is not worth being a professional fighter.” Then it was like one day it clicked and it was like “wait a minute that’s silly” to judge my self worth, to judge my feeling, to judge my mental state on the winning and the losing is wrong. I truly believe it’s wrong.
That’s where it goes back to the process that you mentioned and Nick Saban mentions it. The idea of defining success to me - and whether you want to quote John Wooden also - is the process. Putting in the work on a daily, on an hourly, on a minute basis to produce that result in the end. That result is there. We want it, we want it, we want it. But just above that - slightly more important than that - is the process, is the pursuit of that goal not the attainment of that goal.
Cain: I love that. You just mentioned two of the greatest coaches of all time (I think) in Saban and Wooden. Wooden, since we mentioned books and I’m keeping a list of your books that you mentioned here which we’ll put out in the notes with this episode, is one of John Wooden’s books A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On And Off the Court. It’s a little blue book. it’s fantastic.
Brenneman: Yep. Blue and yellow.
Cain: Yeah you got it. Then Nick Saban’s book How Good Do You Want to Be I think is one of the best that I’ve ever read as well. The one I have has this cover of him at LSU on it. I know the new one has him in Alabama. So he talked about the process and I think you’re so spot on with that. What about your core values?
Brenneman: I was going to say another just little caveat I wanted to throw in there is this idea of excellence. Honestly when I started this pursuit (speaking and mentoring etc.) the term “excellence,” (“elements of excellence” hence the Elements of Excellence) that word really stuck to me. That stuck with me. As a kid my parents taught me, one, do the best you can in everything you do, and two, inspire other people to do the same. It was like those were kind f the two things that I thought were normal. I thought “oh yes every person does their best and every person inspires other people.” I just thought that was normal. This standard of excellence I’ve carried with me in my life.
None of us are perfect. I’ve done less than perfect things and haven’t maintained that standard. But I believe in operating with a mindset of excellence on a daily basis. It’s like you know the cliché you shoot for the stars, you miss, you still land hot. If your objective, if your mission is excellence you’re going to be good across the board no matter what. I really want to stress and emphasize the importance of setting your bar at excellence.
Cain: I love that. Skip Bertman, who was the baseball coach at LSU for a number of years, I had a dream come true and got a chance to do a book with him within the last year. One of the things that Skip talked about is he says there are three doors you can go through. You can go through the door of win, you can go through the door of loss, or you can go through the door of excellence. Excellence is bigger than winning. Sometimes you can give an excellent performance and not win. I’m sure in the octagon you’ve had those fights where you’ve gone out there and fought great and fought the way you wanted to and because of the judges or because the other guy was just a little bit better that night it didn’t go the way you wanted it to.
But I think that happens in athletics all the time is that the process doesn’t always lead to the result but the process does give you the best chance to get the result. I think if you’re committed to excellence and being the best that you possibly can be and have that growth mindset you’re going to be able to achieve a lot more over the marathon than the person who is focused on win-loss. Would you agree?
Brenneman: Absolutely. 100%. The process versus the achievement or the process versus the outcome, yeah, it’s - and I’m not saying this to make myself feel better because I lost three fights in a row to end my career. I’m not saying this to make the listeners feel good about themselves because they lost and they need a pat on the back. I’m saying this because it’s tried and true from experience. This is what I learned. This is what the most successful people in the world have learned. If you’re not going to take it from me take it from Saban, take it from Wooden, take it from all of these other people who say the same thing.
Cain: No question. We use a term a lot that says “success leaves clues.” You’ve reaffirmed and (I think) brought to the table a lot of the same concludes that we try to teach and that coaches try to teach. But coaches that are listening to this and myself, I’ve never stepped in the octagon. I’ve been on either side of the octagon - fence, corner, and some guys - but you’ve been in there with the who’s-who of MMA.
For the coaches or the teachers or the athletic directors listening to this if they wanted to bring you in to deliver your message on the five elements of excellence and talk about the importance of vision, talk about core values and knowing who you are, redefining success as it relates to the process and the pursuit of excellence, being more accountable (which I know every coach has issues with trying to grow accountability in their program), and then talking about that surrounding yourself with the best and you becoming one of those people that those coaches associate with, what is the best way for people to get a hold of you and do you go in and speak to schools and do you go in and work with athletes and programs? Talk a little bit more about that process and how they can get you and what you do when you go in there.
Brenneman: I appreciate that. absolutely that is what I do. If you go to my website www.Charlie-Brenneman.com it’s very simple to navigate. There is a contact tab up top. Contact me. Speaking events, workshops, mentoring, it’s right there for you to clearly define why you’re making contact.
Honestly one of the more enjoyable things I do is these workshops, these fighter’s mindset workshops. There are six one hour sessions. I take them through the elements of excellence. I cap it off with a leadership session. It works great with coaches and it works great with athletes.
One of the things I’ve learned from experience and I’ve heard said across the board is these success principles, these fighter mindset principles, they’re going to work for you in high school athletics, they’re going to work for you in college athletics, they’re going to work for you in a coaching position, in a professional position, they’re success principles that don’t falter. They work across the board.
It’s awesome. For much of my life I was the guy in the fire. I was the guy in the octagon. I was the guy on TV. And I loved it, trust me. It was awesome. I loved every second of it. But now that I’m able to kind of 10x, 20x, 1,000x, 1,000,000x that into affecting people around me - I don’t want to say it’s more enjoyable but it’s just slowly becoming more enjoyable.
Cain: I think they say that the true measure of a man’s life is the positive impact that he’s had on others. You have a positive impact through inspiration. When you’re in the cage and you’re fighting it’s entertaining but I think you being able to take your experience, Charlie, of what you’ve done and what you’ve learned through that journey of being an elite MMA warrior and a guy who has fought the best of the best. You are in there with a UFC World Champion and Johny Hendricks. You are in there with Anthony Johnson who I think was a World Champion as well?
Brenneman: He was almost. He still might be. Well first of all I fought him at 170 lbs. Now he’s at 205 lbs. So he’s the number one contender at 205.
Cain: I remember the days of him and his weight class changing. He’s probably at his natural weight now of 205. I can only imagine how much of a beast he was at 170.
But being able to have gone through and done that and now being able to take what you’ve learned from all the punches and the trials and tribulations and now being able to decipher that into the five elements of excellence and share that with young people who are in the pursuit of excellence (and for coaches who are trying to support their young people in pursuit of excellence) I think is fantastic. The beauty of just getting to know you a little bit here on the podcast today and in our time before is you were also a high school teacher and you are able to communicate that and you can communicate it in Spanish. It’s something that I think is very unique.
I will say having spent a lot of time in MMA there is not a lot of UFC fighters that I’d be comfortable with having been a former athletic director rolling them out in front of my coaches or rolling them out in front of my students because some of them - the full student body that would be non athletes - and having you go out there to talk about the five elements of excellence, that fits across the board. And the fact that you have been in a classroom and are comfortable in that setting and know what is appropriate to do with high school student athletes and high school students I think makes you at least at the top of my list of people that I would bring in to speak to my student athletes and coaches if I were still a high school athletic director.
So Charlie, I’m fired up to have had the opportunity to get to know you. I appreciate you making time. I apologize for keeping you past 5:30 so please apologize to your wife for me.
Brenneman: No worries.
Cain: For all of our listeners again you want to follow him at @SpaniardMMA on YouTube, SpaniardMMA, and go to www.Charlie-Brenneman.com. Looking forward to getting you back on here as a repeat guest. This is one of my favorite podcasts we’ve done and it’s exciting for me personally having watched you fight and compete in the cage as much as I have to be able to get you on a podcast here. It’s very impressive to get to meet the guy who was inside of the cage. Pretty cool.
Brenneman: I appreciate it. One more thing I don’t think I mentioned at all is my podcast The Fighter’s Mindset: The Spaniard Podcast. What I do is I dive deep into - it’s called A Fighter’s Mindset and to be honest I was debating whether to call it that because it’s not about fighting. It’s about applying the mindset, a fighter’s mindset, to everyday life whether it’s competition in sports, competition in life, being a better father, you name it. It’s those ideas - self confidence, perseverance, resilience - all those things that make us successful inside the octagon, translating that into sports and other areas of life. You can also find that on the podcast page on my website or check us out on iTunes at A Fighter’s Mindset: The Spaniard Podcast.
Cain: Fantastic. I’m fired up. I’m going to get on the bike tomorrow morning and pound it out as I’m training for an Iron Man coming up here and I’m going to listen to episodes on there.
Brenneman: Nice.
Cain: Yeah I don’t know how nice it is. It’s a pain in the ass really.
Brenneman: I hear you.
Cain: But it’s just something you set a goal and you want to go do it and it’s something I’m not sure I can finish so we’re going to find out here. But I’m going to work the process and give myself the best chance for success and that’s all I can ask. I believe that if I do that I’ll cross the finish line. I think if you keep sticking to the process and doing what you’re doing you’re going to have a tremendous impact and influence on a lot of people’s lives out there.
Charlie, thanks for your humility, thanks for your commitment to excellence, and thanks for being a guest on the Peak Performance Podcast.
Brenneman: My pleasure. I want to throw this last thing out there. I am not okay with having fought the best guys in the world. I wanted to beat them. I wanted to win a world championship but I didn’t. That fire and that passion is coming out of me and I’m instilling it in other people. That is what’s driving me every morning to get up at 4:30 and to keep doing these sprint workouts is to share that with the up and coming group of kids and coaches that still have that opportunity.
Cain: Wow I hate to say this but I guess I’m thankful for the fact that you never got the chance to put the UFC Gold around your waist because if you weren’t on the mission that you’re on right now I don’t think you would have impacted as many people’s lives as you’re going to. So maybe the best thing that never happened to you was winning a UFC title because you are going to influence and impact a hell of a lot more people by what you’re doing now (I think) than you would if you were still in the cage my friend.
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      <description>In this episode, Brian speaks with one of the leading professionals in all of peak performance and sport psychology as well as #1 Best-Selling Author, Dr. Chris Friesen. He is the author of The High Achievement Handbook Series and gives you great insight into the mind and how to control it.
Follow Dr. Friesen on Twitter @FriesenPerform
Check out his website FriesenPerformance.com
You will learn about...
Dr. Friesen's unique, guided, brain training and meditation technique
Dr. Friesen's advanced knowledge on sports psychology and how to maximize your mental potential
"The Funeral Exercise" to help you establish core values
The incredible story of boxer Danny Williams overcoming a dislocated shoulder mid-fight
Dr. Friesen even explains why having some self-doubt is actually a good thing
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Friesen: Most of us mere mortals like you and I and most people would say “look at this pain, how am I going to win a boxing match with one arm?” It’s impossible. It’s basically impossible. And he just kept pushing forward and pushing forward. Like I said in the book Stallone couldn’t have written a better ending. Danny Williams basically wins.
Cain: Hey this is Brian Cain with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest is one of the leading professionals in all of Peak Performance and sports psychology and he is a number one bestselling author. Dr. Chris Friesen is a licensed psychologist in Ontario, Canada, practicing in the areas of clinical psychology, clinical neuropsychology, forensic correctional psychology, and high achievement sports psychology and performance psychology.
Dr. Friesen has training and experience that crosses a broad spectrum of psychological difficulties including working with individuals who have anxiety or performance anxiety, depression, personality disorders, brain injuries often occurring from sports concussion, to severe traumatic brain injuries happening in military or in combat scenarios, and those involved with the criminal justice system - offenders of all types. Primarily though Dr. Friesen and the reason why I’m so intrigued and honored to have him as a guest on the show this week is that he focuses on helping athletes and other individuals who are performing at the highest levels continuously improve and achieve and smash their goals.
As we said earlier he is the number one bestselling author of The High Achievement Handbook series and in this podcast we’re going to focus on book one of the series. It’s called ACHIEVE: Find Out Who You Are, What You Really Want, And How To Make It Happen.
Dr. Chris Friesen, thanks for being on the Peak Performance Podcast.
Friesen: Brian thanks for having me. I’m super pumped to be here.
Cain: Your background I think is tremendous in that is has a lot of the hardcore psychological science but you also have the application and are doing it in the real world. I think often what you find is you get people who are doing it that are unlicensed and don’t have a background in training or they have all the clinical background and psychological training but they just can’t seem to make the human connection with the high achiever because they haven’t been as I would refer to you as is a “blue collar psychologist.” You mentioned that term earlier when we were off the air and I thought that was fantastic.
Could you talk a little bit about kind of your unique background and experience both from the training and the academic side but then also with how you go about applying it and what the - sometimes I think there is that gap between the science and the application. Could you talk a little bit about your experience in both and kind of closing that gap?
Friesen: Definitely. Like you said I’m a licensed psychologist with various areas of expertise. I’ve always been really fascinated by high achievement and success since I was a teenager and I played hockey as a goalie actually. I went into my training and psychology in Canada. In the clinical psychology graduate programs there is no specific sports psychology training so all that training was sort of done after the fact.
One of the issues I’ve always had was there is some really amazing research coming out from cognitive neuroscience, sports psychology, just general personality psychology, that often doesn’t get percolated down to the everyday person or even high achieving athletes or other high achievers.
I’ve always been the type of guy that applies all the stuff I learned to myself. I’m a big self experimenter. I can tell you lots of things. I’ve tried various supplements. I’ve tried various meditation techniques. Almost everything I talk about - like in the book for example - I’ve done it on myself and I’ve used it with athletes and other high achievers.
So I really felt that one of the things I noticed with a lot of self help books is either they are written by academics, PhD like myself (although I am not a researcher per se anymore), and it’s full of studies with very little application or like you said it’s written by someone like a Peak Performance sort of self help book with someone who has zero experience or credentials in that area.
So I realized that maybe this is useful to a lot of people so I really wrote the book in a way that is ultra user friendly. It takes sort of complicated scientific ideas or research findings and puts them into very easy to learn and apply strategies. So that is sort of where I see myself is the type of psychologist that really tries to bring this information to people to help them really achieve the goals that are really important to them.
Cain: I love how you mentioned taking everything you had used with an athlete or with someone who you’re working with and doing it on yourself - something that I also try. Any technique or any strategy that I’m going to share with the team or with an athlete why wouldn’t I use that myself if it’s something that I think is going to help them to achieve at a higher level? So I really think that that is a lot of the missing link. It’s like going to a fat doctor or to a poor financial planner. It just often doesn’t add up. You’ve got to be doing that stuff yourself.
You sound kind of like Tim Ferriss, the author of The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body who is kind of that human science experiment. One of the things that you mentioned that I want to kind of dovetail off into was meditation techniques. It’s something that I talk often with athletes about and I think that athletes and coaches have the stigma that you have to shave your head, put on an orange robe, burn some incense, cross your legs, and hike to the top of the Himalayas if you’re going to do meditation. What is your experience with mediation and what is the best practice that you’ve found?
Friesen: That is a great question. The way I describe meditation is it’s just a form of brain training. Especially with my neuroscience and neuropsychology background I often try and use connect the two. I look at the research in those areas. So for example the way I describe it to people - and this is how I describe it to myself when I use it on myself, this is the strategy I use. For example what you’re doing is you’re brain training. You’re training the ability to stay focused. You’re training your brain’s ability to not get caught up or hooked by negative thoughts.
The way I say it is there’s three reps, basically you sit down and you focus on your breathing. You don’t control your breathing. The first step is just to focus on your breathing. The next rep is basically to be aware of or notice when your mind is no longer focused on your breathing which is inevitable. It happens to everyone. The goal is not to have a perfectly Zen mind where your thoughts never stray. It’s basically never going to happen. It’s an impossible goal. The idea is you notice when your thoughts wander away from your breathing. Acknowledge what your thoughts are doing.
So you say for example “I’m having the thought that this is boring” or “I’m having the feeling of anxiety because I have to go buy milk” or something like that and you basically describe what’s happening, what your mind is doing. What that does is it trains you to defuse or not get hooked by your thoughts. We are not our thoughts - especially our negative thoughts. We want to be able to pick and choose which thoughts we allow to take hold of us.
So you basically acknowledge what is going on because if you don’t acknowledge it, if you just try to squash it, research shows - and I tie this back to obsessive compulsive order and PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder. One of the hallmarks of those disorders is you have thoughts or flashbacks that are very disturbing that you don’t want to have and the natural reaction is to squash those thoughts or pretend you’re not having them and do everything in your power to avoid having them. But the problem is we know the way the brain works. As soon as you try to squash a thought it continually comes back. It will continually pop back into your mind. So you want to acknowledge it, allow the thoughts to be there, then the next rep is to turn your attention back to your breathing.
Basically it is hardcore brain training. It is not a relaxation technique. I tell people relaxation may be a side effect but that’s not the point. We’re training our brains to be able to basically increase our ability to stay focused and also to not get hooked by negative thoughts. It does a whole bunch of other things, it improves executive functioning and that kind of things, but that’s really the way I describe it to people. It’s again not relaxation, it’s not religious, it’s basically a form of brain training that takes zero dollars and zero equipment. So that is my take on it.
Cain: Would it be possible time wise for you to take us through a very short version of mediation so that our listeners would know exactly “hey this is an example of a meditation that I learned from Dr. Chris Friesen that I want to share with my team.” Maybe like a 2-3 minute exercise they might be able to take and use?
Friesen: Yeah I can sort of give you a quick walk through.
Cain: Perfect.
Friesen: You want me to do it right now?
Cain: That would be fantastic. If anyone is listening to this podcast while they are driving skip this section or pull yourself over so that you make sure you’re doing it safely.
Friesen: The way I do it is I’m actually usually generally against using any tapes for mediation because it’s like a cheat in a way. It’s helping you focus. The idea is when you are basically in a quiet environment - just imagine when you lie down and go to sleep and you’re not tired and you realize how much your mind is racing and thinking of random thoughts. That’s actually where you want to be. You don’t want to fall asleep so you don’t want to lie down. You don’t want a tape telling you to do something, but of course the first time to learn the strategy you do, or you want to hear me talking now.
So what you do is you sit down. You don’t slouch back, you don’t slouch forward. You sit in an erect position not so much that it’s painful but enough that it’s not going to make you fall asleep. Remember this is not a relaxation exercise - it’s a brain training exercise.
The first thing you do now is you basically focus your attention on your breathing. Notice for example how the air is a bit cooler when it goes in through your nose and warmer when it comes out. You’re not controlling your breathing, you are simply focusing on your breathing.
Inevitably your mind is going to wander. You’re going to have a thought about something. You’re going to judge yourself. You’re going to think of something in the future. You may worry about something. Even if you have a positive thought, in this exercise you want to what we call “diffuse” from those thoughts. What that really means is notice when your thoughts have wandered and describe what is happening. Say “I’m having the thought that X or Y” or “having the feeling that X or Y.” That is going to put some space between you and your thoughts and you want to train this because you do not want to be your thoughts, especially your negative thoughts.
So once your thoughts wander describe what is happening really briefly. Allow them to be there. Don’t get upset. Having thoughts is what your brain does. It’s programmed to generate thoughts when there is nothing going on. You’re going to notice them, acknowledge them, and very gently return your attention back to your breathing. You’re just going to do this again and again. You’re not going to go very long before your thoughts wander and that is actually good.
The trick is to notice when your thoughts wander, acknowledge them, and return your attention back. That is all you’re trying to do. That is the only goal. A lot of people come to me and say “look it was so bad, the meditation, my thoughts we all over the place.” I say “listen that’s actually good.” It’s like working out with a weight pack. The more your thoughts are wandering the better. You’re getting a better brain workout.
That is basically it in a nutshell. It’s really a series of steps and just knowing what you’re doing. You may feel relaxed at the end. You may not. That’s not the goal. There are a lot of other ways you could relax. Take a hot bath. This is not training to relax.
The side effect though from this type of training is that you are going to be more relaxed generally. Not because of a physiological response or training but because you’re no longer getting hooked by negative thoughts or feelings and you’re basically able to stay focused in the present moment which is the key to the zone when it comes to playing sports (for example).
So this is the other thing I tell everyone. By doing this you are training your ability to stay in the present moment which is where you want to be to perform at your peak. When you are in the present moment that is when you are in the zone and it’s going to make it more likely you’re going to get in the zone and you can control now whether you go into the zone better than you did before.
Cain: That is one of the most simple and clear definitions I think I’ve ever heard someone say about meditation is that step one is you’re focusing on your breathing - in through your nose, out through your nose. Step two, acknowledge when your mind drifts to anything other than your breath. Step three, bring it back to your breathing. It’s not a relaxation exercise. I’ve never heard it said this way. It’s not a relaxation exercise, it’s an exercise in developing a present moment focus and the result of that will be a feeling of relaxation which is much more close to that flow state or to the zone where you’re in the present moment and you’re where your feet are and that is when you perform your best. That was fantastic.
Chris, if we can jump into your book here. One of the things with your subtitle is it says Find Out Who You Are, What You Really Want, And How To Make It Happen. Let’s get right into it.
What are some strategies that you use? I love how you talk about strategy because I think you often get two types of people who come from two types of the spectrum in the world of Peak Performance. You get those who talk about principle and just concept like “be positive,” well no shit. Okay well how do you do that? Focus on what you can control. No shit. The sun rises. Great. Well how do I actually get back to that when the bullets start flying?
I think it’s important that people know themselves but I love that you’re going to share with us some strategies that people can use about how to better get to know themselves. What are some of the ways that - if you would, first, why is it important that people know themselves? Secondly, how is it that people listening to this podcast can better get to know themselves? What is something they can go and do?
Friesen: Great question. Throughout my career I’ve seen a lot of people who have gone very far - including in athletics and just in their lives. Basically barking up the wrong tree is maybe not the right word but you’re basically focusing on the wrong things for them. This often leads to a lot of psychological problems - some subtle, some clinical level, a lot of anxiety, depression, and dissatisfaction in today’s society. I think a lot of the over-prescription of antidepressants is partially due to the fact that people are not living a life congruent with who they are and what is really important to them.
What I mean by that is at the most basic level we all differ on five general personality dimensions. I call them “the basic personality tendencies.” This has been replicated in scientific research across it’s probably been 70 years now. It hasn’t really percolated well into the general public’s awareness. I can go over them but they’re basically five global dimensions.
We all differ. It’s our personality so we all differ on these. They are partially genetic, about 50%. So 50% percent is due to genes. We have twin studies where twins have been separated at birth and reared in different countries and different parts of countries and that sort of thing and this is how we figured these stats out. The other half of our personality is determined by our experiences, particularly experiences earlier on in life. I don’t mean in the first two years of life I mean in the first 20 years of life because our brains are much more malleable - something called neuroplasticity is big - and our brains are still forming and molding. When we get older it’s much more difficult to change that.
So long story short the first dimension, I call it in my book “the susceptibility to negative emotions and stress.” It’s simply like it sounds. Basically some of us are very easily stressed, easily get nervous, they have a lot of pessimistic thoughts. Some of us are more in the middle, and some of us are more the opposite where we don’t experience a lot of stress. This is very important to know about yourself because especially the people trying to achieve big goals if you’re average to high on this (in other words you do experience a lot of negative mentions and thoughts) you are at risk for failure unless you train yourself and do a number of strategies to make sure you can keep that in check.
Also all these things are strengths as well. People who are artists, people who are high performers, sports as well, are often high on this but they capitalize on this. I’m sure you’ve talked a lot about this. One simple example is reinterpreting your physiological response to let’s say right before a big event like anxiety as “I’m pumped, I’m amped, I’m ready, let’s rock” as opposed to “oh shit I’m scared, my legs are feeling wobbly, this means I’m going to totally choke.” So that is just a quick example.
The next one is extroversion versus introversion. We all know about that. People who are extroverted obviously like to be around people. This has more to do though with our brain’s ability to handle external stimulation. Extroverts - a very simplified way of looking at this (and there are some EEG studies that confirm this) is basically their brains are revving a little bit too low so they need to get a lot of external stimulation whether it’s social, whether it’s being in a high paced, fast and exciting environment, to feel normal. Versus people who are introverted their brains are kind of revving too fast and too much external stimulation puts them into overload and they start to feel overwhelmed and they can burn out easily. This is extremely important in terms of knowing what you can handle in your sports career or in your career in general. You have to match your job to your personality or you have to work around it.
Another one is called agreeableness. This is really our attitudes towards others. People who are really agreeable tend to be really honest, straightforward, very trusting, not very interpersonally competitive. People who are low on this (what we call slightly disagreeable) they’re more skeptical, they’re less open with others, they are more interpersonally competitive. It’s extremely important to know this about yourself.
The fourth one is openness to experience. This is big when you’re working with athletes to know where they stand on this. People who are really open to experiences are just open to different ways of looking at things. They’re interested in and open to people from different cultures, different values, different ideas. People who are low on this are obviously the opposite. They’re really closed to those things. If you’re working with someone who - let’s say you Brian. You’re working with someone who is an athlete and you have a new technique (let’s say it’s a new meditation technique) and the person is really closed to the experience you probably want to emphasize it being more as a traditional thing - they’ve been using this for years and years and all the big guys are using this. Whereas someone who is really open to experiences will be open to trying almost anything (they’ll use magnets) because they’re so open to different things and that sort of thing. That is really important to know.
The last one, literature calls it “conscientiousness,” I call it “motivation and self control” because I think that describes it better. It’s exactly how it sounds. People who are high on this are highly motivated, highly organized, highly achievement oriented. People who are low on this are the opposite. People who are high on this have a gigantic advantage when it comes to success. People who are low have a big disadvantage in multiple areas of life (and research supports this) whether it’s income, whether it’s health outcomes, whatever it may be.
So long story short the very first step in knowing yourself is knowing your core basic personality. These have neurological correlates in our brains so these are very difficult to change. For the most part people need to accept their personality and work with what they’ve got.
Of course next we need to know what is important to us. I call it “knowing your values.” Living a life incongruent with your values and also your personality is a recipe for disaster. You need to know what is really important to you. In the book I go through different exercises to help you really get in touch with your values because like I said you have to live a life congruent with your values, with what is important to you, or you’re going to be basically constantly going against your own grain.
Knowing your strengths, knowing your interests, knowing your passions is extremely important. Only if you get all this information then can you really figure out what your mission - I say “missions” because I don’t think everyone has one single mission but you have multiple purposes or missions in life and only by knowing yourself really well can you get to know that part.
In the last two sections of the book is really about now you’re ready to set goals. It’s all these earlier steps to know yourself before you should be really setting goals. Most people and a lot of books go right into goal setting but without the ground work - because what will happen is you may be focusing on goals for years (for example) that aren’t really right for you. That is a huge mistake.
Cain: That is fantastic in terms of talking about knowing your basic personality tendencies, knowing your core values, knowing your strengths, and then kind of getting clear on your why. Let’s talk about that concept of identifying your values.
For the person that is listening to this - which I believe most of our listeners are going to be listening to this as they’re driving in their car - is there a way that you can ask them the certain couple questions or an exercise that they can do to kind of come up with what their core values are or is it ultimately just them kind of sitting down? I think often people think that they need to go get away from life for three weeks and climb a mountain, go to a lakeside retreat, and all of a sudden what their core values are and their mission in life is going to hit them. Whereas I’m much more of the school of thought in like you decide on what your core values are, you decide on what your mission is. Or your missions. I love the way you said that is that people have more than one mission in life. I think that’s genius. You decide on what they [your core values] are and then kind of evolve over time. What is your take on how you go about creating a set of core values and identifying with what your mission is?
Friesen: That is great. One of the differences between personality and values is that personality you don’t choose your personality but you choose your values. Often we’re not even aware of where our values came from.
What I usually do (one of the best exercises is really existential) is do what I call a “funeral exercise.” I didn’t invent this. The one I put in the book is more specific to what I think are the best strategies within that exercise. It’s simply this: you imagine your funeral. You imagine (for example) it’s five years from today (or whatever time frame you really want) and you imagine your funeral and you imagine the different people that are really important to you in your life getting up there and talking about you. You want to think of what you want them to say about you, not necessarily what you think they would say about you. Hopefully that makes sense.
Ideally what would you like people to say about you? Would they say “this guy was a total jerk he was just focused on himself,” that kind of thing? No. You’re going to have thoughts of “this guy really went out of his way to help people and his family was super important, he was also about excellence, he was always trying to be as best as he could be so he could help others be their best.” You want to think ideally what do you want people to say about you.
Of course when you do this you want to start the exercise really using all your sense for imagery to imagine yourself being at the funeral, looking at the people, looking at the people crying. It can be an emotional situation. You want to really put yourself in that position in your mind. You want to really pretend it’s happening. You should write this out or at least say it out loud or say it in your head. What do you want an important coach or an important teammate or your wife or your children, what do you want them to say about you? What do you want them to say? That will tell you what your values are. Are they going to say “this guy worked so hard he got sick, he spent so much time at the office, he didn’t give a shit about the family.” Is that what you want people to think? Is that what you really want? You’ll get in touch with what is really important to you.
Also there is another exercise to where in the book it’s simply a list of values. Readers can download that as well. It just goes through a bunch of values and you basically read through them and you kind of rank order the top 5-10 that are really important to you. You’ve got to make sure that - and this is the biggest key to success in my opinion. The most successful people don’t may their day-to-day minute-to-minute decisions about what to do with their time or what to buy, who to spend time with, they don’t make it based on their immediate moods, their urges, their energy levels, that sort of thing. They make these decisions based on their values and what is really important to them.
If you just take one thing away from this podcast it’s that you want to make your day-to-day decisions based on what is important to you. A simple example is personally I wake up at 6:00 AM to get up and workout before my four year old is up. When that alarm goes off my immediate moods, energy levels, and everything is telling me “press snooze and just sleep in” but my values - one of my values is to be really healthy and also to have longevity. I want to be there when my daughter gets married. I want to be there when she has kids. And being healthy makes me feel good. It builds my self efficacy, my self esteem, it maintains it. So regardless of how I feel I make the decision based on my values and my bigger goals, not based on how I feel in the moment. That is just a quick example.
Cain: I love that exercise. I remember that is one of the first things when I went to graduate school at Cal State Fullerton Dr. Ken Ravizza had us do. It comes right out of his book Heads-Up Baseball where he talks about imagine you’re in a banquet, you’re retiring from your career as a coach, what do you want all the people who are at that banquet to say about you. That kind of helps to formulate your vision statement or your core values in terms of who you are.
One of the things that you said that I love is that the most successful people don’t make minute-to-minute decisions based on moods. They make them based on their values. I know you’re a big MMA fan (as am I). One of my friends, Vitor Belfort, who is a former UFC World Champion says that the difference between a man and a boy is that a man lives a life based off of principle and a boy lives a life based off of preference. I thought that was very similar to what you are saying.
Friesen: Yes.
Cain: The person who makes minute-to-minute decisions based off of preference, of what feels good in the moment, “what do I want right now,” instead of the person who makes the principle based decision that says “okay what do I do right now that aligns with my values and the best vision of who I want to be?” I think that’s what makes a champion and that’s what makes a man. I love how you said that.
Friesen: Yes. He said it very eloquently. That is exactly right. This is what champions know. This is what successful people [know]. It doesn’t mean how much money you make. People who are living the right life for them, they’re satisfied with their life, this is what they know.
Also this is another things that comes up (especially in today’s day and age) is that people think that they want to take the easy route. They want to be happy all the time because media feeds this idea that ideally you’re going through life always being happy and doing everything that is pleasurable. The reality is anything that is important or anything that’s big, any goals, it’s going to take pain. I think it’s the Buddha or the Dalai Lama that said this: “there is a difference between pain and suffering, pain is inevitable.” We go through pain. When you’re trying to do things that are important you’re going to feel pain but whether you suffer really depends on whether you’re going through pain to achieve something that is really important to you and that is part of your mission, part of your values, or whether you’re going against that. To achieve anything big there is a lot of pain.
Speaking of UFC, you see these training videos and it’s not like they’re just sitting around getting massages and drinking beers. You see these guys sweating their butts off going through ten times more intense training than they actually go through in the octagon. They go through hell on earth. They fight like 20 fresh guys in a row as opposed to one guy for 15-25 minutes. It’s because you’ve got to go through this pain and you’re not going to be a champion unless you go through this pain and you accept the pain and you say “look this pain is actually good because it’s bringing me closer to something that is really important to me, it’s part of my values, it’s part of my goal.” It’s no longer really suffering. It is painful but it’s not suffering. I think that’s huge.
Cain: Let’s talk about riding the pain train for a minute here. One of your first stories in chapter one about taking stock of who you are you shared a story I had never heard before about Britain’s Danny Williams, one of their boxers of all time. As I read that story - I mean I’ve underlined it. I’ve shared that story multiple times since reading that. I thought it was one of the best stories I have ever come across. Could you talk a little bit about that story of Danny Williams and the toughness that he had to have with that but understanding how the pain is inevitable and if he was going after what he really wanted he would be able to deal with the suffering.
Friesen: That’s right. Danny Williams is an amazing story. He was boxing a guy named Mark Potter. Mark Potter is actually in MMA now I believe and he is a monster. So Danny Williams is in a boxing match with Mark Potter and Danny Williams’ arm (I believe it’s his right shoulder) basically pops out of the socket. It gets dislocated. Essentially everyone watching (the announcers, everyone) is saying “this is over, why isn’t the ref stopping the fight, this is ridiculous.” It keeps popping in and out.
But Danny Williams basically had an overarching goal. Most of us mere mortals like you and I and most people would say “look at this pain, how am I going to win a boxing match with one arm?” It’s impossible. It’s basically impossible. A lot of times when you’re drilling you don’t really feel the pain but of course between rounds - and it wasn’t just like a two minute thing. It was going on for a long time within the match. This guy obviously had pain and he just kept pushing forward and kept pushing forward.
Like I said in the book Stallone couldn’t have written a better ending. Danny Williams basically wins. He ends up knocking Mark Potter down repeatedly just because he wouldn’t give up. Even Mark Potter is punching his shoulder - listeners, you’ve got to YouTube this. It’s real. You can watch it. It’s totally real. It’s about heart. It’s about knowing what is important.
They say “is Danny Williams crazy, who would do this?” He is not crazy. He is a guy who had an overarching mission, a purpose, a goal, and he had certain values and he was going to push through no matter what. In the circumstance it paid off. It’s really inspiring. You see guys like that and you’re thinking “I want to give up because of X Y or Z” and look at this guy. He was boxing at the top level and his arm was out of the socket (his shoulder came out of the socket) and he still won. It’s unreal.
Cain: I’ve used that story multiple times with college football teams already this season just talking about that it’s not what you’re going through it’s what you’re going to. You’re going to quit if what you’re going to isn’t big enough for you to withstand anything that you’re going to have to go through to get there. I think that video of Danny Williams - you see it where Potter is just attacking. He’s not even trying to hit him in the head he’s just attacking his right shoulder. Eventually in the last round it looks like something right out of Rocky. The guy can barely move his arm and he ends up knocking out this guy who had been wearing him out for the entire fight. It was unbelievable watching that video. I had no idea that that story even existed.
I remembered him beating Mike Tyson at one point in his career but never knew about that fight with Potter that I think is probably one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen when it comes down to just toughness and sheer will and not being somebody who is going to quit.
I was doing my homework earlier on the treadmill this morning on a boat somewhere out here in the middle of the Caribbean listening to one of your podcasts. You talked about something that I hear a lot of people in the field of sports psychology or Peak Performance or positive psychology or whatever the hell you want to call it. They will say that “you’ve got to have great belief before you go into a competition.” In your podcast (the episode I listened to earlier) you talked about how that is not necessarily true.
I’ve worked with a lot of high level MMA fighters - Georges St. Pierre from Canada - and one of the things that GSP used to say a lot about was that he didn’t even really talk about belief. For him it was about preparation and when he stepped into the octagon it was 50/50. There was one guy and him and one was going to win and one was going to lose and if he had done what he needed to do to prepare then he should be able to go out there and execute and win the fight. But we never even really talked about confidence or belief. It was about how are you going to act and how are you going to handle the adversity that is going to come your way. Never before the fight do you believe because frankly I’m not sure that really even matters. What is your take on all that, coach?
Friesen: That is a great point. A lot of athletes come to me and say “look I see this athlete or this person, they don’t look like they’re nervous, it looks like they have unwavering belief in themselves, I want to be like that.” They say “I want no anxiety, I want pure confidence.” I say “first of all that is impossible.” That is basically impossible because our human brains are wired to feel anxious and to not feel confident all the time and that is a good thing.
I say “listen think of it this way, imagine you had unlimited confidence. The Olympic Games are coming up and it’s four months out and you’re convinced you’re the absolute best and you’re going to basically slaughter the competition.” I worked with one of the wrestlers so let’s say it’s wrestling. “What do you think that is going to do for your training? Do you think you’re going to get up at 6:00 AM or 5:00 AM and push yourself that extra mile or do you think you’re going to kind of take it back a notch because you’ve already got this?” Obviously we know the answer. The answer is if you’re overly confident you are likely going to under-prepare.
That is just the preparation. What happens when you actually get to the competition and you’re convinced that you’re the best and you’re going to destroy this person? What is going to happen? Your arousal level may actually come down too low because we know the Yerkes-Dodson Law where you have to have a moderate level of arousal, activation, or anxiety to perform at your best. It can’t be too high, it can’t be too low.
So if you go into a competition convinced that you’re just going to basically walk over this person, you’re going to kick ass, you’re going to probably get your ass kicked because you are underestimating your opponent because your opponent is coming in there to basically (let’s say it’s MMA or wrestling) destroy you. You need to have that self doubt because it’s going to prevent you from making mistakes.
Of course you can’t go the opposite where you’re all self doubt, you don’t think you can do it, “I don’t deserve to be there.” Those are pretty normal thoughts. We have them all the time. But you don’t want them to be dominating. You want what I call a realistic but slightly positive mindset. Realistic in a sense that “I can beat this guy.” It’s positive in a sense that you think you can beat them if you do the right things, “if I maintain my game plan.”
Like GSP is saying “if I focus on what I can control” - which is when he goes for a takedown this is what I’m going to do and as soon as I see an opening I’m going to take him down etc. - really focused on the present moment and focusing on what he has to do as opposed to trying to focus on “I’m just going to shit kick and walk through these people.” You need self doubt. You need anxiety. Thinking that these are bad is the problem, not the anxiety and the self doubt. You need them to improve. You need them to not underestimate your opponents.
This is big. This is big. It’s uncomfortable but again remember like I said to achieve anything big you’ve got to feel discomfort. You’ve got to feel discomfort in training. You’ve got to feel discomfort when you’re going to go to the Olympics. It’s totally normal to feel anxious. It’s totally normal to have thoughts that “maybe I don’t deserve to be here” but when you do that meditation that we talked about earlier you are training your brain to be able to diffuse or not get hooked by negative thoughts. You say “hey there goes my brain, it does what it does, it’s telling me that I don’t deserve to be here.” So let’s motivate. I’m going to use that to motivate myself to “I’m going to watch a bit more tape of this next opponent” or “I’m going to train a bit harder” or I’m going to whatever. That’s my take on it.
Cain: I thought that was awesome. Very well said. Georges used to talk about it being a humble confidence. It’s the humility knowing that every day when the alarm goes off (like you say) at 5:00 in the morning that someone is coming to take what is mine and someone is coming to rip my head off, but it’s the confidence that when you walk and you step inside of the cage it’s the confidence knowing there is nothing else I could have done to prepare and I am ready to compete at a high level. Not “I’m ready to go in there and destroy this guy” because he would never say that. It’s always “I’m ready to go in there and compete at a high level and do what I’ve done in training and I believe what I’ve done in training has prepared me for victory.”
Friesen: Yes. You see guys like - this comes up a lot with the Yerkes-Dodson Law. Diego Sanchez, you see him getting pumped up before the fight. I think he is saying “yes” or something like that. He’s got this scowl on his face. It kind of depends on where you fall in that first personality dimension of negative emotions.
GSP - I don’t know GSP but he could be a bit on the higher side and he knows that about himself (I would assume) and so he knows what he needs to do to keep that in check. But there are other people that are really low on the negative emotions. They don’t really get nervous in these big competitions. They get very little anxiety. But we know with the Yerkes-Dodson Law you need a moderate level of anxiety.
Someone like Diego Sanchez may need to get slapped in the face a few times right before he goes into the octagon to get himself - hopefully Diego is not listening to this but I feel like with Diego what is happening is that he’s so pumped, he is so pumping himself up that is activation or anxiety level or arousal level is going too high and you see it the first round usually he looks like he is very stiff. He looks very stiff because as you now when you’re overly activated your muscles contract and when your muscles contract you can’t move fluidly. You become stiff. Joe Rogan talks about that all the time, “this guy looks like it’s his first UFC fight, I can see he’s got a lot of nerves, he seems very stiff, his muscles are stiff.”
It kind of depends where you land or at least how you react under big stressful situations. It could be that you need a coach to basically start screaming in your face because your arousal level is so low. But that is actually pretty rare. I think most of the time it’s the opposite. You don’t need a coach screaming in your face especially if your arousal is already high because then you are going to go over the edge and you’re going to be even more nervous. Your activation will be too high. It’s knowing that sweet spot and knowing what to do.
I see this a lot with high levels like the Olympic coaches and things like that. They treat all the athletes the same sometimes and they’ll start screaming and trying to get them pumped up. If the person is already anxious you’re actually doing them a disservice. They are going to underperform now. They need to be calmed down. But there may be some athletes you work with who are basically not activated enough and they need that slap in the face. They need that screaming in the face to get themselves to the moderate level of arousal/activation/anxiety to perform at their peak.
Cain: I think that is really what the fundamental purpose of a routine is too is the athlete comes back to - so in your first part we talked about knowing yourself and having a routine to help you get into that performance state of I don’t need to be dialed up, I don’t need to be calmed down because my routine gets me right where I need to be and I have the awareness and I have the strategy that if I need to pick myself up I might do some tuck-jumps or some more of like breath like I would do if I was getting ready to rip a power clean or slap myself around a little bit or even go to the mirror and talk to myself in a certain way to get me a little bit more dialed in or I used the right music where if I need to calm myself down I might slide more into a meditation technique.
I think it all comes down to the athlete being able to recognize where they’re at and then have the right strategy to either dial themselves up or dial themselves down to be in that optimal performance state. Is that accurate?
Friesen: That is exactly accurate. That is totally it. We’re all a little bit different. We all have brains and the same lobes in our brains but our personalities are different. Obviously our physiques are different. We have differences. Knowing this about yourself is the key to success in athletics and in life in general.
Cain: Love that. In the end of your book you talk about the story of Viktor Frankl which I think is maybe the story that can summarize what really mental toughness is. It’s the inability to give away that response to no matter what comes your way. Would you talk a little bit about Viktor Frankl and that story that is in the back of your book that I think is so powerful.
Friesen: So Viktor Frankl is a neurologist and psychiatrist by trade. He is passed away now. He was an older individual. His story is unbelievable. He is Jewish and was living in I believe Germany or Austria (I forget) when the Nazis took power. He is actually a big - well a lot of his work is - he is a big fan of existential psychotherapy. His is called “logotherapy” which means “meaning therapy” which is very similar to what I am talking about is knowing your why. That is really important.
So he basically had to make a choice. He had an option to leave Austria or Germany to go to (I believe) England to flee the Nazis because he started to see what was happening with people that were Jewish, people who had disabilities, and people who had various illnesses, that they were obviously exterminating these people. He basically decided - I’m sure emotionally he was scared and he wanted to leave but he wanted to live a principled life and he wanted his life to have some meaning so he actually stayed.
Of course he went to the concentration camps. He did a number of things before he left. Because he was working as a physician he falsified some documents (I believe) to allow certain individuals to basically skip the gas chambers who were disabled (for example, I believe). So he had risked his life for this. Of course he goes to the concentration camps. I forget the exact number. I know his wife was killed in the concentration camps. Pretty much his whole family were gassed and killed.
He noticed when he was in the concentration camps that people who were there who had an overall “why” to live or to survive tended to do better despite being in the same circumstances of being starving, having various disease, and basically your life being in danger. He had experiments done to him that were just disgusting. One of his books is called Man’s Search For Meaning. It describes some of this. It’s not an easy read in this sense. It’s an emotional read. But it’s an important read.
So long story short he really found that he discovered that people who had this meaning or reason to go through the suffering tended to survive. That seemed to predict survival better than other variables. So when he got out obviously he wanted to see his family and things like that. Of course they had died and that put him through obviously depression when he first got out. But his mission and goal was to write about this and write about the importance of having meaning, having a purpose, having a “why” in terms of living a good life and living a life worth living. So he wrote a number of books and became very famous.
I’m not saying it as elegantly as I wrote it in the book but he is very inspirational. He is a very inspirational person. He really helped us to see the importance of knowing your “why.” Again just reading the story it helps put things into perspective. We think we have problems, just think about what this guy went through and how he turned out and how he still - I’m sure he felt pain throughout his life from the memories of what happened to is family but he pushed forward and had a bigger mission to complete.
His work has been applied. He has done a lot of work (he did a lot of work) with people who were suicidal. People who want to kill themselves. Basically people who end up killing themselves often do not have a purpose, do not have a mission, life seems meaningless, and it’s those - if you can help them develop a sense of meaning, a sense of purpose, this usually will reverse any tendencies to want to kill yourself. He is a really important person in the history of Peak Performance (I believe) and just life in general.
Cain: Hands down one of my favorite books of all time, Man’s Search For Meaning, and it was one of the first books that Dr. Ken Ravizza had us read in our grad program at Cal State Fullerton. If you ever get a chance - I don’t know if you’ve been down to Washington DC and gone to the Holocaust Museum but t go through that and having read Man’s Search For Meaning it is an emotional experience when you go through there just to see the hell on earth that those people went through. And the fact that he was able to go then write about that and kind of share his story that is impacting so many people in such a positive way goes to show that even out of the deepest and darkest most hellacious times in the history of man there is still some good that comes out of that even with his book and the power of choosing your response in every situation. It’s amazing what that whole experience was. Unbelievable.
Friesen: Yes.
Cain: Chris, talking about you said identifying your mission statement. We now Frankl had a mission and Danny Williams had a mission. I’d like to know what is your mission? As someone who is leading the field of performance psychology and has the clinical background and the academic background and is now getting after it with the in the trenches, the blue collar psychologist (I love that term), what is your reason why or what is your mission?
Friesen: Missions I think take development. I’ve always been trying to figure out my mission. I do know my mission now but my mission really is I really want to help as many people as I can. I really want to - like we said earlier I want to be able to first of all because of my background read the research and really figure out what here is useful for people to use to basically live a better life, to perform at their peak in sports - and whether they’re entrepreneurs or executives because I work with a lot of those individuals as well - and really take that research and apply it to myself to make sure I can buy into it. I can read research but until I try things myself - I have to experience it to really buy into it. Just really translate that to help other people.
I really think that people are living below their potential. I knew it sounds almost cliché but we are. I’m a perfect example. When I was a teenager when I was in school I was probably one of the bottom 1%-2% of the students in terms of my academic performance. I was more interested in sports of course, that was part of the issue. My self esteem or my self efficacy or my belief in my academic abilities was really low. It’s kind of a running joke within my family that I went so far, I got my PhD and I did all these things. I worked for the highest graduating average, how I turned that around and how it seems almost impossible. Even sometimes I think of it myself I’m like “that does seem impossible” when I look back.
I remember what I thought about my capabilities academically but it was only until I really figured out what was important to me. I thought I really love the idea - I love human psychology. I love the idea of you can take information from people who do research or who are wiser than me and that can better my life. I did that.
Actually when I was 15 or 16 I read Tony Robbins’ Awaken The Giant Within and Unlimited Power and also The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. That was the biggest eye opener for me. I’ was using that and I read some autobiographies and that really changed things around for me. I discovered a reason. I didn’t realize it. I just thought it was stupid. The reality is I now had a reason to do well in school - because I wanted to learn this stuff. It’s so fascinating. Anyone who is willing to listen or is willing to accept my help that is just the best thing ever for me and I can give that to people. I’ve sort of learned that about myself and that is my mission is really to translate really useful information about Peak Performance, about high achievement, and just about how to live a happy life and really give it to people in any way I can.
That is where the motivation came from to write this book and this series of books is because I can only affect so many people one-on-one or in small groups. I really feel like I want to get this information out to the masses.
Cain: Well you’re doing it my friend. I hope that this podcast is able to expose you more to the people that have been following us here. For the people that are listening to this please go get more of Dr. Chris Friesen at www.FriesenPerformance.com and on Twitter at @FriesenPerform. Chris, is there any way that our listeners can connect with you via maybe an email? Do you have maybe a newsletter on your website or something where they can hear from you on a consistent basis? What you’re putting out is not only very applicable it’s also all backed with hardcore science and to find that combination my friend is very rare and very valuable so thank you for making time for our listeners on the Peak Performance Podcast.
Friesen: Thank you. Thanks for having me. On www.FriesenPerformance.com there is a sign up newsletter. Every couple of weeks I’ll send articles that I’ve written. I’ve written a couple for success magazine, www.Success.com. I’ve been interviewed for a couple of things like the Washington Post, Exercise In Personality, that kind of thing, and the various podcasts I’ve been on and some of the blogs I’ve written. What I do is every couple of weeks I send an email that basically talks about - one of them is about this exact thing (confidence) that we talked about today. One of the www.Success.com articles is about how to write your personal missions statement. So that is the best way is to get on that mailing list and you’ll get access.
You also get news in terms of when the second book - it’s not completed yet, the second book in The High Achievement Handbook - when that is going to come out and that sort of thing. So definitely sign up for the newsletter. You can follow me on Twitter and Facebook for example but that I mostly repost what I think are really interesting articles about Peak Performance and neuroscience (that kind of thing) but to really get the more personal stuff, the stuff that I’m talking about, is really my newsletter that you get on my website. That is the best way.
Cain: And to pick up a copy of book one in The High Achievement Handbook series, ACHIEVE: Find Out Who You Are, What You Really Want, How To Make It Happen, is the best place for them to go to Amazon and search your name or go to your website?
Friesen: You can go either place. It’s all sold through Amazon so on Amazon there is the paperback, there is the Kindle version, and I relatively recently got the Audible version. I have a really good narrator named Chris A. Bell. I had about 70 people apply to be the narrator (to audition for it) and it was a really cool process. I love Chris A. Bell’s voice and style. You can listen to a quick clip.
So it’s in every format now. You can get it on iTunes as well of course and www.Audible.com of course and Amazon. On my website I have links to those as well. So that is the place. Just search “achieve” and “Friesen” and it should be the first one that pops up on Amazon.
Cain: Awesome. Chris, thanks for making the time to sit down and join us on the Peak Performance Podcast. One of my favorite episodes that we’ve done. It was truly an honor to have you and I can’t wait for book two to come out. Hopefully we can get a copy and go through and get another episode.
Friesen: Definitely. I really appreciate you having me on the show. You have an awesome show and like I was saying earlier you are definitely kicking a lot of ass. I’m proud of you man. This is awesome. You are doing an excellent job. You are really making a difference. Keep it up.</description>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Brian speaks with one of the leading professionals in all of peak performance and sport psychology as well as #1 Best-Selling Author, Dr. Chris Friesen. He is the author of The High Achievement Handbook Series and gives you great insight...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode, Brian speaks with one of the leading professionals in all of peak performance and sport psychology as well as #1 Best-Selling Author, Dr. Chris Friesen. He is the author of The High Achievement Handbook Series and gives you great insight into the mind and how to control it.
Follow Dr. Friesen on Twitter @FriesenPerform
Check out his website FriesenPerformance.com
You will learn about...
Dr. Friesen's unique, guided, brain training and meditation technique
Dr. Friesen's advanced knowledge on sports psychology and how to maximize your mental potential
"The Funeral Exercise" to help you establish core values
The incredible story of boxer Danny Williams overcoming a dislocated shoulder mid-fight
Dr. Friesen even explains why having some self-doubt is actually a good thing
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Friesen: Most of us mere mortals like you and I and most people would say “look at this pain, how am I going to win a boxing match with one arm?” It’s impossible. It’s basically impossible. And he just kept pushing forward and pushing forward. Like I said in the book Stallone couldn’t have written a better ending. Danny Williams basically wins.
Cain: Hey this is Brian Cain with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest is one of the leading professionals in all of Peak Performance and sports psychology and he is a number one bestselling author. Dr. Chris Friesen is a licensed psychologist in Ontario, Canada, practicing in the areas of clinical psychology, clinical neuropsychology, forensic correctional psychology, and high achievement sports psychology and performance psychology.
Dr. Friesen has training and experience that crosses a broad spectrum of psychological difficulties including working with individuals who have anxiety or performance anxiety, depression, personality disorders, brain injuries often occurring from sports concussion, to severe traumatic brain injuries happening in military or in combat scenarios, and those involved with the criminal justice system - offenders of all types. Primarily though Dr. Friesen and the reason why I’m so intrigued and honored to have him as a guest on the show this week is that he focuses on helping athletes and other individuals who are performing at the highest levels continuously improve and achieve and smash their goals.
As we said earlier he is the number one bestselling author of The High Achievement Handbook series and in this podcast we’re going to focus on book one of the series. It’s called ACHIEVE: Find Out Who You Are, What You Really Want, And How To Make It Happen.
Dr. Chris Friesen, thanks for being on the Peak Performance Podcast.
Friesen: Brian thanks for having me. I’m super pumped to be here.
Cain: Your background I think is tremendous in that is has a lot of the hardcore psychological science but you also have the application and are doing it in the real world. I think often what you find is you get people who are doing it that are unlicensed and don’t have a background in training or they have all the clinical background and psychological training but they just can’t seem to make the human connection with the high achiever because they haven’t been as I would refer to you as is a “blue collar psychologist.” You mentioned that term earlier when we were off the air and I thought that was fantastic.
Could you talk a little bit about kind of your unique background and experience both from the training and the academic side but then also with how you go about applying it and what the - sometimes I think there is that gap between the science and the application. Could you talk a little bit about your experience in both and kind of closing that gap?
Friesen: Definitely. Like you said I’m a licensed psychologist with various areas of expertise. I’ve always been really fascinated by high achievement and success since I was a teenager and I played hockey as a goalie actually. I went into my training and psychology in Canada. In the clinical psychology graduate programs there is no specific sports psychology training so all that training was sort of done after the fact.
One of the issues I’ve always had was there is some really amazing research coming out from cognitive neuroscience, sports psychology, just general personality psychology, that often doesn’t get percolated down to the everyday person or even high achieving athletes or other high achievers.
I’ve always been the type of guy that applies all the stuff I learned to myself. I’m a big self experimenter. I can tell you lots of things. I’ve tried various supplements. I’ve tried various meditation techniques. Almost everything I talk about - like in the book for example - I’ve done it on myself and I’ve used it with athletes and other high achievers.
So I really felt that one of the things I noticed with a lot of self help books is either they are written by academics, PhD like myself (although I am not a researcher per se anymore), and it’s full of studies with very little application or like you said it’s written by someone like a Peak Performance sort of self help book with someone who has zero experience or credentials in that area.
So I realized that maybe this is useful to a lot of people so I really wrote the book in a way that is ultra user friendly. It takes sort of complicated scientific ideas or research findings and puts them into very easy to learn and apply strategies. So that is sort of where I see myself is the type of psychologist that really tries to bring this information to people to help them really achieve the goals that are really important to them.
Cain: I love how you mentioned taking everything you had used with an athlete or with someone who you’re working with and doing it on yourself - something that I also try. Any technique or any strategy that I’m going to share with the team or with an athlete why wouldn’t I use that myself if it’s something that I think is going to help them to achieve at a higher level? So I really think that that is a lot of the missing link. It’s like going to a fat doctor or to a poor financial planner. It just often doesn’t add up. You’ve got to be doing that stuff yourself.
You sound kind of like Tim Ferriss, the author of The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body who is kind of that human science experiment. One of the things that you mentioned that I want to kind of dovetail off into was meditation techniques. It’s something that I talk often with athletes about and I think that athletes and coaches have the stigma that you have to shave your head, put on an orange robe, burn some incense, cross your legs, and hike to the top of the Himalayas if you’re going to do meditation. What is your experience with mediation and what is the best practice that you’ve found?
Friesen: That is a great question. The way I describe meditation is it’s just a form of brain training. Especially with my neuroscience and neuropsychology background I often try and use connect the two. I look at the research in those areas. So for example the way I describe it to people - and this is how I describe it to myself when I use it on myself, this is the strategy I use. For example what you’re doing is you’re brain training. You’re training the ability to stay focused. You’re training your brain’s ability to not get caught up or hooked by negative thoughts.
The way I say it is there’s three reps, basically you sit down and you focus on your breathing. You don’t control your breathing. The first step is just to focus on your breathing. The next rep is basically to be aware of or notice when your mind is no longer focused on your breathing which is inevitable. It happens to everyone. The goal is not to have a perfectly Zen mind where your thoughts never stray. It’s basically never going to happen. It’s an impossible goal. The idea is you notice when your thoughts wander away from your breathing. Acknowledge what your thoughts are doing.
So you say for example “I’m having the thought that this is boring” or “I’m having the feeling of anxiety because I have to go buy milk” or something like that and you basically describe what’s happening, what your mind is doing. What that does is it trains you to defuse or not get hooked by your thoughts. We are not our thoughts - especially our negative thoughts. We want to be able to pick and choose which thoughts we allow to take hold of us.
So you basically acknowledge what is going on because if you don’t acknowledge it, if you just try to squash it, research shows - and I tie this back to obsessive compulsive order and PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder. One of the hallmarks of those disorders is you have thoughts or flashbacks that are very disturbing that you don’t want to have and the natural reaction is to squash those thoughts or pretend you’re not having them and do everything in your power to avoid having them. But the problem is we know the way the brain works. As soon as you try to squash a thought it continually comes back. It will continually pop back into your mind. So you want to acknowledge it, allow the thoughts to be there, then the next rep is to turn your attention back to your breathing.
Basically it is hardcore brain training. It is not a relaxation technique. I tell people relaxation may be a side effect but that’s not the point. We’re training our brains to be able to basically increase our ability to stay focused and also to not get hooked by negative thoughts. It does a whole bunch of other things, it improves executive functioning and that kind of things, but that’s really the way I describe it to people. It’s again not relaxation, it’s not religious, it’s basically a form of brain training that takes zero dollars and zero equipment. So that is my take on it.
Cain: Would it be possible time wise for you to take us through a very short version of mediation so that our listeners would know exactly “hey this is an example of a meditation that I learned from Dr. Chris Friesen that I want to share with my team.” Maybe like a 2-3 minute exercise they might be able to take and use?
Friesen: Yeah I can sort of give you a quick walk through.
Cain: Perfect.
Friesen: You want me to do it right now?
Cain: That would be fantastic. If anyone is listening to this podcast while they are driving skip this section or pull yourself over so that you make sure you’re doing it safely.
Friesen: The way I do it is I’m actually usually generally against using any tapes for mediation because it’s like a cheat in a way. It’s helping you focus. The idea is when you are basically in a quiet environment - just imagine when you lie down and go to sleep and you’re not tired and you realize how much your mind is racing and thinking of random thoughts. That’s actually where you want to be. You don’t want to fall asleep so you don’t want to lie down. You don’t want a tape telling you to do something, but of course the first time to learn the strategy you do, or you want to hear me talking now.
So what you do is you sit down. You don’t slouch back, you don’t slouch forward. You sit in an erect position not so much that it’s painful but enough that it’s not going to make you fall asleep. Remember this is not a relaxation exercise - it’s a brain training exercise.
The first thing you do now is you basically focus your attention on your breathing. Notice for example how the air is a bit cooler when it goes in through your nose and warmer when it comes out. You’re not controlling your breathing, you are simply focusing on your breathing.
Inevitably your mind is going to wander. You’re going to have a thought about something. You’re going to judge yourself. You’re going to think of something in the future. You may worry about something. Even if you have a positive thought, in this exercise you want to what we call “diffuse” from those thoughts. What that really means is notice when your thoughts have wandered and describe what is happening. Say “I’m having the thought that X or Y” or “having the feeling that X or Y.” That is going to put some space between you and your thoughts and you want to train this because you do not want to be your thoughts, especially your negative thoughts.
So once your thoughts wander describe what is happening really briefly. Allow them to be there. Don’t get upset. Having thoughts is what your brain does. It’s programmed to generate thoughts when there is nothing going on. You’re going to notice them, acknowledge them, and very gently return your attention back to your breathing. You’re just going to do this again and again. You’re not going to go very long before your thoughts wander and that is actually good.
The trick is to notice when your thoughts wander, acknowledge them, and return your attention back. That is all you’re trying to do. That is the only goal. A lot of people come to me and say “look it was so bad, the meditation, my thoughts we all over the place.” I say “listen that’s actually good.” It’s like working out with a weight pack. The more your thoughts are wandering the better. You’re getting a better brain workout.
That is basically it in a nutshell. It’s really a series of steps and just knowing what you’re doing. You may feel relaxed at the end. You may not. That’s not the goal. There are a lot of other ways you could relax. Take a hot bath. This is not training to relax.
The side effect though from this type of training is that you are going to be more relaxed generally. Not because of a physiological response or training but because you’re no longer getting hooked by negative thoughts or feelings and you’re basically able to stay focused in the present moment which is the key to the zone when it comes to playing sports (for example).
So this is the other thing I tell everyone. By doing this you are training your ability to stay in the present moment which is where you want to be to perform at your peak. When you are in the present moment that is when you are in the zone and it’s going to make it more likely you’re going to get in the zone and you can control now whether you go into the zone better than you did before.
Cain: That is one of the most simple and clear definitions I think I’ve ever heard someone say about meditation is that step one is you’re focusing on your breathing - in through your nose, out through your nose. Step two, acknowledge when your mind drifts to anything other than your breath. Step three, bring it back to your breathing. It’s not a relaxation exercise. I’ve never heard it said this way. It’s not a relaxation exercise, it’s an exercise in developing a present moment focus and the result of that will be a feeling of relaxation which is much more close to that flow state or to the zone where you’re in the present moment and you’re where your feet are and that is when you perform your best. That was fantastic.
Chris, if we can jump into your book here. One of the things with your subtitle is it says Find Out Who You Are, What You Really Want, And How To Make It Happen. Let’s get right into it.
What are some strategies that you use? I love how you talk about strategy because I think you often get two types of people who come from two types of the spectrum in the world of Peak Performance. You get those who talk about principle and just concept like “be positive,” well no shit. Okay well how do you do that? Focus on what you can control. No shit. The sun rises. Great. Well how do I actually get back to that when the bullets start flying?
I think it’s important that people know themselves but I love that you’re going to share with us some strategies that people can use about how to better get to know themselves. What are some of the ways that - if you would, first, why is it important that people know themselves? Secondly, how is it that people listening to this podcast can better get to know themselves? What is something they can go and do?
Friesen: Great question. Throughout my career I’ve seen a lot of people who have gone very far - including in athletics and just in their lives. Basically barking up the wrong tree is maybe not the right word but you’re basically focusing on the wrong things for them. This often leads to a lot of psychological problems - some subtle, some clinical level, a lot of anxiety, depression, and dissatisfaction in today’s society. I think a lot of the over-prescription of antidepressants is partially due to the fact that people are not living a life congruent with who they are and what is really important to them.
What I mean by that is at the most basic level we all differ on five general personality dimensions. I call them “the basic personality tendencies.” This has been replicated in scientific research across it’s probably been 70 years now. It hasn’t really percolated well into the general public’s awareness. I can go over them but they’re basically five global dimensions.
We all differ. It’s our personality so we all differ on these. They are partially genetic, about 50%. So 50% percent is due to genes. We have twin studies where twins have been separated at birth and reared in different countries and different parts of countries and that sort of thing and this is how we figured these stats out. The other half of our personality is determined by our experiences, particularly experiences earlier on in life. I don’t mean in the first two years of life I mean in the first 20 years of life because our brains are much more malleable - something called neuroplasticity is big - and our brains are still forming and molding. When we get older it’s much more difficult to change that.
So long story short the first dimension, I call it in my book “the susceptibility to negative emotions and stress.” It’s simply like it sounds. Basically some of us are very easily stressed, easily get nervous, they have a lot of pessimistic thoughts. Some of us are more in the middle, and some of us are more the opposite where we don’t experience a lot of stress. This is very important to know about yourself because especially the people trying to achieve big goals if you’re average to high on this (in other words you do experience a lot of negative mentions and thoughts) you are at risk for failure unless you train yourself and do a number of strategies to make sure you can keep that in check.
Also all these things are strengths as well. People who are artists, people who are high performers, sports as well, are often high on this but they capitalize on this. I’m sure you’ve talked a lot about this. One simple example is reinterpreting your physiological response to let’s say right before a big event like anxiety as “I’m pumped, I’m amped, I’m ready, let’s rock” as opposed to “oh shit I’m scared, my legs are feeling wobbly, this means I’m going to totally choke.” So that is just a quick example.
The next one is extroversion versus introversion. We all know about that. People who are extroverted obviously like to be around people. This has more to do though with our brain’s ability to handle external stimulation. Extroverts - a very simplified way of looking at this (and there are some EEG studies that confirm this) is basically their brains are revving a little bit too low so they need to get a lot of external stimulation whether it’s social, whether it’s being in a high paced, fast and exciting environment, to feel normal. Versus people who are introverted their brains are kind of revving too fast and too much external stimulation puts them into overload and they start to feel overwhelmed and they can burn out easily. This is extremely important in terms of knowing what you can handle in your sports career or in your career in general. You have to match your job to your personality or you have to work around it.
Another one is called agreeableness. This is really our attitudes towards others. People who are really agreeable tend to be really honest, straightforward, very trusting, not very interpersonally competitive. People who are low on this (what we call slightly disagreeable) they’re more skeptical, they’re less open with others, they are more interpersonally competitive. It’s extremely important to know this about yourself.
The fourth one is openness to experience. This is big when you’re working with athletes to know where they stand on this. People who are really open to experiences are just open to different ways of looking at things. They’re interested in and open to people from different cultures, different values, different ideas. People who are low on this are obviously the opposite. They’re really closed to those things. If you’re working with someone who - let’s say you Brian. You’re working with someone who is an athlete and you have a new technique (let’s say it’s a new meditation technique) and the person is really closed to the experience you probably want to emphasize it being more as a traditional thing - they’ve been using this for years and years and all the big guys are using this. Whereas someone who is really open to experiences will be open to trying almost anything (they’ll use magnets) because they’re so open to different things and that sort of thing. That is really important to know.
The last one, literature calls it “conscientiousness,” I call it “motivation and self control” because I think that describes it better. It’s exactly how it sounds. People who are high on this are highly motivated, highly organized, highly achievement oriented. People who are low on this are the opposite. People who are high on this have a gigantic advantage when it comes to success. People who are low have a big disadvantage in multiple areas of life (and research supports this) whether it’s income, whether it’s health outcomes, whatever it may be.
So long story short the very first step in knowing yourself is knowing your core basic personality. These have neurological correlates in our brains so these are very difficult to change. For the most part people need to accept their personality and work with what they’ve got.
Of course next we need to know what is important to us. I call it “knowing your values.” Living a life incongruent with your values and also your personality is a recipe for disaster. You need to know what is really important to you. In the book I go through different exercises to help you really get in touch with your values because like I said you have to live a life congruent with your values, with what is important to you, or you’re going to be basically constantly going against your own grain.
Knowing your strengths, knowing your interests, knowing your passions is extremely important. Only if you get all this information then can you really figure out what your mission - I say “missions” because I don’t think everyone has one single mission but you have multiple purposes or missions in life and only by knowing yourself really well can you get to know that part.
In the last two sections of the book is really about now you’re ready to set goals. It’s all these earlier steps to know yourself before you should be really setting goals. Most people and a lot of books go right into goal setting but without the ground work - because what will happen is you may be focusing on goals for years (for example) that aren’t really right for you. That is a huge mistake.
Cain: That is fantastic in terms of talking about knowing your basic personality tendencies, knowing your core values, knowing your strengths, and then kind of getting clear on your why. Let’s talk about that concept of identifying your values.
For the person that is listening to this - which I believe most of our listeners are going to be listening to this as they’re driving in their car - is there a way that you can ask them the certain couple questions or an exercise that they can do to kind of come up with what their core values are or is it ultimately just them kind of sitting down? I think often people think that they need to go get away from life for three weeks and climb a mountain, go to a lakeside retreat, and all of a sudden what their core values are and their mission in life is going to hit them. Whereas I’m much more of the school of thought in like you decide on what your core values are, you decide on what your mission is. Or your missions. I love the way you said that is that people have more than one mission in life. I think that’s genius. You decide on what they [your core values] are and then kind of evolve over time. What is your take on how you go about creating a set of core values and identifying with what your mission is?
Friesen: That is great. One of the differences between personality and values is that personality you don’t choose your personality but you choose your values. Often we’re not even aware of where our values came from.
What I usually do (one of the best exercises is really existential) is do what I call a “funeral exercise.” I didn’t invent this. The one I put in the book is more specific to what I think are the best strategies within that exercise. It’s simply this: you imagine your funeral. You imagine (for example) it’s five years from today (or whatever time frame you really want) and you imagine your funeral and you imagine the different people that are really important to you in your life getting up there and talking about you. You want to think of what you want them to say about you, not necessarily what you think they would say about you. Hopefully that makes sense.
Ideally what would you like people to say about you? Would they say “this guy was a total jerk he was just focused on himself,” that kind of thing? No. You’re going to have thoughts of “this guy really went out of his way to help people and his family was super important, he was also about excellence, he was always trying to be as best as he could be so he could help others be their best.” You want to think ideally what do you want people to say about you.
Of course when you do this you want to start the exercise really using all your sense for imagery to imagine yourself being at the funeral, looking at the people, looking at the people crying. It can be an emotional situation. You want to really put yourself in that position in your mind. You want to really pretend it’s happening. You should write this out or at least say it out loud or say it in your head. What do you want an important coach or an important teammate or your wife or your children, what do you want them to say about you? What do you want them to say? That will tell you what your values are. Are they going to say “this guy worked so hard he got sick, he spent so much time at the office, he didn’t give a shit about the family.” Is that what you want people to think? Is that what you really want? You’ll get in touch with what is really important to you.
Also there is another exercise to where in the book it’s simply a list of values. Readers can download that as well. It just goes through a bunch of values and you basically read through them and you kind of rank order the top 5-10 that are really important to you. You’ve got to make sure that - and this is the biggest key to success in my opinion. The most successful people don’t may their day-to-day minute-to-minute decisions about what to do with their time or what to buy, who to spend time with, they don’t make it based on their immediate moods, their urges, their energy levels, that sort of thing. They make these decisions based on their values and what is really important to them.
If you just take one thing away from this podcast it’s that you want to make your day-to-day decisions based on what is important to you. A simple example is personally I wake up at 6:00 AM to get up and workout before my four year old is up. When that alarm goes off my immediate moods, energy levels, and everything is telling me “press snooze and just sleep in” but my values - one of my values is to be really healthy and also to have longevity. I want to be there when my daughter gets married. I want to be there when she has kids. And being healthy makes me feel good. It builds my self efficacy, my self esteem, it maintains it. So regardless of how I feel I make the decision based on my values and my bigger goals, not based on how I feel in the moment. That is just a quick example.
Cain: I love that exercise. I remember that is one of the first things when I went to graduate school at Cal State Fullerton Dr. Ken Ravizza had us do. It comes right out of his book Heads-Up Baseball where he talks about imagine you’re in a banquet, you’re retiring from your career as a coach, what do you want all the people who are at that banquet to say about you. That kind of helps to formulate your vision statement or your core values in terms of who you are.
One of the things that you said that I love is that the most successful people don’t make minute-to-minute decisions based on moods. They make them based on their values. I know you’re a big MMA fan (as am I). One of my friends, Vitor Belfort, who is a former UFC World Champion says that the difference between a man and a boy is that a man lives a life based off of principle and a boy lives a life based off of preference. I thought that was very similar to what you are saying.
Friesen: Yes.
Cain: The person who makes minute-to-minute decisions based off of preference, of what feels good in the moment, “what do I want right now,” instead of the person who makes the principle based decision that says “okay what do I do right now that aligns with my values and the best vision of who I want to be?” I think that’s what makes a champion and that’s what makes a man. I love how you said that.
Friesen: Yes. He said it very eloquently. That is exactly right. This is what champions know. This is what successful people [know]. It doesn’t mean how much money you make. People who are living the right life for them, they’re satisfied with their life, this is what they know.
Also this is another things that comes up (especially in today’s day and age) is that people think that they want to take the easy route. They want to be happy all the time because media feeds this idea that ideally you’re going through life always being happy and doing everything that is pleasurable. The reality is anything that is important or anything that’s big, any goals, it’s going to take pain. I think it’s the Buddha or the Dalai Lama that said this: “there is a difference between pain and suffering, pain is inevitable.” We go through pain. When you’re trying to do things that are important you’re going to feel pain but whether you suffer really depends on whether you’re going through pain to achieve something that is really important to you and that is part of your mission, part of your values, or whether you’re going against that. To achieve anything big there is a lot of pain.
Speaking of UFC, you see these training videos and it’s not like they’re just sitting around getting massages and drinking beers. You see these guys sweating their butts off going through ten times more intense training than they actually go through in the octagon. They go through hell on earth. They fight like 20 fresh guys in a row as opposed to one guy for 15-25 minutes. It’s because you’ve got to go through this pain and you’re not going to be a champion unless you go through this pain and you accept the pain and you say “look this pain is actually good because it’s bringing me closer to something that is really important to me, it’s part of my values, it’s part of my goal.” It’s no longer really suffering. It is painful but it’s not suffering. I think that’s huge.
Cain: Let’s talk about riding the pain train for a minute here. One of your first stories in chapter one about taking stock of who you are you shared a story I had never heard before about Britain’s Danny Williams, one of their boxers of all time. As I read that story - I mean I’ve underlined it. I’ve shared that story multiple times since reading that. I thought it was one of the best stories I have ever come across. Could you talk a little bit about that story of Danny Williams and the toughness that he had to have with that but understanding how the pain is inevitable and if he was going after what he really wanted he would be able to deal with the suffering.
Friesen: That’s right. Danny Williams is an amazing story. He was boxing a guy named Mark Potter. Mark Potter is actually in MMA now I believe and he is a monster. So Danny Williams is in a boxing match with Mark Potter and Danny Williams’ arm (I believe it’s his right shoulder) basically pops out of the socket. It gets dislocated. Essentially everyone watching (the announcers, everyone) is saying “this is over, why isn’t the ref stopping the fight, this is ridiculous.” It keeps popping in and out.
But Danny Williams basically had an overarching goal. Most of us mere mortals like you and I and most people would say “look at this pain, how am I going to win a boxing match with one arm?” It’s impossible. It’s basically impossible. A lot of times when you’re drilling you don’t really feel the pain but of course between rounds - and it wasn’t just like a two minute thing. It was going on for a long time within the match. This guy obviously had pain and he just kept pushing forward and kept pushing forward.
Like I said in the book Stallone couldn’t have written a better ending. Danny Williams basically wins. He ends up knocking Mark Potter down repeatedly just because he wouldn’t give up. Even Mark Potter is punching his shoulder - listeners, you’ve got to YouTube this. It’s real. You can watch it. It’s totally real. It’s about heart. It’s about knowing what is important.
They say “is Danny Williams crazy, who would do this?” He is not crazy. He is a guy who had an overarching mission, a purpose, a goal, and he had certain values and he was going to push through no matter what. In the circumstance it paid off. It’s really inspiring. You see guys like that and you’re thinking “I want to give up because of X Y or Z” and look at this guy. He was boxing at the top level and his arm was out of the socket (his shoulder came out of the socket) and he still won. It’s unreal.
Cain: I’ve used that story multiple times with college football teams already this season just talking about that it’s not what you’re going through it’s what you’re going to. You’re going to quit if what you’re going to isn’t big enough for you to withstand anything that you’re going to have to go through to get there. I think that video of Danny Williams - you see it where Potter is just attacking. He’s not even trying to hit him in the head he’s just attacking his right shoulder. Eventually in the last round it looks like something right out of Rocky. The guy can barely move his arm and he ends up knocking out this guy who had been wearing him out for the entire fight. It was unbelievable watching that video. I had no idea that that story even existed.
I remembered him beating Mike Tyson at one point in his career but never knew about that fight with Potter that I think is probably one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen when it comes down to just toughness and sheer will and not being somebody who is going to quit.
I was doing my homework earlier on the treadmill this morning on a boat somewhere out here in the middle of the Caribbean listening to one of your podcasts. You talked about something that I hear a lot of people in the field of sports psychology or Peak Performance or positive psychology or whatever the hell you want to call it. They will say that “you’ve got to have great belief before you go into a competition.” In your podcast (the episode I listened to earlier) you talked about how that is not necessarily true.
I’ve worked with a lot of high level MMA fighters - Georges St. Pierre from Canada - and one of the things that GSP used to say a lot about was that he didn’t even really talk about belief. For him it was about preparation and when he stepped into the octagon it was 50/50. There was one guy and him and one was going to win and one was going to lose and if he had done what he needed to do to prepare then he should be able to go out there and execute and win the fight. But we never even really talked about confidence or belief. It was about how are you going to act and how are you going to handle the adversity that is going to come your way. Never before the fight do you believe because frankly I’m not sure that really even matters. What is your take on all that, coach?
Friesen: That is a great point. A lot of athletes come to me and say “look I see this athlete or this person, they don’t look like they’re nervous, it looks like they have unwavering belief in themselves, I want to be like that.” They say “I want no anxiety, I want pure confidence.” I say “first of all that is impossible.” That is basically impossible because our human brains are wired to feel anxious and to not feel confident all the time and that is a good thing.
I say “listen think of it this way, imagine you had unlimited confidence. The Olympic Games are coming up and it’s four months out and you’re convinced you’re the absolute best and you’re going to basically slaughter the competition.” I worked with one of the wrestlers so let’s say it’s wrestling. “What do you think that is going to do for your training? Do you think you’re going to get up at 6:00 AM or 5:00 AM and push yourself that extra mile or do you think you’re going to kind of take it back a notch because you’ve already got this?” Obviously we know the answer. The answer is if you’re overly confident you are likely going to under-prepare.
That is just the preparation. What happens when you actually get to the competition and you’re convinced that you’re the best and you’re going to destroy this person? What is going to happen? Your arousal level may actually come down too low because we know the Yerkes-Dodson Law where you have to have a moderate level of arousal, activation, or anxiety to perform at your best. It can’t be too high, it can’t be too low.
So if you go into a competition convinced that you’re just going to basically walk over this person, you’re going to kick ass, you’re going to probably get your ass kicked because you are underestimating your opponent because your opponent is coming in there to basically (let’s say it’s MMA or wrestling) destroy you. You need to have that self doubt because it’s going to prevent you from making mistakes.
Of course you can’t go the opposite where you’re all self doubt, you don’t think you can do it, “I don’t deserve to be there.” Those are pretty normal thoughts. We have them all the time. But you don’t want them to be dominating. You want what I call a realistic but slightly positive mindset. Realistic in a sense that “I can beat this guy.” It’s positive in a sense that you think you can beat them if you do the right things, “if I maintain my game plan.”
Like GSP is saying “if I focus on what I can control” - which is when he goes for a takedown this is what I’m going to do and as soon as I see an opening I’m going to take him down etc. - really focused on the present moment and focusing on what he has to do as opposed to trying to focus on “I’m just going to shit kick and walk through these people.” You need self doubt. You need anxiety. Thinking that these are bad is the problem, not the anxiety and the self doubt. You need them to improve. You need them to not underestimate your opponents.
This is big. This is big. It’s uncomfortable but again remember like I said to achieve anything big you’ve got to feel discomfort. You’ve got to feel discomfort in training. You’ve got to feel discomfort when you’re going to go to the Olympics. It’s totally normal to feel anxious. It’s totally normal to have thoughts that “maybe I don’t deserve to be here” but when you do that meditation that we talked about earlier you are training your brain to be able to diffuse or not get hooked by negative thoughts. You say “hey there goes my brain, it does what it does, it’s telling me that I don’t deserve to be here.” So let’s motivate. I’m going to use that to motivate myself to “I’m going to watch a bit more tape of this next opponent” or “I’m going to train a bit harder” or I’m going to whatever. That’s my take on it.
Cain: I thought that was awesome. Very well said. Georges used to talk about it being a humble confidence. It’s the humility knowing that every day when the alarm goes off (like you say) at 5:00 in the morning that someone is coming to take what is mine and someone is coming to rip my head off, but it’s the confidence that when you walk and you step inside of the cage it’s the confidence knowing there is nothing else I could have done to prepare and I am ready to compete at a high level. Not “I’m ready to go in there and destroy this guy” because he would never say that. It’s always “I’m ready to go in there and compete at a high level and do what I’ve done in training and I believe what I’ve done in training has prepared me for victory.”
Friesen: Yes. You see guys like - this comes up a lot with the Yerkes-Dodson Law. Diego Sanchez, you see him getting pumped up before the fight. I think he is saying “yes” or something like that. He’s got this scowl on his face. It kind of depends on where you fall in that first personality dimension of negative emotions.
GSP - I don’t know GSP but he could be a bit on the higher side and he knows that about himself (I would assume) and so he knows what he needs to do to keep that in check. But there are other people that are really low on the negative emotions. They don’t really get nervous in these big competitions. They get very little anxiety. But we know with the Yerkes-Dodson Law you need a moderate level of anxiety.
Someone like Diego Sanchez may need to get slapped in the face a few times right before he goes into the octagon to get himself - hopefully Diego is not listening to this but I feel like with Diego what is happening is that he’s so pumped, he is so pumping himself up that is activation or anxiety level or arousal level is going too high and you see it the first round usually he looks like he is very stiff. He looks very stiff because as you now when you’re overly activated your muscles contract and when your muscles contract you can’t move fluidly. You become stiff. Joe Rogan talks about that all the time, “this guy looks like it’s his first UFC fight, I can see he’s got a lot of nerves, he seems very stiff, his muscles are stiff.”
It kind of depends where you land or at least how you react under big stressful situations. It could be that you need a coach to basically start screaming in your face because your arousal level is so low. But that is actually pretty rare. I think most of the time it’s the opposite. You don’t need a coach screaming in your face especially if your arousal is already high because then you are going to go over the edge and you’re going to be even more nervous. Your activation will be too high. It’s knowing that sweet spot and knowing what to do.
I see this a lot with high levels like the Olympic coaches and things like that. They treat all the athletes the same sometimes and they’ll start screaming and trying to get them pumped up. If the person is already anxious you’re actually doing them a disservice. They are going to underperform now. They need to be calmed down. But there may be some athletes you work with who are basically not activated enough and they need that slap in the face. They need that screaming in the face to get themselves to the moderate level of arousal/activation/anxiety to perform at their peak.
Cain: I think that is really what the fundamental purpose of a routine is too is the athlete comes back to - so in your first part we talked about knowing yourself and having a routine to help you get into that performance state of I don’t need to be dialed up, I don’t need to be calmed down because my routine gets me right where I need to be and I have the awareness and I have the strategy that if I need to pick myself up I might do some tuck-jumps or some more of like breath like I would do if I was getting ready to rip a power clean or slap myself around a little bit or even go to the mirror and talk to myself in a certain way to get me a little bit more dialed in or I used the right music where if I need to calm myself down I might slide more into a meditation technique.
I think it all comes down to the athlete being able to recognize where they’re at and then have the right strategy to either dial themselves up or dial themselves down to be in that optimal performance state. Is that accurate?
Friesen: That is exactly accurate. That is totally it. We’re all a little bit different. We all have brains and the same lobes in our brains but our personalities are different. Obviously our physiques are different. We have differences. Knowing this about yourself is the key to success in athletics and in life in general.
Cain: Love that. In the end of your book you talk about the story of Viktor Frankl which I think is maybe the story that can summarize what really mental toughness is. It’s the inability to give away that response to no matter what comes your way. Would you talk a little bit about Viktor Frankl and that story that is in the back of your book that I think is so powerful.
Friesen: So Viktor Frankl is a neurologist and psychiatrist by trade. He is passed away now. He was an older individual. His story is unbelievable. He is Jewish and was living in I believe Germany or Austria (I forget) when the Nazis took power. He is actually a big - well a lot of his work is - he is a big fan of existential psychotherapy. His is called “logotherapy” which means “meaning therapy” which is very similar to what I am talking about is knowing your why. That is really important.
So he basically had to make a choice. He had an option to leave Austria or Germany to go to (I believe) England to flee the Nazis because he started to see what was happening with people that were Jewish, people who had disabilities, and people who had various illnesses, that they were obviously exterminating these people. He basically decided - I’m sure emotionally he was scared and he wanted to leave but he wanted to live a principled life and he wanted his life to have some meaning so he actually stayed.
Of course he went to the concentration camps. He did a number of things before he left. Because he was working as a physician he falsified some documents (I believe) to allow certain individuals to basically skip the gas chambers who were disabled (for example, I believe). So he had risked his life for this. Of course he goes to the concentration camps. I forget the exact number. I know his wife was killed in the concentration camps. Pretty much his whole family were gassed and killed.
He noticed when he was in the concentration camps that people who were there who had an overall “why” to live or to survive tended to do better despite being in the same circumstances of being starving, having various disease, and basically your life being in danger. He had experiments done to him that were just disgusting. One of his books is called Man’s Search For Meaning. It describes some of this. It’s not an easy read in this sense. It’s an emotional read. But it’s an important read.
So long story short he really found that he discovered that people who had this meaning or reason to go through the suffering tended to survive. That seemed to predict survival better than other variables. So when he got out obviously he wanted to see his family and things like that. Of course they had died and that put him through obviously depression when he first got out. But his mission and goal was to write about this and write about the importance of having meaning, having a purpose, having a “why” in terms of living a good life and living a life worth living. So he wrote a number of books and became very famous.
I’m not saying it as elegantly as I wrote it in the book but he is very inspirational. He is a very inspirational person. He really helped us to see the importance of knowing your “why.” Again just reading the story it helps put things into perspective. We think we have problems, just think about what this guy went through and how he turned out and how he still - I’m sure he felt pain throughout his life from the memories of what happened to is family but he pushed forward and had a bigger mission to complete.
His work has been applied. He has done a lot of work (he did a lot of work) with people who were suicidal. People who want to kill themselves. Basically people who end up killing themselves often do not have a purpose, do not have a mission, life seems meaningless, and it’s those - if you can help them develop a sense of meaning, a sense of purpose, this usually will reverse any tendencies to want to kill yourself. He is a really important person in the history of Peak Performance (I believe) and just life in general.
Cain: Hands down one of my favorite books of all time, Man’s Search For Meaning, and it was one of the first books that Dr. Ken Ravizza had us read in our grad program at Cal State Fullerton. If you ever get a chance - I don’t know if you’ve been down to Washington DC and gone to the Holocaust Museum but t go through that and having read Man’s Search For Meaning it is an emotional experience when you go through there just to see the hell on earth that those people went through. And the fact that he was able to go then write about that and kind of share his story that is impacting so many people in such a positive way goes to show that even out of the deepest and darkest most hellacious times in the history of man there is still some good that comes out of that even with his book and the power of choosing your response in every situation. It’s amazing what that whole experience was. Unbelievable.
Friesen: Yes.
Cain: Chris, talking about you said identifying your mission statement. We now Frankl had a mission and Danny Williams had a mission. I’d like to know what is your mission? As someone who is leading the field of performance psychology and has the clinical background and the academic background and is now getting after it with the in the trenches, the blue collar psychologist (I love that term), what is your reason why or what is your mission?
Friesen: Missions I think take development. I’ve always been trying to figure out my mission. I do know my mission now but my mission really is I really want to help as many people as I can. I really want to - like we said earlier I want to be able to first of all because of my background read the research and really figure out what here is useful for people to use to basically live a better life, to perform at their peak in sports - and whether they’re entrepreneurs or executives because I work with a lot of those individuals as well - and really take that research and apply it to myself to make sure I can buy into it. I can read research but until I try things myself - I have to experience it to really buy into it. Just really translate that to help other people.
I really think that people are living below their potential. I knew it sounds almost cliché but we are. I’m a perfect example. When I was a teenager when I was in school I was probably one of the bottom 1%-2% of the students in terms of my academic performance. I was more interested in sports of course, that was part of the issue. My self esteem or my self efficacy or my belief in my academic abilities was really low. It’s kind of a running joke within my family that I went so far, I got my PhD and I did all these things. I worked for the highest graduating average, how I turned that around and how it seems almost impossible. Even sometimes I think of it myself I’m like “that does seem impossible” when I look back.
I remember what I thought about my capabilities academically but it was only until I really figured out what was important to me. I thought I really love the idea - I love human psychology. I love the idea of you can take information from people who do research or who are wiser than me and that can better my life. I did that.
Actually when I was 15 or 16 I read Tony Robbins’ Awaken The Giant Within and Unlimited Power and also The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. That was the biggest eye opener for me. I’ was using that and I read some autobiographies and that really changed things around for me. I discovered a reason. I didn’t realize it. I just thought it was stupid. The reality is I now had a reason to do well in school - because I wanted to learn this stuff. It’s so fascinating. Anyone who is willing to listen or is willing to accept my help that is just the best thing ever for me and I can give that to people. I’ve sort of learned that about myself and that is my mission is really to translate really useful information about Peak Performance, about high achievement, and just about how to live a happy life and really give it to people in any way I can.
That is where the motivation came from to write this book and this series of books is because I can only affect so many people one-on-one or in small groups. I really feel like I want to get this information out to the masses.
Cain: Well you’re doing it my friend. I hope that this podcast is able to expose you more to the people that have been following us here. For the people that are listening to this please go get more of Dr. Chris Friesen at www.FriesenPerformance.com and on Twitter at @FriesenPerform. Chris, is there any way that our listeners can connect with you via maybe an email? Do you have maybe a newsletter on your website or something where they can hear from you on a consistent basis? What you’re putting out is not only very applicable it’s also all backed with hardcore science and to find that combination my friend is very rare and very valuable so thank you for making time for our listeners on the Peak Performance Podcast.
Friesen: Thank you. Thanks for having me. On www.FriesenPerformance.com there is a sign up newsletter. Every couple of weeks I’ll send articles that I’ve written. I’ve written a couple for success magazine, www.Success.com. I’ve been interviewed for a couple of things like the Washington Post, Exercise In Personality, that kind of thing, and the various podcasts I’ve been on and some of the blogs I’ve written. What I do is every couple of weeks I send an email that basically talks about - one of them is about this exact thing (confidence) that we talked about today. One of the www.Success.com articles is about how to write your personal missions statement. So that is the best way is to get on that mailing list and you’ll get access.
You also get news in terms of when the second book - it’s not completed yet, the second book in The High Achievement Handbook - when that is going to come out and that sort of thing. So definitely sign up for the newsletter. You can follow me on Twitter and Facebook for example but that I mostly repost what I think are really interesting articles about Peak Performance and neuroscience (that kind of thing) but to really get the more personal stuff, the stuff that I’m talking about, is really my newsletter that you get on my website. That is the best way.
Cain: And to pick up a copy of book one in The High Achievement Handbook series, ACHIEVE: Find Out Who You Are, What You Really Want, How To Make It Happen, is the best place for them to go to Amazon and search your name or go to your website?
Friesen: You can go either place. It’s all sold through Amazon so on Amazon there is the paperback, there is the Kindle version, and I relatively recently got the Audible version. I have a really good narrator named Chris A. Bell. I had about 70 people apply to be the narrator (to audition for it) and it was a really cool process. I love Chris A. Bell’s voice and style. You can listen to a quick clip.
So it’s in every format now. You can get it on iTunes as well of course and www.Audible.com of course and Amazon. On my website I have links to those as well. So that is the place. Just search “achieve” and “Friesen” and it should be the first one that pops up on Amazon.
Cain: Awesome. Chris, thanks for making the time to sit down and join us on the Peak Performance Podcast. One of my favorite episodes that we’ve done. It was truly an honor to have you and I can’t wait for book two to come out. Hopefully we can get a copy and go through and get another episode.
Friesen: Definitely. I really appreciate you having me on the show. You have an awesome show and like I was saying earlier you are definitely kicking a lot of ass. I’m proud of you man. This is awesome. You are doing an excellent job. You are really making a difference. Keep it up.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[In this episode, Brian speaks with one of the leading professionals in all of peak performance and sport psychology as well as #1 Best-Selling Author, Dr. Chris Friesen. He is the author of The High Achievement Handbook Series and gives you great insight into the mind and how to control it.
Follow Dr. Friesen on Twitter @FriesenPerform
Check out his website FriesenPerformance.com
You will learn about...
Dr. Friesen's unique, guided, brain training and meditation technique
Dr. Friesen's advanced knowledge on sports psychology and how to maximize your mental potential
"The Funeral Exercise" to help you establish core values
The incredible story of boxer Danny Williams overcoming a dislocated shoulder mid-fight
Dr. Friesen even explains why having some self-doubt is actually a good thing
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Friesen: Most of us mere mortals like you and I and most people would say “look at this pain, how am I going to win a boxing match with one arm?” It’s impossible. It’s basically impossible. And he just kept pushing forward and pushing forward. Like I said in the book Stallone couldn’t have written a better ending. Danny Williams basically wins.
Cain: Hey this is Brian Cain with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest is one of the leading professionals in all of Peak Performance and sports psychology and he is a number one bestselling author. Dr. Chris Friesen is a licensed psychologist in Ontario, Canada, practicing in the areas of clinical psychology, clinical neuropsychology, forensic correctional psychology, and high achievement sports psychology and performance psychology.
Dr. Friesen has training and experience that crosses a broad spectrum of psychological difficulties including working with individuals who have anxiety or performance anxiety, depression, personality disorders, brain injuries often occurring from sports concussion, to severe traumatic brain injuries happening in military or in combat scenarios, and those involved with the criminal justice system - offenders of all types. Primarily though Dr. Friesen and the reason why I’m so intrigued and honored to have him as a guest on the show this week is that he focuses on helping athletes and other individuals who are performing at the highest levels continuously improve and achieve and smash their goals.
As we said earlier he is the number one bestselling author of The High Achievement Handbook series and in this podcast we’re going to focus on book one of the series. It’s called ACHIEVE: Find Out Who You Are, What You Really Want, And How To Make It Happen.
Dr. Chris Friesen, thanks for being on the Peak Performance Podcast.
Friesen: Brian thanks for having me. I’m super pumped to be here.
Cain: Your background I think is tremendous in that is has a lot of the hardcore psychological science but you also have the application and are doing it in the real world. I think often what you find is you get people who are doing it that are unlicensed and don’t have a background in training or they have all the clinical background and psychological training but they just can’t seem to make the human connection with the high achiever because they haven’t been as I would refer to you as is a “blue collar psychologist.” You mentioned that term earlier when we were off the air and I thought that was fantastic.
Could you talk a little bit about kind of your unique background and experience both from the training and the academic side but then also with how you go about applying it and what the - sometimes I think there is that gap between the science and the application. Could you talk a little bit about your experience in both and kind of closing that gap?
Friesen: Definitely. Like you said I’m a licensed psychologist with various areas of expertise. I’ve always been really fascinated by high achievement and success since I was a teenager and I played hockey as a goalie actually. I went into my training and psychology in Canada. In the clinical psychology graduate programs there is no specific sports psychology training so all that training was sort of done after the fact.
One of the issues I’ve always had was there is some really amazing research coming out from cognitive neuroscience, sports psychology, just general personality psychology, that often doesn’t get percolated down to the everyday person or even high achieving athletes or other high achievers.
I’ve always been the type of guy that applies all the stuff I learned to myself. I’m a big self experimenter. I can tell you lots of things. I’ve tried various supplements. I’ve tried various meditation techniques. Almost everything I talk about - like in the book for example - I’ve done it on myself and I’ve used it with athletes and other high achievers.
So I really felt that one of the things I noticed with a lot of self help books is either they are written by academics, PhD like myself (although I am not a researcher per se anymore), and it’s full of studies with very little application or like you said it’s written by someone like a Peak Performance sort of self help book with someone who has zero experience or credentials in that area.
So I realized that maybe this is useful to a lot of people so I really wrote the book in a way that is ultra user friendly. It takes sort of complicated scientific ideas or research findings and puts them into very easy to learn and apply strategies. So that is sort of where I see myself is the type of psychologist that really tries to bring this information to people to help them really achieve the goals that are really important to them.
Cain: I love how you mentioned taking everything you had used with an athlete or with someone who you’re working with and doing it on yourself - something that I also try. Any technique or any strategy that I’m going to share with the team or with an athlete why wouldn’t I use that myself if it’s something that I think is going to help them to achieve at a higher level? So I really think that that is a lot of the missing link. It’s like going to a fat doctor or to a poor financial planner. It just often doesn’t add up. You’ve got to be doing that stuff yourself.
You sound kind of like Tim Ferriss, the author of The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body who is kind of that human science experiment. One of the things that you mentioned that I want to kind of dovetail off into was meditation techniques. It’s something that I talk often with athletes about and I think that athletes and coaches have the stigma that you have to shave your head, put on an orange robe, burn some incense, cross your legs, and hike to the top of the Himalayas if you’re going to do meditation. What is your experience with mediation and what is the best practice that you’ve found?
Friesen: That is a great question. The way I describe meditation is it’s just a form of brain training. Especially with my neuroscience and neuropsychology background I often try and use connect the two. I look at the research in those areas. So for example the way I describe it to people - and this is how I describe it to myself when I use it on myself, this is the strategy I use. For example what you’re doing is you’re brain training. You’re training the ability to stay focused. You’re training your brain’s ability to not get caught up or hooked by negative thoughts.
The way I say it is there’s three reps, basically you sit down and you focus on your breathing. You don’t control your breathing. The first step is just to focus on your breathing. The next rep is basically to be aware of or notice when your mind is no longer focused on your breathing which is inevitable. It happens to everyone. The goal is not to have a perfectly Zen mind where your thoughts never stray. It’s basically never going to happen. It’s an impossible goal. The idea is you notice when your thoughts wander away from your breathing. Acknowledge what your thoughts are doing.
So you say for example “I’m having the thought that this is boring” or “I’m having the feeling of anxiety because I have to go buy milk” or something like that and you basically describe what’s happening, what your mind is doing. What that does is it trains you to defuse or not get hooked by your thoughts. We are not our thoughts - especially our negative thoughts. We want to be able to pick and choose which thoughts we allow to take hold of us.
So you basically acknowledge what is going on because if you don’t acknowledge it, if you just try to squash it, research shows - and I tie this back to obsessive compulsive order and PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder. One of the hallmarks of those disorders is you have thoughts or flashbacks that are very disturbing that you don’t want to have and the natural reaction is to squash those thoughts or pretend you’re not having them and do everything in your power to avoid having them. But the problem is we know the way the brain works. As soon as you try to squash a thought it continually comes back. It will continually pop back into your mind. So you want to acknowledge it, allow the thoughts to be there, then the next rep is to turn your attention back to your breathing.
Basically it is hardcore brain training. It is not a relaxation technique. I tell people relaxation may be a side effect but that’s not the point. We’re training our brains to be able to basically increase our ability to stay focused and also to not get hooked by negative thoughts. It does a whole bunch of other things, it improves executive functioning and that kind of things, but that’s really the way I describe it to people. It’s again not relaxation, it’s not religious, it’s basically a form of brain training that takes zero dollars and zero equipment. So that is my take on it.
Cain: Would it be possible time wise for you to take us through a very short version of mediation so that our listeners would know exactly “hey this is an example of a meditation that I learned from Dr. Chris Friesen that I want to share with my team.” Maybe like a 2-3 minute exercise they might be able to take and use?
Friesen: Yeah I can sort of give you a quick walk through.
Cain: Perfect.
Friesen: You want me to do it right now?
Cain: That would be fantastic. If anyone is listening to this podcast while they are driving skip this section or pull yourself over so that you make sure you’re doing it safely.
Friesen: The way I do it is I’m actually usually generally against using any tapes for mediation because it’s like a cheat in a way. It’s helping you focus. The idea is when you are basically in a quiet environment - just imagine when you lie down and go to sleep and you’re not tired and you realize how much your mind is racing and thinking of random thoughts. That’s actually where you want to be. You don’t want to fall asleep so you don’t want to lie down. You don’t want a tape telling you to do something, but of course the first time to learn the strategy you do, or you want to hear me talking now.
So what you do is you sit down. You don’t slouch back, you don’t slouch forward. You sit in an erect position not so much that it’s painful but enough that it’s not going to make you fall asleep. Remember this is not a relaxation exercise - it’s a brain training exercise.
The first thing you do now is you basically focus your attention on your breathing. Notice for example how the air is a bit cooler when it goes in through your nose and warmer when it comes out. You’re not controlling your breathing, you are simply focusing on your breathing.
Inevitably your mind is going to wander. You’re going to have a thought about something. You’re going to judge yourself. You’re going to think of something in the future. You may worry about something. Even if you have a positive thought, in this exercise you want to what we call “diffuse” from those thoughts. What that really means is notice when your thoughts have wandered and describe what is happening. Say “I’m having the thought that X or Y” or “having the feeling that X or Y.” That is going to put some space between you and your thoughts and you want to train this because you do not want to be your thoughts, especially your negative thoughts.
So once your thoughts wander describe what is happening really briefly. Allow them to be there. Don’t get upset. Having thoughts is what your brain does. It’s programmed to generate thoughts when there is nothing going on. You’re going to notice them, acknowledge them, and very gently return your attention back to your breathing. You’re just going to do this again and again. You’re not going to go very long before your thoughts wander and that is actually good.
The trick is to notice when your thoughts wander, acknowledge them, and return your attention back. That is all you’re trying to do. That is the only goal. A lot of people come to me and say “look it was so bad, the meditation, my thoughts we all over the place.” I say “listen that’s actually good.” It’s like working out with a weight pack. The more your thoughts are wandering the better. You’re getting a better brain workout.
That is basically it in a nutshell. It’s really a series of steps and just knowing what you’re doing. You may feel relaxed at the end. You may not. That’s not the goal. There are a lot of other ways you could relax. Take a hot bath. This is not training to relax.
The side effect though from this type of training is that you are going to be more relaxed generally. Not because of a physiological response or training but because you’re no longer getting hooked by negative thoughts or feelings and you’re basically able to stay focused in the present moment which is the key to the zone when it comes to playing sports (for example).
So this is the other thing I tell everyone. By doing this you are training your ability to stay in the present moment which is where you want to be to perform at your peak. When you are in the present moment that is when you are in the zone and it’s going to make it more likely you’re going to get in the zone and you can control now whether you go into the zone better than you did before.
Cain: That is one of the most simple and clear definitions I think I’ve ever heard someone say about meditation is that step one is you’re focusing on your breathing - in through your nose, out through your nose. Step two, acknowledge when your mind drifts to anything other than your breath. Step three, bring it back to your breathing. It’s not a relaxation exercise. I’ve never heard it said this way. It’s not a relaxation exercise, it’s an exercise in developing a present moment focus and the result of that will be a feeling of relaxation which is much more close to that flow state or to the zone where you’re in the present moment and you’re where your feet are and that is when you perform your best. That was fantastic.
Chris, if we can jump into your book here. One of the things with your subtitle is it says Find Out Who You Are, What You Really Want, And How To Make It Happen. Let’s get right into it.
What are some strategies that you use? I love how you talk about strategy because I think you often get two types of people who come from two types of the spectrum in the world of Peak Performance. You get those who talk about principle and just concept like “be positive,” well no shit. Okay well how do you do that? Focus on what you can control. No shit. The sun rises. Great. Well how do I actually get back to that when the bullets start flying?
I think it’s important that people know themselves but I love that you’re going to share with us some strategies that people can use about how to better get to know themselves. What are some of the ways that - if you would, first, why is it important that people know themselves? Secondly, how is it that people listening to this podcast can better get to know themselves? What is something they can go and do?
Friesen: Great question. Throughout my career I’ve seen a lot of people who have gone very far - including in athletics and just in their lives. Basically barking up the wrong tree is maybe not the right word but you’re basically focusing on the wrong things for them. This often leads to a lot of psychological problems - some subtle, some clinical level, a lot of anxiety, depression, and dissatisfaction in today’s society. I think a lot of the over-prescription of antidepressants is partially due to the fact that people are not living a life congruent with who they are and what is really important to them.
What I mean by that is at the most basic level we all differ on five general personality dimensions. I call them “the basic personality tendencies.” This has been replicated in scientific research across it’s probably been 70 years now. It hasn’t really percolated well into the general public’s awareness. I can go over them but they’re basically five global dimensions.
We all differ. It’s our personality so we all differ on these. They are partially genetic, about 50%. So 50% percent is due to genes. We have twin studies where twins have been separated at birth and reared in different countries and different parts of countries and that sort of thing and this is how we figured these stats out. The other half of our personality is determined by our experiences, particularly experiences earlier on in life. I don’t mean in the first two years of life I mean in the first 20 years of life because our brains are much more malleable - something called neuroplasticity is big - and our brains are still forming and molding. When we get older it’s much more difficult to change that.
So long story short the first dimension, I call it in my book “the susceptibility to negative emotions and stress.” It’s simply like it sounds. Basically some of us are very easily stressed, easily get nervous, they have a lot of pessimistic thoughts. Some of us are more in the middle, and some of us are more the opposite where we don’t experience a lot of stress. This is very important to know about yourself because especially the people trying to achieve big goals if you’re average to high on this (in other words you do experience a lot of negative mentions and thoughts) you are at risk for failure unless you train yourself and do a number of strategies to make sure you can keep that in check.
Also all these things are strengths as well. People who are artists, people who are high performers, sports as well, are often high on this but they capitalize on this. I’m sure you’ve talked a lot about this. One simple example is reinterpreting your physiological response to let’s say right before a big event like anxiety as “I’m pumped, I’m amped, I’m ready, let’s rock” as opposed to “oh shit I’m scared, my legs are feeling wobbly, this means I’m going to totally choke.” So that is just a quick example.
The next one is extroversion versus introversion. We all know about that. People who are extroverted obviously like to be around people. This has more to do though with our brain’s ability to handle external stimulation. Extroverts - a very simplified way of looking at this (and there are some EEG studies that confirm this) is basically their brains are revving a little bit too low so they need to get a lot of external stimulation whether it’s social, whether it’s being in a high paced, fast and exciting environment, to feel normal. Versus people who are introverted their brains are kind of revving too fast and too much external stimulation puts them into overload and they start to feel overwhelmed and they can burn out easily. This is extremely important in terms of knowing what you can handle in your sports career or in your career in general. You have to match your job to your personality or you have to work around it.
Another one is called agreeableness. This is really our attitudes towards others. People who are really agreeable tend to be really honest, straightforward, very trusting, not very interpersonally competitive. People who are low on this (what we call slightly disagreeable) they’re more skeptical, they’re less open with others, they are more interpersonally competitive. It’s extremely important to know this about yourself.
The fourth one is openness to experience. This is big when you’re working with athletes to know where they stand on this. People who are really open to experiences are just open to different ways of looking at things. They’re interested in and open to people from different cultures, different values, different ideas. People who are low on this are obviously the opposite. They’re really closed to those things. If you’re working with someone who - let’s say you Brian. You’re working with someone who is an athlete and you have a new technique (let’s say it’s a new meditation technique) and the person is really closed to the experience you probably want to emphasize it being more as a traditional thing - they’ve been using this for years and years and all the big guys are using this. Whereas someone who is really open to experiences will be open to trying almost anything (they’ll use magnets) because they’re so open to different things and that sort of thing. That is really important to know.
The last one, literature calls it “conscientiousness,” I call it “motivation and self control” because I think that describes it better. It’s exactly how it sounds. People who are high on this are highly motivated, highly organized, highly achievement oriented. People who are low on this are the opposite. People who are high on this have a gigantic advantage when it comes to success. People who are low have a big disadvantage in multiple areas of life (and research supports this) whether it’s income, whether it’s health outcomes, whatever it may be.
So long story short the very first step in knowing yourself is knowing your core basic personality. These have neurological correlates in our brains so these are very difficult to change. For the most part people need to accept their personality and work with what they’ve got.
Of course next we need to know what is important to us. I call it “knowing your values.” Living a life incongruent with your values and also your personality is a recipe for disaster. You need to know what is really important to you. In the book I go through different exercises to help you really get in touch with your values because like I said you have to live a life congruent with your values, with what is important to you, or you’re going to be basically constantly going against your own grain.
Knowing your strengths, knowing your interests, knowing your passions is extremely important. Only if you get all this information then can you really figure out what your mission - I say “missions” because I don’t think everyone has one single mission but you have multiple purposes or missions in life and only by knowing yourself really well can you get to know that part.
In the last two sections of the book is really about now you’re ready to set goals. It’s all these earlier steps to know yourself before you should be really setting goals. Most people and a lot of books go right into goal setting but without the ground work - because what will happen is you may be focusing on goals for years (for example) that aren’t really right for you. That is a huge mistake.
Cain: That is fantastic in terms of talking about knowing your basic personality tendencies, knowing your core values, knowing your strengths, and then kind of getting clear on your why. Let’s talk about that concept of identifying your values.
For the person that is listening to this - which I believe most of our listeners are going to be listening to this as they’re driving in their car - is there a way that you can ask them the certain couple questions or an exercise that they can do to kind of come up with what their core values are or is it ultimately just them kind of sitting down? I think often people think that they need to go get away from life for three weeks and climb a mountain, go to a lakeside retreat, and all of a sudden what their core values are and their mission in life is going to hit them. Whereas I’m much more of the school of thought in like you decide on what your core values are, you decide on what your mission is. Or your missions. I love the way you said that is that people have more than one mission in life. I think that’s genius. You decide on what they [your core values] are and then kind of evolve over time. What is your take on how you go about creating a set of core values and identifying with what your mission is?
Friesen: That is great. One of the differences between personality and values is that personality you don’t choose your personality but you choose your values. Often we’re not even aware of where our values came from.
What I usually do (one of the best exercises is really existential) is do what I call a “funeral exercise.” I didn’t invent this. The one I put in the book is more specific to what I think are the best strategies within that exercise. It’s simply this: you imagine your funeral. You imagine (for example) it’s five years from today (or whatever time frame you really want) and you imagine your funeral and you imagine the different people that are really important to you in your life getting up there and talking about you. You want to think of what you want them to say about you, not necessarily what you think they would say about you. Hopefully that makes sense.
Ideally what would you like people to say about you? Would they say “this guy was a total jerk he was just focused on himself,” that kind of thing? No. You’re going to have thoughts of “this guy really went out of his way to help people and his family was super important, he was also about excellence, he was always trying to be as best as he could be so he could help others be their best.” You want to think ideally what do you want people to say about you.
Of course when you do this you want to start the exercise really using all your sense for imagery to imagine yourself being at the funeral, looking at the people, looking at the people crying. It can be an emotional situation. You want to really put yourself in that position in your mind. You want to really pretend it’s happening. You should write this out or at least say it out loud or say it in your head. What do you want an important coach or an important teammate or your wife or your children, what do you want them to say about you? What do you want them to say? That will tell you what your values are. Are they going to say “this guy worked so hard he got sick, he spent so much time at the office, he didn’t give a shit about the family.” Is that what you want people to think? Is that what you really want? You’ll get in touch with what is really important to you.
Also there is another exercise to where in the book it’s simply a list of values. Readers can download that as well. It just goes through a bunch of values and you basically read through them and you kind of rank order the top 5-10 that are really important to you. You’ve got to make sure that - and this is the biggest key to success in my opinion. The most successful people don’t may their day-to-day minute-to-minute decisions about what to do with their time or what to buy, who to spend time with, they don’t make it based on their immediate moods, their urges, their energy levels, that sort of thing. They make these decisions based on their values and what is really important to them.
If you just take one thing away from this podcast it’s that you want to make your day-to-day decisions based on what is important to you. A simple example is personally I wake up at 6:00 AM to get up and workout before my four year old is up. When that alarm goes off my immediate moods, energy levels, and everything is telling me “press snooze and just sleep in” but my values - one of my values is to be really healthy and also to have longevity. I want to be there when my daughter gets married. I want to be there when she has kids. And being healthy makes me feel good. It builds my self efficacy, my self esteem, it maintains it. So regardless of how I feel I make the decision based on my values and my bigger goals, not based on how I feel in the moment. That is just a quick example.
Cain: I love that exercise. I remember that is one of the first things when I went to graduate school at Cal State Fullerton Dr. Ken Ravizza had us do. It comes right out of his book Heads-Up Baseball where he talks about imagine you’re in a banquet, you’re retiring from your career as a coach, what do you want all the people who are at that banquet to say about you. That kind of helps to formulate your vision statement or your core values in terms of who you are.
One of the things that you said that I love is that the most successful people don’t make minute-to-minute decisions based on moods. They make them based on their values. I know you’re a big MMA fan (as am I). One of my friends, Vitor Belfort, who is a former UFC World Champion says that the difference between a man and a boy is that a man lives a life based off of principle and a boy lives a life based off of preference. I thought that was very similar to what you are saying.
Friesen: Yes.
Cain: The person who makes minute-to-minute decisions based off of preference, of what feels good in the moment, “what do I want right now,” instead of the person who makes the principle based decision that says “okay what do I do right now that aligns with my values and the best vision of who I want to be?” I think that’s what makes a champion and that’s what makes a man. I love how you said that.
Friesen: Yes. He said it very eloquently. That is exactly right. This is what champions know. This is what successful people [know]. It doesn’t mean how much money you make. People who are living the right life for them, they’re satisfied with their life, this is what they know.
Also this is another things that comes up (especially in today’s day and age) is that people think that they want to take the easy route. They want to be happy all the time because media feeds this idea that ideally you’re going through life always being happy and doing everything that is pleasurable. The reality is anything that is important or anything that’s big, any goals, it’s going to take pain. I think it’s the Buddha or the Dalai Lama that said this: “there is a difference between pain and suffering, pain is inevitable.” We go through pain. When you’re trying to do things that are important you’re going to feel pain but whether you suffer really depends on whether you’re going through pain to achieve something that is really important to you and that is part of your mission, part of your values, or whether you’re going against that. To achieve anything big there is a lot of pain.
Speaking of UFC, you see these training videos and it’s not like they’re just sitting around getting massages and drinking beers. You see these guys sweating their butts off going through ten times more intense training than they actually go through in the octagon. They go through hell on earth. They fight like 20 fresh guys in a row as opposed to one guy for 15-25 minutes. It’s because you’ve got to go through this pain and you’re not going to be a champion unless you go through this pain and you accept the pain and you say “look this pain is actually good because it’s bringing me closer to something that is really important to me, it’s part of my values, it’s part of my goal.” It’s no longer really suffering. It is painful but it’s not suffering. I think that’s huge.
Cain: Let’s talk about riding the pain train for a minute here. One of your first stories in chapter one about taking stock of who you are you shared a story I had never heard before about Britain’s Danny Williams, one of their boxers of all time. As I read that story - I mean I’ve underlined it. I’ve shared that story multiple times since reading that. I thought it was one of the best stories I have ever come across. Could you talk a little bit about that story of Danny Williams and the toughness that he had to have with that but understanding how the pain is inevitable and if he was going after what he really wanted he would be able to deal with the suffering.
Friesen: That’s right. Danny Williams is an amazing story. He was boxing a guy named Mark Potter. Mark Potter is actually in MMA now I believe and he is a monster. So Danny Williams is in a boxing match with Mark Potter and Danny Williams’ arm (I believe it’s his right shoulder) basically pops out of the socket. It gets dislocated. Essentially everyone watching (the announcers, everyone) is saying “this is over, why isn’t the ref stopping the fight, this is ridiculous.” It keeps popping in and out.
But Danny Williams basically had an overarching goal. Most of us mere mortals like you and I and most people would say “look at this pain, how am I going to win a boxing match with one arm?” It’s impossible. It’s basically impossible. A lot of times when you’re drilling you don’t really feel the pain but of course between rounds - and it wasn’t just like a two minute thing. It was going on for a long time within the match. This guy obviously had pain and he just kept pushing forward and kept pushing forward.
Like I said in the book Stallone couldn’t have written a better ending. Danny Williams basically wins. He ends up knocking Mark Potter down repeatedly just because he wouldn’t give up. Even Mark Potter is punching his shoulder - listeners, you’ve got to YouTube this. It’s real. You can watch it. It’s totally real. It’s about heart. It’s about knowing what is important.
They say “is Danny Williams crazy, who would do this?” He is not crazy. He is a guy who had an overarching mission, a purpose, a goal, and he had certain values and he was going to push through no matter what. In the circumstance it paid off. It’s really inspiring. You see guys like that and you’re thinking “I want to give up because of X Y or Z” and look at this guy. He was boxing at the top level and his arm was out of the socket (his shoulder came out of the socket) and he still won. It’s unreal.
Cain: I’ve used that story multiple times with college football teams already this season just talking about that it’s not what you’re going through it’s what you’re going to. You’re going to quit if what you’re going to isn’t big enough for you to withstand anything that you’re going to have to go through to get there. I think that video of Danny Williams - you see it where Potter is just attacking. He’s not even trying to hit him in the head he’s just attacking his right shoulder. Eventually in the last round it looks like something right out of Rocky. The guy can barely move his arm and he ends up knocking out this guy who had been wearing him out for the entire fight. It was unbelievable watching that video. I had no idea that that story even existed.
I remembered him beating Mike Tyson at one point in his career but never knew about that fight with Potter that I think is probably one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen when it comes down to just toughness and sheer will and not being somebody who is going to quit.
I was doing my homework earlier on the treadmill this morning on a boat somewhere out here in the middle of the Caribbean listening to one of your podcasts. You talked about something that I hear a lot of people in the field of sports psychology or Peak Performance or positive psychology or whatever the hell you want to call it. They will say that “you’ve got to have great belief before you go into a competition.” In your podcast (the episode I listened to earlier) you talked about how that is not necessarily true.
I’ve worked with a lot of high level MMA fighters - Georges St. Pierre from Canada - and one of the things that GSP used to say a lot about was that he didn’t even really talk about belief. For him it was about preparation and when he stepped into the octagon it was 50/50. There was one guy and him and one was going to win and one was going to lose and if he had done what he needed to do to prepare then he should be able to go out there and execute and win the fight. But we never even really talked about confidence or belief. It was about how are you going to act and how are you going to handle the adversity that is going to come your way. Never before the fight do you believe because frankly I’m not sure that really even matters. What is your take on all that, coach?
Friesen: That is a great point. A lot of athletes come to me and say “look I see this athlete or this person, they don’t look like they’re nervous, it looks like they have unwavering belief in themselves, I want to be like that.” They say “I want no anxiety, I want pure confidence.” I say “first of all that is impossible.” That is basically impossible because our human brains are wired to feel anxious and to not feel confident all the time and that is a good thing.
I say “listen think of it this way, imagine you had unlimited confidence. The Olympic Games are coming up and it’s four months out and you’re convinced you’re the absolute best and you’re going to basically slaughter the competition.” I worked with one of the wrestlers so let’s say it’s wrestling. “What do you think that is going to do for your training? Do you think you’re going to get up at 6:00 AM or 5:00 AM and push yourself that extra mile or do you think you’re going to kind of take it back a notch because you’ve already got this?” Obviously we know the answer. The answer is if you’re overly confident you are likely going to under-prepare.
That is just the preparation. What happens when you actually get to the competition and you’re convinced that you’re the best and you’re going to destroy this person? What is going to happen? Your arousal level may actually come down too low because we know the Yerkes-Dodson Law where you have to have a moderate level of arousal, activation, or anxiety to perform at your best. It can’t be too high, it can’t be too low.
So if you go into a competition convinced that you’re just going to basically walk over this person, you’re going to kick ass, you’re going to probably get your ass kicked because you are underestimating your opponent because your opponent is coming in there to basically (let’s say it’s MMA or wrestling) destroy you. You need to have that self doubt because it’s going to prevent you from making mistakes.
Of course you can’t go the opposite where you’re all self doubt, you don’t think you can do it, “I don’t deserve to be there.” Those are pretty normal thoughts. We have them all the time. But you don’t want them to be dominating. You want what I call a realistic but slightly positive mindset. Realistic in a sense that “I can beat this guy.” It’s positive in a sense that you think you can beat them if you do the right things, “if I maintain my game plan.”
Like GSP is saying “if I focus on what I can control” - which is when he goes for a takedown this is what I’m going to do and as soon as I see an opening I’m going to take him down etc. - really focused on the present moment and focusing on what he has to do as opposed to trying to focus on “I’m just going to shit kick and walk through these people.” You need self doubt. You need anxiety. Thinking that these are bad is the problem, not the anxiety and the self doubt. You need them to improve. You need them to not underestimate your opponents.
This is big. This is big. It’s uncomfortable but again remember like I said to achieve anything big you’ve got to feel discomfort. You’ve got to feel discomfort in training. You’ve got to feel discomfort when you’re going to go to the Olympics. It’s totally normal to feel anxious. It’s totally normal to have thoughts that “maybe I don’t deserve to be here” but when you do that meditation that we talked about earlier you are training your brain to be able to diffuse or not get hooked by negative thoughts. You say “hey there goes my brain, it does what it does, it’s telling me that I don’t deserve to be here.” So let’s motivate. I’m going to use that to motivate myself to “I’m going to watch a bit more tape of this next opponent” or “I’m going to train a bit harder” or I’m going to whatever. That’s my take on it.
Cain: I thought that was awesome. Very well said. Georges used to talk about it being a humble confidence. It’s the humility knowing that every day when the alarm goes off (like you say) at 5:00 in the morning that someone is coming to take what is mine and someone is coming to rip my head off, but it’s the confidence that when you walk and you step inside of the cage it’s the confidence knowing there is nothing else I could have done to prepare and I am ready to compete at a high level. Not “I’m ready to go in there and destroy this guy” because he would never say that. It’s always “I’m ready to go in there and compete at a high level and do what I’ve done in training and I believe what I’ve done in training has prepared me for victory.”
Friesen: Yes. You see guys like - this comes up a lot with the Yerkes-Dodson Law. Diego Sanchez, you see him getting pumped up before the fight. I think he is saying “yes” or something like that. He’s got this scowl on his face. It kind of depends on where you fall in that first personality dimension of negative emotions.
GSP - I don’t know GSP but he could be a bit on the higher side and he knows that about himself (I would assume) and so he knows what he needs to do to keep that in check. But there are other people that are really low on the negative emotions. They don’t really get nervous in these big competitions. They get very little anxiety. But we know with the Yerkes-Dodson Law you need a moderate level of anxiety.
Someone like Diego Sanchez may need to get slapped in the face a few times right before he goes into the octagon to get himself - hopefully Diego is not listening to this but I feel like with Diego what is happening is that he’s so pumped, he is so pumping himself up that is activation or anxiety level or arousal level is going too high and you see it the first round usually he looks like he is very stiff. He looks very stiff because as you now when you’re overly activated your muscles contract and when your muscles contract you can’t move fluidly. You become stiff. Joe Rogan talks about that all the time, “this guy looks like it’s his first UFC fight, I can see he’s got a lot of nerves, he seems very stiff, his muscles are stiff.”
It kind of depends where you land or at least how you react under big stressful situations. It could be that you need a coach to basically start screaming in your face because your arousal level is so low. But that is actually pretty rare. I think most of the time it’s the opposite. You don’t need a coach screaming in your face especially if your arousal is already high because then you are going to go over the edge and you’re going to be even more nervous. Your activation will be too high. It’s knowing that sweet spot and knowing what to do.
I see this a lot with high levels like the Olympic coaches and things like that. They treat all the athletes the same sometimes and they’ll start screaming and trying to get them pumped up. If the person is already anxious you’re actually doing them a disservice. They are going to underperform now. They need to be calmed down. But there may be some athletes you work with who are basically not activated enough and they need that slap in the face. They need that screaming in the face to get themselves to the moderate level of arousal/activation/anxiety to perform at their peak.
Cain: I think that is really what the fundamental purpose of a routine is too is the athlete comes back to - so in your first part we talked about knowing yourself and having a routine to help you get into that performance state of I don’t need to be dialed up, I don’t need to be calmed down because my routine gets me right where I need to be and I have the awareness and I have the strategy that if I need to pick myself up I might do some tuck-jumps or some more of like breath like I would do if I was getting ready to rip a power clean or slap myself around a little bit or even go to the mirror and talk to myself in a certain way to get me a little bit more dialed in or I used the right music where if I need to calm myself down I might slide more into a meditation technique.
I think it all comes down to the athlete being able to recognize where they’re at and then have the right strategy to either dial themselves up or dial themselves down to be in that optimal performance state. Is that accurate?
Friesen: That is exactly accurate. That is totally it. We’re all a little bit different. We all have brains and the same lobes in our brains but our personalities are different. Obviously our physiques are different. We have differences. Knowing this about yourself is the key to success in athletics and in life in general.
Cain: Love that. In the end of your book you talk about the story of Viktor Frankl which I think is maybe the story that can summarize what really mental toughness is. It’s the inability to give away that response to no matter what comes your way. Would you talk a little bit about Viktor Frankl and that story that is in the back of your book that I think is so powerful.
Friesen: So Viktor Frankl is a neurologist and psychiatrist by trade. He is passed away now. He was an older individual. His story is unbelievable. He is Jewish and was living in I believe Germany or Austria (I forget) when the Nazis took power. He is actually a big - well a lot of his work is - he is a big fan of existential psychotherapy. His is called “logotherapy” which means “meaning therapy” which is very similar to what I am talking about is knowing your why. That is really important.
So he basically had to make a choice. He had an option to leave Austria or Germany to go to (I believe) England to flee the Nazis because he started to see what was happening with people that were Jewish, people who had disabilities, and people who had various illnesses, that they were obviously exterminating these people. He basically decided - I’m sure emotionally he was scared and he wanted to leave but he wanted to live a principled life and he wanted his life to have some meaning so he actually stayed.
Of course he went to the concentration camps. He did a number of things before he left. Because he was working as a physician he falsified some documents (I believe) to allow certain individuals to basically skip the gas chambers who were disabled (for example, I believe). So he had risked his life for this. Of course he goes to the concentration camps. I forget the exact number. I know his wife was killed in the concentration camps. Pretty much his whole family were gassed and killed.
He noticed when he was in the concentration camps that people who were there who had an overall “why” to live or to survive tended to do better despite being in the same circumstances of being starving, having various disease, and basically your life being in danger. He had experiments done to him that were just disgusting. One of his books is called Man’s Search For Meaning. It describes some of this. It’s not an easy read in this sense. It’s an emotional read. But it’s an important read.
So long story short he really found that he discovered that people who had this meaning or reason to go through the suffering tended to survive. That seemed to predict survival better than other variables. So when he got out obviously he wanted to see his family and things like that. Of course they had died and that put him through obviously depression when he first got out. But his mission and goal was to write about this and write about the importance of having meaning, having a purpose, having a “why” in terms of living a good life and living a life worth living. So he wrote a number of books and became very famous.
I’m not saying it as elegantly as I wrote it in the book but he is very inspirational. He is a very inspirational person. He really helped us to see the importance of knowing your “why.” Again just reading the story it helps put things into perspective. We think we have problems, just think about what this guy went through and how he turned out and how he still - I’m sure he felt pain throughout his life from the memories of what happened to is family but he pushed forward and had a bigger mission to complete.
His work has been applied. He has done a lot of work (he did a lot of work) with people who were suicidal. People who want to kill themselves. Basically people who end up killing themselves often do not have a purpose, do not have a mission, life seems meaningless, and it’s those - if you can help them develop a sense of meaning, a sense of purpose, this usually will reverse any tendencies to want to kill yourself. He is a really important person in the history of Peak Performance (I believe) and just life in general.
Cain: Hands down one of my favorite books of all time, Man’s Search For Meaning, and it was one of the first books that Dr. Ken Ravizza had us read in our grad program at Cal State Fullerton. If you ever get a chance - I don’t know if you’ve been down to Washington DC and gone to the Holocaust Museum but t go through that and having read Man’s Search For Meaning it is an emotional experience when you go through there just to see the hell on earth that those people went through. And the fact that he was able to go then write about that and kind of share his story that is impacting so many people in such a positive way goes to show that even out of the deepest and darkest most hellacious times in the history of man there is still some good that comes out of that even with his book and the power of choosing your response in every situation. It’s amazing what that whole experience was. Unbelievable.
Friesen: Yes.
Cain: Chris, talking about you said identifying your mission statement. We now Frankl had a mission and Danny Williams had a mission. I’d like to know what is your mission? As someone who is leading the field of performance psychology and has the clinical background and the academic background and is now getting after it with the in the trenches, the blue collar psychologist (I love that term), what is your reason why or what is your mission?
Friesen: Missions I think take development. I’ve always been trying to figure out my mission. I do know my mission now but my mission really is I really want to help as many people as I can. I really want to - like we said earlier I want to be able to first of all because of my background read the research and really figure out what here is useful for people to use to basically live a better life, to perform at their peak in sports - and whether they’re entrepreneurs or executives because I work with a lot of those individuals as well - and really take that research and apply it to myself to make sure I can buy into it. I can read research but until I try things myself - I have to experience it to really buy into it. Just really translate that to help other people.
I really think that people are living below their potential. I knew it sounds almost cliché but we are. I’m a perfect example. When I was a teenager when I was in school I was probably one of the bottom 1%-2% of the students in terms of my academic performance. I was more interested in sports of course, that was part of the issue. My self esteem or my self efficacy or my belief in my academic abilities was really low. It’s kind of a running joke within my family that I went so far, I got my PhD and I did all these things. I worked for the highest graduating average, how I turned that around and how it seems almost impossible. Even sometimes I think of it myself I’m like “that does seem impossible” when I look back.
I remember what I thought about my capabilities academically but it was only until I really figured out what was important to me. I thought I really love the idea - I love human psychology. I love the idea of you can take information from people who do research or who are wiser than me and that can better my life. I did that.
Actually when I was 15 or 16 I read Tony Robbins’ Awaken The Giant Within and Unlimited Power and also The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. That was the biggest eye opener for me. I’ was using that and I read some autobiographies and that really changed things around for me. I discovered a reason. I didn’t realize it. I just thought it was stupid. The reality is I now had a reason to do well in school - because I wanted to learn this stuff. It’s so fascinating. Anyone who is willing to listen or is willing to accept my help that is just the best thing ever for me and I can give that to people. I’ve sort of learned that about myself and that is my mission is really to translate really useful information about Peak Performance, about high achievement, and just about how to live a happy life and really give it to people in any way I can.
That is where the motivation came from to write this book and this series of books is because I can only affect so many people one-on-one or in small groups. I really feel like I want to get this information out to the masses.
Cain: Well you’re doing it my friend. I hope that this podcast is able to expose you more to the people that have been following us here. For the people that are listening to this please go get more of Dr. Chris Friesen at www.FriesenPerformance.com and on Twitter at @FriesenPerform. Chris, is there any way that our listeners can connect with you via maybe an email? Do you have maybe a newsletter on your website or something where they can hear from you on a consistent basis? What you’re putting out is not only very applicable it’s also all backed with hardcore science and to find that combination my friend is very rare and very valuable so thank you for making time for our listeners on the Peak Performance Podcast.
Friesen: Thank you. Thanks for having me. On www.FriesenPerformance.com there is a sign up newsletter. Every couple of weeks I’ll send articles that I’ve written. I’ve written a couple for success magazine, www.Success.com. I’ve been interviewed for a couple of things like the Washington Post, Exercise In Personality, that kind of thing, and the various podcasts I’ve been on and some of the blogs I’ve written. What I do is every couple of weeks I send an email that basically talks about - one of them is about this exact thing (confidence) that we talked about today. One of the www.Success.com articles is about how to write your personal missions statement. So that is the best way is to get on that mailing list and you’ll get access.
You also get news in terms of when the second book - it’s not completed yet, the second book in The High Achievement Handbook - when that is going to come out and that sort of thing. So definitely sign up for the newsletter. You can follow me on Twitter and Facebook for example but that I mostly repost what I think are really interesting articles about Peak Performance and neuroscience (that kind of thing) but to really get the more personal stuff, the stuff that I’m talking about, is really my newsletter that you get on my website. That is the best way.
Cain: And to pick up a copy of book one in The High Achievement Handbook series, ACHIEVE: Find Out Who You Are, What You Really Want, How To Make It Happen, is the best place for them to go to Amazon and search your name or go to your website?
Friesen: You can go either place. It’s all sold through Amazon so on Amazon there is the paperback, there is the Kindle version, and I relatively recently got the Audible version. I have a really good narrator named Chris A. Bell. I had about 70 people apply to be the narrator (to audition for it) and it was a really cool process. I love Chris A. Bell’s voice and style. You can listen to a quick clip.
So it’s in every format now. You can get it on iTunes as well of course and www.Audible.com of course and Amazon. On my website I have links to those as well. So that is the place. Just search “achieve” and “Friesen” and it should be the first one that pops up on Amazon.
Cain: Awesome. Chris, thanks for making the time to sit down and join us on the Peak Performance Podcast. One of my favorite episodes that we’ve done. It was truly an honor to have you and I can’t wait for book two to come out. Hopefully we can get a copy and go through and get another episode.
Friesen: Definitely. I really appreciate you having me on the show. You have an awesome show and like I was saying earlier you are definitely kicking a lot of ass. I’m proud of you man. This is awesome. You are doing an excellent job. You are really making a difference. Keep it up.]]>
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      <title>BC122. Separation is in Preparation (George Washington's Birthday)</title>
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      <description>In this episode, Brian goes solo to talk about how preparation is the greatest separator from those who are elite and those who are average.  He tells the story of George Washington and how he chopped down a tree in just 10 minutes.
 You will learn about...
George Washington and the fascinating story of how he had an hour to chop down a tree, yet finished in 10 minutes
How separation in preparation is displayed in the NFL and UFC
A tremendous story about TCU pitcher Brian Howard and how his preparation prepared him for one of the biggest moments of his career
How Matt Cassel became the only Quarterback to start in the NFL without ever starting in College
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Cain: Matt Cassel in a Sports Illustrated article talks about wearing a helmet on the sidelines, hearing the play being called, calling the play out loud on the sideline as if he was in the huddle. Then guys giving him a hard time and making fun of him, but no one is making fun of him when he is the only guy ever in the history of the game who didn’t start a game in college and started in the NFL. Why? Because Matt Cassel knew the value of preparation.
February 22nd - George Washington’s birthday, the first President of the United States of America. See George Washington knew something about preparation. George Washington once said that if he had an hour to cut down a tree he would spend 50 minutes sharpening the axe and 10 minutes chopping the tree.
Sharpening the axe for me personally is my unwavering commitment to exercise first thing when I get out of bed in the morning. Moving around first thing when I wake up whether I feel like it or not helps me increase my energy, increase my focus, and be more productive that day. I know that preparation is simply about execution of the day. Great days lead to great weeks lead to great months lead to great years lead to a great career.
George Washington talked about spending 50 minutes sharpening the axe and 10 minutes in execution. You see that separation is in preparation that Seattle Seahawks quarterback, one of the best guys in the NFL, Russell Wilson, always talks about. That separation is in preparation. Let’s look at football for a minute. You see the NFL is going to play the majority of their games on Sunday - let’s say they take Monday off. They’re going to prepare Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Five days for execution on Sunday.
Maybe George Washington was talking about the NFL. Maybe he was talking about five days of preparation and one day of execution. What George Washington probably didn’t know was the world of Mixed Martial Arts fighting.
Having had the chance to work with six guys that have worn the UFC Gold around their waist I can tell you that a UFC fighter when he has an event is going to prepare anywhere 6-8 weeks in a camp - disciplined, detailed, quality decisions. He’s not making sacrifices. A great champion like yourself, you don’t make sacrifices you make decisions to be great. That UFC fighter is going to make great decisions 6 weeks, 8 weeks, for a 15 or 25 minute fight - 15 minute fight if it’s nontitle fight, 25 minute fight if it’s a main event or a title fight.
What these UFC fighters know and what I want you to know about preparation is a term that we don’t often hear that much but it’s very simple - it’s called “reverse engineering.” What is reverse engineering? Reverse engineering is basically, as Stephen Covey would say in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, it’s begin with the end in mind.
For one fighter I worked with we would take eight weeks from the time of his fight and we would work backwards to the state of camp. In that eight week window we would basically map out each of his 168 hours each week and when he was going to do wrestling, boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, sprint work, weight work, cardio, massage, chiropractor, interviews, other media, public appearances, sleep, eat, social time, see his family, and map all of that stuff out so that nothing was left to chance. Remember, separation is in preparation and what does it mean to prepare at a high level? It means you map out a game plan and then execute your game plan.
All reverse engineering is simply beginning with the end in mind and then working backwards. Let me share a story with you here about an athlete in a baseball program that reverse engineered and won a game that was one of the most intense environments that I’ve ever been in. It was a game between TCU baseball and Sam Houston State. The game happened on May 31, 2014. It was the 2014 NCAA Fort Worth Regional where the number nine seed, TCU, was the visiting team and number 25, Sam Houston State, was the home team. In a game that was the second longest game in NCAA history the game went 22 innings with TCU winning 3-2.
There was a pitcher at TCU by the name of Brian Howard. Brian Howard that year, 2014, was in his freshman season. On that night Brian Howard came out of the bullpen. He came in in the 16th inning and pitched the 16th until the 20th so every inning was a pressure situation - probably the most pressure packed situation you can imagine being in. Brian Howard pitched the 16th through the 20th inning. That entire year he had thrown five innings up till that point and that night he goes out and throws four, almost half of what he had thrown the entire season.
When asked about how he was able to stay prepared and how he could handle that much pressure in that situation I remember head coach Jim Schlossnagle (I was actually in the dugout with the Frogs for that game) coming back in the dugout and it was almost like he had the look on his face of “we’re giving this guy the ball, he’s got nine innings all year.” In the 16th inning when he went out to the mound Howard just said “I got this coach” with all the confidence and huge body language and the demeanor of a guy who had thrown 90 innings not nine.
But see, Brian Howard had really thrown more than nine innings because the TCU baseball pitching coach - a guy by the name of Kirk Saarloos who had thrown a no-hitter in the major leagues. He was an All-American and goes down as one of the greatest pitchers in college baseball history from Cal State Fullerton. Kirk Saarloos is a master of the mental game. One of the things that the TCU Hornfrog pitchers do is every day in the bullpen they do what they call “shadow bullpens.” They throw an inning with no ball working on five things - working on their body language, their breath and their routine, their release, if they get a red light, their tempo and their visualization of that pitch. So even though Brian Howard had physically only thrown nine innings, mentally he had thrown maybe 90 so when he got out there in the game he could take the ball from Coach Schlossnagle with total confidence and say “Coach I got this.”
His line that day? Four innings pitched, one hit, two walks, six strikeouts. Brian Howard, you could say, was the unsung hero of that game. There were so many guys that played a huge role in that game but no one had a bigger role than Brian Howard that day.
Separation is in preparation. Drew Brees, the great quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, talks a lot about mental reps. If he is playing in a game where maybe he is injured and he is not playing that game, they showed it on Fox Sports, a game against the Carolina Panthers during the 2015 season I think it was Week 3 or 4 where Drew Brees was on the sideline with a little headset in listening to the play call, clapping his hands on the sideline as the huddle was being broken on the field and immediately looking into the secondary to see what his keys would be as if we was actually in the game playing the game out in his mind.
Matt Cassel, a quarterback who never started a game in college, he was a University of Southern California Trojan, he backed up two Heisman Trophy winners in Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart. Matt Cassel then went on to be a starter in the NFL.
Matt Cassel in a Sports Illustrated article talks about wearing a helmet on the sidelines, hearing the play being called, calling the play out loud on the sideline as if he was in the huddle. Then guys giving him a hard time and making fun of him, but no one is making fun of him when he is the only guy ever in the history of the game who didn’t start a game in college and started in the NFL. Why? Because Matt Cassel knew the value of preparation.
So your opportunity is going to come. When it does and the bell rings will you answer it? Will you be prepared? A mistake that I see a lot of people make is that they wait until their opportunity is on the calendar for them to prepare, for the young student athlete or the coach who is an assistant coach they wait to develop their leadership skills until their leadership is needed because they are a head coach or because they are a senior or a captain on the team.
Leadership and mental toughness, those are things that you want to be developing all the time because they’re always needed. There is going to come a time when the bell rings and when that bell rings are you going to be ready? When that bell rings are you going to be prepared? Remember if you’ve got one hour to cut down a tree let’s take the advice of our first President of the United States and spend 50 minutes sharpening your axe, making yourself better, and then 10 minutes in execution. Dominate the Day.</description>
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      <itunes:title>BC122. Separation is in Preparation (George Washington's Birthday)</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Brian goes solo to talk about how preparation is the greatest separator from those who are elite and those who are average.  He tells the story of George Washington and how he chopped down a tree in just 10 minutes.
 You will learn about...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode, Brian goes solo to talk about how preparation is the greatest separator from those who are elite and those who are average.  He tells the story of George Washington and how he chopped down a tree in just 10 minutes.
 You will learn about...
George Washington and the fascinating story of how he had an hour to chop down a tree, yet finished in 10 minutes
How separation in preparation is displayed in the NFL and UFC
A tremendous story about TCU pitcher Brian Howard and how his preparation prepared him for one of the biggest moments of his career
How Matt Cassel became the only Quarterback to start in the NFL without ever starting in College
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Cain: Matt Cassel in a Sports Illustrated article talks about wearing a helmet on the sidelines, hearing the play being called, calling the play out loud on the sideline as if he was in the huddle. Then guys giving him a hard time and making fun of him, but no one is making fun of him when he is the only guy ever in the history of the game who didn’t start a game in college and started in the NFL. Why? Because Matt Cassel knew the value of preparation.
February 22nd - George Washington’s birthday, the first President of the United States of America. See George Washington knew something about preparation. George Washington once said that if he had an hour to cut down a tree he would spend 50 minutes sharpening the axe and 10 minutes chopping the tree.
Sharpening the axe for me personally is my unwavering commitment to exercise first thing when I get out of bed in the morning. Moving around first thing when I wake up whether I feel like it or not helps me increase my energy, increase my focus, and be more productive that day. I know that preparation is simply about execution of the day. Great days lead to great weeks lead to great months lead to great years lead to a great career.
George Washington talked about spending 50 minutes sharpening the axe and 10 minutes in execution. You see that separation is in preparation that Seattle Seahawks quarterback, one of the best guys in the NFL, Russell Wilson, always talks about. That separation is in preparation. Let’s look at football for a minute. You see the NFL is going to play the majority of their games on Sunday - let’s say they take Monday off. They’re going to prepare Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Five days for execution on Sunday.
Maybe George Washington was talking about the NFL. Maybe he was talking about five days of preparation and one day of execution. What George Washington probably didn’t know was the world of Mixed Martial Arts fighting.
Having had the chance to work with six guys that have worn the UFC Gold around their waist I can tell you that a UFC fighter when he has an event is going to prepare anywhere 6-8 weeks in a camp - disciplined, detailed, quality decisions. He’s not making sacrifices. A great champion like yourself, you don’t make sacrifices you make decisions to be great. That UFC fighter is going to make great decisions 6 weeks, 8 weeks, for a 15 or 25 minute fight - 15 minute fight if it’s nontitle fight, 25 minute fight if it’s a main event or a title fight.
What these UFC fighters know and what I want you to know about preparation is a term that we don’t often hear that much but it’s very simple - it’s called “reverse engineering.” What is reverse engineering? Reverse engineering is basically, as Stephen Covey would say in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, it’s begin with the end in mind.
For one fighter I worked with we would take eight weeks from the time of his fight and we would work backwards to the state of camp. In that eight week window we would basically map out each of his 168 hours each week and when he was going to do wrestling, boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, sprint work, weight work, cardio, massage, chiropractor, interviews, other media, public appearances, sleep, eat, social time, see his family, and map all of that stuff out so that nothing was left to chance. Remember, separation is in preparation and what does it mean to prepare at a high level? It means you map out a game plan and then execute your game plan.
All reverse engineering is simply beginning with the end in mind and then working backwards. Let me share a story with you here about an athlete in a baseball program that reverse engineered and won a game that was one of the most intense environments that I’ve ever been in. It was a game between TCU baseball and Sam Houston State. The game happened on May 31, 2014. It was the 2014 NCAA Fort Worth Regional where the number nine seed, TCU, was the visiting team and number 25, Sam Houston State, was the home team. In a game that was the second longest game in NCAA history the game went 22 innings with TCU winning 3-2.
There was a pitcher at TCU by the name of Brian Howard. Brian Howard that year, 2014, was in his freshman season. On that night Brian Howard came out of the bullpen. He came in in the 16th inning and pitched the 16th until the 20th so every inning was a pressure situation - probably the most pressure packed situation you can imagine being in. Brian Howard pitched the 16th through the 20th inning. That entire year he had thrown five innings up till that point and that night he goes out and throws four, almost half of what he had thrown the entire season.
When asked about how he was able to stay prepared and how he could handle that much pressure in that situation I remember head coach Jim Schlossnagle (I was actually in the dugout with the Frogs for that game) coming back in the dugout and it was almost like he had the look on his face of “we’re giving this guy the ball, he’s got nine innings all year.” In the 16th inning when he went out to the mound Howard just said “I got this coach” with all the confidence and huge body language and the demeanor of a guy who had thrown 90 innings not nine.
But see, Brian Howard had really thrown more than nine innings because the TCU baseball pitching coach - a guy by the name of Kirk Saarloos who had thrown a no-hitter in the major leagues. He was an All-American and goes down as one of the greatest pitchers in college baseball history from Cal State Fullerton. Kirk Saarloos is a master of the mental game. One of the things that the TCU Hornfrog pitchers do is every day in the bullpen they do what they call “shadow bullpens.” They throw an inning with no ball working on five things - working on their body language, their breath and their routine, their release, if they get a red light, their tempo and their visualization of that pitch. So even though Brian Howard had physically only thrown nine innings, mentally he had thrown maybe 90 so when he got out there in the game he could take the ball from Coach Schlossnagle with total confidence and say “Coach I got this.”
His line that day? Four innings pitched, one hit, two walks, six strikeouts. Brian Howard, you could say, was the unsung hero of that game. There were so many guys that played a huge role in that game but no one had a bigger role than Brian Howard that day.
Separation is in preparation. Drew Brees, the great quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, talks a lot about mental reps. If he is playing in a game where maybe he is injured and he is not playing that game, they showed it on Fox Sports, a game against the Carolina Panthers during the 2015 season I think it was Week 3 or 4 where Drew Brees was on the sideline with a little headset in listening to the play call, clapping his hands on the sideline as the huddle was being broken on the field and immediately looking into the secondary to see what his keys would be as if we was actually in the game playing the game out in his mind.
Matt Cassel, a quarterback who never started a game in college, he was a University of Southern California Trojan, he backed up two Heisman Trophy winners in Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart. Matt Cassel then went on to be a starter in the NFL.
Matt Cassel in a Sports Illustrated article talks about wearing a helmet on the sidelines, hearing the play being called, calling the play out loud on the sideline as if he was in the huddle. Then guys giving him a hard time and making fun of him, but no one is making fun of him when he is the only guy ever in the history of the game who didn’t start a game in college and started in the NFL. Why? Because Matt Cassel knew the value of preparation.
So your opportunity is going to come. When it does and the bell rings will you answer it? Will you be prepared? A mistake that I see a lot of people make is that they wait until their opportunity is on the calendar for them to prepare, for the young student athlete or the coach who is an assistant coach they wait to develop their leadership skills until their leadership is needed because they are a head coach or because they are a senior or a captain on the team.
Leadership and mental toughness, those are things that you want to be developing all the time because they’re always needed. There is going to come a time when the bell rings and when that bell rings are you going to be ready? When that bell rings are you going to be prepared? Remember if you’ve got one hour to cut down a tree let’s take the advice of our first President of the United States and spend 50 minutes sharpening your axe, making yourself better, and then 10 minutes in execution. Dominate the Day.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[In this episode, Brian goes solo to talk about how preparation is the greatest separator from those who are elite and those who are average.  He tells the story of George Washington and how he chopped down a tree in just 10 minutes.
 You will learn about...
George Washington and the fascinating story of how he had an hour to chop down a tree, yet finished in 10 minutes
How separation in preparation is displayed in the NFL and UFC
A tremendous story about TCU pitcher Brian Howard and how his preparation prepared him for one of the biggest moments of his career
How Matt Cassel became the only Quarterback to start in the NFL without ever starting in College
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Cain: Matt Cassel in a Sports Illustrated article talks about wearing a helmet on the sidelines, hearing the play being called, calling the play out loud on the sideline as if he was in the huddle. Then guys giving him a hard time and making fun of him, but no one is making fun of him when he is the only guy ever in the history of the game who didn’t start a game in college and started in the NFL. Why? Because Matt Cassel knew the value of preparation.
February 22nd - George Washington’s birthday, the first President of the United States of America. See George Washington knew something about preparation. George Washington once said that if he had an hour to cut down a tree he would spend 50 minutes sharpening the axe and 10 minutes chopping the tree.
Sharpening the axe for me personally is my unwavering commitment to exercise first thing when I get out of bed in the morning. Moving around first thing when I wake up whether I feel like it or not helps me increase my energy, increase my focus, and be more productive that day. I know that preparation is simply about execution of the day. Great days lead to great weeks lead to great months lead to great years lead to a great career.
George Washington talked about spending 50 minutes sharpening the axe and 10 minutes in execution. You see that separation is in preparation that Seattle Seahawks quarterback, one of the best guys in the NFL, Russell Wilson, always talks about. That separation is in preparation. Let’s look at football for a minute. You see the NFL is going to play the majority of their games on Sunday - let’s say they take Monday off. They’re going to prepare Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Five days for execution on Sunday.
Maybe George Washington was talking about the NFL. Maybe he was talking about five days of preparation and one day of execution. What George Washington probably didn’t know was the world of Mixed Martial Arts fighting.
Having had the chance to work with six guys that have worn the UFC Gold around their waist I can tell you that a UFC fighter when he has an event is going to prepare anywhere 6-8 weeks in a camp - disciplined, detailed, quality decisions. He’s not making sacrifices. A great champion like yourself, you don’t make sacrifices you make decisions to be great. That UFC fighter is going to make great decisions 6 weeks, 8 weeks, for a 15 or 25 minute fight - 15 minute fight if it’s nontitle fight, 25 minute fight if it’s a main event or a title fight.
What these UFC fighters know and what I want you to know about preparation is a term that we don’t often hear that much but it’s very simple - it’s called “reverse engineering.” What is reverse engineering? Reverse engineering is basically, as Stephen Covey would say in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, it’s begin with the end in mind.
For one fighter I worked with we would take eight weeks from the time of his fight and we would work backwards to the state of camp. In that eight week window we would basically map out each of his 168 hours each week and when he was going to do wrestling, boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, sprint work, weight work, cardio, massage, chiropractor, interviews, other media, public appearances, sleep, eat, social time, see his family, and map all of that stuff out so that nothing was left to chance. Remember, separation is in preparation and what does it mean to prepare at a high level? It means you map out a game plan and then execute your game plan.
All reverse engineering is simply beginning with the end in mind and then working backwards. Let me share a story with you here about an athlete in a baseball program that reverse engineered and won a game that was one of the most intense environments that I’ve ever been in. It was a game between TCU baseball and Sam Houston State. The game happened on May 31, 2014. It was the 2014 NCAA Fort Worth Regional where the number nine seed, TCU, was the visiting team and number 25, Sam Houston State, was the home team. In a game that was the second longest game in NCAA history the game went 22 innings with TCU winning 3-2.
There was a pitcher at TCU by the name of Brian Howard. Brian Howard that year, 2014, was in his freshman season. On that night Brian Howard came out of the bullpen. He came in in the 16th inning and pitched the 16th until the 20th so every inning was a pressure situation - probably the most pressure packed situation you can imagine being in. Brian Howard pitched the 16th through the 20th inning. That entire year he had thrown five innings up till that point and that night he goes out and throws four, almost half of what he had thrown the entire season.
When asked about how he was able to stay prepared and how he could handle that much pressure in that situation I remember head coach Jim Schlossnagle (I was actually in the dugout with the Frogs for that game) coming back in the dugout and it was almost like he had the look on his face of “we’re giving this guy the ball, he’s got nine innings all year.” In the 16th inning when he went out to the mound Howard just said “I got this coach” with all the confidence and huge body language and the demeanor of a guy who had thrown 90 innings not nine.
But see, Brian Howard had really thrown more than nine innings because the TCU baseball pitching coach - a guy by the name of Kirk Saarloos who had thrown a no-hitter in the major leagues. He was an All-American and goes down as one of the greatest pitchers in college baseball history from Cal State Fullerton. Kirk Saarloos is a master of the mental game. One of the things that the TCU Hornfrog pitchers do is every day in the bullpen they do what they call “shadow bullpens.” They throw an inning with no ball working on five things - working on their body language, their breath and their routine, their release, if they get a red light, their tempo and their visualization of that pitch. So even though Brian Howard had physically only thrown nine innings, mentally he had thrown maybe 90 so when he got out there in the game he could take the ball from Coach Schlossnagle with total confidence and say “Coach I got this.”
His line that day? Four innings pitched, one hit, two walks, six strikeouts. Brian Howard, you could say, was the unsung hero of that game. There were so many guys that played a huge role in that game but no one had a bigger role than Brian Howard that day.
Separation is in preparation. Drew Brees, the great quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, talks a lot about mental reps. If he is playing in a game where maybe he is injured and he is not playing that game, they showed it on Fox Sports, a game against the Carolina Panthers during the 2015 season I think it was Week 3 or 4 where Drew Brees was on the sideline with a little headset in listening to the play call, clapping his hands on the sideline as the huddle was being broken on the field and immediately looking into the secondary to see what his keys would be as if we was actually in the game playing the game out in his mind.
Matt Cassel, a quarterback who never started a game in college, he was a University of Southern California Trojan, he backed up two Heisman Trophy winners in Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart. Matt Cassel then went on to be a starter in the NFL.
Matt Cassel in a Sports Illustrated article talks about wearing a helmet on the sidelines, hearing the play being called, calling the play out loud on the sideline as if he was in the huddle. Then guys giving him a hard time and making fun of him, but no one is making fun of him when he is the only guy ever in the history of the game who didn’t start a game in college and started in the NFL. Why? Because Matt Cassel knew the value of preparation.
So your opportunity is going to come. When it does and the bell rings will you answer it? Will you be prepared? A mistake that I see a lot of people make is that they wait until their opportunity is on the calendar for them to prepare, for the young student athlete or the coach who is an assistant coach they wait to develop their leadership skills until their leadership is needed because they are a head coach or because they are a senior or a captain on the team.
Leadership and mental toughness, those are things that you want to be developing all the time because they’re always needed. There is going to come a time when the bell rings and when that bell rings are you going to be ready? When that bell rings are you going to be prepared? Remember if you’ve got one hour to cut down a tree let’s take the advice of our first President of the United States and spend 50 minutes sharpening your axe, making yourself better, and then 10 minutes in execution. Dominate the Day.]]>
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      <title>BC 121. Geno Pierce - Peak Performance Course</title>
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      <description>Brian is joined by one of the TOP strength and conditioning coaches and founder of The Performance Course, Geno Pierce.  The Performance Course's mission is to enhance athletic performance and build strength of character in individuals and teams while preparing them for success in life...
 
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The core principles of The Performance Course and how Geno came up with them.
Characteristics that it takes to be the best in any field.
Geno gives insight into the traits he's seen among the best coaches.
The #1 Seed of Success he would plant in all young athletes mind.</description>
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The core principles of The Performance Course and how Geno came up with them.
Characteristics that it takes to be the best in any field.
Geno gives insight into the traits he's seen among the best coaches.
The #1 Seed of Success he would plant in all young athletes mind.</itunes:summary>
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The core principles of The Performance Course and how Geno came up with them.
Characteristics that it takes to be the best in any field.
Geno gives insight into the traits he's seen among the best coaches.
The #1 Seed of Success he would plant in all young athletes mind.
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      <title>BC 120. 9 Tips for Mastering and Managing Your Time</title>
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      <description>In this episode, Brian goes solo to give you 9 Tips for Mastering and Managing Your Time.  He gives you tangible action steps to help you maximize your time on a day-to-day basis.
 
You will learn about...
A "Not-To-Do" List and examples Brian puts on his list
How to clear to neutral 
The importance of scheduling out your weeks
A 4 Step System for leaving a voicemail
Tracking your E:E ratio
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Cain: I’ve got bigger goals and things that I want to do so I want to take my limited free time that I have and not put it into watching other people that I don’t have any personal connection with. I want to put it into educating myself so maybe I would be valuable enough to have a personal connection with those people who are playing so that I can serve them. Now this is not for everybody but neither is success.
I want to share with you 9 Tips for Mastering and Managing Your Time. This is straight out of Pillar #3 Time Is Ticking - and I know that you’ve been following the journey of Coach Kenny and Matthew Simons through the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance.
When we start talking about time why is time one of the 12 Pillars? It’s because it’s the only factor that is the same for everybody. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the NBA or you’re playing JV high school basketball, guess what? You’ve got 168 hours in a week, 86,400 seconds in a day, 1,440 minutes in a day, and how you use your time is ultimately going to determine where you end up.
The 9 Tips for Mastering and Managing Your Time - I want to share with you some of those tips so that you can get some simple takeaways from this podcast that you can start implementing immediately. One of which is understanding what I call the “not to do list.” At a certain point in your life (the younger you are) you probably have a to do list where the to do list is these are the things that I need to do to give me the best chance for success. Well if you’re a coach or athletic director listening to this there obviously comes a certain point in your career where the not to do list probably becomes more important than the to do list, because the things that you do, are they the best use of your time? The one factor you can’t get back is you can’t get back time. It’s the only thing that is the same for everybody.
You’ve got to have a not to do list. For example “I will not do yard work at my house, I will not make food,” those are two things that I could do but I don’t like to do, I’m not good at them, and I simply would rather hire someone else to help me with those or go buy premade meals and hire someone to do the yard. For the 90 minutes or so that it takes me to do the yard I’d rather take those 90 minutes and invest them into time with my wife, invest them into doing a podcast like this to impact people like yourself, or invest them into doing one-on-one coaching. I have found a way to take a skill set that I have (in coaching) and instead of doing something I don’t like to do (yard work) I would invest that time into a way where I can make the same amount of money that it’s going to cost me to pay someone to do my yard, I can make that doing something I love. Why would I not do that?
Some people like doing their yard work so that may not be something that you put on your not to do list. Something you may out on your not to do list is laundry. Well they have these companies now that come and I got one on my front door the other day. They dropped off a bag on the front porch and if you want to put laundry in there you put it back outside. It’s like every Tuesday and Friday they pick up the bag, they leave you a new one, and they bring your laundry back to you in three days. So if that is something that is for you then it’s for you.
You’ve got to understand the not to do list. Other things I have put on my not to do list are “do not check email before you exercise.” You know how it is in the morning. You wake up with this grand vision of you’re going to go, you’re going to get moving, you’re going to start to sweat, you’re going to get yourself going in the morning but as soon as you open that inbox (AKA Pandora’s box) now your life revolves around everyone else’s agenda. So that is something I am not going to do.
Another thing on my not to do list is “don’t text and drive.” Do you realize that as many people were killed from texting and driving nowadays as there are from drunk driving? Why would you text and drive? If you think about it if you send one three sentence text message you’ve basically driven around the entire bases of a baseball field without looking at the road. People do it all the time and people get away with it but that doesn’t make it right and that doesn’t make it that it should be part of your routine. You’ve got to have that understanding of what’s on your not to do list.
Other pieces that go into this Time Is Ticking and Tips for Managing Your Life is just simply having a SYSTEM. What is your SYSTEM? SYSTEM is an acronym for “save yourself stress, time, effort, and motivation.” A SYSTEM of what I like to call “clearing to neutral.”
Before you go into a week - when I was a high school teacher and athletic director I’d already take Sunday. Sunday would be my clear to neutral day where I would actually do laundry. I’d set up my meals for the week and I would make sure the house was clean and organized and my desk at the office was organized and my home was organized and I had everything laid out for the week so I would just go in and I would rock and roll. At the time I didn’t have 168 hour week plan but if I did I would have been that much more effective. So having Sunday apart now where my clear to neutral is clean out all emails, all text messages, all voicemails, all social media, have all my clothes folded and put away, no clothes in my laundry, have my bags packed for the week, have my meals set up for the week, have my 168 done. Boom. That is my clear to neutral.
My 168 is there are 168 hours in a week. So on Sunday I’ll sit down and map out where all my time is going to go during the week. That way I can sit and I can say “okay this is what is going to set me up to have a successful week but let me just go make sure I have a successful day.” If I have a successful day by implanting my 168 plan then that leads to a successful week which leads to a successful month which leads to a successful quarter which leads to a successful year.
I can say with complete conviction that since I started to map out my 168 I’ve gotten more done in less time, I’ve had more free time, I’ve been able to work out more, and I’ve had more time with my wife because I know where my time is going. I know that if there is that time where I’ve got to catch an early - like tomorrow I’ve got to get on a 5:00 AM flight so I know that tonight I’ve got to try and get in the rack by 8:30-9:00 so that I can get enough sleep so when I get up at 3:30 to catch a 5:00 AM flight I’m going to be juiced. I’m going to be ready to go. I’m not going to be going to bed at midnight and waking up and then setting myself behind. Mapping out that 168, having the not to do list, having a SYSTEM is going to be important.
Let me share another one with you. Voicemail. Nowadays most phone calls are going through on cell phones but I know for a lot of people in the educational sector that are listening to this (coaches) they have office phones and you get this voicemail: “Hey Brian, it’s Matt, give me a call back.” Now that would be like somebody sending you an email and going “hey Brian it’s Matt email me back.” That is just pointless. It’s a waste of time. It’s inefficient. Here is a four step system for leaving a voicemail.
Step #1 is state who you are first name and last name. Step #2 is who are you calling. Step #3 is timestamp with contact information, phone number. Step #4 is move the conversation forward. That is the one that gets missed the most. Again Step #1, who you’re calling; Step #2, who you are; Step #3 timestamp and contact info; Step #4 move the conversation forward.
So it looks like this. Let’s say I’m calling my friend Matt Morse. I’d say “hey Matt Morse, Brian Cain here. It is December 25th (Merry Christmas). It’s noon. I hope you’re doing fantastic. My phone number is 555-555-5555 and I’m calling to see if you wanted to go over and get a workout in tomorrow at 9:00-10:30 over at Lifetime Fitness in Southlake, Texas to see if you wanted to go get after it. Give me a text message back or give me an email back or leave me a voicemail and let me know if you want to do it. I’ll see you over there. 9:00, Lifetime at Southlake. Merry Christmas. Dominate your Day. See you.”
So what did I do? I said who I’m calling, I said who I am, I left my phone number and the time I called, and I left him know what I wanted to move the conversation forward.
For the athletes listening to this who are in the cell phone generation you can say “I see when the guy called, I see what is name is,” but there is going to come a time where you have an office phone because you are working in corporate America (or whatever it is) and you’re going to get that voicemail and it’s going to drive you nuts because you won’t be able to get back to the person because they didn’t leave you the right phone number or you don’t know which person it is - because you are going to know more than one Matt - and then they’re going to get after you and say “hey man you never called me back” when you couldn’t because they didn’t know how to leave a damn voicemail. Make sure you know the four steps of how to leave a voicemail.
The last thing I want to share with you here is what we call NET time and your E2E ratio. NET time is if you’re listening to this podcast in your car you know exactly what NET time is - no extra time. We want to be savages of our time. We want to know where our time is going and maximize our time. When you’re driving in the car - enrolling in what we call Automobile University (which we’re going to talk more about on another podcast) - is listening to audiobooks, listening to podcasts, listening to Philosopher’s Notes or breaking down educational material.
NET time is no extra time which ties right into your E2E ratio. The limited free time that you have does it go into education or does it go into entertainment. For most people it goes into entertainment and you were probably that person listening to Mike &amp; Mike in the Morning or listening to something in your car, sports talk radio. Here is my question for you, why do you care about people talking about other people’s lives and other people talking about professional sports? Maybe you’re a professional sports agent. Maybe you’re a bookie. Maybe you’re somebody who has a son that is playing in professional sports. Start investing in yourself and stop wasting time listening to professional sports.
I work in pro sports. I can’t stand watching it on TV unless I have a personal connection to somebody who is in there. I feel like I’m dying. The reason I say that is because I’ve got bigger goals and things that I want to d7o so I want to take my limited free time that I have and not put it into watching other people that I don’t have any personal connection with. I want to put it into educating myself so maybe I would be valuable enough to have a personal connection with those people who are playing so that I can serve them. Does that make sense? Your E2E ratio. Your entertainment towards you education.
Now this is not for everybody but neither is success. It’s simple. Look at the free time you have. Does it go into watching TV or does it go into working on you. Does it go into watching other people live their lives or working to better improve your life? That is the E2E ratio and that directly ties in with NET time - no extra time.
I hear it all the time. People go “I can’t workout I don’t have a gym membership.” Dude, you have a body and you have a floor. Pushups, burpees, squats, whatever it is. You don’t need much. Grab a garbage can and go until you puke - thank you Leif Babin, author of Extreme Ownership. Just make it happen. I’m being somewhat sarcastic there about making yourself go till you puke, but just get moving.
And guess what the best part about NET time is? Grab a headset, grab an audiobook, grab this podcast and listen to this podcast as you go for a walk and then a jog and then a light run and then a run. Next thing you know you’re educating yourself with one of my favorite routines, what I call the “learn and burn.” I learn as I burn calories and as I get going and get moving in the morning.
But guess what? Time is ticking and there is one thing you can’t get more of and that’s time. So let’s start maximizing your education ratio, minimizing your entertainment ratio. Don’t eliminate it completely because you do need some entertainment in life, but maximize your education and get on NET time and Dominate the Day.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 120. 9 Tips for Mastering and Managing Your Time</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Brian goes solo to give you 9 Tips for Mastering and Managing Your Time.  He gives you tangible action steps to help you maximize your time on a day-to-day basis.
 
You will learn about...
A "Not-To-Do" List and examples Brian puts on hi...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode, Brian goes solo to give you 9 Tips for Mastering and Managing Your Time.  He gives you tangible action steps to help you maximize your time on a day-to-day basis.
 
You will learn about...
A "Not-To-Do" List and examples Brian puts on his list
How to clear to neutral 
The importance of scheduling out your weeks
A 4 Step System for leaving a voicemail
Tracking your E:E ratio
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Cain: I’ve got bigger goals and things that I want to do so I want to take my limited free time that I have and not put it into watching other people that I don’t have any personal connection with. I want to put it into educating myself so maybe I would be valuable enough to have a personal connection with those people who are playing so that I can serve them. Now this is not for everybody but neither is success.
I want to share with you 9 Tips for Mastering and Managing Your Time. This is straight out of Pillar #3 Time Is Ticking - and I know that you’ve been following the journey of Coach Kenny and Matthew Simons through the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance.
When we start talking about time why is time one of the 12 Pillars? It’s because it’s the only factor that is the same for everybody. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the NBA or you’re playing JV high school basketball, guess what? You’ve got 168 hours in a week, 86,400 seconds in a day, 1,440 minutes in a day, and how you use your time is ultimately going to determine where you end up.
The 9 Tips for Mastering and Managing Your Time - I want to share with you some of those tips so that you can get some simple takeaways from this podcast that you can start implementing immediately. One of which is understanding what I call the “not to do list.” At a certain point in your life (the younger you are) you probably have a to do list where the to do list is these are the things that I need to do to give me the best chance for success. Well if you’re a coach or athletic director listening to this there obviously comes a certain point in your career where the not to do list probably becomes more important than the to do list, because the things that you do, are they the best use of your time? The one factor you can’t get back is you can’t get back time. It’s the only thing that is the same for everybody.
You’ve got to have a not to do list. For example “I will not do yard work at my house, I will not make food,” those are two things that I could do but I don’t like to do, I’m not good at them, and I simply would rather hire someone else to help me with those or go buy premade meals and hire someone to do the yard. For the 90 minutes or so that it takes me to do the yard I’d rather take those 90 minutes and invest them into time with my wife, invest them into doing a podcast like this to impact people like yourself, or invest them into doing one-on-one coaching. I have found a way to take a skill set that I have (in coaching) and instead of doing something I don’t like to do (yard work) I would invest that time into a way where I can make the same amount of money that it’s going to cost me to pay someone to do my yard, I can make that doing something I love. Why would I not do that?
Some people like doing their yard work so that may not be something that you put on your not to do list. Something you may out on your not to do list is laundry. Well they have these companies now that come and I got one on my front door the other day. They dropped off a bag on the front porch and if you want to put laundry in there you put it back outside. It’s like every Tuesday and Friday they pick up the bag, they leave you a new one, and they bring your laundry back to you in three days. So if that is something that is for you then it’s for you.
You’ve got to understand the not to do list. Other things I have put on my not to do list are “do not check email before you exercise.” You know how it is in the morning. You wake up with this grand vision of you’re going to go, you’re going to get moving, you’re going to start to sweat, you’re going to get yourself going in the morning but as soon as you open that inbox (AKA Pandora’s box) now your life revolves around everyone else’s agenda. So that is something I am not going to do.
Another thing on my not to do list is “don’t text and drive.” Do you realize that as many people were killed from texting and driving nowadays as there are from drunk driving? Why would you text and drive? If you think about it if you send one three sentence text message you’ve basically driven around the entire bases of a baseball field without looking at the road. People do it all the time and people get away with it but that doesn’t make it right and that doesn’t make it that it should be part of your routine. You’ve got to have that understanding of what’s on your not to do list.
Other pieces that go into this Time Is Ticking and Tips for Managing Your Life is just simply having a SYSTEM. What is your SYSTEM? SYSTEM is an acronym for “save yourself stress, time, effort, and motivation.” A SYSTEM of what I like to call “clearing to neutral.”
Before you go into a week - when I was a high school teacher and athletic director I’d already take Sunday. Sunday would be my clear to neutral day where I would actually do laundry. I’d set up my meals for the week and I would make sure the house was clean and organized and my desk at the office was organized and my home was organized and I had everything laid out for the week so I would just go in and I would rock and roll. At the time I didn’t have 168 hour week plan but if I did I would have been that much more effective. So having Sunday apart now where my clear to neutral is clean out all emails, all text messages, all voicemails, all social media, have all my clothes folded and put away, no clothes in my laundry, have my bags packed for the week, have my meals set up for the week, have my 168 done. Boom. That is my clear to neutral.
My 168 is there are 168 hours in a week. So on Sunday I’ll sit down and map out where all my time is going to go during the week. That way I can sit and I can say “okay this is what is going to set me up to have a successful week but let me just go make sure I have a successful day.” If I have a successful day by implanting my 168 plan then that leads to a successful week which leads to a successful month which leads to a successful quarter which leads to a successful year.
I can say with complete conviction that since I started to map out my 168 I’ve gotten more done in less time, I’ve had more free time, I’ve been able to work out more, and I’ve had more time with my wife because I know where my time is going. I know that if there is that time where I’ve got to catch an early - like tomorrow I’ve got to get on a 5:00 AM flight so I know that tonight I’ve got to try and get in the rack by 8:30-9:00 so that I can get enough sleep so when I get up at 3:30 to catch a 5:00 AM flight I’m going to be juiced. I’m going to be ready to go. I’m not going to be going to bed at midnight and waking up and then setting myself behind. Mapping out that 168, having the not to do list, having a SYSTEM is going to be important.
Let me share another one with you. Voicemail. Nowadays most phone calls are going through on cell phones but I know for a lot of people in the educational sector that are listening to this (coaches) they have office phones and you get this voicemail: “Hey Brian, it’s Matt, give me a call back.” Now that would be like somebody sending you an email and going “hey Brian it’s Matt email me back.” That is just pointless. It’s a waste of time. It’s inefficient. Here is a four step system for leaving a voicemail.
Step #1 is state who you are first name and last name. Step #2 is who are you calling. Step #3 is timestamp with contact information, phone number. Step #4 is move the conversation forward. That is the one that gets missed the most. Again Step #1, who you’re calling; Step #2, who you are; Step #3 timestamp and contact info; Step #4 move the conversation forward.
So it looks like this. Let’s say I’m calling my friend Matt Morse. I’d say “hey Matt Morse, Brian Cain here. It is December 25th (Merry Christmas). It’s noon. I hope you’re doing fantastic. My phone number is 555-555-5555 and I’m calling to see if you wanted to go over and get a workout in tomorrow at 9:00-10:30 over at Lifetime Fitness in Southlake, Texas to see if you wanted to go get after it. Give me a text message back or give me an email back or leave me a voicemail and let me know if you want to do it. I’ll see you over there. 9:00, Lifetime at Southlake. Merry Christmas. Dominate your Day. See you.”
So what did I do? I said who I’m calling, I said who I am, I left my phone number and the time I called, and I left him know what I wanted to move the conversation forward.
For the athletes listening to this who are in the cell phone generation you can say “I see when the guy called, I see what is name is,” but there is going to come a time where you have an office phone because you are working in corporate America (or whatever it is) and you’re going to get that voicemail and it’s going to drive you nuts because you won’t be able to get back to the person because they didn’t leave you the right phone number or you don’t know which person it is - because you are going to know more than one Matt - and then they’re going to get after you and say “hey man you never called me back” when you couldn’t because they didn’t know how to leave a damn voicemail. Make sure you know the four steps of how to leave a voicemail.
The last thing I want to share with you here is what we call NET time and your E2E ratio. NET time is if you’re listening to this podcast in your car you know exactly what NET time is - no extra time. We want to be savages of our time. We want to know where our time is going and maximize our time. When you’re driving in the car - enrolling in what we call Automobile University (which we’re going to talk more about on another podcast) - is listening to audiobooks, listening to podcasts, listening to Philosopher’s Notes or breaking down educational material.
NET time is no extra time which ties right into your E2E ratio. The limited free time that you have does it go into education or does it go into entertainment. For most people it goes into entertainment and you were probably that person listening to Mike &amp; Mike in the Morning or listening to something in your car, sports talk radio. Here is my question for you, why do you care about people talking about other people’s lives and other people talking about professional sports? Maybe you’re a professional sports agent. Maybe you’re a bookie. Maybe you’re somebody who has a son that is playing in professional sports. Start investing in yourself and stop wasting time listening to professional sports.
I work in pro sports. I can’t stand watching it on TV unless I have a personal connection to somebody who is in there. I feel like I’m dying. The reason I say that is because I’ve got bigger goals and things that I want to d7o so I want to take my limited free time that I have and not put it into watching other people that I don’t have any personal connection with. I want to put it into educating myself so maybe I would be valuable enough to have a personal connection with those people who are playing so that I can serve them. Does that make sense? Your E2E ratio. Your entertainment towards you education.
Now this is not for everybody but neither is success. It’s simple. Look at the free time you have. Does it go into watching TV or does it go into working on you. Does it go into watching other people live their lives or working to better improve your life? That is the E2E ratio and that directly ties in with NET time - no extra time.
I hear it all the time. People go “I can’t workout I don’t have a gym membership.” Dude, you have a body and you have a floor. Pushups, burpees, squats, whatever it is. You don’t need much. Grab a garbage can and go until you puke - thank you Leif Babin, author of Extreme Ownership. Just make it happen. I’m being somewhat sarcastic there about making yourself go till you puke, but just get moving.
And guess what the best part about NET time is? Grab a headset, grab an audiobook, grab this podcast and listen to this podcast as you go for a walk and then a jog and then a light run and then a run. Next thing you know you’re educating yourself with one of my favorite routines, what I call the “learn and burn.” I learn as I burn calories and as I get going and get moving in the morning.
But guess what? Time is ticking and there is one thing you can’t get more of and that’s time. So let’s start maximizing your education ratio, minimizing your entertainment ratio. Don’t eliminate it completely because you do need some entertainment in life, but maximize your education and get on NET time and Dominate the Day.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[In this episode, Brian goes solo to give you 9 Tips for Mastering and Managing Your Time.  He gives you tangible action steps to help you maximize your time on a day-to-day basis.
 
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A "Not-To-Do" List and examples Brian puts on his list
How to clear to neutral 
The importance of scheduling out your weeks
A 4 Step System for leaving a voicemail
Tracking your E:E ratio
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Cain: I’ve got bigger goals and things that I want to do so I want to take my limited free time that I have and not put it into watching other people that I don’t have any personal connection with. I want to put it into educating myself so maybe I would be valuable enough to have a personal connection with those people who are playing so that I can serve them. Now this is not for everybody but neither is success.
I want to share with you 9 Tips for Mastering and Managing Your Time. This is straight out of Pillar #3 Time Is Ticking - and I know that you’ve been following the journey of Coach Kenny and Matthew Simons through the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance.
When we start talking about time why is time one of the 12 Pillars? It’s because it’s the only factor that is the same for everybody. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the NBA or you’re playing JV high school basketball, guess what? You’ve got 168 hours in a week, 86,400 seconds in a day, 1,440 minutes in a day, and how you use your time is ultimately going to determine where you end up.
The 9 Tips for Mastering and Managing Your Time - I want to share with you some of those tips so that you can get some simple takeaways from this podcast that you can start implementing immediately. One of which is understanding what I call the “not to do list.” At a certain point in your life (the younger you are) you probably have a to do list where the to do list is these are the things that I need to do to give me the best chance for success. Well if you’re a coach or athletic director listening to this there obviously comes a certain point in your career where the not to do list probably becomes more important than the to do list, because the things that you do, are they the best use of your time? The one factor you can’t get back is you can’t get back time. It’s the only thing that is the same for everybody.
You’ve got to have a not to do list. For example “I will not do yard work at my house, I will not make food,” those are two things that I could do but I don’t like to do, I’m not good at them, and I simply would rather hire someone else to help me with those or go buy premade meals and hire someone to do the yard. For the 90 minutes or so that it takes me to do the yard I’d rather take those 90 minutes and invest them into time with my wife, invest them into doing a podcast like this to impact people like yourself, or invest them into doing one-on-one coaching. I have found a way to take a skill set that I have (in coaching) and instead of doing something I don’t like to do (yard work) I would invest that time into a way where I can make the same amount of money that it’s going to cost me to pay someone to do my yard, I can make that doing something I love. Why would I not do that?
Some people like doing their yard work so that may not be something that you put on your not to do list. Something you may out on your not to do list is laundry. Well they have these companies now that come and I got one on my front door the other day. They dropped off a bag on the front porch and if you want to put laundry in there you put it back outside. It’s like every Tuesday and Friday they pick up the bag, they leave you a new one, and they bring your laundry back to you in three days. So if that is something that is for you then it’s for you.
You’ve got to understand the not to do list. Other things I have put on my not to do list are “do not check email before you exercise.” You know how it is in the morning. You wake up with this grand vision of you’re going to go, you’re going to get moving, you’re going to start to sweat, you’re going to get yourself going in the morning but as soon as you open that inbox (AKA Pandora’s box) now your life revolves around everyone else’s agenda. So that is something I am not going to do.
Another thing on my not to do list is “don’t text and drive.” Do you realize that as many people were killed from texting and driving nowadays as there are from drunk driving? Why would you text and drive? If you think about it if you send one three sentence text message you’ve basically driven around the entire bases of a baseball field without looking at the road. People do it all the time and people get away with it but that doesn’t make it right and that doesn’t make it that it should be part of your routine. You’ve got to have that understanding of what’s on your not to do list.
Other pieces that go into this Time Is Ticking and Tips for Managing Your Life is just simply having a SYSTEM. What is your SYSTEM? SYSTEM is an acronym for “save yourself stress, time, effort, and motivation.” A SYSTEM of what I like to call “clearing to neutral.”
Before you go into a week - when I was a high school teacher and athletic director I’d already take Sunday. Sunday would be my clear to neutral day where I would actually do laundry. I’d set up my meals for the week and I would make sure the house was clean and organized and my desk at the office was organized and my home was organized and I had everything laid out for the week so I would just go in and I would rock and roll. At the time I didn’t have 168 hour week plan but if I did I would have been that much more effective. So having Sunday apart now where my clear to neutral is clean out all emails, all text messages, all voicemails, all social media, have all my clothes folded and put away, no clothes in my laundry, have my bags packed for the week, have my meals set up for the week, have my 168 done. Boom. That is my clear to neutral.
My 168 is there are 168 hours in a week. So on Sunday I’ll sit down and map out where all my time is going to go during the week. That way I can sit and I can say “okay this is what is going to set me up to have a successful week but let me just go make sure I have a successful day.” If I have a successful day by implanting my 168 plan then that leads to a successful week which leads to a successful month which leads to a successful quarter which leads to a successful year.
I can say with complete conviction that since I started to map out my 168 I’ve gotten more done in less time, I’ve had more free time, I’ve been able to work out more, and I’ve had more time with my wife because I know where my time is going. I know that if there is that time where I’ve got to catch an early - like tomorrow I’ve got to get on a 5:00 AM flight so I know that tonight I’ve got to try and get in the rack by 8:30-9:00 so that I can get enough sleep so when I get up at 3:30 to catch a 5:00 AM flight I’m going to be juiced. I’m going to be ready to go. I’m not going to be going to bed at midnight and waking up and then setting myself behind. Mapping out that 168, having the not to do list, having a SYSTEM is going to be important.
Let me share another one with you. Voicemail. Nowadays most phone calls are going through on cell phones but I know for a lot of people in the educational sector that are listening to this (coaches) they have office phones and you get this voicemail: “Hey Brian, it’s Matt, give me a call back.” Now that would be like somebody sending you an email and going “hey Brian it’s Matt email me back.” That is just pointless. It’s a waste of time. It’s inefficient. Here is a four step system for leaving a voicemail.
Step #1 is state who you are first name and last name. Step #2 is who are you calling. Step #3 is timestamp with contact information, phone number. Step #4 is move the conversation forward. That is the one that gets missed the most. Again Step #1, who you’re calling; Step #2, who you are; Step #3 timestamp and contact info; Step #4 move the conversation forward.
So it looks like this. Let’s say I’m calling my friend Matt Morse. I’d say “hey Matt Morse, Brian Cain here. It is December 25th (Merry Christmas). It’s noon. I hope you’re doing fantastic. My phone number is 555-555-5555 and I’m calling to see if you wanted to go over and get a workout in tomorrow at 9:00-10:30 over at Lifetime Fitness in Southlake, Texas to see if you wanted to go get after it. Give me a text message back or give me an email back or leave me a voicemail and let me know if you want to do it. I’ll see you over there. 9:00, Lifetime at Southlake. Merry Christmas. Dominate your Day. See you.”
So what did I do? I said who I’m calling, I said who I am, I left my phone number and the time I called, and I left him know what I wanted to move the conversation forward.
For the athletes listening to this who are in the cell phone generation you can say “I see when the guy called, I see what is name is,” but there is going to come a time where you have an office phone because you are working in corporate America (or whatever it is) and you’re going to get that voicemail and it’s going to drive you nuts because you won’t be able to get back to the person because they didn’t leave you the right phone number or you don’t know which person it is - because you are going to know more than one Matt - and then they’re going to get after you and say “hey man you never called me back” when you couldn’t because they didn’t know how to leave a damn voicemail. Make sure you know the four steps of how to leave a voicemail.
The last thing I want to share with you here is what we call NET time and your E2E ratio. NET time is if you’re listening to this podcast in your car you know exactly what NET time is - no extra time. We want to be savages of our time. We want to know where our time is going and maximize our time. When you’re driving in the car - enrolling in what we call Automobile University (which we’re going to talk more about on another podcast) - is listening to audiobooks, listening to podcasts, listening to Philosopher’s Notes or breaking down educational material.
NET time is no extra time which ties right into your E2E ratio. The limited free time that you have does it go into education or does it go into entertainment. For most people it goes into entertainment and you were probably that person listening to Mike &amp; Mike in the Morning or listening to something in your car, sports talk radio. Here is my question for you, why do you care about people talking about other people’s lives and other people talking about professional sports? Maybe you’re a professional sports agent. Maybe you’re a bookie. Maybe you’re somebody who has a son that is playing in professional sports. Start investing in yourself and stop wasting time listening to professional sports.
I work in pro sports. I can’t stand watching it on TV unless I have a personal connection to somebody who is in there. I feel like I’m dying. The reason I say that is because I’ve got bigger goals and things that I want to d7o so I want to take my limited free time that I have and not put it into watching other people that I don’t have any personal connection with. I want to put it into educating myself so maybe I would be valuable enough to have a personal connection with those people who are playing so that I can serve them. Does that make sense? Your E2E ratio. Your entertainment towards you education.
Now this is not for everybody but neither is success. It’s simple. Look at the free time you have. Does it go into watching TV or does it go into working on you. Does it go into watching other people live their lives or working to better improve your life? That is the E2E ratio and that directly ties in with NET time - no extra time.
I hear it all the time. People go “I can’t workout I don’t have a gym membership.” Dude, you have a body and you have a floor. Pushups, burpees, squats, whatever it is. You don’t need much. Grab a garbage can and go until you puke - thank you Leif Babin, author of Extreme Ownership. Just make it happen. I’m being somewhat sarcastic there about making yourself go till you puke, but just get moving.
And guess what the best part about NET time is? Grab a headset, grab an audiobook, grab this podcast and listen to this podcast as you go for a walk and then a jog and then a light run and then a run. Next thing you know you’re educating yourself with one of my favorite routines, what I call the “learn and burn.” I learn as I burn calories and as I get going and get moving in the morning.
But guess what? Time is ticking and there is one thing you can’t get more of and that’s time. So let’s start maximizing your education ratio, minimizing your entertainment ratio. Don’t eliminate it completely because you do need some entertainment in life, but maximize your education and get on NET time and Dominate the Day.]]>
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      <description>In this episode, Brian talks with former UMass Lacrosse player Jamie Yaman as he shares fascinating stories from his career as well as how playing collegiate Lacrosse was the perfect preparation for a successful career in Real Estate.
 
 You will learn about...
The parallels of College Lacrosse and Real Estate
A great story Jamie tells about one of his first interactions with his coach that taught him a lesson on mental toughness
Jamie's morning routine and why it sets him up for success each day
A unique breathing and visualization exercise Jamie uses
Jamie's answer to "The Million Dollar Question"
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Yaman: If you get the opportunity to play or to coach in that type of setting right now I’m not quite sure that there is anything greater especially for a young man and young women to be developing not only their athletic skills but most importantly their life skills.
Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance Coach here with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today’s guest, Jamie Yaman, was a standout lacrosse player at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and led the Minutemen to the NCAA playoffs in three of the four years that he was on the team. They made the quarterfinals twice and in 2006 competed in the NCAA National Championship game.
During his tenure with UMass Jamie was awarded the 2004 UMass Lacrosse Hammer Award and the 2006 UMass Lacrosse Goose Garber Award, signifying the most unselfish player with the best attitude on the team who demonstrated the qualities of their late coach Dick Garber. Jamie graduated from UMass with a BA in Real Estate Management and Development, emerging as a motivational leader with unrivaled capabilities as a team player.
In this podcast Jamie shares the mindset, the personal development strategies that he uses to become one of the most successful real estate agents in the nation leading Yaman Real Estate, Central New York’s premier real estate agency. To learn more please contact Jamie at JDYaman@Yaman.com.
Please welcome to the podcast Jamie Yaman. Jamie, thank you for joining us.
Yaman: Brian, it’s an absolute pleasure. Great introduction by the way. It might be hard to live up to that.
Cain: No man you’re going to crush it. I’m fired up to have you on here. Would you first kind of give us a little bit of your transition from UMass, you’re crushing it on the lacrosse field and now you’re crushing it in the real estate agent world, in the real estate world. What are some of the parallels that you see from plying in collegiate athletics - as the people that are going to be listening to the podcast, Jamie, are going to be mostly coaches and athletes. What are some of the parallels that you learned in lacrosse that are also making you successful here in the real estate world?
Yaman: Well, Brian, first of all I just want to thank you for having me on your podcast. It’s a real honor to be able to speak to your audience, be able to speak to you. I really admire what you’re doing in the world and making a big difference.
So regarding the transition, I’ve always looked at athletics as a metaphor for life. Of course your athletes and your coaches can probably attest to the same thing. I remember one time when I was in my senior year we were looking down the Garber Field - we were playing at UMass - I think it was January 20th. I remember this day very vividly. I was looking down the line. We were doing our last sprint my senior year for the winter training and I was about ready to puke. The other guys were barely able to stay up on their two feet. I think the temperature was about 20 degrees. Part of my just started to get so damn excited about what it was that I was doing and that really caught me off guard.
I went back to my locker room after that and just asked “what the hell was that all about?” I realized that when I was looking down that line this was not something that any normal person would really enjoy doing. No one would I want to be out there in 20 degrees running their ass off, sweating, getting ready to puke, and then all of a sudden have this incredible passion for what it was that you were doing out there with 40 guys coming through.
So applying that principle to the business world there are going to be a lot of things in life in general that you are not going to want to do. Having the experience that I had playing at UMass going through all the athletic experiences that I had and really applying them to the real world gave me this sense of being able to push through anything that came to me that might have been uncomfortable. It just gave me a sense of an experience I could turn back to and know that if I can get through this I can get through anything.
Cain: Jamie, that’s awesome. You can be as colorful and animated and real as you want on the podcast for sure. So you have this experience in college lacrosse. You played for a good friend of mine and friend of yours - Andy Shay - who is now the head lacrosse coach at Yale, one of the most successful in the country. Andy will be a guest on the podcast as well here. What are some of the things that you learned from your college assistant coach at the time that have kind of stuck with you?
Yaman: Andy recruited me to go to Yale from our hometown which we both lived in. Obviously Andy is a lot older than I am. The first experience that I had with Andy at UMass it was raining and we were just starting Fall ball and I came in and I came in to the coach’s office - and Andy was there - and I said “hey coach if it keeps” - and I was excited. It was raining so I’m like “hey coach if it keeps raining maybe we can practice indoors.” And he looked at me and all of a sudden I could tell in his eyes this was not the guy that first recruited me. The guy who first recruited me was this super warm, super fun, loving guy, he really wanted to build rapport. And he looked at me like I was fucking crazy.
He said “you know, Yaman, it’s pussies like you that have made this program what it hasn’t been yet.” I was like holy shit! He goes “we’re going to be fucking outdoors today and we’re going to be outdoors every other day.” That was what he said to me in that moment. I went back to the locker room with my tail between my legs. That was the moment that I realized what real warrior training was going to be like.
At UMass it was a real blue collar program. As I mentioned there would be times where we were out in the field and he was shoveling off the lines (where there were six inches of snow on top of it) so that we could see what the boundaries were. The entire time he was looking down our schedule throughout the course of the year saying Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, North Carolina, all these guys - Syracuse guys practicing in the dome, North Carolina practicing in their field house, Johns Hopkins practicing in their field house. We didn’t have a field house. We had Garber Field and we practiced on that all year round.
So with Andy it was that moment that was really one of those defining moments in your life where I could have easily just said “this guy is fucking nuts and this is not the program I signed up for and I want to just go to college and have a good time and party and play lacrosse on the side and do school even more on the side.” But that was a real wakeup call and that is what Andy’s all about.
Cain: Andy is real. I think that you probably from that moment forward probably grew a lot in terms of your mental toughness and your ability to handle adversity because that is a lot of what lacrosse is is adversity that you’ve got to overcome, you’ve got to get comfortable being uncomfortable, and I’m sure that’s translated well for you to the real estate world.
Yaman: Oh completely. And how to go through that process with a bunch of guys as well. At any given time you are going to be wavering in your own commitment and you’re going to be wavering in your own determination. You’re going to be wavering in your sense of “can I do this or not.” There are going to be 40 guys next to you who are all in varying degrees of them wavering or not wavering as well. So going through that process and being able to rely on your brothers and that sense of camaraderie--
In fact I just got off the phone earlier today with a guy over in Germany that I really have developed a close relationship with, a good buddy of mine. We’ve done a bunch of weekend retreats together, men’s weekend retreats, and we’ve talked about that sense of camaraderie. I told him I haven’t felt that sense of camaraderie that we’re now creating with our own group of men as much as I have - the last time I felt it was well over a decade ago when I was playing at UMass.
So that time, that four years, if you get the opportunity to play or to coach in that type of setting right now I’m not quite sure that there is anything greater especially for a young man and young women to be developing not only their athletic skills but most importantly their life skills.
Cain: Jamie, talk a little bit about mindset whether it’s on the lacrosse field or in real estate - you run personal development seminars. I want to kind of transition this podcast now to your mindset and some of the things that you do in your life for personal development that the listeners to this podcast could start doing in their life to help them continue to grow. We’re always talking about you’re either growing or you’re dying and the key to being more successful than you are today is to continue to grow. You’re either going to go through the motions in life or you’re going to grow through the motions in life. What are some things that you do to grow and to help build your mindset?
Yaman: There are a lot of things. I’ll talk about some of the foundation of what I do. I believe in discipline, what you’re setting yourself up to do every single day. For me when I wake up in the morning - and I like really tangible things. I can give you “do this” or “do that” but if I’m not doing it I could just be a talking head and that is not what I want to be for you and for your listeners. I’ll tell you what I do and I actually get the results from.
In the morning I like to wake up real early (I’d say around 5:00-530). I have found over the past decade that meditation is a way for me to just kind of get centered into my body, kind of open up to the universe, open up to god, open up to love, whatever your belief is. So I typically sit for 30 minutes, have a hot glass of lemon water in the morning.
I try to get my body as aligned as possible not only in the morning but throughout the entire course of the day. So I’m very careful what I eat, I’m very careful what I put in my body - very little alcohol and no caffeine. Not because I’m on this strict diet, it just doesn’t make me feel good. I tried to get into coffee, I tried to get into sports drinks that amp you up, but honestly my body speaks to me otherwise. My body says “this is bullshit” and typically ends up shutting down.
So getting back to the morning routine. Having a hot glass of lemon water, and the first thing that I do is I just sit down. I’ve got a nice little meditation space for me in my house and I sit for 30 minutes. Right now I’m getting into Zen meditation. I got actually a UMass buddy out in California - Craig French - who is starting a company called Cricket Jaw and he has been getting into Zen meditation for a while. I’ve always done my own type of meditation but he is getting me into this type.
Then after I sit for about 30 minutes and just kind of collect myself, center my breath, I start doing some Tai Chi. I’ve got a guy out of New York City who puts out some great DVDs. His name is Robert Peng. He releases some kind of at-home tai chi practices that has been something I have been doing ever since I went to India about 12 years ago. So Tai Chi has always been a part of my practice. After that I do some stretches. That whole process takes anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour. I walk my dog in the morning. Then I typically go and work out.
In my office I come in and I spend most of my time in my real estate office. I have a standing desk. I do my trampoline. I’ve got a little - I forget what it’s called but it’s just a little home trampoline. I’m always trying to keep my state in a resourceful state.
Brian, before the podcast you and I were talking about Tony Robbins. I’ve gone to a lot of Tony’s events. I’ve been a part of his leadership team and I’ve gotten really into that world so I’ve known the real importance of state management. I could be doing all my stuff in the morning but if I’m not maintaining that throughout the entire course of the day I become less resourceful, my work becomes less productive, my relationships suffer, my company suffers - everything just kind of collapses if my body collapses, if my mind collapses, if my emotions collapse. So it’s really finding ways to keep myself as expanded as possible. I mean that spiritually, mentally, physically, emotionally expanded as I can possibly be.
For me I’ve also been really focusing a lot on my breath. Everything is going to follow your breath - how successful you are in anything you do, your emotional state, psychological state, your spiritual state, your relationship state. If you have a shortness of breath, if you’re not breathing deep into your balls, Brian if you can imagine - and for women I don’t know. I can only speak to a man’s experience. But, women, you know a lot of men. You could probably help them do this. It helps them be a lot more present for you ladies which is I’m sure what you are ultimately looking for in your men. If you can imagine a big cylinder from your throat down to your balls and just imagine it goes all the way up to your throat, all the way down to the bottom of your balls. Now imagine that it’s starting to expand, it’s starting to widen, and it’s starting to lengthen. So it’s starting to widen out and lengthen up.
While you’re imagining this begin to picture yourself breathing at the bottom end of this cylinder all the way down at the bottom of your balls. If you can focus on three spaces (your throat, your heart, and your balls) each breath you’re noticing that the cylinder is expanding and that these three areas are softening and expanding. Your throat softening, expanding. Your heart softening, expanding. Your balls softening and growing.
I would say probably a couple dozen times throughout the course of the day if I feel that I’m starting to get up and out of my body, up and out of my mind, up and out of my emotions and I’m not grounded, this is a great way to exercise. I’ll just sit no matter where I am. I can even be in a meeting. I’ll just start imagining this cylinder within myself expanding. I’m just more present of where my body is in that space, more present where my body is in the room. That’s a great tool just to bring yourself back into that moment, ultimately bringing your power back into that moment.
Cain: That is outstanding. I love that. That’s beautiful. Let’s continue down the path (if you would) talking about meditation. It’s something that the guests on our podcast mention. You’re doing a great job of actually giving us a strategy for meditation from your throat down through your heart to your balls.
You talk about Zen meditation. What is the difference between Zen meditation and say where you’re just sitting and counting your breath? Some of the simple meditations we’ve shared through the podcast or in seminars would be like using the app Headspace is something that people can use to get started or using the app Calm. Do you use those apps? What’s the difference between that and Zen meditation?
Yaman: I use an app by a buddy of mine called Grounded Mind. I think it’s www.GroundedMind.com. That is great. Those are more guided meditations. I’m working with a coach right now who we’re kind of holding ourselves accountable to 30 minutes of meditation every day. I was at one time - and still am really - but I was big into astrology and I have a guy (his name is Rick Jarrow and if you Google him you’ll find some of his work) and I asked him. This guy spent a lot of time with Ram Dass. I don’t know if you’re familiar with who Ram Dass is but he wrote a book Be Here Now, one of the great kind of self help books/spiritual books back in the 60s.
I asked Rick, I said “Ricketman, you’ve been to India countless times, I almost consider you like a guru.” When I talked to him he had spent a week with Ram Dass at Ram Dass’ house out in Hawaii, just the two of them. If there is anyone that knows about meditation it’s this guy. He is a religious studies professor at College and just an amazing man. I said “what is the best form of meditation, what is the best technique.” I was asking him all these questions kind of geeking out on meditation and he said - he was probably in his early 60s. He stands about 6’4 and he’s got this big goatee. Almost like a Merlin figure.
He said “Jamie, the best form of mediation is just sit down and just follow your breath.” That’s it. No music. No fucking cymbals. No chimes. You don’t have to put your hands necessarily in a specific spot. Your back doesn’t have to be at a specific angle. Zen meditation is very strict about posture, breathing, where your hands are, but everyone is going to have their own thing, Brian, so I think that especially in today’s culture what people are being so distracted by is not a lack of information. There is information out there on anything and there are people successful in doing it in a lot of different ways. It’s really just sitting down and putting the things that you know into practice.
I would say to your listeners if meditation is something that intrigues you just start with the simple practice of sitting down on a pillow, on a couch, in a chair, standing up, it doesn’t matter (you can lay down as long as you try not to fall asleep) and just begin to put your awareness on your breath. On the inhale. And on the exhale. Not trying to necessarily change your breath, not trying to influence it, not trying to make it deeper or more profound, just putting your awareness on your breath and then noticing what your experience is. Noticing how your mind wants to try to take you away from that awareness of your breath.
Notice how you might start to fidget. Notice how all of a sudden itches might start to come to your body. Just see if you can maintain that stillness. Start for five minutes. Start for a minute, shit. Just start. Start for ten minutes. Just continue to bring yourself back to that place. It’s going to be fucking hard at first. Even people who do it for 67 years it’s still a challenge. But the idea is that consistency. The more you come back to it the more you’ll just start to notice that what used to bother you in your life, what used to hook you, what used to distract you, all of a sudden it’s not hooking you so bad. It’s not distracting you so much. It’s not creating such a disturbance in your life.
I’m a huge believer in meditation. If I don’t do a meditation in the morning my life and life in general tends to smack me around most of the day. I’m not quite sure how there can be such a relation between not doing meditation and really noticing that holy shit my life is almost kind of out of control today. If anything it gives me an opportunity just to kind of check in with myself and almost to say to life “I’m here, I’m present, I’m aware, I’m ready, I’m open, I’m quiet” and then allow life to move you throughout the course of the day.
Cain: Jamie I think that’s great man. You talked a lot about the consistency - consistency being the hardest thing, consistency with the meditation - and if you’re not doing it in the morning life is kind of smacking you around a little bit. We talk a lot about the importance of routines and routines that keep you consistent. You’ve developed one of the top real estate agencies in the country. You must have routines that you do in the office as well not just in your personal develop side in the morning but in your performance on a day to day basis you must have routines and all that that you do as well. Is that accurate?
Yaman: Oh absolutely. Absolutely. I mean everyone has routines. Some routines might serve you well. Some routines might keep you average. Some routines might help you to surpass your competition or surpass what you thought was your ultimate goal. Everyone has got routines. Everyone has standards. Everyone has disciplines.
If I were to look at ten people who were listening to the podcast right now or 100 people listening to the podcast right now I could tell you if I could see their bodies you and I both, Brian, (we don’t have to get a degree in this) we could both know just by looking at their bodies how often do they work out, what is their diet like, how much water intake do they get. How do we know that? Well their body basically is just evidence of that. It’s living evidence of how they treat their body. What is the routine that they have? What is the discipline that they have? The body is a great way of just externalizing someone’s routines and someone’s habits.
When it comes to relationships, when it comes to running a real estate office, we all know that you can come into my office or you can go into any office and basically see what is the quality of their routines, what is the quality of their disciplines. For me real estate is a people-based business. It is incredibly important that my staff is inspired to be here. If they’re not inspired to be here anyone with any degree of sensitivity when being around someone else is going to know that those people that work in my office are not happy to be here. So as the leader of the office I need to really exemplify that on a daily basis.
I have a huge sound system here in the office that during every one of our staff meetings - which is quite a few times a week - we kick up the music and the first thing that we do is just set the tone. Right now I’m talking to you on a ridiculously expensive set of headphones that I have invested in to help me with my state, to help me get into my routines in a more effective way. I could go into what is the routine of a real estate office but really it’s what are routines that get us into the right state to do what we want to do which is to live a passionate life and to be of service to others.
Cain: Jamie you’ve talked a lot about getting into a state whether it was the trampoline or music. What exactly is a state? I think sometimes when I mention trying to manage your state people get a little bit confused. What is a state and how do you teach that to people for the first time?
Yaman: Well your state basically is how you’re showing up at any given time. How you’re showing up to the world at any given time. I can show up physically. I can step into a space. But my body doesn’t act independently from my mind. My mind doesn’t act independently from my emotions. My emotions don’t act independently from my relationships and how I’m bringing all of that - or my spiritual life. I’m bringing all of that into this present moment. This present moment is how I’m showing up and what my state is.
When someone says “I’m in a resourceful state, I’m in an unresourceful state, I’m in a state that can breathe success, I’m in a state that is sure to breed failure,” it’s basically (like I said) how you’re showing up physically, how you’re showing up emotionally, how you’re showing up mentally. Mentally are you clear? Are you foggy? Are you tired? Are you clear? Emotionally are you clear? Are you optimistic? Are you compassionate? Are you angry? Are you seething under the surface? Physically what is your posture like? Where are your shoulders? How is your breath? Did you get your workout in the morning? Is your body feeling good? So state is everything.
If you’re showing up in a state that is not going to serve your life it’s going to be damn hard - damn hard - for you to get through your life and to build and inspire a path for yourself. Yourself or your organization whether it’s your team, those who are on your team. That is the best way I can explain state.
Cain: Jamie I appreciate you making time and jumping on the podcast here. My last question for you is what is it that you know now having been a big time lacrosse player at UMass, played in a National Championship, run one of the most successful real estate groups in the country, attended Tony Robbins’ events, running your own events, and just absolutely crushing it in life, what is it you know now that you wish you could go back and you could say to yourself going into UMass to be a college athlete for the first time?
Yaman: Well that is a great question. I honestly wouldn’t say anything. If I could go back to myself there wasn’t a thing that I really regretted, Brian, and I feel that the path that I took to get here, even though there were some real difficult times and certainly a part of me wishes I could go back and do it again and if I could I might do things a little bit differently, but then I wouldn’t be who I am today.
By no means am I going to come across as somehow expressing that I was perfect or that I had it all together. I was far from it and still am very far from it. I’m always going to be a student - student of life, student of anything that I’m doing - but I would probably just go back into the room.
If I could go back to my 18-19 year old self and just kind of look at myself through my eyes and through just acknowledging my presence in that room with my 19 year old self I would just let him know “hey you got this, you got it, just do the best you can and you’re going to do great.” But I don’t know if I would say anything man. I would just look him in the eyes and kind of nod and then step back because he’s got to go through his own journey. That journey is what shapes who we are.
Some people who are listening on your podcast, you might have some things that you could go back and say “fuck if I had just known what I know now when I was 18 I’d go back and tell my 18 year old self” but my question to you is “did you not grow?” What you would tell your 18 year old self would probably be how to do something better or how to show up better but did you not grow from learning the hard way? Did you not grow from the experiences that you had? And the way that you grew, has it not served you incredibly well in your life right now?
So would I go back and rob myself of the experience of learning? No, I would never do that. I would never do that.
Cain: Great answer man. Jamie, that’s fantastic. I appreciate you being on the podcast.
For our listeners that want to learn more about you or want to get more info is there a Twitter handle or a website that they can go to to get themselves some more Jamie Yaman? I know I need some.
Yaman: Yes actually my website right now is under construction. I’m working with a grade A team down in South America who took my website down - the one that I currently had up - and are building it back new. I would say check back in a couple months, www.JamieYaman.com. In the time being just email me if you want to chat. I’m always looking for people to connect with, people who are inspired to live life and just share ideas.
Like I said this morning I spent an hour on the phone with a guy out of Germany. This is a guy that I just check in with and we kind of hold each other accountable. This is a guy who lives life in a beautiful way. So check me out on my email address. You can find me on Facebook. My cell number is 607-423-1369, shoot me a text, give me a call, I’d be happy to talk to you and your listeners.
Cain: I appreciate you man. You’re one of the few people who are of service mind enough to be willing to give out your cell phone to the 50,000 listeners or so who are listening to this. Hopefully they’re blowing you up and hopefully you’re able to make an even bigger impact in the world than you are currently already making which is pretty massive.
Jamie, thank you again for being on the podcast. Best to you. Looking forward to having you again.
Yaman: Alright Brian. My pleasure. Thank you.
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      <itunes:title>BC 119. Jamie Yaman - Strategies For Success From The Nation's Top Real Estate Agent</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Brian talks with former UMass Lacrosse player Jamie Yaman as he shares fascinating stories from his career as well as how playing collegiate Lacrosse was the perfect preparation for a successful career in Real Estate.
 
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode, Brian talks with former UMass Lacrosse player Jamie Yaman as he shares fascinating stories from his career as well as how playing collegiate Lacrosse was the perfect preparation for a successful career in Real Estate.
 
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The parallels of College Lacrosse and Real Estate
A great story Jamie tells about one of his first interactions with his coach that taught him a lesson on mental toughness
Jamie's morning routine and why it sets him up for success each day
A unique breathing and visualization exercise Jamie uses
Jamie's answer to "The Million Dollar Question"
 
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Yaman: If you get the opportunity to play or to coach in that type of setting right now I’m not quite sure that there is anything greater especially for a young man and young women to be developing not only their athletic skills but most importantly their life skills.
Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance Coach here with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today’s guest, Jamie Yaman, was a standout lacrosse player at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and led the Minutemen to the NCAA playoffs in three of the four years that he was on the team. They made the quarterfinals twice and in 2006 competed in the NCAA National Championship game.
During his tenure with UMass Jamie was awarded the 2004 UMass Lacrosse Hammer Award and the 2006 UMass Lacrosse Goose Garber Award, signifying the most unselfish player with the best attitude on the team who demonstrated the qualities of their late coach Dick Garber. Jamie graduated from UMass with a BA in Real Estate Management and Development, emerging as a motivational leader with unrivaled capabilities as a team player.
In this podcast Jamie shares the mindset, the personal development strategies that he uses to become one of the most successful real estate agents in the nation leading Yaman Real Estate, Central New York’s premier real estate agency. To learn more please contact Jamie at JDYaman@Yaman.com.
Please welcome to the podcast Jamie Yaman. Jamie, thank you for joining us.
Yaman: Brian, it’s an absolute pleasure. Great introduction by the way. It might be hard to live up to that.
Cain: No man you’re going to crush it. I’m fired up to have you on here. Would you first kind of give us a little bit of your transition from UMass, you’re crushing it on the lacrosse field and now you’re crushing it in the real estate agent world, in the real estate world. What are some of the parallels that you see from plying in collegiate athletics - as the people that are going to be listening to the podcast, Jamie, are going to be mostly coaches and athletes. What are some of the parallels that you learned in lacrosse that are also making you successful here in the real estate world?
Yaman: Well, Brian, first of all I just want to thank you for having me on your podcast. It’s a real honor to be able to speak to your audience, be able to speak to you. I really admire what you’re doing in the world and making a big difference.
So regarding the transition, I’ve always looked at athletics as a metaphor for life. Of course your athletes and your coaches can probably attest to the same thing. I remember one time when I was in my senior year we were looking down the Garber Field - we were playing at UMass - I think it was January 20th. I remember this day very vividly. I was looking down the line. We were doing our last sprint my senior year for the winter training and I was about ready to puke. The other guys were barely able to stay up on their two feet. I think the temperature was about 20 degrees. Part of my just started to get so damn excited about what it was that I was doing and that really caught me off guard.
I went back to my locker room after that and just asked “what the hell was that all about?” I realized that when I was looking down that line this was not something that any normal person would really enjoy doing. No one would I want to be out there in 20 degrees running their ass off, sweating, getting ready to puke, and then all of a sudden have this incredible passion for what it was that you were doing out there with 40 guys coming through.
So applying that principle to the business world there are going to be a lot of things in life in general that you are not going to want to do. Having the experience that I had playing at UMass going through all the athletic experiences that I had and really applying them to the real world gave me this sense of being able to push through anything that came to me that might have been uncomfortable. It just gave me a sense of an experience I could turn back to and know that if I can get through this I can get through anything.
Cain: Jamie, that’s awesome. You can be as colorful and animated and real as you want on the podcast for sure. So you have this experience in college lacrosse. You played for a good friend of mine and friend of yours - Andy Shay - who is now the head lacrosse coach at Yale, one of the most successful in the country. Andy will be a guest on the podcast as well here. What are some of the things that you learned from your college assistant coach at the time that have kind of stuck with you?
Yaman: Andy recruited me to go to Yale from our hometown which we both lived in. Obviously Andy is a lot older than I am. The first experience that I had with Andy at UMass it was raining and we were just starting Fall ball and I came in and I came in to the coach’s office - and Andy was there - and I said “hey coach if it keeps” - and I was excited. It was raining so I’m like “hey coach if it keeps raining maybe we can practice indoors.” And he looked at me and all of a sudden I could tell in his eyes this was not the guy that first recruited me. The guy who first recruited me was this super warm, super fun, loving guy, he really wanted to build rapport. And he looked at me like I was fucking crazy.
He said “you know, Yaman, it’s pussies like you that have made this program what it hasn’t been yet.” I was like holy shit! He goes “we’re going to be fucking outdoors today and we’re going to be outdoors every other day.” That was what he said to me in that moment. I went back to the locker room with my tail between my legs. That was the moment that I realized what real warrior training was going to be like.
At UMass it was a real blue collar program. As I mentioned there would be times where we were out in the field and he was shoveling off the lines (where there were six inches of snow on top of it) so that we could see what the boundaries were. The entire time he was looking down our schedule throughout the course of the year saying Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, North Carolina, all these guys - Syracuse guys practicing in the dome, North Carolina practicing in their field house, Johns Hopkins practicing in their field house. We didn’t have a field house. We had Garber Field and we practiced on that all year round.
So with Andy it was that moment that was really one of those defining moments in your life where I could have easily just said “this guy is fucking nuts and this is not the program I signed up for and I want to just go to college and have a good time and party and play lacrosse on the side and do school even more on the side.” But that was a real wakeup call and that is what Andy’s all about.
Cain: Andy is real. I think that you probably from that moment forward probably grew a lot in terms of your mental toughness and your ability to handle adversity because that is a lot of what lacrosse is is adversity that you’ve got to overcome, you’ve got to get comfortable being uncomfortable, and I’m sure that’s translated well for you to the real estate world.
Yaman: Oh completely. And how to go through that process with a bunch of guys as well. At any given time you are going to be wavering in your own commitment and you’re going to be wavering in your own determination. You’re going to be wavering in your sense of “can I do this or not.” There are going to be 40 guys next to you who are all in varying degrees of them wavering or not wavering as well. So going through that process and being able to rely on your brothers and that sense of camaraderie--
In fact I just got off the phone earlier today with a guy over in Germany that I really have developed a close relationship with, a good buddy of mine. We’ve done a bunch of weekend retreats together, men’s weekend retreats, and we’ve talked about that sense of camaraderie. I told him I haven’t felt that sense of camaraderie that we’re now creating with our own group of men as much as I have - the last time I felt it was well over a decade ago when I was playing at UMass.
So that time, that four years, if you get the opportunity to play or to coach in that type of setting right now I’m not quite sure that there is anything greater especially for a young man and young women to be developing not only their athletic skills but most importantly their life skills.
Cain: Jamie, talk a little bit about mindset whether it’s on the lacrosse field or in real estate - you run personal development seminars. I want to kind of transition this podcast now to your mindset and some of the things that you do in your life for personal development that the listeners to this podcast could start doing in their life to help them continue to grow. We’re always talking about you’re either growing or you’re dying and the key to being more successful than you are today is to continue to grow. You’re either going to go through the motions in life or you’re going to grow through the motions in life. What are some things that you do to grow and to help build your mindset?
Yaman: There are a lot of things. I’ll talk about some of the foundation of what I do. I believe in discipline, what you’re setting yourself up to do every single day. For me when I wake up in the morning - and I like really tangible things. I can give you “do this” or “do that” but if I’m not doing it I could just be a talking head and that is not what I want to be for you and for your listeners. I’ll tell you what I do and I actually get the results from.
In the morning I like to wake up real early (I’d say around 5:00-530). I have found over the past decade that meditation is a way for me to just kind of get centered into my body, kind of open up to the universe, open up to god, open up to love, whatever your belief is. So I typically sit for 30 minutes, have a hot glass of lemon water in the morning.
I try to get my body as aligned as possible not only in the morning but throughout the entire course of the day. So I’m very careful what I eat, I’m very careful what I put in my body - very little alcohol and no caffeine. Not because I’m on this strict diet, it just doesn’t make me feel good. I tried to get into coffee, I tried to get into sports drinks that amp you up, but honestly my body speaks to me otherwise. My body says “this is bullshit” and typically ends up shutting down.
So getting back to the morning routine. Having a hot glass of lemon water, and the first thing that I do is I just sit down. I’ve got a nice little meditation space for me in my house and I sit for 30 minutes. Right now I’m getting into Zen meditation. I got actually a UMass buddy out in California - Craig French - who is starting a company called Cricket Jaw and he has been getting into Zen meditation for a while. I’ve always done my own type of meditation but he is getting me into this type.
Then after I sit for about 30 minutes and just kind of collect myself, center my breath, I start doing some Tai Chi. I’ve got a guy out of New York City who puts out some great DVDs. His name is Robert Peng. He releases some kind of at-home tai chi practices that has been something I have been doing ever since I went to India about 12 years ago. So Tai Chi has always been a part of my practice. After that I do some stretches. That whole process takes anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour. I walk my dog in the morning. Then I typically go and work out.
In my office I come in and I spend most of my time in my real estate office. I have a standing desk. I do my trampoline. I’ve got a little - I forget what it’s called but it’s just a little home trampoline. I’m always trying to keep my state in a resourceful state.
Brian, before the podcast you and I were talking about Tony Robbins. I’ve gone to a lot of Tony’s events. I’ve been a part of his leadership team and I’ve gotten really into that world so I’ve known the real importance of state management. I could be doing all my stuff in the morning but if I’m not maintaining that throughout the entire course of the day I become less resourceful, my work becomes less productive, my relationships suffer, my company suffers - everything just kind of collapses if my body collapses, if my mind collapses, if my emotions collapse. So it’s really finding ways to keep myself as expanded as possible. I mean that spiritually, mentally, physically, emotionally expanded as I can possibly be.
For me I’ve also been really focusing a lot on my breath. Everything is going to follow your breath - how successful you are in anything you do, your emotional state, psychological state, your spiritual state, your relationship state. If you have a shortness of breath, if you’re not breathing deep into your balls, Brian if you can imagine - and for women I don’t know. I can only speak to a man’s experience. But, women, you know a lot of men. You could probably help them do this. It helps them be a lot more present for you ladies which is I’m sure what you are ultimately looking for in your men. If you can imagine a big cylinder from your throat down to your balls and just imagine it goes all the way up to your throat, all the way down to the bottom of your balls. Now imagine that it’s starting to expand, it’s starting to widen, and it’s starting to lengthen. So it’s starting to widen out and lengthen up.
While you’re imagining this begin to picture yourself breathing at the bottom end of this cylinder all the way down at the bottom of your balls. If you can focus on three spaces (your throat, your heart, and your balls) each breath you’re noticing that the cylinder is expanding and that these three areas are softening and expanding. Your throat softening, expanding. Your heart softening, expanding. Your balls softening and growing.
I would say probably a couple dozen times throughout the course of the day if I feel that I’m starting to get up and out of my body, up and out of my mind, up and out of my emotions and I’m not grounded, this is a great way to exercise. I’ll just sit no matter where I am. I can even be in a meeting. I’ll just start imagining this cylinder within myself expanding. I’m just more present of where my body is in that space, more present where my body is in the room. That’s a great tool just to bring yourself back into that moment, ultimately bringing your power back into that moment.
Cain: That is outstanding. I love that. That’s beautiful. Let’s continue down the path (if you would) talking about meditation. It’s something that the guests on our podcast mention. You’re doing a great job of actually giving us a strategy for meditation from your throat down through your heart to your balls.
You talk about Zen meditation. What is the difference between Zen meditation and say where you’re just sitting and counting your breath? Some of the simple meditations we’ve shared through the podcast or in seminars would be like using the app Headspace is something that people can use to get started or using the app Calm. Do you use those apps? What’s the difference between that and Zen meditation?
Yaman: I use an app by a buddy of mine called Grounded Mind. I think it’s www.GroundedMind.com. That is great. Those are more guided meditations. I’m working with a coach right now who we’re kind of holding ourselves accountable to 30 minutes of meditation every day. I was at one time - and still am really - but I was big into astrology and I have a guy (his name is Rick Jarrow and if you Google him you’ll find some of his work) and I asked him. This guy spent a lot of time with Ram Dass. I don’t know if you’re familiar with who Ram Dass is but he wrote a book Be Here Now, one of the great kind of self help books/spiritual books back in the 60s.
I asked Rick, I said “Ricketman, you’ve been to India countless times, I almost consider you like a guru.” When I talked to him he had spent a week with Ram Dass at Ram Dass’ house out in Hawaii, just the two of them. If there is anyone that knows about meditation it’s this guy. He is a religious studies professor at College and just an amazing man. I said “what is the best form of meditation, what is the best technique.” I was asking him all these questions kind of geeking out on meditation and he said - he was probably in his early 60s. He stands about 6’4 and he’s got this big goatee. Almost like a Merlin figure.
He said “Jamie, the best form of mediation is just sit down and just follow your breath.” That’s it. No music. No fucking cymbals. No chimes. You don’t have to put your hands necessarily in a specific spot. Your back doesn’t have to be at a specific angle. Zen meditation is very strict about posture, breathing, where your hands are, but everyone is going to have their own thing, Brian, so I think that especially in today’s culture what people are being so distracted by is not a lack of information. There is information out there on anything and there are people successful in doing it in a lot of different ways. It’s really just sitting down and putting the things that you know into practice.
I would say to your listeners if meditation is something that intrigues you just start with the simple practice of sitting down on a pillow, on a couch, in a chair, standing up, it doesn’t matter (you can lay down as long as you try not to fall asleep) and just begin to put your awareness on your breath. On the inhale. And on the exhale. Not trying to necessarily change your breath, not trying to influence it, not trying to make it deeper or more profound, just putting your awareness on your breath and then noticing what your experience is. Noticing how your mind wants to try to take you away from that awareness of your breath.
Notice how you might start to fidget. Notice how all of a sudden itches might start to come to your body. Just see if you can maintain that stillness. Start for five minutes. Start for a minute, shit. Just start. Start for ten minutes. Just continue to bring yourself back to that place. It’s going to be fucking hard at first. Even people who do it for 67 years it’s still a challenge. But the idea is that consistency. The more you come back to it the more you’ll just start to notice that what used to bother you in your life, what used to hook you, what used to distract you, all of a sudden it’s not hooking you so bad. It’s not distracting you so much. It’s not creating such a disturbance in your life.
I’m a huge believer in meditation. If I don’t do a meditation in the morning my life and life in general tends to smack me around most of the day. I’m not quite sure how there can be such a relation between not doing meditation and really noticing that holy shit my life is almost kind of out of control today. If anything it gives me an opportunity just to kind of check in with myself and almost to say to life “I’m here, I’m present, I’m aware, I’m ready, I’m open, I’m quiet” and then allow life to move you throughout the course of the day.
Cain: Jamie I think that’s great man. You talked a lot about the consistency - consistency being the hardest thing, consistency with the meditation - and if you’re not doing it in the morning life is kind of smacking you around a little bit. We talk a lot about the importance of routines and routines that keep you consistent. You’ve developed one of the top real estate agencies in the country. You must have routines that you do in the office as well not just in your personal develop side in the morning but in your performance on a day to day basis you must have routines and all that that you do as well. Is that accurate?
Yaman: Oh absolutely. Absolutely. I mean everyone has routines. Some routines might serve you well. Some routines might keep you average. Some routines might help you to surpass your competition or surpass what you thought was your ultimate goal. Everyone has got routines. Everyone has standards. Everyone has disciplines.
If I were to look at ten people who were listening to the podcast right now or 100 people listening to the podcast right now I could tell you if I could see their bodies you and I both, Brian, (we don’t have to get a degree in this) we could both know just by looking at their bodies how often do they work out, what is their diet like, how much water intake do they get. How do we know that? Well their body basically is just evidence of that. It’s living evidence of how they treat their body. What is the routine that they have? What is the discipline that they have? The body is a great way of just externalizing someone’s routines and someone’s habits.
When it comes to relationships, when it comes to running a real estate office, we all know that you can come into my office or you can go into any office and basically see what is the quality of their routines, what is the quality of their disciplines. For me real estate is a people-based business. It is incredibly important that my staff is inspired to be here. If they’re not inspired to be here anyone with any degree of sensitivity when being around someone else is going to know that those people that work in my office are not happy to be here. So as the leader of the office I need to really exemplify that on a daily basis.
I have a huge sound system here in the office that during every one of our staff meetings - which is quite a few times a week - we kick up the music and the first thing that we do is just set the tone. Right now I’m talking to you on a ridiculously expensive set of headphones that I have invested in to help me with my state, to help me get into my routines in a more effective way. I could go into what is the routine of a real estate office but really it’s what are routines that get us into the right state to do what we want to do which is to live a passionate life and to be of service to others.
Cain: Jamie you’ve talked a lot about getting into a state whether it was the trampoline or music. What exactly is a state? I think sometimes when I mention trying to manage your state people get a little bit confused. What is a state and how do you teach that to people for the first time?
Yaman: Well your state basically is how you’re showing up at any given time. How you’re showing up to the world at any given time. I can show up physically. I can step into a space. But my body doesn’t act independently from my mind. My mind doesn’t act independently from my emotions. My emotions don’t act independently from my relationships and how I’m bringing all of that - or my spiritual life. I’m bringing all of that into this present moment. This present moment is how I’m showing up and what my state is.
When someone says “I’m in a resourceful state, I’m in an unresourceful state, I’m in a state that can breathe success, I’m in a state that is sure to breed failure,” it’s basically (like I said) how you’re showing up physically, how you’re showing up emotionally, how you’re showing up mentally. Mentally are you clear? Are you foggy? Are you tired? Are you clear? Emotionally are you clear? Are you optimistic? Are you compassionate? Are you angry? Are you seething under the surface? Physically what is your posture like? Where are your shoulders? How is your breath? Did you get your workout in the morning? Is your body feeling good? So state is everything.
If you’re showing up in a state that is not going to serve your life it’s going to be damn hard - damn hard - for you to get through your life and to build and inspire a path for yourself. Yourself or your organization whether it’s your team, those who are on your team. That is the best way I can explain state.
Cain: Jamie I appreciate you making time and jumping on the podcast here. My last question for you is what is it that you know now having been a big time lacrosse player at UMass, played in a National Championship, run one of the most successful real estate groups in the country, attended Tony Robbins’ events, running your own events, and just absolutely crushing it in life, what is it you know now that you wish you could go back and you could say to yourself going into UMass to be a college athlete for the first time?
Yaman: Well that is a great question. I honestly wouldn’t say anything. If I could go back to myself there wasn’t a thing that I really regretted, Brian, and I feel that the path that I took to get here, even though there were some real difficult times and certainly a part of me wishes I could go back and do it again and if I could I might do things a little bit differently, but then I wouldn’t be who I am today.
By no means am I going to come across as somehow expressing that I was perfect or that I had it all together. I was far from it and still am very far from it. I’m always going to be a student - student of life, student of anything that I’m doing - but I would probably just go back into the room.
If I could go back to my 18-19 year old self and just kind of look at myself through my eyes and through just acknowledging my presence in that room with my 19 year old self I would just let him know “hey you got this, you got it, just do the best you can and you’re going to do great.” But I don’t know if I would say anything man. I would just look him in the eyes and kind of nod and then step back because he’s got to go through his own journey. That journey is what shapes who we are.
Some people who are listening on your podcast, you might have some things that you could go back and say “fuck if I had just known what I know now when I was 18 I’d go back and tell my 18 year old self” but my question to you is “did you not grow?” What you would tell your 18 year old self would probably be how to do something better or how to show up better but did you not grow from learning the hard way? Did you not grow from the experiences that you had? And the way that you grew, has it not served you incredibly well in your life right now?
So would I go back and rob myself of the experience of learning? No, I would never do that. I would never do that.
Cain: Great answer man. Jamie, that’s fantastic. I appreciate you being on the podcast.
For our listeners that want to learn more about you or want to get more info is there a Twitter handle or a website that they can go to to get themselves some more Jamie Yaman? I know I need some.
Yaman: Yes actually my website right now is under construction. I’m working with a grade A team down in South America who took my website down - the one that I currently had up - and are building it back new. I would say check back in a couple months, www.JamieYaman.com. In the time being just email me if you want to chat. I’m always looking for people to connect with, people who are inspired to live life and just share ideas.
Like I said this morning I spent an hour on the phone with a guy out of Germany. This is a guy that I just check in with and we kind of hold each other accountable. This is a guy who lives life in a beautiful way. So check me out on my email address. You can find me on Facebook. My cell number is 607-423-1369, shoot me a text, give me a call, I’d be happy to talk to you and your listeners.
Cain: I appreciate you man. You’re one of the few people who are of service mind enough to be willing to give out your cell phone to the 50,000 listeners or so who are listening to this. Hopefully they’re blowing you up and hopefully you’re able to make an even bigger impact in the world than you are currently already making which is pretty massive.
Jamie, thank you again for being on the podcast. Best to you. Looking forward to having you again.
Yaman: Alright Brian. My pleasure. Thank you.
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        <![CDATA[In this episode, Brian talks with former UMass Lacrosse player Jamie Yaman as he shares fascinating stories from his career as well as how playing collegiate Lacrosse was the perfect preparation for a successful career in Real Estate.
 
 You will learn about...
The parallels of College Lacrosse and Real Estate
A great story Jamie tells about one of his first interactions with his coach that taught him a lesson on mental toughness
Jamie's morning routine and why it sets him up for success each day
A unique breathing and visualization exercise Jamie uses
Jamie's answer to "The Million Dollar Question"
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Yaman: If you get the opportunity to play or to coach in that type of setting right now I’m not quite sure that there is anything greater especially for a young man and young women to be developing not only their athletic skills but most importantly their life skills.
Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance Coach here with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today’s guest, Jamie Yaman, was a standout lacrosse player at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and led the Minutemen to the NCAA playoffs in three of the four years that he was on the team. They made the quarterfinals twice and in 2006 competed in the NCAA National Championship game.
During his tenure with UMass Jamie was awarded the 2004 UMass Lacrosse Hammer Award and the 2006 UMass Lacrosse Goose Garber Award, signifying the most unselfish player with the best attitude on the team who demonstrated the qualities of their late coach Dick Garber. Jamie graduated from UMass with a BA in Real Estate Management and Development, emerging as a motivational leader with unrivaled capabilities as a team player.
In this podcast Jamie shares the mindset, the personal development strategies that he uses to become one of the most successful real estate agents in the nation leading Yaman Real Estate, Central New York’s premier real estate agency. To learn more please contact Jamie at JDYaman@Yaman.com.
Please welcome to the podcast Jamie Yaman. Jamie, thank you for joining us.
Yaman: Brian, it’s an absolute pleasure. Great introduction by the way. It might be hard to live up to that.
Cain: No man you’re going to crush it. I’m fired up to have you on here. Would you first kind of give us a little bit of your transition from UMass, you’re crushing it on the lacrosse field and now you’re crushing it in the real estate agent world, in the real estate world. What are some of the parallels that you see from plying in collegiate athletics - as the people that are going to be listening to the podcast, Jamie, are going to be mostly coaches and athletes. What are some of the parallels that you learned in lacrosse that are also making you successful here in the real estate world?
Yaman: Well, Brian, first of all I just want to thank you for having me on your podcast. It’s a real honor to be able to speak to your audience, be able to speak to you. I really admire what you’re doing in the world and making a big difference.
So regarding the transition, I’ve always looked at athletics as a metaphor for life. Of course your athletes and your coaches can probably attest to the same thing. I remember one time when I was in my senior year we were looking down the Garber Field - we were playing at UMass - I think it was January 20th. I remember this day very vividly. I was looking down the line. We were doing our last sprint my senior year for the winter training and I was about ready to puke. The other guys were barely able to stay up on their two feet. I think the temperature was about 20 degrees. Part of my just started to get so damn excited about what it was that I was doing and that really caught me off guard.
I went back to my locker room after that and just asked “what the hell was that all about?” I realized that when I was looking down that line this was not something that any normal person would really enjoy doing. No one would I want to be out there in 20 degrees running their ass off, sweating, getting ready to puke, and then all of a sudden have this incredible passion for what it was that you were doing out there with 40 guys coming through.
So applying that principle to the business world there are going to be a lot of things in life in general that you are not going to want to do. Having the experience that I had playing at UMass going through all the athletic experiences that I had and really applying them to the real world gave me this sense of being able to push through anything that came to me that might have been uncomfortable. It just gave me a sense of an experience I could turn back to and know that if I can get through this I can get through anything.
Cain: Jamie, that’s awesome. You can be as colorful and animated and real as you want on the podcast for sure. So you have this experience in college lacrosse. You played for a good friend of mine and friend of yours - Andy Shay - who is now the head lacrosse coach at Yale, one of the most successful in the country. Andy will be a guest on the podcast as well here. What are some of the things that you learned from your college assistant coach at the time that have kind of stuck with you?
Yaman: Andy recruited me to go to Yale from our hometown which we both lived in. Obviously Andy is a lot older than I am. The first experience that I had with Andy at UMass it was raining and we were just starting Fall ball and I came in and I came in to the coach’s office - and Andy was there - and I said “hey coach if it keeps” - and I was excited. It was raining so I’m like “hey coach if it keeps raining maybe we can practice indoors.” And he looked at me and all of a sudden I could tell in his eyes this was not the guy that first recruited me. The guy who first recruited me was this super warm, super fun, loving guy, he really wanted to build rapport. And he looked at me like I was fucking crazy.
He said “you know, Yaman, it’s pussies like you that have made this program what it hasn’t been yet.” I was like holy shit! He goes “we’re going to be fucking outdoors today and we’re going to be outdoors every other day.” That was what he said to me in that moment. I went back to the locker room with my tail between my legs. That was the moment that I realized what real warrior training was going to be like.
At UMass it was a real blue collar program. As I mentioned there would be times where we were out in the field and he was shoveling off the lines (where there were six inches of snow on top of it) so that we could see what the boundaries were. The entire time he was looking down our schedule throughout the course of the year saying Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, North Carolina, all these guys - Syracuse guys practicing in the dome, North Carolina practicing in their field house, Johns Hopkins practicing in their field house. We didn’t have a field house. We had Garber Field and we practiced on that all year round.
So with Andy it was that moment that was really one of those defining moments in your life where I could have easily just said “this guy is fucking nuts and this is not the program I signed up for and I want to just go to college and have a good time and party and play lacrosse on the side and do school even more on the side.” But that was a real wakeup call and that is what Andy’s all about.
Cain: Andy is real. I think that you probably from that moment forward probably grew a lot in terms of your mental toughness and your ability to handle adversity because that is a lot of what lacrosse is is adversity that you’ve got to overcome, you’ve got to get comfortable being uncomfortable, and I’m sure that’s translated well for you to the real estate world.
Yaman: Oh completely. And how to go through that process with a bunch of guys as well. At any given time you are going to be wavering in your own commitment and you’re going to be wavering in your own determination. You’re going to be wavering in your sense of “can I do this or not.” There are going to be 40 guys next to you who are all in varying degrees of them wavering or not wavering as well. So going through that process and being able to rely on your brothers and that sense of camaraderie--
In fact I just got off the phone earlier today with a guy over in Germany that I really have developed a close relationship with, a good buddy of mine. We’ve done a bunch of weekend retreats together, men’s weekend retreats, and we’ve talked about that sense of camaraderie. I told him I haven’t felt that sense of camaraderie that we’re now creating with our own group of men as much as I have - the last time I felt it was well over a decade ago when I was playing at UMass.
So that time, that four years, if you get the opportunity to play or to coach in that type of setting right now I’m not quite sure that there is anything greater especially for a young man and young women to be developing not only their athletic skills but most importantly their life skills.
Cain: Jamie, talk a little bit about mindset whether it’s on the lacrosse field or in real estate - you run personal development seminars. I want to kind of transition this podcast now to your mindset and some of the things that you do in your life for personal development that the listeners to this podcast could start doing in their life to help them continue to grow. We’re always talking about you’re either growing or you’re dying and the key to being more successful than you are today is to continue to grow. You’re either going to go through the motions in life or you’re going to grow through the motions in life. What are some things that you do to grow and to help build your mindset?
Yaman: There are a lot of things. I’ll talk about some of the foundation of what I do. I believe in discipline, what you’re setting yourself up to do every single day. For me when I wake up in the morning - and I like really tangible things. I can give you “do this” or “do that” but if I’m not doing it I could just be a talking head and that is not what I want to be for you and for your listeners. I’ll tell you what I do and I actually get the results from.
In the morning I like to wake up real early (I’d say around 5:00-530). I have found over the past decade that meditation is a way for me to just kind of get centered into my body, kind of open up to the universe, open up to god, open up to love, whatever your belief is. So I typically sit for 30 minutes, have a hot glass of lemon water in the morning.
I try to get my body as aligned as possible not only in the morning but throughout the entire course of the day. So I’m very careful what I eat, I’m very careful what I put in my body - very little alcohol and no caffeine. Not because I’m on this strict diet, it just doesn’t make me feel good. I tried to get into coffee, I tried to get into sports drinks that amp you up, but honestly my body speaks to me otherwise. My body says “this is bullshit” and typically ends up shutting down.
So getting back to the morning routine. Having a hot glass of lemon water, and the first thing that I do is I just sit down. I’ve got a nice little meditation space for me in my house and I sit for 30 minutes. Right now I’m getting into Zen meditation. I got actually a UMass buddy out in California - Craig French - who is starting a company called Cricket Jaw and he has been getting into Zen meditation for a while. I’ve always done my own type of meditation but he is getting me into this type.
Then after I sit for about 30 minutes and just kind of collect myself, center my breath, I start doing some Tai Chi. I’ve got a guy out of New York City who puts out some great DVDs. His name is Robert Peng. He releases some kind of at-home tai chi practices that has been something I have been doing ever since I went to India about 12 years ago. So Tai Chi has always been a part of my practice. After that I do some stretches. That whole process takes anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour. I walk my dog in the morning. Then I typically go and work out.
In my office I come in and I spend most of my time in my real estate office. I have a standing desk. I do my trampoline. I’ve got a little - I forget what it’s called but it’s just a little home trampoline. I’m always trying to keep my state in a resourceful state.
Brian, before the podcast you and I were talking about Tony Robbins. I’ve gone to a lot of Tony’s events. I’ve been a part of his leadership team and I’ve gotten really into that world so I’ve known the real importance of state management. I could be doing all my stuff in the morning but if I’m not maintaining that throughout the entire course of the day I become less resourceful, my work becomes less productive, my relationships suffer, my company suffers - everything just kind of collapses if my body collapses, if my mind collapses, if my emotions collapse. So it’s really finding ways to keep myself as expanded as possible. I mean that spiritually, mentally, physically, emotionally expanded as I can possibly be.
For me I’ve also been really focusing a lot on my breath. Everything is going to follow your breath - how successful you are in anything you do, your emotional state, psychological state, your spiritual state, your relationship state. If you have a shortness of breath, if you’re not breathing deep into your balls, Brian if you can imagine - and for women I don’t know. I can only speak to a man’s experience. But, women, you know a lot of men. You could probably help them do this. It helps them be a lot more present for you ladies which is I’m sure what you are ultimately looking for in your men. If you can imagine a big cylinder from your throat down to your balls and just imagine it goes all the way up to your throat, all the way down to the bottom of your balls. Now imagine that it’s starting to expand, it’s starting to widen, and it’s starting to lengthen. So it’s starting to widen out and lengthen up.
While you’re imagining this begin to picture yourself breathing at the bottom end of this cylinder all the way down at the bottom of your balls. If you can focus on three spaces (your throat, your heart, and your balls) each breath you’re noticing that the cylinder is expanding and that these three areas are softening and expanding. Your throat softening, expanding. Your heart softening, expanding. Your balls softening and growing.
I would say probably a couple dozen times throughout the course of the day if I feel that I’m starting to get up and out of my body, up and out of my mind, up and out of my emotions and I’m not grounded, this is a great way to exercise. I’ll just sit no matter where I am. I can even be in a meeting. I’ll just start imagining this cylinder within myself expanding. I’m just more present of where my body is in that space, more present where my body is in the room. That’s a great tool just to bring yourself back into that moment, ultimately bringing your power back into that moment.
Cain: That is outstanding. I love that. That’s beautiful. Let’s continue down the path (if you would) talking about meditation. It’s something that the guests on our podcast mention. You’re doing a great job of actually giving us a strategy for meditation from your throat down through your heart to your balls.
You talk about Zen meditation. What is the difference between Zen meditation and say where you’re just sitting and counting your breath? Some of the simple meditations we’ve shared through the podcast or in seminars would be like using the app Headspace is something that people can use to get started or using the app Calm. Do you use those apps? What’s the difference between that and Zen meditation?
Yaman: I use an app by a buddy of mine called Grounded Mind. I think it’s www.GroundedMind.com. That is great. Those are more guided meditations. I’m working with a coach right now who we’re kind of holding ourselves accountable to 30 minutes of meditation every day. I was at one time - and still am really - but I was big into astrology and I have a guy (his name is Rick Jarrow and if you Google him you’ll find some of his work) and I asked him. This guy spent a lot of time with Ram Dass. I don’t know if you’re familiar with who Ram Dass is but he wrote a book Be Here Now, one of the great kind of self help books/spiritual books back in the 60s.
I asked Rick, I said “Ricketman, you’ve been to India countless times, I almost consider you like a guru.” When I talked to him he had spent a week with Ram Dass at Ram Dass’ house out in Hawaii, just the two of them. If there is anyone that knows about meditation it’s this guy. He is a religious studies professor at College and just an amazing man. I said “what is the best form of meditation, what is the best technique.” I was asking him all these questions kind of geeking out on meditation and he said - he was probably in his early 60s. He stands about 6’4 and he’s got this big goatee. Almost like a Merlin figure.
He said “Jamie, the best form of mediation is just sit down and just follow your breath.” That’s it. No music. No fucking cymbals. No chimes. You don’t have to put your hands necessarily in a specific spot. Your back doesn’t have to be at a specific angle. Zen meditation is very strict about posture, breathing, where your hands are, but everyone is going to have their own thing, Brian, so I think that especially in today’s culture what people are being so distracted by is not a lack of information. There is information out there on anything and there are people successful in doing it in a lot of different ways. It’s really just sitting down and putting the things that you know into practice.
I would say to your listeners if meditation is something that intrigues you just start with the simple practice of sitting down on a pillow, on a couch, in a chair, standing up, it doesn’t matter (you can lay down as long as you try not to fall asleep) and just begin to put your awareness on your breath. On the inhale. And on the exhale. Not trying to necessarily change your breath, not trying to influence it, not trying to make it deeper or more profound, just putting your awareness on your breath and then noticing what your experience is. Noticing how your mind wants to try to take you away from that awareness of your breath.
Notice how you might start to fidget. Notice how all of a sudden itches might start to come to your body. Just see if you can maintain that stillness. Start for five minutes. Start for a minute, shit. Just start. Start for ten minutes. Just continue to bring yourself back to that place. It’s going to be fucking hard at first. Even people who do it for 67 years it’s still a challenge. But the idea is that consistency. The more you come back to it the more you’ll just start to notice that what used to bother you in your life, what used to hook you, what used to distract you, all of a sudden it’s not hooking you so bad. It’s not distracting you so much. It’s not creating such a disturbance in your life.
I’m a huge believer in meditation. If I don’t do a meditation in the morning my life and life in general tends to smack me around most of the day. I’m not quite sure how there can be such a relation between not doing meditation and really noticing that holy shit my life is almost kind of out of control today. If anything it gives me an opportunity just to kind of check in with myself and almost to say to life “I’m here, I’m present, I’m aware, I’m ready, I’m open, I’m quiet” and then allow life to move you throughout the course of the day.
Cain: Jamie I think that’s great man. You talked a lot about the consistency - consistency being the hardest thing, consistency with the meditation - and if you’re not doing it in the morning life is kind of smacking you around a little bit. We talk a lot about the importance of routines and routines that keep you consistent. You’ve developed one of the top real estate agencies in the country. You must have routines that you do in the office as well not just in your personal develop side in the morning but in your performance on a day to day basis you must have routines and all that that you do as well. Is that accurate?
Yaman: Oh absolutely. Absolutely. I mean everyone has routines. Some routines might serve you well. Some routines might keep you average. Some routines might help you to surpass your competition or surpass what you thought was your ultimate goal. Everyone has got routines. Everyone has standards. Everyone has disciplines.
If I were to look at ten people who were listening to the podcast right now or 100 people listening to the podcast right now I could tell you if I could see their bodies you and I both, Brian, (we don’t have to get a degree in this) we could both know just by looking at their bodies how often do they work out, what is their diet like, how much water intake do they get. How do we know that? Well their body basically is just evidence of that. It’s living evidence of how they treat their body. What is the routine that they have? What is the discipline that they have? The body is a great way of just externalizing someone’s routines and someone’s habits.
When it comes to relationships, when it comes to running a real estate office, we all know that you can come into my office or you can go into any office and basically see what is the quality of their routines, what is the quality of their disciplines. For me real estate is a people-based business. It is incredibly important that my staff is inspired to be here. If they’re not inspired to be here anyone with any degree of sensitivity when being around someone else is going to know that those people that work in my office are not happy to be here. So as the leader of the office I need to really exemplify that on a daily basis.
I have a huge sound system here in the office that during every one of our staff meetings - which is quite a few times a week - we kick up the music and the first thing that we do is just set the tone. Right now I’m talking to you on a ridiculously expensive set of headphones that I have invested in to help me with my state, to help me get into my routines in a more effective way. I could go into what is the routine of a real estate office but really it’s what are routines that get us into the right state to do what we want to do which is to live a passionate life and to be of service to others.
Cain: Jamie you’ve talked a lot about getting into a state whether it was the trampoline or music. What exactly is a state? I think sometimes when I mention trying to manage your state people get a little bit confused. What is a state and how do you teach that to people for the first time?
Yaman: Well your state basically is how you’re showing up at any given time. How you’re showing up to the world at any given time. I can show up physically. I can step into a space. But my body doesn’t act independently from my mind. My mind doesn’t act independently from my emotions. My emotions don’t act independently from my relationships and how I’m bringing all of that - or my spiritual life. I’m bringing all of that into this present moment. This present moment is how I’m showing up and what my state is.
When someone says “I’m in a resourceful state, I’m in an unresourceful state, I’m in a state that can breathe success, I’m in a state that is sure to breed failure,” it’s basically (like I said) how you’re showing up physically, how you’re showing up emotionally, how you’re showing up mentally. Mentally are you clear? Are you foggy? Are you tired? Are you clear? Emotionally are you clear? Are you optimistic? Are you compassionate? Are you angry? Are you seething under the surface? Physically what is your posture like? Where are your shoulders? How is your breath? Did you get your workout in the morning? Is your body feeling good? So state is everything.
If you’re showing up in a state that is not going to serve your life it’s going to be damn hard - damn hard - for you to get through your life and to build and inspire a path for yourself. Yourself or your organization whether it’s your team, those who are on your team. That is the best way I can explain state.
Cain: Jamie I appreciate you making time and jumping on the podcast here. My last question for you is what is it that you know now having been a big time lacrosse player at UMass, played in a National Championship, run one of the most successful real estate groups in the country, attended Tony Robbins’ events, running your own events, and just absolutely crushing it in life, what is it you know now that you wish you could go back and you could say to yourself going into UMass to be a college athlete for the first time?
Yaman: Well that is a great question. I honestly wouldn’t say anything. If I could go back to myself there wasn’t a thing that I really regretted, Brian, and I feel that the path that I took to get here, even though there were some real difficult times and certainly a part of me wishes I could go back and do it again and if I could I might do things a little bit differently, but then I wouldn’t be who I am today.
By no means am I going to come across as somehow expressing that I was perfect or that I had it all together. I was far from it and still am very far from it. I’m always going to be a student - student of life, student of anything that I’m doing - but I would probably just go back into the room.
If I could go back to my 18-19 year old self and just kind of look at myself through my eyes and through just acknowledging my presence in that room with my 19 year old self I would just let him know “hey you got this, you got it, just do the best you can and you’re going to do great.” But I don’t know if I would say anything man. I would just look him in the eyes and kind of nod and then step back because he’s got to go through his own journey. That journey is what shapes who we are.
Some people who are listening on your podcast, you might have some things that you could go back and say “fuck if I had just known what I know now when I was 18 I’d go back and tell my 18 year old self” but my question to you is “did you not grow?” What you would tell your 18 year old self would probably be how to do something better or how to show up better but did you not grow from learning the hard way? Did you not grow from the experiences that you had? And the way that you grew, has it not served you incredibly well in your life right now?
So would I go back and rob myself of the experience of learning? No, I would never do that. I would never do that.
Cain: Great answer man. Jamie, that’s fantastic. I appreciate you being on the podcast.
For our listeners that want to learn more about you or want to get more info is there a Twitter handle or a website that they can go to to get themselves some more Jamie Yaman? I know I need some.
Yaman: Yes actually my website right now is under construction. I’m working with a grade A team down in South America who took my website down - the one that I currently had up - and are building it back new. I would say check back in a couple months, www.JamieYaman.com. In the time being just email me if you want to chat. I’m always looking for people to connect with, people who are inspired to live life and just share ideas.
Like I said this morning I spent an hour on the phone with a guy out of Germany. This is a guy that I just check in with and we kind of hold each other accountable. This is a guy who lives life in a beautiful way. So check me out on my email address. You can find me on Facebook. My cell number is 607-423-1369, shoot me a text, give me a call, I’d be happy to talk to you and your listeners.
Cain: I appreciate you man. You’re one of the few people who are of service mind enough to be willing to give out your cell phone to the 50,000 listeners or so who are listening to this. Hopefully they’re blowing you up and hopefully you’re able to make an even bigger impact in the world than you are currently already making which is pretty massive.
Jamie, thank you again for being on the podcast. Best to you. Looking forward to having you again.
Yaman: Alright Brian. My pleasure. Thank you.
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      <description>Brian talks with former Major League Baseball player and Peak Performer Eric Byrnes, the day before they both compete in IronMan Arizona. Byrnes recently came out with a Documentary on his journey from a Major League field, to 8 IronMan competitions as well as The Western States 100.
Watch Eric's Diamond To The Rough Documentary
Follow Byrnes on Twitter @byrnes22
Follow Byrnes on Instagram ebyrnes22
 
You will learn about...
What drove Byrne's to professional baseball and a career in sports broadcasting
Byrnes' unique path to professional baseball
Byrnes' thoughts on the Mental Game and exactly what it means to him
The similarities of playing in a Major League Baseball game and competing in an IronMan
Byrnes' thoughts on success and what it is to him
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Byrnes: It’s not about the reward. The reward is a process. Once you understand that the reward, the money, the belt buckles, the metals, everything comes easier.
Cain: Welcome to another edition of the Brian Cain Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest, Eric Byrnes, was one of the most electrifying players of his time in Major League Baseball. His all out all the time approach made him a fan favorite and a player whose hustle, drive, effort, and energy was emulated by high school and college players and programs all over the country. A 2013 inductee to the UCLA Hall of Fame, Byrnes always brings the juice.
[Bring the juice!]
Cain: Whether it’s playing in the outfield for the Diamondbacks, A’s, Orioles, Rockies, or Mariners, working as an analyst for Major League Baseball Network, or in his endurance race career having completed eight Iron Man triathlons - it will be his ninth in two days from now - and the Western States 100 Mile Mountain Race. Be on the lookout for a documentary about his journey into the world of extreme races called From the Diamond to the Rough which follows him through the Western States 100.
You can learn more about Eric at www.Byrnes22.com and on Twitter at @Byrnes22. Please welcome to the Peak Performance Podcast Eric Byrnes. Eric, thanks for joining us man.
Byrnes: I need some more Brian Cain in my life. Can I get that intro every morning when I wake up out of bed and just get ready to charge?
Cain: We’ll create that as an alarm that you can play. Right now mine pops up and says “where is the beef jerky” as a tribute to Jocko Willard. But we can get that to pop up and play for you.
Eric, if you would, give us kind of your journey from St. Francis High School in northern California to where you are today now.
Byrnes: Well it’s pretty simple. Basically I grew up in Portola Valley which is a small town in northern California which is I’d say probably more known for a lot of the pioneers of the silicon valley either grew up there or at least settled there in the Portola Valley Woodside area. So baseball or even sports in general wasn’t very popular. But I had this dream and vision of (when I was a kid) doing two things. One of them was playing professional sports and the other one was talking about professional sports. I used to sit around with my buddies and we would just debate whatever - football, baseball, basketball, tennis, this and that, whatever it was we were so passionate about it and we just let it eat. We fed off of sports talk radio. That was something to us. KNBR 680, the sports leader, was it for us.
To make a long story longer here I ended up going to St. Francis which was kind of a leap of faith for me because kids from my area there weren’t a lot that went to St. Francis which was  known back then as the premier sports school really in the Bay Area. They had De La Salle across the bay. You had Serra which was where Barry Bonds went, Jim Fregosi, Lynn Swann, Tom Brady. And then Bellarmine was also a good one. But St. Francis arguably was the best of the best when it kind of came to all around sports.
So I ended up going there and playing football my freshman year. At the time - think about this, you’re a freshman in high school. I don’t even think I had gone through puberty yet. I’m just trying to kind of make my way. I’m in a school with I think there was one other kid from my grade school that went there. All these other guys played Pop Warner, they were all friends and whatnot. It was really kind of a lonely place and I was just kind of trying to find my way. Athletically I have never seen anything like it in my life. Everybody were good athletes.
So after football season it was time to make a decision whether or not I was going to play basketball. I realized that if I have any chance of being good here for the first time in my life I’m like I need to focus, narrow my focus a little bit. The decision I made (because basketball ran well into baseball season) was hey look I’m not going to play hoops - which my claim to fame (and still is today) probably my greatest athletic feat was scoring 56 points in an eighth grade basketball game. Not kidding you. I worked with Tom Tolbert at KNBR 680 who played in the NBA for like 7-8 years. I always would give Tolbert crap because he had never scored 56 in a game.
But anyway I ended up going. I went to the tryouts. Think about this. I told this story at St. Francis the other night when I went back and showed the documentary Diamond to the Rough. There were 50 kids - 50 - going out for a baseball team for 15 spots. Think about that.
Cain: This is a freshman.
Byrnes: This is high school freshman baseball. There are 50 kids. You know what our tryouts were? Play catch for five minutes. When you get them playing catch we’re going to take half of you and we’re going to put you in the outfield. You are going to catch I think it was maybe 1-2 fly balls, then we are going to put you in the infield, maybe it was 4-5 grounders, and that was it. Backed up with a pitching machine that was spitting balls out in every which direction and you get five swings. Then after that it was like okay.
I went in the outfield. I think I clanked one of the balls I was supposed to catch. I go in the infield, beat at a ball or two. I was just so nervous. Then I get to take a couple swings off the pitching machine, foul a c couple off, swing and miss, pop a ball up, pop another one up. “Alright Eric thanks for coming to and we’ll see you, the results will be posted tomorrow in the gym.”
So I went to the gym the next day and I just knew I didn’t make it. There is no way. How could I have possibly made the team? I told my mom. I said “look I’m almost positive that I’m going to get cut from this team, I can’t take this, I want to go to Woodside High School, I’m transferring.” It was just too much for me. It was too overwhelming. The competition was too good and the opportunity was too scarce. A lot of life is having opportunity and if you don’t have the opportunity to prove yourself …
So I went through the next day and posted on the outside gym wall was all the names of the guys that made it. So I’m looking kind of huddled around. I’m looking from a distance. It’s like “Ryan, Brendan, Bryan, Matt,” all the way down to the bottom. Fifteen names. “Chris” was the last name. No “Eric.” I said “it’s cool, I prepared myself for this, I’m going to Woodside High School no problem.” But guess what? I’m going to look at every one of these 15 guys and I’m going to mark them and I’m going to go out and prove that there is not one of these guys that was a better baseball player than I am.
I went back to look at the names, scan the names, make sure exactly who the guys were. I get to the last name and it was “Chris Byrnes.” B-y-r-n-e-s. I’m like “Chris Byrnes? No way there is another Byrnes here, this doesn’t make any sense.” Did he screw up the first name? Did he screw up the last name? What is going on? So I went sprinting after the freshman baseball coach as he was walking away and I’m like “Coach Ferrera, Coach Ferrera!” He turns around and goes “what can I do for you, Chris?” I go “nothing I’ll see you at practice.” That was it. That was all I needed to know. I went from thinking I was getting cut from the freshman baseball team and having to transfer schools to obviously making the team.
Cain: 0:08:01 felt standard.
Byrnes: And my career kind of took off from there.
Cain: Wow. How about that. So you go from making it as Chris Byrnes and seeing the freshman team then you end up getting drafted out of high school - so you obviously had a good career at St. Francis - and then made the decision to not sign pro with the L.A. Dodgers but go on to UCLA.
A lot of players that are listening to this or parents or coaches that are listening to this there is always that debate of if you’re a high school kid do you sign and go and start your pro baseball career and get those extra three years of minor league baseball under your belt or do you go to college? Depending on who you talk to you are going to get a different answer - sometimes it’s a dollar figure amount, other times it’s a life experience amount, an education reason. Why did you choose to go to UCLA instead of signing pro baseball straight out of St. Francis High School?
Byrnes: I think it’s pretty simple. First of all for people listening to this - and I imagine that a lot of the people that are actually listening are young guys that are trying to find a way. I can’t tell you how important the mental side of baseball is and what that did for me. I just think that my parents instilled in me at a very young age what the most important thing in the world was family first and then education. I knew I had a dream of wanting to play professional sports but I also knew that there was going to be a time and place for it.
My belief in myself and my confidence in myself - this was sort of where the mental game kind of really comes in is that you’ve got to be willing to walk. You’ve got to have this ultimate belief in yourself that this is not going to be - when I was a 38th round draft pick out of high school, a 38th round draft pick? I should have been a first round draft pick. Then I got drafted again in the fourth round by the Houston Astros after my junior year where a lot of people would sign.
I met with the scouting director of the Houston Astros at the time and he had come back to Cape Cod to watch me play for a week. After the week he was like “hey Eric I’d like to take you to breakfast” and we’re trying to negotiate a contract. The average of the round back then was like $150,000. So they had made an original offer of $90,000 which is nowhere even near the average of the round. Their excuse was that they had given too much of the money to Lance Berkman who they had drafted in the first round. Great choice and great guy to give a lot of money to, right? But apparently it affected their second, third, and fourth round draft picks. Ironically none of us ended up signing.
Here was my thing. It wasn’t about the money. I knew that $90,000 - and then you pay taxes on a bonus which is like $45,000. Even if it was $150,000 and you told me I’m going to walk away with $75,000 I’ll go blow $75,000 in a weekend. That wasn’t going to change my life. I understood that. I knew that. What I wanted was an organization that believed in me, that said “hey Eric look we’re going to give you every opportunity to succeed.” That is what I needed.
Sure enough I went to breakfast and it was the scouting director and one other guy. They sat there and they said “hey here is the deal, we gave all our money to Berkman, we’ve been watching you play for a week now, we think you’re a circus act in the outfield, you pull the baseball way too much, you can’t hit the ball the other way, you’re fast but you run funny and really awkward, so here is our $90,000 offer take it or leave it at this point but it goes off the table tomorrow.” I’m like wow.
Cain: That is what they said?
Byrnes: I said “so hold on let me get this straight, you guys are telling me that you are going to basically offer me way less than the average of the round and then on top of that--” I said “hold on guys this isn’t about the money so what do you want me to do?” I said “you want me to sign with an organization that already doesn’t believe in me for the minimal value of the round and I’m going to start with my back against the wall knowing your guys’ feelings about my game.”
Where in the manual of being a scouting director when you’re trying to sign a player does it say “let’s go ridicule him and demean him and then monetarily show him we don’t have any support for him either” and think that that person would sign? “You guys can go fuck yourself.” I got up and walked out. That was it. That was the last time I ever spoke to the Houston Astros.
Cain: So you go back to UCLA for your senior year and then go on and get drafted and make your way up to the big leagues. Talk a little bit about that mental game or that belief that you had in yourself. Let me slow down here I’m all jacked up. What is the mental game to you, Eric? What is the mental game of baseball?
Byrnes: Confidence. Belief in yourself. It kind of goes back to the story that I just told. I don’t respond the way I did without the confidence and without the belief in myself. Even going back to my freshman year I don’t go back freshman year of high school and having that “I’ll walk, I’ll transfer schools, I need an opportunity, I need to play, I am going to be a professional baseball player.” I didn’t tell a lot of people. I told my mom. That was it. I kept it really low. I wasn’t parading around with a megaphone to all my friends.
But when I was 13 years old my dad used to throw me in batting practice all the time. He knew nothing about baseball. Absolutely zero. He was a fourth degree black belt in kenpo karate. He’d take me out and we’d go to the town center of Portola Valley and just throw BP days and days and days. Just all day. Eventually when I was 13 I was like there is only so much BP he can throw me. My parents are like “hey we got you a” - they thought they were all clever but they were like “we got you a birthday present, his name is Mike.” I’m like “what do you mean his name is Mike?” “We got you a new friend for your birthday, Mike.” I’m like “what?” Iron Mike.
Cain: Oh yeah.
Byrnes: So down below where we lived, our house the way it was situated was kind of up on a hill, and then down below in part of the property you couldn’t really see was a batting cage with an Iron Mike machine.
When I was 13 years old I cranked that thing up to 90 miles per hour, throwing as fast as it could throw. At first I had a tough time - foul balls off, foul balls off, foul balls off - and eventually *poof* I was ranking it, right? Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam! Well guess what? When I got to face - I was a sophomore in high school. I had just got called up to varsity. I didn’t start with varsity when I was a sophomore. I got called up to varsity to face Dan Serafini. Dan Serafini was a first round pick out of Serra. He threw 92 miles per hour from the left side. A nasty little sink. There were 50 scouts in the stands, maybe more. I went there to face him. Everyone else 0:15:53 sample for right?
Cain: Yeah.
Byrnes: And I’m like no problem *whap whap whap* three bullets off of Dan Serafini. Barely anyone else was touching him. It’s repetition. It is a skill that was developed through hard work. Even during football season - I played football through high school but even during football season before school in the morning I’d still bang 50 balls before I went to school. I got home at night, the sun is going down, dark, whatever, I’d put on a few lights we’d put up in the cage, boom, just 50 more. Didn’t overdo it. I just loved to hit.
Well guess what? Guess what that created? Confidence. So when I got there against Dan Serafini as a sophomore in high school still not sure if I - I’m barely going through puberty at this point and I’m hitting bullets off of 92 mile per hour fastballs when no one else is touching him. Now you’ve got 50 scouts in the stands going “huh who is this kid?”
I think people need to remember when it comes to the mental game confidence is created and developed through work. It’s like a test. Imagine studying for a test - and you know those tests. I went into several where I wasn’t prepared for the test and what sort of confidence did I have going into that test? So long as I did my work and I studied for that test and I was ready for that test I was confident. My mental game was exactly where it needed to be. It’s the same thing with the process of going up and playing in the big leagues. People go “are you nervous?” Yeah of course you are going to be nervous. This is natural nerves. But guess what? Were you scared? Not one bit. I prepared myself for that day. I prepared myself.
Cain: So you’ve got eight Iron Mans. You’re doing your ninth here in two days. What is the prep? Is it the same thing with going in and doing an endurance race whether it’s the 100 mile race or an Iron Man where you’ve done the preparation, you’ve done the training with run, bike, swim? Is it the same thing with the preparation in terms of you having done the work to go prepare for an Iron Man triathlon?
Byrnes: Exact same thing. It’s not any different. There is no natural transition from playing professional baseball to going into the endurance world. Physically there is very little translation between the two. But psychologically very similar because it’s all about doing the work and doing the work that gives you confidence to go out there and have your best race on that given day. That’s it. It’s as simple as that.
That is what drives me I think in the training. Part of it is that fear of knowing that that test is there. That test is coming up. It’s what eventually got me going in school is I knew that in order to go to college I was going to have to do the work to do well on my test to get me into a good school and it all kind of became part of the plan. Ironically as I got older I became a much better student than I ever was at a younger age.
Cain: Talk about being a student for a second. One of the things you mentioned earlier off the air was how there was a time in your life where you just kind of were devouring books and you had a group of guys where you would go through Heads-Up Baseball and then talk about that. Talk a little bit about the importance of leaders being readers and for the people that are following this what are some of the best books that you like to read.
Byrnes: Wow. Yeah. One of the first books I really dove into and read probably 50 times over through the course of my entire baseball career was The Mental Game of Baseball by Karl Kuehl and Harvey Dorfman. Karl ended up being a mentor of mine when I played with the Oakland A’s and then even after. He was with the Indians at the time and I was with the Arizona Diamondbacks but we would have a weekly call that we had scheduled. We would schedule it at different times on different weeks but man it was so incredibly beneficial having that somebody there to sort of balance some ideas.
It’s funny because sometimes when I was rolling we wouldn’t even talk about baseball. I sort of let him dictate the conversations. But ironically I had - well I wouldn’t say ironically. There was no coincidence that I had my two greatest years in the big leagues when I was checking in with Karl on a weekly basis. Unfortunately at the end of 2008 I think was when he got sick and he ended up passing away. It hit hard and it hit fast and I still miss him dearly to this day but the lessons that he taught me in my life and my career are just invaluable.
The other one was Heads-Up Baseball by Ken Ravizza is another one that I dove into with Scott Seal - a buddy of mine. We were roommates at UCLA and then he ended up transferring to Fullerton and he played there. We got into pro ball at the same time. During the offseason we just trained together, lived together. We’d go through books specific to baseball. We would read the hitting books be it Charlie Lau’s book or Ted Williams’ book. It was funny because the one thing I think that I always did a good job at was digesting the language that spoke to me because not everything is going to speak to you so you have to be able to throw out a lot of what you hear in this game but digest the key things.
So since then as far as books I don’t know where to start. But one of the latest ones that I would recommend everybody read - and you’ll have to read it multiple times. The great thing about books now too - because of all the training that I do I go just about all audiobooks.
But Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self Reliance is something that I could dig into every single day. The overall message of making decisions on your own and not necessarily conforming to the societal norms - it’s also not saying be an anarchist but it’s an incredible message. So much to take in. I think the parallels - and it was written however long ago but these parallels are incredible and it’s amazing how relevant it still is. The Scholar was the latest one that I read of his. I can’t get enough of Emerson. It’s amazing to me how relevant Emerson and his writings still are to this day.
Cain: I just started reading a book about stoicism and it goes back to Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus and these guys who were writing back in Ancient Greece. The book is called The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday. It’s awesome. It’s a one page a day read. Very short.
Talking about stoic we think of stoic as somebody who is not emotional, somebody who is just kind of there. Their idea of stoicism is somebody who is so in control of themselves that they never let their emotions get the best of them, that they have the self control, that they quickly identify what they can control, what they can’t control, and they only focus their time and energy and attention on things they can control - which is a lot of what I have learned through Heads-Up Baseball and Ravizza but I didn’t realize it goes all the way back to the freaking Greeks. It’s written in a language that you can tell it’s ancient times but Ryan Holiday does a great job of translating that to making sense for what you’re doing today. It’s pretty cool.
Byrnes: I’ll check it out.
Cain: Ryan Holiday. It’s The Daily Stoic.
Other pieces of the mental game. You talked about the confidence that comes from preparation. What about routines? What are some of the routines that you had to help you go one pitch at a time, Eric?
Byrnes: I was very routine oriented. Before preparing for a game I had my whole routine of stretching that I would do. We’re talking (let’s say) 35 minutes before the game where it was the stretching to the sprints to jumping over the laundry basket in the club house.
I did not go outside to sprint I think hardly ever in my big league career because what happened is as you start playing and you’re seeing all your peers there it’s what you see today - which is I don’t know if it’s BS or not. It depends what side of the fence you’re on when it comes to fraternization but you see a bunch of guys playing grab ass out in the outfield. Well look I was there to play baseball and prepare myself for a game. I don’t need to catch up with this guy and see how the family is doing and everything else. And the guy on the other team. I wasn’t interested in that.
So I felt like that was always a distraction to me so I would actually do my sprints underneath, in the tunnel, in the batting cage so long as it was available. I would jump over laundry baskets too and I had a whole routine of doing that. Then I would hit off the tee and it would just be five balls the other way, pull five balls, finish with five balls up the middle. And then I’d throw too so I’d just grab some balls in the cage and I’d throw 10-15 balls whenever I felt like. Then I’d make sure I’d finish about five minutes before the game so I still had that *breath* alright physically I know I’m ready. Mentally let’s get here and let’s do it.
Cain: Awesome. Mental imagery. Anything you used at all in terms of visualizing yourself playing well? Maybe it was something you’d do at night before you’d go to bed or during the day when you’re at the stadium kind of visualizing yourself taking at bats off the guy who is going to be pitching you that day?
Byrnes: All the time. Every single day. That was another part of my routine that I would do. I would do it after the tee work. I would mentally have a vision of that pitcher that we were going to face that day and I would start with fastball. I’d go fast ball away ball, fast ball away strike, boom. So I’d imagine fastball away, just taking it. Nice soft hit ball. Fastball away strike. Bam. Shooting it the other way. Fastball middle, down or up, we’re at ball. Okay fast ball right there. Boom. I’d just imagine low line drives. Fast ball in ball, fast ball in. Boom. Drop the hit. Homer. Same thing. Curve ball down on a wide ball, curve ball outside corner, boom, base hit right field. Curveball middle down in the dirt. Good take. Next one. Curve ball middle. Boom. Base hit out the middle. Curve ball inside. Take it. Curve ball inside. Homer. Same thing with the change up. I would do that every single day.
It started - here is another book I would recommend. I’m trying to think. It was I want to say The Mental Game of Tennis but that’s not right.
Cain: The Inner Game of Tennis.
Byrnes: Inner Game of Tennis. The Inner Game of Tennis is one of the first mental books I read. When I was a kid I was a big time tennis player. You want to talk about you think baseball players have - like that tennis game especially at a young age and you’re on that island by yourself, that’s heavy. So through The Inner Game of Tennis I learned the points of the visualizations. So I would play the match the night before. I would go sit in this chair in our living room.
My mom would always help me with it. She was like “okay just go ahead and visualize your match.” Well I was playing against these ridiculously good tennis players. There were like - geez - Michael Jessup, Cory Guy, Misha Palecek, Ryan Walters. All four of these dudes went on. Palecek, Walters, and Jessup were like 1, 2, 3 at Stanford. Cory Guy was the number one player at Santa Barbara. All of them went on to play professional tennis in some capacity. These are a lot of the guys that - I was competing against these dudes.
Cain: Yeah.
Byrnes: It was just super heavy and we did a lot traveling or whatever but that is where I learned the mental side. Then I slowly transitioned that. I’m like “okay if I can envision playing these matches why can’t I envision what the game is going to look like tomorrow in baseball, what my at bats are going to look like?” So I started doing that. I truly believe that is where my baseball career really took off in a sense is when I was about 12 in All Stars and going through that mental imagery of doing it. Again when you stand at the box - what did I say? What is the mental game? That game is confidence and belief. But what gives you confidence and belief is that fact that you have done the work. Well guess what? When I got in the box I had already been there. I had already done it. I’m comfortable. I had seen it.
Cain: Did you do the same thing when you were getting ready to run an Iron Man? Do you see yourself crossing the finish line already and all that? I know that you have already done eight but when you go back to doing your first one was it the same process seeing yourself crossing the finish line and all that?
Byrnes: I did it yesterday sitting in the float tank. A float tank is this tank filled with whatever. Now I like putting myself in positions - when I can find that quiet time I went through the whole race, went through the beginning, what is it going to be like jumping in. I don’t care how many you do. The best never stop preparing. It’s not like - if I didn’t have a little anxiousness and a little fear - that is normal. You want that. That is why I do these. If I lose that it’s not going to have the same luster.
Am I more comfortable because I have eight under my belt? Of course I am. Of course I am. But I also still know that in order to get my best result I need to go out there and run through this. What is it going to be like? There is going to be a lot of contact in the swim. Imagine and visualize and even feel for every stroke I’m going to come down and I might get hit. Or what is happening when the guy is grabbing on my legs behind me? Am I going to kick him off or am I going to relax? I went through it.
Then getting on the bike and visualizing the transition. What exactly do I need when I get out of the water? When I actually get out of the water I am going to unzip the top of my wetsuit. I am going to take my watch off. I like to keep it clean. If you pull everything over the watch and the thing is stopping and everything - boom, watch off, wetsuit top off, but I’m going to keep everything on waist down. They have wetsuit strippers there that actually will take the whole thing off but I want to keep mine on because I‘m going to have some little booties.
I’m going to get a good run to grab my transition bag, get in the transition where I’ll have my helmet, short little socks and my bike shoes ready to go. But guess what? I’ll have a towel laid out too. I’ll have a towel in there so I can take the booties off without getting grass all over my feet so when I put on my socks there is not going to be grass sitting there for the next nine hours or whatever it’s going to be. All of that is prepared for. All of that is thought of. The bike computer is going to be on the bike. There is just so much. The nutrition, making sure the nutrition in the bottles are lined up. You need to be very meticulous about that.
Then I visualize the bike. Ideally in the first loop of the bike that we have tomorrow I want to control my effort. I’ve had a tendency to go out guns blazing and then progressively each lap get slower. It usually happens anyway but I’m going to try to ride as consistently as possible through the entire 112 miles which then I believe will allow me to have my best run and ideally my best run I’ve ever had in an Iron Man. So it should be fun.
Cain: Yeah. Sounds like you’re - and I haven’t viewed your documentary From the Diamond to the Rough which is unbelievable and anybody listening to this has got to check that out. From the Diamond to the Rough. If you’d let them know where they can get that that would be great. In that you talked a lot about the joy is in the process. What does that mean?
Byrnes: So the reward. We like the reward don’t we? The reward is one of the reasons why we do what we do in any industry. It’s your payday. It’s making your money. In the endurance world it’s a medal at the end of an Iron Man. It’s a belt buckle at the end of the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run. That is the reward.
For my kids they love it. It’s the trophy. They’re out there and they’re playing. It’s a trophy. So when we’re kids I don’t think - we know the reward is there and we think we’re chasing the reward. When you’re in baseball and you’re playing baseball and you think you’re chasing the money and everything and then I got to endurance sports and it was like I thought I was chasing the medal and the fact that I could say “oh I’ve done eight Iron Mans” and everything else. I think it really hit me when I did the Western States 100 that it’s not about the reward. The reward is the process. I think that once you understand that the reward, the money, the belt buckles, the medals, everything comes easier. But that is simply a result of you fully embracing the process.
So going forward here, man, I just did an article yesterday. I talked to Susan Slusser from the San Francisco Chronicle. They’re going to do a big story about Diamond to the Rough and it’s interesting because when I was explaining that to her - and every time I explain it as I explained it to you today it rings so true yet I think sometimes through the course of your life you don’t get it and you don’t understand it. But guess what? It hasn’t changed. It hasn’t changed since you were nine years old and you’re running around a little league field or you’re running around a soccer field or anything else.
We thought we were chasing the trophy but we weren’t chasing the trophy. The absolute reason why we do it is because of the exhilarating emotional feelings that we get from being out there, being out on the racecourse, being out on the baseball field. That is what life is about. That is living. That’s it.
Cain: When you cross the finish line of those Iron Mans or of the Western States 100 you carry a jersey of a former Arizona State football player, Pat Tillman. Could you talk a little bit about your relationship with Pat and then why you carry that jersey, why that is so important to you?
Byrnes: Well Pat played for - he went to Leland High School in San Jose at the same time I went to St. Francis. We would watch him (I’m not kidding you) and we would just gawk. From his junior year. Junior year, senior year. It was just like is this guy for real? He was an undersized dude that just - I mean he was blowing dudes up on defense/ He was given the football and was just running around guys, he was running over guys. It was like how often is it that you get a group of high school kids in this totally uncomfortable state in your life, all this testosterone and macho bravado and everything else, where you could get a group of high school kids that were playing on the best high school football team in the area. We’d look at a guy on this other team and go “that dude is the baddest dude I have ever seen.” He had blond locks flowing out of his helmet.
So basically what happened is I think the first time we met was we saw him at a Leland/St. Francis volleyball game. A buddy of ours - we were scared to go up to him. We were like “dude that’s Tillman over there, that’s Tillman over there.” So a buddy of ours by the name of Zach Wahls was like “I’ve got to go, I’ve got to do it” and he went up, walked across the gym, he was like “hey Pat I’m Zach Wahls I go to St. Francis, football player, I just wanted to meet you and say how much we respect you” and this and that.
That was pretty cool to see because just like 4-5 years later Zach Wahls was the sixth round draft pick of the Arizona Cardinals after going to Dartmouth and playing for four years and Pat Tillman was the seventh round draft pick of the Arizona Cardinals after going to ASU and playing for four years. Then they roomed together with the Cardinals here.
Cain: How about that.
Byrnes: In 1998 when I first signed with the A’s and I’d come and like - man I’d do anything to hang with the - I’m low level minor leagues. I’m the bottom barrel structurally and I’m hanging around some NFLers with Pat and Zach. My time actually getting to know Pat was very limited. I spent very little time with him hanging out with him. The times that I did you could tell there was something just special about him. Then he ended up obviously after 9/11 deciding to walk from football and join the Army Rangers.
From there I wanted to do the same thing. I was just like everybody else that was emotionally moved by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. We wanted to fight. Pat did an interview. He was like “what have I done, my great grandfather fought in World War I, my grandfather fought in World War II, my dad fought in Vietnam,” he was just going through it. He was like “what the hell have I done.”
[Tillman: My great grandfather was at Pearl Harbor and a lot of my family has given up - has gone to fight in wars, and I really haven’t done a damn thing as far as laying myself on the line like that and so I have a great deal of respect for those that have and what the flag stands for.]
Byrnes: You could tell. This was the day after 9/11 when he did this interview. I had the same feeling. I always had these visions. Mike Seal who happens to be in the condo right now staying with me, him and I have always talked about being Navy SEALS. That was always our fascination. But guess what? Here I was after 9/11 just busting into the big leagues. Was I willing to give it all up to go to Afghanistan and fight for our country? I wasn’t. I didn’t have the balls to do it. You know what? Pat did. It’s a shame of how it ended because it didn’t have to. The whole thing with the friendly fire and the cover up and everything else was disgusting but in no way does it diminish the sacrifice that he was willing to make for the sake of your ass and mine.
A couple years ago - a couple years, 10 years ago now in 2006 when I was with the Diamondbacks I got a call from Richard Tillman, Pat’s youngest brother, and he knew I had always talked well about Pat, pumped Pat up, and he knew how close Zach and I were and he invited me out to the statue unveiling out at the new stadium in Glendale. There was a group of only about 50 family members and friends for the statue unveiling and I was fortunate enough to be there and watch it and really got close with the family - Marie his widow, Kevin his brother who he went to Afghanistan with who also was an Army Ranger, Richard, and a couple of his best friends, this guy Ben Hill and Dallas Carwood who were running the foundation at the time. I basically at that point knew that I was all in with doing whatever I could do to make sure that the next generation of kids knew exactly who Pat Tillman was and the sacrifice that he made.
It’s not to diminish sacrifices of other people and other 18 year old kids that are signing up around the country to go serve our country but there is something to say when you don’t have to go and you’re at the height of your NFL career and you have a multimillion dollar offer on the table and you walk. That was something special and I just want to continue to celebrate that and celebrate the foundation which has gone on to do some really good things with education and providing scholarships for military members and their families and basically grooming these people to be game changers in society - which is exactly what Pat was.
Cain: That’s awesome. I had the privilege to run the Pat Tillman race one time at Arizona State. For people that are listening to this it’s a short 5k race but there are probably 25,000-30,000 people that show up a Arizona State Sun Devils Stadium for that race they do every year. If you’re looking for something to get you going and something to remind you that we live in the greatest country in the world show up for that race. It’s unbelievable. Walk it or do it but it’s something that you’ve got to do. If you’re listening to this podcast go online right now and Google “Pat Tillman Race Arizona State University,” find out when it is, and go smash it. Go do it because you are going to get a lot out of that experience and that opportunity.
Eric, last question for you here. I really appreciate your time today. It’s been fantastic. One of the most fun podcasts we have ever done. 40 years old, eight Iron Mans in, Major League Baseball career, been an analyst, you’ve got a book that you’ve written that is going to be coming out that I can’t wait to read - it’s going to be off the charts. You’ve got a documentary. You’re married. You’ve got children. How do you define success for you right now? In baseball it’s easy. It’s a statistical thing. Everybody can determine if you have success based off of numbers. How do you define success in your life right now?
Byrnes: A successful person - and I feel like I’m having success. I’d say I’m winning (I’m not sure that that’s the right word) when I’m able to embrace the moment. We don’t live in the moment today. It’s very difficult sometimes and we’re so consumed with social media and we want everything quick and we want everything fast and it’s the Millennial generation. And I get it. I live this fast paced life. I have a lot of things going on.
But you mentioned I have three kids. I have a 5, 6, and 7 year old. I’m married. I do everything I can to be a good father, good husband. And then I have a job that is 3,000 miles away. So I live in California at Half Moon Bay about 20 miles south of San Francisco but I have a place in New York City and MLB networks is in Secaucus, New Jersey right across the river about 15 minutes away. My life is constantly in flux. We have a place in Tahoe as well. We’re about to go up too after this and spend just about all the winter there.
You mentioned the documentary. That has been a lot and dealing with that and going through the editing process and everything else. Not to mention the training that goes into the Iron Man races and the 100 mile run. What I’ve learned through all of it is that you can only be in one place at one time. So if we are sitting here and doing the podcast I need to be here. I can’t worry about these 15 other things going on. I’ve noticed that I have the most success in my life when I am able to bring it to the now and I think that is what matters is to embrace the moment. It’s as simple as that. As simple as that.
Cain: Awesome. Eric Byrnes, you are off the podcast hot seat my friend. Fantastic. Again you can get more Eric Byrnes at www.Byrnes22.com and on Twitter at @Byrnes22. Eric, thank you for your time. You were off the charts. Thank you.
Byrnes: Thanks dude. One last thing for the film. The documentary.
Cain: Yes.
Byrnes: This is not a monetary play for me. I’m not doing this to make money off this thing. There is a special message in there that is very family oriented. One of the things that Susan Slusser when she was doing the article yesterday she was like “I just was amazed by the doc, I just figured it was going to be this athlete vanity piece and it’s anything but that.” If there is one thing that I would recommend to people it’s go to www.Vimeo.com/OnDemand/DiamondToTheRough. Watch this documentary. I think it hits so many different people on so many different levels that the only thing I care about on this is I want eyeballs to see it.
Again this is not a monetary play thing. This isn’t an ego thing or anything else. There is a message within that documentary I think that will resonate with a lot of people and it could help change somebody’s life.
Cain: What is the message, Eric, that you want people to get from the documentary?
Byrnes: It’s about the process. It’s not about the reward. It’s about embracing everything that is important in your life that helps you enjoy that process. It’s about family. It’s about giving your kids every opportunity to succeed. It’s about setting an example for your children and influencing them and not force-feeding them anything but allowing them to make their own decisions. But guess what? You have a 100% responsibility to set that example for them, lead them to the right direction, and let them find their own path.
One of the main ones is you’ll always need to have an idea of what is next and find what is next and find your happiness, find your zone, find something that is going to motivate you each and every single day. I think really the last one is do something physical that will help. When you get out and do something physical - it doesn’t have to be a 100 mile run. Not even close. I don’t care if it’s walking around the block twice. Get outside. Clear your mind. Clear your head.
As a kid that grew up with severe ADHD I can tell you even now with all the information that is coming - I’ve got a buddy of mine that scans brain tissue. He could show me a brain of an ADD kid without exercise indoors and it looks like a tiny little penny. Imagine 20 minutes of moderate exercise after being outside that ADD kid’s brain is lit up like a freaking giant pancake. We’re not any different. Some people are more extreme. Maybe people with ADD are more extreme in what that can do for you. This is something that - the idea and thoughts that people are cancelling PE is disgusting to me. The lack of physical activity amongst our youth is disturbing.
But again the overall message is enjoy the process and embrace the moment.
Cain: I thought it was awesome that you’re - the career transition piece too.
Byrnes: It’s big.
Cain: As a pro athlete it’s all of a sudden you’re - the quote the guy says in there which I think is beautiful, he says “you’re a dragon slayer and now there are no dragons to go slay.” Whether you are an athlete, whether you are a - if you are in the military - 0:52:08 did the same thing that when his Navy SEAL days came to a close that there were some dark times. He had to find out what is next - like the shirt that you are wearing in the documentary. For him it was taking a dry erase marker and writing down his goals on his bathroom mirror so he could see them. He said that is kind of what got him going away was seeing something, having a vision, having a tangible past and I’m going to go and attack. Whether it’s preparing for a game, preparing for a seminar, preparing to go to combat, or preparing to wake up and make your kids breakfast what is your task for the day that you’re going to sign your name with excellence on and go out there and keep moving forward?
Having worked in athletics there are a lot of guys that when that career ends there are some dark times because everything you’ve always done - hitting a ball, running, diving, making a catch - that doesn’t necessarily translate to what you’re going to do now for the rest of your life to be successful. However who you became and who you needed to become to be successful as an athlete, that same process, that same mindset, that same drive, that same attention to detail will help you if you take that with you into what you do.
Byrnes: Right.
Cain: So it’s trying to figure out how do you help guys to channel that.
Byrnes: That’s awesome dude. Thanks Brian.
Cain: Awesome Eric. I appreciate you.
Byrnes: That was outstanding. Thanks again.</description>
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      <itunes:title>BC 117. Eric Byrnes - A Major League Mindset</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Brian talks with former Major League Baseball player and Peak Performer Eric Byrnes, the day before they both compete in IronMan Arizona. Byrnes recently came out with a Documentary on his journey from a Major League field, to 8 IronMan competitions as w...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Brian talks with former Major League Baseball player and Peak Performer Eric Byrnes, the day before they both compete in IronMan Arizona. Byrnes recently came out with a Documentary on his journey from a Major League field, to 8 IronMan competitions as well as The Western States 100.
Watch Eric's Diamond To The Rough Documentary
Follow Byrnes on Twitter @byrnes22
Follow Byrnes on Instagram ebyrnes22
 
You will learn about...
What drove Byrne's to professional baseball and a career in sports broadcasting
Byrnes' unique path to professional baseball
Byrnes' thoughts on the Mental Game and exactly what it means to him
The similarities of playing in a Major League Baseball game and competing in an IronMan
Byrnes' thoughts on success and what it is to him
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Byrnes: It’s not about the reward. The reward is a process. Once you understand that the reward, the money, the belt buckles, the metals, everything comes easier.
Cain: Welcome to another edition of the Brian Cain Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest, Eric Byrnes, was one of the most electrifying players of his time in Major League Baseball. His all out all the time approach made him a fan favorite and a player whose hustle, drive, effort, and energy was emulated by high school and college players and programs all over the country. A 2013 inductee to the UCLA Hall of Fame, Byrnes always brings the juice.
[Bring the juice!]
Cain: Whether it’s playing in the outfield for the Diamondbacks, A’s, Orioles, Rockies, or Mariners, working as an analyst for Major League Baseball Network, or in his endurance race career having completed eight Iron Man triathlons - it will be his ninth in two days from now - and the Western States 100 Mile Mountain Race. Be on the lookout for a documentary about his journey into the world of extreme races called From the Diamond to the Rough which follows him through the Western States 100.
You can learn more about Eric at www.Byrnes22.com and on Twitter at @Byrnes22. Please welcome to the Peak Performance Podcast Eric Byrnes. Eric, thanks for joining us man.
Byrnes: I need some more Brian Cain in my life. Can I get that intro every morning when I wake up out of bed and just get ready to charge?
Cain: We’ll create that as an alarm that you can play. Right now mine pops up and says “where is the beef jerky” as a tribute to Jocko Willard. But we can get that to pop up and play for you.
Eric, if you would, give us kind of your journey from St. Francis High School in northern California to where you are today now.
Byrnes: Well it’s pretty simple. Basically I grew up in Portola Valley which is a small town in northern California which is I’d say probably more known for a lot of the pioneers of the silicon valley either grew up there or at least settled there in the Portola Valley Woodside area. So baseball or even sports in general wasn’t very popular. But I had this dream and vision of (when I was a kid) doing two things. One of them was playing professional sports and the other one was talking about professional sports. I used to sit around with my buddies and we would just debate whatever - football, baseball, basketball, tennis, this and that, whatever it was we were so passionate about it and we just let it eat. We fed off of sports talk radio. That was something to us. KNBR 680, the sports leader, was it for us.
To make a long story longer here I ended up going to St. Francis which was kind of a leap of faith for me because kids from my area there weren’t a lot that went to St. Francis which was  known back then as the premier sports school really in the Bay Area. They had De La Salle across the bay. You had Serra which was where Barry Bonds went, Jim Fregosi, Lynn Swann, Tom Brady. And then Bellarmine was also a good one. But St. Francis arguably was the best of the best when it kind of came to all around sports.
So I ended up going there and playing football my freshman year. At the time - think about this, you’re a freshman in high school. I don’t even think I had gone through puberty yet. I’m just trying to kind of make my way. I’m in a school with I think there was one other kid from my grade school that went there. All these other guys played Pop Warner, they were all friends and whatnot. It was really kind of a lonely place and I was just kind of trying to find my way. Athletically I have never seen anything like it in my life. Everybody were good athletes.
So after football season it was time to make a decision whether or not I was going to play basketball. I realized that if I have any chance of being good here for the first time in my life I’m like I need to focus, narrow my focus a little bit. The decision I made (because basketball ran well into baseball season) was hey look I’m not going to play hoops - which my claim to fame (and still is today) probably my greatest athletic feat was scoring 56 points in an eighth grade basketball game. Not kidding you. I worked with Tom Tolbert at KNBR 680 who played in the NBA for like 7-8 years. I always would give Tolbert crap because he had never scored 56 in a game.
But anyway I ended up going. I went to the tryouts. Think about this. I told this story at St. Francis the other night when I went back and showed the documentary Diamond to the Rough. There were 50 kids - 50 - going out for a baseball team for 15 spots. Think about that.
Cain: This is a freshman.
Byrnes: This is high school freshman baseball. There are 50 kids. You know what our tryouts were? Play catch for five minutes. When you get them playing catch we’re going to take half of you and we’re going to put you in the outfield. You are going to catch I think it was maybe 1-2 fly balls, then we are going to put you in the infield, maybe it was 4-5 grounders, and that was it. Backed up with a pitching machine that was spitting balls out in every which direction and you get five swings. Then after that it was like okay.
I went in the outfield. I think I clanked one of the balls I was supposed to catch. I go in the infield, beat at a ball or two. I was just so nervous. Then I get to take a couple swings off the pitching machine, foul a c couple off, swing and miss, pop a ball up, pop another one up. “Alright Eric thanks for coming to and we’ll see you, the results will be posted tomorrow in the gym.”
So I went to the gym the next day and I just knew I didn’t make it. There is no way. How could I have possibly made the team? I told my mom. I said “look I’m almost positive that I’m going to get cut from this team, I can’t take this, I want to go to Woodside High School, I’m transferring.” It was just too much for me. It was too overwhelming. The competition was too good and the opportunity was too scarce. A lot of life is having opportunity and if you don’t have the opportunity to prove yourself …
So I went through the next day and posted on the outside gym wall was all the names of the guys that made it. So I’m looking kind of huddled around. I’m looking from a distance. It’s like “Ryan, Brendan, Bryan, Matt,” all the way down to the bottom. Fifteen names. “Chris” was the last name. No “Eric.” I said “it’s cool, I prepared myself for this, I’m going to Woodside High School no problem.” But guess what? I’m going to look at every one of these 15 guys and I’m going to mark them and I’m going to go out and prove that there is not one of these guys that was a better baseball player than I am.
I went back to look at the names, scan the names, make sure exactly who the guys were. I get to the last name and it was “Chris Byrnes.” B-y-r-n-e-s. I’m like “Chris Byrnes? No way there is another Byrnes here, this doesn’t make any sense.” Did he screw up the first name? Did he screw up the last name? What is going on? So I went sprinting after the freshman baseball coach as he was walking away and I’m like “Coach Ferrera, Coach Ferrera!” He turns around and goes “what can I do for you, Chris?” I go “nothing I’ll see you at practice.” That was it. That was all I needed to know. I went from thinking I was getting cut from the freshman baseball team and having to transfer schools to obviously making the team.
Cain: 0:08:01 felt standard.
Byrnes: And my career kind of took off from there.
Cain: Wow. How about that. So you go from making it as Chris Byrnes and seeing the freshman team then you end up getting drafted out of high school - so you obviously had a good career at St. Francis - and then made the decision to not sign pro with the L.A. Dodgers but go on to UCLA.
A lot of players that are listening to this or parents or coaches that are listening to this there is always that debate of if you’re a high school kid do you sign and go and start your pro baseball career and get those extra three years of minor league baseball under your belt or do you go to college? Depending on who you talk to you are going to get a different answer - sometimes it’s a dollar figure amount, other times it’s a life experience amount, an education reason. Why did you choose to go to UCLA instead of signing pro baseball straight out of St. Francis High School?
Byrnes: I think it’s pretty simple. First of all for people listening to this - and I imagine that a lot of the people that are actually listening are young guys that are trying to find a way. I can’t tell you how important the mental side of baseball is and what that did for me. I just think that my parents instilled in me at a very young age what the most important thing in the world was family first and then education. I knew I had a dream of wanting to play professional sports but I also knew that there was going to be a time and place for it.
My belief in myself and my confidence in myself - this was sort of where the mental game kind of really comes in is that you’ve got to be willing to walk. You’ve got to have this ultimate belief in yourself that this is not going to be - when I was a 38th round draft pick out of high school, a 38th round draft pick? I should have been a first round draft pick. Then I got drafted again in the fourth round by the Houston Astros after my junior year where a lot of people would sign.
I met with the scouting director of the Houston Astros at the time and he had come back to Cape Cod to watch me play for a week. After the week he was like “hey Eric I’d like to take you to breakfast” and we’re trying to negotiate a contract. The average of the round back then was like $150,000. So they had made an original offer of $90,000 which is nowhere even near the average of the round. Their excuse was that they had given too much of the money to Lance Berkman who they had drafted in the first round. Great choice and great guy to give a lot of money to, right? But apparently it affected their second, third, and fourth round draft picks. Ironically none of us ended up signing.
Here was my thing. It wasn’t about the money. I knew that $90,000 - and then you pay taxes on a bonus which is like $45,000. Even if it was $150,000 and you told me I’m going to walk away with $75,000 I’ll go blow $75,000 in a weekend. That wasn’t going to change my life. I understood that. I knew that. What I wanted was an organization that believed in me, that said “hey Eric look we’re going to give you every opportunity to succeed.” That is what I needed.
Sure enough I went to breakfast and it was the scouting director and one other guy. They sat there and they said “hey here is the deal, we gave all our money to Berkman, we’ve been watching you play for a week now, we think you’re a circus act in the outfield, you pull the baseball way too much, you can’t hit the ball the other way, you’re fast but you run funny and really awkward, so here is our $90,000 offer take it or leave it at this point but it goes off the table tomorrow.” I’m like wow.
Cain: That is what they said?
Byrnes: I said “so hold on let me get this straight, you guys are telling me that you are going to basically offer me way less than the average of the round and then on top of that--” I said “hold on guys this isn’t about the money so what do you want me to do?” I said “you want me to sign with an organization that already doesn’t believe in me for the minimal value of the round and I’m going to start with my back against the wall knowing your guys’ feelings about my game.”
Where in the manual of being a scouting director when you’re trying to sign a player does it say “let’s go ridicule him and demean him and then monetarily show him we don’t have any support for him either” and think that that person would sign? “You guys can go fuck yourself.” I got up and walked out. That was it. That was the last time I ever spoke to the Houston Astros.
Cain: So you go back to UCLA for your senior year and then go on and get drafted and make your way up to the big leagues. Talk a little bit about that mental game or that belief that you had in yourself. Let me slow down here I’m all jacked up. What is the mental game to you, Eric? What is the mental game of baseball?
Byrnes: Confidence. Belief in yourself. It kind of goes back to the story that I just told. I don’t respond the way I did without the confidence and without the belief in myself. Even going back to my freshman year I don’t go back freshman year of high school and having that “I’ll walk, I’ll transfer schools, I need an opportunity, I need to play, I am going to be a professional baseball player.” I didn’t tell a lot of people. I told my mom. That was it. I kept it really low. I wasn’t parading around with a megaphone to all my friends.
But when I was 13 years old my dad used to throw me in batting practice all the time. He knew nothing about baseball. Absolutely zero. He was a fourth degree black belt in kenpo karate. He’d take me out and we’d go to the town center of Portola Valley and just throw BP days and days and days. Just all day. Eventually when I was 13 I was like there is only so much BP he can throw me. My parents are like “hey we got you a” - they thought they were all clever but they were like “we got you a birthday present, his name is Mike.” I’m like “what do you mean his name is Mike?” “We got you a new friend for your birthday, Mike.” I’m like “what?” Iron Mike.
Cain: Oh yeah.
Byrnes: So down below where we lived, our house the way it was situated was kind of up on a hill, and then down below in part of the property you couldn’t really see was a batting cage with an Iron Mike machine.
When I was 13 years old I cranked that thing up to 90 miles per hour, throwing as fast as it could throw. At first I had a tough time - foul balls off, foul balls off, foul balls off - and eventually *poof* I was ranking it, right? Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam! Well guess what? When I got to face - I was a sophomore in high school. I had just got called up to varsity. I didn’t start with varsity when I was a sophomore. I got called up to varsity to face Dan Serafini. Dan Serafini was a first round pick out of Serra. He threw 92 miles per hour from the left side. A nasty little sink. There were 50 scouts in the stands, maybe more. I went there to face him. Everyone else 0:15:53 sample for right?
Cain: Yeah.
Byrnes: And I’m like no problem *whap whap whap* three bullets off of Dan Serafini. Barely anyone else was touching him. It’s repetition. It is a skill that was developed through hard work. Even during football season - I played football through high school but even during football season before school in the morning I’d still bang 50 balls before I went to school. I got home at night, the sun is going down, dark, whatever, I’d put on a few lights we’d put up in the cage, boom, just 50 more. Didn’t overdo it. I just loved to hit.
Well guess what? Guess what that created? Confidence. So when I got there against Dan Serafini as a sophomore in high school still not sure if I - I’m barely going through puberty at this point and I’m hitting bullets off of 92 mile per hour fastballs when no one else is touching him. Now you’ve got 50 scouts in the stands going “huh who is this kid?”
I think people need to remember when it comes to the mental game confidence is created and developed through work. It’s like a test. Imagine studying for a test - and you know those tests. I went into several where I wasn’t prepared for the test and what sort of confidence did I have going into that test? So long as I did my work and I studied for that test and I was ready for that test I was confident. My mental game was exactly where it needed to be. It’s the same thing with the process of going up and playing in the big leagues. People go “are you nervous?” Yeah of course you are going to be nervous. This is natural nerves. But guess what? Were you scared? Not one bit. I prepared myself for that day. I prepared myself.
Cain: So you’ve got eight Iron Mans. You’re doing your ninth here in two days. What is the prep? Is it the same thing with going in and doing an endurance race whether it’s the 100 mile race or an Iron Man where you’ve done the preparation, you’ve done the training with run, bike, swim? Is it the same thing with the preparation in terms of you having done the work to go prepare for an Iron Man triathlon?
Byrnes: Exact same thing. It’s not any different. There is no natural transition from playing professional baseball to going into the endurance world. Physically there is very little translation between the two. But psychologically very similar because it’s all about doing the work and doing the work that gives you confidence to go out there and have your best race on that given day. That’s it. It’s as simple as that.
That is what drives me I think in the training. Part of it is that fear of knowing that that test is there. That test is coming up. It’s what eventually got me going in school is I knew that in order to go to college I was going to have to do the work to do well on my test to get me into a good school and it all kind of became part of the plan. Ironically as I got older I became a much better student than I ever was at a younger age.
Cain: Talk about being a student for a second. One of the things you mentioned earlier off the air was how there was a time in your life where you just kind of were devouring books and you had a group of guys where you would go through Heads-Up Baseball and then talk about that. Talk a little bit about the importance of leaders being readers and for the people that are following this what are some of the best books that you like to read.
Byrnes: Wow. Yeah. One of the first books I really dove into and read probably 50 times over through the course of my entire baseball career was The Mental Game of Baseball by Karl Kuehl and Harvey Dorfman. Karl ended up being a mentor of mine when I played with the Oakland A’s and then even after. He was with the Indians at the time and I was with the Arizona Diamondbacks but we would have a weekly call that we had scheduled. We would schedule it at different times on different weeks but man it was so incredibly beneficial having that somebody there to sort of balance some ideas.
It’s funny because sometimes when I was rolling we wouldn’t even talk about baseball. I sort of let him dictate the conversations. But ironically I had - well I wouldn’t say ironically. There was no coincidence that I had my two greatest years in the big leagues when I was checking in with Karl on a weekly basis. Unfortunately at the end of 2008 I think was when he got sick and he ended up passing away. It hit hard and it hit fast and I still miss him dearly to this day but the lessons that he taught me in my life and my career are just invaluable.
The other one was Heads-Up Baseball by Ken Ravizza is another one that I dove into with Scott Seal - a buddy of mine. We were roommates at UCLA and then he ended up transferring to Fullerton and he played there. We got into pro ball at the same time. During the offseason we just trained together, lived together. We’d go through books specific to baseball. We would read the hitting books be it Charlie Lau’s book or Ted Williams’ book. It was funny because the one thing I think that I always did a good job at was digesting the language that spoke to me because not everything is going to speak to you so you have to be able to throw out a lot of what you hear in this game but digest the key things.
So since then as far as books I don’t know where to start. But one of the latest ones that I would recommend everybody read - and you’ll have to read it multiple times. The great thing about books now too - because of all the training that I do I go just about all audiobooks.
But Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self Reliance is something that I could dig into every single day. The overall message of making decisions on your own and not necessarily conforming to the societal norms - it’s also not saying be an anarchist but it’s an incredible message. So much to take in. I think the parallels - and it was written however long ago but these parallels are incredible and it’s amazing how relevant it still is. The Scholar was the latest one that I read of his. I can’t get enough of Emerson. It’s amazing to me how relevant Emerson and his writings still are to this day.
Cain: I just started reading a book about stoicism and it goes back to Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus and these guys who were writing back in Ancient Greece. The book is called The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday. It’s awesome. It’s a one page a day read. Very short.
Talking about stoic we think of stoic as somebody who is not emotional, somebody who is just kind of there. Their idea of stoicism is somebody who is so in control of themselves that they never let their emotions get the best of them, that they have the self control, that they quickly identify what they can control, what they can’t control, and they only focus their time and energy and attention on things they can control - which is a lot of what I have learned through Heads-Up Baseball and Ravizza but I didn’t realize it goes all the way back to the freaking Greeks. It’s written in a language that you can tell it’s ancient times but Ryan Holiday does a great job of translating that to making sense for what you’re doing today. It’s pretty cool.
Byrnes: I’ll check it out.
Cain: Ryan Holiday. It’s The Daily Stoic.
Other pieces of the mental game. You talked about the confidence that comes from preparation. What about routines? What are some of the routines that you had to help you go one pitch at a time, Eric?
Byrnes: I was very routine oriented. Before preparing for a game I had my whole routine of stretching that I would do. We’re talking (let’s say) 35 minutes before the game where it was the stretching to the sprints to jumping over the laundry basket in the club house.
I did not go outside to sprint I think hardly ever in my big league career because what happened is as you start playing and you’re seeing all your peers there it’s what you see today - which is I don’t know if it’s BS or not. It depends what side of the fence you’re on when it comes to fraternization but you see a bunch of guys playing grab ass out in the outfield. Well look I was there to play baseball and prepare myself for a game. I don’t need to catch up with this guy and see how the family is doing and everything else. And the guy on the other team. I wasn’t interested in that.
So I felt like that was always a distraction to me so I would actually do my sprints underneath, in the tunnel, in the batting cage so long as it was available. I would jump over laundry baskets too and I had a whole routine of doing that. Then I would hit off the tee and it would just be five balls the other way, pull five balls, finish with five balls up the middle. And then I’d throw too so I’d just grab some balls in the cage and I’d throw 10-15 balls whenever I felt like. Then I’d make sure I’d finish about five minutes before the game so I still had that *breath* alright physically I know I’m ready. Mentally let’s get here and let’s do it.
Cain: Awesome. Mental imagery. Anything you used at all in terms of visualizing yourself playing well? Maybe it was something you’d do at night before you’d go to bed or during the day when you’re at the stadium kind of visualizing yourself taking at bats off the guy who is going to be pitching you that day?
Byrnes: All the time. Every single day. That was another part of my routine that I would do. I would do it after the tee work. I would mentally have a vision of that pitcher that we were going to face that day and I would start with fastball. I’d go fast ball away ball, fast ball away strike, boom. So I’d imagine fastball away, just taking it. Nice soft hit ball. Fastball away strike. Bam. Shooting it the other way. Fastball middle, down or up, we’re at ball. Okay fast ball right there. Boom. I’d just imagine low line drives. Fast ball in ball, fast ball in. Boom. Drop the hit. Homer. Same thing. Curve ball down on a wide ball, curve ball outside corner, boom, base hit right field. Curveball middle down in the dirt. Good take. Next one. Curve ball middle. Boom. Base hit out the middle. Curve ball inside. Take it. Curve ball inside. Homer. Same thing with the change up. I would do that every single day.
It started - here is another book I would recommend. I’m trying to think. It was I want to say The Mental Game of Tennis but that’s not right.
Cain: The Inner Game of Tennis.
Byrnes: Inner Game of Tennis. The Inner Game of Tennis is one of the first mental books I read. When I was a kid I was a big time tennis player. You want to talk about you think baseball players have - like that tennis game especially at a young age and you’re on that island by yourself, that’s heavy. So through The Inner Game of Tennis I learned the points of the visualizations. So I would play the match the night before. I would go sit in this chair in our living room.
My mom would always help me with it. She was like “okay just go ahead and visualize your match.” Well I was playing against these ridiculously good tennis players. There were like - geez - Michael Jessup, Cory Guy, Misha Palecek, Ryan Walters. All four of these dudes went on. Palecek, Walters, and Jessup were like 1, 2, 3 at Stanford. Cory Guy was the number one player at Santa Barbara. All of them went on to play professional tennis in some capacity. These are a lot of the guys that - I was competing against these dudes.
Cain: Yeah.
Byrnes: It was just super heavy and we did a lot traveling or whatever but that is where I learned the mental side. Then I slowly transitioned that. I’m like “okay if I can envision playing these matches why can’t I envision what the game is going to look like tomorrow in baseball, what my at bats are going to look like?” So I started doing that. I truly believe that is where my baseball career really took off in a sense is when I was about 12 in All Stars and going through that mental imagery of doing it. Again when you stand at the box - what did I say? What is the mental game? That game is confidence and belief. But what gives you confidence and belief is that fact that you have done the work. Well guess what? When I got in the box I had already been there. I had already done it. I’m comfortable. I had seen it.
Cain: Did you do the same thing when you were getting ready to run an Iron Man? Do you see yourself crossing the finish line already and all that? I know that you have already done eight but when you go back to doing your first one was it the same process seeing yourself crossing the finish line and all that?
Byrnes: I did it yesterday sitting in the float tank. A float tank is this tank filled with whatever. Now I like putting myself in positions - when I can find that quiet time I went through the whole race, went through the beginning, what is it going to be like jumping in. I don’t care how many you do. The best never stop preparing. It’s not like - if I didn’t have a little anxiousness and a little fear - that is normal. You want that. That is why I do these. If I lose that it’s not going to have the same luster.
Am I more comfortable because I have eight under my belt? Of course I am. Of course I am. But I also still know that in order to get my best result I need to go out there and run through this. What is it going to be like? There is going to be a lot of contact in the swim. Imagine and visualize and even feel for every stroke I’m going to come down and I might get hit. Or what is happening when the guy is grabbing on my legs behind me? Am I going to kick him off or am I going to relax? I went through it.
Then getting on the bike and visualizing the transition. What exactly do I need when I get out of the water? When I actually get out of the water I am going to unzip the top of my wetsuit. I am going to take my watch off. I like to keep it clean. If you pull everything over the watch and the thing is stopping and everything - boom, watch off, wetsuit top off, but I’m going to keep everything on waist down. They have wetsuit strippers there that actually will take the whole thing off but I want to keep mine on because I‘m going to have some little booties.
I’m going to get a good run to grab my transition bag, get in the transition where I’ll have my helmet, short little socks and my bike shoes ready to go. But guess what? I’ll have a towel laid out too. I’ll have a towel in there so I can take the booties off without getting grass all over my feet so when I put on my socks there is not going to be grass sitting there for the next nine hours or whatever it’s going to be. All of that is prepared for. All of that is thought of. The bike computer is going to be on the bike. There is just so much. The nutrition, making sure the nutrition in the bottles are lined up. You need to be very meticulous about that.
Then I visualize the bike. Ideally in the first loop of the bike that we have tomorrow I want to control my effort. I’ve had a tendency to go out guns blazing and then progressively each lap get slower. It usually happens anyway but I’m going to try to ride as consistently as possible through the entire 112 miles which then I believe will allow me to have my best run and ideally my best run I’ve ever had in an Iron Man. So it should be fun.
Cain: Yeah. Sounds like you’re - and I haven’t viewed your documentary From the Diamond to the Rough which is unbelievable and anybody listening to this has got to check that out. From the Diamond to the Rough. If you’d let them know where they can get that that would be great. In that you talked a lot about the joy is in the process. What does that mean?
Byrnes: So the reward. We like the reward don’t we? The reward is one of the reasons why we do what we do in any industry. It’s your payday. It’s making your money. In the endurance world it’s a medal at the end of an Iron Man. It’s a belt buckle at the end of the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run. That is the reward.
For my kids they love it. It’s the trophy. They’re out there and they’re playing. It’s a trophy. So when we’re kids I don’t think - we know the reward is there and we think we’re chasing the reward. When you’re in baseball and you’re playing baseball and you think you’re chasing the money and everything and then I got to endurance sports and it was like I thought I was chasing the medal and the fact that I could say “oh I’ve done eight Iron Mans” and everything else. I think it really hit me when I did the Western States 100 that it’s not about the reward. The reward is the process. I think that once you understand that the reward, the money, the belt buckles, the medals, everything comes easier. But that is simply a result of you fully embracing the process.
So going forward here, man, I just did an article yesterday. I talked to Susan Slusser from the San Francisco Chronicle. They’re going to do a big story about Diamond to the Rough and it’s interesting because when I was explaining that to her - and every time I explain it as I explained it to you today it rings so true yet I think sometimes through the course of your life you don’t get it and you don’t understand it. But guess what? It hasn’t changed. It hasn’t changed since you were nine years old and you’re running around a little league field or you’re running around a soccer field or anything else.
We thought we were chasing the trophy but we weren’t chasing the trophy. The absolute reason why we do it is because of the exhilarating emotional feelings that we get from being out there, being out on the racecourse, being out on the baseball field. That is what life is about. That is living. That’s it.
Cain: When you cross the finish line of those Iron Mans or of the Western States 100 you carry a jersey of a former Arizona State football player, Pat Tillman. Could you talk a little bit about your relationship with Pat and then why you carry that jersey, why that is so important to you?
Byrnes: Well Pat played for - he went to Leland High School in San Jose at the same time I went to St. Francis. We would watch him (I’m not kidding you) and we would just gawk. From his junior year. Junior year, senior year. It was just like is this guy for real? He was an undersized dude that just - I mean he was blowing dudes up on defense/ He was given the football and was just running around guys, he was running over guys. It was like how often is it that you get a group of high school kids in this totally uncomfortable state in your life, all this testosterone and macho bravado and everything else, where you could get a group of high school kids that were playing on the best high school football team in the area. We’d look at a guy on this other team and go “that dude is the baddest dude I have ever seen.” He had blond locks flowing out of his helmet.
So basically what happened is I think the first time we met was we saw him at a Leland/St. Francis volleyball game. A buddy of ours - we were scared to go up to him. We were like “dude that’s Tillman over there, that’s Tillman over there.” So a buddy of ours by the name of Zach Wahls was like “I’ve got to go, I’ve got to do it” and he went up, walked across the gym, he was like “hey Pat I’m Zach Wahls I go to St. Francis, football player, I just wanted to meet you and say how much we respect you” and this and that.
That was pretty cool to see because just like 4-5 years later Zach Wahls was the sixth round draft pick of the Arizona Cardinals after going to Dartmouth and playing for four years and Pat Tillman was the seventh round draft pick of the Arizona Cardinals after going to ASU and playing for four years. Then they roomed together with the Cardinals here.
Cain: How about that.
Byrnes: In 1998 when I first signed with the A’s and I’d come and like - man I’d do anything to hang with the - I’m low level minor leagues. I’m the bottom barrel structurally and I’m hanging around some NFLers with Pat and Zach. My time actually getting to know Pat was very limited. I spent very little time with him hanging out with him. The times that I did you could tell there was something just special about him. Then he ended up obviously after 9/11 deciding to walk from football and join the Army Rangers.
From there I wanted to do the same thing. I was just like everybody else that was emotionally moved by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. We wanted to fight. Pat did an interview. He was like “what have I done, my great grandfather fought in World War I, my grandfather fought in World War II, my dad fought in Vietnam,” he was just going through it. He was like “what the hell have I done.”
[Tillman: My great grandfather was at Pearl Harbor and a lot of my family has given up - has gone to fight in wars, and I really haven’t done a damn thing as far as laying myself on the line like that and so I have a great deal of respect for those that have and what the flag stands for.]
Byrnes: You could tell. This was the day after 9/11 when he did this interview. I had the same feeling. I always had these visions. Mike Seal who happens to be in the condo right now staying with me, him and I have always talked about being Navy SEALS. That was always our fascination. But guess what? Here I was after 9/11 just busting into the big leagues. Was I willing to give it all up to go to Afghanistan and fight for our country? I wasn’t. I didn’t have the balls to do it. You know what? Pat did. It’s a shame of how it ended because it didn’t have to. The whole thing with the friendly fire and the cover up and everything else was disgusting but in no way does it diminish the sacrifice that he was willing to make for the sake of your ass and mine.
A couple years ago - a couple years, 10 years ago now in 2006 when I was with the Diamondbacks I got a call from Richard Tillman, Pat’s youngest brother, and he knew I had always talked well about Pat, pumped Pat up, and he knew how close Zach and I were and he invited me out to the statue unveiling out at the new stadium in Glendale. There was a group of only about 50 family members and friends for the statue unveiling and I was fortunate enough to be there and watch it and really got close with the family - Marie his widow, Kevin his brother who he went to Afghanistan with who also was an Army Ranger, Richard, and a couple of his best friends, this guy Ben Hill and Dallas Carwood who were running the foundation at the time. I basically at that point knew that I was all in with doing whatever I could do to make sure that the next generation of kids knew exactly who Pat Tillman was and the sacrifice that he made.
It’s not to diminish sacrifices of other people and other 18 year old kids that are signing up around the country to go serve our country but there is something to say when you don’t have to go and you’re at the height of your NFL career and you have a multimillion dollar offer on the table and you walk. That was something special and I just want to continue to celebrate that and celebrate the foundation which has gone on to do some really good things with education and providing scholarships for military members and their families and basically grooming these people to be game changers in society - which is exactly what Pat was.
Cain: That’s awesome. I had the privilege to run the Pat Tillman race one time at Arizona State. For people that are listening to this it’s a short 5k race but there are probably 25,000-30,000 people that show up a Arizona State Sun Devils Stadium for that race they do every year. If you’re looking for something to get you going and something to remind you that we live in the greatest country in the world show up for that race. It’s unbelievable. Walk it or do it but it’s something that you’ve got to do. If you’re listening to this podcast go online right now and Google “Pat Tillman Race Arizona State University,” find out when it is, and go smash it. Go do it because you are going to get a lot out of that experience and that opportunity.
Eric, last question for you here. I really appreciate your time today. It’s been fantastic. One of the most fun podcasts we have ever done. 40 years old, eight Iron Mans in, Major League Baseball career, been an analyst, you’ve got a book that you’ve written that is going to be coming out that I can’t wait to read - it’s going to be off the charts. You’ve got a documentary. You’re married. You’ve got children. How do you define success for you right now? In baseball it’s easy. It’s a statistical thing. Everybody can determine if you have success based off of numbers. How do you define success in your life right now?
Byrnes: A successful person - and I feel like I’m having success. I’d say I’m winning (I’m not sure that that’s the right word) when I’m able to embrace the moment. We don’t live in the moment today. It’s very difficult sometimes and we’re so consumed with social media and we want everything quick and we want everything fast and it’s the Millennial generation. And I get it. I live this fast paced life. I have a lot of things going on.
But you mentioned I have three kids. I have a 5, 6, and 7 year old. I’m married. I do everything I can to be a good father, good husband. And then I have a job that is 3,000 miles away. So I live in California at Half Moon Bay about 20 miles south of San Francisco but I have a place in New York City and MLB networks is in Secaucus, New Jersey right across the river about 15 minutes away. My life is constantly in flux. We have a place in Tahoe as well. We’re about to go up too after this and spend just about all the winter there.
You mentioned the documentary. That has been a lot and dealing with that and going through the editing process and everything else. Not to mention the training that goes into the Iron Man races and the 100 mile run. What I’ve learned through all of it is that you can only be in one place at one time. So if we are sitting here and doing the podcast I need to be here. I can’t worry about these 15 other things going on. I’ve noticed that I have the most success in my life when I am able to bring it to the now and I think that is what matters is to embrace the moment. It’s as simple as that. As simple as that.
Cain: Awesome. Eric Byrnes, you are off the podcast hot seat my friend. Fantastic. Again you can get more Eric Byrnes at www.Byrnes22.com and on Twitter at @Byrnes22. Eric, thank you for your time. You were off the charts. Thank you.
Byrnes: Thanks dude. One last thing for the film. The documentary.
Cain: Yes.
Byrnes: This is not a monetary play for me. I’m not doing this to make money off this thing. There is a special message in there that is very family oriented. One of the things that Susan Slusser when she was doing the article yesterday she was like “I just was amazed by the doc, I just figured it was going to be this athlete vanity piece and it’s anything but that.” If there is one thing that I would recommend to people it’s go to www.Vimeo.com/OnDemand/DiamondToTheRough. Watch this documentary. I think it hits so many different people on so many different levels that the only thing I care about on this is I want eyeballs to see it.
Again this is not a monetary play thing. This isn’t an ego thing or anything else. There is a message within that documentary I think that will resonate with a lot of people and it could help change somebody’s life.
Cain: What is the message, Eric, that you want people to get from the documentary?
Byrnes: It’s about the process. It’s not about the reward. It’s about embracing everything that is important in your life that helps you enjoy that process. It’s about family. It’s about giving your kids every opportunity to succeed. It’s about setting an example for your children and influencing them and not force-feeding them anything but allowing them to make their own decisions. But guess what? You have a 100% responsibility to set that example for them, lead them to the right direction, and let them find their own path.
One of the main ones is you’ll always need to have an idea of what is next and find what is next and find your happiness, find your zone, find something that is going to motivate you each and every single day. I think really the last one is do something physical that will help. When you get out and do something physical - it doesn’t have to be a 100 mile run. Not even close. I don’t care if it’s walking around the block twice. Get outside. Clear your mind. Clear your head.
As a kid that grew up with severe ADHD I can tell you even now with all the information that is coming - I’ve got a buddy of mine that scans brain tissue. He could show me a brain of an ADD kid without exercise indoors and it looks like a tiny little penny. Imagine 20 minutes of moderate exercise after being outside that ADD kid’s brain is lit up like a freaking giant pancake. We’re not any different. Some people are more extreme. Maybe people with ADD are more extreme in what that can do for you. This is something that - the idea and thoughts that people are cancelling PE is disgusting to me. The lack of physical activity amongst our youth is disturbing.
But again the overall message is enjoy the process and embrace the moment.
Cain: I thought it was awesome that you’re - the career transition piece too.
Byrnes: It’s big.
Cain: As a pro athlete it’s all of a sudden you’re - the quote the guy says in there which I think is beautiful, he says “you’re a dragon slayer and now there are no dragons to go slay.” Whether you are an athlete, whether you are a - if you are in the military - 0:52:08 did the same thing that when his Navy SEAL days came to a close that there were some dark times. He had to find out what is next - like the shirt that you are wearing in the documentary. For him it was taking a dry erase marker and writing down his goals on his bathroom mirror so he could see them. He said that is kind of what got him going away was seeing something, having a vision, having a tangible past and I’m going to go and attack. Whether it’s preparing for a game, preparing for a seminar, preparing to go to combat, or preparing to wake up and make your kids breakfast what is your task for the day that you’re going to sign your name with excellence on and go out there and keep moving forward?
Having worked in athletics there are a lot of guys that when that career ends there are some dark times because everything you’ve always done - hitting a ball, running, diving, making a catch - that doesn’t necessarily translate to what you’re going to do now for the rest of your life to be successful. However who you became and who you needed to become to be successful as an athlete, that same process, that same mindset, that same drive, that same attention to detail will help you if you take that with you into what you do.
Byrnes: Right.
Cain: So it’s trying to figure out how do you help guys to channel that.
Byrnes: That’s awesome dude. Thanks Brian.
Cain: Awesome Eric. I appreciate you.
Byrnes: That was outstanding. Thanks again.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[Brian talks with former Major League Baseball player and Peak Performer Eric Byrnes, the day before they both compete in IronMan Arizona. Byrnes recently came out with a Documentary on his journey from a Major League field, to 8 IronMan competitions as well as The Western States 100.
Watch Eric's Diamond To The Rough Documentary
Follow Byrnes on Twitter @byrnes22
Follow Byrnes on Instagram ebyrnes22
 
You will learn about...
What drove Byrne's to professional baseball and a career in sports broadcasting
Byrnes' unique path to professional baseball
Byrnes' thoughts on the Mental Game and exactly what it means to him
The similarities of playing in a Major League Baseball game and competing in an IronMan
Byrnes' thoughts on success and what it is to him
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Byrnes: It’s not about the reward. The reward is a process. Once you understand that the reward, the money, the belt buckles, the metals, everything comes easier.
Cain: Welcome to another edition of the Brian Cain Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest, Eric Byrnes, was one of the most electrifying players of his time in Major League Baseball. His all out all the time approach made him a fan favorite and a player whose hustle, drive, effort, and energy was emulated by high school and college players and programs all over the country. A 2013 inductee to the UCLA Hall of Fame, Byrnes always brings the juice.
[Bring the juice!]
Cain: Whether it’s playing in the outfield for the Diamondbacks, A’s, Orioles, Rockies, or Mariners, working as an analyst for Major League Baseball Network, or in his endurance race career having completed eight Iron Man triathlons - it will be his ninth in two days from now - and the Western States 100 Mile Mountain Race. Be on the lookout for a documentary about his journey into the world of extreme races called From the Diamond to the Rough which follows him through the Western States 100.
You can learn more about Eric at www.Byrnes22.com and on Twitter at @Byrnes22. Please welcome to the Peak Performance Podcast Eric Byrnes. Eric, thanks for joining us man.
Byrnes: I need some more Brian Cain in my life. Can I get that intro every morning when I wake up out of bed and just get ready to charge?
Cain: We’ll create that as an alarm that you can play. Right now mine pops up and says “where is the beef jerky” as a tribute to Jocko Willard. But we can get that to pop up and play for you.
Eric, if you would, give us kind of your journey from St. Francis High School in northern California to where you are today now.
Byrnes: Well it’s pretty simple. Basically I grew up in Portola Valley which is a small town in northern California which is I’d say probably more known for a lot of the pioneers of the silicon valley either grew up there or at least settled there in the Portola Valley Woodside area. So baseball or even sports in general wasn’t very popular. But I had this dream and vision of (when I was a kid) doing two things. One of them was playing professional sports and the other one was talking about professional sports. I used to sit around with my buddies and we would just debate whatever - football, baseball, basketball, tennis, this and that, whatever it was we were so passionate about it and we just let it eat. We fed off of sports talk radio. That was something to us. KNBR 680, the sports leader, was it for us.
To make a long story longer here I ended up going to St. Francis which was kind of a leap of faith for me because kids from my area there weren’t a lot that went to St. Francis which was  known back then as the premier sports school really in the Bay Area. They had De La Salle across the bay. You had Serra which was where Barry Bonds went, Jim Fregosi, Lynn Swann, Tom Brady. And then Bellarmine was also a good one. But St. Francis arguably was the best of the best when it kind of came to all around sports.
So I ended up going there and playing football my freshman year. At the time - think about this, you’re a freshman in high school. I don’t even think I had gone through puberty yet. I’m just trying to kind of make my way. I’m in a school with I think there was one other kid from my grade school that went there. All these other guys played Pop Warner, they were all friends and whatnot. It was really kind of a lonely place and I was just kind of trying to find my way. Athletically I have never seen anything like it in my life. Everybody were good athletes.
So after football season it was time to make a decision whether or not I was going to play basketball. I realized that if I have any chance of being good here for the first time in my life I’m like I need to focus, narrow my focus a little bit. The decision I made (because basketball ran well into baseball season) was hey look I’m not going to play hoops - which my claim to fame (and still is today) probably my greatest athletic feat was scoring 56 points in an eighth grade basketball game. Not kidding you. I worked with Tom Tolbert at KNBR 680 who played in the NBA for like 7-8 years. I always would give Tolbert crap because he had never scored 56 in a game.
But anyway I ended up going. I went to the tryouts. Think about this. I told this story at St. Francis the other night when I went back and showed the documentary Diamond to the Rough. There were 50 kids - 50 - going out for a baseball team for 15 spots. Think about that.
Cain: This is a freshman.
Byrnes: This is high school freshman baseball. There are 50 kids. You know what our tryouts were? Play catch for five minutes. When you get them playing catch we’re going to take half of you and we’re going to put you in the outfield. You are going to catch I think it was maybe 1-2 fly balls, then we are going to put you in the infield, maybe it was 4-5 grounders, and that was it. Backed up with a pitching machine that was spitting balls out in every which direction and you get five swings. Then after that it was like okay.
I went in the outfield. I think I clanked one of the balls I was supposed to catch. I go in the infield, beat at a ball or two. I was just so nervous. Then I get to take a couple swings off the pitching machine, foul a c couple off, swing and miss, pop a ball up, pop another one up. “Alright Eric thanks for coming to and we’ll see you, the results will be posted tomorrow in the gym.”
So I went to the gym the next day and I just knew I didn’t make it. There is no way. How could I have possibly made the team? I told my mom. I said “look I’m almost positive that I’m going to get cut from this team, I can’t take this, I want to go to Woodside High School, I’m transferring.” It was just too much for me. It was too overwhelming. The competition was too good and the opportunity was too scarce. A lot of life is having opportunity and if you don’t have the opportunity to prove yourself …
So I went through the next day and posted on the outside gym wall was all the names of the guys that made it. So I’m looking kind of huddled around. I’m looking from a distance. It’s like “Ryan, Brendan, Bryan, Matt,” all the way down to the bottom. Fifteen names. “Chris” was the last name. No “Eric.” I said “it’s cool, I prepared myself for this, I’m going to Woodside High School no problem.” But guess what? I’m going to look at every one of these 15 guys and I’m going to mark them and I’m going to go out and prove that there is not one of these guys that was a better baseball player than I am.
I went back to look at the names, scan the names, make sure exactly who the guys were. I get to the last name and it was “Chris Byrnes.” B-y-r-n-e-s. I’m like “Chris Byrnes? No way there is another Byrnes here, this doesn’t make any sense.” Did he screw up the first name? Did he screw up the last name? What is going on? So I went sprinting after the freshman baseball coach as he was walking away and I’m like “Coach Ferrera, Coach Ferrera!” He turns around and goes “what can I do for you, Chris?” I go “nothing I’ll see you at practice.” That was it. That was all I needed to know. I went from thinking I was getting cut from the freshman baseball team and having to transfer schools to obviously making the team.
Cain: 0:08:01 felt standard.
Byrnes: And my career kind of took off from there.
Cain: Wow. How about that. So you go from making it as Chris Byrnes and seeing the freshman team then you end up getting drafted out of high school - so you obviously had a good career at St. Francis - and then made the decision to not sign pro with the L.A. Dodgers but go on to UCLA.
A lot of players that are listening to this or parents or coaches that are listening to this there is always that debate of if you’re a high school kid do you sign and go and start your pro baseball career and get those extra three years of minor league baseball under your belt or do you go to college? Depending on who you talk to you are going to get a different answer - sometimes it’s a dollar figure amount, other times it’s a life experience amount, an education reason. Why did you choose to go to UCLA instead of signing pro baseball straight out of St. Francis High School?
Byrnes: I think it’s pretty simple. First of all for people listening to this - and I imagine that a lot of the people that are actually listening are young guys that are trying to find a way. I can’t tell you how important the mental side of baseball is and what that did for me. I just think that my parents instilled in me at a very young age what the most important thing in the world was family first and then education. I knew I had a dream of wanting to play professional sports but I also knew that there was going to be a time and place for it.
My belief in myself and my confidence in myself - this was sort of where the mental game kind of really comes in is that you’ve got to be willing to walk. You’ve got to have this ultimate belief in yourself that this is not going to be - when I was a 38th round draft pick out of high school, a 38th round draft pick? I should have been a first round draft pick. Then I got drafted again in the fourth round by the Houston Astros after my junior year where a lot of people would sign.
I met with the scouting director of the Houston Astros at the time and he had come back to Cape Cod to watch me play for a week. After the week he was like “hey Eric I’d like to take you to breakfast” and we’re trying to negotiate a contract. The average of the round back then was like $150,000. So they had made an original offer of $90,000 which is nowhere even near the average of the round. Their excuse was that they had given too much of the money to Lance Berkman who they had drafted in the first round. Great choice and great guy to give a lot of money to, right? But apparently it affected their second, third, and fourth round draft picks. Ironically none of us ended up signing.
Here was my thing. It wasn’t about the money. I knew that $90,000 - and then you pay taxes on a bonus which is like $45,000. Even if it was $150,000 and you told me I’m going to walk away with $75,000 I’ll go blow $75,000 in a weekend. That wasn’t going to change my life. I understood that. I knew that. What I wanted was an organization that believed in me, that said “hey Eric look we’re going to give you every opportunity to succeed.” That is what I needed.
Sure enough I went to breakfast and it was the scouting director and one other guy. They sat there and they said “hey here is the deal, we gave all our money to Berkman, we’ve been watching you play for a week now, we think you’re a circus act in the outfield, you pull the baseball way too much, you can’t hit the ball the other way, you’re fast but you run funny and really awkward, so here is our $90,000 offer take it or leave it at this point but it goes off the table tomorrow.” I’m like wow.
Cain: That is what they said?
Byrnes: I said “so hold on let me get this straight, you guys are telling me that you are going to basically offer me way less than the average of the round and then on top of that--” I said “hold on guys this isn’t about the money so what do you want me to do?” I said “you want me to sign with an organization that already doesn’t believe in me for the minimal value of the round and I’m going to start with my back against the wall knowing your guys’ feelings about my game.”
Where in the manual of being a scouting director when you’re trying to sign a player does it say “let’s go ridicule him and demean him and then monetarily show him we don’t have any support for him either” and think that that person would sign? “You guys can go fuck yourself.” I got up and walked out. That was it. That was the last time I ever spoke to the Houston Astros.
Cain: So you go back to UCLA for your senior year and then go on and get drafted and make your way up to the big leagues. Talk a little bit about that mental game or that belief that you had in yourself. Let me slow down here I’m all jacked up. What is the mental game to you, Eric? What is the mental game of baseball?
Byrnes: Confidence. Belief in yourself. It kind of goes back to the story that I just told. I don’t respond the way I did without the confidence and without the belief in myself. Even going back to my freshman year I don’t go back freshman year of high school and having that “I’ll walk, I’ll transfer schools, I need an opportunity, I need to play, I am going to be a professional baseball player.” I didn’t tell a lot of people. I told my mom. That was it. I kept it really low. I wasn’t parading around with a megaphone to all my friends.
But when I was 13 years old my dad used to throw me in batting practice all the time. He knew nothing about baseball. Absolutely zero. He was a fourth degree black belt in kenpo karate. He’d take me out and we’d go to the town center of Portola Valley and just throw BP days and days and days. Just all day. Eventually when I was 13 I was like there is only so much BP he can throw me. My parents are like “hey we got you a” - they thought they were all clever but they were like “we got you a birthday present, his name is Mike.” I’m like “what do you mean his name is Mike?” “We got you a new friend for your birthday, Mike.” I’m like “what?” Iron Mike.
Cain: Oh yeah.
Byrnes: So down below where we lived, our house the way it was situated was kind of up on a hill, and then down below in part of the property you couldn’t really see was a batting cage with an Iron Mike machine.
When I was 13 years old I cranked that thing up to 90 miles per hour, throwing as fast as it could throw. At first I had a tough time - foul balls off, foul balls off, foul balls off - and eventually *poof* I was ranking it, right? Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam! Well guess what? When I got to face - I was a sophomore in high school. I had just got called up to varsity. I didn’t start with varsity when I was a sophomore. I got called up to varsity to face Dan Serafini. Dan Serafini was a first round pick out of Serra. He threw 92 miles per hour from the left side. A nasty little sink. There were 50 scouts in the stands, maybe more. I went there to face him. Everyone else 0:15:53 sample for right?
Cain: Yeah.
Byrnes: And I’m like no problem *whap whap whap* three bullets off of Dan Serafini. Barely anyone else was touching him. It’s repetition. It is a skill that was developed through hard work. Even during football season - I played football through high school but even during football season before school in the morning I’d still bang 50 balls before I went to school. I got home at night, the sun is going down, dark, whatever, I’d put on a few lights we’d put up in the cage, boom, just 50 more. Didn’t overdo it. I just loved to hit.
Well guess what? Guess what that created? Confidence. So when I got there against Dan Serafini as a sophomore in high school still not sure if I - I’m barely going through puberty at this point and I’m hitting bullets off of 92 mile per hour fastballs when no one else is touching him. Now you’ve got 50 scouts in the stands going “huh who is this kid?”
I think people need to remember when it comes to the mental game confidence is created and developed through work. It’s like a test. Imagine studying for a test - and you know those tests. I went into several where I wasn’t prepared for the test and what sort of confidence did I have going into that test? So long as I did my work and I studied for that test and I was ready for that test I was confident. My mental game was exactly where it needed to be. It’s the same thing with the process of going up and playing in the big leagues. People go “are you nervous?” Yeah of course you are going to be nervous. This is natural nerves. But guess what? Were you scared? Not one bit. I prepared myself for that day. I prepared myself.
Cain: So you’ve got eight Iron Mans. You’re doing your ninth here in two days. What is the prep? Is it the same thing with going in and doing an endurance race whether it’s the 100 mile race or an Iron Man where you’ve done the preparation, you’ve done the training with run, bike, swim? Is it the same thing with the preparation in terms of you having done the work to go prepare for an Iron Man triathlon?
Byrnes: Exact same thing. It’s not any different. There is no natural transition from playing professional baseball to going into the endurance world. Physically there is very little translation between the two. But psychologically very similar because it’s all about doing the work and doing the work that gives you confidence to go out there and have your best race on that given day. That’s it. It’s as simple as that.
That is what drives me I think in the training. Part of it is that fear of knowing that that test is there. That test is coming up. It’s what eventually got me going in school is I knew that in order to go to college I was going to have to do the work to do well on my test to get me into a good school and it all kind of became part of the plan. Ironically as I got older I became a much better student than I ever was at a younger age.
Cain: Talk about being a student for a second. One of the things you mentioned earlier off the air was how there was a time in your life where you just kind of were devouring books and you had a group of guys where you would go through Heads-Up Baseball and then talk about that. Talk a little bit about the importance of leaders being readers and for the people that are following this what are some of the best books that you like to read.
Byrnes: Wow. Yeah. One of the first books I really dove into and read probably 50 times over through the course of my entire baseball career was The Mental Game of Baseball by Karl Kuehl and Harvey Dorfman. Karl ended up being a mentor of mine when I played with the Oakland A’s and then even after. He was with the Indians at the time and I was with the Arizona Diamondbacks but we would have a weekly call that we had scheduled. We would schedule it at different times on different weeks but man it was so incredibly beneficial having that somebody there to sort of balance some ideas.
It’s funny because sometimes when I was rolling we wouldn’t even talk about baseball. I sort of let him dictate the conversations. But ironically I had - well I wouldn’t say ironically. There was no coincidence that I had my two greatest years in the big leagues when I was checking in with Karl on a weekly basis. Unfortunately at the end of 2008 I think was when he got sick and he ended up passing away. It hit hard and it hit fast and I still miss him dearly to this day but the lessons that he taught me in my life and my career are just invaluable.
The other one was Heads-Up Baseball by Ken Ravizza is another one that I dove into with Scott Seal - a buddy of mine. We were roommates at UCLA and then he ended up transferring to Fullerton and he played there. We got into pro ball at the same time. During the offseason we just trained together, lived together. We’d go through books specific to baseball. We would read the hitting books be it Charlie Lau’s book or Ted Williams’ book. It was funny because the one thing I think that I always did a good job at was digesting the language that spoke to me because not everything is going to speak to you so you have to be able to throw out a lot of what you hear in this game but digest the key things.
So since then as far as books I don’t know where to start. But one of the latest ones that I would recommend everybody read - and you’ll have to read it multiple times. The great thing about books now too - because of all the training that I do I go just about all audiobooks.
But Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self Reliance is something that I could dig into every single day. The overall message of making decisions on your own and not necessarily conforming to the societal norms - it’s also not saying be an anarchist but it’s an incredible message. So much to take in. I think the parallels - and it was written however long ago but these parallels are incredible and it’s amazing how relevant it still is. The Scholar was the latest one that I read of his. I can’t get enough of Emerson. It’s amazing to me how relevant Emerson and his writings still are to this day.
Cain: I just started reading a book about stoicism and it goes back to Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus and these guys who were writing back in Ancient Greece. The book is called The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday. It’s awesome. It’s a one page a day read. Very short.
Talking about stoic we think of stoic as somebody who is not emotional, somebody who is just kind of there. Their idea of stoicism is somebody who is so in control of themselves that they never let their emotions get the best of them, that they have the self control, that they quickly identify what they can control, what they can’t control, and they only focus their time and energy and attention on things they can control - which is a lot of what I have learned through Heads-Up Baseball and Ravizza but I didn’t realize it goes all the way back to the freaking Greeks. It’s written in a language that you can tell it’s ancient times but Ryan Holiday does a great job of translating that to making sense for what you’re doing today. It’s pretty cool.
Byrnes: I’ll check it out.
Cain: Ryan Holiday. It’s The Daily Stoic.
Other pieces of the mental game. You talked about the confidence that comes from preparation. What about routines? What are some of the routines that you had to help you go one pitch at a time, Eric?
Byrnes: I was very routine oriented. Before preparing for a game I had my whole routine of stretching that I would do. We’re talking (let’s say) 35 minutes before the game where it was the stretching to the sprints to jumping over the laundry basket in the club house.
I did not go outside to sprint I think hardly ever in my big league career because what happened is as you start playing and you’re seeing all your peers there it’s what you see today - which is I don’t know if it’s BS or not. It depends what side of the fence you’re on when it comes to fraternization but you see a bunch of guys playing grab ass out in the outfield. Well look I was there to play baseball and prepare myself for a game. I don’t need to catch up with this guy and see how the family is doing and everything else. And the guy on the other team. I wasn’t interested in that.
So I felt like that was always a distraction to me so I would actually do my sprints underneath, in the tunnel, in the batting cage so long as it was available. I would jump over laundry baskets too and I had a whole routine of doing that. Then I would hit off the tee and it would just be five balls the other way, pull five balls, finish with five balls up the middle. And then I’d throw too so I’d just grab some balls in the cage and I’d throw 10-15 balls whenever I felt like. Then I’d make sure I’d finish about five minutes before the game so I still had that *breath* alright physically I know I’m ready. Mentally let’s get here and let’s do it.
Cain: Awesome. Mental imagery. Anything you used at all in terms of visualizing yourself playing well? Maybe it was something you’d do at night before you’d go to bed or during the day when you’re at the stadium kind of visualizing yourself taking at bats off the guy who is going to be pitching you that day?
Byrnes: All the time. Every single day. That was another part of my routine that I would do. I would do it after the tee work. I would mentally have a vision of that pitcher that we were going to face that day and I would start with fastball. I’d go fast ball away ball, fast ball away strike, boom. So I’d imagine fastball away, just taking it. Nice soft hit ball. Fastball away strike. Bam. Shooting it the other way. Fastball middle, down or up, we’re at ball. Okay fast ball right there. Boom. I’d just imagine low line drives. Fast ball in ball, fast ball in. Boom. Drop the hit. Homer. Same thing. Curve ball down on a wide ball, curve ball outside corner, boom, base hit right field. Curveball middle down in the dirt. Good take. Next one. Curve ball middle. Boom. Base hit out the middle. Curve ball inside. Take it. Curve ball inside. Homer. Same thing with the change up. I would do that every single day.
It started - here is another book I would recommend. I’m trying to think. It was I want to say The Mental Game of Tennis but that’s not right.
Cain: The Inner Game of Tennis.
Byrnes: Inner Game of Tennis. The Inner Game of Tennis is one of the first mental books I read. When I was a kid I was a big time tennis player. You want to talk about you think baseball players have - like that tennis game especially at a young age and you’re on that island by yourself, that’s heavy. So through The Inner Game of Tennis I learned the points of the visualizations. So I would play the match the night before. I would go sit in this chair in our living room.
My mom would always help me with it. She was like “okay just go ahead and visualize your match.” Well I was playing against these ridiculously good tennis players. There were like - geez - Michael Jessup, Cory Guy, Misha Palecek, Ryan Walters. All four of these dudes went on. Palecek, Walters, and Jessup were like 1, 2, 3 at Stanford. Cory Guy was the number one player at Santa Barbara. All of them went on to play professional tennis in some capacity. These are a lot of the guys that - I was competing against these dudes.
Cain: Yeah.
Byrnes: It was just super heavy and we did a lot traveling or whatever but that is where I learned the mental side. Then I slowly transitioned that. I’m like “okay if I can envision playing these matches why can’t I envision what the game is going to look like tomorrow in baseball, what my at bats are going to look like?” So I started doing that. I truly believe that is where my baseball career really took off in a sense is when I was about 12 in All Stars and going through that mental imagery of doing it. Again when you stand at the box - what did I say? What is the mental game? That game is confidence and belief. But what gives you confidence and belief is that fact that you have done the work. Well guess what? When I got in the box I had already been there. I had already done it. I’m comfortable. I had seen it.
Cain: Did you do the same thing when you were getting ready to run an Iron Man? Do you see yourself crossing the finish line already and all that? I know that you have already done eight but when you go back to doing your first one was it the same process seeing yourself crossing the finish line and all that?
Byrnes: I did it yesterday sitting in the float tank. A float tank is this tank filled with whatever. Now I like putting myself in positions - when I can find that quiet time I went through the whole race, went through the beginning, what is it going to be like jumping in. I don’t care how many you do. The best never stop preparing. It’s not like - if I didn’t have a little anxiousness and a little fear - that is normal. You want that. That is why I do these. If I lose that it’s not going to have the same luster.
Am I more comfortable because I have eight under my belt? Of course I am. Of course I am. But I also still know that in order to get my best result I need to go out there and run through this. What is it going to be like? There is going to be a lot of contact in the swim. Imagine and visualize and even feel for every stroke I’m going to come down and I might get hit. Or what is happening when the guy is grabbing on my legs behind me? Am I going to kick him off or am I going to relax? I went through it.
Then getting on the bike and visualizing the transition. What exactly do I need when I get out of the water? When I actually get out of the water I am going to unzip the top of my wetsuit. I am going to take my watch off. I like to keep it clean. If you pull everything over the watch and the thing is stopping and everything - boom, watch off, wetsuit top off, but I’m going to keep everything on waist down. They have wetsuit strippers there that actually will take the whole thing off but I want to keep mine on because I‘m going to have some little booties.
I’m going to get a good run to grab my transition bag, get in the transition where I’ll have my helmet, short little socks and my bike shoes ready to go. But guess what? I’ll have a towel laid out too. I’ll have a towel in there so I can take the booties off without getting grass all over my feet so when I put on my socks there is not going to be grass sitting there for the next nine hours or whatever it’s going to be. All of that is prepared for. All of that is thought of. The bike computer is going to be on the bike. There is just so much. The nutrition, making sure the nutrition in the bottles are lined up. You need to be very meticulous about that.
Then I visualize the bike. Ideally in the first loop of the bike that we have tomorrow I want to control my effort. I’ve had a tendency to go out guns blazing and then progressively each lap get slower. It usually happens anyway but I’m going to try to ride as consistently as possible through the entire 112 miles which then I believe will allow me to have my best run and ideally my best run I’ve ever had in an Iron Man. So it should be fun.
Cain: Yeah. Sounds like you’re - and I haven’t viewed your documentary From the Diamond to the Rough which is unbelievable and anybody listening to this has got to check that out. From the Diamond to the Rough. If you’d let them know where they can get that that would be great. In that you talked a lot about the joy is in the process. What does that mean?
Byrnes: So the reward. We like the reward don’t we? The reward is one of the reasons why we do what we do in any industry. It’s your payday. It’s making your money. In the endurance world it’s a medal at the end of an Iron Man. It’s a belt buckle at the end of the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run. That is the reward.
For my kids they love it. It’s the trophy. They’re out there and they’re playing. It’s a trophy. So when we’re kids I don’t think - we know the reward is there and we think we’re chasing the reward. When you’re in baseball and you’re playing baseball and you think you’re chasing the money and everything and then I got to endurance sports and it was like I thought I was chasing the medal and the fact that I could say “oh I’ve done eight Iron Mans” and everything else. I think it really hit me when I did the Western States 100 that it’s not about the reward. The reward is the process. I think that once you understand that the reward, the money, the belt buckles, the medals, everything comes easier. But that is simply a result of you fully embracing the process.
So going forward here, man, I just did an article yesterday. I talked to Susan Slusser from the San Francisco Chronicle. They’re going to do a big story about Diamond to the Rough and it’s interesting because when I was explaining that to her - and every time I explain it as I explained it to you today it rings so true yet I think sometimes through the course of your life you don’t get it and you don’t understand it. But guess what? It hasn’t changed. It hasn’t changed since you were nine years old and you’re running around a little league field or you’re running around a soccer field or anything else.
We thought we were chasing the trophy but we weren’t chasing the trophy. The absolute reason why we do it is because of the exhilarating emotional feelings that we get from being out there, being out on the racecourse, being out on the baseball field. That is what life is about. That is living. That’s it.
Cain: When you cross the finish line of those Iron Mans or of the Western States 100 you carry a jersey of a former Arizona State football player, Pat Tillman. Could you talk a little bit about your relationship with Pat and then why you carry that jersey, why that is so important to you?
Byrnes: Well Pat played for - he went to Leland High School in San Jose at the same time I went to St. Francis. We would watch him (I’m not kidding you) and we would just gawk. From his junior year. Junior year, senior year. It was just like is this guy for real? He was an undersized dude that just - I mean he was blowing dudes up on defense/ He was given the football and was just running around guys, he was running over guys. It was like how often is it that you get a group of high school kids in this totally uncomfortable state in your life, all this testosterone and macho bravado and everything else, where you could get a group of high school kids that were playing on the best high school football team in the area. We’d look at a guy on this other team and go “that dude is the baddest dude I have ever seen.” He had blond locks flowing out of his helmet.
So basically what happened is I think the first time we met was we saw him at a Leland/St. Francis volleyball game. A buddy of ours - we were scared to go up to him. We were like “dude that’s Tillman over there, that’s Tillman over there.” So a buddy of ours by the name of Zach Wahls was like “I’ve got to go, I’ve got to do it” and he went up, walked across the gym, he was like “hey Pat I’m Zach Wahls I go to St. Francis, football player, I just wanted to meet you and say how much we respect you” and this and that.
That was pretty cool to see because just like 4-5 years later Zach Wahls was the sixth round draft pick of the Arizona Cardinals after going to Dartmouth and playing for four years and Pat Tillman was the seventh round draft pick of the Arizona Cardinals after going to ASU and playing for four years. Then they roomed together with the Cardinals here.
Cain: How about that.
Byrnes: In 1998 when I first signed with the A’s and I’d come and like - man I’d do anything to hang with the - I’m low level minor leagues. I’m the bottom barrel structurally and I’m hanging around some NFLers with Pat and Zach. My time actually getting to know Pat was very limited. I spent very little time with him hanging out with him. The times that I did you could tell there was something just special about him. Then he ended up obviously after 9/11 deciding to walk from football and join the Army Rangers.
From there I wanted to do the same thing. I was just like everybody else that was emotionally moved by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. We wanted to fight. Pat did an interview. He was like “what have I done, my great grandfather fought in World War I, my grandfather fought in World War II, my dad fought in Vietnam,” he was just going through it. He was like “what the hell have I done.”
[Tillman: My great grandfather was at Pearl Harbor and a lot of my family has given up - has gone to fight in wars, and I really haven’t done a damn thing as far as laying myself on the line like that and so I have a great deal of respect for those that have and what the flag stands for.]
Byrnes: You could tell. This was the day after 9/11 when he did this interview. I had the same feeling. I always had these visions. Mike Seal who happens to be in the condo right now staying with me, him and I have always talked about being Navy SEALS. That was always our fascination. But guess what? Here I was after 9/11 just busting into the big leagues. Was I willing to give it all up to go to Afghanistan and fight for our country? I wasn’t. I didn’t have the balls to do it. You know what? Pat did. It’s a shame of how it ended because it didn’t have to. The whole thing with the friendly fire and the cover up and everything else was disgusting but in no way does it diminish the sacrifice that he was willing to make for the sake of your ass and mine.
A couple years ago - a couple years, 10 years ago now in 2006 when I was with the Diamondbacks I got a call from Richard Tillman, Pat’s youngest brother, and he knew I had always talked well about Pat, pumped Pat up, and he knew how close Zach and I were and he invited me out to the statue unveiling out at the new stadium in Glendale. There was a group of only about 50 family members and friends for the statue unveiling and I was fortunate enough to be there and watch it and really got close with the family - Marie his widow, Kevin his brother who he went to Afghanistan with who also was an Army Ranger, Richard, and a couple of his best friends, this guy Ben Hill and Dallas Carwood who were running the foundation at the time. I basically at that point knew that I was all in with doing whatever I could do to make sure that the next generation of kids knew exactly who Pat Tillman was and the sacrifice that he made.
It’s not to diminish sacrifices of other people and other 18 year old kids that are signing up around the country to go serve our country but there is something to say when you don’t have to go and you’re at the height of your NFL career and you have a multimillion dollar offer on the table and you walk. That was something special and I just want to continue to celebrate that and celebrate the foundation which has gone on to do some really good things with education and providing scholarships for military members and their families and basically grooming these people to be game changers in society - which is exactly what Pat was.
Cain: That’s awesome. I had the privilege to run the Pat Tillman race one time at Arizona State. For people that are listening to this it’s a short 5k race but there are probably 25,000-30,000 people that show up a Arizona State Sun Devils Stadium for that race they do every year. If you’re looking for something to get you going and something to remind you that we live in the greatest country in the world show up for that race. It’s unbelievable. Walk it or do it but it’s something that you’ve got to do. If you’re listening to this podcast go online right now and Google “Pat Tillman Race Arizona State University,” find out when it is, and go smash it. Go do it because you are going to get a lot out of that experience and that opportunity.
Eric, last question for you here. I really appreciate your time today. It’s been fantastic. One of the most fun podcasts we have ever done. 40 years old, eight Iron Mans in, Major League Baseball career, been an analyst, you’ve got a book that you’ve written that is going to be coming out that I can’t wait to read - it’s going to be off the charts. You’ve got a documentary. You’re married. You’ve got children. How do you define success for you right now? In baseball it’s easy. It’s a statistical thing. Everybody can determine if you have success based off of numbers. How do you define success in your life right now?
Byrnes: A successful person - and I feel like I’m having success. I’d say I’m winning (I’m not sure that that’s the right word) when I’m able to embrace the moment. We don’t live in the moment today. It’s very difficult sometimes and we’re so consumed with social media and we want everything quick and we want everything fast and it’s the Millennial generation. And I get it. I live this fast paced life. I have a lot of things going on.
But you mentioned I have three kids. I have a 5, 6, and 7 year old. I’m married. I do everything I can to be a good father, good husband. And then I have a job that is 3,000 miles away. So I live in California at Half Moon Bay about 20 miles south of San Francisco but I have a place in New York City and MLB networks is in Secaucus, New Jersey right across the river about 15 minutes away. My life is constantly in flux. We have a place in Tahoe as well. We’re about to go up too after this and spend just about all the winter there.
You mentioned the documentary. That has been a lot and dealing with that and going through the editing process and everything else. Not to mention the training that goes into the Iron Man races and the 100 mile run. What I’ve learned through all of it is that you can only be in one place at one time. So if we are sitting here and doing the podcast I need to be here. I can’t worry about these 15 other things going on. I’ve noticed that I have the most success in my life when I am able to bring it to the now and I think that is what matters is to embrace the moment. It’s as simple as that. As simple as that.
Cain: Awesome. Eric Byrnes, you are off the podcast hot seat my friend. Fantastic. Again you can get more Eric Byrnes at www.Byrnes22.com and on Twitter at @Byrnes22. Eric, thank you for your time. You were off the charts. Thank you.
Byrnes: Thanks dude. One last thing for the film. The documentary.
Cain: Yes.
Byrnes: This is not a monetary play for me. I’m not doing this to make money off this thing. There is a special message in there that is very family oriented. One of the things that Susan Slusser when she was doing the article yesterday she was like “I just was amazed by the doc, I just figured it was going to be this athlete vanity piece and it’s anything but that.” If there is one thing that I would recommend to people it’s go to www.Vimeo.com/OnDemand/DiamondToTheRough. Watch this documentary. I think it hits so many different people on so many different levels that the only thing I care about on this is I want eyeballs to see it.
Again this is not a monetary play thing. This isn’t an ego thing or anything else. There is a message within that documentary I think that will resonate with a lot of people and it could help change somebody’s life.
Cain: What is the message, Eric, that you want people to get from the documentary?
Byrnes: It’s about the process. It’s not about the reward. It’s about embracing everything that is important in your life that helps you enjoy that process. It’s about family. It’s about giving your kids every opportunity to succeed. It’s about setting an example for your children and influencing them and not force-feeding them anything but allowing them to make their own decisions. But guess what? You have a 100% responsibility to set that example for them, lead them to the right direction, and let them find their own path.
One of the main ones is you’ll always need to have an idea of what is next and find what is next and find your happiness, find your zone, find something that is going to motivate you each and every single day. I think really the last one is do something physical that will help. When you get out and do something physical - it doesn’t have to be a 100 mile run. Not even close. I don’t care if it’s walking around the block twice. Get outside. Clear your mind. Clear your head.
As a kid that grew up with severe ADHD I can tell you even now with all the information that is coming - I’ve got a buddy of mine that scans brain tissue. He could show me a brain of an ADD kid without exercise indoors and it looks like a tiny little penny. Imagine 20 minutes of moderate exercise after being outside that ADD kid’s brain is lit up like a freaking giant pancake. We’re not any different. Some people are more extreme. Maybe people with ADD are more extreme in what that can do for you. This is something that - the idea and thoughts that people are cancelling PE is disgusting to me. The lack of physical activity amongst our youth is disturbing.
But again the overall message is enjoy the process and embrace the moment.
Cain: I thought it was awesome that you’re - the career transition piece too.
Byrnes: It’s big.
Cain: As a pro athlete it’s all of a sudden you’re - the quote the guy says in there which I think is beautiful, he says “you’re a dragon slayer and now there are no dragons to go slay.” Whether you are an athlete, whether you are a - if you are in the military - 0:52:08 did the same thing that when his Navy SEAL days came to a close that there were some dark times. He had to find out what is next - like the shirt that you are wearing in the documentary. For him it was taking a dry erase marker and writing down his goals on his bathroom mirror so he could see them. He said that is kind of what got him going away was seeing something, having a vision, having a tangible past and I’m going to go and attack. Whether it’s preparing for a game, preparing for a seminar, preparing to go to combat, or preparing to wake up and make your kids breakfast what is your task for the day that you’re going to sign your name with excellence on and go out there and keep moving forward?
Having worked in athletics there are a lot of guys that when that career ends there are some dark times because everything you’ve always done - hitting a ball, running, diving, making a catch - that doesn’t necessarily translate to what you’re going to do now for the rest of your life to be successful. However who you became and who you needed to become to be successful as an athlete, that same process, that same mindset, that same drive, that same attention to detail will help you if you take that with you into what you do.
Byrnes: Right.
Cain: So it’s trying to figure out how do you help guys to channel that.
Byrnes: That’s awesome dude. Thanks Brian.
Cain: Awesome Eric. I appreciate you.
Byrnes: That was outstanding. Thanks again.]]>
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      <description>In this episode, Brian goes solo to talk about The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance Digital Training Program and how it will help YOU.
 
You will learn about...
The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance Digital Training Program
How this program will help you and your team grow mentally
Teach you why this system will get you 80% of the results in 20% of the time
The process the Digital Training Program will take you through to become more
Why there is no other training program out there like The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance Digital Training program
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Cain: If you’re looking for a 12 week solution and you’re looking for a way to dominate the day and build mental toughness in your program and you’re looking for that 20% of the entire field of Peak Performance/mental conditioning, here is it.
In this episode I’m going to teach you a 12 week solution for mastering the mental game. There was an Italian Economist. His name was Vilfredo Pareto. What he found was that 80% of the wealth in the country of Italy was held by 20% of the population. When he went out to his garden he found out that 80% of his tomatoes were grown on 20% of the plants. If you look at any typical NHL roster 80% of the goals are scored by 20% of the roster. And if you look at Major League Baseball 80% of the Homeruns are hit by 20% of the roster. If you’ve been with me for any time you know what we’re talking about - the 80/20 principle known as Pareto’s Law. 80% of the benefit that you get comes from 20% of what you do.
I’m a big Tim Ferriss fan. Tim Ferriss would refer to the 80/20 principle similarly to the minimum effective dose. If you’ve read his book The Four Hour Body or The Four Hour Work Week he talks about what is the minimum effective dose, the minimum effective thing that you can do to get the maximum return. Well as we talk about here your 12 week solution, in the last 15+ years of going around the country over 280 days a year working with top coaches, athletes, and athletic programs all over the country, what I’ve been on a mission to find out is what is it that they all do that if you did you’d become elite? You’d cut through the crap and cut through the noise and cut through the learning curve and get more done in less time. That is what the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance is.
Your 12 week solution is very simple especially if you’re a Texas high school coach who has got an athletic period or you’re a California coach with an athletic period, or a college coach that has an offseason where you can access your athletes on a consistent basis, or a coach that has got even minimal access to your athletes because the beautiful part about the digital training program is it’s all online and your athletes can access it anywhere, anytime, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. What you’re going to get with the 12 Pillar of Peak Performance digital training program is you’re going to get a spiral bound manual that has got a worksheet that you fill out as you watch the video.
Imagine this. Imagine you’re driving listening to this podcast or imagine your athletes’ cell phones out watching me teach a video - just like I would if I was there with you in person - and they’re filling out a worksheet. Then you get together with them and you talk about it. You talk about how does this Pillar #1 Elite Mindset relate to our program? Or Pillar #2 Championship Culture? What is our culture that is going to dictate behavior and set the stage for success in our program? Again it’s the most user friendly easy to use and execute program that has ever been made. Let me talk to you about the 12 Pillar of Peak Performance and give you a little background of what they are.
Pillar #1 is about training an elite mindset. Everybody wants to know how do you build mental toughness? Well you build mental toughness the same way you build physical toughness and physical strength - you’ve got to do a little a lot, not a lot a little. By doing a little a lot every day - for example reading a page of the Daily Dominator, following me on Snapchat, listening to this podcast once a week, following the Monday Messages that come out - those are all examples of what is called spaced repetition. Spaced repetition is doing a little a lot. If you want to grow that elite mindset that is how it has got to happen.
For example one of the videos in the program (one of my favorites) talks about lessons learned from the Navy SEAL community. We’d show our videos and talk about how you want to never show weakness. Always be big with your body language. How you never feel sorry for yourself because feeling sorry for yourself is a worthless useless emotion that is going to get you nowhere. We talk about staying patient in the face of adversity. The number one way that you stay patient in the face of adversity is through taking a deep breath and oxygenating your brain so that you can be where your feet are. Another one of those lessons is that it pays to be a winner. You got it. When we talk about winning that helps us move into Pillar #2 which is that championship culture.
Let me ask you this as you’re listening to this podcast. If you and your team were together having a breakfast or dinner before you went on to play for a championship and I were to hand you an index card and everyone in your program were to write down the core principles - (or what I would refer to as the MVP Process: M the mission, V the vision, P the core principles; the mission being that eulogy, that big picture of why we’re all together doing this; the V, the vision, the tangible resume specifics here is what we’re after; and then the core principles) - if we were to hand that index card to your team would they all write down the same things?
On some programs (for example) if we were to hand that out to Cliff Godwin and the East Carolina Pirates the players would write down that the purpose of the program is to learn how to be successful on and off the field for the rest of their lives. Their vision would be to win 40 games, to win the American Conference, to host a regional, host a super, go to the College World Series and win a National Championship - they all would know that. They would know their principles of PIRATES - purpose, integrity, responsibility, attitude, toughness, energy, selfless. They would know the core principles of their program and they would know the MVP Process.
If you don’t [know the MVP Process] you’re not going to have people on the same page. What you’re going to have is people come into your program (especially if you’re in a college program or a varsity high school program) that are strong willed that think they know what it’s going to take to be successful instead of coming in and fitting into your culture. Culture is not something that just happens. It’s intentional. It’s talked about. It’s taught. It’s something that you have to make a conscious decision to be a part of.
Speaking of conscious decisions to help you become more, that takes us to Pillar #3 which is time is ticking. There is one factor that is the same for you and your competition and it is time. 86,400 seconds in a day. 168 hours in a week. The best coaches I‘ve been around are savages of time. They’re detailed with where every minute of every day goes. If you’re somebody who is not mapping out your entire 160 hours a week when you meet the person in the competitive arena who is they’re probably going to beat you because they have prepared more. We know that separation is in preparation so if you’re not putting time on your side time is going to beat you when the time comes to getting the ring with somebody who has maximized their time.
Part of knowing time is also knowing your numbers. That is Pillar #4. You can’t improve what you can’t measure. If you’re not measuring your time and knowing where your time is going, if you feel like you don’t have enough time in the day it’s not that you don’t have enough time it’s that you don’t have enough priorities. You can’t improve what you can’t measure. Measurement provides motivation. In your program what are those measurements that you’re using?
When you go through the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance digital training program one pillar a week, when you are in Pillar #4 (which would probably be during week four) you are going to learn about what are the process-based measurements in your sport that when you focus on you give yourself the best chance for success?
For example did you realize that in the NFL Super Bowl (at the time of this recording there have been 50 of them) 48 of the first 50 Super Bowl Champions won this one statistic - the turnover margin. Jim Schlossnagle (the baseball coach at TCU who led his team to three straight College World Series appearances) has got an 81% winning percentage when his team simply scores first. If they score in the top of the first, give up three in the bottom of the first, they still have that 81% winning percentage. They know their numbers. They know what they’re after. The question is do you and do your athletes? If they don’t you’re just playing the game versus strategically trying to win the game based off of metrics that you know are proven to give you the best chance for results.
Pillar #5 - when we get into week five we are going to talk about sailing the right ships. What does that mean? Well a guy who knows a lot about championships and winning games, Mack Brown, the former football coach at the University of Texas, when I asked him the million dollar question I said “Mack what do you know now you wish you knew when you were getting started coaching?” He said “you’ve got to sail the right ships” and he kind of looked at me and smiled. I didn’t really know what he was talking about so I asked him. He said “you’ve got to invest in relationships before championships because it’s relationships that will lead to championships.”
In Pillar #5 we really dive into how to create those great relationships in your programs. We talk about the five major motivators. We talk about different activities that you can do with your teams so you get to know each other better. When you know each other better you are more likely to live Pillar #6 which is that present moment focus where you focus on being where your feet are, right here, right now.
The time is always now. The place is always here. If you want to win you’ve got to focus on what is important now. That is a present moment focus. We’ll take you through some different breathing exercises that you can use. I’m sure if you’ve watched any teams compete that have gone through the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance system you’ll see them take a deep breath every snap or every pitch or every possession because the deep breath is what helps to scientifically oxygenate their brain and get you into the present moment with a better focus. Simply by breathing you are increasing your chances for success in that moment. We know that success over the course of a season or over a competition is simply a result of moment to moment to moment awareness and moment to moment to moment execution.
Speaking of moment to moment that leads us to Pillar #7 Process Over Outcome. Matt Carpenter (the great all-star third baseman or infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, former TCU Horned Frog) says that in the game of baseball when you’re playing at the major league level you are going to have some slumps but your routine can never slump. Your process can never slump.
Nick Saban (arguably the greatest coach of all time, the head football coach at the University of Alabama) always talks about the process over the outcome. You’re going to learn about how the process is simply investing into those things that you can control because that is where the greatest return on your investment comes from - maximizing the things that you can control. You can control developing mental toughness. You can control your championship culture. You can control maximizing your time, how you measure performance in relationships, a present moment focus, and a process-based focus over the outcome.
You can also control Pillar #8 Your Attitude. We know that in life there are energy givers and energy suckers. What we need is we need more energy takers. We know that your positive energy has got to be stronger than everyone else’s negative energy. We know that the attitude you take is a decision you make and your attitude is contagious. The only question is is your attitude worth catching or is it worth avoiding?
We know that when we’re talking about positive energy there are people that are juiceful and useful and there are people that are juiceless and useless so you’ve got to BTJ - you’ve got to bring the juice. We share with you 38 different ways to spike your attitude, to spike your energy, and to bring the juice in your program. You don’t have to do all 38 of them but there is a whole buffet there for you to go and choose from. These are 38 exercises that I have used, I have used consistently, and I have seen bring results in programs like yours.
Speaking of results we know that in Pillar #9 Everything Happens Twice. I learned that from Skip Bertman, the former baseball coach at LSU who won five national championships in the 90s. I got a chance to sit down with him at LSU and ask him the million dollar question. I said “Coach Bertman, you won five national championships in a decade, you then wanted to go and be a speaker and LSU wouldn’t let you because they needed to hire you to be the athletic director to lead the department.” I said “what do you know now you wish you knew when you were just getting started?” He said “everything happens twice, first in your mind then in reality.”
We take you specifically through the four steps of mental imagery where we go through the importance of relaxation first and then confidence, conditioning, mental recall where you go back and replay your best performances and then mental rehearsal where we go forward and you see yourself playing the way you want to play in the future. We also outline how to use mental imagery like a football team doing it Friday night in the hotel at the college level before they go play on Saturday. Or a high school team doing it on Friday during class or after school together before they suit up to go play. A baseball team or softball team having audios that players are listening to on the bus on a way to a game. How you can make individual audios with your athletes in five minutes or less using a simple system of the four steps for mental imagery so they have those custom audios on their phone. It doesn’t get easier ladies and gentleman. This is the easiest Peak Performance program that has ever been made.
The reason why it was designed this way is because my main mission, my Pillar #2, my championship culture, the M of my life, is to educate, empower, and energize others. There are only so many people you can impact when you do it in person so you’ve got to recreate yourself. This is a recreation of me and my teachings at this point that you can use to help your players become more.
If you want more, if you want more wins, if you want more juice, if you want more success, you’ve got to become more. This program is guaranteed to help you become more. With all of our programs any investment you make at www.BrianCain.com if it doesn’t exactly help you the way you want it to we’ll refund 100% no questions asked and we’ll help you get to where you want to go. We’re here for you. This is about helping you to be your best.
If you’re going to be your best you’re going to have to implement Pillar #10 Routines and Habits of Excellence. Why? First we set our habits and then our habits set us. No one ever has or ever will escape the destiny of their decisions and most of your decisions are made by your habits. If you’re aware of your routines and aware of your habits you are going to be successful. If you are not aware of those routines and habits they’re going to dominate you.
Excellence - it’s a lifestyle, not an event. Your routines and your habits are going to create your lifestyle. We’re going to talk about intentionally setting triggers within the habit loop where we discuss Charles Duhigg and his great book The Power of Habit where we’re going to break down how a trigger sets you into a routine and a routine then gives you a reward. And if you have a routine that you don’t like, how you can break that by changing and becoming more aware of the triggers in your life and then changing your routine and getting a different reward.
But if we’re going to do that, if we’re going to change those routines, we’ve got to have Pillar #11. You’ve got to be able to recognize your signal lights. You’ve got to have that heightened awareness and you’ve always got to be in control of yourself because you’ve got to be in control of yourself before you can control your performance. You’ve got very little control of what goes on around you but total control of how you choose to respond to it. So recognizing your signal lights. Just like driving a car. You are driving right now listening to this podcast. When you come to a green light it’s easy - you go. When you come to a red light you stop. But if you’ve been driving a car for any time you know you could have driven through a red light before and you’re still alive to talk about it.
In athletic performance you can drive through red lights - especially when you’re more talented - and you can have success. But in a competition where the two teams are even that is like driving through red lights consistently. If you were to drive across the country and go through every red light obviously you’re going to crash and burn. We’ve got to learn to recognize our red lights and most importantly recognize our yellow lights which we are in most of the time.
In our yellow lights we either need to speed up or we need to slow down. A lot of mental game coaches are going to say “just slow the game down.” Well shoot, sometimes you’ve got to speed it up. Just like driving a car. If you get to a yellow light you don’t always slow down. Sometimes you punch the gas. It’s the same thing in athletics. Most of the time you are going too fast and you’ve got to slow down but sometimes you’ve got to pick it up. I’ve been around teams that have lost games because they were uninspired and they didn’t have the juice just as much as I have been around teams that were trying too hard.
So how do you recognize where you’re at mentally, emotionally, physically? How do you recognize it through your body language, your focus, your self-talk, and various situations that maybe happen during the game or physical feelings that trigger you of whether you are in a green, yellow, or red? Then if you recognize when you’re yellow or red you go to Pillar #12 and you Release. You follow the specific three step release of physical action - a physical action, a deep breath, and a verbal trigger to help you release that and then refocus on getting back to the moment.
A lot of people say “you’ve got to flush it, you’ve got to move on, play the next play.” Well how do you do that? It’s not just something you talk about. It’s something you have to drill and you have to practice - just like all the fundamentals of your sport - and that is Pillar #12 How You Release and Refocus. We show you numbers of examples of athletes in training, in competition, having a release that they go to and a refocus to help them to stay present.
So the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance. If you’re looking for a 12 week solution and you’re looking for a way to Dominate the Day and build mental toughness in your program and a systematic frameworked approach with a start and with an end and you’re looking for that 20% of the entire field of Peak Performance mental conditioning here it is. I’ll give you the 80% of the benefit.
If you want to get started it’s very simple. Head over to www.BrianCain.com and check out our digital training program on the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance, your 12 week solution to mastering the Mental Game. Now go Dominate the Day.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2017 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC 116. Your 12 Week Solution</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Brian goes solo to talk about The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance Digital Training Program and how it will help YOU.
 
You will learn about...
The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance Digital Training Program
How this program will help you and ...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>In this episode, Brian goes solo to talk about The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance Digital Training Program and how it will help YOU.
 
You will learn about...
The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance Digital Training Program
How this program will help you and your team grow mentally
Teach you why this system will get you 80% of the results in 20% of the time
The process the Digital Training Program will take you through to become more
Why there is no other training program out there like The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance Digital Training program
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Cain: If you’re looking for a 12 week solution and you’re looking for a way to dominate the day and build mental toughness in your program and you’re looking for that 20% of the entire field of Peak Performance/mental conditioning, here is it.
In this episode I’m going to teach you a 12 week solution for mastering the mental game. There was an Italian Economist. His name was Vilfredo Pareto. What he found was that 80% of the wealth in the country of Italy was held by 20% of the population. When he went out to his garden he found out that 80% of his tomatoes were grown on 20% of the plants. If you look at any typical NHL roster 80% of the goals are scored by 20% of the roster. And if you look at Major League Baseball 80% of the Homeruns are hit by 20% of the roster. If you’ve been with me for any time you know what we’re talking about - the 80/20 principle known as Pareto’s Law. 80% of the benefit that you get comes from 20% of what you do.
I’m a big Tim Ferriss fan. Tim Ferriss would refer to the 80/20 principle similarly to the minimum effective dose. If you’ve read his book The Four Hour Body or The Four Hour Work Week he talks about what is the minimum effective dose, the minimum effective thing that you can do to get the maximum return. Well as we talk about here your 12 week solution, in the last 15+ years of going around the country over 280 days a year working with top coaches, athletes, and athletic programs all over the country, what I’ve been on a mission to find out is what is it that they all do that if you did you’d become elite? You’d cut through the crap and cut through the noise and cut through the learning curve and get more done in less time. That is what the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance is.
Your 12 week solution is very simple especially if you’re a Texas high school coach who has got an athletic period or you’re a California coach with an athletic period, or a college coach that has an offseason where you can access your athletes on a consistent basis, or a coach that has got even minimal access to your athletes because the beautiful part about the digital training program is it’s all online and your athletes can access it anywhere, anytime, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. What you’re going to get with the 12 Pillar of Peak Performance digital training program is you’re going to get a spiral bound manual that has got a worksheet that you fill out as you watch the video.
Imagine this. Imagine you’re driving listening to this podcast or imagine your athletes’ cell phones out watching me teach a video - just like I would if I was there with you in person - and they’re filling out a worksheet. Then you get together with them and you talk about it. You talk about how does this Pillar #1 Elite Mindset relate to our program? Or Pillar #2 Championship Culture? What is our culture that is going to dictate behavior and set the stage for success in our program? Again it’s the most user friendly easy to use and execute program that has ever been made. Let me talk to you about the 12 Pillar of Peak Performance and give you a little background of what they are.
Pillar #1 is about training an elite mindset. Everybody wants to know how do you build mental toughness? Well you build mental toughness the same way you build physical toughness and physical strength - you’ve got to do a little a lot, not a lot a little. By doing a little a lot every day - for example reading a page of the Daily Dominator, following me on Snapchat, listening to this podcast once a week, following the Monday Messages that come out - those are all examples of what is called spaced repetition. Spaced repetition is doing a little a lot. If you want to grow that elite mindset that is how it has got to happen.
For example one of the videos in the program (one of my favorites) talks about lessons learned from the Navy SEAL community. We’d show our videos and talk about how you want to never show weakness. Always be big with your body language. How you never feel sorry for yourself because feeling sorry for yourself is a worthless useless emotion that is going to get you nowhere. We talk about staying patient in the face of adversity. The number one way that you stay patient in the face of adversity is through taking a deep breath and oxygenating your brain so that you can be where your feet are. Another one of those lessons is that it pays to be a winner. You got it. When we talk about winning that helps us move into Pillar #2 which is that championship culture.
Let me ask you this as you’re listening to this podcast. If you and your team were together having a breakfast or dinner before you went on to play for a championship and I were to hand you an index card and everyone in your program were to write down the core principles - (or what I would refer to as the MVP Process: M the mission, V the vision, P the core principles; the mission being that eulogy, that big picture of why we’re all together doing this; the V, the vision, the tangible resume specifics here is what we’re after; and then the core principles) - if we were to hand that index card to your team would they all write down the same things?
On some programs (for example) if we were to hand that out to Cliff Godwin and the East Carolina Pirates the players would write down that the purpose of the program is to learn how to be successful on and off the field for the rest of their lives. Their vision would be to win 40 games, to win the American Conference, to host a regional, host a super, go to the College World Series and win a National Championship - they all would know that. They would know their principles of PIRATES - purpose, integrity, responsibility, attitude, toughness, energy, selfless. They would know the core principles of their program and they would know the MVP Process.
If you don’t [know the MVP Process] you’re not going to have people on the same page. What you’re going to have is people come into your program (especially if you’re in a college program or a varsity high school program) that are strong willed that think they know what it’s going to take to be successful instead of coming in and fitting into your culture. Culture is not something that just happens. It’s intentional. It’s talked about. It’s taught. It’s something that you have to make a conscious decision to be a part of.
Speaking of conscious decisions to help you become more, that takes us to Pillar #3 which is time is ticking. There is one factor that is the same for you and your competition and it is time. 86,400 seconds in a day. 168 hours in a week. The best coaches I‘ve been around are savages of time. They’re detailed with where every minute of every day goes. If you’re somebody who is not mapping out your entire 160 hours a week when you meet the person in the competitive arena who is they’re probably going to beat you because they have prepared more. We know that separation is in preparation so if you’re not putting time on your side time is going to beat you when the time comes to getting the ring with somebody who has maximized their time.
Part of knowing time is also knowing your numbers. That is Pillar #4. You can’t improve what you can’t measure. If you’re not measuring your time and knowing where your time is going, if you feel like you don’t have enough time in the day it’s not that you don’t have enough time it’s that you don’t have enough priorities. You can’t improve what you can’t measure. Measurement provides motivation. In your program what are those measurements that you’re using?
When you go through the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance digital training program one pillar a week, when you are in Pillar #4 (which would probably be during week four) you are going to learn about what are the process-based measurements in your sport that when you focus on you give yourself the best chance for success?
For example did you realize that in the NFL Super Bowl (at the time of this recording there have been 50 of them) 48 of the first 50 Super Bowl Champions won this one statistic - the turnover margin. Jim Schlossnagle (the baseball coach at TCU who led his team to three straight College World Series appearances) has got an 81% winning percentage when his team simply scores first. If they score in the top of the first, give up three in the bottom of the first, they still have that 81% winning percentage. They know their numbers. They know what they’re after. The question is do you and do your athletes? If they don’t you’re just playing the game versus strategically trying to win the game based off of metrics that you know are proven to give you the best chance for results.
Pillar #5 - when we get into week five we are going to talk about sailing the right ships. What does that mean? Well a guy who knows a lot about championships and winning games, Mack Brown, the former football coach at the University of Texas, when I asked him the million dollar question I said “Mack what do you know now you wish you knew when you were getting started coaching?” He said “you’ve got to sail the right ships” and he kind of looked at me and smiled. I didn’t really know what he was talking about so I asked him. He said “you’ve got to invest in relationships before championships because it’s relationships that will lead to championships.”
In Pillar #5 we really dive into how to create those great relationships in your programs. We talk about the five major motivators. We talk about different activities that you can do with your teams so you get to know each other better. When you know each other better you are more likely to live Pillar #6 which is that present moment focus where you focus on being where your feet are, right here, right now.
The time is always now. The place is always here. If you want to win you’ve got to focus on what is important now. That is a present moment focus. We’ll take you through some different breathing exercises that you can use. I’m sure if you’ve watched any teams compete that have gone through the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance system you’ll see them take a deep breath every snap or every pitch or every possession because the deep breath is what helps to scientifically oxygenate their brain and get you into the present moment with a better focus. Simply by breathing you are increasing your chances for success in that moment. We know that success over the course of a season or over a competition is simply a result of moment to moment to moment awareness and moment to moment to moment execution.
Speaking of moment to moment that leads us to Pillar #7 Process Over Outcome. Matt Carpenter (the great all-star third baseman or infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, former TCU Horned Frog) says that in the game of baseball when you’re playing at the major league level you are going to have some slumps but your routine can never slump. Your process can never slump.
Nick Saban (arguably the greatest coach of all time, the head football coach at the University of Alabama) always talks about the process over the outcome. You’re going to learn about how the process is simply investing into those things that you can control because that is where the greatest return on your investment comes from - maximizing the things that you can control. You can control developing mental toughness. You can control your championship culture. You can control maximizing your time, how you measure performance in relationships, a present moment focus, and a process-based focus over the outcome.
You can also control Pillar #8 Your Attitude. We know that in life there are energy givers and energy suckers. What we need is we need more energy takers. We know that your positive energy has got to be stronger than everyone else’s negative energy. We know that the attitude you take is a decision you make and your attitude is contagious. The only question is is your attitude worth catching or is it worth avoiding?
We know that when we’re talking about positive energy there are people that are juiceful and useful and there are people that are juiceless and useless so you’ve got to BTJ - you’ve got to bring the juice. We share with you 38 different ways to spike your attitude, to spike your energy, and to bring the juice in your program. You don’t have to do all 38 of them but there is a whole buffet there for you to go and choose from. These are 38 exercises that I have used, I have used consistently, and I have seen bring results in programs like yours.
Speaking of results we know that in Pillar #9 Everything Happens Twice. I learned that from Skip Bertman, the former baseball coach at LSU who won five national championships in the 90s. I got a chance to sit down with him at LSU and ask him the million dollar question. I said “Coach Bertman, you won five national championships in a decade, you then wanted to go and be a speaker and LSU wouldn’t let you because they needed to hire you to be the athletic director to lead the department.” I said “what do you know now you wish you knew when you were just getting started?” He said “everything happens twice, first in your mind then in reality.”
We take you specifically through the four steps of mental imagery where we go through the importance of relaxation first and then confidence, conditioning, mental recall where you go back and replay your best performances and then mental rehearsal where we go forward and you see yourself playing the way you want to play in the future. We also outline how to use mental imagery like a football team doing it Friday night in the hotel at the college level before they go play on Saturday. Or a high school team doing it on Friday during class or after school together before they suit up to go play. A baseball team or softball team having audios that players are listening to on the bus on a way to a game. How you can make individual audios with your athletes in five minutes or less using a simple system of the four steps for mental imagery so they have those custom audios on their phone. It doesn’t get easier ladies and gentleman. This is the easiest Peak Performance program that has ever been made.
The reason why it was designed this way is because my main mission, my Pillar #2, my championship culture, the M of my life, is to educate, empower, and energize others. There are only so many people you can impact when you do it in person so you’ve got to recreate yourself. This is a recreation of me and my teachings at this point that you can use to help your players become more.
If you want more, if you want more wins, if you want more juice, if you want more success, you’ve got to become more. This program is guaranteed to help you become more. With all of our programs any investment you make at www.BrianCain.com if it doesn’t exactly help you the way you want it to we’ll refund 100% no questions asked and we’ll help you get to where you want to go. We’re here for you. This is about helping you to be your best.
If you’re going to be your best you’re going to have to implement Pillar #10 Routines and Habits of Excellence. Why? First we set our habits and then our habits set us. No one ever has or ever will escape the destiny of their decisions and most of your decisions are made by your habits. If you’re aware of your routines and aware of your habits you are going to be successful. If you are not aware of those routines and habits they’re going to dominate you.
Excellence - it’s a lifestyle, not an event. Your routines and your habits are going to create your lifestyle. We’re going to talk about intentionally setting triggers within the habit loop where we discuss Charles Duhigg and his great book The Power of Habit where we’re going to break down how a trigger sets you into a routine and a routine then gives you a reward. And if you have a routine that you don’t like, how you can break that by changing and becoming more aware of the triggers in your life and then changing your routine and getting a different reward.
But if we’re going to do that, if we’re going to change those routines, we’ve got to have Pillar #11. You’ve got to be able to recognize your signal lights. You’ve got to have that heightened awareness and you’ve always got to be in control of yourself because you’ve got to be in control of yourself before you can control your performance. You’ve got very little control of what goes on around you but total control of how you choose to respond to it. So recognizing your signal lights. Just like driving a car. You are driving right now listening to this podcast. When you come to a green light it’s easy - you go. When you come to a red light you stop. But if you’ve been driving a car for any time you know you could have driven through a red light before and you’re still alive to talk about it.
In athletic performance you can drive through red lights - especially when you’re more talented - and you can have success. But in a competition where the two teams are even that is like driving through red lights consistently. If you were to drive across the country and go through every red light obviously you’re going to crash and burn. We’ve got to learn to recognize our red lights and most importantly recognize our yellow lights which we are in most of the time.
In our yellow lights we either need to speed up or we need to slow down. A lot of mental game coaches are going to say “just slow the game down.” Well shoot, sometimes you’ve got to speed it up. Just like driving a car. If you get to a yellow light you don’t always slow down. Sometimes you punch the gas. It’s the same thing in athletics. Most of the time you are going too fast and you’ve got to slow down but sometimes you’ve got to pick it up. I’ve been around teams that have lost games because they were uninspired and they didn’t have the juice just as much as I have been around teams that were trying too hard.
So how do you recognize where you’re at mentally, emotionally, physically? How do you recognize it through your body language, your focus, your self-talk, and various situations that maybe happen during the game or physical feelings that trigger you of whether you are in a green, yellow, or red? Then if you recognize when you’re yellow or red you go to Pillar #12 and you Release. You follow the specific three step release of physical action - a physical action, a deep breath, and a verbal trigger to help you release that and then refocus on getting back to the moment.
A lot of people say “you’ve got to flush it, you’ve got to move on, play the next play.” Well how do you do that? It’s not just something you talk about. It’s something you have to drill and you have to practice - just like all the fundamentals of your sport - and that is Pillar #12 How You Release and Refocus. We show you numbers of examples of athletes in training, in competition, having a release that they go to and a refocus to help them to stay present.
So the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance. If you’re looking for a 12 week solution and you’re looking for a way to Dominate the Day and build mental toughness in your program and a systematic frameworked approach with a start and with an end and you’re looking for that 20% of the entire field of Peak Performance mental conditioning here it is. I’ll give you the 80% of the benefit.
If you want to get started it’s very simple. Head over to www.BrianCain.com and check out our digital training program on the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance, your 12 week solution to mastering the Mental Game. Now go Dominate the Day.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[In this episode, Brian goes solo to talk about The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance Digital Training Program and how it will help YOU.
 
You will learn about...
The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance Digital Training Program
How this program will help you and your team grow mentally
Teach you why this system will get you 80% of the results in 20% of the time
The process the Digital Training Program will take you through to become more
Why there is no other training program out there like The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance Digital Training program
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Cain: If you’re looking for a 12 week solution and you’re looking for a way to dominate the day and build mental toughness in your program and you’re looking for that 20% of the entire field of Peak Performance/mental conditioning, here is it.
In this episode I’m going to teach you a 12 week solution for mastering the mental game. There was an Italian Economist. His name was Vilfredo Pareto. What he found was that 80% of the wealth in the country of Italy was held by 20% of the population. When he went out to his garden he found out that 80% of his tomatoes were grown on 20% of the plants. If you look at any typical NHL roster 80% of the goals are scored by 20% of the roster. And if you look at Major League Baseball 80% of the Homeruns are hit by 20% of the roster. If you’ve been with me for any time you know what we’re talking about - the 80/20 principle known as Pareto’s Law. 80% of the benefit that you get comes from 20% of what you do.
I’m a big Tim Ferriss fan. Tim Ferriss would refer to the 80/20 principle similarly to the minimum effective dose. If you’ve read his book The Four Hour Body or The Four Hour Work Week he talks about what is the minimum effective dose, the minimum effective thing that you can do to get the maximum return. Well as we talk about here your 12 week solution, in the last 15+ years of going around the country over 280 days a year working with top coaches, athletes, and athletic programs all over the country, what I’ve been on a mission to find out is what is it that they all do that if you did you’d become elite? You’d cut through the crap and cut through the noise and cut through the learning curve and get more done in less time. That is what the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance is.
Your 12 week solution is very simple especially if you’re a Texas high school coach who has got an athletic period or you’re a California coach with an athletic period, or a college coach that has an offseason where you can access your athletes on a consistent basis, or a coach that has got even minimal access to your athletes because the beautiful part about the digital training program is it’s all online and your athletes can access it anywhere, anytime, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. What you’re going to get with the 12 Pillar of Peak Performance digital training program is you’re going to get a spiral bound manual that has got a worksheet that you fill out as you watch the video.
Imagine this. Imagine you’re driving listening to this podcast or imagine your athletes’ cell phones out watching me teach a video - just like I would if I was there with you in person - and they’re filling out a worksheet. Then you get together with them and you talk about it. You talk about how does this Pillar #1 Elite Mindset relate to our program? Or Pillar #2 Championship Culture? What is our culture that is going to dictate behavior and set the stage for success in our program? Again it’s the most user friendly easy to use and execute program that has ever been made. Let me talk to you about the 12 Pillar of Peak Performance and give you a little background of what they are.
Pillar #1 is about training an elite mindset. Everybody wants to know how do you build mental toughness? Well you build mental toughness the same way you build physical toughness and physical strength - you’ve got to do a little a lot, not a lot a little. By doing a little a lot every day - for example reading a page of the Daily Dominator, following me on Snapchat, listening to this podcast once a week, following the Monday Messages that come out - those are all examples of what is called spaced repetition. Spaced repetition is doing a little a lot. If you want to grow that elite mindset that is how it has got to happen.
For example one of the videos in the program (one of my favorites) talks about lessons learned from the Navy SEAL community. We’d show our videos and talk about how you want to never show weakness. Always be big with your body language. How you never feel sorry for yourself because feeling sorry for yourself is a worthless useless emotion that is going to get you nowhere. We talk about staying patient in the face of adversity. The number one way that you stay patient in the face of adversity is through taking a deep breath and oxygenating your brain so that you can be where your feet are. Another one of those lessons is that it pays to be a winner. You got it. When we talk about winning that helps us move into Pillar #2 which is that championship culture.
Let me ask you this as you’re listening to this podcast. If you and your team were together having a breakfast or dinner before you went on to play for a championship and I were to hand you an index card and everyone in your program were to write down the core principles - (or what I would refer to as the MVP Process: M the mission, V the vision, P the core principles; the mission being that eulogy, that big picture of why we’re all together doing this; the V, the vision, the tangible resume specifics here is what we’re after; and then the core principles) - if we were to hand that index card to your team would they all write down the same things?
On some programs (for example) if we were to hand that out to Cliff Godwin and the East Carolina Pirates the players would write down that the purpose of the program is to learn how to be successful on and off the field for the rest of their lives. Their vision would be to win 40 games, to win the American Conference, to host a regional, host a super, go to the College World Series and win a National Championship - they all would know that. They would know their principles of PIRATES - purpose, integrity, responsibility, attitude, toughness, energy, selfless. They would know the core principles of their program and they would know the MVP Process.
If you don’t [know the MVP Process] you’re not going to have people on the same page. What you’re going to have is people come into your program (especially if you’re in a college program or a varsity high school program) that are strong willed that think they know what it’s going to take to be successful instead of coming in and fitting into your culture. Culture is not something that just happens. It’s intentional. It’s talked about. It’s taught. It’s something that you have to make a conscious decision to be a part of.
Speaking of conscious decisions to help you become more, that takes us to Pillar #3 which is time is ticking. There is one factor that is the same for you and your competition and it is time. 86,400 seconds in a day. 168 hours in a week. The best coaches I‘ve been around are savages of time. They’re detailed with where every minute of every day goes. If you’re somebody who is not mapping out your entire 160 hours a week when you meet the person in the competitive arena who is they’re probably going to beat you because they have prepared more. We know that separation is in preparation so if you’re not putting time on your side time is going to beat you when the time comes to getting the ring with somebody who has maximized their time.
Part of knowing time is also knowing your numbers. That is Pillar #4. You can’t improve what you can’t measure. If you’re not measuring your time and knowing where your time is going, if you feel like you don’t have enough time in the day it’s not that you don’t have enough time it’s that you don’t have enough priorities. You can’t improve what you can’t measure. Measurement provides motivation. In your program what are those measurements that you’re using?
When you go through the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance digital training program one pillar a week, when you are in Pillar #4 (which would probably be during week four) you are going to learn about what are the process-based measurements in your sport that when you focus on you give yourself the best chance for success?
For example did you realize that in the NFL Super Bowl (at the time of this recording there have been 50 of them) 48 of the first 50 Super Bowl Champions won this one statistic - the turnover margin. Jim Schlossnagle (the baseball coach at TCU who led his team to three straight College World Series appearances) has got an 81% winning percentage when his team simply scores first. If they score in the top of the first, give up three in the bottom of the first, they still have that 81% winning percentage. They know their numbers. They know what they’re after. The question is do you and do your athletes? If they don’t you’re just playing the game versus strategically trying to win the game based off of metrics that you know are proven to give you the best chance for results.
Pillar #5 - when we get into week five we are going to talk about sailing the right ships. What does that mean? Well a guy who knows a lot about championships and winning games, Mack Brown, the former football coach at the University of Texas, when I asked him the million dollar question I said “Mack what do you know now you wish you knew when you were getting started coaching?” He said “you’ve got to sail the right ships” and he kind of looked at me and smiled. I didn’t really know what he was talking about so I asked him. He said “you’ve got to invest in relationships before championships because it’s relationships that will lead to championships.”
In Pillar #5 we really dive into how to create those great relationships in your programs. We talk about the five major motivators. We talk about different activities that you can do with your teams so you get to know each other better. When you know each other better you are more likely to live Pillar #6 which is that present moment focus where you focus on being where your feet are, right here, right now.
The time is always now. The place is always here. If you want to win you’ve got to focus on what is important now. That is a present moment focus. We’ll take you through some different breathing exercises that you can use. I’m sure if you’ve watched any teams compete that have gone through the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance system you’ll see them take a deep breath every snap or every pitch or every possession because the deep breath is what helps to scientifically oxygenate their brain and get you into the present moment with a better focus. Simply by breathing you are increasing your chances for success in that moment. We know that success over the course of a season or over a competition is simply a result of moment to moment to moment awareness and moment to moment to moment execution.
Speaking of moment to moment that leads us to Pillar #7 Process Over Outcome. Matt Carpenter (the great all-star third baseman or infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, former TCU Horned Frog) says that in the game of baseball when you’re playing at the major league level you are going to have some slumps but your routine can never slump. Your process can never slump.
Nick Saban (arguably the greatest coach of all time, the head football coach at the University of Alabama) always talks about the process over the outcome. You’re going to learn about how the process is simply investing into those things that you can control because that is where the greatest return on your investment comes from - maximizing the things that you can control. You can control developing mental toughness. You can control your championship culture. You can control maximizing your time, how you measure performance in relationships, a present moment focus, and a process-based focus over the outcome.
You can also control Pillar #8 Your Attitude. We know that in life there are energy givers and energy suckers. What we need is we need more energy takers. We know that your positive energy has got to be stronger than everyone else’s negative energy. We know that the attitude you take is a decision you make and your attitude is contagious. The only question is is your attitude worth catching or is it worth avoiding?
We know that when we’re talking about positive energy there are people that are juiceful and useful and there are people that are juiceless and useless so you’ve got to BTJ - you’ve got to bring the juice. We share with you 38 different ways to spike your attitude, to spike your energy, and to bring the juice in your program. You don’t have to do all 38 of them but there is a whole buffet there for you to go and choose from. These are 38 exercises that I have used, I have used consistently, and I have seen bring results in programs like yours.
Speaking of results we know that in Pillar #9 Everything Happens Twice. I learned that from Skip Bertman, the former baseball coach at LSU who won five national championships in the 90s. I got a chance to sit down with him at LSU and ask him the million dollar question. I said “Coach Bertman, you won five national championships in a decade, you then wanted to go and be a speaker and LSU wouldn’t let you because they needed to hire you to be the athletic director to lead the department.” I said “what do you know now you wish you knew when you were just getting started?” He said “everything happens twice, first in your mind then in reality.”
We take you specifically through the four steps of mental imagery where we go through the importance of relaxation first and then confidence, conditioning, mental recall where you go back and replay your best performances and then mental rehearsal where we go forward and you see yourself playing the way you want to play in the future. We also outline how to use mental imagery like a football team doing it Friday night in the hotel at the college level before they go play on Saturday. Or a high school team doing it on Friday during class or after school together before they suit up to go play. A baseball team or softball team having audios that players are listening to on the bus on a way to a game. How you can make individual audios with your athletes in five minutes or less using a simple system of the four steps for mental imagery so they have those custom audios on their phone. It doesn’t get easier ladies and gentleman. This is the easiest Peak Performance program that has ever been made.
The reason why it was designed this way is because my main mission, my Pillar #2, my championship culture, the M of my life, is to educate, empower, and energize others. There are only so many people you can impact when you do it in person so you’ve got to recreate yourself. This is a recreation of me and my teachings at this point that you can use to help your players become more.
If you want more, if you want more wins, if you want more juice, if you want more success, you’ve got to become more. This program is guaranteed to help you become more. With all of our programs any investment you make at www.BrianCain.com if it doesn’t exactly help you the way you want it to we’ll refund 100% no questions asked and we’ll help you get to where you want to go. We’re here for you. This is about helping you to be your best.
If you’re going to be your best you’re going to have to implement Pillar #10 Routines and Habits of Excellence. Why? First we set our habits and then our habits set us. No one ever has or ever will escape the destiny of their decisions and most of your decisions are made by your habits. If you’re aware of your routines and aware of your habits you are going to be successful. If you are not aware of those routines and habits they’re going to dominate you.
Excellence - it’s a lifestyle, not an event. Your routines and your habits are going to create your lifestyle. We’re going to talk about intentionally setting triggers within the habit loop where we discuss Charles Duhigg and his great book The Power of Habit where we’re going to break down how a trigger sets you into a routine and a routine then gives you a reward. And if you have a routine that you don’t like, how you can break that by changing and becoming more aware of the triggers in your life and then changing your routine and getting a different reward.
But if we’re going to do that, if we’re going to change those routines, we’ve got to have Pillar #11. You’ve got to be able to recognize your signal lights. You’ve got to have that heightened awareness and you’ve always got to be in control of yourself because you’ve got to be in control of yourself before you can control your performance. You’ve got very little control of what goes on around you but total control of how you choose to respond to it. So recognizing your signal lights. Just like driving a car. You are driving right now listening to this podcast. When you come to a green light it’s easy - you go. When you come to a red light you stop. But if you’ve been driving a car for any time you know you could have driven through a red light before and you’re still alive to talk about it.
In athletic performance you can drive through red lights - especially when you’re more talented - and you can have success. But in a competition where the two teams are even that is like driving through red lights consistently. If you were to drive across the country and go through every red light obviously you’re going to crash and burn. We’ve got to learn to recognize our red lights and most importantly recognize our yellow lights which we are in most of the time.
In our yellow lights we either need to speed up or we need to slow down. A lot of mental game coaches are going to say “just slow the game down.” Well shoot, sometimes you’ve got to speed it up. Just like driving a car. If you get to a yellow light you don’t always slow down. Sometimes you punch the gas. It’s the same thing in athletics. Most of the time you are going too fast and you’ve got to slow down but sometimes you’ve got to pick it up. I’ve been around teams that have lost games because they were uninspired and they didn’t have the juice just as much as I have been around teams that were trying too hard.
So how do you recognize where you’re at mentally, emotionally, physically? How do you recognize it through your body language, your focus, your self-talk, and various situations that maybe happen during the game or physical feelings that trigger you of whether you are in a green, yellow, or red? Then if you recognize when you’re yellow or red you go to Pillar #12 and you Release. You follow the specific three step release of physical action - a physical action, a deep breath, and a verbal trigger to help you release that and then refocus on getting back to the moment.
A lot of people say “you’ve got to flush it, you’ve got to move on, play the next play.” Well how do you do that? It’s not just something you talk about. It’s something you have to drill and you have to practice - just like all the fundamentals of your sport - and that is Pillar #12 How You Release and Refocus. We show you numbers of examples of athletes in training, in competition, having a release that they go to and a refocus to help them to stay present.
So the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance. If you’re looking for a 12 week solution and you’re looking for a way to Dominate the Day and build mental toughness in your program and a systematic frameworked approach with a start and with an end and you’re looking for that 20% of the entire field of Peak Performance mental conditioning here it is. I’ll give you the 80% of the benefit.
If you want to get started it’s very simple. Head over to www.BrianCain.com and check out our digital training program on the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance, your 12 week solution to mastering the Mental Game. Now go Dominate the Day.]]>
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      <description>In this episode, Brian talks with Peter Yobo who is an Innovation Strategies Consultant and former USC Trojan football player. Peter grew up over seas in Ghana and has an incredibly story of coming to the U.S. and starting his own business.
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You will learn about...
Peter's unique journey from South Africa to Southern California
Peter's passion for USC and how he prepared for going to the University long before he was ever accepted
How Peter learned life lessons from going up against NFL All-Pro Tyrone Smith each day in practice at USC
What Peter believes to be the 4 traits of successful people
How to add value to those you know and those who follow you
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Yobo: I would look at the pictures and I would imagine myself walking on campus high-fiving folks, talking to buddies, and experiencing USC. I did that from Ghana. From West Africa. There was this obsession.
Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance Coach here with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest is Peter Yobo. Peter is an innovation strategies consultant with the Yobo Group where he helps professional athletes and celebrities leverage their brand so that they can make more money off of their brand.
For example, did you realize that Steph Curry last year made 10 million dollars off the court by selling $2 emojis that people use in social media and on their cell phone? I didn’t know that. That blew me away. Peter is going to share with us some of the other things out there that people are doing to help leverage their brand.
First, Peter, thank you for joining us on the podcast. Would you take us and our listeners through your journey from where you grew up and your experience with athletics to where you are right now leading the Yobo Group?
Yobo: Brian, thank you. Thanks for that awesome introduction. It’s a great opportunity to be here on the podcast and share my story. My story starts in New Jersey actually. I was born in New Jersey (New Brunswick). I lived in New Jersey for three years then my mom moved us back to Ghana, West Africa, where my family is originally from.
Growing up as a kid I was that kid who couldn’t sit still. I was always running around having fun and breaking things, breaking bones. I couldn’t sit still in class. I had teachers say “this kid is not going to amount to anything, he is always in trouble.” The funny thing though is I always got good grades. I was the kid who never studied but some way somehow I had this visual memory so I was able to remember answers to questions because I would remember what my professor was wearing the day he spoke about it. So it was just this funny thing because I would throw these teachers for a loop. I was so stubborn and caused trouble all the time but then on the other hand I was doing very well in school and very well in sports.
My mom right after high school, she was like “Peter we need to figure out if you’re going to go to high school in the US or in London or here in Ghana.” Something had happened about a year before that question came. I was watching a clip of US running back Reggie Bush. I think it was the 2005 Rose Bowl.
[Stayed in bounds, airborne, touchdown, Reggie Bush]
Yobo: I was pumped. I was excited. I just loved the whole atmosphere I saw in the coliseum. I said “I am going to go to that school.” Well guess what? It cost $56,000 per year to attend USC. I don’t know how I’m going to pay for that, how much more to just even attend four years.
So a lot of folks started saying “Peter it might serve you well to not even focus on that, that is too big of a goal, that is too lofty.” So what I did was every day during lunch I was so enamored, I was just attracted to the school - and today I realize what I was doing but then I didn’t understand it. I was so attracted to it that every day at lunch I was so excited I needed to go sit behind - we had about 2-3 computers in our computer lab that had internet and I would sit down and had my buddies go pick up my lunch. I would just go on the USC website.
I remember it like it was yesterday, www.USC.edu. All I would do was look at the pictures. I would look at the pictures and I would imagine myself walking on campus high-fiving folks, talking to buddies, and experiencing USC. I did that from Ghana. From West Africa. From a small little computer lab in my high school. I did that every day. Every lunch break (apart from the weekends). Every day. There was this obsession with having to go to USC.
So fast-forward. I decided “hey mom I want to take the SAT.” I took the SAT. I did decently well. I moved to the US. I took a year off. I honestly couldn’t afford to just jump into school so I took a year off and I became a California resident. I was living in the San Jose area, the Silicon Valley area, and I just figured “you know what, I’m a California resident now, I finally made enough money to buy my car, I’m just going to go to San Jose State University.” Just something that is cheap. I’m an American citizen so I don’t have to pay that much. Everything is taken care of. So I did that for a year and a half.
I grew restless. Today I understand why. I was being drawn to my purpose, my destiny. I was just restless. I was restless, I was struggling, and finally I decided to transfer. I was going to go to UC Riverside for basketball. All my other applications - I mean I mailed it, I did everything right, wrote all the right essays - then it comes to USC. I was like “you know what I’ll just apply, I probably won’t get in, it’s probably too expensive.” I literally would say if I can get that application back that would have been the most heartfelt - I didn’t hold anything back. I wasn’t trying to be professional. I just said what I cared about. I spoke as if I was speaking to a friend. A month or two later I got a packet - “Peter, welcome to the Trojan family.” Some way somehow an internship with PWC and a few other scholarships made it easy and financially affordable to go to USC.
I started off playing - in fact this is where it gets crazy. I walk on campus for orientation and I’m walking and I look to my left and I’m standing right in front of the USC Floral Gardens. That is the picture I had been seeing day after day after day about three years ago. Mind blown. I am here. I am high-fiving folks. I am living that story. I went on to do track and field. Coaches saw me thinking “oh my goodness who is this big guy out there doing track, come play football.” So I walked on, played two years of football at USC - best experience ever. Mind blowing experience. In fact going to USC was a mind blowing experience.
Since then I’ve graduated. I’ve been planning to go pro. Well I attempted to go to the Canadian Football League but that didn’t work out. I would say I didn’t have enough years or the freakish athletic genes to make that leap. Then I did about five years working for Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC) in innovation and technology consulting.
Then about a month and a half ago I decided to go out on my own full time. Like you said I work with athletes and celebrities, high net worth individuals, but we also do a lot of work with companies. We do a lot of work for small to midsized businesses ranging from 10-100 million dollars. Our goal is very simple. We fight for the company’s future. We help companies fight for their future.
What we’ve started to realize is a lot of companies, a lot of athletes, celebrities, individuals, they do what they have to be today to make money. But we look at the Fortune 500s and they are investing money in R&amp;D, investing money in their future, and they’re fighting for that because that is what keeps them with the competition or ahead of the competition. Our goal is to come in and be that arm for companies and celebrities and athletes and high net worth individuals. We become that innovation, that research and development arm allowing them to see into the future, build strategies to get there, and then execute on doing that.
That is my story.
Cain: Peter, it sounds like you have been doing this your entire life. I can only imagine sitting in a computer lab in Ghana looking at USC wanting to go play football there and then all of a sudden you made that happen. Did they have football in Ghana?
Yobo: No. The closest I came to playing football was rugby when I was maybe 9 years old.
Cain: So the first time you ever put on a football helmet was when you put on your USC Trojans helmet?
Yobo: This is true. Let me preface that. It was I put on my helmet and I had lined up across from Tyron Smith. Tyron Smith of the Cowboys. He woke my butt every single day, every single day, and it was so frustrating because in Ghana I was the guy - basketball, swimming, soccer, you name it. Every sport I played I was the athlete, I was my high school’s athlete of the year, all of that. Then I came to the US and this guy, Tyron Smith, is huge and the coach says “just get around him and go tackle the quarterback.” I was playing DM at the time. Every single snap this guy punished me. But that is what taught me what the game of football meant. I started to realize just running and just going hard is not going to make me successful. I need to have the right techniques. I need to have the right moves. I need to go in the gym and get bigger, get stronger.
I’ll tell you what after three months going against Tyron Smith I probably put on about 30 pounds and maybe even shaved off a second or two on my forwarding time. Because you’re going up against someone who knows he is going pro. He knows this is just the audition for the job he is going for and he means business. I said “man sometimes you need to have some pride in yourself, you can’t be on your back every single day,” so I had to develop, I had to learn the game, and I did very fast.
Cain: That is unbelievable. Was Pete Carroll the head coach there when you were there?
Yobo: No it was Lane Kiffin.
Cain: Lane Kiffin. Okay. Excellent. So you got to go there, you played USC Trojan football. Matt Barkley was the quarterback there I assume at that time? Is that right?
Yobo: He was, yep.
Cain: Unbelievable. What are some of the things that you noticed with these guys that you’re playing in one of the greatest universities of the country, you’re playing in the Pac-12, one of the best leagues in the country, what are some of the characteristics that you noticed in those athletes at USC or the guys that you work with now in helping them leverage their brand that are characteristics that our listeners are going to want to develop so that they can become more successful? Ultimately, Peter, probably what I’m asking you is when you look in the mirror what are the characteristics that you see that made you successful?
Yobo: That is a great question. The same competitive edge that I had at USC, even though I didn’t go pro I know I can list a full on hundreds and hundreds of folks who I went to USC with who have the same drive be it at their job, be in their business. I think having that edge, being able to have that edge - when I say “edge” if you imagine if you see a lion, when the lion is hunting down the gazelle there is a look in the lion’s eye that says “this is dinner, this has to happen,” and there is a look in the gazelle’s eye that says “I must disappoint.” Those looks are different because the determination that you have when you say “this must happen,” you leave room for multiple scenarios. I might escape. I might escape hurt. I might not escape. But when it has to happen there is one vision. So that is what I saw with the athletes.
When I got to USC I got there for education. I came to this country for education. But the reason I tried out for the CFL was because you’re in an environment where everyone has one goal and that is to be successful and go pro. They have the vision. I think that is the point. You need to have the vision.
Folks like Matt Barkley, you will not see him at parties every night. He is at home resting, rehabbing, getting ready. Tyron Smith, even if you saw him at parties he wasn’t drinking. They had that vision and they knew exactly what they had to do.
So step one, have the vision. Step two, have the strategy. Know exactly what needs to happen. What steps do I need to take? Don’t go here, do this. How do you manage a brand this way? Do XYZ. I saw folks who knew exactly where they were going and then they had the method or the map, the plan of action. A lot of that comes from surrounding yourself with the right people, talking to the right people.
Then the last thing is just that edge. You need to have that competitive edge that says “I’ve seen the vision, I know exactly what to do, I will put in the work, nothing will stop me, I am going to get it.” I see some of these guys today and they don’t entertain conversation with people who kind of - when I say “entertain conversation” if I surround myself with folks who are not hunting, who are not out and ready for the hunt, I may lose my desire to hunt. I think that is what you see a lot of.
So surround yourself with the right people, having those three things in mind, having a vision, having a strategy and methods to get that you can find from people around you and mentors and people who have been there, then just having that grit, that competitive fire to go get it.
Cain: Man that is outstanding. I love it. Absolutely love it. Peter, tell me about some of the things that you notice. You mentioned earlier that athletes work today to get paid today whereas the Fortune 500 companies are projecting into the future of what they’re trying to do there. Can you talk a little bit more about some of the maybe strategies for the people that are listening to this that might be on the treadmill of paycheck to paycheck that are trying to set themselves up for the future? What are some things that you find that can be easily implemented and are useful for those people that are just trying to kind of get it going?
Yobo: I’ll use athletes (given we’re talking about athletes) and then I’ll talk about just regular folks who are working regular jobs. The key thing that athletes have is an audience. If you played college ball, if you are playing college ball and you have a following of about 200,000 people or even 20,000 people and you realize that every time you post something you get about 2,000 likes, that means you are about converting at 10%.
What people don’t realize is that is an opportunity to serve that audience. There is something about you that they like. There is something about you that adds value to them be it they’re living vicariously through you, them just enjoying seeing your feats and having special access to you. That is something where I think a lot of athletes are losing out right there because you are leaving a lot of money on the table.
I was consulting with an athlete from the Rams just recently. This guy has about 180,000 followers on just Instagram. Just one platform. On that platform every time he posts a picture he gets about I would say maybe 5,000 likes. He has nothing to offer them. When I say “nothing to offer them” it’s not saying you have to sell, sell, sell, but you’re either offering a free workout program - there are people who are giving you their eyes and their attention and that comes with responsibility. You have to serve them in some shape or form. Sure they like seeing your picture but what else can you give them that adds value? Once you realize what you can give them that adds value you start to prep yourself for when you retire or you’re done playing.
If you at practice for a couple years and you used to be the number one guy when you were in college and you still have a lot of a following and an audience how can you leverage that? When people come to you and say “hey here are my new clothes will you wear them for free and put them up online and I will give you clothes whenever you want?” Sure. Take the clothes. But ask them for 5% ownership of the company. Say “look I will get you out to XYZ number of people, you’re not paying for marketing, you’re giving me equity, and we’re going to get your brand out there.”
There are a lot of different strategies that a lot of athletes can use. Athletes are always getting stuff for free. Always. But they get so excited that they are getting stuff for free that they forget that there is an opportunity in that to become an owner. That is where I would say most of these really successful people who have been successful is they’re owners. They’re not just waiting for the paycheck. If you’re waiting for a paycheck guess what? It’s an owner who is paying you. He can fire you whenever he wants.
So for regular people who are working regular jobs here is my thing; you have an expertise. You have an expertise. A lot of people are trading that expertise multiplied by their time in exchange for cash. They go and do that every single day. Where we are going in the workforce is that in the next couple of years - I think by 2020 50% of the workforce will be freelancers. At the same time 50% of the workforce will be Millennials. Same Millennial school. They love to fly, travel, work from home. That is what driving this freelance economy.
Here is where people need to start thinking differently. You are the business. Even if you are working in a business you need to start seeing yourself as a business. If you see yourself as the business what you can then do is start building your brand. You can decide to create a podcast (just like you’re doing, Brian.) They can have a podcast that says “you know what I am going to interview XYZ people in this specific industry.” I am going to position myself as an expert so in the future when people start looking up “oh I’m looking for a freelancers somewhere in the world to hire” I am the one who is popping up first because I have dominated all time, I’ve dominated space.
What people will begin to see is that if you can begin to present yourself as an expert people will come to you. If they hear someone interview you on a podcast and you’re able to share that expertise - even if you’re the guy who is doing IT for a midsized company learn everything you must about what you do.
Find ways to get out there. Just because you are an employee doesn’t mean you can’t go and be a guest on a podcast. Go to places. Write guest articles. What you are doing is you are laying bread crumbs. People will find that and they will come to you and ask you for help when the time is right. But they need to know that you are an expert and they need to know where to find you.
Cain: My next question was going to kind of revolve around you and your success. What are some of the things that you do? You’ve talked about the three steps - having a vision, having the strategy, getting the competitive edge from doing the work and going to get it - but are there things that you do like a morning routine that might involve meditation or exercise or goal setting or how you plan out the time of your day? Are there certain routines that you have, Peter, that you feel like really make you successful?
Yobo: Oh yeah. Definitely. I would say I start off the day by 4:00 AM I’m up. People ask me “why are you waking up at 4:00 AM? Do you even sleep?” I actually do sleep. I go to bed at 9:00 PM so I get seven hours of sleep. The reason I wake up at 4:00 is everyone who could bother me or interrupt me or distract me is probably still in bed so I get a lot of work done.
What I do when my eyes first open is I prime myself for the day. I just say some thank yous to god then I envision what they day needs to look like. I have to do XYZ and I see the successes. I see successes. I prime myself. I just shoot up prayers for folks that I love, my wife, my family, my friends. I’m a Christian so I read the Bible. I get in about 20-30 minutes there. Then I hit the emails. So I’m doing a lot of the stuff that I can do during the day earlier. Then I hit the gym. I need to hit the gym. When I hit the gym the blood is just running. Again that edge. I just feel like I’m ready to go. I’ve got a sweat in.
Then the key thing for me each and every day is what I call my standup. My standup is an agile term. There is a thing called Agile Software Delivery. Standup is when you take 15 minutes, you look at what successes and wins you had yesterday as well as losses and then you plan what you need to do today and you take a look at any obstacles you may have and plan to mitigate those risks or obstacles. I do that then I jump into my day. I jump into my day.
I think another key thing that I try and do too is for example before we talk I need to get in peak state. I need to get in peak state where I’m powerful and ready to go. So any time I have an opportunity to go serve someone I can’t take myself in not ready to perform. It’s just like an athlete. He has to psych himself up, get ready. I make sure if I have anything important to do - an interview that I’m giving or that I’m receiving - any opportunity, walking to a business meeting, walking to a deal with a client, I need to get ready. I need to get that athletes edge. I just go with a peak state. I have a few rituals that I do. It’s just pretty much what I would do before I’d go play a game. Just some jumping, kicking, getting ready to go. I’d say those are it. Those are the key things that I do.
Then I come home 7:00 and shut it down. I hang out with my wife and relax and try and wind down. I’m sure you know that the entrepreneur’s mind is always going and it’s hard to turn it off and when you do turn it off it’s hard to turn it back on which is why I have that morning routine.
Cain: It’s always on man. I think the hardest piece for entrepreneurs is not necessarily getting it going but it’s turning it off at night and showing up in other aspects of your life. A friend of mind talks about having double energy. You’ve got to have double energy when you walk out of the house to go dominate the day in your entrepreneurial life but you’ve got to have double energy also when you come back in the house and your wife and your kids or your husband and your kids are there waiting for you.
Peter, you mentioned getting into a state. As you talked about it I heard it sounded like you clapped your hands in the background. Have you been to a Tony Robbins event and learned about putting yourself in a state? Is that something that you picked up there?
Yobo: I have. I picked it up reading. So I read about 10 books a month. I picked it up but I also went to Tony Conference in 2012 and that is where I saw it delivered in a very succinct way. So yes, I would say that is where I solidified my “get in the state.”
Cain: That is awesome. We had another podcast episode guest who works in real estate, Jamie Amon, and he has been a Tony Robbins student. He talked a lot about getting himself into a state. He had a very similar morning routine to you. I think that’s fabulous that some of our guests are having that consistent routine.
One of the things we talk a lot about at the seminars that I do or in the podcasts with all of our guests is the importance of having a morning routine and a structure that helps you get going in the day. I love the waking up at 4:00 in the morning, getting up and getting your own personal work done while everyone else is sleeping. They’re not going to be pulling at you. But you read 10 books a month? What are some of the books that you are going through? What are some of the books that have made the biggest impact on you?
Yobo: Oh man. I have the three core books that I recommend to everyone - any and every one - The Alchemist, The Richest Man In Babylon, and As The Man Thinketh. Those are the top three. If you’re not a reader, if you’re not someone who is consciously aware what you want to do and who you want to be read that book to start. Just to start. Think And Grow Rich is another one that has had a huge impact. Definitely The Bible. I feel like that is where I get most - I read that all the time. There is just so much. The way I see it is they are all these books that were printed in the past 120 years but then you’ve got this book that has been here for 2,000 years. So a lot of stuff I’ve learned I’ve picked up there.
Boy, what are a few other ones? There is one that I am getting ready to read by Peter Diamandis (I think is his name) called Abundance. I’m getting ready to read that. I’m currently reading How To Fly A Horse which is on innovation. A fantastic book. I couldn’t tell you the author though unfortunately [Kevin Ashton]. Another two books from Ryan Holiday that have blown my mind, The Obstacle Is The Way and Ego Is The Enemy. Those two books have just been fantastic. Great for where I’m at.
The other one was The Firm. I believe it’s called The Firm. It’s a book on how McKinsey (the consulting firm) was started. That book probably is what caused me to start consulting for them. I could have just done this on my own. I could have just had a small shop and worked with these celebrities, worked with individuals. I’d bring all the money to myself. I make a lot of money. I’d still be happy and still be comfortable. But that books talks about just the team and for lack of a better word I will use the word “swag” that the McKinsey consultants walk into CEO board rooms with just because we know we have the best people and we are going to deliver the best offering, the best work. I just thought “hmm what if I could bring together a group of folks,” a very small group of folks who have that same drive who are able to go in and demand respect because we are the best at what we do and we provide the results. That book has definitely been the most instrumental in the past couple of years.
Cain: That’s awesome. I appreciate you sharing that reading list. Peter, I know your time is precious. Thank you so much for taking time out of your hectic schedule to join us here on the Peak Performance Podcast. My last question for you is this: what is it that you know now that you wish you knew when you were younger? I guess the question is what do you know now you wish you knew then? People always say “well when is ‘then?’” Then would be let’s say when you were the college football player, when you were just getting going as a freshman in college. What do you know now you wish you knew back then that maybe would have made you more successful?
Yobo: Start now. I tell everyone start now. There is a power in being able to create. That is what we are doing right now. We’re creating a podcast episode. But a lot of people - it will surprise you how many people in college, how many people all over the world, do not know that this was once an idea for you. It may have been an idea years ago or months ago but you created it. You created this podcast we’re recording and now you’re going to deliver it. You created it. Start now. Start creating. If you have ideas of things you want to do, things that excite you, start. You will fail, yes, but failing is awesome because then you know what not to do. So definitely start now.
If I had known that years ago I would have been more intentional with what I’m doing now. I would have been more intentional with my time at USC. No regrets but I think there could have been a couple more wins. I wanted another.
Cain: Yeah there have been a lot of wins in your life. I’m absolutely amazed at your story from the computer labs of Ghana to the USC Trojans to now helping people of high net worth athletes and celebrities even capitalize and get more out of their brand.
Peter, thank you so much for taking time to be on the podcast. For our listeners go and learn more at www.PeterFYobo.com. Follow him on Twitter at @PeterYobo. Peter, thanks again. We’ll definitely get you back here. Absolutely incredible. Thank you so much.
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      <itunes:title>BC 115. Peter Yobo - From Ghana to USC Football &amp; Branding The Pro Athlete</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Brian talks with Peter Yobo who is an Innovation Strategies Consultant and former USC Trojan football player. Peter grew up over seas in Ghana and has an incredibly story of coming to the U.S. and starting his own business.
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode, Brian talks with Peter Yobo who is an Innovation Strategies Consultant and former USC Trojan football player. Peter grew up over seas in Ghana and has an incredibly story of coming to the U.S. and starting his own business.
Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterYobo
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You will learn about...
Peter's unique journey from South Africa to Southern California
Peter's passion for USC and how he prepared for going to the University long before he was ever accepted
How Peter learned life lessons from going up against NFL All-Pro Tyrone Smith each day in practice at USC
What Peter believes to be the 4 traits of successful people
How to add value to those you know and those who follow you
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Yobo: I would look at the pictures and I would imagine myself walking on campus high-fiving folks, talking to buddies, and experiencing USC. I did that from Ghana. From West Africa. There was this obsession.
Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance Coach here with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest is Peter Yobo. Peter is an innovation strategies consultant with the Yobo Group where he helps professional athletes and celebrities leverage their brand so that they can make more money off of their brand.
For example, did you realize that Steph Curry last year made 10 million dollars off the court by selling $2 emojis that people use in social media and on their cell phone? I didn’t know that. That blew me away. Peter is going to share with us some of the other things out there that people are doing to help leverage their brand.
First, Peter, thank you for joining us on the podcast. Would you take us and our listeners through your journey from where you grew up and your experience with athletics to where you are right now leading the Yobo Group?
Yobo: Brian, thank you. Thanks for that awesome introduction. It’s a great opportunity to be here on the podcast and share my story. My story starts in New Jersey actually. I was born in New Jersey (New Brunswick). I lived in New Jersey for three years then my mom moved us back to Ghana, West Africa, where my family is originally from.
Growing up as a kid I was that kid who couldn’t sit still. I was always running around having fun and breaking things, breaking bones. I couldn’t sit still in class. I had teachers say “this kid is not going to amount to anything, he is always in trouble.” The funny thing though is I always got good grades. I was the kid who never studied but some way somehow I had this visual memory so I was able to remember answers to questions because I would remember what my professor was wearing the day he spoke about it. So it was just this funny thing because I would throw these teachers for a loop. I was so stubborn and caused trouble all the time but then on the other hand I was doing very well in school and very well in sports.
My mom right after high school, she was like “Peter we need to figure out if you’re going to go to high school in the US or in London or here in Ghana.” Something had happened about a year before that question came. I was watching a clip of US running back Reggie Bush. I think it was the 2005 Rose Bowl.
[Stayed in bounds, airborne, touchdown, Reggie Bush]
Yobo: I was pumped. I was excited. I just loved the whole atmosphere I saw in the coliseum. I said “I am going to go to that school.” Well guess what? It cost $56,000 per year to attend USC. I don’t know how I’m going to pay for that, how much more to just even attend four years.
So a lot of folks started saying “Peter it might serve you well to not even focus on that, that is too big of a goal, that is too lofty.” So what I did was every day during lunch I was so enamored, I was just attracted to the school - and today I realize what I was doing but then I didn’t understand it. I was so attracted to it that every day at lunch I was so excited I needed to go sit behind - we had about 2-3 computers in our computer lab that had internet and I would sit down and had my buddies go pick up my lunch. I would just go on the USC website.
I remember it like it was yesterday, www.USC.edu. All I would do was look at the pictures. I would look at the pictures and I would imagine myself walking on campus high-fiving folks, talking to buddies, and experiencing USC. I did that from Ghana. From West Africa. From a small little computer lab in my high school. I did that every day. Every lunch break (apart from the weekends). Every day. There was this obsession with having to go to USC.
So fast-forward. I decided “hey mom I want to take the SAT.” I took the SAT. I did decently well. I moved to the US. I took a year off. I honestly couldn’t afford to just jump into school so I took a year off and I became a California resident. I was living in the San Jose area, the Silicon Valley area, and I just figured “you know what, I’m a California resident now, I finally made enough money to buy my car, I’m just going to go to San Jose State University.” Just something that is cheap. I’m an American citizen so I don’t have to pay that much. Everything is taken care of. So I did that for a year and a half.
I grew restless. Today I understand why. I was being drawn to my purpose, my destiny. I was just restless. I was restless, I was struggling, and finally I decided to transfer. I was going to go to UC Riverside for basketball. All my other applications - I mean I mailed it, I did everything right, wrote all the right essays - then it comes to USC. I was like “you know what I’ll just apply, I probably won’t get in, it’s probably too expensive.” I literally would say if I can get that application back that would have been the most heartfelt - I didn’t hold anything back. I wasn’t trying to be professional. I just said what I cared about. I spoke as if I was speaking to a friend. A month or two later I got a packet - “Peter, welcome to the Trojan family.” Some way somehow an internship with PWC and a few other scholarships made it easy and financially affordable to go to USC.
I started off playing - in fact this is where it gets crazy. I walk on campus for orientation and I’m walking and I look to my left and I’m standing right in front of the USC Floral Gardens. That is the picture I had been seeing day after day after day about three years ago. Mind blown. I am here. I am high-fiving folks. I am living that story. I went on to do track and field. Coaches saw me thinking “oh my goodness who is this big guy out there doing track, come play football.” So I walked on, played two years of football at USC - best experience ever. Mind blowing experience. In fact going to USC was a mind blowing experience.
Since then I’ve graduated. I’ve been planning to go pro. Well I attempted to go to the Canadian Football League but that didn’t work out. I would say I didn’t have enough years or the freakish athletic genes to make that leap. Then I did about five years working for Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC) in innovation and technology consulting.
Then about a month and a half ago I decided to go out on my own full time. Like you said I work with athletes and celebrities, high net worth individuals, but we also do a lot of work with companies. We do a lot of work for small to midsized businesses ranging from 10-100 million dollars. Our goal is very simple. We fight for the company’s future. We help companies fight for their future.
What we’ve started to realize is a lot of companies, a lot of athletes, celebrities, individuals, they do what they have to be today to make money. But we look at the Fortune 500s and they are investing money in R&amp;D, investing money in their future, and they’re fighting for that because that is what keeps them with the competition or ahead of the competition. Our goal is to come in and be that arm for companies and celebrities and athletes and high net worth individuals. We become that innovation, that research and development arm allowing them to see into the future, build strategies to get there, and then execute on doing that.
That is my story.
Cain: Peter, it sounds like you have been doing this your entire life. I can only imagine sitting in a computer lab in Ghana looking at USC wanting to go play football there and then all of a sudden you made that happen. Did they have football in Ghana?
Yobo: No. The closest I came to playing football was rugby when I was maybe 9 years old.
Cain: So the first time you ever put on a football helmet was when you put on your USC Trojans helmet?
Yobo: This is true. Let me preface that. It was I put on my helmet and I had lined up across from Tyron Smith. Tyron Smith of the Cowboys. He woke my butt every single day, every single day, and it was so frustrating because in Ghana I was the guy - basketball, swimming, soccer, you name it. Every sport I played I was the athlete, I was my high school’s athlete of the year, all of that. Then I came to the US and this guy, Tyron Smith, is huge and the coach says “just get around him and go tackle the quarterback.” I was playing DM at the time. Every single snap this guy punished me. But that is what taught me what the game of football meant. I started to realize just running and just going hard is not going to make me successful. I need to have the right techniques. I need to have the right moves. I need to go in the gym and get bigger, get stronger.
I’ll tell you what after three months going against Tyron Smith I probably put on about 30 pounds and maybe even shaved off a second or two on my forwarding time. Because you’re going up against someone who knows he is going pro. He knows this is just the audition for the job he is going for and he means business. I said “man sometimes you need to have some pride in yourself, you can’t be on your back every single day,” so I had to develop, I had to learn the game, and I did very fast.
Cain: That is unbelievable. Was Pete Carroll the head coach there when you were there?
Yobo: No it was Lane Kiffin.
Cain: Lane Kiffin. Okay. Excellent. So you got to go there, you played USC Trojan football. Matt Barkley was the quarterback there I assume at that time? Is that right?
Yobo: He was, yep.
Cain: Unbelievable. What are some of the things that you noticed with these guys that you’re playing in one of the greatest universities of the country, you’re playing in the Pac-12, one of the best leagues in the country, what are some of the characteristics that you noticed in those athletes at USC or the guys that you work with now in helping them leverage their brand that are characteristics that our listeners are going to want to develop so that they can become more successful? Ultimately, Peter, probably what I’m asking you is when you look in the mirror what are the characteristics that you see that made you successful?
Yobo: That is a great question. The same competitive edge that I had at USC, even though I didn’t go pro I know I can list a full on hundreds and hundreds of folks who I went to USC with who have the same drive be it at their job, be in their business. I think having that edge, being able to have that edge - when I say “edge” if you imagine if you see a lion, when the lion is hunting down the gazelle there is a look in the lion’s eye that says “this is dinner, this has to happen,” and there is a look in the gazelle’s eye that says “I must disappoint.” Those looks are different because the determination that you have when you say “this must happen,” you leave room for multiple scenarios. I might escape. I might escape hurt. I might not escape. But when it has to happen there is one vision. So that is what I saw with the athletes.
When I got to USC I got there for education. I came to this country for education. But the reason I tried out for the CFL was because you’re in an environment where everyone has one goal and that is to be successful and go pro. They have the vision. I think that is the point. You need to have the vision.
Folks like Matt Barkley, you will not see him at parties every night. He is at home resting, rehabbing, getting ready. Tyron Smith, even if you saw him at parties he wasn’t drinking. They had that vision and they knew exactly what they had to do.
So step one, have the vision. Step two, have the strategy. Know exactly what needs to happen. What steps do I need to take? Don’t go here, do this. How do you manage a brand this way? Do XYZ. I saw folks who knew exactly where they were going and then they had the method or the map, the plan of action. A lot of that comes from surrounding yourself with the right people, talking to the right people.
Then the last thing is just that edge. You need to have that competitive edge that says “I’ve seen the vision, I know exactly what to do, I will put in the work, nothing will stop me, I am going to get it.” I see some of these guys today and they don’t entertain conversation with people who kind of - when I say “entertain conversation” if I surround myself with folks who are not hunting, who are not out and ready for the hunt, I may lose my desire to hunt. I think that is what you see a lot of.
So surround yourself with the right people, having those three things in mind, having a vision, having a strategy and methods to get that you can find from people around you and mentors and people who have been there, then just having that grit, that competitive fire to go get it.
Cain: Man that is outstanding. I love it. Absolutely love it. Peter, tell me about some of the things that you notice. You mentioned earlier that athletes work today to get paid today whereas the Fortune 500 companies are projecting into the future of what they’re trying to do there. Can you talk a little bit more about some of the maybe strategies for the people that are listening to this that might be on the treadmill of paycheck to paycheck that are trying to set themselves up for the future? What are some things that you find that can be easily implemented and are useful for those people that are just trying to kind of get it going?
Yobo: I’ll use athletes (given we’re talking about athletes) and then I’ll talk about just regular folks who are working regular jobs. The key thing that athletes have is an audience. If you played college ball, if you are playing college ball and you have a following of about 200,000 people or even 20,000 people and you realize that every time you post something you get about 2,000 likes, that means you are about converting at 10%.
What people don’t realize is that is an opportunity to serve that audience. There is something about you that they like. There is something about you that adds value to them be it they’re living vicariously through you, them just enjoying seeing your feats and having special access to you. That is something where I think a lot of athletes are losing out right there because you are leaving a lot of money on the table.
I was consulting with an athlete from the Rams just recently. This guy has about 180,000 followers on just Instagram. Just one platform. On that platform every time he posts a picture he gets about I would say maybe 5,000 likes. He has nothing to offer them. When I say “nothing to offer them” it’s not saying you have to sell, sell, sell, but you’re either offering a free workout program - there are people who are giving you their eyes and their attention and that comes with responsibility. You have to serve them in some shape or form. Sure they like seeing your picture but what else can you give them that adds value? Once you realize what you can give them that adds value you start to prep yourself for when you retire or you’re done playing.
If you at practice for a couple years and you used to be the number one guy when you were in college and you still have a lot of a following and an audience how can you leverage that? When people come to you and say “hey here are my new clothes will you wear them for free and put them up online and I will give you clothes whenever you want?” Sure. Take the clothes. But ask them for 5% ownership of the company. Say “look I will get you out to XYZ number of people, you’re not paying for marketing, you’re giving me equity, and we’re going to get your brand out there.”
There are a lot of different strategies that a lot of athletes can use. Athletes are always getting stuff for free. Always. But they get so excited that they are getting stuff for free that they forget that there is an opportunity in that to become an owner. That is where I would say most of these really successful people who have been successful is they’re owners. They’re not just waiting for the paycheck. If you’re waiting for a paycheck guess what? It’s an owner who is paying you. He can fire you whenever he wants.
So for regular people who are working regular jobs here is my thing; you have an expertise. You have an expertise. A lot of people are trading that expertise multiplied by their time in exchange for cash. They go and do that every single day. Where we are going in the workforce is that in the next couple of years - I think by 2020 50% of the workforce will be freelancers. At the same time 50% of the workforce will be Millennials. Same Millennial school. They love to fly, travel, work from home. That is what driving this freelance economy.
Here is where people need to start thinking differently. You are the business. Even if you are working in a business you need to start seeing yourself as a business. If you see yourself as the business what you can then do is start building your brand. You can decide to create a podcast (just like you’re doing, Brian.) They can have a podcast that says “you know what I am going to interview XYZ people in this specific industry.” I am going to position myself as an expert so in the future when people start looking up “oh I’m looking for a freelancers somewhere in the world to hire” I am the one who is popping up first because I have dominated all time, I’ve dominated space.
What people will begin to see is that if you can begin to present yourself as an expert people will come to you. If they hear someone interview you on a podcast and you’re able to share that expertise - even if you’re the guy who is doing IT for a midsized company learn everything you must about what you do.
Find ways to get out there. Just because you are an employee doesn’t mean you can’t go and be a guest on a podcast. Go to places. Write guest articles. What you are doing is you are laying bread crumbs. People will find that and they will come to you and ask you for help when the time is right. But they need to know that you are an expert and they need to know where to find you.
Cain: My next question was going to kind of revolve around you and your success. What are some of the things that you do? You’ve talked about the three steps - having a vision, having the strategy, getting the competitive edge from doing the work and going to get it - but are there things that you do like a morning routine that might involve meditation or exercise or goal setting or how you plan out the time of your day? Are there certain routines that you have, Peter, that you feel like really make you successful?
Yobo: Oh yeah. Definitely. I would say I start off the day by 4:00 AM I’m up. People ask me “why are you waking up at 4:00 AM? Do you even sleep?” I actually do sleep. I go to bed at 9:00 PM so I get seven hours of sleep. The reason I wake up at 4:00 is everyone who could bother me or interrupt me or distract me is probably still in bed so I get a lot of work done.
What I do when my eyes first open is I prime myself for the day. I just say some thank yous to god then I envision what they day needs to look like. I have to do XYZ and I see the successes. I see successes. I prime myself. I just shoot up prayers for folks that I love, my wife, my family, my friends. I’m a Christian so I read the Bible. I get in about 20-30 minutes there. Then I hit the emails. So I’m doing a lot of the stuff that I can do during the day earlier. Then I hit the gym. I need to hit the gym. When I hit the gym the blood is just running. Again that edge. I just feel like I’m ready to go. I’ve got a sweat in.
Then the key thing for me each and every day is what I call my standup. My standup is an agile term. There is a thing called Agile Software Delivery. Standup is when you take 15 minutes, you look at what successes and wins you had yesterday as well as losses and then you plan what you need to do today and you take a look at any obstacles you may have and plan to mitigate those risks or obstacles. I do that then I jump into my day. I jump into my day.
I think another key thing that I try and do too is for example before we talk I need to get in peak state. I need to get in peak state where I’m powerful and ready to go. So any time I have an opportunity to go serve someone I can’t take myself in not ready to perform. It’s just like an athlete. He has to psych himself up, get ready. I make sure if I have anything important to do - an interview that I’m giving or that I’m receiving - any opportunity, walking to a business meeting, walking to a deal with a client, I need to get ready. I need to get that athletes edge. I just go with a peak state. I have a few rituals that I do. It’s just pretty much what I would do before I’d go play a game. Just some jumping, kicking, getting ready to go. I’d say those are it. Those are the key things that I do.
Then I come home 7:00 and shut it down. I hang out with my wife and relax and try and wind down. I’m sure you know that the entrepreneur’s mind is always going and it’s hard to turn it off and when you do turn it off it’s hard to turn it back on which is why I have that morning routine.
Cain: It’s always on man. I think the hardest piece for entrepreneurs is not necessarily getting it going but it’s turning it off at night and showing up in other aspects of your life. A friend of mind talks about having double energy. You’ve got to have double energy when you walk out of the house to go dominate the day in your entrepreneurial life but you’ve got to have double energy also when you come back in the house and your wife and your kids or your husband and your kids are there waiting for you.
Peter, you mentioned getting into a state. As you talked about it I heard it sounded like you clapped your hands in the background. Have you been to a Tony Robbins event and learned about putting yourself in a state? Is that something that you picked up there?
Yobo: I have. I picked it up reading. So I read about 10 books a month. I picked it up but I also went to Tony Conference in 2012 and that is where I saw it delivered in a very succinct way. So yes, I would say that is where I solidified my “get in the state.”
Cain: That is awesome. We had another podcast episode guest who works in real estate, Jamie Amon, and he has been a Tony Robbins student. He talked a lot about getting himself into a state. He had a very similar morning routine to you. I think that’s fabulous that some of our guests are having that consistent routine.
One of the things we talk a lot about at the seminars that I do or in the podcasts with all of our guests is the importance of having a morning routine and a structure that helps you get going in the day. I love the waking up at 4:00 in the morning, getting up and getting your own personal work done while everyone else is sleeping. They’re not going to be pulling at you. But you read 10 books a month? What are some of the books that you are going through? What are some of the books that have made the biggest impact on you?
Yobo: Oh man. I have the three core books that I recommend to everyone - any and every one - The Alchemist, The Richest Man In Babylon, and As The Man Thinketh. Those are the top three. If you’re not a reader, if you’re not someone who is consciously aware what you want to do and who you want to be read that book to start. Just to start. Think And Grow Rich is another one that has had a huge impact. Definitely The Bible. I feel like that is where I get most - I read that all the time. There is just so much. The way I see it is they are all these books that were printed in the past 120 years but then you’ve got this book that has been here for 2,000 years. So a lot of stuff I’ve learned I’ve picked up there.
Boy, what are a few other ones? There is one that I am getting ready to read by Peter Diamandis (I think is his name) called Abundance. I’m getting ready to read that. I’m currently reading How To Fly A Horse which is on innovation. A fantastic book. I couldn’t tell you the author though unfortunately [Kevin Ashton]. Another two books from Ryan Holiday that have blown my mind, The Obstacle Is The Way and Ego Is The Enemy. Those two books have just been fantastic. Great for where I’m at.
The other one was The Firm. I believe it’s called The Firm. It’s a book on how McKinsey (the consulting firm) was started. That book probably is what caused me to start consulting for them. I could have just done this on my own. I could have just had a small shop and worked with these celebrities, worked with individuals. I’d bring all the money to myself. I make a lot of money. I’d still be happy and still be comfortable. But that books talks about just the team and for lack of a better word I will use the word “swag” that the McKinsey consultants walk into CEO board rooms with just because we know we have the best people and we are going to deliver the best offering, the best work. I just thought “hmm what if I could bring together a group of folks,” a very small group of folks who have that same drive who are able to go in and demand respect because we are the best at what we do and we provide the results. That book has definitely been the most instrumental in the past couple of years.
Cain: That’s awesome. I appreciate you sharing that reading list. Peter, I know your time is precious. Thank you so much for taking time out of your hectic schedule to join us here on the Peak Performance Podcast. My last question for you is this: what is it that you know now that you wish you knew when you were younger? I guess the question is what do you know now you wish you knew then? People always say “well when is ‘then?’” Then would be let’s say when you were the college football player, when you were just getting going as a freshman in college. What do you know now you wish you knew back then that maybe would have made you more successful?
Yobo: Start now. I tell everyone start now. There is a power in being able to create. That is what we are doing right now. We’re creating a podcast episode. But a lot of people - it will surprise you how many people in college, how many people all over the world, do not know that this was once an idea for you. It may have been an idea years ago or months ago but you created it. You created this podcast we’re recording and now you’re going to deliver it. You created it. Start now. Start creating. If you have ideas of things you want to do, things that excite you, start. You will fail, yes, but failing is awesome because then you know what not to do. So definitely start now.
If I had known that years ago I would have been more intentional with what I’m doing now. I would have been more intentional with my time at USC. No regrets but I think there could have been a couple more wins. I wanted another.
Cain: Yeah there have been a lot of wins in your life. I’m absolutely amazed at your story from the computer labs of Ghana to the USC Trojans to now helping people of high net worth athletes and celebrities even capitalize and get more out of their brand.
Peter, thank you so much for taking time to be on the podcast. For our listeners go and learn more at www.PeterFYobo.com. Follow him on Twitter at @PeterYobo. Peter, thanks again. We’ll definitely get you back here. Absolutely incredible. Thank you so much.
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        <![CDATA[In this episode, Brian talks with Peter Yobo who is an Innovation Strategies Consultant and former USC Trojan football player. Peter grew up over seas in Ghana and has an incredibly story of coming to the U.S. and starting his own business.
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You will learn about...
Peter's unique journey from South Africa to Southern California
Peter's passion for USC and how he prepared for going to the University long before he was ever accepted
How Peter learned life lessons from going up against NFL All-Pro Tyrone Smith each day in practice at USC
What Peter believes to be the 4 traits of successful people
How to add value to those you know and those who follow you
 
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION
Yobo: I would look at the pictures and I would imagine myself walking on campus high-fiving folks, talking to buddies, and experiencing USC. I did that from Ghana. From West Africa. There was this obsession.
Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance Coach here with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest is Peter Yobo. Peter is an innovation strategies consultant with the Yobo Group where he helps professional athletes and celebrities leverage their brand so that they can make more money off of their brand.
For example, did you realize that Steph Curry last year made 10 million dollars off the court by selling $2 emojis that people use in social media and on their cell phone? I didn’t know that. That blew me away. Peter is going to share with us some of the other things out there that people are doing to help leverage their brand.
First, Peter, thank you for joining us on the podcast. Would you take us and our listeners through your journey from where you grew up and your experience with athletics to where you are right now leading the Yobo Group?
Yobo: Brian, thank you. Thanks for that awesome introduction. It’s a great opportunity to be here on the podcast and share my story. My story starts in New Jersey actually. I was born in New Jersey (New Brunswick). I lived in New Jersey for three years then my mom moved us back to Ghana, West Africa, where my family is originally from.
Growing up as a kid I was that kid who couldn’t sit still. I was always running around having fun and breaking things, breaking bones. I couldn’t sit still in class. I had teachers say “this kid is not going to amount to anything, he is always in trouble.” The funny thing though is I always got good grades. I was the kid who never studied but some way somehow I had this visual memory so I was able to remember answers to questions because I would remember what my professor was wearing the day he spoke about it. So it was just this funny thing because I would throw these teachers for a loop. I was so stubborn and caused trouble all the time but then on the other hand I was doing very well in school and very well in sports.
My mom right after high school, she was like “Peter we need to figure out if you’re going to go to high school in the US or in London or here in Ghana.” Something had happened about a year before that question came. I was watching a clip of US running back Reggie Bush. I think it was the 2005 Rose Bowl.
[Stayed in bounds, airborne, touchdown, Reggie Bush]
Yobo: I was pumped. I was excited. I just loved the whole atmosphere I saw in the coliseum. I said “I am going to go to that school.” Well guess what? It cost $56,000 per year to attend USC. I don’t know how I’m going to pay for that, how much more to just even attend four years.
So a lot of folks started saying “Peter it might serve you well to not even focus on that, that is too big of a goal, that is too lofty.” So what I did was every day during lunch I was so enamored, I was just attracted to the school - and today I realize what I was doing but then I didn’t understand it. I was so attracted to it that every day at lunch I was so excited I needed to go sit behind - we had about 2-3 computers in our computer lab that had internet and I would sit down and had my buddies go pick up my lunch. I would just go on the USC website.
I remember it like it was yesterday, www.USC.edu. All I would do was look at the pictures. I would look at the pictures and I would imagine myself walking on campus high-fiving folks, talking to buddies, and experiencing USC. I did that from Ghana. From West Africa. From a small little computer lab in my high school. I did that every day. Every lunch break (apart from the weekends). Every day. There was this obsession with having to go to USC.
So fast-forward. I decided “hey mom I want to take the SAT.” I took the SAT. I did decently well. I moved to the US. I took a year off. I honestly couldn’t afford to just jump into school so I took a year off and I became a California resident. I was living in the San Jose area, the Silicon Valley area, and I just figured “you know what, I’m a California resident now, I finally made enough money to buy my car, I’m just going to go to San Jose State University.” Just something that is cheap. I’m an American citizen so I don’t have to pay that much. Everything is taken care of. So I did that for a year and a half.
I grew restless. Today I understand why. I was being drawn to my purpose, my destiny. I was just restless. I was restless, I was struggling, and finally I decided to transfer. I was going to go to UC Riverside for basketball. All my other applications - I mean I mailed it, I did everything right, wrote all the right essays - then it comes to USC. I was like “you know what I’ll just apply, I probably won’t get in, it’s probably too expensive.” I literally would say if I can get that application back that would have been the most heartfelt - I didn’t hold anything back. I wasn’t trying to be professional. I just said what I cared about. I spoke as if I was speaking to a friend. A month or two later I got a packet - “Peter, welcome to the Trojan family.” Some way somehow an internship with PWC and a few other scholarships made it easy and financially affordable to go to USC.
I started off playing - in fact this is where it gets crazy. I walk on campus for orientation and I’m walking and I look to my left and I’m standing right in front of the USC Floral Gardens. That is the picture I had been seeing day after day after day about three years ago. Mind blown. I am here. I am high-fiving folks. I am living that story. I went on to do track and field. Coaches saw me thinking “oh my goodness who is this big guy out there doing track, come play football.” So I walked on, played two years of football at USC - best experience ever. Mind blowing experience. In fact going to USC was a mind blowing experience.
Since then I’ve graduated. I’ve been planning to go pro. Well I attempted to go to the Canadian Football League but that didn’t work out. I would say I didn’t have enough years or the freakish athletic genes to make that leap. Then I did about five years working for Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC) in innovation and technology consulting.
Then about a month and a half ago I decided to go out on my own full time. Like you said I work with athletes and celebrities, high net worth individuals, but we also do a lot of work with companies. We do a lot of work for small to midsized businesses ranging from 10-100 million dollars. Our goal is very simple. We fight for the company’s future. We help companies fight for their future.
What we’ve started to realize is a lot of companies, a lot of athletes, celebrities, individuals, they do what they have to be today to make money. But we look at the Fortune 500s and they are investing money in R&amp;D, investing money in their future, and they’re fighting for that because that is what keeps them with the competition or ahead of the competition. Our goal is to come in and be that arm for companies and celebrities and athletes and high net worth individuals. We become that innovation, that research and development arm allowing them to see into the future, build strategies to get there, and then execute on doing that.
That is my story.
Cain: Peter, it sounds like you have been doing this your entire life. I can only imagine sitting in a computer lab in Ghana looking at USC wanting to go play football there and then all of a sudden you made that happen. Did they have football in Ghana?
Yobo: No. The closest I came to playing football was rugby when I was maybe 9 years old.
Cain: So the first time you ever put on a football helmet was when you put on your USC Trojans helmet?
Yobo: This is true. Let me preface that. It was I put on my helmet and I had lined up across from Tyron Smith. Tyron Smith of the Cowboys. He woke my butt every single day, every single day, and it was so frustrating because in Ghana I was the guy - basketball, swimming, soccer, you name it. Every sport I played I was the athlete, I was my high school’s athlete of the year, all of that. Then I came to the US and this guy, Tyron Smith, is huge and the coach says “just get around him and go tackle the quarterback.” I was playing DM at the time. Every single snap this guy punished me. But that is what taught me what the game of football meant. I started to realize just running and just going hard is not going to make me successful. I need to have the right techniques. I need to have the right moves. I need to go in the gym and get bigger, get stronger.
I’ll tell you what after three months going against Tyron Smith I probably put on about 30 pounds and maybe even shaved off a second or two on my forwarding time. Because you’re going up against someone who knows he is going pro. He knows this is just the audition for the job he is going for and he means business. I said “man sometimes you need to have some pride in yourself, you can’t be on your back every single day,” so I had to develop, I had to learn the game, and I did very fast.
Cain: That is unbelievable. Was Pete Carroll the head coach there when you were there?
Yobo: No it was Lane Kiffin.
Cain: Lane Kiffin. Okay. Excellent. So you got to go there, you played USC Trojan football. Matt Barkley was the quarterback there I assume at that time? Is that right?
Yobo: He was, yep.
Cain: Unbelievable. What are some of the things that you noticed with these guys that you’re playing in one of the greatest universities of the country, you’re playing in the Pac-12, one of the best leagues in the country, what are some of the characteristics that you noticed in those athletes at USC or the guys that you work with now in helping them leverage their brand that are characteristics that our listeners are going to want to develop so that they can become more successful? Ultimately, Peter, probably what I’m asking you is when you look in the mirror what are the characteristics that you see that made you successful?
Yobo: That is a great question. The same competitive edge that I had at USC, even though I didn’t go pro I know I can list a full on hundreds and hundreds of folks who I went to USC with who have the same drive be it at their job, be in their business. I think having that edge, being able to have that edge - when I say “edge” if you imagine if you see a lion, when the lion is hunting down the gazelle there is a look in the lion’s eye that says “this is dinner, this has to happen,” and there is a look in the gazelle’s eye that says “I must disappoint.” Those looks are different because the determination that you have when you say “this must happen,” you leave room for multiple scenarios. I might escape. I might escape hurt. I might not escape. But when it has to happen there is one vision. So that is what I saw with the athletes.
When I got to USC I got there for education. I came to this country for education. But the reason I tried out for the CFL was because you’re in an environment where everyone has one goal and that is to be successful and go pro. They have the vision. I think that is the point. You need to have the vision.
Folks like Matt Barkley, you will not see him at parties every night. He is at home resting, rehabbing, getting ready. Tyron Smith, even if you saw him at parties he wasn’t drinking. They had that vision and they knew exactly what they had to do.
So step one, have the vision. Step two, have the strategy. Know exactly what needs to happen. What steps do I need to take? Don’t go here, do this. How do you manage a brand this way? Do XYZ. I saw folks who knew exactly where they were going and then they had the method or the map, the plan of action. A lot of that comes from surrounding yourself with the right people, talking to the right people.
Then the last thing is just that edge. You need to have that competitive edge that says “I’ve seen the vision, I know exactly what to do, I will put in the work, nothing will stop me, I am going to get it.” I see some of these guys today and they don’t entertain conversation with people who kind of - when I say “entertain conversation” if I surround myself with folks who are not hunting, who are not out and ready for the hunt, I may lose my desire to hunt. I think that is what you see a lot of.
So surround yourself with the right people, having those three things in mind, having a vision, having a strategy and methods to get that you can find from people around you and mentors and people who have been there, then just having that grit, that competitive fire to go get it.
Cain: Man that is outstanding. I love it. Absolutely love it. Peter, tell me about some of the things that you notice. You mentioned earlier that athletes work today to get paid today whereas the Fortune 500 companies are projecting into the future of what they’re trying to do there. Can you talk a little bit more about some of the maybe strategies for the people that are listening to this that might be on the treadmill of paycheck to paycheck that are trying to set themselves up for the future? What are some things that you find that can be easily implemented and are useful for those people that are just trying to kind of get it going?
Yobo: I’ll use athletes (given we’re talking about athletes) and then I’ll talk about just regular folks who are working regular jobs. The key thing that athletes have is an audience. If you played college ball, if you are playing college ball and you have a following of about 200,000 people or even 20,000 people and you realize that every time you post something you get about 2,000 likes, that means you are about converting at 10%.
What people don’t realize is that is an opportunity to serve that audience. There is something about you that they like. There is something about you that adds value to them be it they’re living vicariously through you, them just enjoying seeing your feats and having special access to you. That is something where I think a lot of athletes are losing out right there because you are leaving a lot of money on the table.
I was consulting with an athlete from the Rams just recently. This guy has about 180,000 followers on just Instagram. Just one platform. On that platform every time he posts a picture he gets about I would say maybe 5,000 likes. He has nothing to offer them. When I say “nothing to offer them” it’s not saying you have to sell, sell, sell, but you’re either offering a free workout program - there are people who are giving you their eyes and their attention and that comes with responsibility. You have to serve them in some shape or form. Sure they like seeing your picture but what else can you give them that adds value? Once you realize what you can give them that adds value you start to prep yourself for when you retire or you’re done playing.
If you at practice for a couple years and you used to be the number one guy when you were in college and you still have a lot of a following and an audience how can you leverage that? When people come to you and say “hey here are my new clothes will you wear them for free and put them up online and I will give you clothes whenever you want?” Sure. Take the clothes. But ask them for 5% ownership of the company. Say “look I will get you out to XYZ number of people, you’re not paying for marketing, you’re giving me equity, and we’re going to get your brand out there.”
There are a lot of different strategies that a lot of athletes can use. Athletes are always getting stuff for free. Always. But they get so excited that they are getting stuff for free that they forget that there is an opportunity in that to become an owner. That is where I would say most of these really successful people who have been successful is they’re owners. They’re not just waiting for the paycheck. If you’re waiting for a paycheck guess what? It’s an owner who is paying you. He can fire you whenever he wants.
So for regular people who are working regular jobs here is my thing; you have an expertise. You have an expertise. A lot of people are trading that expertise multiplied by their time in exchange for cash. They go and do that every single day. Where we are going in the workforce is that in the next couple of years - I think by 2020 50% of the workforce will be freelancers. At the same time 50% of the workforce will be Millennials. Same Millennial school. They love to fly, travel, work from home. That is what driving this freelance economy.
Here is where people need to start thinking differently. You are the business. Even if you are working in a business you need to start seeing yourself as a business. If you see yourself as the business what you can then do is start building your brand. You can decide to create a podcast (just like you’re doing, Brian.) They can have a podcast that says “you know what I am going to interview XYZ people in this specific industry.” I am going to position myself as an expert so in the future when people start looking up “oh I’m looking for a freelancers somewhere in the world to hire” I am the one who is popping up first because I have dominated all time, I’ve dominated space.
What people will begin to see is that if you can begin to present yourself as an expert people will come to you. If they hear someone interview you on a podcast and you’re able to share that expertise - even if you’re the guy who is doing IT for a midsized company learn everything you must about what you do.
Find ways to get out there. Just because you are an employee doesn’t mean you can’t go and be a guest on a podcast. Go to places. Write guest articles. What you are doing is you are laying bread crumbs. People will find that and they will come to you and ask you for help when the time is right. But they need to know that you are an expert and they need to know where to find you.
Cain: My next question was going to kind of revolve around you and your success. What are some of the things that you do? You’ve talked about the three steps - having a vision, having the strategy, getting the competitive edge from doing the work and going to get it - but are there things that you do like a morning routine that might involve meditation or exercise or goal setting or how you plan out the time of your day? Are there certain routines that you have, Peter, that you feel like really make you successful?
Yobo: Oh yeah. Definitely. I would say I start off the day by 4:00 AM I’m up. People ask me “why are you waking up at 4:00 AM? Do you even sleep?” I actually do sleep. I go to bed at 9:00 PM so I get seven hours of sleep. The reason I wake up at 4:00 is everyone who could bother me or interrupt me or distract me is probably still in bed so I get a lot of work done.
What I do when my eyes first open is I prime myself for the day. I just say some thank yous to god then I envision what they day needs to look like. I have to do XYZ and I see the successes. I see successes. I prime myself. I just shoot up prayers for folks that I love, my wife, my family, my friends. I’m a Christian so I read the Bible. I get in about 20-30 minutes there. Then I hit the emails. So I’m doing a lot of the stuff that I can do during the day earlier. Then I hit the gym. I need to hit the gym. When I hit the gym the blood is just running. Again that edge. I just feel like I’m ready to go. I’ve got a sweat in.
Then the key thing for me each and every day is what I call my standup. My standup is an agile term. There is a thing called Agile Software Delivery. Standup is when you take 15 minutes, you look at what successes and wins you had yesterday as well as losses and then you plan what you need to do today and you take a look at any obstacles you may have and plan to mitigate those risks or obstacles. I do that then I jump into my day. I jump into my day.
I think another key thing that I try and do too is for example before we talk I need to get in peak state. I need to get in peak state where I’m powerful and ready to go. So any time I have an opportunity to go serve someone I can’t take myself in not ready to perform. It’s just like an athlete. He has to psych himself up, get ready. I make sure if I have anything important to do - an interview that I’m giving or that I’m receiving - any opportunity, walking to a business meeting, walking to a deal with a client, I need to get ready. I need to get that athletes edge. I just go with a peak state. I have a few rituals that I do. It’s just pretty much what I would do before I’d go play a game. Just some jumping, kicking, getting ready to go. I’d say those are it. Those are the key things that I do.
Then I come home 7:00 and shut it down. I hang out with my wife and relax and try and wind down. I’m sure you know that the entrepreneur’s mind is always going and it’s hard to turn it off and when you do turn it off it’s hard to turn it back on which is why I have that morning routine.
Cain: It’s always on man. I think the hardest piece for entrepreneurs is not necessarily getting it going but it’s turning it off at night and showing up in other aspects of your life. A friend of mind talks about having double energy. You’ve got to have double energy when you walk out of the house to go dominate the day in your entrepreneurial life but you’ve got to have double energy also when you come back in the house and your wife and your kids or your husband and your kids are there waiting for you.
Peter, you mentioned getting into a state. As you talked about it I heard it sounded like you clapped your hands in the background. Have you been to a Tony Robbins event and learned about putting yourself in a state? Is that something that you picked up there?
Yobo: I have. I picked it up reading. So I read about 10 books a month. I picked it up but I also went to Tony Conference in 2012 and that is where I saw it delivered in a very succinct way. So yes, I would say that is where I solidified my “get in the state.”
Cain: That is awesome. We had another podcast episode guest who works in real estate, Jamie Amon, and he has been a Tony Robbins student. He talked a lot about getting himself into a state. He had a very similar morning routine to you. I think that’s fabulous that some of our guests are having that consistent routine.
One of the things we talk a lot about at the seminars that I do or in the podcasts with all of our guests is the importance of having a morning routine and a structure that helps you get going in the day. I love the waking up at 4:00 in the morning, getting up and getting your own personal work done while everyone else is sleeping. They’re not going to be pulling at you. But you read 10 books a month? What are some of the books that you are going through? What are some of the books that have made the biggest impact on you?
Yobo: Oh man. I have the three core books that I recommend to everyone - any and every one - The Alchemist, The Richest Man In Babylon, and As The Man Thinketh. Those are the top three. If you’re not a reader, if you’re not someone who is consciously aware what you want to do and who you want to be read that book to start. Just to start. Think And Grow Rich is another one that has had a huge impact. Definitely The Bible. I feel like that is where I get most - I read that all the time. There is just so much. The way I see it is they are all these books that were printed in the past 120 years but then you’ve got this book that has been here for 2,000 years. So a lot of stuff I’ve learned I’ve picked up there.
Boy, what are a few other ones? There is one that I am getting ready to read by Peter Diamandis (I think is his name) called Abundance. I’m getting ready to read that. I’m currently reading How To Fly A Horse which is on innovation. A fantastic book. I couldn’t tell you the author though unfortunately [Kevin Ashton]. Another two books from Ryan Holiday that have blown my mind, The Obstacle Is The Way and Ego Is The Enemy. Those two books have just been fantastic. Great for where I’m at.
The other one was The Firm. I believe it’s called The Firm. It’s a book on how McKinsey (the consulting firm) was started. That book probably is what caused me to start consulting for them. I could have just done this on my own. I could have just had a small shop and worked with these celebrities, worked with individuals. I’d bring all the money to myself. I make a lot of money. I’d still be happy and still be comfortable. But that books talks about just the team and for lack of a better word I will use the word “swag” that the McKinsey consultants walk into CEO board rooms with just because we know we have the best people and we are going to deliver the best offering, the best work. I just thought “hmm what if I could bring together a group of folks,” a very small group of folks who have that same drive who are able to go in and demand respect because we are the best at what we do and we provide the results. That book has definitely been the most instrumental in the past couple of years.
Cain: That’s awesome. I appreciate you sharing that reading list. Peter, I know your time is precious. Thank you so much for taking time out of your hectic schedule to join us here on the Peak Performance Podcast. My last question for you is this: what is it that you know now that you wish you knew when you were younger? I guess the question is what do you know now you wish you knew then? People always say “well when is ‘then?’” Then would be let’s say when you were the college football player, when you were just getting going as a freshman in college. What do you know now you wish you knew back then that maybe would have made you more successful?
Yobo: Start now. I tell everyone start now. There is a power in being able to create. That is what we are doing right now. We’re creating a podcast episode. But a lot of people - it will surprise you how many people in college, how many people all over the world, do not know that this was once an idea for you. It may have been an idea years ago or months ago but you created it. You created this podcast we’re recording and now you’re going to deliver it. You created it. Start now. Start creating. If you have ideas of things you want to do, things that excite you, start. You will fail, yes, but failing is awesome because then you know what not to do. So definitely start now.
If I had known that years ago I would have been more intentional with what I’m doing now. I would have been more intentional with my time at USC. No regrets but I think there could have been a couple more wins. I wanted another.
Cain: Yeah there have been a lot of wins in your life. I’m absolutely amazed at your story from the computer labs of Ghana to the USC Trojans to now helping people of high net worth athletes and celebrities even capitalize and get more out of their brand.
Peter, thank you so much for taking time to be on the podcast. For our listeners go and learn more at www.PeterFYobo.com. Follow him on Twitter at @PeterYobo. Peter, thanks again. We’ll definitely get you back here. Absolutely incredible. Thank you so much.
Yobo: Awesome. Thank you for having me.]]>
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The best present you can possibly offer to someone that you love?
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Carry yourself with tremendous presence and make it about others.  Be where your feet are.
How much can you give this holiday season?</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[Do you want to know the greatest gift that you can give someone this holiday season?
The best present you can possibly offer to someone that you love?
Most people make the mistake during the holiday season of listening to the voice inside of their head instead of talking to themselves.
Carry yourself with tremendous presence and make it about others.  Be where your feet are.
How much can you give this holiday season?]]>
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      <itunes:duration>454</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC112: Inspiration to Fiction</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc112-inspiration-to-fiction/</link>
      <description>So I get this question a lot...
"Why did you make the jump from how-to writing to fictional storybooks?"
In my podcast interview with Jon Gordon, he shared some great principles and strategies for why he writes the way he does.
The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance are the 20% of the entire field of Peak Performance that will get you 80% of the benefit.
Learn more about my new fictional storybooks!</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 01:03:48 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC112: Inspiration to Fiction</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d49dc3ce-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-e3a18d2c9a09/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>So I get this question a lot...
"Why did you make the jump from how-to writing to fictional storybooks?"
In my podcast interview with Jon Gordon, he shared some great principles and strategies for why he writes the way he does.
The 12 Pillars of Peak Per...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>So I get this question a lot...
"Why did you make the jump from how-to writing to fictional storybooks?"
In my podcast interview with Jon Gordon, he shared some great principles and strategies for why he writes the way he does.
The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance are the 20% of the entire field of Peak Performance that will get you 80% of the benefit.
Learn more about my new fictional storybooks!</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[So I get this question a lot...
"Why did you make the jump from how-to writing to fictional storybooks?"
In my podcast interview with Jon Gordon, he shared some great principles and strategies for why he writes the way he does.
The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance are the 20% of the entire field of Peak Performance that will get you 80% of the benefit.
Learn more about my new fictional storybooks!]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>780</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc112-inspiration-to-fiction/]]></guid>
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      <title>BC111: Improve Your 5 by Joining The Inner Circle</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc111-improve-your-5-by-joining-the-inner-circle/</link>
      <description>To become more, you've got to surround yourself with people who are doing what you do at a higher level.
Inside of the Inner Circle, you immediately surround yourself with the best.
If you are a coach who is ready to take your game to another level, click here.
It is my mission to equip you with the tools you need to make a massive impact on your athletes, as quickly, effortlessly and powerfully as possible.
&gt;&gt; BrianCain.com/InnerCircle</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 01:02:54 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC111: Improve Your 5 by Joining The Inner Circle</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d4e51828-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-9f5b1588762e/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>To become more, you've got to surround yourself with people who are doing what you do at a higher level.
Inside of the Inner Circle, you immediately surround yourself with the best.
If you are a coach who is ready to take your game to another level, clic...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>To become more, you've got to surround yourself with people who are doing what you do at a higher level.
Inside of the Inner Circle, you immediately surround yourself with the best.
If you are a coach who is ready to take your game to another level, click here.
It is my mission to equip you with the tools you need to make a massive impact on your athletes, as quickly, effortlessly and powerfully as possible.
&gt;&gt; BrianCain.com/InnerCircle</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[To become more, you've got to surround yourself with people who are doing what you do at a higher level.
Inside of the Inner Circle, you immediately surround yourself with the best.
If you are a coach who is ready to take your game to another level, click here.
It is my mission to equip you with the tools you need to make a massive impact on your athletes, as quickly, effortlessly and powerfully as possible.
&gt;&gt; BrianCain.com/InnerCircle]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>557</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc111-improve-your-5-by-joining-the-inner-circle/]]></guid>
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      <title>BC110: Ed Padalecki | Inner Circle Benefits</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc110-ed-padalecki-inner-circle-benefits/</link>
      <description>This week, you get to hear from Inner Circle member Ed Padalecki.  Coach Padalecki is a high school baseball and football coach in Flower Mound, Texas.
On this episode, you'll learn about:
The #1 biggest improvement Coach Padalecki has experienced in the last year
The power of a community of like-minded individuals
What it takes to coach 2 sports and lead a family (with a newborn!)
The 2016 Inner Circle Moment of the Year
and much more...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 01:00:55 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC110: Ed Padalecki | Inner Circle Benefits</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d4fe248a-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-6f11f1e8c8d6/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>This week, you get to hear from Inner Circle member Ed Padalecki.  Coach Padalecki is a high school baseball and football coach in Flower Mound, Texas.
On this episode, you'll learn about:
The #1 biggest improvement Coach Padalecki has experienced in the...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week, you get to hear from Inner Circle member Ed Padalecki.  Coach Padalecki is a high school baseball and football coach in Flower Mound, Texas.
On this episode, you'll learn about:
The #1 biggest improvement Coach Padalecki has experienced in the last year
The power of a community of like-minded individuals
What it takes to coach 2 sports and lead a family (with a newborn!)
The 2016 Inner Circle Moment of the Year
and much more...</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[This week, you get to hear from Inner Circle member Ed Padalecki.  Coach Padalecki is a high school baseball and football coach in Flower Mound, Texas.
On this episode, you'll learn about:
The #1 biggest improvement Coach Padalecki has experienced in the last year
The power of a community of like-minded individuals
What it takes to coach 2 sports and lead a family (with a newborn!)
The 2016 Inner Circle Moment of the Year
and much more...
]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1154</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC109:  Inner Circle Panel (Audio Recording of IC Panel at July Experience)</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc109-inner-circle-panel-audio-recording-of-ic-panel-at-july-experience/</link>
      <description>This week we take you live inside The Brian Cain Experience event from McKinney, Texas, July 30-31, 2016. 
You'll learn from members of the Inner Circle and how they use the mental game on a consistent basis to help better develop themselves as coaches so that they can best develop and train their players.  Better coaches make better players.  In this podcast, some of the best coaches in the country explain how they use the Inner Circle to become more so that they can achieve more.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 01:00:25 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC109:  Inner Circle Panel (Audio Recording of IC Panel at July Experience)</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d5184112-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-476b6e3663c5/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>This week we take you live inside The Brian Cain Experience event from McKinney, Texas, July 30-31, 2016. 
You'll learn from members of the Inner Circle and how they use the mental game on a consistent basis to help better develop themselves as coaches s...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week we take you live inside The Brian Cain Experience event from McKinney, Texas, July 30-31, 2016. 
You'll learn from members of the Inner Circle and how they use the mental game on a consistent basis to help better develop themselves as coaches so that they can best develop and train their players.  Better coaches make better players.  In this podcast, some of the best coaches in the country explain how they use the Inner Circle to become more so that they can achieve more.</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[This week we take you live inside The Brian Cain Experience event from McKinney, Texas, July 30-31, 2016. 
You'll learn from members of the Inner Circle and how they use the mental game on a consistent basis to help better develop themselves as coaches so that they can best develop and train their players.  Better coaches make better players.  In this podcast, some of the best coaches in the country explain how they use the Inner Circle to become more so that they can achieve more.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>631</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC108: Jeff Janssen | Developing Leadership &amp; Culture #Pillar2</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc108-jeff-janssen-developing-leadership-culture-pillar2/</link>
      <description>"Are you a coach of success or a coach of significance?"
This week, we reach into the Peak Performance Vault for a episode featuring leadership &amp; culture guru Jeff Janssen from 2007!
On this episode, you'll learn:
How to KNOW you are making a difference in the lives of your athletes
The training needed to develop true leadership
The importance of keeping the main thing the main thing
How to build confidence in your players
and much more...
The Janssen Sports Leadership Center develops college and high school student-athletes and coaches into world-class leaders who are committed to a lifetime of service, success, and significance.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:59:53 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC108: Jeff Janssen | Developing Leadership &amp; Culture #Pillar2</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d52f681a-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-9f064ba786d8/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>"Are you a coach of success or a coach of significance?"
This week, we reach into the Peak Performance Vault for a episode featuring leadership &amp; culture guru Jeff Janssen from 2007!
On this episode, you'll learn:
How to KNOW you are making a difference ...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>"Are you a coach of success or a coach of significance?"
This week, we reach into the Peak Performance Vault for a episode featuring leadership &amp; culture guru Jeff Janssen from 2007!
On this episode, you'll learn:
How to KNOW you are making a difference in the lives of your athletes
The training needed to develop true leadership
The importance of keeping the main thing the main thing
How to build confidence in your players
and much more...
The Janssen Sports Leadership Center develops college and high school student-athletes and coaches into world-class leaders who are committed to a lifetime of service, success, and significance.</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA["Are you a coach of success or a coach of significance?"
This week, we reach into the Peak Performance Vault for a episode featuring leadership &amp; culture guru Jeff Janssen from 2007!
On this episode, you'll learn:
How to KNOW you are making a difference in the lives of your athletes
The training needed to develop true leadership
The importance of keeping the main thing the main thing
How to build confidence in your players
and much more...
The Janssen Sports Leadership Center develops college and high school student-athletes and coaches into world-class leaders who are committed to a lifetime of service, success, and significance.]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1907</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BONUS! Pillar #2 Championship Culture Audiobook Preview</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bonus-pillar-2-championship-culture-audiobook-preview/</link>
      <description>This BONUS Podcast Episode features a preview of the Pillar #2: Championship Culture audiobook...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:59:19 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BONUS! Pillar #2 Championship Culture Audiobook Preview</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d54875bc-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-338fa00aca2a/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>This BONUS Podcast Episode features a preview of the Pillar #2: Championship Culture audiobook...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This BONUS Podcast Episode features a preview of the Pillar #2: Championship Culture audiobook...</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[<p>This<strong> BONUS Podcast Episode </strong>features a preview of<strong> </strong>the <em><strong>Pillar #2: Championship Culture</strong></em> audiobook...</p>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>678</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC107:  Hal Wasson | Building a Winning High School Football Program | Championship Culture #Pillar2</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc107-hal-wasson-building-a-winning-high-school-football-program-championship-culture-pillar2/</link>
      <description>This week’s guest is one of the top high school football coaches in the nation.  Hal Wasson has been the head football coach at Southlake Carroll in Southlake, TX, since 2007.  The Dragons are widely recognized as a top high school football program and annually find themselves ranked in the top 25 nationally and competing for a Texas high school football state championship.  In this podcast Wasson shares how he develops a championship culture, an elite mindset and a one-play-at-a-time mentality within his program.  He also shares advice for fathers who are coaching their sons.
You can follow Coach Wasson and Southlake Carroll HS Football @SLCDragonFB.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:58:42 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC107:  Hal Wasson | Building a Winning High School Football Program | Championship Culture #Pillar2</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d55b32ba-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-0fa80dfe6ce5/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>This week’s guest is one of the top high school football coaches in the nation.  Hal Wasson has been the head football coach at Southlake Carroll in Southlake, TX, since 2007.  The Dragons are widely recognized as a top high school football program and a...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week’s guest is one of the top high school football coaches in the nation.  Hal Wasson has been the head football coach at Southlake Carroll in Southlake, TX, since 2007.  The Dragons are widely recognized as a top high school football program and annually find themselves ranked in the top 25 nationally and competing for a Texas high school football state championship.  In this podcast Wasson shares how he develops a championship culture, an elite mindset and a one-play-at-a-time mentality within his program.  He also shares advice for fathers who are coaching their sons.
You can follow Coach Wasson and Southlake Carroll HS Football @SLCDragonFB.</itunes:summary>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[This week’s guest is one of the top high school football coaches in the nation.  Hal Wasson has been the head football coach at Southlake Carroll in Southlake, TX, since 2007.  The Dragons are widely recognized as a top high school football program and annually find themselves ranked in the top 25 nationally and competing for a Texas high school football state championship.  In this podcast Wasson shares how he develops a championship culture, an elite mindset and a one-play-at-a-time mentality within his program.  He also shares advice for fathers who are coaching their sons.
You can follow Coach Wasson and Southlake Carroll HS Football @SLCDragonFB.]]>
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      <itunes:duration>2029</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc107-hal-wasson-building-a-winning-high-school-football-program-championship-culture-pillar2/]]></guid>
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      <title>Building a Championship Culture and Coaching The Mental Game of Baseball, Alan McDougal</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc106-alan-mcdougal-coaching-the-mental-game-of-baseball-program-building-championship-culture-pillar2/</link>
      <description>This week’s guest is Alan McDougal, head baseball coach at Colleyville Heritage High School in Colleyville, TX. Alan is widely regarded as one of the top coaches in the game when it comes to developing a mindset and a championship culture. He has coached multiple Major League players and routinely puts players into Division One college baseball. In this podcast McDougal shares insight into how he uses the classroom to develop the mental game with his players, DUDES as the acronym for his program's championship culture, and how he runs a fast-paced and up-tempo style practice with his program. He also shares one of the most amazing stories about former Notre Dame football coach Tyrone Willingham that you won’t want to miss. You can follow Alan and Colleyville Heritage Baseball on Twitter @CHHS_Baseball.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:58:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Building a Championship Culture and Coaching The Mental Game of Baseball, Alan McDougal</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d56e9f30-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-9bec65ecee6c/image/Cain_Podcast_Graphic.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>This week’s guest is Alan McDougal, head baseball coach at Colleyville Heritage High School in Colleyville, TX.  Alan is widely regarded as one of the top coaches in the game when it comes to developing a mindset and a championship culture.  He has coach...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week’s guest is Alan McDougal, head baseball coach at Colleyville Heritage High School in Colleyville, TX. Alan is widely regarded as one of the top coaches in the game when it comes to developing a mindset and a championship culture. He has coached multiple Major League players and routinely puts players into Division One college baseball. In this podcast McDougal shares insight into how he uses the classroom to develop the mental game with his players, DUDES as the acronym for his program's championship culture, and how he runs a fast-paced and up-tempo style practice with his program. He also shares one of the most amazing stories about former Notre Dame football coach Tyrone Willingham that you won’t want to miss. You can follow Alan and Colleyville Heritage Baseball on Twitter @CHHS_Baseball.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>This week’s guest is Alan McDougal, head baseball coach at Colleyville Heritage High School in Colleyville, TX. Alan is widely regarded as one of the top coaches in the game when it comes to developing a mindset and a championship culture. He has coached multiple Major League players and routinely puts players into Division One college baseball. In this podcast McDougal shares insight into how he uses the classroom to develop the mental game with his players, DUDES as the acronym for his program's championship culture, and how he runs a fast-paced and up-tempo style practice with his program. He also shares one of the most amazing stories about former Notre Dame football coach Tyrone Willingham that you won’t want to miss. You can follow Alan and Colleyville Heritage Baseball on Twitter @CHHS_Baseball.</p>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>2246</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC105:  Randy Jackson | Grapevine High School Football | Building a  Championship Culture #Pillar2</title>
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      <description>This week’s guest is one of the most respected high school football coaches in the nation.  Randy Jackson is the head football coach at Grapevine High School in Grapevine, TX, and was named the 2015 Tom Landry High School Football Coach of the Year.  He is one of the most sought-after speakers on Championship Culture, Team Building and Mental Toughness.  In this podcast he breaks down some of the best strategies you will ever hear for building mental toughness and a championship culture in your program.
You can follow Coach Jackson on Twitter @CoachJacksonTPW.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:56:31 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC105:  Randy Jackson | Grapevine High School Football | Building a  Championship Culture #Pillar2</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d587d9dc-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-3f2e29a0b2b7/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>This week’s guest is one of the most respected high school football coaches in the nation.  Randy Jackson is the head football coach at Grapevine High School in Grapevine, TX, and was named the 2015 Tom Landry High School Football Coach of the Year.  He ...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week’s guest is one of the most respected high school football coaches in the nation.  Randy Jackson is the head football coach at Grapevine High School in Grapevine, TX, and was named the 2015 Tom Landry High School Football Coach of the Year.  He is one of the most sought-after speakers on Championship Culture, Team Building and Mental Toughness.  In this podcast he breaks down some of the best strategies you will ever hear for building mental toughness and a championship culture in your program.
You can follow Coach Jackson on Twitter @CoachJacksonTPW.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[This week’s guest is one of the most respected high school football coaches in the nation.  Randy Jackson is the head football coach at Grapevine High School in Grapevine, TX, and was named the 2015 Tom Landry High School Football Coach of the Year.  He is one of the most sought-after speakers on Championship Culture, Team Building and Mental Toughness.  In this podcast he breaks down some of the best strategies you will ever hear for building mental toughness and a championship culture in your program.
You can follow Coach Jackson on Twitter @CoachJacksonTPW.]]>
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      <itunes:duration>2578</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC104:  Beth Torina | LSU Softball | Championship Culture #Pillar2</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc104-beth-torina-lsu-softball-championship-culture-pillar2/</link>
      <description>This week’s guest is LSU Softball head coach Beth Torina. She has led the Tigers to Oklahoma City and the Women’s College World Series in three of her first five seasons and has quickly become one of the game's most respected coaches.  In this podcast she shares how TIGERS is an acronym for their championship culture and how they build an elite mindset in their players to give them the best chance for success.  She also shares part of her routine for being at her best on game day as a head coach.
You can follow Beth Torina on Twitter @BethTorina and LSU Softball @LSUSoftball.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:55:52 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC104:  Beth Torina | LSU Softball | Championship Culture #Pillar2</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>This week’s guest is LSU Softball head coach Beth Torina. She has led the Tigers to Oklahoma City and the Women’s College World Series in three of her first five seasons and has quickly become one of the game's most respected coaches.  In this podcast sh...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week’s guest is LSU Softball head coach Beth Torina. She has led the Tigers to Oklahoma City and the Women’s College World Series in three of her first five seasons and has quickly become one of the game's most respected coaches.  In this podcast she shares how TIGERS is an acronym for their championship culture and how they build an elite mindset in their players to give them the best chance for success.  She also shares part of her routine for being at her best on game day as a head coach.
You can follow Beth Torina on Twitter @BethTorina and LSU Softball @LSUSoftball.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[This week’s guest is LSU Softball head coach Beth Torina. She has led the Tigers to Oklahoma City and the Women’s College World Series in three of her first five seasons and has quickly become one of the game's most respected coaches.  In this podcast she shares how TIGERS is an acronym for their championship culture and how they build an elite mindset in their players to give them the best chance for success.  She also shares part of her routine for being at her best on game day as a head coach.
You can follow Beth Torina on Twitter @BethTorina and LSU Softball @LSUSoftball.]]>
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      <itunes:duration>910</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC103:  Victoria Hayward | Team Canada National Softball Team &amp; UMass Coach</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc103-victoria-hayward-team-canada-national-softball-team-umass-coach/</link>
      <description>Victoria Hayward was born in Toronto before her family moved to Mountain View, California.  She went on to star as a member of the Mountain View High School softball team from 2007 to 2010, earning Most Valuable Player honors in her final season. She was also a member of the Sorcerers club team that won the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) 18-and-under Gold National Championship in 2009.  In 2009 she became the youngest player to join the Canadian Senior Women’s National Team at the age of 16.
Hayward completed her senior season at the University of Washington in 2014, capping a four-year NCAA Division 1 career by being named to the Pac-12 All-Conference Team.  She finished the 2014 season among the Pac-12 league leaders with a .414 batting average (5th), a .513 on-base percentage (5th) and 28 stolen bases (1st), while also maintaining a 1.000 fielding percentage as an outfielder.  Following her senior season, she was drafted by the Pennsylvania Rebellion in the fifth round (19th overall) at the 2014 National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) draft.
After joining the Senior Women’s National Team in 2009, Hayward won a bronze medal as a member of Team Canada at the 2010 ISF Women’s World Championship in Caracas, and went on to compete as a member of both the Junior and Senior Women’s National Teams in 2010 and 2011.  As a member of the Junior Women’s National Team, she won silver medals at the 2010 Pan American Qualifier in Bogota and the 2011 Canadian Open Fastpitch International Championship, and finished fifth at the 2011 ISF Junior Women’s World Championship in Cape Town.  She also competed as a member of the Senior Women’s National Team at the 2009 and 2013 Pan American Softball Championships, as well as the 2011 Pan American Games – winning silver at all three of those events – and also competed at the 2012 and 2014 ISF Women’s World Championships.
Victoria talks about competing at the highest level of softball, playing one pitch at a time, and what she does to work on her mental game.
You can connect with Victoria on Twitter @VictoriaHayward</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:55:14 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC103:  Victoria Hayward | Team Canada National Softball Team &amp; UMass Coach</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Victoria Hayward was born in Toronto before her family moved to Mountain View, California.  She went on to star as a member of the Mountain View High School softball team from 2007 to 2010, earning Most Valuable Player honors in her final season. She was...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Victoria Hayward was born in Toronto before her family moved to Mountain View, California.  She went on to star as a member of the Mountain View High School softball team from 2007 to 2010, earning Most Valuable Player honors in her final season. She was also a member of the Sorcerers club team that won the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) 18-and-under Gold National Championship in 2009.  In 2009 she became the youngest player to join the Canadian Senior Women’s National Team at the age of 16.
Hayward completed her senior season at the University of Washington in 2014, capping a four-year NCAA Division 1 career by being named to the Pac-12 All-Conference Team.  She finished the 2014 season among the Pac-12 league leaders with a .414 batting average (5th), a .513 on-base percentage (5th) and 28 stolen bases (1st), while also maintaining a 1.000 fielding percentage as an outfielder.  Following her senior season, she was drafted by the Pennsylvania Rebellion in the fifth round (19th overall) at the 2014 National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) draft.
After joining the Senior Women’s National Team in 2009, Hayward won a bronze medal as a member of Team Canada at the 2010 ISF Women’s World Championship in Caracas, and went on to compete as a member of both the Junior and Senior Women’s National Teams in 2010 and 2011.  As a member of the Junior Women’s National Team, she won silver medals at the 2010 Pan American Qualifier in Bogota and the 2011 Canadian Open Fastpitch International Championship, and finished fifth at the 2011 ISF Junior Women’s World Championship in Cape Town.  She also competed as a member of the Senior Women’s National Team at the 2009 and 2013 Pan American Softball Championships, as well as the 2011 Pan American Games – winning silver at all three of those events – and also competed at the 2012 and 2014 ISF Women’s World Championships.
Victoria talks about competing at the highest level of softball, playing one pitch at a time, and what she does to work on her mental game.
You can connect with Victoria on Twitter @VictoriaHayward</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[Victoria Hayward was born in Toronto before her family moved to Mountain View, California.  She went on to star as a member of the Mountain View High School softball team from 2007 to 2010, earning Most Valuable Player honors in her final season. She was also a member of the Sorcerers club team that won the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) 18-and-under Gold National Championship in 2009.  In 2009 she became the youngest player to join the Canadian Senior Women’s National Team at the age of 16.
Hayward completed her senior season at the University of Washington in 2014, capping a four-year NCAA Division 1 career by being named to the Pac-12 All-Conference Team.  She finished the 2014 season among the Pac-12 league leaders with a .414 batting average (5th), a .513 on-base percentage (5th) and 28 stolen bases (1st), while also maintaining a 1.000 fielding percentage as an outfielder.  Following her senior season, she was drafted by the Pennsylvania Rebellion in the fifth round (19th overall) at the 2014 National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) draft.
After joining the Senior Women’s National Team in 2009, Hayward won a bronze medal as a member of Team Canada at the 2010 ISF Women’s World Championship in Caracas, and went on to compete as a member of both the Junior and Senior Women’s National Teams in 2010 and 2011.  As a member of the Junior Women’s National Team, she won silver medals at the 2010 Pan American Qualifier in Bogota and the 2011 Canadian Open Fastpitch International Championship, and finished fifth at the 2011 ISF Junior Women’s World Championship in Cape Town.  She also competed as a member of the Senior Women’s National Team at the 2009 and 2013 Pan American Softball Championships, as well as the 2011 Pan American Games – winning silver at all three of those events – and also competed at the 2012 and 2014 ISF Women’s World Championships.
Victoria talks about competing at the highest level of softball, playing one pitch at a time, and what she does to work on her mental game.
You can connect with Victoria on Twitter @VictoriaHayward]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1265</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC102: Lasse Leppäkorpi | Beddit - Achieve More With A Great Night's Sleep</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc102-lasse-leppa%cc%88korpi-beddit-achieve-more-with-a-great-nights-sleep/</link>
      <description>This week’s guest is Lasse Leppäkorpi, the CEO and founder of Beddit, the world’s leading sleep app.  Beddit’s sleep analysis is based on ballistocardiography (BCG), which is the measurement of the mechanical cardiac activity from the platform supporting the body.  Each time the heart beats, the acceleration of blood generates a mechanical impulse that can be measured and analyzed with a sensitive-enough force sensor, such as the Beddit Sleep Tracker.  Throughout the night, Beddit picks up each individual heart beat and respiration cycle while separating other body movements from them.  Their advanced analysis and machine-learning algorithms adapt differently to each body type and provide detailed sleep information each morning.
You will achieve more with a great night's sleep and you can easily make your bed a smart bed with Beddit.  Leppäkorpi discusses the science of sleep and what athletes need to know for the most undervalued aspect of optimal performance.
You can follow Leppäkorpi and Beddit on Twitter @Beddit and online at www.Beddit.com.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:54:30 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC102: Lasse Leppäkorpi | Beddit - Achieve More With A Great Night's Sleep</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d5d89c3c-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-fb2b41a2c5f3/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>This week’s guest is Lasse Leppäkorpi, the CEO and founder of Beddit, the world’s leading sleep app.  Beddit’s sleep analysis is based on ballistocardiography (BCG), which is the measurement of the mechanical cardiac activity from the platform supportin...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week’s guest is Lasse Leppäkorpi, the CEO and founder of Beddit, the world’s leading sleep app.  Beddit’s sleep analysis is based on ballistocardiography (BCG), which is the measurement of the mechanical cardiac activity from the platform supporting the body.  Each time the heart beats, the acceleration of blood generates a mechanical impulse that can be measured and analyzed with a sensitive-enough force sensor, such as the Beddit Sleep Tracker.  Throughout the night, Beddit picks up each individual heart beat and respiration cycle while separating other body movements from them.  Their advanced analysis and machine-learning algorithms adapt differently to each body type and provide detailed sleep information each morning.
You will achieve more with a great night's sleep and you can easily make your bed a smart bed with Beddit.  Leppäkorpi discusses the science of sleep and what athletes need to know for the most undervalued aspect of optimal performance.
You can follow Leppäkorpi and Beddit on Twitter @Beddit and online at www.Beddit.com.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[This week’s guest is Lasse Leppäkorpi, the CEO and founder of Beddit, the world’s leading sleep app.  Beddit’s sleep analysis is based on ballistocardiography (BCG), which is the measurement of the mechanical cardiac activity from the platform supporting the body.  Each time the heart beats, the acceleration of blood generates a mechanical impulse that can be measured and analyzed with a sensitive-enough force sensor, such as the Beddit Sleep Tracker.  Throughout the night, Beddit picks up each individual heart beat and respiration cycle while separating other body movements from them.  Their advanced analysis and machine-learning algorithms adapt differently to each body type and provide detailed sleep information each morning.
You will achieve more with a great night's sleep and you can easily make your bed a smart bed with Beddit.  Leppäkorpi discusses the science of sleep and what athletes need to know for the most undervalued aspect of optimal performance.
You can follow Leppäkorpi and Beddit on Twitter @Beddit and online at www.Beddit.com.]]>
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      <itunes:duration>2171</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC101:  Chad Cordero |The Mindset of a Chief In the One-Pitch Warrior Tribe</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc101-chad-cordero-the-mindset-of-a-chief-in-the-one-pitch-warrior-tribe/</link>
      <description>This week’s guest is Cal State Fullerton Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Chad Cordero.  Cordero was an All-American pitcher at Cal State Fullerton and was the 20th overall pick in the 2003 draft.   He was the 1st player to make the Major Leagues from that draft, spending less than 2 months in the minor leagues and breaking through with the Montreal Expos on August 30, 2003.
In 2005 he achieved an MLB record of 15 saves in one month and led the MLB with 47 saves that season.  Cordero has 128 Major League saves, 20 wins and 300 strikeouts.  He was a Major League Baseball All-Star in 2005 with the Washington Nationals and was named Rolaids Relief Pitcher of the Year.  From 2005-2007 he had 113 saves, 2nd only to future MLB Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman.  A master of the mental game, Cordero is now assisting with the Cal State Fullerton program and mentoring players on the mental game.
In this podcast he shares insight into his mental game and how he would “flip the switch” to go from one of the nicest people you will ever meet to one of the fiercest competitors.
You can follow Chad “The Chief” Cordero on Twitter @ChadCordero32 and Cal State Fullerton Baseball @BaseballTitans.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:53:48 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC101:  Chad Cordero |The Mindset of a Chief In the One-Pitch Warrior Tribe</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d5edfee2-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-6b49742cb862/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>This week’s guest is Cal State Fullerton Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Chad Cordero.  Cordero was an All-American pitcher at Cal State Fullerton and was the 20th overall pick in the 2003 draft.   He was the 1st player to make the Major Leagues from that ...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week’s guest is Cal State Fullerton Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Chad Cordero.  Cordero was an All-American pitcher at Cal State Fullerton and was the 20th overall pick in the 2003 draft.   He was the 1st player to make the Major Leagues from that draft, spending less than 2 months in the minor leagues and breaking through with the Montreal Expos on August 30, 2003.
In 2005 he achieved an MLB record of 15 saves in one month and led the MLB with 47 saves that season.  Cordero has 128 Major League saves, 20 wins and 300 strikeouts.  He was a Major League Baseball All-Star in 2005 with the Washington Nationals and was named Rolaids Relief Pitcher of the Year.  From 2005-2007 he had 113 saves, 2nd only to future MLB Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman.  A master of the mental game, Cordero is now assisting with the Cal State Fullerton program and mentoring players on the mental game.
In this podcast he shares insight into his mental game and how he would “flip the switch” to go from one of the nicest people you will ever meet to one of the fiercest competitors.
You can follow Chad “The Chief” Cordero on Twitter @ChadCordero32 and Cal State Fullerton Baseball @BaseballTitans.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[This week’s guest is Cal State Fullerton Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Chad Cordero.  Cordero was an All-American pitcher at Cal State Fullerton and was the 20th overall pick in the 2003 draft.   He was the 1st player to make the Major Leagues from that draft, spending less than 2 months in the minor leagues and breaking through with the Montreal Expos on August 30, 2003.
In 2005 he achieved an MLB record of 15 saves in one month and led the MLB with 47 saves that season.  Cordero has 128 Major League saves, 20 wins and 300 strikeouts.  He was a Major League Baseball All-Star in 2005 with the Washington Nationals and was named Rolaids Relief Pitcher of the Year.  From 2005-2007 he had 113 saves, 2nd only to future MLB Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman.  A master of the mental game, Cordero is now assisting with the Cal State Fullerton program and mentoring players on the mental game.
In this podcast he shares insight into his mental game and how he would “flip the switch” to go from one of the nicest people you will ever meet to one of the fiercest competitors.
You can follow Chad “The Chief” Cordero on Twitter @ChadCordero32 and Cal State Fullerton Baseball @BaseballTitans.]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1777</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC100: The 100th Episode of The Peak Performance Podcast With Brian Cain</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc-100-the-100th-episode-of-the-peak-performance-podcast-with-brian-cain/</link>
      <description>You asked.  We listened.
For the 100th episode of the Peak Performance Podcast, I answered several of your most pressing questions...
The questions include:
Which sport is your favorite to work with on game day?
How do you get a reluctant player to buy in?
Which aspect of your mission brings you the most fulfillment?
What is the biggest challenge you have as a peak performance coach?
Do you ever plan on starting a family?
and more...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:51:38 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC100: The 100th Episode of The Peak Performance Podcast With Brian Cain</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d617493c-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-63b90b956724/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>You asked.  We listened.
For the 100th episode of the Peak Performance Podcast, I answered several of your most pressing questions...
The questions include:
Which sport is your favorite to work with on game day?
How do you get a reluctant player to buy i...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>You asked.  We listened.
For the 100th episode of the Peak Performance Podcast, I answered several of your most pressing questions...
The questions include:
Which sport is your favorite to work with on game day?
How do you get a reluctant player to buy in?
Which aspect of your mission brings you the most fulfillment?
What is the biggest challenge you have as a peak performance coach?
Do you ever plan on starting a family?
and more...</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[You asked.  We listened.
For the 100th episode of the Peak Performance Podcast, I answered several of your most pressing questions...
The questions include:
Which sport is your favorite to work with on game day?
How do you get a reluctant player to buy in?
Which aspect of your mission brings you the most fulfillment?
What is the biggest challenge you have as a peak performance coach?
Do you ever plan on starting a family?
and more...
]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1404</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC99:  Chad Baum | The Titan Way | Inside Cal State Fullerton Baseball</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc99-chad-baum-the-titan-way-inside-cal-state-fullerton-baseball/</link>
      <description>This week’s guest is Chad Baum, assistant coach for Cal State Fullerton Baseball.  Regarded as one of the top assistant coaches in all of college baseball, Baum has been to Omaha five times before the age of forty.
In this podcast he breaks down his coaching career path and lifts the lid on Titan Baseball to give you a glimpse into the inner workings of one of the greatest programs in college athletics.
Follow Chad @cbaumer36 and Cal State Fullerton Baseball @BaseballTitans on Twitter!</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:41:40 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC99:  Chad Baum | The Titan Way | Inside Cal State Fullerton Baseball</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d63f78b2-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-5f67c9434812/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>This week’s guest is Chad Baum, assistant coach for Cal State Fullerton Baseball.  Regarded as one of the top assistant coaches in all of college baseball, Baum has been to Omaha five times before the age of forty.
In this podcast he breaks down his coac...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week’s guest is Chad Baum, assistant coach for Cal State Fullerton Baseball.  Regarded as one of the top assistant coaches in all of college baseball, Baum has been to Omaha five times before the age of forty.
In this podcast he breaks down his coaching career path and lifts the lid on Titan Baseball to give you a glimpse into the inner workings of one of the greatest programs in college athletics.
Follow Chad @cbaumer36 and Cal State Fullerton Baseball @BaseballTitans on Twitter!</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[This week’s guest is Chad Baum, assistant coach for Cal State Fullerton Baseball.  Regarded as one of the top assistant coaches in all of college baseball, Baum has been to Omaha five times before the age of forty.
In this podcast he breaks down his coaching career path and lifts the lid on Titan Baseball to give you a glimpse into the inner workings of one of the greatest programs in college athletics.
Follow Chad @cbaumer36 and Cal State Fullerton Baseball @BaseballTitans on Twitter!]]>
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      <title>BC97:  Augie Garrido - 5x NCAA National Champion - All-Time NCAA Wins Leader - Life Is Yours to Win</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc97-augie-garrido-5x-ncaa-national-champion-all-time-ncaa-wins-leader-life-is-yours-to-win/</link>
      <description>This week’s guest is Augie Garrido.  Coach Garrido is the NCAA’s all-time wins leader in any sport, with 1975 games won!   Augie won 5 NCAA National Championships over 4 decades (1979, 1984, 1995, 2002, 2005) and is the #1 best-selling author of Life Is Yours to Win.
In this podcast, recorded on April 28, 2013, in the middle of a challenging season, Coach Garrido shares his insight into the mental game and his development as a coach.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:40:05 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC97:  Augie Garrido - 5x NCAA National Champion - All-Time NCAA Wins Leader - Life Is Yours to Win</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>This week’s guest is Augie Garrido.  Coach Garrido is the NCAA’s all-time wins leader in any sport, with 1975 games won!   Augie won 5 NCAA National Championships over 4 decades (1979, 1984, 1995, 2002, 2005) and is the #1 best-selling author of Life Is ...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week’s guest is Augie Garrido.  Coach Garrido is the NCAA’s all-time wins leader in any sport, with 1975 games won!   Augie won 5 NCAA National Championships over 4 decades (1979, 1984, 1995, 2002, 2005) and is the #1 best-selling author of Life Is Yours to Win.
In this podcast, recorded on April 28, 2013, in the middle of a challenging season, Coach Garrido shares his insight into the mental game and his development as a coach.</itunes:summary>
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In this podcast, recorded on April 28, 2013, in the middle of a challenging season, Coach Garrido shares his insight into the mental game and his development as a coach.]]>
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      <itunes:duration>3137</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC96:  Luke Mandola, Jr., Sr. VP of Fuddruckers - Leadership, Process &amp; Culture</title>
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      <description>This week’s guest is Luke Mandola, Jr.   Luke is the Senior Vice President of Fuddruckers, home of The World’s Greatest Hamburgers.  In this podcast, Luke talks about the Fuddruckers 8-step process known as The Stairway to Burger Heaven, and about leadership and their championship culture of FCCPPST.  A former baseball standout for the Tulane Green Wave, Mandola is one of the most sought-after leaders in the restaurant industry.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:39:13 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC96:  Luke Mandola, Jr., Sr. VP of Fuddruckers - Leadership, Process &amp; Culture</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>This week’s guest is Luke Mandola, Jr.   Luke is the Senior Vice President of Fuddruckers, home of The World’s Greatest Hamburgers.  In this podcast, Luke talks about the Fuddruckers 8-step process known as The Stairway to Burger Heaven, and about leader...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week’s guest is Luke Mandola, Jr.   Luke is the Senior Vice President of Fuddruckers, home of The World’s Greatest Hamburgers.  In this podcast, Luke talks about the Fuddruckers 8-step process known as The Stairway to Burger Heaven, and about leadership and their championship culture of FCCPPST.  A former baseball standout for the Tulane Green Wave, Mandola is one of the most sought-after leaders in the restaurant industry.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[This week’s guest is Luke Mandola, Jr.   Luke is the Senior Vice President of Fuddruckers, home of The World’s Greatest Hamburgers.  In this podcast, Luke talks about the Fuddruckers 8-step process known as The Stairway to Burger Heaven, and about leadership and their championship culture of FCCPPST.  A former baseball standout for the Tulane Green Wave, Mandola is one of the most sought-after leaders in the restaurant industry.]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1098</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC95:  Jon Gordon - The Energy Bus, Hard Hat and Becoming a #1 Best-Selling Author</title>
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      <description>This week’s guest is international best-selling author Jon Gordon.  His books and talks have inspired readers and audiences around the world.  His principles have been put to the test by numerous  coaches and teams in the NFL, NBA and MLB and by Fortune 500 companies, school districts, hospitals and non-profits.
He is the author of numerous books including The Wall Street Journal bestseller The Energy Bus, Soup, The No Complaining Rule, Training Camp, and The Carpenter.  Jon and his tips have been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Fox and Friends, and in numerous magazines and newspapers.
His clients include The Atlanta Falcons, LA Clippers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Campbell Soup, Wells Fargo, Northwestern Mutual, Publix, Southwest Airlines, Bayer, West Point Academy and more.
Jon is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a Masters in Teaching from Emory University. He and his training/consulting company are passionate about developing positive leaders, organizations and teams.
When he's not running through airports or speaking, you can find him playing tennis or lacrosse with his wife and two teenage children.
Follow Jon on Twitter @JonGordon11</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:50:10 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC95:  Jon Gordon - The Energy Bus, Hard Hat and Becoming a #1 Best-Selling Author</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>This week’s guest is international best-selling author Jon Gordon.  His books and talks have inspired readers and audiences around the world.  His principles have been put to the test by numerous  coaches and teams in the NFL, NBA and MLB and by Fortune ...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week’s guest is international best-selling author Jon Gordon.  His books and talks have inspired readers and audiences around the world.  His principles have been put to the test by numerous  coaches and teams in the NFL, NBA and MLB and by Fortune 500 companies, school districts, hospitals and non-profits.
He is the author of numerous books including The Wall Street Journal bestseller The Energy Bus, Soup, The No Complaining Rule, Training Camp, and The Carpenter.  Jon and his tips have been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Fox and Friends, and in numerous magazines and newspapers.
His clients include The Atlanta Falcons, LA Clippers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Campbell Soup, Wells Fargo, Northwestern Mutual, Publix, Southwest Airlines, Bayer, West Point Academy and more.
Jon is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a Masters in Teaching from Emory University. He and his training/consulting company are passionate about developing positive leaders, organizations and teams.
When he's not running through airports or speaking, you can find him playing tennis or lacrosse with his wife and two teenage children.
Follow Jon on Twitter @JonGordon11</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[This week’s guest is international best-selling author Jon Gordon.  His books and talks have inspired readers and audiences around the world.  His principles have been put to the test by numerous  coaches and teams in the NFL, NBA and MLB and by Fortune 500 companies, school districts, hospitals and non-profits.
He is the author of numerous books including The Wall Street Journal bestseller The Energy Bus, Soup, The No Complaining Rule, Training Camp, and The Carpenter.  Jon and his tips have been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Fox and Friends, and in numerous magazines and newspapers.
His clients include The Atlanta Falcons, LA Clippers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Campbell Soup, Wells Fargo, Northwestern Mutual, Publix, Southwest Airlines, Bayer, West Point Academy and more.
Jon is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a Masters in Teaching from Emory University. He and his training/consulting company are passionate about developing positive leaders, organizations and teams.
When he's not running through airports or speaking, you can find him playing tennis or lacrosse with his wife and two teenage children.
Follow Jon on Twitter @JonGordon11]]>
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      <itunes:duration>2276</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC94:  Dr. Steve Taubman - Author of UnHypnosis - Peak Performance Hypnotist &amp; Speaker</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc94-dr-steve-taubman-author-of-unhypnosis-peak-performance-hypnotist-speaker/</link>
      <description>Dr. Steve Taubman’s early years were plagued by crippling anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.  Despite graduating as valedictorian from one of the nation’s top chiropractic colleges and running a thriving practice, Dr. Steve found that his outer success did little to calm his inner turmoil.
Thus began a thirty-year journey to understand the root of his suffering.  His exploration of Western psychotherapy, Eastern teachings of mindfulness, hypnosis, and the science of neurology provided profound insight into the universal nature and cause of suffering:  the subconscious mind… which ultimately led to the creation of his successful UnHypnosis system and best-selling book.
Blending his teachings with a longtime passion for comedy and magic, Dr. Steve developed a series of insightful, fun presentations about mastering the subconscious mind.  These were quickly embraced by organizations for their ability to get people into action.
Since then, Dr. Steve’s excitement, motivation and enthusiasm have earned him fans from every profession as he continues to enthrall audiences worldwide, helping them remove mental barriers to achieving their dreams.  Dr. Steve’s presentations are world-class entertainment and world-class education.  His ability to blend entertainment and education is what separates him from anyone else in the field.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:48:53 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC94:  Dr. Steve Taubman - Author of UnHypnosis - Peak Performance Hypnotist &amp; Speaker</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d6c37252-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-cb31bc64e50b/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>Dr. Steve Taubman’s early years were plagued by crippling anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.  Despite graduating as valedictorian from one of the nation’s top chiropractic colleges and running a thriving practice, Dr. Steve found that his outer su...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Dr. Steve Taubman’s early years were plagued by crippling anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.  Despite graduating as valedictorian from one of the nation’s top chiropractic colleges and running a thriving practice, Dr. Steve found that his outer success did little to calm his inner turmoil.
Thus began a thirty-year journey to understand the root of his suffering.  His exploration of Western psychotherapy, Eastern teachings of mindfulness, hypnosis, and the science of neurology provided profound insight into the universal nature and cause of suffering:  the subconscious mind… which ultimately led to the creation of his successful UnHypnosis system and best-selling book.
Blending his teachings with a longtime passion for comedy and magic, Dr. Steve developed a series of insightful, fun presentations about mastering the subconscious mind.  These were quickly embraced by organizations for their ability to get people into action.
Since then, Dr. Steve’s excitement, motivation and enthusiasm have earned him fans from every profession as he continues to enthrall audiences worldwide, helping them remove mental barriers to achieving their dreams.  Dr. Steve’s presentations are world-class entertainment and world-class education.  His ability to blend entertainment and education is what separates him from anyone else in the field.</itunes:summary>
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Thus began a thirty-year journey to understand the root of his suffering.  His exploration of Western psychotherapy, Eastern teachings of mindfulness, hypnosis, and the science of neurology provided profound insight into the universal nature and cause of suffering:  the subconscious mind… which ultimately led to the creation of his successful UnHypnosis system and best-selling book.
Blending his teachings with a longtime passion for comedy and magic, Dr. Steve developed a series of insightful, fun presentations about mastering the subconscious mind.  These were quickly embraced by organizations for their ability to get people into action.
Since then, Dr. Steve’s excitement, motivation and enthusiasm have earned him fans from every profession as he continues to enthrall audiences worldwide, helping them remove mental barriers to achieving their dreams.  Dr. Steve’s presentations are world-class entertainment and world-class education.  His ability to blend entertainment and education is what separates him from anyone else in the field.]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1445</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC93:  Heath Autrey - #1 Ranked Team in the Nation &amp; Coaching Major League Players</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc93-heath-autrey-1-ranked-team-in-the-nation-coaching-major-league-players/</link>
      <description>Former TCU Baseball assistant coach Heath Autrey is the head coach of the Dallas Banditos #1 Ranked 13U baseball team and is also the head baseball coach at Corsicana High School in Corsicana, TX.  Autrey is an Inner Circle member and has coached numerous Major League players including Clayton Kershaw and Chris Davis, among other MLB All-Stars.  Autrey has also served as the head baseball coach in the Lancaster Independent School District and as an associate scout for the New York Yankees.  In addition, he has been an assistant baseball coach at Navarro College and coordinated baseball camps at The University of Texas under the direction of Augie Garrido, the NCAA’s all-time leader in wins as a coach.
Follow Heath on Twitter @hautrey11</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:47:08 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC93:  Heath Autrey - #1 Ranked Team in the Nation &amp; Coaching Major League Players</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d6e14002-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-7342f28ff7d4/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>Former TCU Baseball assistant coach Heath Autrey is the head coach of the Dallas Banditos #1 Ranked 13U baseball team and is also the head baseball coach at Corsicana High School in Corsicana, TX.  Autrey is an Inner Circle member and has coached numerou...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Former TCU Baseball assistant coach Heath Autrey is the head coach of the Dallas Banditos #1 Ranked 13U baseball team and is also the head baseball coach at Corsicana High School in Corsicana, TX.  Autrey is an Inner Circle member and has coached numerous Major League players including Clayton Kershaw and Chris Davis, among other MLB All-Stars.  Autrey has also served as the head baseball coach in the Lancaster Independent School District and as an associate scout for the New York Yankees.  In addition, he has been an assistant baseball coach at Navarro College and coordinated baseball camps at The University of Texas under the direction of Augie Garrido, the NCAA’s all-time leader in wins as a coach.
Follow Heath on Twitter @hautrey11</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[Former TCU Baseball assistant coach Heath Autrey is the head coach of the Dallas Banditos #1 Ranked 13U baseball team and is also the head baseball coach at Corsicana High School in Corsicana, TX.  Autrey is an Inner Circle member and has coached numerous Major League players including Clayton Kershaw and Chris Davis, among other MLB All-Stars.  Autrey has also served as the head baseball coach in the Lancaster Independent School District and as an associate scout for the New York Yankees.  In addition, he has been an assistant baseball coach at Navarro College and coordinated baseball camps at The University of Texas under the direction of Augie Garrido, the NCAA’s all-time leader in wins as a coach.
Follow Heath on Twitter @hautrey11]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1085</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BONUS!  Elite Mindset Audiobook Preview</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bonus-elite-mindset-audiobook-preview/</link>
      <description>This BONUS Podcast Episode features a preview of the Elite Mindset audiobook...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:46:15 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BONUS!  Elite Mindset Audiobook Preview</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>This BONUS Podcast Episode features a preview of the Elite Mindset audiobook...
</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This BONUS Podcast Episode features a preview of the Elite Mindset audiobook...</itunes:summary>
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<p></p>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>317</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC92: Mark Doran - 1983 MLB 1st Rd Pick &amp; Wisconsin Badger Football Player</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc92-mark-doran-1983-mlb-1st-rd-pick-wisconsin-badger-football-player/</link>
      <description>Mark Doran is known internationally as a premier batting instructor.  He played baseball and football at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned the All-American award in baseball.  Out of college, Mark was drafted in the first round by the California Angels in 1983, 23rd overall, where he excelled at every level in the minor leagues.  He was on the major league roster for both the California Angels and Chicago White Sox.
After learning hitting from Hall of Fame baseball player Rod Carew, Mark began teaching the proper techniques of hitting and fielding to young athletes.  Through training premier baseball athletes, Mark began meeting with top collegiate coaches in softball to learn the game of fastpitch.   As one of the only coaches nationally to train both Major League Baseball players and Olympic softball athletes, Mark has been known as one of the best hitting instructors in the nation.
He has trained several USA Olympic softball players, Greek Olympic softball players, Canadian Olympic players, Major League baseball players, and NCAA baseball and softball athletes.  Mark currently mentors coaches from national powers Washington, Florida State, Arizona State and others.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:45:34 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC92: Mark Doran - 1983 MLB 1st Rd Pick &amp; Wisconsin Badger Football Player</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Mark Doran is known internationally as a premier batting instructor.  He played baseball and football at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned the All-American award in baseball.  Out of college, Mark was drafted in the first round by the Californ...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Mark Doran is known internationally as a premier batting instructor.  He played baseball and football at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned the All-American award in baseball.  Out of college, Mark was drafted in the first round by the California Angels in 1983, 23rd overall, where he excelled at every level in the minor leagues.  He was on the major league roster for both the California Angels and Chicago White Sox.
After learning hitting from Hall of Fame baseball player Rod Carew, Mark began teaching the proper techniques of hitting and fielding to young athletes.  Through training premier baseball athletes, Mark began meeting with top collegiate coaches in softball to learn the game of fastpitch.   As one of the only coaches nationally to train both Major League Baseball players and Olympic softball athletes, Mark has been known as one of the best hitting instructors in the nation.
He has trained several USA Olympic softball players, Greek Olympic softball players, Canadian Olympic players, Major League baseball players, and NCAA baseball and softball athletes.  Mark currently mentors coaches from national powers Washington, Florida State, Arizona State and others.</itunes:summary>
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After learning hitting from Hall of Fame baseball player Rod Carew, Mark began teaching the proper techniques of hitting and fielding to young athletes.  Through training premier baseball athletes, Mark began meeting with top collegiate coaches in softball to learn the game of fastpitch.   As one of the only coaches nationally to train both Major League Baseball players and Olympic softball athletes, Mark has been known as one of the best hitting instructors in the nation.
He has trained several USA Olympic softball players, Greek Olympic softball players, Canadian Olympic players, Major League baseball players, and NCAA baseball and softball athletes.  Mark currently mentors coaches from national powers Washington, Florida State, Arizona State and others.]]>
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      <itunes:duration>995</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC54: Steve Smith - Former Baylor Baseball Head Coach</title>
      <description>Steve Smith is the former head baseball coach at Baylor University and the all-time wins leader in Baylor history. Smith shares insight into coaching the mental game and into the core values of the program, competing one pitch at a time, and what he has learned from a lifetime of being in the game of baseball.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:45:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Steve Smith - Former Baylor Baseball Head Coach</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Steve Smith is the former head baseball coach at Baylor University and the all-time wins leader in Baylor history.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Steve Smith is the former head baseball coach at Baylor University and the all-time wins leader in Baylor history. Smith shares insight into coaching the mental game and into the core values of the program, competing one pitch at a time, and what he has learned from a lifetime of being in the game of baseball.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>BC91:  Shelby Pendley - 2x Big 12 POY- 3x NCAA All-American Softball</title>
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      <description>Shelby Pendley was drafted 2nd overall out of The University of Oklahoma in the 2015 NPF College Draft by the USSSA Pride.  She was a 2x Big 12 Player of the Year, a 3x NCAA All-American and was the 2015 NPF Rookie of the Year. Pendley is 6th all-time in NCAA Softball career home runs.  She is one of the best hitters in NCAA history and is currently an assistant softball coach at The University of New Mexico.
Follow Shelby on Twitter @PendleyShelby</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:44:45 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC91:  Shelby Pendley - 2x Big 12 POY- 3x NCAA All-American Softball</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Shelby Pendley was drafted 2nd overall out of The University of Oklahoma in the 2015 NPF College Draft by the USSSA Pride.  She was a 2x Big 12 Player of the Year, a 3x NCAA All-American and was the 2015 NPF Rookie of the Year. Pendley is 6th all-time in...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Shelby Pendley was drafted 2nd overall out of The University of Oklahoma in the 2015 NPF College Draft by the USSSA Pride.  She was a 2x Big 12 Player of the Year, a 3x NCAA All-American and was the 2015 NPF Rookie of the Year. Pendley is 6th all-time in NCAA Softball career home runs.  She is one of the best hitters in NCAA history and is currently an assistant softball coach at The University of New Mexico.
Follow Shelby on Twitter @PendleyShelby</itunes:summary>
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Follow Shelby on Twitter @PendleyShelby]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1150</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC90: Ryan Harrison - SlowTheGameDown - Vision Performance Trainer</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc90-ryan-harrison-slowthegamedown-vision-performance-trainer/</link>
      <description>Ryan Harrison is a certified Sports Performance Vision Trainer with SlowTheGameDown.  He has a degree in Exercise Physiology from University of California at Davis, where he was a kicker for the football team.  Since 1998 Ryan has been working with international softball, collegiate and amateur softball teams. Ryan also has been a key consultant to numerous international, professional and collegiate football, baseball &amp; softball teams including USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand women’s national softball teams.  He has also worked with various MLB teams including, but not limited to, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, San Francisco Giants, Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Washington Nationals.
He has personally trained over 100 Major League roster players on the visual side of the game.  Among the Major League players he has trained are Carlos Delgado, Carlos Beltran, Mike Sweeney, Jayson Werth, Delmon Young, Laynce Nix, John Baker, Jerry Hairston, Jr., Chris Dickerson, Josh Willingham and Jonny Gomes.
Following his work with top professional and amateur athletes, he conceived the idea of training necessary performance skills with digital technology.  The SportsEyesite™ Software is a result of his goal to develop training products so that everyone could benefit from this training at a fraction of the cost without the need to go to a specialty clinic.
Follow Ryan on Twitter @SlowTheGameDown</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:41:13 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC90: Ryan Harrison - SlowTheGameDown - Vision Performance Trainer</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Ryan Harrison is a certified Sports Performance Vision Trainer with SlowTheGameDown.  He has a degree in Exercise Physiology from University of California at Davis, where he was a kicker for the football team.  Since 1998 Ryan has been working with inter...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Ryan Harrison is a certified Sports Performance Vision Trainer with SlowTheGameDown.  He has a degree in Exercise Physiology from University of California at Davis, where he was a kicker for the football team.  Since 1998 Ryan has been working with international softball, collegiate and amateur softball teams. Ryan also has been a key consultant to numerous international, professional and collegiate football, baseball &amp; softball teams including USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand women’s national softball teams.  He has also worked with various MLB teams including, but not limited to, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, San Francisco Giants, Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Washington Nationals.
He has personally trained over 100 Major League roster players on the visual side of the game.  Among the Major League players he has trained are Carlos Delgado, Carlos Beltran, Mike Sweeney, Jayson Werth, Delmon Young, Laynce Nix, John Baker, Jerry Hairston, Jr., Chris Dickerson, Josh Willingham and Jonny Gomes.
Following his work with top professional and amateur athletes, he conceived the idea of training necessary performance skills with digital technology.  The SportsEyesite™ Software is a result of his goal to develop training products so that everyone could benefit from this training at a fraction of the cost without the need to go to a specialty clinic.
Follow Ryan on Twitter @SlowTheGameDown</itunes:summary>
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He has personally trained over 100 Major League roster players on the visual side of the game.  Among the Major League players he has trained are Carlos Delgado, Carlos Beltran, Mike Sweeney, Jayson Werth, Delmon Young, Laynce Nix, John Baker, Jerry Hairston, Jr., Chris Dickerson, Josh Willingham and Jonny Gomes.
Following his work with top professional and amateur athletes, he conceived the idea of training necessary performance skills with digital technology.  The SportsEyesite™ Software is a result of his goal to develop training products so that everyone could benefit from this training at a fraction of the cost without the need to go to a specialty clinic.
Follow Ryan on Twitter @SlowTheGameDown]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1589</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC89:  Lacey Waldrop - 2014 NCAA Softball National Player of The Year - 3x All-American</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc89-lacey-waldrop-2014-ncaa-softball-national-player-of-the-year-3x-all-american/</link>
      <description>Lacey Waldrop was the 2014 NCAA Softball National Player of the Year.  She was a 3x All-American Pitcher and 2x ACC Pitcher of the Year for the Florida State Seminoles.  In 2015 she was drafted third overall by the Chicago Bandits in the 2015 NPF Draft.  Waldrop discusses the mental game of softball and how she was able to overcome early adversity in her career to become one of the game's most dominant players.
Follow Lacey on Twitter @lwaldrop_13</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:40:16 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC89:  Lacey Waldrop - 2014 NCAA Softball National Player of The Year - 3x All-American</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Lacey Waldrop was the 2014 NCAA Softball National Player of the Year.  She was a 3x All-American Pitcher and 2x ACC Pitcher of the Year for the Florida State Seminoles.  In 2015 she was drafted third overall by the Chicago Bandits in the 2015 NPF Draft. ...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Lacey Waldrop was the 2014 NCAA Softball National Player of the Year.  She was a 3x All-American Pitcher and 2x ACC Pitcher of the Year for the Florida State Seminoles.  In 2015 she was drafted third overall by the Chicago Bandits in the 2015 NPF Draft.  Waldrop discusses the mental game of softball and how she was able to overcome early adversity in her career to become one of the game's most dominant players.
Follow Lacey on Twitter @lwaldrop_13</itunes:summary>
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Follow Lacey on Twitter @lwaldrop_13]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1577</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC88: Maddie O'Brien - 2014 NCAA All-American - FSU Softball &amp; NPF Player</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc88-maddie-obrien-2014-ncaa-all-american-fsu-softball-npf-player/</link>
      <description>Maddie O’Brien was a 4-year All-ACC Softball player at Florida State University and is currently playing for the Pennsylvania Rebellion of the National Pro Fastpitch.  In this podcast she talks about her mindset for success, competing one pitch at a time and what she does for mental training.  She was a finalist for College Softball National Player of the Year in 2014.
Follow Maddie on Twitter @Maddieob7</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:39:18 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC88: Maddie O'Brien - 2014 NCAA All-American - FSU Softball &amp; NPF Player</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Maddie O’Brien was a 4-year All-ACC Softball player at Florida State University and is currently playing for the Pennsylvania Rebellion of the National Pro Fastpitch.  In this podcast she talks about her mindset for success, competing one pitch at a time...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Maddie O’Brien was a 4-year All-ACC Softball player at Florida State University and is currently playing for the Pennsylvania Rebellion of the National Pro Fastpitch.  In this podcast she talks about her mindset for success, competing one pitch at a time and what she does for mental training.  She was a finalist for College Softball National Player of the Year in 2014.
Follow Maddie on Twitter @Maddieob7</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[Maddie O’Brien was a 4-year All-ACC Softball player at Florida State University and is currently playing for the Pennsylvania Rebellion of the National Pro Fastpitch.  In this podcast she talks about her mindset for success, competing one pitch at a time and what she does for mental training.  She was a finalist for College Softball National Player of the Year in 2014.
Follow Maddie on Twitter @Maddieob7]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <itunes:duration>886</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[http://peakperformancepodcast.podbean.com/e/bc88-maddie-obrien-2014-ncaa-all-american-fsu-softball-npf-player/]]></guid>
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      <title>BC86: Kaleigh Rafter - Canadian Olympic Softball Player Talks Mental Game</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc86-kaleigh-rafter-canadian-olympic-softball-player-talks-mental-game/</link>
      <description>Kaleigh Rafter has been a member of the Canadian National Team since 2007.  She was a member of the 2010 ISF World Championship team that won a bronze medal in Venezuela, and also won two silver medals at the Pan American Games (2007 and 2011).  Rafter competed with the 2012 ISF World Championship team that finished fourth in Whitehorse, Yukon, and led Canada with a pair of home runs and seven runs batted in as Canada again finished fourth at the 2014 ISF Women's World Championship in Haarlem, Netherlands.  She has also played professionally for Honda in the Japanese Professional Softball League.  She was a member of the 2008 Team Canada Olympic Team and also played collegiately at Florida State, where she was named a first-team NFCA All-Region selection as well as an All-ACC First Team performer.
Follow Kaleigh on Twitter @KaleighRafter</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:35:47 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC86: Kaleigh Rafter - Canadian Olympic Softball Player Talks Mental Game</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d7c745f2-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-8b57d1c26034/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>Kaleigh Rafter has been a member of the Canadian National Team since 2007.  She was a member of the 2010 ISF World Championship team that won a bronze medal in Venezuela, and also won two silver medals at the Pan American Games (2007 and 2011).  Rafter c...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Kaleigh Rafter has been a member of the Canadian National Team since 2007.  She was a member of the 2010 ISF World Championship team that won a bronze medal in Venezuela, and also won two silver medals at the Pan American Games (2007 and 2011).  Rafter competed with the 2012 ISF World Championship team that finished fourth in Whitehorse, Yukon, and led Canada with a pair of home runs and seven runs batted in as Canada again finished fourth at the 2014 ISF Women's World Championship in Haarlem, Netherlands.  She has also played professionally for Honda in the Japanese Professional Softball League.  She was a member of the 2008 Team Canada Olympic Team and also played collegiately at Florida State, where she was named a first-team NFCA All-Region selection as well as an All-ACC First Team performer.
Follow Kaleigh on Twitter @KaleighRafter</itunes:summary>
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Follow Kaleigh on Twitter @KaleighRafter]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1980</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC85:  Burt Watson - Babysitter to the Stars</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc85-burt-watson-babysitter-to-the-stars/</link>
      <description>This week’s guest is the man that makes MMA events happen, Burt Watson.  A career in boxing and MMA that began more than 30 years ago has allowed Burt Watson to serve in a host of positions with some of boxing’s and MMA's most-recognized names.  As a consultant, advisor, promoter and event coordinator, Burt commands a wealth of knowledge unparalleled in both industries.  He has coordinated and been a part of some of the most unforgettable events ever seen in both boxing and the Ultimate Fighting Championship.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:34:39 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC85:  Burt Watson - Babysitter to the Stars</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d7daf5a2-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-b31d05fc5bf3/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>This week’s guest is the man that makes MMA events happen, Burt Watson.  A career in boxing and MMA that began more than 30 years ago has allowed Burt Watson to serve in a host of positions with some of boxing’s and MMA's most-recognized names.  As a con...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week’s guest is the man that makes MMA events happen, Burt Watson.  A career in boxing and MMA that began more than 30 years ago has allowed Burt Watson to serve in a host of positions with some of boxing’s and MMA's most-recognized names.  As a consultant, advisor, promoter and event coordinator, Burt commands a wealth of knowledge unparalleled in both industries.  He has coordinated and been a part of some of the most unforgettable events ever seen in both boxing and the Ultimate Fighting Championship.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[This week’s guest is the man that makes MMA events happen, Burt Watson.  A career in boxing and MMA that began more than 30 years ago has allowed Burt Watson to serve in a host of positions with some of boxing’s and MMA's most-recognized names.  As a consultant, advisor, promoter and event coordinator, Burt commands a wealth of knowledge unparalleled in both industries.  He has coordinated and been a part of some of the most unforgettable events ever seen in both boxing and the Ultimate Fighting Championship.]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1377</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC84:  Jonah Bayliss - From Div. III Baseball to the Major Leagues</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc84-jonah-bayliss-from-div-iii-baseball-to-the-major-leagues/</link>
      <description>This week’s guest is former MLB Pitcher and one of Cain’s best friends from childhood Jonah Bayliss. Jonah pitched in the Major Leagues with the Kansas City Royals and Pittsburgh Pirates, had a tour with the Team USA Baseball Olympic Qualifying team and one season in Japan. Bayliss who was the #5 pitcher on his high school team as a Jr. and played Divison III college baseball at Trinity College in Hartford, CT shares his story from small town to big leagues and every stop in between as well as what he knows now that he wishes he knew then about the mental game and the pursuit of excellence.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:34:03 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC84:  Jonah Bayliss - From Div. III Baseball to the Major Leagues</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
      <itunes:image href="https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d8166d94-b7cf-11ea-a1a3-e3ee485cc1ff/image/BCPP_2017_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&amp;max-w=3000&amp;max-h=3000&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format,compress"/>
      <itunes:subtitle>This week’s guest is former MLB Pitcher and one of Cain’s best friends from childhood Jonah Bayliss. Jonah pitched in the Major Leagues with the Kansas City Royals and Pittsburgh Pirates, had a tour with the Team USA Baseball Olympic Qualifying team and ...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week’s guest is former MLB Pitcher and one of Cain’s best friends from childhood Jonah Bayliss. Jonah pitched in the Major Leagues with the Kansas City Royals and Pittsburgh Pirates, had a tour with the Team USA Baseball Olympic Qualifying team and one season in Japan. Bayliss who was the #5 pitcher on his high school team as a Jr. and played Divison III college baseball at Trinity College in Hartford, CT shares his story from small town to big leagues and every stop in between as well as what he knows now that he wishes he knew then about the mental game and the pursuit of excellence.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[This week’s guest is former MLB Pitcher and one of Cain’s best friends from childhood Jonah Bayliss. Jonah pitched in the Major Leagues with the Kansas City Royals and Pittsburgh Pirates, had a tour with the Team USA Baseball Olympic Qualifying team and one season in Japan. Bayliss who was the #5 pitcher on his high school team as a Jr. and played Divison III college baseball at Trinity College in Hartford, CT shares his story from small town to big leagues and every stop in between as well as what he knows now that he wishes he knew then about the mental game and the pursuit of excellence.]]>
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      <title>BC83: Prague Clinic - The Mental Game of Baseball</title>
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      <description>This week we reach into the Vault, going all the way back to December 2014 where Brian Cain delivers a live coaches educational clinic at The European Baseball Coaches Association Clinic.  Enjoy Cain live as he takes more than 100 coaches from all over the world through the fundamentals of competing one pitch at a time.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:33:27 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC83: Prague Clinic - The Mental Game of Baseball</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>This week we reach into the Vault, going all the way back to December 2014 where Brian Cain delivers a live coaches educational clinic at The European Baseball Coaches Association Clinic.  Enjoy Cain live as he takes more than 100 coaches from all over the world through the fundamentals of competing one pitch at a time.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>BC82: Chris Bradley - The Mental Game of Hockey</title>
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      <description>Senior graduating captain Chris Bradley of RPI Hockey is this week's guest on the Peak Performance Podcast. Listen to how passionate Chris is when talking about the Mental Game of Hockey and competing one shift at a time.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:32:52 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC82: Chris Bradley - The Mental Game of Hockey</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Senior graduating captain Chris Bradley of RPI Hockey is this week's guest on the Peak Performance Podcast. Listen to how passionate Chris is when talking about the Mental Game of Hockey and competing one shift at a time.</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:duration>451</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC81: Mike Spillane - Pro Hockey Goalie</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc81-mike-spillane-pro-hockey-goalie/</link>
      <description>Mike Spillane is the former goal tender for The University of Vermont and a former professional hockey player. Spillane is a master of the mental game in the net and talks with Peak Performance Coach Brian Cain about the demands placed on the most mentally demanding position in all of sport:  the hockey goalie.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:32:11 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC81: Mike Spillane - Pro Hockey Goalie</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Mike Spillane is the former goal tender for The University of Vermont and a former professional hockey player. Spillane is a master of the mental game in the net and talks with Peak Performance Coach Brian Cain about the demands placed on the most mental...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Mike Spillane is the former goal tender for The University of Vermont and a former professional hockey player. Spillane is a master of the mental game in the net and talks with Peak Performance Coach Brian Cain about the demands placed on the most mentally demanding position in all of sport:  the hockey goalie.</itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>1988</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC80: The Mental Game of Hockey - One Shift at a Time</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc80-the-mental-game-of-hockey-one-shift-at-a-time/</link>
      <description>Brian Cain is the author of The Mental Game of Ice Hockey, Playing One Shift At A Time and the most sought after mental game of ice hockey consultant in the USA. Cain works with top college, high school and select hockey programs on developing a process that allows players and coaches to consistently be at their best when it means the most which is each and every shift.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:20:09 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC80: The Mental Game of Hockey - One Shift at a Time</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Brian Cain is the author of The Mental Game of Ice Hockey, Playing One Shift At A Time and the most sought after mental game of ice hockey consultant in the USA. Cain works with top college, high school and select hockey programs on developing a process ...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Brian Cain is the author of The Mental Game of Ice Hockey, Playing One Shift At A Time and the most sought after mental game of ice hockey consultant in the USA. Cain works with top college, high school and select hockey programs on developing a process that allows players and coaches to consistently be at their best when it means the most which is each and every shift.</itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>1216</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC79:  Jason Kersner - Co-Author of The Mental Game of Hockey</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc79-jason-kersner-co-author-of-the-mental-game-of-hockey/</link>
      <description>Jason A. Kersner has been coaching top-level Midget teams in the Washington DC/Baltimore region for most of the past decade.  Under his leadership his teams became recognized as one of the best Midget programs in the country, as measured in both wins and championships.  Jason is also co-owner of Pinnacle Performance, an elite training program that creates holistic athletes through a professional approach to player development.  
In this podcast, he talks about the mental game of ice hockey like you have never heard an ice hockey coach talk about competing one shift at a time.  One of the most dedicated coaches I have ever worked with, this is a must-listen episode, whether you have ever ice skated or not. 
Follow Coach Kersner on Twitter @SJ_Hockey</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:19:35 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC79:  Jason Kersner - Co-Author of The Mental Game of Hockey</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Jason A. Kersner has been coaching top-level Midget teams in the Washington DC/Baltimore region for most of the past decade.  Under his leadership his teams became recognized as one of the best Midget programs in the country, as measured in both wins and...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Jason A. Kersner has been coaching top-level Midget teams in the Washington DC/Baltimore region for most of the past decade.  Under his leadership his teams became recognized as one of the best Midget programs in the country, as measured in both wins and championships.  Jason is also co-owner of Pinnacle Performance, an elite training program that creates holistic athletes through a professional approach to player development.  
In this podcast, he talks about the mental game of ice hockey like you have never heard an ice hockey coach talk about competing one shift at a time.  One of the most dedicated coaches I have ever worked with, this is a must-listen episode, whether you have ever ice skated or not. 
Follow Coach Kersner on Twitter @SJ_Hockey</itunes:summary>
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In this podcast, he talks about the mental game of ice hockey like you have never heard an ice hockey coach talk about competing one shift at a time.  One of the most dedicated coaches I have ever worked with, this is a must-listen episode, whether you have ever ice skated or not. 
Follow Coach Kersner on Twitter @SJ_Hockey]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1689</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>BC78:  Lyndsey Fry - Team USA Hockey, Harvard, The Olympics, and The Mental Game</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc78-lyndsey-fry-team-usa-hockey-harvard-the-olympics-and-the-mental-game/</link>
      <description>Lyndsey Fry was a member of the 2014 Team USA Women’s Ice Hockey Silver Medal winning team at the Sochi Olympics.  She is from Chandler, Arizona, and played collegiately at Harvard University.  In this podcast Fry talks about the mental game challenges she faced when going to college and when playing in the Olympics, what she did to overcome those challenges, the most important aspects of the mental game of hockey, and what she wishes she knew when she was playing that she knows now about the importance of the mental game.
Follow Lyndsey on Twitter @FryHockey</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:18:39 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC78:  Lyndsey Fry - Team USA Hockey, Harvard, The Olympics, and The Mental Game</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Lyndsey Fry was a member of the 2014 Team USA Women’s Ice Hockey Silver Medal winning team at the Sochi Olympics.  She is from Chandler, Arizona, and played collegiately at Harvard University.  In this podcast Fry talks about the mental game challenges s...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Lyndsey Fry was a member of the 2014 Team USA Women’s Ice Hockey Silver Medal winning team at the Sochi Olympics.  She is from Chandler, Arizona, and played collegiately at Harvard University.  In this podcast Fry talks about the mental game challenges she faced when going to college and when playing in the Olympics, what she did to overcome those challenges, the most important aspects of the mental game of hockey, and what she wishes she knew when she was playing that she knows now about the importance of the mental game.
Follow Lyndsey on Twitter @FryHockey</itunes:summary>
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Follow Lyndsey on Twitter @FryHockey]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1562</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BONUS! The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bonus-the-12-pillars-of-peak-performance/</link>
      <description>This BONUS Podcast Episode features a preview of The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance audiobook...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:17:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BONUS! The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>bonus</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>This BONUS Podcast Episode features a preview of The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance audiobook...</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:duration>632</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC77:  Seth Appert - Head Hockey Coach at RPI, The Engineer Way</title>
      <link>https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/e/bc77-seth-appert-head-hockey-coach-at-rpi-the-engineer-way/</link>
      <description>Seth Appert took over the men’s hockey program at RPI prior to the 2006-07 season.  A coach who routinely has one of the toughest schedules in the nation, Appert talks about the importance of the mental game of ice hockey and competing one shift at a time as well as coaching the most important aspect of the game.
Prior to starting his tenure at RPI, Appert was an assistant at Denver and was responsible for signing numerous nationally ranked recruiting classes during his nine years with the Pioneers.  Among those he coached or recruited at Denver were the 2006 Hobey Baker Award winner, eight All-Americans, a WCHA Player of the Year, 22 All-WCHA picks, three WCHA Defensive Players of the Year, two WCHA Student-Athletes of the Year and 17 NHL draft picks.  The Pioneers averaged over 23 wins per year during his time as an assistant coach and captured two NCAA national championships, three WCHA playoff championships and two WCHA regular-season titles.
Appert was also a four-year letterwinner in the net at Ferris State from 1992-96.
Follow Coach Appert on Twitter @SethAppert</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:16:58 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC77:  Seth Appert - Head Hockey Coach at RPI, The Engineer Way</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Seth Appert took over the men’s hockey program at RPI prior to the 2006-07 season.  A coach who routinely has one of the toughest schedules in the nation, Appert talks about the importance of the mental game of ice hockey and competing one shift at a tim...</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Seth Appert took over the men’s hockey program at RPI prior to the 2006-07 season.  A coach who routinely has one of the toughest schedules in the nation, Appert talks about the importance of the mental game of ice hockey and competing one shift at a time as well as coaching the most important aspect of the game.
Prior to starting his tenure at RPI, Appert was an assistant at Denver and was responsible for signing numerous nationally ranked recruiting classes during his nine years with the Pioneers.  Among those he coached or recruited at Denver were the 2006 Hobey Baker Award winner, eight All-Americans, a WCHA Player of the Year, 22 All-WCHA picks, three WCHA Defensive Players of the Year, two WCHA Student-Athletes of the Year and 17 NHL draft picks.  The Pioneers averaged over 23 wins per year during his time as an assistant coach and captured two NCAA national championships, three WCHA playoff championships and two WCHA regular-season titles.
Appert was also a four-year letterwinner in the net at Ferris State from 1992-96.
Follow Coach Appert on Twitter @SethAppert</itunes:summary>
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Prior to starting his tenure at RPI, Appert was an assistant at Denver and was responsible for signing numerous nationally ranked recruiting classes during his nine years with the Pioneers.  Among those he coached or recruited at Denver were the 2006 Hobey Baker Award winner, eight All-Americans, a WCHA Player of the Year, 22 All-WCHA picks, three WCHA Defensive Players of the Year, two WCHA Student-Athletes of the Year and 17 NHL draft picks.  The Pioneers averaged over 23 wins per year during his time as an assistant coach and captured two NCAA national championships, three WCHA playoff championships and two WCHA regular-season titles.
Appert was also a four-year letterwinner in the net at Ferris State from 1992-96.
Follow Coach Appert on Twitter @SethAppert]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1409</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC76: Brian Cain Vault - Live Coaches' Clinic 2010</title>
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      <description>This week we reach into the VAULT, going all the way back to 2010 where Brian Cain delivers a live coaches' educational clinic to over 500 coaches. Join Cain live as he takes you through the fundamentals of mental toughness training and peak performance.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:15:53 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>BC76: Brian Cain Vault - Live Coaches' Clinic 2010</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>This week we reach into the VAULT, going all the way back to 2010 where Brian Cain delivers a live coaches' educational clinic to over 500 coaches. Join Cain live as he takes you through the fundamentals of mental toughness training and peak performance.</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:duration>4982</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC44: Mike Bianco - Creating A Program of Excellence &amp; The Mental Game</title>
      <description>This weeks guest is Mike Bianco, Head Baseball Coach at The University of Mississippi. Coach Bianco has led the REBS to the 2009 and 2014 SEC Conference championships and a trip to Omaha in 2014. Bianco played and coached at Louisiana State University with quite possibly the greatest mental conditioning coach of all time in 5x NCAA National Championship winning coach and former LSU Athletic Director Skip Bertman.
I have been fortunate to work with Bianco and his program since 2009 and was on staff with him when he was an assistant coach with the Team USA Collegiate National Team in the summer of 2013.
Bianco is one of the greatest motivators in all of collegiate athletics. His use of stories, team building activities, motivational videos and other strategies have helped turn Ole Miss into one of the top programs in the nation year in and year out.
Coach Bianco discusses the importance of training the mental side of the game each and every day and the development of core values within a program that have an impact beyond the game of baseball.
Follow Coach Bianco on Twitter @CoachMikeBianco.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:03:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Mike Bianco - Creating A Program of Excellence &amp; The Mental Game</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Coach Bianco discusses the importance of training the mental side of the game each and every day and the development of core values within a program that have an impact beyond the game of baseball.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This weeks guest is Mike Bianco, Head Baseball Coach at The University of Mississippi. Coach Bianco has led the REBS to the 2009 and 2014 SEC Conference championships and a trip to Omaha in 2014. Bianco played and coached at Louisiana State University with quite possibly the greatest mental conditioning coach of all time in 5x NCAA National Championship winning coach and former LSU Athletic Director Skip Bertman.
I have been fortunate to work with Bianco and his program since 2009 and was on staff with him when he was an assistant coach with the Team USA Collegiate National Team in the summer of 2013.
Bianco is one of the greatest motivators in all of collegiate athletics. His use of stories, team building activities, motivational videos and other strategies have helped turn Ole Miss into one of the top programs in the nation year in and year out.
Coach Bianco discusses the importance of training the mental side of the game each and every day and the development of core values within a program that have an impact beyond the game of baseball.
Follow Coach Bianco on Twitter @CoachMikeBianco.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>This weeks guest is Mike Bianco, Head Baseball Coach at The University of Mississippi. Coach Bianco has led the REBS to the 2009 and 2014 SEC Conference championships and a trip to Omaha in 2014. Bianco played and coached at Louisiana State University with quite possibly the greatest mental conditioning coach of all time in 5x NCAA National Championship winning coach and former LSU Athletic Director Skip Bertman.</p><p>I have been fortunate to work with Bianco and his program since 2009 and was on staff with him when he was an assistant coach with the Team USA Collegiate National Team in the summer of 2013.</p><p>Bianco is one of the greatest motivators in all of collegiate athletics. His use of stories, team building activities, motivational videos and other strategies have helped turn Ole Miss into one of the top programs in the nation year in and year out.</p><p>Coach Bianco discusses the importance of training the mental side of the game each and every day and the development of core values within a program that have an impact beyond the game of baseball.</p><p>Follow Coach Bianco on <a href="https://briancainpodcast.podbean.com/peakperformancepodcast/episode/twitter.com/coachmikebianco">Twitter @CoachMikeBianco</a>.</p>]]>
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      <title>BC43: Todd Whitting - Mastering The Mental Game</title>
      <description>This week’s guest is Todd Whitting, head baseball coach at The University of Houston. Coach Whitting led the Cougars to the American Athletic Conference Championship in 2014 and in 2015 and to an NCAA Super Regional in Austin, Texas, in 2014.
I first started working with Coach Whitting when he was an assistant coach at TCU in 2006 and have had the honor of working with him each year since. As an assistant, Whitting was instrumental in helping build TCU into a national powerhouse, and he has quickly brought The University of Houston back into national prominence.
Whitting will break down how there is no cookie-cutter approach to helping players be successful and to building a winning program, yet there is a process, and that you must be adaptable and flexible in your process to reach maximum success. He also shares his system for developing all aspects of an individual, including a significant emphasis on the mental game.
Follow Coach Whitting on Twitter @ToddWhitting.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Todd Whitting - Mastering The Mental Game</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Whitting will break down how there is no cookie-cutter approach to helping players be successful and to building a winning program, yet there is a process, and that you must be adaptable and flexible in your process to reach maximum success.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week’s guest is Todd Whitting, head baseball coach at The University of Houston. Coach Whitting led the Cougars to the American Athletic Conference Championship in 2014 and in 2015 and to an NCAA Super Regional in Austin, Texas, in 2014.
I first started working with Coach Whitting when he was an assistant coach at TCU in 2006 and have had the honor of working with him each year since. As an assistant, Whitting was instrumental in helping build TCU into a national powerhouse, and he has quickly brought The University of Houston back into national prominence.
Whitting will break down how there is no cookie-cutter approach to helping players be successful and to building a winning program, yet there is a process, and that you must be adaptable and flexible in your process to reach maximum success. He also shares his system for developing all aspects of an individual, including a significant emphasis on the mental game.
Follow Coach Whitting on Twitter @ToddWhitting.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>This week’s guest is Todd Whitting, head baseball coach at The University of Houston. Coach Whitting led the Cougars to the American Athletic Conference Championship in 2014 and in 2015 and to an NCAA Super Regional in Austin, Texas, in 2014.</p><p>I first started working with Coach Whitting when he was an assistant coach at TCU in 2006 and have had the honor of working with him each year since. As an assistant, Whitting was instrumental in helping build TCU into a national powerhouse, and he has quickly brought The University of Houston back into national prominence.</p><p>Whitting will break down how there is no cookie-cutter approach to helping players be successful and to building a winning program, yet there is a process, and that you must be adaptable and flexible in your process to reach maximum success. He also shares his system for developing all aspects of an individual, including a significant emphasis on the mental game.</p><p>Follow Coach Whitting on Twitter @ToddWhitting.</p>]]>
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      <title>BC32: Big 12 Baseball Coach of the Year Jim Schlossnagle Shares Advice For Your Journey to the Top</title>
      <description>This weeks guest is Jim Schlossnagle, Head Baseball Coach at TCU. Coach Schloss is one of the top minds in all of collegiate coaching and has led TCU to the 2010 and 2014 CWS. Schloss was recently named Big 12 Conference Baseball coach of the year in 2015 and was the on field manager of the Team USA Baseball Collegiate National Team in 2013.
In this podcast, Coach Schloss shares his journey to the pinnacle of college baseball, insight behind the creation of his over 1,000,000 x viewed Quiet Confidence Video, his advice for young coaches on decision making, what it takes to develop a winning culture and a winning mindset as well as the 3 qualities he looks for when hiring a coach on his staff.
Follow Coach Schlossnagle on Twitter @TCUSchloss</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Big 12 Baseball Coach of the Year Jim Schlossnagle Shares Advice For Your Journey to the Top</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this podcast, Coach Schloss shares his journey to the pinnacle of college baseball, insight behind the creation of his over 1,000,000 x viewed Quiet Confidence Video, his advice for young coaches on decision making, what it takes to develop a winning culture and a winning mindset as well as the 3 qualities he looks for when hiring a coach on his staff.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This weeks guest is Jim Schlossnagle, Head Baseball Coach at TCU. Coach Schloss is one of the top minds in all of collegiate coaching and has led TCU to the 2010 and 2014 CWS. Schloss was recently named Big 12 Conference Baseball coach of the year in 2015 and was the on field manager of the Team USA Baseball Collegiate National Team in 2013.
In this podcast, Coach Schloss shares his journey to the pinnacle of college baseball, insight behind the creation of his over 1,000,000 x viewed Quiet Confidence Video, his advice for young coaches on decision making, what it takes to develop a winning culture and a winning mindset as well as the 3 qualities he looks for when hiring a coach on his staff.
Follow Coach Schlossnagle on Twitter @TCUSchloss</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>This weeks guest is <strong>Jim Schlossnagle</strong>, Head Baseball Coach at <strong>TCU</strong>. Coach Schloss is one of the top minds in all of collegiate coaching and has led TCU to the 2010 and 2014 CWS. Schloss was recently named Big 12 Conference Baseball coach of the year in 2015 and was the on field manager of the Team USA Baseball Collegiate National Team in 2013.</p><p>In this podcast, Coach Schloss shares his journey to the pinnacle of college baseball, insight behind the creation of his over 1,000,000 x viewed Quiet Confidence Video, his advice for young coaches on decision making, what it takes to develop a winning culture and a winning mindset as well as the 3 qualities he looks for when hiring a coach on his staff.</p><p>Follow Coach Schlossnagle on Twitter @TCUSchloss</p>]]>
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      <itunes:duration>1774</itunes:duration>
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      <title>BC42: Erik Bakich - Accelerated Player Development Program</title>
      <description>This week's guest is Erik Bakich, Head Baseball Coach at The University of Michigan. Coach Bakich led the Wolverines to the Big 10 Conference Championship in 2015 and participated in the NCAA Tournament for the first time as a head coach.
I first started working with Bakich when he was an assistant coach at Vanderbilt in 2007 and have worked with him in his head coaching stops at The University of Maryland and now at Michigan. Bakich is one of the most well rounded coaches I have ever worked with. When I am asked by other coaches what programs they should go visit to learn from, Michigan is always near or at the top of my list because of the tremendous accelerated player development system Bakich and his staff run on a daily basis.
Bakich played for Keith LeClair at East Carolina University and was teammates with our most downloaded podcast with current ECU Baseball Coach Cliff Godwin. He has also coached under legends Jack Leggett at Clemson and Tim Corbin at Vanderbilt. He was on the staff in Nashville with one of the most respected pitching teachers in the world in Derek Johnson, now the pitching coordinator for the Chicago Cubs.
To reach your maximum potential, it extends beyond the playing field. We reached back into the archives for this podcast, recorded on April 12, 2013 because of the fabulous strategies for success Bakich shares that you can use to help close the gap from where you are to where you want to be in your program and in your life. Bakich discusses his journey to becoming a Division 1 Head Coach, as well as the demands of having such a position, the difference between being a champion and winning a championship, his weekly leadership, mental conditioning and perspective building sessions, what it takes to have double energy at the house and at the field, the importance of EXTREME organization, having a daily routine and knowing what it is you want to accomplish each day are also among the topics of discussion this week.
Coach Bakich also sits in the hot seat and gives rapid fire answers about:

National Anthem

Compared To What

Perspective Poster

Concentration Grids

Breathing

Process

Life skills

The compound effect

Make your bed

Recruiting

Reading one book per week

Omaha

The peak performance journal

Measurement = motivation

The importance of nutrition

Leaving a legacy

Servant leadership

Pat Tillman</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 08:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Erik Bakich - Accelerated Player Development Program</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle> Bakich discusses his journey to becoming a Division 1 Head Coach, as well as the demands of having such a position, the difference between being a champion and winning a championship, his weekly leadership, mental conditioning and perspective building sessions, what it takes to have double energy at the house and at the field, the importance of EXTREME organization, having a daily routine and knowing what it is you want to accomplish each day are also among the topics of discussion this week.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>This week's guest is Erik Bakich, Head Baseball Coach at The University of Michigan. Coach Bakich led the Wolverines to the Big 10 Conference Championship in 2015 and participated in the NCAA Tournament for the first time as a head coach.
I first started working with Bakich when he was an assistant coach at Vanderbilt in 2007 and have worked with him in his head coaching stops at The University of Maryland and now at Michigan. Bakich is one of the most well rounded coaches I have ever worked with. When I am asked by other coaches what programs they should go visit to learn from, Michigan is always near or at the top of my list because of the tremendous accelerated player development system Bakich and his staff run on a daily basis.
Bakich played for Keith LeClair at East Carolina University and was teammates with our most downloaded podcast with current ECU Baseball Coach Cliff Godwin. He has also coached under legends Jack Leggett at Clemson and Tim Corbin at Vanderbilt. He was on the staff in Nashville with one of the most respected pitching teachers in the world in Derek Johnson, now the pitching coordinator for the Chicago Cubs.
To reach your maximum potential, it extends beyond the playing field. We reached back into the archives for this podcast, recorded on April 12, 2013 because of the fabulous strategies for success Bakich shares that you can use to help close the gap from where you are to where you want to be in your program and in your life. Bakich discusses his journey to becoming a Division 1 Head Coach, as well as the demands of having such a position, the difference between being a champion and winning a championship, his weekly leadership, mental conditioning and perspective building sessions, what it takes to have double energy at the house and at the field, the importance of EXTREME organization, having a daily routine and knowing what it is you want to accomplish each day are also among the topics of discussion this week.
Coach Bakich also sits in the hot seat and gives rapid fire answers about:

National Anthem

Compared To What

Perspective Poster

Concentration Grids

Breathing

Process

Life skills

The compound effect

Make your bed

Recruiting

Reading one book per week

Omaha

The peak performance journal

Measurement = motivation

The importance of nutrition

Leaving a legacy

Servant leadership

Pat Tillman</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>This week's guest is Erik Bakich, Head Baseball Coach at The University of Michigan. Coach Bakich led the Wolverines to the Big 10 Conference Championship in 2015 and participated in the NCAA Tournament for the first time as a head coach.</p><p>I first started working with Bakich when he was an assistant coach at Vanderbilt in 2007 and have worked with him in his head coaching stops at The University of Maryland and now at Michigan. Bakich is one of the most well rounded coaches I have ever worked with. When I am asked by other coaches what programs they should go visit to learn from, Michigan is always near or at the top of my list because of the tremendous accelerated player development system Bakich and his staff run on a daily basis.</p><p>Bakich played for Keith LeClair at East Carolina University and was teammates with our most downloaded podcast with current ECU Baseball Coach Cliff Godwin. He has also coached under legends Jack Leggett at Clemson and Tim Corbin at Vanderbilt. He was on the staff in Nashville with one of the most respected pitching teachers in the world in Derek Johnson, now the pitching coordinator for the Chicago Cubs.</p><p>To reach your maximum potential, it extends beyond the playing field. We reached back into the archives for this podcast, recorded on April 12, 2013 because of the fabulous strategies for success Bakich shares that you can use to help close the gap from where you are to where you want to be in your program and in your life. Bakich discusses his journey to becoming a Division 1 Head Coach, as well as the demands of having such a position, the difference between being a champion and winning a championship, his weekly leadership, mental conditioning and perspective building sessions, what it takes to have double energy at the house and at the field, the importance of EXTREME organization, having a daily routine and knowing what it is you want to accomplish each day are also among the topics of discussion this week.</p><p>Coach Bakich also sits in the hot seat and gives rapid fire answers about:</p><ul>
<li>National Anthem</li>
<li>Compared To What</li>
<li>Perspective Poster</li>
<li>Concentration Grids</li>
<li>Breathing</li>
<li>Process</li>
<li>Life skills</li>
<li>The compound effect</li>
<li>Make your bed</li>
<li>Recruiting</li>
<li>Reading one book per week</li>
<li>Omaha</li>
<li>The peak performance journal</li>
<li>Measurement = motivation</li>
<li>The importance of nutrition</li>
<li>Leaving a legacy</li>
<li>Servant leadership</li>
<li>Pat Tillman</li>
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      <title>BC01: Cliff Godwin - The Pirate's Mission</title>
      <description>Cliff Godwin is the head baseball coach at East Carolina University and one of the top young coaches in all of NCAA athletics. Godwin worked as an assistant under two national championship winning coaches in Tim Corbin at Vanderbilt and under Paul Manari at LSU. He also was instrumental as an assistant coach in leading Ole Miss to Omaha in 2014.
I have know Cliff since 2012 when we worked together with Ole Miss Baseball. He has impressed me with his energy, competitiveness and ability to connect with players and get them to play at their best on a consistent basis. As a head coach, his press conference was truly impressive in that he outlined his vision for ECU baseball and the PIRATES MISSION and has since been working relentlessly to make that vision come to fruition.
In this podcast, Cliff breaks down the PIRATES MISSION and what he has believes makes a player and a program flourish in the mental side of the game.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
      <itunes:title>Cliff Godwin - The Pirate's Mission</itunes:title>
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      <itunes:author>BRIAN CAIN</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:subtitle>In this podcast, Cliff breaks down the PIRATES MISSION and what he has believes makes a player and a program flourish in the mental side of the game.</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:summary>Cliff Godwin is the head baseball coach at East Carolina University and one of the top young coaches in all of NCAA athletics. Godwin worked as an assistant under two national championship winning coaches in Tim Corbin at Vanderbilt and under Paul Manari at LSU. He also was instrumental as an assistant coach in leading Ole Miss to Omaha in 2014.
I have know Cliff since 2012 when we worked together with Ole Miss Baseball. He has impressed me with his energy, competitiveness and ability to connect with players and get them to play at their best on a consistent basis. As a head coach, his press conference was truly impressive in that he outlined his vision for ECU baseball and the PIRATES MISSION and has since been working relentlessly to make that vision come to fruition.
In this podcast, Cliff breaks down the PIRATES MISSION and what he has believes makes a player and a program flourish in the mental side of the game.</itunes:summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><strong>Cliff Godwin</strong> is the head baseball coach at <strong>East Carolina University</strong> and one of the top young coaches in all of NCAA athletics. Godwin worked as an assistant under two national championship winning coaches in Tim Corbin at Vanderbilt and under Paul Manari at LSU. He also was instrumental as an assistant coach in leading Ole Miss to Omaha in 2014.</p><p>I have know Cliff since 2012 when we worked together with Ole Miss Baseball. He has impressed me with his energy, competitiveness and ability to connect with players and get them to play at their best on a consistent basis. As a head coach, his press conference was truly impressive in that he outlined his vision for ECU baseball and the PIRATES MISSION and has since been working relentlessly to make that vision come to fruition.</p><p>In this podcast, Cliff breaks down the PIRATES MISSION and what he has believes makes a player and a program flourish in the mental side of the game.</p>]]>
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