#368 Eric Potterat, PhD, Mental Performance Coach for the US Navy SEALs, LA Dodgers, and US Women’s National Soccer Team
Thursday, 14 March 2024
Eric Potterat, PhD, is a clinical and performance psychologist and a leading expert in individual and organizational performance optimization. Eric retired as a commander from the US Navy after twenty years of service, during which he helped create the mental toughness curriculum used during Navy SEALs BUD/S training. Eric spent several years as the director
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#364 Wells Thompson, Former MLS Player and Founder of Soccer Resilience, on How to Think Better so you can Perform Better
Friday, 16 February 2024
Wells Thompson is a former Major League Soccer Player and the Founder of Soccer Resilience, an mazing resource for players and teams to build inner strength and help athletes think better so they can perform better. Wells was an all ACC player at Wake Forest and the 5th pick in the 2007 MLS Super Draft.
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#335 Dr. Alan Goldberg, World Renowned Sport Psychologist: “Once the Competition Starts, Performance is 100% Mental”
Friday, 28 July 2023
Listen on the web, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and Stitcher Listen and Watch the Podcast on You Tube: @WayofChampionsPodcast Dr. Alan Goldberg received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is a former #1 singles player for the UMass Minuteman tennis team and twice Conference Champion. His background also includes 22 years of professional tennis coaching experience and a first-degree
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#323 Dr. Rob Bell, Sport Psychologist and Mental Toughness Coach: “The Process Takes Perspective, the Product Takes Patience”
Friday, 05 May 2023
Listen on the web, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and Stitcher Listen and Watch the Podcast on You Tube: @WayofChampionsPodcast Dr Rob Bell has written eight books on mental toughness and puts out a sport psychology podcast called 15 Minutes of Mental Toughness. Since 2006 he’s consulted with hundreds of athletes, coaches, and teams. He also currently serves as a Sport Psychology coach
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#236 Cassidy Preston, Mental Performance Coach: How to Overcome the Results Trap, the Confidence Conundrum, and the Over-Thinking Paradox
Sunday, 05 September 2021
Listen on the web, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and Stitcher Dr. Cassidy Preston (@CassidyPreston) is a mental performance coach and the founder of Consistent Elite Performance. He was a high level hockey player as a youth, played 5 years of university hockey, and five years of OHL major junior level before transitioning into coaching AAA Hockey. His own struggles as a
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#174 “Talent can be the obstacle” with Allon Khakshouri, former manager of world #1 Novak Djikovic
Sunday, 28 June 2020
This week on the Way of Champions Podcast, we welcome High Performance Expert, Allon Khakshouri. Allon Khakshouri is a recognized personality in the sports world, and has managed the careers of some of this generation’s greatest tennis players, including current world number one Novak Djokovic. We dive into what separates the great players from everyone else,
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#148 NFL All Pro, Broadway star, and author of “There is No Plan B for Your A Game”
Sunday, 05 January 2020
iTunes – Spotify – Stitcher From the football field, to the stage, to becoming a best-selling, author Bo Eason joins us on the Way of Champions Podcast to discuss peaking in youth sports, competing against difficult opponents, and the mentality it takes to be the best in the world. Highlights from the Podcast: Bo shares
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#99 How to Help your Teams Overcome Fear in Must Win Games: A Fireside Chat with John and Jerry
Sunday, 27 January 2019
Do your athletes struggle with the right frame of mind for the “big game”? Does the pressure of a “must-win” have an effect on their pre-game mindset? Tune in to hear about some strategies for keeping a cool head win it is all “on the line”. Enjoy the Show Getting in Touch: Jerry: wayofchampions@gmail.com John:
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#92 A Fireside Chat on the Future of Coaching with Mark Bennett, Stuart Armstrong, Juan Gonzales Mendia, and John O’Sullivan
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Become a fly on the wall and listen in as the experts behind the Future Coaching Conference plan out the sessions, discuss what it means to be a great coach, differentiate between resilience, grit, and mental toughness, and much more. Stuart Armstrong hosts from his car while driving the M6, and John, Mark, and Juan
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#77 Mindfulness, Peak Performance, and “Playing in the Space Between” with Dr. Amy Saltzman
Sunday, 02 September 2018
What would it look like if all your athletes were able to acknowledge, resolve, and let go of emotions and feelings during games? If they could choose the right behaviors, even in moments of high pressure because they were able to understand and forgive their own feelings and thoughts and not get stuck in negative
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WOC #64 “I’m just a kid playing a game”: Overcoming adversity, managing disappointment, and building an athlete warrior ethos with USA Volleyball Player Cassidy Lichtman
Sunday, 03 June 2018
Imagine playing your entire career with unimaginable pain or working your hardest for four years to fall one spot short of making a lifelong dream come true. Now imagine the kind of warrior ethos required to say “my pain will not control my life and my disappointments will not define me”. This is the amazing
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#54 How Desirable Difficulties Help Our Children Succeed in Sports and Life with Jessica Lahey, Author of The Gift of Failure
Sunday, 25 March 2018
Are we robbing our kids of valuable self-directed executive function when we solve everything for them and don’t let them make mistakes? This is a valuable life skill needed to succeed in college and beyond. Listen in as Jessica Lahey explains on the newest podcast. Subscribe to the Way of Champions Podcast on iTunes Show
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#51 No One Gets There Alone with Sports Psychologist Rob Bell
Sunday, 04 March 2018
Success never happens in a vacuum. There are always others who have been there with us on the journey to help. When those “helpers” appear will you be ready? Will you take advantage of the gift you are given? Dr. Rob Bell talks about Hinge Moments and those people who are there in those moments.
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WOC #38 Don’t just tell them to be leaders, teach them with James Leath, Former Head of Leadership Development at IMG Academy
Sunday, 03 December 2017
What do a college mascot, an improv comedian, and sport psychologist have in common? The recipe for helping develop some of our best leaders and most resilient athletes. Tune in to hear James Leath’s amazing journey to become one of North America’s most successful leadership development experts and how he steps way outside the traditional
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WOC #36 Former Professional Golfer, John Haime, on How Sports Skills Transfer from the Locker Room to the Board Room
Sunday, 19 November 2017
A mere 1 percent of all youth athletes end up playing pro. What is the goal of youth sports for those other 99 percent? In this episode, John Haime discusses the real skills that kids can learn in the locker room and transfer to the board room. Bio John is a world-class Coach in the area
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WOC #26 Dr. Jerry Lynch, 36x NCAA Champ, On Mindfulness, Motivation, and How to Turn Your Off-Season into Investment Season
Sunday, 10 September 2017
Would you be willing to trade 10 minutes at the start of practice in order to shorten training by an hour and increase your team’s learning and development? Many coaches struggle to keep practices short and on task and fear giving up any time to activities like mindfulness training. What Dr. Lynch has discovered, the
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WoC Podcast #5: 2x Olympic Decathlon Champion Ashton Eaton
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
It’s not often you get to speak with the greatest athlete in the world, and pick his brain about coaching, practice habits, multi-sport participation, parental and coaching influences, staying on top of your game, and so much more. This week John sits down with world record holder and 2x Olympic Gold Medalist Ashton Eaton for
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Developing Warriors, not Winners, is the Path to Excellence
Sunday, 05 March 2017
(This week’s blog is written by Reed Maltbie, our new Chief Content Officer and Lead Presenter for Changing the Game Project. If you haven’t seen Reed present for us yet, check out his amazing TED talk on the lasting power of a coach’s words. Drop him a line at Reed@ChangingTheGameProject.com to say hello or if you interested
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Our 2016 Books of the Year
Saturday, 03 December 2016
“You cannot open a book without learning something.” – Confucius Yes, it is that time of year again, the time where our staff shares some of our favorite reads in the world of coaching, parenting, and athlete development. We are all avid readers and lifelong learners, and every year we pour through numerous books, articles,
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The Extra Mile
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
The extra mile is a lonely place, but it is the only path to greatness. There are no fans lining that mile. No cameras. No bright lights. Most of your teammates won’t join you there, because your dreams belong to you, not them. Many of your “friends” will tell you that you are wasting your
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The Difference Between Winning and Losing
Tuesday, 06 October 2015
By James Leath (this first appeared on his blog at www.JamesLeath.com) A former student athlete of mine was awarded a full ride to play NCAA D1 football and he called me recently, just to talk. Calls from former athletes are a huge highlight in any coach’s day. “Coach, what is the difference between winning and
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The Great Trophy Debate: Do We Need Participation Awards?
Wednesday, 09 September 2015
“Daddy, do we get trophies for playing lacrosse this spring?” my son asked me a few months back. “No, you get to go out and run around and have lots of fun while learning lacrosse,” I said. “OK!” Then he turned and ran out on the field for the start of his first practice. According
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How to Raise a Lion Chaser!
Monday, 04 August 2014
“Coach, I don’t want to take a penalty shot,” said a very nervous 13 year-old player of mine a few years back. We were in the Oregon Soccer State Cup semifinals, and this talented but not quite confident young girl looked in no mood to take a shot in the penalty shootout to determine whether
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Rescue Your Kids From “Affluenza”: Teach Them Grit!
Monday, 16 December 2013
The recent news out of Texas, where a 16 year old driver was only given probation for driving drunk and killing four innocent bystanders, popularized a new psychological term in the process. Apparently, parents raising children in wealthy suburbs with little oversight, few rules, and utter indifference to their behavior are causing “affluenza,” a supposed
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The Missing Ingredient
Monday, 02 December 2013
If you have coached long enough, you have probably said this about a player: “He’s got a lot of talent, but he is just missing something.” I have written on similar subjects in the past, and there has been academic research in this area. In all likelihood, that missing ingredient was often the inner drive
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