Pillar #7 Routines and Habits of Excellence

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.

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 head of mental performance for the Colorado Rockies. In this podcast we talk about MPM strategies from combat and baseball that you can apply directly to your life.

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.

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.

“What exactly is Mental Performance Training?” It’s a question I get asked a lot. My response? Do you want to know what it is? Or what the benefits are? Mental Performance Training is the art and science of overcoming the barriers that get in the way of performing at your highest level. Meh. Okay … Here’s the message that gets me pumped:
Mental Performance Training helps you ACHIEVE YOUR BIGGEST GOALS. Yes! So much better. You are here because you have BIG goals for yourself and the athletes you coach. Can I tell you a secret? Mental Performance Training is what’s going to get you and your athletes to achieve those goals…

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 & 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.

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 UnderArmour, the Navy SEAL Foundation, Blackhawk, Garmin and dozens of others, Jeremy and his team at Ironclad they 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.

In episode #3 – The Art of Coaching, Cain & Casey do an in depth breakdown of “The Art of Coaching” an HBO Documentary about Nick Saban and Bill Belichick.

In episode #2 of The Golf Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Podcast Brian Cain, creator of the MPM Coaches Certification sits down to discuss all things related to golf mental performance, golf instruction and getting the most out of your potential both on and off the course.  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.

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…

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.

The secrets of success are hidden in the routines of our daily lives and in episode #2 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.