Pillar #7 Routines and Habits of Excellence

PODCAST: The Mental Game of a 19-Year MLB Player Raúl Ibañez |

Former 19-year Big Leaguer Raúl Ibañez joins Brian to talk mental game and how it attributed mightily to his success.  Raúl hit over 300 home runs and drove in more than 1,200 runs throughout his illustrious career… 

PODCAST: The Mindset of The Chief of The One-Pitch Warrior Tribe – Chad Cordero

Cal State Fullerton Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Chad Cordero was an All-American and 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.

PODCAST: Augie Garrido – 5x NCAA National Champion – All-Time NCAA Wins Leader – Life Is Yours to Win

Coach Auggie 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… Read More

PODCAST: Lacey Waldrop – 2014 NCAA Softball National Player of The Year – 3x All-American

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… Read More

PODCAST: Maddie O’Brien – 2014 NCAA All-American – FSU Softball & NPF Player

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… Read More

PODCAST: Kaleigh Rafter – Canadian Olympic Softball Player Talks Mental Game

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… Read More

PODCAST: Kirk Saarloos – The Mental Performance Skills Training Behind one of College Baseball’s Best Pitchers & Pitching Coaches

Kirk Saarloos is the pitching coach at TCU and is widely regarded as the top pitching coach in all of college baseball. A former All-American pitcher at Cal State Fullerton, Kirk went on to have a 5-year Major League Baseball career in which he threw a no-hitter in Yankee Stadium. In this podcast Kirk discusses… Read More

PODCAST: The Mental Game of MMA, Firas Zahabi

Firas Zahabi is one of the most respected MMA trainers in the world.  He is the head coach of TriStar Gym in Montreal, Canada – home of 2010, 2011 and 2012 Canadian Athlete of the Year and UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre.  Zahabi is a master of the mental game and is excellent at training an elite mindset for his fighters in and out of the cage.

PODCAST: Erik Bakich – The Role of Mental Performance in Accelerated Player Development Program

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… Read More

PODCAST: The Mindset of Courtney Ceo, All-American Softball player who hit .493

Courtney Ceo  not only led the Oregon Ducks to a PAC-12 championship and the Women’s College World Series, she led the nation with a .493 batting average. She was a 2014 USA Softball Player of the Year finalist, 2014 NFCA First Team All-Pacific Region, 2014 NFCA First Team All-American, First Team Pac-12 All-Conference and was… Read More

PODCAST: How One Decision Can Change Your Destiny Forever

Matt Carpenter is a 2X Major League All-Star (2013 & 2014) a World Series Champion (2011) and a Master of The Mental Game.  In this podcast, Carp breaks down his mental approach to the game and how ONE DECISION that he had at TCU changed his life and his career for ever. I started to… Read More

With Some Help From Peak Performance Coach Brian Cain, Oregon State Baseball Vaults To Top of College Baseball Polls

Published: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 6:27 PMBy: Lindsay Schnell, The OregonianOSU Photo By: Ethan Erickson CORVALLIS, OR – Brian Cain drew a line at the front of the dugout, and gave instructions to the Oregon State baseball team. The rules were easy, said Cain, a peak performance coach hired this season by the Beavers. If… Read More