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PODCAST: Building A Championship Culture With LSU Softball Coach Beth Torina

LSU Softball head coach Beth Torina 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.

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: Jon Gordon – The Energy Bus, Hard Hat and Becoming a #1 Best-Selling Author

Today’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… Read More

PODCAST: Heath Autrey – How Mental Performance Helped Fuel The #1 Ranked Team in The Country

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… 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

The Man in the Glass

Today we’re going all the way back to 1994 in Williamstown, Massachusetts.  At a high school football banquet, Glenn Foley shared with me a poem that has stuck with me to this day. Watch this video featuring the poem titled The Man in the Glass: I challenge you to look inside and ask yourself:  Where am I?… Read More

PODCAST: Derek Johnson – Building Mental Toughness in Pitchers

In this podcast, former Vanderbilt Baseball pitching coach Derek Johnson shares strategies for helping pitchers compete one pitch at a time and reach their maximum potential through mental conditioning.  Johnson is considered by many as the top pitching coach in the world.  He currently works as the pitching coordinator for the Milwaukee Brewers. Engage With… Read More

PODCAST: Brian Cain on the Mental Game of Baseball

Brian Cain breaks down what it takes to succeed on the diamond one pitch at a time.  Cain also fields questions on the mental game of baseball