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Episode Notes: LIVE and IN PERSON- Jamie and John are together again to CELEBRATE the 1 and the 150! Join us as we discuss how important it is to celebrate small wins and how those wins, stacked over time, make a huge impact on our lives.

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Episode Notes: As performers we often assume that getting simple means going backward. What if we thought about it differently? What if what's needed is an update to a simpler process? In this episode we dive into that concept from a bunch of different perspectives.

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Episode Notes: What happens when we get in over our head? Or when our brain is screaming at us because we don't know when the drop off is coming? In this episode, we discuss how sometimes wading in or dipping a toe in is all we need to get moving. And that the movement is where the magic happens.

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Episode Notes: After far too long of a break we catch up with John and Jamie to find out what the last couple months have looked like: what they’ve been doing and what they’ve learned. We also discuss why these podcast conversations still matter and why we’re still passionate about getting better every day. 

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Episode Notes: We welcome back our former co-host, performance coach and mental health professional, John Shirkey. John and I dive into who we might become when we allow ourselves to forget our past. Or when we chose to focus our attention on the little moments rather than the big or special ones. We then discuss how so many of the structures in our life support or create a benefit in order to drive those behaviors. John draws out this amazing idea of "yes, and." We become better when we realize that two things can and should be true.

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Episode Notes: Courtney returns to the podcast to reflect on her first year in coaching, one that brought a state title back to Billings Senior High Volleyball for the first time since 2014. What an epic title run it was! We dive into what she learned, what they plan to do next and the values they tried to create in a short period of time. In short, we talk about why their foundation is built on "What we do matters," and why it matters every day in every way.

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Episode Notes: Alex Greenway is the strength and conditioning coach for Tracy-Milroy-Balaton Schools in southwest Minnesota. Alex joins us today to talk about the value of strength training and how it parallels the process of growing mental skills and toughness in life. It starts with having a solid foundation. Then the confidence we build translates to the rest of our life. As a member of the National High School Strength Coaches Association he helped drive the creation of a Strength Coaches Association in Minnesota where they are helping put resources in the hands of coaches and connecting great people doing cool things. Join us as we discuss how to build a foundation, why ego gets in the way of listening, connection and building trust.

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Episode Notes: Orlando Ponce of Ponce Trained Wrestling joins us to discuss the ways they are helping grow the sport of wrestling. He tells us how he took an unexpected path to wrestling and how coaches and siblings showed him what was possible. We then highlight how they have gotten creative about attacking the problem at the source, developing a curriculum for educators to follow to teach wrestling and then using that curriculum for their in-person camps for elementary students. There are some awesome challenges in this episode that can help us think about how to match our skills, our passion and what's possible.

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Episode Notes: In examining the many ways resistance shows up in our lives, we hit on 3 big topics: the fact that emotions precede feelings and how our brain interacts with that process. Discussing how we can prioritize development rather than outcomes. Finally, we examine what Steven Pressfield calls, “The Resistance,” anything that stops us from reaching our higher calling and it shows up in every imaginable way. What is it for you? 

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Episode Notes: Shane Zutz, Vice President of HR at Digi-key Electronics, joins the podcast to discuss how transferable skills aid us in making big life transitions. A long-time educator and former high school principal, Shane and I talk about the challenge of moving from education to business. He shares that people are the constant and when we focus on meeting their needs, growing them no matter where we are allows us to keep connecting to our purpose. We can build, borrow or buy talent but however we find it we need to nurture, support and challenge those people to continue to get the most out of them. 

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Episode Notes: Malorie Nicole, host of #1 Forbes rated, The Abundantly Clear Podcast, joins us today to discuss why the stories we tell ourselves are part of our limiting beliefs. Her core principles are about aligning our inner world with our outer world and she beliefs that when we do that, we get abundance and clarity. Malorie helped us see how the language we use, the vision we create for ourselves and the boundaries we set grow our capacity to influence and lead others. Join us as we continue the journey toward consistently bringing our best self to the forefront, identify those conditioned beliefs so we can find a way through them.

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Episode Notes: Jason (J) Scott understands what it means to be a transformative leader. His experience guiding major corporations through massive transitions has taught him how to lead people through the challenges of change. In this conversation we dive deep into the pieces needed to help others achieve their greatest successes as well. We discuss how to deliver the necessary and expected results while maintaining people's humanity. We talk about an idea J calls backwards accountability and knowing that leadership and teamwork are the same thing. Help your stakeholders build their own roadmap to a shared goal with you. 

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Episode Notes: Pete Janiszeksi the head boys and girls track & field and cross country coach in Luverne, MN joins the program. Luverne has managed to sustain success in both track and cross country at the highest level. Both boys and girls are regularly competing for top 5 finishes in the state in track and field. The boys cross country team were state runners-up this fall while the girls have been in the top 5 in six of the last eight years.  Coach Janiszeski discusses how they focus their attention on developing teams, doing the work of feeling success through visualization, and breaking down the process into specific parts: tactics, maintenance, acceleration and finishing.

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Episode Notes: Sometimes we just get stuck. Stuck thinking about what could have been or what might be. Stuck on a loop repeating how bad something went. Spiraling into a cycle of frustration or disappointment. Being stuck means we don't find our best performance as often or can't find it at all.  What can we do about it? In this episode we talk about things we work on with athletes and leaders to help direct our attention and pull us out of that spiral. We also acknowledge how hard it can be to do this consistently. 

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Episode Notes, Shae McKibbon, Co-Founder of The Lettery Studio, joins the program to talk about how the creative process supports healthy lives. We discuss how the challenges of losing yourself and identity in parenting led, her and her co-founder Jami, to identify something that needed addressing for more than just themselves. Words have the power to change lives, and being intentional with our words is a must. Shae speaks to the basic need in everyone to be seen, heard and validated and that if we meet that more often through listening, pausing and radical empathy we might just shape our world.

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Episode Notes: John returns to talk about the challenges we are currently facing after losing a good friend. Our conversation speaks to our current situation and to the process of grieving as a whole. John reminds us that grief is something everyone deals with differently. There is no right way. 

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Episode Notes: Chris Masiello, CEO of the Masiello Group, joins us today to talk about CHANGE. Change in all caps, because it’s everywhere, all the time and impossible to avoid. Yet, when we approach it from a place of curiosity, potential and non-judgment we can and will be transformed. The capacity to be honest with ourselves and to do so with acceptance is powerful.

We also discuss in the open a big change in many of our lives here in the Eyes Up Family that contributed to our longer than usual break, the loss of our good friend, Trevor Solem, after a 20 month battle with cancer.

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Episode Notes: Luke Amsden returns to the podcast to talk about his routines and how the little things we don’t always notice turn into big things over time. We touch on physical routines, the process of constantly adapting the details as a coach and seeing how success in other programs can contribute to your process. Ultimately, he challenges us to start. Just start, then pay attention, the details tend to take care of themselves from there.

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In this episode we look to challenge some of our basic assumptions about the things we do in our leadership. For coaches and leaders out there, this episode is packed with ideas to help you reflect on the season or project you just finished or the new opportunity right in front of you.  As I have been working with coaches to wind down from the fall season and ramp up into the winter season I have seen some patterns in the types of questions I have been asking and answering. Here is a glimpse into some of my big takeaways from those conversations.

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Episode Notes: Tom Dierenfeld, youth pastor at Life Spring Covenant Church in Loveland, Colorado, is a dude. Tommy D and I go way back to high school where our hearts forged a deep, lasting relationship with one another. Tom genuinely changed the shape of my life and in this conversation you will see why. His joy, passion and compassion are obvious, it pours out of him. He challenges us to find a way to get in rhythm with life. From taking a 10-minute timeout daily to carving out time for your spouse with a regular date night or creating a weekly Sabbath for your family, Tom thinks about the different ways that space allows him to fill his heart and then give that fullness away. I love his challenge to ask ourselves to wonder about how someone else's heart is doing, it can't help but make you feel love and compassion for that person. Tom grew us today and helped us get one step closer to what an integrated life might look like. 

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Episode Notes: Check out all the resources linked below that were mentioned in today's episode! When does our best performance happen? When our head, hands and heart are working together. In other words, when we are whole? How do we get our energy, our emotions and our spirit going in the same direction, maybe some of the resources shared today will help point you there.

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Episode Notes: Check out all the resources linked below that were mentioned in today's episode! What ideas do we need to connect mind to body? We can do that in generative and restorative ways. Art, carpentry, sewing, mechanics, and fitness all meet our bodies need to create and restore. What are those for you and how can you build a routine around them? Engage with your keystone habits. 

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Episode Notes: Check out all the resources linked below that were mentioned in today's episode! What things help trigger the thoughts we need to move into productive action? That and more in today's episode. 

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Episode Notes: We take a look at what forces us to get out of order in our lives. Today's episode is the first in a series of trying to get back to basics by exploring the resources and the people that have set us up for success in the past. Jamie explores the transitions that have caused some upheaval in his life over the last 12 months and challenges us to think about the different ways life is connected. Over the next three episodes Jamie will dig into those resources and invite on people that have helped support his growth. Join us on this journey to not only get better but also find your best each and every day. 

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Episode Notes: Terrified and stalked by an oppressive fear of death, John David Latta was a single dad with two children facing rock bottom, loneliness and bankruptcy. Today he would describe himself as a mystic, author, teacher, and former founder and CEO of a multimillion-dollar consumer products company. The bottom was only the beginning. John David joins us to talk about that transformation and what learning to trust in a deeper way has brought to his life. We cover a wide range of topics from spirituality and searching to getting comfortable with your intuition and paying attention to your dreams. He shares his wisdom around how traditional masculinity might not have the answers we hope it does and challenges us to think about how we might become someone more open to the truth around us. 

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Episode Notes: JP returns to discuss what it is like on the ground during the season, when maybe things aren't going the way you had planned. We talk about a lot of things from the heartbreak of injury and the chaos of a seemingly continuous competition schedule to the need for practice to be more than something you do after school. Ultimately we get better because we are surrounded by people that grow us. In-season that network can get small and sheltered, John challenges us to think about how we are leading in and beyond that network by connecting with others and pulling in their voices as well.

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Episode Notes: Sheena Dauer wears many hats and brings excitement to them all. A physical therapist, strength and conditioning coach and endurance athlete, Sheena engages with and understands what is going on in her body during competition in an awesome way. An All-American Cross Country runner in college, she has transitioned into Ironman Triathlons where she recently completed her 10th event while battling injury. We discuss how new roles open doors to learning, how hard an injury makes the rest of life, how everyone is an athlete and how sometimes we just have to be thankful for the privilege of being able to try.

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Episode Notes: Greg Dietel, a head basketball coach for more than 25 years and a long-time 3rd grade teacher, joins the podcast to discuss what it looks like to build great culture. Not only has he done this at the high school level in basketball with boys and girls and in the classroom with young people, we dive into his role with North Tartan AAU, an elite Nike-affiliated (EYBL) girls program. There he has seen how these principles and skills are even more important as you climb the ladder of success. Greg understands what it takes to grow people by planting them in the right soil.

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Episode Notes: David Levin, founder of the Raise Your Inner Game Sports Academy and author of the book - Raise Your Inner Game, joins the podcast to challenge us to do just that through a mechanics based approach that is easier to teach, coach and practice. David looks at how you can depersonalize errors by asking who is in charge right now: Am I or is this thought? It is critical to become aware when we let the thoughts decide and to be aware that thinking and hearing thoughts are different things. Learn to get cognitive control, emotional self-regulation and impulse control -- master the three domains of performance: thinking, feeling, doing. 

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Episode Notes: Dr. Chris Gehrz, history professor at Bethel University, joins the podcast. He was my introduction to podcasts many years ago, it was only right that he joined me for a discussion. The conversation is wide ranging and connects with what it means to reflect on your current and future place, giving students the license to fail and how being yourself is essential to lead and teach. Dr. Gehrz is an expert at demonstrating what it means to think in public and has taught many of us the secret isn’t what you think.

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Jake Thompson, Chief Encouragement Officer of Compete Every Day, returns for a conversation to challenge us and grow us. Jake challenges us to think about coaching as teaching and how asking great questions unlocks relationships and learning. What does it look like to reach your potential and what did you do today to get there are powerful questions that Jake asks and helps us answer by directing us to think big then simplify whenever possible. He reminds us to not feel bad if we don't think we are doing this leadership thing well, none of us were taught how to do it well. 

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eyes-up-mindset/id1515392710?i=1000490368836

https://open.spotify.com/episode/75dAlAc8iFerpD0KTcfAoU?si=b0047763cda64010

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Episode Notes: Jamie updates the audience on where we are going from here (hint: a short break), then asks some questions about learning and thinking generally. Feel free to reach out with feedback about the things discussed in today's episode. Grow us by being willing to give, even if it's just a little input. 

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Episode Notes: We get the gang back together to discuss the most important of resources: time. John and Jamie talk about the difference between spending time and investing time and how it looks in their lives at this moment. Which leads to an announcement about changes coming for the podcast moving forward.

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Episode Notes: Ben Nylander, head boys coach and Mike Coddington of Jordan (MN) track and field join us today to talk about what makes the track program in Jordan special. From having 200 youth athletes attend a summer track camp to winning high school state championships, the program speaks for itself, but the secret sauce is always the people and the way they think. In this conversation we see how they have gotten to those incredible feats at all levels. Ben and Mike tell us about how passion, organization and student leadership has driven their progress. We dig into the details of that organization and leadership to get the root of how they think about creating excellence in young people and it will stretch you, it did me. 

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Episode Notes: Lauren Ammon was a DI swimmer and worked in the corporate world training leaders and managers. She is now back in athletics where she works with parents and coaches to build effective support systems that attempt to draw out the best possible performance from athletes. Lauren challenges us to get better by talking through how she works with parents, coaches and athletes to ask questions, reflect, get intentional and find flow. We get to talk about performance in a variety of different contexts from sports and parenting to business and personal life. Lauren brings the good juice!

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Episode Notes: Today we re-air our episode with Jalen Brunson from August of 2021. Jalen earned the opportunity to sign a new contract with the New York Knicks last week, after an incredible 2021-22 season and playoffs with the Dallas Mavericks. Jalen is an awesome individual, leader, and teammate. He joins us after being connected by Coach Swan (Swanny) who coached him in high school at Stevenson and coached Jamie and I at Bethel. Small world. Jalen challenges us with many things today and none more important than learning to adapt to different situations/environments, working hard to be the best version of you, and to not compare yourself to others on a different journey.

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Episode Notes: Amy Fast is the high school principal in McMinnville, Oregon and joins us today for a wide ranging conversation about leadership, culture, education, diversity and society. Dr. Fast helps describe the model they use to aspire toward a groundbreaking culture in McMinnville and challenges us to think about how connecting to purpose creates engagement at every level. The opportunity to talk about how schools and kids are the center of our communities, opens the door for us to engage and take steps towards better relationships, communities and leadership in our lives.

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Episode Notes: On this week is an old friend doing amazing things in Whitefish, MT. Brett Bollweg, a former roommate of Jamie and John, joins us to talk about the transition to Head Coach, putting his stamp on the next era of Whitefish Football, and more importantly how giving of ourselves may be the most important thing we can do. Brett shared the D.O.G.S (Diligence, Ownership, Gratitude, and Service) mantra that this team will embody. As usual we talk way more life and improvement than football. We got better today and you will also.

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Episode Notes: John and Jamie catch up after not being together for a podcast in a couple of weeks and connect about what they've been up to as well as some listener driven questions about how specifically each of them uniquely serves their clients. They then discuss the idea of protecting yourself vs. limiting yourself.  

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Episode Notes: Luke Amsden is one of the reasons this podcast exists and has bought into what we do in a big way. Join us as we talk to him about how having and coaching with an Eyes Up Mindset has impacted the Cross Country and Wrestling programs he coaches in Springfield, MN. Luke is an idea guy, but is incredible at putting ideas into action, and we discuss how that action has moved those programs with a long-term development lens.

Whether you are a coach, an athlete, or someone with a desire to improve daily, you will be better for listening today. We appreciate you joining us and choosing to live differently. We'd love for you to share this with someone you care about and if you find value please do not forget to hit the little subscribe/follow/rate/review button and as always, LIVE EYES UP!

Follow those programs and Coach Amsden:

Twitter: @TigerToughWr

Twitter: @SCMTigerXC

Episode Notes: Kevin Kassis' perseverance is inspiring and will make you better! After graduating from Montana State in 2019,  Kevin prepared to take his shot at the NFL. The pandemic shut down the MSU pro day and individual team workouts, the usual avenues for small school athletes to get noticed. When he found himself without a team in 2020, he figured his football career was over. A year later, he decided maybe it wasn't and took one more shot. Join us as he describes his journey from an under-recruited high school athlete to quitting his day job and being signed by the Seattle Seahawks. 

Whether you are a coach, an athlete, or someone with a desire to improve daily, you will be better for listening today. We appreciate you joining us and choosing to live differently. We'd love for you to share this with someone you care about and if you find value please do not forget to hit the little subscribe/follow/rate/review button and as always, LIVE EYES UP!

Follow Kevin:

Twitter: @kevinkassis

Instagram: kevinkassis10

Episode Notes: Matt Dugan joins us from his new position as Head Football Coach at Bridgton Academy. Good things happen when you put yourself out there and this conversation is a shining example of this as we got connected to Coach Dugan by chance and end up having an incredible conversation about giving, serving others, building community, and Living Eyes Up! Bridgton is a post graduate program where individuals can go to improve themselves athletically, academically and in maturity before chasing their dreams as the college level and beyond. 

Whether you are a coach, an athlete, or someone with a desire to improve daily, you will be better for listening today. We appreciate you joining us and choosing to live differently. We'd love for you to share this with someone you care about and if you find value please do not forget to hit the little subscribe/follow/rate/review button and as always, LIVE EYES UP!

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Episode Notes: Joseph Haj (Yose) joins us today as we may a foray into the business world to talk about overcoming adversity, growing through failure, and Living Eyes Up! Yose is currently working as a realtor in the ultra competitive market of Fargo ND. Despite the rising costs and low inventory Yose continues to see clients coming to him to buy or sell their next home. It turns out that taking care of people and serving their needs first can be good for business and in life. Yose has grown and sold several businesses and certainly chosen a non-linear path to where his is today. We are incredibly grateful for this opportunity and know that you will be better today for listening. #liveeyesup

Whether you are a coach, an athlete, or someone with a desire to improve daily, you will be better for listening today. We appreciate you joining us and choosing to live differently. We'd love for you to share this with someone you care about and if you find value please do not forget to hit the little subscribe/follow/rate/review button and as always, LIVE EYES UP!

Episode Notes: For several months we have been excited to bring on Stephanie Hale, Seattle Mariners, as she was on the top of several past guests' list of best person to get on the podcast. She did not disappoint and in fact we had so much to talk about that we will have her back for a part two! This episode is packed full of "good juice" and will grow and stretch you today. Last week we talked about it not being as complex as we think and today Stephanie challenges us that it does not have to take as long as we think to train our brains and bodies to get better. Breathing was the center of a lot of the conversation today and breath as the "agent of control" is something Jamie and I both left the conversation ready to steal and put into practice. We are incredibly grateful for this opportunity and know that you will be better today for listening. #liveeyesup

Whether you are a coach, an athlete, or someone with a desire to improve daily, you will be better for listening today. We appreciate you joining us and choosing to live differently. We'd love for you to share this with someone you care about and if you find value please do not forget to hit the little subscribe/follow/rate/review button and as always, LIVE EYES UP!

Episode Notes: From a small town in Iowa to a top 50 restaurant in the world, Chef Brett Smith has experienced a lot. After taking the leap from Iowa City to New York City, Brett found out how high stress can create high flow and how much fun it can be, but also discusses what it cost him as he struggled with alcohol abuse and addiction for much of his adult life. His story of transformation through new habits like tying fitness to his morning routine and starting a new business is a call to transform ourselves as well.

Whether you are a coach, an athlete, or someone with a desire to improve daily, you will be better for listening today. We appreciate you joining us and choosing to live differently. We'd love for you to share this with someone you care about and if you find value please do not forget to hit the little subscribe/follow/rate/review button and as always, LIVE EYES UP!

Connect with Chef Brett Smith:

Instagram: @cheffbrettsmith

@semperstronger

Website: https://chefbrettsmith.com/

Facebook Group: EYES UP MINDSET FAMILY

YouTube: Eyes Up Mindset Channel

Episode Notes: Courtney is one of the most impressive individuals we have had on our podcast. She lives and coaches with a conviction of knowing who she is and where she comes from. What a way to lead! Her mission to pour into and develop strong, independent women like herself is something we are excited to promote. As a 22 year old she has recently taken over a storied program with multiple state championships, one of which she was a part of as a player, and has big shoes to fill left by previous coaches. It won't take you long to become a fan and to believe in the vision of where this already historic program is headed. We are all cheering for you Courtney and Go Broncs! Let's go.

Whether you are a coach, an athlete, or someone with a desire to improve daily, you will be better for listening today. We appreciate you joining us and choosing to live differently. We'd love for you to share this with someone you care about and if you find value please do not forget to hit the little subscribe/follow/rate/review button and as always, LIVE EYES UP!

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YouTube: Eyes Up Mindset Channel

Episode Notes: Ashley Harmon, Assistant Director of Clinical Behavioral Health, joins us from the basement of the University of Texas Football stadium where she leads a team serving the "whole" athlete. There are so many nuggets in here and reminders to SLOW DOWN. No matter who you are, what role, or what your goals are we need to be able to be in the present more often. Perhaps the greatest discussion in here is the one on identity and moving beyond "just" _______ (insert any role). Ashley reminds us that athletes ( and all of us) are people first and have some of the same issues as those non-athletes. Let's go.

Whether you are a coach, an athlete, or someone with a desire to improve daily, you will be better for listening today. We appreciate you joining us and choosing to live differently. We'd love for you to share this with someone you care about and if you find value please do not forget to hit the little subscribe/follow/rate/review button and as always, LIVE EYES UP!

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YouTube: Eyes Up Mindset Channel

Episode Notes: Jaran Roste, as the title says, has done some incredible things on and off the field of competition. A journey that starts in Alexandria MN where he was a standout athlete and student. Jaran earned an opportunity to live out a childhood dream by competing for the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team. Not all dreams go as planned and Jaran shares with us how life's non-linear path can often be the greatest blessing. This episode is packed and will go places we did not quite expect. Let's go.

Whether you are a coach, an athlete, or someone with a desire to improve daily, you will be better for listening today. We appreciate you joining us and choosing to live differently. We'd love for you to share this with someone you care about and if you find value please do not forget to hit the little subscribe/follow/rate/review button and as always, LIVE EYES UP!

Facebook Group: EYES UP MINDSET FAMILY

YouTube: Eyes Up Mindset Channel