This week Harvey Martin and Dave Fischer are joined by a very special guest! New York Yankees Hitting Coach Rachel Balkovec makes her first Coffee Buzz Friday appearance and the trio have an amazing conversation centered around this weeks questions which include...

• Is there anything you do that isn’t just an educated guess?
• Is it better to be kind or honest? 
• If you were hiring a new person would you rather have someone whose failed in the past or has never failed at anything? 
• Do you feel like you’ve ever witnessed a miracle?

Have a great weekend everybody!

Mitch is a professional baseball player currently playing for the Seattle Mariners. He made his Major League debut in 2016 with the Arizona Diamondbacks. 

Mitch is a known edge chaser, always on the look out for new and unique ways to improve his performance both mentally and physically. He does this by staying curious and open to all opportunities that have came his way through out his established Major League career.

Mitch and Harvey Martin sit down to discuss team and personal dynamics throughout one's career, athlete's identity, off season and pre-game preparation, having a major League mindset, taking care of your body and diet and much more!

Also check out our FREE BREATH TRAINING video here!

The Captain is back! Dave Fischer returns and sits down with Harvey Martin to tackle this week's questions that include...

• What's one experience of yours that you'd like to transfer to everyone around you? 
• What job doesn’t exist now but will exist in the future? 
• If you could have one question answered about your future, what would it be and why? 
• Is there anything you know for sure is true? 

Have a great weekend everybody and be sure to check out our free breath work training here!

Barbara graduated from the Conservatoire de Lausanne HEM in Switzerland with an M.A in vocal performance and vocal pedagogy in 2006. She has many years of experience as a soloist on the opera stage, as well as in concert singing and acting for different productions around Europe, which she still continues to this day. She has been teaching singing and diction in private and public institutions since 2004.

She earned her Level 1 degree in Breathing Coordination after the principles of Lynn Martin and Robin de Haas (MDH) in 2014 and is an advanced certified practitioner (Level 2) since 2016. In addition to her extensive studies of MDH Breathing Coordination, she continuously completes other training program, such as the Foundations in Myofascial Release and Laryngeal Massage by Walt Fritz, the Neuro-Vocal Method by Meredith Colby, the Art of Breath program by Brian Mackenzie and Rob Wilson of PowerSpeedEndurance and the Skill of Stress training by Emily Hightower. In 2019, Barbara Tanze has been an appointed external consultant for functional anatomy and breathing coordination by the Modern Vocal Training Institute based in Malaga, Spain.

Other collaborations include workshops and seminars for the Ultimate Artists program in London, UK, the Pacific Opera Company in Sydney, Australia, the State Opera of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia, the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, the World Voice Teachers Expo in Poland and the ArSensei masterclasses for young musicians in Slovenia.

In addition to her work with singers, Barbara has been pursuing extensive research in the field of optimal breathing for athletes and the effects of efficient Breathing Coordination on athletic performance. She has been working on breath mechanics, CO2 tolerance training and nasal breathing development with amateur and professional athletes as well as Olympians since 2016.

Check out our free Breath Training Here!

Former infielder and 2006 national champion Ryan Gipson is in his second season as an assistant coach with Oregon State after joining the program in October 2018.

Oregon State was one of the top fielding teams in the Pac-12 Conference in 2019, ranking third with a .977 percentage. The Beavers committed just 49 errors in 57 games, turned 43 double plays and kept opposing base stealers to a less than 60 percent success rate.

Gipson lettered for the Beavers in 2005 and 2006, helping guide Oregon State to back-to-back trips to Omaha, including a national championship. 

He played in 79 career games, starting 66, and batted .270 with 10 doubles, a home run and 36 runs batted in.  In 2005, he led the then-Pac-10 with a .500 on-base percentage and was named All-Pacific-10 Conference Honorable Mention. He batted .330 that season, collecting six doubles, a triple and 22 RBI while stealing nine bases. The Beavers made their first of three consecutive trips to Omaha that season.

A Central Point, Ore., native, he played for Shasta Community College prior to his career at Oregon State. He hit .358 as a sophomore and .344 as a sophomore.

Gipson served as an undergraduate coach for Oregon State in 2011 and 2012, then spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Dixie State in Utah. He graduated from Oregon State in 2006 with a bachelors of science in sociology.

MindStrong Coaches Harvey Martin & Austin Hanson get together again for the second week in a row to continue their conversation from last week as well as dive into emotions and the roll they play in decision making and every day life choices. Enjoy and have a great weekend! 

Emily is a Resilience Coach who works with emergency medical services, veterans, trauma, recovery and athletes.

As a mountain medic and whitewater guide in the 1990’s, she developed abilities to work with people under pressure in extreme environments. She took river guiding and outdoor medicine into a leadership role as Education Director for the Headwaters Institute the funding for which collapsed in the wake of the '9-11' attack. She adapted to the abrupt changes in her career by channeling her love of trauma healing, medicine, physical movement, and guiding people to states of connection to nature and presence to a lifelong study of human optimization and consciousness. Intrinsic is the evolved edition of her practice. She is passionate about serving those on our front lines in the EMS, Fire, military, and combat veterans as well as high-level performers such as athletes and entrepreneurs.

Emily has shared over 16,000 hours of contact time as an embodied movement teacher and medicinal breath coach. She has advanced studies in yoga, adaptive Thai Yoga, Biofeedback, Breath as Medicine, Art of Breath and Integrative Nutrition. She is also a Level IV whitewater kayak teacher, bow hunter, and avid skier. Emily ensures an integrative, science-based approach informs all of her offerings.

Emily coaches evidence-based Intrinsic Skills to wounded veterans year-round with Challenge Aspen Military Opportunities (CAMO) and has clients ranging from the United States Special Operations Command, The Aspen Fire Department, elite and amateur athletes, recovery groups and patients at her mind-body Intrinsic Space at Roaring Fork Neurology in Basalt, Co.

Enjoy her conversation with Harvey Martin and check out her company here: https://intrinsicway.com/

This week Harvey Martin sits back down with MindStrong Coach Austin Hanson as they discuss their views and opinions on working and what validates something as 'hard work.' Also what is the perception of hard work? How do you know if you or someone is truly working hard? 

Enjoy the conversation and have a great weekend everybody!  

Connor is a professional hockey player currently with the New Jersey Devils. Prior to the NHL, Carrick played two seasons with USA Hockey's National Team Development Program and was selected by the Washington Capitals in the fifth round (No. 137) of the 2012 NHL Draft. He also helped the United States win the 2012 Under-18 World Championship and represented his country at the 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship. He's spent the past 5 years playing in the NHL. 

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Connor and Harvey get together to discuss how to construct a durable mindset in the NHL, developing the most effective training styles for sustained performance, playing multiple sports growing up, self-sabotage, the importance of diet and so much more. Enjoy and have a great week! 

For Episode 60 we have a Coffee Buzz Friday first, the boys took the entire time to discuss and reflect on just one question... What's an opportunity you're glad you turned down? Harvey, Steve and Tom examine their past experiences and career decisions while tossing around events they're glad came into their life even if they didn't decide to take them. And Steve sings this week as well so enjoy his rendition of 'Stand Up and Shout.' Have a great weekend everybody!