#77 Courtney Paulk, Mastering the Mental Game

"It's amazing what changing your perspective just a little bit does to your entire outlook in life." - Courtney Paulk Courtney Paulk is a powerhouse in everything she does. In the office, she is the first female president of an 80-lawyer law firm, Hirschler. In her free time she is known for her ultra-distance open water swimming feats.  She is one of only 201 people who has completed the Triple Crown of Open-water swimming… and only the fifth person to do it twice. Courtney blogs about her feats on her blog Swim & Tonic. This is such a fun conversation with Courtney because open swimming is so fascinating. She talks a lot about what it’s like to swim for 33 hours straight — and everything that goes into that — the mental game, dealing with disappointments, how gratitude even works when you’ve been swimming in cold water for hours — and hilarious hallucinations. The conversation bounces back and forth between her work as a lawyer and as a swimmer because so much of what she has learned about herself in the water plays a role in her fast-paced life. CONNECT WITH COURTNEY: Swim + Tonic blog GPS Tracker for her Swims CONNECT WITH DANIELLE: Facebook Instagram Twitter Website Sign Up for the Happier in 2019 Challenge (Printables coming next week to work on Cleaning out the Mind) This podcast is brought to you by the Mail Tribune. Check out more Mail Tribune podcasts here.  To get tickets to the upcoming Happiness in Progress LIVE! event - click here.