Your brain is not finished being built — not at 25, not at 50, not ever. In today's episode, Laurie breaks down neuroplasticity and why every rep of a power statement is physically building something new.

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Cell biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton says we're not victims of our genes — we're running on programs, and those programs can be rewritten. In today's episode, Laurie dives into Lipton's research on the subconscious mind and how it connects to the limiting beliefs we started unpacking Monday.

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That belief that you fall apart under pressure isn't a fact — it's an old program running in the background. In today's episode, Laurie introduces Week 30's theme, Limiting Beliefs, and this week's power statement: "I am not my old programming, I am who I choose to become."

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Laurie closes Mindset Book Review Week with Jim Murphy's Inner Excellence and a chapter on the three opponents every competitor faces — the critic, the monkey mind, and the trickster. Plus a full week recap and this week's power statement, said twice: I think about what I am thinking about.

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Today's mindset book is The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade researching happiness at Harvard. His finding: happiness isn't the reward waiting at the finish line — it's the fuel that gets us there. Laurie unpacks the "Tetris effect" and what it reveals about the mental patterns we've been training without ever deciding to.

Cowgirl Up is a daily mindset elevation podcast hosted by Laurie Blickenstaff, Certified Mental Performance Coach at Mental Game 101. Short, powerful episodes drop Monday through Friday to help competitors and high achievers build confidence, perform under pressure, get over mistakes fast, and develop an elite mindset — in the arena and in life.

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Joyce Meyer opens Battlefield of the Mind with Ephesians 6:12 — our struggle is not against flesh and blood. In this episode Laurie unpacks why the real fight is happening in our thought life, why the enemy's whole method is strategy and deception, and what it actually means to take every thought captive. Plus the wilderness mentalities and conditions of the mind that keep us wandering in circles.

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Today Laurie opens Dr. Cindra Kamphoff's Beyond Grit and reads a passage on the power of our thoughts. The takeaway: we can't leave our mindset to chance any more than we'd leave our physical skills to chance. Plus, Laurie shares details on a free virtual book club for Cindra's new release, The Confidence Habit.

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Cowgirl Up is a daily mindset elevation podcast hosted by Laurie Blickenstaff, Certified Mental Performance Coach at Mental Game 101. Short, powerful episodes drop Monday through Friday to help competitors and high achievers build confidence, perform under pressure, get over mistakes fast, and develop an elite mindset — in the arena and in life.

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In this episode Laurie opens Mindset Book Review Week with Self 1 and Self 2, and author Tim Gallwey's discovery that the mistake is almost never the problem. The label we put on it is. Week 29: five mindset books, five lessons, Monday through Friday.

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Pressure is a privilege. We were not made to eliminate it — we were made to rise to meet it. In this Friday wrap-up Laurie recaps the full week and closes with the power statement and a teaser for Week 29 on top five mindset book reviews.

Cowgirl Up is a daily mindset elevation podcast hosted by Laurie Blickenstaff, Certified Mental Performance Coach at Mental Game 101. Short, powerful episodes drop Monday through Friday to help competitors and high achievers build confidence, perform under pressure, get over mistakes fast, and develop an elite mindset — in the arena and in life.

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Laurie shares Dr. Cindra Kamphoff's POP strategy to give us a simple three-step plan for any moment pressure arrives — power breaths to return to the present, opportunity to reframe the meaning, and process to redirect focus onto what we can control. In this episode Laurie walks through each step and shows how it works in any high stakes situation.

Cowgirl Up is a daily mindset elevation podcast hosted by Laurie Blickenstaff, Certified Mental Performance Coach at Mental Game 101. Short, powerful episodes drop Monday through Friday to help competitors and high achievers build confidence, perform under pressure, get over mistakes fast, and develop an elite mindset — in the arena and in life.

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