Today Matters Podcast With Steve Pinkston

Ep 144: Lead Without Talking — How Your Presence Either Calms the Team or Breaks It

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Leadership isn’t about volume—it’s about presence. In this episode, mental performance coach Steve Pinkston talks directly to athletes about how body language becomes leadership in pressure moments. Learn how posture, stillness, and composure communicate trust, confidence, and control—and why teammates follow the athlete who looks steady when chaos hits.

Today’s Action Step: 

  1. Own your posture in chaotic moments.
    2. Bad call? Tall posture.
    Momentum swing? Same posture.
  2. Reduce extra movement.
    3. Extra motion usually means lost control.
  3. Make eye contact.
    4. With teammates. With the huddle.
    That says, “I’m here.”

     

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