Mastering the Mind Podcast

Today we welcome the brilliant double Olympian and mental health ambassador Jack Green, to our podcast! TW- this episode does mention suicide, we encourage you to seek help if you are affected by anything mentioned in this podcast.

Topics discussed:

💭 Olympic dream vs Olympic reality

⚖️ Making choices and sport-life harmony

The 2012 and 2016 Olympic games

🏅 Sustainable success

🧠 Being a mental health ambassador for Mind, YoungMinds and CALM

📖 Coaching the person before the player and developing trust

Today we welcome British artistic swimmer and Olympian, Kate Shortman, to the podcast.

Topics discussed:

🏊🏻‍♀️ Getting into artistic swimming

🙌🏻 Benefits of sport psychology 

🧠 Mental challenges of the sport

📚 Balancing student life as an athlete

📣 Advice to young swimmers

Today we welcome the founder of the Slow AF Run Club, Martinus Evans, to the podcast!

Topics discussed:

🐢 Creating the Slow AF Run Club

🏃 How to stay motivated

🎯 Goal-setting

🪜 Prioritising habits over motivation

🧠 Psychological themes from his book

🤯 Coping with the mental demands of running

Today we welcome netball super league player and coach, Lucy Herdman, to the podcast.

Topics discussed:

👩‍🎓 Being a student-athlete at university

🏥 Coping with injury and fears of reinjury

🤼 Battling against comparison during rehabilitation

🪞 Focusing on yourself and what you can control

🧠 Being open to sport psychology support

📈 Taking small steps rather than thinking bigger picture

📖 Finding enjoyment in new experiences outside of your sport

Today we welcome strength and conditioning researcher and coach, Nico Kolokythas, to the podcast.

Topics discussed:

Forming relationships and being memorable on initial meetings

Being open to opportunities that are presented to you

Looking after your wider identity

Prevalence of overuse injuries in dance and implementing proactive prevention

Today we welcome clinical sport psychologist, Dr. Hillary Cauthen, to the podcast.

Topics discussed:

Why clinical sport psychology?

How the current generation is evolving the way we talk about mental health

Ways we can get athletes to open up about their mental health issues

The six core life skills

How parents can best support their children in their sport participation

How to navigate being both a parent and a coach

Toxicity of sport culture 

Dealing with toxic work environments as a practitioner

Today we welcome high-performance mental skills coach, Seth Pepper, to the podcast.

Topics Discussed: 

• Gratitude

Today we welcome England 7s and Harlequins rugby player, Lauren Torley, to the podcast.

Topics discussed:

• Importance of process and performance goals

Today we welcome professional polo player, Kristina Karailieva, to the podcast.

✅Topics discussed:

❓What is Polo?

👫Team dynamics

🐎Working with horses

🧠Mental skills & mental demands 

🙋‍♀️Female stigma

🏇The polo handicap system

😓Work-life balance

💡Qualities of a good polo player

🤕Coping with injuries

🧠 A need for sport psychology in polo

Today we welcome English field hockey player and co-founder of ‘Beyond Our Game’, Darcy Bourne, to the podcast.

💪The Beyond Our Game initiative

❌Racism in sport

🏅Paris 2024

🤕Coping with injury

🏑The importance of resilience and confidence as a hockey player

🧠The benefits of working with a sport psychologist

🔥Quick fire round