Max Out Mindset

By DR. Larry WidmanHealth & Fitness Mental Health

Max Out Mindset episodes

February 25, 2021 Coach Brett Froendt, State Championship Football Coach, Teacher, and Leader of Men
I'm excited about the guest that I have on the Max Out Mindset podcast today. He's the head football coach of my alma mater, Omaha Westside, that had a big impact on my growth as a human being. Over the last four years, I've been blessed to collaborate with Coach, his coaching staff and with his team. During this time I have seen tremendous growth on and off the field. Coach Froendt has a growth mindset and has been able to get buy-in from his coaching staff to learn about and model the mental skills and mindset necessary to achieve elite performance. Coach Froendt is a teacher as well and I always say teachers are often the best coaches. There are so many nuggets shared in this podcast from Coach. Enjoy!
1 hr 17 min
January 29, 2021 Club Director Nebraska Juniors, Alyssa LeGrand
Alyssa has spent much of her life immersed in the volleyball world as a player, a coach, a parent of three high-level volleyball players, and a Club Director. She understands the game from so many vantage points and has great insights into what it takes to be a high performer in sport and life. It has been a pleasure to get to know her over the past year, and we are in alignment with what we want student-athletes to gain from playing sports—especially volleyball. She currently is the Club Director of Nebraska Juniors.

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1 hr 3 min
December 31, 2020 The definition of Grit | Kayla Banwarth Head Coach Ole Miss
A standout volleyball player at the University of Nebraska and for Team USA, Kayla Banwarth is a rising star in the coaching ranks and has taken her championship pedigree to Ole Miss, as she was announced as the Rebels' eighth head coach in program history on Dec. 21, 2019, at the ripe old age of 30!

As a player and assistant coach, she helped guide Nebraska to four conference championships, three Final Four appearances, and a national title. Her illustrious career with Team USA garnered eight medals in international competition, including a bronze at the 2016 Olympic games and a 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship!

Kayla learned to be a master goal-setter in college and that skill served her well over the years. When I think of Kayla, Grit is what comes to mind. I've known her since 2009 and she has always demonstrated passion and perseverance in whatever she is trying to accomplish. Kayla displays tremendous insight and wisdom in this podcast, but there is also a vulnerability about her.

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1 hr 28 min
December 18, 2020 Maggie Griffin | A volleyball life
Maggie has an extensive volleyball background, competing 9 years for Sports Performance Volleyball out of Aurora, IL. At the club level, Maggie won 2 Junior Olympic titles, was a 4-time AAU All-American, and 2-time JO MVP. Maggie went to Michigan State before transferring to the University of Nebraska, leading her team to a National Final in 2005 and being on the 2006 team that won the National Championship. She traveled to Puerto Rico, Switzerland, and the Netherlands to play professionally for two years after college. At the conclusion of her playing career, Maggie has been a volunteer coach at Nebraska, and started a volleyball club called VCN in 2010. Maggie was awarded the 2017 AVCA 30 Under 30 award and is a current Board Member for the JVA, serving on the Executive Committee as Treasurer, as well as Committee chair for the AVCA Club Awards. Maggie is currently the VCNebraska Master Coach for the College Prep program. She also oversees and directs all age groups and programs. Maggie takes us on a journey that celebrates the highs and the lows of being an athlete, and the challenges and opportunities of running her own business. Of course, we get to learn from her how developing a high-performance mindset can help one max out in sport and life.
1 hr 16 min
November 24, 2020 Coach John Cook: The Power of Evolution and Ultimate Trust
I'm very excited to have a guest on the Max Out Mindset podcast that I know very well. He is in his 21st season at the University of Nebraska as the women's head volleyball coach. He has an astonishing win/loss record at Nebraska currently 588-81. His teams have won four National Championships and he is a two-time AVCA National Coach of the year. He is also the first one in his family to go to college. Coach Cook is an author of the book, Dream Like a Champion and co-host of his podcast called Conversation with the Cooks. In my book Max Out Mindset I devoted an entire chapter about Coach Cook called The Power of Evolution. I wrote this chapter based on the collaboration with him from 2008 to the present. To this day, I have never been around a coach or leader that has been so committed to evolving in all aspects of life. He shared some new insights on the podcast that even I hadn't heard before. The final chapter of my book called The Power of Ultimate Trust is based on the mantra of his 2015 team that won a National Championship. Coach Cook and I have the same goal with every team—to get them to a place of Ultimate Trust! Enjoy learning from one of the best to ever coach in the sport of volleyball.

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1 hr 53 min
October 22, 2020 Marcus Zegarowski | The Quest for Self-Improvement is a Never-Ending Thing
Marcus Zegarowski is currently a Junior on the Men's basketball team at Creighton University. He is continually working on all aspects of his game, including working on strategies to make his elite mindset even stronger. There are so many nuggets that Marcus shares as we recount his journey from an underrated high school recruit to his current position as one of the best point guards in the country. Last year he showed tremendous growth in his physical and mental game as was rewarded with the following awards:

Named a Second Team All-American by NBC Sports Third Team All-American by Stadium Honorable Mention All-American by the Associated Press.

He also led Creighton with 156 assists (5.0 apg.) was second on the team with 524 points (16.1 ppg.) and 42.4 percent shooting from three-point range. In arguably the biggest games of the year--eight games vs. top-25 teams- he averaged 18.9 points per game while shooting 60.4 percent from the field (58-96) and 51.4 percent from three-point range (18-35).

I love that he shares some very unique strategies(dare I say rapping!) to stay confident and composed in the biggest moments and when it matters the most.
1 hr 22 min
September 22, 2020 Gazmine GG Mason | Olympic Champion and Global Ambassador for the Sport
Today on the podcast I had the pleasure to speak with Gazmine GG Mason who I had a chance to work with while she was a student-athlete in college. GG is a 3X Gold medalist and the First African American to win singles and all-events gold medals for the USA. 'GG' was given to Gazmine by her youth coach meaning Got Game. GG is a former University of Nebraska, Lincoln bowling stand-out graduating with a degree in Business Administration and a minor in Informatics.

GG is also a global ambassador for the sport of bowling and launched Got Game, LLC to assist with her quest! Got Game, LLC was established in 2018 by the athlete, humanitarian, and pioneer, Gazmine 'GG' Mason.

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1 hr 1 min
September 04, 2020 Jordan Larson | Competitiveness, Mindset and Vulnerability Rules Everything
Jordan Larson was a three time All-American at the University of Nebraska from 2005 to 2008. She won a national championship in 2006 and had an incredible run to the Final Four in 2008 during her senior season. She joined the US Women's National Team in 2009 that won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympics, the only World Championship in the United States history in 2014, and a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics. She's currently a captain for the US Women's National Team. Her professional teams have won multiple World Championships as well. She hails from a town of about 800 people called Hooper, Nebraska. You will love her insights into the ingredients necessary for a team to put themselves in a position to max out when it matters the most. You will appreciate her willingness to be vulnerable and how she shares some of her struggles in the ongoing pursuit of mastery in the sport she loves and within her own life. Follow Jordan Instagram Twitter Follow Dr. Widman @doc_elitemind
1 hr 22 min
August 18, 2020 Lexi Zeiss and Coach Kelley Banks Green-Commitment, Optimism, GRIT and the Pursuit of an Olympic Dream
Lexi Zeiss was thirteen years old when I met her in the spring of 2019. She had been part of the sport of gymnastics since she was two years old. Lexi had a big dream in sixth grade to reach Junior Elite status, which would allow her to compete nationally and internationally in her sport. I actually met with "Team Zeiss," which included Kelley Green (her coach) and her parents, Jess and Dana. Lexi decided that she needed to elevate her mental game to put herself in the best position to reach her goal. In order to do so, she would have to train for up to thirty hours per week and develop much more difficult skills on each apparatus: uneven bars, floor exercise, vault, and balance beam. I didn't know if I could help her, nor did I know if she was capable at her age of working on mental skills and mindset to the degree necessary. After our first meeting, I had no doubt that she had the capability and would fully immerse herself in working on her mental game. She worked extremely hard improving her mindset, and yet there is no way to replicate the pressure of competing in a National Elite Qualifier. I thought it may take her several times before she qualified, and she did fail to qualify a few times in 2019 and again in January 2020. Each time, she learned more about how to compete in a pressure-packed environment, what helps her get into the right mindset the night before and the day of the competition, and how to stay composed, focused, and positive during the competition. She grew from discomfort and learned from failure. On February 7, 2020, in Las Vegas, Nevada, she put it all together and became just one of twenty-two gymnasts in her age bracket at the time to achieve Junior Elite status! As her coach stated about Lexi, "It is grit . . . she is definitely gritty." She is now fourteen years old, and her dreams have only become bigger—to get a Division I scholarship and compete in the 2024 Olympics! What a joy to be a part of "Team Zeiss!"!
1 hr 5 min
July 29, 2020 Lauren Cook West | All Things Volleyball
It was great to have Lauren on the podcast to share her views on the importance of training mindset for sport and life. She is a former All-American setter for the University of Nebraska and played professionally.

1 hr 23 min

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Host Dr. Larry Widman, a high-performance psychiatrist and elite mindset coach interviews people excelling at the elite level. They discuss the mental skills and mindset ingredients used to push the…