Today on the Max Out Mindset podcast is Jake Gibb a professional beach volleyball player. My partner Commander Jack Riggins at Performance Mountian and I did a joint podcast with Jake. Jake has been to 3 Olympics and is the oldest professional player on the tour. We talked about the mental side of his game in different capacities, the drive to compete against competitors half his age, and his final professional goal to medal in the 2021 Summer Olympics.   Follow Jake on Twitter, Instagram   Check out the library of podcasts here

Christopher Tamas is currently the head coach of the Illinois Fighting Illini Volleyball team. Under Tamas’s leadership, the Illini collected a number of individual honors, highlighted by AVCA All-America First-Team selections in Jordyn Poulter and Jacqueline Quade – the first time in program history that Illinois has had multiple first-team honors in a season – as well as a Third-Team selection in Ali Bastianelli. Poulter and Bastianelli, who also garnered All-America Third Team honors in 2017, were also named Senior CLASS Award finalists and CoSIDA Academic All-District honorees. The trio also collected unanimous All-Big Ten First Team accolades, with junior Ashlyn Fleming named to the Second-Team and Poulter garnering the Illini’s first-ever Big Ten Conference Co-Setter of the Year honor. Tamas is a 2003 graduate of the University of the Pacific with a degree in sports sciences. He was a four-year starter for the Tigers and a unanimous AVCA All-American first team selection and team MVP during his 2003 senior season. In four years with the U.S. Men's National Team (1999, 2003, 2005-06), Tamas made 34 appearances, and, in 1999, helped the squad to a silver medal at the World Junior Championships in Havana. As national team captain in 2003, Tamas helped lead the United State to a bronze medal at the World University Games in Daegu, South Korea. A native of Santa Barbara, California, Tamas and his wife, Jennifer (Joines) Tamas, have three children, Jimmy, Josephine and Carly. Along with serving as the Illinois volunteer assistant coach, Jennifer was also a volunteer assistant at both Nebraska and Cal Poly. She was a four-time All-American middle blocker at Pacific (2000-03) and silver medalist with the United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics while playing professionally for eight years in Japan, Italy, Russia, Azerbaijan and Puerto Rico. She was the U.S. Women's National Team captain for four years.

Today on the Max Out Mindset podcast is Jaali Winters. She played Volleyball at Creighton University from 2015 to 2018. I was fortunate to work with the team during those years and Jaali impressed me in terms of her willingness to work on her mental skills and her openness to vulnerability. Those skills aren’t usually common for an 18-22 female. Today we talk about her mental game, where she started, and her transition from college to professional volleyball.

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Stephanie Barnier a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, Founder & CEO of Clear Sky Wealth ”My Grit came from not being the best. I sat the bench a lot, I cried a lot, because I wasn’t good enough. There were hundreds of reasons to quit, But that vision of being in San Diego and playing on a green field in 80-degree weather stuck with me. When I got to play five minutes, I started to celebrate that and I stopped comparing myself to my other teammates”   After over a decade of working in the financial industry, she founded Clear Sky Wealth, to be a dynamic wealth management firm that offers diverse services to meet YOU where you are at. The wealth work done at Clear Sky Wealth is about your life which is so much more than the numbers. The team helps you plan and move money in support of your dreams and goals.   Connect with Stephanie Website YouTube LinkedIn Facebook Instagram

Coach Owen Field passion for gymnastics started at a very young age. When he could no longer compete, he wanted to find a way to stay around the sport. He reached out to Coach Dan Kendig at the University of Nebraska with an offer to help out and the rest is history. Owen recounts his several-year journey at Nebraska and how it led to one of the top assistant coaching jobs in the country at the University of Florida-demonstrating passion and perseverance along the way. Follow Coach Owen Fields Twitter Instagram

Coach Renee Saunders is a top high school volleyball coach at Skutt Catholic HS. Renee has won 5 State championships in her career and was a two-sport Division I athlete at the University of Nebraska. Renee is a positive, process-focused based coach.

“Commitment is important to me because there are so many variables and it’s just not on the court. Commitment involves everything in life in the decisions you make, what you perceive as important.  If a student isn't making good decisions and not doing what they're supposed to do off the court, it makes them a harder person to trust on the court.”

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Andrew had been just hours old when doctors first discovered he had a rare heart defect called transposition of the great arteries.

“My heart was backward. It was hooked up wrong,” Andrew says. It pumped oxygenated blood through his lungs and circulated the non-oxygenated blood to the rest of his body.

He was just three days old when pediatric cardiovascular experts created a hole in his septum to separate the left and right sides of his heart to send more oxygenated blood through his body. A month later, a second surgery removed that septum to give the rest of his body a higher concentration of oxygenated blood. At 13 months old, Andrew underwent major open heart surgery which permanently redirected the flow of blood through his body.

For the first time in his brief life, Andrew’s blood flowed correctly through his heart. Still, surgeons weren’t able to repair his heart’s faulty construction.

Doctors told Andrew’s parents he’d likely need open heart surgery again by age 13 and a transplant by 20. Andrew surprised them all when it turned out he didn’t need either.

“I couldn’t exercise or run or do things others could, but I could still function,” Andrew says. Instead, he focused on activities he could do, such as golfing, fishing, and bowling.

And he grew up. And he fell in love.

Heart and home

Andrew and Vicki married in 2002. Soon their family grew to include sons Reece, 11, and Will, 8.

In 2008, the Widmans had their first scare. Andrew had a mini-stroke, called a transient ischemic attack (TIA). Doctors implanted a defibrillator to regulate his rhythm, and tweaks in medications kept Andrew feeling strong. He had two more TIAs during the next few years.

Then in October 2016 his health took an even more serious turn.

“I would get in bed by four o’clock in the afternoon,” he says. He had to say goodnight to Reece and Will on the first floor of their home because he couldn’t climb the stairs to their bedrooms.

On Dec. 29, 2016, Andrew’s cardiologist said it was time to talk about a transplant and recommended Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute or the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Andrew made plans to travel to Minnesota.

A friend suggested he reconsider and suggested he talk to the heart experts at Saint Luke’s.

Today on the Max Out Mindset podcast we want to spend some time talking about what's going on in the world today. The coronavirus is a big part of the news and causing stress for a lot of people. Parents, coaches, teachers, high school kids, top to bottom and it's not sparing anybody. Today we will talk about how to use our mindset to cope with stressful times. How we can get into solution focus mode and use strategies to make the best of the situation and work on our own psychology and our own mindset. Terri Neujahr is the Waverly Volleyball Head Coach and my guest on the podcast.

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Welcome to the Max Out Mindset podcast. Dr. Larry Widman is your host and known as Doc in the mindset world. The purpose of the max out mindset podcast is to give you insights and experiences working with some of the best coaches, championship teams, and business leaders around the world. Dr. Widman welcomes Kelly Hunter today on the podcast. Kelly played volleyball at the University of Nebraska from 2013 to 2017. She is a two-time national champion, All-American and  Nebraska volleyball assistant. Kelly shares her unique experiences during her career and in her life that is helpful for female athletes, coaches, and other high performers.   Follow Kelly Twitter Instagram

High performers in any sector have excellent recovery habits that are both physical and mental. These are the great separators that professional athletes and Olympians spend a lot of time on. The number one performance enhancer is sleep, and it’s free. The mental part of recovery is controlling our nervous system. Training your brain to get on to the next point or the next moment is critical. But like anything else, it takes lots of practice and is trainable. Follow Dr. Widman   Twitter Facebook instagram