Mental Toughness for Mavericks

By Renita Kalhorn

The Mental Toughness for Mavericks podcast is a playbook for peak performance and mastery. Hosted by performance coach Renita Kalhorn, listen in as master teachers, thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, and... more

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How many episodes does Mental Toughness for Mavericks have?

The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.

Mental Toughness for Mavericks episodes:

January 30, 2016Grit: The Non-Negotiable Quality for Entrepreneurs, with Pamela Slim
Entrepreneur coach Pamela Slim shares deep wisdom on how to handle self-doubt and stay motivated. Highlights:
The two-part equation for developing “grit”
“Full-contact living” and the danger of instant success
How to use humor as a pressure valve
A strong work ethic isn’t enough for success
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36min
January 28, 2016Curiosity: The Secret Sauce in Mental Toughness with Todd Kashdan
Scientist and professor of psychology at George Mason University, Dr. Kashdan says curiosity is a skill that we can cultivate and explains why it’s so powerful. Highlights:
How to become comfortable with risk in an unstable, unpredictable world
How great leaders use curiosity to their advantage
How curiosity can transform difficult relationships and reinforce good ones
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30min
January 27, 2016Where's Your Focus: Small Shifts That Make a Big Difference, with Heidi Halvorson
Social psychologist and associate director of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia Business School, Heidi Halvorson speaks about what successful people do differently. Highlights:
How to embrace risk when it doesn't come naturally
What mentally tough people do (and don't) focus on in achieving their goals
The one word leaders can use with their team (and themselves) to encourage grit
What is realistic optimism and how to use it
...more
33min
January 22, 2016The Mental Game of Disruption with Whitney Johnson
Former Institutional Investor-ranked sell-side analyst on Wall Street and author of "Disrupt Yourself” (ranked a top management thought-leader in 2015 by Thinkers50), translates the concepts of disruptive innovation in business to personal disruption in your career and life.
Highlights:
how conventionally successfully people have taken the personal path of self-disruption
how to manage the S-curve waves of learning and mastery
the power of constraints
...more
29min
January 21, 2016 Leadership Lessons For Predictable Success, with Les McKeown
A leading adviser on accelerated business growth who has started more than 40 companies, Les McKeown explains that different kinds of mental toughness are needed for a successful transition through the three growth stages of a business.
Highlights:
• The one habit that every great leader keeps inviolate (and why)
• The three destructive tendencies of wanna-be leaders
• How "strategy yankers" kill motivation and why consistent discipline rules
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31min
January 20, 2016Choke: How the Secrets Of the Brain Can Help You Get It Right When You Have To, with Sian Beilock, Ph.D
A psychology professor at The University of Chicago and one of the world’s leading experts on the brain science behind “choking under pressure,” Dr. Beilock explains how to perform better in every arena, from taking exams and giving presentations to playing golf.
Working memory and how it’s affected by emotions under stress
When less is more and why being too smart gets in the way
How stereotypes affect performance, for better or worse
How you think about yourself trumps ability when you’re under stress
Specific techniques to prevent choking under pressure
...more
27min
January 14, 2016 How to Make the Impossible Possible, with Josh Dueck
Paralympian gold medalist skier Josh Dueck shares the story of how he faced adversity after being paralyzed from the waist down and went on to become the first person to do a back flip on snow in a sit-ski.
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39min
January 13, 2016How to Break Through Plateaus, Leverage Obsession and Get in the Zone of High-Velocity Learning, with Daniel Coyle
New York Times best-selling author of The Talent Code and Lance Armstrong’s War, Daniel Coyle delves into deliberate practice and how to cultivate greatness. Highlights:
Think of talent not as an innate gift but as a construction project
How passionate curiosity fuels irrational obsession
The secret to high-velocity learning
A counterintuitive approach to breaking through plateaus
The paradox of mental toughness: why the pudgy guy becomes a SEAL and the tri-athlete quits
...more
31min
December 28, 2015How to Develop the Mental Toughness of a Super-Achiever, with Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield
Coauthors of “The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It Well,” Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield share exactly that. Highlights:
The difference in mindset that sets super-achievers like Martina Navratilova, Yogi Berra and Guy Kawasaki apart from everyone else
What super-achievers say about persistence and how to know if you’re on the right track
The power of active listening in changing beliefs and biases
How super-achievers leverage the power of emotion to work for, not against, them
...more
29min
December 25, 2015Secrets Of An Unbeatable Mind, with Mark Divine
Retired Navy SEAL Mark Divine explains the mindset necessary to consistently rise to the occasion in high-pressure situations. Highlights:
A key indicator that you’re not mentally tough
How to integrate training and habituation into any aspect of life
The OODA loop mental model and how it helps make decisions under pressure
How to “win in your mind” first before taking action
...more
33min

FAQs about Mental Toughness for Mavericks:

How many episodes does Mental Toughness for Mavericks have?

The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.