OvercomeOutloud

In this podcast episode, during Thanksgiving weekend, I dive into the importance of gratitude, the boundless benefits of gratitude and how to develop a gratitude practice that will change your life. What are you grateful for?

This week I had the opportunity to hear Coach G's incredible story. She is an inspiration to listen to as she shares some of the obstacles she has overcome in her life: encountering racism for the first time, losing her confidence in college basketball and facing gender politics in the workplace. Coach G overcame all these adversities and more through her mental performance practices and visualizing the goals she wanted for her life.

Gladine Frasso is a Certified Mental Game Toughness Coach. She received her life coaching certification through the Certified Coaching Alliance (CCA). Coach G works with athletes, coaches and parents to help them navigate the obstacles and pitfalls that basketball athletes face. She provides methods and strategies needed for high peak performances that top champions possess. Athletes go to Coach G to gain confidence in their sport, reduce the fear of failure, learn how to get into the zone and stay in the zone.

Not only is Coach G a Mental Game Toughness Specialist but also acts as a teacher, a motivator and a mentor that athletes can trust and work with.​ From personal experience, she knows how difficult it is to balance life as an athlete. The pressure can be overwhelming.

Learn more at https://www.iammentallytough.com/

This week I had the opportunity to sit down with author and news anchor, Courtney Friel. Courtney has been sober for 12 years after battling for years with her alcohol and substance abuse addictions. She courageously shares her journey with us to help others overcome out loud too.

In Courtney's book, Tonight at 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News, she gives her tell-all account of everything from paying off cops in Mexico after a cocaine bust to sober sexcapades to, ultimately, adventures in holistic healing to achieve deep inner peace. At every detour along the way, her sobering story stays packed with irreverent humor and hard-won optimism. What emerges is a front-line report on living life to the fullest, #KeepingItFriel and celebrating your inner party girl - even in sobriety.

Courtney also hosted the podcast, Keepin' It Friel: Conversations on Recovery, where she has candid conversations with celebrities and media personalities about their recovery from addiction. Courtney hopes to inspire others struggling with addictions and show that recovery is possible, and that life can still be fun and rewarding without drugs or alcohol.

This week's episode with my good friend and mentor, Brian Cain, is one you don't want to miss. Brian is a number one international best-selling author and one of the world’s foremost authorities on mental performance. His mental performance training strategies have been used by thousands of elite performers and top athletes worldwide, including industry-leading companies like Burton Snowboards and Fuddruckers, UFC World Champions, multiple NCAA National Champions, and hundreds of athletes in the UFC, NBA, PGA, NFL, NHL, and MLB.

Mental Performance is the key to unlocking unshakeable confidence, forging unbreakable mental toughness, and gaining an (almost) unfair edge over the competition.

Learn more at https://briancain.com/

In this week's episode I had the opportunity to sit down with Trake Carpenter, a golf performance coach as well as personal coach. Trake shares his journey through playing golf in high school and earning a Division I scholarship at Ball State. He struggled with self-talk, mindset and performance. After hiring a coach and changing his habits, he ended his college golf career as team captain with a tournament win on his resume.

Trake became a graduate assistant at Ball State for a season and then pursued other business ventures. Listen as he shares how he went from bankruptcy to finding his way back to the true passion of his life, all things golf. Trake is on a mission to help others leverage golf to open doors and create opportunities to achieve their dreams.

Trake also hosts the podcast GPS Podcast - Golf Performance Show. This Golf Performance Show is designed to help you get from where you are to where you want to be in your journey with golf. Trake brings in guests each week who can inspire and motivate you to take your next step in golf.

You can connect with Trake on Instagram and Twitter @trakecarpenter.

Learn more his podcast at https://anchor.fm/GPS-Pod

This week I had the pleasure to sit down with a dear friend of mine, Aly B. Aly is a health, fitness and mindset coach. She shares her story of dreaming to become a professional athlete in the olympics, being addicted to physical fitness and suffering extensive injuries to becoming a coach and helping others find their way to the podium.

Aly guides mothers to live actively and bravely with inner certainty to create the life they want and deserve. She helps exhausted and overwhelmed moms get their life on the trajectory of vivid health and happiness through planning, accountability, and encouragement. Aly has lived through the struggle and has overcome challenges and adversity. With years of professional and personal experience, she's here to help you realize your dreams, and provide you with the tools to conquer your goals!

Learn more at https://www.alybcoaching.com/

In this podcast I had the incredible opportunity to speak with Ruth Mary Allan, High Performance and Brain Health Coach. Ruth shares her journey through extreme depression, performance anxiety, and family loss. After triumphantly overcoming her obstacles she now coaches others from where they are to where they want to be.

High Performance Coaching is a process created to help you level up and reach heightened and sustained levels of performance and potential in your life. As a Certified Coach Ruth will work with you to look at your high performance habits so that you can develop mastery in these areas and feel more fulfilled.

Brain Health Coaching is a process created to help you identify your unique brain type and learn how to optimise your brain health so that you can better manage your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

Learn more at https://www.ruthmaryallan.com/

In this episode I chose some clips from my guests that offer advice that will change and improve your life.

This podcast is one you don’t want to miss. From living a life full of crime, drugs, FBI raids and getting shot in the back, Brian Muniz shares his incredible journey to playing and coaching professional wheelchair rugby.

In this episode I sit down with Amy Logan, an exmormon and current life coach. Amy discusses her faith crisis leaving the Mormon church after being a devout member for over 30 years. Amy describes how studying Mormon history prompted her to leave after she discovered the truth. By experiencing the fallout due to leaving a high demand faith she now helps others struggling with their grief and anger after leaving their religion through life coaching.

Religious trauma is a real thing and unless you have been through it, you have no idea how hard that journey can be. Getting to the other side of mormonism, when mormonism has been your whole identity can feel like an uphill climb. But, Amy believe sto be true is, you are worth it, and you always have been.

To help others overcome outloud and let them know they aren't alone Amy hosts the podcast Exmormonology.

Learn more at https://www.amyloganlife.com/