Jennifer Fangmeier is the head softball coach at Blair High School in Nebraska. As a coach, she has focused on intentionally building a culture that fosters unity and success and has done that by keeping her program athlete focused. In our episode today, she talks about how fostering mentorship relationships between her athletes as well as prioritizing rest has helped shaped a team culture that consistently performs well at the highest levels.

Episode Highlights:

• How to create a positive team culture
• How to cultivate mentorship in your program
• How to listen to what your athletes need to be successful
• The importance of rest

Connect with Jennifer:

Twitter @BlairBearSB1

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• Book a One on One Session for your Athlete
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Lerin Lockwood is the founder and creator of Lion Latch, a product that provides secure storage for small valuables like jewelry and rings. After ruining her engagement ring coaching softball, she was inspired to create a place to store and protect jewelry for athletes. On today's episdoe, she shares about grit, determination, and never taking "No" as an answer. 

Episode Highlights:

• How Lerin came up with the idea for Lion Latch
• How she survived two rejections from Shark Tank before finally making it on the show
• How she used grit and determination to achieve her goal of launching her company
• How goals can be achieved when we don't take "No" for an answer

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• Learn about our proven Mental Skills Program, The Fearless Warrior Program
• Book a One on One Session for your Athlete
• Book a Mental Skills Workshop for your Team or Organization

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Bailey Landry Domangue is a two-time All-American former LSU softball player. She lead her team to 3 World Series appearances as a Tiger and has the record for career hits at LSU. After college she went on to play professionally for three years. Now she is a wife and mother and advocates for topics that she feels passionately about. Our conversation underscores the importance of embracing a well-rounded approach, which can help young athletes achieve long-term success and fulfillment, paving the way for a healthier, more balanced life.

Episode Highlights:

• How parents can support their children athletically outside of organized sports.
• Celebrating every part of yourself, not just softball
• Importance of sleep for young athletes
• How to avoid burnout

Connect with Bailey:
Instagram: @baileydomangue

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• Book a One on One Session for your Athlete
• Book a Mental Skills Workshop for your Team or Organization

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Today's episode is a recording of a recent keynote presentation Coach AB gave for a career day at Milford High School in Nebraska. In it, she explores ways that all people, athletes and non-athletes alike may be giving away their power and how to reclaim it. She shares stories of her own journey to founding Fearless Fastpitch as well as inspiring stories of others who have persevered through challenges to make a difference in the world.

Episode Highlights:

• How to identify who you are giving your power away to
• What Tom Braden, Michael Jordan, Play-doh and Sticky Notes teach us about standing in our power.
• How to reclaim your power
• How to use joy to guide your life

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• Book a One on One Session for your Athlete
• Book a Mental Skills Workshop for your Team or Organization

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For this week's episode, we are sharing the guest speaker call with Sydney Stewart! Sydney is a current collegiate softball player, who started her career at the University of Washington. While at UW, she made an immediate impact as a freshman, starting 44 games at catcher. This summer, she transferred to the University of Arizona where she will represent the Wildcats in the 2025 season.

Episode Highlights:

• What it was like transitioning from High School to D-1 Collegiate softball
• How she helped lead her team as a freshman
• What her experience at the College World Series was like
• Which mental skills have helped her the most

Connect with Sydney
Instagram: @sydneyystewart

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• Book a One on One Session for your Athlete
• Book a Mental Skills Workshop for your Team or Organization

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Ellè Nelson is a mental performance coach and a former collegiate soccer player. She currently lives in London, working as a mental performance specialist for Charlton Athletic Football Club. She's used her own experience as an elite athlete in high performance environments to guide her work with individuals and teams. In our conversation today, we talk about all things mental performance and how learning to control our emotions can help unlock an athlete's elite potential.

Episode Highlights:

• How top level athletes deal with prefomance anxiety
• How to reframe your thoughts
• Feeding the wolf
• How to embrace the hard

Connect with Ellè: 

Instagram: @mymentalperformancecoach

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• Book a One on One Session for your Athlete
• Book a Mental Skills Workshop for your Team or Organization

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Today, we are sharing our Guest Speaker conversation with Janie Reed from June of 2020. Janie played her collegiate softball at Oregon where she earned all Pac-12 and All-American honors. After college, she represented the USA at the 2020 olympics where she helped Team USA win silver. In our conversation, Janie talks about dealing with the disappointment of the delay of the 2020 olympics, how she has learned to redefine success and how her faith has helped her along the way.

Episode Highlights:

• Using mental skills to cope with COVID delaying the olympics
• Overcoming failure by remembering your "Why"
• Focusing on quality at-bats instead of batting average
• How faith can help you be fearless

Connect with Janie:

Instagram: @_janiereed

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• Book a One on One Session for your Athlete
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Today on the pod, we are re-releasing our Guest Speaker conversation with UNO softball player, Allie Helton. Allie shares her story about what the transition was like going from a JUCO to a Division 1 school and how visualization helped her succeed. She opens up about the emotional and physical challenges she faced, from adhering to stricter guidelines to maintaining her identity as an athlete.

Episode Highlights:

• What the transition from a JUCO to a D1 school was like
• How she used visualization 
• How she views leadership on a new team
• How to overcome fear of disappointing teammates

Connect with Allie:
Instagram: @alliehelton21

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Over the past 25 years, Travis Thomas transformed a career in improvisational comedy to becoming one of the top keynote speakers in the industry. He went from living the improv principles of “Yes, And” on stage, to inspiring elite leaders, professional athletes, and working his way to the World Cup as a leadership and mental skills coach. He has since created his own buisness, "Live Yes, And" and has worked with dozens of college and professional sports teams, and some of the top fortune 100 companies in the world.

Episode Highlights:

• How the principles of improv can help athletes
• How to "Live Yes, And"
• How coaches beliefs shape athlete outcomes
• How to chase courage, not confidence

Connect with Travis:

Instagram: @liveyesand

Website: https://www.liveyesand.com/

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• Book a One on One Session for your Athlete
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Today we are re-airing our Live Guest Speaker Event from August with Abi Brown. Abi is a Division I softball player at the University of South Dakota and alumni of the Fearless Warrior Program. Abby opens up about the highs and lows of her transition from high school to college, sharing how essential mental performance tools helped her overcome initial struggles with confidence and leadership in her freshman year.

Episode Highlights

• How Abi found the Fearless Warrior Program
• How the FWP helped her in her transition from High School to College
• What mental skills she relies on 
• Advice for her younger self

Connect With Abi

Instagram @abi_paige07

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• Book a One on One Session for your Athlete
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