Coach Shelly Mowinkel is in her third season at the helm of Milford softball as the head coach and she is a business technology teacher at Milford high school. My favorite part about getting to know Shelly is how she pours into the relationships around her. I've had the privilege of coaching Shelly's daughter inside the fearless warrior program, and up until she brought me in to coach her high school team, we had not met in person! Fast-forward to now. I always enjoy my conversations with Shelly as she challenges me to grow in many ways and supports all my ideas at fearless.

We talk about building relationships with your athletes, using true colors to learn how to coach your individual athletes, developing well-rounded student athletes, how to hold your athletes accountable, and have hard conversations all while finding joy and having fun doing it. So if you're a coach that wants athletes to know how much you love them, and want the very best for them, Shelly does an amazing job of giving you a behind the scenes of just how she does that. 

Episode Highlights:

• How to find joy in life's ups and downs
• Seeing your athletes as people first, athletes second
• How integrating mental performance into her team has helped elevate performance
• The importance of celebrating wins

Connect with Coach Mo:

Instagram: @shellymo, @mhssoftba11

Ready to learn the techniques that will actually increase your softball athlete's CONFIDENCE?

• A FREE 5 Day Challenge for Softball Athletes!
• Monday, May 5th - Friday, May 9th
• JOIN THE MENTALLY STRONGER CHALLENGE HERE!

More ways to work with Fearless Fastpitch

• 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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Coach Horton is in his fifth season at the helm of Papillion Lavista, south softball. He's in his 14th year as head coach and 23 years in fast pitch. I've had the opportunity to coach alongside Tom and his team as a mental performance coach. 

What I love most about working with high school athletes is the ability to support coaches as they build their culture and chase really big goals in such a short span of time. Here in Nebraska. We are one of the few states that softball is a fall sport. It's a grind and it lasts about eight weeks and 10 weeks. If you count pre-season and post-season, if you make it. Which is so cool because today we talk about that. How patio south has made it a new program standard to be a contender in the state championship. We break down the skills we worked on to make that possible when it started clicking with his team and how they ultimately took ownership of it and made it their own. So if you're a coach and you've been curious about how mental performance works, how to get your athletes to be all in and what kind of results it can create. 

Keep listening. As we peel back the layers to give you an inside, look of it all. Let's jump into today's episode.

Episode Highlights:

• How Coach Horton decided to prioritize mental performance to get his team ready for the season.
• How mental performance training gave the team a common language to work through set-backs.
• How mental performance coaching helped him understand and coach his players more effectively.
• The importance of communication on a team.
• Embracing a team identity 
• and much more!

Connect with Coach Horton:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/PLSTitansSB
• FB, Instagram: PLSTitansSB

Ready to learn the techniques that will actually increase your softball athlete's CONFIDENCE?

• A FREE 5 Day Challenge for Softball Athletes!
• Monday, May 5th - Friday, May 9th
• JOIN THE MENTALLY STRONGER CHALLENGE HERE!

More ways to work with Fearless Fastpitch

• 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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Ashley Egel, or as most of you know her, Ashley Burkhardt is a former D1 and professional softball player from the midwest who has built a coaching platform that has reached thousands of athletes who are looking for tools to unleash their potential in the game no matter where they live. She is the creator and founder of the Virtual Hitting Academy, Host of When the Cleats Come off podcast, wife, and new mom, her positivity and light shines in every room she steps into. 

A very good friend of mine and just an all around amazing human. I can’t wait to share with you one of many conversations her and I have shared. We are so excited to take you behind the scenes of what it is that we do as coaches and why it matters so much to us! 

Highlights of the Episode:

• Life as a coach and new mom and how that has influenced her priorities
• How to avoid burnout 
• The importance of the mental game in hitting
• Her 2 favorite mental skills
• Her favorite hitting drills
• The importance of Ashley's support system
• and so much more!

Connect with Ashley!

• Virtual Hitting Academy: https://www.ashleybtraining.com/virtual-hitting-academy-2-0
• Facebook and Instagram @ashleybtraining
• Twitter https://twitter.com/smashley_4
• When The Cleats Come Off Podcast

Ready to learn the techniques that will actually increase your softball athlete's CONFIDENCE?

• A FREE 5 Day Challenge for Softball Athletes!
• Monday, May 5th - Friday, May 9th
• JOIN THE MENTALLY STRONGER CHALLENGE HERE!

More ways to work with Fearless Fastpitch

• 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

Follow us on Social Media

• Facebook @fearlessfastpitchmentaltraining
• Instagram @fearlessfastpitch
• X @CoachAB_
• YouTube @fearlessfastpitch5040

Brian Cain is the creator of the mental performance mastery, the MPM coaching certification, 30 days to MPM for athletes program.  He is a best-selling author, speaker and consultant. He's a number one international best-selling author and highly sought after speaker and mental performance coach and is regarded as the world's foremost authority on mental performance coaching. His client list includes coaches and athletes and teams at the Olympic level, major league baseball, NFL, NBA, NHL, UFC, the PGA and the LPGA tour, as well as a resume full of hall of fame athletes, including for major league baseball, Cy Young award winners, a Heisman trophy winner, eight UFC world champions, world series and super bowl champions. And over 1000 professional sports draft selections. 

Highlights of the Episode:

• Brian's daily success checklist routine
• Coaching softball programs like Florida State
• How he defines confidence 
• A time when he had to deal with failure
• The myth of Sisyphus
• What he would tell himself if he could go back in time

Interested in becoming a certified Mental Performance Mastery Coach? See all the details below:
https://ki128.isrefer.com/go/MPM-Cert/ambeeso0/

Follow Brian Cain:
Twitter -  @BrianCainPeak
Instagram - @BrianCainPeak

Ready to learn the techniques that will actually increase your softball athlete's CONFIDENCE?

• A FREE 5 Day Challenge for Softball Athletes!
• Monday, May 5th - Friday, May 9th
• JOIN THE MENTALLY STRONGER CHALLENGE HERE!

More ways to work with Fearless Fastpitch

• 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

Follow us on Social Media

• Facebook @fearlessfastpitchmentaltraining
• Instagram @fearlessfastpitch
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• YouTube @fearlessfastpitch5040

I am so excited for you guys to hear this interview. We got a chance to interview Jordy Bahl at our Fearless Warrior Retreat back in July in Omaha, Nebraska. This was such a life giving and just an amazing conversation.  I love how Jordy is so authentic and we could not go without sharing this with the rest of our fearless fam. 

Highlights of the Episode: 

• Her support system and her values
• Why she ultimately decided to transfer to Nebraska from OU, after winning back to back national championships, what that was like  
• Discovering who she is outside of softball - her sophomore year of high school and the pivotal moment where she realized that her identity was actually not tied to softball. 
• Her mental health and her mental performance being authentic and vulnerable. 
• Coming back  her sophomore year, feeling like she couldn't find her fire, her competitiveness,  and how she  asked for help and what it took for her to open up and, and seek out help  from her support system. 
• How she uses mental performance tools like visualization, the breathing techniques that she uses her self-talk what she says on the mound, her routines, grounding techniques, sharing her why. All of the skills we teach inside the fearless warrior program.

Ready to learn the techniques that will actually increase your softball athlete's CONFIDENCE?

• A FREE 5 Day Challenge for Softball Athletes!
• Monday, May 5th - Friday, May 9th
• JOIN THE MENTALLY STRONGER CHALLENGE HERE!

More ways to work with Fearless Fastpitch

• 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

Follow us on Social Media

• Facebook @fearlessfastpitchmentaltraining
• Instagram @fearlessfastpitch
• X @CoachAB_
• YouTube @fearlessfastpitch5040

Hannah Huesman is currently the mental performance coordinator for the Texas Rangers organization. She also travels for speaking engagements on how training your mental skills can help any performer. Hannah has worked with the FDNY, MLB, business executives, actors, and athletes of all ages. She is also the host of mental sweat Monday on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. This is a one-minute video posted every Monday of different strategies to help you work on your mental game. Hannah is so passionate about helping performers become the best they can be by breaking a mental sweat. Every single day.

Highlights of the episode:

• Top tips she would give any athlete if they were wanting to make it to the elite level. 
• Best advice for parents who want to support their athletes and their big dreams 
• What to do when we want to dissect a performance on what we did wrong, but also celebrating when it goes right. 
• Hunting the good
• and so much more

Follow Hannah Huesman
Instagram - @HannahHuesman
Twitter - @Hannah_Huesman

Ready to learn the techniques that will actually increase your softball athlete's CONFIDENCE?

• A FREE 5 Day Challenge for Softball Athletes!
• Monday, May 5th - Friday, May 9th
• JOIN THE MENTALLY STRONGER CHALLENGE HERE!

More ways to work with Fearless Fastpitch

• 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

Follow us on Social Media

• Facebook @fearlessfastpitchmentaltraining
• Instagram @fearlessfastpitch
• X @CoachAB_
• YouTube @fearlessfastpitch5040

Welcome to the Fearless Warrior Podcast, a place for athletes, coaches, and parents who know the value of a strong mindset. A place where it’s understood that the ultimate goal is to prepare athletes for life outside the chalk lines

I’m your host, Coach AB, a mental performance coach on a mission, former softball coach, wife and mom of three. Each episode we will dive deep into all things mental performance, mindset tools, and how to rewire the brain for success. We’ll tackle topics like self doubt, failure, subconscious beliefs that hold us back, and ultimately, how to become mentally stronger.

I’ll be taking you behind the scenes with unedited and unfiltered conversations with some pretty amazing humans. So if your goal is to gain the mental edge and learn the secrets of mental performance, buckle up Fearless Fam, because we are just getting started. 

Ready to learn the techniques that will actually increase your softball athlete's CONFIDENCE?

• A FREE 5 Day Challenge for Softball Athletes!
• Monday, May 5th - Friday, May 9th
• JOIN THE MENTALLY STRONGER CHALLENGE HERE!

More ways to work with Fearless Fastpitch

• 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

Follow us on Social Media

• Facebook @fearlessfastpitchmentaltraining
• Instagram @fearlessfastpitch
• X @CoachAB_
• YouTube @fearlessfastpitch5040