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What Lawyers Can Learn from Elite Athletes: Mindset, Recovery, and Performance Strategies
Episode Summary:
In this episode, Emily Heird, licensed psychotherapist and certified mental performance mastery coach, explores how attorneys can apply strategies from elite athletes to enhance performance, build resilience, and maintain well-being. She shares practical tips for sustaining focus, managing stress, integrating recovery, and achieving work-life balance.
What You Will Learn in This Episode:
Key Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction and parallels between athletes and lawyers
02:15 – Importance of recovery for high-performance work
05:00 – Pre-performance rituals for focus and confidence
07:30 – Mental exercises to enhance focus and resilience
10:00 – Emotional fitness strategies for handling pressure
12:15 – Reviewing performance like game tape
14:00 – Work-life balance and transitioning out of lawyer mode
15:30 – Defining personal success and 90-day planning
16:10 – Closing and resources
About the Show:
Mental Performance Unleashed with Emily Heird is a podcast dedicated to helping attorneys and legal leaders operate like intellectual athletes. Coach Emily Heird brings evidence-based strategies from sports psychology and mental performance training to the legal industry, offering practical tools to manage stress, sharpen focus, and build sustainable success.
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By dennis2qEpisode Summary:
In this episode, Emily Heird, licensed psychotherapist and certified mental performance mastery coach, explores how attorneys can apply strategies from elite athletes to enhance performance, build resilience, and maintain well-being. She shares practical tips for sustaining focus, managing stress, integrating recovery, and achieving work-life balance.
What You Will Learn in This Episode:
Key Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction and parallels between athletes and lawyers
02:15 – Importance of recovery for high-performance work
05:00 – Pre-performance rituals for focus and confidence
07:30 – Mental exercises to enhance focus and resilience
10:00 – Emotional fitness strategies for handling pressure
12:15 – Reviewing performance like game tape
14:00 – Work-life balance and transitioning out of lawyer mode
15:30 – Defining personal success and 90-day planning
16:10 – Closing and resources
About the Show:
Mental Performance Unleashed with Emily Heird is a podcast dedicated to helping attorneys and legal leaders operate like intellectual athletes. Coach Emily Heird brings evidence-based strategies from sports psychology and mental performance training to the legal industry, offering practical tools to manage stress, sharpen focus, and build sustainable success.