Speaker 1: 0:00

Welcome back to the Raising Elite Competitors podcast. I'm Coach Brie, a mental performance coach for girl athletes, and I'm excited that you're here. This is actually a bonus episode specifically for coaches. So if you are a coach of a high school team or a club team basically any girl sports team I'm talking to you, and if you're a parent who is listening in, you could definitely still listen to this, or you can just send this on over to your daughter's coach, because we're talking today about how to train your team's mental game.

Speaker 1: 0:32

Honestly, I get a ton of questions every week from coaches that are like I love what you're doing and this sounds awesome. Do you have anything for teams? Do you have any tips for me on how I can incorporate mental training into my team or into my season? And yes, we do. So I'm going to go over it in this episode. This episode actually is a recording of a free training that we did last week for coaches. So this training is how to quickly level up your team's mental game, and in it I share our winning edge method that goes over how to help your team bounce back in a snap, how to pressure proof your team so you're not on this roller coaster of up and down and what team is going to show up tonight and how to ditch the drama so you can build your team without all this behind the back gossip. That sometimes happens in sports, especially girls sports not to be stereotypical, but it happens. I also break down how I specifically do this.

Speaker 1: 1:28

So I am a head volleyball coach. I coach high school volleyball. We have won back-to-back-to-back state championships and that hasn't gone without a lot of intentional work in multiple parts of the game. But also because I have very awesome talented girls and families in my program as well, but a lot of them do credit the work that we do on the mental side of the game. But also because I have very awesome talented girls and families in my program as well, but a lot of them do credit the work that we do on the mental side of the game in order to have them perform at the level that they perform. So I give you kind of a backstory on my coaching journey. I think I already mentioned, but I've been coaching for about 12 years or so and started incorporating mental training into my coaching when I became certified as a mental performance coach about six years ago and it really did change the trajectory of our teams, of the experience that they were having, of their ability to perform when it mattered most and not be as inconsistent and allow their physical training to pay off. So I give you a little behind the scenes of how I actually do it, and I'm actually currently in my season.

Speaker 1: 2:26

Right now I'm in week nine of our season, so we're wrapping up our regular season, we're heading into post-season, so we've already implemented a lot of what I've talked about inside this training. We have our daily mindset routine down. It's called the 3-2-1 Brave. We do our visualizations before games. It takes about two minutes. We have our pre-performance routines. We have our post competition routines. So we've installed all of this and it's taken a little bit of front loading at the beginning but all in all it takes less than 30 minutes a week to accomplish this and right now my girls are in a groove, they're in a routine, they know what to expect and they're training their mental game on a daily basis. So once it's in, it really does not take a whole lot of time, and that's the beautiful part about mental training is that you can do just a little bit of it, like the 3-2-1 brave that you'll learn about in here takes about seven minutes at the beginning of practice, but it allows our team to practice with a lot more focus, a lot more intensity. We're not spending the first 20 minutes of practice like trying to get into a groove and the girls are just, they're ready to go, they're not worried about what happened in the day and the fight that happened and all the homework and all the things, so it actually ends up saving time. So I'm excited for you to listen to this training.

Speaker 1: 3:34

I also want to let you know that our plug and play elite mental game for teams is on sale this week. So this is the actual program that I do with my teams. It's the program that hundreds of coaches around the nation are doing with their teams to quickly implement mental training. So our plug and play system is literally just that. It's a plug and play way for you to incorporate mental training with your program, with your team, during your season. You get your team together, you press play on these really short videos. You have a little facilitation guide to help facilitate some discussion. But you don't need extra prep. You don't need a degree in sports psychology. We make it very simple for you. Every thing that is laid out inside the plug and play program is what we do with athletes inside our proven program as well. So it's very simple. It's very laid out, very thought out. You have a training plan to follow. You can break it up to do more than 30 minutes if you like, or you could do less than 30 minutes. So it's all laid out for you. But our plug and play program is on sale, like I said, just for this week, until Thursday, october 30th. You can grab that for $300 off. So I will put the link in the show notes of where you can grab that discounted link. It's kind of a mouthful to say out loud, so I'll put that in there. But just know, if you're looking for a very simple way for you to do this with your team in a way where you don't have to do extra training or become a sports psychologist or go Google a bunch of things and cobble them together to try and get your team to play better and bounce back from mistakes, this is a really great way to do it. All right, I hope you enjoy this episode and I will see you in the next one.

Speaker 1: 5:03

Hello everybody, welcome, welcome, hi coaches, Hi ADs we got some ADs in here. Welcome, I am Coach Bree. I'm the co-founder of the Elite Competitor. If I have not met you, we're going to get going with our training here in just a little bit, talking all about how to level up your team's mental game. We're talking about how to train the mental side of the game, because, honestly, that is what it comes down to most of the time, right, as a coach, that's where it's at, but how do we do this without spending a ton of time and a ton of effort and adding more to your place? We're going to dive into all of that. Before we do, though, go ahead and open up your chat. We'll be using that and let me know where you're coming from. What sports are you coaching? And, if I have not met you, I'm coach Brie. I'm the co-founder of the elite competitor. I'm also a head volleyball coach. I've been coaching for the past 12 years, and you're going to learn a lot and hear a lot about that as we go through today's training. I'm here in Washington and I coach at Columbia river. All right, also in the chat, you'll see Christina. She is the co-founder of our company. All right, we're going to get going with our training.

Speaker 1: 6:06

How to quickly level up your team's mental game to create a winning edge this season without taking tons of your time or effort. The fact that you are here as a coach is amazing. It speaks volumes to the type of coach that you are and how much you care about your kids, because you could be anywhere. We know that the mental game is so important, know that the mental game is so important. It's just how, as a coach, do we not? How do we coach it? What do we do without adding a bunch of extra time?

Speaker 1: 6:31

And I'm going to give you a little backstory. A little bit. Okay, I was tired, as a coach myself, of watching my own team lose games due to mental errors. Right, these mental things prepare really well in practice. Like, feel like I just nailed it in practice, only to see them crumble in the big moments and then spiral after mistakes. And, as a coach, I know you feel this too, because I hear this from you.

Speaker 1: 6:49

Right, I hear I have a talented team with a ton of potential, but I'm not sure which team is going to show up each night. It's like they have it in them, but the team that walks out there. I'm not sure what I'm going to get. All right, give me a yes in the comments If you are like, yeah, I've been there. Okay, I don't know if it's going to be this team that is amazing, high flying, like they're going to dominate, or this team that's going to come out flat and now we're competing with teams that we shouldn't be. We should be rolling over them. Yeah, absolutely All right, how about this?

Speaker 1: 7:16

It's a game of errors, but my athletes struggle to come back from mistakes, so so I'm wasting my time just trying to get their head back in the game. Yeah, give me a yes if that resonates as well. It's like I'm just all of a sudden she's making errors, so I have to kind of pull her off. I have to spend all this time and energy to help her get back out there. Whether or not that happens is a mystery, but in the meantime, we've got like a freshman out there who hasn't started before. Yeah, exactly, we're just wasting this time when if only she could just come back from mistakes. All right, how about this one?

Speaker 1: 7:44

As a coach, the biggest struggle to be successful is the mental side of things. We can coach skill all we want, but there's so much of it. That's a mental shortcoming, why mistakes are made, and the drama with teenage girls. Okay, we're going to get into the teen and tween drama that happens as well. Yeah, give me a yes If that sounds familiar, and welcome those of you that are just coming in. All right, and the last one Okay, give me a yes If this resonates with you.

Speaker 1: 8:08

I want that extra edge that's going to help separate us when it matters. Maybe you're looking at your team this coming season and you're like, hey, we've got potential and I want that extra thing. I want that secret sauce that's going to help us when it matters most, when we get to the post-season. All teams are good, all teams are really great, even what is going to be that edge that helps us. Okay, and I feel you because I used to be in the exact same spot as you.

Speaker 1: 8:33

Right, I, like I said, I've been coaching for about 12 years and I have had very talented teams and very blessed. At the high school that I coach at, where we have big tryouts, we've got a lot of girls and in 2016, 2017, two years in a row, I was coaching and lost the match to go to state. So it was one of those winner to state loser out with teams that were highly talented and capable of making it to that level. Right, and it was a. If you're familiar with volleyball, it was one of those things where, like we were up, two sets lost, the last three lost by two points, just those like heartbreaking losses.

Speaker 1: 9:10

And after those two seasons I really had to look at myself as a coach and realize that I had some holes in what I was coaching. I was coaching skill, I was trying to just bang out reps, but they did not have it when it mattered most, have it when it mattered most. When things started to unravel, they couldn't come back. All right, and at some point I had to realize that I was responsible for training that side of their game. All right, so maybe you're in this position too If you're like, how do I help? But with everything else on my plate, I don't have a lot of extra time, but my athletes need it. Okay, and I totally hear you. We're everything for our athletes, right, we're the first aid kit, we're the first aid kit, we're the parents, we're the psychologists, we're like all of these things. We don't have to be all of those things, but we are, we take it on. I just got done with my safe schools, four-hour training that I have to do, like all of these things. How the heck am I going to fit one more in there?

Speaker 1: 9:55

And, unfortunately, most coaches believe these three things that actually hold them back and hold their team back from training this side of the game. There's no time to teach them inside of the game. I'm going to show you how we do it in our program and also show you our plug and play method to teach them at the side of the game in 30 minutes or less, okay, so we'll get into that. Okay, or this more team bonding is just going to help them play better, right? Okay, they're going to play better. We're going to do more team dinners. We're going to do like a ropes course. We're going to do some trust fall right, maybe this will help them. But, to be honest, those things are not necessarily bad. We do that, okay, but they're not going to actually help them deal with pressure or come back from mistakes. Okay, a trust fall or a ropes course isn't actually going to help them.

Speaker 1: 10:36

When they make a mistake out there on the court and they're spiraling and thinking their team hates them and that you're mad at them too, okay, or how about this? We'll get a guest speaker that'll help motivate them. Okay, guest speakers are great, but it's typically a one and done thing right. I've done that with my team and it's okay. We're on this high, we got a really great practice. After, maybe we have a good, get a good tournament out of them, and then it's okay, remember what they said, you know, and now it's like four weeks distant memory. Okay, so a guest speaker isn't actually a solution to help them play their best. So that's exactly why we created the Winning Edge Method and this is the solution that I've used to coach my high school volleyball team to three-time state champions and also with the thousands of girls inside the Elite Mental Game. So the Elite Mental Game is our signature mental training program that we use and we have had thousands of athletes come through to get amazing results and I have taken that method and we also use it with teams. Okay, so we're going to break down this method and exactly how to do it and what's led to comments like this. We've had coaches who have implemented our plug and play system right and they're saying things like your tools were our secret sauce and I don't actually want to share it with my competitors, even though I know that everyone else needs this. Okay, teams and athletes that are experiencing the results from just a little bit of mental training. It's undeniable.

Speaker 1: 11:53

Okay, now, before we dive in, I have a few quick details to share. If you're just coming in, welcome, I'm coach free. I am the co-founder of the elite competitor and we are just getting started. So a few things now as a thank you for being here and carving out time to be with us and together, right, I am going to send you this little freebie bonus. Okay, this is an athlete mental health check-in. It's called mind care. This is what we do in our program every week. It's a very simple little questionnaire that athletes fill out, takes them like two minutes, and it's a way for me to collect data as a coach to make sure I'm tracking, along with my athletes throughout the season and their mental health and how they're doing, and knowing which athletes I need to follow up with. So, very simple. I have this PDF for you. I have the questions in a PDF form, then also a Google forms that you can copy as well, so that if you want your athletes to do this, like on an iPad or things like that.

Speaker 1: 12:41

Now, in order to get this, what you're going to do in a second, christina is going to drop the links. There's a link for Facebook Messenger and there's a link for Instagram. If you click that link, it'll go directly either to my DMs or to Facebook Messenger, and we have my chat assistant in the chat. Now, the chat assistant is Gabby and she is a bot, so be nice to her, but she helps us out a lot. She will make sure that you get this PDF directly to your email. So that is how you get that. If you click the Facebook link, it'll send you the messages. If you click the Instagram link as well, then that will be there for you. Okay, I'll give you a second to do that If you want to grab that again. These are just really great questions.

Speaker 1: 13:19

To check in with your athletes every week, a simple way to make sure you're tracking with their mental health. Okay, now stay until the end. Like I said, we're going to be talking about the plug and play elite mental game for teams. This is our plug and play method for teams and coaches to implement mental training as little as 30 minutes or less a week. So we're going to be talking about that and our special pricing and the bonuses. We'll talk more about that at the end. We also have really cool fast action bonuses as well.

Speaker 1: 13:42

We have our Rise Above Teammate Drama and Thrive Under Challenging Coaches training bundle for those action takers that are gonna jump into the plug and play elite mental game at the end as well, and this is a really great bonus for you to implement with your team. Okay, so team drama we're gonna talk about it, but it's common. So this little mini bundle helps your athletes navigate the normal dynamics of a team okay, drama included and also gives them a framework on how to deal with you. Okay, I know that sounds silly, but it's. A lot of athletes are like I don't know how to talk to you coach, and then they're expecting you to read their mind, and so, inside this Rise Above Teammate Drama and Thrive Under Challenging Coaches, we give them a five-step framework on how to talk to their coach. Okay, which is super, super useful. All right, for those of you saying the links aren't working, christina's on that, but you can always go to my Instagram and DM me the word mind and that'll get you good to go as well.

Speaker 1: 14:28

All right, let's get into this. I've been a coach for over a decade, and the common thing I hear from other coaches and experience myself when it comes to mental training practice is already short enough as it is. I can't add any more. I wear so many hats, I cannot add another, and I I'm not sure how to get my athletes to buy into this. I'm telling you right now I've been doing mental training with my team for five or six years, and this is straight out of a practice that we've had. We will talk about how we start practice and all of those things, but our athletes are in it, they look forward to the mental training and it is ingrained in our culture, and it's led to some amazing results. Okay, and honestly, though, I've had a lot of those thoughts, all right, and I'm going to break down how it's possible and the method that I've used with my own team.

Speaker 1: 15:10

So, to start, though, we're going to get a little bit into sports psychology. You do not have to be a sports psychologist to teach them a side of the game to your team. In fact, you don't even have to really teach it. Okay, we're going to show you a plug and going on in the athlete brain. Okay, and here's the first one.

Speaker 1: 15:26

The elite performance formula is what is required for your team to achieve their goals. It's required three things, okay Knowledge of the sport, physical training and mental training. All right, those are the three things that your team needs in order to play their best, in order to come out consistently, to get off this roller coaster of what team is going to show up tonight. Knowledge of the sport You're already nailing that, right. You're teaching them the tactics and strategies of the sport, okay. Physical training Again, you check that box, right. We're going to practice. We're training hard. You are spending time watching film, breaking it down. You're doing all of the things so that they are physically trained and they have the tactics and strategies down.

Speaker 1: 16:02

The mental training, though, is also what is needed for them to reach their goals. This is where their belief about themselves is themselves, their confidence, their ability to come back from mistakes instead of spiral and end up on the bench right. All of that falls in the bucket of mental training. All three are needed. It's like a three-legged stool, and it's like a multiplication problem as well, so they all amplify each other. So when one of these increases, everything increases. So we know, when we train physically better, right, we replicate game-like scenarios. We put the pressure on them in practice, like when we do those things, their knowledge of the sport's going to increase and their confidence is likely going to increase and prepare them right. So their mental training is going to increase by way of that.

Speaker 1: 16:41

Okay, but if we have a zero in any of these categories, we know if we don't physically train, we're not going to reach our goals. Okay, now if we throw a zero into a multiplication problem, what happens to the equation? Right, what happens to the total? Those of you that are math teachers in here okay, it equals zero. And this is what we commonly see is that we're nailing the physical training. They're really smart up here about tactics and strategies of the sport, but we're not spending any time on the mental training. We're very prepared, okay, we're feeling good, and then we get out onto the court and we crumble. We can't make our serve because mom and dad are watching in the stands, or boyfriend or girlfriend are watching in the stands, and now, all of a sudden, they're under the pressure and they miss their serve. Okay, you're like. You made that serve in practice 100 times. Okay, nothing. The only thing that changed between practice and the competition is up here in the mind, their mental training, their ability to meet that moment and overcome Okay. So that is why we really need that.

Speaker 1: 17:37

Now I'm going to do a quick activity with you so that you can really bring home the whole understanding of how powerful your mind is. So, if you're in a place where you can stand, I highly encourage you to do this. If you're like, well, I'm driving or whatever, okay, obviously, be safe, but this is really going to help you understand just how powerful your athlete's mind is. I do this with all the athletes that come into our program. Okay, we're gonna do it together. It's gonna take 90 seconds, all right, go ahead and stand. I stand, I'll wait for you to stand. I can't see you though. Okay, but go ahead and stand as you're standing or when you're standing, go ahead and put your thumb out in front of your face, okay. So if I'm out in front of your face, look at your thumb, look at your nail. Okay, got it.

Speaker 1: 18:16

Now what you're going to do is you're going to twist your body. Don't hurt yourself, but open up as far as you can and stop when you can't go any further. Okay. So it looks like this I'm going to open up, I'm going to stop at my plant. That's as far as I can go this morning. I'm going to put my thumb back in front of my face, put it down by my side. Okay, let's go ahead and do that Again. Don't hurt yourself. I know you're all competitive, probably. Okay.

Speaker 1: 18:40

Now, once you've done that, we're going to do a quick visualization, very quick. So you're gonna close your eyes and I want you to send your mind to imagine you're doing what you just did. So put your thumb up in front of your face in your mind. So you're just seeing yourself do this. Now I want you to imagine that you're opening up like you just did. Imagine that you're going to that first place in your room where you couldn't go any further. Now I want you to visualize yourself pushing past just a couple inches. So you've got that first point. Now I want you to see yourself push past that point a couple inches. Now imagine you're putting your thumb back in front of your face, put it down by your side, open your eyes. Okay, here we go, thumb out in front of your face, your eyes are open. We're doing this together.

Speaker 1: 19:23

Go ahead and open up to that first point. Now I want you to push to that point that you visualized. Pass the first one. Okay, put your thumb back in front of your face, put it down by your side, open up your chat if it's not already open. Give me a yes in the chat if you were able to go further the second time. Give me a yes in the chat if you're like yeah, all right, sean, good job. Way to follow directions, by the way. Okay, aubrey, it's coming in fast, perfect, good.

Speaker 1: 19:49

Okay, athletes, when I do this with them, okay, athletes, when I do this with them, they're like did you just do a magic trick on me? Did you just like like no, your mind was the only thing that changed between your first attempt and your second attempt. What you did in your mind was that you saw yourself going further. Your body will stop before it's actually at its maximum potential. Your brain will tell your body to do that. Your body actually had more in it. It wasn't until your mind told your body hey, here's a new image, let's see if we can go a little bit further. Then your body was able to do it physically. Okay, that is a simple example of mental skills and how that can make a difference in your team and in your athletes. All right, but mental skills have to be taught in practice, they're not just picked up along the way.

Speaker 1: 20:30

So let's break this down how to quickly level up your team's mental game to create a winning edge this season. If you're just coming in, welcome, we are just getting into the bulk of this. So there are three stages to the winning edge method. First, bounce back in a snap. Okay, we're talking about how your team can quickly overcome mistakes. Number two pressure proof your team so that they can bring their best when it matters most. And three, let's ditch the drama. Sound good, okay, all right, let's get into it. Starting with bounce back in a snap, all right, we know it's a game of errors and the team that moves through mistakes fastest has the greatest competitive advantage.

Speaker 1: 21:03

Let me know, in the chat with your sport, how long do your athletes have to get over a mistake? Let me know, I coach volleyball. So there's about 15 to 20 seconds between rallies, all right. So they have 15 to 20 seconds to get over that shank that they just did, okay, because the next serve is coming, and if they're not, then they're not going to be playing at their best and now I have to make a decision as a coach. Do I replace them? Do I try and pump them up? What do I do? Okay, yeah, 20 seconds, 30 seconds or very little time. Some of your athletes have zero time. Some of your athletes are swimmers, basketball players unless there's a timeout like they have to be over mistakes like this, and the problem is that most athletes don't have the skill to get over their mistakes, so it takes them way longer than that. It takes them minutes, takes them hours.

Speaker 1: 21:51

Sometimes some of your athletes are still thinking about their mistake that they made in that match that night or the next morning. Okay, yeah, it's tough. So, unfortunately, your efforts to help them in these moments likely aren't happening. If you're like, shake it off, let's go next play, and that's not your fault, okay, there's some science going on here and the athlete brain is at work, so I'm going to give you a little bit of peek into some neuroscience. Right, you don't have to know a lot, I'm not going to go too deep, but we do need to know that the brain's number one job is to protect us. Okay, that's its number one responsibility to keep us physically safe and psychologically safe. So, meaning psychologically, do I fit in here? Do my teammates still like me? Does my coach like me? All of those things, okay.

Speaker 1: 22:28

So imagine what happens when your athlete makes a mistake. Right, you're seeing them hesitate and freeze up a little bit. They're gonna take some, they're gonna tip instead of hit, right, because they're afraid they're going to mess up. And you're like hit the ball, okay. And then, if they do mess up, they're afraid to try again. And then one mistake when they're hesitating and they're not really going full out, they make more mistakes, right? And then, all of Meanwhile, you've got somebody in that you probably don't want in as their replacement. I know, for me, sometimes our bench isn't so deep, right, and you're like, gosh, if only you could just get over it, okay. So you tell them things like shake it off, forget the last play, keep swinging. And then eventually you're like okay, you're out, okay, I'm gonna give you a break.

Speaker 1: 23:09

But they don't see them. It triggers their fear of not being liked, fear of letting people down, fear of getting pulled, looking dumb. They got all these things going on in their head and that's because they're amygdala. Okay, that senses threat in their environment. Right, this is a threat to their psychological safety, them being on the bench and being pulled Okay, and now, as a result, their sympathetic nervous system is kicked in Okay, this is their fight or flight response.

Speaker 1: 23:37

Again, I'm not going to go too deep, but you do need to know that fight or flight, freeze or fawn is a response from athletes when they're making a mistake without any tools to recover, and so, in this moment, they're flooded with too much adrenaline, they have scattered thoughts and behaviors, they have shallow breathing and then more mistakes often follow. Okay, so they're in this dysregulated state and I know how it's been. Right. She's spiraling and maybe beating herself up Okay, she's scared, she's in her own head. Everyone feels this, okay, and you're like what do I do? How do I get her back in? How do I tell her it's okay? So imagine if they could bounce back and play with confidence. Right, they're prepared, they know actually that mistakes aren't actually something to be worried about, and then they trust themselves and they can bounce back. And the problem is, nothing that you're going to say to your athlete in that moment will help her actually bounce back. So even telling her like, hey, shake it off, that's actually not a useful tool for her in that moment. This is a skill that your athletes have to develop for themselves. So how do you help your team do this? Let's talk about it. We're talking about the bounce back in a snap process. This is what we teach our athletes. All right, and the final result of this is that she is able to shake off mistakes in seconds.

Speaker 1: 24:32

So first is a mindset shift. So the shift right out the gate for our athletes is that mistakes actually aren't to be avoided, and I know as a coach likely because you're here you probably tell them that all the time. Right, you're probably telling them like hey, I'm okay with you making aggressive errors, I'm okay with you making mistakes. We're seeing these as learning opportunities. We also do need to check in with ourselves, pay attention to like how are we responding to mistakes physically on the bench? Okay, because if we're saying mistakes are okay and then we're like throwing our clip board and all the things, then they're getting conflicted, messaging, okay, but right off the gate, they have this mindset shift of mistakes are actually okay If I am going for it and I'm making a mistake. That's how I learn.

Speaker 1: 25:08

Number two they have to know their triggers. Okay, they have to know actually what sets them off? Is it making a mistake, missing a shot? Is it when a ref makes a bad call? Is it when a teammate says something? Is it when coach raises her voice? Okay, is that a trigger? And athletes that are aware of their trigger can actually know how to stop the spiral in that moment. Okay, so we see it like a kind of a traffic light. Okay, green is they are in flow state. They're good. They're good, they're doing their thing. Yellow is I'm starting to feel a little bit off. Something happened in the game. Maybe I made a mistake. I'm feeling a little. Red is I'm dysregulated. There's really nothing I can do. I'm probably going to be benched.

Speaker 1: 25:48

Good athletes are able to recognize when they're getting to the yellow before it hits red, and part of that is knowing your triggers and having a snapback routine to use in that moment. This is basically a failure recovery method. Okay, ours is called the snapback routine. All of our athletes have them and they're individualized. It's a combination of a breath to regulate the nervous system, a reset word at the top that is designed based on how they want to feel in that moment, and then on the exhale, they're doing some sort of reset signal to help ground them in the moment. So all of our they have their own word, they have their own signal. We also have a team snapback routine when we're getting down and things are rough for us. Okay, so that is how athletes can do this.

Speaker 1: 26:20

Okay, confidence doesn't come from never making mistakes. It comes from knowing how to handle them. All right, coach Sloan, this is Logan Logan's in here. This is Coach Sloan's granddaughter. All right, so Logan was on my team. She's been on my team for the past four years and she said this.

Speaker 1: 26:33

I actually interviewed some of my captains from the state championship teams over the past three years recently on the podcast and they credited a lot of their individual success and our team success to the mental training that they had. And Logan said for me personally, my skill is really only as good as my mental training is. It's okay if I make mistakes. This isn't the end of the world. Make mistakes, this isn't the end of the world. Okay, what a difference it is when athletes have that mindset when they're going into competitions, because when they don't, when they're like, oh my gosh, I can't make mistakes, hopefully I trained hard enough.

Speaker 1: 27:00

That adds that extra pressure, that extra expectation that is not needed. They already have enough of it. Okay, this is the key to your team moving through mistakes fast and having a winning edge. I'll tell you right now when we get to post-season, we get to state championship, we get to the quarterfinals, we get to the semifinals right, those matches are high pressure, okay. Those of you that have been there know and even if you haven't, you know what that feeling is like for our athletes, and the team that can get over mistakes in five seconds will always outperform the team that takes minutes to get over their mistakes, because during the time that they're taking that those minutes to get over mistakes, our team is moving on and we're dominating and we're racking up points. Okay, so that's one of the ways that you can have secret sauce. Okay, we're moving on to step two of the winning edge method.

Speaker 1: 27:43

This is how to pressure, proof your team so they can bring their best when it matters most. I know I have been on that rollercoaster before. Where we're I going to get tonight, I wonder? Is this going to be the team that dominates, or is this going to be the team that competes with this other team that we should be crushing right now? Okay, and it's super frustrating as a coach to not know what's going to happen. Right, and, like I said, you've probably said this to yourself before too we prepared well in practice. We've set goals, we've done all the things, but we'll see what happens. We'll see which team shows up, okay.

Speaker 1: 28:11

And so then competition starts. Inevitably they start to fall apart because maybe it's a team that's a lower level, so they're like playing down, or then they're getting super nervous about this team that's maybe above them. So you try and pump them up. You call a timeout to refocus You'd be nice coach. And then you're mean coach, and then you're changing the lineup. Okay, so you're just pulling out all the tricks. Nothing seems to work.

Speaker 1: 28:31

Okay, so you and your coaches head to the post-game coaches meeting at Applebee's and we're like what the heck was that? Okay, what do we do now? Okay, it's super frustrating. I've been to one too many of those Applebee's post-game meetings. Okay, and this leaves you feeling helpless, like I'm trying everything that I've got.

Speaker 1: 28:49

Okay, and then you get your team together We've got to call another team meeting the next day at practice and be like guys, we got to not play down to our competition and then just hope that it turns around for the next match, okay, and maybe even start to question yourself as a coach. You're like am I doing something wrong here? Like how do I get them to want it? The other team seems to want it more than my team, even though we're more talented. Okay, you start to question, like, what am I doing wrong here? All right, so let's do things differently. Okay, let's do it differently together to help your team show up consistently, so they can go from. And you can go from feeling kind of frustrated, helpless and questioning yourself as a coach to hopeful, prepared and feeling really assured that your team is prepared. All right, here's the thing. The high performance game plan is what we're going to go over right now. All right, and this hinges on this.

Speaker 1: 29:33

Right here, 90% of the work occurs before the competition even starts. I'm sure you've heard this before, but it's like when for me as a coach, when I come up, go out to compete with my team, I'm not actually competing. Okay, yeah, not me. Okay, when my team is competing and I'm there, I'm like the work's already been done mentally and physically. There's not really a whole lot that I'm going to be able to do to change what. We've got our product right here, okay. I've got strategy, I've got options for lineups, I've got all of those things. I have timeout strategies, but they're mentally prepared and physically prepared or they're not.

Speaker 1: 30:06

Okay, 90% of that work happens outside of the competition, and we can rely on some key psychological factors to help our athletes play their best, okay. So these psychological factors include, okay, neuroplasticity. You know this already, right. This is the brain's ability to reorganize itself to new neural connections, making it easier to react to situations in life. So we know that our brains are basically plastic, they're malleable, all right, and this is an important psychological factor that we can lean on in order to help our athletes mentally, okay.

Speaker 1: 30:36

Cognitive rehearsal is another one. This is a technique to help athletes mentally practice a task and prepare for it ahead of time, all right. So this is one that you probably hear a lot about in sports psychology around, like visualization and preparing for situations, okay. And then the Yerkes-Doxon law. This is basically the inverted U theory, and this states that performance increases with arousal to a certain point, okay, after which it decreases. So your athletes will talk about pregame and how that they feel, but they actually all have their certain arousal state that they need to get to in order to play their best, and if they get over it so they're getting basically too hyped then they're not going to play well, and if they go under it they're not hyped enough then they're not going to play well either. Okay, so pregame allows for this opportunity for your athletes to get to this optimal arousal state and the problem is, like most pregames, people are just like hyping themselves up in the locker room and most of your athletes half your athletes likely do not need to be that hyped, and now they're actually hurting their performance when they go out there. We'll talk more about that in a second.

Speaker 1: 31:37

Okay, so, as a coach, how do we leverage these three things? Like? You've likely heard these concepts before, but how do we actually leverage them in your team and in your program? Okay, so here are three vital tools that I use with my team and we also teach to other teams and also with the athletes that come through our program.

Speaker 1: 31:51

Okay, a daily mindset routine. Our daily mindset routine takes five minutes at the beginning of practice and this creates a mental framework that supports their performance. Also helps so that we're not wasting practice time. Okay, so our daily five minute mindset routine is called the three, two, one brave. Okay. So we have visualization in there, we have quick journaling things, we have rehearsing how they want to perform and how they want to play. We have some affirmation type stuff in there. So it's a five minute thing that allows them to enter into practice without wasting time and without this, because I've seen it both. I spent half my coaching career not doing any mental training and the other half doing it. Okay, our practices are so much more focused. We're not wasting time like worrying about what happened. Who broke up with who? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They're in it from the moment that practice starts. Okay. They're also able to emotionally regulate. They're bringing their goals top of mind. So this daily mindset routine is how we can leverage this neuroplasticity and also this cognitive rehearsal in real time. Okay, team scenario planning All right. This allows this is again leaning on that cognitive rehearsal piece team resilience and adaptability. So we have a shared vision and strategy for our group. Okay, so we know which things trigger us as a team, what situations we're likely going to get into, depending on our competition, and then we rehearse how we're going to respond. Okay, so this reduces decision-making. It takes the question out of okay, what are we going to do here? So we're not caught in those moments and we know what to do.

Speaker 1: 33:11

Athlete hype number. So this is talking about the Yerkes-Dodson law, so the inverted U theory. So, knowing that athletes all have different hype numbers, we use ours on a scale of 1 to 10, they know as well what number their hype number is. So they know, if they need to come out in the area of 4, right, that they need to be kind of like, relaxed and calm in order to play their best. They know that. So we take them through a process of how to figure that out and then they have a specific routine to get to a four and a routine that, if they're going above a four, how to get back down, okay. Same thing, if your athletes need to be hyped. So maybe an athlete needs to be an eight, she knows what she needs to do to get to an eight. And this also is important because, like I said, if your Like the ride, ride, ride that pony, you know anyone, that's what we used to do in high school and like we're dancing in front of people and like we know that half of my athletes are not actually at an eight. They need to be more on the lower end. Same with athletes that come through our program. That's not actually going to help them, right? That's actually going to add to some of their psychological stress before they go out, and so they need to make sure that they're equipped to get to their hype number and come down from their hype number or to their hype number before they compete.

Speaker 1: 34:17

Okay, good question. Done individually or as a team? The mindset routine? This is done as a team, but they all have their individual mindset routines, okay. So, great question. I'll be answering some questions at the end as well. All right, the good news is that these tools are quick to do at practice. Like I said, we send five minutes of daily mindset routine. Okay, we preload this information. So we spend some time in preseason not very much time in order to know what the mindset routine is, but once it's going in season, they know what they're doing, okay, and then 10% of the work happens in competitions. Then you can show up and I can actually coach. Okay, what a dream to actually coach.

Speaker 1: 34:52

Okay, so you're not wasting your time trying to be a sports psychologist or trying to do all these things. Like. They're equipped with their snapback routine. They've done their pregame routines, they've done their visualizations. They have tools to use in the moment. Now I can call a lineup or call a timeout and switch the lineup without them like freaking out and becoming dysregulated or me having to worry about them on the bench.

Speaker 1: 35:11

Okay, now, I'm not gonna be able to put them in the rest of the game because they're so like offline. I can just coach and I have a shared language with my team around scenarios. We're like hey, we've trained for this, this is the scenario, this is what we're going to do Visualizations, reset words. We have a team reset word and my team has the skills to handle pressure, setbacks, mistakes and All right. And you might be wondering right now if you're like three state championships, you must have some pretty talented players on your team. Absolutely, I do, and so do you, okay, and that is why I felt the immense responsibility to make sure I was doing everything in my power to equip these talented athletes with all the skills that they needed to perform at their best. It would have been a failure and a miss in my coaching to have this group like I had in the past.

Speaker 1: 35:56

Okay, and you have talented athletes as well. Okay, to you know, train them mentally or physically, but then not actually give them the skills to be able to do it in the competition when it matters most. Okay, and you'll see, like all of our fans and articles that are written about us, it's like this common theme of their calm, intensity, their poise, their composure. You know, they're down by three, but they didn't panic. All right, that comes from mental training, that is trained.

Speaker 1: 36:20

All right, and if anything, talented athletes need this more than anyone because the pressure to get to not only get to the top, but stay at the top is enormous. Okay, they're playing on the biggest stages. They have chatter from the media, they have chatter from their friends. Playing on the biggest stages. They have chatter from the media, they have chatter from their friends. We have teams actively wanting them to lose. Okay, and so it's not like, oh, you're just a talented team, you just show up and they're just going to do their thing. No, you need this because they are facing the same, if not more, pressure than other teams of similar caliber. Okay, and that is exactly how we won three back-to-back state championships. Yes, I have phenomenal athletes and phenomenal families that support them Okay, but often our athletes like I said, I brought them on the podcast.

Speaker 1: 36:59

I do end of season surveys and they're all crediting things like. I'm able to come back, I'm able to remain calm. I actually got over my performance anxiety that I had during my club season because I had tools to handle it. All right, and you're a coach. You handle it All right and you're a coach. You're not a sports psychologist and you don't need to be okay.

Speaker 1: 37:15

Training the mental side of the game does not take a lot of time, but it does pay off in the moments that it matters most Okay, and that is exactly why you're here, so your team can show up consistently. Lauren Dries, whenever amazing, phenomenal. She's playing Auburn right now, okay, and she's like I walked into the gym like a 14 year old and she goes. Honestly, mental training has changed my life. I'm a better teammate, I'm a better player. I can feel the pressure now without wanting to crumble, and that is what it's all about. Okay, all right. The last piece of this is the winning edge method to create a strong team. Chemistry, woo, team drama, okay, know what you're thinking right now If you're like, yeah, this all sounds great, but there's always that one girl, okay.

Speaker 1: 37:50

Or team bonding only works for a little bit. Playing time is always going to be an issue. I get it. Playing time is always the thing on our team too. Okay, I used to think the same thing, but here's the truth about this. Okay, team drama is not caused by one person. Okay, and when athletes are more confident in themselves because they have done the work on their mental training, they're less apt to pull down other people. The whole thing hurt people, all right. Confident athletes also enabled more confidence on their team. Team bonding only works for a little bit. Yeah, I know. Okay, players need to feel that they belong and connection and vulnerability need to be part of a routine, not just a one-off event. All right, and playing time is always gonna be an issue Absolutely okay.

Speaker 1: 38:27

But when athletes have skills to communicate and receive feedback, handle, ask hard questions and know their rules, that is when playing time is. I won't go as far as say it's taken care of. No, there's always a thing Okay, but it's a lot better when we have these communication skills, okay, so how do we ditch the drama so it doesn't sabotage your team's success? Let's get into it, because unfortunately, this is what I often see and my team's not immune from this either. Please know, okay, I'm in it with you. I'm not one of those coaches that's like okay, in theory, this is how it works. I am literally in it with you. You guys are like I'm about to start my season in two and a half weeks, and we will for sure face this.

Speaker 1: 38:59

Okay, so an athlete feels insecure, right, or a situation happens, she's losing playing time, somebody makes a comment, or maybe there's a non-sport related thing that we had. That happened last season, where it wasn't even related to our sport, but it was something that happened that some of our athletes were involved in, right, and then they start badmouthing each other because they're just trying to cope right. These are teen and tween girl athletes. Their prefrontal cortex is not developed enough and that's how they're trying to cope with it. They don't know any better and so they're gossiping. Potentially they're just trying to cope with it.

Speaker 1: 39:26

People hear about it and then they start taking sides Okay, dividing the team. I'm sure this. Let me give me a yes. If I'm not the only one that's experienced this. Okay, let me know in the comments if you're like, yeah, okay, you see this too.

Speaker 1: 39:37

So now they start taking sides, and then this transfers to the court and as a coach, you're like gosh, what you know? And that's the thing about girl athletes. Okay, it's different than coaching boy athletes. I know we have some coaches of a boy sports in here too, but these girls have to feel connected in order to play their best. If there is some drama lingering, if there's things as much as they say, leave it off the court, you know. Then we have setters who are not setting the person that we want to set, because they're mad, because they're dating their ex-boyfriend or something, and you're like what the heck? Okay.

Speaker 1: 40:05

And so this transfers to the court and then the team is underperforming and then you've got to call a, fix things. We spend. Maybe you spend the whole practice in that team meeting. How frustrating is that. And then people start to feel better Okay, okay, okay. And then the next, you know, we just kind of wait it out until the next thing happens, and it's just this vicious cycle of like okay, when can we get out of this? All right, so let's do it the old way. We're not going to have that vicious cycle anymore.

Speaker 1: 40:30

There is a better way, all right, and in my team and in our program we use something called the inside out approach to this. Okay, because this is based on the foundational psychological need of teen girls to belong and feel accepted. That's what we know is the foundation. I forget how. I'm sure one of you knows in the chat. You can put it in the chat, but it's like you know girls need to feel connected in order to perform, and then boy athletes typically need to perform in order to feel connected. I think that's how it goes. But it is so true, all right. And we know that their self-esteem suffers if they feel excluded. Unexceptive jealousy. Comparison right, they don't really have emotional regulation or communication skills quite yet. That's what we're building. That's why mental training is so important, and that equals drama, drama, drama. Okay, so the inside out is really this.

Speaker 1: 41:10

The big piece of the middle part of this inside-out approach is their individual confidence. Okay, this solves a lot. So when athletes individually are more self-assured, okay, they're more confident through their mental training. That's where confidence comes from as well. They're more able to overcome mistakes, trust themselves, have positive self-talk, emotional awareness and then less sabotaging the team's success okay. So a common example, and one that happens in my team all the time is like playing time.

Speaker 1: 41:36

Okay, I've touched on this. In a competitive team, or really any team, we have roles, but not everyone's gonna be able to play as much as others. And so when we have athletes who are in that role, where they're in a backup position okay, even if they likely have been communicated, if they don't have a lot of confidence in themselves and if they're starting to wonder does this playing time equal, like how the team views me and all of this. Okay, that situation. If they're actually more confident in themselves, if they feel self-assured, they're less likely to sabotage the team by talking behind other people's backs and being like, oh, she shouldn't have that position, spreading gossip, spreading rumors, all of those things. If they have that confidence themselves. And it's an individual journey that you can help facilitate without much time, we have a plug and play solution for this.

Speaker 1: 42:17

Okay, the next outer ring of this. So we've got individual confidence. They're doing their mental training individually, they are focused on their goals, right, all of those things are in place. Now we've got team connection. Is that outer? That next ring? Okay, to have this culture where you are emphasizing team, collective goals, right, creating space for vulnerability and trust building Okay, so important.

Speaker 1: 42:37

And this is not accomplished through one-off team workshops or inspirational speakers. Okay, again, like I said at the beginning, these can help every once in a while, but first of all, they're a ton of money. Second, it lasts for a week maybe, and then you're like what the heck? Okay, now we're back and we need another inspirational speaker. Okay, no, that's not where it happens. This comes through a routine, and how we do it on our team is through our mental training, because we do mental training together 30 minutes or less a week and in those moments we actually have opportunities for them to share and be vulnerable with each other, and that actually builds that team connection and team trust.

Speaker 1: 43:07

Okay, and then the last piece, really important is communication. Okay, so, in order to teach them effective communication and conflict resolution skills so important giving and receiving feedback, asking hard questions, how to talk about playing time concerns, how to talk to your coach, how to advocate for yourself these greatly reduced team drama, because now they have a pathway, they know what to do, they know how to talk about it to their coach, they know how to handle it instead of like, if they don't, then what they're apt to do is just bring other people down. Right. Team drama does not have to be a problem with your team. Okay, I'm not saying there always will be things that come up. Okay, you can't control all the things that happen outside of your sport that your kids are involved with, but we can actually provide them with a healthy way to deal with those things and communicate so that it's not sabotaging your on-court success.

Speaker 1: 43:54

Okay, one of our athletes, macy, said this about, um, our teams. She said what set us apart was our team chemistry. Okay, we knew no matter how the game went, we could always come back to each other. We got out of ruts easily. Other teams would bicker and go down. Saw this so much we were like, oh my gosh, it's happening. They're bickering, going down, they're down that team team drama spiral. Okay, all right, we've covered a lot of our winning edge method.

Speaker 1: 44:20

So the big question right now is are you in a place where you want to have a plug and play way to strengthen your four teams? Yes, I see all your yeses in the comments, so we'll talk about it. And that's exactly what we do inside the plug and play elite mental game. This is our step-by-step training system for coaches to use with their teams to strengthen their mental game and give them a wedding edge this season. So we'll talk about the pricing and, like all the bonuses, the fun things that we have going on, because we don't typically do this live. This is actually something pretty awesome, pretty special, and I know some of you are starting your season soon, so we want to provide you with a tool to be able to use this season. So we'll talk about that. But let's say that you are like yeah, the plug and play system sounds amazing. What does it look like? How do we get results? Like, how do I use this with my team?

Speaker 1: 45:09

Okay, now, in order to first use this, all right, the first thing that your athletes are going to do is create their snapback routine within the first week. We do this intentionally. Now the snapback routine I talked about the beginning of our winning edge method. This allows them to bounce back from mistakes quickly. Each athlete has their individual snapback routine and then, if you choose, you can have a team snapback routine as well, so that they can start their next game with that ready to go and it, honestly, once you have this tool, this is something that you can use as a coach to be like hey, do your snapback routine or what's your reset word? All right, it's a thing that you have in your toolbox to support your athlete as well. Okay, it's one of the foundational tools that athletes that come through our program the thousands of athletes that have come through say has been the most impactful to their mental game. It's just being able to come back from mistakes instead of dwell.

Speaker 1: 45:53

Okay, so you do the snapback routine within the first week with your team. That will take you usually takes around 20 minutes to learn the snapback routine. And then it just becomes a habit that your athletes do in practice. And then you, as a coach, know how to enforce that. So we have a coach facilitation guide for you to know exactly how you can make sure that they're doing the snapback routine. And then you go through the phases of the elite mental game. So go through foundations high performance game plan that we talked about. So their pre and post competition routines right. Scenario planning their mental edge toolkit has things around like perfectionism, comparison, right, and then also how to make sure that these skills are sticking. Okay, and this will enable the consistent high performance for your team, right, we have all mapped out for you to make it very easy to plug and play.

Speaker 1: 46:36

All right, catherine said my favorite part of her program was listening to Coach Bree talk her tips helpful knowledge of the mental game, learned so much and it'll help me better understand my game, being more focused, not worrying about things that are out of my control. So I'll talk about how the plug and play system actually works, but I am training your team, okay. Okay. So what's really great about this is that these training is very engaging. It's very. I've been a teacher, or I just loved teaching last year, but I previously had been a teacher for 12 years, teaching high school for most of it, and so I know the attention spans of adolescents. I know that they're not much, okay, and so these trainings are short, they're interactive and athletes love them, okay.

Speaker 1: 47:13

So how do we actually do this? All right, you're going to implement the top mental training for girl athletes in as little as 30 minutes a week. Okay, so all you are going to do? You have a 30 minute a week training plan. So it's all laid out. Week one here's what you are going to do for the snack bar routine. Week two here's the videos you're going to play for your athletes. Week three. Here it is. You just literally follow it.

Speaker 1: 47:31

Okay, you gather your team either in the we do it in the classroom or in a gym. If you got something to project, you literally press play. Okay, all right, team, here we go. And I have all of the pre work as well for you. That's not very much, but just so that you can play for your team. Like, okay, here's what mental training is, here's why it matters to our success. You know, all of those things are included and built into the program. Okay, you play the short video for your team Boop Press play. Okay, you use the coach's facilitation guide to lead a short discussion. So you're like okay, team, here we go, here's what we get into a group of two. You're going to answer this question, all right.

Speaker 1: 48:03

And then athletes are implementing tools in practice and in a game. All right, you have something on the board that says step back routine two times, something like that. You have meditations and visualizations at your fingertips. You can either play them for your team okay, very easy. In that way you can read them. We have scripts for you to read if you're that type of coach that likes to do that, or athletes can actually just have them on their phones. They have a way to easily download them onto their phone, so they're listening to their visualizations. And visualizations are short. They're about five minutes long. Most of them. They can listen before a game. Right now, we're going to spend five minutes. You're going to do this visualization, so very simple to implement, all right. And then we also have a really cool opportunity here to improve your culture and communication as well, because we know how important that is with some of our bonuses from top experts. So, jp Nervin, I'm going to give you a little thing here, a little side story. Okay, jp Nervin is amazing. He is one of the front runners when it comes to creating culture in your athletic program.

Speaker 1: 48:54

I almost quit coaching two years ago. Those of you that know me are like what, why would you quit in the middle of a championship season, like run? And that's because we had a rough go when it came to culture. I had two girls quit my team. That had never happened before and I was kind of at a loss. I was at a low. I was like do I stop coaching altogether? You know, this is very impactful to my family too. Like you come to those crossroads as a coach where you're like do I stay in it or do I not Like? And I was honestly feeling like I have. I've gotten away from the culture that is supposed to be in my program.

Speaker 1: 49:24

And so I actually stumbled upon JP Nervin at just the right time and listened to him on a podcast. I immediately purchased his system all around coaching culture and he has a step-by-step system, started implementing things that he has called the player development programs. He has just all of these amazing things that are very simple to implement. It was very intentional. After that season I had players at the end of season surveys were saying like this is my favorite season. Our team was so close and I credit a lot of that to number one, our mental training and number two, jp Nervin's work. Okay, and so he actually has partnered with us and there's a bonus inside of our plug and play elite mental game system for you All right, all around how to build and lead a positive street team culture. So we have a bonus for you from JP Nervin. We also have a bonus from another, like these are the two people that I've used the most in my program Okay, jp Nervin and Betsy Butterick.

Speaker 1: 50:14

If you're a coach, let me know if you've heard of these two or if you've heard of Betsy. Just simply amazing. She's a communication specialist. So she talks all about how your words as a coach impact your athletes and how to communicate in a way that gets the most out of your athletes. So how to avoid unintentionally invalidating their emotions, the difference between feelings and behaviors, what to say when you disagree with an athlete, and just the way that Betsy like presents and the way that she speaks is phenomenal. Like I could listen to her all day. And so we have a bonus from Betsy as well in our program. Yeah, sierra.

Speaker 1: 50:43

So these two they're Nate Sanderson and JP Nervin. I listened to their podcast. They were like on repeat that year that I was like super struggling as a coach, like I just kept listening to their podcast listening and like, oh my gosh, yes, this is what I need. And now Betsy is on JP's podcast as well. So, anyways, they have partnered with us and we have two bonuses inside our program for you from them, and this is exactly how you create a mentally strong team and a winning edge.

Speaker 1: 51:06

This season we got mental training, we have building a strong culture, we've got communication. We've got it all All right. So we're going to talk about what pricing, discount and special that we have in a second. But for those of you that are action takers and you're like, yeah, I want this for my team, we're going to do this season Again, it's literally plug and play you just play and then you lead the discussion afterwards. It takes about five minutes to lead that discussion. Very simple. And for those of you that want to jump in and here live, this is all about how to help your athletes handle the teammate dynamics on your teams, the different personalities, the how to talk to your coach framework, so you don't have to keep reading their minds. If you're like, just come talk to me and they're like I don't know how to talk to you, like they literally don't, okay, so it's a five-step framework on, like, here's what you do, blah, blah, blah, okay, and so that you don't have to worry as much about these dynamics, okay, the doors are officially open to the plug and play elite mental game I'll be answering some questions in a second.

Speaker 1: 52:02

Now all of our training program for coaches. So the plug and play method is 797. That includes our mental game system, video lessons, coach facilitation guide, an athlete playbook, a parent playbook so that you let them know. Hey, this is what we're doing in our program to support your athletes mental health, guided visualizations, meditations, 30 minutes a week training plan okay, very simple, plus the bonuses of the foundations of coaching and culture from jp, nerven, our bonus from betsy, and then the rise of teammate drama, thriving or challenging coaches. So it's a lot in there, right, but it's amazing, and during the special promotion right now, we have all of this for 497. So elite competitorcom forward slash coach, emg christina will put that in the chat as a link that you can go to and check out. We do have a guarantee on the program so you can join risk-free and then within seven days, if you're like, oh no, it's not working out, like we're unable to secure funding, whatever it is, okay, just let us know and we will refund you. Okay, we can't wait of athletes come through this program.

Speaker 1: 52:56

It is a proven process, very simple way for athletes to get very solid mental training skills that they can use in their team. Okay, and we have athletes saying like things like this all the time. Okay, texting us in and saying things like not very far in, but the course is already working. I'm not a qualifier, my mental game has already significantly improved. I used the visualization right before my game today. It was the first game I scored. I did amazing, okay, and so it's such a relief. Your athletes literally will thank you for giving them skills to be able to handle the pressure of their sport. Like they're getting it from all angles from their parents, from other coaches, from the ones that want to play in college, like it is so pressure filled and they are seriously ill equipped when it comes to handling that pressure. Okay, so giving them these skills is something that they will forever thank you for.

Speaker 1: 53:39

Okay, same thing when I ask athletes like, where have you seen a shift in your mental game? They're saying things like I'm more positive, I'm responding to mistakes better, I'm taking coaching better. I mean, what a relief to not have to worry about them becoming like I'm falling apart because you're just trying to coach them. Okay, all right, and you might be thinking this sounds great, but I'm not sure I have time to do this with my team. I'll tell you right now. It doesn't take a lot of time. Okay, follow the 30 minute a week training plan. Okay, you can adjust it depending on how long your season is.

Speaker 1: 54:03

We've designed this to be to fit a 12 week season and, yeah, like I said, there's not much to it, there's no tricks. All it takes for them to be able to have these tools and then use them inside practice and use them inside their games. That also, the daily mindset routine, is included in this as well. So the exact routine that we use with our team. That helps them start practice as well. Okay, what if my team isn't into mental training? Good question, my team.

Speaker 1: 54:28

When I first did it about six years ago, yeah, I got some, like you know, we're doing a visualization and they're kind of like opening one eye, like is everybody else closing their eyes? You know, you know they're. They might be a little skeptical, but now this is something that is a lot more common. Like, I played college volleyball and when I was in college, my coach did actually care about the whole athlete and did have resources. I played at Western Washington university, so some of you might know Diane Flick and she's amazing. She gave us resources resources, you know and just made sure that we were taking care of as a whole athlete. And then I studied sports psychology in my undergrad and that's when I started learning about it, I was 22 years old.

Speaker 1: 55:01

Your athletes don't need to wait. Like these skills are implementable in middle school and in high school. That's what we do. That's why our program exists, that's why our company has existed for the past six years and we've had over 5,000 families come through. Okay, and, yeah, some of them might not be into it because they just don't understand. But when you start to connect it to their goals, connect it to your team goals, especially if you're like, hey, I've got a talented team coming into the season. They want to win state. Okay, yeah, I know all teams want us to win state. But if you're like, okay, actually we do kind of have a shot at it, okay, okay, you know this, inside the program too, not everyone's going to be on board, just like. Not everyone's going to be on board with everything that you do in your program and we're not going to worry about them. We're going to worry about the 90% that are, because that's the typical rate that comes in my program.

Speaker 1: 55:44

I have three teams in my program. We do it with all three teams, but we break off by varsity JV and C teams, no-transcript coaches and one price it's a yearly license, okay, so it renews every year for you to have access to the course and all the bonuses, and so all of your coaches can have their own login so that they can do this with their teams as well. Or you could do it in a program setting. I've done both. I've done it where, like, all three teams are together, we play it together and we break off by varsity, jv and C. I've also done it with just varsity and then my C team coach is doing it with just C team and JV is doing it with just JV. I like it a little bit better doing it, like more intimately, with just varsity and then, like you know your structure best, you can definitely do it with your whole program as well.

Speaker 1: 56:35

Okay, do I do this off season or during season? Either one. We have an off season training plan in there as well. So if you're heading into your off season and you want to do this in the off season, follow the off season training plan. If you're heading into your season, then follow the in-season training plan. So either one works. How many weeks does it take? If you follow the 30 minute a week training plan, it takes about 12 weeks. You can also take a look at the training plan. You're like, hey, I'm gonna adjust this, I'm gonna do two this week because we're traveling all this week, or I'm gonna skip this. If you know, you can also do that If you're like, well, maybe this doesn't apply as much. We have some other fun like little things in there, like a vision board workshop that I love like in pre-season because it kind of sets the tone for the season. So, 12 weeks, if you're following the 30 minute a week training plan, okay.

Speaker 1: 57:18

So when you click on that link that Christina put in the chat to join the coach facilitated or the plug and play mental training program, you're going to come to a page that looks like this Okay, so that's. This is kind of what you'll see. You'll click to enroll and check out. So, 497 for that one year license is good for three of your coaches. Okay, if you want to add on coaches, just email us. We have a small fee for more than three coaches. Okay, so that they can all have their login. This is what your login will look like. So, as a coach, you get your login. All of your assistants get their login too. So you'll log in to your portal. When you log in, you'll see this. Okay, this is Christina. She's the co-founder of our company. By the way, she also played volleyball in college and athlete amazing person, just so you know she's in the chat.

Speaker 1: 57:58

Okay, so you'll see the plug and play elite mental game for teams. You'll see the phases in here. Okay, so just click. You literally just go through. You follow all the order that's in there. All right, this is an example of a team training how to snap. This is the first thing your athletes will learn. This training is about six minutes long, okay, so very simple.

Speaker 1: 58:16

And you have a coach facilitation guide and also, inside this training portal, you have exactly, like, the questions that you'll ask in some ways that you can organize them. I know all, like most of you are, have a teaching background, like I did. If you don't, it's fine, it's all set up for you, but you know how to like. We're going to think, pair, share, we're going to go in a small group, all of those things. Okay, all right.

Speaker 1: 58:34

And this is an overview of everything that is included in our coach elite mental game program. So you're getting the elite mental game training system. You're getting all the video lessons, the coach facilitation guides. You know exactly what to do and what to say. The parent playbook, the athlete playbook, guided visualizations, meditations, 30 minute a week training plan. Okay, you're also getting these bonuses when you join. So the Foundations of Coaching and Culture with JP Nervin, connecting with today's teen athletes, with Betsy Butterick, and then these fast action bonuses when you jump in while we're here live. So I have a timer to answer some questions and also, for those of you that are ready to grab your fast action bonuses when you join while we're here live, before this timer goes away, so the Rise of a Teen teenager I'm on diving to challenging coaches and then that virtual one-on-one session with me.

Speaker 1: 59:16

All right, so I know we have some questions. Okay, how long is this offer good for? Great question. So our pricing discount of $4.97 is good for seven days. So if you're like I need to talk to boosters, I need to talk to I don't know how it's all different. You know, for us I usually just I, I buy and boosters reimburses. That's typically how our process works, but sometimes you need approval and all those things. So I totally get that. So we are going to make sure that you have time to do that. Okay, how long do we have access to the program. So you have this license is good for one year, all right, and then it renews yearly and you're locked into that price as well. You'll get this discounted price. It won't go up to the normal price, okay.

Speaker 1: 59:55

Do you have any athletes that don't buy into this or their snapback routine? How do you help them overcome that? I kind of mentioned that a little bit. Yeah, there's always, like in literally everything I do, though, when it comes to this, like there's a small percentage of athletes that are like meh, I'm just you know not, and the thing is, as a coach, we tend to get focused on those athletes and I know I fall into that trap as well and like, focused on them, like why aren't they come on, why aren't you paying attention? Okay, when I'm like, look at all these athletes that are doing it, all right, for the majority and I'll tell you just my experience and the experience of other coaches who have done this program the majority of athletes are engaged. They are doing it, especially when you.

Speaker 1: 1:00:37

There's a couple of things. First of all, you connect why you're doing this. Okay, you already know this with teen athletes and athletes these days is that they got another why? All right. So connecting it to why it matters to them that they're going to play better, they're going to get closer to their goals. Put it in their language. I also have an intro video inside that you play for your team where I explain that to them. You don't even have to really do it. I do it for you, okay, but the more engaged you are with it, the more that they're going to be engaged. So I do not want you to play the videos and leave the room. Okay, that's not communicating that this matters, all right, but playing the videos, being there doing the activities with them, like showing that you're invested, that is going to help them be even more invested.

Speaker 1: 1:01:15

Okay, so there's some like best practices when it comes to this and then, honestly, like it's such a small percentage in my experience and the experience of other coaches that we just don't worry about it. Okay, we worry about and we invest in the athletes that are doing it. And, yeah, you can have a conversation. We have some things in the program where you can we actually have like some one-on-one meeting, questions and things like that, where you have that weaved in. I'm like, hey, how's your snapper team? You know going all of those things and so you can have a conversation with them about it. But, to be honest, like, the athletes that are getting it are the ones that are really, that are really invested, and that's actually going to be the majority. Okay, I want to make sure, yeah, and part of it too is just making sure that you're enforcing it and we have ways to do that inside the program as well. So it's like hey, okay, we're going to do in this drill right here, especially when they first learned the snapback routine, you have it intentionally Like I have a station or we're going to go through, and after this I want you to do your snapback routine, okay, and then you're going to come back and it's like doing it it in those lower stakes moments so that it's ready to go for higher stakes situations, okay. So a lot of it, too, is just making sure that it's top of mind, which is very easy to do in here. Five minute mindset routine, you know. Snapback routine like hey, water break. Snapback routine, come back, okay.

Speaker 1: 1:02:26

I coach a co-ed team. All of this is great stuff and seems applicable to both genders. How applicable would be to use for the entire team? Yeah, that's a great question for co-ed. We've had boy athletes come through the program. I will say that, as you see, kind of in our training here, most of our well, all of our imagery is a female athletes. The program itself is gender neutral, so all the visualizations are gender neutral. I do my best to speak in they and theirs so that you know, because I know that we do have boy athletes coming through. However, we primarily work with girl athletes.

Speaker 1: 1:02:55

So I would, as a coach, if I coached a co-ed team, I would just review one of the videos before and just kind of make sure if some of your older athletes, so some of your like 17, 18 year old boy athletes, I could see them like not connecting as well just because of the imagery, like they're not going to see themselves at all inside the program, okay, not to say that we haven't had athletes that age, I just wanted to bring that up and make sure that you're aware. But what I would do for that is kind of review ahead of time and if you're like, okay, we're just, we're going to, we're going to split, or you don't think that this would relate to some of the older athletes, then that's fine. Okay, program identical each year or do the materials change from year to year. Okay, yeah, the program material stays the same, although we're always adding new tools and things like that. They can add show from a different angle and things like that Other bonuses that we add in as well. But the thing is like this is exactly what I do with my team every year.

Speaker 1: 1:03:45

You have people graduating. By the time my seniors are seniors. They've been doing mental training for about four years. They know what the snapback routine is. They know what their daily mindset routine is. They know all of the things Okay, and for the most part, athletes and learners need to be reminded more than they need to be taught. Okay, and that is what has really allowed this to become like a very. They have that cognitive rehearsal down and when they're coming to you for this for their season and they're gone for you know, nine months I mean gone they're still kind of connected with you, you're still doing things in the off season, but you're not really focusing on it. When they come back, you're like, oh, yeah, and their goals change. Right, when we do our daily mindset routine, they're based on affirmations, on what they want to have happen in the season. So all of that is changing and it wouldn't make sense for them to have the same ones that they had last year. So it is something that we reteach every year so that all of the athletes can also benefit from it.

Speaker 1: 1:04:34

Okay, did I miss a question? Okay, cool, cool. I know that there's some other like specific questions about when we were a club team. We do have a club, a full club option as well, so I know that we've gathered emails for that so that we can reach out to you. Okay, yeah, I would like to talk to the team, talk to them before making my decision. So, unfortunately, I mean, I miss out on the bonuses. Give us a, shoot us an email. We might be able to help you out there. Okay, if you're like, I really do need to like talk to this key decision maker before she does an email. We're reasonable people, right? Okay, I think I got all of them, but let me know and if I didn't catch any questions, we're going to be in the inbox. My team is going to be in the inbox as well, right after this.

Speaker 1: 1:05:12

It has been a joy to be on with all of you coaches.

Speaker 1: 1:05:14

Thank you so much for your time, for carving out time to be here. Good luck with your seasons. If you didn't already grab our mind care bonus free for being here, this is a great way to keep tabs on your athletes. Mental health is what I do every week. It's like a series of five questions that the answer either via paper or on a Google form. I have both options for you, so make sure you grab that, either by clicking the link that Christine just put on there or DMing me the word mind and you can grab that.

Speaker 1: 1:05:37

All right, I'll leave you this quote from the goat. It's all about mental training. So once you step onto the competition floor, you can replicate those routines. Simone Biles, the one and only most decorated gymnast in the world she's been outspoken about her mental health and how important mental training has been in this Olympics as well. So you get to bring those things to your team, and I love that there has been just the emphasis on athletes' mental health, and what an opportunity for you to be able to give your team these skills too. All right, coaches, have a great rest of your day. I will see you later.