Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about the power of your words with page tons.

Hey guys. Welcome to the podcast. I have a special guest here today and she is going to be talking to us about the power of your words.

And she is a athlete mentor for girls in athletics and for girls who are in sports.

So I thought it would be fun to have her on today and just talk a

little bit about athlete mindset and what it takes in the brain, because that's what we talk about,

what it takes in the brain and in the mental space to better your performance in the things

that you're doing. Okay. So Paige Tawns, welcome. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here.

So I want to have you introduced yourself a little bit. Yeah, absolutely. So like Sammy shared,

I work with girl athletes, female athletes, anywhere from 10 to 18. I work with actually a lot of

teenagers in my favorite age. But I work with

girl athletes on building confidence and giving them and showing them the tools on how to create

confidence so that they can perform at higher levels and take things to the next level. And I do

this because I was an athlete and I still like slightly consider myself an athlete.

Like I'm still doing it.

But not just not organized athlete, I guess.

But it was something I struggled with as when I was growing up as an athlete.

And you know, I wouldn't even really like looking back at you know I didn't think like I wasn't

confident but I had like a lot of like doubt or fear of making mistakes or letting people down

whether it was my parents or my coaches or my teammates or friends or whatever that might be and

just really struggled with that and let

um you know these like a lot of mindset blocks and those doubts and fears and things get in the way of

my full potential and going through that struggle I just knew that when I learned more about it later

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