Welcome back to the savvy psychologist. I'm Dr. Ellen Hendrickson and every week I'll help

you meet life's challenges with evidence-based research, a sympathetic ear, and zero judgment.

This week, dear listeners, I am happier than a slinky on an escalator to share with you a big announcement.

For the past two years, I've been working on a book for you titled How to Be Yourself. Quiet your inner critic and rise above

social anxiety and it comes out March 13th. It has been a dream come true for me to write this and I do have to say also the hardest thing I've ever done

So in celebration this week we start a series on all things anxiety, shyness, introversion, and today performance.

So today we'll talk about performing under pressure with performance psychologist and violinist

Dr. Noah Kagiyama. Noah is on the faculty of the Juilliard School and the

New World Symphony and is a conservatory trained violinist with degrees from Oberlin and Juilliard.

Noah specializes in teaching musicians how to utilize sport psychology principals

and realize their full abilities under pressure.

He has conducted workshops at the New England Conservatory, Peabody, Eastman,

the Promen Music Program, and the National Orchestra Institute, and his work has been featured in the

Wall Street Journal, Musical America, and Life Hacker.

He maintains a coaching practice and authors The Bulletproof Musician blog which has over 100,000 monthly

readers. So Dr. Kagiyama, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me. Of course, so I'm really excited to talk to you because we have never had a performance

psychologist on the show before.

But you are a performance psychologist and a,

as you said, Oberlin and Juilliard trained violinist.

So have you ever had difficulty with performance anxiety?

Was this something that was personal as well as professional for you?

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