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🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Lauren Tashman, a Certified Mental Performance Consultant and performance coach who specializes in helping athletes optimize their mindset, leadership, and team culture. Dr. Tashman shares her expert insights on how to strengthen mental resilience, build unshakeable confidence in high-pressure moments, and overcome performance anxiety. With practical strategies for supporting mental health and thriving as both a leader and a teammate, this conversation is packed with invaluable advice. Whether you're a youth athlete, a collegiate player aiming for the pros, or a soccer parent looking to support your child’s journey, this episode is a must-listen for anyone wanting to elevate their game and succeed on and off the field.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we got some problems. |
| 0:04.0 | So, too, no, we know we're talking how to solve them. |
| 0:06.0 | We may laugh, we may learn, we might be your game's missing peace. |
| 0:16.0 | Well, thank you so much for coming on. We really appreciate it. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, thanks for inviting me. |
| 0:19.0 | We saw your work with voice in sports, and we just felt like aligned so much with our following, and we get so many |
| 0:25.7 | questions on how to be confident on the field, dealing with performance anxiety, and we know |
| 0:30.5 | that's something that you've spoken about, and you've studied high performance, mindset, |
| 0:35.6 | leadership, and team culture from all different angles over the years. So we would love to just, like, dive in and get your perspective on that. Sounds great. I'm like a wind-up toy. I tell people. So just ask me a question and then I'll start spinning in a lot of directions. You just guide me to where it might be helpful. Sounds great. Well, I guess is there anything specific? Like, |
| 0:55.1 | have you worked with soccer players before specifically? I have worked with a lot of soccer players, |
| 0:59.9 | mostly at the collegiate level. Mostly women. Yeah. And I feel like that's probably something |
| 1:06.6 | that you see a lot is in female soccer players is performance anxiety. I feel like everyone on our |
| 1:12.5 | college team was very anxious on the field. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's funny. Everybody always asks me, |
| 1:18.6 | like, what's the most mental sport and everybody thinks their sport is the most mental? |
| 1:25.0 | It's performance is performance, right? And so we all struggle with the same |
| 1:28.5 | things. But I think there are some unique things about soccer that breed some different, |
| 1:38.1 | I'll say, I'll call them challenges and opportunities maybe as a good way to think about it |
| 1:42.8 | with managing confidence and |
| 1:46.0 | feeding your confidence in the right way and managing some of those nerves. |
| 1:51.7 | Yeah, what challenges do you see specifically with female athletes? |
| 1:56.5 | You know, a lot of it, I think, stems from the way that society kind of approaches the two different |
| 2:05.2 | genders and the way that we're socialized, particularly as women. |
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