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🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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In this episode, we chat with special guest Linda Martindale, a student-athlete performance coachabout the dynamic relationship between parents, coaches, and athletes ad exploring how they can work together to foster ahealthy, resilient mindset in sports.
We discuss:
✅ How to build resilient athletes who thrive under pressure
✅ Why trust between parents and coaches is the key to success
✅ How toempower young athletes to be their own best coach
✅ The ultimate role of parents in sports &keys to effective coaching
Whether you’re on the sidelines or leading the team, this episode is packed with insights to help you support young athletes in a positive, impactful way. 💪🔥
Website:
https://martindalecoaching.com
Linda's Game Changers Podcast:
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| 0:00.0 | So, Linda, you know, we got some problems. |
| 0:03.9 | So you don't know where we're talking how to solve them. |
| 0:06.6 | We may laugh, we may learn, we might be your game, miss and peace. |
| 0:15.8 | So, Linda, thank you so much for coming on today. |
| 0:18.2 | We're so excited to chat with you. |
| 0:20.7 | Thank you for having me. Yeah, we would're so excited to chat with you. Thank you for |
| 0:21.2 | loving me. Yeah, we would love if you could give our listeners a little bit of background about you |
| 0:26.0 | and what you do in the mental fitness health space. Sure. I am a high school boys basketball coach. |
| 0:31.4 | I was high school girls and college girls basketball coach and switched over to boys about five years ago and started |
| 0:38.6 | realizing that there was more to it than the X's nose. I have four children who are all college |
| 0:44.6 | athletes at different levels in four different sports. I was a college athlete myself, so I sort of |
| 0:51.2 | have seen what's happened over the years with younger athletes developing |
| 0:56.0 | and then going into college and a little bit of suffering, I would say. And I started getting |
| 1:01.6 | very interested in that and became a certified coach to work pretty specifically with athletes |
| 1:06.8 | that are struggling with the mental side of their game, I would say. |
| 1:11.6 | Do you think it's getting more challenging for athletes? |
| 1:15.6 | Do you think this has always been a problem? |
| 1:17.6 | Or do you think it's getting harder? |
| 1:19.6 | Oh, I definitely think it's getting harder. |
| 1:21.6 | I think there's so many factors, but it's harder for coaches as well. |
| 1:26.6 | You know, I think social media, I think the NIL, the transfer |
| 1:29.4 | portal, all those things. People say it doesn't trickle down to high school. It definitely does. |
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