438: The Athlete’s Mindset: How to Cultivate Mental and Physical Strength, Discipline + Performance without Burnout with Gabby Reece
Well with Arielle Lorre
Dear Media, Arielle Lorre
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Former professional volleyball player, model, and lifelong athlete Gabrielle Reece joins the show for a grounded, powerful conversation about what it actually means to think—and live—like an athlete.
We talk about pursuing excellence without perfection, why being “selfish” with your energy can make you better for everyone around you, and how mental strength is built just as deliberately as physical strength. Gabby shares what truly drives her, how she uses fear as a compass instead of a stop sign, and the importance of telling yourself better stories—especially as you move through different seasons of life.
We also get practical: her real life gratitude practice, exercise snacking for busy days, the one movement almost everyone can do in 10 minutes for maximum benefit, her current training split, and non stimulant ways she supports energy and focus (including an honest take on nicotine). Gabby opens up about being wired for hypervigilance, shedding old identities, navigating conflict in marriage and parenting, and why internal strength matters more than external toughness.
This episode is about aging with power, feeling good through perimenopause, building better boundaries with yourself, and surrounding yourself with people who raise your standard. If you want to train your body, sharpen your mindset, and live with more intention—this one will stay with you.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.8 | This is Well, a podcast about wellness in all its forms. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Ariel Laurie, and each week I'm sharing unfiltered conversations with people shaping how we feel, live, and look. |
| 0:17.2 | Come for the substance, stay for the honesty, and leave with the tools to be well, inside and out. |
| 0:25.6 | I am so excited about today's episode. My guest is somebody that I have genuinely wanted to |
| 0:31.4 | have on the show for years. I'm talking top of my list for as long as I can remember. And I don't say that lightly. So I am talking to the one and only |
| 0:41.1 | Gabby Reese. She is one of those people who has lived so many chapters already, elite athlete. She's a |
| 0:47.5 | cultural icon, businesswoman, partner, mother. And what I am most drawn to is how grounded she is in all of it. So I think from the |
| 0:56.9 | outside, Gabby can come across as very serious and very disciplined, which she is. But when you |
| 1:02.7 | actually talk to her, she has this dry sense of humor and she has this kind of subtle, playful |
| 1:07.5 | energy that I was really drawn to. She's thoughtful without being heavy. She's |
| 1:12.1 | confident without being performative. And she is so firm in her identity, which I found to be so |
| 1:18.5 | inspiring. And what really stood out to me in this conversation is her emphasis on mental and |
| 1:23.7 | emotional strength and boundaries, not just physical performance. As a lifelong athlete, |
| 1:29.6 | she talks a lot about resilience and self-trust and discipline and how those skills translate |
| 1:34.7 | far beyond sports into relationships, aging, and life itself. So this is really one of those |
| 1:41.3 | conversations that feels grounding and expansive at the same time. I think |
| 1:45.5 | it's a little unexpected. I think you're going to be pleasantly surprised that while we are talking |
| 1:51.1 | about some of her wellness fundamentals, we are talking a lot about her mindset. And I think I already |
| 1:57.6 | said this. I found it to be so inspiring and I am repeating it because that was |
| 2:02.5 | really one of my main takeaways here. So if you enjoy it, definitely go follow Gabby on social |
| 2:08.3 | and listen to the Gabby Reese show for real expert insights, conversations, and a lot of |
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