Creating Opportunities, Resiliency, and Confidence | WNBA MVP, Nneka Ogwumike

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Nneka Ogwumike the 2016 WNBA MVP, WNBA Champion, and 1st overall pick of the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2012 WNBA Draft.

Nneka is on a mission to inspire others to discover their greatness with an open heart, enthusiasm, integrity, courage, and compassion.

She is currently serving as President of the WNBA Players’ Association (WNBPA) and successfully led the group in its renegotiation of a groundbreaking WNBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement.

She is a six-time WNBA All-Star, three-time All-WNBA selection, three-time All-Defensive WNBA selection and was the 2012 WNBA Rookie of the Year.

A graduate of Stanford University with a BA in Psychology, Nneka led the school to four consecutive Final Four appearances.

Hailing from one of sport’s most dynamic families, Nneka is the oldest of four sisters who have played Division I basketball.

With her sister Chiney's selection as the 1st overall pick by the Connecticut Sun in the 2014 WNBA Draft, the family made history, joining Peyton and Eli Manning as the only siblings ever selected number one overall in a professional sports league.

Nneka and Chiney now play together on the LA Sparks.

In this conversation we discuss Nneka’s upbringing, what gave her the confidence to believe she could play professionally, which mental skills have been integral towards creating her resilient nature.

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0:00.0	one of the mental skills that I practice every day is certainly quieting my mind. I don't
0:08.9	know if anyone has ever truly mastered it because we're all human beings, but practice makes practice,
0:15.6	you know, I think that every opportunity that I have to quiet my mind is a learning opportunity
0:24.7	and it's not the last one and it's not the worst one. It's not the best one. It's always something
0:30.4	that I know it's going to have to be worked on and it's something that I have to hone constantly.
0:44.8	Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Jervé and by
0:50.5	trade and training, I am a sport and performance psychologist and the whole idea behind these
0:54.7	conversations is to learn from people who have committed their life efforts towards mastery.
1:00.2	It's a better understand what they're searching for to understand how they use their mind,
1:05.1	how they've built their psychological framework to make sense of themselves and the world around
1:09.3	them. We also want to dig and understand how do they build the mental skills that carry them,
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