Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1226. Last week,

I was on the phone with an athlete and we were going over the previous week, just reflecting on

some of the ups and some of the downs and just getting a general feel for the week. And he said something that that really struck me. He was talking about

how the highlight of the week wasn't anything that happened on the field. It wasn't, didn't

happen in the gym. It was a conversation. It was a conversation between him and this coach

and where his coach gave him some real honest

in your face truth it wasn't sugar-coded it wasn't motivational fluff it was just direct

specific feedback and it hit it not only touched the mind of the athlete but it touched the

heart of this athlete and you can tell it came from a place of love and belief.

And while it was the kind of feedback that was hard to hear, it was exactly what this

athlete needed in the moment.

And so I asked an athlete, why did that mean so much to you?

And he said, he said something that stuck with me. He goes,

when you're successful, people tend to pander. They don't want to ruffle your feathers and they tell

you what you want to hear instead of what you need to hear. But when my coach was talking to me last

week, it was, it was real and I can tell. And then he shared

something else that the coach told him. He said that every athlete goes through stretches that

that are, that are hard, but they're temporary. It's a temporary slump. And as he was sharing

this with me, I asked him. I said, can I ask you a

favor? And he said, of course. And I said, will you, will you tell your coach what you just told me?

Could you let him know how much that feedback meant to you? Because what most athletes don't realize

is how vulnerable it can feel to be that honest.

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