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George Mumford - Mindfulness and Athletes

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Health & Fitness

4.3822 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

George Mumford talks about his book, "The Mindful Athlete", mindfulness, and passing on his lessons of meditation to the next generation of young basketball players. George is a sports psychologist, mindfulness teacher, and coach, and worked with Phil Jackson and Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls during their legendary six-championship run, as well as with NBA superstars like Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal.

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0:00.0

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0:31.7

Hello everyone and welcome to Untangle, the meditation podcast from Guyam.

0:36.2

I'm your host, Patricia Carpus. In this series,

0:39.9

we introduce you to real people with extraordinary stories and experts who have devoted their

0:45.3

lives to teaching and helping others through meditation. In today's episode, I sat down with

0:51.9

George Mumford. George is a sports psychologist and mindfulness teacher, a coach and author of the mindful athlete.

0:59.9

He's well known among basketball greats like Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan credits him with transforming his on-court leadership of the Chicago Bulls, helping to lead the team to six NBA championships.

1:14.5

His work on and off the court has been groundbreaking and unforgettable.

1:19.4

He's here to share his story.

1:26.1

George Mumford, I am so honored to be sitting here with you today. Thank you so much for making the time.

1:34.3

My pleasure. Yeah. You have such an amazing story. I'm just staring at you now and your most beautiful eyes and such a giant heart. Your story is an interesting one, and I want to hear a little bit about your childhood

1:50.4

and sort of how you grew up, if you can share a little bit about that with us.

1:56.1

Well, I've been around for a while, so that I could take a minute or two, but I'll

2:00.7

try to give you the, you know, sort of the flavor of it.

2:07.6

Well, I grew up one of 13 children and number 10, eight sisters, four brothers.

2:13.6

And so I grew up in a group.

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