Inner Excellence: Mastering Calm Under Pressure (Interview with Jim Murphy)

Sports Motivation Podcast

Niyi Sobo

Soccer, Football, Basketball, Crossfit, Mindset, Sports, Psychology, Dominate, Business

4.8 • 755 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Join me for an illuminating conversation with Jim Murphy, performance coach and author of Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life. We explore how to find inner peace, stay poised under pressure, and transform identity—even when the stakes are highest.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

The foundation of Inner Excellence: Why Jim spent five years in Arizona researching how athletes perform under intense pressure—and how that led to his core message that the heart is central to peak performance.
Subconscious hacking: Jim dissects tools for reframing limiting beliefs and reprogramming your subconscious to support, not sabotage, your success .
Inner peace meets performance: Learn why elite athletes like PGA Tour players and NFL star A.J. Brown read Inner Excellence to center themselves during high-stress moments.
Identity transformation: From minor league baseball outfielder to mental-skills coach, Jim shares how he rebuilt his identity, overcame fear of failure, and found meaning beyond scoreboard results.
Achieving inner peace: Jim emphasizes the power of heart-centered living—grounded in love, courage, and wisdom—as the catalyst for confident clarity.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. It's your host, Nees Showbo. I'm really excited for you guys to listen to this interview today with the number one New York Times bestselling author, Jim Murphy.
0:12.0	All right? So he's a performance coach to some of the best athletes and leaders in the world. I don't know if you guys watch football at all, but in this last season, there was a game of the, I think it was the Philadelphia Eagles versus the Packers and one of
0:25.9	the wide receivers on Philadelphia Eagles, the champions this last year, A.J. Brown,
0:32.6	he was actually, they called him reading this book on the sideline, this book, Inner Excellence by
0:38.4	Jim Murphy, really brought a lot of awareness to the book, of course, but most importantly,
0:43.5	it changed AJ Brown's life, and he talked about the impact that this book had on him.
0:49.6	And so I was really excited to do this interview. I found out right before we did it that Jim actually also went to Portland State, which is where I graduated from and where I played my last two years of football.
1:00.0	So we had a great conversation and there's a ton of insights that you guys are going to learn from this that's going to help take your mindset and your philosophy, your approach to not only your sport but to life as well. All right. So like I said,
1:12.2	he's a performance coach. He played professional baseball with the Chicago Cubs. And he just has
1:18.8	an incredible story. And in addition to coaching and professional athletes and executives,
1:24.5	he also leads the inner excellence off-site retreats around the globe.
1:29.1	All right. So when I was talking to him, he's actually in Spain. He just opened up a new facility
1:32.6	there. And he's the president of Inter Excellence Freedom Project, whose mission is to build
1:37.9	communities to alleviate spiritual and physical poverty around the world. Very poised, very calm,
1:43.9	a great energy guy.
1:45.7	And what I want you to pay attention to in this interview is a few things.
1:50.9	Here are a few things I took away from it that I want you to pay attention to is, number
1:55.4	one, his unique philosophy and strategy on gratitude.
1:58.7	You know, you guys have heard me talk a lot about gratitude and how a lot of
2:02.8	times it's not really, it can, it cannot resonate in some ways if you don't do it correctly.
2:08.2	And his strategy is incredible. And I've already begun implementing this immediately. So I'm
2:14.9	excited for you guys to take a listen to that. We also talked
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