Justin Sua won a World Series in 2018, and he has a ring to show for it.

But he wasn't out on the diamond.

Instead, Sua had the unique role of preparing the players of the Boston Red Sox mentally for the biggest games of their lives.

Justin Sua is a major league mental skills coach who now works for the Tampa Bay race.

He previously worked as a mental skills coordinator for the Boston Red Sox and mental performance coach for the NFL's Cleveland Browns.

A former BYU pitcher, he earned his Masters in Sports Psychology from the University of Utah.

He and his wife Melissa are the parents of three children.

This is All-In, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be All-In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

I'm Morgan Jones and I am thrilled to have my friend Justin Sua on this week's episode. Justin, welcome.

Thanks a lot Morgan, looking forward to being with you.

Well, Justin, you are one of my favorite people to interview and I have to warn you and listeners that I have been sick and so I sound a little bit like a man.

Hopefully you'll forgive me. You'll feel like you're talking to one of your athletes probably.

Thanks for the hands of my family.

Male athletes, just kidding.

Well, first of all, I haven't talked to you since the Red Sox won the World Series. You're not with the Red Sox anymore, but what was it like to be a part of a World Series winning team?

Oh my goodness. To have the vision that you're going to go out there and you're going to win the championship in a sport, in the highest level, professional sports, the goal is always to be the last team to win at the end of the season.

And it has been such a long journey, I think in 2014 or 2015 or so. We actually had one of the worst records in all of baseball and then to see us just kind of slowly climb back and to develop young players and to see those young players turn into the stars on the team.

It was so real actually and it was just it was a wonderful, wonderful thing to experience and to be a part of.

Yeah, well, and I can only imagine the role that you played. I mean, obviously you're not out there on the field, but to recognize growth in the players mentality and kind of developing that winning spirit that has to be pretty incredible to witness.

Yeah, because a lot of times it is that you said it perfectly, it would need to be part of a team. Everyone has the role.

And from the strength and conditioning coach to the athletic trainer to the hitting coach, the pitching coach, even the clubhouse managers who every end to be so grateful to have had a small part in this huge cog to help, even if it was just 1%, half a percent to help one player at some time both on or off the field.

It was really neat to see and I'll come to to forget at the end of the day it was all put together to be able to hold up a trophy for the entire organization, but it was amazing. It was amazing.

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