Lessons On Grit, Performance, and Perseverance with Rachel Balkovec

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Balkovec, the first female strength and conditioning coach in professional baseball, makes her second appearance on the Brute Podcast this week! Rachel grew up adamant to break out of her comfort zone, and shares her tips for personal and professional development, like falling in love with the process rather than the outcome.

Listen this week to understand why this passionate coach thinks you should support the people around you minimally, as well as her personal coaching philosophies you can adapt into your lifestyle.

Topics:

04:00 – Intentional vs. unintentional growth

13:15 – Mentors & coaching

22:06 – Defining a good coach

39:00 – “Minimally supporting others”

47:30 – Performance Pyramid

51:15 – Coaching methods

Links:

Instagram

rachelbalkovec.com

Books:

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance – Duckworth

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.
0:08.0	We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.
0:12.0	Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach,
0:15.0	2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ,
0:18.0	Michael Kaju.
0:19.0	Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.
0:27.0	Hey and welcome back. My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.
0:30.0	This week I'm back for round two with Rachel Balkovic.
0:35.0	Rachel is the first female strength and conditioning coach in professional baseball.
0:40.0	She's a former LSU softball player and she's one of the most knowledgeable and
0:46.0	passionate coaches that I've ever met. On this episode we go into how to
0:51.1	teach someone to focus on the process rather than the outcome, how to support
0:56.0	others just enough so they can do it for themselves.
0:59.0	We talk a lot about personal development and much, and much more.
1:02.6	Enjoy the show.
1:05.9	Rachel, nice to have you back on the show.
1:07.9	Great to be back.
1:09.6	I'm happy to be here.
1:10.4	Hell yeah.
1:10.9	So I was telling you yesterday, as I was preparing for this I was at I
1:16.3	I know I always look back like if I do two shows I look back to see what we talked about before and sometimes I'll even go back and listen to the show and I remember
1:26.7	just feeling so fired up at the end of our last one and then looking at the questions
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