Maddie Mastro: The Mental Game
The Squeeze
Taylor Lautner
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Tay sits down with American professional snowboarder Maddie Mastro! Maddie shares how she first fell in love with snowboarding, the moment she realized it could become a career, and what her training schedule looked like in those early years with the full support of her parents. She explains what it means to snowboard halfpipe and opens up about the mantra that’s guided her — “It’s not that serious, it’s just snowboarding” — and how that mindset began. Maddie talks about the internal dialogue that helps her mentally commit to big tricks, along with the role therapy and sports psychology have played in her growth. She reflects on how her definition of success has shifted over time, what led her to shave her head, and how that decision changed the way she sees herself. Maddie also gets candid about leaving a toxic coaching relationship, the moment she realized something was deeply wrong, and how naming that emotional abuse completely transformed her relationship with snowboarding. She shares what her support system looks like today, how she keeps her love for the sport alive without burning out, what rest truly means to her, and the mental health tools she leans on most.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm literally strapping a piece of wood to my feet and riding it down a mountain right now. |
| 0:10.5 | Like, it's not that deep. |
| 0:12.5 | It's just snowboarding. |
| 0:13.4 | If this is what you want to do, we got you. |
| 0:19.6 | I don't think it, like, really clicked in my head of doing it for a career until I was on a podium. |
| 0:28.3 | I do snowboard half-fiped. |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah, have a bowl and you cut it in half. |
| 0:31.6 | One side to the other side like airing out and doing tricks. |
| 0:34.8 | Higher, higher, higher, higher until I got to 22 feet. |
| 0:37.0 | And I was like, oh my God, that actually is really tall. |
| 0:39.6 | I was getting in this place where there was a lot of mental stuff going into it. |
| 0:44.8 | It was kind of like a final blowout where there was like a pretty big incident that like |
| 0:50.9 | this is not okay. |
| 0:53.2 | This is affecting my snowboarding now. My coach should never be the |
| 0:56.8 | reason my days are getting ruined. Like you're scared of that? No, you're not. Just like, go do it. It's |
| 1:00.6 | fine. I didn't even like realize that was like happening. You don't have to suffer to achieve |
| 1:05.2 | your goals. |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah. Hello, lemon drops. Welcome back to another episode. I'm so excited. You guys know how much I'd love to interview athletes and specifically Olympians. They are just a different breed of human. The type of discipline and heart that |
| 1:37.5 | these professional athletes have to have is so special. And it's something that I love just hearing |
| 1:43.1 | about and learning. and on today's episode |
| 1:45.6 | we have Maddie Mastrow on. She is an Olympic snowboarder, X Games medalist and one of the most |
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