Michele Letendre: World Class Athlete and Coach
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In a recent Instagram post, Michele Letendre admits to falling into the sport of CrossFit a bit randomly nearly 10 years ago. It’s safe to say she found her calling.
The CrossFit athlete turned founder of Deka Comp joins this week’s Brute Podcast to talk about the shift from athlete to coach as she trains some of the top athletes in the sport, including Patrick Vellner.
Listen as she shares her insight on what it means to be a leader versus a mentor and how success is ultimately born from failure.
Topics:
05:10 – Intro to competitive sports
12:45 – Leader vs. mentor
30:44 – Fear in competition
37:50 – Athlete to coach
53:15 – Success through failure
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Atomic Habits – James Clear
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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. |
| 0:32.0 | Hey, before you start this show, I want to let you know about something I'm super pumped about right now, which is that I started a second podcast. |
| 0:32.6 | It's called the WAG Podcast and I do it with my wife a D-Kazu. |
| 0:36.4 | And the reason that we started this second show |
| 0:38.9 | is because over the past few years, |
| 0:41.5 | I've had the opportunity to interview some of the best and brightest |
| 0:44.8 | in the health and fitness space from New York Times best-selling authors to Olympians and Cross |
| 0:51.2 | Fit Games athletes to |
| 1:02.0 | support psychologist you name it a lot of the best in the brightest and I have also interviewed my wife a D six or seven times. |
| 1:04.4 | And without fail, the episodes that get the most engagement |
| 1:09.0 | in terms of direct messages or mentions |
| 1:11.6 | on social media or emails are all the ones that I do with her. |
| 1:16.2 | And I think it has something to do with the authenticity of the conversations, the fact that |
| 1:21.8 | we know each other a little bit better, |
| 1:23.3 | and can pull stories out of the other. |
| 1:26.6 | And so we decided that we're gonna start a second show, |
| 1:29.5 | and the format is each episode is 20 to 30 minutes on a single topic with actionable steps after each. |
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