Welcome to this week's episode of the Running Effect with Dominic Schleader.

I'm your host Dominic and in today's episode, episode 56 of the Running Effect, I have the great

privilege of welcoming back Anna Rour to the podcast. I had her on in episode, I believe it was 35,

and in that episode we do a deep dive into her backstory

in the sport of running and definitely do a more general look at her career as a whole instead

of a specific subject like we do today. So if you're curious to hear her backstory in the sport

of running, I highly recommend checking out that episode, and I'll leave

a link to that in the show notes. But for those who aren't too familiar with her, just a few of her

accolades, in high school, Anna was a phenomenal athlete. She was a two-time foot locker national champion

and was the Gatorade Cross Country National Player of the Year in 2014, 2015. From there, Anna went on to an extremely successful career at the University of Notre Dame,

where she was an eight-time All-American, which is really, really impressive.

At Notre Dame, academically, Anna got an undergraduate degree in neuroscience and a master's

degree in business management.

Anna uses both the skills she learned

as an athlete and skills she's learned from studying neuroscience in both her jobs currently.

Firstly, Anna is a mindset coach at a company called Dreamfuel. At Dreamfuel, Anna teaches high-level

companies the mental performance skills needed to maximize their performance. And then she also has her own company called Next Level Racing,

where she trains athletes both physically and mentally.

Again, I'll leave a link to both of those websites in the show notes for those interested.

In this episode, we do a massive deep dive into the mental performance world.

We talk about in go-through subjects such as

confidence, belief, pressure, goal setting, and talking about goals setting, and how dopamine affects it

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