Olympian Goalkeeper Stephanie Labbé on Deep Focus, Soccer, and Mindfulness
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2016
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Stephanie Labbe is the goalkeeper for the Canadian Women's National Soccer Team and is headed to Rio for the Olympics. In This Episode: -Picking between sports growing up -Why she supports children playing multiple sports -Striving to be a positive influence and avoiding being an “energy vampire” -What it feels like to be her best -Confronting her coach after being left off the national team -The positive qualities her parents instilled in her -The mental battle that comes with being a goalkeeper -The strategies she’s implemented to live in the moment -Understanding which triggers get her in her own way -Stepping away from the game to identify what she’s truly passion about -Being aware of which things she can control in her life
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Michael Jervais in the idea behind these conversations. |
| 0:09.4 | All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery |
| 0:11.8 | Podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Michael Jervay. |
| 0:13.4 | And the idea behind these conversations is to learn |
| 0:16.5 | from those on the path of mastery. |
| 0:18.4 | And it's to better understand what they're searching for, |
| 0:21.0 | their unique psychological framework, and the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft. |
| 0:27.0 | And again, we're not interested in hacks. |
| 0:29.0 | We're looking for sturdy and robust practices, particularly the mental practices, that allow them to follow |
| 0:36.2 | their path in the most accelerated way while they build their craft. |
| 0:40.4 | Okay, now this particular conversation it's about crossroads, it's about choices, and it's about |
| 0:47.1 | resiliency, it's about, in that context, it's about performing on the world stage, which also means losing on the world stage. |
| 0:55.0 | It happens. |
| 0:56.7 | And in this conversation, we learn about the thought patterns |
| 1:01.3 | that our guests used to accelerate her path back to being on the world stage. |
| 1:06.0 | And so this conversation is with Stephanie Labay. |
| 1:09.0 | She is the Canadian national team goalie in soccer. |
| 1:12.0 | She's also heading down to Rio to compete in the Olympics. |
| 1:15.9 | And goalies just have a unique relationship with pressure. So there's lots to learn here from her. |
| 1:22.4 | Okay, quick reminder about the Mindset Project. |
| 1:26.0 | If you're interested in asking an Olympian about how they've trained their mind, |
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