Overcoming Mental Health Obstacles and Finding Peace | Basketball Coach, Joanne McCallie

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Joanne McCallie, better known as “Coach P” – one of the most highly decorated female college basketball coaches in the country.

Over the last 28 years, Coach P has coached at Maine, Michigan State, and most recently Duke.

She’s the only Division I head coach to lead two different programs to 30-win seasons with three National Championship game appearances, and she won National Coach of the Year in 2005.

Coach P’s success on the court speaks for itself, but there was more that I wanted to explore with her.

She recently made her longtime battle with bipolar disorder public – something she didn’t feel comfortable revealing during her coaching career.

For those of you unfamiliar, bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.

So in this conversation, we discuss Coach P’s experience battling this disorder while leading one of the premier program’s in the nation.

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0:00.0	I want to coach. I'm coached people life. It's not like I'm changing hats. I love coaching,
0:06.1	but I also feel like I could talk to anybody, a professional athlete, a high school student,
0:12.3	anybody about mental health and trying to allow them to seek acceptance and kind of ride through
0:19.6	stories and understand that things are going to be okay and there is a process.
0:25.2	And at the same time, people really beat themselves up with this diagnosis.
0:29.9	You know, where did I get it? How did I get it? Is something wrong with me?
0:34.4	And so I've talked about, be good to you. Be good to you in this process of understanding brain
0:40.0	health.
0:40.4	Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast on Michael Jervé. And by trade
0:55.2	and training, I am a sport and performance psychologist. And the whole idea behind this podcast
1:00.0	is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery to better understand what is it that
1:05.4	they're searching for and how do they see the world and themselves in it? How do they explain
1:10.0	events? How do they prepare themselves to deal with adversity and challenge and pressure?
1:16.2	And we also want to understand the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft.
1:22.0	These mental skills are trainable. And if you want to learn more about how you can specifically
1:27.3	train your mind, this is just a quick reminder here, to check out the online course that I've
1:31.4	created with the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks Peak Carol at finding mastery.net forward slash
1:37.2	course. I believe that it can materially make a difference in your life.
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