How do military officials, elite athletes, business executives, how do some of the peak performers

across a variety of fields develop the confidence that they need to go into some tough situations

and to deliver peak performance? And how do we take those lessons and apply that to our own lives?

We're going to find out in today's episode. Welcome to the Afford Anything Podcast.

The show that understands you can afford anything but not everything. Every choice that you make

is a trade-off against something else. What's most important to you and how do you make decisions

about your day-to-day life that reflect your deepest and highest priorities? That's what this

podcast is here to explore. My name is Paula Pant. I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast

and today we are talking to Dr. Nate Zinser. Dr. Zinser is the director of the performance

psychology program at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Since 1992, he has been helping cadets

at West Point become the best versions of themselves. He has also worked with a number of elite

athletes including two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning. He was the sports psychology mentor

for Eli Manning. He's also been the sports psychology mentor for the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers

as well as for many NCAA teams and other elite athletes. He has consulted for the FBI Academy

for the U.S. Army Recruiting Command and for the New York City Fire Department. He earned a PhD

in sports psychology from the University of Virginia and he is the author of a book called

the Confident Mind, a battle-tested guide to unshakeable performance. We are going to talk in

today's interview about how we can take the same coaching that he delivers to West Point cadets

and to Eli Manning. How do we take that coaching and apply that to our own lives when we invest in

the stock market, build a retirement portfolio by rental properties when we pay off our credit card

debt, when we decide that we want to crush our debt to grow our net worth, to retire early,

to start a business, whatever it is that we want to do, whatever our goals are, how do we take those

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