The Post Game Podcast Ep. 35 - Ian Miller: The 9 Hole Podcast, Playing Your Game, Earning Confidence
Ian Miller is a former professional baseball player with the Seattle Mariners, Minnesota Twins, and Chicago Cubs.
After playing 3 years of college baseball at Wagner College, he was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 14th round of the 2013 MLB Amateur Draft.
He is the Founder of Rellimnai Enterprises and the increasingly popular 9 Hole Podcast, where his goal is to empower & inspire the next generation of “9-Hole Hitters” through stories, interviews, and insights with former ballplayers and others in the game.
Ian also writes the 9 Hole Newsletter, providing practical tips to ballplayers on mindset, physical skills, and more.
Since May 6th, 2024, the 9 Hole Podcast has amassed over 11.6 million views on social media platforms (as of June 17, 2024).
What You’ll Learn About:
- Emailing every D1 school in country for an opportunity
- “Playing your game”
- Overcoming adversity
- Overthinking and slowing it down
- Coaches having connection with players off the field
- Crafting your environment
- You have to learn or earn confidence
- Volume x Time = Skill
- Higher you go, preparation gets more intense
- You’re all in or you’re all out
- Transition away from baseball
- Notebooks and tracking progress
- What is the 9 Hole Podcast?
Timestamps:
(0:00) – Intro to Ian
(5:10) – Resiliency
(8:00) – Sticking to your skillset
(8:40) – Dream to play in the big leagues
(9:50) – Baseball in the family
(10:30) – Earliest baseball memories
(12:30) – Adversity early on at Wagner
(16:00) – REAL adversity propelling you to success
(18:30) – Nobody cares
(19:40) – When you think you stinks
(23:20) – Coaches maximizing his potential
(25:15) – You have a choice
(26:15) – External not affecting the internal
(27:20) – Confidence
(29:20) – Faking confidence
(31:30) – Emulating success people
(32:45) – Robinson Cano
(35:00) – Separating himself in off-season
(35:50) – Outlasting everyone
(36:45) – Ever think about hanging ‘em up?
(38:45) – Favorite story in the big leagues
(41:10) – Hanging up the cleats
(43:00) – Interest in Finance
(46:20) – Call from Jamie Moyer – notebook
(50:15) – Manifesting and staying positive
(51:00) – The 9 Hole Podcast
(53:10) – Millions of views
(54:10) – Same as playing, but different
(55:30) – Opportunities and partnerships
(58:20) – Where to Find Ian and 9 Hole
(1:00:00) – 9 Hole Newsletter
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