

Mental Performance Daily with Brian Cain
BRIAN CAIN
Oftentimes, what separates truly elite performers from everyone else isn’t talent, luck, or connections—it’s preparation. In this podcast, listeners get to hear short, daily messages from one of the leading mental performance coaches in the world, Brian Cain.
For years, these 3-minute daily meditations, motivational messages, and mental performance tips were reserved for star athletes, corporate executives, and high-profile coaches. Now, they’re available to everyone through this daily podcast, helping you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
For years, these 3-minute daily meditations, motivational messages, and mental performance tips were reserved for star athletes, corporate executives, and high-profile coaches. Now, they’re available to everyone through this daily podcast, helping you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
Episodes
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May 19, 2022 • 2min
Private Victory Before Public Victory
In this episode Brian discusses what it means to earn the private victory with yourself before searching for public victory in what you do for others.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

May 18, 2022 • 3min
Time To Spartan Up
In this episode Brian continues discussions on the importance of the One Week Challenge with Joe Desena founder and CEO of Spartan, one of the world’s leading endurance sports brands. He’s also the New York Times best-selling author of the book 10 Rules for Resilience: Mental Toughness for Families, and the host of the new CNBC show No Retreat Business Bootcamp and The Spartan Up Podcast.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJOheRequTY
Joe’s One Week Challenge:
Show Up Early - On Time is Late - When You Show Up - Be 15 Min Early
Make Yourself Invaluable - Go Above & Beyond -
Cleaning The Pool, Straighten Up The Lawn, The Shed - Do 1% More
The Money Will Come - Don’t Have Your Hand Out Asking For Money
Wake Up at 5:15am or Earlier - Get A Sweat On, 5Min or 5 Hours & End It With A Cold Shower
Only Eat Between 9-5pm
30 Days - A New Human Being
One Week Challenge is presented by the tactical and fitness apparel brand Ten Thousand. Ten Thousand makes the highest quality, best-fitting, and most comfortable training shorts in the game.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjFQFKfzIY
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

May 17, 2022 • 2min
The Fastest Horse Never Wins
In this episode Brian talks about a mindset that will give you the best chance for success, it’s the same mindset that propelled Rich Strike to the 2022 Kentucky Derby title as an 80-1 underdog.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

May 16, 2022 • 5min
Doing Deep Work - Brian's Book Battalion #21
In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian continues his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books that he has read recently. Today he breaks down Deep Work by Cal Newport.
Deep Work -> vs. Shallow work
A Workout -> For your neurons
Attention Residue -> Time to clean it up!
The Four Rules -> To get your deep work on
Routines -> What’s your approach?
The #1 Discipline -> What’s wildly important to you?
“Shut-Down Complete!” -> Work hard. Rest hard.
The Deep Life -> Let’s make the dive!
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

May 15, 2022 • 12min
Sunday Meditation
In this Mental Performance Daily Sunday Meditation, Brian recaps the lessons from the week’s 5 day mini seminar in mental performance coaching so that you can revisit what you learned, embed it into your elite mindset and continue to grow into the best version of yourself through this guided mental imagery practice and meditation.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

May 14, 2022 • 5min
From Stalker To Walker & World Series Champion
In this episode Brian shares a story about his good friend Zach Soresen MPM and how Zach went from stalker to walker to world series champion.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

May 13, 2022 • 4min
Do The Drills To Develop The Skills
In this episode Brian continues his 5 day MPM mini-seminar and fields a question about how he would suggest coaches complete the certification course and start implementing the course material/strategies with their team.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

May 12, 2022 • 4min
How You Will Be Judged
In this episode Brian continues his 5 day mini seminar on Mental Performance and fields a question about how to build the MPM Certification into a sales training process.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

May 11, 2022 • 5min
The One Thing Olympians Have That You Need To Succeed
In this episode Brian continues his 5 day mini seminar on mental performance coaching and shares insight into the one thing that olympians have that you need to succeed as a coach and athlete.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

May 10, 2022 • 7min
Getting Buy In From Those You Lead
In this episode Brian starts a 5 Day Mini Seminar on Mental Performance Coaching. Today he fields a question about 1. strategies to connect with younger athletes (13-15 yo and below) and getting them to "buy in” or “try” mental performance?
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass


