The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast

(This episode is a re-run. Original airdate was May 10, 2021 - In honor of Josh Jung playing in his first World Series game tonight.) Josh Jung attended Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio, Texas where he starred in both baseball and football. Not drafted out of high school in the 2016 MLB draft, he enrolled at Texas Tech University to play college baseball for the Red Raiders. In 2017, as a freshman at Texas Tech, Jung started all 62 games at third base, batting .306 with six home runs and 43 RBIs. He was named the Big 12 Freshman of the Year and was named a Freshman All-American by multiple outlets including Collegiate Baseball and Perfect Game/Rawlings. As a sophomore in 2018, Jung once again started all 65 of Texas Tech's games at third base, slashing .392/.491/.639 with 12 home runs and 80 RBIs. He was named to the All-Big 12 First Team, and was once again named an All-American by outlets such as Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball. He played for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team that summer. Jung was named a preseason All-American by Perfect Game, Baseball America, D1Baseball.com, and Collegiate Baseball prior to his junior year. During the season, he missed two games due to a quadricep strain, ending his streak of 139 consecutive starts. After returning, he moved to shortstop. He was named the 2019 Big 12 Co-Player of the Year after batting .333 with nine home runs and 49 RBIs through 49 games. He was named an All-American by Baseball America, D1Baseball.com, Perfect Game, ABCA, and NCBWA. Jung was the recipient of the 2019 Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award, which honors the top Division I baseball player within Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma each season. Jung finished his junior year slashing .343/.474/.636 with 15 home runs and 58 RBIs in 64 games. Considered one of the top prospects for the 2019 MLB draft, he was selected by the Texas Rangers in the first round, with the eighth overall pick. On July 3, 2019, Jung signed with the Rangers for a $4.4 million signing bonus. On July 10, 2019, Jung made his professional debut with the Arizona League Rangers of the Rookie-level Arizona League, hitting a home run in his first professional at-bat. On October 27, 2023, Jung plays in his first ever World Series with the Texas Rangers. Josh has been a student of the Mental Game of Baseball since he was 11 years old and started with my PRIDE (Personal Responsibility In Daily Excellence) Program. He is as invested into Mental Performance as any athlete I have ever worked with. In this podcast recorded live in front of close to 500 high school baseball coaches and players we talk about… The Importance of daily mental performance training Separating what you do and who you are The importance of self-talk, perspective and routines How to overcome the biggest challenges you face in baseball and life How the mental game helped him go from Non-drafted out of HS to 8th overall And much much more…. You can engage with Josh Jung on instagram @Josh6Jung and with Brian Cain @BrianCainPeak.

Brian Johnson, Founder & CEO of Heroic Public Benefit Corporation, talks with Brian Cain about unleashing your inner hero and achieving personal growth. They discuss Brian's journey as a Heroic Guide, his daily routines, the cardinal virtues, energy, work, love, and optimizing everyday life. They also explore mental training, recovery modalities, and the Heroic Coach Program.

In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Professional Bowler AJ Johnson. Johnson is a member of Team USA Bowling and has been on the PBA Tour for nearly a decade. Having recently won his first PBA Tour Title at The Lucky Larson Masters in Helsingborg, Sweden Johnson shares how he has learned to use Fear as Fuel and unveils The Mental Performance Training that he did with Cain that helped him to capture his first professional bowling tour championship. In this podcast Johnson and Cain talk about: Learning and training to use fear as fuel The importance of having something to go to when it gets hard Building routines pre comp, in comp and post comp for consistency Moving your mindset from comparison into competition Having a physical trigger to flip the switch from person to performer and showering well The purpose of a daily success checklist for optimal performance and confidence Confidence moving from being a feeling into something that you do and a way of life Why and how to use mental imagery as a part of your preparation Keeping a one word focus to ground you Time blocking and planning your day in advance to help turn your brain off 6-2-8 breathing The 3 Keys to Keep It Simple Separation from enhanced preparation Getting One Percent Better Why his listens to The Mental Performance Daily Podcast Intentional performance journaling and MORE… You can engage with AJ Johnson:  Instagram = @AJ_JohnsonPBA Twitter = @AJ_JohnsonPBA TikTok = @AJ_JohsnonPBA You can engage with Brian Cain Instagram @BrianCainPeak Twitter @BrianCainPeak Facebook @BrianCainPeak  Or at BrianCain.com 🥶 Get 10% Off TheraFrost Inflatable, Self Cleaning Cold Tank Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK 🥵 Get 10% Off Thera360Plus Personal Sauna #1 Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK ⚡🚨Get 10% Off TheraPro PEMF Red Light Mat Use Code BRIANCAINPEAK 🦸Get The Heroic App & Philosophers Notes - 30 Days Free ❓Click Here to submit your question and Brian will answer and dedicate to you on MPD 💻 Join Brian’s MPM Coaches Certification Insiders List & Save $200 🏆 Join Brian’s FREE Group Coaching brought to you by Fundraising University 💻 Follow Brian on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, You Tube 📧 Sign up for Brian’s MPM email. 👍 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Coaches Mini-Course 💪 Take Brian’s FREE 3 Day Athletes Mini-Course ⛳ Take Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass ⚾ Take Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass 🎤 Follow Brian’s Mental Performance Daily Podcast

In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Brittany Loney, cognitive performance coach to elite Warriors, to talk about the mindset, routines, and training of elite warriors.  Brittany has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Learning Systems from The Florida State University, an M.A. in Kinesiology with an emphasis on performance psychology from California State University, Fresno, an M.S. in Exercise Science from Florida State University, and a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Texas State University where she was also a NCAA Division 1 basketball player.  Brittany is the director and creator of the Elite Cognition and Human Optimization (ECHO) program at Core One. She has over 18 years of experience training high performers from a vast array of communities, such as elite warriors, Olympic athletes, high-level coaches, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and C-Suite Executives.  For the past 13+ years, Brittany has been developing and implementing cognitive training programs within the national security and government sectors. She helped develop and taught curriculum for NATO’s Inaugural Mental Performance and Resiliency Course.  Brittany focuses her efforts towards serving those who operate within dynamic high stakes environments where people are a critical capability and human error is a legitimate risk to self or mission.  Her specialty is building, refining, and implementing large-scale performance programs and thrives in environments where the concept of cognitive performance is novel. She routinely consults with an array of personnel, from military to sports to business, to bring about the effective assimilation of cognitive performance principles to advance both individual and organizational effectiveness.  Over her career, Brittany and her team were embedded within highly selective hiring processes and arduous training pipelines. During this time, they refined a 360 degree approach to developing adaptive experts across a multitude of domains. The team worked extensively with trainees, instructors, course planners, and leadership to assimilate deliberate practice principles, adaptability research, and growth cultivation throughout the entire developmental process.  Brittany will share some of the best practices and lessons learned garnered through their integration with some of the nation’s most exceptional training. Maximum cohesive functioning is a prerequisite for any team to be greater than the sum of its parts. Over the past decade, Brittany and her team were immersed in organizations where their program was leveraged to facilitate desired cultural shifts and organizational end-states.  She will discuss interpersonal adaptability and adjusting communication styles, building unsung hero attributes, and refining team culture, values, systems, and processes to ensure optimal collective performance. Brittany looks forward to sharing with our community best practices and lessons learned related to training adaptive experts and building cultures that raise the tide.

In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by University of Oklahoma Gymnastics Asst. coach Tom Haley to talk about coaching mental performance.  Tom Haley has been with Oklahoma for 18 years and led the Sooners to 6 NCAA National Championships, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023. In this call Coach Haley and Brian talk about: Creating a culture of consistency Obstacles to an individual sport athlete learning team culture Teaching WE before me How Every Year Is Different, But Adversity Is Always A Part of Every Season Why The Closer You Get To Winning, The Harder Winning Gets Doing a team Vision board  Having a team one word focus How To Combat Complacency Mental Preparation Making everything you do good enough to win a national championship Self-talk, routines, imagery and process The Importance of Looking For An Edge inside of yourself to get to the next level When You Measure You Can Make Changes Using wearable technology to improve your sleep and health Why It’s Important To Sweep The Sheds and Give Your Team A Chance To Take Ownership

In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Florida State Softball Director of Mental Performance and Player Development Ellie Cooper to talk about coaching mental performance.  As the Player Performance Director, Cooper focuses on implementing and developing the mental game and player performance while assisting with technology, video and the day-to-day operations of Florida State softball. Cooper was a member of the Seminoles from 2014-17 and was on staff as a Student Assistant during the Seminoles’ 2018 National Championship run. During her time at Florida State, she was named to the All-ACC team twice (2015 and 2016) and was named a member of the NFCA Southeast All-Region Second Team in 2016. During her time in Tallahassee, she hit .319 with 122 RBI, 31 doubles, seven triples and seven home runs while getting on base 41.7 percent of the time. Cooper was a mainstay at second base, playing in 243 games in her career and finishing with a .960 fielding percentage. In her four seasons at FSU, the Noles won four ACC Championships and reached four NCAA Super Regionals with two trips to the Women’s College World Series. NOTES FROM CALL WITH COACH COOPER How to deal with the pressure of living your dream How 75% of Her Time Is Invested Into Your Mental Performance Coaching The Importance of Having A Classroom Session 1x a Week With Mental Performance The Importance of Body Language The Program FSACC Core Values & Culture - The Importance of Routines  Why The Team Read It Takes What It Takes This Fall Creating A Culture Calendar The Tough As Shit Socks The One More Board Breathing T-Shirts With Slogans The Process Based Scoring Sheet “Tell the Truth Tuesdays” sharing your “safeties” (blue angels) for practicing normalizing accountability/vulnerability/ownership and using them as moments of growth

In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Borden to talk about building a gold medal mindset in sports, business and life.  Amanda was captain of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team, dubbed the Magnificent Seven (including members Dominique Moceanu, Amy Chow, Jaycie Phelps, Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller and Kerri Strug), which took home the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.  Along with their gold, they made history by becoming the first U.S. Womenʼs Gymnastics team ever to win an Olympic games. Amanda describes the experience as, “the biggest moment of my gymnastics career and one of the biggest moments in women’s gymnastics history.” Amanda proved herself to be a steady and consistent gymnast from the start of her training at Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy. Her talent and ability led her to be named to the National Team six times and the World Championship Team three times, eventually reaching the pinnacle of her career as Team Captain of the history making, 1996 Gold Medal Olympic Team.  USA Gymnastics also named Amanda Sportswoman of the Year in 1995. After the 1996 Gold Medal win, Amanda appeared in numerous national tours and television appearances and was featured on the Wheaties Cereal Box.  She graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University with a degree in elementary education. She was honored by Arizona State University with the Alumni Achievement Award for her success and contributions in business and the community.  As the owner of Gold Medal Gymnastics Academy, with two locations in Tempe and Chandler Arizona, Borden has combined her educational training with her athletic expertise and continues to serve as a gymnastics and cheerleading commentator for CBS Sports, Fox Sports, ESPN, NBC and the PAC-12 Network. While proud of her past, Borden says her focus now is on the next generation of athletes: “My goal is to touch the lives of children all across Arizona to help them reach their goals, whatever they may be”. In addition, Amanda is a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame and US Olympic Hall of Fame. Most recently, she won an Emmy Award for her coverage and color commentary of NCAA gymnastics.

In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Libertyville HS Director of Athletics John Woods, MPM. Brian and Coach Woods discuss leadership and culture in athletic administration. Libertyville High School in Illinois has 1,850 Student Athletes, 92 Teams, 31 Sports, over 150 coaches and ONE PROGRAM In this call Coach Woods discusses: What Is Culture? Going from Good to Great Process over outcome The Core Values of PROGRAM ONE PROGRAM: Passion Respect ONE Grit, Reliable, Accountable and Mindful The Importance of Branding The Process of Creating a department mission, vision and core principles. Why It’s so much easier to establish a culture than maintaining one The PROGRAM & 10 PILLARS of Libertyville HS Culture Creating A Student Leadership and Developmental Curriculum The importance of having connection before you start working on correction Buy In Fades, Belief Sticks Faith In The Future Creates Power in The Present The Importance of Coaching For Significance vs. Satisfaction and Success How to use The MVP Process With Your First and 2nd Year Teachers How to Brand Your School With Core Principles The Importance of Mid-Season Feedback Form Questions To Ask Yourself Am I a final product - as good as I will ever be? Where am I putting legitimate effort into getting better? How hard and how often am I working at it? How do I know if I am making progress toward my goals? Contact Coach Woods John Woods john.woods@d128.org  217-840-7084

In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Eastmont HS Director of Athletics Russ Waterman, MPM. Brian and Coach Waterman discuss leadership and culture in athletic administration and: Why you must love em’ in order to lead em’ Being a Transformational vs. Transactional Coach Principle vs. Preference based focus The Motto of “Don’t Stop Believing” What Does Mental Toughness Actually Mean? Why your culture is what you accept, not what you say The importance of officials recognition The importance of taking care of yourself first. CALL RESOURCES Power Point Wildcats Today, Wildcats For Life Video Eastmond High School MVP Process How and Why Culture is King  Eastmont MVP Process "Wildcats Today Wildcats for Life"  Bag Tags Signs and Messaging Bracelets  Swag for athletes based on WILDCATS principles What you accept is the culture you have (Culture Guardrails)  Cain on Campus / Fundraiser University Group Coaching Calls  Coaches Council  1st Monday of the month with one core principle on agenda for discussion  Head Coach "Check-in All in" meetings (20 minutes max)  In season 1x a week in person or online  Out of season 1x a month in person or online  Eastmont Leadership Academy  Intentional instruction on being a responsible and accountable athlete (30 day Athletes course, MPM, Jeff Janssen) 2x a month at 7:30 am with breakfast served. WILDCATS of the Month   Athlete chosen based on exhibiting core principle and performance Mental Performance Mastery in Action  Showcase 1 MPM strategy/Pillar being used by programs  Programs responded (Boys and Girls Soccer, Volleyball, Track & Field, Cross Country, Softball, Baseball, Boys Golf, Cheer, Wrestling, Tennis, Boys Basketball)  Fundraiser University experience  explain the experience and importance  Investing in YOU - Walking the Walk Russ Waterman taking Care of Russ Waterman

Jeff Jones, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Arkansas State University, discusses the '8 Play Mental Performance Program' he runs. Topics include changing negative thoughts, increasing awareness, motivating oneself, conducting impactful athlete meetings, fostering confidence, and building personal growth through intentional habits. Strategies for mental performance training, integrating core values into coaching, and the importance of belief in the program are also highlighted.