For this week's episode, we are sharing the guest speaker call with Sydney Stewart! Sydney is a current collegiate softball player, who started her career at the University of Washington. While at UW, she made an immediate impact as a freshman, starting 44 games at catcher. This summer, she transferred to the University of Arizona where she will represent the Wildcats in the 2025 season.

Episode Highlights:

• What it was like transitioning from High School to D-1 Collegiate softball
• How she helped lead her team as a freshman
• What her experience at the College World Series was like
• Which mental skills have helped her the most

Connect with Sydney
Instagram: @sydneyystewart

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• Learn about our proven Mental Skills Program, The Fearless Warrior Program
• Book a One on One Session for your Athlete
• Book a Mental Skills Workshop for your Team or Organization

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Ellè Nelson is a mental performance coach and a former collegiate soccer player. She currently lives in London, working as a mental performance specialist for Charlton Athletic Football Club. She's used her own experience as an elite athlete in high performance environments to guide her work with individuals and teams. In our conversation today, we talk about all things mental performance and how learning to control our emotions can help unlock an athlete's elite potential.

Episode Highlights:

• How top level athletes deal with prefomance anxiety
• How to reframe your thoughts
• Feeding the wolf
• How to embrace the hard

Connect with Ellè:

Instagram: @mymentalperformancecoach

More ways to work with Fearless Fastpitch

• Learn about our proven Mental Skills Program, The Fearless Warrior Program
• Book a One on One Session for your Athlete
• Book a Mental Skills Workshop for your Team or Organization

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Today, we are sharing our Guest Speaker conversation with Janie Reed from June of 2020. Janie played her collegiate softball at Oregon where she earned all Pac-12 and All-American honors. After college, she represented the USA at the 2020 olympics where she helped Team USA win silver. In our conversation, Janie talks about dealing with the disappointment of the delay of the 2020 olympics, how she has learned to redefine success and how her faith has helped her along the way.

Episode Highlights:

• Using mental skills to cope with COVID delaying the olympics
• Overcoming failure by remembering your "Why"
• Focusing on quality at-bats instead of batting average
• How faith can help you be fearless

Connect with Janie:

Instagram: @_janiereed

More ways to work with Fearless Fastpitch

• Learn about our proven Mental Skills Program, The Fearless Warrior Program
• Book a One on One Session for your Athlete
• Book a Mental Skills Workshop for your Team or Organization

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• Facebook @fearlessfastpitchmentaltraining
• Instagram @fearlessfastpitch
• Twitter @CoachAB_