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

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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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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Today on the pod, we are re-releasing our Guest Speaker conversation with UNO softball player, Allie Helton. Allie shares her story about what the transition was like going from a JUCO to a Division 1 school and how visualization helped her succeed. She opens up about the emotional and physical challenges she faced, from adhering to stricter guidelines to maintaining her identity as an athlete.

Episode Highlights:

• What the transition from a JUCO to a D1 school was like
• How she used visualization
• How she views leadership on a new team
• How to overcome fear of disappointing teammates

Connect with Allie:
Instagram: @alliehelton21

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
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Over the past 25 years, Travis Thomas transformed a career in improvisational comedy to becoming one of the top keynote speakers in the industry. He went from living the improv principles of “Yes, And” on stage, to inspiring elite leaders, professional athletes, and working his way to the World Cup as a leadership and mental skills coach. He has since created his own buisness, "Live Yes, And" and has worked with dozens of college and professional sports teams, and some of the top fortune 100 companies in the world.

Episode Highlights:

• How the principles of improv can help athletes
• How to "Live Yes, And"
• How coaches beliefs shape athlete outcomes
• How to chase courage, not confidence

Connect with Travis:

Instagram: @liveyesand

Website: https://www.liveyesand.com/

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
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Today we are re-airing our Live Guest Speaker Event from August with Abi Brown. Abi is a Division I softball player at the University of South Dakota and alumni of the Fearless Warrior Program. Abby opens up about the highs and lows of her transition from high school to college, sharing how essential mental performance tools helped her overcome initial struggles with confidence and leadership in her freshman year.

Episode Highlights

• How Abi found the Fearless Warrior Program
• How the FWP helped her in her transition from High School to College
• What mental skills she relies on
• Advice for her younger self

Connect With Abi

Instagram @abi_paige07

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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Are you considering joining the Fearless Warrior Program? Then this week's episodes are for you! I invited a few of our Fearless Parents to come and share the good, the bad, the skepticism, and all their doubts they had when first discovering Fearless. They share how the program helped their daughters both on and off the field and how much it helped them reach their potential as softball players. If you have questions about whether this program is right for your daughter, this episode is full of insight that will help you make your decision!

Want to learn more about our POWERFUL Mental Training Program these parents shared today? See all the details and more here:
https://www.fearlesswarriorprogram.com/join

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

Follow us on Social Media

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

Are you considering joining the Fearless Warrior Program? Then this week's episodes are for you! I invited a few of our Fearless Parents to come and share the good, the bad, the skepticism, and all their doubts they had when first discovering Fearless. They share how the program helped their daughters both on and off the field and how much it helped them reach their potential as softball players. If you have questions about whether this program is right for your daughter, this episode is full of insight that will help you make your decision!

Want to learn more about our POWERFUL Mental Training Program these parents shared today? See all the details and more here:
https://www.fearlesswarriorprogram.com/join

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

Follow us on Social Media

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