Ep 38: Deep Dive with Mike: What is Mental Performance?

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Have you ever wondered what mental performance is? Or, what a Mental Performance Coach does?
Mike is our Mental Performance Coach on A Coach, a Nutritionist, and an Expert Walk Into a Podcast. Sometimes, we forget our listeners aren’t as deeply IN IT as we are. So, we thought we'd give you a primer.
In some hard-hitting, investigative, gotcha journalism, Helena interrogates Mike about what it means to be a Mental Performance Coach.
In this Episode:
🎙️What even is mental performance?
🎙️What does a Mental Performance Coach do?
🎙️Optimizing cognitive function to improve consistent high-performing effectiveness
🎙️Mental performance and leaders
🎙️Barriers to reaching peak (mental) performance and avoiding the yips in the boardroom
🎙️The compounding effects of daily stressors
🎙️Chronic stress and the erosion of mental performance in high performers
🎙️Imposter syndrome, perfectionism, self-doubt, and fear
🎙️The importance of looking at mental performance as a method of “preventative maintenance” to develop the tools need to move from reactive to proactive and avoid the yips
🎙️Finding better ways than the “This is how it’s always been done” mentality. What got you here, isn’t necessarily what will get you to where you want to be.
🎙️What led Mike to being coach and opening his company, Global Bound
Mike Krause is a mental performance strategist and coach with Global Bound LLC, where he works with nonprofit leaders, their talent, and boards to harness mental performance hurdles – enhancing psychological wellbeing in-and-out of the workplace.
With over 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, Mike has held various executive leadership roles. He served 4 ½ years with the U.S. Department of State in Southern and Central Africa, focusing on public health initiatives.
Additionally, Mike serves as a coach for the “Idaho Leads” program through the Idaho Nonprofit Center and coaches leaders across various industries. He co-hosts a weekly podcast and travels the region speaking about workplace wellbeing and the power of mental performance coaching as preventative maintenance for individuals and their businesses.
Connect with Mike through www.globalbound.org, via email at [email protected], or on LinkedIn.

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