Mental Performance Coach #174: Lindsey Wilson - Unlock the Power of Belief

The Coaching Podcast

In this episode on The Coaching Podcast, we dive into the world of mental performance coach, Lindsey Wilson, also known as The Sports Hypnotist™. Lindsey brings a wealth of experience from her professional basketball career and works with elite athletes, from Olympians to NFL and WNBA players. Lindsey shares insights on "belief work" - a powerful, often-overlooked mindset skill that drives motivation, resilience, and high performance. We explore impactful mental training tools every coach can use to build belief, stay present, and help athletes unlock their potential on and off the field.

Let’s jump in!

• 2.07: What do you do on a Monday morning? Consider the 5 D’s
  • Decide (if you need to do it)
  • Delegate
  • Deferring it to another time if it’s not appropriate now
  • Do it (get the dopamine hit early – take action)
  • Do list (tick it off)
• 6.24: Time Management: Is it possible to multi-task and actually do a good job?
  • *Research suggests that we are tasking switching when we multi-task but it is unrealistic to not do it!
• 8.53: How can a coach get their mindset in the right zone to be present and deliver?
  • Bravr Technique: To get your mind in a ‘high vibe’ state
  • Breathing in (say your reset word)
  • Releasing (breathing out) X 5 times
  • Affirmation
  • Visualize (one of the most powerful ways to get you there)
  • Reset
• 13.10: Belief work is one of the most underrated mindset skills – did you believe in yourself as a young basketballer? Belief happens in 4 stages:
  • 1) The belief in a goal that hasn’t happened yet (dreaming)
  • 2) The belief that you need that it is going to take much longer to achieve than you expected
  • 3) Believing when there is failure
  • 4) Most importantly: Being able to believe under pressure
• 15.03: What separates good athletes from really great athletes is the ability to believe!
• 19.09: What makes a great coach?
  • “Their ability to practice what you preach!”
• 23.10: Have we gone too far with how we talk to kids or do you think coaches need to be mindful of the language they use to bring out the best in their people?
  
  • Parenting tip: Validate the emotional experience
  • “When we don’t allow the emotions to come out – they play out unresourceful
• 25.42: What’s one of your best mindset tools?
  • Create a reset mistake ritual (this work happens off the court well before game day)
• 30.18: What disruptive idea will change the way we coach in 2230?

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About Lindsey Wilson

Lindsey Wilson is a mindset and mental performance coach best known as The Sports Hypnotist™. With a professional basketball career spanning close to a decade, Lindsey took her knowledge of the mental game to work with collegiate athletes, professional athletes from Olympians and players in the NFL and WNBA all the way to youth athletes. She is the founder of Positive Performance™ and The Mindset Coach Academy™ where she helps aspiring mental performance coaches start their dream businesses and impact lives. She’s also the author of the upcoming book Think Like an Athlete which teaches the critical and undertrained skill of belief and how to build it to be successful on the playing field and off. Lindsey believes in the transformative power of sports and that coaches and athletes need simple, effective mental performance training tools that don’t take a lot of time. Her mission is to teach these tools so that coaches can have a massive impact on athletes' performance, enjoyment of competing, and in their lives. Lindsey has been featured in the Oscar Nominated Documentary The Heart of the Game, NYtimes.com, The Huffington Post, The Seattle Times, and ESPNW. She’s also the host of the weekly podcast The Mindset Coach Academy which currently has over 500 episodes.

Connect with Lindsey
Website: https://www.positiveperformancetraining.com
https://www.positiveperformancetraining.com/guide
IG: @lindseypositiveperform