Strong Mind Community-Only Feed

Strong Mind Community-Only Feed

Hosted by: Hazel Findlay

Long-form adventurous conversations with experts in mindset, resilience, sport psychology, fear management, presence, attention, distraction, flow-state, performance psychology, well-being and more with professional...

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Thinking fast

Episode #7

In this episode, Hazel speaks with race car driver coach Ross Bentley about how he uses psychological tools and strategies to help drivers perform at their best. 0:00 | Intro4:24 | Intro to his career as a race car...
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Competition, performance and fear - full episode

Episode #6

In this episode, Hazel and Angus speak with Emma Wood, one of the great minds working in the space of psychology in our community. This is the full version of the conversation for members only. We talk about sports...
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The Best Way to Win

Episode #4

In this episode, Hazel speaks with free-ride world champion Lorraine Huber about her journey to win. At first, Lorraine had a lot of anxiety around competing and focused all her attention on the podium. Through mental...
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Bonus Episode: Aidan Part 2

 0:00 - 1:24 | Intro1:30 - 3:20 | Resuming Conversation/Casual Talk3:20 -7:42 | The projecting process (continued)7:42 - 13:58 | Aidan’s precise goal-setting approach and considerations in goal-setting13:58 - 23:34 |...
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Mastery and flow in high level bouldering

Episode #3

This is the first part of a long conversation with Aidan. We mostly focus on mastery, goals, motivation and direction in climbing. To access the second half of the conversation where we further explore mastery,...
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Bonus: Angus talks about his mindset for climbing 9a

In this Strong Mind session, Hazel talks to Angus about what he learnt from trying and doing his hardest redpoint. He talks about his psychological preparation for the project, his motivations, how he stayed positive,...
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Bonus: Lessons from Greenland

In this Strong Mind session, Angus talks to Hazel about her recent trip to Greenland. They focus on the psychological takeaways from that expedition and everything she learnt from the unique challenge of being away...
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Lessons from the deep

Episode #2

In this episode, Hazel speaks with professional free diver Miguel Lozano. Free diving has to be one of the more psychologically uncomfortable sports you can do and Miguel has learnt a lot from his time mastering depth...
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The relationship between flow, mindfulness and performance

Episode #1

Hazel talks to Sue Jackson about flow, mindfulness and performance and how they all relate. Sue is a psychologist, researcher and mindfulness practitioner. She has a phD in flow and carried out the first in-depth...
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