Becoming HeadStrong

Mar 05 2025 604 ep. 6 mins 22
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This podcast guides you on the journey of building and maintaining mental toughness. Regardless of where you "perform" in life, Becoming HeadStrong will help you learn to optimize and more fully enjoy your life's performance.

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3.8 - You're the parent, what can YOU do? - Coach Kristina

Feb 26 2025 7 mins  
In the newest episode of the Becoming HeadStrong Podcast, Coach Kristina is here to to talk to the parents. What is your role in your children's athletic experience? How should you communicate? How do you give feedback effectively? Listen along with Coach Kristina to learn more about conquering your role as a parent!

3.7 - Let Your Brain Take the Lead - Coach Kristina

Feb 18 2025 7 mins  
In the newest episode of the Becoming HeadStrong Podcast, Coach Kristina returns to talk to us about our brain. Last week, she walked us through trusting our body to take the lead and when to do that. This week, we learn about when we need to do the same with our brains! Listen in as Kristina walks us through how and when to do this.

3.6 - Let Your Body Take the Lead - Coach Kristina

Feb 12 2025 7 mins  
In the newest episode of the Becoming HeadStrong Podcast, Coach Kristina is here to start her podcast series with an episode on trusting your body. Specifically, we need to trust our body to take the lead. How do we develop that trust? How do commit to it? Listen along with Coach Kristina as she walks us through this idea!

3.5 - Interview with Coach Kristina Struthwolf

Feb 04 2025 16 mins  
Welcome to February! Coach Kristina is here this month to chat with us about mental performance. Listen in as she chats with Josh about her experience in sport psychology as well as her time competing and coaching competitive figure skating! Tune in each week for Kristina's newest podcast!

3.3. Go Neutral - Dr. Nicole Detling

Jan 22 2025 9 mins  
In the newest episode of the Becoming HeadStrong Podcast, Dr. Nicole Detling wraps up her podcast series for January by talking about going neutral. The importance of staying neutral is key to growth and maintaining motivation. Listen along with Dr. Nicole as she walks us through this idea and how to use it in our day-to-day lives!

2.1 - Dr. Nicole Detling Interview

Jan 07 2025 18 mins  
Welcome to Season 3 of the Becoming HeadStrong Podcast! We are starting the new year by interviewing Dr. Nicole Detling, President of HeadStrong Consulting, as well as introducing our new podcast format. Each month we will interview a coach with HeadStrong Consulting and release weekly episodes throughout the month given by that coach. Tune in this week to learn more about Nicole a

68. Self-Criticism in Sport - Coach Kristina

May 23 2024 8 mins  
In the newest episode of the Becoming HeadStrong Podcast, Coach Kristina, is back to talk to us about self criticism in sport. As athletes, we can tend to get on ourselves in a negative fashion, but what would be a more effective way to be our own self critic? Listen along with Coach Kristina as she talks to us about being self critical and how to avoid doing this in a negative fas

67. Performance Curse Words - Dr. Nicole Detling

May 02 2024 8 mins  
In the newest episode of the Becoming HeadStrong Podcast, Dr. Nicole is here to talk to us about the language we use with ourselves. A lot of us use terms such as "have to", "need to", and a few others, that we think will help our performance. This is actually not the case, and these performance curse words can actually inhibit our performance. Listen along with Dr. Nicole as she e

66. Keeping Sports Fun - Coach Becky

Apr 26 2024 9 mins  
In the newest episode of the Becoming HeadStrong Podcast, Coach Becky is back to talk to us about the enjoyment aspect of sport. Youth sports can, at times, be solely about competition and winning and losing while forgetting that at it's core, sport should be fun. Listen along with Coach Becky as she uses her own life to give perspective on keeping sports fun and why that is import

65. Motivation for Non-Aggressive Athletes - Coach Stephanie

Apr 18 2024 11 mins  
In the newest episode of the Becoming HeadStrong Podcast, Coach Stephanie talks to us about communication used to motivate athletes. Some dialogue can come off as violent such as "dominating or killing" the opponent, and this can have negative effects on certain athletes. Listen along with Coach Stephanie as she dissects motivation towards non-aggressive athletes and the most effec