Access Your Best More Often
Helping athletes tap into confidence, boost resilience, and tame anxiety with mental skills practice
The Mental Edge
The further you progress as an athlete, the smaller the gap in physical skills. What separates are the mental skills.
Our minds are connected to our muscles. Fear, anxiety, and doubt, while natural, can tense our muscles enough so that our best lies just out of reach.
Every athlete confronts those emotions differently. I don’t take a universal approach because it’s about finding the right tool that works for each person. But, if an athlete is open with their goals, motivations, and thought processes while they perform, we can make progress together.
Athlete Coaching
For athletes seeking individualized coaching that helps them play in the moment and reach their potential.
Family Coaching
For families who want to better support the mental strength of their rising athlete. Sessions are meant to give parents the tools to promote resilience and growth.
Team Coaching
For teams who want to take their game to the next level, we’ll work on how to build trust, support, and resilience as a collective unit.
Working Together
Middle In Approach
Athletes learn in different ways, but it’s critical they’re engaged and an active participant in the process. My role is to ask the right questions that draw the athlete in, get them to consider different possibilities, and ultimately, give them the tools to coach themselves.
Engage with empathy
Lead with questions
Collectively find solutions
Your Mindset
Progress comes when you’re an active participant who is strong enough to be vulnerable. If you can openly discuss your thoughts, fears, and desires, then we can collectively amplify the parts of your process that work and reshape the parts that don’t.
This requires practice, just like everything you do in service to your sport. Effort is necessary.
Our Relationship
Nothing constructive happens until I earn your trust.
But, throughout this process we’ll wind up confronting the things that hold you back. Doing so often challenges long-held stories you’ve told yourself. It may feel uncomfortable and you may get upset in the process, but my promise to you is that you, your best interests, and your goals are what I care about most.
I start with the premise that you want to be awesome and unlock another level by changing how you think about yourself and your sport. You’re going to be doing all the work. My role is to make sure it’s the right work and that it’s done efficiently.
Building Life Skills
It’s easier to engage in competition than school because we know what max physical effort feels like and we get immediate feedback. But, just like school, sports can provide skills we’ll use the rest of our lives.
Managing motivation
Redefining competition
Focusing in the moment
Bouncing back
Check-In Frequency
Fears, uncertainty, and doubt don’t follow a schedule. Holding those emotions for a future session is not only unproductive, it reinforces the neural pathways that cause the emotions to arise in the first place. You need someone you can check in with when it will make the biggest impact. Once you trust in the process, we can transition to connecting when the needs arise (weekly, monthly, or even daily). Only you know.
Accessing Results
Sports are results-based, there’s no getting around that. But a constant focus on the outcome often creates an unhealthy relationship to your sport.
I can’t tell you when results will happen, but I can guarantee we’ll co-create a stronger appreciation and relationship to the process that creates the results.
Doing things just for the sake of earning the result will make the countless hours practicing feel harder. We need to find the motivation that makes practice part of the solution.
As the mindset evolves to focus on the pieces of the competition within your control, the results will follow. This is a skill that pays dividends for decades through life’s ups and downs, not just in sports.
Testimonials
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Brent taught our son lessons he can use for life. He went from throwing his helmet after strikeouts to placing in the Cooperstown home run derby.
Mother of elite 14u baseball player
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Our daughter's relationship to the sport she loved had changed to the point where she no longer wanted to run. Brent helped us help her rediscover her love. She just podiumed at Nationals!
Father of middle school cross country champion
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Baseball is a game of failure and having tools to work through the slumps has changed my son's relationship to the game. He's more motivated now than ever with Brent's help.
Father of varsity high school baseball player
Every athlete is different.
While solutions may differ, the challenges faced by high performers often rhyme. Let’s talk through what challenges your athlete faces before we get started to ensure that both you and your athlete trust me and trust the process.
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About Brent
For the past 15 years I’ve led companies (three acquired) with an empathetic hand. But the best part of every week is the time I get to spend coaching baseball. Helping athletes work through the pains of progress and offering new ways to think that will bring out their best is a reward unlike any other. At each stop my goal is to figure out what makes everyone tick in order to help them be their best.
My journey into the mental skills arena started when I was 12. I struggled with an unhealthy desire to be the best (I was seeking affirmation) and learned to motivate myself through shame and replaying my life blooper reel. It isn’t healthy and led to countless dark days. When my two kids starting playing sports I saw some of the same traits in them. I didn’t want them to have to go through their own four decade search for tools in order to be at their best while continuing to demoralize themselves in the process. Actually, I don’t want that for anyone. So here I am.
I live in Boulder, CO with my wife and two kids and will spend hundreds of hours a year at baseball, softball, dance and sailing competitions. I learn something new every day from my kids and could not be more proud of them.