Podcast appearances and mentions of harvey dorfman

What separates good athletes from elite performers? It's not just talent—it's mental discipline. In this episode of Most Valuable Agent, Sean Casey, former MLB All-Star and performance coach, breaks down the mental game of baseball and how mastering your mindset can transform your performance on and off the field. Sean shares how Harvey Dorfman's book, The Mental Game of Baseball, completely changed his approach to the game, giving him a sixth tool—the ability to stay calm, focused, and confident under pressure. He reveals how mental toughness helped him go from being overlooked in high school to becoming one of the best hitters in the country. ___  What You'll Learn from This Episode: ✔️ Why 80-90% of baseball is mental—but few players train their mindset ✔️ How Sean Casey used visualization & breathing techniques to stay locked in at the plate ✔️ Lessons from Ken Griffey Sr. & the legends of the game that shaped his career ✔️ Why players fail at showcases—and how to dominate at game time ✔️ The power of self-belief & outworking the competition Unlock the Mental Edge to Dominate in Baseball & Life! Sean Casey isn't just talking theory—he lived it. If you're an athlete, coach, or competitor looking for an edge, this is the episode to watch.

John talks with Todd Stottlemyre — former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, 3-time World Series Champion, high-performance coach, entrepreneur, speaker, investor, advisor, author of the books Relentless Success: 9-Point System for Major League Achievement and The Observer: A Modern Fable on Mastering Your Thoughts & Emotions, proud husband and father of five. Listen to this episode to learn more: [00:00] - Intro [01:22] - Todd's bio [05:16] - Todd's family and background in baseball [08:57] - Lessons learned from baseball legends [11:33] - Pressure to match his father's legacy [14:43] - Why shielding kids from failure backfires [15:50] - The value of struggle in growth [18:04] - Story about Todd's daughter proving herself in business [22:54] - Happiness vs Joy [24:08] - Winning the World Series with the Blue Jays [26:53] - Building a championship team [30:09] - Applying a champion's mindset to business and leadership [35:07] - Dropping ego for team success [38:36] - The Golden Rule: Love others as yourself [39:45] - Todd's experiences with adversity and how it affected his baseball performance [42:08] - Lessons from mindset coach Harvey Dorfman [45:30] - The Championship Statement [48:40] - Outro NOTABLE QUOTES: “If you're going to dig ditches, the only thing I want for you is to become the best ditch digger you can possibly become.” “You can either be Daddy's little princess, or you can be boss, but you can't be both.” “In the last hours with my father, I promise you, we didn't talk championships. We weren't talking baseball. We weren't talking about, you know, money or anything else. It was love, and it was about being in the moment.” “Failing is important. We actually need to fail because that's when the opportunity to learn presents itself. You don't learn a thing by doing it right. You only have an opportunity to learn when you do it wrong.” “If you don't know what you want to do, and you don't know where you want to go, when life throws you a set of circumstances, you're going to get buried in those circumstances.” “What happens when the world throws you a set of circumstances that are out of your control, and Mommy and Daddy can't make you happy any longer? You actually have to go through it, learn from it, and figure out how to move forward. So, let the kids learn that emotional IQ.” “The name on the front of the uniform is a lot more important than the name on the back of the uniform.” “Championships are won through getting uncomfortable, growing, and coming together as a team.” “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, take others with you.” “Today, we have a reaction problem, and if we can teach people to respond versus react, you'd see a much different outcome.” “Love your neighbor as if it were yourself. If we could all follow the Golden Rule, wouldn't we have world peace?” “Words are shallow; actions are deep.” “The beautiful thing about your first step is you might learn not the ‘how to,' but it's a lesson, and then it continues to move you forward.” “The reward is the process.” USEFUL RESOURCES: https://toddofficial.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddstottlemyre/ https://www.instagram.com/todd.stott https://www.facebook.com/todd.stottlemyre https://x.com/ToddStottlemyre https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKJCB98_92Se0jK08SdmuRw Relentless Success: 9-Point System for Major League Achievement (https://a.co/d/gZU8r8I)  The Observer: A Modern Fable on Mastering Your Thoughts & Emotions (https://a.co/d/dy4tSSW)  CONNECT WITH JOHN Website - https://thejohnhulen.com    Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/johnhulen    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/johnhulen    X - https://x.com/johnhulen    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhulen    YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLX_NchE8lisC4NL2GciIWA    EPISODE CREDITS Intro and Outro music provided by Jeff Scheetz - https://jeffscheetz.com/ 

In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian continues a tribute series to one of his mentors and a mental performance coaching icon, Harvey Dorfman.   Al Leiter pitched in Major League Baseball from 1987-2005, was a 2x All-Star, a 3x World Series Champion, and New York Mets Hall of Famer.  Leiter worked closely with Harvey and attributes a lot of his success over his career to his work on the mental game with Harvey. In this episode Al & Brian discuss: The moment Al knew he needed help with mental performance The 3 day think tank that Al and Harvey at his house in Prescot, Arizona Getting clarity on your job as a pitcher Being mentally and physically prepared to execute a pitch What made Harvey so special in Al's eyes The listen and call you on your shit balance Professional athletes need and want to hear the truth Getting down to straight talk How you feel vs. how you behave Harvey's two two processes for development Controlling what you can control Self-promotion vs. doing the work as a mental performance coach Al's advice for mental performance coaches Conversations, Content and Careers - The Life and Legacy of Harvey Dorfman is a series in which Brian interviews former players and staff who had their careers positively impacted by Harvey.  Go inside the conversations, the content and the careers forever changed by one of the greatest mental performance coaches who ever lived. Check out Harvey's Books on Amazon

In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian continues a tribute series to Harvey Dorfman, one of his mentors and a mental game of baseball coaching icon.   Joining Brian today is Sean Casey. “Case” played Major League Baseball from 1997-2008, was a 3x All-Star, a Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer, hit .302 for his career, and says he would have NEVER made it to MLB without daily reading one of Harvey's books and working with him during his career. In this episode Sean & Brian discuss: The three keys to keep it simple See The Ball, Be Easy, Hammer It Getting and grading your best looks at the plate 1-5. Pison, The World's First Cognitive Performance App and Wearable How what you measure improves Working with Sean and his Breakthrough Pro Program Conversations, Content, and Careers - The Life and Legacy of Harvey Dorfman is a series in which Brian interviews former players and staff who had their careers positively impacted by Harvey.   Check out Harvey's Books on Amazon

In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian kicks off a tribute series to one of his mentors and a mental game of baseball coaching icon in Harvey Dorfman.   Conversations, Content and Careers - The Life and Legacy of Harvey Dorfman is a series in which Brian interviews former players and staff who had their careers positively impacted by Harvey.   Go inside the conversations, the content and the careers forever changed by one of the greatest mental performance coaches who ever lived. Brian Cain, MPM, the World's leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.   Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak  Check out Harvey's Books on Amazon

Could your ego be standing in the way of your agency's success? Do you want to perform at peak level but struggle to break through an invisible ceiling? It might be time to reinvent and put energy into a mindset that helps you get there. There are a lot of people claiming to know the “secret to success” but most ignore the core issues of the mental game. Today's guest has been the coach to pro athletes, public figures, and leaders by helping them improve performance by starting with improvements to their mental game. Todd Herman is a global leader, speaker, author, and mentor who helps amazing talent, like Kobe Bryant, reach a new level in their careers. He coaches elite pro athletes, leaders, and public figures on the topics of performance, strategy, mindset, and execution. Todd is an insider in the thought process of not only elite performers but legends in their fields. In this episode, we'll discuss: Overcoming ego death by developing an alternate persona. Separating the different sides of your identity. Being authentic and intentional as your identity superpower. Subscribe Apple | Spotify | iHeart Radio | Stitcher | Radio FM Sponsors and Resources Dot & Co: Today's episode of the Smart Agency Masterclass is sponsored by Dot & Co, client management specialists that will help digital marketing agencies keep their clients happy. With the help of their knowledgeable account managers, agency owners can step away from the day-to-day and focus on driving results. Check out dotandcompany.co/smartagency and get 20% off your first month working with them.   The Path of the Mental Coaching Game Todd got his start in 1997 coaching high school football players and got really good results by helping them with their mental game. Back then, mental game coaching wasn't really an industry, a market, or even a niche. Nevertheless, he got results and parents started reaching out to pay for private coaching lessons. Since his coaching career started in the world of sports and being a big believer in mentorship, he reached out to Harvey Dorfman, a giant in the mental game industry. With Harvey, he got to go behind the scenes and see what it's like to work with professional athletes. This is how he started moving more into the world of peak performance and mental game coaching. Since then, Todd has improved his methods and moved on to coaching Hollywood and Broadway talent, and top CEOs. Whatever his clients are trying to conquer, he usually goes back to the principles of the inner game, strategic game, and execution game. With this, he builds programs and systems to tackle their goals. As Todd's coach, Harvey had a huge impact on his career. His best advice was that you don't need to act a certain way in order to deliver value. He didn't need to be the kindest or the most aggressive or appear a certain way to help his clients. He just needed to be honest and use everyday words, without the need to posture with big words. Overcoming Ego Death by Developing a New Persona Todd met Kobe Bryant when the athlete reached out to his coach Harvey while going through a difficult time due to a public scandal. It was 2003 and Harvey described it to Todd as Kobe's “ego death” or an identity challenge. Harvey referred Kobe to Todd at that time, as he specialized in that kind of crisis for athletes. As Todd explains, when an athlete needs to step into a new world or new type of challenge, like a college athlete going to a professional league, they need to shed some of their old identity. The longer it takes them to do that, the greater the chances they'll never succeed in that new area. At that time, Kobe was going through a moment that forced him to shed his image as a young, naïve player. This was the source of his crisis and he needed to figure out a new identity to get back in the game. Todd worked with him to cultivate a new image of Kobe, both ON and OFF the court. With Todd's help, Kobe developed an aspirational persona of a stone-cold killer who never gives up -- The Black Mamba. Naming the persona is an important part of the process that helps people tap into their alter ego. Kobe attributes his moment of clarity to the movie Kill Bill where he discovered the black mamba and instantly felt inspired and connected to it. Developing Your Own Alter Ego Persona People tend to think they can get to the same success level by modeling their life exactly like celebrities. In reality, the idea is to look at them as sources of inspiration. If you take Kobe and The Black Mamba as the source for your alter ego, you won't see similar results. An alter ego has to inspire you with its attributes and qualities; then customize that to your current ambitions. Any person looking to build their alter ego should be very honest about what they want. The problem is that many people don't know how to articulate it. This is the basis of the alter ego you end up creating. In Kobe's case, the black mamba was created to help him get through a very specific moment in his career. It was meant for a specific role -- not every aspect of his life. If you think about the roles in your life, which one is giving you the most challenges and struggles? Which one do you feel the most trapped by? There should be some element of playfulness and creativity in building your persona. If you're an agency owner who's feeling trapped, what's an area in your life where you could be more playful? The Importance of Separating the Different Sides of Your Identity The black mamba was only one part of Kobe's identity created exclusively for the basketball court. This is how we should approach high-performance alter egos. They are meant to help us excel in a specific area where we're struggling and remain separate from other facets of our lives. Your alter ego helps you reach very specific goals in one area but it is not who you are. If you're an agency owner, maybe you need an alter ego for that side of your identity. Maybe you need an alter ego for being an author or podcast host. Seeing yourself as just an entrepreneur is what makes it so difficult for some people to exit the business and give up control. This mindset gets in the way of agency growth because owners don't know who they are outside of the business. As human beings, we love to attach labels to ourselves and label others, as well. Labels can be very empowering. However, when you're about to make a shift make sure you have the right narrative of yourself. For instance, Todd recommends switching the entrepreneur label to “I am entrepreneurial”. This way, if you sell your agency you don't lose your identity. An entrepreneurial nature is something you can take anywhere, into anything. Being Authentic and Intentional as Your Identity Superpower Nowadays we hear a lot about authenticity and how it's the best way to succeed. However, Todd believes there's an argument to be made about the results you get when you adopt a persona that helps you get ready to perform at the level you want to be. Todd believes intentionality with identity is a superpower. If you're a public speaker, the person who's on stage catching the audience's attention won't necessarily have the same energy as the one answering their questions after you leave the stage. And that's okay. In a study conducted at the University of Minnesota, a group of grade 1 and 2 kids were tasked with grabbing a set of keys and finding the correct one to open a padlock. In reality, the test was about resilience. The key was not there but how long would it take them to give up? The second part of the test included the same exercise but this time, the kids got to dress up as either Batman or Dora the Explorer. The time they spent trying to open the door increased drastically. In their normal clothes, they gave up quickly. However, as a dressed as a character they had a mindset shift. That is the power of an alter ego. As you step onto the stage, in front of a camera, or whatever your platform -- adopt the identity of a winner or a fighter who gets the job done. Do You Want to Transform Your Agency from a Liability to an Asset? If you want to be around amazing agency owners that can see what you may not be able to see and help you grow your agency, go to Agency Mastery 360.  Our agency growth program helps you take a 360-degree view of your agency and gain mastery of the 3 pillar systems (attract, convert, scale) so you can create predictability, wealth, and freedom.

Inspiration can come from anywhere.  I saw a tweet that had a clip of an interview with the host, Ed Mylett, interviewing Sean Casey, a former MLB player and now a host on the MLB Network.  You can find The Ed Mylett Show on your favorite podcast app or on YouTube.  The 1 hour and 6 minute interview is named How to Overcome Rejection & Failure and WIN! w/ Sean Casey & Ed Mylett.  What attracted me to this interview was that @TJHannam10 highlighted a line from the interview that stated "I want to play college baseball, Dad", "They're not coming, Sean..GO ON OFFENSE".  The mention of wanting to play college baseball caught my recruiting eye and when I listened to the first 20-30 minutes of the interview it told a very relatable story for many, many student-athletes in not only baseball, but in any recruiting situation.  This interview gives you, not only recruiting lessons, but life lessons and inspiration.  The shownotes below have a link to the Ed Mylett/Sean Casey interview.  Also, click on the FREE Recruiting Power Pack link and the Recruit-Me.com link to get more free and inexpensive recruiting resources.   The Ed Mylett Show: Sean Casey Episode  Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE Recruiting Power Pack QRRecruiter.com  promo code RecruitMe5 CollegeCoachesOnline.com  promo code RM123 Listen to Past Episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast  The Baseball Bluebook The Art of Hitting .300 by Charley Lau  The Science of Hitting by Ted Williams The Mental Game of Baseball by Harvey Dorfman  

Andrew Saltman is a businessman and host of the podcast and reads 50-75 books a year for the past 5 years. 1. Flourish was written by Martin Seligman 2. Life Force was written by Tony Robbins 3. How To Get Rich was written by Felix Dennis 4. The Mental Game of Baseball was written by Harvey Dorfman. - Andrew's Social Media Links - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrewsaltman369/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carbon.capital.1/ Website: https://www.floridamb.com/

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Heroic: https://heroic.us (← Get your first 14 days free) Heroic Coach: https://heroic.us/coach (← Join 12,500+ Heroes from 110+ Countries!) Today's Heroic +1 features wisdom from Harvey Dorfman's "Coaching the Mental Game", Alex Pang's "The Distraction Addiction", and Stephen Covey's "Primary Greatness". Get more wisdom in less time (including Big Idea highlights of "Coaching the Mental Game", "The Distraction Addiction", "Primary Greatness" and a Learning 101 masterclass) with a Heroic Premium membership. Start a FREE 14-day premium trial here: http://heroic.us About Heroic: Heroic integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools into a beautifully-designed app to help activate your best. Premium Heroic members have access to 600+ of the absolute greatest personal development books distilled into 25-min PhilosophersNotes and 50+ hour-long masterclasses on all areas of a flourishing life. SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/3EF3hQs #wisdom #learning #growth #personaldevelopment #heroic

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Gandhi, the Gita, Bagger Vance, and YOU   In our last couple +1s, we've had fun hanging out with some world-class peak performance coaches: Harvey Dorfman and Phil Stutz.    What did they teach us?   They tell us that it's ALL ABOUT focusing on the PROCESS of TAKING ACTION rather than the unhealthy obsession on the OUTCOMES.    They, of course, are not alone in this perspective.    We talk about it in one of my all-time favorite +1s called “Did I Win? How to Sink a $1m Putt and Do Other Great Things.”   Short story: Lanny Bassham worked with a golfer who hadn't won in a while. Lanny told him to not even think about winning a tournament. Instead, they developed a protocol. His job was to EXECUTE that protocol every shot of every round he played.    Fast forward a few tournaments. It's the final shot on the final hole on the final day of the tournament. Our golfer steps up, executes his protocol and makes the putt.   Then his wife runs onto the green and leaps into his arms.    His response?   “Did I win?”   I just got goosebumps typing that out. I've told that story COUNTLESS times. And it gets me EVERY SINGLE TIME.   Imagine stepping up for a $1 million dollar putt and being SO FOCUSED on the PROCESS that you're OBLIVIOUS to the OUTCOME.   Boom. That's how it's done.   Then there's Gandhi.    He tells us the same thing in his own words.    In Eknath Easwaran's FANTASTIC biography Gandhi the Man (check out those Notes!), we learn that Gandhi liked to say: “The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”   BOOM. That's how it's done.   Where'd Gandhi get that wisdom?   From his bible, the Bhagavad Gita (check out those Notes!) where we learn the fact that: “The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results.”   I could go on and on and on. I'll leave it at that for now.    Actually…   Let's bring it back to the 21st century and hear how Steven Pressfield puts it in The War of Art (check out THOSE Notes as well!).   He tells us: “The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.”   btw: Pressfield actually wrote a book on the subject that became a movie starring Will Smith and Matt Damon. Ever heard of The Legend of Bagger Vance? Did you know that that movie is basically the Bhagavad Gita on a golf course?    Yep.    In the Gita, a wise god (Krishna) advises a reluctant warrior (Arjuna). In The Legend of Bagger Vance, a wise caddy (Bagger Vance) advises a reluctant golfer (Rannulph Junuh).   “Bagger Vance” “Bhagavad Gita.” Get it?   So…   Quick check-in…   What do YOU want in your life?   More Energy? More Productivity? More Connection?   Awesome.    What can you do RIGHT NOW (!) to take ONE STEP toward to achieving it?   Get on that.    Release attachment to outcomes.   Repeat.    All day. Every day.    ESPECIALLY…    TODAY.    +1. +1. +1. 

On Action, Action, and More Action   In our last +1, we hung out with one of the friendliest guys in baseball (The Mayor Sean Casey!) and his legendary coach Harvey Dorfman.    I want to spend a little more time with Sean and bring another legendary coach to the party—MY coach, Phil Stutz.    It's funny because when Sean told me the story shout how Harvey RUTHLESSLY focused on the process goals NOT the outcome goals, I immediately thought of Phil.    As we've discussed, Phil says the same thing in his own way.    He says that most people focus on the OUTCOMES in their lives when they should be focused on the ACTION they are taking in pursuit of their desired outcomes.    The way he frames it is to imagine pearls.    You can spend all your time COUNTING how many pearls you have (or don't have!)…   Or…   You can ignore the counting and simply focus on STRINGING THE NEXT PEARL.    Over and over and over again we focus on what needs to get done right now.    What's important RIGHT NOW?   Do it.    String the next pearl.    Over and over and over and over again.    You do that enough time and you know what happens?   You get a LOT more of the outcomes you've been wanting.    And…   Somewhere along the way you learn that the REAL prize is knowing how to flip the switch and get into action—showing up as the best, most Heroic version of yourself.    Not someday…   Today.    Let's do that.    +1. +1. +1.    Let's go!   P.S. I love pearls. I have one on my desk at all times to remind me of the wisdom from this +1 on How to Make a Pearl and this wisdom from this +1 on The Pearl in My Pocket.

Who Cares? Work Your Protocol, Hero!   One of my new dear friends is a guy named Sean Casey.    Sean is a former Major League Baseball player. He was an All-Star who played first base. They called him “The Mayor” because he chatted up EVERYONE who made it to first base.     He was SUCH a nice guy that Sports Illustrated declared him the friendliest guy in baseball.    I met Sean through a mutual friend named Brian Cain who happens to be a longtime student of mine AND one of the world's best mental toughness coaches. We'll talk more about Cainer and his wisdom soon.    For now, I want to talk about a story Sean told me about his playing days. It goes something like this…   Once upon a time, while playing with the Cincinnati Reds, Sean was having an insanely great season.    It was summer time and he was batting near .400—which, if you know anything about baseball, you know is an insanely hard thing to do.    Then…   Sean went 0 for 12.    Now, going 0 for 12 is never a good thing for a professional baseball player but going 0 for 12 after starting the season THAT strongly is especially painful.    So…   Sean called a guy named Harvey Dorfman. Harvey was that era's greatest mental toughness coach.    Btw: Check out our Notes on his GREAT book called Coaching the Mental Game AND check out our full collection of Notes on a TON of mental toughness books—which, for the record, is probably my favorite category on Heroic!   Now…   Sean tells Harvey that he's struggling. “I'm 0 for 12, Coach!!”   Harvey doesn't care about those stats. All he wants to know is if Sean is executing the protocol they committed to.    Sean tells him, “Yes! Of course. I'm doing exactly what we've talked about. I'm hitting the ball hard. And guys are just making great plays.”   Dorfman listens a little longer then he says something along the lines of (perhaps with a little profanity !): “Why in the HECK are you calling me?! We have nothing to talk about. Quit looking at the results and keep on dominating your protocol.”   Click.    Call over.    Haha.    Of course, that story has nothing to do about Sean or baseball or batting .400.    It's all about YOU.    Are YOU going through a rough patch?    Not feeling very energized or productive or connected?   PERFECT.    I love ya ( ) and… Ultimately, I don't care about those things.    What I do care about is this: Are you working your protocol?    Do you know who you are at your best in your Energy, your Work and your Love? Are you recommitting to being that best version of yourself every morning?   Do you know what virtues that best version of you embodies? Are you recommitting to showing up with those virtues every morning?   Do you know what specific things you DO when you're most on fire? Are you recommitting to those things every morning and then ACTUALLY DOING those things every day?   Yes. I get it. Life can be incredibly challenging.   AND…   Love ya ( ) but…   Life doesn't need to be THAT hard.    And the process of showing up as your best self is DEFINITELY not THAT complicated or THAT hard.    It all comes down to this: Know who you are and what you do when you're at your best. Then recommit to being that version of yourself and doing those things you do when you're on.    Every. Single. Day.    Not someday. And definitely not only on the days when you really feel like it.    TODAY.    That's the only way to move from theory to practice to mastery so we can change the world together.    Day 1. All in.    Let's go, Hero!!

Todd Herman is a Peak Performance Coach, International Speaker, and WSJ Bestselling Author Of The Alter Ego Effect: The Power Of Secret Identities To Transform Your Life. Todd has been entrenched in the world of elite performers for over two decades working with the highest achievers in Sports and Business to help them achieve their most ambitious goals. Simply put, Todd Herman helps ambitious people do hard things. Todd provides a lot of great insights in this episode: How he got started, sharing his early experiences with Harvey Dorfman, Roger Clemens, and Ryan Smith Why we need to stop 'old school' practices like the MLB "Is his wife hot?" How Scandinavian countries are ahead of the curve on performance coaching How performance coaching can be a proactive and enhancing pursuit instead of a reactive That we should reframe coaching (leadership) as being a verb not a noun - and that it is not an additive process but more a subtractive process of the ego Why helping athletes enjoy the process of growth is a key definition of a successful coach What needs to change so that athletes can get the true benefits of sport The bottom line is that Todd has built his career on helping athletes and leaders create the optimal identities to achieve elite performance. Safe to say, Todd is an advocate in the fight against the ‘old school' coaching mentality and you too can join us by sharing with your fellow coaches!

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast Brian discusses a chapter from The Mental ABC's of Pitching by Harvey Dorfman. The chapter on “Execution” is one that Brian has all of his baseball and softball pitchers and pitching coaches listen to on a weekly basis as it helps to simplify and clarify the importance of controlling what you can control and executing one pitch at a time. You can access Brian's recording of this chapter on The Mental Performance Podcast episode on “Execution” from The Mental ABC's of Pitching by Harvey Dorfman here. You can purchase The Mental ABC's of Pitching on Amazon here. Brian mentions a podcast episode he recorded with 2021 MLB All-Star Pitcher Corbin Burnes of The Milwaukee Brewers. You can access that podcast here. If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian's FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball Mental Performance Daily with Brian Cain is brought to you by Soul CBD. Go to mysoulcbd.com/cain15 for 15% off your order. That's mysoulcbd.com/cain15 for 15% off. Brian Cain, MPM, the World's leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.   Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak  Be sure to join Brian's email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training. If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian's MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall. Mental Performance Daily with Brian Cain is brought to you by Soul CBD. Go to mysoulcbd.com/cain15 for 15% off your order. That's mysoulcbd.com/cain15 for 15% off.

In this episode of The Mental Performance Podcast Brian reads a chapter from The Mental ABC's of Pitching by Harvey Dorfman. The chapter on “Execution” is one that Brian has all of his baseball and softball pitchers and pitching coaches listen to on a weekly basis as it helps to simplify and clarify the importance of controlling what you can control and executing one pitch at a time. You can purchase The Mental ABC's of Pitching on Amazon here. Brian mentions a podcast episode he recorded with 2021 MLB All-Star Pitcher Corbin Burnes of The Milwaukee Brewers. You can access that podcast here. You can also access Brian's Mental Performance Daily Podcast here. If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian's FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball Brian Cain, MPM, the World's leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.   Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak  Be sure to join Brian's email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training. If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian's MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens this fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean “The Mayor” Casey played MLB from 1997-2008 with The Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox.  Casey, a 3x MLB All-Star has a career batting average of .302, hit 130 HRs and drove in 735 RBI.  In 1995 Casey's Jr. year of college at the University of Richmond, the left handed hitter won the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) conference triple crown hitting .461. The 2nd-round-pick of the Cleveland Indians in 1995, Casey was named the friendliest player in baseball in 2007 by Sports Illustrated in a players poll..  Along with his nice and friendly personality, Casey was also a fierce competitor and one of the best left on left hitters, always hitting over .300 against hall of fame left handed pitchers. Casey was and still is an avid student of mental performance.  In his current career as an analyst across MLB Network's programming, he will frequently talk about the mental side of the game and his work with two icons in the field, Harvey Dorfman and Dr. Bill Harrison.   In this podcast we talk about… Why and how to keep the process bigger than the end result and mechanics The importance of watching positive video of yourself as a hitter and not getting lost in the mechanical breakdown The role confidence plays in hitting success Simplifying your approach at the plate with 3 simple strategies  The power of positive mental imagery Using fear and negative energy as chips on your shoulder and motivation And much more… You can engage with Sean Casey on instagram @TheMayorsOffice and with Brian Cain @BrianCainPeak Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Todd Stottlemyre Todd Vernon Stottlemyre is an entrepreneur, business coach, author, and Major League Baseball player. During his youth, Todd watched his father, Mel Stottlemyre, pitch for the New York Yankees. After Todd retired from baseball in 2002, he developed a passion for the stock market and co-founded a hedge fund in 2010. Since 2010, Todd has been co-running this business, writing books, and telling his story to listeners around the world. Managing Your Thoughts and Emotions Today, Todd is a husband, father, and self-made business and life coach who learned how to turn guilt into joy by one simple action - letting go. He shares valuable life lessons as well as emotionally captivating stories that demonstrate how he took control of his emotions and began living his life more intentionally. Todd recalls the guilt he carried with him for 12 years of his life and how he hated the man he saw in the mirror. Through a family loss, emotional baggage, his journey to fame, and the life-changing words of Harvey Dorfman, Todd was able to abolish the guilt he carried with him and live a more intentional, thoughtful life. For the show notes and exclusive links mentioned in this episode go to https://gooddadproject.com/manage-thoughts-emotions/.  Join the Free Dad Edge Facebook Group at https://www.gooddadproject.com/group. Apply for The Dad Edge Alliance at https://gooddadproject.com/alliance. Watch this interview on YouTube https://gooddadproject.com/youtube. Follow us on Instagram at @thedadedge! FREE RESOURCE – 21 Days to an Extraordinary Marriage

"What book has helped you grow professionally?" - LinkedIn Twitter Feed. Our picks "Never Eat Alone" - Keith Ferrazi and "The Mental ABC's of Pitching" - Harvey Dorfman

If you want to be great at something, find someone who’s the best at it and learn from them.” -Todd Herman   Full disclosure: I am a huge Todd Herman fan. I met Todd during one of the darkest times of my life, and my connection to him has had a substantial positive impact. This man owns real estate in my mind when it comes to mentorship, and for good reason. His digital book, The Definitive Guide on Finding & Becoming a Mentor is the most underrated piece of literature on the subject I have ever read. In this episode of Community Made, the two of us sit down to discuss the many myths of mentorship, Todd's framework for finding a great mentor, his personal playbook on how to be a great mentor, and the many benefits that can be found in mentoring other people...   Reviewer of the Week: Christy Burch   Select Links and References The Definitive Guide on Finding & Becoming a Mentor Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin Contagious by Jonah Berger Give and Take by Adam Grant Luxy Hair Coaching the Mental Game by Harvey Dorfman 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing How to Get a Meeting with Anyone The 90 Day Year

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes  We expect our players to be tough, to play hard, and to compete but also be leaders in our school and community. We care about them as people more than we care about them as players.  Kids start throwing in January and then all summer, so we completely shut arms from August until fall break halfway through October. Then we start our long toss program. We’ve seen a huge benefit from doing this and it’s been tremendous for our program.  If a kid comes into our program and they haven’t left as a better man, we haven’t done our job.  Any rule that you put into place, you have to be willing to lose your best player. Consistency is a big deal to us.  Nothing infuriates me more than wasted time at practice.  We play music, we have fun, and we don’t have 4 hour practices just to say we practiced for 4 hours. We’re going to be fast paced and get after it. Resources  Vanderbilt University Energy leadership- Bruce Schneider The mental game of baseball- Harvey Dorfman    Contact @davidsharp455 Facebook IG d4sharp D4sharp@gmail.com Website and Social Media sites for the show  www.aotcpodcast.com Twitter @aotc_podcast Facebook Ahead of the Curve Coaches Facebook group Instagram aotc_podcast

Harvey Dorfman was one of the world’s leading mental training experts. Major League Baseball described him as a “pioneering sports psychologist.” He earned World Series rings as the mental skills coach for both the Oakland A’s and Florida Marlins. In this book, he covers the A to Z of mental discipline. Big Ideas we explore include Carpe momentum (seize the task at hand!), the peak performance cycle (approach + results + response), the blind men (and their elephant), and Percussus Resurgo (“Struck down. I rise again!”).

Harvey Dorfman was one of the world’s leading mental training experts. Major League Baseball described him as a “pioneering sports psychologist.” He earned World Series rings as the mental skills coach for both the Oakland A’s and Florida Marlins. In this book, he covers the A to Z of mental discipline. Big Ideas we explore include Carpe momentum (seize the task at hand!), the peak performance cycle (approach + results + response), the blind men (and their elephant), and Percussus Resurgo (“Struck down. I rise again!”).

One of the best college softball coaches in the country, Florida State's Lonni Alameda, sits down with Brian on this episode of the Peak Performance Podcast...   Discover... The impact that the late, great Harvey Dorfman had on Lonni. Florida State's core values and how they came up with them. The idea of a "One More Board." Coach Alameda's unique answer to The Million Dollar Question. and more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Long-time fans of the National Pastime have known Moyer's name for more than 25 years. That's because he's been pitching in the bigs for all those years. With his trademark three pitches - slow, slower, and slowest - the left-handed Moyer is a pinpoint specialist whose won-lost record actually got better as he got older -- from his 20s to his 30s and into 40s. He's only a few wins shy of 300 for his amazing career.

But this is where the book takes an unusual turn. Moyer was just about finished as a big leaguer in his mid-20s until he fatefully encountered a gravel-voiced, highly confrontational sports psychologist named Harvey Dorfman. Listening to the "in-your-face" insights of Dorfman, Moyer began to re-invent himself and reconstruct his approach to his game. Moyer went on to become an All-Star and also a World Series champion. Yogi Berra once observed that "Half of this game is 90% mental." And Moyer's memoir proves it. Jamie Moyer turned 50 this past fall, and by all accounts, he has now finished his big league career. He started pitching in the majors in 1986.

Just Tell Me I Can't: How Jamie Moyer Defied the Radar Gun and Defeated Time is pitcher Jamie Moyer's memoir, (written with Larry Platt). Longtime baseball fans have known Jamie Moyer's name for more than 25 years because he pitched in the big leagues through four different decades beginning in the mid-1980s. Moyer's won-lost record actually got better as he got older. He is only a few wins shy of 300 for his career. Just Tell Me I Can't provides a frank, intimate look at the mystery and mastery of pitching. Moyer also reveals the powerful teachings of Major League Baseball's best kept secret, sports psychologist Harvey Dorfman. With Dorfman's guidance, Jamie Moyer began to reinvent himself in his mid-20s and went from being a marginal big leaguer to one of the winningest pitchers of all time, a Major League All-Star and a World Series champion.Recorded On: Thursday, September 12, 2013

In this episode, we discuss how to plan and run practices that are focused on developing fundamental baseball skills. Our guest is Bob Byrd, long time youth baseball coach in Florida and co-founder of Baseball Excellence.com, one of the great internet resources for select baseball coaches. The interview with Bob is full of great information and advice. We also discuss how coaches should help players set individual goals for the upcoming season. Guidelines for effective goal-setting and a process for setting individual goals are reviewed. Finally, a book titled "The Mental Game of Baseball", by Harvey Dorfman and Karl Kuehl is reviewed. This book should be on the shelf of every serious high school baseball player.