Ride Rope Rodeo | Performance, Training, Pressure, Nerves, Mindset, Horsemanship

Tana Johnston | High Performance Athlete Coach

Are you struggling to feel confident in the arena? Do you get nervous, feel pressure, or get in your head right before your run? Hey! I'm Tana, WPRA World Champion Breakaway Roper and high-performance athlete coach with a passion to help the next generation. I created Ride Rope Rodeo to help athletes build confidence, strengthen mindset, handle pressure, and compete with consistency. Inside this podcast, I dive into faith, mindset, performance, and training to help you stop overthinking, trust your preparation, and show up with confidence. Welcome to Ride Rope Rodeo—let’s elevate your game.

  1. 3d ago

    EP 98// Before You Set New Goals, Evaluate Your Rodeo Season | The Work Nobody Sees

    Before you start setting new rodeo goals, making more reps in the practice pen, or making plans for next season, there's something I want you to do first... take an honest look at the season you just finished. In this first episode of The Work Nobody Sees: Building Your Next Level in the Off-Season, we're talking about why evaluating your rodeo performance is one of the most important steps you can take toward becoming a better, more consistent competitor. I'll walk you through how to recognize where you've grown, identify patterns in your performance, take ownership of the areas that need improvement, and use what you've learned to make your off-season training more intentional. Because there's a difference between wanting better results and understanding what you actually need to work on to achieve them. And remember, you don't have to be disappointed in where you are to be determined to get better. This episode also kicks off my FREE 7-week off-season training series for rodeo athletes, complete with coaching videos and downloadable workbooks to help you put what you're learning into action. Listen in, then head over to the GO ALL IN Training website to join the free course and complete your Week 1 Season Audit! Let's elevate your game!🔥 ---- Ready to make this off-season count? Join my FREE 7-week training course with coaching videos and downloadable workbooks to help you turn what you're learning into real progress in the arena! 👉 Sign up here: www.goallintraining.com/the-work-nobody-sees Ready to gain a competitive edge? ⁠Book a call with Tana today to get started! ⁠ Join the FB community for free training tools: ⁠Go All In Training for Rodeo Athletes ⁠

  2. Oct 27

    EP 97// Raising Competitive Kids Without the Pressure to Perform | Raising High-Performance Athletes (with Chase Johnston)

    How do we raise competitive kids who are driven to succeed without making them feel like they constantly have to prove they're good enough? Chase is back with me on Ride Rope Rodeo as we wrap up The Good, The Hard, and The Holy Work of Raising High-Performance Athletes! After some incredible conversations with other rodeo parents, we're sharing what we've learned about raising young athletes, navigating sibling competition, building resilience, and figuring out when to push, when to step back, and when to just let our kids struggle. And let me tell you, raising twin boys who turn EVERYTHING into a competition has taught us a thing or two! We're talking about the pressure to perform, helping our kids take ownership of their goals, and learning how to encourage hard work and excellence without tying their worth to their results. Because at the end of the day, are we raising kids who feel like they have to keep achieving to be enough, or kids who already know they're enough and are free to go achieve great things? Let's GO ALL IN!🔥---- Ready to gain a competitive edge? ⁠Book a call with Tana today to get started! ⁠ Join the FB community for free training tools: ⁠Go All In Training for Rodeo Athletes ⁠ Get the ⁠Strategies for Success emails ⁠ - visit www.goallintraining.com/strategies

  3. Oct 20

    EP 96// How to Balance Your Own Dreams While Raising Competitive Athletes | Raising High-Performance Athletes (with Amy Jo Reisdorfer)

    How do you keep chasing your own dreams while raising kids who are chasing theirs? In this Ride Rope Rodeo series episode of The Good, The Hard, and The Holy Work of Raising High-Performance Athletes, I'm joined by professional barrel racer and rodeo mom Amy Jo Reisdorfer for an honest conversation about balancing motherhood, competition, and raising competitive athletes. We talk about the sacrifices that come with pursuing our own goals while giving our kids opportunities to pursue theirs, learning when to push and when to step back, and why every child needs to be coached and parented differently. Amy Jo shares how her family has learned to support each other's dreams, why she's still competing, and how faith helps her navigate the seasons when she simply can't do it all. Because raising high-performance athletes isn't just about helping our kids succeed. It's about teaching them work ethic, responsibility, faith, sacrifice, and what it looks like to be part of a family that shows up for each other. And that maybe, our dreams don't have to end when theirs begin. Let's elevate our game!🔥 ---- Ready to gain a competitive edge? ⁠Book a call with Tana today to get started! ⁠ Join the FB community for free training tools: ⁠Go All In Training for Rodeo Athletes ⁠ Get the ⁠Strategies for Success emails

  4. Oct 13

    EP 95// Why You Need to Let Your Kids Fail (Even When You Want to Fix It) | Raising High-Performance Athletes (with Cory and Melissa Navarre)

    As parents, we want to see our kids succeed. And when things don't go their way, every part of us wants to step in and fix it. But what if some of the most valuable lessons our kids will ever learn come from the very struggles we're trying to save them from? In this episode of Ride Rope Rodeo, we sit down with former professional bull rider Cory Navarre and his wife, professional trick rider Melissa Navarre for another conversation in The Good, The Hard, and The Holy Work of Raising High-Performance Athletes parenting series. Together, they tackle one of the hardest parts of sports parenting: knowing when to step in and when to let your kids struggle. They share why helping young athletes handle failure is so important for building confidence, resilience, mental toughness, and a strong work ethic. From navigating disappointment to recognizing God's faithfulness in the hard seasons, Cory and Melissa share how they're using rodeo and sports to prepare their three daughters for so much more than competition. Because we're not just raising successful athletes. We're raising kids to know how to handle LIFE. Let's elevate our game!🔥 ---- Ready to gain a competitive edge? ⁠Book a call with Tana today to get started! ⁠ Join the FB community for free training tools: ⁠Go All In Training for Rodeo Athletes ⁠ Get the ⁠Strategies for Success emails ⁠

  5. Oct 6

    EP 94// How to Handle Sibling Competition & Still Be a Team | Raising High-Performance Athletes (with Trent & Lindy Sharon)

    How do you raise highly competitive kids who want to win—but still genuinely root for each other? In this episode we continue our series: The Good, The Hard, and The Holy Work of Raising High-Performance Athletes. Chase and I sit down with Trent and Lindy Sharon, who have raised five incredibly competitive boys in a family where rodeo, wrestling, ranch work, faith, and a whole lot of time together have shaped the way they approach parenting. We talk about raising competitive kids without letting comparison take over, teaching work ethic and accountability, and helping siblings understand that even when they’re competing against each other, they’re still on the same team. Trent and Lindy share some really practical things they’ve done along the way—from making their boys responsible for their own rodeo entry fees, to their “two and three” conversation after every competition, to teaching them how to celebrate a brother’s success. But this conversation goes deeper than raising successful athletes. We talk about prioritizing marriage in the middle of a busy rodeo family, expecting our kids to do hard things, giving them room to learn from failure, and building a faith that becomes their own—not just something they inherit from us. Because raising high-performance athletes isn’t only about preparing them to compete. It’s about raising kids who know how to work, how to lose, how to win, and how to love each other well along the way. Let's elevate our game!🔥 ---- Ready to gain a competitive edge? ⁠Book a call with Tana today to get started! ⁠ Join the FB community for free training tools: ⁠Go All In Training for Rodeo Athletes ⁠ Get the ⁠Strategies for Success emails ⁠

  6. Sep 29

    EP 93// Are You Pushing Too Hard? Raising High-Performance Athletes Without Making It All About Performance (with Charlie and Lorissa Kingsbury)

    Part of The Good, The Hard & The Holy: Raising High-Performance Athletes series. How do we raise driven, competitive kids, push them toward excellence, and still make sure they know their worth has NOTHING to do with how they perform? If you’re parenting a high-performance athlete, you’ve probably wrestled with where encouragement ends and pressure begins. How hard do we push? When do we step back? And how do we coach our kids through the wins, losses and hard days without letting their performance determine the atmosphere in our home? Charlie and Lorissa Kingsbury are back with Chase and I for such a real conversation about parenting high-performance athletes. We talk about coming alongside our kids instead of controlling them, creating a Kingdom atmosphere at home, handling performance pressure, protecting the relationship, and making sure our kids know we are always on their team. This isn’t about lowering the standard or taking away their drive. It’s about raising confident, resilient athletes who know who they are, Whose they are, and that their value will NEVER be determined by a scoreboard, a time, a run or an outcome. If you’re raising a competitive athlete and trying to figure out the good, the hard and the Holy work of helping them chase big dreams without making their life one big performance—this conversation is for you. Let's elevate our game!🔥 ---- Ready to gain a competitive edge? ⁠Book a call with Tana today to get started! ⁠ Join the FB community for free training tools: ⁠Go All In Training for Rodeo Athletes ⁠ Get the ⁠Strategies for Success emails ⁠

  7. Sep 22

    EP 92//Raising High-Performance Athletes: The Good, the Hard & the Holy Work of Parenting

    Raising high-performance athletes is GOOD. Watching our kids dream big, work hard, handle pressure, and chase the gifts God has given them is one of the greatest parts of parenting. But man… it can be so hard too. How much do we push? When do we back off? How do we teach discipline, resilience, and a strong competitive mindset without making performance their identity? In this episode, I’m kicking off a brand-new series on raising high-performance athletes—the good, the hard, and the holy work of parenting. We’re talking about supporting big dreams, navigating pressure and disappointment, knowing when to coach and when to just be Mom or Dad, and learning to want success FOR our kids without needing performance FROM them. And most importantly, how do we keep faith and the Kingdom at the center of it all?Over the next few weeks, I’m sitting down with parents who are right in the middle of this too—having honest conversations about what’s worked, what hasn’t, and what God is teaching us along the way. If you’re raising a driven, competitive kid with big dreams, you’re not going to want to miss this series! Let’s figure out the good, the hard, and the holy work of raising high-performance athletes together. 🔥 ---- Ready to gain a competitive edge? ⁠Book a call with Tana today to get started! ⁠ Join the FB community for free training tools: ⁠Go All In Training for Rodeo Athletes ⁠ Get the ⁠Strategies for Success emails ⁠

  8. Sep 15

    EP 91// Learn How To Fall In Love With The Process and NOT Just Love the Outcome (with Charlie and Lorissa Kingsbury)

    What if working harder isn’t always the answer? You can put in the reps, ride the horses, do the training and chase the big goals—but if your confidence, identity and love for the sport are tied only to the outcome, the process can get pretty miserable. In this episode, Charlie and Lorissa Kingsbury join us for such a good conversation about learning how to fall in love with the process. We talk rodeo mindset, hard work, resilience, comparison, handling failure, and learning to keep the main thing the main thing. Charlie gets really honest about becoming so results-driven that even winning wasn’t enough, while Lorissa shares why some of our greatest growth comes through the hard seasons. Whether you’re a rodeo athlete, competitor, coach or parent, this episode is about working hard, building confidence and mental toughness, surrounding yourself with the right people, and trusting God with the results. Let's elevate your game!🔥 ---- Ready to gain a competitive edge? ⁠Book a call with Tana today to get started! ⁠ Join the FB community for free training tools: ⁠Go All In Training for Rodeo Athletes ⁠ Get the ⁠Strategies for Success emails ⁠

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Are you struggling to feel confident in the arena? Do you get nervous, feel pressure, or get in your head right before your run? Hey! I'm Tana, WPRA World Champion Breakaway Roper and high-performance athlete coach with a passion to help the next generation. I created Ride Rope Rodeo to help athletes build confidence, strengthen mindset, handle pressure, and compete with consistency. Inside this podcast, I dive into faith, mindset, performance, and training to help you stop overthinking, trust your preparation, and show up with confidence. Welcome to Ride Rope Rodeo—let’s elevate your game.

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