The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast IRONCLAD

In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Brittany Loney, cognitive performance coach to elite Warriors, to talk about the mindset, routines, and training of elite warriors. 

Brittany has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Learning Systems from The Florida State University, an M.A. in Kinesiology with an emphasis on performance psychology from California State University, Fresno, an M.S. in Exercise Science from Florida State University, and a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Texas State University where she was also a NCAA Division 1 basketball player. 

Brittany is the director and creator of the Elite Cognition and Human Optimization (ECHO) program at Core One. She has over 18 years of experience training high performers from a vast array of communities, such as elite warriors, Olympic athletes, high-level coaches, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and C-Suite Executives. 

For the past 13+ years, Brittany has been developing and implementing cognitive training programs within the national security and government sectors. She helped develop and taught curriculum for NATO’s Inaugural Mental Performance and Resiliency Course. 

Brittany focuses her efforts towards serving those who operate within dynamic high stakes environments where people are a critical capability and human error is a legitimate risk to self or mission. 

Her specialty is building, refining, and implementing large-scale performance programs and thrives in environments where the concept of cognitive performance is novel. She routinely consults with an array of personnel, from military to sports to business, to bring about the effective assimilation of cognitive performance principles to advance both individual and organizational effectiveness. 

Over her career, Brittany and her team were embedded within highly selective hiring processes and arduous training pipelines. During this time, they refined a 360 degree approach to developing adaptive experts across a multitude of domains. The team worked extensively with trainees, instructors, course planners, and leadership to assimilate deliberate practice principles, adaptability research, and growth cultivation throughout the entire developmental process. 

Brittany will share some of the best practices and lessons learned garnered through their integration with some of the nation’s most exceptional training.

Maximum cohesive functioning is a prerequisite for any team to be greater than the sum of its parts. Over the past decade, Brittany and her team were immersed in organizations where their program was leveraged to facilitate desired cultural shifts and organizational end-states. 

She will discuss interpersonal adaptability and adjusting communication styles, building unsung hero attributes, and refining team culture, values, systems, and processes to ensure optimal collective performance.

Brittany looks forward to sharing with our community best practices and lessons learned related to training adaptive experts and building cultures that raise the tide.
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In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by University of Oklahoma Gymnastics Asst. coach Tom Haley to talk about coaching mental performance. 
Tom Haley has been with Oklahoma for 18 years and led the Sooners to 6 NCAA National Championships, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023.
In this call Coach Haley and Brian talk about:

Creating a culture of consistency

Obstacles to an individual sport athlete learning team culture

Teaching WE before me

How Every Year Is Different, But Adversity Is Always A Part of Every Season

Why The Closer You Get To Winning, The Harder Winning Gets

Doing a team Vision board 

Having a team one word focus

How To Combat Complacency

Mental Preparation

Making everything you do good enough to win a national championship

Self-talk, routines, imagery and process

The Importance of Looking For An Edge inside of yourself to get to the next level

When You Measure You Can Make Changes

Using wearable technology to improve your sleep and health

Why It’s Important To Sweep The Sheds and Give Your Team A Chance To Take Ownership


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In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Florida State Softball Director of Mental Performance and Player Development Ellie Cooper to talk about coaching mental performance. 
As the Player Performance Director, Cooper focuses on implementing and developing the mental game and player performance while assisting with technology, video and the day-to-day operations of Florida State softball.
Cooper was a member of the Seminoles from 2014-17 and was on staff as a Student Assistant during the Seminoles’ 2018 National Championship run.
During her time at Florida State, she was named to the All-ACC team twice (2015 and 2016) and was named a member of the NFCA Southeast All-Region Second Team in 2016. During her time in Tallahassee, she hit .319 with 122 RBI, 31 doubles, seven triples and seven home runs while getting on base 41.7 percent of the time. Cooper was a mainstay at second base, playing in 243 games in her career and finishing with a .960 fielding percentage.
In her four seasons at FSU, the Noles won four ACC Championships and reached four NCAA Super Regionals with two trips to the Women’s College World Series.

NOTES FROM CALL WITH COACH COOPER
How to deal with the pressure of living your dream
How 75% of Her Time Is Invested Into Your Mental Performance Coaching
The Importance of Having A Classroom Session 1x a Week With Mental Performance
The Importance of Body Language
The Program FSACC Core Values & Culture -
The Importance of Routines 
Why The Team Read It Takes What It Takes This Fall
Creating A Culture Calendar
The Tough As Shit Socks
The One More Board
Breathing
T-Shirts With Slogans
The Process Based Scoring Sheet
“Tell the Truth Tuesdays” sharing your “safeties” (blue angels) for practicing normalizing accountability/vulnerability/ownership and using them as moments of growth

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In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Borden to talk about building a gold medal mindset in sports, business and life. 
Amanda was captain of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team, dubbed the Magnificent Seven (including members Dominique Moceanu, Amy Chow, Jaycie Phelps, Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller and Kerri Strug), which took home the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. 
Along with their gold, they made history by becoming the first U.S. Womenʼs Gymnastics team ever to win an Olympic games. Amanda describes the experience as, “the biggest moment of my gymnastics career and one of the biggest moments in women’s gymnastics history.”
Amanda proved herself to be a steady and consistent gymnast from the start of her training at Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy. Her talent and ability led her to be named to the National Team six times and the World Championship Team three times, eventually reaching the pinnacle of her career as Team Captain of the history making, 1996 Gold Medal Olympic Team. 
USA Gymnastics also named Amanda Sportswoman of the Year in 1995.
After the 1996 Gold Medal win, Amanda appeared in numerous national tours and television appearances and was featured on the Wheaties Cereal Box. 
She graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University with a degree in elementary education. She was honored by Arizona State University with the Alumni Achievement Award for her success and contributions in business and the community. 
As the owner of Gold Medal Gymnastics Academy, with two locations in Tempe and Chandler Arizona, Borden has combined her educational training with her athletic expertise and continues to serve as a gymnastics and cheerleading commentator for CBS Sports, Fox Sports, ESPN, NBC and the PAC-12 Network.
While proud of her past, Borden says her focus now is on the next generation of athletes: “My goal is to touch the lives of children all across Arizona to help them reach their goals, whatever they may be”.
In addition, Amanda is a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame and US Olympic Hall of Fame. Most recently, she won an Emmy Award for her coverage and color commentary of NCAA gymnastics.


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In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Libertyville HS Director of Athletics John Woods, MPM. Brian and Coach Woods discuss leadership and culture in athletic administration. Libertyville High School in Illinois has 1,850 Student Athletes, 92 Teams, 31 Sports, over 150 coaches and ONE PROGRAM

In this call Coach Woods discusses:

What Is Culture?

Going from Good to Great

Process over outcome

The Core Values of PROGRAM

ONE PROGRAM: Passion Respect ONE Grit, Reliable, Accountable and Mindful

The Importance of Branding

The Process of Creating a department mission, vision and core principles.

Why It’s so much easier to establish a culture than maintaining one

The PROGRAM & 10 PILLARS of Libertyville HS Culture

Creating A Student Leadership and Developmental Curriculum

The importance of having connection before you start working on correction

Buy In Fades, Belief Sticks

Faith In The Future Creates Power in The Present

The Importance of Coaching For Significance vs. Satisfaction and Success

How to use The MVP Process With Your First and 2nd Year Teachers

How to Brand Your School With Core Principles

The Importance of Mid-Season Feedback Form


Questions To Ask Yourself

Am I a final product - as good as I will ever be?

Where am I putting legitimate effort into getting better?

How hard and how often am I working at it?

How do I know if I am making progress toward my goals?



Contact Coach Woods
John Woods
john.woods@d128.org 
217-840-7084
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In this live 55min group coaching call, Brian Cain, MPM is joined by Eastmont HS Director of Athletics Russ Waterman, MPM. Brian and Coach Waterman discuss leadership and culture in athletic administration and:


Why you must love em’ in order to lead em’

Being a Transformational vs. Transactional Coach

Principle vs. Preference based focus

The Motto of “Don’t Stop Believing”

What Does Mental Toughness Actually Mean?

Why your culture is what you accept, not what you say

The importance of officials recognition

The importance of taking care of yourself first.


CALL RESOURCES

Power Point

Wildcats Today, Wildcats For Life Video

Eastmond High School MVP Process



How and Why Culture is King 

Eastmont MVP Process "Wildcats Today Wildcats for Life" 

Bag Tags

Signs and Messaging

Bracelets 

Swag for athletes based on WILDCATS principles

What you accept is the culture you have (Culture Guardrails) 

Cain on Campus / Fundraiser University

Group Coaching Calls 

Coaches Council 

1st Monday of the month with one core principle on agenda for discussion 

Head Coach "Check-in All in" meetings (20 minutes max) 

In season 1x a week in person or online 

Out of season 1x a month in person or online 

Eastmont Leadership Academy 

Intentional instruction on being a responsible and accountable athlete (30 day Athletes course, MPM, Jeff Janssen)

2x a month at 7:30 am with breakfast served.

WILDCATS of the Month 

 Athlete chosen based on exhibiting core principle and performance

Mental Performance Mastery in Action 

Showcase 1 MPM strategy/Pillar being used by programs 

Programs responded (Boys and Girls Soccer, Volleyball, Track & Field, Cross Country, Softball, Baseball, Boys Golf, Cheer, Wrestling, Tennis, Boys Basketball) 

Fundraiser University experience 
explain the experience and importance 

Investing in YOU - Walking the Walk
Russ Waterman taking Care of Russ Waterman

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