The Mind Room

John Nassoori
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Sport psychology insight informing people passionate about performance & mental health. Find out more: https://themindroom.substack.com themindroom.substack.com

  1. APR 27

    Why 'relational connections' are your team's missing link (and how to create them)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.com You’re preparing to face a brilliant Barcelona side on their home turf. Every minute of the game will be a test of your team’s concentration, communication and ability to perform under pressure. How do you psychologically prepare your players? Morten Bertelsen has an interesting answer to that question. In this week’s edition of the Mind Room podcast, I …

    8 min
  2. How to fix sport psychology's 'quick fix' problem

    APR 12

    How to fix sport psychology's 'quick fix' problem

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.com A once high-flying side comes crashing down to earth with a series of devastating losses. A press conference is called. The side’s coach announces the appointment of a sport psychologist. Unfortunately, as many readers will know, the above scenario is more fact than fiction (just take a look at the build-up to Sascha Lense’s spell as Manchester United’s…

    8 min

  3. APR 3

    How to setup and run a sport psychology lab

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.com Electrodes pinned to people’s heads. Screens showing everything from neural activity to heartrate variability. Lab technicians making minute adjustments to polygraph machines. The stereotypical image of a sport psychology laboratory is well-worn. But are images of AC Milan’s Mind Room (the inspiration behind this newsletter) still relevant to running a …

    6 min
  4. Exclusive: Michael Caulfield on why conversation trumps convention, sport psychology 'salespeople' and the profession's future

    MAR 30

    Exclusive: Michael Caulfield on why conversation trumps convention, sport psychology 'salespeople' and the profession's future

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.com "You're the best sport psychologist I have ever worked with…because you didn't do psychology with me, you treated me.....normally. When I was having a dip in form, you knew what to say, but most of all, when I had some personal issues away from football, you literally just sat with me, did nothing, said nothing, and I can't tell you how much that meant".

    10 min
  5. What players want from psychologists

    FEB 15

    What players want from psychologists

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.com 'Sam, what's going on?’ Four fairly innocuous words that changed the course of Sam Winnall's career. The ex-Derby County striker was speaking to the club's doctor about symptoms that had seen him feeling low and withdrawing from friends and family, when the question came. The conversation that followed would end with a referral to mental health therapy. …

    4 min
  6. Inside Australia's national wellbeing system

    JAN 11

    Inside Australia's national wellbeing system

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.com It’s not often you speak to someone who’s gone from working with British bobsledders to Australian rowers, so when Bianca Fermi talks about the challenges of establishing a nationwide wellbeing program, you know it’s not an exercise in hyperbole. In an exclusive interview with The Mind Room, Fermi, who moved to Australia in 2019 after after a two-year s…

    3 min
  7. Why mental health support for African players needs to change

    12/19/2025

    Why mental health support for African players needs to change

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.com “Africa is 10 years behind in addressing mental health.” Ex-Botswana national team psychologist Dr. Tshepang Tshube, speaking to Jonathan Harding The days of the Africa Cup of Nations being derided as some kind of second-rate tournament are largely over. The 2024 tournament was watched by an estimated audience of more than 2 billion people. Over the next …

    3 min
  8. From the Ryder Cup to Wigan: inside the psychologist-team leader relationship (with Tom Young) - Part 2

    11/28/2025

    From the Ryder Cup to Wigan: inside the psychologist-team leader relationship (with Tom Young) - Part 2

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.com This is the second half of a two-part conversation with Team Europe & Wigan Warriors psychologist Tom Young. To catch up on Part 1, click here or use the embedded link below. It’s not often that the Ryder Cup and rugby league are mentioned in the same breath. The contrast between the sun-drenched fairways of Bethpage and rain-soaked pitches in Wigan is s…

    2 min
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Sport psychology insight informing people passionate about performance & mental health. Find out more: https://themindroom.substack.com themindroom.substack.com

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  • Creator
    John Nassoori
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    70
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © John Nassoori
  • Show Website
    The Mind Room

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