The Sports Mastermind

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The Sports Mastermind is where mental toughness meets real-world performance. Hosted by internationally recognized expert Laura Ratto, this podcast delivers quick, high-impact episodes that break down key sport psychology concepts in 10 minutes or less. Whether you're a rising athlete, elite competitor, coach, or parent, you’ll learn how to train your mind like you train your body—building focus, confidence, resilience, and motivation across all sports and skill levels. Laura brings together her background as a former professional athlete, certified strength coach (CSCS), and college professor to simplify complex mental strategies into practical, easy-to-implement tools. With experience designing Olympic training programs and academic curricula, she’s on a mission to help you perform your best—on and off the field. Subscribe now to sharpen your mindset, fuel your performance, and become the athlete you were meant to be.

  1. 18/05/2023

    E53: Confidence Series - Players - How to Build Confidence After a Bad Practice

    The Focus four for How to build Confidence after a bad practice or competition are: Hit the RESET Button Be BETTER THAN YESTERDAY SET REALISTIC GOALS FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN CONTROL

    5 phút

  2. 13/05/2023

    E52: Confidence Series - Coaches - How to Build Confidence in Your Athletes

    This episode starts the 1st of three in the confidence series. This first episode is tailored more for coaches and specifically discusses how to build confidence in your athletes. The second episode will shift back to the athletes perspective. Specifically, how to build confidence after a bad practice or competition. The third episode will go into more detail about self-efficacy, what it is and how it relates to sports and sports confidence. The Focus four for Coaches and how to build confidence in your athletes are: Use psychological skills training skills, such as goal setting, Mental Imagery or Visualization, Positive Self-Talk and focusing on the right thing at the right time Create situations within the training environment to provide athletes opportunities for success Take into account individual differences between athletes and help athlete’s identify individual strengths Track an athlete’s progress across time for a visual representation of overall increase in skill level and performance

    8 phút

  3. 11/04/2023

    E51: PETTLEP Series - Basketball - Shooting a Free Throw

    Hello and welcome back to the sports mastermind. Last week we used PETTLEP to break down serving a ball in beach volleyball. In this final episode of the series, we will be going over the sequence of events leading up to shooting a free throw in basketball. For those of you that are new to the series, see episode 46 for more details on PETTLEP imagery.

    7 phút

  4. 31/03/2023

    E50: PETTLEP Series - Beach Volleyball - Serving a Ball

    Hello and welcome back to the sports mastermind. This is the FIFTIETH episode today, so I am going to be doing the beach volleyball bonus episode of PETTLEP. Last week we used PETTLEP to break down taking a shot on goal in soccer. This episode we will be going over the sequence of events leading up to serving the ball in beach volleyball. For those of you that are new to the series, see episode 46 for more details on PETTLEP imagery.

    7 phút

  5. 23/03/2023

    E49: PETTLEP Series - Soccer - Shooting a Penalty Kick

    Hello and welcome back to the sports mastermind. Last week we used PETTLEP to break down hitting a pitch in baseball. This episode we will be going over the sequence of events leading up to shooting a penalty kick in soccer. For those of you that are new to the series, see episode 46 for more details on PETTLEP imagery.

    7 phút

  6. 11/03/2023

    E48: PETTLEP Series - Baseball - Hitting a Pitch

    Hello and welcome back to the sports mastermind. Last week we used PETTLEP to break down passing a serve in indoor volleyball. This episode we will be going over the sequence of events leading up to hitting a pitch in baseball. For those of you that are new to the series, see episode 46 for more details on PETTLEP imagery.

    7 phút

  7. 01/03/2023

    E47: PETTLEP series - Volleyball

    Over the course of the next several weeks, I will be taking one skill and running you through PETTLEP imagery. The series will be as follows: 1. Indoor Volleyball - Passing a serve 2. Baseball - Hitting a pitch 3. Soccer - Taking a shot on Goal 4. Basketball - Shooting a free throw and a Bonus episode: Beach Volleyball - Passing a Serve

    7 phút

  8. 24/11/2022

    E46: PETTLEP Series - Introduction - What is it?!?!

    In episode 9 we talked about mental imagery in broad terms. Today we are going to break down one specific type - PETTLEP. In this series, we will break down what it is and how to use it.

    6 phút
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The Sports Mastermind is where mental toughness meets real-world performance. Hosted by internationally recognized expert Laura Ratto, this podcast delivers quick, high-impact episodes that break down key sport psychology concepts in 10 minutes or less. Whether you're a rising athlete, elite competitor, coach, or parent, you’ll learn how to train your mind like you train your body—building focus, confidence, resilience, and motivation across all sports and skill levels. Laura brings together her background as a former professional athlete, certified strength coach (CSCS), and college professor to simplify complex mental strategies into practical, easy-to-implement tools. With experience designing Olympic training programs and academic curricula, she’s on a mission to help you perform your best—on and off the field. Subscribe now to sharpen your mindset, fuel your performance, and become the athlete you were meant to be.

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    The Sports Mastermind
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    2021 - 2023
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