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Eyes Up Mindset
by John Shirkey and Jamie Wagner
The Eyes Up Mindset podcast is about getting better, period.We are athletes and coaches. We are students and teachers. We are spouses and parents. Our experiences guide us toward consistent improvement. A life of growth requires skill development. Challenge yourself. See what you can do, see what you need to do, see what matters to you. We watch our athletes, clients, friends and employees improve. It inspires us. Journey with us as we explore what their experiences mean for us. And what they could mean for you. Live eyes up. @eyesupmindset www.eyesupmindset.com/
Episodes
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151. Nathan Stoa - When There Are No Answers (Stable Cyclist Crossover Episode)
Episode Notes: What does it take to keep showing up in the face of adversity when there are no answers? After a long break and with some help from long time friend and host of The Stable Cyclist, John Peter, we connect with Nathan Stoa, head basketball and cross country coach at Hawley High…
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150. Celebrating the ONE and the 150....
Episode Notes: LIVE and IN PERSON- Jamie and John are together again to CELEBRATE the 1 and the 150! Join us as we discuss how important it is to celebrate small wins and how those wins, stacked over time, make a huge impact on our lives. Whether you are a coach, an athlete, or someone with a...
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149. Update to Simple
Episode Notes: As performers we often assume that getting simple means going backward. What if we thought about it differently? What if what's needed is an update to a simpler process? In this episode we dive into that concept from a bunch of different perspectives. Whether you are a coach, an...
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148. Wading In
Episode Notes: What happens when we get in over our head? Or when our brain is screaming at us because we don't know when the drop off is coming? In this episode, we discuss how sometimes wading in or dipping a toe in is all we need to get moving. And that the movement is where the magic happens....
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147. And… We’re… Back.
Episode Notes: After far too long of a break we catch up with John and Jamie to find out what the last couple months have looked like: what they’ve been doing and what they’ve learned. We also discuss why these podcast conversations still matter and why we’re still passionate about getting better...
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146. John Shirkey - Who do I become if I let this go?
Episode Notes: We welcome back our former co-host, performance coach and mental health professional, John Shirkey. John and I dive into who we might become when we allow ourselves to forget our past. Or when we chose to focus our attention on the little moments rather than the big or special…
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145. John Peter - What It Means to Be There For Someone
Episode Notes: John Peter returns to discuss his newest projects and what he is learning by diving in the deep end. JP talks about how setting up strict boundaries and guardrails has been crucial to allowing him to manage his Bipolar Disorder through this season of change and excitement. He is...
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144. Courtney Bad Bear - What We Do Matters
Episode Notes: Courtney returns to the podcast to reflect on her first year in coaching, one that brought a state title back to Billings Senior High Volleyball for the first time since 2014. What an epic title run it was! We dive into what she learned, what they plan to do next and the values…
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143. Alex Greenway - Confidence is What Translates
Episode Notes: Alex Greenway is the strength and conditioning coach for Tracy-Milroy-Balaton Schools in southwest Minnesota. Alex joins us today to talk about the value of strength training and how it parallels the process of growing mental skills and toughness in life. It starts with having a...
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142. Orlando Ponce - Why? Because It's Possible.
Episode Notes: Orlando Ponce of Ponce Trained Wrestling joins us to discuss the ways they are helping grow the sport of wrestling. He tells us how he took an unexpected path to wrestling and how coaches and siblings showed him what was possible. We then highlight how they have gotten creative…
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141. What Does the Resistance Look Like for You?
Episode Notes: In examining the many ways resistance shows up in our lives, we hit on 3 big topics: the fact that emotions precede feelings and how our brain interacts with that process. Discussing how we can prioritize development rather than outcomes. Finally, we examine what Steven Pressfield...
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140. Shane Zutz - Fear Doesn't Get A Vote
Episode Notes: Shane Zutz, Vice President of HR at Digi-key Electronics, joins the podcast to discuss how transferable skills aid us in making big life transitions. A long-time educator and former high school principal, Shane and I talk about the challenge of moving from education to business. He...
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139. Malorie Nicole - Identifying Our Conditioned Beliefs
Episode Notes: Malorie Nicole, host of #1 Forbes rated, The Abundantly Clear Podcast, joins us today to discuss why the stories we tell ourselves are part of our limiting beliefs. Her core principles are about aligning our inner world with our outer world and she beliefs that when we do that, we...
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138. J Scott (Founder and CEO of 120VC) - Help Other People Win
Episode Notes: Jason (J) Scott understands what it means to be a transformative leader. His experience guiding major corporations through massive transitions has taught him how to lead people through the challenges of change. In this conversation we dive deep into the pieces needed to help others...
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137. Pete Janiszeski - The Challenge of Sustaining Success
Episode Notes: Pete Janiszeksi the head boys and girls track & field and cross country coach in Luverne, MN joins the program. Luverne has managed to sustain success in both track and cross country at the highest level. Both boys and girls are regularly competing for top 5 finishes in the state…
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136. Getting Unstuck by Directing Your Attention
Episode Notes: Sometimes we just get stuck. Stuck thinking about what could have been or what might be. Stuck on a loop repeating how bad something went. Spiraling into a cycle of frustration or disappointment. Being stuck means we don't find our best performance as often or can't find it at all....
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135. Shae McKibbon - Seen, Heard and Validated
Episode Notes, Shae McKibbon, Co-Founder of The Lettery Studio, joins the program to talk about how the creative process supports healthy lives. We discuss how the challenges of losing yourself and identity in parenting led, her and her co-founder Jami, to identify something that needed…
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134. Processing Grief with John Shirkey
Episode Notes: John returns to talk about the challenges we are currently facing after losing a good friend. Our conversation speaks to our current situation and to the process of grieving as a whole. John reminds us that grief is something everyone deals with differently. There is no right way....
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133. Chris Masiello - Getting Better at Change - Honesty Without Judgment
Episode Notes: Chris Masiello, CEO of the Masiello Group, joins us today to talk about CHANGE. Change in all caps, because it’s everywhere, all the time and impossible to avoid. Yet, when we approach it from a place of curiosity, potential and non-judgment we can and will be transformed. The...
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132. Luke Amsden - The Little Things Become The Big Things
Episode Notes: Luke Amsden returns to the podcast to talk about his routines and how the little things we don’t always notice turn into big things over time. We touch on physical routines, the process of constantly adapting the details as a coach and seeing how success in other programs can...
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131 - What Would We Do Differently If…?
In this episode we look to challenge some of our basic assumptions about the things we do in our leadership. For coaches and leaders out there, this episode is packed with ideas to help you reflect on the season or project you just finished or the new opportunity right in front of you. As I have...
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130. Tom Dierenfeld - Being in Rhythm Creates a Heart That Overflows
Episode Notes: Tom Dierenfeld, youth pastor at Life Spring Covenant Church in Loveland, Colorado, is a dude. Tommy D and I go way back to high school where our hearts forged a deep, lasting relationship with one another. Tom genuinely changed the shape of my life and in this conversation you will...
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129. Full Hearts & Being Whole
Episode Notes: Check out all the resources linked below that were mentioned in today's episode! When does our best performance happen? When our head, hands and heart are working together. In other words, when we are whole? How do we get our energy, our emotions and our spirit going in the same...
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128. Keystone Habits: Use Your Hands & Move Your Body
Episode Notes: Check out all the resources linked below that were mentioned in today's episode! What ideas do we need to connect mind to body? We can do that in generative and restorative ways. Art, carpentry, sewing, mechanics, and fitness all meet our bodies need to create and restore. What are...
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127. The Resources - Head Space
Episode Notes: Check out all the resources linked below that were mentioned in today's episode! What things help trigger the thoughts we need to move into productive action? That and more in today's episode. Whether you are a coach, an athlete, or someone with a desire to improve daily, you will…
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126. - Falling Out of Routine - Part 1: The Resources
Episode Notes: We take a look at what forces us to get out of order in our lives. Today's episode is the first in a series of trying to get back to basics by exploring the resources and the people that have set us up for success in the past. Jamie explores the transitions that have caused some...
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125. John David Latta - "Learning To Trust"
Episode Notes: Terrified and stalked by an oppressive fear of death, John David Latta was a single dad with two children facing rock bottom, loneliness and bankruptcy. Today he would describe himself as a mystic, author, teacher, and former founder and CEO of a multimillion-dollar consumer…
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124. John Peter - Having an In-Season Support Network
Episode Notes: JP returns to discuss what it is like on the ground during the season, when maybe things aren't going the way you had planned. We talk about a lot of things from the heartbreak of injury and the chaos of a seemingly continuous competition schedule to the need for practice to be…
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123. Sheena Dauer - Physical Therapist, Ironman Triathlete. “The Privilege of Being Able to Try.”
Episode Notes: Sheena Dauer wears many hats and brings excitement to them all. A physical therapist, strength and conditioning coach and endurance athlete, Sheena engages with and understands what is going on in her body during competition in an awesome way. An All-American Cross Country runner…
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122. Greg Dietel - Building Positive Culture
Episode Notes: Greg Dietel, a head basketball coach for more than 25 years and a long-time 3rd grade teacher, joins the podcast to discuss what it looks like to build great culture. Not only has he done this at the high school level in basketball with boys and girls and in the classroom with…
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121. David Levin (Raise Your Inner Game) - "Who Gets To Decide and When?"
Episode Notes: David Levin, founder of the Raise Your Inner Game Sports Academy and author of the book - Raise Your Inner Game, joins the podcast to challenge us to do just that through a mechanics based approach that is easier to teach, coach and practice. David looks at how you can…
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120. Dr. Chris Gehrz - Excitement, Vulnerability and a Willingness to Keep Learning
Episode Notes: Dr. Chris Gehrz, history professor at Bethel University, joins the podcast. He was my introduction to podcasts many years ago, it was only right that he joined me for a discussion. The conversation is wide ranging and connects with what it means to reflect on your current and…
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119. Jake Thompson (Compete Every Day) - "Have you reached your potential?"
Jake Thompson, Chief Encouragement Officer of Compete Every Day, returns for a conversation to challenge us and grow us. Jake challenges us to think about coaching as teaching and how asking great questions unlocks relationships and learning. What does it look like to reach your potential and…
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118 - Update: Thinking Broadly
Episode Notes: Jamie updates the audience on where we are going from here (hint: a short break), then asks some questions about learning and thinking generally. Feel free to reach out with feedback about the things discussed in today's episode. Grow us by being willing to give, even if it's just…
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117. Time Spent and Time Invested
Episode Notes: We get the gang back together to discuss the most important of resources: time. John and Jamie talk about the difference between spending time and investing time and how it looks in their lives at this moment. Which leads to an announcement about changes coming for the podcast…
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116. Ben Nylander and Mike Coddington - "Get the Best Out of the People You Already Have"
Episode Notes: Ben Nylander, head boys coach and Mike Coddington of Jordan (MN) track and field join us today to talk about what makes the track program in Jordan special. From having 200 youth athletes attend a summer track camp to winning high school state championships, the program speaks for...
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115. Lauren Ammon, Performance Reimagined - “They Have Their Own Values”
Episode Notes: Lauren Ammon was a DI swimmer and worked in the corporate world training leaders and managers. She is now back in athletics where she works with parents and coaches to build effective support systems that attempt to draw out the best possible performance from athletes. Lauren...
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114. Jalen Brunson - "Learn to Adapt, Work Hard, Embrace Your Place on the Journey" - Rebroadcast
Episode Notes: Today we re-air our episode with Jalen Brunson from August of 2021. Jalen earned the opportunity to sign a new contract with the New York Knicks last week, after an incredible 2021-22 season and playoffs with the Dallas Mavericks. Jalen is an awesome individual, leader, and…
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113. Dr. Amy Fast - "From Great to Groundbreaking."
Episode Notes: Amy Fast is the high school principal in McMinnville, Oregon and joins us today for a wide ranging conversation about leadership, culture, education, diversity and society. Dr. Fast helps describe the model they use to aspire toward a groundbreaking culture in McMinnville and...
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112. Brett Bollweg: Whitefish MT, High School Football: D.O.G.S (Diligence, Ownership, Gratitude, Service)
Episode Notes: On this week is an old friend doing amazing things in Whitefish, MT. Brett Bollweg, a former roommate of Jamie and John, joins us to talk about the transition to Head Coach, putting his stamp on the next era of Whitefish Football, and more importantly how giving of ourselves may be...
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111. What is it you do exactly? - John and Jamie
Episode Notes: John and Jamie catch up after not being together for a podcast in a couple of weeks and connect about what they've been up to as well as some listener driven questions about how specifically each of them uniquely serves their clients. They then discuss the idea of protecting…
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110. Luke Amsden - Year Zero and Long-Term Program Building
Episode Notes: Luke Amsden is one of the reasons this podcast exists and has bought into what we do in a big way. Join us as we talk to him about how having and coaching with an Eyes Up Mindset has impacted the Cross Country and Wrestling programs he coaches in Springfield, MN. Luke is an idea…
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109. Kevin Kassis - Seattle Seahawks: "One More Shot"
Episode Notes: Kevin Kassis' perseverance is inspiring and will make you better! After graduating from Montana State in 2019, Kevin prepared to take his shot at the NFL. The pandemic shut down the MSU pro day and individual team workouts, the usual avenues for small school athletes to get…
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108. Matt Dugan- Bridgton Academy: " Teach Others To Think And Make Decisions"
Episode Notes: Matt Dugan joins us from his new position as Head Football Coach at Bridgton Academy. Good things happen when you put yourself out there and this conversation is a shining example of this as we got connected to Coach Dugan by chance and end up having an incredible conversation…
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107. Realtor and Entrepreneur- Joseph (Yose) Haj: Business and Life
Episode Notes: Joseph Haj (Yose) joins us today as we may a foray into the business world to talk about overcoming adversity, growing through failure, and Living Eyes Up! Yose is currently working as a realtor in the ultra competitive market of Fargo ND. Despite the rising costs and low inventory...
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106. Stephanie Hale- Seattle Mariners Mental Skills Coach: "Choose Your Challenge Today so It Becomes Easier Tomorrow"
Episode Notes: For several months we have been excited to bring on Stephanie Hale, Seattle Mariners, as she was on the top of several past guests' list of best person to get on the podcast. She did not disappoint and in fact we had so much to talk about that we will have her back for a part two!...
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105. "It's Not As Hard As It Seems" Breaking Down Complexity with Astrophysics and Football with Finis Stribling IV
Episode Notes: Finis demonstrates what it means to LIVE EYES UP everyday. He CHOOSES his life when it comes to his work, his play, and how he grows the community around him. Intentional is Finis. We were honored to have this conversation about science, athletics, time management, and much much...
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104: Chef Brett Smith - Transformation Through Keystone Habits
Episode Notes: From a small town in Iowa to a top 50 restaurant in the world, Chef Brett Smith has experienced a lot. After taking the leap from Iowa City to New York City, Brett found out how high stress can create high flow and how much fun it can be, but also discusses what it cost him as he...
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103. Courtney Bad Bear: Billings Senior High Volleyball
Episode Notes: Courtney is one of the most impressive individuals we have had on our podcast. She lives and coaches with a conviction of knowing who she is and where she comes from. What a way to lead! Her mission to pour into and develop strong, independent women like herself is something we are...
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102. "More Than Just..." Ashley Harmon: University of Texas Athletics
Episode Notes: Ashley Harmon, Assistant Director of Clinical Behavioral Health, joins us from the basement of the University of Texas Football stadium where she leads a team serving the "whole" athlete. There are so many nuggets in here and reminders to SLOW DOWN. No matter who you are, what…
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The Eyes Up Mindset podcast is about getting better, period.We are athletes and coaches. We are students and teachers. We are spouses and parents. Our experiences guide us toward consistent improvement. A life of growth requires skill development. Challenge yourself. See what you can do, see what you need to do, see what matters to you. We watch our athletes, clients, friends and employees improve. It inspires us. Journey with us as we explore what their experiences mean for us. And what they could mean for you. Live eyes up. @eyesupmindset www.eyesupmindset.com/
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John Shirkey and Jamie Wagner
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The Eyes Up Mindset podcast is about getting better, period.We are athletes and coaches. We are students and teachers. We are spouses and parents. Our experiences guide us toward consistent improvement. A life of growth requires skill development. Challenge yourself. See what you can do, see what...
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