The Mind Mastered: Secrets of Excellence with Dawn Grant

In this engaging conversation, Dawn Grant sits down with former professional basketball player and mental performance coach Alison Gorrell to explore what separates good athletes from great ones. Drawing from eight years of professional basketball across Europe and Australia, Alison shares how trusting herself, embracing change, and developing mental resilience shaped both her athletic career and her coaching philosophy. Together, they discuss the importance of intrinsic motivation, adapting to adversity, building confidence through action, and why fear often keeps athletes from performing at their best. The conversation dives into flow state, instinctive performance, sports psychology, and practical strategies for helping athletes trust their training instead of overthinking in competition.Whether you're an athlete, coach, parent, or simply striving to perform at your highest level, this episode offers valuable insights into developing the mindset needed for lasting success.Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club! If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast. Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.com Stay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates. Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube YouTube Shorts X LinkedIn Mind Mastered App: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube X LinkedIn Amelia Shotgun Sports: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube X LinkedIn  Ready to break free from limiting beliefs and negative patterns? Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis Meditation helps people overcome unhealthy mindsets and habits, replacing them with empowering, lasting transformation. Using proven techniques, Dawn brings clarity, peace, and change to people worldwide through online services, live sessions, and her work as a speaker and author.Visit DawnGrant.com today to unlock your potential and take control of your life! Imagine overcoming obstacles holding you back. With the Mind Mastered app, developed by mental training and hypnosis expert Dawn Grant, you can take control of your personal growth. Build personalized hypnosis audios tailored to your needs with expertly crafted inductions, suggestions and outros. Transform your mindset, habits and beliefs with practical tools for real life.Ready to change? Download Mind Mastered app today from the Apple App Store or Google Play to start your journey!

The Guard That Never Stood Down may be one of the deepest explanations for why so many people feel exhausted, guarded, high-strung, and disconnected from the very life they are trying to enjoy.In this episode, Dawn Grant explores the protective nervous system pattern that keeps people in low-grade defense long after the original threat has passed. Drawing from decades of work with Olympians, world champions, executives, entrepreneurs, and everyday people, Dawn explains how the body can become trained to stay on guard — and how that hidden state affects performance, stress, relationships, body image, sleep, success, and the ability to receive peace.She unpacks why common surface-level advice often does not work, how the guard was installed below conscious thought, and why real change requires working underneath the pattern through subconscious rewiring and hypnosis.This episode is an invitation to ask: What if I am not broken? What if I am guarded? And what would change if my nervous system finally learned it was safe to rest?Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club! If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast. Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.com Stay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates. Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube YouTube Shorts X LinkedIn Mind Mastered App: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube X LinkedIn Amelia Shotgun Sports: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube X LinkedIn

The Silent Thief is stealing your life while you are still living it.In this episode, Dawn Grant explores one of the deepest mechanisms behind stress, dissatisfaction, comparison, and disconnection: the subconscious pattern of ranking your life against someone else’s. Drawing from research, neuroscience, and decades of experience working with Olympians, world champions, executives, entrepreneurs, and everyday people, Dawn explains how the mind’s comparison system quietly shapes emotional experience, self-worth, performance, and presence.She unpacks how the Default Mode Network keeps running self-referential stories in the background, why people leave their actual life and enter the ranking room, and how this steals peace, body confidence, relationships, success, and time. Dawn also shares why most common advice about comparison does not work, and why lasting change requires subconscious work at the level where the pattern actually lives.This episode is an invitation to ask: Am I actually in my life right now? Or am I ranking my life against someone else’s?Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club! If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast. Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.com Stay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates. Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube YouTube Shorts X LinkedIn Mind Mastered App: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube X LinkedIn Amelia Shotgun Sports: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube X LinkedIn

What blocks you can build you.In this episode, Dawn Grant explores one of the deepest truths behind growth, healing, performance, and adversity: the obstacle is not always only there to stop you. Sometimes the same thing that feels like it is blocking the path can become part of what strengthens you, steadies you, and builds you.Dawn unpacks how people often suffer not only from the hard thing itself, but from the meaning they attach to it. She shares why setbacks, mistakes, pressure, delays, and hard seasons can either become conclusions or become material for growth — depending on the consciousness, honesty, and response a person brings to them.This episode is an invitation to ask: What if this is not only in my way? What could this be building in me?Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club! If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast. Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.com Stay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates. Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube YouTube Shorts X LinkedIn Mind Mastered App: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube X LinkedIn Amelia Shotgun Sports: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube X LinkedIn 

If you need the win, you lose the joy.In this episode, Dawn Grant explores one of the deepest truths behind performance, achievement, healing, and inner peace: when a person needs the outcome to prove their worth, identity, safety, or value, the experience itself becomes heavy and joy begins to disappear.Dawn unpacks how people turn so many parts of life into a contest — not just sports or business, but relationships, body image, daily productivity, approval, and even ordinary moments. She explains the difference between excellence and proving, why success can still feel empty, and how emotional dependence on the result blocks presence, peace, recovery, and access to flow.This episode is an invitation to ask: What am I asking this result to give me emotionally? And who am I if it does not go my way?Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club! If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast. Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.com Stay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates. Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube YouTube Shorts X LinkedIn Mind Mastered App: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube X LinkedIn Amelia Shotgun Sports: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube X LinkedIn 

You cannot change what you refuse to own.In this episode, Dawn Grant explores one of the deepest truths behind lasting change: people often stay stuck not because they do not want better, but because they are still excusing, defending, or protecting the very patterns that are costing them peace, confidence, freedom, and growth.Dawn unpacks the difference between honesty and self-attack, why ownership creates power, and how excuses can keep people powerless even when they deeply want change. She shares how this dynamic shows up in stress, health, relationships, performance, leadership, and everyday life — and offers practical ways to stop rationalizing what hurts you and begin retraining it with truth and integrity.This episode is an invitation to ask: What pattern am I still protecting? And what would change if I stopped defending it?Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club! If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast. Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.com Stay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates. Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube YouTube Shorts X LinkedIn Mind Mastered App: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube X LinkedIn Amelia Shotgun Sports: Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube X LinkedIn 

You do not need more judgment. You need right perception.In this episode, Dawn Grant explores one of the deepest truths behind healing, performance, peace, and personal growth: many people are trying to grow through judgment, but judgment is not what heals. Right perception heals.Dawn shares the difference between clean correction and condemning self-attack, and explains how so much suffering comes not only from difficult moments, but from the fearful meaning people quickly attach to those moments. She unpacks how distorted perception shows up in stress, habits, relationships, and performance, and why learning to see more clearly changes everything.This episode is an invitation to ask: Am I seeing this clearly? Or am I seeing it through fear?Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club!If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast.Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.comStay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates.Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeYouTube ShortsXLinkedInMind Mastered App:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedInAmelia Shotgun Sports:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedIn

Not everything in your mind belongs to you.In this episode, Dawn Grant explores one of the most freeing truths behind healing, peace, performance, and personal growth: many people are still carrying mental and emotional baggage simply because it became familiar. Old fear, old shame, old pressure, old stories, old identities, and old interpretations can begin to feel like truth when really they are just things the mind created and kept.Dawn unpacks why familiar does not always mean aligned, how people preserve what fear built, and why healing is often subtractive rather than additive. She shares how this affects stress, relationships, health, wellness, and performance, and why discernment is such an important part of becoming lighter, freer, and more connected to the higher self.This episode is an invitation to ask: What am I still carrying that I no longer need to keep?Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club!If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast.Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.comStay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates.Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeYouTube ShortsXLinkedInMind Mastered App:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedInAmelia Shotgun Sports:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedIn

The mind you live in becomes the life you feel.In this episode, Dawn Grant explores one of the most powerful truths behind fear, healing, performance, and inner peace: the mind is creating more than most people realize. Thoughts are not just background noise. They are constantly shaping an inner atmosphere, and that atmosphere becomes the emotional and spiritual climate a person lives inside.Dawn shares how repeated fear-producing thought can create stress, pressure, doubt, and interference, while repeated truth, trust, peace, and alignment can create a very different inner experience. She also explains how this applies to high performance, wellness, healing, and spiritual connection — and why deeper change requires more than outer action. It requires a different mental climate.This episode is an invitation to ask: What is my mind creating right now? And is it producing more fear, or more peace?Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club!If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast.Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.comStay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates.Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeYouTube ShortsXLinkedInMind Mastered App:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedInAmelia Shotgun Sports:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedIn

The grip is what’s blocking you.In this episode, Dawn Grant explores a powerful truth about healing, performance, and peace: many people believe power comes from trying harder, controlling more, and never letting up. But often, that grip is exactly what blocks the flow, trust, clarity, and aligned action they are trying to reach.Dawn shares how fear, ego, overthinking, and self-will can interfere with access to peace, performance, and the deeper intelligence within us. She explains why letting go is not weakness or passivity, but the removal of interference — and how that release can open the door to healing, flow, and a more natural kind of power.This episode is an invitation to ask: Where am I gripping? What is the grip costing me? And what might open if I loosened it?Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club!If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast.Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.comStay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates.Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeYouTube ShortsXLinkedInMind Mastered App:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedInAmelia Shotgun Sports:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedIn

A lot of fear is inner conflict.In this episode, Dawn Grant explores a deeper truth behind fear, anxiety, and emotional strain: many times, fear is not only coming from life on the outside. It is also coming from what is happening inside. When part of you wants peace but another part keeps feeding worry, or part of you wants change but another part still clings to the familiar, that inner contradiction creates strain — and that strain often gets felt as fear.Dawn shares how this internal division shows up in stress, performance, wellness, relationships, and personal growth. She explains why fear can remain even when someone looks like they are doing all the right things on the outside, and why real healing begins when inner conflict starts giving way to greater honesty, awareness, and alignment.This episode is an invitation to ask: Where am I divided? And what would it look like to become more internally aligned?Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club!If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast.Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.comStay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates.Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeYouTube ShortsXLinkedInMind Mastered App:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedInAmelia Shotgun Sports:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedIn

A lot of what hurts you is fear.In this episode, Dawn Grant explores one of the deepest truths behind healing: many people are trying to fix the visible problem while fear is still running the inside. Stress, pressure, overthinking, control, bad habits, performance problems, and emotional pain may all be real, but often fear is the force underneath them keeping the whole pattern in place.Dawn unpacks how fear can hide in ways that do not always look dramatic — through perfectionism, urgency, over-responsibility, pressure, busyness, control, and familiar coping patterns. She explains why people often stay stuck longer than they need to, and why real healing begins when fear starts loosening its grip on the mind, body, identity, and interpretation.This episode is an invitation to ask: What fear might be underneath this? And what would it look like to loosen just a little?Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club!If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast.Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.comStay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates.Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeYouTube ShortsXLinkedInMind Mastered App:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedInAmelia Shotgun Sports:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedIn

In this inspiring episode, Dawn Grant sits down with Nick Prefontaine to explore his extraordinary journey from a life-threatening snowboarding accident to becoming a peak performance coach, speaker, and real estate expert. After being told he may never walk, talk, or eat on his own again, Nick’s recovery became a powerful example of resilience, intuition, family support, and taking one small step at a time.Nick shares the mindset that helped him move through trauma, the role advocacy played in his healing, and how his experience led to the creation of his STEP system for overcoming challenges. He also discusses how the same principles that supported his recovery now guide his work in business, real estate, and personal development.This conversation is a powerful reminder that setbacks do not have to define your future—and sometimes the smallest step forward can become the beginning of a completely new life.Follow Nick on Social Media. All contact information is provided in the podcast.Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club!If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast.Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.comStay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates.Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeYouTube ShortsXLinkedInMind Mastered App:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedInAmelia Shotgun Sports:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedIn Ready to break free from limiting beliefs and negative patterns? Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis Meditation helps people overcome unhealthy mindsets and habits, replacing them with empowering, lasting transformation. Using proven techniques, Dawn brings clarity, peace, and change to people worldwide through online services, live sessions, and her work as a speaker and author.Visit DawnGrant.com today to unlock your potential and take control of your life! Imagine overcoming obstacles holding you back. With the Mind Mastered app, developed by mental training and hypnosis expert Dawn Grant, you can take control of your personal growth. Build personalized hypnosis audios tailored to your needs with expertly crafted inductions, suggestions and outros. Transform your mindset, habits and beliefs with practical tools for real life.Ready to change? Download Mind Mastered app today from the Apple App Store or Google Play to start your journey!

What you make things mean shapes your life.In this episode, Dawn Grant explores one of the most important truths behind emotional freedom, performance, healing, and stress: people are often not only reacting to what happened, but to the meaning they assigned to what happened.A missed shot, a craving, a hard conversation, a quiet moment, a setback, or a stressful day can quickly become a story about identity, danger, rejection, or failure. And once that meaning takes hold, the nervous system, emotions, and behaviors begin responding to the story, not just the event.Dawn unpacks how automatic meaning-making creates emotional spirals, why old meanings from the past can still shape present moments, and how learning to question the first interpretation can create more peace, space, and recovery.This episode is an invitation to slow down and ask: What actually happened? What did I make it mean? And could it mean less than I’m making it mean?Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club!If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast.Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.comStay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates.Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeYouTube ShortsXLinkedInMind Mastered App:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedInAmelia Shotgun Sports:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedIn

Your life reflects what you keep protecting.In this episode, Dawn Grant explores a powerful truth about growth, healing, and change: many people are not only living with patterns that hurt them, they are also protecting them. Whether it is stress, fear, overthinking, unhealthy habits, old stories, or familiar identities, what we continue to defend keeps shaping the life we experience.Dawn unpacks why people protect what feels familiar, even when it costs them peace and freedom. She shares how these patterns show up in everyday life, from stress and habits to performance, identity, and emotional healing. Most importantly, she offers a practical shift: stop protecting what hurts you and begin protecting what can truly help you heal and grow.This episode is an invitation to ask: What am I still protecting that no longer deserves my protection? And what deserves my protection now instead?Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club!If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast.Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.comStay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates.Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeYouTube ShortsXLinkedInMind Mastered App:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedInAmelia Shotgun Sports:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedIn

In this engaging interview, Traver Boehm shares his transformative journey from martial arts and protection services to holistic health and men's work. Discover insights on Eastern medicine, masculinity, and personal growth that can inspire your own path to excellence. In this inspiring interview, Traver Boehm shares his transformative journey through martial arts, acupuncture, and personal growth. Discover how hitting rock bottom led to profound life changes, the power of discipline, and practical insights for personal development.Follow Traver on Social Media. All contact information is provided in the podcast.Visit DawnGrant.com/free to grab your exclusive free resources… hypnosis audios, mental training tools, and even a golf cart at her club!If you enjoyed today's episode, follow, rate, and share the podcast.Learn more at: DawnGrant.com   MindMastered.com   AmeliaShotgunSports.comStay connected with Dawn on all social media platforms for more inspiration, tips, and updates.Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeYouTube ShortsXLinkedInMind Mastered App:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedInAmelia Shotgun Sports:InstagramTikTokFacebookYouTubeXLinkedIn Ready to break free from limiting beliefs and negative patterns? Dawn Grant Mental Training & Hypnosis Meditation helps people overcome unhealthy mindsets and habits, replacing them with empowering, lasting transformation. Using proven techniques, Dawn brings clarity, peace, and change to people worldwide through online services, live sessions, and her work as a speaker and author.Visit DawnGrant.com today to unlock your potential and take control of your life! Imagine overcoming obstacles holding you back. With the Mind Mastered app, developed by mental training and hypnosis expert Dawn Grant, you can take control of your personal growth. Build personalized hypnosis audios tailored to your needs with expertly crafted inductions, suggestions and outros. Transform your mindset, habits and beliefs with practical tools for real life.Ready to change? Download Mind Mastered app today from the Apple App Store or Google Play to start your journey!