Olympian Goalkeeper Stephanie Labbé on Deep Focus, Soccer, and Mindfulness

Michael Gervais (0:09)

Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Gervais. And the idea behind these conversations is to learn from those on the path of mastery. And it's to better understand what they're searching for, their unique psychological framework, and the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft. And again, we're not interested in hacks. We're looking for sturdy and robust practices, particularly the mental practices, that allow them to follow their path in the most accelerated way while they build their craft. Okay, now this particular conversation, it's about crossroads, it's about choices, and it's about resiliency. It's about, in that context, it's about performing on the world stage, which also means losing on the world stage. It happens. And in this conversation, we learn about the thought patterns that our guest used to accelerate her path back to being on the world stage. And so this conversation is with Stephanie Labbé. She's the Canadian National Team goalie in soccer. She's also heading down to Rio to compete in the Olympics.

And goalies just have a unique relationship with pressure.

So there's lots to learn here from her. Okay, quick reminder about the Mindset Project. If you're interested in asking an Olympian about how they've trained their mind, send a shout out on social media using the hashtag TheMindsetProject.

You can also, if you can, include the athletes Twitter handle, the Olympians Twitter handle. And we'll do the work when we're down there. We're going down, Nicole Davis, Trevor, and myself will be down in Rio. They'll be really working the Mindset Project. And I'll be also spending time with Women's National Team volleyball, as well as some of the beach athletes. Okay, so hashtag TheMindsetProject, ask questions and we'll do all the heavy lifting down there to answer these questions for you. I think it's going to be great.

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