Unlimit Your Potential with Seth Pepper

Pressure only exists if you're not ready. Two-time Olympian Mariusz Podkościelny on competing with joy — and the coach who shaped him. Mariusz left communist Poland at 18, swam two Olympic finals in Seoul, won an NCAA title at Arizona, and has coached for nearly four decades. Recorded as the swimming world gathered to remember Frank Busch, he and Seth Pepper talk flow state, fear of failure, g...

In memory of Frank Busch (1951–2026). Frank passed away on September 27, 2026. This conversation with Seth Pepper, the swimmer he recruited to Arizona, is the last one Frank recorded, and it is shared in his honor. He almost quit coaching for construction. Instead, Frank Busch built a national champion at Arizona and ran USA Swimming's national team through two Olympics. Seth Pepper sits down...

Mike Hampton never had a backup plan. He never wanted one. The first pitcher to win a Gold Glove and Silver Slugger in the same season talks with Seth about a dad who never let him win, the Barry Bonds compliment he never forgot, and what every sports parent needs to hear before the car ride home. Produced by Epiphany Digital Media.

Rachel McElreath started drinking at fifteen because it was the only way she could find her voice. Years later a doctor told her she was one stage away from cancer. She never drank again. Today she is a keynote speaker and the founder of Purpose Powerhouse, teaching people to find and use the voice she spent most of her life borrowing. In this conversation with Seth Pepper: why identity comes befo...

At ten years old, Larry Smith was simulating full basketball games alone at the park, imagining himself in Madison Square Garden. Thirty-five years later he'd walk through a set of double doors in Arizona and find the 2009 NBA All-Star court sitting inside a private home. Larry is a performance coach and the founder of Club Larry in Phoenix. He's trained Devin Booker, Tyson Chandler, Eric...

Derin McMains never played a day in the major leagues. Seven years in the Giants organization, five season-ending injuries, as far as Triple-A and no further. He calls it failing at the biggest goal of his life — and says it's the reason he isn't afraid of anything now. Fourteen years later he's a Mental Performance Consultant for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Director of Mental Perform...

Judy Thureson didn't start dancing seriously until she was eighteen. Two years later she had an agent, MTV credits, and a world tour — along with a habit of reaching the final round of auditions and then quietly deciding she didn't belong in the room. She takes Seth through the whole arc: the discipline years, the flow state that won her a music video, the man on a bus who told her she cou...

Luis "Gonzo" Gonzalez — the man behind one of the most iconic moments in World Series history — joins Seth Pepper for a masterclass in self-motivation. From "the other guy" behind childhood teammate Tino Martinez to a 19-year big-league career, Gonzo breaks down using doubt as fuel, "staying stupid" at the plate, breathing through the biggest moments, the small ritual...

Jim Grossman has spent decades as the quiet voice in the ears of elite performers — the mentor behind the mentor, including host Seth Pepper himself. In this wide-ranging conversation, he opens up about the hardest transition in all of sport: what happens when the game ends. Jim lays out the three forces underneath every athletic career — process, passion, and relentless adaptation — and makes the...

Dr. Rahsaan Lindsey has spent his career inside the minds of elite athletes — as team psychiatrist for the Arizona Cardinals and across the NFL, NBA, WNBA, and MLB. In this episode, he and host Seth Pepper dig into the controllables that actually decide performance: sleep, substances, chaos, and the people you surround yourself with. Then the conversation flips, and the guest starts asking the que...

What if the wisdom that shaped Tom Brady, Steve Kerr, Billie Jean King, and Serena Williams could live in your pocket? Ryan Sweeney — former competitive tennis player, software entrepreneur, and CEO of The Inner Game — joins Seth Pepper to talk about Tim Gallwey's classic The Inner Game of Tennis and how he partnered with Gallwey himself to build an AI-assisted mental performance coach around it....

He built a public company by 23, lost a top-5 poker empire overnight, and rebuilt something bigger. This is Dan Fleyshman. On this episode of Unlimit Your Potential, Seth Pepper sits down with Dan Fleyshman — the youngest founder of a publicly traded company in history. At 17, Dan turned a $43,000 college fund into a clothing empire and the first-ever zero-sugar, zero-carb, zero-calorie energy dri...

At 14, Seth Pepper walked up to a coach and said he wanted to go to the Olympics. The coach asked if he knew how to swim. He didn't. Four years later, state champion. By his senior year of college, national champion — and the man who handed him the trophy was the Olympic gold medalist whose photo had been taped to his bedroom wall for six years. This is the episode where the chair turns around...

NFL quarterback Chris Streveler joins Seth Pepper on Unlimit Your Potential to talk about the mental game of playing the toughest position in football — from an undrafted free agent in the CFL to starting NFL games, getting cut five times, surviving back-to-back ACL tears, and learning from Aaron Rodgers and Lamar Jackson along the way. Chris breaks down visualization, breath work, how to stay rea...

CBS Sports golf analyst Mark Immelman on identity, elite performance, and the Masters | Unlimit Your Potential Ep. 3 Two-time NCAA Division I champion, longtime D1 head coach, CBS Sports golf analyst, and host of the On the Mark Golf Podcast — Mark Immelman joins Seth Pepper for one of the most candid conversations on golf, mindset, and identity you'll hear this year. Mark coached his younger...

What does it actually take to perform at the highest level — and stay human while you do it? In Episode 2 of Unlimit Your Potential , host Seth Pepper sits down with Ken Crenshaw, Director of Sports Medicine and Performance for the Arizona Diamondbacks and one of the most respected figures in Major League Baseball. Over 38 years in the game, Ken has worked alongside Hall of Famers Greg Maddux, Tom...

You have two dogs inside you — a positive one and a negative one. They fight constantly. The one that wins? The one you feed. That's the simple truth bestselling author Jon Gordon has built 33 books around — and today he brings it all to Unlimit Your Potential. Jon is the author of The Energy Bus, Training Camp, The Power of Positive Leadership, and dozens more. He works with elite teams like...