The Athlete Whisperer

In this episode of The Athlete Whisperer , Susan explores how athletes can transform frustration into a powerful tool for growth and resilience. Through mindful breathing exercises and body awareness, she guides listeners on releasing physical tension that impacts their performance, promoting a fluid, relaxed state essential for peak performance. The episode delves into shifting from frustration t...

In this episode, we work with breathing techniques and meditation with our student athlete baseball team.

The Athlete Whisperer returns with a new episode in our series with Megan Geary in which we discuss the importance of 'inner guidance' in sports as well as every day life.

Dustin Brundage returns to the podcast to talk about his new endeavors and his new team in this extended episode.  He discusses the uses of mindfulness with a new group of young athletes as well as the importance of holding space for accountability for his players as well as himself.  

In this episode of our Emotional Wellness of Athletes, we have a return guest in student athlete, Kareem Lubin, speaking on his thoughts and experience on the topic as well as how he would like to implement this in his future.

In this meditation session, we focus on maintaining the excitement for the game we love.

In this meditation, we exercise the method of 'locking in' with our meditation and our play.  We also touch on the topic of 'micro-improvements'.

Jillian Villani joins us once again with Megan Geary to discuss the definition of success and what roles our peers, parents and coaches play in regulating our emotions.

In this next episode of the series with Megan Geary, special guest Jillian Villani, a former student athlete in soccer, now a soccer coach and mother to a student athlete in soccer as well, discuss taking what is learned as a player and applying that into coaching and ensuring that balance is met when coaching and playing to ensure optimal play as well as optimal mental well being.

In this meditation session, we start off with a short catch up with student athlete and previous guest on The Athlete Whisperer, Jayden Lont and follow with a meditation session focusing on analyzing what you bring to every game.

In this episode, we have special guest, Megan Guidry joining us.  Megan plays softball for SUNY Fredonia and she talks about her experience as a student athlete and and the importance of mindset and balance on and off the field.

In this episode of the series, we discuss the idea of fit vs. healthy, in the physical form, but also in the mental and emotional form.  We discuss the importance of being aware of value & worth as well as making sure we take stock in our emotions and avoiding any 'volcanic' eruptions that make come, both on and off the court / field.

In this episode in our series with athlete, Megan Geary, we discuss the idea that sports provide an identity to a person, a security blanket of sorts, and we look into the silent struggle athletes may have outside their sport and how that may affect their emotional wellness.  

Previous guest, Megan Geary, returns with a series speaking on the emotional wellness of athletes.  Megan has a candid conversation about her challenges as an athlete, including things that she has heard from her coaches while she was a player and the pressures to perform and not appear weak.  

In this meditation session, we talk about harnessing and focusing our energy to create, whatever you want the creation to be, but how do we create the ordinary into the extraordinary.

In episode 50 (!!) we have a conversation with Coach Dustin Brundage, owner of Line Drive Athletix.  Coach was excited to sit down with us to discuss the real-life and in-game applications of mindfulness, breathe work and much more.

In the first episode of 2024, this meditation session focuses on the importance of the messaging in your mind and how that affects the body and ultimately, how it affects your performance.

The Athlete Whisperer returns with a new meditation session with a team that focuses on the purpose of breathe-work, the areas in which it can fine tune and dialing in to the unseen.

In this quick discussion, the coach talks about the challenges teaching his team the importance of meditation and mindfulness and the benefits that he's seen through years of doing it.

In this episode, we have a conversation with Women's Basketball Head Coach, Jacey Brooks at the University of Buffalo.  Jacey tells the story of how she got into coaching and realizing that you learn more from your losses than you do from victory.  Jacey also talks about the pressures to make sure that her team are not only good athletes and teammates, but good academically and most important...

In this session, we examine the importance of focused energy and how to set up for success in the 'next level', the playoffs.  We zone in on composure, calm, being steadfast and arriving at clarity for the game ahead.

In this meditation session, we discuss further rooting ourselves in our capabilities and the importance of the team moving as a collective in the ups and downs, both on and off the field / court.

In this episode, we chat with Romeo Aquino, the NJCAA D2 Player of the Year and discuss how utilizing mindfulness and meditation helped him up his game.  We also discuss how he still uses his teachings of yoga to help continue to elevate his game and the added benefits it provides physically and mentally.

In this meditation session, we examine the balance of through vs. instinct and how to incorporate that into the game.  We look at pushing aside overthinking as well as getting caught in the 'what ifs' of the game.  Lastly, we focus on the importance of creating your own highlight reel as a way of motivating and remaining focused.

The more calm you are, the more clear you are.  The more clear you are, the more clearly you can see the task at hand.  Allow the calm to wash over you and enjoy the rollercoaster ride that you are on and make sure to remember the purpose in what you do.