Crunch Time Performance Show

In this episode of The Crunch Time Performance Show, Caden shares a candid reflection on a simple but powerful truth: where your attention goes, your energy flows. After a week filled with preparing for a work opportunity, time with friends, and moments of both excitement and anxiety, Caden unpacks how attention shapes not only performance, but emotion, creativity, and identity. He explores how th...

In this episode of The Crunch Time Performance Show, Caden is joined by University of Portland baseball player Jonas Salk for a powerful conversation about patience, faith, and long-term growth. Having played together since they were 13, Caden and Jonas reflect on Jonas’s journey from high school recruit to a preseason All-WCC selection and senior leader for the Portland Pilots. Using the growth o...

In this episode of The Crunch Time Performance Show , Caden is joined by UC Berkeley pitcher Austin Turkington for an honest conversation about the mental and emotional challenges of injury. Caden opens the episode by sharing his own injury history, including multiple surgeries throughout his playing career, to provide context for the discussion and highlight the shared experience many athletes fa...

In this episode Caden explores the idea of happiness and why it can feel so fleeting. Drawing on insights from James Clear, Caden discusses how happiness is often tied to the absence of desire, and how new desires continually emerge as we move through life. He breaks down how it’s possible to hold ambitions and goals while still practicing gratitude in the present moment, and why gratitude is one...

In this episode Caden sits down with professional baseball player Caden Wooster, a Santa Clara University alum and current member of the New York Mets organization. As Wooster prepares for his first professional spring training, the two discuss the emotional transition from college baseball to the professional level and what it takes to stay grounded in a new, high-pressure environment. The conver...

In this episode Caden talks about the emotional side of having a bad game and how athletes can learn to move forward without carrying that weight into the rest of their lives. Drawing from personal experience, Caden reflects on the feeling of preparing fully, showing up with intent, and still having things go wrong. He introduces the idea of “showering well” — a simple but powerful practice taught...

In this episode Caden welcomes the first-ever guest on The Crunch Time Performance Show , Santa Clara University baseball player Tate Medicoff. The conversation dives deep into handling adversity, including navigating preseason setbacks like illness, staying committed to routines, and maintaining confidence when momentum feels disrupted. Tate also opens up about how being diagnosed with Type 1 dia...

In this episode Caden breaks down how athletes can get out of a slump by redefining what a slump actually is. He explains why judging performance purely on results is misleading—especially in a game like baseball—and why the best players evaluate themselves based on the execution of their process, not outcomes they can’t control. Caden walks through a simple, practical framework for creating a “sl...

In this episode Caden breaks down the three stages of behavior change from Atomic Habits and explains how real change starts with identity, not motivation. He walks through a simple three-step reflection process designed to help you create habits that actually stick: identifying what matters most to you, defining the identity you want to become around those priorities, and aligning your daily habi...

Join Caden as he engages in solo dialogue referencing the work of other creators in the space and curates an enriching story of reflection and gratitude. In this episode you will gain a better sense of your own intentions and challenge the way you currently go about your life. Caden will explain his experience with a new actualization from listening to a SIPDrake Podcast.

Episode 1 of the show is a quick discussion about athletes facing self doubt. In this episode, I discuss the widespread impact of self doubt among athletics, what it is, and strategies to overcome self doubt, self sabotage, and performance anxiety.