Beyond the Game Podcast

Setting goals helps keep you on track for moving forwards and becoming stronger! Hear how Alex and Nicole learned to set goals while they were athletes and how that has helped them outside of sports.

Discipline is the foundation needed in order to achieve goals. For Alex and Nicole, they first learned how to build discipline in their respective sports. Hear how they did this and how they carry what they learned in their lives outside of sports today!

Whether its a team sport or solo sport, working with others is inevitable. Hear how Alex and Nicole learned teamwork and how they apply what they learned to life outside of sports. How have you worked in teams?

Many of us live going day-to-day, not thinking about how we can create our dream future. It's like we are wearing invisible blinders that block our view to new possibilities. These blinders put us in a victim position. In this podcast, hear how Alex and Nicole broke out of victim positioning and are leading more agentic lives, chasing big dreams!

For Alex and Nicole, the concept of burn out was discussed a lot around them, especially in regard to their sports. In this podcast, they talk about what it means to them, how it can be helpful, and how to overcome it.

Athletes can face lots of pressure from parents, coaches, and themselves. Hear how Alex and Nicole learned to overcome this pressure and use what they learned outside of sports.

In this episode, Alex and Nicole talk about criticism and how they've seen it as athletes. Not taking criticism personally and finding ways to have a dialogue have been helpful in their experience!

The way we fuel our bodies has a big impact on performance, in and out of sports. Hear how Alex and Nicole navigated their relationships with food as athletes, and how their perspective has changed over time.

In the Beyond the Game Podcast, co-hosts Alex Ortiz and Nicole Caputo will dive into their experiences as athletes and how they use what they've learned in their lives outside of sports. Episode 1 covers introductions to Alex and Nicole, as well as what it means to them when they look at physical, mental, and spiritual fitness. This podcast is brought to you by Vitality Apex.