The Brian Cain Mental Performance Mastery Podcast

Mark Doran is known internationally as a premier batting instructor.  He played baseball and football at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned the All-American award in baseball.  Out of college, Mark was drafted in the first round by the California Angels in 1983, 23rd overall, where he excelled at every level in the minor leagues.  He was on the major league roster for both the California...

Steve Smith is the former head baseball coach at Baylor University and the all-time wins leader in Baylor history. Smith shares insight into coaching the mental game and into the core values of the program, competing one pitch at a time, and what he has learned from a lifetime of being in the game of baseball.

Shelby Pendley was drafted 2nd overall out of The University of Oklahoma in the 2015 NPF College Draft by the USSSA Pride.  She was a 2x Big 12 Player of the Year, a 3x NCAA All-American and was the 2015 NPF Rookie of the Year. Pendley is 6th all-time in NCAA Softball career home runs.  She is one of the best hitters in NCAA history and is currently an assistant softball coach at The University of...

Ryan Harrison is a certified Sports Performance Vision Trainer with SlowTheGameDown.  He has a degree in Exercise Physiology from University of California at Davis, where he was a kicker for the football team.  Since 1998 Ryan has been working with international softball, collegiate and amateur softball teams. Ryan also has been a key consultant to numerous international, professional and collegia...

Lacey Waldrop was the 2014 NCAA Softball National Player of the Year.  She was a 3x All-American Pitcher and 2x ACC Pitcher of the Year for the Florida State Seminoles.  In 2015 she was drafted third overall by the Chicago Bandits in the 2015 NPF Draft.  Waldrop discusses the mental game of softball and how she was able to overcome early adversity in her career to become one of the game's most dom...

Maddie O’Brien was a 4-year All-ACC Softball player at Florida State University and is currently playing for the Pennsylvania Rebellion of the National Pro Fastpitch.  In this podcast she talks about her mindset for success, competing one pitch at a time and what she does for mental training.  She was a finalist for College Softball National Player of the Year in 2014. Follow Maddie on Twitter @Ma...

Kaleigh Rafter has been a member of the Canadian National Team since 2007.  She was a member of the 2010 ISF World Championship team that won a bronze medal in Venezuela, and also won two silver medals at the Pan American Games (2007 and 2011).  Rafter competed with the 2012 ISF World Championship team that finished fourth in Whitehorse, Yukon, and led Canada with a pair of home runs and seven run...

This week’s guest is the man that makes MMA events happen, Burt Watson.  A career in boxing and MMA that began more than 30 years ago has allowed Burt Watson to serve in a host of positions with some of boxing’s and MMA's most-recognized names.  As a consultant, advisor, promoter and event coordinator, Burt commands a wealth of knowledge unparalleled in both industries.  He has coordinated and bee...

This week’s guest is former MLB Pitcher and one of Cain’s best friends from childhood Jonah Bayliss. Jonah pitched in the Major Leagues with the Kansas City Royals and Pittsburgh Pirates, had a tour with the Team USA Baseball Olympic Qualifying team and one season in Japan. Bayliss who was the #5 pitcher on his high school team as a Jr. and played Divison III college baseball at Trinity College in...

This week we reach into the Vault, going all the way back to December 2014 where Brian Cain delivers a live coaches educational clinic at The European Baseball Coaches Association Clinic.  Enjoy Cain live as he takes more than 100 coaches from all over the world through the fundamentals of competing one pitch at a time.

Senior graduating captain Chris Bradley of RPI Hockey is this week's guest on the Peak Performance Podcast. Listen to how passionate Chris is when talking about the Mental Game of Hockey and competing one shift at a time.

Mike Spillane is the former goal tender for The University of Vermont and a former professional hockey player. Spillane is a master of the mental game in the net and talks with Peak Performance Coach Brian Cain about the demands placed on the most mentally demanding position in all of sport:  the hockey goalie.

Brian Cain is the author of The Mental Game of Ice Hockey, Playing One Shift At A Time and the most sought after mental game of ice hockey consultant in the USA. Cain works with top college, high school and select hockey programs on developing a process that allows players and coaches to consistently be at their best when it means the most which is each and every shift.

Jason A. Kersner has been coaching top-level Midget teams in the Washington DC/Baltimore region for most of the past decade.  Under his leadership his teams became recognized as one of the best Midget programs in the country, as measured in both wins and championships.  Jason is also co-owner of Pinnacle Performance, an elite training program that creates holistic athletes through a professional a...

Lyndsey Fry was a member of the 2014 Team USA Women’s Ice Hockey Silver Medal winning team at the Sochi Olympics.  She is from Chandler, Arizona, and played collegiately at Harvard University.  In this podcast Fry talks about the mental game challenges she faced when going to college and when playing in the Olympics, what she did to overcome those challenges, the most important aspects of the ment...

This BONUS Podcast Episode features a preview of The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance audiobook...

Seth Appert took over the men’s hockey program at RPI prior to the 2006-07 season.  A coach who routinely has one of the toughest schedules in the nation, Appert talks about the importance of the mental game of ice hockey and competing one shift at a time as well as coaching the most important aspect of the game. Prior to starting his tenure at RPI, Appert was an assistant at Denver and was respon...

This week we reach into the VAULT, going all the way back to 2010 where Brian Cain delivers a live coaches' educational clinic to over 500 coaches. Join Cain live as he takes you through the fundamentals of mental toughness training and peak performance.

This weeks guest is Mike Bianco, Head Baseball Coach at The University of Mississippi. Coach Bianco has led the REBS to the 2009 and 2014 SEC Conference championships and a trip to Omaha in 2014. Bianco played and coached at Louisiana State University with quite possibly the greatest mental conditioning coach of all time in 5x NCAA National Championship winning coach and former LSU Athletic Direct...

This week’s guest is Todd Whitting, head baseball coach at The University of Houston. Coach Whitting led the Cougars to the American Athletic Conference Championship in 2014 and in 2015 and to an NCAA Super Regional in Austin, Texas, in 2014. I first started working with Coach Whitting when he was an assistant coach at TCU in 2006 and have had the honor of working with him each year since. As an a...

This weeks guest is Jim Schlossnagle, Head Baseball Coach at TCU. Coach Schloss is one of the top minds in all of collegiate coaching and has led TCU to the 2010 and 2014 CWS. Schloss was recently named Big 12 Conference Baseball coach of the year in 2015 and was the on field manager of the Team USA Baseball Collegiate National Team in 2013. In this podcast, Coach Schloss shares his journey to the...

This week's guest is Erik Bakich, Head Baseball Coach at The University of Michigan. Coach Bakich led the Wolverines to the Big 10 Conference Championship in 2015 and participated in the NCAA Tournament for the first time as a head coach. I first started working with Bakich when he was an assistant coach at Vanderbilt in 2007 and have worked with him in his head coaching stops at The University of...

Cliff Godwin is the head baseball coach at East Carolina University and one of the top young coaches in all of NCAA athletics. Godwin worked as an assistant under two national championship winning coaches in Tim Corbin at Vanderbilt and under Paul Manari at LSU. He also was instrumental as an assistant coach in leading Ole Miss to Omaha in 2014. I have know Cliff since 2012 when we worked together...