The Fearless Warrior Podcast

This week, we are re-airing a guest speaker zoom call with University of Washington Alum Ali Aguilar. Ali is a professional softball player with the USSSA Pride and a silver medalist with Team USA. Learn how early experiences in travel ball and the pressures of recruitment shaped her path, culminating in a mindset shift that propelled her to the 2020 Olympics. Episode Highlights: Ali's introd...

On this week's episode, we are sharing a conversation I had on another podcast, Biceps After Babies Radio with host Amber Brueseke. Amber is a registered nurse, personal trainer, Macros Coach and mom of 4. In our conversation we discuss how we can raise children with high confidence and why that matters. Episode Highlights: Where confidence comes from How to build confidence in our kids Brigh...

Today on the Podcast I got to interview Carly Musser who is a mental performance coach inside Fearless Warriors. Carley went to WVU, where she studied sport and exercise psychology. She then went on to earn her Master's Degree in sport, exercise, and performance psychology from Barry University. She has her own practice, CM Mental Performance, and is located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Episod...

Kelsey O'Connor is a motivational speaker, former D1 student athlete and a recent social work graduate from North Carolina state university.   After recovering from a head injury that abruptly ended her athletic career. Kelsey graduated and delivered a commencement speech that went viral on Tik Tok and Facebook with over 30 million views across platforms combined. In our conversation today, w...

We were lucky enough to have Dejah Mulipola as a guest speaker for our Warriors in November of 2023, and we decided to share our conversation with her on the podcast this week! Dejah was a 2 time All-American catcher at Arizona University and currently plays professionally for the  Oklahoma City Spark. She was on Team USA when they won the silver medal in the 2020 Olympics. Episode Highlights: How...

Our episode this week features a guest speaker interview we did in August of 2023 with Taryn Kern. Taryn was a standout freshman player for Indiana University in 2023 and helped lead her team to one of the best seasons in program history, including a deep run in the Women's College World Series. When we spoke to her, she had just transferred to Stanford University and was getting ready to pla...

With the Women's College World Series starting this weekend, we thought we would release our Guest Speaker conversation with 2021's WCWS breakout star, Odicci Alexander. Odicci is currently a professional pitcher for Athletes Unlimited. She played her college career at JMU, where she lead her team to their first ever College World Series appearance. In 2023, she was the individual points...

Listen as Coach Anderson recounts the pivotal moments of reshaping Mizzou's softball program into a culture of accountability and #OwnIt. With the wisdom of a seasoned coach, Anderson dives into the genesis of the "Own It" mantra, a philosophy rooted in the principles of Navy SEALs leadership, and how it's been instrumental in rallying her team amidst coaching changes and NCAA...

This week, I sit down with a member of Team Fearless, Hana DeGuzman. Hana has worn many hats with Fearless, including coach, retreat leader and social media manager. She just recently graduated from Boston University with her Master's of Education in Counseling and Sports Psychology. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Puget Sound, where she played softball.   Episo...

Today on the podcast, I sat down with Jill from Girls Mentorship. Girls Mentorship is an organization specializing in nurturing young women with skills that foster perspective, ownership, worthiness, empowerment and reassurance. They seek to help each girl embrace her potential and prepare to take on any challenge with confidence. In this episode, Jill and I talk about the need for mentorship to h...

Lynsey Tucker is a Junior at the University of Nebraska Omaha (Div 1). A lefty slapper and true utility with speed, she has seen the field as an underclassmen starter in a competitive conference. She shares her mental game strategies as well as the hurdles she has overcome to play at the highest level. Her teammate Kamryn Meyer also joins the conversation and shares her perspective as a pitcher. T...

Our podcast episode this week features our very own Coach AB! Amanda Schaefer is a former collegiate pitcher and founder of Fearless Fastpitch. In this episode she shares her journey through high school and college softball and how her experiences pushed her to embark on a mission to teach other athletes mental skills. Episode Highlights: How Coach AB discovered mental skills How resiliency helped...

Today on the podcast we are sharing a Parent Workshop with Nicole Erickson, a Certified Mental Performance Coach. In this workshop, she helps parents think about their goals and dreams for their daughters and how to best communicate with them. The skills learned in this workshop will help parents who are trying to be more intentional in the ways they support and communicate with their children. Ep...

This week's episode is a re-airing of a popular parent workshop called Conversations to Create Confidence. This is normally a $200 workshop, but today you can get it for free on the Fearless Warrior Podcast! During this training, Coach AB talks about how you can connect with your daughter and help to give her the tools to build lasting confidence that will not only help her on the softball fi...

This week's episode is a Parent Workshop from our archives with Carley Musser.  Carly is a mental performance coach and owner of CM Mental Performance.  She has a masters degree in Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology  and strives to help athletes master their minds so they can master their craft. In this parent workshop, Carly talks about how to help your athlete work through perfectio...

ABOUT GLADINE FRASSO Gladine Frasso is a dynamic and sought-after keynote speaker renowned for her inspiring journey of resilience, confidence, and overcoming adversity.  She owns I Am Mentally Tough, which seeks to improve the mental game of athletes and maximize their performance. In our conversation, Coach G shares her personal experiences where she was able to turn adversity into opportunity,...

Our episode this week features Brittany Richmond, a teen mental health speaker who has dealt with her own personal anxiety for years. In our conversation we talk about what anxiety is like for those suffering, as well as how to learn to cope with it. Her perspective and insights will benefit parents as well as athletes as we all try to improve our mental health. Episode Highlights: How to manage a...

Our guest on the podcast today is Kristyna Bertolone, also known as Coach K, who is the owner/founder and head coach at Game Changers, a mental performance coaching group. Coach K is a former college athlete, PE teacher and high school coach who loves to  provide the resources, tools and knowledge to athletes and coaches so they can feel empowered to get out of their heads and into "the game&...

This week's episode is a look back on our guest speaker interview with Kiki Stokes-O'Connor. Kiki was a four year starter at Nebraska and contributed to their 2017 7th place win at the College World Series and their 2014 Big Ten Championship. Since college she has played professionally in both the USSSA as well as Athletes Unlimited. She is currently coaching back in her hometown of Kans...

Jake Thompson is a Keynote speaker, published author, coach and owner of Compete Everyday, a company focused on helping people boost their leadership skills to create the life they want. Jake teaches that  the life we desire is closer than we think and that it’s the small shifts in our daily focus, mentally and practically, that build a winning life.   Episode Highlights: How he turned selling T-s...

Our guest this week is Coach Ashley Carter. Ashley is a  team-building and leadership expert who empowers leaders and athletes to unlock the tools already within them so that they dominate not just the game, but also the game of life! Her mission in life is to arm athletes, students, teams, coaches, and teachers with the identity, confidence, and mental skills they need to succeed at anything in l...

This week's podcast episode is a re-broadcast of this month's guest speaker presentation, Coach Cory Huminsky. Cory is a pitching instructor out of Pittsburgh, PA. Cory is a former University of Pittsburgh student-athlete, where she holds the career and single season ERA records for Pitt Softball. She is also a former Colorado Gatorade Player of the Year award winner. She is a pediatric...

This week, the Fearless Warrior Podcast welcomes mental performance coach, Kevin DeShazo to the Pod! Kevin is the co-founder of Better, a system that helps coaches improve their teams from the inside out through better mindset, leadership, and performance.  We talk about how coaches can effectively manage athletes’ emotions for peak performance.   Episode Highlights: Strategies for channeling emot...

 This week's podcast episode is another Guest Speaker Replay from March of 2020. Taylor McQuillin was a standout pitcher at the University of Arizona, represented Team Mexico at the 2020 Olympics and is a current pro, playing with Athletes Unlimited. In our conversation, Taylor shares what her journey to the pros looked like, including overcoming partial blindness to become a dominant collegi...

This week on the Pod, we've invited cycle synchronization expert Renae Fieck to teach us more about the female cycle and how to use this knowledge to maximize our performance. Our conversation navigates the often uncharted territory of how menstrual cycles intricately affect brain function and the day-to-day lives of women. We shed light on the compelling contrasts between men's and wome...