Podcasts

Our podcasts will complement the blog posts and provide greater insight into the highlighted topic. The host, Brandon Shintani, will be chatting with guest speakers ranging from student-athletes to professionals who specialize in sport psychology, mental training, and performance enhancement. Some notable guests on the show include Ron White (2 Time USA Memory Champion) and Graham Betchart (NBA Trainer). If you want to learn about the mental aspect of sports, this is the podcast for you!

Mind-Design Sports also has another podcast called the Sport Mind Avenue Podcast. The hosts, Jonny Mondo and Elliott Steinberg, discuss current events happening in the sports world as well as the mental impacts these events can have on athletes and their surrounding community. They also integrate different psychological segments to end each show such as Q&As, fantasy drafts, and interviews. The episodes aim to break down the big news stories you see each day through a psychological lens for younger athletes. If you want to dive deeper into current sports stories, then this is the podcast for you!

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Mental Fitness, Burnout, and Breathwork - EP36 w/ Sun Sachs of Rewire Fitness

In this episode, Brandon speaks with Sun Sachs, one of the founders at Rewire Fitness, about how mental fitness can help young athletes.

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Tactics to Secure Sports Scholarships - EP34 w/Tessa Berger

In this episode, Brandon and Tessa discuss the many challenges faced by aspiring professional athletes of today. Tessa gives listeners insight into her own path for success and shares tips that may help other young athletes achieve their goals.

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Photography in the Sports Industry - EP 27 w/ Billie Weiss

When one thinks about sports, there is a good chance that certain players or teams come to mind. However, one underlooked, but also very important, aspect of the sports industry is photography. A wide range of lessons can come from the artistic side of sports, many of which can not be learned in athletics. Today, Brandon speaks with professional sports photographer Billie Weiss to explore the world of sports photography.

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Training Your Brain: Developing Mental Fitness - EP 26 w/ SportPsychMDs (Torrey Troggio & Armin Hoes)

As athletes, we spend large portions of our time training our bodies’ ability to perform well- our physical fitness- to perfection. But mental fitness can play just as large a role as a well-trained body in athletic success. After all, a good arm is nothing if you freeze up right before the critical moment. What constitutes a mentally fit attitude, especially for student-athletes? In this episode, we dive into this question with psychiatrists Torey Troggio and Armin Hoes of Sports Psych MDs. They discuss some individual components of mental fitness, pass on some sage advice, and even analyze the playing styles of current NBA athletes.

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Get Inspired with Sport Performance Thoughts - EP24 w/Eddy Sheeky P2

Even in sports, there is a whole world of different opinions, experiences, and personalities, where each person can feel identified. In this episode we meet Eddy Sheeky, a mental skills coach at sport performance. During the podcast he tells us how to be persistent people and athletes and how to inspire others using references from world sport by developing your own confidence, he also recommended some of his favorite documentaries and phrases to motivate you.

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Controlling The Controllables & Tennis - EP23 w/Josh Burger

In today's Podcast, Josh and Brandon talk about the importance of psychological control and give some suggestions in some aspects of the game, tips on unique occasions where one can get confused, comparison of individual sports like tennis versus team sports like basketball.

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Get Inspired with Sport Performance Thoughts - EP20 w/ Eddy Sheeky (Part 1)

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The Sport-Mind Avenue Episode 14: USA is #1, NFL Vaccine Talk, and Field of Dreams Game

The US dominates the summer Olympics once again as people doubted them at the beginning of the games. Today we will dive into the US dominance basketball as both the women's and men's teams win gold again. The US women's soccer team wins bronze, and the men's baseball and softball team wins silver. As the COVID19 cases continue to rise, the boys will discuss whether the NFL should be enforcing players to get vaccinated or not. Players like Deandre Hopkins, Cam Newton, and many others have not got vaccinated and risk their teams getting infected.

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The Mindset to The Olympics - EP17 w/George Steffey

In a match or even during practice, we get along with different situations with allows us to have better skills. Also, in situations like injuries where our mindset is key in the recovering process. In today's podcast, we get along with George Steffey, an experienced and professional ski athlete, and he will give some tips on controlling and setting the right mindset in these different situations.