Filtering: Critical Strategies for Turning Struggle into Strength - With Joel Green

This episode is filled with practical wisdom and valuable takeaways that you can use in your daily life immediately.   I spoke with my guest at length about his journey from early childhood challenges, and trauma growing up in Philadelphia, to how he found a positive emotional outlet for his struggles through sport.  He shares the lessons he learned as well as the foundational attributes pro basketball instilled in him that he has been able to apply in order to succeed in other critical aspects of his life.  In his book “Filtering: Turning Struggle into Strength”, author Joel Green shares motivational insights and practical strategies that will help train and discipline your mind and emotions during the most challenging times, showing you how to filter out negativity and welcome growth from a more positive and productive place. 

Readers will learn 6 keys on how to turn struggle in strength by learning how to:

·       Discover the purpose of your pain

·       Embrace fatigue

·       Convert opposition to opportunity

·       Will yourself to victory

·       Effectively confront your fears

·       Apply positive triggers to negative moments,

Joel Green, former professional player, founded Pro Level Training after realizing his undeniable passion for teaching and coaching. His goal is to help enhance player performance both physically and mentally by providing them uniquely designed skills and mental approaches they need to get a leg up on the competition.

Joel Green was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA and was an All-City basketball player for all four years of high school. After graduating from high school, he attended the well known Hargrave Military Academy for prep school to exercise more college options. While there, he helped lead Hargrave to a #1 national ranking by USA Today and became top 30 players in the country.

Upon leaving Hargrave he began his collegiate career at Siena College where he was the top recruit. After an injury sidelined him, he was forced to sit out and red shirt his freshman year. To seek better opportunity, Joel transferred from Siena into the JUCO rankings to avoid sitting out yet another year by going to another 4 year school, which is NCAA regulation for transfers. While spending time in Junior College, Joel was able to win back-to-back National Titles making his way back to Division 1 basketball by signing with Rider University. After winning a Regular Season Title his senior season with the Broncs, he graduated with honors earning his BA in psychology. Joel began his professional career by playing in Ireland’s Superleague, which was followed by playing in both Spain and Venezuela while receiving a D-League contact along the way. A recent highlight for Joel was when he was invited to spend a few weeks with the 76ers during their preseason training.

Over the years Joel has been featured in multiple commercials, print ads and also on a national TV show. Joel is the 2017 face of Cheez-It Crackers' latest national basketball campaign. This feature was a dream come true and gave him the opportunity to play in the Celebrity Crunch Classic, coached by Magic Johnson, playing against Charles Barkley's team of celebrities. In addition to all of this, Joel also travels to speak to many organizations, schools, and programs to help motivate & inspire others to maximize on their talents, skills and untapped potential.

You can buy his book on amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com 
Find out more about Joel Green by visiting his website joelgreen.com
Enjoy

Visit us at:

www.theselfhelpantidote.com

Transcript

In this episode we discuss: 

·      Lessons from pro sports

·      Teamwork 

·      Focus on you 

·      Hiding behind a broken ideology

·      Environments where the result of your thinking is obvious

·      Joel Greens journey from me to we

·      Lessons from court applied to success in business

·      It’s not about eliminating the bad, but learning from it and leveraging it

·      How do I resolve this vs. how do I use this?

·      Tourette’s vs. Ironman

·      Extracting strength from struggle

·      The purpose of our pain

·      Becoming a student of pain

·      Emotional and mental brainstorming

·      Missing out on the lessons in life

·      Framing challenges in questions

·      Dick Schwartz, Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) Institute 

·      There is no one singular version of you

·      Napoleon Hill mastermind group

·      Being shaped by traumatic childhood experiences

·      Channeling fear and anger positively through competitive sport

·      You won’t be stuck in your situation forever

·      Starving your problems, don’t feed them

·      At times we inflict our own suffering

·      Telling yourself “next play” to get out of rumination and back on your game!

·      The difference between the conversation in the stand vs. on the court

·      Does the conversation in stands effect anything on the court?

·      What are your positive triggers?  

·      Filter it

·      If I am consistent, it will leak out

·      Self-accountability 

·      Who loves you in both success and failure?

·      Failure is part of the process

·      Seeking feedback

·      Discerning irrelevant vs. constructive criticism

·      Open to opinion but not defined by it

·      Self-reflection

·      Knowing who you are

·      Confidence in who you are