Mental Training Lab
Master your mental game with the Mental Training Lab, hosted by Pete Kadushin. With 15 years of coaching experience and a PhD in performance psychology, Pete digs deep each episode to provide practical tools and expert insights so you can perform your best when it matters most. Enhance your focus, harness stress, and overcome challenges whether you’re an athlete, leader, or high-performer. Subscribe to learn how to elevate your game in work, play, and life.
Episodes
52 episodes
Unlocking Your Signature Strengths: Sustainable Excellence with Alex Auerbach, CEO of Momentum Labs
Ever wonder how elite performers consistently achieve peak results without burning out? Today I'm diving in with Alex Auerbach, performance psychologist and CEO of Momentum Labs, to unpack his powerful three-stage framework: understanding yours...
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Episode 50
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1:01:37
Building Team Cultures That Nurture People and Potential with Dr. Kensa Gunter
Today we’re working through the dynamics of team culture with Dr. Kensa Gunter. Does the culture shape the team, or do the people define the culture? Join us as we explore how these elements interact like a living, breathing organism, consta...
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Episode 49
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Beyond Resilience: Transforming Challenges into Growth with Dr. Adam Wright and Dr. Nick Holton of the Antifragile Academy
Unlike resilience, antifragility is about growing stronger from challenges and proactively seeking them out. To learn more about this tool, I went straight to the experts: co-founders of Antifragile Academy Adam Wright and Nick Holton. They sha...
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Episode 48
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The Long Game: Scott Stallings on Resilience, Recovery, and the Boston Marathon
Today we’re stepping onto the course with PGA Tour pro Scott Stallings, a master of resilience who's turned his recent injuries into opportunities for personal growth. In this episode, Scott takes us through his intense rehab journey following ...
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Episode 47
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58:24
The Trap of Self-Judgment: Perfectionism Meets Performance with Dr. Marina Harris
Perfectionism is a double-edged sword. It drives us, and can also derail us. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Marina Harris, a former Division I gymnast turned psychologist and performance consultant, who’s mastered the art of turning high-...
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Episode 46
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Find Your Laboratory
Ever wonder how groundbreaking discoveries like penicillin, Post-it Notes, microwaves, and Teflon came to be? Believe it or not, they all started as accidents. But it wasn’t just luck—it was the mindset behind the scenes that transformed these ...
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Episode 45
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Storytelling, Visualization, and the Secret Sauce of Sustainable Leadership with Al Lattell (Part 1)
Al Lattell is a trailblazer in athletic leadership at Georgetown Athletics who is breaking the mold by pushing beyond basic leadership drills into something way bigger—building a culture that cultivates leaders for the long haul. He joined m...
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Episode 44
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Leveraging Little Moments
Today, we’re zeroing in on the power of transitions—those seemingly small moments when we switch gears from work to home or task to task. Ever wondered how a simple routine could drastically enhance your day-to-day presence and focus? We’re div...
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Episode 43
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Shift Happens: Jeff Siegel on Mastering Life’s Big Moments
It’s true - moments like ringing in the New Year serve as mental accounting periods that prompt us to reassess our goals and behaviors. But without taking time to slow down and process, we can lose a huge growth opportunity. I sat down with Jef...
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Episode 42
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Listening Closely
How often do we genuinely hear what our bodies are trying to tell us, unless we're hungry or in pain? In this solo edition of the lab, you'll learn how tuning into your body with the same openness and curiosity you’d offer a close friend can el...
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Episode 41
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Lessons from Legends: Stories of Performance with Dr. Duncan Simpson and Dr. Greg Young
From gold medals to career crashes, the icons have done it all. How can tapping into their experiences accelerate your journey? In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Duncan Simpson and Dr. Greg Young from the Performers Podcast, a show that bri...
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Episode 40
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Mastery is Overrated
We often hear that specialization is key, but what if there’s more growth in the gray areas than we realize? In this solo episode, I’ll explore the transformative power of stepping outside our comfort zones, with examples from cross-training fo...
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Episode 39
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Embracing the Chaos to Unlock Performance with Dr. Adam Naylor
What’s the key to unlocking athletic potential? It’s not a paint-by-numbers approach to mental skills training! In this episode, sports psychologist Dr. Adam Naylor discusses the often overlooked foundations of sustainable high-performance mind...
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Episode 38
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1:31:32
Make Loud Mistakes
Leveraging your mistakes to maximize your growth is one of the core skills that elite performers have to master. In this solo episode, I dive into a transformative concept that has reshaped my approach to mistakes in sports and life. By embraci...
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Episode 37
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9:42
Lessons in Mindfulness and Balance from Pro Trail Runner Hillary Allen
After a near-fatal fall that could have ended her career, trail running legend Hillary Allen not only returned to the sport she loves but also expanded her athletic pursuits into gravel ...
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Episode 36
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Welcome to the Mental Training Lab
Master your mental game with the Mental Training Lab, hosted by Pete Kadushin. With 15 years of coaching experience and a PhD in performance psychology, Pete digs deep each episode to provide practical tools and expert insights so you can perfo...
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Bodies Speak Body Language: Ashley Cranney on Stress, Performance, and Being Biologically Respectful
In today’s episode we’re joined by Dr. Ashley Cranney. Ashley is a licensed professional counselor and certified mental performance consultant, employed at West Virginia U...
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Episode 35
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50:53
Bad Advice: Don't Get Too High, Don't Get Too Low
Today’s episode is about unpacking a bit of well meaning and ultimately bad advice. It’s advice that puts us in a no-win position where we are spending a ton of energy and attention on forcing our internal experience to fit into a narrow window...
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Episode 34
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20:10
Who's on Your TEAM? Dr. Adrian Ferrera on Powerful Questions, Powerful Allies, and Powerful Tools
Today, we’ve got Dr. Adrian Ferrera (@dradrianferrera) in the lab, and I couldn’t be more excited. As you’ll hear soon - Adrian and I go way back, and it was amazing to get to hear ...
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Episode 33
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Your Most Valuable Resource
Today’s episode is going be a short exploration of our most important resource, which is the combination of time and attention. We’ll start with a short thought exercise, talk about the implications of low quality attention, and then wra...
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Episode 32
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11:29
It’s Both Art and Science: Dr. Jesse Michel on Aligned Environments and How the World’s Best Pay Attention
My guest today is Dr. Jesse Michel. Jesse helps lead the Performance Psychology Program at Deloitte, where his team provides support and services to over 8500 principals, ...
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Episode 31
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59:13
It's All Good Training: Mace and Travis Macy on The World's Toughest Race, Alzheimer's, and Taking Things A Mile at a Time
Mace and Travis Macy join me today for a really special episode. Their new book, A Mile at a Time
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Episode 30
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1:00:15
Beneath the Surface: Raymond Prior Returns to Debunk some Performance Myths
In today’s episode, Raymond Prior (@bts_mindset on twitter) comes back to tackle some of the common myths we hear in the performance psychology world. Honestly, one of my favorite games it so poke t...
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Episode 29
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50:55
Burn the Boats: Commitment and Trust for Peak Performance
Throughout the ages, there are a number of myths that invoke this image. A commander and their army step onto foreign soil, and knowing that they are outmatched by the enemy, the commander makes a daring choice. The army is ordered ...
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Episode 28
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10:25
Be a Hybrid: Cam Smith on Motivational Flexibility and Having a Plan for Your Pain Cave
This is part 2 of my interview, Cam Smith (@camfromcb). If you missed his first episode, it’s definitely worth checking out, and as a quick refresher, Cam is a world-class ski mountaineer and t...
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Episode 27
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