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Raising Pro Athletes
It takes a village to raise a professional athlete ...
For the first time ever, this podcast talks to the people that normally get very little mention, but are the ones who are responsible for the underlying success of an athlete. Marina pulls back the curtain and dives deep into chats with the UNSUNG Heroes – parents, the coaches, the trainers, the nutritionists and the therapists – revealing the realities of what it takes to support a child in reaching their ultimate potential.
What to expect when you listen:
* The real, raw truth
* Laughter, and maybe some tears
* The struggles and the successes
In this podcast, you will find the support you’ve been searching for to RAISE PRO ATHLETES with confidence, and so much more …
Raising Pro Athletes
Jealousy in Sports: Is Envy in Athletes a Killer or a Motivator?
What is envy when it comes to sports? And why it can either be a killer or the motivator for your child to get better.
Understanding where it comes from and handling it properly can help your kid rise above it and become so much better
Here’s an example of how envy can creep up on a kid and deflate them. They can feel envy towards another athlete because that kid started much earlier than they did.
Or, as it was in our case, my son gets injured more than most of his friends, and he gets frustrated and envious why they don’t go through what he does.
There are so many heads to the Envy snake, and all it comes down to is seeing it and properly managing the situation.
That’s what this episode will help you understand better.
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It takes a village to raise a pro athlete.
For the first time ever this channel takes you behind the athlete’s ‘unspoken’ road and talks to the people that normally get very little mention, but are the ones who are responsible for the underlying success of an athlete.
Marina pulls back the curtain and dives deep into chats with the UNSUNG Heroes – parents, the coaches, the sponsors, the nutritionists and the mindset specialist – revealing the realities of what it takes to support a child in reaching their ultimate potential in becoming a pro athlete.
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Marina Kuperman Villatoro, a mama who is on a mission to help her sons reach their athletic (rock climbing) goals and dreams.
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Welcome to Racing extreme athletes uncensored. This is your reality check and home for uncensored, trusted advice and stories from the Trail Blazers who came before us because it takes a strategic village to raise an extreme pro athlete. This is your village today we're going to be talking about envy. Yeah, envy. This could be a killer. Or it could be the motivator. And we're going to dive deep into envy. I'm Marina. Your host, mother of two aspiring rock climbers and wife to an extreme athlete. Let's dive in envy. This could either be a killer or a motivator. And let me tell you, your kids are going to have envy one way or another.
It could be either that they, you know, they feel like they started too old and have missed out on so much while watching all these younger athletes that are coming up and they're, you know, they're envious that they had lost all that time. Or they could be envious of why they're getting injured while another kid is not getting injured. All the time, especially if they started a little bit later because of their growth, because of how they're growing, could be envy all the time.
Some kids are envious because some are simply more natural at the sport or just more athletic in general. And that envy could definitely come out and it could come out really hard and really ugly, right? There could also be envy that, you know, they put in their heart and soul and some kids barely put any time. Into it and they totally go and win all those competitions or whatever. The reason is, envy could be a really scary thing, right? It could either motivate your kid and for them to see, you know what? I could do this. Yes, I'm envious of this.
And this is also the conversation you're having in the house because envy and jealousy, they are a little bit different, but they are a little bit similar in the fact that when we find ourselves envious or jealous of something. It's usually because we really want it. It's something that we really want and it's something that we know that we could get right on our subconscious level. It's hard to understand that at that moment. And kids, they never could really understand that because it's just so beyond their comprehension of what's going on. So when we sit and talk to our kids explaining that, hey, you know why you're envious is because you know that you really want it and you know that you could have it.
And for instance, if there is a kid that is just more natural at it be. Like, you know what? It's OK, but you just have to make up with it by working extra hard, right? If Tom Brady, if you know, sat around being envious and jealous and all these other people were being picked in front of him, he would not be Tom Brady, right? If you guys don't know who Tom Brady is, he is one of the most successful, legendary quarterback football players in the world, American football players in the world.
But it's his story. I really recommend going and listening to a story. He was the ninety ninth pick out of a hundred in the draft. There to be chosen, I mean. Yes, of course he was envious of all those others. Half of them, you know, like nature or whatever, but he put all his heart and soul into it. But it's about understanding and using that envy to be a benefit rather than literally let you kill yourself. It could become a poison, and I've seen it with my own kids. I've seen their envy in this and questioning why can't, why he wasn't even here for more than most of the training. I'm looking at him.
He's killing it. Why is he just so good? Meanwhile, I'm putting in all this work, or why can all my friends do all this? And I'm constantly getting injured, my shoulder and my fingers, you know, that's envy talking. So you need to sit down and you need to explain to them, you know, and work around it and just keep them interested. Because it can be poison, right? And if the parent isn't saying the things correctly. It could either fuel that poison or it could fuel that motivation. How are you going to be talking to your kid about this topic right? That's what it boils down to.
So at the end of the day, with all this envy and you're going to see it, even if your kid is that natural who's just killing it, there will always be something that a child doesn't, which means it's a natural human reaction. How are you going to manage it? Are you going to go on the side of the poison? And yeah. Oh my God, how good are you? Whether or hey, you know what he's doing great. Maybe we could train with that guy or maybe we could see what they're doing better or you know, how about we put that energy, that envy into training a little bit harder.
How are you going to manage the situation? I would love to hear how you guys manage these kinds of conversations because the most critical part is how is the conversation handled? Ok, I would love to hear from you guys if you enjoyed this podcast. Please leave me a review, share it with your friends and remember it takes us a strategic village to help our kids flourish.