The Fearless Warrior Podcast

097: The Four Absolutes of Development with Danielle Gallagher

• Amanda Schaefer

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On today's episode, I interviewed Danielle Gallagher, also known as Coach D. She shares her innovative approach to athlete development through the "Four Absolutes" framework, helping female athletes unlock their full potential by addressing mental performance, nutrition, movement, and hormonal awareness. 

Episode Highlights:

• Post-performance logs help process experiences objectively
• Nutrition must begin with non-negotiables like eating breakfast
• The impact of the menstrual cycle on performance
• True confidence comes from internal awareness and preparation
• Athletes need to focus on their own development rather than comparison

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to the fearless warrior podcast, a place for athletes, coaches and parents who know the value of a strong mindset. I'm your host, coach AB, a mental performance coach on a mission, former softball coach, wife and mom of three. Each episode, we will dive deep into all things mental performance, mindset tools and how to rewire the brain for success. So if your goal is to gain the mental edge and learn the secrets of mental performance, mindset tools and how to rewire the brain for success, so if your goal is to gain the mental edge and learn the secrets of mental performance, you're in the right place. Let's tune in to today's episode. Daniel Gallagher is a mental performance coach. She founded the do method to help athletes unlock their whole potential by using the four absolutes of development. Former softball pitcher, mom, fellow coffee drinker and wonderful friend that I've gotten to know these past few years. And she's here with us live. This is going to be a great conversation.

Speaker 2:

Oh, it's so good to be here and see, here's my like face. I miss you.

Speaker 1:

Every time we talk I just can't help but have like a huge smile. I say this all the time of like man, I wish we could have met sooner because if we would have been teammates like we would have gotten in so much trouble.

Speaker 2:

Not too much. I would have kept us on the straight and narrow, or you would have, we would have bound each other out.

Speaker 1:

I wish we lived closer. You just ran a half marathon. We talk about all the things we text each other about hormones and just life outside of being performance coaches and mamas and all the things so help the fearless fam. Give us a one, two punch, Like who who's coach T?

Speaker 2:

yeah, coach D. Um, well, I'm in Puyallup, washington, which is about 45 minutes South of Seattle, Um, and I was a former collegiate pitcher, pitch pitch at Concordia university in Portland Oregon. Um, you were in in Nebraska, so that's why our paths are just so aligned. But yeah, I really found mental performance when I returned home from college and became a college coach and it was there in which I was getting feedback from my pitchers, especially like, oh my gosh, coach D, what if this happens? Or what if coach doesn't play me? And I was hearing these thoughts that I had as an athlete. That defined me incredibly and I just kind of, as an athlete, I thought, well, it's just the survival of the fitness. Like, I'm not going to admit that I have these thoughts, I'm just going to try out there, go out there and figure it out Right. And oftentimes I didn't and I wore it all over my performance.

Speaker 2:

I was defined by it in the hallways, in my relationships, in various roles, you know, as a student, and so when I was hearing these comments from my college girls, I was like there has to be solutions. And that's when I gained a mentor in life, colin Henderson. He is the ultimate mental performance coach and he really took me underneath his wing and taught me some simple tools and systems to use with my girls and we started using them and I kid you not, coach Evie like there was like the clouds dispersed in the sky and there was clarity, there was confidence and there was success. And these girls continue to have a relationship with me to this day and they're like Coach E taught me these skills way beyond the field and it was things that I took into job interviews and raising kids of their own and in relationships, and so, anyways, I guess really long story short I turned it into a business and so nowadays I work with girls 10 years old all the way up to D1 athletes, on how they can strengthen their mental performance from a very holistic manner.

Speaker 2:

So not only diving into the mental approach of the game, but putting a magnifying glass on how they're fueling their body, how they're moving their body and also, you know, how they're cycling through their body and cycle, really alluding to the menstrual cycle that us females go through. And when we can bring awareness to those four absolutes we've token them as the fourth absolutes of development we really unlock this new level that these girls have really never seen exist before, and so that's a little bit about me. You can ask all the questions you want, but yeah, that's a little bit about what the do method is about the you want. But yeah, that's a little bit about what the do method is about. The do method because my name used to be Danielle Orvella and so D? O was my initials but also putting our mindset into action, do, and so that was why the company was named the do method.

Speaker 1:

Also why we're in the same boat AB. Everyone says where does AB come from? Ab is my maiden name, that's I don't you know. Did they call you do or D-O, Like what was your nickname?

Speaker 2:

It was D all through college it was D yeah, Cause I feel like there was always another Danielle on the team and so and I did not like the nickname of Danny and so it was always D.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, old, old nicknames they're hard to get rid of. A, b and D. Just you slap a coach in front of it. Now you're coach D, now you're coach AB. Why we get married? Why would we sacrifice that?

Speaker 2:

Right, I know. My husband was like well, you can do a DOG Like you can be coach dog and I was like no, we're not going there. I was like no, we're not going there, that doesn't work quite well. How about.

Speaker 1:

No, it was a bad idea. So you've also given pitching lessons and I would love for you to talk about the moment of like. You know, the spark of what I underlined in my notes was absolutes.

Speaker 1:

And I think sometimes, especially myself. If I were to go back and look at my career, if somebody would have tried to teach me some of these things, unless I understood why it was so important, I would not have seen it as an absolute. The mental game was just figure it out. My dad always used to say pull yourself up by the bootstraps right.

Speaker 1:

Like just just be tough, like that's who you are right. And so the absolute of like, if you're not training this and you you talk about the four right, so like fuel, movement cycle and mental, it's like, uh, remember the activity that we did at the, the retreat where we had the balance beams that you had me put together. My father-in-law went to Lowe's and bought the like wood blocks for you, it's like. It's like that imagery. And if you're not, you know you can't see my hands moving, but you think about this balance beam and that kind of relates to that activity of like. You can have all the physical in the world, but if you're missing these four components, no wonder she's wobbly, no wonder she's on that confidence rollercoaster. So is that where you want to take today? I would love for you to kind of share your expertise of like. Why are you so passionate about this and why are the four absolutes called the absolutes?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, totally. And I think it comes back to like understanding systems and things. And really the first ask that parents are like, hey, how do I get my daughter confident? Confident is kind of the buzzword that we get, as like I want my daughter to have the confidence and see her the way that I see her Right, and I know you've heard this a ton as well. So to me, confidence is the flower, right that you see above the surface, but what creates the flower is the stem and then the roots and the seeds below the surface. And so when we define belief or confidence, if you will, I really break it down into two things as your thoughts, and then your behaviors, your actions. And so, yes, in my first I would say three years, I was like okay, we got to transform your thought, we got to really root and create new neural pathways, so we were structuring better thought, and I found that that only got us so far. When we brought this behavior, part of it, into the equation of like, well, what do your behaviors look like Because you've been a pitching coach, you were alluding to it earlier is like you want these girls to be able to throw strikes, but it doesn't happen in the hour that they're with you.

Speaker 2:

It happens, in those extra reps that they're doing in the garage at home or throwing their sock against their full length mirror in their room at home, it doesn't just happen. One stop shop, right. And so, again, that's a testament to behavior in conditioning their routines and their four things that I've tokened as the four absolutes. Which, like you said, it's mental. Which mental is the thought? It's your nutrition. How are you fueling your body when it comes to your carbs, your proteins, your fats, your fibers, your hydration, your movement? Are you getting stronger? Are you refining and polishing your skill to get there? Because we know that, guess what, if I want a freaking six-pack, I have to go to the gym and actually do the reps. I can't just wish upon a star and have a six-pack in the morning, right, like wish. I wish that was the world.

Speaker 2:

Um, and we see too much of that in this generation is like we think it's just going to be, or we assume it's just going to be handed to us, like that job that I'm supposed to get in 10 years, oh well, it will just come. And it's like no, you have to earn it and that's what our dads taught us, because you and I had very similar dads, like just the way they raised us and it was, it was the bootstrap mentality, it was you go out and you earn it, right. And so that really is that physical portion, that movement portion, of the four absolutes. And the last one is hormones. Right, yeah, and this is really breathing a little bit into my belief about, um, our Western medicine, if you will, but too much so, and this is a belief that I'm strong and passionate about, but too much so.

Speaker 2:

We just prescribe something or we just put a bandaid over it, instead of understanding, hey, okay, well, why isn't her menstrual cycle normal? Right? 40% of teenagers have irregular cycles and that's not good, right? We want to think like, okay, if menstrual cycle normal is like 28 to 35 days, if they don't have a normal cycle, there should be some ear perks in figuring out as to why. Right, because right now, the lenses that most I'm generalizing here, so please forgive me, but the lenses that we put on are so much okay, I want to give her the skill she needs to go to lessons, she needs to go be on the best team. We don't have that same curiosity as to, well, why is she having super abnormal cycles? Why is she not feeling like? I want the same curiosity about the other things that matter way more in my head.

Speaker 1:

It's like the analogy of a house built on sand versus a house. Thank you yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:

That's what you're getting at I.

Speaker 1:

So, as you were talking, I keep seeing this and I and I just saw this today on Instagram trying to do more studies linking ACL injuries in soccer players and how hormones affect the fascia in the body and that when you're menstruating, your ligaments are looser and we're not feeling our best. And I've even noticed this in the gym Now that I've been lifting more. If my max out week falls during the, that that week of men's menses and not PRing, it's just not physically there, and so you know you and I have giggled about this, but I remember my dad saying oh, when's your period coming? Got to make sure I get you a Mountain Dew and a Snickers. We're just going to pump her with caffeine and sugar.

Speaker 2:

My dad didn't even do that, like it was just like push through it, like there was not even, like that's good that your dad had a little bit of awareness.

Speaker 1:

But okay. So before we hit record, we were talking about this, and I think the thing that we need to understand is this can get overwhelming really quickly. There's a research for every research article that's out there. There's more research to be done Like this. This just is right now. I would say it's still kind of taboo of you know. You start talking about hormones and cycles and nutrition and it's like, well, no, we'll just. We'll just do more hitting lessons, we'll just do more pitching lessons.

Speaker 2:

It's like. No, it's easy, it's comfortable yes.

Speaker 1:

It's comfortable, but the phrase that you and I talked about before we hit record is knowledge is power. So the fact that you're listening to this episode right now, this conversation, is you are gaining the competitive advantage because you're now aware of this. So how do you go from awareness to action?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I think you know, if we're speaking in terms of the four absolutes, right, I think some non-negotiables that I give my athletes to do is post-performance. It's a 24-hour rule, right? So we don't necessarily get to spill all of our emotions and point fingers and all the things until 24 hours after they are done competing, if doable, if realistic. Obviously we know that. You know tournament weekends, you don't really have 24 hours to deal with. But I do a reflection. So they have to put their evaluation on paper after their performance, which we evaluate.

Speaker 2:

How did I prep for this performance? Did I get good sleep last night? What triggered me? Did I control my controllables? What was my swing thought, what was my defensive thought? And they're able to reflect on that. Get it out of their system and onto paper where they can then see it as almost like an observer right, see it as almost like an observer right, and now they can pull lessons away from that and they're not reacting on emotion. So I think that that would be kind of my non-negotiable for mental as like hey, we need to do some kind of post-performance log and even if your daughter is dealing with this, even post-practice, dealing with this, even post-practice, have her. Do a post-practice log. It doesn't hurt her Right.

Speaker 1:

Um, because I won't talk with my one on one clients until they've done that, like I really cannot help you as a mental performance coach. And if you haven't done, I call them wins, mistakes, betters, yeah. And if you haven't done your WMBs either in your phone or your notebook, we're going to be doing it on the call. And so wouldn't it be a much better use of our time for you to have that debrief done so that I can just coach you? That's so good.

Speaker 1:

I love that you make that a non-negotiable, because I think there's a lot of times where athletes don't again going back to this like absolute non-negotiable, whatever you want to call it. It's like, yeah, you have this goal to be better. It's going to take what it takes to change. Behavior change Yep Right Like. Yep Takes what it takes. You said you wanted this. Now, this is what the non-negotiable is.

Speaker 2:

So so good and I think we bridge the gap too, because too often we we end up probably spending a lot more time with the parents and the players because they're there every single night, at home, maybe in the car at home, where things aren't maybe they're all spicy spicy. But having the parents do a post-performance log too, in a way, right Of like, how can they be better for their daughter? Because you've seen it, probably too often than not, I've seen it, but it's like these parents want it so bad for their daughter. Emotions just encompass the whole situation, right? So if the player has that assignment, then I also think it's really fair to give the parent that kind of assignment too, and it's not on. Well, this is what Susie Sally should have done and this is it's. What could you have done better?

Speaker 1:

the parent, the parent done better, we're gonna have to get into Canva and whip something right another freebie for y'all.

Speaker 2:

I love it. Um, nutrition, I think nutrition, I just I it's going to sound so cliche, but making sure you eat breakfast, like this is such a thing. Um, I work with, I would say, roughly about 30 athletes a week, um, and there is a large majority that come to me and say, um, and there is a large majority that come to me and say, coach D, I just don't have time in the morning to eat breakfast and I'm like no, non-negotiable, you gotta eat breakfast. And once we can get the breakfast in, then we talk about what are the ingredients of that breakfast. Um, but first and foremost it's the breakfast of that breakfast. Um, but first and foremost it's the breakfast.

Speaker 2:

Um, when it comes to the physical performance, um, absolute, the, it's just moving your body. Um, making sure you're recovering, um. So it's funny that you were talking about the correlative of the ACL and the fascia, and studies have proven that we reach 80% of our bone mass by age of 18. And that bone mass starts as soon as sex hormones start in our body. So as soon as our menstrual cycle begins, we have to think as parents, as coaches, as the support staff. That's when my daughter needs to start physically moving her body in a way that isn't just like at practice, like I need her to be working.

Speaker 2:

Flexibility and mobility right. Speed training, maybe adding a little bit of strength. I know the girls are starting their menstrual cycle a little earlier than, say, we did nowadays, and so that strength piece, like hey, you need to get in the gym and start freaking lifting some iron Like it's hard for me to tell a 12 year old to do that, but just keeping that in your frame of reference of like when that menstrual cycle starts, that's when my expectation is, slowly but surely, we need to start um integrating some strength training into your weekly routine.

Speaker 1:

That makes sense. I've noticed the amount of injuries related to bone mass, like growth plates and like just very weird injuries that I've noticed just in my small circle. I only give lessons to a handful of girls and the amount of times that I've had doctors come back and say it's something to do with the bone mass is very interesting to me. Do you think that has to do with overuse of very specific movements?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's, this is actually. This is where I nerd out co TV like on this kind of stuff.

Speaker 2:

Um, in my uh, my strength personal trainer, strength coach that I have inside of our membership that supports our athletes in this. She's also a nerd in it, so when we get on a call it's like crazy. Um, but I was just talking to a sports medicine. He sees injuries, I guess. Let me get to the point here.

Speaker 2:

So, baseball, softball, and what was the other one? It was baseball, softball and I want to say it was lacrosse, but I could be wrong on that. He was saying we don't train to play the sport, we play the sport to train. In every other sport we train our bodies to be capable of doing this sport baseball, softball and, like I said, I think it's lacrosse. We do the sport and then figure out we've got to train our body, like train our body while doing this sport. But because I was having a pitcher, she was having some pain with her curve ball and he was like she hasn't gained that mobility in her wrist, in her forearm, and so there's some issues going on with nerves because she hasn't trained her body to be able to be mobile enough to execute these long hours, especially in softball, right, there's no pitch counts Like you just go in. Sometimes you're the ace of the team and you got to pitch all the games and we need you for championships. And come on, girl.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and it's like I hope that pitch counts become a thing too.

Speaker 2:

I pray, I pray, but it goes back to your point of like. That's why we have to, from that young age, start incorporating it. Even if it's in your garage and it's a core circuit or it's a explosiveness circuit, let's do it Right, because then again you're making great habit for your daughter to have post-college Like. I'm sorry, but in high school, when I was a high school athlete, the gym was for the football players and I did not belong in there.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but even the lifting workouts that we did in college, I came to loathe the weight. Oh, me too, a thousand percent. But now, now that I have better form, let's be honest, more sleep and, just like your body awareness. I was a great softball athlete, not a great athlete.

Speaker 2:

Yes, the sports men guy that I was talking to, that's exactly what he was saying.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, like if you had me to say all right, ab, let's do some box jumps. It's like that girl is going to sprain her ankle. Get her away from those box jumps. If my former teammates are listening to this, that was like a running joke. I sprained my ankle walking off a curb at Jimmy. Oh, uh, parents, don't skip this, don't skip this, absolute. But like, I think the hope that I have for this next generation is that if we're addressing them as full people, in men's performance and what we do, but also it sounds like what you're doing is like also the whole body is.

Speaker 1:

It's going to start to take some of the pressure off because we're building them as full bodies, whole people. You just happen to play softball and, by the way, when you focus on the whole body and your teenager is well-rested and well-fed, she might be a little bit less teenager-y, to be honest 1,000%.

Speaker 2:

Her hormones are regulated. Yes, 1,000%.

Speaker 1:

It's going to be more enjoyable for everybody.

Speaker 2:

Yep, yeah. And then the last non-negotiable, which falls in the hormone absolute, is tracking your cycle. That is a non-negotiable. We have just a PDF. You just put it on your nightstand or your bathroom mirror. I have it on my bathroom mirror. You just write down like, okay, you know day one, and then you just track symptoms. If you want to track weight, cool, I don't advise it, but you know you're tracking your cycle, so you understand. Hey, I'm in lydial phase, so you know what? I might be a little cranky. And then guess if, guess what? If dad's walking by the bathroom, he can see, okay, she's about to start period. Maybe I need to be more softer on the edges, right? So there's just again going back to that first point. Maybe that you made is awareness, because you can fulfill these other behavioral needs that your body needs. They're non-negotiables.

Speaker 2:

Mindset can be so much more profound and stronger, like you're going to have more resilience right when you do face adversity. It's like I'm made for this moment. I got this because my other buckets are full. I just haven't had a granola bar today and I'm trying to go on four hours of sleep. No, you're rocking and rolling.

Speaker 1:

This is why okay, let's go extreme for a second. This just popped into my mind. This is going to sound psychotic. This is why they use starvation and sleep deprivation as war tactics. If you really wanted to crumble your enemy or take down someone who is strong, what would you do? You would feed them, you would deprive them of their sleep and distract them. Distract them, you trigger them.

Speaker 2:

AB. What is this? I mean, I don't know. Podcast can't see the the, the right, the phone is like the root of all evil. And I know I'm just preaching to the choir with these parents and these kids. You guys probably know it, but it's such a distraction that we cannot ignore. It's like our lifeline now.

Speaker 1:

But this is the reason we don't get sleep. Yeah, but do you remember when we took the phones away at the retreat the year that you came to the retreat was the first year we were like we're taking your phones. They were so nervous, nervous they didn't know how to talk to each other, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:

It was wild. Isn't that wild, though, dude? Like it's, it's crazy, it's. But it seems like if we go back to that equation right, the equation of thoughts plus behaviors equals our beliefs. And then we add this filter of cell phone in social media on top of our thoughts and behaviors, Like, without a doubt, your beliefs are going to be terrible.

Speaker 1:

Oh, you and I have talked about that. As it relates to business, it's very easy caught up in comparison and enough. It's not good enough. Yeah, and like, here's my thing is some, some of the people that I'm comparing to have, like production companies and like professional photographers following them around, like some of these influencers.

Speaker 2:

Now, I mean the masters.

Speaker 1:

This was the big thing about the masters. No, no phones are allowed at the masters. Did you know this? I didn't. The masters tournament is the big golf. So at the masters tournament now the big thing is like all of these instagram influencers, like pookie. Do you follow pookie and jet?

Speaker 2:

no, I don't, I, I don't do it, I don't do.

Speaker 1:

Influencers, my girls, try to tell me and I'm like, yeah, you love me but think about, like all these famous influencers that have now been invited to this golf event but there's no phones allowed. They literally have people, camera crews, following them around with like fancy cameras and microphones and all the things, and it's like how many times do we compare ourselves to people who are not stepping in our reality? You know what I mean. Like and I don't know how that would apply to softball but like, think about if you're comparing yourself to another girl that got a division one scholarship or, you know, hit a certain. Here's another one of like everyone holds up the radar gun.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

It's like okay, so she hit 60 miles an hour on the radar gun. Did she hit that one time or did she hit it seven? Did she hit it on a walkthrough or is she you know what I mean? Like you just have to take it with a grain of salt of like. Like you said, it's you called it the lens.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, for sure. So good but it's all coming back to you. It's coming back to what can you do and how do you take care of yourself? Because I guarantee, if you're busy comparing yourself to freaking social media influencers or you know d1 athletes, that maybe you're still 12 years old or 14. Right, come back to taking care of yourself. First, the four absolutes. What are you doing?

Speaker 1:

you're the secret. You want to know what my number one hated viral post is on Instagram. Every time I post it, I haven't talked to you about this.

Speaker 1:

No it's my yellow sticky note. I post this a couple of times um a year. It's so good. Confidence will never come from a coach, a teammate or parents. It's an internal decision to be proud of who you are and what you can do. That's the number one hated post. Here's why. Here's why you know how many people comment on that, saying absolutely, a coach can affect your confidence, a coach can take away your confidence. Oh, but I had a good coach. A coach can give me confidence. Absolutely, this can affect this. And every time I comment back I say you're missing the point, because if a coach can give you confidence, you're also giving them the power to take away confidence. The only way that your confidence can be true, lasting, unshakable confidence is it comes from within, and people do not like hearing that. They don't like that because they don't. They want to scapegoat or they want we're all hurt humans seeking the approval of others.

Speaker 2:

Well, and when we can put it on someone else, gosh, it doesn't make us feel so exposed, it feels I feel still in my comfort zone. Right, Awareness you have to have the awareness piece.

Speaker 1:

What was that? Ab is not. That's to me like that's my most viral, like either you get it or you don't yeah, those that get it. That's what I'm saying is that, like your members and your membership and the performance portal, and like the fearless warriors, like the people that we get to impact, those that get it. Get it, yeah 1000%.

Speaker 2:

Can we talk a little bit?

Speaker 1:

about this. I want you to share what it is that you're working on. So you work with little leagues, you work with teams, but you have a really cool portal where we've talked about the four absolutes. It's called the performance portal, right Am?

Speaker 2:

I getting that right.

Speaker 2:

Yep, yep, yeah. So the performance portal. It's, I want you to imagine, like it's Netflix for these four absolutes. So you have a category, just like you'd have, like a comedy category on Netflix. You'd have a category for mental, physical, um, nutrition and hormones, and so you can go through.

Speaker 2:

Gosh, we have hundreds of resources on there now, um, and each, I would say, could take you from five minutes to an hour to complete. It comes with worksheets, all the things, and so our athletes get all those resources and then they get access to two live trainings a month in which we have a live masterclass on the second Sunday of every month, and then a live Q&A the second Sunday of every month, and then a live Q&A the fourth Sunday of every month, and so that's kind of the gist of what every member receives. And then inside the membership, they have the option to do one-on-ones with any expert that's on staff. So we have experts inside of each Absolute that they could book a call with to make sure that they have a great nutrition plan or that they want to really breathe into strengthening their thought process and their recovery process, and so we lock in on that In the live trainings they oftentimes, you know college athletes will get on a panel.

Speaker 2:

We'll have a recruiting expert. Come on and talk to our athletes. I had an MMA fighter come and talk to our girls about fear and that was freaking awesome. And just because you know she faced fear every single day of getting their face knocked in, you know and so really cool things happening there in in really cool results.

Speaker 2:

So that's what the performance portal is all about.

Speaker 1:

I love it and I've loved seeing the evolution of this, and I would love more than anything to book a call with a hormone coach.

Speaker 2:

So let's, yeah she would love to book it with you too. She was a former D1 athlete at ASU. She was a gymnast.

Speaker 1:

Cool yeah.

Speaker 2:

Well, Amy, I so appreciate you having me on this call. It was so good to see your smiling face and just chat and catch up with you.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, continue to send our voice notes. I would love to hear your answer. I can't end this without asking you our favorite question, which is if you are a time traveler and you could go back in time and give yourself a message, what are you telling yourself?

Speaker 2:

if I could go back in time, um, I think it would be to put my blinders on and not care what other people thought so much. Um, that was some monumental noise that I had in my life, whether it was, you know, caring so much about what my dad wanted for me and wanting to please him and make him proud, caring too much about what my teammates thought and what my coach thought and the perceptions that other people had of me. If I could go back in time, I think it would be to tell my younger self put your blinders on, and you do you. Nobody else controls you.

Speaker 1:

So good advice taken. My job, that's a great way. I know you've got lots going on. I appreciate your time and, uh, you know you and I will continue the conversation. Where is the best place We'll tag it below Is Instagram. Yeah, everyone's kind of like hanging out on Instagram.

Speaker 2:

The Do Method, or it's the do methodcom, or it's Facebook is the Do Method. We like to keep it simple around here.

Speaker 1:

We'll tag those below and information for the performance portal and all that good stuff. So, um, when this episode airs, if you have any questions or follow-up, you are welcome to DM coach D um or myself if you have questions, and we'll get you hooked up with the right resource, the right person. Or if you don't know the answer to your question, we're going to be Googling it, so I love it.

Speaker 2:

Well, thank you so much for this opportunity. Have a great one.

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