Power to Perform Podcast: Recent Episodes
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This week, Alli Mallory sits down with Jada Green, a 5th year senior on the women’s track and field team. They discuss what it’s like being a student-athlete here at CU, and how Jada has taken care of her mental health along the way.
This week, Alli Mallory sits down with Dr. Karin VanBaak, one of CU’s team physicians with a sports and family medicine background, as well as Emma Pollak, a junior on the track and field team at CU. They break down myths related to medication and the benefits psychotropic medication can have on an individual.
This week, Alli Mallory sits down with Dr. Janine D’Anniballe and Emma Pollak, a junior on the track and field team at CU. They discuss what it’s like being a student-athlete, how PHP supports athlete’s mental health, and what we can do to continue to break down the stigma around mental health.
This week, Alli Mallory sits down with Demouy Kennedy, a senior on the CU football team! They discuss what a typical day in the life of a student-athlete looks like and how Demouy works to be mentally strong in his sport. Additionally, they talk about the benefits of starting your day off coming from a place of gratitude and positivity.
This week, Alli Mallory sits down with Juliauna Hayward, a sophomore on the women’s soccer team here at CU. They discuss what it’s like being a student-athlete, how CU athletics supports athletes, and how they can take care of their mental health.
This week, Alli Mallory sits down with Maya Ratner again to discuss what to do when our minds are working against us. Specifically, they break down what micro-quitting and mental blocks look like and provide tips and tricks to overcome them.
This week, Alli Mallory sits down with Maya Ratner, a junior on the all-women’s cheer team at CU. They discuss challenges she’s faced being an athlete while also balancing school. Additionally, Maya shares how knowing her core values has helped her manage her day to day responsibilities.
This week, Alli Mallory sits down with Diandra Walker, PHP’s new Clinical Administrative Specialist. They discuss Diandra’s educational background and how mental health is supported throughout CU athletics.
This week, Alli Mallory sits down with Linda Sterling, PHP’s licensed athletic counselor with a mental performance focus. They discuss Linda’s background, her therapeutic style when working with student-athletes and how she got into this field!
This week, Alli Mallory sits down with Josh Salter, PHP’s licensed athletic counselor with a multicultural focus. They discuss Josh’s educational background and his therapeutic style when working with student-athletes.
This week, Alli Mallory sits down with Janine D’Anniballe and Fievel, PHP’s facility dog to talk about how Fievel helps student-athletes here at CU!
This month, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory hosts a special series that highlights each clinician at PHP! This week, Alli and Dr. Janine D’Anniballe, the associate director and training coordinator at PHP, talk about Janine’s educational background and her therapeutic style when working with student-athletes!
This week, Alli Mallory got to know Alejandro Mata, the kicker for CU’s football team! They discuss what got him into football, how he mentally prepares for games, and how he’s handled the pressure of this unique football season!
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory and PHP intern Meghan Paynter sit down with CU cross-country runner Rylee Robinson! They discuss how mental techniques to stay present in the moment leading up to a race, and reflect on the importance of support systems and staying away from the comparison trap.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory and PHP intern Meghan Paynter sit down with CU cross-country runner Rylee Robinson! They discuss how Rylee got into running, and why she wanted to be on this podcast!
This week, associate director of PHP Erin Rubenking sits down with clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory to ask her questions about herself. Alli talks about her football family, and what she loves most about CU and sport psychology.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory and associate director of PHP Erin Rubenking sit down together to answer questions submitted by student-athletes here at CU. These questions range from why Alli and Erin got into the sport psychology field to tips on getting a teammate to seek mental health services.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with PHP doctoral extern Patty Wilson, as well as a graduate student on the CU track and field team, Jaida Drame. They discuss how to recognize thoughts leading to anxiety, and how to separate from those thoughts.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory engages in a conversation with Patty Wilson, a doctoral extern in PHP, and Jaida Drame, a graduate student on the CU track and field team. The topic of discussion centers around Jaida's mental preparation for races and the significance of adopting a positive perspective towards stressful situations.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with PHP doctoral extern, Patty Wilson as well as a graduate student on the CU track and field team, Jaida Drame. They discuss pre-race anxiety and ways to view anxiety to better help one’s performance.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory hosts a special edition episode in honor of Eating Disorder Awareness Week with Erin Rubenking, the associate director at PHP, and Emily Covert, a senior on the CU cross-country team. Emily shares what has helped her along her journey, what she wants people who are struggling with an eating disorder to know, and how to best support someone who may be struggling with an eating disorder or disordered eating. Erin shares resources as well as education about what eating disorders can look like. TW: This episode talks about eating disorders, which can be triggering for some people. If this topic wouldn’t be helpful for you to hear, please skip this episode.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with PHP doctoral intern, Corinne Duffy-Strode and freshman on the track and field team, Riley Burkey! They discuss Riley’s experiences with comparison as a female athlete, and what advice she has for other female athletes.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with PHP doctoral intern, Corinne Duffy-Strode and freshman on the track and field team, Riley Burkey! They discuss the benefits of utilizing visualization, and how and when to practice it! They also discuss different grounding techniques.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with freshman on the track and field team, Riley Burkey! They discuss her love for podcasts, as well as how her childhood playing sports led her to choose track! Additionally, Riley talks about what recruitment was like for her, and the lessons she learned.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with freshman on the track and field team, Riley Burkey. They discuss positive coaching experiences Riley has had, as well as very negative coaching experiences. Riley shares a tough story, and through her vulnerability is able to share warning signs of manipulation and grooming.
This month, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory hosts a special series that highlights each clinician at PHP! This week, Alli and Dr. Taylor Langley, the assistant director and diversity, equity, and inclusion coordinator at PHP, discuss Taylor’s educational background and why her passion led her to this role at CU!
This month, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory hosts a special series that highlights each clinician at PHP! This week, Alli and Dr. Mac Brown, the assistant director and training coordinator at PHP, discuss how he got his role at CU, and what his job entails!
This month, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory hosts a special series that highlights each clinician at PHP! This week, Alli and Erin Rubenking, the associate director and clinical care coordinator at PHP, talk about Erin’s educational background and her therapeutic style when working with student-athletes!
This month, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory hosts a special series that highlights each clinician at PHP! This week, Alli and Dr. Rachel Walker, director of PHP, discuss Rachel’s journey to becoming director, and what led her to choose sport psychology as her career!
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with associate director Erin Rubenking and sophomore football player Camden Dempsey about how PHP can be utilized, and the importance of asking for help.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with associate director Erin Rubenking and sophomore football player Camden Dempsey about Camden’s experience coming back from an ACL tear, what helped him along the way, and how his identity played a role.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with associate director Erin Rubenking and sophomore football player Camden Dempsey about steps they’ve taken to better than mental health during difficult life stages.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with associate director Erin Rubenking and sophomore football player Camden Dempsey about the importance of breaking the mental health stigma within athletics.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with Assistant Director/DEI Coordinator, Dr. Taylor Langley and senior on the women’s golf team Issy Simpson about how to put mental training into action, and strategies to increase self-confidence.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with Assistant Director/DEI Coordinator, Dr. Taylor Langley and senior on the women’s golf team Issy Simpson about what advice Issy would give to someone who is just starting to consider training their mindset.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with Assistant Director/DEI Coordinator, Dr. Taylor Langley and senior on the women’s golf team Issy Simpson about different techniques Issy has found helpful when managing her performance anxiety.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with Assistant Director/DEI Coordinator, Dr. Taylor Langley and senior on the women’s golf team Issy Simpson about how performance anxiety has presented itself throughout Issy’s golf career, and some tips for managing unproductive self-talk.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with Assistant Director at PHP, Dr. Mac Brown and senior women’s basketball player Charlotte Whittaker about how staff within athletics can support their student-athletes through grief, and advice on how to navigate the burden someone may feel when asking for help.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with Assistant Director at PHP, Dr. Mac Brown and senior women’s basketball player Charlotte Whittaker about their thoughts on being mentally tough and how this can be misused in athletics.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with Assistant Director at PHP, Dr. Mac Brown and senior women’s basketball player Charlotte Whittaker about different coping techniques Charlotte’s found helpful when processing grief, and the importance of finding coping techniques that work for a specific person.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with Assistant Director at PHP, Dr. Mac Brown and senior women’s basketball player Charlotte Whittaker about her experiences with grief and the different types of grief people deal with.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with Director of PHP Dr. Rachel Walker and junior alpine skier Katie Fleckenstein about how an athlete can sense when they’re about to burnout, and tips for overcoming burnout.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with Director of PHP Dr. Rachel Walker and junior alpine skier Katie Fleckenstein about what would be important to know going into your freshman year as a D1 athlete.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with Director of PHP Dr. Rachel Walker and junior alpine skier Katie Fleckenstein about how to work through common challenges seen in competitive athletes.
This week, clinical administrative specialist Alli Mallory speaks with Director of PHP Dr. Rachel Walker and junior alpine skier Katie Fleckenstein about common challenges student-athletes face and how to manage expectations and tips for being a “compassionate competitor.”
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PHP Doctoral Resident Magda Mendoza-Soto about self-care tips Max has implemented throughout his athletic career, as well as how to recognize and refer when our friends and teammates may be dealing with something.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PHP Doctoral Resident Magda Mendoza-Soto about the importance of talking about mental health within athletics, as well as common misconceptions people have about mental health concerns in athletics.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PHP Doctoral Resident Magda Mendoza-Soto about how athletes can try to separate having a reliance on sport for their mental health. Additionally, they discuss the common phrase in athletics, “keep pushing through.”
This month, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PHP Doctoral Resident Magda Mendoza-Soto about mental health as a whole. This week, they discuss mental health issues within athletics, as well as how athletes can take the next step to seek help.
To wrap up the month on mindfulness, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PHP Doctoral Resident Christianne Biggane about Max’s relationship with mindfulness throughout his athletic career, as well as some advice for athletes as they end their athletic careers.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PHP Doctoral Resident Christianne Biggane about how an athlete can focus on the process rather than the outcome during mindfulness practice. Additionally, they discuss what an athlete may struggle with during mindfulness practice, and how to overcome that.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PHP Doctoral Resident Christianne Biggane about how mindfulness practice can help an athlete experiencing pressure of performance through expectations. Additionally, Christianne takes us through a quick mindfulness technique!
This month, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PHP Doctoral Resident Christianne Biggane about all things mindfulness. This week, they discuss why mindfulness works for athletes, and how might mindfulness change over the course of a season for athletes experiencing struggle or success.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PHP Director Dr. Rachel Walker about how to manage emotions to benefit performance in a healthy way and how to differentiate between emotions.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PHP Director Dr. Rachel Walker about what positive self-talk is and explains how to use this to benefit performance and quality of life.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PHP Director Dr. Rachel Walker about what imagery is, why an athlete would use it, and how to practice this mental skill.
This month, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PHP Director Dr. Rachel Walker on different mental skills athletes can utilize to benefit their performance. This week, they go in-depth on Mindfulness and how it can be used daily.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with Assistant Director of PHP Dr. Mac Brown about how mental training has impacted Max’s life as well as how athletes can stay focused during training and competition season.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with Assistant Director of PHP Dr. Mac Brown about how athletes can manage expectations and how athletes can use expectations in a positive way.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with Assistant Director of PHP Dr. Mac Brown about how athletes can remain positive during difficult times, as well as what athletes can try to focus on when they are in a slump.
This month, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with Assistant Director of PHP Dr. Mac Brown about mentality related to poor performance, perfectionism, and burnout. This week, they discuss how athletes can turn competitive disappointment into something positive, as well as how disappointment can impact an athlete.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with Associate Director of PHP Erin Rubenking about how athletes can use their outside life to recenter themselves after tough weeks of training and competition. Additionally, Max discusses what he’s found helpful and unhelpful in balancing sport, academics, and social life.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with Associate Director of PHP Erin Rubenking about ways to ensure that pressure from sport doesn’t impact one’s social and personal life. They also discuss how athletes can determine when they may be at their limit of success and overall happiness.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with Associate Director of PHP Erin Rubenking about how athletes can maximize their time off while preparing for the busy competition schedules? Additionally, they go in-depth on strategies and tools athletes can utilize to manage their time.
This month, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with Associate Director of PHP Erin Rubenking on balancing life and sport. This week, they talk about how incoming and current athletes can learn and adapt to manage their life outside of sport, as well as whether there’s such a thing as a healthy balance.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PhD intern Matison McCool about ways to stay present during competition, especially when fear and stress are on your mind.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PhD intern Matison McCool about certain mental skills that can be useful for an athlete coming back from injury. Additionally, they discuss how confidence plays a role in the different stages of returning to sport post-injury.
This week, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PhD intern Matison McCool about what an athlete can do when they’re relying too much on confidence, as well as what can athletes do to still compete well when confidence is absent.
This month, senior alpine skier Max Bervy speaks with PhD intern Matison McCool on confidence and the relation to returning to sport after injury. This week, they go in-depth on the importance of confidence for athletes, and how someone builds their confidence.
Dr. Rachel Walker and Max Bervy finish off the December podcast series by discussing what athletes can do to ensure they do not overtrain and that they are in a helpful mindset for both training and competition.
Dr. Rachel Walker and Max Bervy discuss what can inhibit the transfer of success from training to competition, as well as what to say to an athlete who has difficulty succeeding in competition.
Dr. Rachel Walker and Max Bervy discuss how an athlete can feel confident from their training and explain the difference between a training mindset and a competition mindset.
Dr. Rachel Walker, Director of PHP joins us for Episode 9 of P2P Podcast, accompanied by Max Bervy, a senior on the alpine ski team. They discuss what the purpose of training should be, and how an athlete can optimize quality training.
For the final episode of the second series, Erin Rubenking and Max Bervy talk about ways athletes or performers can tune out the fear aspect of their goals. Additionally, Erin goes in-depth on various techniques you can apply during competition to ensure you’re in your optimal level of stress.
Episode 7 goes into detail on how and why mindfulness training is key to maintaining your focus on the process, rather than the outcome. Erin Rubenking and Max Bervy also discuss whether there ever is an appropriate time to focus on outcome-oriented goals. Finally, Erin reminds us that all CU student-athletes have access to a free Calm subscription, which is a mindfulness training app.
For Episode 6, Erin Rubenking and Max Bervy continue their discussion on goal setting. More specifically, Erin provides certain steps athletes or performers can follow to help them achieve their goals.
Erin Rubenking, Associate Director of PHP joins us for Episode 5 of P2P Podcast, and is accompanied by Max Bervy, a senior on the alpine ski team. They discuss the difference between process, performance, and outcome goals and what type of relationship there is between the three.
For Episode 4, Dr. Mac Brown and Max Bervy discuss the relationship between process and outcome-oriented nervousness. To finish off this month’s topic on anxiety and nerves, Dr. Brown shares different mental strategies that could help an athlete combat those nervous or anxious feelings.
For Episode 3, Dr. Mac Brown and Max Bervy discuss the relationship between pressure and anxiety. Additionally, Mac answers the question of whether nervousness can be a good thing.
For Episode 2, Dr. Mac Brown and Max Bervy go in-depth on where anxiety comes from while also providing helpful techniques to take control of that nervous feeling.
For our first episode, senior alpine skier Max Bervy talks with PHP’s assistant director and training coordinator, Dr. Mac Brown. They discuss the common implications athletes and performers experience when feeling nervous, and where that nervous feeling stems from. To finish it off, Dr. Brown shares a quick tip that athletes can utilize to ground themselves when feeling anxious.