THE MENTAL GAME Sports Podcast
Larissa created, "The Mental Game Academy" in sports podcast is to help support athletes and bring awareness to interpersonal skills much needed in sports today. It takes a village to develop young athletes, parents, coaches and trainers even refs and how are act around them and demonstrates emotions plays a key role in their social development and over all athletic success. We are interviewing athletes, professional and amateur, coaches, refs and parents that all want to see changes in sports to help our athletes to prevent mental health issues before they happen. Ultimately, athletes need emotional intelligence and resilience to further their career and time spent learning these skills will help them more in their athletic journey's.
THE MENTAL GAME Sports Podcast
The Transformed Shea Hillenbrand, are we preparing players right?
Shea is a 2-Time MLB All-Star for the Boston Red Sox & Toronto Blue Jays, has an Emmy® award-
winning story, & owned a zoo.
While growing up in Southern California, Shea sat in the back of Mr. Murphy’s 5th-grade class vigorously raising his hand in excitement to share his two childhood dreams. 1) Play Major League Baseball 2) Owna zoo. After the class laughed at him, he made a pact with himself to prove everyone wrong.
https://www.mlbmindset.com/all-star-life
While living out his first childhood dream of playing Major League Baseball, Shea becomes a2-Time MLB All-Star and makes 10’s of millions of dollars. After experiencing numerous highlights throughout Shea’s career, [First Red Sox player to hit a game-winning home run off the Yankee’s all-time greatest closer, Mariano Rivera. Hitting 3 home runs in consecutive innings in one game for the=AZ DBacks, played first base in Randy Johnson’s perfect game against the Braves in Atlanta & played
third base for two no-hitters while playing for the Boston Red Sox] and he is in the prime of his MLB career he abruptly makes the biggest decision of his life. He vanishes from the MLB and leaves $50mm . What happened?
Now, Shea shares his inspiring Emmy® Award-Winning story across the globe as a keynote speaker
inspiring & challenging people to REWRITE their stories.
As well, Shea owns a cutting-edge global elite performance company where he helps world-class
athletes and leaders unlock elite performance by mastering the inner game so they can win in all areas of
their lives. Ultimately giving TRUE meaning to their success. Teaching the MLB Mindset.