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Tami Matheny has been a coach and an athletic director working to help produce nationally ranked teams, conference champions, and win numerous individual awards. All that, and she’s also the author of The Confidence Journal, The Confident Athlete and her newest book, This is Good!

Tami has worked with college and recreational athletes as well as junior high/high school athletes in golf, soccer, softball, lacrosse, tennis, baseball, basketball, running, and weight lifting.  She has a passion for sports and how the mental game affects performance, and our conversation with her in this episode is so insightful!

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She covers her 4 tips for building confidence:

  1. Learn positive productive self talk
  2. Check your body language
  3. Visualize
  4. Put in the work

She also explains how finding the good moment by moment (or play by play) is a total game changer and shares her formula for team success:

Unity + Positive Emotions = Success

You can listen to this episode with Tami Matheny below now!

Connect with Tami at the following:

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