About this podcast
Master your mental game with the Mental Training Lab, hosted by Pete Kadushin. With 15 years of coaching experience and a PhD in performance psychology, Pete digs deep each episode to provide practical tools and expert insights so you can perform your best when it matters most. Enhance your focus, harness stress, and overcome challenges whether you’re an athlete, leader, or high-performer. Subscribe to learn how to elevate your game in work, play, and life.
Episodes
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- How Do You Know? Training the Translator Between Mind and Body · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 91A few years ago, I started working with a somatic experiencing practitioner who opened every session the same way: “How are you?” I always had an answer ready. Then she’d ask the…
- What Game Are You Playing? Seeing the Invisible Rules That Run the Show · 26 minEvery game has rules. The blue line in hockey, the three-point line in basketball. And those rules quietly shape every strategy built around them. In this solocast, I’m asking a…
- With the End in Mind: Reflection as Your Highest Point of Leverage · 20 minFor the best, reflection is an integral part of the process. For everyone else, reflection is one of the most overlooked parts of the performance cycle. Without structure and…
- You Gotta Get Up to Get Down: The Paradox of Relaxation · 24 minIn this solocast, I’m exploring something I got wrong for a long time: the idea that when we’re carrying too much stress or activation, the answer is simply to get better at…
- Stop Overriding Your Body: Elisa Haggarty on Somatic Coaching, Authenticity, and Peak Performance · 47 minIn this episode of The Mental Training Lab, I sit down with former basketball athlete and executive/somatic coach Elisa Haggarty to explore how athletes, leaders, and high…
- The Monster Under the Bed: What Are You Afraid to Face? · 24 minIn this solocast, I’m exploring what happens when performers try to avoid the very things they’re most afraid of. Maybe it’s falling. Missing the shot. Losing the tournament…
- Unlocking the Last 10%: Jim Harshaw on Failure, Aligned Goals, and the Structure of Peak Performance · 55 minIn this episode of The Mental Training Lab, I sit down with former All-American wrestler, performance coach, TEDx speaker, and entrepreneur Jim Harshaw to explore what it takes…
- Into the Unknown: How to Perform Without Certainty · 24 minWe all want a little certainty before a big performance. A great warmup. A perfect night of sleep. Some sign that everything is going to go according to plan. The problem is that…
- Stop Trying to Fix Athletes: Dr. Kate Bennett on Love, Psychological Safety, and Mental Performance · 1 h 0 minIn this episode of The Mental Training Lab, I sit down with sport psychologist and three-time national champion Dr. Kate Bennett, founder of Full Send Consulting, to explore one…
- Inside the Mind of a Tour de France Rider: Brent Bookwalter on Pain, Performance, and the Mental Game · 1 h 1 minBrent spent years competing at the highest levels of cycling, including the Tour de France, the Olympics, and World Championships. Since retiring from professional cycling, Brent…
- Don’t Let Optimization Hold You Hostage · 26 minIn this solocast, I’m exploring a paradox I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: the more optimized a system becomes, the more fragile it can get. We start with sleep, but this…
- Psilocybin, Performance, and Deep Healing: Adam O'Neil on Going Beyond Mental Skills · 1 h 9 min**This conversation is all about psilocybin-assisted therapy, but it is not medical advice. Psilocybin is not appropriate for everyone, laws vary by location, and anyone…
- You Can't Outcoach Your Nervous System · 26 minYour nervous system is the foundation of everything else. It shapes the way you perceive reality, and everything flows from there: what you think, how you decide, what comes out…
- Beyond the Grind: Lodro Rinzler on Meditation, Worthiness, and the “I’m Not Enough” Trap · 1 h 0 minIn this episode of The Mental Training Lab, I sit down with Buddhist teacher, meditation teacher, and author Lodro Rinzler to explore a concept that has powerful implications for…
- Stop Hiding Behind the Process · 20 minIn this week's solocast, I’m unpacking something I’ve been seeing a lot lately: the idea of caring less about the outcome and just focusing on the process. That mindset may not…
- From Formula 1 to the Boardroom: Building Trust and High-Performance Teams with Peter Hodgkinson · 1 h 5 minWhat does it really take to build trust and psychological safety in teams under pressure? In this episode of The Mental Training Lab, I sit down with Peter Hodgkinson…
- Unlocking Flow: Breath, Challenge, and Embracing Nerves · 22 minIn today's solo-cast, I’m digging into something I see all the time with athletes and high performers, the way we misunderstand nerves, pressure, and what it actually takes to…
- Crossover Episode | Live Coaching + Feedback on The Transformational Leader with Adam Quiney and Chris McAdoo · 1 h 28 minOn this episode of The Mental Training Lab we are sharing an episode of The Transformational Leader featuring a conversation with Pete Kadushin. "On this week's mid-week episode…
- Beyond the Grind: Redefining Mental Toughness with Dr. Hillary Cauthen · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 74For decades, athletes and high performers have been taught to grind harder, push through pain, and silence weakness at all costs. I’m your host Pete Kadushin, and in this episode…
- The Illusion of Progress · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 73In this solo episode, I’m exploring something I see all the time in the performance world: the illusion of progress. From the outside, it can look like we’re doing everything…
