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How To Win
Listen now | England women's football team psychologist Dr Kate Hays explains her framework for finding success on and off the pitch
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John Nassoori
44:46
Inside the NBA's mental health & performance program
Listen now | An exclusive look at the secrets behind the success of American basketball's pioneering 'Mind Health' initiative
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John Nassoori
45:22
How to setup a mental health support system in a pro sport league
Full interview with Dr. Brett Haskell, exploring how she's established a mental health support system across US women's soccer
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John Nassoori
38:46
'A Swiss Army knife for players': inside the National Women's Soccer League mental health setup
The Mind Room speaks exclusively to Dr. Brett Haskell, the NWSL's Director of Clinical Mental Health and Performance, about building a league-wide…
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'A lot of athletes have a skewed perception of what it is to be a person versus what it is to be a commodity'
Mind Room columnist Jonathan Harding speaks to German national team psychologist Julia Eyre about the need to develop athletes' understanding of…
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John Nassoori
28:37
'When you have 5 minutes and $50m on the line, 'it depends' doesn't work'
Alex Auerbach, the Toronto Raptors' ex-Director of Wellness and Development, on the sport psychology advice that helped shape the side's NBA Draft…
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John Nassoori
40:32
'Athletes don't have to be super competitive, super ruthless and win at all costs'
The full interview with Nottingham Trent researchers Laura Healy and Joseph Stanford, exploring the way in which narcissism, Machiavellianism and…
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John Nassoori
32:55
Embedding sport psychology across an elite European club (Part 2)
In the second episode of a two-part podcast, Dan Abrahams explains how he worked with colleagues from Feyenoord’s playing, coaching and backroom teams…
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John Nassoori
24:00
Exclusive: Dan Abrahams on Feyenoord, Arne Slot and how 'shared mental models' stand up to 70,000 fans (Part 1)
In the first episode of a two-part podcast, the ex-England rugby 'psych' discusses his two-year spell with the Dutch cup holders, from working with Slot…
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John Nassoori
27:28
'It's messy': Alex Auerbach on sport psychology regulation, gaining coach buy-in and mental health support in the NBA
Ex-Toronto Raptors Director of Wellness and Development discusses his time in basketball, how sport psychologists can secure support from coaches and…
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John Nassoori
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Alex Auerbach
43:40
The 'mental model' binding counter terrorism and football
22 July 2011.
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From coach to 'mental coach': inside Norweigan football's psychology programme
Why training coaches - rather than psychologists - is helping Norway's top-flight clubs
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