Your Mental Weight Room
Desi McPhail - Mindset & Performance Coach for Athlete - Certified Life Coach
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Your Mental Weight Room helps college athletes train the strongest muscle they have, their mind. Hosted by former athlete and Certified Life Coach Desi, this podcast gives you tools to build confidence, stop overthinking, play with freedom, and so much more!
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Mastering Performance for Athletes When Facing Things We Can't Control
In episode 28 of Your Mental Weight Room, host Desi explores how athletes can mentally handle uncontrollable circumstances. Drawing from a personal experience playing in a sand volleyball playoff —…
5 Practical Mindset Hacks to Manage Overwhelm and Boost Your Performance
In Episode 27 of Your Mental Weight Room, mindset mentor Desi tackles the overwhelming feelings many athletes experience. She clarifies that overwhelm stems not from the number of tasks but from how…
Four Proven Strategies to Build Confidence and Crush Mental Blocks
In Episode 26 of "Your Mental Weight Room," mindset mentor and certified life coach Desi shares four keys to building confidence for college athletes. She explains that confidence stems from…
Don’t Shut Down: How to Embrace Correction and Avoid Burnout as an Athlete
In Episode 25 of Your Mental Weight Room, host and mindset mentor Desi explores how college athletes can better handle correction from their coaches. She addresses common negative reactions—such as…
Let's Get Mentally Tough
In Episode 24 of "Your Mental Weight Room," host Desi redefines mental toughness for college athletes. Drawing from personal experience playing volleyball through hairline fractures, she challenges…
Tools I Wish I'd Had As A College Athlete: The Upper Limit
In Episode 23 of "Your Mental Weight Room," host Desi explores the "Upper Limit" concept from Gay Hendricks’ book The Big Leap. She explains how people subconsciously sabotage themselves when they…
Tools I Wish I'd Had As A College Athlete: The Model
In episode 22 of "Your Mental Weight Room," mindset mentor Desi explores "The Model," a mental framework by Brooke Castillo rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy. Building on the previous episode…
Tools I Wish I'd Had As A College Athlete: The Work
In episode 21 of "Your Mental Weight Room," mindset mentor and former college athlete Desi shares the first in a three-part series on mental tools she wishes she had as a player. Focusing on Byron…
Worthiness Unlocked: Embrace Your Inherent Value
In this quick episode of "Your Mental Weight Room," mindset mentor and former college athlete Desi explores the concept of worthiness. She shares how realizing that worthiness is inherent—unrelated…
Problematic Pressure
In episode 19 of "Your Mental Weight Room," Desi, a mindset mentor and former college athlete, explores the concept of pressure, especially among college athletes. She discusses the difference…
The Power of Time
In episode 18 of "Your Mental Weight Room," mindset mentor Desi challenges the belief that there’s never enough time to improve or achieve goals. She explains that time is a mental construct, not a…
Playing for Approval
In episode 17 of "Your Mental Weight Room," host Desi explores the dangers of playing sports—and living life—for the approval of others. Drawing from personal experience, she explains how seeking…
The Art of Upsetting Higher Seeds: Focus, Belief, and the Right Mindset
As a reminder, this episode was recorded in March of 2023. Some of the content has ties to that point in time but the information and value in this episode remains valuable today. In this episode of…
Stop the Drama: How Acceptance Can Transform Your Athletic Journey
In episode 15 of "Your Mental Weight Room," host Desi explores the true meaning of acceptance for athletes. She debunks the myth that acceptance equals giving up, emphasizing that it’s about…
Perfectionism In Your Game
In this episode of "Your Mental Weight Room," host Desi, a mindset mentor and former college athlete, tackles the topic of perfectionism in sports. She explains how perfectionism keeps athletes…
3 Things You Can Do When 'Nothings Working'
In this episode, mindset mentor and former college athlete Desi shares practical strategies for athletes facing tough moments in competition when it feels like there’s nothing more they can do. She…
Losing: The Only Thing We Can Count On in Sports!
In episode 11 of "Your Mental Weight Room," host Desi explores the concept of loss in sports, emphasizing that losing is a neutral event and not a reflection of self-worth. She discusses the…
Break Free from Limiting Beliefs: Unlock Your True Potential
In episode ten of "Your Mental Weight Room," mindset mentor Desi revisits a favorite mental tool for college athletes: questioning limiting beliefs. She explains the difference between facts,…
The Comeback Playbook: Strategies for Emotional Resilience and Disciplined Focus
In episode nine of "Your Mental Weight Room," host Desi explores the concept of comebacks in sports, contrasting emotional comebacks—driven by adrenaline and crowd energy—with disciplined comebacks,…
Juggling Life and Sport: Finding Balance In It All
In episode eight of "Your Mental Weight Room," host and guest Desi, a mindset mentor and former college athlete, discuss the common advice for athletes to "leave your problems in the locker…
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Your Mental Weight Room has published 27 episodes since September 2025, covering topics in Sports.
Your Mental Weight Room is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 15m.
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