Lauren Johnson works as a mental performance coach. Additionally, she’s a keynote speaker, a writer, an entrepreneur, and she’s curious, obsessed, and interested with how the lessons in sports translate to the corporate world. She’s given keynotes to such notable organizations as the FBI, Johnson and Johnson, and Mass Mutual. Additionally, she’s worked for the New York Yankees as their mental conditioning coordinator.
In this episode, we discuss her taking the leap to putting out video content despite being somewhat insecure and hesitant about it (6:07), if she received negative feedback on the videos early on (8:05), why she didn’t give up on it (9:15), the importance of learning how to fail (12:34), if there was a particular moment in one of her videos that made her proud and what she learned from that (13:57), how she is choosing to see the good during these tough times (18:52), empathy, anger, thoughts, and feelings (28:06), when she leans into empathy and when she chooses to focus on something else (30:52), handling difficult and uncomfortable situations (33:30), soccer and the influence it had on her, as well as why she decided to become a mental performance coach (36:51), what it felt like when people would laugh at her degree in performance psychology (42:59), how she thinks about motivation and inspiration as it relates to performance (46:07), aspiration (49:52), what inside Lauren allowed her to be confident in her work with the Yankees (54:31), what she does intentionally to show up as her best self (56:58), what she likes to read (59:45), how to best synthesize information to help it stick with you (1:01:19), what she has learned from working in baseball (1:03:42), and how she defines mental toughness (1:07:51).
You can follow her on Instagram @laurennicolejohnson.
Thanks so much to Lauren for coming on the podcast!
I wrote a book called “Shift Your Mind” that was released in October of 2020, and you can order it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Additionally, I have launched a company called Strong Skills, and I encourage you to check out our new website https://www.strongskills.co/. If you liked this episode and/or any others, please follow me on Twitter: @brianlevenson or Instagram: @Intentional_Performers.
Thanks for listening.
-Brian
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