Champion's Mojo for Masters Swimmers

Almost everything we want comes through other people and the best leaders know this principle: You can’t be a leader without others. Influencing others begins by connecting, and in order to do that, you must take an interest in them. Today’s episode explores Dale Carnegie’s timeless values and principles from his book How to Win Friends and Influence People, with some updated ideas and tips relevant to 2021.
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Tips to Win Friends

• Don’t criticize, condemn or complain.
• Give honest, sincere appreciation.
• Become genuinely interested in other people.
• Smile.
• Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
• Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
• Talk in terms of other people’s interests.
• Make the other person feel important — and do it sincerely.
  Tips to Influence People
  
• The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
• Show respect for the other person’s opinion. Never say, “you’re wrong.”
• If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
• Begin in a friendly way.
• Let the other person do a great deal of the talking.
• Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view.
• Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires.

Episode Topics and Mentions

Pfizer

Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends & Influence People
University of South Carolina

Depression and Anxiety Toolkit
Quote of the Week

"Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours." -- Dale Carnegie

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Injury and illness happen to everyone, particularly athletes who train consistently, year after year. How can you make the most of the time needed to heal -- both physically and emotionally? Life and health coaches Kelly and Maria share tips for coming back from injury and illness that will improve your resiliency, outlook and comeback.

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Techniques for Healing

1. Set aside time, on your calendar, for healing (both physical and mental).
2. Take the rest you need to ensure the injury or illness is truly healed.
3. Learn and educate yourself about your illness or injury.
4. Show yourself self-compassion and listen to yourself and your body.
5. Move in whatever way you can in that moment.
6. Create a “while I’m injured” goal -- work towards something that is possible to do or accomplish while you are recovering.
7. Visualize your peak performance, over and over, and write your future headlines.
8. Sleep well, fuel yourself well, limit negativity on social media and other sources.
9. Remember the process is not linear; healing happens in a zigzag fashion.

Episode Topics and Mentions

Athletic injury

Illness

Alzheimer’s disease

Morning sickness

Pelvic stress fracture

Torn ACL

Physical therapy

Shingles

You Can Heal Yourself, by Dr. Julie Silver

Harvard Medical School

RICE - Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation

Recumbent bicycles

Listening to your gut and intuition

Self-compassion

Alternative treatments

Rick Walker

Sarasota Sharks

Virginia Masters

Tom Bilyeu’s Impact Theory podcast

Fight or Flight mentality

Depression

Anxiety

Balance board

Neuroscientist David Eagleman

Yoga

Dr. Martin Rossman

Guided Imagery

TheHealingMind.org

The Personal Accelerator

Quote of the Week

"When we are recovering from an injury or illness you need to plan into your day, on the calendar, what you are going to do both physically and mentally to get back on track. And go easy on yourself. Listen to your heart." -- Julie Silver, MD, Harvard Health

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Olympic medalist and professional swimming general manager Kaitlin Sandeno approaches challenges with a mindset that they are minor -- and that in order to find your true path in life, you have to face your doubts and fears head-on. In this exclusive interview with Kelly and Maria, Kaitlin shares about her decision to brighten the lives of children with cancer and the positive character traits she’s developed as an athlete.

MORE ABOUT KAITLIN SANDENO

Kaitlin Sandeno is an Olympic gold medalist, six-time World Champion, former world record holder and current Pan American Games record holder for Team USA. She is a sports broadcaster, keynote speaker and serves as the general manager for International Swim League team the DC Trident.

Kaitlin Sandeno is the author of Golden Glow: How Kaitlin Sandeno Achieved Gold in the Pool and in Life which recounts her swimming career and details the impact she has made in the world outside the pool. She is the national spokesperson for the Jessie Rees Foundation and spreads joy around the country to children fighting cancer. She is the host of her own podcast, Behind the Blocks.

Episode Topics and Mentions

DC Trident professional swim team

International Swim League, ISL

Golden Glow: How Kaitlin Sandeno Achieved Gold in the Pool and in Life

Jessie Rees Foundation

Hamilton: An American Musical

Las Vegas

Konstantin Grigorishin

Fair pay

Katie Ledecky

Jason Lezak

Lenny Krayzelburg

NEEGU - Never ever ever give up

Joy Jars - items for childhood cancer patients

Time management

University of Southern California

Grit

Jon Urbanchek

WiSP network

Behind the Blocks podcast

Podcasting

Amanda Beard

Cyndi Gallagher

Obstacles are speed bumps, not stop signs

Takeaways

Maria

1. Use what you can around you to motivate you to get to a positive place. Strength and energy do not always have to come from inside -- we can borrow them from others.
2. Socialization is so important - even during times of physical distancing.

Kelly

1. Fear can get in the way of something that we may be really good at doing. Learning to “shake it off” can help you discover a new calling.
2. Flexibility in attitude is a skill that can be developed.

Quote of the Week

“We want to celebrate and share our highs, but our lows are just as important." -- Kaitlin Sandeno

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This episode is about the impact of emotions on athletic performance and how using the most powerful positive emotions can make you perform your best! Kelly and Maria agree that an athlete's (or any kind of performer's) emotions before an event, can impact their results in a big way.
Positive emotions such as love, gratitude, and compassion produce oxytocin and norepinephrine, which make us feel good and powerful, while negative emotions such as fear, guilt, and shame produce cortisol and make us feel down and negative.
You'll also hear about the idea of using positive emotions to enhance performance, such as the idea of thinking of 10 positive emotions to evoke before a race to uplift you. And learn tips for getting rid of negative thoughts.
Here are topics in the show:

1. Posture, facial expressions, and body language can predict who will win a race as Kelly observed at 2023 Women's NCAA Swimming Championships.
2. Positive emotions like love, gratitude, and compassion can produce oxytocin and norepinephrine and enhance performance.
3. Negative emotions like fear, guilt, and shame can produce cortisol and reduce performance.
4. Episode #200 references the interview with top-notch masters coach Mark Kutz who says you better love swimming and working out.
5. The idea is based on Biologist Bruce Lipton's work from his book The Biology of Belief and the global Human Affectome Project which studies emotions and performance.
6. Experts believes that what's in your mind impacts your performance.
7. Maria can tell how a workout will be based on how she feels before it.
8. Fear can be useful to amp you up, but being overly fearful can hurt performance.
9. Changing negative thoughts to positive ones can change your whole day. Try fake it until you make it.
10. Having a history of success can make competition fun, but a series of poor performances requires changing your thoughts to perform better.

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Andrew Seliskar loves to race anyone, anywhere, any time. He embraces his competitive drive and says he likes to “swim for his friends and teammates.” Known for that competitiveness, hear how this trait has served him well in this exclusive interview with Kelly and Maria.

ABOUT ANDREW SELISKAR

Andrew Seliskar has been on the US National team since 2013 and his international experience includes a World Championship medal, world rankings and Pan Pacs gold medalist. Andrew is from McLean, Virginia, swimming under head coach John Flanagan at the Nation's Capital Swim Club, where he was the #2 recruit in the nation because of his tremendous versatility in so many different events. While swimming for the University of California, Berkeley he won more PAC 12 titles than anyone ever has in the conference’s 58 year history and he capped off his collegiate career by winning three individual NCAA titles, being selected as the 2019 NCAA Male Swimmer of the Year.

Episode Topics and Mentions

McLean, Virginia

John Flanagan

Nation’s Capital Swim Club

PAC 12

NCAA

Masters Swimming

University of California, Berkeley

Punk rock

Confidence

ISL, International Swim League

Competitive nature

Consistency

Bedtime routine

Morning routine

Purdue University

David Durden

Takeaways and Action Items

Maria

Takeaway 1: Andrew makes time for his hobbies and those are a great form of release.

Takeaway 2: Andrew draws energy off other people. He has so much love for his teammates, coaches and band mates.

Kelly

Takeaway 1: Andrew is competitive - whether a small meet or the finals of a big championship meet. He always brings his best.

Takeaway 2: Don’t hesitate - just go for it, whatever it is. Don’t overthink it.

Quote of the Week

"On race strategy, it's all about keeping that balance between doing my own thing and also being where I need to be to succeed" -- Andrew Seliskar

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*This episode was recorded before the Covid 19 Pandemic changes

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