Taylor Cook — Retired Hockey Pro and Mental Performance Coach on the Building Blocks of Success

07/11/24 • 40 min

Taylor Cook is a retired professional hockey player with over 25+ years of international experience. She currently works as a mental performance coach serving athletes and sports coaches.

We discuss:

How Taylor’s experience as an athlete serves her as a coach — and understanding the limits
The education and training that contributes to her coaching
Personalization of coaching
Building blocks of mental performance
Mental skills that are beneficial in hockey
What makes a hockey player successful?
Visualization techniques
What Taylor covers on The Athletic Mind Podcast

About today’s guest

Taylor Cook is a retired professional hockey player with over 25+ years of international experience, owner of Taylored Minds Coaching where she works as a mental performance coach serving athletes and sports coaches, and she is the founder and host of The Athletic Mind podcast. Learn more about Taylor:

About the host

Ross Romano is co-founder of the Be Podcast Network and also hosts The Authority Podcast. He began his career in the pro sports industry before becoming a leading communications, marketing, and management expert working with education companies. He is founder and CEO of September Strategies, a coaching and consulting firm that helps organizations and high-performing leaders in the K-12 education industry communicate their vision and make strategic decisions that lead to long-term success. He also works directly with professionals at all levels, in all industries, coaching them in their pursuit of success.

Connect on Twitter @RossBRomano or LinkedIn. Listen to The Authority: https://authoritypodcast.net.

Taylor Cook is a retired professional hockey player with over 25+ years of international experience. She currently works as a mental performance coach serving athletes and sports coaches.

We discuss:

How Taylor’s experience as an athlete serves her as a coach — and understanding the limits
The education and training that contributes to her coaching
Personalization of coaching
Building blocks of mental performance
Mental skills that are beneficial in hockey
What makes a hockey player successful?
Visualization techniques
What Taylor covers on The Athletic Mind Podcast

About today’s guest

About the host

Connect on Twitter @RossBRomano or LinkedIn. Listen to The Authority: https://authoritypodcast.net.

Previous Episode

Adolfo Gómez Sánchez — Pro Tennis Coach Shares the Formula for Optimal Performance

Adolfo Gómez Sánchez has dedicated over three decades to studying and modeling what drives optimal performance.

Adolfo was a competitive athlete and is a performance mentor to professional athletes on the ATP and WTA tours, C-Suite executives of large multinational corporations, and performance artists such as Grammy nominated singers and opera stars.

Our conversation covers:

The Optimal Performance Formula
What makes a tennis athlete great
How Adolfo approaches his work with tennis athletes
Growth mindset
Applying the science of performance from sports to business challenges
Lessons from athletes including Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Michael Chang, Jim Courier, Carlos Alcaraz, Jerry Rice, and Tiger Woods
Learn more about Adolfo’s work at www.gold-results.com

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About today’s guest

Adolfo Gómez Sánchez has dedicated over three decades to studying and modeling what drives optimal performance. His mission is to mentor professional athletes, leading multinational corporations, and performance artists to achieve the best version of themselves and to gain the “millimeters” of difference that separate champions from the rest in every field.

He holds an Ivy League Graduate Degree from Yale University and an undergraduate degree from McGill University, complemented by thirty years of studying scientific research on performance. He has merged his academic knowledge of what science has discovered that drives performance with his experience in the trenches as a competitive athlete and as a performance mentor to professional athletes on the ATP and WTA tours, C-Suite executives of large multinational corporations, and performance artists such as Grammy nominated singers and opera stars. Follow him on LinkedIn.

About the host

Connect on Twitter @RossBRomano or LinkedIn. Listen to The Authority: https://authoritypodcast.net.

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Lee-Anne Gilchrist — How Parents Can Help Junior Golfers Access Opportunities

My guest today is Lee-Anne Gilchrist. Lee-Anne is currently the CEO of the Golf Performance Center & Academy, in Ridgefield, Connecticut working with young people from all over the world to nurture intrinsic motivation and unlock human potential.

We discuss:

How to introduce kids to golf
Good motivators for golfers
The opportunities available to young golfers
What parents should be prepared for if they’re getting kids into golf
Resources for parents and coaches
The biggest challenges to junior golf development today
Predictors of success for junior golfers

Learn more about the Golf Performance Center:

About today’s guest

Lee-Anne Gilchrist is a motivator and educator who has worked with hundreds of athletes and their parents in the quest for athletic success in college and on the professional tours. With a dream to create a unique environment for athletic development, Lee-Anne was a founding partner of two successful junior golf academies. She is currently the CEO of the Golf Performance Center & Academy, in Ridgefield, Connecticut working with young people from all over the world to nurture intrinsic motivation and unlock human potential.

About the host

Connect on Twitter @RossBRomano or LinkedIn. Listen to The Authority: https://authoritypodcast.net.