Episode 15: Be You (Pt.2)

Ashwin Patel on Building Relationships, Assessing Fit, and Nurturing Awareness

About This Episode

Today’s guest is Ashwin Patel. Ashwin is a Professor and Program Coordinator for the Sport Management and Recreation and Leisure Services programs at Humber College. He is also the co-founder of Sport and Wellness Consulting with Dr. Noah Gentner. Ashwin received his Ph.D. in Sport and Exercise Psychology from the University of Tennessee and upon graduating, Ashwin spent seven and a half years as an Associate Professor at Western Colorado University.

Since 2003, Ashwin has provided Mental Performance Consulting - both in corporate and sport settings. His primary passion is working with hockey players. In this capacity, he’s worked with the Guelph Storm of the Ontario Hockey League, the student-athletes at Victus Academy – a private hockey school in Kitchener. And with the Vancouver Canucks – focusing on the AHL team in Utica, NY. In 2020 he was a mental performance consultant with Hockey Canada's U17 team and in April 2021 worked as the mental performance consultant for Hockey Canada’s Gold Medal winning U18 team at the IIHF World Championships.

We cover so much ground in this episode that I needed to split it into two parts! In this second part, Ashwin and I look at why athletes want to have better “crappy days” and how to think about fit between mental performance consultants and the organizations they work for.

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