For Those Who Are Ready to Go Deeper

The Mental Training Lab isn't about adding more tools to your toolkit. It's about understanding what's actually in the way of your best performance and your best life.

Every episode goes deeper than skills and strategies. We explore the patterns, beliefs, and ways of being that keep talented, capable people stuck inside their own potential, and what it actually takes to break free. We tether principles to practices so you leave each episode with something to think about and something to do.

If you've tried everything and something still isn't shifting, you're in the right place.

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New to the Lab? These Six Episodes Are A Great Place to Begin

Solo Sessions

Start With Your Own Mind

Ep. 45 - Find Your Laboratory

This episode reframes the pursuit of excellence as an experiment rather than a performance, and gives you permission to approach your own development with curiosity instead of pressure.

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If fear, comparison, and never feeling like enough are fueling your performance, this is the most important conversation you'll have about why that approach has a ceiling. And what to do instead.

Ep. 60 - Not Good Enough, Need to Be better: A Broken Model of Motivation

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Ep. 73 - The Illusion of Progress

You're putting in the work. You're doing everything right. And something still isn't shifting. This episode names exactly why. And it's not what you think.

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Conversations Worth Having

Hear It From The People Doing The Work

Your body knows things your mind is still catching up to. Dr. Ashley Cranney breaks down the stress cycle and what it actually means to be biologically respectful, offering six concrete behaviors that will change how you relate to pressure.

Ep. 35 - Bodies Speak Body Language with Dr. Ashley Cranney

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Dr. Ryan Hamilton, mental performance coach for the Tampa Bay Lightning and Hockey Canada, on why the most important thing a coach or leader can do is live the lessons they teach. This one will challenge you in the best possible way.

Ep. 63 - Practicing What We Preach with Dr. Ryan Hamilton

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Ep. 69 - Turning the Mic Around

What happens when the interviewer becomes the interviewee? In this episode, Holly Rogers turns the mic on Pete, and the conversation goes places most episodes don't. If you want to understand who's behind the Lab and why this work matters, start here last.

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The Podcast Is Where the Conversation Starts

If something you heard here landed in a way that nothing else has before, that's worth paying attention to.

The Lab is designed to go deeper than most mental performance content. But the deepest work doesn't happen through a speaker. It happens in a real conversation, with someone who can see your specific patterns clearly and help you do something about them.

If you're ready for that conversation, I'd like to hear from you.

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 All The Episodes. Go As Deep as You Want.

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Episode 7: Adapt or Die

Gevvie Stone on the Pain Cave, Focusing on the Process, and the Superpower of Being a Perpetual Student

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You've Found Your Way to the Bottom of the Lab.

That tells me something about you. You're thorough. You go deep. You don't skim the surface when something matters.

Those are exactly the qualities that make this work possible.

If you've been listening and something keeps pulling at you, a pattern you recognize, a question you can't shake, a sense that something deeper is available than what you've found so far, that pull is worth following.

The next step is a conversation.

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