The Focused Athlete
It takes more than just technical skills and expertise to be a high performing athlete or coach. It takes being able to identify and understand how your emotions affect your performance. Sarah Kivel, Emotional Intelligence Executive Coach and Founder of eiFOCUS™, interviews elite coaches, athletes and leaders in organizations, to learn how they use their emotions to help them succeed in their sport (and in their life). Each episode contains tools on how you can learn to become more focused and present so that you can begin to let your emotions work for you instead of against you.
The Focused Athlete
Episode 2: Creating champions in life through sport with Valorie Kondos Field.
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Valorie Kondos Field
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Season 1
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Episode 2
In this episode we talk with Valorie Kondos Field. Valorie was the UCLA women’s gymnastics coach, she is a 7x NCAA champion, she is in the UCLA Athlete Hall of Fame, and she is the PAC12 Coach of the Century. Valorie talks about the importance of vulnerability and creating connections with her athletes. She talks about creating champions in life through sport and the power of silence…