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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

By: Dr. Michael Gervais
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Dive into the minds of the world’s greatest athletes, leaders, thinkers, and doers with Dr. Michael Gervais—a high performance psychologist and world-renowned expert on the relationship between high performance and the mind. Dr. Gervais’s client roster includes Super Bowl winning NFL teams, Fortune 50 CEOs, Olympic medalists, internationally acclaimed artists, and more.

On Finding Mastery, Dr. Gervais sits down with the best at what they do, like David Goggins, Brene Brown, Toto Wolff, soccer legend Abby Wambach, neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella — translating their life stories, mental skills, and personal practices into applicable tools you can use to unlock your potential.

Walk with us to the edge of human possibility and learn what you are capable of. New episodes every Wednesday.

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Episodes
  • The Psychology of Youth Sports | Grayson Gervais

    The Psychology of Youth Sports | Grayson Gervais
    28 Oct 2026

    Mike’s son, Grayson, wrote a book to parents of young athletes, and it challenges how we think about supporting our kids through sport.

    Those of us with kids in youth sports know what the experience gives them... teamwork, commitment, the skill of balancing a full week. We have come at that subject often on this podcast, usually through the lens of the coach, the parent, or the research. This one comes from the kid’s angle – from the court, the car ride home, and the receiving end of those parent and child conversations.

    Grayson has played competitive club volleyball for six years, four of them as a varsity player and a captain. He wrote the book as a high school senior, in the middle of his last season, while the lessons were still fresh.

    It’s called Dear Parent: Sport Isn’t Easy. Here’s How to Have Our Back. Eleven chapters… tough teammates, coaches who get something wrong, and what a club sport actually costs in time and sleep. Each one is a story, what he took from it, and something a parent can try that week.

    Mike and Grayson get into the moments Grayson felt supported and the times where he didn’t, how he learned to separate the player from the person when a season went sideways, and the thin line between extra work and burnout.

    You also get to watch Mike as a dad and Grayson as a son.

    The question the book leaves us with is not whether our kids’ teams won or lost... It is whether we honored the person while we were developing the player.

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    Links & Resources:

    Grayson Gervais’s Book: Dear Parent: Sport Isn’t Easy. Here’s How to Have Our Back.

    Book Website: dearparentbook.com and you can get your copy here.

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    43 min
  • The Psychology of Winning and Losing | Mikaela Shiffrin - From The Vault

    The Psychology of Winning and Losing | Mikaela Shiffrin - From The Vault
    21 Oct 2026

    Finding a way to coach yourself with challenge and grace can be an extraordinary unlock for performance.

    Mikaela Shiffrin is an Olympic gold medalist and the winningest alpine ski racer in World Cup history. We first released this conversation in 2024. She has since won Olympic slalom gold at Milano Cortina and a record-equaling sixth Overall Crystal Globe, and what she describes here is the work that was already well underway.

    Mikaela and Mike get into the performance anxiety that had her sick at the start gate years into her career, the self-coaching habit she built to interrupt it, and the race she lost at Killington that she calls the most free she has ever felt in her career. She is open about how long she let the outside world dictate how she felt about her own skiing before she reclaimed that for herself.

    Coaching yourself well is incredibly difficult, and Mikaela shows us in this conversation the power you can drive when you do it in a world-class way.

    Enjoy the conversation.

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    Links & Resources

    Mikaela Shiffrin: linktr.ee/mikaelashiffrin

    Mikaela Shiffrin’s YouTube Series: Moving Right Along, on her channel youtube.com/@mikaelashiffrin

    Mikaela Shiffrin’s Podcast: What’s the Point with Mikaela Shiffrin: listen here

    Subscribe to our Youtube Channel for more conversations at the intersection of high performance, leadership, and wellbeing: https://www.youtube.com/c/FindingMastery

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    Go to: https://findingmastery.com/sponsors/

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    52 min
  • The Psychology of Healthy Relationships | Dr Thema Bryant

    The Psychology of Healthy Relationships | Dr Thema Bryant
    14 Oct 2026
    What happens to the rest of your relationships when the one you have with yourself goes untended?Dr. Thema Bryant is a clinical psychologist, tenured professor of psychology at Pepperdine University, director of the Culture and Trauma Research Laboratory, and former president of the American Psychological Association. She hosts The Homecoming Podcast and wrote Matters of the Heart: Healing Your Relationship with Yourself and Those You Love.Her starting point is a finding she keeps returning to. One of the biggest predictors of your mental state is not your achievement or your bank account. It is the people you spend your time with.Thema and Mike get into her working definition of trauma, the difference between guilt and shame, and why so much people pleasing begins as a strategy for staying safe. Thema talks about being evacuated from Liberia as a teenager during a civil war, and the shift in her own identity after her mother died last year.This conversation is also for the person doing well by every external measure who sees no reason to do any of this work. It is not that you need to, Thema says. It’s that you deserve to.Asked how we would lead if we knew what she knows, Thema’s answer was that you would not leave yourself behind.Enjoy the conversation.__________________________________Links & Resources:Dr. Thema Bryant’s Website: drthema.comDr. Thema Bryant’s Books: Matters of the Heart: Healing Your Relationship with Yourself and Those You Love, Reclaim Yourself: The Homecoming Workbook, Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole, Authentic Self, The Antiracism HandbookDr. Thema Bryant’s Podcast: The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema (video version on YouTube, audio on Spotify and Apple Podcasts)Mentioned in this conversation: Dr. Lisa Miller’s research on spirituality as a protective factor for mental health. Her Finding Mastery episode: The Psychology of Spirituality | Dr. Lisa Miller. Her book: The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life.Subscribe to our Youtube Channel for more conversations at the intersection of high performance, leadership, and wellbeing: https://www.youtube.com/c/FindingMasteryGet exclusive discounts and support our amazing sponsors!Go to: https://findingmastery.com/sponsors/Subscribe to the Finding Mastery newsletter for weekly high performance insights: https://www.findingmastery.com/newsletterDownload Dr. Mike’s Morning Mindset Routine: findingmastery.com/morningmindsetFollow on YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X#FindingMastery #ThemaBryant #DrMichaelGervais #MattersOfTheHeart #Relationships #Trauma #Healing #Shame #EmotionalSafety #SelfWorth #Attachment #Loneliness #Therapy #Psychology #MentalHealth #HighPerformance #Emotionaltrauma #reltionshiptrauma #selfhelp #selfhealingSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    1 hr and 11 min
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