September is when high performers feel it most...

Q4 is coming, capacity is limited, and everything feels important.

You don't need to work harder through Q4. You need to get radically honest about what deserves your energy.

In this episode, performance mindset coach Megan Devito shares The Q4 Triage. A simple 3-question framework to help you finish the year strong without burning out:

• FINISH: What one result matters most by December 31st?

• RELEASE: What commitment, expectation, or habit is draining capacity without creating value?

• LEAD: How does your team need to experience you when pressure rises?

You'll learn why indecision looks like busyness, why releasing isn't quitting, and how executive presence is built when you decide what pressure gets to decide.

YOUR CHALLENGE: Before tomorrow ends, write down 1 thing to finish, 1 thing to release, and 1 leadership behavior to practice through Q4. Then communicate the first decision.

Free Performance Audit: https://www.megandevito.com/audit

Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megandevito/

I'm Megan Devito. A performance mindset coach, swim coach, and someone who believes your mental game drives everything. Until next time, remember: pressure isn't the problem. Your untrained mindset is.

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Rick Farrant walked into a gym at 70 and walked out a competitive powerlifter. In this episode, he shares what it took: not physically, but mentally.

We talk about commitment, the fear that shows up before every competition, and why "just show up and do it" isn't as simple as it sounds.

If you've ever hesitated on a decision, talked yourself out of a risk, or let anxiety make the call, this one's for you.

Megan Devito is a mental performance coach helping executives, athletes, and high-performers master their mindset under pressure.

🌟 Schedule your free Performance audit at https://www.megandevito.com/audit

What if everything you call "mental weakness" is actually a skill you never trained?

UPenn-trained mental performance coach Chris DeSantis joins Megan to dismantle the biggest lie in sports, business, and leadership: that your psychological struggles are fixed traits. Chris brings his MAPP degree and years of coaching experience to explain positive psychology, learned optimism, and why the term "head case" needs to d!e permanently.

Whether you're an executive leading under pressure, a coach trying to get the best out of your team, or someone battling performance anxiety, this conversation rewires how you think about your own mind.

Key takeaways:

— Why "your head's gonna hurt at every practice" is actually good news

— The clinical model vs. the training model: psychology got it backward

— "You are the worst coach you've ever had" — how your self-talk is sabotaging you

— Fear gets you from A to B. It does not build infrastructure.

— "Brains gonna brain" — stop fighting your wiring and start working with it

— Why every "I have to" is one rep of pessimism

— The shift from obligation to "Why wouldn't I?"

— How Chris swam a lifetime best at age 42 — and what it proves about mindset training

🎯 Get your free Mental Performance Audit: https://www.megandevito.com/audit

📲 Follow Megan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megandevito/

Be sure to check out Chris' website https://chrisdcoach.com

Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisd_coach/

And check out my episode on The Swim Brief with Coach Chris Desantis

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-swim-brief/id1232748697?i=1000773010891

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7DnE2Zs2taSmOryrsTonE6?si=0bb6964fcbdc4a95