Fear, self-talk and mental performance, with Collin Henderson, mental conditioning coach and author of The OZ Method.

Collin Henderson lived with a stutter from sixth grade until his late twenties, and it shaped how he showed up as a Division I athlete at Washington State and later in pharmaceutical sales. In this conversation with Bart Berkey he explains how asking for help, speech therapy and years of Toastmasters taught him to act in spite of fear, and how that became his life's work: normalizing mindset training.

THE PERFORMANCE EQUATION

Collin's formula is talent plus skill, minus internal interference, equals execution probability. Self-doubt, fear and shame are the interference. He explains why the brain does not care what is true, only what is repeated, why worrying is visualizing what you don't want, and how three words, his truth triangle, anchor him before any hard conversation.

In this episode:

Fear is a physical response to a mental threat

A stutter, speech therapy and Toastmasters

The performance equation

Body, craft and mind

The me wheel

The truth triangle

Think and live by design, not by default

Most people don't ask for help

00:00 Cold open: they had me read a newspaper out loud

00:12 Good morning, Collin Henderson

00:21 Why Bart wanted Collin on the show

01:27 What Collin does that Most People Don't

02:01 Fear is a physical response to a mental threat

02:34 A stutter that started in sixth grade

03:22 Speech therapy at 26

03:39 Toastmasters, and doing what you fear most

04:00 Psychology beats strategy

05:38 The conversation at his uncle's wedding

05:56 Verbal tests in life science sales

07:04 Find the environment that fits your strengths

07:58 Washington State football and baseball

09:02 Bart shares his own story of fear

13:16 One mistake and you're out: Bart at Penn State

14:20 Outcome junkies

14:37 The performance equation

15:32 Body, craft, mind

16:39 A panic attack before the first game

17:08 The four dimensions of the brain

18:28 Words create worlds

19:34 Michael Phelps and Serena Williams

20:43 Worrying is visualizing what you don't want

21:06 His best season was the one he didn't care about

21:59 The me wheel

23:02 When your job is your only spoke

24:17 The truth triangle: authentic, present, courageous

25:47 Thought substitution

26:38 Design, not default

26:52 Romans 12:2

27:32 Same brand at home and at work

29:18 The OZ Method

30:21 Most people don't ask for help

30:46 You don't have to go it alone

ABOUT COLLIN HENDERSON

Mental conditioning coach, host of the Master Your Mindset podcast and author of The OZ Method.

Website: https://www.thecollinhenderson.com

ABOUT THE SHOW

Most People Don't... But YOU Do! is hosted by Bart Berkey, who spent 16 years as a global executive with The Ritz-Carlton before building Most People Don't, LLC. The show is in the top 2% of podcasts globally, with more than 250 episodes about the small, deliberate things that separate a good intention from an exceptional human experience.

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