Unbreakable and Fearless

There are many quality allies for women working in the sports industry, and Jason Belz of A Greater You in Kansas City is absolutely one of them. He employs women at his center, putting them front and center as coaches and leaders in the sports performance space. He showcases women authentically and amplifies their strength. Everyone can learn and take something away from this conversation.

Learn more about Jason Belz and his work at A Greater You at http://www.gr8ru.com/ or visit his Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/a.greater.you/

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Mentoring can be significant in the development of your passions and goals. The ways we can discover mentorship and how we can reap the benefits of it are unique, but the commonality exists in the fact that the opportunity to speak with another individual about what you are trying to achieve will make you feel less alone in your pursuits and more supported.

Neither Candice nor Jaecee are strangers to major injuries during their athletic careers. The honest discussion of what the injuries lifespan can look like, the support that needs to happen for both athletes and coaches, and how we can all still acknowledge how injuries suck but also create opportunities.

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Candice and Jaecee tackle the topic of reporting abusive situations within athletics. It isn't an easy decision to report, and as coaches, it is unsettling to know we could be falsely accused. But if we have learned anything from the last few years, it has to be the importance of the process for reporting and the investigations that need to take place thoroughly and impartially.

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Jaecee and Candice are talking openly and honestly about the impact of the menstrual cycle on women in sports. Their share some of their own experiences, and combine thoughts on the work that we can all do to better understand what opportunities are available to athletes and coaches in supporting women on a regular and consistent basis.  This should not be an untouchable topic within the sports environment and Jaecee and Candice work to role model the impact it can have when we get real about the impact of periods. 

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Jaecee and Candice discuss how driving motivation occurs within themselves and the team, each coming at it from their respective angle of coach and player. What helps with motivation... What hurts motivation... And how we support one another when the individual and collective will to win and perform can feel too tough. 

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Candice and Jaecee are speaking honestly about their current positive self-talk or lack thereof, and the role it plays in the mentality we all have to excel.  As players and coaches, where can we bring positive self-talk to serve the individual and team's greater good? How does it manifest in performances? How does positive self-talk align with acknowledging areas that need development and improvement? Listen in and we would love to hear how positive self-talk is working for you!

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Jaecee and Candice are discussing how emotions play into the experience of sports as athletes and coaches. No actual crying in this episode, but a lot going on around each of their lives, and they experience their feelings. How can we allow emotions to be a part of the sport and not minimize their impact?

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Jaecee and Candice are both active vocal advocates for girls and women in sports. Their individual brands highly focus on drawing attention to issues facing girls and women and then supporting action to improve the experience we can all have in sports. In this episode, they address what they have faced in speaking up and out, the fears they have to speak, the variety of responses, and the hopes for what future conversations and actions will produce for the next generations of athletes and coaches. 

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Sleep - most of us feel as though we could use a little bit more of it, especially as athletes and coaches. We know the value and importance sleep has in our performance, but making the time to fit in naps and recovery, developing our habits to set up quality sleep, and managing our thoughts and feelings of anxiousness are common. Take a listen to Jaecee and Candice discuss their current relationship with sleep, where they feel they are succeeding and fall short, and the impacts sleep and recovery has on their performance as athletes and coaches.

Inevitably as individuals and as a team, we hit a performance plateau. These plateaus can be frustrating for all involved, and acknowledging those feelings and working towards finding our way back towards an upwards trajectory can make a huge difference for athletes and coaches. Listen in to hear more about their perspectives, and tactics that have worked (and haven't), and consider if you are hitting a plateau anywhere in your sport at the moment. 

Candice and Jaecee speak honestly about their struggles with their boundaries, and how they are respected within teams and between coaches and athletes. As we all navigate lifestyles that can provide more accessibility to others, it is important to acknowledge where and how we succeed at keeping healthy boundaries for our own mental and physical health. 

Candice and Jaecee get honest about their views on their body, how it has evolved, where they still struggle, and how they want to help others to embrace their own unique, strong body in sports. They work to create conversations around how body image is brought into sports in their own day to days, and the tools and resources they are using to make it better for themselves and the environments they work within.