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Thanks for tuning in to manage the moment

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conversations in performance psychology.

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I'm Dr. Sari Shepphird.

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Practicing for consistency over

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perfection is going to be so

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much better for longevity and

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staying safe and healthy. Keep

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pushing forward is kind of the

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rhythm you got to keep in whatever you do because

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if you look for anything else, it's just gonna fizzle

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out. It's going to be a flash in the pan.

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What does it feel like to be at the top of your game

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as a performer and what can we learn

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from those who are, when all

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eyes are on you, how do you manage that moment?

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I want to connect with the audience

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and and make this two

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hours of coverage on this

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basketball game I'm doing or whatever

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it is, as enjoyable

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as possible, and you do that

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by making them want to spend the time

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with you and that's kind

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of the last thought I have before I

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go on the air, is make

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that person out there enjoy

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the next two hours. However I can

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do that.

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What does it feel like to have been a performer who has

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broken barriers?

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Oftentimes people who are, who don't

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have, you know, white male privilege can

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feel very , uh , fraudulent when

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in positions of power, like

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being at speaking at a podium. And in the

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early years I had a lot of that, you know, that somebody was going

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to come up on stage and say, you know, she

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doesn't know where she's talking about, get her off the stage

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and is that kind of thing that it was

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, um, it's, I think it's just becomes

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something that is a problem

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for a lot of a lot of women and people

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of color and people who don't, as I say, don't have,

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I mean with white male privilege comes the

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assumption that if you're speaking

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at a podium that you are the authority and that, you

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know, you do have a right to be there. So it's feeling

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like you have a right to be there. That I think is really

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, uh, is a problem often for people.

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And that's something that , um , needs

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really needs to change

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On this, the manage the moment podcast.

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We will be having conversations with performers

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who come from wildly different performance

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areas, from athletes representing

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a wide range of sports to

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television personalities, to performing

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artists and actors, from

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songwriters to playwrights to authors

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along with people who are in the public eye.

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So much so that it leaves every day feeling

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like a performance. Some of

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our guests come from a long history of

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experience in the performance world and

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others are fresh to the scene. Our

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conversations give us the chance to

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connect and so sometimes we really

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dive deep and get personal.

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I used to say that without alcohol

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I'd put a gun to my head and I

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had a moment of realizing that alcohol was

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the gun

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every time that I was about to uh,

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lose my spot on team. What are, it's

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because of commitment or performance

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or whatnot. Cause it happens a couple of

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times in my career. These are always

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life. Like make

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it a break. It kind of situations

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where you either quit or you come back stronger.

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Um, and I

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think that's what makes a great champion.

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Right? Um, and

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I, every time I came

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back stronger, but right

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now I'm in this , I'm designing

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at the moment if I'm

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coming back stronger or if I'm quitting and

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it's the hardest decision I've ever made

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in my life. And I'm very

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confused because all I can think about is

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would Michael Jordan quit , or would Roger

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Federer quit if he knew he could still win? Um,

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and if , if the answer is, is

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I want to

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quit, then maybe I'm not the champion. I think I am.

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So it's very scary. I'm very scared.

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And other moments we get a glimpse of practical

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choices that performers make, which influences

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their mindset and allows them

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to perform optimally.

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There's not one thing that I've

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done that I'm proud of or that

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usually on a daily basis that's

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genuinely easy. So

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I think you just get used to pushing

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through that every week . A lot

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of people ask me, it's , it's

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actually, it makes me very curious. A lot of

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people ask me, how are you not scared?

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And I'm like, are you kidding me? I'm scared all

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the time, like I'm literally terrified

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a majority of the time. And like I said , I explained

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that it's like I

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think the people like me

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and the people like these guys I've mentioned

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kind of just found a way to have

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a healthy relationship with that fear

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and learn how to kind of live with

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it and use it as kind of like

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a chisel to make yourself

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a little bit more precise, a little

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bit more well thought out and

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when it's time, when it's go time it, it's

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kind of what keeps me in that focus

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and that zone.

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Okay.

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These will be free form, largely untouched

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recordings, which I'm really excited to share with

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you and you will get a chance to

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hear some of my guests answer questions that they've

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never been asked before.

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These are hard.

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Just about all of my guests share candidly

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about their lives and experiences, which I think

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makes for some really great conversations.

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You know, I'm a criminal defense lawyer. I try

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challenging cases. I try cases

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that people warned me not to take. This

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is who I am. Take it or

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leave it.

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Some conversations are going to be recorded in

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person here in the Los Angeles area and

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others are recorded remotely, but hopefully

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you won't really notice a difference because they are

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all intended to be natural conversations

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with the exception of just

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some music breaks to mix it up a little bit here and there.

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My words may never be perfect of course,

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but the conversations are real as

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is the insight that we will gain from listening in

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. Oh, and from participating,

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which I hope you will do. We will be taking

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questions from listeners for some of the podcasts

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as I did with one popular author

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and TedTalk speaker. Sometimes

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you'll get the opportunity to leave your question

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on SpeakPipe , which is

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an app where you can record your voice and

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leave your question for the possible

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use in a podcast and sometimes by

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email, Twitter, Instagram, or our other

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social media platforms and you'll be able

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to find this information in the episode

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notes for each broadcast. I'm

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really excited to share these conversations and

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I do hope that you will join in life

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is a series of moments. It's how

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you manage those moments that makes the difference.

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Our first episode drops in just

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a few weeks and we will be talking with Terry Gannon, known

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for his work as a sportscaster for NBC

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sports. And for our first

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season, we will feature conversations with the

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likes of X games, gold medalist, IndyCar

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history makers, e-sports, world

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champions, musicians who have played

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to sold out stadiums across the globe,

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high profile courtroom attorneys, television

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hosts, vocal coaches to

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the biggest recording artists on the planet, and

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many, many more. So come

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on, join the conversations and

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thanks for tuning in. Until then,

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I'm Dr. Shepp.