New beginnings – like New Years Day, your birthday or even Mondays – are a great time to restart. That is why people like to set resolutions or goals at the beginning of the year. You are extra motivated to turn the page and reset. But, in general, we want to set goals this year – not resolutions.
Dr. Kamphoff shares with us strategies to consider what we really want in 2025, and provides 3 tips on how to get to there.
Power Phrase of the Week: “I am focused on my goals to crush it this year.”
Quote of the Week: “When you set a goal, your brain opens up a task list.” - Mel Robbins
Welcome to High Performance Mindset, the podcast where we dive into mental strategies to help you be your best more often. Today, we’re thrilled to have a powerhouse guest—someone who’s left his mark on the NFL with grit, determination, and sheer talent.
Our guest is none other than Chris Reed! As a versatile offensive lineman, Chris has played for multiple NFL teams, including the Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, Carolina Panthers, Indianapolis Colts, and my favorite, the Minnesota Vikings. Known for his incredible athleticism, Chris’s journey from his college days at Minnesota State, where he excelled in football and track and field, to the pros is nothing short of remarkable.
But there’s more to Chris than just his football career. Off the field, he’s a dedicated family man cares about mental health, and a testament to resilience, having climbed the ranks as an undrafted free agent in 2015 to become a reliable presence on some of the league's toughest offensive lines.
In this episode, Cindra and Chris discuss:
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High performers see stressful situations as a challenge they can overcome instead of a threat to their performance or confidence. This improves their health and their performance.
They remember it’s all about our perception of a situation and they talk to themselves powerful when experiencing stress – reminding themselves they can handle anything.
Power Phrase this Week: “I adopt a challenge mindset. I can handle anything that comes my way.”
Quote of the Week: “Challenges are an opportunity to test you and rise to the next level.” - Angelica Montrose
Kelly Clements is the creator of The Entreprenewer, a marriage centric coaching program for entrepreneurs. Her professional experience working for world class coaching programs like Strategic Coach and Lifebook have taught her how to work with driven entrepreneurs, but it was her personal experience that underscored why it was so important for both the entrepreneur and the spouse to have a coach.
Kelly can seamlessly help bridge The Ambition Gap that many entrepreneurial couples experience, as well as giving relevant perspective changes to help couples connect at a deeper level. Her Relationship Spectrum™ helps couples identify ways to create a healthier power dynamic, and her Presence Principles™ will help both parties get more enjoyment and intimacy out of the relationship. Author of The Power of Play, Praise, and Purpose, and Grow Your Business Without Growing Apart, Kelly provides actionable strategies to help entrepreneurs WIN at work and home.
In this episode, Cindra and Kelly discuss:
The 6 Presence Principles
Her DANA Acronym and how it relates to you
How your Reticular Activating System impacts relationships
Her “Alpha-Omega Spectrum” and why you should understand it
Most importantly, how to grow your business without growing apart
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High performers set goals and they consider who they can become in the process. They get clear on what they want and reflect on their wishes and dreams. They write their goals down and keep them in mind during the year.
Power Phrase of the Week: “I am committed to myself, my goals, and my dreams.”
Quote of the Week: “Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.” - Les Brown
Krista Ryan, PCC, is a highly sought-after business coach, facilitator, speaker, and Workplace Performance expert known for helping clients effectively navigate uncertainty and promoting collaboration, communication, and confidence. Her global clients include C-suite executives, startup entrepreneurs, individual contributors, elite athletes, and performers.
With nearly two decades of experience as a human resources director, Krista is the CEO and founder of KfG Coaching, LLC. She’s a Bravely Pro Coach and a Room Tilter with Limitless Minds, a mental conditioning organization that unites personal growth with business success through the power of neutral thinking. She is the author of the new book, Keep Fricking Going: A step-by-step guide to successfully navigate change.
In this episode, Cindra and Krista discuss:
The 3 steps of KFG
The importance of accountability and awareness in success
How to focus on the next best step
How to take action towards who you want to become
Ways she is using KFG to battle cancer right now
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Regularly practicing gratitude is powerful because it has a lasting impact when doing it regularly. Gratitude is connected to better health, more optimism and resilience. Remember, you can shift your focus at any time to what is good and what you are gratitude for in the situation. Choose to take the perspective of a resilient person and draw the good from a difficulty.
Power Phrase for This Week: “I choose to intentionally practice gratitude each day.”
Quote of the Week: “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”—Oprah Winfrey
Annie Lalla has spent her life studying the world of emotions -mapping the complexities of communication & subtleties of relationships. A philosopher, speaker and a thought leader, Annie is known as the “Cartographer of Love”. In her coaching, Annie helps individuals attract, create and foster extraordinary connections that maximize freedom and minimize shame. She has professional certifications in Coaching, NLP and Clinical Hypnosis.
In this episode, Cindra and Annie discuss:
How to minimize shame in relationships
The biggest barrier people experience in building relationships
How to upgrade your beliefs about relationships
What creates conflict in relationships
Her top advice on how to address conflict in relationships
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In this episode, Dr. Cindra shares how the world’s best seeing adversity as happening for them, not to them. Adversity helps you grow into the person you are supposed to become to reach your goals and step into your dreams. Everything magnificent that you've likely accomplished required or even perhaps demanded difficulty, struggle, and grit. We can embrace adversity and believe it’s a time to learn and grow.
This Week’s Power Phrase: “I embrace adversity. I see adversity as happening for me, not to me.”
This Week's Quote of the Week: “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
Juliet Wright is a branding expert, author, keynote speaker, and parallel entrepreneur who helps authors, speakers, coaches, and entrepreneurs connect the dots in their brand ecosystems. A small-town girl born and raised in Nebraska, Juliet has traveled the world to work with clients one-on-one, helping them clarify their vision, align their messaging, and build brands that ignite their audiences.
As the author of Red Thread and Coming In Hot, Juliet brings a unique perspective to storytelling and strategy, empowering her clients to bring big ideas to life. With an entrepreneur husband and four teenagers, there’s never a dull moment in her world!
In this episode, Cindra and Juliet discuss:
The most important thing you need to know about building a brand
How mindset and branding are related
The difference between branding, advertising, and marketing
What people get wrong about branding
Her 7 steps of the Red Thread Process
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In this episode, Dr. Cindra shares how pre-planned, specific thoughts can address your negative thinking. She also shares the 3 Ps to give yourself an even better chance to be your best today.
This Week's Power Phrase: “I choose powerful, possibility-oriented, and positive thoughts to keep me at my best.”
Quote of the Week: "Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave". - - Harvey McKay
Paul Juda started gymnastics at the age of five after friends of his parents suggested it to help him burn off his extra energy. He was fortunate to live near the Buffalo Grove Gymnastics Center, where he trained with renowned coaches Leo Krivitsky and Yevhen Vovkiv. These coaches played a key role in both his gymnastics and personal development.
After high school, Paul received a full scholarship to the University of Michigan, where he has been studying since the fall of 2019. He completed a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, earned a Certification in Sales and Marketing from the Ross Business School, finished a graduate program in Real Estate Development, and is now working on a Master’s in Accounting, also from the Ross Business School. Paul’s career goals focus on entrepreneurship.
Paul is currently the captain of the Michigan Men’s Gymnastics Team. He is a three-time NCAA Champion, a World Championship Medalist, and the winner of the prestigious Nissen Emery Award, which is the top honor in collegiate men’s gymnastics and equivalent to the Heisman Trophy. 2024 Olympic Bronze Medalist
In this episode, Cindra and Paul discuss:
Why he didn’t make the Olympic Team for Tokyo
How he performed his best when it mattered most to him at the Paris Olympics
How the team mentally prepared at the Paris Olympics
The mental skills he uses to perform on demand
What he has learned from working with sport psychologists
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Our focus determines our feelings. If you want to change how you feel, you can change your focus. Your focus is like a mental spotlight. Your attention is always on something; it’s not really ever lost. You can choose to shine your focus on what helps you at any given moment.
This Week's Power Phrase: “I protect my focus. I choose to ask myself powerful focus improving questions to change how I feel.”
Quote of the Week: “Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.” - Greg Anderson
Dr. Laura Gallaher is a professional speaker and organizational psychologist who inspires driven self-starters to transform their relationship with themselves and accomplish more than ever. She combines insights on radical self-acceptance with humor to create a unique connection with her audience.
Despite being a national best-selling author, Dr. Laura stands out from the typical "academic" personality of her PhD peers. Her notable achievements include being hired by NASA to reshape organizational culture after the Columbia accident, leading significant changes in performance management at Disney, and inspiring Yahoo’s global teams to pursue transformation from within.
In this episode, Cindra and Dr. Laura discuss:
What is radical self-acceptance
Why radical self-acceptance is difficult and important to practice
Strategies to grow in your radical self-acceptance
How radical self-acceptance relates to culture and leadership
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Your goals and dreams should be just a little scary – meaning a little outside your comfort zone because when you dream big, you grow into who you can become. Most people dream too small or lose the ability to dream because of limiting beliefs or listening to other people’s disbelief. Make dreaming for a living part of your daily mindset practice.
This Week's Power Phrase: “I dream big to help me reach my best and my potential. I have everything inside me to make my dreams happen.”
Quote of the Week: “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” - Christopher Reeve
John is a marketing enigma, a “direct response customer attraction expert” who thinks way outside the box. His marketing consultancy business is called The Institute Of Wow – & John’s mantra is that one’s marketing needs to “wow” prospects. He’s also the guy who shocked the marketing world some years back when he convinced Jerry Seinfeld to come out of retirement.
John helps business owners understand how to exploit platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. His client list includes 7 Eleven, Walt Disney, KFC and BP to name a few.
In this episode, Cindra and JD discuss:
What marketing has to do with mindset
How to craft campaigns that grab attention
His top 3 strategies for incentive-based marketing offers
How he got Jerry Seinfeld to come out of retirement
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As humans, our default is to focus on the uncontrollables. It is much easier to blame, complain, and make excuses than to take a close look in the mirror and examine ourselves and our actions.
In this episode, Dr. Kamphoff shares how to focus on what you can control and the importance of dominating the controllables.
Power Phrase This Week: “I dominate the controllables.”
Quote of the Week: John Maxwell said, “Life is 10% of what happens to me, and 90% of how I react to it.”
As a certified executive coach, with experience as a change management consultant, Vered has helped hundreds of individuals adapt more successfully to change. She has over 13 years of training and certifications in numerous modalities for change, including HeartMath®, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Time Line Therapy®, Hypnosis, Brainspotting®, Havening Techniques®, EFT Tapping, Rapid Transformational Therapy®, and Psych-K®.
Vered is the host of the popular podcast called The Mindset Game® Podcast and CEO of the Momentum Institute.
In this episode, Cindra and Vered discuss:
How emotions impact your results
Her PLAY Framework to increase your resilience
How a leader’s mindset impacts the change process
How you can navigate change more easily
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If you are not using imagery consistently, you are missing out on a powerful way to improve your performance. Include imagery as part of your daily routine. It will help you think like the world’s best and accomplish even more than you thought was possible.
Power Phrase this Week: “I imagine success. I create success in my mind first and then I live it.”
Quote of the Week: “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” — William Arthur Ward
High performers in sport, business and life use pressure to be at their best. They use natural tools inside of them to see pressure as a privilege. They POP the Pressure.
This Week's Power Phrase: “I see pressure as a privilege. Pressure leads me to greatness.”
Quote of the Week: “I don’t feel pressure. I apply it.” Justin Jefferson, Wide Receiver for the Minnesota Vikings
Sam Bishop has a decade of experience working with elite performing athletes and professional sports teams. His client base ranges from Premier League and Women’s Super League footballers, to Premiership rugby players, Professional Golfers and Cricket players.
Over the last 5 years, he has also worked as an Executive and Performance Psychology Coach adapting his performance coaching style from the sports fields to the boardroom. He regularly delivers performance psychology keynote talks and masterclasses to companies such as Hewlett Packard, Nestlé, Citibank and Microsoft.
In this episode, Cindra and Sam discuss:
The #1 thing holding us back
3 key core principles of performance psychology
How change is a personal journey
What the best of the best do differently
With a Master’s Degree in Psychotherapy and accredited by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, let’s welcome Sam to the show!
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Your life is based on the meaning you give it. You want to reframe things that limit you and your future. Choose meanings that empower you not enable you. Choose meanings that make you better not bitter. Choose meanings that help you not hinder you. See everything has happening FOR you not TO you.
Power Phrase this Week: “I see difficulties and challenges as happening for me, not to me.”
Quote of the Week: Hal Enrod, a Bestselling Author of the Miracle Morning said, “That is our responsibility to choose the most empowering reason for the challenges, events and circumstances of our lives.”
Self-compassion, or the practice of being kind to yourself in times of failure, pain or when you note something you don’t like about yourself instead of being self-critical, is key to practice right now to be your best more often.
When we show self-compassion, we give ourselves the same kindness as we would to others recognizing that all humans suffer and we are not alone. We can then use tools to stop being so critical of ourselves remembering we are not alone.
This week’s Power Phrase: “I am kind to myself. I remind myself I am doing the best I can.”
Quote of the Week: "You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” - Louise Hay
In this episode, Dr. Kamphoff shares why it is important to remember we have a negativity bias. Still, we can counteract that negativity by choosing not to believe everything we think. Instead, we can remember to see the opportunity in every difficulty.
This week’s Power Phrase: “I choose a good attitude regardless of what I cannot control. I talk to myself not listen.”
In this episode, Dr. Cindra shares with us how we can create psychological safety in a culture in which we are a leader. Psychological safety is important because it leads to higher performance, but also people feel comfortable trying new things, asking questions, and admitting mistakes—all which leads to creativity and innovation. This helps us respond to mistakes in a positive and empowering way.
Power Phrase this Week: ”I see failure and mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow.”
Quote of the Week: “If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.” -Tom Watson, CEO of IBM