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Evolving Athletes Podcast with Coach Vinny

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Evolving Athletes with Coach Vinny From Potential to Performance. Mentally Conditioned. Hosted by NHL mindset coach and elite player developer Coach Vinny Malts, Evolving Athletes is the podcast for high performers who want more—on the ice, on the field, in the gym, and long after the final whistle. Whether you're an athlete chasing the next level or someone ready to evolve into the best version of yourself, this show delivers the mental conditioning tools and mindset strategies that unlock lasting growth. Each episode explores real stories, proven tactics, and transformational conversations designed to move you from potential to performance—not just in your game, but in your life. Because greatness isn't just about what you do—it's about who you become.

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June 15, 2026

Kurtis Gabriel: How Losing Hockey Finally Showed Him Who He Really Was

<p>What if the thing you built your whole life around is the same thing keeping you from knowing who you really are?</p> <p>We chase the dream for years, reach the top, and then wonder why we feel so empty once we finally get there.</p> <p>In this episode of The Evolving Athletes Podcast, Coach Vinny Malts sits down with Kurtis Gabriel, a former pro hockey enforcer who fought his way to the NHL and then faced a much harder battle once the game was gone.</p> <p>What You Will Learn In This Episode:</p> <ul> <li>Pain vs Suffering: Why pain shows up in every life but suffering is a choice, and how that one shift changes how you handle everything that comes at you.</li> <li>The Identity Trap: How building your whole self on one role sets you up to break when it gets taken away, and how to find who you are underneath it.</li> <li>Discipline Over Motivation: Why motivation comes and goes while discipline holds, and how one non negotiable daily practice became the thing that changed everything.</li> <li>Your Own Scoreboard: How chasing approval from coaches, stats, and other people keeps you stuck, and what it means to play for that feeling instead.</li> <li>Knowing Yourself First: Why putting your own happiness first is not selfish, and how everything you want tends to follow once you do the real work of knowing yourself.</li> </ul> <p><br /> Shownotes:<br /> 00:00 - Welcome to The Evolving Athletes Podcast<br /> 02:56 - The Genuineness of "Namaste" in Hockey Culture<br /> 06:43 - Deconditioning and Relaxing Into "The Zone"<br /> 09:15 - The Discipline of Daily Meditation<br /> 13:09 - Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Optional<br /> 14:44 - Lessons from the NHL Journey and Handling Identity<br /> 17:57 - Childhood Creativity and Personal Tragedy<br /> 21:41 - The Core Battle: Vulnerability vs. Toughness<br /> 25:32 - Moving Past Dogma to Awareness and Consciousness<br /> 33:12 - Returning to the Enforcer Role with a New Mindset<br /> 38:44 - Putting Your Own Happiness First<br /> 42:52 - Humans, Systems, and Collaborative Leadership<br /> 49:44 - The Power of Storytelling in Coaching<br /> 57:08 - Finding the "Bowl" for Integration<br /> 01:02:02 - Identity Crisis and Helping Others Find Their "Middle Way"<br /> 01:06:12 - Authenticity in the Age of AI<br /> 01:12:01 - Building a Community of "Love and Light"<br /> 01:15:52 - Curtis's Future Mission: Book and Course Launch<br /> 01:18:30 - What it Means to Evolve as an Athlete</p> <p>Connect with Kurtis Gabriel<br /> Instagram: kurtisgabriel_</p> <p>Connect with Coach Vinny<br /> Website: coachvinnymalts.com<br /> Instagram: @coachvinnymalts<br /> Linkedin: Vince Malts</p> <p>Website: https://coachvinnymalts.com/<br /> Are you ready to evolve?</p>

Episode thumbnail for Sam Caucci: The Real Reason You Can Not Find Talented Workers Anymore

June 8, 2026

Sam Caucci: The Real Reason You Can Not Find Talented Workers Anymore

<p>What if the single biggest threat to your team's growth isn't a lack of talented workers, but the unwilling leaders running it?</p> <p>We routinely blame an entire generation for being lazy, yet we refuse to give them the actual environments they need to succeed.</p> <p>In this episode of the Evolving Athletes Podcast, Coach Vinny Malts tears up the conventional corporate handbook alongside Sam Caucci, the visionary founder and CEO of 1Huddle and author of Wasted Talent.</p> <p>Sam breaks down why the frameworks built to train our modern workforce are fundamentally broken, sterile, and failing the very people they are meant to support.</p> <p>By extracting the precise word choices, relentless preparation habits, and continuous practice models used by elite sports performance coaches, Sam has completely re-engineered how frontline employees learn, execute, and handle intense pressure. </p> <p>What You Will Learn In This Episode:<br /> The 5X Sourcing Lie: A stark financial breakdown of why trying to buy external talent costs your business five times more cash than building a clear pathway for the roster you already have.</p> <p>Managing vs. True Coaching: How to stop dictating robotic commands as a manager and start operating as an empathetic coach who aligns personal missions to unlock extreme "discretionary effort".</p> <p>The Dark Side of Gamification: An inside look at how extraction-based leaderboards backfired severely inside Amazon warehouses, and how to use game psychology correctly to build healthy, self-driven competition.</p> <p>Operating Without Game Film: Why making massive talent decisions based on pure gut feeling is weakening companies, and how evaluating your team with objective data changes everything.</p> <p>Eliminating the Generational Experience Gap: Dynamic communication tactics to lead Millennials and Gen Z by entirely replacing "do it because I said so" culture with the transparent "why" behind every single daily drill.</p> <p>Connect with Sam Caucci<br /> Instagram: @sammycaucci<br /> Instagram: @play1huddle<br /> Website: https://1huddle.co/</p> <p>Connect with Coach Vinny:<br /> Instagram: @coachvinnymalts<br /> Website: https://coachvinnymalts.com/</p> <p>Are you ready to evolve?</p>

Episode thumbnail for Dr. Mike T Nelson: What Separates The Elite From Everyone Else

May 30, 2026

Dr. Mike T Nelson: What Separates The Elite From Everyone Else

<p id="p-rc_a1ceec138d73d125-273" data-path-to-node="0"> <span class="citation-909">Most athletes believe that blind hustle and perfect data tracking are the keys to reaching the top tier</span><span data-path-to-node="0,3">.</span> <!----><!----> <!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----></p> <p id="p-rc_a1ceec138d73d125-274" data-path-to-node="1"> <span class="citation-908">But some of the most resilient players in the world know that grinding harder will eventually break your system</span><span data-path-to-node="1,3">.</span> <!----><!----> <!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----></p> <p id="p-rc_a1ceec138d73d125-275" data-path-to-node="2"> <span class="citation-907">Dr. Mike T. Nelson grew up battling a massive congenital heart defect that left him in heart failure and completely out of breath at just four years old</span><span data-path-to-node="2,3">.</span> <span class= "citation-906">He later faced a severe visual blindspot that forced his entire body out of alignment, leaving him constantly injured under traditional, rigid workout routines</span><span data-path-to-node="2,7">.</span> <span class= "citation-905">When his body kept breaking, his coaches simply told him to stop asking questions and just suck it up</span><span data-path-to-node="2,11">.</span> <!----><!----> <!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----></p> <p id="p-rc_a1ceec138d73d125-276" data-path-to-node="3"> <span class="citation-904">By graduation, he was an engineer turned exercise physiologist, decoding complex dynamic human systems for elite high performers</span><span data-path-to-node="3,3">.</span> <!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----></p> <p id="p-rc_a1ceec138d73d125-277" data-path-to-node="4"> <span class="citation-903">That shift did not happen because he followed standard industry protocols</span><span data-path-to-node= "4,3">.</span> <span class="citation-902">It happened because he fired his coach and discovered a biological truth that most trainers completely miss</span><span data-path-to-node= "4,7">.</span> <!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----> <!----></p> <p id="p-rc_a1ceec138d73d125-278" data-path-to-node="5"> <span class="citation-901">In this deep dive, Coach Vinny Malts and Dr. Mike T. Nelson explore what it really means to outthink your competition, respect structural complexity, and build absolute physical autonomy</span><span data-path-to-node="5,3">.</span> <!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----></p> <p data-path-to-node="6"><strong>Watch the full evolution to discover:</strong></p> <ul> <li id="p-rc_a1ceec138d73d125-279" data-path-to-node="8"> <span data-path-to-node="8,0"><strong data-path-to-node="8,0" data-index-in-node="0"><span class="citation-900">The Greedy Brain:</span></strong> <span class="citation-900">Why your mind hoards 30% of your metabolic energy and will ruthlessly starve your muscles of fuel the second it senses a survival threat</span></span><span data-path-to-node="8,2">.</span>  <!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----></li> <li id="p-rc_a1ceec138d73d125-280" data-path-to-node="10"> <span data-path-to-node="10,0"><strong data-path-to-node="10,0" data-index-in-node="0"><span class="citation-899">The Robot Jock Fallacy:</span></strong> <span class="citation-899">The real reason the strongest players in the weight room rarely start on game day, and why tracking individual statistics completely ruins team chemistry</span></span><span data-path-to-node= "10,2">.</span> <!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----></li> <li id="p-rc_a1ceec138d73d125-281" data-path-to-node="12"> <span data-path-to-node="12,0"><strong data-path-to-node="12,0" data-index-in-node="0"><span class="citation-898">The Bumper Bowling Model:</span></strong> <span class="citation-898">A systematic framework to safely transition an athlete from rigid training boundaries into total self-coaching autonomy</span></span><span data-path-to-node="12,2">.</span>  <!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----></li> <li id="p-rc_a1ceec138d73d125-282" data-path-to-node="14"> <span data-path-to-node="14,0"><strong data-path-to-node="14,0" data-index-in-node="0"><span class="citation-897">The Illusion of Flow:</span></strong> <span class="citation-897">Why chasing a flow state with quick mental tricks fails, and how elite processing speed is actually a byproduct of unconscious physical mastery</span></span><span data-path-to-node="14,2">.</span>  <!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----></li> <li id="p-rc_a1ceec138d73d125-283" data-path-to-node="16"> <span data-path-to-node="16,0"><strong data-path-to-node="16,0" data-index-in-node="0"><span class="citation-896">The Quantitative Trap:</span></strong> <span class="citation-896">Why relying blindly on a tracking wearable's surrogate scores can completely derail your recovery logic</span></span><span data-path-to-node= "16,2">.</span> <!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----> <!----><!----></li> <li id="p-rc_a1ceec138d73d125-284" data-path-to-node="18"> <span data-path-to-node="18,0"><strong data-path-to-node="18,0" data-index-in-node="0"><span class="citation-895">About Dr. Mike T. Nelson:</span></strong> <span class="citation-895">Mike is a world-class performance coach, exercise physiologist, researcher, and educator who has spent nearly two decades pressure-testing human metabolism, heart rate variability, and performance to help athletes unlock true resilience</span></span><span data-path-to-node="18,2">.</span> <!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----></li> </ul> <p id="p-rc_a1ceec138d73d125-285" data-path-to-node="19"> <span data-path-to-node="19,0"><strong data-path-to-node="19,0" data-index-in-node="0">Connect with Dr. Mike:</strong><br /></span> <span class="citation-894">Instagram: @drmiketnelson </span> <!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----><!----></p> <p data-path-to-node="20"><strong data-path-to-node="20" data-index-in-node="0">Connect with Coach Vinny:<br /></strong>Instagram: @coachvinnymalts</p> <p data-path-to-node="21">Are you ready to evolve?</p>

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What is Evolving Athletes Podcast with Coach Vinny?

Evolving Athletes with Coach Vinny From Potential to Performance. Mentally Conditioned.

Hosted by NHL mindset coach and elite player developer Coach Vinny Malts, Evolving Athletes is the podcast for high performers who want more—on the ice, on the field, in the gym, and long after the final whistle. Whether you're an athlete chasing the next level or someone ready to evolve into the best version of yourself, this show delivers the mental conditioning tools and mindset strategies that unlock lasting growth.

Each episode explores real stories, proven tactics, and transformational conversations designed to move you from potential to performance—not just in your game, but in your life.

Because greatness isn't just about what you do—it's about who you become.

How often does this podcast release new episodes?

This podcast updates daily.

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