Mental Training Lab

About Mental Training Lab

Master your mental game with the Mental Training Lab, hosted by Pete Kadushin. With 15 years of coaching experience and a PhD in performance psychology, Pete digs deep each episode to provide practical tools and expert insights so you can perform your best when it matters most. Enhance your focus, harness stress, and overcome challenges whether you’re an athlete, leader, or high-performer. Subscribe to learn how to elevate your game in work, play, and life.

Publisher

Pete Kadushin, PhD

Category

education · sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Apr 2021

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

92 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   With the End in Mind: Reflection as Your Highest Point of Leverage

   For the best, reflection is an integral part of the process. For everyone else, reflection is one of the most overlooked parts of the performance cycle. Without structure and commitment, reflection can quickly become rumination - replaying mistakes, picking apart what went wrong, and carrying all of that into tomorrow. In this solocast, I’m breaking down one of my favorite tools for closing out a performance: Good, Better, How. What did I do good? What will I do better next time? And, m...

2. 

   16 Sept 2026

   You Gotta Get Up to Get Down: The Paradox of Relaxation

   In this solocast, I’m exploring something I got wrong for a long time: the idea that when we’re carrying too much stress or activation, the answer is simply to get better at relaxing. Breathing, meditation, visualization, progressive muscle relaxation—I still believe in all of those tools. But what happens when you’re trying to relax on top of years of missed shots, disappointing performances, high-pressure moments, frustration, and stress that your body never really had a chance to move thro...

3. 

   1 Sept 2026

   Stop Overriding Your Body: Elisa Haggarty on Somatic Coaching, Authenticity, and Peak Performance

   In this episode of The Mental Training Lab, I sit down with former basketball athlete and executive/somatic coach Elisa Haggarty to explore how athletes, leaders, and high performers can build a more honest relationship with the body. Elisa’s work helps leaders and teams use bodily sensations, emotions, and present-moment awareness as data for authenticity, trust, and more effective communication. Drawing from her own athletic background, she shares how sport can teach us to work hard, push t...

Who has been a guest on Mental Training Lab

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Tessa West
• Kirsten Cooper
• Sonya Looney

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

20 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

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Quality

53

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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