
The Athletic School Podcast
Hosted by The host · The Athletic School
5.0from 32 ratings
- 140
- Episodes
- 33
- Transcribed
- 32
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About The Athletic School Podcast
Win the mental battle before the comeback. The Athletic School is for athletes in transition — anyone rebuilding who they are beyond the game. Hosted by Igor Acorinte, a former competitive soccer player and Brazilian immigrant who rebuilt his life from nothing in the US, now applying that same mindset as a husband, dad, and Ironman-in-training. Every episode digs into the real mechanics of reconnection — pressure, self-doubt, identity, and the ownership it takes to move forward. Not motivation. The actual work underneath it. New episodes every other week.
- Publisher
- The Athletic School
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Apr 2021
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
33 of 140 episodes have a transcript.

5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#137 Mindset Lab: How to Actually Stay Calm Under Pressure

25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
#136 Mindset Lab - Why You Keep Failing At The Same Thing, Even After You Fix It

9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
#135 Mindset Lab: Why "Pushing Through Pain" Is Ruining Athletes — with Ken Moench
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#137 Mindset Lab: How to Actually Stay Calm Under Pressure
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The problem is most people never find in the moment that they need it because they never once practice finding it anywhere else. So why he didn't notice sooner? Not because he wasn't tough enough or locked in enough, He would simply never practice noticing anywhere else. The first time he ever tried to catch that feeling early was in the single highest pressure moment he had all year. That's an impossible place to learn something for the first time. You don't build that kind of noticing in the big moments. There's too much happening. Too much on the line. You build it in the boring moments. The moment nobody's watching, nothing is at risk because those are the only moments calm enough to actually practice. […]
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- 4.9 / 5
- 9 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 23 ratings
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- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 71
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