Finding a way to coach yourself with challenge and grace can be an extraordinary unlock for performance.

Mikaela Shiffrin is an Olympic gold medalist and the winningest alpine ski racer in World Cup history. We first released this conversation in 2024. She has since won Olympic slalom gold at Milano Cortina and a record-equaling sixth Overall Crystal Globe, and what she describes here is the work that was already well underway.

Mikaela and Mike get into the performance anxiety that had her sick at the start gate years into her career, the self-coaching habit she built to interrupt it, and the race she lost at Killington that she calls the most free she has ever felt in her career. She is open about how long she let the outside world dictate how she felt about her own skiing before she reclaimed that for herself.

Coaching yourself well is incredibly difficult, and Mikaela shows us in this conversation the power you can drive when you do it in a world-class way.

Enjoy the conversation.

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Links & Resources

Mikaela Shiffrin: linktr.ee/mikaelashiffrin

Mikaela Shiffrin’s YouTube Series: Moving Right Along, on her channel youtube.com/@mikaelashiffrin

Mikaela Shiffrin’s Podcast: What’s the Point with Mikaela Shiffrin: listen here

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