Finally Pursuing This After A Decade (Rep.013)

Episode 13. Been reading The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. The concept is we live in emotional boxes and when something breaks outside that box like getting sick, we default to "I'm failing at everything." The goal is expanding to bigger boxes where you can handle more without freaking out. Today I missed workouts and did less work but got recovery time and extra hours with my daughter and wife. My brain says failing, expanded box thinking says those are all wins. This connects to why athletes need identity outside sport. If your whole identity is performance, any dip destroys you. Big announcement: pursuing a sports psychology PhD! Been wanting this for 10 years and it'll be focused on producing a verified transition programs for athletes leaving sport. Many years ahead but over the moon about it. #sportspsychology #athletetransition ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I'm Noah Cavanaugh, ex-professional footballer turned triathlete and founder of Brace. This channel is the unfiltered look at building a business, triathlon training, and navigating the mental side of transitions. On this channel, you'll find: → Behind-the-scenes of building Brace and working with athlete clients → Triathlon training and the mindset shifts that come with it → Weekly Reps: lessons from the week → Real conversations with athletes about identity, transitions, and mental performance → The honest reality of life after professional sport If you're an athlete thinking about who you are beyond your sport, this channel is for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 Want structured frameworks and systems? Subscribe to the Brace channel: @BraceAthletes 🔥 Join the FREE Brace Community: https://skool.com/brace 📩 Weekly newsletter: https://noahcavanaugh.com/newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 CONNECT WITH ME: → Instagram: @noah.cavanaugh → Brace Instagram: @BraceAthletes → LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/noah-cavanaugh → Website: https://noahcavanaugh.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Music I use: https://share.epidemicsound.com/2yesys 💼 My recommended tools & products: https://noahcavanaugh.com/noahs-picks As an Amazon Affiliate, I may earn commissions from purchases through these links. Thanks for supporting the channel!