E158 Dr A Wade Wilson The Mentor Magazine
Let’s Be Well Together Podcast - Episode 158
Date: February 4, 2025
Participants: John Webster, Riley Thompson and Sheila Webster
Guest: Dr. A. Wade Wilson
Start Times and Segments:
[0:00:35] What’s On Your Mind: Living in a clean house makes us feel better. We talk about keeping it clean, decluttering and a connection to our wellbeing.
[0:11:48] Expanding Minds Interview: [Mental Wellness] We interviewed Dr. A. Wade Wilson about mental performance on Episode 135. This week, he’s back to tell us about the launch of the online resource called The Mentor Magazine. It bridges the theory-to-practice gap, by providing athletes and others with mental performance insights. Coaches and parents and supporters can create a positive environment and a sense of psychological safety, where performers/ athletes can make mistakes without being ridiculed. They can foster a positive learning environment. They can help athletes to learn about imagery and visualization, to show how they can reframe their self-talk to boost their confidence or manage their emotions or show how to create more self-awareness. There are many ways they can help influence and have a good impact.
[0:25:37] Move That Body: Three wins we can achieve each day to feel great.
Quotes and Take-Aways:
Dr. Wilson - The Mentor Magazine. It bridges the theory to practice gap, by providing athletes, coaches, parents and support systems with mental performance insights. It covers everything from confidence and resilience to mental skills around self-talk, imagery, stress management and emotional management.
Dr. Wilson – It will be for the athlete or performer within us all. It will also be for coaches of minor sports, competitive sports, athletics, amateur sports who don’t have the time or resources to engage in mental performance as deeply as they want.
Dr. Wilson – Coaches and parents and supporters can create a positive environment and an aspect of psychological safety, where performers/ athletes can make mistakes without being ridiculed. They can foster a positive learning environment in that sense. Other ways are to help athletes learn about imagery and visualization, to show how they can reframe their self-talk to boost their confidence or manage their emotions or show how to create more self-awareness. There are many ways they can help influence and have a good impact.
Dr. Wilson – Resilience to me is having that growth mindset. It’s also about understanding no matter how careful we are or how good we intend to be, we are human beings and we’re naturally going to make mistakes in the pursuit of excellence. Resilience is a perspective of being able to take anything that’s coming at me; while understanding I am going to make some mistakes, but I’m building the skills and resources to be able to accept the obstacles and frustrations. I can grow in the same instance. I can be grateful for some of those obstacles, as well.
Dr. Wilson – Resilience is an understanding that it’s supposed to be tough and that’s okay. I’m supposed to grow, and I’m supposed to struggle a little bit
Guest Information: Dr. Austin Wade Wilson has a number of degrees, including a Ph.D. from University of Waterloo in Recreation and Leisure Studies and a master’s degree from University of Windsor in human kinetics with a focus in Applied Sport Psychology. He has a CMPC certification as a Certified Mental Performance Consultant, and close to 20 years of experience in the field of sport psychology and mental performance. Wade is currently working on a digital publication called Mentor Magazine, which he aims to launch by January 2025.
Online Magazine: The Mentor Magazine
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