Athletic Mindset – LIVETHEFUEL https://livethefuel.com FUEL Your Health, Business, and Lifestyle! - Scott Mulvaney Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:26:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.14 https://livethefuel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-LIVETHEFUEL-logo-2019-TM-32x32.jpg Athletic Mindset – LIVETHEFUEL https://livethefuel.com 32 32 63887497 198: Peak Performance, Swimming, Dogs, with Athlete, Brian Bergford https://livethefuel.com/episodes/198-peak-performance-swimming-dogs-with-athlete-brian-bergford/ Fri, 27 Jul 2018 14:00:00 +0000 https://livethefuel.com/captivate-podcast/198-peak-performance-swimming-dogs-with-athlete-brian-bergford/ Bergford Peak Performance, Speaker, Coach, and Fellow Competitive Athlete:   Brain Bergford is a Professional Speaker, Peak Performance Coach, competitive athlete, and the Owner of Bergford Performance Systems. He specializes in helping motivated and athletic CEOs, entrepreneurs, and business owners gain the tools to take their businesses and lives to the next level. Colored by…

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Bergford Peak Performance, Speaker, Coach, and Fellow Competitive Athlete:

 

Brain Bergford is a Professional Speaker, Peak Performance Coach, competitive athlete, and the Owner of Bergford Performance Systems. He specializes in helping motivated and athletic CEOs, entrepreneurs, and business owners gain the tools to take their businesses and lives to the next level. Colored by a depth of experience across a variety of disciplines, Brian’s focus is creating the most powerful psychology and mindset possible in his clients.

After graduating with a degree in Psychology from the University of Colorado, Brian spent the next decade mentoring people and helping them master their relationships with their dogs. Out of that grew a clientele who recognized Brian’s ability as a phenomenal personal and business coach and reached out to him because of his expertise in personal development and peak performance.

Brian now coaches high-performing clients, who aren’t afraid to get physical, on how to scale their business and take full reigns as a successful leader. He continually pushes the envelope of potential in all areas of life and inspires others to stretch toward the fullest expression of their personal greatness while loving the journey and inspiring others.

 

On This Episode You Will Hear:

  • [spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
  • [spp-timestamp time=”13:00″] Scott’s learning to swim to complete his first triathlon in 4 weeks.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”17:00″] Geeking out on swimming, USA Swimming, masters athletes, and more.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”23:30″] Sharing marathon stories, when grandma passes by you.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”33:55″] Using social media for good. Inspiring others by creating breakthroughs for people.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”45:00″] Power positive podcasting vs the Negative News Networks.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”45:30″] Reflecting on 9/11. Powerful shifts, changes in the world, performance, and peak impacting changes in our lives.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”53:50″] Relating to running, the mindset work, putting in the reps.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”1:00:10″] The power of committing.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”1:01:30″] Fears, getting scared, and regret.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”1:05:50″] Injuries are self-imposed.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”1:10:55″] Only common men and common women can afford the luxury of excuses.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”1:17:00″] The Mind Game and can you hear Calvin the Coonhound right now?
  • [spp-timestamp time=”1:19:25″] Brian and Scott connect on hiking 14ers.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”1:26:00″] Why are you here in the first place? What is really most important? Only the people with the courage to start, stumble upon the things they wish would never end.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”1:32:30″] It’s the legacy and the inspiration of what we pass on. Make it something worth passing on, something that comes deep within your spirit.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”01:38:00″] Final Words

 

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Final Words:

Brian Bergford wants you to have the courage and the boldness to step up to the plate the next time you need to. The next time that fear shows up, start running towards it, instead of shying away from it. We are all susceptible from time to time. Just stinking face it!

 

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]]> 15378 030: Balance, Sleep & Emotional Health Dr. Julie Amato https://livethefuel.com/episodes/030-balance-sleep-emotional-health-dr-julie-amato/ Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:00:00 +0000 https://livethefuel.com/captivate-podcast/030-balance-sleep-emotional-health-dr-julie-amato/ Balance, Sleep & Emotional Health The mental game is the toughest of all. Your mindset is what ultimately holds everything together. You have to keep developing yourself to keep all the domains in your life balanced and your emotional health in tack. On this episode of LIVETHEFUEL, another co-host from, the team at MindoftheAthlete.com joins us. They help…

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Balance, Sleep & Emotional Health

The mental game is the toughest of all. Your mindset is what ultimately holds everything together. You have to keep developing yourself to keep all the domains in your life balanced and your emotional health in tack. On this episode of LIVETHEFUEL, another co-host from, the team at MindoftheAthlete.com joins us. They help develop the minds of young, aspiring athletes. Visualizing the end game is Dr. Julie Amato.

“The ones who decide to embrace changes are the ones that ultimately will succeed“

balance sleep& emotional health dr julie amato

On This Episode You Will Hear:

  • [spp-timestamp time=”01:29″] Dr. Julie Amato is a sports psychologist. More broadly she is a clinical psychologist. Psychologist have PhD’s and Psychiatrist have MD’s.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”02:03″] Both focused on the mind. Dealing with depression.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”03:48″] You have to keep working on yourself and developing yourself. Don’t leave all your eggs in one basket. Diversify. If you have good balance in your life, and one piece falls away there are other parts of your life that are fulfilling that gives you a little psychological sturdiness.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”05:16″] Fuel your health, business and lifestyle. How do you manage adversity? Keeping all the domains in your life balanced. The college athletes Julie works with put their lives into three domains, Social, Academic, and Sport. They find it hard to balance the three.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”08:51 “] The Phone Tree

Biohacking, Mind Mapping and Visualization

  • [spp-timestamp time=”13:09″] Bio Hacking with Bulletproof Coffee Dave Asprey. Putting healthy fat sources in your coffee. 80% of your brain tissue is fat cells. How are we fueling these fat cells?
  • [spp-timestamp time=”15:28″] The importance of sleep. Sleep is critical for muscle repair and growth recovery. Memory consolidation occurs whilst sleeping.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”17:54″] Dr. Perlmutter, author of The Grain Brain is a researcher that studies brain health.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”19:40″] Dr. Mah and the improvements in performance with more sleep.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”21:47″] Develop a template or a mind map in your mind. You will gain more confidence if you create this template in your mind. It will feel like you have already done it. Get your mental reps in.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”24:07″] Concussion. If you are injured, you should be visualizing and taking mental reps. This process will smooth your transition back to a full fitness performance.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”25:58″] Utilizing the visualization process. People underestimate the emotional impact of injury.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”28:46″] The ones who decide to embrace changes are the ones that ultimately will succeed. Are you going to choose to embrace it first and how are you going to adapt.
  • [spp-timestamp time=”30:49″] Celebrating the wins
  • [spp-timestamp time=”32:45″] Are you using the word failure or are you using it as an opportunity to improve
  • [spp-timestamp time=”36:41″] Supporting Berkeley and schools in our local Lehigh Valley area
  • [spp-timestamp time=”37:32″] Final Words

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Dr. Julie Amato Mind of the Athlete Emotional Health

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Final Words

Living with passion and purpose. Take care of your emotional health. Be around people that fill you up. Stay away from the drama and the people who bring you down. If life throws something at you that you really feel you cannot handle or are not handling well, get some help. We all need to do that.

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