Overview

On this episode of Build Your Network, Host Travis Chappell interviews Bhrett McCabe a clinical and sports psychologist, sports psychology consultant to the University of Alabama athletic department and former national champion collegiate athlete.

Topics Discussed:

• About Bhrett McCabe
  • Life is competition and it’s about winning.
  • Sports were the fabric of what they did growing up, he was coached by his dad.
  • He got really good, really fast and then he got injured.
  • He figured things out when he understood the psychology of the game.
  • He got turned onto psychology late.
• Was there a time where you felt you wasted time playing baseball?
  • No, he felt it gave him a foundation.
  • He had to find a way to get into LSU for graduate school since his wife was going there.
  • He made connections, proved himself and got in.
• How does winning work into the idea of psychology?
  • Most of the time in academics, the answer isn’t always about winning.
  • In business, it’s all about winning.
  • Academics can exist alongside business.
  • He was the zebra in a room full of horses in psychology.
  • Growing up playing sports he learned that the process is the vehicle to winning.
  • Athletes develop resilience, relentless attitude, and are resourceful.
  • Great business competitors will win no matter where they’re at.
• Do you believe that what you know or who you know is more important, and why?
  • Who you know and how you manage those relationships.
  • People know if you’re disingenuous.
  • It’s not about leveraging the relationship, it’s about knowing where you can make an impact.

The Random Round:

• What profession other than your own do you think it would be fun to attempt?
  • Chef
• If you could sit on a park bench with anyone for an hour who would it be, and why?
  • Ghandi or Mother Theresa
• How do you like to consume content?
  • Observation
• Give us a glimpse of your morning routine?
  • Wake up
  • Drink Diet Coke
  • Have breakfast by himself and process the day
• What is your go-to pump up song?
  • Anything Guns ‘n’ Roses
  • November Rain
• What is something that you are not very good at?
  • Running
• What is one place where we can find you the most?
  • themindside.com

Tweetable Quotes:

• The mind has so much to do with success and failure.
• People only change for one of two reasons: they have to or they want to.
• If everyone in the world was an entrepreneur, we wouldn’t have static Fortune 100 companies.

Resources Mentioned:

Buildyournetwork.co – Podcast website

BYN.media/fb – Facebook Group

The Mind Side – Bhrett’s website