In this episode, we are sharing a mentorship call from 2023 with Morgan Howe, ASU alum and professional softball player for the Atlanta Smoke. She was the first overall pick of the 2023 WPF Expansion Draft and the league's Offensive Player of the Year in her first professional season. She shares her early years as a softball player and the importance of having fun and sticking to your why. Episode Highlights: Why process over outcome was the mental concept that changed everything in her care...

In today's episode, we are sharing our mentorship call with Ali Newland, an LSU Alum and professional softball player in the AUSL for the Portland Cascade. She played outfield and caught at LSU, earned the SEC Volunteer of the Year award as a senior, and is now a utility player for the Cascade. She opens up about her mental performance journey that completely changed her career and life outside of softball. Episode Highlights: How playing gymnastics, basketball, and tennis made her a better ...

In today's episode, we are sharing our mentorship call with Michaela Edenfield, Texas Volts catcher, Florida State alum, and also known as "Area 51". She opens up about failing forward in Junior Olympic trials, why she never had a dream school, and why doing it until you are it is the only version of confidence worth chasing. Episode Highlights: Why having dream goals instead of a dream school is the mindset shift that changes everything in recruitingThe impact of the open tryout for the Jun...

In today's episode, Coach Kara and our Warriors interviewed Skylar Wallace, a professional softball player for the AUSL's Chicago Bandits and the Japan Diamond Softball League, as well as a three-time All-American, NFCA National Player of the Year, and three-time All-SEC First Team selection at the University of Florida. She opens up about self-talk, the transfer decision that changed everything, and why the six inches between your ears matters more than anything else on the field. Episode H...

We are so excited to share this mentorship call with Jocelyn Erickson, a University of Florida alum, two-time Rawlings Gold Glove Award winner, 2024 NFCA National Player of the Year, SEC Player of the Year, and now a professional player for the Chicago Bandits She sat down with Coach Kara and our Warriors for a raw, honest conversation about visualization, identity, team culture, and what it really means to get over yourself and play for something bigger. Episode Highlights: Getting hyper-sp...

Welcome back to our Cool Careers in Sports series! Susan Forbes is a recruiting advisor, life coaching certified consultant, and host of the number one volleyball recruiting podcast, the NXTVB Podcast. With over a decade of experience, she has built a career around one powerful idea: athletes should be in the driver's seat of their recruiting journey, and the right program wants who they actually are and not who they think they need to be. Episode Highlights: Why trying to be who you think c...

Welcome back to our Cool Careers in Sports series! In this week's episode, I interviewed Matt Woods, who is part of the Motor Preferences Experts team, the first and only performance company in the US specializing in a science-backed system based on an athlete's unique, natural movement patterns. If you have seen the colored tape on catchers' chest protectors at college games, or spotted those side-by-side mechanical case studies on social media, that is Motor Preferences in action. Episode ...

Welcome back to our Cool Careers in Sports series! Hana DeGuzman served Team Fearless from 2021-2025 and is now serving as a Certified Mental Performance Consultant at Premier Sport with the Minnesota Twins. In this episode, Hana unveils what it actually takes to build a career in sports psychology, the difference between mental health and mental performance, and why open-mindedness is the superpower that changed the entire direction of her life. Episode Highlights: The real difference betwe...

Welcome back to our Cool Careers in Sports series! This week, I interviewed Kaylee Dellert, the Softball Marketing Manager at Rawlings Sporting Goods, where she manages marketing for both Rawlings Softball and Easton Fastpitch. She gives us the inside scoop on what it really takes to build a brand voice that an entire community loves, how she noticed a gap as an intern and ran with it, and why the hardest season of her career was also the most important one. Episode Highlights: What a week i...

We are diving into another episode of our Cool Careers in Sports series! This week, Savanna Collins, Senior Reporter for the AUSL, pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to build a career in sports media. She shares why failing and putting yourself out there with smaller opportunities is exactly what prepares you to shine on the biggest stage. Episode Highlights: How being a coach's kid and a weather girl in fourth grade put her on a path she never had to second-guessWhy she said yes...