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Delivering Mental Performance within the G-League

In this episode, Mental Performance Coach Nico Bourgade welcomes Grand Rapids Gold's Sports Psychologist Dr. Eddie O’Connor as his guest.

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Season 1, episode 16
32 min / Published

Eddie has been working for decades as a performance psychologist and is telling us all about his first year experience delivering mental health as well as mental performance services to the Grand Rapids Gold, aka Denver Nuggets' G-League team.

Eddie and Nico stressed the importance of mental health and its role leading to higher performance. You will find the foundations that Eddie has laid within the Grand Rapids Gold's organization, his objectives working with them in the future and his perspective from the inside of a G-League team.

Specific cases like free throw shooting, bringing intensity are also brought in as we hope you enjoy this episode...

(Dr. Eddie O’Connor is a professional speaker and both clinical and sport psychologist, specializing in removing barriers to peak performance. He is a Fellow and Certified Mental Performance Consultant through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, and member of the United States Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry. Dr. Eddie has worked with youth, high school, collegiate, national and international, Junior Olympic and professional athletes and coaches, as well as performing artists and musicians.)

Find out more about Dr Eddie O'Connor on his website: https://dreddieoconnor.com/

Eddie's resource for online mental training, "Success Stories Membership" at https://successstories.dreddieoconnor.com/register

Here is the link to find Nico's mental guide dedicated to hoopers all around the World willing to develop their mental game in an easy to read and understand manner: https://www.amazon.com/yourself-Mind-Game-Basketball-ebook/dp/B0B9T3N9WW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=14TY1F3431ZEP&keywords=nico+bourgade&qid=1680036630&sprefix=nico+bourgad%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-1

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