Today we’d like to introduce you to Mike Margolies.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Mike. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I was a failed athlete. Failed in High School (basketball, track, swimming), College (football and soccer) and Professionally as a soccer player. I didn’t have the mental toughness to perform with confidence. I went to do graduate work to become a better coach, then the coaches I had had. I met the father of modern sport psychology and he changed the direction of my life when he told me the mental toughness I lacked was just a skill and I could learn those skills at any time. Since then I have been training athletes, performing artists and executives with mental skills to build mental toughness.
I am a Sport Psychology Consultant, Certified Mental Trainer® (CMT), Author, and Professional Speaker. Over the past three decades, more than 3,000 athletes from around the globe have sought me out to help them reach their potential. My clients include professional, collegiate and youth athletes in every sport. The professional and elite athletes include World and even Super Bowl champions. I taught at four Universities and completed research at the United States Olympic Training Center. My book is called “The Athlete Within You- A Mental Approach to Sports and Business”. I currently work with individual athletes, teams and businesses around the world, both in person and via SKYPE. I’m based out of the DFW metroplex and am the Chief Operating Officer for Mental Training Inc.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It’s never been smooth. People believe that the mental part of performance is the most important, but either do not understand that it can be learned or are unwilling to pay to receive lessons. There is also a stigma among some who think that to work with a Sport Psychology Consultant or Certified Mental Trainer you have to have a psychological issue, rather than consider mental training as simply a part of their performance training.
Mental Training and The Mental Game – what should we know? What do you guys do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
We train athletes, teams, business executives and performing artists on the mental skills needed to perform at the highest levels. We work with people in person and online. We offer online courses in mental skills training, Parent Support for their athletic children, Coach training and training for other sport psychology consultants. We have 30+ sport psychology consultants around the world who have been through our training. We give them the training they do not receive doing their Master’s or Doctorate degrees. We have more online courses than any other mental training group in the world. We have a mental training app that surpasses in effectiveness anything on the market today.
What moment in your career do you look back most fondly on?
I guess training athletes who have achieve high levels of success. I have a player who now plays for the US Men’s National Team in soccer. He played in the World Cup. I’ve trained athletes who became World Champions and Olympians.
Contact Info:
- Address: 15150 Preston Rd.,
S322, Dallas, Texas 75248 - Website: www.mentaltraininginc.com/ and www.TheMental-Game.com
- Phone: 425-241-6539
- Email: Mike@mentaltraininginc.com
- Twitter: @TheMentalGame
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