About this episode

Michaela Edenfield discusses confidence and the importance of mindset for athletes.

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...

People in this episode

Hosts: Coach AB, Amanda Schaefer

Guest: Michaela Edenfield

Topics covered

• confidence
• athlete mindset
• mentorship
• recruiting
• failure
• Junior Olympic trials

Keywords

• confidence
• athlete
• mentorship
• recruiting
• Junior Olympic trials
• mindset
• failure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Texas Volts, Florida State

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