Competition Anxiety Part 1: How to Turn Nervousness Into Your Secret Weapon

Competition Anxiety Part 1: How to Turn Nervousness Into Your Secret Weapon

Ethan prepared more than almost anyone in his charity golf event. Extra lessons. Hours on the range. And it made everything worse. Because his problem was never his swing. It was competition anxiety. And nobody had ever given him a system for it.  Today Bo and Shannon fix that.  Here's what you'll hear:  — How anxiety is actually born in your prefrontal cortex, and why golf is the most anxiety-generating sport in the world because it's the most uncertain  — FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real, and the two paths it creates: Forget Everything and Run, or Face Everything and Rise  — The three-stage mind mapping technique from Dr. Judson Brewer's research, with seven golf-specific trigger examples including score protection mode and the comparison trap  — The five PNT pressure scenarios to rehearse in mental rep practice, including the Atlanta Braves Triple-A pitcher who got called up with two days' notice and said it felt like he'd already pitched in that stadium 100 times  — Why nervousness and excitement share the exact same biological symptoms, and the Disney World turbulence story that makes the reframe undeniable  — The 13-handicap client who shot her low round of the year playing against a 5-time club champion, simply by saying three words out loud  — Ted Scott's "I can't wait to be nervous" and what 2012 Olympic athletes really meant when they told reporters they weren't nervous  This is Part 1 of 2. Part 2 goes somewhere Bo and Shannon have never shared publicly before — including the story of a caddie who walked off three tournaments mid-round from panic attacks, and what God's Word says about anxiety.    🎯 Special Call-Out Section — School of Lifetime Low Rounds  🚨 IT'S HERE — 5 YEARS IN THE MAKING 🚨  If you've been waiting for Bo and Shannon to bring everything from this podcast — the trigger, the CPR, the signal lights, the B.A.L.L. Reset, the thermostat, the Power Talk library, and now competition anxiety — into one complete, structured training experience, the wait is over.  School of Lifetime Low Rounds is launching soon, and it's the most comprehensive thing Bo and Shannon have ever built. Five years of coaching, testing, and refining the exact system you've heard transform John Norvell, the University of Washington Women's Golf Team, Jack, and dozens of others — now organized into a complete training path you can follow at your own pace.  Get priority access before anyone else. Bo and Shannon are releasing a free 3-part video series that walks you through the core of what's inside School of Lifetime Low Rounds — and being on the priority notification list means you'll be first to know the exact launch date, founding member pricing, and bonus access before the doors open to the public.  👉 Watch the free video series now: Video 1: inthezonesecrets.com/free-video-series1a [https://inthezonesecrets.com/free-video-series1a] Video 2: inthezonesecrets.com/free-video-series-2 [https://inthezonesecrets.com/free-video-series-2] Video 3: inthezonesecrets.com/free-video-series-3 [https://inthezonesecrets.com/free-video-series-3]   Remember, you are just one round away.  🎧 Listen & Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Listen Here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-round-away/id1888007837] Spotify — Listen Here [https://open.spotify.com/show/02ZSL14OnfSbp211SlmTYa?si=3327bcfb1aa94963] 🧠 Free Mental Game Assessment Find out exactly what's holding your game back — takes 5 minutes and it's completely free. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment [https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment] 📖 Get the Book In the Zone Secrets: How to Get in the Zone at the Flip of a Switch — just cover shipping and it's yours. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/ [https://inthezonesecrets.com/] 👥 Join the Caveman Golf Winner's Circle Our free community for golfers who are serious about playing their best. Come join the tribe. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout [https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout] 📞 Free Coaching Call If you're ready to close the gap between the golfer you are and the golfer you know you can be — let's talk. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall [https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall]

From Quitting to One Under: Jack's Story (Injured 4 Months, Came Back a Different Golfer)

What do you do when a back injury takes you off the course for four months? If you're Jack Forstine, you do mental reps every single day -- and come back hitting 300-yard drives and shooting one under. Last fall, Jack was averaging 42-45 on nine holes, losing his love for the game, and seriously considering walking away. When his back gave out, it looked like the end. Instead, it became the turning point. In this episode, Bo and Shannon sit down with Jack to hear his story firsthand -- how mental imagery kept him "playing" through injury, how CPR and his trigger transformed him from a self-described hothead into a player who stays present, and how the same process the world's top athletes use gave a high school golfer the motivation to trust the system when the results weren't there yet. You'll also hear Bo and Shannon share stories of golfers in their 80s still making massive gains -- because this system removes every excuse, whether you're 17 or 87. If you're stuck, injured, or on the verge of giving up -- this one is for you. Pick up your copy of In The Zone Secrets at InTheZoneSecrets.com [https://inthezonesecrets.com] or on Amazon internationally.  Ready to take the next step? Book your free Consistent Golf Strategy Call at InTheZoneSecrets.com/freecall [https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall]. You're just one round away. 🎧 Listen & Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Listen Here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-round-away/id1888007837] Spotify — Listen Here [https://open.spotify.com/show/02ZSL14OnfSbp211SlmTYa?si=3327bcfb1aa94963] 🧠 Free Mental Game Assessment Find out exactly what's holding your game back — takes 5 minutes and it's completely free. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment [https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment] 📖 Get the Book In the Zone Secrets: How to Get in the Zone at the Flip of a Switch — just cover shipping and it's yours. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/ [https://inthezonesecrets.com/] 👥 Join the Caveman Golf Winner's Circle Our free community for golfers who are serious about playing their best. Come join the tribe. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout [https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout] 📞 Free Coaching Call If you're ready to close the gap between the golfer you are and the golfer you know you can be — let's talk. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall [https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall]

Your Separation Is in Your Preparation: The Complete Pre-Round Routine

Most golfers show up to the first tee in yellow light — rushed, cold, and mentally scattered — before they have hit a single shot. Then they wonder why the first three holes always feel like waking up mid-round.  Today Bo and Shannon fix that permanently.  This is the episode that bookends the entire One Round Away system. Every tool taught across twelve episodes works better when you arrive at the round already in green light. Today you get the complete protocol from the night before your round to the moment you grip the club on the first tee.  Here is what you will hear:  — Why Sam Snead was shaking so badly at the Greenbrier in 1936 that eyewitnesses said he needed both hands to tee the ball, and how he went from that panic attack to outdriving everyone on the hole with his best drive ever  — The night-before mental course walkthrough: how to pre-experience the round so your nervous system has already been to the first tee before you ever leave the house  — Why picking up your phone before making a single mental deposit is the first mistake most golfers make on round morning, and what to do instead, including Shannon's list of God's promises as Power Talk statements  — Dr. Andrew Huberman's physiological sigh and why it outperforms every other breathing technique tested across 700 studies for lowering your stress baseline  — The Justin Rose simulated play clip Bo shared in his community, and why treating the range exactly like the course is the only way to close the range-to-course gap permanently  — Why static stretching before a round decreases muscle activation per twenty years of research, and what the dynamic warmup actually does instead  — The two-ball putting drill, the David Orr face angle calibration, and the 82% stat that changes how you think about start line forever  — The four yellow light triggers that fire before the round even starts — including the well-intentioned playing partner compliment that accidentally puts you in score-protection mode before hole one  Remember, you're just one round away... 🎧 Listen & Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Listen Here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-round-away/id1888007837] Spotify — Listen Here [https://open.spotify.com/show/02ZSL14OnfSbp211SlmTYa?si=3327bcfb1aa94963] 🧠 Free Mental Game Assessment Find out exactly what's holding your game back — takes 5 minutes and it's completely free. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment [https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment] 📖 Get the Book In the Zone Secrets: How to Get in the Zone at the Flip of a Switch — just cover shipping and it's yours. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/ [https://inthezonesecrets.com/] 👥 Join the Caveman Golf Winner's Circle Our free community for golfers who are serious about playing their best. Come join the tribe. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout [https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout] 📞 Free Coaching Call If you're ready to close the gap between the golfer you are and the golfer you know you can be — let's talk. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall [https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall]

Talk to Yourself. Don't Listen. Power Talk Part 2

Last week you learned why words are costing you strokes. Today you get the weapon. In Part 2 Bo and Shannon deliver everything promised from Part 1, and then go even further with brand-new science that was not in the book. Here is what you will hear in this episode: — Why you cannot control negative thoughts, but you can stop pulling the trigger on them, and exactly how the T-chart gives you the tool to do it in real time — The three types of Power Talk and which one science proves is the most powerful under pressure: I statements, you statements, and name-based statements, and why Cristiano Ronaldo talks to himself in third person before every penalty kick — University of Michigan research showing that using your own name in self-talk drops your amygdala fear response by 25 to 35 percent while keeping decision-making 15 to 20 percent more active — producing 8 to 15 percent better scores in close competition — The bank robbery analogy and Shannon's snake story from Seattle that prove words change your physiology before your brain can argue — The cortisol killer and how Power Talk physiologically switches you from sympathetic stress mode to parasympathetic calm mode, loosening your muscle fibers and increasing clubhead speed — Shannon's real cycling brake story on how "adversity is my advantage" lowered his rate of perceived exertion on a 40-mile ride and took his average from 19.5 to 21 miles per hour — The complete Power Talk library by category, swing, pressure, adversity, putting, short game, score, and present-moment focus with the chipping yips research that reframes difficult lies entirely — The three-part Power Talk formula: your name, an instruction reminder, a confidence boost — and Shannon's step-by-step plan for building it into your game over the next four to eight weeks — The T-chart built live on the episode with real examples for both sides 🎧 Listen & Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Listen Here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-round-away/id1888007837] Spotify — Listen Here [https://open.spotify.com/show/02ZSL14OnfSbp211SlmTYa?si=3327bcfb1aa94963] 🧠 Free Mental Game Assessment Find out exactly what's holding your game back — takes 5 minutes and it's completely free. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment [https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment] 📖 Get the Book In the Zone Secrets: How to Get in the Zone at the Flip of a Switch — just cover shipping and it's yours. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/ [https://inthezonesecrets.com/] 👥 Join the Caveman Golf Winner's Circle Our free community for golfers who are serious about playing their best. Come join the tribe. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout [https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout] 📞 Free Coaching Call If you're ready to close the gap between the golfer you are and the golfer you know you can be — let's talk. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall [https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall]

You're Doing the Rice Experiment on Yourself Every Round — Here's What That Means

What do you say to yourself when you miss a short putt you know you should have made? When you snap hook a driver out of bounds on a hole you always drive well? When you are trying to protect a lead and you make a double bogey? If you are honest, the answer is not pretty. And here is what most golfers have never been told. Those words are not just affecting your confidence. They are affecting your coordination, your muscle sequencing, and your physical ability to hit the very next shot. That is not a motivational statement. That is documented science. And today Bo and Shannon prove it. Here is what you will hear in this episode: — The Harvard University research that shows positive language improves performance by ten percent, but negative self-talk is forty to seventy times more powerful in the other direction — Dr. Emoto's rice experiment from the National Library of Medicine — three jars of cooked rice, different words spoken to each for one month, and results that make the case for Power Talk completely undeniable — All twelve types of negative self-talk that show up specifically in golf — from self-doubt and all-or-nothing thinking to the comparison trap and the one most golfers never think about: complaining — The new neuroscience on complaining that did not make it into the book in time and how just thirty seconds of frustration floods your body with cortisol, literally makes you dumber in real time, and rewires your brain to default to negativity faster with every repetition — Why the player Bo describes as the worst mental headcase he has seen in 37 years of golf is now playing some of his best — and which of the twelve types broke him — Shannon's David and Goliath teaching and what it has to do with the inner critic on the golf course The T-chart exercise and the complete Power Talk library are coming in Part 2 next week. This week your homework is simple — pay attention to what you are saying to yourself on the course. Document it. And come ready to build. 🎧 Listen & Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Listen Here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-round-away/id1888007837] Spotify — Listen Here [https://open.spotify.com/show/02ZSL14OnfSbp211SlmTYa?si=3327bcfb1aa94963] 🧠 Free Mental Game Assessment Find out exactly what's holding your game back — takes 5 minutes and it's completely free. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment [https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment] 📖 Get the Book In the Zone Secrets: How to Get in the Zone at the Flip of a Switch — just cover shipping and it's yours. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/ [https://inthezonesecrets.com/] 👥 Join the Caveman Golf Winner's Circle Our free community for golfers who are serious about playing their best. Come join the tribe. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout [https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout] 📞 Free Coaching Call If you're ready to close the gap between the golfer you are and the golfer you know you can be — let's talk. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall [https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall]