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Welcome to The Mental Toughness Podcast, where high performers learn to build resilience, master their mindset, and dominate under pressure.
Hosted by Dr. Rob Bell—sports psychology coach, keynote speaker, 8x author, ultrarunner, and coach to PGA Tour winners, Olympians, and Fortune 500 leaders.
🎙️ Each episode features raw stories and insights from elite athletes, Navy SEALs, coaches, no-quit parents, and leaders who refused to fold under pressure.
💡 Learn how to turn adversity into a hinge moment, manage failure, and grow stronger from setbacks.
🔑 You’ll Discover:
📍The importance of hinge moments
📍Proven mental game strategies for sport, business, and life
📍Stories of grit, struggle, comeback, and growth
📍Habits and frameworks of world-class winners
📍The role of focus, fear, and pressure in performance
📍 No one gets there alone. Let’s build a tougher mindset.
🎧 New episodes every other week
🔗 Full show notes and coaching at DrRobBell.com/mental-toughness-podcast
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Episodes

Sep 1, 2023
Sep 1, 2023
44 min
Cailyn Henderson is a professional golfer, Golf Channel announcer, and influencer. As the co-owner of "Fore The Girls Golf" and an Indiana State AM champion, Cailyn brings a wealth of experience and insights to our discussion on resilience and success in the world of golf and beyond.
- 03:28 Beating a 40 year old at 12
- 05:15 Losing my Full-Ride // Hinge Moment
- 08:36 The Collegiate Mentality
- 15:07 Making Golf Fun // Fore The Girls Golf
- 20:04 The Next Giant Leap in Women’s Golf
- 22:05 Becoming an “Influencer”
- 25:04 “That’s gonna be the content that I always do.”
- 28:41 Finding God in Golf
- 33:38 “My golf scores don’t define me” // Turning Professional
- 37:42 How Social Media has Helped My Mental Game
- 39:33 God. Family. Golf
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Aug 18, 2023
Aug 18, 2023
57 min
Adam Schenk has been on the PGA Tour since 2018. A native Hoosier, Schenk played college golf at Purdue University before turning pro in 2015. This 2023 season, he has five top 10’s, two 2nd place finishes, and stands top 50 in the world golf rankings. Additionally, he ranks top 20 in the FedExCup standings.
- 03:47 The Birdie Hunting Mentality
- 11:29 Luck and Golf
- 14:57 The Pro-Putting Process
- 17:19 Patience on the PGA Tour
- 20:09 The Power of Perspective
- 24:15 “Where you finish is completely irrelevant.”
- 29:05 Emotions Cost Strokes
- 32:50 Bad Golf Is Motivation
- 38:40 “The closest thing to being perfect is to try to be.”
- 41:01 Making Your Bad Golf Better
- 44:08 Big Picture Golf
- 49:38 Adjusting the Small Things
- 53:37 To Parents of Golfers
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Aug 4, 2023
Aug 4, 2023
1hr 7 min
Caleb Nelson is a Performance Coach and host of the Naked Sunday Podcast. He works to help heart-centered leaders reclaim their confidence and unlock their true potential. His mentorship group, the League of Extraordinary Beings work on time, communication skills, work/life balance, health, and stress management.
- 02:38 Lessons From Man’s Best Friend
- 07:22 “I grew up in a cult, but so did you.” // Hinge Moment
- 18:23 The CrossFit Fallout
- 22:48 “This is what home feels like.”
- 26:31 Applying Winston Churchill’s Recovery
- 30:14 The Power of the Five Minute Buffer
- 35:19 Farmers and Hustle Culture
- 38:16 Love. Every. Body.
- 41:57 The Anti-Value Method
- 48:01 Dr. Bell’s Core Values
- 51:25 “Are you afraid of not being enough?”
- 59:37 Going After Your Purpose
- 01:02:37 “Who is holding your hand on your deathbed?”
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Jul 21, 2023
Jul 21, 2023
56 min
Annabelle Pancake just finished her junior season playing golf at Clemson University. Starting each of the last three seasons, her junior season was her top year and she was named to the All-ACC team for the first time. Additionally, she won the Clemson Invitational and recently finished runner-up at the Open Championship Amateur.
- 2:54 Growing Up With Golf
- 5:47 The Championship Mindset
- 10:38 “I just feel like I’m on offense”
- 14:44 Playing for an Audience of One
- 17:49 A Heart of Gratitude
- 19:30 Earning My Place
- 22:20 Giving Up My Control
- 29:26 “Beat the golf course, have fun, and glorify god”
- 32:19 The Most Important Shot Is the Next One
- 33:44 Simple Is Powerful
- 39:16 The Path to Success
- 43:23 Getting To Know Tour Life
- 45:55 “You gotta own it”
- 48:05 The Golf Parent Balance
- 50:57 “I have a thought, but only if you want it”
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Jul 7, 2023
Jul 7, 2023
53 min
McKenna “sassy” Haase is a champion race car driver and has been racing since 2010. Currently, she races 410 wing sprint cars. Additionally, she holds a 2nd degree black belt and was a contestant on American Ninja Warrior. In 2019, Haase founded Youth Racers of America, a nonprofit organization which is designed to introduce kids to racing.
- 4:20 Kasey Kahne in a Shopping Mall // Hinge Moment
- 8:41 One-way Ticket to Indy
- 10:39 The Stranger on a Plane
- 14:24 “I’ll do anything for $25 a day”
- 17:22 Staying True to Yourself
- 20:02 Translating the Mentality
- 24:03 “It’s an out-of-body experience”
- 26:29 The Hidden Details of Racing
- 29:38 A Greater Goal
- 32:42 Mental Toughness behind Racing Success
- 37:33 Stomping on a Dream
- 40:10 “I’ve seen glimpses of Heaven”
- 45:23 Growing the Next Generation
- 48:28 Capturing Your Voice
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Jun 23, 2023
Jun 23, 2023
42 min
- 5:20 The Beginning of a Journey
- 9:16 “I’m in here everyday”
- 13:01 The Next Question
- 17:16 The Grind
- 18:54 Shots on a Scooter
- 19:55 Taking Down #1
- 23:56 After the Mountaintop
- 27:45 Prove them Wrong
- 32:14 The Hardest Year of my Life
- 36:14 The Mental Part
- 37:54 The Shea Avellino Experience
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Jun 9, 2023
Jun 9, 2023
44 min
Taylor Distler is a graduate of the University of Louisville and received his MBA from Penn State. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Luminas and StaminaPro, which are health technology platforms that are changing the way the human body is treated. Staminapro patches are designed to reduce pain and inflammation while having 100% natural ingredients; meaning they are drug and chemical-free.
- 4:05 Exploring the West.
- 7:18 Electron imprinting.
- 13:01 No active ingredients.
- 15:42 The viral moment.
- 18:57 Being real with yourself.
- 24:29 The future of pain management.
- 26:36 Recovery impacts everything.
- 29:03 Patience and flow.
- 33:19 “The team is everything.”
- 36:32 Let the time accumulate.
- 41:30 Getting into flow.
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May 19, 2023
May 19, 2023
39 min
Greg Rakestraw has over 20 years in the business, and is the Vice President of the ISC Sports Network, voice of the Indy Eleven, and the post-game host for the Colts Radio Network. He is also known for calling play-by-plays for IHSAA State Championship as well as for the Horizon League and other NCAA events. Additional events include the American Legion World Series and Soccer Saturdays.
- 4:37 Knew at the age of 5.
- 6:08 Mirroring Peyton Manning’s career.
- 8:26 Let the picture tell the story.
- 11:36 Memorable for all the wrong reasons.
- 15:11 Time management.
- 17:51 Unprepared and lessons learned
- 19:37 “Tour de Hoosier.”
- 22:05 “It’s just different here.”
- 24:46 Standout athletes.
- 27:30 Making it vs not: 1% of the 1%.
- 32:07 Not about talent, but grinding.
- 34:19 Favorite fan moments.
- 37:43 Life is about belief.
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May 3, 2023
May 3, 2023
51 min
Syya left corporate America to pursue digital content creation, podcasting, and entrepreneurship. She is the founder of Brilliant Beam Media, which provides digital content consulting, strategy, video & audio production, and distribution. She is a proud Gen X’er and host of a business bite podcast titled, “Gnaw on This." Her tag line is, "Everyone has a story to tell. Strategically, Simply, Brilliantly."
- 4:00 Word of the year: Light.
- 6:25 “I lost my soul in it all.”
- 10:18 Birth dates and death dates.
- 12:11 Losing seven people within six months.
- 13:20 Taking the task at hand.
- 15:45 Finding stillness.
- 18:59 Time to process emotions.
- 20:24 Sharing other’s stories.
- 23:42 The power of humor and connection.
- 26:42 Strategic vs. ad hoc content.
- 28:12 Right audience, right time.
- 32:30 “Love you like a love song.”
- 33:30 The hardest part of entrepreneurship.
- 37:07 Time is valuable beyond gold.
- 39:00 Patience in finding common ground.
- 47:20 “Content creation doesn’t have to be shallow.”
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Apr 14, 2023
Apr 14, 2023
35 min
Dr. Rob Bell is a sport psychology coach, speaker, podcast host, and now an 8x author. In this episode, he provides details on his new book, I Can't Wait to Be Patient, which comes out in May. Dr. Rob dives into the importance of urgency, recovery, and being patient for results.
- 3:16 The inaccuracy of “can’t wait.”
- 5:30 We don’t choose time.
- 8:03 “The product takes patience.”
- 9:20 Supply and demand.
- 11:08 Society’s value on speed.
- 12:45 Waiting to winning.
- 14:10 Patience is the recovery.
- 15:01 Not a book about motivation.
- 16:18 Action in circumstances.
- 20:10 Finding neutral.
- 22:36 Urgency.
- 23:58 Excess time as a threat.
- 26:52 Subtraction rather than addition.
- 27:45 Patience as a virtue.
- 29:00 “Urgent with the process, patience with the results.”
- 31:05 The problem with the short-term.
- 32:28 Wellness hinges on patience.
- 33:21 “If you can wait, you can win.”
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