On today's episode we have a deep conversation about the power of human emotion with Emotional Intelligence (EI) Coach Nick Atzeni.

It's obvious throughout this episode that Nick's philosophy and approach to practice aligns very much with ours. Nick's beliefs however stem from quite a different place. Coming from a business background, Nick has owned many of his own business at home in Italy, in Cameroon and London. He has worked with a vast range of high performance professionals, including entrepreneurs, landscapers, physiotherapists and of course, footballers and athletes!

Nick's supports individuals to increase their emotional intelligence. He breaks emotional intelligence down into 3 clear points and shows us how he considers these through reference to a real life case study.

Increasing self - awareness on the emotions you are experiencing can help you to make sense of them. This then gives you more control around how you respond to them, promoting the chances of positive behaviour change to improve quality of life and performance. We hope this is the episode that sparks curiosity in the emotions you experience!

Thank you to Nick for coming. We got a lot of from this epsiode.

Please leave us a review if you enjoyed.

Find out more about Nick:

Website: https://nickatzeni.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-atzeni-538990a7/

Talking Points

1. Intro and Welcome to episode (00:00)

2. Nick's Journey (3:52)

3. What is EI? (6:29)

4. Individual Differences in EI (11:30)

5. Supporting Athletes with EI (15:50)

6. Questionnaires to Develop EI (27:01)

7. Case Study (36:15)

8. The Struggle to Identify Emotions (52:00)

9. Closing Thoughts (1:05:40)

On our first episode of season 5 we bring you one of our strongest episodes to date, as we have our minds well and truly blown by ACT expert Trevor Jones.

As a professional golfer, Trevor is someone who has lived experience of the demands of elite sport as an athlete. Since a lightbulb moment in competition, Trevor has lived and breathed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in all areas of his life. Since then he has pursued a career as a Mental Performance Coach. Currently working under the AWARE Performance Group, Trev has shown thousands of people (including both of your co-hosts) the power of ACT, allowing them to be in contact with what matters most to them.

Today we cover athletic identity, something that we've spoken about loads on the podcast. This season, we wanted to cover it slightly differently than we have before. This episode is experiential in nature and to get the most out of it we'd encourage you (if possible) to engage in all the exercises and prompts that Trevor offers, as we did!

We are delighted with this episode and extremely thankful to Trevor for coming on and doing his thing - he's pretty good at it after all.

Please let us know what you think of this episode and give us 5 stars if you enjoyed it.

Trevor is currently writing a book on the yips, keep up to date with this and much more on his socials:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-jones-036857110/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trevorjones_aware?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

1. Intro and Welcome to Episode (00:00)

2. Trevor's Lightbulb Moment (7:45)

3. Pairing Identity with Performance (25:20)

4. Perspective Taking and Identity (32:00)

5. Persona or 'Mask' (46:35)

6. Donut SAC Exercise (56:00)

7. Values (1:13:00)

8. Closing thoughts (1:20:00)

SEASON 5 COMING MONDAY 19TH MAY

The Young Player Wellbeing Podcast is back!!

It's been a while, we are sorry we left you. We've been working hard behind the scenes to bring you another season of your favourite sport psychology podcast.

This season we are going to be focusing on 'hot topics' in the world of sport and well-being. These are topics that we find come up most often on the podcast, but also in our work with players, coaches and parents. No spoilers here, listen to this trailer to find out what these topics might be.

After 70+ episodes our confidence in recording these episodes has grown, which is why this season we've moved to a slightly more conversational way of recording. After all, you've got to be psychologically flexible to deal with whatever shows up.

Join us for season 5 of The Young Player Wellbeing Podcast. We hope you enjoy!