Jody Avergan
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536 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 2 Aug
Jody Avergan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Train hard.
Respect your teammates.
And by that definition, everyone, not just athletes, could stand to be a little more professional.
I'm sure Nikki would have loved more wins in her pro career.
She never made the playoffs.
But she's learned some deep lessons about staying focused on what matters.
And, well, for our podcast's sake at least, all these years later, I'm thankful that she learned those lessons because now we get to learn them from her.
Up next, the psychology of wins and losses and how winning actually changes you, body and mind.
Nikki McCray, consummate professional, even on a losing team, always doing her job, always ready, consistent.
Ian Robertson is a psychologist and the author of How Confidence Works.
I wanted to ask him about what losing does to us and why some people can handle it more than others.
And he really liked Nicky's framing of professionalism, which sort of puts the outcome of a game off to the side.
Because in Ian's research, he's seen how much of a problem it is that so many athletes judge themselves on whether they win or lose.
Huh.
Maybe we should have called this show Good Sportsperson.
Ian has noticed that the very best athletes focus on the small day-to-day things.
And he says that you can build that into your routine.
Even for a team on a massive losing streak, there are lots of opportunities for other kinds of wins.
You can compete to win at practice.
You can push yourself in training.
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