Stephanie Everett

Obviously, you can work individually with an athlete and help them to some extent.

But I really think it's about getting to the institutional level of the team and the organization.

And the MLB is becoming one of the leaders in this.

They have a mental performance coach on every MLB team.

And a lot of them are required to speak both English and Spanish, which is really cool.

I'm not sure how involved it is in the minor league system.

But the MLB, at least, they...

they're working on that, whether that's because they believe in like mental health advocacy or just because baseball players are coconuts, you know, it's a specific brand of crazy.

Like pitchers are crazy.

Pitchers are crazy.

And you know, who I think of is, is, or what I think of is Ted Lasso.

Oh, I haven't watched it yet.

Oh, my gosh.

Our listeners have.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There's a social worker there who, like, does a lot of the job of a mental performance coach of, like, there are things happening outside of this.

Like, how can we work on your anxiety?

How can we work on this stuff to then make you a better player?

But, like, these are the things that you have to do.

And they're hard.