The Mel Robbins Podcast
A Powerful Mindset Makes You Unstoppable: How to Train Your Mind & Unlock Your Full Potential
Mon, 2 Jun 2025
Today, you’ll learn how to control your mind and train it for extraordinary performance. By the end of this episode, you’ll know the exact mental training techniques used by world-class athletes, Olympians, and elite performers to overcome fear, build resilience, and unlock the next level of your potential. Mel’s guest today is renowned performance and mindset coach Steve Magness, who has coached Olympians, Division 1 athletic teams, and organizations at the highest level of performance. Today, Steve is breaking down the science of mental toughness — and teaching you how to apply it in your own life starting now. You’ll learn how to: Rewire your mind to silence self-doubtPerform under pressureTrain your focus like an elite athleteStop overthinking and take confident actionBuild real mental resilience (without burnout)Hack your mindset and unlock your personal power This is your roadmap to extraordinary performance — grounded in science and designed to help you rise above whatever is holding you back. Because when you change your mindset, you change the game. For more resources, click here for the podcast episode page. If you liked this episode, you’ll love listening to this one next: How to Stop Negative Thoughts & Reset Your Mind for Positive ThinkingConnect with Mel: Get Mel’s #1 bestselling book, The Let Them TheoryWatch the episodes on YouTubeFollow Mel on Instagram The Mel Robbins Podcast InstagramMel's TikTok Sign up for Mel’s personal letter Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes ad-freeDisclaimer
Chapter 1: What mindset techniques can help you become unstoppable?
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. Wouldn't you just love to have a powerful mindset that makes you unstoppable and finally get that roadmap to success that you deserve? Well, today you're getting it because coach Steve Magnus, who is one of the top performance and mindset coaches in the world.
I'm talking a guy who has coached elite athletes, Olympians, D1, professional athletes. He is here in our Boston studios for one reason, to coach you. and to teach you the exact same mental techniques that he has been using in the most elite settings that are rooted in courage, purpose, and excellence. And you're getting it all today for free.
You're going to learn how to train your mind just like the world's top performers do. Because when you change your mindset, you change the game. So what does that look like?
Well, after the conversation today, you're going to know how to rise above any challenge, become mentally tougher and more resilient and able to easily handle any challenge that life throws your way or with the people that you love.
And this is absolutely a conversation that you are going to want to share with everybody that you care about, every athlete, every student, every person in your life that has bigger goals and a bigger possibility. They need to hear this.
Because whether you're an entrepreneur, a parent, a shift worker, a nurse, teacher, work in a desk job, or you're a student, what you're about to learn today will transform every area of your life and unlock your next level of potential. See, when Steve first started coaching elite runners, he noticed something fascinating. It wasn't just their talent. It wasn't just their fitness level.
It was the way they trained their minds that set them apart. His mental techniques have propelled some of the best athletes in the world to extraordinary success, even when they were filled with doubt, uncertainty, and a string of losses. Today, he's teaching you how to hack your mind and achieve anything you want. So are you ready to be coached?
Because Coach Magnus is ready to coach you, and he's here. So let's do this. Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. I am so excited for the conversation today. I am thrilled to be learning from Coach Steve Magnus. I'm going to tell you about him in just a minute. And look, it's always an honor to be able to spend time and be together with you.
And if you're a new listener, I want to take a moment and personally welcome you to the Mel Robbins Podcast family. I am so glad that you're here. And because you hit play on this particular episode, here's what I already know about you. You understand the power of your mindset and how your mind could help you unlock the next level of your potential.
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Chapter 2: How can you train your mind like elite athletes?
And what do you want to say to those of us, to the person listening who is either feeling this way now or who has somebody in their life who now has this hesitation or feels defeated or is starting to really lose their edge? What do you want us to know, Coach, about these moments in our life and what to do about it?
Two things. One is we can influence this to a large degree based on our expectations.
What?
So what research tells us is if we set the expectations which are based on, essentially our brain goes, what are the demands that we're facing and what are we capable of?
Okay, what are the demands that we're facing and what are we capable of?
So if you're sitting there and you're saying, I got broken up with, I'm putting myself back in the arena, I'm going on the date, the demands are, I'm going to have to talk to someone who I don't know very well and open up and put myself out there. Now your capabilities, because last time it didn't go very well, your brain goes like, I don't know if you're capable of this. Right. I don't know.
So what do you have to do in that situation? You have to, you have two options. You can say, okay, I'm going to set the expectations and sometimes lower them a little bit. Say, hey, this is my first date. I'm not trying to set the world on fire. I'm just going to put myself out there and go talk to them. Lower those expectations.
Okay, so that's step nine. So one thing you can do is lower, I don't have to get this job.
I don't have to.
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