Coach AB, Amanda Schaefer
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Softball mindset work, told through real athletes.
The Fearless Warrior Podcast is an interview-led mental performance show rooted in softball, recovery, and pressure. Coach AB and other Fearless voices use athlete stories to make confidence, failure recovery, leadership, and preparation feel concrete.
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The Fearless Warrior Podcast centers the mental work that sits behind visible performance. Its home field is softball. That gives the show a practical shape: the batter stepping out of the box, the catcher moving on after a passed ball, the bench player staying ready for one plate appearance, the injured athlete trying to remember she is more than her sport. Coach AB brings the conversation back to usable tools without making the guest sound like a case study. The tone is warm and direct. Long answers are allowed to breathe, and the follow-ups usually sharpen the point rather than change the subject. Sydney Stewart's episode turns pace, pressure, and failure recovery into a conversation about staying grounded between pitches. Campbell Petrick's story uses injury and identity to ask what happens when softball goes badly but the rest of a person's life is still there. Jenna Lilley speaks openly about being hit in the face by a pitch, recovering from fear in the box, and dealing with depression in college. Riley Zache's episode focuses on readiness, work, and making the most of a limited opportunity. Janet McCormick brings leadership and mental performance language from lacrosse and coaching. Kim Zuroff widens the frame toward focus, burnout, endurance, and life beyond a career. Episodes with Coach Kara, Jamie, and Team Fearless show how the program thinks about parents, team training, and using major sports moments as teaching material. The show can be repetitive in its introductions and community calls, but that repetition also signals its purpose. It wants athletes to hear the same truths in different voices until they become usable. A mistake is not the whole game. A role is not the whole identity. Preparation still matters when playing time is limited. Mental training is presented as ordinary practice, not magic. The best audience is a softball family looking for steady language around confidence, resilience, pressure, and joy in the middle of competition.
Made for: Best for softball players, coaches, and parents who want practical language for confidence, pressure, injury recovery, leadership, and failure. It also fits athletes in other sports who prefer story-led mental training over abstract performance advice.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by letting college and elite softball voices explain the small routines behind big moments. Its guidance usually comes through lived experience: a breath, a reset, a bench role, an injury, or a hard season.
The Fearless Warrior Podcast, a place for athletes, coaches, and parents who know the value of a strong mindset. Each week, join Coach AB, founder of Fearless Warrior, known for the #1 Softball Specific Mental Training Program, as she dive’s deep into all things mental performance, mindset tools, how to rewire the brain for success, tackle topics like self doubt, failure, and subconscious beliefs that hold us back, and ultimately how to help your athletes become mentally stronger.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Softball becomes a precise laboratory for preparation, failure recovery, and maintaining judgment when performance carries immediate consequences.
Coach AB turns conversations with college softball players into practical studies of performance under pressure. Her questions stay close to decisions athletes can control: preparing while on the bench, recovering after a mistake, returning from injury, and separating personal…
A bad game stays at the field; Coach AB helps you keep the rest of your identity intact.
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A steady look at resetting fast and slowing the game down.
Sydney Stewart is presented as a catcher with a practical sense of control: step out, breathe, reset, and keep the game from getting away from her. The focus stays on mental performance instead of biography, which gives the piece a grounded, easy-to-follow shape.
A calm reminder that identity has to be bigger than one game.
Campbell comes through as someone who carries more than one identity without making a speech about it. Coach AB gives her room to talk honestly about bad games, burnout, and the grind of growing as an athlete, and the soft spot in the piece is the reminder that softball does not…
An honest look at mindset under pressure, shaped by injury, recovery, and support.
Jenna Lilley and Coach AB stay centered on what it means to keep showing up when the body, confidence, and mental state are all under strain. The discussion moves from Oregon, USA Softball, and the NPF into a face injury, depression in college, and a hip issue that forced her to…
A calm reminder that readiness matters most when the moment finally shows up.
Riley Zaki’s story is built around a plain but solid athletic truth: usefulness can show up before the box score does. The episode gets strongest when it connects her nine freshman appearances, her readiness off the bench, and the Norman regional pinch-hit moment into one simple…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Care, culture, and the choices shaping Black women's lives.
Root-cause health, explained plainly.
Hope, tested in real conversation.
Sydney Supple tells the Fearless Warrior Podcast that Megan Grant uses a breath and a “safety square” to reset before batting.
Matt Woods compares physical effort to an iPhone battery that athletes should reserve for timing, decisions, and execution.
Sydney Stewart keeps it practical.
The highlighted conversation is really about identity.
This episode features an interview with Janet McCormick, a mental performance coach, discussing leadership with less drama by understanding the three voices to help athletes and coaches develop mental skills for success.
Coach AB welcomes Jenna and introduces her as a former University of Oregon player, a USA softball team member, and a Chicago Bandits player.
Coach AB interviews executive coach Tam Zuroff about living outside comfort zones and achieving big goals without burnout.
Coach Kara interviews a mom about how the Fearless Warrior team curriculum benefited her daughter's softball team.
Coach AB welcomes Riley Zaki, a sophomore at Oklahoma, and opens with her path through softball, family, and the way her role has changed on the field.
Coach AB and her team discuss mental performance for athletes, using the Olympics as a springboard to talk about elite mindset.
Coach AB interviews softball player Carson Gordon about her journey and mental performance in sports.
Coach AB interviews leadership performance coach Jake Thompson about mental performance and competing every day.
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Coach AB interviews mental performance consultant Ana de Guzman about her work with the Minnesota Twins and her journey to becoming a CMPC.
Coach AB interviews Amber Brzezinski, founder of Biceps After Babies, about her journey from RN to fitness coach and her macro counting program.
Coach AB introduces a mentorship call with professional softball player Ashley Treeweiler, discussing her college and professional career.
Coach AB interviews mental performance coach Daniel Gallagher about unlocking athletes' potential through mindset tools and the four absolutes of development.
Coach AB interviews workplace performance expert Hannah Pryor about embracing awkwardness and improving interpersonal dynamics for success.
Coach AB interviews mental performance coach Lucinda about using mindfulness and meditation to help athletes perform present and build mental resiliency.
This episode features an interview with Alex Madsen, a licensed mental health practitioner, discussing how mental health intersects with mental performance, specifically focusing on tools to help athletes with anxiety.