With Christmas this week, Dr. Amber Selking discusses in this episode of Building Championship Mindsets how to cultivate hope in our lives and why it’s important. Listen to why hope is worth believing and fighting for as it will be the single thing that draws us forward.

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Welcome to “Building Championship Mindsets. | the Podcast!” From the LockerRoom to the BoardRoom, our purpose is to help individuals, teams, and organizations understand and leverage the power of Mindset and Leadership to drive results and achieve sustainable performance excellence. 

Selking Performance Group serves as the Mental Performance Consultant for Head Coach Brian Kelly and the Notre Dame Football team, and does speaking and training for sports teams and business organizations around the globe. She is the Vice President of Leadership & Culture Development at Lippert Components, Inc., a publicly-traded manufacturing company whose corporate vision is to change the model of work, demonstrating that business can and should Be a Force for Good in our world.

Dr. Selking has also served as an adjunct professor in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, where she taught Strategic Human Resource Management at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Selking received her PhD in Applied Sport Psychology from the University of Missouri under Dr. Rick McGuire, her master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver, and her bachelor’s degree in Management Consulting from the University of Notre Dame. At ND, Amber played soccer for the Fighting Irish before injury ended her career, after which she founded Notre Dame Christian Athletes (NDCA) in the ND Athletic Department. She currently resides in South Bend, Indiana, with her husband, Aaron, and their Doberman Pinscher, Rockne.

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• Believe in a hope. Find something that you can hope for. Reach out if you don’t have hope. Don’t give up.

STANDOUT QUOTES

• “Hope drives us forward, and people without hope quit.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [04:14]
• “Hope is the thing that activates grit. Hope is the thing that keeps us going even when it’s difficult.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [05:44]
• “When in seasons of your life were you pulled out of a moment, you were able to reset, refocus, dry off and then went back into it? And think about how much harder, how much further you were able to go because you remembered ‘Man, I made it through this once. I believe I can do this again.’” -Dr. Amber Selking  [08:24]
• “Find something that you can hold onto, that you can hope for, so that you can continue to swim for 60 hours and beyond.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [17:38]

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TIMESTAMPS

[00:02] Intro

[02:38] Christmas is about a hope

[06:04] Believe in hope

[12:35] Jeremiah 29:11

[18:53] This week’s Championship Mindset Training