Unstoppable Athlete - Mental Resilience for Teen Athletes
Jun 30, 2026 · 26 min · 10 segments
What happens when the person driving you to practice is also the one running it? In this special roundtable discussion, Michelle sits down with three athletes—Callie, Emmy, and Jena—to explore the…
Who goes first?
Who wants to go first? I think, Emmy, you just volunteered.
Um, always having rats at home.
[laughs] True.
Anybody else?
I think it's good because I just get to spend more time with my mom, and then, like, at tournaments, like, there's never a tournament where I have to, like, go to it with someone else.
For sure.
How about you, Jenna?
Yeah, I agree.
I agree on that part.
It's nice to have her there at tournaments, so I feel like I don't have to, like, go to another parent for anything.
But then also just, like, I get to keep talking about volleyball at home too, and from, like, a coach's perspective and less so, like, a parent's, like, "Why aren't you getting played?" kind of thing-
Yeah
... which is, like, what it sounds like from other people's experiences.
Like, it's never about playtime or things like that.
It's genuinely just, like, I can talk about things and she understands it.
Who goes first?
Who wants to go first? I think, Emmy, you just volunteered.
Um, always having rats at home.
[laughs] True.
Anybody else?
I think it's good because I just get to spend more time with my mom, and then, like, at tournaments, like, there's never a tournament where I have to, like, go to it with someone else.
For sure.
How about you, Jenna?
Yeah, I agree.
I agree on that part.
It's nice to have her there at tournaments, so I feel like I don't have to, like, go to another parent for anything.
But then also just, like, I get to keep talking about volleyball at home too, and from, like, a coach's perspective and less so, like, a parent's, like, "Why aren't you getting played?" kind of thing-
Yeah
... which is, like, what it sounds like from other people's experiences.
Like, it's never about playtime or things like that.
It's genuinely just, like, I can talk about things and she understands it.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.