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Think Above Par

Sometimes you just need someone to explain why your golf brain does what it does.

Think Above Par is where Kathy talks about the thoughts, emotions and patterns that show up on the golf course—and what you can do with them.

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Episode 101

How a Year of Leaning In Lead to Personal Golf Bests for Karen Rainey

Karen Rainey is a private client who proves the work is never done. She chose to keep leveling up her game and her mental skills as she challenged her self to work through discomfort and vulnerability to have her best golf year to date. She had several personal bests, took her game on the road, and showed up for herself in some challenging moments in 2023. Karen talks about how desire to live a full life keeps her doing the work you find in this podcast...and the results have shown up for her on and off the golf course. If you want to be inspired by what is possible for your golf and personal life, you do not want to miss this episode with Karen Rainey. #nevergiveup #takinghergameontheroad Learn more about Kathy and how to work with her at KathyHartWood.com Receive free weekly mental golf tips HERE How many shots is your mental golf costing you? Take the quiz here: quiz.mymentalcaddy.com Continue your mental journey at Your Mental Caddy HERE Mastering Your Golf Brain - A Guide to Self-Coaching Mastering Your Golf Brain - The Workbook Mental Golf Journal - A Range for Your Brain Are all available at KathyHartWood.com/book Email Kathy at Kathy@KathyHartWood.com Website: KathyHartWood.com

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Episode 100

You Aren't A F-ing Unicorn - 5 Mental Struggles of All Golfers

If you feel you are on an island all alone trying to sort out your golf brain and that no one else can relate, you are so mistaken, my friend. You are not alone. Or as I told a client, "you aren't a f-ing unicorn." (In a very loving and kind tone. 😇) This thinking implies there is something wrong with us. All of us experience the same mental things on the golf course, regardless of your handicap or years playing or level of competition. In this episode, I share with you 5 mental similarities that all golfers experience at some point. The key is to know that you are not broken or...a unicorn, meaning, you are not the only one having crazy ass thoughts, emotional ups and downs, and self-criticism. Take a listen and find out how you and everyone else on the golf course actually have a lot in common relative to what is going on in that golf brain! Learn more about programs or how to get coached at KathyHartWood.com Receive free weekly mental golf tips HERE How many shots is your mental golf costing you? Take the quiz here: quiz.mymentalcaddy.com Continue your mental journey at Your Mental Caddy HERE Mastering Your Golf Brain - A Guide to Self-Coaching Mastering Your Golf Brain - The Workbook Mental Golf Journal - A Range for Your Brain Are all available at KathyHartWood.com/book Email Kathy at Kathy@KathyHartWood.com Website: KathyHartWood.com

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Episode 99

How High Handicappers Benefit From Mental Coaching with Christy Starkweather

If you think you need to be a low handicap or competitive golfer to benefit from mental coaching, Christy is going to share her experience. She went from anxious and frustrated to playing with more calm and patience. She uses several of the tools that I teach in this podcast to set intentions before the round which helps her enjoy the game more and play with more certainty. Christy also shares how she used the coaching tools to show up as a empowered leader in her job. You will be inspired on how she showed up to sign up for leagues, events with people she didn't know and even play in her club championship. We all have only one brain. How we manage it directly affects our experience on the course and at work regardless of our handicap. Christy is an awesome example of this. If you want to learn more on coaching go to KathyHartWood.com Receive free weekly mental golf tips HERE How many shots is your mental golf costing you? Take the quiz here: quiz.mymentalcaddy.com Continue your mental journey at Your Mental Caddy HERE Mastering Your Golf Brain - A Guide to Self-Coaching Mastering Your Golf Brain - The Workbook Mental Golf Journal - A Range for Your Brain Are all available at KathyHartWood.com/book Email Kathy at Kathy@KathyHartWood.com Website: KathyHartWood.com

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Episode 98

From Quitting to Big Pit-in-Your-Stomach Goals With Kathleen Foley

In this episode, I share insight and stories with another client, Kathleen Foley. She shares how she went from thoughts of quitting to creating big goals for herself. Over 60% of the time, she uses her mental golf skills off of the golf course to level up her personal and family life. She talks about being in other people's heads, believing without evidence and coming to terms with all the negative thoughts. If you want more help make sure to visit KathyHartWood.com Receive free weekly mental golf tips HERE How many shots is your mental golf costing you? Take the quiz here: quiz.mymentalcaddy.com Continue your mental journey at Your Mental Caddy HERE Mastering Your Golf Brain - A Guide to Self-Coaching Mastering Your Golf Brain - The Workbook Mental Golf Journal - A Range for Your Brain Are all available at KathyHartWood.com/book Email Kathy at Kathy@KathyHartWood.com Website: KathyHartWood.com

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Episode 97

How to Pivot From Perfectionism and People-Pleasing to Peace On and Off the Golf Course with Holly Pihl

It is one thing to listen to all of the content in this podcast. It is another thing to apply it to your game and life. In this episode, I talk with my client Holly Pihl about perfectionism, people-pleasing and crappy drives. She shares with you how, through coaching, she has learned the skills to swing with certainty off the tee while not "giving a rat's ass" what people think about her game. Holly took her mental golf tools and insight off of the golf course and shares examples of how to use them in everyday life. You will definitely find areas to relate to Holly and her story. If you would like to sign up for a free Discovery Call, go to KathyHartWood.com for more information or go directly to the link HERE Receive free weekly mental golf tips HERE How many shots is your mental golf costing you? Take the quiz here: quiz.mymentalcaddy.com Continue your mental journey at Your Mental Caddy HERE Mastering Your Golf Brain - A Guide to Self-Coaching Mastering Your Golf Brain - The Workbook Mental Golf Journal - A Range for Your Brain Are all available at KathyHartWood.com/book Email Kathy at Kathy@KathyHartWood.com Website: KathyHartWood.com

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Episode 96

Football Fans, You Golf and Outcomes

There is a lot of football played on Thanksgiving week. So I took the opportunity to make analogies between football and your golf game. And yes, there is a connection to how you root for your favorite team, how you root against teams and the emphasis you place on the outcome of the game with how you show up in your own golf world. That includes you on the course, you in competition and you with your competition. Take a listen as I talk about how we root against teams, the rule of 50/50 in sport, and wins, scores and self-worth. You can find out more at KathyHartWood.com Daniel Wann and sports fan psychology https://works.bepress.com/daniel-wann/ Receive free weekly mental golf tips HERE How many shots is your mental golf costing you? Take the quiz here: quiz.mymentalcaddy.com Continue your mental journey at Your Mental Caddy HERE Mastering Your Golf Brain - A Guide to Self-Coaching Mastering Your Golf Brain - The Workbook Mental Golf Journal - A Range for Your Brain Are all available at KathyHartWood.com/book Email Kathy at Kathy@KathyHartWood.com Website: KathyHartWood.com

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Episode 95

Your Golf Thoughts

Managing your golf thoughts can seem overwhelming some days and super easy on other days. You may find your brain is quiet one day and super negative the next day. Or you may notice that you have a very loud negative thought that you hear all the time. You are not alone. In this episode, I share with you how to make sense of your thoughts with a couple analogies to hamsters and buses. If you want to know how to quiet your negative thoughts and think more useful thoughts so that you create better results on the course, this episode will simplify what is going on in your head. You can find out how to work with Kathy at KathyHartWoo.com Receive free weekly mental golf tips HERE How many shots is your mental golf costing you? Take the quiz here: quiz.mymentalcaddy.com Continue your mental journey at Your Mental Caddy HERE Mastering Your Golf Brain - A Guide to Self-Coaching Mastering Your Golf Brain - The Workbook Mental Golf Journal - A Range for Your Brain Are all available at KathyHartWood.com/book Email Kathy at Kathy@KathyHartWood.com Website: KathyHartWood.com

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Episode 94

A Bad Golf Round And Progress

If you have ever had a bad round, a couple blow up holes, finished poorly or just couldn't stop the negative chatter in your head and felt like...you have lost all the progress you THOUGHT you made. You are not alone. And nothing has gone wrong. In this episode, I talk about a few different scenarios where golfers feel like they lost progress. One bad round or bad hole or mental lapse doesn't mean a thing. Listen in as I break it down and explain how you want to think about those times you feel you are going backwards. Reach out to learn more at KathyHartWood.com Receive free weekly mental golf tips HERE How many shots is your mental golf costing you? Take the quiz here: quiz.mymentalcaddy.com Continue your mental journey at Your Mental Caddy HERE Mastering Your Golf Brain - A Guide to Self-Coaching Mastering Your Golf Brain - The Workbook Mental Golf Journal - A Range for Your Brain Are all available at KathyHartWood.com/book Email Kathy at Kathy@KathyHartWood.com Website: KathyHartWood.com

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Episode 93

How to Mentally Pivot

Swinging powerfully and repeatably requires a good pivot. Thinking powerfully requires us to mentally pivot...and in golf it needs to happen quickly. If we don't pivot away from crappy thoughts or states, we get in our own way. We prevent our best swings from coming out. Often in a rush to feel better or quiet our brain, we change our circumstances. It is an easy and fast way to feel better. This looks like changing a pairing, dropping out of a tournament, pulling the ball out of a divot, even cheating on your score or handicap. When we do this we miss the opportunity to build the mental muscle to pivot which we inevitably will need. I want you to learn to pivot from where you are...like a boss. Choosing to think differently about your current situation gives you so much more agency and ownership over your experience. Build that skill BEFORE you change your situation on or off the course. In episode 93, I teach you how to mentally pivot in 4 steps. Build this skill so you are ready for your next golf game. If want help with this or want to learn more about how to work with Kathy, go to KathyHartWood.com Receive free weekly mental golf tips HERE How many shots is your mental golf costing you? Take the quiz here: quiz.mymentalcaddy.com Continue your mental journey at Your Mental Caddy HERE Mastering Your Golf Brain - A Guide to Self-Coaching Mastering Your Golf Brain - The Workbook Mental Golf Journal - A Range for Your Brain Are all available at KathyHartWood.com/book Email Kathy at Kathy@KathyHartWood.com Website: KathyHartWood.com

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Episode 92

Simplify the Mental Game By Recognizing Tendencies

Sometime the mental game can seem complicated or overwhelming. Managing all the thoughts in your head can seem like an insurmountable task. Instead of feeling like you aren't making progress, I suggest you look for tendencies and lump them together into a bucket. In this episode, I share with you 3 different areas for you to look for your personal tendencies: learning styles, traits and off-course strengths. Once you find your buckets, you can then come up with a plan to help you minimize and simplify the challenge of mental management on the course. You want more help check out KathyHartWood.com Receive free weekly mental golf tips HERE How many shots is your mental golf costing you? Take the quiz here: quiz.mymentalcaddy.com Continue your mental journey at Your Mental Caddy HERE Mastering Your Golf Brain - A Guide to Self-Coaching Mastering Your Golf Brain - The Workbook Mental Golf Journal - A Range for Your Brain Are all available at KathyHartWood.com/book Email Kathy at Kathy@KathyHartWood.com Website: KathyHartWood.com

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Episode 91

Scoring Apps and Your Golf Game - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

If you use the golf genius app in tournaments, you want to listen to this podcast. I discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of using this app during competition. I bring up a few different ways to look at the app for scoring and decide if it is useful for you to use during the round. I talk about creating boundaries for you phone, claiming your own agency on making decisions relative to the app, and how to decide ahead of time whether to look at Live Scoring. If you want to know how to work with me or learn more about my programs, go to KathyHartWood.com Receive free weekly mental golf tips HERE How many shots is your mental golf costing you? Take the quiz here: quiz.mymentalcaddy.com Continue your mental journey at Your Mental Caddy HERE Mastering Your Golf Brain - A Guide to Self-Coaching Mastering Your Golf Brain - The Workbook Mental Golf Journal - A Range for Your Brain Are all available at KathyHartWood.com/book Email Kathy at Kathy@KathyHartWood.com Website: KathyHartWood.com

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Episode 90

Golf Judgement

Most golfers worry about being judged about their shots, their score, their swing...you name it. Fear of judgement holds us back from showing up as our true selves on and off the golf course. I want to help you reduce your fear of judgement. In this episode, I share three points about golf judgement; who judges, what the judgements mean about you, and how to minimize worrying about judgement. If you want to focus more on the shot at hand instead of what other people might be saying about you, I got you covered in this podcast. Learn more about how to work with Kathy at KathyHartWood.com Receive free weekly mental golf tips HERE How many shots is your mental golf costing you? Take the quiz here: quiz.mymentalcaddy.com Continue your mental journey at Your Mental Caddy HERE Mastering Your Golf Brain - A Guide to Self-Coaching Mastering Your Golf Brain - The Workbook Mental Golf Journal - A Range for Your Brain Are all available at KathyHartWood.com/book Email Kathy at Kathy@KathyHartWood.com Website: KathyHartWood.com

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