Change is part of life, yet even positive change can create uncertainty. A new job, a move, a relationship shift, a health concern, a business transition, or simply not knowing what comes next can leave the mind searching for control. When the future feels unclear, the conscious mind often fills in the blanks with worry, fear, and worst-case scenarios.
Mental training helps you shift from reacting to uncertainty to responding with greater awareness...
Jon Parrish joins Dawn Grant on Clay Mastermind: Mental Excellence and Industry Insights for a conversation on Sporting Clays, instruction, mental focus, competition shooting, coaching, and the process of developing consistency in shotgun sports. Jon is an NSCA Level III Instructor, founder of Shady Cove Shooting School, competitive shooter, course setter, and homeschool shooting team coach based in the mountains of western North Carolina.
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Video: The Person You Perform Isn't You
28 Aug, 2026
What if the version of yourself you have been maintaining for decades was originally built to help you survive an environment that no longer exists?
In this episode, Dawn Grant explores how protective identities can form early in life and continue shaping adulthood long after the original circumstances have changed.
Dawn discusses common patterns like becoming the achiever, the people pleaser, the hypervigilant one, the caretaker, the strong one...
Many people have ideas. Far fewer act on them. The gap is often not creativity itself, but confidence. Self-doubt can stop a promising idea before it ever has the chance to grow. Mental training helps close that gap by building the inner trust needed to create, share, and innovate with greater courage.
Creative confidence is not the belief that every idea will be perfect. It is the willingness to trust yourself enough to begin. It is the ability to...
Innovation begins in the mind before it ever becomes visible in the world. Every breakthrough idea, fresh solution, and new possibility starts as a thought that someone was willing to explore. But innovative thinking does not thrive in a rigid, fearful, or distracted mind. It thrives in a mind that is trained to stay open, focused, and resourceful.
Mental training helps build that kind of mindset.
An innovative mind is willing to think differently...
Cindi Hubbard joins Dawn Grant on Clay Mastermind: Mental Excellence and Industry Insights for an honest and inspiring conversation on Sporting Clays, women in shooting sports, confidence, instruction, competition pressure, and the mental side of performance. Cindi is an NSCA Level III Instructor, founder of She Shoots Clays, and an instructor certification coach who has spent years helping women and new shooters gain confidence in the sport while...
