Russ McElyea joins Dawn Grant on Clay Mastermind: Mental Excellence and Industry Insights for a deep conversation on Sporting Clays, mental discipline, flow state performance, instruction, competition mindset, and the evolution of one of Montana’s premier shooting facilities. Russ is a longtime competitive shooter, instructor, outdoorsman, former judge, and board member at Gallatin Sporting Clays near Bozeman, Montana.
In this episode, Russ shares...
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Video: Your Results Are Lying To You
11 Sep, 2026
Your results may be lying to you.
Not because the number is fake.
Because the number you are looking at today may be telling you more about what you were doing weeks or months ago than what you are building right now.
In this video, I explore one of the most important principles behind habit change, performance, mental training, wellness, business, and personal growth: your current results are often lagging measures.
Your body today is not a perfect...
Video: You Were Never On Trial
04 Sep, 2026
What if the reason achievement never feels like enough is that you have been using it to answer a question that was never supposed to stay open?
In this episode, Dawn Grant explores the difference between contingent self-worth — worth that depends on achievement, approval, appearance, comparison, or performance — and a more secure sense of worth that does not rise and fall with every new result.
Dawn unpacks how people can learn early in life that...
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...
Video: The Reason You Can't Get What You Want
14 Aug, 2026
What if the reason you cannot get what you want is not a lack of effort, discipline, or desire — but the internal state you are wanting from?
In this episode, Dawn Grant explores the difference between pursuing a goal from openness and moving toward it from fear. Two people can want the exact same outcome, take similar actions, and appear equally motivated on the outside, while internally having completely different experiences.
Dawn discusses how...
Video: The Story That's Living Your Life
07 Aug, 2026
What if the identity you have been trying to fix is not who you truly are?
In this episode, Dawn Grant explores how the brain can build a self-schema from painful experiences, setbacks, failure, fear, humiliation, and emotional stress — and how that identity can quietly begin shaping perception, behavior, performance, relationships, and everyday life.
Dawn explains why someone may spend years reading books, attending therapy, practicing mindfulness...
