Fred Ferraro joins Dawn Grant on Clay Mastermind: Mental Excellence and Industry Insights for an in-depth conversation on Sporting Clays, coaching, competition mindset, pressure management, and developing champion shooters. Fred is a resident instructor at the Dallas Gun Club, an NSCA-certified instructor, competitive clay shooter, CrossFit coach, and lifelong student of performance and human behavior.
In this episode, Fred shares his journey from...
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Brady Laramie joins Dawn Grant on Clay Mastermind: Mental Excellence and Industry Insights for a conversation on collegiate shooting, Sporting Clays, Helice, mental focus, athletic discipline, and the importance of building a complete performance system. Brady is a competitive clay target and Helice shooter, a member of the Texas A&M Trap and Skeet Team, and a young coach helping middle school and high school shooters develop in the sport.
In this...
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...
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...
