From Awareness to Performance with Aaron S. Goldman
“We only build character through struggle if we are paying attention and we are available to learn what is there to be learned through the things that we are going through.”
Summary of Episode:
Jenn speaks to Aaron Goldman, a mental and emotional performance coach based out of Ashland, Oregon, and founder of PLAYfreesport a platform that provides training sessions, seminars, workshops and 1:1 consultations for youth, athletes, coaches, parents, and teams in order to help unlock their full potential in their performance environment. Aaron shares his own athletic career experience, what it took for him to become more aware, the impact it had on him, and why he is passionate about helping athletes excel in their performance on and off the playing field.
Awareness means paying attention, what is happening around me, what’s happening inside me, am I sticking to the agreements that I made to myself? We have to take space to check in, it is something that requires us to be self reflective.
About Aaron Goldman:
Aaron Goldman is a mindset and mental performance coach with over 20 years of experience in youth sport. He received a Master’s degree in Positive Youth Development and Sport Psychology from Boston University, and uses his experiences as an athlete, mentor, coach, and student, his education in counseling, human development, and sport science, and his firm belief in the positive potential of self-aware human existence, to help athletes and coaches at all levels be present and engaged in their moment-to-moment experiences. Some of the main goals of this work are connection with joy, passion, and purpose; the development of opportunity mindsets, and learning to be mindful and intentional in the co-creation of one’s unique path through sports and life.
Aaron works from a “whole-person” viewpoint, emphasizing mindful self-awareness, compassion, fun, and life-skill development in an athlete-centered, collaborative, strengths-based approach to pushing comfort zones and finding excellence and peak performance. His other passions include learning, teaching, reading, writing, his dog, skiing, and Nature in general. He is based in Southern Oregon, surrounded by trees, mountains, rivers, and most importantly his family.
