Strength from Within, vol 2: Mental Toughness

What happens to your mental game when the pressure becomes real?

Goals can suddenly feel less useful. Skills you trust in training can become harder to access. And the same toughness that carried you through camp can keep you pushing long after you need a different response.

Strength From Within Vol. 2: What Mental Toughness Really Looks Like brings together three experts from sport psychology, elite combat sports and mental health to unpack what is actually happening underneath those moments.

This is the complete edited replay, available to watch on demand.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Dr. Michelle Pain - “Why Values Outperform Goals”

Sport psychologist with nearly four decades of experience in elite sport, including Olympic and World Championship athletes.

• Why do goals sometimes fall apart under pressure?
• Why values can give you a steadier internal compass when the outcome feels uncertain
• How to identify what you want to stand for as an athlete, beyond the result you are chasing
• How values can guide your decisions and behaviour when pressure starts changing the way you think
• How to build psychological flexibility when the fight, camp or competition stops going according to plan

Angela Lee Pucci - “Redefining Mental Toughness: Becoming the Everyday Fighter”

Former six-time ONE Championship World Titleholder and founder of FightStory.

• What happens when toughness starts costing you too much?
• How Angela’s own experience at the highest level of MMA changed her understanding of mental toughness
• How the instinct to keep pushing can shape your relationship with performance, identity and mental health
• How to recognise what strength requires from you in different moments
• How the Everyday Fighter mindset carries resilience, self-awareness and purpose beyond competition

Dr. Adam Gallenberg - “From Practice to Performance”

Principal Sport Psychologist at Premier Sport Psychology, working with UFC Fighters, Professional Boxers and the Minnesota Timberwolves

• Why does it all change on fight night?
• Why the skills you trust in training can feel different once the stakes rise
• What can interfere with transferring your physical and mental preparation into competition
• How to prepare psychologically for the shift from the gym to the real performance environment
• How to build mental strategies that help your training show up when it matters
  

PLUS: THE FULL PANEL + Q&A

After the individual sessions, Michelle, Angela and Adam come together for a moderated conversation and audience Q&A exploring the bigger questions around mental toughness, pressure, performance, identity and athlete wellbeing.

WHO THIS IS FOR

• You’re preparing for your first fight and the nerves are getting louder as the date gets closer
• You’ve competed before and still wonder why fight night can feel so different from training
• You’re a coach who wants better language and tools for the mental side of fighting
• You train seriously without competing and want to understand what pressure can teach you
• You’re fascinated by the psychology and human side of combat sports

WHAT YOU GET

• The complete edited Strength From Within Vol. 2 replay
• All three expert sessions
• The moderated panel discussion
• Full audience Q&A
• Speaker presentations, handouts and exercises
• Chapter markers so you can return to individual topics
• Permanent access to watch whenever you want

$29.99 USD. One purchase. Permanent access.

WATCH STRENGTH FROM WITHIN VOL. 2

Three very different perspectives on one question:

What does mental toughness really look like when the pressure is real?