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I'm an Olympic Gold Medalist with an MBA from Stanford University. I like to talk about sports, business, the business of sport, finance, the markets and just about anything that catches my eye. I was the winningest player in the history of my sport, Beach Volleyball, number one in the world, World Champion and youngest number one in the history of the sport so I love to talk about winning, the wining mindset and what I like to call the "Winning Switch". A switch that anyone can turn on when ...
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In depth beach volleyball discussions combined with the science of learning skills faster, stories of successful people and personal development concepts.
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#21 - ToppVolley Norway - An Inside Look with Leon Lauvland (Unique Volleyball School)
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Already well known within Norway, but maybe popularized or at least brought to attention to the rest of the beach volleyball world by the Beach Volley Vikings video released a few years ago (https://youtu.be/tcPPemwQUL8?si=XKJlHYtRu1EZ2UOU), is the "Hogwarts of Volleyball" aka ToppVolley school in Sand, Norway. A number of weeks ago I happened to m…
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#20 - Olympic Lessons, Smart Attacking, Longevity, and More with Björn Berg
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In this episode I take a walk around the lake with 2 time Swedish beach volleyball Olympian Björn Berg, picking his brain about all sorts of things beach volleyball that I find interesting and helpful! Feel free to take a walk and listen at the same time, I can almost guarantee you'll learn a thing or two that you can apply to your own game in one …
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#19 - Becoming a "Complete" Player (Is it even possible?)
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Should we aim to become complete players that have no weaknesses in the game? Is that even realistic? Should we aim for something else? This quick episode discusses this in a way that could lead to career-strategy-altering insights, hope you enjoy! The Kent Steffes Facebook post that inspired this episode: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=71765…
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#18 - Making podcast listening work better in your life (Podcast listening series part 3/3)
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This is the last part of my podcast listening series, which includes all my in depth tips on how to get the maximum benefits from your podcast listening. Find it in your favorite podcast app (episode 18 of the Learn Beach Volleyball Fast Podcast) and listen to it the next time you take a walk, commute to work or beach volleyball practice or maybe e…
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#17 - Podcast listening and beach volleyball - the most important tool for becoming better? (Podcast listening series part 1/3)
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Becoming better at beach volleyball is a goal many of us have, and the better and sharper tools we have for making that journey more efficient, the easier it will be to reach that goal. Regardless of if your problem is in passing, setting, attacking, defense, blocking, serving, the mental game, career strategy or anything else that is relevant, I b…
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#16 - David Åhman on Jumping up the ranks and Setting up for success
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The Learn Beach Volleyball Fast Podcast is here again! This time I am interviewing Swedish jumpsetter David Ahman, we discuss defense, attacking, running systems like the jump set and quick sets, becoming better at beach volleyball, keeping working on a plan even though it doesn't necessarily produce results immediately and much more! Youtube comme…
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Test Episode - Crossover w/ Peace Of Chaos
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I'm an Olympic Gold Medalist with an MBA from Stanford University. I like to talk about sports, business, the business of sport, finance, the markets and just about anything that catches my eye. I was the winningest player in the history of my sport, Beach Volleyball, number one in the world, World Champion and youngest number one in the history of…
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#15 - Kent Steffes And Olympic Lessons On Winning (Part 2)
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If you had the chance to listen to the winningest player in the history of the sport sit down for hours and explain the details and "secrets" of how to win, through attacking, blocking, defense, serve receive and mentality, would you take it? This interview might be as close to that as you will get. Kent Steffes, the winner of the first ever beach …
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#14 - Kent Steffes And Olympic Lessons On Winning
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If you had the chance to listen to the winningest player in the history of the sport sit down for hours and explain the details and "secrets" of how to win, through attacking, blocking, defense, serve receive and mentality, would you take it? This episode might be as close to that as you will get. Kent Steffes, the winner of the first ever beach vo…
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#13 - 2x Olympic Medal Coach Steve Anderson (Part 2)
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Part 2 of probably the longest beach volleyball podcast interview to date. Full of insights around attacking, blocking, vision, purpose, strategy, mentality and other important aspects of beach volleyball!By The Learn Beach Volleyball Fast Podcast
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#12 - 2x Olympic Medal Coach Steve Anderson
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"When you get the chance to listen to a coach who has won this much at such a high level, you better sit down, listen, and take notes" is what my friend said about the fact that I was about to record a podcast with Steve Anderson. Now you have the chance to sit down or take a walk and listen to this very conversation, something you do not want to m…
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#11 - 5k Subscribers Ask Me Anything Answers
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Simply just a session where I answer the questions I got in for the 5000 Youtube subscribers celebration, and a little bit more! Hope you enjoy! Got questions or comments? Go to the Youtube comments section for this episode here: https://youtu.be/AxD3Fw59Lrc Always get the latest updates, best insights and special opportunities before anyone else b…
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#10 - A Different Kind Of Beach Volleyball Career Strategy
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Is there a different way of going about becoming a better beach volleyball player than what most players do? There definitely is, and this episode has in a sense two different missions: The first one is to invite you to see new possibilities in terms of how to gain new skills and become a better player, and the second one is for you to understand t…
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#9 - Making Better Beach Volleyball with Nejc Zemljak (Part 2/2)
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Welcome to this episode with Slovenian world tour player and all around beach volleball mind Nejc Zemljak! A lot of relevant topics get discussed in this conversation - sports psychology, thoughts on growing the sport, transferring skills from other sports, serve receive, attacking, defense, blocking, and more! The conversation is split into two ep…
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#8 - Making Better Beach Volleyball with Nejc Zemljak (Part 1/2)
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Welcome to this episode with Slovenian world tour player and all around beach volleball mind Nejc Zemljak! A lot of relevant topics get discussed in this conversation - sports psychology, thoughts on growing the sport, transferring skills from other sports, serve receive, attacking, defense, blocking, and more! The conversation is split into two ep…
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#7 - The Personal Development Concept Most Beach Players Miss (And pay big time for!)
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Welcome to the first solo-episode on the Learn Beach Volleyball Fast podcast! When starting this podcast, I wanted to create lots of different types of episodes, and this type of episode was definitely a part of the plan. In some of these solo-episodes, I will follow a simple formula: personal development concept + beach volleyball = episode idea. …
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#6 - Many ways to get better at beach volleyball with Travis Mewhirter - The Learn Beach Volleyball Fast Podcast
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In this podcast episode I get to interview Travis Mewhirter, current AVP and FIVB player as well as one of the co-hosts of the Sandcast podcast. We touch lots of topics that can help you become a better player, like attacking vision and strategy, blocking, passing, competitiveness, efficient practice, practicing by yourself, and more!…
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#5 - Long term athlete development and sports psychology with Johan Rininsland (Part 3/3) - The Learn Beach Volleyball Fast Podcast
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In this episode (last one out of 3) of the Learn Beach Volleyball Fast podcast I continue the conversation with the man behind the Swedish Beach Volleyball Podcast (https://beachking.podbean.com/) and most of the coach training programs given to new coaches in Sweden - Johan Rininsland. We have a proper volleynerd discussion mostly around the topic…
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#4 - Long term athlete development and sports psychology with Johan Rininsland (Part 2/3) - The Learn Beach Volleyball Fast Podcast
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In this episode of the Learn Beach Volleyball Fast podcast I continue the conversation with the man behind the Swedish Beach Volleyball Podcast (https://beachking.podbean.com/) and most of the coach training programs given to new coaches in Sweden - Johan Rininsland. We have a proper volleynerd discussion mostly around the topics of long term athle…
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#3 - Long term athlete development and sports psychology with Johan Rininsland (Part 1/3) - The Learn Beach Volleyball Fast Podcast
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The guy behind the Swedish Beach Volleyball podcast joins me in an insanely volleynerdy conversation about how to be smart about ones beach volleyball career and some sports psychology insights.By Alex Haapamäki
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#2 - Learning faster than most people with John Richardson Part 2 - The Learn Beach Volleyball Fast Podcast
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Are there things one can do to learn sports (whether it's beach volleyball, golf, or something else) faster and more efficiently than the average player/athlete? John Richardson who succeeded in his one year golf challenge that had critics all over the world telling his goal was flat out impossible and pro players telling him to "dream on", definat…
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#1 - Learning faster than most people with John Richardson - The Learn Beach Volleyball Fast Podcast
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Are there things one can do to learn sports (whether it's beach volleyball, golf, or something else) faster and more efficiently than the average player/athlete? John Richardson who succeeded in his one year golf challenge that had critics all over the world telling his goal was flat out impossible and pro players telling him to "dream on", definat…
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