The Scratch Golfer's Mindset Podcast
Paul Salter is a triple-digit golfer on a quest to become a scratch golfer. He's also a High-Performance Mindset Coach and Credentialed Hypnotherapist with 15 years of experience helping high performers from all walks of life get unstuck and unlock their full potential. Each week, Paul will share the emotional and mindset shifts you need to make to make mastering the mental game of golf simple, tangible, and relatable so that you can overcome the mental hazards keeping you stuck in the proverbial bunker of poor performance. He'll also routinely keep you updated on his progress toward par while sharing a raw and vulnerable look into his own collection of mental hazards he must overcome. Whether you're an occasional amateur, a weekend regular, or a competitor seeking a tournament trophy or your pro card, this podcast will help you play better golf.
Episodes
What's the real cost of becoming exceptional?
In this deeply honest conversation, I sit down with Renaissance Periodization co-founder and CEO, Nick Shaw, to unpack the trade-offs, identity shifts, sacrifices, and emotional realities that ambitious people rarely talk about openly.
Nick shares the dark side of high performance, how success can quietly consume your identity, why self-awareness is one of the most underrated leadership...
If you're feeling stuck, inconsistent, emotionally reactive, or burned out… you probably don't need more motivation.
You need rules.
In this episode, I break down why the most successful high performers aren't necessarily more disciplined—they've simply stopped negotiating with themselves.
I discuss how elite performers create self-protecting rules to prevent stress, exhaustion, pressure, fear, and emotion from hijacking their deci...
If you've been told success requires grinding nonstop, sacrificing your family, and working 80-hour weeks… this episode will challenge everything you believe.
In today's episode, I sit down with entrepreneur, investor, and author Ryan Pineda to break down a radically different approach to success—one rooted in leverage, clarity, and intentional constraints.
Ryan shares how he built wealth while playing professional baseball, why li...
You ever have one of those weeks where everything looks successful on paper… but internally, you feel completely off?
Busy. In demand. Opportunities everywhere.
Yet instead of clarity and control—you feel scattered, rushed, and strangely disconnected.
In this episode, I break down one of the most common—and costly—patterns high performers fall into: getting off track not because things are going wrong… but because they're going rig...
Why do talented, intelligent, driven people know exactly what to do… yet still fail to execute consistently?
In this powerful conversation, I sit down with performance coach and author Brandon Epstein to unpack the subconscious patterns, fear-based narratives, and hidden emotional coding that quietly keep high performers stuck beneath their potential.
We dive deep into common challenges high-performing CEOs, executives, and profess...
Welcome to The Unstuck High Performer Podcast—for the high performer who knows they're capable of more… but feels stuck underperforming relative to their potential.
If you're successful on paper—but privately battling hesitation, overthinking, pressure, and the quiet frustration of knowing you should be further ahead—this show is for you.
Hosted by high-performance hypnotherapist and mindset coach Paul Salter, this podcast is desig...
If you've built success—but privately feel stuck, restless, or aware you're capable of more—this episode is for you.
In this deeply personal conversation, I share the real reason behind rebranding The Scratch Golfer's Mindset Podcast into The Unstuck High Performer Podcast.
I break down how many ambitious people quietly outgrow old identities, old environments, and old versions of success—but stay trapped because they fear uncertai...
In this episode, I sit down with Tim O'Connor—golf coach, author of Getting Unstuck, and one of the most refreshing voices in golf psychology—to unpack why so many golfers stay trapped in the same frustrating cycles year after year.
Tim explains why being "stuck" has less to do with mechanics and more to do with unconscious patterns, repetitive thinking, fear-based control, and a disconnect from the physical experience of playing g...
If you know you're capable of more—but keep hesitating, overthinking, delaying action, or feeling constant pressure—this episode is for you.
Perfectionism is often praised in school, rewarded in business, and admired in elite performers. But behind closed doors, it quietly creates anxiety, indecision, burnout, and self-sabotage.
In this episode, I expose the hidden truth: perfection is often protection.
- Protection from judgme...
In this episode, I sit down with Matt Bortis—former collegiate golfer, former special operations operator, and mindset and performance coach—to unpack what it really takes to perform when pressure is high, and outcomes matter.
Matt brings a rare blend of battlefield-tested composure and high-level athletic performance coaching to this conversation. We explore why so many golfers, entrepreneurs, and ambitious people crumble under pr...
You wake up tomorrow… and everything you've been chasing is already yours.
Your handicap reads 0.0.
Your business hits that long-awaited revenue milestone.
No grind. No pressure. No failures. No growth.
At first, it feels incredible.
But then something shifts.
Because deep down, you know you didn't earn it. You didn't become the person capable of sustaining it. And that's where the emptiness creeps in.
In this episode, I break down...
In this episode, I sit down with renowned neuroscientist and performance psychologist, Dr. Gary Sailes to unpack what truly separates elite, world-class performers from everyone else.
This conversation goes far beyond surface-level "mental game tips." We dive into identity, trust, discipline, and the misunderstood role of control—especially for high-achieving, type-A individuals like you.
Dr. Sailes shares decades of experience wor...
You're not stuck because you lack discipline.
You're stuck because you've mistaken consistency for progress.
In this episode of The Scratch Golfer's Mindset Podcast, I challenge one of the most commonly accepted beliefs in personal development, golf, and business—that consistency is the key to success.
Yes, consistency matters.
But it's not what creates transformation.
Transformation comes from intensity.
I break down why so many ...
Have you ever felt anxious, frustrated, or on edge… without a clear reason why?
Like something is off—but you can't quite explain it?
In this episode, I'm introducing you to a concept that fundamentally changed how I understand human behavior, performance, and self-sabotage—your emotional home.
This is the baseline emotional state your nervous system has been conditioned to return to… regardless of how much success you create on th...
What if your inconsistency on the golf course wasn't about mechanics—but about how your brain is wired to learn, handle stress, and perform under pressure?
In this episode of The Scratch Golfer's Mindset Podcast, I sit down with John Weir, creator of Mental Golf Type, to explore how personality wiring, hypnosis, and mental fitness shape your golf performance and your life.
John breaks down why self-image is the foundation of confi...
In this episode of The Scratch Golfer's Mindset Podcast, I explore one of the most overlooked yet transformative tools in personal development and peak performance: silence.
I'll invite you to courageously step into a direct experience of stillness and show you how silence helps you reconnect with yourself, uncover what you've been avoiding, and create the clarity, confidence, and alignment needed to perform at a higher level in g...
What happens when everything you have worked for suddenly feels like it is slipping away?
In this episode, I sit down with LPGA professional Gina Kim to talk about the emotional toll of losing tour status, the identity crisis that followed, and the deeper work required to rebuild herself from the inside out.
Gina opens up about hitting a true low point in her professional career, questioning whether she even wanted to keep going, ...
You're not stuck because you don't know what to do.
You're stuck because, without structure, your emotions are making your decisions.
You start the day with a plan… but end up reacting—checking your phone, avoiding hard tasks, staying "busy" instead of productive.
And every time you do, you reinforce the same pattern:
comfort over commitment, ease over execution.
In this episode, I break down how structure eliminates emotional inte...
In this episode, I sit down with Kevin Cahill—a real estate broker and strategist with nearly three decades of experience across every layer of residential real estate—for a powerful conversation on why systems are not restrictive—they're liberating.
Kevin breaks down how the right systems and structure create the space to think clearly, stay present, and perform at a higher level in business, golf, and life.
We explore the diffe...
Most ambitious people believe they have a discipline problem.
They don't.
They have a structure problem.
They wake up reacting to emails, notifications, and other people's priorities. They work long hours, stay busy all day, and convince themselves they're grinding toward their goals.
But the truth is uncomfortable.
Without structure, effort leaks everywhere.
Focus gets diluted. Energy gets scattered. Progress becomes inconsistent.
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