Grace Under Pressure

Grace Under Pressure: Turning Setback into Team Strength (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Grace Under Pressure: Crisis to Competitive Edge 🥇 (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Dream slide out of reach? Our visually impaired teammate, Katie, broke her ankle weeks before World Championships. She flipped the doom loop by returning on crutches, choosing grace and humor.

This self-help episode reveals the power of response over reaction in crisis. Her composure didn't heal her bone, but restored belief in the team. Learn why cheering is a competitive advantage.

We share the simple game that trains this mindset: your blueprint for resilience and mental toughness when knocked off course.

Actionable Nuggets & Takeaways:

• Response Over Reaction: Life is 10% event, 90% response. Katie chose to serve the team with grace and humor, proving spirit is contagious.
• The Cheerleader Advantage: The Rock, Paper, Scissors with a twist game trains your mindset to switch from victim mode to other-focus. Cheering is a competitive edge that builds team strength.
• The Crisis Choice Point: When delayed, choose usefulness. Katie's injury was a temporary benching; she stayed in the game by adding value.
• Response Rituals: For pressure, use the 3-step sequence: Ground in breath, name the feeling, pick a pro-social action.
• The Leadership Paradox: Resilience is built on generosity and an unbroken tone under pain. Ask: "How can I add value right now?"

Steal this blueprint for mental toughness and win by how you show up!

• How to respond to a setback instead of reacting. The power of grace and humor under pressure. Simple games to train a team-first mindset. How to turn loss into fuel for others. Building mental toughness rituals.The cheerleader advantage in competition. How one person's composure changes a team.
• "What is the 10 percent event, 90 percent response idea?"
• "How do I move from victim mode to a team-first mindset after a failure?"
• "What is a simple game to practice resilience and cheering?"
• "How can one person's composure steady an entire team?"
• "How do you choose a useful response when a major setback occur

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Episode Transcript

Jana Shelfer (00:00):
Are you ready to create a life you crave?
Let's spin that doom loop ofnegativity into an upward
success cycle and startLiving Lucky®.

Jason Shelfer (00:14):
Good morning!

Jana Shelfer (00:16):
I'm Jana.
I'm Jason.
And we are Living Lucky®.

Jason Shelfer (00:19):
You are too.

Jana Shelfer (00:20):
If you joined us for Morning Coffee this morning,
you've probably heard that wehave been at USA Ski Camp the
past several days.
And one of our team members,Katie, who is a visually
impaired skier, she fell andbroke her ankle.
Yes.
Now we are 17 days out toleaving to Australia for the

(00:45):
world championships.
And so as you can imagine, thisis gonna put a damper on her
plants.

Jason Shelfer (00:51):
It's a devastating injury on the team.
Probably one of the worst timesto have an injury like this.

Jana Shelfer (00:56):
She is one of the highest scorers on our team.
So it really was a devastatingthing that happened on Saturday
morning.
Now, she is taken to thehospital and she spends the day
getting x-rays and all sorts ofdoctor visits, and she's on
medicine.
And what made me just so in aweof Katie Mawby is that at five

(01:26):
o'clock she comes back to theski lake and she cheers and
roots for everyone else.
Like she's been she's gonethrough this entire thing.

Jason Shelfer (01:38):
She crutches up.

Jana Shelfer (01:39):
She does.
She comes back on crutches andshe's got this big old cast
thing on her foot, and she comesback to the lake to spend time
with the team.

Jason Shelfer (01:51):
Yeah.

Jana Shelfer (01:53):
I was in awe because I already know if
something like that happened tome, it it I would be in a bad
mood, and I would say, you knowwhat, I'm just going to bed.

Jason Shelfer (02:02):
Yeah.
Well, and it was it was justendearing.
Like when you asked her, hey,are you any pain, in any pain?
Her answer was, you know,there's a lot of emotional pain
going on right now.

Jana Shelfer (02:13):
But then she used humor.
Yes.
And she said, I actually pulledan Aric Fine.
And I'm like, an Aric Fine.
And she goes, Yeah, he's askier that used to be on the
team.
And he came to camp one day totrain for the world competition
and he broke his ankle.
So she had such a little senseof humor about this.
And I just found it soawe-inspiring.

(02:37):
I I came home and I said, youknow what?
I want to be like Katie Mawby.

Jason Shelfer (02:41):
That's right.
Not that I want to get injured,but you know, there's a saying
certain things.
When when your dream getspulled a little bit further away
from you, or when when you'reafter a goal, what are you
after, Jana?
You know, when you're aftersomething and someone something
happens that takes you furtheraway from it.
Yes.
It can feel devastating.

Jana Shelfer (03:04):
But how do you think that's a good thing?

Jason Shelfer (03:04):
How do you respond in the moment?

Jana Shelfer (03:06):
Says so much about your character and your uh just
all of those characteristicsthat we that aren't tangible.

Jason Shelfer (03:17):
And that we hope that we can be, right?
In that moment.
It's like, are we gonna are wegonna just tumble down the
mountain, or do we get afoothold in it and say, I'm
bigger than this?

Jana Shelfer (03:31):
I am bigger than the things that happen.
I'm bigger than my mycircumstances.

Jason Shelfer (03:35):
And now I get to actually be the biggest
supporter, the biggestcheerleader of the team that's
going forward.

Jana Shelfer (03:41):
There's a saying that says it's it's 10% of what
happens and 90% of how youreact.

Jason Shelfer (03:50):
Yes, so big.

Jana Shelfer (03:51):
And I'm not sure who said that.
I did, I made that up.
I mean, I've heard it in many,many conferences, in many books.

Jason Shelfer (03:58):
I've heard it Confucius say.
I don't think it was Confucius.

Jana Shelfer (04:03):
But anyway, it's so true.
And she taught me a little.

Jason Shelfer (04:08):
I just uh she gave a very living example of
that in the moment.

Jana Shelfer (04:13):
She did.

Jason Shelfer (04:14):
Because that was a 10% thing that happened.

Jana Shelfer (04:19):
It's part of the sport, it happens.

Jason Shelfer (04:21):
And her reaction was it it built the her her
response in that moment gave theteam legs to stand on.
So her leg, her leg was gone,and her response gave the team
more legs to stand on.
You know, which is which wasamazing.

Jana Shelfer (04:37):
Jason and I have often run workshops and
conferences and whatnot.
And there's this little gamethat we sometimes play before we
start one of our talks, andit's it's literally the rock,
paper, scissors game.
Yeah.

Jason Shelfer (04:51):
And the way you start it is we're gonna do 250
people in a room, and you playrock, paper, scissors with
everything.

Jana Shelfer (04:56):
Yes, we're like turn to the person beside you,
you're gonna play rock, paper,scissors.
Now, if you get if you getbeat, you are now the person
that beat you, you are theirbiggest cheerleader.

Jason Shelfer (05:09):
Yes, and it's so funny.

Jana Shelfer (05:11):
It is amazing how the energy in the room will rise
to this level that you've neverseen before.
And it's all because I mean, alot of times when we get beat or
our dreams or the rug might betaken out from underneath our
feet, we get into this almostvictim mentality.

Jason Shelfer (05:31):
Yeah, and it's funny how we'll we'll start
training ourselves to startgetting in this victim mentality
over the smallest losses.

Jana Shelfer (05:38):
Yes, like like this is like rock, paper,
scissors, right?
However, if you if you go intoit with the mindset, you know,
no matter what happens, I amrooting and encouraging other
people.

Jason Shelfer (05:50):
My role in this world is to be light for others,
yes, and also recognizing thatjust being in the game is is a
is a win.
Now, how do I get back in thegame again?

Jana Shelfer (06:05):
I just gained so much respect.
And literally, this weekend wasthe first time that I had
actually spent time with Katie,but she is seriously one of my
uh she made such a profoundimpact on me this weekend, and
it was because she broke herankle, and the way she showed up

(06:26):
after that whole event happenedwas literally life-changing for
me.

Jason Shelfer (06:32):
Yeah, it's it's funny because it you could be,
hey, you're such an inspiration,or I I it's really fascinating
to me watching you ski, watchingyou trick ski, do all these
things, like the bat blasterwhen she's listening to the
beeps on how she does herslalomer.
I mean, it's amazing, all thesethings, but there's a huge
there's a bigger impact when youwatch someone that's chasing

(06:55):
their dream get hit by a truck,basically.

Jana Shelfer (06:58):
Yeah.

Jason Shelfer (06:58):
And then they say, you know what?
This is gonna slow me down.
It happens.
And she's been a she's been onteam USA for years.
Like we had another uh skierthat came out and has been
skiing with Katie since theywere 18, and that that person is
in their uh mid-40s now.

Jana Shelfer (07:14):
Yeah.

Jason Shelfer (07:15):
So they've been competing with Katie for for
years, and you learn this like,you know what, injuries are
gonna happen when you're acompetitive athlete.

Jana Shelfer (07:25):
You know, there was a grace, there was a
charisma, there was a I I can'teven put it into words.
It just was something that whenI saw it with my own eyes, I
was like, that is special.

Jason Shelfer (07:40):
That's a great word for it.
And how do how do we help takesome of that specialness and how
do we create more of it?
And how do we offer more ofthat to the people around us?

Jana Shelfer (07:51):
Love it.
Thanks for joining us today.

Jason Shelfer (07:53):
Keep Living Lucky®.

Jana Shelfer (07:54):
Bye bye.
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