CLEAR VIEW HV 05-14-2023 GUESTS: NYY JOHN FLAHERTY & C. MASTERS-ACCESS SUPORTS FOR LIVING - MISSION, PROGRAMS & MENTAL HEALTH MONDAYS ON Q92

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Welcome to clear View Hudson Valley.Normally here Uncle Mike here on this Sunday
morning, but it's yours truly.Chris Marino, Marissa Ntelmo from Marino in
the Morning with Marissa on our stationQ ninety two here in the Hudson Valley
and Marissa, it's a special showtoday. Tell me why, Chris,
it's mental health. Chris masters helpme out here. Why are we here

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today? From Access Supports for Living? Hey, great to be here.
Throw a lifeline over here, ChrisMarino. Fun, Chris is back in
town. Oh that's it? Nowhere today, you know, representing Access
Supports for Living. Our partnership withiHeart that's been going on for several years,
and just so grateful for you guyssetting the table and providing a platform

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to really open up the conversation.Excited today to also have joining us one
of the access supports for Living Foundationboard members and also a former New York
Yankee, John Flaherty. John,great to be here, Chris, thank
you for that introduction. That wasso professional of you, so kind.
You really hyped him up there andthat was the first nice thing I've said

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about him all day. But that'sokay, And of course me the fanboy,
I'm so excited to have a flashhere as I know him in the
flash. Great to have you here, and I guess now more than ever
you see, especially in New York, you know the big stage you know
for players and a lot of thepressures they feel. One of the we're
following Marissa Anthony Volpy. You knowhe was a rendiegade last year and now

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he's wearing the pin stripes. It'sso exciting as you well know the high
A Ball club now. But longshere in the Hudson Valley with the Rennygads
and give us a little insight ofwhat these players, I guess face if
you will joined the big leagues.Yeah, obviously there's a lot of pressure,
a lot of stress, a lotof expectations, you know. And
I played in the nineties into thetwo thousands, and it was a totally

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different world as far as mental health, and that was really one of the
reasons I wanted to get involved withaccess the great work that they're doing,
not only with our high school students, with our veterans, but it all
relates back to me and my playingdays and remembering how tough it was to
play at that level and not tohave anybody that you could talk to about
where you were mentally. Those daysare over. I mean, the Yankees

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have a mental skills coach that dealswith these players every day, just as
important as a pitching coach or ahitting coach. So somebody like Anthony Volpi,
who you said I was up herefor the Renegades, gets a chance
to play in the big leagues,but he's not walking that walk alone anymore,
which is amazing to be an athletein today's day and age and have
the support physically with your tools,but the support mentally probably more important.

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Incredible. So where do if you'renot a New York Yankee right now,
you're not in the big leagues,if you're a college even t ball,
any of these sports, where dothey find support and mental health with athletic
Yeah, I mean, I thinkthere's so many opportunities now where you're you
know, we're seeing even at thecollege level, the mental skills coaches and
you know, obviously therapy for theregular college student. I'm a father of

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three kids, right and I knowthat I know the grind they're going through
mentally, the help that they're getting. And the greatest part is that as
a parent we can talk to ourkids and be as open about Hey,
are you having a good day,Hey, you're having a good month.
I just got a text from mytwenty three year old son says, hey,
when you're done, give me acall. You know, need to

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talk about a few things. Soit's an incredibly different environment than when I
grew up, and I'm proud tosay it's a better environment and hopefully our
kids will will really succeed. Yes, I love to see this change.
I was an athlete myself. Iplayed throughout my whole life until college leg
It was really tough to be anathlete, you have a lot of pressure,
not only if you're in school,from your academic side, from your

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coaches, from parents, from alot of different forms. So I think
that this is so incredible to startto see the change because we see a
lot of athletes suffering right now withtheir mental health, and I wonder if
you can relate, because I wastelling stories this morning at a Red Hook
High school that you know, likethe challenges I went through out on the
field, and I felt like Iwas all by myself, right there was

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nobody else going through, but itwas all on me and I had to
figure out a way to find itthrough to the other side by myself,
which, as I think you canrelate, was kind of scary back then.
So hopefully our younger athletes, whetheramateur or professional, will have help
now, and it's it's a great, great place to be in. Yes,
super important. Do you think thatthere's going to be a change with

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coaching styles also when it comes tomental health, Well, they're already has
Oh. Oh, absolutely great question. Because you know Aaron Boone, the
managery the Yankees, gets criticized alot because he he's not critical of the
players right back in my day,I played for Sparking Anderson was a Hall
of Fame manager, and if hedidn't like the way you were playing,
you were going to know about it. The media was going to know about

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it, and there really wasn't aconcern for how you were feeling. Right
now, with today's players at themajor leagues, Aaron Boone is constantly going
to be praising, patting them onthe back, saying you're doing a great
job. We have you, We'regoing to support you. It's an incredible
change and a change for the better. Wow. Okay, I'm smiling ear
to ear right now. This isthe change that we all need. I

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love this so much. I hopethis goes beyond the Yankees and the coach
that you're talking about specifically, becauseI know there's like a lot of debate
and conversation, Chris. I knowwe talked about this a couple weeks ago,
the participation trophies, how people aresaying, oh, that's making kids
off these days. No, givethem, give them the praise. That's
something so important that athletes need.Yeah. Absolutely, if a flash,

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I'm curious. John Flaherty, bythe way, is here along with Chris
Masters with our special clear view HudsonDally, thank you so much for tuning
in as we're talking about mental healthin the sports arena when it comes to
playing the game, John, thinkingback from your playing days, even the
players to say, when something goeswrong, when something is great, you

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see a range of emotions. We'llpick on baseball, obviously your sport.
How do you compose yourself and whatyou take us from back in the day
to today. When you do,you're in a clutch situation and you fail,
you don't bring the person home,you don't get that much needed pitch
across the plate. How did youdeal with it back then? What were
you told? How were you toldto deal with it back then? I

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wasn't told anything. All right,you're on your own point, right,
Yeah, you're on your own.So my thing as a player is that
after every game you would evaluate good, bad or indifferent right, and you
would figure out what do I needto do to get ready for tomorrow's game?
And it became that cycle every dayof how do I get better prepare
myself for that night? If itwent well, great, you would enjoy

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that and sell grated if it didn'tgo well. To your point, you
would digest it, why didn't itgo well, and let's figure it out.
But it was all on my own. I flew with the Yankees the
other day to Baltimore, to Clevelandand home, and I can tell you
there were more conversations going on withthe mental skills coach on that plane.
After these games. He was makingthe rounds with all of the players,

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whether they had a good series,a bad series, a bad game,
or a good game, and justbasically finding out where they were mentally.
So you don't have to go throughit alone anymore, whether it's on the
major league level, the amateur level, or even I would say at the
high school level where Chris and Iwere this morning, you don't have to
go through it alone anymore. That'sincredible. This is just so heartwarming and

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so touching because I remember being anathlete and just focusing on those stats.
You know, you see them atthe end of the game. I'm like,
oh, I had this many errorsversus this many good things. But
you know you're only looking at theerrors, and you feel like that reflects
you in your personality and your personso much so, I love that there's
actual conversations and it's not so muchabout the failures or the mistakes anymore.
It's about how you're feeling as well. I'm so happy that you bring that

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up. I got off to aterrible start one year in Tampa Bay and
I had a coach tell me,a hitting coach, you know, your
personality isn't defined by that batting averageup on the board. And when I
walked up to the plate and Isaw a batting average at one sixty five,
I was thinking, Yeah, that'sthat's who I am. And I'm
a father of three and have tosupport a family. That batting average directly

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correlates to my future employment. Sotoday's game obviously have people who make you
think differently about it. But backwhen I was going through it, it
was boy, I'm in trouble.I'm not going to have a job.
I'm going to be released. Whatam I going to do to support my
family? I got to find away to get that batting average up.
And you know, it's just adifferent way to think about it today.

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Yeah, and totally different perspective ofbeing paid with this as well. Like
when I'm in college, it doesn'tmatter I'm not getting paid. The worst
thing's gonna happen. I'm gonna siton the bench. But this is your
life, this is your career.So I imagine the amount of pressure must
have been so amends. Well,it's funny when I would get a contract,
I would feel pressure immediately to liveup to that contract, and everybody

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would say, well, why whydo you feel pressure? Well, because
now there are major expectations I haveto live up to this. So I
think of a guy like Aaron Judgewho signs a three hundred and sixty million
dollar contract. Amazing, right,he earned it. But with that also
comes responsibility and pressure and expectations.And Aaron was one of the players who

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was sitting with the mental skilled coach. He has a great relationship with him,
and he just seems like he's avery very calm centered personality. And
I'm sure because of the help thathe's getting mentally. It's a big reason
why there's many times you'll watch agame, John, and you'll see something
go wrong and you're yelling at theTV, you know, and but the
player, like you said, theyget the skills that they need to whether

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it's something that's not right. Andthen even when the celebration happens, like
You know, I used to lovewatching in the nineties when Joe Torrey always
emotionalless. It seems like whenever somethingwent wrong, and even when something went
right at the very end, you'dsee the high fives and everything when they
won the World Series. But hejust strikes me as someone who managed to
keep an even keel. You know, what are your thoughts about that and

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how he and guys like that.Well, he had the greatest poker face
you could ever have, right,and it was great to play for him
because you never felt him get toohigh or too low, and you always
felt like he had things figured out. But I smile when we talk about
this though, because our outward expressionswhere we have it all figured out,

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inside, we knew we didn't haveit figured out. I mean I was
struggling. I was you know,how am I going to stay at this
level? But on the outside youhave to keep that poker face like I
got this, I'll find a wayagain. I go back to I had
to deal with it all on myown, right, You had to deal
with that struggle mentally every day withyourself. Now you can see guys show

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a little bit more emotion, right, and it's it's okay to be a
man and in the society or evenat the major league level and show a
little emotion. I'm not going toshow a lot in front of you today,
Christmas, not too much in frontof you. Yes, that's so
important that you talk about it thewhole time. I'm thinking, I'm like,
this is so important to have thisconversation surrounding males and sports because a

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lot of times you have to betough, you have to be muscular.
There's so much added pressure to notonly being an athlete, but specifically being
a male athlete. It's crazy.Yeah, And I grew up in a
very tough Irish Catholic home with avery tough Irish father who said, never
let him see you sweat, playwith the pain, right, all of
these things that I just that's justthe way you were supposed to do it

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as a man. Growing up.Today, it's different, you know.
I, Like I said, I'ma father of three kids and we talk
about mental health a lot, andwe talk about good days bad days.
So it's just a different time,and I think a better time. Incredible.
So tell us about some of theseresources that access has to offer for
athletes you're not going to take thatone. Yeah, Chris, Chris,

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Chris. There they're each other.I'm not the pro year, I'm the
rookie in the room. So I'mglad. I appreciate you guys. Let
me be a part of it.You know so many I'm smiling here listening
to the conversation and whether it's youknow, the questions being asked or the
responses from John, it's really beenthe driving force behind why some of the

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programs even got started. So Johnreferenced UM, you know, being part
of the mental Health and Schools program, which was supported by our donor base.
It was really incredible. So itcame from a principal a couple of
years ago going through COVID and thestudents were getting ready to come back into
the building for the first time.And the one thing he said to me,
he goes, I just don't knowwhat to expect and not sure how

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seven hundred students at the time,we're going to be managed by two social
workers and just really under resource,He said, can you help UM Access
amazingly is celebrating sixty years of servingthe community. Yeah, and that's really
about meeting the needs of the community. It's how we've been able to grow
to serve now almost twenty thousand peoplein sixteen counties with roughly twenty two hundred

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employees. But coming back to themental health piece, when he said he
had a need, we rose tothe occasion. Also celebrating twenty five years
is our golf event, and inthat golf event, we're fortunate to have
folks like John who come up andsupport the event. Obviously that brings an
attraction, helps us raise funds,but also creates awareness for all the programming

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that's going on throughout that sixteen countyfootprint. But we take it a step
further in John as a living,breathing an example of that, and that
is how do I get involved?How do I create a greater impact than
just the awareness piece and things ofthat nature. So we're in, you
know, year two of what hasbeen mental health in the school's programming,
and we're growing. We're strategically onlyadding so many schools at a time.

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You can imagine the demand that's outthere for mental health services. Access simply
wants to be that supporting arm andgreat partner within the community for all of
our schools, social workers, administratorsand of course, you know, our
celebrities and folks like John are area big part of that. It is
clear view Hudson Valley. It isa special program today. My name's Chris

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Marino Marissa Kintamo, and we arethe morning show host of Q ninety two
here in the Hudson Valley and normallyUncle Mike is here. We said Uncle
Mike will take this one. Weyeah, we stepped in the batter's box
of this one. And we haveour special guests Chris Masters from Access Supports
for Living, and we have JohnFlaherty, former Yankee. For you played
for the number of teams there,John Ray, five different teams. Yeah,

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which was your longest tenure? Ispent five years in Tampa Bay?
Okay, Yeah. I started outwith the Red Sox, got traded to
the Tigers, got traded to thePadres, got traded to Tampa Bay,
and then finally was able to sayI want to go to the New York
Yankees as a free agent, andspent my last three years there as you
finished as a Yankee. That's awesome. So of course you know nickname Flash
from you see him. I toldus when he first walked in the room,

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as I wanted that little yes iconon the bottom. That's right.
What is it? I'm going tokind of digress just so slightly and lead
into the sports a little bit.What is there something? How did the
players react when they do become aNew York Yankee? We could talk about
that here because we're in New York. Yeah, is that a goal?
Is that? Like you were like, if I'm gonna play baseball, I

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want to play for the New YorkYankees. Well, I think you just
said it perfectly. The players whosucceed in New York want to be there
and that could affect their approach tothe game immensely, right, absolutely,
absolutely. I Mean the Yankees talkall the time. If they're going to
trade for a player, they wantthe background information that he has, the
makeup and the personality that he wantsto be there and he wants to succeed.

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We've seen so many good players cometo New York and it just wasn't
the right personality fit. So evenwhen the Yankees are going through the draft
process, Anthony Volpi is one ofthe guys that you know, they did
so much research not only on thephysical part, but his makeup is mental
makeup. You know, is hegoing to be a guy who's going to
succeed in New York? And allindications say that he's going to be very

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successful. So there's expectations when youcome to the Yankees. But I was
at the end of my career.I wanted to try to win a World
championship, and the expectations of thatI embraced. I loved it. I
love the fact that an organization isgiving you an opportunity to put a team
out there to go win. Now, as an individual player, you had

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to meet the expectations. You hadto be ready to go every day.
You had to be ready to playin front of fifty six thousand people up
and you had to be ready toplay in the media market where there were
high expectations. I loved it.I grew up in New York. I
knew what it was all about.I didn't win a World Series of my
three years with the Yankees, butI would say that I enjoyed every minute
of those expectations. Wow. Youoften hear that, Oh my gosh,

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that's incredible. So what is theI guess effect on your mental health?
You said that you were traded fivedifferent times was there an effect on that.
Absolutely. Yeah. I was tradedfrom the Boston Red Sox to Detroit
when I was twenty six years old. Wow. I had come through the
Red Sox system. I'd spent fouryears in the minor leagues, a couple

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in the major leagues. My lastname is Flaherty, and I'm playing in
Boston. I mean, it's likea match made in heaven. I thought
I would spend my whole career there, and then in the matter of thirty
seconds, I was told on aphone call, we traded you to Detroit.
This is the guy who's going tocall you. Good luck with everything,
and a general manager hung up thephone. Now that was the eye

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opening moment to the business of baseball, and to be quite honest, it
took me about a good month anda half mentally to get past that.
The next time I was traded,it was like, Okay, where am
I going and who wants me?But of course, when you get traded
from a team, the first timeyou think about they don't want me anymore?
Why don't they want me anymore?Yes, And it was devastating.

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It really was. So again wecould talk about my whole career and the
mental challenges good and bad that playershad to go through, and today they
have more support that they don't haveto go through it alone. So from
personal experience, what tips do youhave to athletes now when it comes to
taking care of their mental health.Well, I think first and foremost is

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talking when they're they're going through atough time, right and being able to
have the ability to reach out andsay I'm not feeling great today, I'm
not okay today, and I needa little bit of help. That's the
first part, and we already talkedabout all of the opportunities that they have
to do that. The second partis that I think the game of baseball
is going to teach you about it. Sounds so cliche, but the game

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of life, right. I meanI would get ready one hundred and sixty
two times a year to play agame. There were good games, there
were bad games, but I quicklylearned, Okay, let's get back after
a tomorrow. Let's get up offthe mat tomorrow to do it again.
And I'm fifty five years old,I still go through the same routines,
and I still get to the endof the day and I evaluate was it

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a good day? I was Ia good person today? Did I help
today? What can I do tobe better tomorrow? And I wake up
the next morning and it's like amajor league season every day of my life
with the way I go about it, So it's kind of trained me to
be who I am today. Wow, this is so special. And do
you also have any advice for thecoaches of that aspect? Being a player

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yourself and experiencing all this, whatadvice would you have for coaches support?
Well, great question. In today'sgame, we're seeing a lot of coaches
who maybe didn't play at the majorleague level, so they didn't experience the
highs and the lows, the incrediblehighs and the incredible lows. So I
think they probably need some guidance inthat aspect. But there are plenty of

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coaches who understand exactly what it's liketo struggle. Uh. My challenge as
a broadcaster now is to remember whenI see these guys going through it and
they're having a tough game, I'vebeen there. I know what it feels
like. So the ability just torelate to some of the players and say,
hey, guys, you know we'vebeen there, we've done it,
we know what it's all about.You get up tomorrow, You'll be You'll

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be fine. Oh I love this. All is just speaking to my soul
right here again, it's clear ofyou, Hudson Valley. We're with access
supports for living. We have ChrisMasters, we have special guests John Flaherty
from the Yankees, and of coursewe see them on the ear. Now.
You're still doing a lot of stuffwith the Yes Network. I will
be back to work Yes tomorrow.I was on the road trip with the

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team, had four days off.They were nice to give me a little
bit of a break, if theYankee fans a break from hearing me for
four days, and then I'll beback at it soon. How does it
feel, Johnny like each year,you know, being tied to the organization,
part of the the S Network,part of the Yankee organization. When
you see the fresh faces come in. You know, we've been hitting about
Anthony Volpie a lot, but otherpeople, other players and gentlemen across the

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country when they joined the organization,How does that feel when you watched them
take their first steps and you know, knowing the steps you took thirty years
ago when you well started. Yeah, we're gonna keep going back to Anthony
Vulpy. But I had a greatconversation with him opening day behind the batting
cage, and we didn't talk anythingabout New York Yankees. We talked about
high school baseball. Right. Heplayed high school baseball at del Barton and

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Jersey. I went to Saint Joe'sand Jersey obviously thirty years apart, thirty
plus years apart. But I wastalking to him about high school baseball and
how much we had a good timeplaying in Jersey and the competition. So
those are the connections that you make. It's not necessarily oh, you're a
big league player, now I wantto I want to. It's like,
no, you went to Dell Barton. I know what that feels like.

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He knows what it feels like.And we got off to a good start.
So the players who come to theYankees every year, it's a different
personality, but again we're going togo back to it. It's the same
expectation. They know what they're expectedto do, and the retired players want
to support that, and I thinkwe do a pretty good job of it.
First, I love you've been talkingabout like because again I could sit

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here and talk to Flash all daybecause I loved the Yankees so much,
and stay in the sports lane,but more accurately too, or more appropriately
talking about the applications for this typeof thinking locally, like you've been saying
about the coaches and about the players. Would you you played volleyball? Right?
Yeah? How was that experience intense? Like as far you know,
I mean, I'm still in therapysessions about my coach's experience. Is it's

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really really tough. I mean,I was only at a Division three college
level, and it shouldn't be theway that it was. It shouldn't be
so much yelling and screaming and you'refailing and all of this. So I
feel like it's so important that there'snow a change, but it has to
be for everywhere because it's really intenseto be an athlete at times, it
really is, and it becomes,you know, a thing John and Chris

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that you you know, maybe Chrisyou could talk about where you have to
work through the way it always hasbeen the way we grew up. Yeah,
that's the way we That's the waymy dad did it, the way
your grandfather did it. Stop andwhat do you mean stuff? How do
you, how do you compart tomentalize the pass and keep that back there
but still be able to perform atthe same level but with a better mindset.

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Yeah, absolutely so. Coming fromthe South, um, I actually
was a college athlete in a collegecoach as well. But we said put
some dirt on it. It wasthe saying that sum and really for me,
it was about rallying around people,understanding strengths and weaknesses and trying to
keep the mission above all and howdo we work together as a team,

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understanding we're not perfect, None ofus are perfect. And I think that's
what I love about the programming we'redoing with whether it's John or other influencers
in the Access Influencer network, isthis is an everybody issue and these um,
you know, tips and tricks andunderstandings apply to everyday life, and
that's what we really want to youknow, kind of hammer home here is

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Hey, whether it's you know,volleyball or baseball, or you know,
showing up the pressure that you guyshave, you know, being on air
and being a voice for folks,all of that comes with a certain level
of expectation and to me, youknow, you put forth your best effort
every day knowing that it's not goingto be perfect, and then you know
what you kind of I use.I use a refresh or a reset,

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saying I play golf a little bit, not very well at times, but
you hit a bad shot. Golfis one of those sports where you immediately
better get reset to hit your nextshot, or you compound the issue.
So I use a reset, Andwhether that's on a daily basis, in
a meeting, etc. We haveexpectations in twenty twenty three, probably more

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than we've ever had. Life ismoving really really fast, So I like
to reset, you know, beokay with myself of not having a perfect
performance all the time and then gettingback on the horse and riding away and
doing my thing. So that wouldbe advice reset about every day is going
to be perfect. Let's just keepworking towards the bigger goal. But how

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can you reset, say, ina fast moment I'm thinking about like volleyball
or baseball, you say swing andyou missed the ball and you have to
immediately be at bad again. Howdo you reset then? Yeah, So
it's it's interesting as so I'm originallyfrom Tennessee, so I'm going to probably
take a little bit of a youknow, a knock here and quote you
know the Nick Saban, the headcoach about you exactly, Yeah, no,

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big Ard. But but you knowNick Saban talks about the next play.
Yeah, and I think we've gotto get better at letting go of
that negative thought. Um one ofour other influencers says, there's a soundtrack
running in between these two ears.The most valuable real estate that you'll ever
have is between your two ears.And so when that you know, soundtrack,

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think about a record skipping. Ifthe records skipped, you'd be like,
oh wait, let me get thatsong back on track. And so
I think that's what the way Iwould approach it is. Just get quicker,
you know, forgive yourself instantly reset, say the word reset if you
need to do that, and thenyou get back and you play the next
play. And you know what thattakes leadership, because it's easy to get

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down on yourself. I let myteam down. I'll let you know the
situation, get the best to make. Bit you know what, you're not
alone, You're not the first personthat's made a bad play, bad call,
etc. So reset, you know, and get back to it as
quick as possible. And you knowwhat, You'll set a standard for your
team and then when they start followingthat, then your team starts playing for

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the next play. Yes, andthey don't compound those issues. Yes,
this is literally speaking to my soul. Right, I'm smiling ear to ear.
I'm going to feel so good throughoutthe day after this conversation. My
final question for you is, ifyou could go back and tell yourself something
that has to do with your mentalhealth, what would you say to well?
I think Chris, I hate toadmit this, but just said something
that was brilliant that I wish Icould have done when I was a younger

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player. Is forgive yourself. Right, you don't have to be perfect every
day. But I felt like Iwas a kid who wanted to be a
major league player. I put somuch pressure on myself to get there,
and then when I got there,I felt pressure every day to stay there.
Instead of saying, Okay, we'regoing to prepare as well as we
can, we're going to do thebest that we can, and if it

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doesn't work out, that's okay,let's do it again tomorrow. I was
so so hard on myself, andI lasted a long time fourteen years in
the major leagues. But I probablywould have enjoyed it a lot more if
I had a different mental attitude aboutit. Exactly so important, Chris,
how can folks listening as we wrapthe show up, you know, get
resources? Absolutely well, one,I'm going to throw it back and the

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fact that here we are mental healthmondays we've kicked this, you know,
bad boy off. So there's gonnabe resources obviously, you know with iHeart
and Q ninety two also come toaccess supports dot org. It's an easy
place just to come and we've gotan eight eight eight number and you can
go through the menu quickly and getto where you need to go. It's
okay to not be okay, youknow, we need to start believing that.

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And I think we together have builta platform that's gonna make people feel
more comfortable about having conversations. Sothank you guys again for all you do,
and thank you for all that youdo. Oh my gosh, both
of you. Thank you. Yes, I think that's going to do it
for us. So yeah, tunein each and every week at this time.

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Uncle Michael be back for clear ViewHudson Valley and on behalf of everyone
here at iHeartRadio. Thank you somuch for listening this Sunday morning. I'm
Chris Marino, Mersa Kintamo and likeyou mentioned Chris Masters on our program on
Q ninety two ninety two point one, we have mental Health Monday that we
do every Monday, and Mersa,I want to give you props. It
was your idea to start this onthe radio, to have that conversation where,

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you know, not normal radio fair. You know, we're not yucking
it up and giving away call herthis and call her that, but we
do a little bit of that,but we also keep it real about what's
really happening in the world today.Flash. Thanks for coming out, MANI
pleasure great being here with you guys. Chris, thank you, yeah,
thanks for having me again. Enjoythe rest of this Mother's Day. Thank
you for listening. I hope youenjoyed this week's episode of clear View Hudson
Valley, and I want to remindyou that all the episodes are available on

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a clear View Hudson Valley podcast availableat iHeartRadio dot com. I'm Uncle Mike
and if I don't see you outand about, I'll catch you on the
radio. Have a great week,everyone,