{"podcast":{"title":"Teamcast","slug":"teamcast-276676","podcast_index_feed_id":276676,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/mcti/","website_url":"https://missioncti.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/f5f9e24d-df49-4221-8bf6-a0f2107438ba/mcti-teamcast-logo5b.jpg","author":"Mission Critical Team Institute","episode_count":77,"summary":"Dr. Preston Cline, Dr. Dan Dworkis, Dr. Art Finch and Harry Moffit of the Mission Critical Team Institute share research and explore the questions vexing the most elite teams in the world, from Special Operations soldiers to Firefighters, from Trauma Medics to Professional Athletes, and from Astronauts to Tactical Law Enforcement.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T10:18:00.994570+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/teamcast-276676"},"episode":{"title":"S6 Ep7 Coach, Don't Profess: Theory-to-Practice Transfer in Mental Performance","slug":"s6-ep7-coach-don-t-profess-theory-to-practice-transfer-in-mental-performance","published_at":"2026-04-06T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/teamcast-276676/s6-ep7-coach-don-t-profess-theory-to-practice-transfer-in-mental-performance","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/teamcast-276676","url":"https://teamcast.missioncti.com/episode/ceci-craft","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/eff8dc5a-cd1c-44cb-9fa8-ee6748e79335.mp3","summary":"Ceci Craft has worked inside two of the most demanding performance cultures in the world — Army Special Operations and Major League Baseball. She's currently the Philadelphia Phillies' Director of Mental Performance, Life Skills, and Education, leading a staff of seven coaches across their MLB affiliates and the organization's academy in the Dominican Republic. When she made the move from working with Operators to working in baseball, she thought she had her bearings -- \"No one's being shot at, and no one's died, so I'm fine. \" -- It took her a while to recalibrate her perspective from the special ops world and to recognize that losses in the athletic world are different kinds of losses, but still real ones. Preston and Ceci dig into the gap between how mental performance practitioners are trained and what the job actually requires — the ethical conundrums no ethics course prepares you for, the difference between a clinical model built on client readiness and a performance context that operates on its own timeline, and why \"coach, don't profess\" is harder to practice than it sounds. They use imagery as a case study — exploring habituation, audience fit, and how to teach live skills more effectively. They examine what Ceci calls \"healthy versus junk food confidence\": the difference between confidence that holds up versus confidence that collapses under real pressure. And they close with one of the more honest conversations about identity and transition: what it actually costs to walk out of a high-performance tribe, and what helps. If this conversation is useful, the best way to support our work is to subscribe and leave a rating or review. It helps us reach the people who need these discussions.","meta_description":"Ceci Craft has worked inside two of the most demanding performance cultures in the world — Army Special Operations and Major League Baseball. She's curren…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4264,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/teamcast-276676/episodes/s6-ep7-coach-don-t-profess-theory-to-practice-transfer-in-mental-performance/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/teamcast-276676/s6-ep7-coach-don-t-profess-theory-to-practice-transfer-in-mental-performance.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}