Steve Magness on How to Perform + Flourish

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Anyone looking for motivation—and learning how to get out of their own way—needs to listen to this enlightening episode with guest Steve Magness, a renowned performance expert, coach, and author, whose just-published book is Win the Inside Game. Along with hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Coach Liz Waterstraat, Steve details: -making the shift from “I like to run” to “I am a runner”; -why + how we self-sabotage; -the importance of intrinsic motivation + competency; -how to create more of a sense of play in your running; and, -the importance of “dabbling” in a variety of pursuits. It probably won’t come as a surprise that host Sarah recounts recent pickleball pursuits before guest-Steve joins around 04:32. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Get 20% off, plus free shipping, on all IQBAR products by texting AMR to 64-000 New AG1 subscribers: Go to drinkAG1.com/AMR for a FREE $76 gift when you sign up Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen-Shay. I'm joined by Liz Waterstrat. Hello, Liz. Hi, Sarah. So, we're going to chat about
0:25.0	what consumed a lot of my weekend, which was pickleball. I got to play outdoors yesterday. It was a
0:34.5	lovely day here. People were so surprised to see me in full-length tights, though.
0:40.6	Somebody who I play with, they were like, oh, I would have bet money that you'd show up in shorts, Sarah.
0:46.8	I was ultimately pretty quickly playing in tights and a tank top.
0:52.5	So that was good.
0:54.7	Yeah, that is nice at this time of the year.
0:57.2	Mm-hmm.
0:57.6	It was.
0:58.0	It was very sunny, which can be a bit of a drag at this time of year, particularly because
1:02.0	the sun is at such a low angle.
1:04.8	And so you get a lot of sun in your eye, which can be bothersome when you're trying to
1:09.7	hit a bright yellow ball.
1:11.6	Like, which one's the sun? Which one's the ball?
1:16.0	Okay. Whatever you say.
1:20.1	But then the day before that, I had played in the bowels, the basement of a mega church that's outside of Portland.
1:30.1	And I got invited to be part of this group and I'd heard about it, this facility, so I was
1:36.7	excited to see it.
1:38.4	And because it's in a church, they really want you to not swear.
1:43.6	So I'm really proud of myself. I said, dang,
1:47.8	numerous times, but nothing stronger than that. I did, did not take the Lord's name in vain.
1:55.1	I was very proud of myself. I was going to say, should I be more concerned that you were in bowels or a megachurch?
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