Sport Psychologist: Teach Your Children THIS LESSON, And They Become UNSTOPPABLE! | Dr. Cristina Versari
Release Date: 04/15/2025
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info_outlineIn this week’s episode, I am joined by Cristina Versari!
Dr. Cristina Versari was the Program Administrator for the NBA Education and Career Development Program responsible for the services offered to thirty NBA teams.
She counseled NBA players on a variety of specific topics including career transition, life planning, education and degree completion. In addition to this Cristina also developed numerous NBA players seminars and training programs.
She is the Director of the Sport Psychology Program at the San Diego University for Integrative Studies. ( SDUIS) and has worked with the Brazilian Olympic Men's Basketball Team.
She also continues to provide services to individual professional basketball players and lacrosse players members of the National Lacrosse and Premier Lacrosse Leagues.
She attended the United States International University and obtained her Ph.D. and Masters degree in Psychology with specialization in Sport Psychology.
Dr. Versari has been working with high profile clientele for over thirty years.
Her work has been featured on national and international television and in newspapers including MSNBC, FOX News, CNN, LA Times, Sports Illustrated, Psychology Today, The New York Times, San Diego Business Journal, San Diego Union Tribune, The San Diego Reader, Orlando Sentinel, Sacramento Bee, NorthJersey.com, UCSD Guardian, and Sportv.
Key Points
• Belief in self drives top athletes
• Successful pro athletes practice discipline
• Relationships: A struggle for high performers
• Parenting influences on young athletes explored
• Personal growth requires impactful relationships
Best Quotes
07:12 - 07:18
• "These are the areas that you can make the decisions. You can decide anything you want in these certain areas."
07:27 - 07:31
• "So right now I decide when your bed time is, and that's the time you go to bed."
09:21 - 09:29
• "No, we're telling them, Hey, you have to decide what is the difference that, that you need to make to get on the field to get more playing time."
18:27 - 18:34
• "Sometimes the experience they had in life was so painful that they wanna change now."
22:04 - 22:11
• "There's a price you have to pay and those people are willing to pay the price to get there."
28:06 - 28:16
• "You have to have those qualities to attract someone like that. So we spend a lot of time working on the relationships now."
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