

Mental Performance Daily with Brian Cain
BRIAN CAIN
Oftentimes, what separates truly elite performers from everyone else isn’t talent, luck, or connections—it’s preparation. In this podcast, listeners get to hear short, daily messages from one of the leading mental performance coaches in the world, Brian Cain.
For years, these 3-minute daily meditations, motivational messages, and mental performance tips were reserved for star athletes, corporate executives, and high-profile coaches. Now, they’re available to everyone through this daily podcast, helping you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
For years, these 3-minute daily meditations, motivational messages, and mental performance tips were reserved for star athletes, corporate executives, and high-profile coaches. Now, they’re available to everyone through this daily podcast, helping you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
Episodes
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Jun 14, 2022 • 5min
The Two Biggest Psychological Shifts You Must Make
In this episode Brian discusses the two biggest psychological shifts you must make if you want to instantly become more mentally tough and more successful. Moving from comparison to competition and from non-controllables to controllables.
Mental Performance Daily is brought to you by FitBod.
Link: https://fitbod.me/MPD25/
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Jun 13, 2022 • 8min
How Successful People Think - Brian’s Book Battalion #25
In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian continues his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books that he has read recently. Today he breaks down How Successful People Think by John C. Maxwell.
Mental Performance Daily is brought to you by FitBod.
Link: https://fitbod.me/MPD25/
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Jun 12, 2022 • 14min
Sunday Meditation
In this Mental Performance Daily Sunday Meditation, Brian recaps the lessons from the week’s episodes so that you can revisit what you learned, embed it into your elite mindset and continue to grow into the best version of yourself through this guided mental imagery practice and meditation.
Mental Performance Daily is brought to you by FitBod.
Link: https://fitbod.me/MPD25/
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Jun 11, 2022 • 5min
The Tortoise, The Hare and The Dominator
In this episode Brian discusses one of the most famous stories of all time and how most people get it totally wrong.
Mental Performance Daily is brought to you by FitBod.
Link: https://fitbod.me/MPD25/
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Jun 10, 2022 • 4min
The World’s Most Deadly Psychological Disease
In this episode Brian discusses the world’s most deadly psychological disease, the disease of “When I”
Mental Performance Daily is brought to you by FitBod.
Link: https://fitbod.me/MPD25/
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Jun 9, 2022 • 5min
The 5 SWs of Success
In this episode Brian shares the 5 SWs of Success.
Some Will
Some Won’t
So What
Stick With It
Someone’s Waiting
Mental Performance Daily is brought to you by FitBod.
Link: https://fitbod.me/MPD25/
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Jun 8, 2022 • 7min
How's Your Murph?
In this episode Brian continues discussions on how Ironclad’s One Week Challenge fits within The 10 Pillars of Mental Performance Mastery training system.
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDtqmh9eKqc&list=PLeDdum80k5EObfkvgOogsXY0Uc4ORA4Wn&index=1
https://www.amazon.com/10-Pillars-Mental-Performance-Mastery/dp/1724747940
Mike Sauers is a Navy SEAL Combat Veteran who served 13 years on active duty. Mike is also the Founder/CEO of Forged® and the Co-Founder of The Murph Challenge®.
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDtqmh9eKqc&list=PLeDdum80k5EObfkvgOogsXY0Uc4ORA4Wn&index=1
During his time in the SEAL Teams, Mike served on both the East and West Coast, where he conducted multiple combat deployments. Shortly after leaving active duty to pursue his entrepreneurial endeavors, Mike was called back to service as a civilian contracted SEAL instructor. He simultaneously juggled his duties as a BUD/s instructor and full-time entrepreneur of Forged® and The Murph Challenge® until 2015 when he departed instructor duty to focus entirely on his businesses.
Founded in 2007, Forged® is one of the early pioneers of the patriotic military-inspired apparel industry. Over the past 15 years, Forged® has helped raise millions of dollars for military veterans, law enforcement officers, and their families through various campaigns. In 2014, Forged® partnered with the LT Michael P. Murphy Memorial Scholarship Foundation and launched The Murph Challenge®. To date, Forged® has raised over $1,800,000 for the LT Michael P. Murphy Memorial Scholarship Foundation & The Murph SEAL Museum through The Murph Challenge® campaign.
You can connect with Mike on his Instagram page: @forgedmike
Additional Information on Forged:https://www.forged.com/
Additional Information on The Murph Challenge: https://themurphchallenge.com/
Mental Performance Daily is brought to you by FitBod.
Link: https://fitbod.me/MPD25/
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification

Jun 7, 2022 • 8min
A Navy SEALs 6 Word Life Changing Lesson
In this episode Brian shares a 6 world life changing lesson he learned from a US Navy SEAL.
Mental Performance Daily is brought to you by FitBod.
Link: https://fitbod.me/MPD25/
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Jun 6, 2022 • 9min
The One Thing That Changes It All
In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian continues his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books that he has read recently. Today he breaks down The One Thing by Gary Keller.
Mental Performance Daily is brought to you by FitBod.
Link: https://fitbod.me/MPD25/
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Jun 5, 2022 • 13min
Sunday Meditation
In this Mental Performance Daily Sunday Meditation, Brian recaps the lessons from the week’s episodes so that you can revisit what you learned, embed it into your elite mindset and continue to grow into the best version of yourself through this guided mental imagery practice and meditation.
Mental Performance Daily is brought to you by FitBod.
Link: https://fitbod.me/MPD25/
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass


