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When pressure hits — when the match tightens, the heart rate spikes, and the mind starts racing — what separates the athlete who steadies from the one who spirals?

It’s rarely just talent or training. It’s the ability to regulate what’s happening inside.

That’s where Marci Sier brings her expertise.

Marci is a squash professional at the Badminton and Racquet Club of Toronto, and she also runs a private practice in sport and performance psychology.

With a Master’s in Counselling Psychology and advanced studies in sport psych, she’s spent years guiding athletes, coaches, and business professionals to use the same psychological tools that high performers rely on under pressure — awareness, emotional control, and the calm to stay composed when the moment intensifies.

In this conversation, Marci shares how she integrates those mental skills directly into her coaching — teaching young players to celebrate mistakes as part of learning, helping athletes understand how emotions show up in the body, and using imagery, icons, and simple resets to reframe stress in real time.

We talk about how true confidence isn’t a quick technique — it’s something earned through reflection, repetition, and trust in your own process.

Marci also offers sharp insight into early specialization in sport, and how parents and coaches can become active allies in an athlete’s mental development — using the same language, reinforcing the same values, and supporting the same awareness both on and off the court.

At its core, this is a conversation about the inner architecture of performance — how composure, confidence, and connection are built from the inside out.

And how, when you start to see sport as a mirror for life, every challenge becomes a chance to grow.

Let’s dive in with Marci Sier.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marci-sier-ma-cmpc/

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