Out Of Your Mind with Sonja Schroeder
Out of Your Mind with Sonja Schroeder is a podcast hosted by Sonja Schroeder, a mental performance coach based in Nairobi with a master's degree in performance psychology. The show features honest conversations with athletes, executives, and other high performers from around the world about overcoming mental barriers and reaching their potential. Listeners learn practical strategies for mastering their own mind and achieving new levels of success.
Episodes
Michael Kontos: The Systems Behind the Ironman and What It Takes to Do the Hard Thing
A quick update before you listen: Michael had an accident after this episode was recorded. Please see the note at the end of this summary about his comeback.Michael Kontos is a Nairobi-based lawyer with over thirty years of experience. He describes his work as high stress and sport as his stress release. He has competed his whole life, from swimming to rowing to rugby to triathlon, always searchin
Victoria Peña on Identity, Habits, and the Real Reason Change Doesn't Stick
Why is it that people can achieve real, lasting results — and still find themselves right back where they started, years later?Victoria Peña has spent her career at the intersection of medicine, nutrition, psychology and behaviour change. Early on, she noticed something that intrigued her — clients would gain the knowledge to change, and then bounce back to old habits. That paradox set her on a jo
Sanah Kassam: Why There's No Self-Defense Without the Right Mindset
What does it really mean to feel safe? To not driven by fear but grounded in empowerment?For this powerful conversation around personal safety and mindset I sat down with Sanah Kassam, one of the youngest female advanced firearms instructors in the world, a Level 2 Brown Belt Krav Maga instructor, and certified life coach. At just 26, Sanah has built her work around one belief: that real self-defe
Jason Dunford on the Olympics, New Paths, and What Success Means Now
Jason Dunford made history as the first Kenyan swimmer to qualify for the Olympics by making the Olympic qualifying time. He broke an Olympic record in his heat in Beijing, earned a Commonwealth gold medal by a hundredth of a second, and trained at Stanford — under the same coaches he'd been studying on VHS tapes as a young swimmer in Nairobi. And yet, some of the most honest moments in this conve
What High Performers Are Really Struggling With Mentally, and What Actually Helps — Brett Mabberley
What do a former electrician, a prison psychologist, and a high-performance coach have in common? They're all the same person — and this week he's on the show.Brett Mabberley is an international high-performance coach, author and keynote speaker with over 22 years of experience coaching more than 2000 people across 30 plus industries. He's worked with world champion athletes, Fortune 500 CEOs, and
