The Q Coach Pod | Mindset Coaching for Handlers with Julie Bacon — พอดแคสต์

#281: Six things to do when nerves take over (and your brain goes offline) 20.08.2026 20นาที

When nerves spike, your amygdala takes over and your frontal cortex — the part with all your training in it — temporarily loses the mic. You haven't forgotten how to handle. You've just lost access. This episode is a practical toolkit: six concrete things that get your thinking brain back online, including one that involves your toes, one that involves your shoes, and one that's probably the most important thing you can do before you ever take your first step into the ring. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#280: The run you haven't forgiven yet (and why it's still in the ring with you) 13.08.2026 28นาที

Handlers carry things into the ring that have nothing to do with today — a dog who did something years ago that the nervous system never stopped bracing for, or a mistake that fused with identity and has been traveling into every run since. This episode is about forgiveness as a performance skill: what it actually means to update the file on your dog, how to separate a mistake from who you are as a handler, and why letting go of the past isn't soft — it's strategic. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#279: Comparison Isn't the Problem (What You Do With It Is) 06.08.2026 26นาที

Comparison isn't a character flaw — it's wired in. And in a sport that's light on clear, ongoing feedback, watching what everyone else is doing starts to feel like useful data. Sometimes it is. Often it isn't. In this episode we're taking comparison apart — why smart handlers fall into the trap, what's actually driving it, how to tell the difference between useful outside input and noise that's quietly doing damage, and what it looks like to run your own race with your own benchmark. If you've ever left a trial feeling fine until you saw someone else's results, this one's for you. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membershi 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#278: You didn't write that script (but you're the one running it) 30.07.2026 33นาที

Most self-talk content tells you how to change the inner critic. This episode goes somewhere different — tracing where it actually came from. None of your self-talk is originally yours. You borrowed it from instructors, parents, breeders, competitors, score sheets, and a sport culture built on public performance and perfectionism. Once you know that, everything shifts. This episode is about tracing the source, creating distance from thoughts that were never yours to begin with, and deciding what actually belongs in the ring with you. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#277: Of course you're competitive (and that's not the problem) 23.07.2026 24นาที

"I'm not really competitive, but..." — and then they describe driving hours to a trial, spending hundreds on entries, and losing sleep over a Q rate. Sound familiar? This episode is about why handlers reject the competitive label, what it's actually costing them, and why reclaiming that word might be one of the most important identity shifts a handler can make. Competitive doesn't mean cutthroat. It means you care. And that's allowed. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#276: Getting cozy with failure (the ultimate confidence booster) 16.07.2026 30นาที

A new sport, a 6am lesson, and an instructor calling out every mistake in real time — and it's one of Julie's favorite things. This episode is about why, and what it reveals about the relationship most handlers have with failure. Failure as information vs. failure as identity, why the same mistake hits differently in training vs. the ring, and why getting cozy with failure might be the most counterintuitive confidence builder in dog sports. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#275: Who made those January goals? (and do they still belong to you?) 09.07.2026 31นาที

Six months in and it's time to ask the question nobody asks at mid-year: do the goals you made in January still belong to you? Not did you hit them — do they still fit the handler you actually are right now? This episode is a mid-year identity audit — celebrating how far you've come, sorting what stays from what gets edited or released, and giving July-you the vote she's earned. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#274: When the evidence disappears (and you're about to order the pizza) 02.07.2026 25นาที

Most handlers quit in the lag — that stretch between doing the work and seeing the results where the evidence goes quiet and the motivation disappears right along with it. This episode is about evidence-dependency, why it's actually a confidence problem in disguise, and what to do when the feedback loop goes on hiatus. Includes the hard middle, trusting the process, and a few tangible steps for when the evidence has temporarily left the building. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#273: Your nerves are trying to tell you something. (Are you listening?) 25.06.2026 31นาที

Most handlers spend a lot of energy fighting nerves — and it doesn't work. This episode starts from a different place entirely: nerves aren't random, they're specific, and they're trying to tell you something. We'll talk about why naming your trigger matters more than managing your symptoms, why handlers avoid doing it, and how shifting from outcome goals to process goals gives your nervous system somewhere useful to put its energy. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#272: Cramming for a trial (your dog gives it one bone) 18.06.2026 30นาที

Handlers know better than to drill new skills the week before a big event. And yet those same handlers will spend that week trying to install an entirely new mindset — binge-listening, over-visualizing, consuming everything they can find — and wonder why it doesn't hold up at the line. This episode is about why cramming doesn't work for your mindset or your dog, and what consistent mental game work actually looks like before something that matters. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#271: The trial environment is not neutral (and neither are you) 11.06.2026 26นาที

The trial environment is charged — high stakes, deep caring, outcomes nobody can fully control — and that energy is ambient. You're absorbing it whether you realize it or not. But here's the part that's harder to sit with: you're contributing to it too. This episode is about co-regulation, what you're actually broadcasting in a high-stakes environment, and how to show up to a trial consciously instead of just reacting to whatever's in the air. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#270: Trusting the Process (It's Not What You Think) 04.06.2026 33นาที

"Trust the process" is one of those phrases that gets thrown around so much it's almost stopped meaning anything. In this episode I'm taking it apart — what it actually is, what it isn't, and why it's a real trainable skill and not just a motivational poster. We'll talk about detachment (the real kind — not caring less, but loving the journey more), why single runs feel so disproportionately heavy, and how to hold your goals and your long-game thinking at the same time without having to choose between them. If you've ever let one bad weekend rewrite the whole story, this one's for you. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#269: Competitive integrity (the skill nobody talks about) 28.05.2026 28นาที

Most handlers know what it feels like to chase a Q. What's less talked about is the moment you choose not to — and why that decision might be the most sophisticated one you make all season. This episode is about competitive integrity in dog sports: knowing when the Q serves your training and when it doesn't, what it actually takes to make that call under pressure, and the question every handler should be able to answer before they get to the gate. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#268: When the ribbons lie (and you know it) 21.05.2026 31นาที

It was a good week on paper. Big ribbons, real wins, the kind of results that look great from the outside. But the process told a completely different story — and when you tried to share that honestly, people looked at the ribbons and rolled their eyes. This episode is about what happens when outcomes and process contradict each other, why the people around you can only see the scoreboard, and how to hold both stories at the same time without letting one cancel the other. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#267: The work nobody sees (is the work that matters most) 14.05.2026 29นาที

The ribbon photos get shared. Nobody posts the Tuesday night mental rehearsal, the drive home replay, or the quiet prep work that happens in the margins of a regular life. But that's where consistent performance is actually built. This episode is about the between-trial mental work that never makes it to social media — why it counts, how to make it intentional, and why the handler nobody sees is doing the most important work of all. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#266: The hard middle (and why getting through it is the whole game) 07.05.2026 25นาที

Nobody talks about the hard middle — that long, unglamorous stretch where the novelty has worn off, progress isn't obvious, and motivation has gone quietly flat. In this episode, we're naming it for what it is, unpacking why it feels so discouraging, and talking about what actually keeps handlers in the game when the game stops feeling rewarding. If you've ever wondered whether you're stalling or just growing slowly, this one's for you. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#265: What to reach for when your mindset needs a reset (and why it matters that you already know) 30.04.2026 24นาที

Handlers already know which episodes they go back to, which reframes actually stick, which reset rituals bring them back when things go sideways. That instinct is sophisticated self-awareness — and it's worth building on. This episode is about the difference between accumulating mindset concepts and actually having the right tool within reach when you need it most. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#264: The dog you don't trust yet (and what that's really about) 23.04.2026 33นาที

Every handler has a dog they don't fully trust yet — whether it's a green dog still proving themselves, a dog with a complicated history, or a partnership that just hasn't clicked under pressure. This episode is about the honest question underneath all of it: is the trust gap about your dog, or about something you're carrying into the ring with you? And what do you actually do about it either way. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#263: The mindset of a good student (with Petra and Laurie from Canine Connection) 16.04.2026 1ชม. 2นาที

Petra and Laurie from the Canine Connection Podcast stopped by — and we got into it. We're talking about what actually makes a good student, and surprise, it's mostly a mindset thing. Ego, passive showing-up, cognitive overload, integrating online learning without blowing up your group class relationship, and why your instructor's insecurity might be quietly in the room too. This one went everywhere. In the best way. Listen to the Canine Connection podcast wherever you get your podcasts and be sure to subscribe! 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.

#262: Pressure isn’t going anywhere (how to perform alongside it) 09.04.2026 24นาที

Pressure isn’t something you eliminate — it’s something you learn to work with. In this episode, I’m breaking down what pressure actually is, why it changes your behavior in the ring, and why rushing, over-handling, or “trying to fix it” aren’t random mistakes. We’ll look at what’s really happening in those moments and shift the goal from “stay calm” to stay functional, so you can handle clearly even when it matters. 📩 Stay in the loop! Get my best tips & updates in your inbox. → https://www.theqcoach.com/fb-sign-up-page 🏆 Want more mindset coaching? Join the Q-Membership for in-depth lessons & support. → https://www.theqcoach.com/q-membership 📅 The 2026 Dogged Planner is here! Plan, track, and crush your goals. → https://www.theqcoach.com/dogged 💬 Got a question or topic idea? Ask me anything—anonymously if you’d like! → https://www.theqcoach.com/askQ 🎹 Music by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay.