Locker Room Power
Locker Room Power with David Sammel
Join author, coach, and performance consultant David Sammel for powerful weekly episodes that sharpen your mindset and unlock your potential. From insightful interviews where guests also interview David - to short, punchy solo shows, this no-nonsense podcast delivers proven strategies, myth-busting truths, and coaching insights that work in the real world.
With experience coaching Olympians and international athletes, David brings a unique mix of practical wisdom, storytelling, and humour. Whether you’re chasing goals or clarity, Locker Room Power will get you thinking and taking action.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 219
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Up and down year?
John: Well, 2023, let's talk about that as a whole, to begin with Dave, it's been a bit of an up-and-down year. Is that fair for you and Liam?
David: I think it's really been mostly an up year; I thi…
00:08:29 |
Mon 22 May 2023
Big moment nerves
John: The mental side of tennis from my perspective as a fan, if you like, the two things that strike me in tennis compared to lots of other sports that I think make it a bigger mental challenge. Fir…
00:08:04 |
Sun 21 May 2023
Coming into the French Open undercooked
Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. This is David Sammel with another nugget. My podcast is a way of expressing my life experience with others to offer you different perceptions and reflectio…
00:06:04 |
Sun 21 May 2023
Whose script are you running?
As children we are scripted predominantly by our parents and then by other important adults in our life like teachers or coaches or anyone that impressed us or we admired. I’m not sure if it was the …
00:07:22 |
Sun 14 May 2023
More on regret
This is an update on my most listened-to podcast. Strangely it is also the first one I ever did. Because of its popularity, I’ve decided to produce an upgraded version with new thoughts on the subjec…
00:08:23 |
Sun 07 May 2023
A dive into nostalgia
I’m watching Ted Lasso at the moment which I've really gotten into and I'm not sure quite why, but I really like it.
It has invoked in me some nostalgia to look back at my coaching career and how I'…
00:07:01 |
Sun 30 Apr 2023
You don't have to be tough all the time!
Today I'm going to talk about not being afraid to be vulnerable. to not feel like you've always got to be the tough person.
It's impossible to be tough all the time and it brings incredible pressure …
00:08:27 |
Sun 23 Apr 2023
What's in a good attitude?
A mindset that is determined to have an impact on the good of one's self and others. It is not the size of the impact that matters, it’s the effect it has so that the ripples of our actions are felt …
00:08:13 |
Sun 16 Apr 2023
What is effort?
Here’s what I know: if someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try. I’m not saying that talent isn’t a meaningful d…
00:07:40 |
Sun 09 Apr 2023
What is determination?
Today I'm going to talk about a view of determination. I think most people think that determination means that you are tough enough to carry on pretty much no matter what.
Whilst this might be the c…
00:06:02 |
Sun 02 Apr 2023
Motivation myths
The old school of telling kids and people what to do or the “my way or the highway” methods, whilst proven to be a poor way of getting the best out of people, surprisingly still prevail.
Basic psych…
00:09:19 |
Sun 26 Mar 2023
Stop trying to be right
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I think this is one of the most helpful changes I have made in my life. When I was younger I tended to be a little bit arrogant…
00:08:31 |
Sun 19 Mar 2023
We are all weird
We are all weird
Every experience, every interpretation and every life is different as distinct as a thumb print. With this in mind we are all weird in some way to others. The beauty of life is that …
00:07:38 |
Sun 12 Mar 2023
Living in our own heads
Our life is predominantly in our own heads and because of everyday tasks and interactions we easily forget how much choice we have. There are things in life that we have to live through that are not …
00:07:32 |
Sun 05 Mar 2023
The danger of high goals
Whatever it is that you do it’s important to figure out the goalposts that you’re aiming for because it’s very frustrating to be aiming for moving targets. For instance, if it is money, or fame or a …
00:07:01 |
Sun 26 Feb 2023
Me talking inside all things tennis with John Silk
Part 2 of Talking Tennis - John asks me about Liam and the future, superstitions, rankings, Wimbledon ban of Belarussians, Russians and points. Next week we will be back to the 5 minute episodes. Hop…
00:22:40 |
Sun 19 Feb 2023
Talking Tennis - Liam Broady interview
Disappointment to delight - This is a between episode with my continued collaboration with Talking Tennis with John Silk. Here he interviews Liam Broady about his topsy turvy two weeks that ended wit…
00:21:56 |
Fri 17 Feb 2023
FOMO can be dynamite
FOMO has a bad rap because it's automatically assumed that the fear of missing out is a bad thing. Because it invokes feelings of comparison and that if you don't have certain things that other peopl…
00:05:18 |
Sun 12 Feb 2023
Why do we give a toss?
How unproductive it is to worry so much about what other people think?
Remember, if you think a lot about what others think about you, like you they are mostly thinking the same way so equally will…
00:07:54 |
Sun 05 Feb 2023
Embrace a good argument
People have believed many things in history that have turned out to be wrong, and been so sure about their belief that they have persecuted and killed in the protection of an idea,
Learn more …
00:06:36 |
Mon 30 Jan 2023
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