You look locked in.
You’re all set physically and with your skill work.
But you’re quietly falling apart.
If your body’s ready but your mind is loud, anxious, or exhausted — this program is for you.
I have worked with the highest level athletes in the world — NBA, MLB, MMA athletes. The edge your looking for is no longer physical, it is mental!
Quiet Your Mind.
Unlock Your Game.
A mental and emotional clarity course for elite basketball players ready to reclaim their confidence and peace.
Mind Body Ball — The Podcast
You train your body every day — but what about your mind? Mind Body Ball with Ryan Stock is where mental clarity meets athletic performance. Each episode blends stories from elite athletes, coaches, and timeless thinkers with practical tools you can use to stay calm, clear, and confident under pressure. Learn how breath, mindset, and awareness shape your ability to focus, recover, and perform when it matters most. Built for athletes and coaches who want real, usable frameworks — not hype — to connect the mind, body, and game.
Podcast Links and Mental Training Sheets
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Episode 12 — Feel Aligned. Play Free.
DescriptionYou can do everything right on the court and still feel off if your life and values aren’t aligned. This episode explores how integrity, habits, and behavior off the court quietly shape confidence and freedom on it. When you live in a way you respect, your body settles and your game opens up naturally.goes here
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Episode 11 —Why Trying Harder Makes It Worse
When something goes wrong, most athletes respond by trying harder — and it often makes things worse. This episode breaks down why effort without clarity leads to urgency, tension, and rushed decisions under pressure. Learning when to reorient before adding intensity allows effort to work with you instead of against you.
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Episode 10 — Self-Sabotage Isn’t What You Think
Self-sabotage isn’t laziness or lack of discipline — it’s often the nervous system trying to protect you. This episode explains why hesitation, distraction, and pulling back show up when pressure or growth feels unfamiliar. Understanding what feels at risk helps resistance soften so you can move forward without fighting yourself.
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Episode 9 — The Power of the Pause
Most athletes don’t lose control because they’re emotional — they lose it because everything happens too fast. This episode teaches how creating a brief pause between stimulus and response restores choice, clarity, and composure in pressure moments. When you learn to slow yourself down inside the game, one moment stops turning into many.
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Episode 8 — Emotional Mapping: Why the Same Moments Keep Triggering You
The same mistakes, calls, and situations keep triggering the same reactions — and most athletes don’t understand why.
In this episode, Ryan introduces Emotional Mapping, a simple framework that helps you see the pattern behind your reactions instead of getting caught inside them. When you can map the sequence, you slow the moment down and regain control.
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Episode 7 — Why Your Confidence Fades When You Need It Most
You can feel confident all week, then lose it the moment pressure shows up. That isn’t a skill issue — it’s an internal alignment issue.
In this episode, Ryan breaks down why confidence collapses in big moments and how to build a version rooted in identity, clarity, and self-trust. This isn’t about forcing intensity. It’s about returning to who you are when the moment gets loud. goes here
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Episode 6 — Emotions as Data (Not Your Enemy)
Description Most athletes are taught to push through emotion or ignore it altogether. But emotion isn’t the problem — misunderstanding it is.
In this episode, Ryan reframes emotion as information instead of interference. You’ll learn how to tell the difference between signals, static, and stored energy, and why reading what you feel leads to clearer decisions and calmer performance under pressure.
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Episode 5 — Beyond the Game: The Other Side of the Jersey
Most athletes learn how to wear a jersey, but very few learn who they are without it. This episode explores how tying identity only to performance creates pressure, fear, and tension that limit freedom on the court. When you build a strong sense of self beyond the game, you play with more trust, presence, and peace.
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Episode 4.5 — Vibe Check: The State Behind Your Performance
Before every rep, possession, or decision, your body is already in a state — calm, tense, scattered, or locked in. This episode introduces the Vibe Check, a simple awareness tool to help athletes read their internal energy before effort takes over. When you learn to notice, name, and navigate your state, performance becomes intentional instead of reactive.
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Episode 4 — Inner Voice Inventory
The loudest opponent you’ll ever face isn’t the defender in front of you — it’s the voice inside your mind. In this episode, Ryan Stock breaks down the four inner voices that shape your performance under pressure: the Critic, Competitor, Coach, and Creator.
You’ll learn how to recognize which voice takes over in big moments, how to shift into a calmer, more supportive inner state, and how awareness helps you compete with clarity, confidence, and freedom.
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Episode 3 — Pressure Patterns
Pressure doesn’t create new habits — it exposes the ones you already have. In this episode, Ryan Stock breaks down how athletes respond to stress using the DISC behavioral framework and real examples from players like Michael Jordan, Steph Curry, Tim Duncan, and Steve Nash.
Learn how your behavior shifts in big moments, how to read the people around you, and how awareness builds confidence, communication, and control under pressure.
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Episode 2 — Regulate and Release
How to regulate and release difficult emotion in the heat of battle.
Pressure doesn’t disappear — it moves through you. In this episode, Ryan Stock breaks down how athletes can regulate emotion and release tension through simple awareness and breath techniques.
Learn how to use physical cues, slow breathing, and presence to settle your system and return to the moment. Emotion isn’t weakness — it’s energy. Learn to guide it, not fight it.
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Episode 1 — Find Your Calm In the Storm
Pressure doesn’t break you — it reveals you. In this episode, Ryan Stock introduces the B.A.L.L. method — Breathe, Acknowledge, Listen, Learn — a grounding exercise that helps athletes regulate under pressure and return to the present moment.
Learn how to control your state, steady your breath, and reconnect your mind and body when the game speeds up. Because at the highest level, calm isn’t optional — it’s essential.
You’ve been coached to push, to grind, to sacrifice it all to win.
And you do. You wake up early. You stay late. You set records, and keep chasing the next accomplishment or high.
But you still feel lost, or broken. It’s not enough.
I know, because I was there too.
I know what it’s like to win games and still feel lost inside.
To show up for everyone else — and feel something missing when the noise goes quiet.
As a player, I was a record-holding point guard.
As a coach, I helped lead championship teams at every stop.
But through all of it, I kept waiting for peace to follow success.
It never did.
What finally changed everything wasn’t another drill, another rep, or another motivational speech.
It was learning how to pause, reset, and reconnect to who I was underneath the jersey.
And that’s the work I do with athletes now.
I’ve supported NBA champions.
I’ve worked with athletes who were on All-Decade teams.
I’ve walked with players through confidence crashes, identity loss, and some of the darkest moments of their careers.
And here’s what I’ve learned:
When the inside isn’t right, the outside never feels enough.
When the inside gets clear, your game elevates by itself.
That’s why I created Mind Body Ball — a mental and emotional training program built specifically for serious hoopers.
This isn’t motivation.
This isn’t hype.
This is the same internal work I use with elite players — simplified into a step-by-step system you can train from home.
You’ll build:
Clarity.
Calm.
Consistency.
A deeper sense of identity than basketball alone can give you.
If you’re serious about elevating the inner side of your game —
the side most players ignore —
you’re in the right place.
Let’s get to work.
A Proven Path to Inner Peace and Peak Performance
Below is how you will go from a high performing basketball player, to one that matches their physical talents with a mental toughness and clarity that takes their game to another level.
Six Powerful Modules
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Establish identity beyond the athlete. Build awareness of internal narratives. Learn the basics of athlete mindfulness.
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Build emotional success and learn tools to discharge pent-up emotion. Discuss the Sacred Pause, and other powerful emotional control tools.
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Cultivate stillness and reduce mental clutter to unlock fluid physical performance with minimal thought.
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Introduce practical routines and habits that sustain your mental and emotional gains.
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Untangle from performance validation and detox external expectations. This module is a Pressure & Expectation Detox.
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Integrate all lessons into a calm, focused, and dominant presence on and off the court. Quiet Mind, Dominant Body
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In this module you’ll get bonus teachings on mindfulness, access to Ryan’s book Buddha Was a Baller, as well as videos on movement patterns for added strength, stability and mobility.
A list of common struggles for high-level talents:
You’re incredibly successful physically, but you feel broken mentally and emotionally.
No amount of accomplishments are enough. You lose and you’re angry and frustrated that you should have been better. But even when you win, you’re mad you didn’t execute better, or win by more.
Anxiety around your performance — the pressure of being the best is heavy on you.
You overanalyze everything, and that overthinking has you handcuffed physically.
The coaches and/or parents in your life are crushing your confidence. You want to learn how to feel like you’re good enough.
Wins and losses don’t define you — you seek a growth mindset around your performance, but you can’t figure out how to do it on your own.
Who are you off the court? So much of your identity is tied into who you are as an athlete, but you know there is more to life than just your existence as an athlete.
