051 Nicholas Pallesen: Transformative Approach to Performance Anxiety

Nicholas Pallesen: Transformative Approach to Performance Anxiety

If you have any questions about performance anxiety, how to tackle it, master it, and how to perform at your best, this is the episode for you!  Today, I speak with Nicholas Pallesen. 

In today’s show, Transformative Coach and Mental Performance Consultant Nicholas Pallesen invites us to take a different look at performance anxiety!  In his own words, Nicholas doesn’t fix people: he helps them see they were never broken.  Our conversation will have you look at the root cause of your anxiety and stress, and will help you get out of your head and get into your life! 

You’ll hear Nicholas talk about:

• How the meaning we attach to the outcome of a performance and the need for outside validation – is at the root of performance anxiety
• Why it’s important to “play to play” and why it’s helps us perform better
• Why we don’t need to “feel a certain way” to perform our best
• What headspace we should aim to be in for a performance
• How to better get in the zone
• Why we must trust our intuition, and much more!
• Why he started to question a lot of the basic premises that we operate from when it comes to performance anxiety
• How he decided to tackle the issue of performance anxiety at the root
• Why performance anxiety is the feeling we get when we forgot that we’re going to be okay
• Why “thinking” that there are stakes – the meaning we attach to the outcome of a performance and the need for outside validation – is at the root of performance anxiety
• Why it’s important to “play to play” and why it’s helps us perform better
• Why we don’t need to “feel a certain way” to perform our best
• What headspace we should aim to for a performance and what “the zone” is
• How to better get in the zone
• Why we must trust our intuition

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Website: https://www.nicholaspallesen.com/

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Nicholas Pallesen is a Transformative Coach, Mental Performance Consultant, and Speaker. For over a decade, he has helped people from all walks of life reconnect with their innate potential and bring that potential into the world.

Nicholas has garnered respect within the performing arts community as the "Coach for the Soul", helping artists thrive both on the biggest performance stages and in their everyday lives offstage. A former opera singer himself, Nicholas performed at the Metropolitan Opera, the English National Opera, and many other companies throughout the US and Europe. He is a graduate of the renowned Juilliard School and winner of many of the most prestigious opera competitions in the US.

As a coach, Nicholas is honored to work with an international spectrum of clients from high school students to Hollywood and TV actors, Broadway performers, and artists at the top orchestral and opera institutions in the world. He is regularly invited to speak and mentor artists at conservatories and training programs in the US and UK. He currently serves as a faculty member for the New World Symphony and the Wolf Trap Opera Company.​

Though many of his clients come from the performing arts, Nicholas enjoys helping teachers, nurses, lawyers, athletes, executives, writers, therapists, and others fall more deeply in love with their life and bring their full potential into the world with much less struggle and effort.

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THANK YOU:

Most sincere thank you to composer Jim Stephenson who graciously provided the show’s musical theme!  Concerto #1 for Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra – Movement 2: Allegro con Brio, performed by Jeffrey Work, trumpet, and the Lake Forest Symphony, conducted by Jim Stephenson.

Also a HUGE thank you to my fantastic producer, Bella Kelly!

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