On episode twenty-three of Mindful Warrior Radio, Cornelia Holden, the Founder and CEO of Mindful Warrior, interviews her colleague and teammate, Kami Craig. As a performance and culture coach at Mindful Warrior, Kami brings an instinct for winning and an innate knowledge of building and leading high trust cultures and high-performance teams to her clients. She specializes in helping elite and professional athletes, coaches, and teams reach their performance goals. Clients also regularly retain her coaching services to help identify their next venture as they retire and anticipate the end of one career and the beginning of the next. Kami listens deeply, asks discerning questions, and helps her clients achieve the next phase of their dreams: to build a high trust culture and high-performance team in their new workplace. Kami brings her world class accomplishments as a thirteen-year veteran of the United States women’s national water polo team, a three-time Olympian, and a two-time gold medalist to her skillful and passionate work as a performance coach. A true advocate, challenger, and champion, Kami’s performance coaching blends Mindful Warrior’s proprietary approach to coaching and culture design with her training at the Co-Active Training Institute, the Center for Council, and the Diversity and Resiliency Institute of El Paso. Kami is also a graduate of Core Leadership for Educators in Pebble Beach, California—an intensive, invitation-only, and mindfulness-based residential leadership program for globally-minded leaders.As a result of her rich and diverse experience, Kami is able to coach leaders through complex performance challenges; facilitate workshops to build shared agreements, shared practices, and shared consciousness in order to develop more diverse, equitable, and inclusive cultures; advance women leaders; and provide skillful instruction in core values, team covenants, brave space, identity development, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and leadership impact.One of the greatest water polo players of all time and the number one college recruit in the nation, Kami won silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and gold at the Olympics in London (2012) and Rio (2016). She has many international successes to accompany her three Olympic medals including being a three-time World Champion, a three-time Pan American Games Champion, and a two-time World Cup Champion. Kami was also the first woman to win the prestigious Pete Cutino award. During the interview, Kami recalls a moment when her willingness to be vulnerable and brave inspired her teammates to rise alongside her. “My greatest desire at that point was to win a gold medal alongside my teammates. And I believe what I was doing in that moment was giving my heart and everything I was holding to the team to say, ‘Can you actually hold this and carry it along with me rather than me holding it alone?’”Kami is definitive about what it takes to show up and win. “You need heart! You cannot be one foot in and foot out when you are trying to be the best in the world.”When asked what advice she would share with listeners who are striving to reach their potential Kami says, “My medals just sit in a box somewhere. They are what they are. It’s really the process that matters. It’s the choices you make throughout the processes. It’s the conversations you have. It’s the meals you share. It’s the challenges you face and how you find the solutions together. It’s the process.”To learn more about Mindful Warrior and Mindful Warrior Radio please follow us on Instagram @therealmindfulwarrior and check out our website at www.mindfulwarrior.com

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