Sports and athletics require hard work, sacrifice and a focused mindset. These are the same things that you need to grab on to business success, and former Top 10 in Women’s Racquetball, Dr. Jo Shattuck has these in spades. In this episode, Stephen Jaye and Dr. Shattuck share insights on how the qualities necessary for sports also translate to business. Dr. Shattuck talks about getting her late start in racquetball and bucking that to climb up to a top 10 rank in the sport in the US. We also hear of the creation of PantherTec and the Kinesthetic Awareness Training system based on her experiences as an athlete. Listen in and be inspired by Dr. Jo Shattuck’s journey.
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Athletics, Sacrifice And Mindset: Setting Up For Business Success With Jo Shattuck
Pursuing and realizing our passions takes some hard work and sacrifice. The things that are important in life, bring satisfaction, actualization and all the like are going to take a little bit more effort and even some sacrifice. Some people in some pursuits naturally lend themselves to understanding that sacrifice. One community that I've found that understands the idea of sacrificing for something is the athletic community.

I trained and completed Ride The Rockies, which here in Colorado was a 6-day, 400-plus bike ride up and down the mountains in different places. It's one of those experiences that you work hard for and get a certain feeling of that reward for that hard work. My guest, Jo Shattuck, understands that particular aspect of working hard and training for a passion as she is a former racquetball champion and has started a business called PantherTec, which helps people with techniques as well as some other things about their athletic pursuits and everything.
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Jo, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Stephen. This is great.

 

First of all, I'm going to start by talking about your racquetball days because not everyone is an athlete or has an athletic pursuit. Athletic pursuits do have that whole air of you're following a passion and working hard for it. What brought you to racquetball? What was the process of training to become a racquetball champion like?

If you put yourself in some other experience that you have no idea what it is, you don't even plan what it might be like, that's how you get some of the extra sensory inputs and different ways of perceiving concepts and ideas and things in the world.Click To Tweet

I don't know how far back you want me to go but I had a lot of energy as a kid. In the ninth grade, my mom saw the writing on the wall. I was getting in some trouble, staying out past curfew and stuff. She signed me up for 100 different things, Girl Scouts some basket weaving and whatever else. At the local club, I went, played it and lost every game, 21 to 1 or 21 to 0. That was way back in the day. I went on to undergraduate at Louisiana Tech. They had thirteen beautiful glass back quarters. In those days, being a teenager, you could drink, study or play racquetball.

I did the 1st and 3rd. I decided I wanted to be good. I remember the exact moment I decided. I was hitting the ball and it went where I wanted it. I went out to the hallway and asked the fellows. I was like, “This could be something that I might get into. Are there racquetball contests?” They laughed at me because they're not called contests. They're called tournaments. I went to my first tournament with my glove. I won a Ladies B tournament in the middle of Louisiana by myself and all that. I was probably still smoking cigarettes at that time and doing all the things that teenagers do. I did not take the normal path to elite athleticism like some of my other colleagues did.

You tried hundreds of different things. Do you feel like that's a common story as far as people finding that thing that they're truly passionate about? You've tried a bunch of things. Maybe some things didn't work out at all and mayb...