[54] Be shameless. Olympian tricks to perform like elite athletes – S. Beloka (1/3)

“The more shameless you are, the more authentic you can become, the more you can pursue that mastery and that gold performance and maintain it”.

What is the magical ingredient to achieve the energetic balance for extreme performance? What gets an Olympic athlete from a silver to gold medal? Is there a way to get re-motivated once you hit the rock bottom? Can shame deep down block your energy?

Search no more! In part one of this Shameless series, Sofia Beloka guides us through the back door of peak performance, sharing insights of her 20+ years long career of researching and coaching top athletes and business executives. You will hear how they think of failure, juggling priorities, resisting distraction and getting back in the flow. Sofia unravels secret tricks for energy mastery and achieving top performance mindset:

  • How to keep on pushing, be persistent and self disciplined when the world seems to be closing on you.
  • What can we learn from Olympic athletes and their approach to failure and performance.  
  • What is the role of shame as a performance saboteur and whether we should become shameless.  
  • Sneak-peak into the training strategies of paralympians – how accidents, and our response to what life brings, materialise in the world of elite performers. 

In the meantime, you can continue watching this series

  • with part 2 focused on how to extent these strategies of elite athletes to our everyday lives as business leaders or intimate partners; and
  • here is the final part 3 on Sofia’s experience of miscarriage – her healing and growing despite some shocking reactions of her environment to what many judged as a ‘failure’ to complete her pregnancy.  

Dr. Sofia Beloka is an Executive Performance Consultant, an Academic in Exercise Physiologist Ph.D., Human Behavior and Neuropsychology Mentor. Sofia thrives when she works with global leading companies that desire to optimize performance, resolve conflicts and win negotiations, breakthrough challenges and transform team dynamics. Sofia has been working with high performers, leaders, politicians, elite athletes, coaches & healers to transform their lives for over 20 years. She healed her own autoimmune pathology (esophageal achalasia) using the same methods transforming her personal and professional life and has since gone on to serve leaders experiencing challenges that sabotage their performance in business and in life. Her clients hire her to investigate the pattern that leads them to hit their glass-ceiling keeping them and their teams away from the breakthrough they need in order to create the metamorphosis they long in society and the world. You can find more about Sofia on www.drsofiabeloka.com.


Join the crowd of fans of Lights on Europe to be the first to know about a new episode!