Meet Our October 2024 Sponsor, Dr. Jon Skidmore - Musician’s Path to Peak Performance

We are excited to introduce our sponsor of the month, Musicians' Path to Peak Performance by Dr. John Skidmore. With over 30 years of clinical experience, they have helped countless artists conquer performance anxiety and perform at their best. Their support makes our October episodes possible.

I watched Amber, a young string player, intercept her teacher as the teacher was going up to the front of the to the recital hall to start the recital. Amber stops her, looks at her, and just— you could feel the anxiety. "I'm nervous." And now the teacher was nervous. She didn't know what to say. There was this awkward silence. The teacher finally said, "Amber, you'll do fine." And Amber did not look reassured. I'm Dr. John Skidmore. I'm a performance psychologist. This fall I am launching my 30 Days to Peak Performance program. In this program, you'll learn lots of tools and skills that will turn stage fright, performance anxiety into excitement, and dread and doubt into confidence, and help turn your students into peak performers. If Amber's teacher had been a certified Skidmore-trained peak performance coach, I'm quite sure that conversation would have been very different. Oh, Amber, you're activated. Hey, we have been learning lots of tools and skills for moments like this. Which one do you think you could try? Oh, the breathing exercise? Yeah, try that and add a little bit of visualization. You can do that, can't you? Yeah, Amber, you got this. You'll do fine. And we'll talk about how this worked in your lesson on Thursday. You can learn more about my courses, 30 Days to Peak Performance and the Certified Peak Performance Coach program, at my website, drjohnskidmore.com. Risk, fail, risk again.