Less stress. More energy. Hotter rounds.
Sounding Line Performance delivers an accountable mental fitness framework for developing athletes, authentic branding, and organizational growth.
David Fleck
Disc Golf 978, PDGA #129332
“Sounding Line helped me stay focused throughout the monumental changes in my life, and I still felt very composed playing tournaments. Drew helped clear my mind to focus on what matters. Pursuing a career in the Sports Management/Media industry, I believe learning the practice of positive thinking should be required for every athlete, no matter the sport"
Harry Chace
Discmania and Disc Golf 978
PDGA #131546
“Working in a small pod of five, with other like-minded athletes, and just talking about positive intelligence and the impact simple and effective techniques can have on the course, provided great frameworks for thinking about my game and performing on a higher level.”
Elevate Your Game.
Sounding Line’s seven-week mental fitness program is an evidence-based practice field tested in over 50 different countries and the synthesis of recent discoveries in the fields Neuroscience, Cognitive Behavioral Psychology, Performance Science and Positive Psychology. With the right practice, every outcome or circumstance can be turned into a gift or an opportunity.
Who benefits from Mental Fitness?
Energize your brain and take command of the moment.
Sponsors & Agents
PQ stands for Positive Quotient.
If both the dividend and divisor are positive, the quotient will be positive. Sports entertainment is a global business reaching new levels of commercialization and regulatory response. All parties involved need a common language and common operating system in order to maintain the integrity of the product.
Athletes
Focus is the currency of the future.
Interrupt automatic habits of mind and build self command. Reach peak performance without sabotaging relationships, personal wellness or opportunities outside the game. Go from what’s possible to what’s sacred. Detach yourself from the outcome and make the journey more compelling. Strong mental muscles deliver the confidence to take serious feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
Families
Get ready to grow.
As loved ones, it is sometimes easier to see that the game of win, advance and succeed, is not the real game. What matters is who you have become? Support systems provide the unique opportunity to help an athlete become more of their true self. Sounding Line asks athletes to relinquish their hopes and dreams, and as a coach, I promise to give them back to you in much better shape than when they came in.
The Game
What do you wish to become?
As a game, disc golf sits at the intersection of product, culture and performance - guiding traffic with a wave of the hand and a nod of the head. And the collective noise continues to raise the level of competition and impact. If You are performing at a higher level, less stressed and more energized, what would you really go after in life? Sounding Line is committed to exactly that moment in time, when clarity meets inspiration
Dr. Chriss Holm Haider
Athletic Counselor, Certified Mental Performance Consultant
EdD, LPCC, CMPC, MS, MSc
“I like how the Positive Intelligence language is explaining the neuroscience of high performance, everybody can understand it. It’s also important to me that it’s research and evidenced based.
Saboteur assessments help so much when athletes experiencing burn out, lack of confidence and judgment of self and others. I used to teach self-compassion in those cases but it’s a hard concept to grasp for many people. I now lead people to self-empathy and compassion through the mental fitness framework as a lens for negative self-talk.
Sports is an interesting canvas for how "Saboteurs" have been helpful as the survival mechanism early on in life, but typically get in the way of achieving at a higher level as the competition increases. Athletes need to adopt a more “Sage Perspective” as the fuel to help push through to that next level."
Bradley Schott
Middlebury College Head Diving Coach
Innova and Team Smuggs
PDGA #161558
“The Sounding Line mental fitness program was a brilliant and life changing experience. The building blocks to a lifelong mental muscle building journey. Enhancing performance and strengthening relationships. Any athlete who is serious about reaching full competitive potential, needs to consider Sounding Line.”
Drew McDowell
Sounding Line Founder
I am a dedicated performance coach, leveraging my expertise as an innovative educator to help athletes and individuals achieve their highest potential through personalized coaching and cutting-edge techniques in sports and athletics. I have spent my entire career proving that the capacity to handle life's challenges with a positive attitude is the one asset your game cannot do without.
Learn more about Mental Fitness.
Reach out to me about my mental fitness and career building programs, you can contact me at (802) 451-8925 or via email at drew@soundinglinecareers.com.
Who do you wish to become?
Hubert Vachon
PDGA #181649
“I started the program at a pivot point in my life. My chronic pain issues were finally getting better, but I was faced with profound changes and uncertainties in both my personal and professional lives. Through simple yet challenging exercises and by creating a space for vulnerability, working with Sounding Line helped me set new foundations on which to build the next stages of my life and started me on the path to self-acceptance.“
Dylan Cappaccioli
Dark Hollow Discs, Beast Disc Golf
PGDA #122655
"The Sounding Line mental fitness program hit me at a time where I needed to make decisions and move my adult life forward. While it was hard to let go of some of my aspirations to become a professional disc golfer, the seven week program showed me that succeeding in all the things I am doing may be the best way to take my game forward."
