Thirty years of studying human consciousness and performance. Twelve years on the field. Eight state championships across Southern Utah baseball programs.

But the real starting point isn't any of that.

It's a teenager in a baseball uniform who loved the game and was quietly drowning in it. Anxiety that nobody named. Fear that nobody addressed. An invisible weight that sat on every at-bat, every practice, every moment that was supposed to feel like the best years of his life. No coach handed him tools for it. No program acknowledged it even existed. You just pushed through it and hoped it got better — or you didn't.

That teenager was me.

When I stepped onto a freshman field years later as a coach, I saw the same look I remembered. The anxiety. The fear. The anger that had nowhere healthy to go. I had spent decades studying why that happens — human consciousness, behavioral science, the psychology of performance under pressure. I knew what I was looking at, and I knew nobody was doing anything about it.

I made a decision that day. No athlete on my watch would carry that weight alone without someone who understood it, named it, and knew how to build something stronger in its place.

That decision became TYMF — Train Your Mind First.

Matt Staheli brings 32 years of deep study in human consciousness, behavioral change, and mental performance — and 12 years of field-tested delivery inside real programs, under real pressure, with real results. He knows what anxiety in an athlete looks like because he's lived it from both sides of the dugout.

Coach Michael Gargano brings head coaching experience, a minor league playing background, and 12 years building this system shoulder to shoulder with Matt. He doesn't just know the game — he knows what it demands from the inside out.

Ask any athlete what percentage of their sport lives in their head. The answer is almost always 95%. Now walk into most programs and find the work that actually addresses that number.

We are that work.

We don't come in to motivate. Motivation fades by Friday. We come in to build — identity, composure, and the kind of focus that holds when the moment is biggest and the pressure is loudest. Tools that don't stay in the dugout. They carry into classrooms, relationships, and every challenge life puts in front of your athletes long after the final out.

We are the missing piece most programs don't know they need until they finally have it.