The world's best athletes push relentlessly to be physically and mentally stronger than their competition. Smarter Better Faster Stronger, a new podcast from GQ Sports, is about how they learned to create a winning mindset. Lessons about overcoming doubt and fear, setting better goals, rebounding from failure, handling success, and pushing past comfort zones. You know…advice we could all use.

Season 1 starts June 24th, with 6 weekly episodes. Each episode, you'll hear GQ writer Clay Skipper talk to an Olympic athlete about what it's taken to get to Tokyo: the training, the hustle, and the psychological barriers they've had to break through. 

Take it from Carlin Isles, who plays for the U.S. men’s Olympic rugby team. Despite being one of the top scorers of all-time (and known as “the fastest man in rugby”), he says he still battles a chorus of self-doubt every day.

“You always got that little voice in your head, telling you, Are you good enough?” he says. “And you gotta know how to channel those little voices, and try to direct them, and not let them direct you.”

Or American long-distance runner Molly Seidel, who qualified for the Tokyo Olympics while running her first-ever marathon.

“A lot of times the biggest thing holding an athlete back is their own brain saying, ‘Oh no, you’re going to the danger zone, you need to pull back,’” she says. “It's just learning to stay mentally strong when it just sucks.”

Every episode brings a heavy dose of Olympics-tested insight and wisdom, including habits and routines you can incorporate into your own life. Because, let’s be honest, we’ve all got times when, to quote Seidel, it just sucks, and being better at handling those moments is a muscle you can train—no matter how many Olympic medals you're gunning for.

Listen to Smarter Better Faster Stronger……on Apple …on Spotify…on Stitcher…or wherever you listen to podcasts.Clay Skipper is a Staff Writer at GQ.XInstagramRelated Stories for GQOlympicsPodcast