Summer Montabone

Practice Harder Than the Game

Your preparation should be harder than game day.

That’s how confidence is built and performance shines.

If practice feels easy, pressure will feel overwhelming.

If practice challenges you, games become an opportunity to show what you’ve already prepared for.

🥎💜 Confidence and performance arent created on game day => they’re created through consistent preparation.

The Softball Mindset Workbook helps athletes prepare mentally just like they prepare physically 💪

Two years ago today, I hit “publish” on The Softball Mindset Workbook 🥎💜

I had no idea what would happen.

I simply believed girls deserved more than drills and physical training. They deserved tools to build confidence, resilience, leadership, and mental fitness too.

Today…

✨ Over 9,000 copies sold
🏆 Continues to be an Amazon #1 Best Seller
💜 Trusted by thousands of athletes, parents, and coaches

To every family and team who has purchased a workbook, shared a post, left a review, recommended it to a teammate, or believed in this mission…

Thank you!

Your support has allowed me to continue creating resources that help girls become stronger — not just on the softball field, but in life 💪

Over the past two years, the workbook has continued to grow too. It now includes a refreshed interior with even more mindset tools, journal prompts, affirmations, mental imagery, game-day routines, coloring pages as mental reset tools, and activities designed to help girls build confidence one small step at a time.

And the collection has grown right along with it!

📖 The Softball Mindset Workbook
✏️ The Softball Mindset – 6-Minute Daily Journal (Gratitude • Grit • Growth)
💻 The Softball Mindset Toolkit with printable resources, videos, and affirmation cards

Mental fitness is just as important as physical fitness.

Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of so many athletes’ journeys over the last two years!

Here’s to helping thousands more girls become fearless, confident, resilient leaders — one athlete at a time 🎉💜🥎

THANK YOU!

Like many moms, I’m spending A LOT of my time in my car!

This summer my schedule has been packed with driving to practices, camps, games, friends house 😁

I’ve had to finagle schedules to make sure kids can get where they need to be — since there is only one of me!

It’s only 9 AM and Layna is at a hitting clinic 🏐 and Lennox is lifting with her 🏐 team at NST.

Later it’ll be 🥎♥️

I’m so glad we took these photos 3 years ago to forecast my future as a chauffeur with Ruby Red 😂

The Ruby Red Bus is what I call her!

Cheers to all the moms and dads running your kids around this summer!

Do you have a name for your car too?
⬇️

My girls had the opportunity to attend a softball camp today to sharpen fundamentals and play a game in front of college coaches 🥎

It was a hot one! 🔥🔥

I’m glad they get to experience, early, what it’s like to attend one of these camps so they can continue to grow!

You can’t model what you don’t see — both in terms of skills and leadership 💪

I was really proud of Lennox for getting out a notebook to write out the batting order and field for her team. Sometimes the little things are big things for girls learning to lead ♥️

Thank you Crew Sports for a great experience 🎉

I was pulling out some clothes to wear — rather than my usual softball, volleyball, or track attire …

And I realized how my much animals match my palette 😁

So which is it …

Do I pick my clothes to match my cats — or — do I pick my cats to match my clothes? 😃

I love how Luna was “trying” on my shirt too 🐅 ♥️