#106: [Inside the Mind] Elliot Roe: Chasing Balance, Burning Dirty Fuel, and Overcoming Invisible Resistance

In this episode of The Scratch Golfer's Mindset Podcast, I sit down with my mentor, world-renowned mindset and performance coach, Elliot Roe.

Together, we engage in a power discussion to unpack what truly separates high performers from the rest—how to release subconscious resistance, redefine balance, and access peak states on demand.

Elliot reveals why detachment from results is a prerequisite for sustained success, how subconscious childhood patterns quietly sabotage progress, and the science behind hypnosis as a tool for lasting transformation. He also dives into the relationship between identity, fear, and indecision—and how understanding these elements can elevate your performance on the course, in business, and in life.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How to balance ambition and detachment to perform your best under pressure.
• Why "invisible resistance" keeps you stuck—and how to finally remove it.
• The neuroscience of hypnosis and how it reprograms limiting beliefs.
• How identity and subconscious stories shape performance and self-worth.
• A simple exercise to reveal the habits separating you from elite performers.
• Why fear of success and fear of failure are two sides of the same coin.
• How presence—not anger or intensity—fuels true peak performance.

Whether you're chasing your next big win, breaking 80, or scaling your company, this conversation offers tactical frameworks and mindset shifts to help you remove the invisible brakes and unlock your true potential.

Get your pencils ready and start listening. 

P.P.S. Curious to learn more about the results my clients are experiencing and what they say about working with me? Read more here.

More About Elliot Roe

Elliot Roe is a leading expert in Mindset Optimization for High Performers and is the world's #1 Mindset Coach for poker players. His poker clients have won over $250,000,000 and nearly every major tournament title, including the World Series of Poker Main Event. Elliot's clientele also includes Olympic medalists, UFC Champions, Hollywood Actors, Business executives, and Wall Street traders. 

His unique mindset coaching system leverages the power of hypnotherapy to eliminate fears and breakthrough mental roadblocks, allowing you to operate in a state of peak performance every day.

Connect with Elliot:

• Mindset and Perofrmance Coaching
• On Twitter @elliotroe1
• Download the Primed Mind App

Play to Your Potential On (and Off) the Course

1. Schedule a Mindset Coaching Discovery Call
2. Subscribe to the More Pars than Bogeys Newsletter
3. Download my "Play Your Best Round" free hypnosis audio recording.

High-Performance Hypnotherapy and Mindset Coaching

Paul Salter - known as The Golf Hypnotherapist - is a High-Performance Hypnotherapist and Mindset Coach who leverages hypnosis and powerful subconscious reprogramming techniques to help golfers of all ages and skill levels overcome the mental hazards of their minds so they can shoot lower scores and play to their potential.

He has over 16 years of coaching experience working with high performers in various industries, helping them get unstuck, out of their own way, and unlock their full potential.

Click here to learn more about how high-performance hypnotherapy and mindset coaching can help you get out of your own way and play to your potential on (and off) the course. 

Instagram: @thegolfhypnotherapist 

Twitter: @parsoverbogeys

Key Takeaways:

• Detachment drives performance: Balance isn't "soft"—it reduces emotional over-attachment to outcomes so you can execute under pressure.
• Build a non-variance win: Add a weekly pursuit (gym, BJJ, etc.) with incremental progress so your self-worth isn't hostage to poker/golf/markets.
• Calendar = truth: Audit your week. If sleep, family, training, and mindset work aren't scheduled, your goals are fantasy.
• Clear the landmines first: Use hypnosis/subconscious work to neutralize old emotional triggers so you're not "driving with the brakes on."
• Identity follows behavior: List what the best in your field do, mark what you're avoiding, and face those reps—belief grows after action.
• Indecision is ego-protection: Not deciding preserves the story "I'd win if I tried." Decide, act, and let data reshape the story.
• Presence beats anger: Elite performance (golf, trading, UFC, business) comes from calm focus and recovery skills—not rage or intensity.

Key Quotes:

• "If you know what to do and can't bring yourself to do it, you don't need a strategy coach—you need a mindset coach."
• "Balance isn't a weakness. It's a performance enhancer."
• "You can't separate who you are off the course from who shows up on the course."
• "Indecision is ego protection—it lets you believe you'd succeed if you tried."
• "Fear of failure and fear of success both whisper the same lie: I'm not enough."
• "Our work as coaches is to file down the edges of the cube until it rolls smoothly—until you're in flow."
• "You are not your issues. They're learned patterns—and they can be unlearned."

Time Stamps:

• 00:00 The Importance of Balance for High Performers
• 07:01 Finding Clarity in Life Balance
• 16:08 Overcoming Invisible Barriers to Success
• 20:15 Understanding Hypnosis and Its Impact on Performance
• 23:43 Overcoming Invisible Resistance
• 26:29 Identifying Decision Points for Success
• 29:48 The Fear of Failure vs. Fear of Success
• 34:57 Smoothing the Edges: High Performance Coaching
• 38:05 The Continuous Pursuit of Evolution
• 41:49 Being vs. Doing: The Essence of Performance
• 45:10 The Role of Anger in High Performance