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Group Golf Therapy

Group Golf Therapy

Welcome to Golf"s Safe Space! Group Golf Therapy is a podcast about the intersection of golf and mental health: how the sport makes us laugh, cry, and bubble with rage. Tap in with your GGT "shrinks," Bradford Wilson, Connor Laubenstein, and Drew Westphal, to hear stories, confessionals, and mortal wounds. Follow along on Instagram: @groupgolftherapy Bradford: @bradfordwilsongolf Connor: @thebagbandit Drew: @everydaydrew

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01:08:09

#069 - Will Lowery hosted an AJGA event + NEW...

Group Golf Therapy ·

2023/05/09

The Shrinks have been trying to pin down Will Lowery for a conversation since season 1 of Group Golf Therapy. But the universe wanted it to happen in person. Will is, among many other things, active — he’s a podcaster, broadcaster, partner of the Underrated Golf tour, screenplay writer, former professional golfer, and recent first-time host of his very own golf tournament, the AJGA Will Lowery Junior Championship. Whew. It’s been a mighty couple years for Will, but those years haven’t been without

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00:50:53

#068 - How golf saved Drew Millard's life

Group Golf Therapy ·

2023/05/02

Drew Millard returned to golf at a low-point: he was burned out from over-work, and golf gave him a new lens to negotiate his life through. A literary agent contacted him, asked if he’d consider writing a golf book, and off he went. Now, that book, How Golf Can Save Your Life, is a week out from release. This conversation is fully and beautifully unhinged. Pre-order How Golf Can Save Your Live, out on May 9, here: https://www.amazon.com/How-Golf-Save-Your-Life/dp/1419757571 In this session:

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01:02:14

#067 - Mike Golic Jr. yakked before every football game

Group Golf Therapy ·

2023/04/25

Mike Golic Jr. is a sports broadcaster and podcaster, who played on the offensive line for Notre Dame's football team. Mike illustrates to the Shrinks how the offensive line is the "team within the team": how their duties regularly go unthanked and unnoticed, and how their mistakes can lead to severe injuries for their teammates. This pressure lead to a common pregame ritual shared by Mike and his line-mates. Golf entered the picture for Mike when he and his father — legendary sports

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01:09:16

#066 - Brad Gehl is going to call you

Group Golf Therapy ·

2023/04/18

Brad Gehl is a former professional golfer, who recently began work in golf course construction alongside Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner. He’s also a devoutly creative person, who has started a nonprofit to feed skater kids, filmed a documentary in Ireland, and worked alongside Tom Sachs. Golf is firmly at Brad's core, having played from a young age with his family in Indiana — he learned quickly not to swear on the course in front of his mother. From PGA Tour Latinoamérica, to playing in China, to

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01:00:34

#065 - Leo Long taught Rory McIlroy something

Group Golf Therapy ·

2023/04/11

Lennard Long — or, Sweet Swing Leo, in this session — is a DC-based golfer, First Tee coach, Morehouse College grad, and 2022 Wells Fargo Championship pro-am participant. That's exactly where the Shrinks met Leo: to help cover his and his fellow First Tee mentors' experience playing a round of golf with Rory McIlroy. Leo is much more than his already impressive C.V.: he's driven, hungry, deeply thoughtful, caring, and passionate about using his experiences to inspire a new generation of

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00:52:58

#064 - Golf Guru is a tuning fork for your soul

Group Golf Therapy ·

2023/04/04

James and Andy met at Atlantic Records, signing artists and chasing hits. It didn’t feel complete. As passionate junior golfers, they decided to embark on a brazen journey: launch a mindfulness content mobile app, designed to improve the scores and wellbeing of golfers. Now, it’s their full-time adventure, and they release guided mindfulness sessions to users around the globe. The Golf Guru founders are constantly exploring and working on their own games, their own mental health, and this

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01:03:33

#063 - Lisa Cornwell is a troublemaker

Group Golf Therapy ·

2023/03/28

Lisa Cornwell is a golf analyst, host, and writer, who's new book, "Troublemaker: A Memoir of Sexism, Retaliation, and the Fight They Didn't See Coming" comes out on May 23. The book profiles Lisa's experience at Golf Channel, where she and 19 other women battled workplace misconduct. One thing is clear from this session: Lisa is a fierce defender of people, and she does not back down from a fight. In this session: playing golf with Bill Clinton, Johnnie Walker Black,

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01:06:43

#062 - Doug Smith avoids the white mess

Group Golf Therapy ·

2023/03/21

Doug Smith is a golfer, podcaster, and broadcaster, who the Shrinks have been trying to get on the couch since season 1. In 2020, Bradford was searching for representation in golf media, and he found it in Doug — flowers are exchanged. Doug grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, and shares his experience as the only Black student at his high school. Golf came into Doug's life as a safe and nurturing space, providing connective tissue to other kids, and shaping his competitive edge. Now, when Doug gets

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00:34:39

#061 - Netflix made Chad Mumm's dream come true

Group Golf Therapy ·

2023/03/14

Season 4 of Group Golf Therapy is officially underway. If you're new to the show, thank you for joining! Bradford Wilson, Connor Laubenstein, and Drew Westphal are diehard golfers, and even fiercer advocates for hosting conversations about how golf makes people feel. This season starts out with a bang: Chad Mumm joins the GGT couch, as the Executive Producer of the Netflix golf documentary, Full Swing. The series was just renewed for its second season, and we caught up with Chad from his hotel

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01:30:01

Netflix's Full Swing with Ben Boskovich

Group Golf Therapy ·

2023/02/28

We've been hearing about it for months: since the groundbreaking success of Netflix's F1 expose-all docuseries, Drive to Survive, producers have tipped that a golf edition has been in the works. Well, it's finally here. Full Swing — #2 most popular on Netflix at time of recording — takes viewers behind the curtains in professional golf, during a particularly dramatic 2022 season. 8 episodes of heroes and heels in the golfing world like you've never seen them before. To celebrate the cultural moment

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01:01:27

#060 - Lizette Salas is tequila-motivated

Group Golf Therapy ·

2023/01/24

Lizette Salas is an LPGA Tour golfer. She's a US Solheim Cup team member. But her identity encapsulates so much more. During the height of the pandemic, when the LPGA Tour was shut down, Lizette was forced to ask herself big, difficult questions about how golf made her feel. For six months, shewent through a process the Shrinks call "burning down the forest to see what grows back." Lizette worked hard on developing the vocabulary to describe how she was feeling to the people in her circle. It took

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01:12:02

#059 - Jordan Rogers wants you to play the forward tees

Group Golf Therapy ·

2023/01/17

Jordan Rogers thought that Nike was the top of the mountain. He's since realized that it was just a stepping stone. His company, Perseus Creative, is dedicated to educating and empowering college athletes to build and monetize their personal brands through the NIL program. Personal brand gets thrown around a lot, but it's something Jordan has methodically worked on rebuilding in his own life. Jordan describes his rock bottom as the purple jail cell he found himself in at 21 years old, addicted to

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01:11:04

#058 - Abby Liebenthal hosts 50 golf events a year

Group Golf Therapy ·

2023/01/10

Abby Liebenthal has, like, so many full-time jobs. In addition to her 9-5 for the USGA, she heads up Fore the Ladies, one of the illest nonprofits in golf, which hosts introductory events and creates educational content designed to get more women and non-binary folks into the game. FTL is no joke: they hosted 50 events in 2022, and there’s no sign of slowing down. Abby shares about her experience in therapy, and works on receiving her well-due flowers for everything she’s working on in golf and in

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00:58:39

#057 - Kareem Rahma has never seen his therapist

Group Golf Therapy ·

2023/01/03

Kareem Rahma is a lot of things. He's a standup comedian, a podcaster, a documentarian, and is the host of a buzzing new TikTok show, Keep the Meter Running. He's also a naturally-gifted, mostly-irregular golfer, who joined the Shrinks for a lively conversation about New York City, therapy, and making fun of your friends. Weekly phone calls with his therapist are taken during long walks around his neighborhood; a relationship that inspired a podcast concept, Walks of Life, which features one-sided

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01:02:29

#056 - Sierra Madre is not your Padre's golf company

Group Golf Therapy ·

2022/12/27

Bonny and Michelle met in yoga class. Among many things, they connected over the lack of available options for women’s golf clothing. They got to designing, with a simple edict in mind: each piece must be considerate to how women functionally use the clothing on the golf course. That means pockets, that means mock-necks, that means ZERO skort mullets. Sierra Madre was born. What Bonny and Michelle designed encapsulates a growing wave in golf fashion: approachable, golf-agnostic, flexible pieces that

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00:53:21

#055 - Seamus Golf's Akbar Chisti bought a Red Rooster

Group Golf Therapy ·

2022/12/20

Akbar Chisti and his wife, Megan, started Seamus Golf 11 years ago — they were one of the first in a slew of small makers in the golf space who have since helped define the look and feel of "new golf". The son of Pakistani immigrants, Akbar learned golf in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, while skipping Sunday school at his local mosque. He would eventually join the caddie ranks at Bandon Dunes quickly after the now-mega-resort opened in 2001, and now balances his business with coaching his

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00:50:59

#054 - Daniel Theophilus Augustus IV has the best...

Group Golf Therapy ·

2022/12/13

Daniel Augustus (full name in session title) is a Bermudian professional golfer on the APGA Tour. He has a widely covered childhood story — it's an emotional one. But through hardship, Daniel pushed forward: he found golf and put every ounce of himself into becoming a professional athlete. More importantly, he worked therapy into his life to address the scar tissue left from his childhood, and now is committed to self care and personal validation. In this session: the family cast-iron pan, Connor's

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00:59:37

BONUS: The Shrinks hate toast and cope with failure

Group Golf Therapy ·

2022/12/08

Who else loves a Thursday Bonus? The Shrinks grouped up for an all-too-rare session together, to ruminate on bagels and other breakfast breads, and Connor is so ill. The bois also discuss recent therapy conversations, the act of journaling and other forms of self-care, and how they deal with failure. In this session: Bradford's Breakfast Bread Power Rankings, English slander, what we've learned. As always, thanks for listening to Group Golf Therapy! #mindyourgolf Please subscribe, rate our podcast,

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01:11:28

#053 - Jeremy Kirkland inspired Group Golf Therapy

Group Golf Therapy ·

2022/12/06

Jeremy Kirkland has been a #podboy since 2016 — an eternity, by podverse standards. His show, Blamo!, is artfully described as "a podcast about people wearing clothes." Drew has been a longtime listener, and he even copped to Blamo!'s influence on the creation of Group Golf Therapy — so it was only right to have Jeremy on the couch to spit on one of his other interests: golf. Jeremy regales the Shrinks with his journey to golf, his balancing act of aspirational consumerism, and his daughter's

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00:42:53

#052 - Aaron Chewning's name is not "San Andreas"

Group Golf Therapy ·

2022/11/29

Aaron Chewning has been chewning out comedy content since the days of Internet yore (Vine). But his recent venture, St. André — an ode to Atlanta co-inhabitant, André 3000 — has its phasers set to stun the golf world. The Shrinks set aside the first 20 minutes of this session to shower Aaron with compliments for his and his team's work on St. André: it's some of the only golf content the Shrinks happily share with each other in the panoptic Shrinks Chat. Go watch for yourselves, but St. André's work

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