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Your mind can be your greatest ally—or your toughest opponent. In Mind Play, Marci Powell—professional barrel racer, clinician, and best-selling author—shares her powerful comeback story of resilience, faith, and mental toughness. From surviving a broken back and neck, losing both parents, walking through divorce, and even a near-tragedy with her horse Smoke, to ultimately building her dream career as an author and clinician, Marci reveals the strategies that helped her turn pain into purpose. This book will teach you how to: Break free from the mental games that hold you back.

When her horse bucked her off at a rodeo, professional barrel racer Marci Powell shattered her neck and back in two places — injuries so severe doctors warned she might never walk again, let alone ride. But Marci’s story didn’t end in that arena. Through pain, fear, and the silent battles of PTSD, she learned that standing again isn’t about perfection — it’s about persistence. This book is for anyone who’s been broken — by trauma, by loss, by life itself — and is trying to find their way back.

Whether you’re riding into the alleyway at a sold-out rodeo, stepping onto a stage, or facing competition in your own arena of life, anxiety has a way of stealing focus and shaking confidence. In Unrattled: conquering competition anxiety, professional barrel racer and mindset coach Marci Powell shares her real, behind-the-scenes stories of battling nerves under the lights—and how she learned to ride through them with courage and grit.

Champion Self Talk is the book every woman needs when her own mind turns against her. If you talked to your best friend the way you talk to yourself… would she stay? This powerful, emotional, best-friend-style guide helps you finally rewrite the voice inside your head. Whether your self-talk came from old wounds, childhood, heartbreak, trauma, criticism, perfectionism, or just years of being too hard on yourself — this book helps you replace the cruelty with compassion, the fear with truth, and the shame with strength.

Confidence isn’t something you’re born with — it’s something you build. In this bold and deeply human guide, acclaimed horsewoman, author, and mindset coach Marci Powell takes you beyond surface-level motivation and into the real blueprint of lasting self-belief.

Storms—both literal and figurative—come for all of us. They shake our plans, threaten our stability, and test our will to keep going. Stormproof: Stronger Than the Storm is your guide to surviving the worst of life’s weather and coming out stronger on the other side. Drawing on raw, real-life experiences from the rodeo arena to the open road—and the unexpected tempests in between—Marci Powell delivers a powerful blend of storytelling, mindset coaching, and practical tools.

Perfect for fans of sports psychology, self-development, and motivational listens, The Fierce Five is more than a collection—it’s a mindset. A reminder that no matter how many times you fall, what makes you fierce is the courage to rise again. If you’re ready to embrace grit, resilience, and unbreakable strength, this is the book set for you.

The 8 Second Mindset is a powerful guide to building resilience, courage, and unshakable mental strength in and out of the arena. Drawing from a lifetime in rodeo and real-world comebacks—including surviving a catastrophic injury and defying all odds—Marci delivers lessons forged in grit and heart.

The world will try to shape you, shrink you, and silence you. You’ll feel the sting of being the outsider, the weight of rejection, and the pressure to fit in. But true champions aren’t remembered for blending in. They’re remembered for standing out. In Unmatched: The Art of Standing Out, professional barrel racer, clinician, and bestselling author Marci Powell delivers a raw, powerful roadmap for anyone who’s tired of playing small.