Jim Murphy

I'm Jim Murphy, a performance coach and the author of the New York Times bestseller Inner Excellence.

I played outfield in the Chicago Cubs organization and coached hitting for South Africa's first Olympic baseball team. Then I spent years alone in the Sonoran Desert trying to understand why elite athletes lose their confidence under pressure and how to get it back. The answer became a book I self-published in 2009 and sold about five copies a day, until A.J. Brown read it on an NFL sideline in January 2025 and it hit #1.

Today I coach athletes and leaders to train the heart and mind. Selfless is fearless. Ask me about what to do the moment you feel fear.