Rise Up with Rick

“Smokin” Joe Misiti joins Rick to chat and share some stories and laughs about all things life, football, High Performance and the glory days of playing footy for Essendon at the absolute halcyon peak of one of the games oldest and most famous clubs. Joey was absolutely pivotal in the famous side that was the “Baby Bombers” who won the AFL Premiership in 1993, and he recounts brilliantly his ups and downs following the sudden rise to fame at 18 years of age.

Misiti was one of the most consistent midfielders in the land for well over a decade, an absolute ball magnet who could just win so much footy. With a razor-sharp football brain, he was strong, hard and tough over the footy and would always use it to perfection making players around him better. Joe was a regular in the top 5 finish in the Best and Fairest finishing second twice, one of these occasions was in a phenomenal season of 1999 where he would finish runners up to his great mate Mark Mercuri. Following 1999, “Smokin” Joe was a huge part of what was statistically and anecdotally the greatest single season of all time as his beloved Bombers took all before them, winning every single game by huge average margins,-barring a narrow loss to the Bulldogs in would become known as the introduction of the “flooding” tactics.

The Bombers would beat Melbourne in the 2000 Grand Final by 60 points. Joe who had a sensational home and away season went full next level in the finals series with some out of these world performances that what net him the coveted “Player of the Finals Series at seasons end. After Misiti won his second flag, he continued in his ultra consistent, laid back and quiet manner until season 2004 when he retired and moved into other ventures post footy.

Joey is one of life’s great men- so authentic- with a sharp wit, he loves a good time with his friends and family and is always looking to improve! He is everything we love!!

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Jordan Larson joins me from her hometown of Nebraska to chat all things her amazing life, career, High Performance, leadership amongst many other amazing bits of wisdom. Jordan is the GOAT of Volleyball, a 4 time Olympian for the USA, at each Olympics she has medalled, Silver in 2012, Bronze 2016, GOLD in 2020, and another Silver this year in Paris, she also led her beloved Huskers to a national title in 2006, has won countless MVPS, Player of the series and other awards. Jordan has played professionally for over 15 years in Russia, China, Turkey to name just a few and is now playing for Omaha in the LOVB in the USA. She is also now an Assistant Coach for the Huskers. A full circle indeed. Jordan known as the "Gov" or "Governor" is one of the most authentic people you will ever meet and her philosophies and ways of thinking, and coaching are amazingly similar to ours. She is one of the world's great role models. Thanks so much Gov for joining us on Rise up with Rick check out her Instagram here.

Rick sits down with Mark Carrazzo and talks on thinks happiness and positive psychology, Mark is an engaging presenter who uses positive psychology to bring about personal change and improvement. His passion really is about “helping people be their best possible form of themselves, hence “be your best now”. Mark has a Prof. Cert. in Positive Psychology (Honors) from the University of Melbourne as well as a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Economics from Monash University. He is a certified Level 2 Wellness Coach (Wellness Coaching Australia) and a qualified meditation teacher (Melbourne Meditation Centre). You can find him at https://beyourbest.com.au/ Rise up Rick is brought to you by www.rickmirabella.com and www.runnez.com

It’s Cool To Cry is a clothing brand with a purpose. Their goal to stop the stigma around mental health and normalise discussions about mental health. They do this by donating 10% of each sale to mental health charities and organisations and by encouraging people to acknowledge and talk about their feelings and emotions before they become overwhelming. They aim to be the catalyst to conversations and the conduit to counselling. They love people wearing their garments walking around proud of their past and present relationships with mental health. **This episode contains content that may be uncomfortable or triggering for some viewers- please if you need reach out to organisations like Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 or Lifeline 24/7 suicide prevention and crisis support. Provides all Australians access to crisis support and suicide prevention services. Call 13 11 14

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TradeMutt is a social impact workwear company. They’re known around Australia for their loud, vibrant work shirts which were designed to start conversations about mental health, making an invisible issue impossible to ignore. Taking a more light-hearted and approachable angle to the conversation, they exist to drive the much needed social and cultural shift in attitude towards mental health among tradies, truckies, farmers, rural and blue-collar workers. In the past 5 years they’ve grown into a well recognised and established social impact workwear brand. After launching their conversation starting workwear, they saw how the funky workwear was helping to start important conversations about mental health. What they soon came to learn is that starting the conversation sometimes means that you need to continue that conversation with a professional. A professional that you can trust and relate to; is not going to charge you through the nose; wait months until you can connect with them or have to hoop jump for a referral and if you manage to get through all that to be told there’s actually no one available in your location. TIACS was born through the realisation that there were way too many barriers to free mental health support for the blue-collar community. Operating since 2020, TIACS provides a professional text and call service with qualified counsellors for free. Open Monday to Friday between 8.0am – 10.00pm AEST You can text them on 0488 846 988. **This episode contains content that may be uncomfortable or triggering for some viewers- if you cannot get on to TIACS please if you need reach out to organisations like Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 or Lifeline 24/7 suicide prevention and crisis support. Provides all Australians access to crisis support and suicide prevention services. Call 13 11 14 Rise up Rick is brought to you by www.rickmirabella.com and www.runnez.com

This week we have world leading Sports Dietitian Ali Miles, the founder of Fuel School, she is arguably one of Australia’s most in-demand high-performance sports dietitians. Ali’s performance nutrition strategies have helped some of the world’s top athletes and teams embrace performance fueling and achieve their ultimate sporting aspirations. For the past six years, Ali has been the performance dietitian for the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia and has supported our Australian athletes during the recent 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, China and the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeong Chang, South Korea.

Ali was also the performance dietitian for North Melbourne Football Club and the Southside Flyers WNBL Team. From 2015-2020, Alison held the role of senior performance dietician at St Kilda Football Club. Thanks so much Ali you bloody star!!

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Kane “Sugar Kane” Watts joins Rick for a fantastic chat about his career in the world of professional Boxing. Kane who hails from the Mornington Peninsula Melbourne has done it all, winning multiple national cruiser weight titles, and has fought for world championship belts. Rise up Rick is brought to you by www.rickmirabella.com and www.runnez.com

This week we hear from Micky Ablett the 4 time Best and Fairest winner with VFL club Frankston Dolphins, former North Melbourne Kangaroo and now Fox Footy Draft guru. But there is so much more to Mick Ablett’s story than just footy and high performance sport. His journey is a remarkable one and he now leads and helps others from all walks of life to be the best they can be. Micky is an amazing human being, so real and authentic and you hear this come across in this cracker of an ep, enjoy!! Rise up Rick is brought to you by www.rickmirabella.com and www.runnez.com

Current Western Jets (AFL Coates League) and Vic Metro under 16s head coach Trent Dennis Lane joins Rick for a chat. After missing out on 4 drafts TDL was finally drafted to the Sydney Swans from the Subiaco football club in his native Western Australia. He went on to play 29 games for both the Swans and St Kilda footy clubs before he continued his journey at Sandringham in the VFL. He is now one of the great educators and teaches of the game especially with up-and-coming footballers. TDL has a huge passion and talent for coaching and no doubt he is only just beginning!!! Rise up Rick is brought to you by www.rickmirabella.com and www.runnez.com

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