Welcome to Sleep Eat Perform Repeat Episode #31. Today we spoke to Rodney So’oialo – former All Black player who captained New Zealand, passed the number 8 jersey onto current skipper Kieran Read, and is now coaching in Wellington. We chat to Rodney about his transition from playing to coaching, traits he tries to instil in his players and the common attributes amongst the top coaches. Rodney shares what he has learned through the years which has helped him evolve and grow as a coach, his time playing in Japan and leaving the cherished All Blacks jersey in a better place. Listen to this for the key fundamentals for success, hard work, leadership and always trying to learn and push yourself. This was so inspiring.

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Welcome to Sleep Eat Perform Repeat Episode #30. Today, in association with BDO in Limerick and the Limerick Leader, we spoke to Fineen Wycherley – emerging professional rugby player with Munster. We chat to Fineen about his journey to becoming the player he is today, preparing mentally to take chances, how he measures his success, current strength levels in the Munster squad, traits required for sustained success, how he winds down away from games and recovery methods, self-critique vs external critique, and what he enjoys most about playing the game of rugby.

Once again many thanks in particular to BDO and Denis Herlihy for helping us bring this episode to you today. If you’d like more info on this episode or any of our others, check out our website on www.sleepeatperformrepeat.com.

Welcome to Sleep Eat Perform Repeat Episode #29. Today we spoke to Keith Earls – professional rugby player for Munster, Ireland and the British & Irish Lions. We chat to Keith about the influence of his family sporting background on his career, early sports specialisation and advice for younger players. Keith gives insight into how he believes the game will evolve in terms of preparation in the next decade and how he has maximised his impact on the game over the years. Keith shares how he slows down and unwinds a little away from rugby, balancing his career with his family life, his injury history management, coping with pressure and facing the All Blacks Haka. There is a special moment in this episode where the high scoring back tells us why Munster is a special team and club.

Welcome to Sleep Eat Perform Repeat Episode #28. Today we spoke to Jimmy Hensel – founder of the Mayhem Mindset; author, speaker, teacher and coach. We chat to him about the mayhem mindset, what it is and how it can be applied, he dispenses some life lessons, the common characteristics of successful people across high performance industries, perfection vs excellence, being willing to fail, and defining success.

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Welcome to Sleep Eat Perform Repeat Episode #27. Today we spoke with Jack Coolican – formerly of Gonzaga and currently of UCD rugby – as the second instalment in our emerging talent series. We chat to Jack about his rugby role models, the competitive nature of the Leinster Schools Senior Cup and balancing these demands with his educational demands, future plans, his understanding and assessment of current concussion protocols as a young player, his injury history and trying to overcome it, and his thoughts on current injury rates in rugby.

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Welcome to Sleep Eat Perform Repeat Episode #26. Today we spoke with Glenn Stewart – High Performance Manager of the West Coast Eagles Australian Rules Football Team in Perth. We spoke about his thoughts on high performance culture – how to build it and how to sustain it. We hear his thoughts on who are the high-performance leaders in professional sport, where the future of sport science lies, and what makes the research community in sport in Australia as innovative as they are. We hope you enjoy!

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Welcome to Sleep Eat Perform Repeat Episode #25. Today we spoke with professional basketball coach Julien Espinosa. It was great to speak to a Head Coach and get his thoughts on various topics including his coaching career to date, his coaching philosophy, his thoughts on being a ‘players’ coach’, advice for younger coaches on copying successful models vs creating your own and having role models, the effect on team dynamics of high-ego players, the ideal ratio of focusing on your own game vs focusing on opposition, trying to coach up ‘one-dimensional’ players, and the evolution of basketball as a sport. A great listen for any aspiring coaches!

Welcome to Sleep Eat Perform Repeat Episode #23. Today David and Ciaran sat down with Jaelyn Wolf who heads up the Wellness Programme in Gym Jones in the US. We discuss her diverse background as designer, photographer and writer, how she got to the point where she is today and how her background helps her in her work with Gym Jones today. We get her thoughts on people’s increasing connection to the land in terms of participation in events in the great outdoors and also the concept of ‘forest bathing’. We get back to the nitty gritty of performance basics on issues such as recovery but also the idea of ‘bio-hacking’ – experimenting in different methods to aid recovery and performance. Check out more on this episode and others at sleepeatperformrepeat.com.

Many thanks to Jake Hutchinson, Lisa Boshard and all at Gym Jones who have brought this episode to you today. Check their brilliant work out on Instagram @gymjonessalvation or their website gymjones.com.

Welcome to Sleep Eat Perform Repeat Episode #22. Today David and Ciaran sat down with Rian Doris – the Chief Growth Officer at the Flow Research Collective who have a look at what goes on in the brain and the body at times of peak performance. They have a chat about how he got to this point in his career following an accident in his early teenage years, what his day to day with Flow Research involves, what a flow state actually is and how to reach it, thoughts on the ’10,000 hour rule’ and habit formation including reflection. They speak about how athletes are sometimes unable to harness flow state at critical times and the concept of ‘flow proneness’ and whether flow state can be objectively measured and how it fits within the high performance triangle. A must listen for anyone with an interest in sports psychology or how the mind works in relation to high performance environments!