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In the second part of this two-part episode Gavin is joined by Jana Porichis, a transformational life coach and energy healer to describe her Quantum Transition technique. 

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• My journey began in 2001, when I was 17, and I took a student exchange trip to the USA and met a guy who was into spiritual and mystical studies and studying all sorts of consciousness research methodologies and traditions. Then in 2003 I started to create my own meditations, visual transformations and to work with myself and in 2006 I started to help people around me to transform their lives and get out of the situations they felt so stuck in. in. In 2007 I founded my own coaching company and since then I had three children and since 2019 I founded my company called Quantum Transition that combines all that I’ve learned, applied and worked with into a new form of coaching service. 
• Why I use ‘quantum’ is because the quantum field is for me what some people call God or the universe. It unites all of us, everything is frequency and anything is possible, all possibilities exist. Through my approach, people can make a transition of their personality where they access the infinite possibilities of the quantum field to implement into their lives a lifestyle where everything is possible and you can create the life you dream of.
• I’m convinced mankind is going through a vibrational shift and that vibration is rising. What we’re going through right now, with all the crises with the global situation is basically an opportunity. Structures are falling apart to make space for new structures and I really want to accompany humanity and all the individuals who feel attracted to me in that transitional process we are experiencing right now.
• It’s a mix of self-analysis and working with your thoughts and mindset, to see and reflect who they are. Then you go on a guided meditation that is designed for you to gain a deep connection with your subconscious mind so you can start implementing the seeds of reality that you see in your subconscious mind. This is what it’s all based on, the subconscious mind really drives us, the conscious mind only has a 5% influence on our lives. You need to programme your subconscious mind so you will ultimately achieve what you wish to achieve.

BEST MOMENTS

‘With energy healing I’ve helped a lot of people going through really intense things, physical problems, accidents. I’ve had so much success with friends and people around me that I had to bring this out to the world and help as many people as I can.’

‘It’s partly spiritual, but quantum physics is demonstrating spirituality on a scientific level.’

‘Your life will make a major shift. Whatever you feel stuck with right now, you will overcome it and you will be blown away with what you’re capable of, the facilities you have as a human being and you can expect to discover yourself and your possibilities. I cannot do miracles for you, you are doing miracles for yourself, I’m just guiding you.’

‘I call this an advanced energy technology. It’s a new technology that is coming to Earth right now. There have been energy healers before, but I started channelling this technique right as the crisis began in May 2020 and it was like I was taken to the essence, where my home planet is, where my soul comes from, my origin and they say to me: “This is your frequency and you’re going to take this frequency down to Earth and you’re going to bring the people who are open to it into this frequency and you will raise their energy bodies and make them transcend a lot of shit in a very very short amount of time”.’

ABOUT THE GUEST

CONTACT METHODS

Website: www.quantumtransition.eu/en/ 

Facebook: @quantumtransition

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS

[email protected] 

In this episode of the podcast Gavin talks about desire by design being all about creativity because, after all, that’s what design is: Something that’s realised through creation, like a painting, a car, furniture. 

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• How strongly does your desire to design your life burn? Are you even aware of the idea? Is there an inner fire that just subtly flickers light, or is your desire by design a raging fire? Is it a fire that’s contained by bricks? Is it an out of control wildfire going across thousands of acres? Or is it simply the centrepiece of your friends, entertainment and the beach?
• People say all the time: “I desire a life where I can afford a private jet”, “I desire a life where I can fly my family out on holiday, not just my wife and children but my brothers and sisters and their children and my parents'', “I desire a life where I can live free and independent from the shackles of the status quo, meaning I don't have to have a job, I don’t have to have gone to school, I haven’t had to have looked a certain way”. What is it that you desire and have you designed it? If you hadn’t designed it then you couldn’t already be desiring it.
• You might actually have the desire but you don’t have the impetus, the true, genuine desire that’s so strong it makes you get out of bed early in the morning even if you’re a night owl. It makes you not watch television at night but allows you to research and read and analyse things. It burns so bright that you decide not to go out with friends for dinner one night but go to places where you can find answers. Answers that are going to lead you to the next breadcrumb. 
• Whilst you’re going through a transformation and becoming the best version of yourself, and we are always evolving and always becoming a better version of yourself, it’s something that happens over time, not overnight. 

BEST MOMENTS

‘How you’d like your life to look will be determined by your desire.’

‘Every act is an act of self-definition, including no reaction.’

‘Desire by design is all about breadcrumbs, and this takes a lot of self-awareness. The last breadcrumb you laid may have been one where there’s no reaction to a desire, and that in fact is a breadcrumb if you can see it is and that you didn’t react. Then it’s up to you to make the change.’

‘You need to shed belief systems imposed upon you that allow you to judge yourself, which is where resistance comes in that holds you back.’

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS

[email protected] 

In the second part of this two-part episode Gavin is joined by Shuang-Min Chang who explains how she got into life coaching after giving up life in the corporate world as well as her views on how to live better.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I gave up the corporate world 3 years ago to become a life coach. I wanted to serve and corporate life didn’t allow me to serve every day, so I needed to find a way to do something I’m passionate about while at the same time having a career. Also, I got a question in my head one day out of nowhere: Who am I in the world to have so much love and blessings in my life and what can I do to pay them forward? I couldn’t answer that question, so I knew I had to prepare myself to leave my old career and enter a new one.
• I’m very aware of all the support I’ve got, either from people that I knew or didn’t know at the beginning, and all the lucky events in my life. All those things have made me know I have a lot inside of me because I receive a lot. When we give we receive more. I always had a feeling that I had a lot to give. I’m always aware of my choices, my growth, and what I want in my life. Instead of trying to meet the expectations of others, I consciously plan each year for the next 5-10 years.
• To create clarity you first have to get clear on all the areas of your life because people talk about work/life balance, but it’s too general, there’s health, family, social life, personal growth, emotions, finance all to take care of. So, it’s not just work/life. Then look into each area and think back over the last 5 years what you’ve enjoyed and what you’re proud of and what you no longer want to carry on into the next 5-10 years. Then, the most important part is putting in place how you’re actually going to do it, how are you going to become that person living that vision?
• We need to start practising what we preach. Everyone’s saying we need to make a better world for the next generation, but what’s the proportion of our daily actions that are actually creating a better world for the next generation? I’m not perfect, I love to travel, but the intention is that I can be more aware of what I do, this is one thing we need to act on. I’m a girl, I still like beautiful shoes and clothes, but whenever I buy something I have got into the habit of asking myself is this a survival need or is this because I live in a civilised world and I have the money and desire to buy it? It’s good to have desires, but I usually tell myself, let’s wait 3-7 days. If my desire for it has increased I’ll probably buy it. 

BEST MOMENTS

‘I got depressed at 23 because I’d achieved almost everything my parents and society expected of me as a Taiwanese and as a girl. I didn’t feel successful.’

‘I want to spend this life doing everything that I’m passionate about and that makes me happy.’

‘Everything we create now is an accumulation of habits. Put into place the habits that will get you to your vision, one day at a time.’

‘Passion is about something extra.’

ABOUT THE GUEST

Shuang-Min Chang: My journey as a woman finding her own place and success in her original culture and out in the world was an unconventional one.

I was born and bred in Taiwan, a pan Confucius culture and moved through my childhood into university days checking every expectation the family and society had for me as a girl and as a person who was expected to "succeed." Right after graduation, I moved to Mumbai, India to start my career with one of most reputable Taiwanese companies.

While scoring everything outside, I found no anchor and identity inside. I was rotten inside. I started doubting everything I was taught about having a success and happy life and plunged into depression at age 23.

I prayed not to wake up every single night in vain for 6-8 months till a point I told myself either to kill myself or to pull myself up because I couldn’t stand living in that black hole anymore. I chose life and this was the beginning of my pursuit and growth in personal development & spiritual realm and the beginning of knowing myself. This was when I told myself that I would never live my life for anyone else ever again.

Then, I moved to Milan, Italy to pursue my childhood dream of working in Fashion. In a country I didn't know anyone or speak the language, I built everything from scratch, the career and my own identity. There were more challenges, especially when it came to getting my immigration papers; at the same time, I had to get my ends meet. Among the beautiful Mediterranean sunshine, delicious gelato, passionate language, I had my fair share of crying on the street and handing out hundreds of resumes with no result.

To a point, I had to decide again what kind of life I wanted to lead and what the priority really is in life. I took an offer from an Italian luxury fashion house and moved to Shanghai, China. At the time it seemed to be a compromise and only later I knew this was one of the best decisions I've ever made. While climbing the corporate ladder, I learned to “hack” time and life. With that demanding and fast-paced career, I also managed to reach my first best state of health & fitness; started writing again (2 articles got picked up by a well-known platform in Taiwan); got certified as a psychology counsellor in China; and learned a bit of French.

After 10 plus years in luxury retail and reaching the goal I set out for myself at 25 to be in charge of one of the biggest markets in the world in a prominent luxury maison with USD 6-figure income, it came the question, "What's next?"

With every expansion of life experience along with my career, I want more and I know it's possible to achieve more, not just professionally but in all areas in life. Most importantly, I want freedom, the ability to own my own time fully and I want to surf everyday.

I've learned from my own life experience, every success and realised dream started with a leap of faith with a clarity. I took a leap again in 2019, quit the corporate world and started out on my currently journey as a surfer, a writer and a coach, founded Freedom to Success program and supporting driven women who have career success with 6-figure package and yet, always put their work before everything to walk on a new path in this "win or lose" corporate environment and create success in their own terms by claiming their innate freedom & femininity, show up with love and dare their deepest and boldest dreams.

CONTACT METHODS

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shuangmin/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shuangmin/ 

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS

[email protected] 

In this episode of the podcast Gavin talks about the fact that we spend so much time wishing, willing, wanting things, but yet so much of our time is spent unproductively. How can we change that so that we achieve what we wish, will and want for?

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• What value do you learn from your sitting still experience? Most people will say “whatever ‘x’ TV show is about”, but those people that have an awareness and a greater level of consciousness are going to say: “I gained nothing”. It’s in that moment that you recognise that you haven’t gained anything, or that you are gaining very limitedly, the lesson is that there’s a more productive way.
• Ask yourself, is what you’re doing productive? For somebody that’s having a bad time and is aware that their mental health is not in the best state, is it productive to think negatively, to keep saying “I’m not in good mental health”? Perhaps it might be if you’re speaking to a therapist but, outside of those parameters, all it does is compound negative feelings. The way out of this is to positively choose to be positive. 
• What’s a moment that comes to mind where you have been rash with someone (a loved one, bus driver, shop attendant, nurse, colleague, person in the street begging for help) in the last 48-72 hours and you wish you could have taken that moment back and acted differently? Go back and say that you love them or are sorry and talk out your differences.
• When you don’t get what you want, always think outside the box, and whenever you come across a stumbling block or an obstacle the best way is always through. Whatever you’re being challenged by, don’t waste a moment, accept the challenge, enjoy the challenge.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Making a habit of sitting is unproductive.’

‘Being more productive yields a more efficient path to what we want from life, or what we need in order to fulfil our desires, needs, ambitions, goals and dreams.’

‘Don’t waste a moment means going forth with the intention of not leaving behind any regrets.’

‘Moments battling the past are wasted moments.’

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS

[email protected] 

In this episode of the podcast Gavin is joined by Andrea Mason, an accountability coach who is here to share her story with us.

You can donate to Gavin’s JustGiving page for The Ocean Cleanup by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3DRZefO 

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to The Ocean Cleanup, so it's the most efficient way to give - saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I went into social work because I wanted to help people. If I was struggling at such a young age with my unknown history and having the stigmatism of coming from a poor, under-developed country, how was I going to make it in the thriving country of America? I realised that you and I may be from different backgrounds and upbringings, but the one common thread is we want to live life with love.
• Different people can have different experiences and memories of the same experience. That’s what makes this world amazing. What makes us different makes us authentic, what makes us imperfect makes us impactful because we are the pieces of the masterpiece. We’re all connected. Let’s not conquer and divide any more, let’s rise and unite, find the imperfections in others where you can give them empowerment, courage, strength. What do they need that you can provide? When we work with our hearts and minds in service to others, that's when the world is beautiful, that’s when life can be full and abundant.
• Every loss that I’ve experienced I took away a message and learned a lesson. Every gain that I’ve won is another nugget of knowledge that I can pay forward. If I could talk to my younger self I’d request three things: to live with passion, to persevere and most importantly have patience.
• I don’t dictate or lecture, I listen and learn with love. I meet the individual where they are at and help them widen their perspective by asking “what is it you don’t want to be?” When you rule out what you don’t want to be you unveil who you truly are because you realise your morals, ethics and values. Your mission in life is what you set your mind and your heart to. 

BEST MOMENTS

‘I’ve worked with individuals from the infantry to geriatric, from the home front line to the homeless shelters, from the institutions to the heinous crimes of the incarcerated.’

‘When you find someone who you think is perfect let me know, because I believe we’re always working towards progression and succession.’

‘To me, integrity means doing the right thing at the right time no matter what. Follow your heard not the herd or the hurt.’

‘Live life with love, not lack, don’t focus on the loss.’

ABOUT THE GUEST

Andrea “The Global Voice” Mason has over 2 decades of experience in personal development in Social Work and Psychology. She is Certified as a Global Motivational Speaker and Coach, as well as a Certified Small Business Entrepreneur, Certified Professional Organiser, and Personal Accountability Coach and Popular Global Voice.

She is the creator and innovator of the life transformational journey called “PLAY”: Plan Life According to You, where she walks alongside you as your personal accountability coach helping you achieve personal freedom through the healing power of forgiveness. Andrea, whole heartedly, provides the metaphorical needed “Bridge” that a person must walk across in order to get themselves from where they’re currently at to where it is that they would like to go.

CONTACT METHODS

Website: https://www.andreamasons.com/ 

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS

[email protected] 

In this episode of the podcast Gavin talks about not questioning what you’re thinking and believing, but to source answers away from the first ones that are given to you or come to you.

You can donate to Gavin’s JustGiving page for The Ocean Cleanup by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3DRZefO

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to The Ocean Cleanup, so it's the most efficient way to give - saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

•  My Dad had a knee replacement just over a year ago, he was getting through rehabilitation and he was playing golf when he got bit by a little flying creature. He got cellulitis – a bacterial infection of the skin cells. He went to the doctor who told him to put his foot up for six weeks as he had an ankle sprain. He didn’t ask to take my Dad’s sock off. A few days later my Dad collapsed at home and was taken to hospital, his leg the size of a balloon. For the last six months the cellulitis keeps coming back and he’s been on antibiotics the whole time. His quality of life has been vastly reduced. 
• After this we found he had an infection around his titanium knee replacement, possibly since I was put in. So, he had that taken out and had a temporary knee put in until they could find out what caused the infection and check for any extra infections in the body before putting a new titanium knee in.
• I went to the GP because I’d had a runny nose for weeks, an ear ache and pressure like you wouldn’t believe between my ears. It was like a deep winter flu had hit, like I’d been hit by a bus. I decided not to finish the course of antibiotics I’d been prescribed and went to see an ENT specialist who changed the antibiotics for me. It got slightly better, but not really. So, I went back and had a scan of my sinuses taken and it revealed that there was nothing wrong with the sinuses. He said the pressure in my ear was Swimmer’s Ear, a standard ear infection and gave me antibiotic drops. It turned out to be a post-Covid migraine variant.
• My coach says it’s 80% mental and 20% physical. If I hadn’t taken it upon myself to go to the ENT specialist, I wouldn’t have got myself to where I am today as quickly, I could have been weeks behind. I’m now getting back to full health and I can’t wait for the swimming challenge in 32 days time.

BEST MOMENTS

‘My Dad’s strong and a fighter and he’s in the best morale that I’ve seen him in in the past year.’

‘Nobody really bothered to check for secondary infections. Check yourself. Not everybody is going to have the wisdom to enquire if there’s a secondary infection.’

‘I’m stressed out because I’ve not been able to exercise to an endurance level, only to a sustained level. I’m undertaking an endurance challenge in 32 days’ time!’

‘Don’t question yourself, just check yourself.’

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS

[email protected] 

In the second part of this two-part episode Gavin is joined by Shawnee Harle, a mental toughness coach – after having been an athlete and a high-performance basketball coach (twice for the Canadian Olympic team), who talks about mindset and how to toughen you up. 

You can donate to Gavin’s JustGiving page for The Ocean Cleanup by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3DRZefO 

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to The Ocean Cleanup, so it's the most efficient way to give - saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I’m using sport as a context for life. The podium matters, but it’s the podium of life that we’re going for. Mental health is very prevalent in sport these days and I think it’s about time that we started looking at this. Skill can only take you so far, fitness can only take you so far, and at the highest levels those things plateau very quickly because everyone’s good, fit, strong and fast. Mental toughness is where athletes can find an advantage. 
• I work on two of the four pillars of high performance: Technical/Tactical – more drills, more skills, more tactics, more training, more practices. Physical – fit, strong, aerobic, anaerobic, power, speed, etc. Mental – pre-game prep, visualisation, mistake response. The fourth one that no one talks about is called the Social/Emotional pillar – emotional intelligence, the ability to acknowledge, understand and manage thoughts and feelings, the ability to form and sustain healthy relationships especially the relationship with yourself. Most athletes are unbalanced, they focus on the Technical/Tactical and Physical and maybe a bit on the Mental, but the Social/Emotional pillar is completely undeveloped.
• Athletes suffer from FOPO (fear of people’s opinions). You should live your life in such a way that when people speak poorly of you no one believes them. We can’t control what other people thins, say or do, we can only control if we’re living our best lives, and being our best self. It’s also important who we listen to and who we stop listening to. We need to do a better job listening to ourselves rather than the noise because we forget who we are and start to believe things that are being said about us. When you worry too much about what others think you will always be their prisoner.
• On the biggest stage on the biggest day of my life (the Rio Olympics 2016) we choked, but I have to take responsibility for that because I was part of the coaching staff, I didn’t show up as my best self on that stage and it put me into a deep darkness for a long time after. When I emerged out of the darkness I asked myself two questions: What didn’t I see? And what did I see but refused to look at? That last question haunted me and I vowed from that day forward that I was going to help athletes never to choke on the biggest day/stage of their life. There is an antidote to not choking but sport doesn’t teach us. I give people a toolkit so when the storm comes they have a lifejacket. 

BEST MOMENTS

‘Isn’t it great when you figure out your true calling? I figured out my true calling: To serve people as a mental toughness coach.’

‘A lot of athletes do not know themselves, they have never looked within because sport teaches us to do the opposite, be bulletproof, have no problems and no weaknesses.’

‘I don’t talk too much about confidence in my work because I think it’s overrated and misunderstood. Confidence is an emotion based on results. If you’re not good at something you’re not going to be confident. When our competence improves so does our confidence because we believe “I can do this” we have the skills now and that also reduces anxiety, especially when your pay is often based on your performance as an athlete.’

‘I will teach you how to swim when the storm comes.’

ABOUT THE GUEST

Shawnee Harle helps athletes make sense of what's going on in their heads, cut through the noise, and unleash their inner tiger. Increasing emotional intelligence helps build a toolkit to show up with courage and confidence when it matters most.

For this to happen, we must do heart work. Why? Because that's where the truth is, and the truth will set you free.  The truth is, Mental Toughness is NOT about getting rid of our negative feelings. Mental Toughness is about managing ALL thoughts, feelings and emotions. 

Building a toolkit helps manage what's going on in your head AND heart. It equips you to face and handle the storms that inevitably arise in the pursuit of your goals and dreams.

Shawnee works with athletes of all ages and sports, from novices to experts. And because it takes a village, she also works with parents and coaches.

CONTACT METHODS

Website: https://www.shawneeharle.com/ 

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS

[email protected] 

In this episode of the podcast Gavin talks about confidence and what it means to you, he also shares a story of where his confidence was challenged recently.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I went to do my six-hour qualifier for my cross-channel swim and the coach told me to breathe right because the pilot of the vessel escorting me will be on the left-hand side and it’s good to have connection with them. But it meant I kept over-steering right and hitting embankments and triggered an old bicep injury causing me to take time out. Each time I tried it wasn’t working, it was demoralising and I no longer enjoyed swimming.
• We’re a few months down the line and I don’t think I’ve got anywhere close to the same confidence in my ability and technique. It’s really hard to build back my confidence.
• Taking it away from swimming, I’m a bachelor. You meet a couple of really nice ladies, you have great interaction and communication and then you get ghosted. Prior to being ghosted your confidence is rising, you’re enjoying the process, the journey, you’ve had a couple of meetings and there’s some chemistry there and before you know it, like a lead balloon being dropped from the sky, you’ve been ghosted. What did I do? Why doesn’t that person have the courage or the decency to say: “I’m no longer feeling this connection, I no longer wish to continue.” Why do they just disappear off the Earth?
• To create the space to build confidence, first you must have an awareness, understand the situation, understand your emotion, understand your reaction. Then, quite simply, every time there is an action, hurdle or challenge, don’t look to nudge the needle 10 yards, just look to nudge the needle a yard. Once you’ve nudged the needle a yard and you’ve recognised it, celebrate that and continue to build in that fashion. Small steps yield bigger results. Confidence is simply an emotion-building process or a consistent action building process.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Confidence is so hard to build yet so easy to lose.’

‘When I should be at the peak of my performance training, I’m doing maintenance. There’s only five weeks to go.’

‘What it takes – in relationship terms – not to lose your confidence is to ooze with self-love, self-appreciation. Even outside of relationships, that's a practice we should all be entering.’

‘If I allow my head to dip or my chin to tuck then I am creating the space for my confidence to reduce.’

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS

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In this episode of the podcast Gavin is joined by Shawnee Harle, a mental toughness coach – after having been an athlete and a high-performance basketball coach (twice for the Canadian Olympic team), who talks about mindset and how to toughen you up. 

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I’m using sport as a context for life. The podium matters, but it’s the podium of life that we’re going for. Mental health is very prevalent in sport these days and I think it’s about time that we started looking at this. Skill can only take you so far, fitness can only take you so far, and at the highest levels those things plateau very quickly because everyone’s good, fit, strong and fast. Mental toughness is where athletes can find an advantage. 
• I work on two of the four pillars of high performance: Technical/Tactical – more drills, more skills, more tactics, more training, more practices. Physical – fit, strong, aerobic, anaerobic, power, speed, etc. Mental – pre-game prep, visualisation, mistake response. The fourth one that no one talks about is called the Social/Emotional pillar – emotional intelligence, the ability to acknowledge, understand and manage thoughts and feelings, the ability to form and sustain healthy relationships especially the relationship with yourself. Most athletes are unbalanced, they focus on the Technical/Tactical and Physical and maybe a bit on the Mental, but the Social/Emotional pillar is completely undeveloped.
• Athletes suffer from FOPO (fear of people’s opinions). You should live your life in such a way that when people speak poorly of you no one believes them. We can’t control what other people thins, say or do, we can only control if we’re living our best lives, and being our best self. It’s also important who we listen to and who we stop listening to. We need to do a better job listening to ourselves rather than the noise because we forget who we are and start to believe things that are being said about us. When you worry too much about what others think you will always be their prisoner.
• On the biggest stage on the biggest day of my life (the Rio Olympics 2016) we choked, but I have to take responsibility for that because I was part of the coaching staff, I didn’t show up as my best self on that stage and it put me into a deep darkness for a long time after. When I emerged out of the darkness I asked myself two questions: What didn’t I see? And what did I see but refused to look at? That last question haunted me and I vowed from that day forward that I was going to help athletes never to choke on the biggest day/stage of their life. There is an antidote to not choking but sport doesn’t teach us. I give people a toolkit so when the storm comes they have a lifejacket. 

BEST MOMENTS

‘Isn’t it great when you figure out your true calling? I figured out my true calling: To serve people as a mental toughness coach.’

‘A lot of athletes do not know themselves, they have never looked within because sport teaches us to do the opposite, be bulletproof, have no problems and no weaknesses.’

‘I don’t talk too much about confidence in my work because I think it’s overrated and misunderstood. Confidence is an emotion based on results. If you’re not good at something you’re not going to be confident. When our competence improves so does our confidence because we believe “I can do this” we have the skills now and that also reduces anxiety, especially when your pay is often based on your performance as an athlete.’

‘I will teach you how to swim when the storm comes.’

ABOUT THE GUEST

Shawnee Harle helps athletes make sense of what's going on in their heads, cut through the noise, and unleash their inner tiger. Increasing emotional intelligence helps build a toolkit to show up with courage and confidence when it matters most.

For this to happen, we must do heart work. Why? Because that's where the truth is, and the truth will set you free.  The truth is, Mental Toughness is NOT about getting rid of our negative feelings. Mental Toughness is about managing ALL thoughts, feelings and emotions. 

Building a toolkit helps manage what's going on in your head AND heart. It equips you to face and handle the storms that inevitably arise in the pursuit of your goals and dreams.

Shawnee works with athletes of all ages and sports, from novices to experts. And because it takes a village, she also works with parents and coaches.

CONTACT METHODS

Website: https://www.shawneeharle.com/ 

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS

[email protected] 

In this episode of the podcast Gavin talks about ‘manana’, which is a Spanish term to say “relax, it’s taken care of, don’t worry it will happen”. Gavin has experienced some frustrating Spanish customer service when compared to how things work in the UK.

You can donate to Gavin’s JustGiving page for The Ocean Cleanup by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3DRZefO

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The longer I had to wait for the delivery drivers with my new mattress the more I imagined I’d have to book a hotel room to get a good night’s sleep.
• In the UK, when you get estimates of delivery between 9 and 12, you don’t actually appreciate how confidence creating that is. They're going to be there, they’re just giving themselves a large window.  My friend lives in the same town and his air-conditioning is broken, and in Spain between 3 and 5 in the afternoon it’s pretty hot, and every day for two days the repairmen were saying: “Don’t worry, we’ll be there this afternoon”., they didn’t answer phone calls or messages, what is my friend supposed to do? Eventually he turns up on the second evening and my friend is left scratching his head asking himself; “Why couldn’t they have just sent me a message or called to tell me he was going to arrive at this time?”
• It’s taken me much longer than I’d ever anticipated to get used to ‘manana’, I may not ever get used to it when it comes to the professional sense of services and things like that. But what it’s teaching me is that we get hung up on the smallest of words, claims and possibilities, on the thinnest of plans, ideas and opportunities. We get so attached that we can’t let go of the outcome, yet the outcome is the same whether it’s in the UK where it’s efficient and punctual, or in Spain where it’s relaxed. It will happen all in good flow.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Sleep is imperative to making good decisions.’

‘Why could they not say: “we’ll be with you between 6 and 7?”’

‘It’s a big cultural shift (living in Spain instead of the UK), in the UK people are punctual and efficient, in Spain it’s just “manana – don’t worry, it will be taken care of. Everything in its own time”.’

‘We have to learn to let go of all the ideals, all the attachments that we’ve been taught and learn to live in flow and harmony, because that is the true course to peace.’

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS

[email protected]