"If you expect to learn life lessons from perfect people, you're not going to learn anything from anybody. It's our own judgement that prevents us from having amazing experiences."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Dr Jeff Spencer on building your champion mindset and your pathway to your potential.

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Jeff has spent the last four decades helping athletes win over 40 Olympic gold medals, as well as coaching Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods, and helping our own Natalie Cook OAM to represent Australia at 5 Olympic Games.

When he was 11 years old, Jeff wrote a contract with himself that a decade later he would make the 1972 USA Olympic Games team, a goal he achieved by competing in two separate cycling events.

He has also authored three books, been awarded International Sports Chiropractor of the Year, and is the creator of The Champion's Blueprint methodology.

He is also an award-winning Glass Blower with his art appearing in some of the world's top galleries.

These days, Jeff is a mentor to athletes, businesses and other high profile clients, including the likes of Sir Richard Branson, the band U2, Nike, Hitachi, and the health brand Bulletproof.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ Why winning is a skillset underpinned by you starting in a place of receivership

✅ Taking charge of our automatic fear-based survival reactions

✅ The difference that makes the difference with clients like Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, and Natalie Cook OAM

✅ Internal personal congruence towards a champion's mindset on the day.

You can connect with Jeff via LinkedIn and his website.

• Turn It Up! - by Dr Jeff Spencer

• Six Pillars of Self Esteem - by Nathaniel Branden

• Man's Search for Meaning - by Viktor Frankl

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"Organisations that we see that are doing really well have a strong mix of leading and lag indicators, with those things that inform you about what you're doing proactively to improve safety."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest episode is from our Best of Series, with Liz Nicol, Co-Founder & Former CEO of SafetyWorks.

Her full episode is titled Leading safety change, 20 years of business ownership and how to get on a Board and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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I interviewed Liz for this podcast in September 2019.

Liz is Co-Founder and Former CEO of SafetyWorks Group, one of Australia's foremost providers of safety culture change solutions for performance improvement.

She is also the Deputy Chair of Uniting, and the Chair of the Hunter Region Committee of the AICD.

Liz is an experienced executive and non-executive director, who is determined to improve the lives of others, particularly in the area of safety and wellbeing, and those who are vulnerable in our community.

She is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, previous Chair of Leapfrog Ability, and Board member of St Philips Christian Education Foundation.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ The experience she gained in 20 years of business ownership

✅ Leading safety change, developing a chronic sense of unease and where leaders get it wrong

✅ Why metrics are not useful if they don't drive the behaviours that align to your business strategy and vision, and

✅ How to get on a Board and how to make the most of non-executive positions.

You can reach Liz on LinkedIn and via email.

• Safe By Accident - by Aubrey Daniels and Judy Agnew

• Radical Candour - by Kim Scott

• Setting the Tone from the Top - by Melinda Muth and Bob Selden (AICD)

• Deepwater Horizon (movie)

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"Organisations that we see that are doing really well have a strong mix of leading and lag indicators, with those things that inform you about what you're doing proactively to improve safety."

In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Liz Nicol, Co-Founder & Former CEO of SafetyWorks, on Leading safety change, 20 years of business ownership and how to get on a Board.

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I interviewed Liz for this podcast in September 2019.

Liz is Co-Founder and Former CEO of SafetyWorks Group, one of Australia's foremost providers of safety culture change solutions for performance improvement.

She is also the Deputy Chair of Uniting, and the Chair of the Hunter Region Committee of the AICD.

Liz is an experienced executive and non-executive director, who is determined to improve the lives of others, particularly in the area of safety and wellbeing, and those who are vulnerable in our community.

She is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, previous Chair of Leapfrog Ability, and Board member of St Philips Christian Education Foundation.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ The experience she gained in 20 years of business ownership

✅ Leading safety change, developing a chronic sense of unease and where leaders get it wrong

✅ Why metrics are not useful if they don't drive the behaviours that align to your business strategy and vision, and

✅ How to get on a Board and how to make the most of non-executive positions.

You can reach Liz on LinkedIn.

• Safe By Accident - by Aubrey Daniels and Judy Agnew

• Radical Candour - by Kim Scott

• Setting the Tone from the Top - by Melinda Muth and Bob Selden (AICD)

• Deepwater Horizon (movie)

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"There's always time. It's what you make a priority in life."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is Celebrity Apprentice Mentor, Nick Bell, the Founder of Superist.

His full episode is titled The threat of AI on addressing productivity gaps, looking after his A-players and living to 150 and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Superist is a digital agency group with 18 agencies and over 2,000 employees worldwide.

The agency hand-selects businesses in the $1-5 million annual recurring revenue range, advises and mentors the founders while a team of scaling specialists look to improve existing systems and processes. The group has remarkably acquired one digital services agency per month since its inception.

Nick left university after six weeks, and after persevering through two failed business ventures, he used the last $350 to his name to launch an SEO digital marketing agency from his bedroom, a business he'd go on to sell for $39 million nine years later.

Nick was also one of two Australian Celebrity Apprentice advisors to Lord Alan Sugar and is also a former AFR young rich-lister.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ The post-COVID productivity challenge and the threat and benefits of AI

✅ Looking after the A-players in his teams

✅ What he looks for in the Founder when purchasing a business, and

✅ How his health and wellness regime is going to help him live to 150!

You can connect with Nick via LinkedIn.

• Out of the Crisis - by William Edwards Deming

• Dr. David Sinclair

• Losing My Virginity - by Sir Richard Branson

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"There's always time. It's what you make a priority in life."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Nick Bell, Founder of Superist, on the threat of AI on addressing productivity gaps, looking after his A-players and living to 150.

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Nick is the Founder of Superist, a digital agency group with 18 agencies and over 2,000 employees worldwide.

The agency hand-selects businesses in the $1-5 million annual recurring revenue range, advises and mentors the founders while a team of scaling specialists look to improve existing systems and processes. The group has remarkably acquired one digital services agency per month, since its inception.

Nick left university after six weeks, and after persevering through two failed business ventures, he used the last $350 to his name to launch an SEO digital marketing agency from his bedroom, a business he'd go on to sell for $39 million nine years later.

Nick was also one of two Australian Celebrity Apprentice advisors to Lord Alan Sugar and is also a former AFR young rich-lister.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ The post-COVID productivity challenge and the threat and benefits of AI

✅ Looking after the A-players in his teams

✅ What he looks for in the Founder when purchasing a business, and

✅ How his health and wellness regime is going to help him live to 150!

You can connect with Nick via LinkedIn.

• Out of the Crisis - by William Edwards Deming

• Dr. David Sinclair

• Losing My Virginity - by Sir Richard Branson

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"According to InsideHR, only half of recruitment decisions end up being good for either the employer or the employee, and that is just staggering."

In today's minisode, I go back through the archives. Over the course of the last 6 years of this podcast, I have asked dozens of CEOs what their number one question is that they ask candidates in interviews and how they get to hire high performers.

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We're going to talk about:

✅ Why hiring is so crucial, and how it really can make or break a business

✅ The top 7 interview questions from our guests, and

✅ Encouraging you to adapt some of these questions for your own business.

Stay epic,

Greg

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"I know that even in stressful periods, if you stop for a second to breathe, you'll realise that it's never as bad or as urgent as you think it is at the time."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is Ben Cohn, Co-Founder and CEO of TAXIBOX.

His full episode is titled Infusing fun and creativity into your brand, lessons on building a high performance culture, and coping with anxiety and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Ben co-founded TAXIBOX, Australia's leading mobile storage company, in 2010.

He is also the co-founder of Calcumate, a proprietary online storage calculator initially developed for TAXIBOX that has since become the most in-demand storage calculator available to self-storage and moving providers worldwide.

In the last three years alone, TAXIBOX has successfully doubled the business and significantly grown its leadership team.

Ben was born in South Africa and moved to Israel with his family in the 1990s, before settling in Australia, where he completed a Bachelor of Commerce in Commercial Law and Finance from the University of Sydney.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ How TAXIBOX has purposefully built a brand personality around fun and creativity

✅ Weaving this brand into the culture of the organisation

✅ But also where some of those cultural efforts have gone too far, and

✅ His personal struggles with anxiety and how he manages it on a daily basis

You can connect with Ben via LinkedIn.

Inner Chief Podcast Episode 209 - Jennifer Holland ("today's no is tomorrow's yes")

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"I know that even in stressful periods, if you stop for a second to breathe, you'll realise that it's never as bad or as urgent as you think it is at the time."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Ben Cohn, Co-Founder and CEO of TAXIBOX, on infusing fun and creativity into your brand, lessons on building a high performance culture, and coping with anxiety.

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Ben co-founded TAXIBOX, Australia's leading mobile storage company, in 2010.

He is also the co-founder of Calcumate, a proprietary online storage calculator initially developed for TAXIBOX that has since become the most in-demand storage calculator available to self-storage and moving providers worldwide.

In the last three years alone, TAXIBOX has successfully doubled the business and significantly grown its leadership team.

Ben was born in South Africa and moved to Israel with his family in the 1990s, before settling in Australia, where he completed a Bachelor of Commerce in Commercial Law and Finance from the University of Sydney.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ How TAXIBOX has purposefully built a brand personality around fun and creativity

✅ Weaving this brand into the culture of the organisation

✅ But also where some of those cultural efforts have gone too far, and

✅ His personal struggles with anxiety and how he manages it on a daily basis

You can connect with Ben via LinkedIn.

• Inner Chief Podcast Episode 209 - Jennifer Holland ("today's no is tomorrow's yes")

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"I'm in a position that, if I don't show resilience, I can't expect everyone else to show resilience."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest episode is from our Best of Series, with Melbourne Rebels CEO, Baden Stephenson.

His full episode is titled Leading high performers and giving clarity to your organisation and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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I interviewed Baden for this podcast back in August 2018.

Baden's path to become CEO of professional rugby club, The Melbourne Rebels, has been different to most. He transitioned from the Coaching and Operations departments and finally got his first CEO role with them in 2017.

He was heavily involved as the GM of Rugby, when, in 2017, the Melbourne Rebels luckily managed to save their Super Rugby licence, under controversial circumstances.

Ultimately, when that process concluded, he was selected to lead the club into the future and is still at the helm.

Baden's prior experience was as the Director of Operations and EGM at Sydney University Football Club, after a number of years involved as a coach both in Australia and in Japan.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ Having empathy for your people and showing they are valued

✅ Dealing with huge uncertainty and keeping staff motivated

✅ The contagion of your emotions within an organisation, and

✅ Leading high performers in a professional environment

You can connect with Baden via LinkedIn.

• Mindset - by Carol Dweck

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"I'm in a position that, if I don't show resilience, I can't expect everyone else to show resilience."

In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Melbourne Rebels CEO, Baden Stephenson, on leading high performers and giving clarity to your organisation.

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I interviewed Baden for this podcast back in August 2018.

Baden's path to become CEO of professional rugby club, The Melbourne Rebels, has been different to most. He transitioned from the Coaching and Operations departments and finally got his first CEO role with them in 2017.

He was heavily involved as the GM of Rugby, when, in 2017, the Melbourne Rebels luckily managed to save their Super Rugby licence, under controversial circumstances.

Ultimately, when that process concluded, he was selected to lead the club into the future and is still at the helm.

Baden's prior experience was as the Director of Operations and EGM at Sydney University Football Club, after a number of years involved as a coach both in Australia and in Japan.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ Having empathy for your people and showing they are valued

✅ Dealing with huge uncertainty and keeping staff motivated

✅ The contagion of your emotions within an organisation, and

✅ Leading high performers in a professional environment

You can connect with Baden via LinkedIn.

• Mindset - by Carol Dweck

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