The Inner Chief

"You can change somebody's sleep and you will change every single area of their 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 The Sleep Doctor, Dr Michael Breus.

His full episode is titled How to fix your sleep, achieving maximum performance outcomes, and the four chronotypes and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Dr Michael is a double board-certified Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Sleep Specialist.

He is the author of four books and an expert resource for most major publications, doing more than 400 interviews per year (Oprah, Dr. Oz, The Doctors, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.).

He has been in private practice for more than 2 decades and recently relocated to Los Angeles, where he was named the Top Sleep Doctor in the city by Readers Digest.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ How to fix your sleep through understanding your chronotype

✅ Why executives need to sleep optimally, but how all their staff can too

✅ The do's and don'ts of sleep readiness and waking up in the middle of the night, and

✅ The science behind dreams, sleep therapy and power naps.

You can connect with Michael via LinkedIn and his website.

• FREE Chronotypes Test

• Energize! Go from dragging Ass to kicking it in 30 days - by Dr Michael Breus

• The Power of When - by Dr Michael Breus

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"As a leader, you have to create an environment where you can happily give feedback to people; good, bad or indifferent."

In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature former Wallabies' captain, Stirling Mortlock AM, on going from amateur to professional and connecting success.

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I interviewed Stirling for this podcast in October 2019.

Stirling is a former Wallabies, Brumbies and Rebels Captain, as well as a Keynote Speaker, Leadership and Coaching Consultant. He is a Founding Partner of XV Capital Advisory, a sports advisory and investment firm that invests in global sports innovation.

Stirling played in 80 Test matches for the Wallabies, captaining them on 29 occasions and scoring 489 points. He scored the decisive try in the 2003 World Cup Semi-Final in Melbourne and nailed a sideline penalty in 2000 to help the Wallabies claim their maiden Tri-Nations Trophy.

He has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Sydney and also worked for NAB as a Wealth Director in the Institutional Banking sector.

In 2012, Stirling was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to rugby.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ The transition from amateur to professional rugby in the mid-1990s

✅ Giving and receiving feedback in elite high performance environments

✅ Being curious, setting goals and connecting success, and

✅ Who he feared the most on the rugby field and how he looked to dominate the competition.

You can reach Stirling on LinkedIn and via his website.

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"You can change somebody's sleep and you will change every single area of their life."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Dr Michael Breus, and we're going to talk about how to fix your sleep, achieving maximum performance outcomes, and the four chronotypes.

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Dr Michael is a double board-certified Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Sleep Specialist.

He is the author of four books and an expert resource for most major publications, doing more than 400 interviews per year (Oprah, Dr. Oz, The Doctors, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.).

He has been in private practice for more than 2 decades and recently relocated to Los Angeles, where he was named the Top Sleep Doctor in the city by Readers Digest.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ How to fix your sleep through understanding your chronotype

✅ Why executives need to sleep optimally, but how all their staff can too

✅ The do's and don't of sleep readiness and waking up in the middle of the night, and

✅ The science behind dreams, sleep therapy and power naps.

You can connect with Michael via LinkedIn and his website.

• FREE Chronotypes Test

• Energize! Go from dragging Ass to kicking it in 30 days - by Dr Michael Breus

• The Power of When - by Dr Michael Breus

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"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."

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 Dr Jeff Spencer, the man behind 40+ Olympic gold medals, and Tiger Woods' and Lance Armstrong's success.

Chiefs, this was so good, that we have prepared 3 Mini Chiefs for you - this is the third one on recovery and the second half of your life.

His full episode is titled Building your champion mindset and your pathway to your potential and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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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 OLY 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 OLY

✅ 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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"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."

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 Dr Jeff Spencer, the man behind 40+ Olympic gold medals, and Tiger Woods' and Lance Armstrong's success.

Chiefs, this was so good, that we have prepared 3 Mini Chiefs for you - this is the second one on the champion mind(set) and the 4 key questions.

His full episode is titled Building your champion mindset and your pathway to your potential and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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GET THE FREE CHIEF MAKER TOP 30 INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: chiefmaker.com/interview

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 OLY 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 OLY

✅ 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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"All great Chiefs have learned how to have difficult conversations and give feedback properly and they do this regularly."

In today's minisode, I want to give you the tools to help you make difficult performance conversations easy, or at the very least, easier than they have been for you in the past.

As an experienced coach, I've had a number of opportunities to work with people on shifting the dials for them personally and in their careers to help them achieve success. Sometimes, that means giving hard feedback. Chief, it really is a privileged position for me.

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We're going to talk about:

✅ The top 5 mistakes I've seen leaders make repeatedly when giving feedback and running performance reviews

✅ How to frame the message correctly, such that the person you're talking to, helps themselves to find appropriate solutions, and

✅ A download of the ultimate toolkit that prepares and guides you through these hard conversations in the future that will help you reduce stress and increase success.

Stay epic,

Greg

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"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."

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 Dr Jeff Spencer, the man behind 40+ Olympic gold medals, and Tiger Woods' and Lance Armstrong's success.

Chiefs, this was so good, that we have prepared 3 Mini Chiefs for you - the first one is around survival and seeker instincts and how to operate in seemingly contradictory states.

His full episode is titled Building your champion mindset and your pathway to your potential and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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GET THE FREE CHIEF MAKER TOP 30 INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: chiefmaker.com/interview

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 OLY 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 OLY

✅ 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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"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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GET THE FREE CHIEF MAKER TOP 30 INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: chiefmaker.com/interview

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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🤝 Connect with the Chief Maker