Welcome to the 2020 Summer Series as we take a bring you the best of the best episodes on from the world of elite sport and performance.

This week we meet Stirling Mortlock, former Wallabies' captain on going from amateur to professional, Rugby World Cup and connecting success.

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Stirling is an Australian Rugby Legend and now a Partner at Unio Advisors.

In this episode, we talk about:

• The transition from amateur to professional
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Being curious and the mindset to constantly be better
• Setting goals and his mentors
• Rugby world cup tips
• Some of his best and worst moments in the gold jersey
• Who he feared the most and how he looked to dominate the competition.

Connecting with Stirling Mortlock

You can reach Stirlo via LinkedIn and his company's website, Unio Advisors.

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Welcome to the 2020 Summer Series as we take a bring you the best of the best episodes on from the world of elite sport and performance. In this episode we cover the power of high performance lifecycles and how to use them to automate the pursuit of excellence. The pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of all great performers. It means mastering your craft and continually working to improve yourself. It also means leading your team to work collectively to improve itself. The long term benefits have an incredible compound effect on your ability to get results and rise above the pack. I outline: - the Prepare, Perform, Recover, Review (P2R2) Lifecycle - How to lock this into as a system that drives performance - How to optimise each step - Some tricks to stay focused and embed the system Follow Chief Maker

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Welcome to the 2020 Summer Series as we take a bring you the best of the best episodes on from the world of elite sport and performance.

In this episode, we meet Cameron Schwab, 25 Year CEO of AFL Clubs on Leading in High Stakes Environments, Hard Decisions and Creating High Performance Systems.

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Cameron was appointed CEO of the famous Richmond Football Club at age 24, the youngest in the history of the game.

For the next 25 years, he was CEO of Richmond, Melbourne and Fremantle, when those clubs were at their lowest ebb, both on and off the field. He is the second longest serving CEO in the modern game.

Having taken on some of the sport's most difficult and daunting challenges, Cameron established a track record of building teams and organisations, unifying groups while navigating periods of genuine adversity and complexity.

In this episode we talk about:

• The question you need to ask yourself to see if you're ready for a promotion
• The lessons he learned from the hardest decisions you can make - firing a close personal friend
• How to implement systems that drive performance
• What we can learn from sport and what isn't so transferrable
• What we can all learn from fine art about life and work.

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Welcome to the 2020 Summer Series as we take a bring you the best of the best episodes on from the world of elite sport and performance.

In this episode I talk about confidence and the critical role it plays in performance and career progression. The topics is huge and I've split it out of over two minisodes. In this episode we'll focus on 7 big blockers that most of us can take practical action to turnaround if pay close attention to our performance.

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Welcome to the 2020 Summer Series as we take a bring you the best of the best episodes on from the world of elite sport and performance.

In this episode, we meet Janine Shepherd AM, Resilience and Motivation guru on Cultivating gratitude, the 12 Pillars of Resilience and healing through laughter.

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Janine was an Australian cross country skier, when in 1986, while training for the Winter Olympics on her bike in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, she was hit by a speeding truck. She broke multiple bones in her body, lost 5 litres of blood and spent the next 6 months in the spinal unit of a hospital where she began her long journey from probable death to recovery.

While learning to walk again, she gained her private and commercial pilot's licences and has gone on to receive an instructor rating, an aerobatics rating and seaplane rating.

Janine has also completed multiple academic qualifications and written 6 books, inspired films and coached and spoken to millions of people.

She has 3 children, and received the Order of Australia (AM) in 2001 and the Outstanding Young Person of the World in 1998.

In this episode we talk about:

• How the power of cultivating gratitude and the gift of acceptance got her through her hospital experience;
• How letting go of her former identity helped her discover a new one beyond her wildest dreams;
• The resilience she developed while going through a marriage breakup, financial disaster and moving countries;
• Finding laughter and rewiring your brain for a different experience of life; and
• How the ketogenic diet helped her become pain-free.

Connecting with Janine Shepherd AM

You can reach Janine on her website and can find her various books on Amazon.

Books and resources mentioned in the episode

• Janine's TED Talk - A broken body isn't a broken person
• Defiant - by Janine Shepherd AM
• Test Your Resilience
• The Brain that Changes Itself - by Norman Doidge
• The 30-Day Ketogenic Cleanse - by Maria Emmerich
• Articles by Steve Phinney
• Anatomy of an Illness - by Norman Cousins
• Man's Search for Meaning - by Viktor Frankl
• Power of Now - by Eckhart Tolle
• New Earth - by Eckhart Tolle
• The Hero's Journey - by Joseph Campbell

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Welcome to the 2020 Summer Series as we take a bring you the best of the best episodes on from the world of elite sport and performance.

In this episode I talk about confidence and the critical role it plays in performance and career progression. The topics is huge and I've split it out of over two minisodes. In this episode we'll focus on 7 big blockers that most of us can take practical action to turnaround if pay close attention to our performance.

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Welcome to the 2020 Summer Series as we take a bring you the best of the best episodes on from the world of elite sport and performance.

In this episode, we meet Ali Terai, Founder & CEO of Future Golf on turning lemons into lemonade, business gestation and value exchange.

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Ali founded Future Golf, a passion-driven business launched with less than $200 and a Facebook post, which is now one of Australia's fastest growing startups

He also founded The Inspire Project, teaching young people Entrepreneurship, and has authored, crowdfunded and published a children's book called A Little Penguin's Guide to Life.

If that's not enough, Ali has founded and launched a wallet, travel blog, pop-up burger restaurant, pub-crawl company, professional preparation program and number of smaller golf ventures.

He was a winner at the 2019 Telstra Business Awards and has been nominated for various other awards.

In this episode we talk about:

• How an eager young Ali found a loophole in the system of selling The AFL's matchday program, The Record, and how he "turned lemons into lemonade";
• How he has built passion-based businesses and loves speaking to young people about transformation;
• Why he spent a long time on the sidelines waiting for the businesses to gestate before jumping in full-time; and
• The value-exchange business models he has devised and how they have evolved.

Connecting with Ali Terai

You can reach Ali on LinkedIn and through his websites, Future Golf and AliTerai.com.

Books and resources mentioned in the episode

• The Lean Startup - by Eric Ries
• The E-Myth Contractor - by Michael Gerber
• The 4-Hour Workweek - by Tim Ferriss
• A Little Penguin's Guide to Life - by Ali Terai

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Welcome to the 2020 Summer Series as we take a bring you the best of the best episodes on from the world of elite sport and performance.

Take 3 deep breaths before you listen to this episode. Centre the soul. The 'busy-ness' syndrome is in plague proportions and is driving so many managers towards burn-out, low quality work, strained relationships and disconnecting from their purpose and meaning. Recovery is our great weapon in bringing our true spirit and greatest performances to the table. Without effective recovery we can not perform at our best and we look like we need development rather than a promotion. In this episode I cover the importance of recovery and a range of 'active' and 'passive' recovery techniques that work in the corporate world.

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Welcome to the 2020 Summer Series as we take a bring you the best of the best episodes on from the world of elite sport and performance.

In this episode we hear from Golf Coaching legend Peter Knight on mastering your craft.

Peter Knight is one of only four master golf professionals in Australia. He is the author of Iron Golf Mind and has over 25 of years successfully coaching at State and National level as well as driving golf programmes for the Australian Institute of Sport, Golf Australia, Taiwan Golf, Golf Victoria, NSW Golf and NSW Institute of Sport.

In 2012 he was one of three coaches in Victoria recognised for his contribution to coaching in Australia over the past 100 years.

His book is called Iron Golf Mind: Five lessons to achieve an amazingly strong mindset for golf. And might I add - your career and life in general.

During this far reaching interview we explore:

• His 5 C's of Optimal Performance - Confidence, Concentration, Commitment, Composure and Competitiveness
• What is mastery and how you can apply it in your work
• How do you build the right routines around your performances
• The most important question you should ask yourself everyday if you want to master your profession

You can connect with Peter on Facebook here @MelbourneGolfCoach.

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Welcome to the 2020 Summer Series as we take a bring you the best of the best episodes on from the world of elite sport and performance. We kick things off with a repeat of a one of our most popular episodes...

In this episode we talk about executing your Life Vision as part 2. If you haven't listened to Episode 57 of building your Life Vision I'd recommend doing that first. There is an old saying, "Vision without execution is just a dream". And, chief, I've got a confession so make this was me. I was a dreamer with all sorts of grand ideas about who or what I'd become. I always had new ideas and goals that all seemed to flow from my creative mind. I was the line from poem "George Gray" by Edgar Lee Masters that I read in Ep 57 on building your life vision..."a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid." I was stuck in my own sheltered harbour. Not willing to do the hard work break the boundaries, to look inside myself at the things I liked about myself the least or the limiting beliefs I held and grow beyond them. It was only when I realised that all greatness requires challenge. It will requires a thousand steps one after the other to change my game. One must have a vision and one must execute. I've seen too many people with only one part of the pie. In Life Vision Part 1 we did some dreaming and created your life vision. Now we focus on execution. We take specific planned action towards our goals. .

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