Welcome to this episode of the IEP with Jodie Hawkins. Jodie is currently the General Manager of the Sydney Sixers and has been part of the team that has helped the club been one of the most successful in WBBL and BBL history. The reason I wanted to get her on is that the culture built at the sixers is one that prioritizes giving back - whether it's pride rounds or supporting cancer patients, Jodie has helped build a brand that clearly prioritises building a legacy beyond the cricket pitch, a big difference to the traditional model that is based on sponsorship deals with companies with big platforms, paying big money. The sixers also prioritize good characters in their recruitment, seeing the human before the athlete has helped unlock performance both on and off the field. 

A lot of what we talk about in the performance space is about shifting perspective.  Shifting away from finding purpose in being individually successful, to finding purpose in helping others. It's also about making sure we don't get caught up in the crazy world of professional sport and maintain our perspective on what is really important. 

Topics Discussed

The importance of social impact in creating a successful sports business
How to get the best out of people through allowing them to be authentic and create a feeling of belonging
How the Sixers go about recruitment by prioritizing character traits
The importance of values and how the Sixers go about developing them to actually have an impact
What makes Greg Shepperd one of the most successful coaches in T20 cricket
How to go about delisting players
he growth of the WBBL and how the Sixers have learnt from mistakes made early in the competition
How Jodie deals with failure as someone who is extremely passionate
How standing still is dangerous

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Seeing sport grow in professionalism has brought so many benefits in the world of high-performance. However, this constant search for the next edge in high performance has led to more analysis, more box-ticking and more distractions than ever before.

The Inside Edge Podcast aims to explore how the best in the world navigate all the noise to consistently perform in the most rugged and high-pressure environments. The purpose? To bring back enjoyment, simplicity and connection. To help the next generation live from the inside-out, have the courage to be themselves and simply enjoy the journey.

Our guest this week is Yogesh Golwalkar, first-class leg spinner who has represented, India A, Madhya Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy, Middlesex CCC and was part of the Kings XI Punjab squad in the IPL. Yogesh is a genius when it comes to the art of leg-spin bowling. Although not a big name, his knowledge gained from competing in the most competitive leagues in India is incredible. His thoughts on finding your mental rhythm and avoiding getting too analytical were game changers for me and I'm sure you'll get a lot out of this one. I truly believe the best coaches are usually the ones that have had to grind their way to the top and this is certainly the case for Yogesh.

Topic Discussed

• Battling through the system in India to play first class cricket 
• Power of mentors and what made them good
• How focusing on being your best helps to deal with the elements of sport you can't control
• How combining the theory of marginal gains and growth mindset are the keys to progressing as a leg spinner
• The key elements to include in your bowling routine 
• Relying on hunger and passion rather than numbers and analysis 
• How lessons from his cricket career have helped his career in business

 

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Seeing sport grow in professionalism has brought so many benefits in the world of high-performance. However, this constant search for the next edge in high performance has led to more analysis, more box-ticking and more distractions than ever before.

The Inside Edge Podcast aims to explore how the best in the world navigate all the noise to consistently perform in the most rugged and high-pressure environments. The purpose? To bring back enjoyment, simplicity and connection. To help the next generation live from the inside-out, have the courage to be themselves and simply enjoy the journey.

"I remember being at third man, I'd bowled an over and it didn't go very well. I put my sunglasses on and I had tears in my eyes. I remember thinking, I'm so out of my depth; I don't know what I'm doing here"

Welcome to this episode of the IEP with Kate Cross. Crossy has Represented England in all 3 formats of the game, as well as playing for both the Brisbane Heat and Perth Scorchers in the WBBL. I first met Crossy when she came to play in WA and she is hands down one of the best people I've ever met. She always has a smile on her face and made a huge contribution to shifting the culture of our team. At the time, I had no idea that she had been suffering from significant mental health problems to the point where she had to step away from the game in her prime and rediscover why she played and how to manage her mind in the process. She is brilliant in this podcast, opening up on how she worked with a psychologist, her family and coaches to not only get back to being healthy, but also to be able to thrive from the lessons she has learnt through her journey. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Embracing the expectation that came with being born into a sporting family and the first female to enter the Lancashire Academy 
• Getting dropped from the England Academy 
• Understanding why she played the game and the worth ethic required to reach the top
• Experiencing a significant mental health breakdown 
• Missing out on the 2017 home world cup 
• Working with a psychologist, coaches and family to work through mental health and performance anxiety issues
• Post-traumatic growth and FOPO
• Crossy's definition of success & high performance 

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Seeing sport grow in professionalism has brought so many benefits in the world of high-performance. However, this constant search for the next edge in high performance has led to more analysis, more box-ticking and more distractions than ever before.

The Inside Edge Podcast aims to explore how the best in the world navigate all the noise to consistently perform in the most rugged and high-pressure environments. The purpose? To bring back enjoyment, simplicity and connection. To help the next generation live from the inside-out, have the courage to be themselves and simply enjoy the journey.

The first episode of season 2 is with professional cricketer Naomi Dattani. Naomi is the captain of Middlesex in the UK, has played and won the KIA superleague with the Western Storm and is contracted with the London Spirit in The Hundred.  We first met in Perth when she was playing grade cricket for MGCC and I was immediately struck by how incrediblly hard she worked, especially for someone relatively young and having not had the privilege of growing up in a professional environment. She has had many battles, but as you'll learn, each one has inspired her to keep working hard and developing her mindset to eventually achieve her dream of being a fully professional sportswoman, when so many people around her were telling her to give up and get a real job. 

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Seeing sport grow in professionalism has brought so many benefits in the world of high-performance. However, this constant search for the next edge in high performance has led to more analysis, more box-ticking and more distractions than ever before.

The Inside Edge Podcast aims to explore how the best in the world navigate all the noise to consistently perform in the most rugged and high-pressure environments. The purpose? To bring back enjoyment, simplicity and connection. To help the next generation live from the inside-out, have the courage to be themselves and simply enjoy the journey.

Welcome to Ep 8 of the Inside Edge Podcast. Our guest this week is world renown leadership and mental skills coach Paddy Upton. Paddy has redefined coaching and performance in both cricket and the business world and I can't recommend his book, 'The Barefoot Coach' enough.

Some of his accomplishments include:

• Helping the Indian Cricket team win the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and become the no1 test team for the first time, 
• As performance director helped SA cricket to #1 in all 3 formats,
• The head coach of 5 different t20 teams in 12 tournaments despite not having a strong professional playing background
• He also has 4 degrees from 4 different universities including a professor of practice at Deakin University
• He has been the personal mental coach to over 100 pro athletes from 11 different sport codes and delivered over 250 keynote speeches. 

Topics discussed include:

• The missing piece of high performance and how Paddy leveraged true leadership to maximize success
• How learning from the business world has had a big impact on sport 
• What it means to leverage the art of high performance 
• How to create cultures through being rather than doing
• Harnessing eh collective intelligence of the group to co-create the culture you want to build
• Dealing with big ego's and how to harness them to collaborate in a team environment 
• The difference between inner-knowing, self-belief and operating from a place of ego
• How to actually let go and trust your instincts in a high-pressure environment
• Integrating spirituality into performance and how it can accelerate results

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Seeing sport grow in professionalism has brought so many benefits in the world of high-performance. However, this constant search for the next edge in high performance has led to more analysis, more box-ticking and more distractions than ever before.

The Inside Edge Podcast aims to explore how the best in the world navigate all the noise to consistently perform in the most rugged and high-pressure environments. The purpose? To bring back enjoyment, simplicity and connection. To help the next generation live from the inside-out, have the courage to be themselves and simply enjoy the journey.

Huss does not need much of an introduction, a legend of the aussie game and one of my heros growing up. He was widely regarded as one of the and hardest workers in world cricket and a very intense man. Along with this came many internal battles, he was constantly battling low self-belief and openly admits he crossed the line of pushing things too far. After getting dropped from the WA team he found a new sense of balance and freedom which then catapulted his career to playing for Australia and scoring thousands of runs across all 3 formats. He goes into great detail around his training strategies and mental routines and I'm sure you will all get a lot out of this one. 

• Being too intense and working too hard having a detrimental effect on his performance
• How comparing himself to others led to inconsistency and getting dropped
• The basics of his batting mechanics and how he trained that
• Huss' 4 step batting routine that helped him navigate high pressure environments
• Managing his emotions during his test debut 
• The importance of celebrating success in being able to maintain a high intensity when on the field 
• How the Chennai Super Kings have maintained a strong team culture and sustained performance in the IPL
• How he helped the Sydney Thunder go from being at the bottom of the league to winning the BBL
• How he approaches coaching in the IPL with players such as MS Dhoni, Faf Du Plessis, Rayudu

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Seeing sport grow in professionalism has brought so many benefits in the world of high-performance. However, this constant search for the next edge in high performance has led to more analysis, more box-ticking and more distractions than ever before.

The Inside Edge Podcast aims to explore how the best in the world navigate all the noise to consistently perform in the most rugged and high-pressure environments. The purpose? To bring back enjoyment, simplicity and connection. To help the next generation live from the inside-out, have the courage to be themselves and simply enjoy the journey.

Topics Discussed
Dealing with limited prep and COVID lockdowns leading into WBBL
Trying to find the balance between being attacking and reckless
Dealing with being in and out of form
Comparing herself to others and falling in to the trap of searching for answers external to her
How Junior moved through the 3 stages of the Heroes journey to find fulfillment
Advice received from Rachel Haynes to help deal with being dropped over and over again
The common traits in the best team cultures
What makes her coach Dulip Samaraweera so good
Managing being in a cricket bubble when personal performances aren't going well
The pressure Junior put on herself during WBB05 by looking too far ahead
Dealing with missing out on the squad for the T20 world cup at her home ground
How she is managing her mind and planning for the upcoming WBBL

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Seeing sport grow in professionalism has brought so many benefits in the world of high-performance. However, this constant search for the next edge in high performance has led to more analysis, more box-ticking and more distractions than ever before.

The Inside Edge Podcast aims to explore how the best in the world navigate all the noise to consistently perform in the most rugged and high-pressure environments. The purpose? To bring back enjoyment, simplicity and connection. To help the next generation live from the inside-out, have the courage to be themselves and simply enjoy the journey.

Our guest this week is the captain of the White Ferns and #1 ranked t20 player, Sophie Devine. She has close to 200 international caps, broken numerous records and is arguably the most sought after player in franchise cricket. To top it off, she has also represented the NZ women's hockey team and was extremely close to playing for them at the Olympics. The list of accolades could go on forever, however, Sophie's story so far is filled with some significant challenges, including getting diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a teenager, giving up cricket to chase an Olympic dream, only to miss out oat the last moment and battling a serious bout of depression. Through her journey she has learned some valuable lessons and continues to use tools such as yoga and meditation to help her both on and off the field. 

In this podcast:

• The dangers of early specialization and how playing a wide range of sport make a huge difference to her skillset now
• Getting Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes - thinking she was never going to play sport again and the role her support network played in getting her back on track
• Making the decision to step away from cricket to chase an Olympic dream
• Experiencing the professionalism of the Balck Sticks and how that had a significant effect on how she operated as an athlete
• Professionalism vs perfectionism 
• How Sophie maintains focus on her natural strengths when she is under pressure
• Yoga and mindfulness practice leading to ease and peace at the crease and in life
• Dealing with clinical depression and anxiety where Sophie could not get out of bed or go onto the cricket field without breaking down
• How the White Ferns are integrating purpose mindset into their culture
• How Sophie has changed how she values herself
• What Sophie hopes the next generation gets right 

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Seeing sport grow in professionalism has brought so many benefits in the world of high-performance. However, this constant search for the next edge in high performance has led to more analysis, more box-ticking and more distractions than ever before.

The Inside Edge Podcast aims to explore how the best in the world navigate all the noise to consistently perform in the most rugged and high-pressure environments. The purpose? To bring back enjoyment, simplicity and connection. To help the next generation live from the inside-out, have the courage to be themselves and simply enjoy the journey.

Drewe Broughton is a former professional footballer and now a performance coach. As a young man, he was exceptionally talented, representing England U20s alongside a golden generation. He had a deep drive to succeed, however, an inability to control this desire and fall into the trap of the fear led to a continuous rollercoaster, jumping to 22 different clubs in 17 years and eventually ending up alone -  bankrupt, suffering from addiction and contemplating life. As always, the lessons learned from suffering can provide us with the power to really impact the lives of others, and Drewe has certainly been able to do that. He is now a performance coach, working with Premier League Footballers, elite golfers and business leaders to help them navigate performing at their edge while in the arena. He is also a husband and father that really does live the same pearls of wisdom he shares with his clients. Reading his book and following his work has had a deep impact on my journey so far and  I'm sure you will get a lot out of tuning in.

Topics discussed

• What caused Drewe to go from 25 goals/season to less than 10 even though he was doing more and in more professional environments 
• Hard work is not a given. What it really means to work hard. 
• How the gift of work ethic can lead to the curse of perfectionism. Where the line is and how push yourself without crossing that line.
• The missing component of coaching qualifications 
• Why Drewe had a significantly different career path to Cristiano Ronaldo despite having the same work ethic and starting out as a talented player
• The one thing Kobe Bryant, The All Blacks, Cathy Freeman and many more have in common
• Tools used by Drewe to help the best athletes in the world overcome fear
• How spirituality simply means being more of yourself and trusting in something bigger than yourself
• The search leading Drewe to addiction, severe depression and loss of self

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Seeing sport grow in professionalism has brought so many benefits in the world of high-performance. However, this constant search for the next edge in high performance has led to more analysis, more box-ticking and more distractions than ever before.

The Inside Edge Podcast aims to explore how the best in the world navigate all the noise to consistently perform in the most rugged and high-pressure environments. The purpose? To bring back enjoyment, simplicity and connection. To help the next generation live from the inside-out, have the courage to be themselves and simply enjoy the journey.

Molly Strano is an Australian off-spinner and well known as one of the great characters of the game. She is the reigning domestic player of the year & leading all-time wicket-taker in WBBL.
A Self-described raging extrovert, she genuinely believes she was born in the wrong era and has been best on ground at numerous mad-mondays. Behind all the shenanigans off the field, she is a big cricket badger, lover of the game and I hope you enjoy hearing her story.


4:09 - Making her Debut in a star-studded Victorian side as a 16 year old
5:30 - Dealing with the pressures of fitness tests and professionalism
6:15 - How she learned about work ethic and enjoyment from leaders in the Victorian team such as Kristen Beams, Kelly Applebee, Catherine Fitzpatrick and Elyse Villani,
10:00 - How comparing yourself to others can be so detrimental
12:00 - Experiencing the 'second-year blues' and falling out of love for the game before going to England to play for Staffordshire
16:00 - The keys to dealing with the pressure she puts on herself
17:50 - Developing from bowling very slow and loopy to flat and into the wicket and one of the best at opening the bowling in t20
18:40 - What makes Kristen Beams a great mentor
21:10 - How embracing her natural strengths ended up completely changing the direction of her career
25:20 - The keys to preparing to play at her best
29:36 - Molly talks us through conceding 17 runs in an over as the Renegades lost a close battle with the Scorchers
33:45 - What the best captains do to help Molly perform
35:50 - Dealing with injury setbacks including a stress fracture that kept her out of an entire WNCL season
39:50 - Going from club cricket to opening the bowling in the t20 world cup
41:30 - How the Australian leadership group dealt with being under pressure in the t20 world cup
46:00 - How Molly's definition of success has shifted through her career
48:00 - Who is Molly at her best

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Seeing sport grow in professionalism has brought so many benefits in the world of high-performance. However, this constant search for the next edge in high performance has led to more analysis, more box-ticking and more distractions than ever before.

The Inside Edge Podcast aims to explore how the best in the world navigate all the noise to consistently perform in the most rugged and high-pressure environments. The purpose? To bring back enjoyment, simplicity and connection. To help the next generation live from the inside-out, have the courage to be themselves and simply enjoy the journey.