EP 12

Your host // Tim Bishop

Our guest // Chris Merlo 

About Chris

Chris Merlo, or “Merls” as he is more commonly known, has a proven track record in helping others to overcome addictions, conquer depression, improve relationships, banish anxiety and reach peak mental health and physical fitness. A certified Strategic Intervention Coach and fitness specialist with a social media following of over 2000 people, Chris is fast becoming a highly sought after public speaker and recovery coach. It is through Chris’ own experiences over 20+ years in battling depression, anxiety, drugs, and alcoholism which have provided him with the knowledge and tools to help others overcome all this and so much more. Chris has worked with sports people, authors, property moguls, musicians, housewives, teenagers, corporate professionals, the unemployed, restauranteurs, those suffering with terminal illness and retirees. He has a direct approach mixed with compassion and humour. Chris pulls no punches in his sessions and warns his clients the process could be initially confronting but ultimately rewarding.

This Episode

• How do you know what you've go to give
• Overcoming addiction
• Loving your pain
• Using your history to win
• How to find the joy in the small things
• Approach the void of uncertainty and fear
• How to become a great man
• How to change your story

 

 

EP 11

Your host // Tim Bishop

Our guest // Amon Woulfe 

About Amon

Amon is the founder of Collective Mind, a mind performance company. An expert in Mind Training, Amon works with Australia’s elite sporting clubs and athletes, as well as leading corporate brands, to train the mind to excel in high-pressure high-stakes environments. With a background in leadership development and organisational change, Amon’s passion is to unlock the blueprint of Collective Flow States, the highest state of team performance. To answer the question - what's the 'glue' that keeps great teams together, or tears them apart in the biggest moments? With an approach that spans Developmental Psychology, Neuroscience, Body Psychotherapy, Integral Theory, Power Intelligence and traditional Eastern Practices, he draws on a vast array of techniques to create training and coaching that is cutting edge as well as highly experiential. Highlights include currently working with the AFL leading Adelaide Crows, part of the team that helped the South Sydney Rabbitohs win the NRL Premiership in 2014, as well as driving performance at leading corporate brands like Nestle, Lendlease and Universal Sony.  Amon’s work brings cognitive development firmly out of pathology and into the realm of high performance.

This Episode

• The difference between high performance & peak performance
• The importance of having a healthy relationship with death
• Identity and the masks we wear
• Resilience - how this was built early in Amon's life and how it served him later
• Emotions - how they are created
• The four brains

Resources Mentioned In This Episode: 

Dying Wise - Stephen Jenkinson

Illusions - Richard Bach

Deviate - Beau Lotto

EP 09

Your host // Tim Bishop

Our guest // Alice Haemmerle 

About Alice

Alice is the Founder and Leader of the Instant Insight Academy, which delivers mentoring programs, trainings and online courses in leadership, influence and 21st century education and learning skills. She has trained thousands of people in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and has coached global companies, national brands, Olympians, couples and individuals.

Alice has developed and delivered many unique and powerful training programs and coaching systems for Leadership, Sales, Training & Presentation Skills, Productivity, Relationships and Sports excellence, utilizing whole brain thinking, accelerated learning techniques, on-line training and face-to-face immersion trainings.

 

This Episode

• Self awareness

• The power of language

• Learning & unlearning

• How to connect 

• Power of relationships

• Exploiting your own skill sets

• The power of feedback

 

 

EP 10

Your host // Tim Bishop

Our guest // Darcy Smyth 

About Darcy

Darcy J Smyth is the lead trainer and creator of the Tonal Persuasion Method for Sales - a methodology designed to ensure small business owners are creating and closing high value sales without the need for the dreaded ‘Hard Sell’ that turns so many buyers away in the modern business landscape. Darcy’s unique approach to combing human psychology, creative problem solving and ‘massive value’ concepts to the modern sales approach is having a significant impact on the way small business owners are closing sales Australia-wide and overseas.  He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia but can often be found running his business from anywhere in the world, as he expresses ongoing gratitude and humility for the lifestyle that can be designed for the modern business owner if they’re willing to do the work and capitalise on what is available to them in the technological age.  Darcy enjoys spending his spare time writing, developing and creating new content to deliver to his sales community that continues to grow in quality and quantity each day, and is the proud author of the recently released ‘Some Things Never Change: A successful grandfather and his entrepreneurial grandson discuss what it takes to thrive in the first two years of business’.

 

This Episode

• Darcy's journey into building a business
• Booking writing
• Building your own brand
• Creating a engaged community & tribe
• Why sales!

 

Resources Mentioned In This Episode: 

‘Some Things Never Change: A successful grandfather and his entrepreneurial grandson discuss what it takes to thrive in the first two years of business’ by Darcy J Smyth 

EP 08

Your host // Nat Hodges

Our guest // Phil Heywood 

About Phil

Phil Heywood has been associated with planning in Queensland for more than thirty years, both as head of QUT’s Department of Planning & Landscape Architecture, and subsequently as a community planner, advocate and activist.

 

A Life Fellow and previous President of the Queensland PIA, he is author of Community Planning: integrating social and physical environments (2011); The Emerging Social Metropolis (1997); and Planning & Human Need (1974) as well as numerous articles on social planning, community governance, public participation and planning for truly independent societies.

 

He remains a Visiting Associate with QUT, supervising research projects and teaching planning processes and practice.

 

This Episode

• Life as a young radical at Oxford University
• Oxford during a time of great protest and political movement 
• Spending time with Stephen Hawking
• Organising the campaign for nuclear disarmament
• National service during the Independence in West Africa
• How to change the system
• Dissolving personal boundaries
• The importance of reflection
• Why we should all interact with the world

 

Resources Mentioned In This Episode: 

Community Planning: Integrating social and physical environments by Phil Heywood

The Emerging Social Metropolis: Successful Planning Initiatives in Five New World Metropolitan Regions by Phil Heywood

Planning & Human Need by Phil Heywood 

 

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EP 07

Your host // Nat Hodges

Our guest // Lachlan Stuart 

About Lachlan

Lachie has been in the Network Marketing Profession for 3 years and prior to that had been playing high level rugby in France. Since joining the profession Lachie has seen the power of personal development and what it can do for people.   While growing an organisation that stands into four countries Lachie has fallen in love with helping people have personal breakthroughs. Building better people is his main aim for his business and also his life.   Lachie is super people focused but also really loves the added attention to detail with how business works. Ranging from relationship management, to marketing and advertising.    He is a network marketing professional and believes it is an incredible vehicle for ordinary people to learn and grow and create a long term stream of income.  

This Episode

• Network Marketing - what it takes and the reality of it
• Buying into someone else's vision
• Residual income - is it really?
• MLM as a craft
• What the next evolved leader may look like
• Millenial leadership
• Lachie's mission and the identity shift it required
• The importance of showing up for yourself

 

Resources Mentioned In This Episode: 

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/lachlanstuart1

Instagram - @lachlanstuart

 

 If you're ready to play a bigger game, start here  |  www.nxtlvl.com.au/zero

EP 06

Your host // Tim Bishop

Our guest // Kitty Blomfield & Craig McDonald 

About NuStrength

Craig McDonald and Kitty Blomfield are the owner/directors of NuStrength gym in Mt Gravatt, QLD. Their philosophies around training and nutrition focus on progress. Everything they do is tested and measured so they can make intelligent decisions around what to change if it doesn’t work. They also believe in educating their clients. Not just telling them what to do lift, eat or how to think in order to reach their goals.

Craig and Kitty run workshops around training, nutrition and mindset so that their clients have the skills and knowledge to achieve their goals in and out of the gym. NXT LVL contributed to their journey and business by helping them play a bigger game. This meant stepping fully into their leadership roles in order to build a successful business and help people win at life.

This Episode

• How Kitty & Craig met
• What is NuStrength?
• NuStrength’s philosophies
• Awareness then education
• Finding what you love – then what?
• Building a raving fan base
• Culture & client experience
• Delivering on vision and mission
• The importance of backend systems and structure
• Stop doing dumb shit

 

Resources Mentioned In This Episode: 

https://nustrength.com.au/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NuStrength/

Instagram - @nustrength4122

 

 If you're ready to play a bigger game, start here  |  www.nxtlvl.com.au/zero

EP 05

Your host // Nat Hodges

Our guest // Matthias Turner & Stacey Harris from The Chief Life 

About The Chief Life

Stacey and Matthias are the directors and co-founders of The Chief Life, a tribe of like-minded, motivated and inspiring individuals who live by example and want to help you improve your health and performance by transforming your whole life from a health perspective. You can reach out to them today if you want to take personalised control of your health and fitness, it's not just training and a nutrition plan, it's a way of life.

This Episode

• What and who is The Chief Life?
• How Stacey & Matthias discovered The Chief Life.
• What does it mean to be a Chief?
  • Enhancing human performance & the various aspects you can explore this
• How to manage risk in business
• Being led by heart, head or gut
• How Stacey & Matthias balance each other with starting & finishing a project
• The importance of resynthesis in business & life
• Taking and funnelling feedback from clients – lessons in this process
• Pay to pay attention
• How they maintain strong connection with clients, despite being mostly an online business
• Getting real about ONLINE
• Matthias & Stacey's backgrounds & how that has shaped their approach to business and decision making
• Where business & spirituality interconnect
• The element of a hero in business // Chief

 

 Resources Mentioned In This Episode: 

Anything You Want - Derek Sivers

www.thechieflife.com

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thechieflife/

Instagram - @thechieflife

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgtU-rbG4kiurZMh1BRDo0g

Podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-chief-life-podcast/id1077606927?mt=2

Wealth of Health Event on 1 July - http://www.freddyjaco.com/event

 

 If you're ready to play a bigger game, go here  |  www.nxtlvl.com.au/zero

EP 04

Your host // Tim Bishop

Our guest // Cheyne Truelove 

GOLD Chunk from Cheyne

“I now look at challenges as awesome opportunities.” 

About Cheyne

Cheyne is a Sergeant in the Australian Army, having progressed through the ranks for the past 15 years.  Cheyne experienced multiple deployments to the Middle East, and post-tour, he  transformed PTSD into a growth experience and now leads other men in doing the same. 

This Episode:

• Cheyne’s story
  • Deployments & experience
  • PTSD
  • Cheyne’s role in the Australia Army
• Cheyne describes an intense deployment experience and how he emotionally responded after
• What stopped Cheyne from taking his life & the importance of connection
• How leadership can be tested
• Cheyne realised that it's not what people see but its what people don’t see that matters in leadership.
• Turning dark to light and how Cheyne turned his PTSD into a greatest growth experience
• Removing the stigma of emotional expression in men
  • That it heals you
  • Allows you to grow
  • It empowers you
  • What it does for relationships
• Metaphorical armour
• Where the journey of self mastery began for Cheyne
• The tag & label around PTSD
  • How your identity can succumb to experiences such as this
• Identity shifts & what this meant for changes in Cheyne’s world
• How Cheyne approaches challenge differently
• How action comes before confidence

Resources Mentioned In This Episode: 

Honour Roll  |  http://www.defence.gov.au/vale/

Hero's Journey Diagram  |  http://www.nxtlvl.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_7174.PNG.png

 

If you're ready to play a bigger game, go here www.nxtlvl.com.au/zero

EP 03

Your host // Nat Hodges

Our guest // Jack Conway

 

About Jack

Jack is an athlete with his sights set on competing at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018. He has been achieving in athletics for 10 years, specialising in 110m hurdles.  However his passion for sport and all things fitness extends far beyond the track.

Away from athletics, Jack works for Flight Centre in one of the finance teams and is currently studying to complete his CPA. Jack’s value in loyalty combined with strong family ties, helps keep his feet solid on the ground through the journey of being an athlete.

When he is not in training, you can often find him at your local Guzman Y Gomez lining up for a burrito.

 

This Episode:

o   The realities of being an athlete

o    Inside the pitfalls of injuries

o   The importance of coaching

o   Life outside of sport

o   Some important advice a coach gave Jack

o   Preparing mentally for beyond the sport

o   Why do it?

o   Coaching vs high performance within sport

o   Competition

o   What keeps Jack in check when the mechanics get boring

o   You can’t be normal. You need to be exceptional.

o   Does belief play a role in achievement?

 

If you're ready to play a bigger game, go here  |  www.nxtlvl.com.au/zero