The You Project

Lisa Alexander is one of the most winning coaches in the history of Australian sport, having coached the Australia Netball Team (The Diamonds) to 83 wins from 102 test matches, giving her a rare (for professional sport) 81% winning record and making her the most capped Australian coach of all time. In this episode, Lisa and I talk about what makes a great coach and why. And no, we're not just talking about sporting coaches but rather, anyone in any leadership, teaching or coaching role in any field. It seems that certain skills, attributes and qualities are relevant and transferable across industries, environments and contexts.

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Lisa Alexander is one of the most winning coaches in the history of Australian sport, having coached the Australia Netball Team (The Diamonds) to 83 wins from 102 test matches, giving her a rare (for professional sport) 81% winning record and making her the most capped Australian coach of all time. In this episode, Lisa and I talk about what makes a great coach and why. And no, we're not just talking about sporting coaches but rather, anyone in any leadership, teaching or coaching role in any field. It seems that certain skills, attributes and qualities are relevant and transferable across industries, environments and contexts.

Enjoy.

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In what ways do you want future you to be better than current you? Choices? Actions? Results? Habits? Lifestyle? Mental health? Physical health? Diet? Financial health? Career? Relationships? What’s required for that theoretical future (the idea in your head) to become an actual reality? A lived experience? What’s your plan, process, timeline and most importantly, how committed are you to doing the work? Everyone loves the idea of ’better’ but very few will fully commit to the often-uncomfortable transformational journey. Is it time for you to step out of the theory?

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For Michelle Lee, being the first woman in the world to row the Pacific Ocean solo, unassisted and without stopping, was her version of escaping the matrix. 15,000 kilometres, Mexico to Australia, 240 days, rowing for 12 hours a day, converting sea water into drinking water, technical challenges, physical and medical challenges, crazy weather, losing 19kgs, total isolation, eight months of mostly dehydrated food (6 meals a day and still couldn't keep up with her energy needs) and a whole new world of self-discovery. This was an awesome conversation.

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Also known as scammers, schemers and hackers... cyber-thieves (as I call them) are scum (as I also call them) who want to rip off your mum, your grandma, your kids and of course, you. TYP's very own Tiff got hacked this week and so we fired a few timely questions at our resident geek and spoke about a few personal security strategies. We also covered how Al is now conducting job interviews, Patrick's mate who claimed his porn expenses as a tax deduction (wait till you hear the rationale), people opening tech-free cafes (zero phones or devices allowed), customers complaining about the lack of buttons, knobs and dials in modern cars, why electric cars might not be the environmental hero after all, what NASA and Google are doing to save tigers (there's only 4,500 left) and lots more. Enjoy.

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This episode is part two of my chat about how we can optimise our time, energy, resources and genetic potential in pursuit of better exercise outcomes. Enjoy.

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Facilitating more than forty thousand personal training sessions (my team completed over a million more) and working at the coal-face of fitness, exercise-programming, professional sport, and elite conditioning for decades, has given me a pretty good understanding of how to get the best bang for your buck when it comes to optimising your time, energy, resources and genetics, in relation to your exercise goals and needs.

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This casual chat with Tiff turned out to be quite personally revealing for both of us, given some of the private revelations on such a public platform. We both spoke about our individual predisposition(s) to be somewhat obsessive, addictive and periodically irrational (over the years). We also talked about some of the more curious things we've each done (and hidden from people), the idea of hitting the pause button on our day-to-day life for a period of time (a month or more), the ego of thinking that we're unique and special when we're literally one of eight billion, giving our parents a 'break', how I got totally addicted to training as a kid (I was crazy), a thing called anorexia athletica, why music is therapy for me and lots more. Enjoy.

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This casual chat with Tiff turned out to be quite personally revealing for both of us, given some of the private revelations on such a public platform. We both spoke about our individual predisposition(s) to be somewhat obsessive, addictive and periodically irrational (over the years). We also talked about some of the more curious things we've each done (and hidden from people), the idea of hitting the pause button on our day-to-day life for a period of time (a month or more), the ego of thinking that we're unique and special when we're literally one of eight billion, giving our parents a 'break', how I got totally addicted to training as a kid (I was crazy), a thing called anorexia athletica, why music is therapy for me and lots more. Enjoy.

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Sometimes people ask for my advice and when I give it to them, they get their metaphoric nose out of joint because they don't actually want my advice; they want my endorsement. My approval. They want me to make them feel good about the thing they've already done or the thing they're going to do. Yep, giving advice can be a psychological, sociological, and emotional minefield and in this freestyle solo episode, I share my thoughts about the 'if, when, how, why and why not' of giving advice. Enjoy.

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