Zealous State of Mind Podcast with the Guru of Gainz

All things podcasts, favourite podcasts, set-up costs, booking guests, writing, short and long term goals. 

Why I stopped and why I came back.

What's been happening and what I am working towards this year.

Alex Brown // Hoop Dreams

In this episode I sit down with Avondale Rugby 1st XV Coaches Joseph Buchanan (JB) & Dominic Malo to chat about their vision for the team this year in 2022 and beyond. I also ask a few questions to get to know them better and have a few giggles along the way.  

Sharne Robati

Jan Zabawski AKA The Guru of Gainz is a personal trainer, a strength and conditioning coach, and is the host of the podcast THE ZEALOUS STATE OF MIND.  He is currently the strength & conditioning trainer for the Avondale College 1st XV Rugby Team.

Jonah ran away when God called him to go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it.

Sometimes we are called to a vision and to lead, but we run away feeling that we are inadequate or not ready.

Good leadership and vision is rare, it always has been. In this episode I talk to Sharlene Atai who had her own struggles early on in life, but now embraces it and does a great job leading and guiding wherever she goes. 

Tune in for an awesome chat with a quiet achiever who lifts and positively impacts any space she is called to.

Keep Chopping Wood - cutting edge and primal movements. Austin is a creative and intuitive thinker who backs himself. It was refreshing to talk to someone so young who pursued his passions, the truth, what is best for people and is brave enough to go against the grain because following your passions, pursuing the truth and doing what is best for people, is sadly not always the norm is our field of interest or in the world in general.

Discipline, consistency, mindset, and overcoming death with Peneueta (aka Wetta) Nuualiitia. 

We cover nutrition, training, business, lessons learned in the early days as a upcoming bodybuilder and how a life threatening surgery helped him go all in on his passion! 

Check Wetta out on all his socials @wperformance to follow his journey and to get involved in his training programs and to receive nutritional/lifestyle advice. 

This series is a throwback series to when I started my podcast back in 2014 with a small camera and a handheld microphone that I borrowed from a close friend. Back then, podcasting wasn't that common and I didn't know know how to upload to a podcast platform yet, so it was only ever on YouTube until now. Excited to share and bring these episodes and memories back life in a time that I was heavily involved in CrossFit and made some great friends who kindly became my guests. Many things have changed for us all since the episode, so it's always fun to look back to where we were then and where we are now. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

Alex Porter, Matiu Brown, Isaiah Papalii, Max Roache and Jan Zabawski Alex Porter shares some cool stories from his days as a Thai Boxer and now Affiliate owner of CrossFit Auckland.... Matiu Brown talks about how he came to find CrossFit from a Rugby League background and now trains to be the best athlete he can be at CrossFit Auckland.... Isaiah Papalii, a under 15 NZ Weightlifting record holder, talks about his latest trip to New Caledonia where he got to work with world renown coach Paul Coffa.