Ed Cowan: Inside the journey of playing professional cricket for Australia, 1% habits of best athletes, successful transitions out of sport, founding tripod coffee & the cake recipe!

You only need to google Ed Cowan to find out about his accomplishments on the sporting field, transitioning to becoming an investor at TDM Growth Partners which meant working with his older brother, Tom + founding Tripod Coffee and hosting his own podcast! 

This is a candid, self reflective and inside the mind of the former Australian Cricket player — his journey to that goal, only playing cricket from age 13, that too with his brothers and dad, waking up at 5am to train and juggle study and work. We cover much more: see timestamps below for specifics. 

Without a doubt, one of the top 5 episodes of the show so far so please do enjoy!

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TIMESTAMPS

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03:30 - Quick facts about Ed

07:50 - High Flyer

09:47 - Ed’s sunrise growing up in Sydney

13:35 - Focus on education and learning business in additional to sport from day 1

15:28 - Learning cricket in the backyard with family at only age 13

17:40 - heroes growing up

18:50 - Success in life at age 18

20:15 - dedication to cricket at young age

21:36 - Working to be the best cricketer he could be + studying and working

24:00 - Combination of hard work and talent

24:51 - painful learning

26:15 - Dealing with being dropped from Australian cricket team

28:40 - first 3 months of dealing with public failure

32:30 - favourite 6 or 12 month period

34:10 - seeing superstar athletes and learning their 1% habits

37:00 - the cake recipe

38:30 - Athletes that inspire Ed today

40:00 - Athlete transition out of sport

43:40 - Publishing ‘In the firing line’ Ed’s cricket journal - available on amazon!

46:00 - Founding Tripod coffee

49:00 - satisfaction with a physical product vs a software

50:10 - conviction in the All Birds business

53:35 - final sprint!

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