Talking Performance

This week my guest is Craig White who I first heard on Russel Earnshaw's Podcast the Magic Academy. Craig is doing some amazing work and has had a helluva journey to get to where he is now, starting off as a hard nose rugby league player and strength and conditioning coach right though to being a yoga instructor and talking about love. He has a couple of websites worth checking out, Men without Masks and Craig White Mentoring, below is an excerpt from this website, https://www.craigwhitementoring.com/"Over the last 25 years, I've been on an incredible journey of self-discovery. A journey that has taken me from the power lifting gyms of America to the temples of India, from the rugby fields of England to the jungles of Peru, from my head and into my heart."Send us a textSupport the showhttps://talkingperformancepod.com/

This week my guest is Dr Carl Woods who is a Senior Research Fellow in Skill Acquisition at Victoria University in Melbourne Australia who enjoys exploring and knowing at an ecological anthropological intersection in sport.I had heard Carl on a number of podcasts and was so excited to be able to spend some time listening to his view on the world which I have to say I love.There is no real intro on the chat as we hit the ground running and just got straight in to it. I am very grateful to be able to do this podcasts and have such great guests and a loyal community, if you listen often I just want to say thank you and I hope you enjoy them as much as I love doing them.Send us a textSupport the showhttps://talkingperformancepod.com/

This week I am joined Luke Mackey, Luke is the Sport Medicine and Performance manager at Golf Australia and lives in Orlando Florida where he and his family host and look after Golfers from Australia who are traveling and need a place to stay or trainI first met Luke when he was a 19 year old full of energy and happy to voice his opinion, now he is 34, full of energy and happy to voice his opinion.But in all seriousness, he is a great man, has an incredibly open mind, loves learning and challenging the status quo and I think you will get that sense from this chat.Thanks again for listening and if you enjoy the podcast it would mean a lot if you could leave a review wherever you listen and share it with your mates.Send us a textSupport the showhttps://talkingperformancepod.com/

This is a pretty special episode for me. Not because it is my 100th episode but more because I was back where it all started with my old mate, live on Facebook with such a cool community. I loved being back online live and seeing the names of the community pop up with questions and comments and it made me reflect on how incredibly grateful I am to have started this and made so many great connections.A special thanks at this point to a couple of people who helped make this happen at the start, obviously DG but also my good mate Scott Curtis.We cover some cool shit in this chat and the key bit that really stuck with me was DG saying “we need to magnify magic everywhere and have this as part of our language”Anyway If you would like to connect with DG check out his website https://www.habitofgreatness.co.nz/ and in particular his online mindset courses.Thanks for all your support over the 100 EpisodesSend us a textSupport the showhttps://talkingperformancepod.com/

This week I am joined by Dr Jay-Lee Nair.Originally from Australia, Dr Jay-Lee completed her first two degrees in psychology in the United States,  where she had a scholarship to play NCAA Div-1 collegiate golf. She finished with all-American academic honours, and attributes her career as a sport and performance psychologist to the success found in both studies and sport. Jay-Lee has established a reputation for writing on a variety of topics in sport psychology, having written for a number of publications in sport and wellness and has just published a book called Good Sports, which is a thoughtful and practical guide on how to support children both on and off the sporting field. To find out more about this book and where to order it click hereSend us a textSupport the showhttps://talkingperformancepod.com/

My guest this week is head of UK of Coaching at UK Coaching Nick Levett. Nick has had roles in  Talent ID for UK Coaching and the FA and is able to share so much with us on this podcast. I have been a fan of Nick for a long time and you can imagine my surprise when his name popped up asking a question during my chat with Alex McKenzie when we did these live on FacebookYou will see why I am a such a fan after this podcast  as nick is Passionate about this space and an engaging strategic thinker on coaching, talent development and high performance sport.I hope you enjoy the chat and as always please share it with your mates and even leave us a review.Send us a textSupport the showhttps://talkingperformancepod.com/

Stuart Morgan is a Performance Golf Coach to some of the best golfers on the planet but more impressive is his desire to learn, grow his knowledge and share that with the golfing community.He is incredibly humble and is someone I hope to continue to connect with. If you want to know more check out his Instagram and Twitter where he is stuartmcoaching as well as iceberggolf on InstagramWhile this is a golf centric chat I do believe there as always is cross over to all sports and walks of life with what Stuart talks about.If you do enjoy the podcast it would be great if you would share it with your friends, leave a review wherever you listen to your podcasts or even hit the subscribe button. If you want to reach out with any feedback, guest suggestions or themes you would like me to dig in to then please feel free to contact me by direct message or on the Facebook Group pageSend us a textSupport the showhttps://talkingperformancepod.com/

This week I am joined by Hugh GilmoreHugh has worked with All Ireland winners, world champions and Olympians delivering sport and performance psychology to organisations such as  British Weightlifting, Paralympic Powerlifting, Weightlifting Ireland, Northern Ireland Netball and British Athletics, as well as a wide range of elite coaches and business professionals seeking personal development. I have followed Hugh's work for a while and was particularly interested in his insight into Motivational InterviewingAs we all know influencing behaviour change is not easy and while we are told the questioning approach is a great way to do this, I think to do it skill fully is challenging and that is where I believe Motivational Interviewing has some gold.If you would like to find out more about motivational interviewing check out Hugh’s Website https://podiumpsychology.com/ where there is information about his online courses.I hope you enjoy the podcast and as always it would be great if you could subscribe and share it with your mates. Send us a textSupport the showhttps://talkingperformancepod.com/

Rob Waddell has one of the most impressive and diverse sporting resumes in the country, he has played rugby for Waikato, Won an Olympic gold in the single skulls in Sydney 2000, has a black belt in Judo, raced for Emirates Team NZ in the Americas cup and for the past two cycles has been the chef de mission for the NZ Olympic team. I didn’t know rob I just happened to be fortunate enough to sit next to him at a recent Chiefs game and asked him to come on the podcast, he was very humble in accepting suggested I must be scrapping the bottom of the barrel to want him, as you will hear in the next 40 minutes Rob has so much to offer and I cant wait to get him back on Send us a textSupport the showhttps://talkingperformancepod.com/

Today I am joined by another one of NZs best coaches Shane Mcleod Shane coached the New Zealand Mens Hockey Team, the black sticks at the  2008 & 2012 Olympics and after a disappointing  games in 2012 he took some time to reflect, slowed down to speed up and came back a better coach That evolution led to coaching the Belgium mens hockey team to Olympic gold in Tokyo to go with the World title in 2018 and European championship in 2019.We are lucky to have him back in NZ for a little while and after listening to this you will understand why, Shane brings so much which can help any team whether that be in business or sportAs always if you enjoy the podcast it would be great if you could share it with your friends and even leave a review where ever you listen to your podcastsSend us a textSupport the showhttps://talkingperformancepod.com/