
MindStrong
Whether you're an athlete, entrepreneur or student, making sense of the world right now is more challenging than ever. Navigating this landscape demands resilience, accountability, mental fortitude, emotional intelligence, and the courage to embrace vulnerability. Listen to some of the world's most insightful individuals to help make sense of it all. The path isn’t easy, but a strong mind will find a way.
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Jun 22, 2024 • 1h 21min
#199 - Dr Julie Johnston - 8 Strategies For Coaching Gen-Z Athletes
Dr Julie Johnston is a Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology at Nottingham Trent University who also competed in international swimming for Ireland and Northern Ireland for ten years, participating in three Commonwealth Games and three World Championships.
Her research focuses on behavioural, social and environmental influences on children and adolescent psychosocial development, health and wellbeing, and more recently on Gen-Z athletes and how best to support them.
Expect to learn; the challenges that Gen-Z athletes face, how to best communicate with Gen-Z athletes, whether coaches are becoming softer, strategies to for developing Gen-Z athletes, and much more.
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Jun 15, 2024 • 1h 17min
#198 - Peter Hurley - The Importance of Drive, Character, and Trust
Peter Hurley is an elite sailor for the US and portrait photographer who is regarded as the industry leader in headshot photography having shot world wide athletes and celebrities.
Expect to learn; how to find your drive, how to avoid complacency, the importance of character and effort in sports, the impact of social media on self-image, embracing and accepting your appearance, the role of trust in photography, and much more.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peter_hurley
Website: https://peterhurley.com
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Jun 1, 2024 • 1h 8min
#197 - Adam Meakins - 5 Myths of Physiotherapy
Adam Meakins a Specialist Physiotherapist, Sports Scientist, and Strength & Conditioning Coach.
Expect to learn why bad posture doesn’t causes back pain, deadlifting won’t get you injured, your weak core doesn’t cause your pain / injury, why muscle imbalances are normal, why how you move or do exercises doesn’t always predict your injury risk, and much more.
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May 23, 2024 • 2h 12min
#196 - Patrick Gaudreau - Why We Should Aim For Excellence & Not Perfection
Patrick Gaudreau is a professor of psychology at the University of Ottawa. Patrick’s work has spanned form achievement, motivation, performance, and perfectionism into the realm of excellencism.
Expect to learn, why we have a desire for perfection, why perfectionists make good cheats, what excellencism is, the difference between excellencism and perfectionism, how to set goals for excellence, how coaches and parents can learn to embrace mistakes, how character can shape your idea of success, and much more.
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May 15, 2024 • 53min
#195 - Ben O'Keeffe - How To Take Criticism & Trust Your Decisions
Ben O'Keeffe is an international rugby referee.
Expect to learn: what some misunderstood qualities of rugby referees are, how to deal with criticism, how to not let mistakes stop you from making decisions, how to trust your intuition, why respecting referees is so important, how football's new blue card is a good thing, and much more.
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/okeeffe.ben
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Apr 25, 2024 • 1h 23min
#194 - Joe Welstead - The Benefits Of Having Athletes In Business
Joe Welstead is a former commonwealth swimmer turned entrepreneur and creative.
Expect to learn, why athletes make good employees in business, how to set unbreakable goals and rules, why others should set your goals for you, how his new brand Oshun simplifies hydration, how to learn to delegate and let go of control, why swimming can be made more exciting for the viewer, and much more.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeWelstead
Oshun: https://drinkoshun.co
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Apr 16, 2024 • 1h 22min
#193 - Dr Duncan Simpson - What Does It Take To Succeed In An Academy?
Dr Duncan Simpson is Director of Personal Development at IMG Academy, Mental Performance Coach, and a podcaster.
IMG Academy is one of the largest and most well regarded sports facilities on the planet, with 1500 athletes coming through every year, it’s a place where some of the very best have made it in college and professional sports in the US and around the world.
Expect to learn the best characteristics to be successful in an academy, how you form a mental performance program for an athlete, integrating mental performance coaching into the academy system, The 5 core fundamentals of IMG’s mental performance programs, the impact of social media on athlete confidence, how to balance academics and sport, and much more.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SportPsychDunc
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Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 52min
#192 - Jack Green - 10 Tough Lessons On Athlete Mental Health & Performance
Jack Green. Jack is a former two-time Olympian, coach, and mentor.
Jack has been one of my favourite sources of content on LinkedIn, especially having been an elite athlete, with his insights into mental health, performance, and wellbeing.
Expect to learn, the dangers of having potential, why you should have a comfort zone, the value of clarity, overcoming the fear of asking for help, creating horizontal relationships in coaching, the power of quality over quantity, defining what success is to you, how marginal gains are pointless if you don’t have a strong foundation, and much more.
Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackgreenoly
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Mar 12, 2024 • 1h 17min
#191 - Sam Ward - How To Not Let Injuries Define You
Sam Ward is a professional hockey player for England and Great Britain. Sam is known as one of the most prolific goal scorers in British hockey, as well as having overcome some of the most horrific injuries that threatened his career.
No one enjoys being injured. But what if you could turn the setback into an opportunity? How can you stop comparing your own journey to that of other athletes? Can you come back even better than before after thinking everything was over? Well, luckily, the answer lies more in your character than in your skills.
Expect to learn:
How injuries provide opportunities for growth, how to not turn injuries into an identity, the importance of self-reflection and introspection, how to adjust to new normals after injury, how bravery and stupidity help Sam stop overthinking, why you should focus on your character and energy in training, how to bring perspective to your sport and shift your mindset.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samuel_ward13/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Samuel_Ward13
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Feb 23, 2024 • 1h 37min
#190 - Richard Cheetham MBE - How To Coach Beyond Your Qualifications
Richard Cheetham is a senior fellow in Sports Coaching at the University of Winchester. He received an MBE for his contribution to education and community sport in the 2017 New Years honours list
Richard is both nationally and internationally recognised within the world of coach education, having worked with the likes of Sarcens, British Fencing, British Cycling, England Cricket Coaches Association, and the UCI World Cycling Elite Coach Education Programme since 2014.
Expect to learn:
How to find the balance between qualifications and experience, how to find your unique coaching identity, the power of authentic storytelling, creating your own coaching philosophy, using curiosity in coaching, why you should use empathy and vulnerability as a coach and much more.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twowheelprofessor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/twowheelprof
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