
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.
Latest episodes

Feb 15, 2024 • 1h 31min
#189 - Martin Offiah - Embracing Adversity and Nurturing Resilience in Parenting
Martin Offiah is a former professional rugby player who scored 500 tries during his rugby league career, making him the third-highest try scorer of all time.
Expect to learn: how you can use storytelling for resilience, how to blend adversity and support for your kids, why you should be setting a good example for your kids, and much more
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Jan 31, 2024 • 1h 28min
#188 - Simon Dent - How You Learn From Failure & Doing Hard Things
Simon Dent is a Founder, Investor and an Ultra Endurance Athlete.
Expect to learn, why Simon is challenging himself in endurance events, how to embrace failure to find answers, how uncomfortable environments get easier over time, lessons learned from elite sports figures,
and much more
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Jan 24, 2024 • 1h 26min
#187 - Tom Curry - Why You Should Focus On Your Own Path
Tom Curry is an England and Sale Shark Rugby player.
Expect to learn what Tom is currently obsessing over with his time off post-hip surgery, his role models in his career, how to deal with negativity in social media and staying positive, the power of close connections, forging your own unique path, why you should be embracing change, and much more.
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Jan 17, 2024 • 1h 35min
#186 - Sean Baker - Closing the Gap Between Local & Elite
Sean Baker is the founder of PEAQ Performance and Head of Strength and Conditioning Coach at Adelaide Lightning and Australian Men and Women’s Lacrosse teams.
Expect to learn, how the culture of a gym can make all the difference; how strength and conditioning coaches can be open to being wrong; breaking old methods and trying new forms of training; being consistent as an athlete; the art and science of strength and conditioning; how S&C’s can be a part of the culture of teams; why athletes should have an ego; why pro athletes can train alongside mum; and much more.
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Jan 9, 2024 • 1h 21min
#185 - Sophia Jowett - How to Build Quality Coach-Athlete Relationships
Sophia Jowett is a Professor of Psychology at Loughborough University whose research work mainly revolves around interpersonal relationships in sports, with an emphasis on coaching relationships.
Expect to learn; the 3+1C model of athlete-coach relationships, how athletes and coaches should like each other to work well, whether culture can play a role in athlete-coach relationship, why coaches shouldn’t have biases over their players, how to potentially move away from an athlete only centred approach, and much more.
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Jan 3, 2024 • 55min
#184 - Carla Molinaro - Why Having A Game Plan Works
Carla Molinaro is an Ultra Runner, 50km World Champion, World Record Holder for LEJOG and Founder of SCY for Runners.
Expect to learn how having a race plan can prepare you for challenges, how to control your controllables, using play within your performance and much more.
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Dec 15, 2023 • 1h 30min
#183 - Prof Adam Nicholls - Coping, Leadership and Support for Athletes and Coaches
Adam Nicholls is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Hull and an Author.
Expect to learn what Brazilian Ju Jitsu can teach about performing under pressure, preparation and psychological focus in competition, coping strategies for athletes during season and in competition, knowing when to use information and emotional support in coaching, developing leadership in athletes, and much more.
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Dec 3, 2023 • 58min
#182 - Dan Abrahams - How to Be An Effective Sport Psychologist
Dan Abrahams is a sports psychologist and host of The Sport Psych Show.
Expect to learn the importance of understanding the human in high-performance dance, the biopsychosocial model, the importance of coaches buying into psychology, Dan‘s opinion on what makes an effective practitioner, and much more
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Nov 21, 2023 • 1h 44min
#181 - Tim Harkness - Former Chelsea FC Psychologist on Mental Strength in Sport.
Tim Harkness is the Head of Sport Science and Psychology at Chelsea Football Club and an Author.
Expect to learn what we can learn from the Springboks and All Blacks, balancing ego and purpose, performing under pressure, understanding fear, mental health in sport, teaching resilience and mental strength, and much more.
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Nov 14, 2023 • 1h 33min
#180 - Oliver Lam-Watson - How To Make The Most Of What You Have
Oliver Lam-Watson is a British Paralympic Silver and Bronze Medalist in wheelchair fencing.
Expect to learn: what makes an athlete elite, the different levels of being an athlete, perceptions and challenges of disability athletics, masculinity and disability, acceptance and appreciation of disability, and much more.
(01:01) - From Disability to Paralympic Athlete
(07:60) - Athletics Asymmetry Management and Recovery
(21:07) - Levels of Athletes
(24:39) - Defining Athleticism and Results
(28:42) - Elite Athlete Lifestyle and Recovery
(40:39) - Importance of Understanding Athletes' Energy Sources
(44:19) - Perceptions and Challenges in Disability Athletics
(49:47) - Para Fencing, Tactics, and Masculinity
(57:61) - Exploring Masculinity and Disability
(01:10:01) - Masculinity and Vulnerability in 300
(01:21:15) - Acceptance and Appreciation of Disability
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