Ben Ryan - Always Striving to Learn
The Winning Mentality
Ben is a quite extraordinary character with an amazing story, which seems to have been made possible by his determination and no-nonsense desire to succeed in his chosen profession. By his early 40s, he’d already gone from PE teacher to head coach of England Rugby 7s, resigned from that job and was hunting for a new challenge.
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Seth Pepper 2 - Returning to Self
The Winning Mentality
A 2 time National Champion swimmer turned elite mental performance coach, Seth Pepper has seen top level sport from every angle. His insight - hard-won from decades of experience - is fascinating and will of benefit to any athlete at any level. Even for those of us who watch on from the sidelines, he's got some superb advice.
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Seth Pepper Part 1 : Choose to Succeed
The Winning Mentality
A 2 time National Champion swimmer turned elite mental performance coach, Seth Pepper has seen top level sport from every angle. His insight - hard-won from decades of experience - is fascinating and will of benefit to any athlete at any level. Even for those of us who watch on from the sidelines, he's got some superb advice.
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Sean Shelton - For the Love of the Game
The Winning Mentality
Sean Shelton is that rarest of things - a professional American Football player who plies his trade in Europe. The story of how he got from Tampa Bay, Florida to the Swarco Raiders in Innsbruck, Austria via Kansas, Paris and Helsinki, is fascinating, and his in depth analysis of his position on the field - quarterback - is staggering.
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Madeleine Eppensteiner - The Power of the Mind
The Winning Mentality
Joining me this week I’ve got an athlete turned psychologist who’s creative and fun approach to her craft is both fascinating, and clearly effective. Madeleine Eppensteiner competed successfully in climbing competitions but after completing a degree in psychology she decided to combine her 2 passions, and started climbingpsychology.com
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Axel Merckx - A Lifelong Passion
The Winning Mentality
Axel Merckx was a professional cyclist who competed in 8 Tour de France and won Olympic bronze, a Giro d’Italia stage and the Belgian National Road Racing Championship. Now he’s mentoring young cyclists and steering them towards careers as successful as his.
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Steve Black - Bespoke Improvement
The Winning Mentality
To call Steve Black - almost universally known as Blackie - a coach is barely to do him justice. He’s a manager, a motivator, a change maker, and so much more.
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Jordi Cruyff - Always Looking Forward
The Winning Mentality
I’m Charlie Boscoe and today I’m chatting to Jordi Cruyff - a man who’s experienced the highest highs and the toughest lows that professional sport has to offer. He played for Manchester United and Barcelona, was forced to retire due to injury and then came back a couple of years later just to prove he could. He’s been a sporting director in Malta and Israel and is now making his first forays into management.
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Steve House & Scott Johnston - Uphill Athletes
The Winning Mentality
Steve House is one of the World’s best alpine climbers, with an extraordinary mountaineering resumé and Scott Johnston has a long and diverse athletic background, having excelled in climbing, swimming and nordic skiing, amongst others.
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Jamie Acton - The Battle Within
The Winning Mentality
As a rule, active athletes don’t open up about how they feel and sport, and the care of professional sportspeople is poorer as a result. Jamie’s searing honesty and openness should be an example to anyone of what courage really looks like. Forget the physical battle or rugby, saying that you’re not OK is sometimes the toughest challenge of all.
info_outlineAfter 2 failed attempts at Olympic success, Ben Hunt-Davis and his teammates in the British 8-man rowing crew decided that, ahead of the Sydney Olympics, everything they did would be based on one question - Will it make the boat go faster? Come Sydney the boat did indeed go faster, and how. This is an amazing story of determination and a sheer refusal not to be beaten again.