Brett shares his life journey and experiences and discusses his background, starting as a personal trainer and opening his own gyms, dealing with twin babies with health issues, and his positive mindset and advice for others.

Key Takeaways

Brett started his fitness career by opening his first gym in his early 20s.
He faced challenges when his twin boys had health issues, but they were saved through medical intervention.
The boys were diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, which led Brett to have to change his career path.
Brett emphasizes the importance of enjoying the little things in life and reflecting on the good.
Helping others, even in small ways, can bring happiness and fulfillment.
He encourages reaching out for help as people are generally willing to assist.
Brett's advice is to be kind to oneself and to others and to offer strategies and support to those who need it.

This is a podcast aiming to provide positive messaging and inspiration for men, including guidance for the host's two young daughters. The guest, John Peck, discusses challenges faced in predominantly male environments, the importance of sensitivity, and the need for positive role models for men.


Key Takeaways

The podcast focuses on positive messaging and inspiration for men and aims to help those who need it, regardless of gender or background.
John Peck highlights the challenge of balancing energy and sensitivity in predominantly male environments, such as the police and the Army.
Male-female groups tend to have a more sensitive and different dynamic compared to all-male groups in discussions.
There is a need for more positive role modeling and support networks for men in society.
The conversation touches on the difficulty of understanding each other's experiences between men and women.
The host's intention is to help men who aspire to be better by providing positive role models and combating negative behaviors.
The guest's book, "How to Adventure: The Seven Seas to Success," is promoted.

An EF legend. Ming talks about trade-offs, especially related to motherhood and business, drive and creative intelligence.
The audio version of the podcast is here:
Please like, subscribe and all that lovely stuff!

You can se all about Ming in Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deming_Chen
Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/therealmingchen
...and her, and her sisters books are here:
Sassparilla's New Shoes - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sassparillas-New-Shoes-Ming-Chen/dp/1880664267/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Sassparilla%27s+New+Shoes&qid=1634837005&sr=8-1

Ling Ling Looked In The Mirror - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ling-Looked-Mirror-Ming-Chen/dp/9889956527/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Ling+Ling+Looked+in+the+Mirror&qid=1634837037&sr=8-1

Escape: One Day We Had to Run - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Escape-One-Day-Had-Run/dp/1911373811/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VYJ47FL7S2DA&dchild=1&keywords=escape+one+day+we+had+to+run&qid=1634837127&sprefix=escape+one+day+we+%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-1 - https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ming/escape-ming/

Time-stamps:
@02:00 Ming Introduces herself (audio quality not great)
@04:21 Ming talks about her professional life (audio quality fixed)
@06:50 Ming shares her thoughts about 'Winning'
@09:00 Trade-offs - especially work-life balance and motherhood
@13:45 Drive - Ming's version of ambition and hunger
@16:00 Creative intelligence
@19:50 What problem are you trying to solve

What an inspirational man. Husband of yet another former boss of mine and general all round awesome human. We talk about his growing up in Mozambique and the influences that he has had in his life, his focus on humanitarian causes and well-being and he shares some excellent ideas for helping yourself too.

You can find out more about Martin here: https://www.martinfrolander.com/ or follow him on Linkedin (I recommend this!) here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-fr%C3%B6lander-8294152/

Thank you for listening.

Please like and subscribe and also follow us on the youtube channel here: https://youtu.be/2MLqvJAkv5g

Time-stamps:
@00:02:10 - Martin introduces himself
@00:03:06 - University and work
@00:07:40 - Being a humanitarian
@00:18:14 - Being a capitalist and a humanitarian
@00:22:10 - What role does money play in motivation?
@00:23:40 - What do you geek out on and what does motivate you?
@00:27:20 - Martin's well-being story
@00:29:40 - Mondays.. why you need to love them
@00:33:40 - Who influences you?
@00:37:40 - Nick talks about why he does the podcast
@00:39:40 - What are your learnings from parenthood?
@00:43:10 - We talk phone/screens addiction
@00:47:40 - Martin's philosophy on achieving and succeeding
@00:50:14 - Nick reflects on curiosity
@00:50:40 - Habits and wellbeing
@00:54:27 - Martin's advice to aspirational people
@00:55:40 Martin and Nick close with short discussion on success and failure

Gregg helped grow and lead the England Touch Association over 10+ years and became the first professionally paid position in the sport in the Northern Hemisphere.

His energy and hard work ethic have helped the sport grow hugely across the UK and Europe and alongside this he has been a highly competitive player and an engineer!

Time stamps:
2:22 – Gregg Introduces himself
12:34 – Gregg shares his philosophy on winning
18:04 – Nick talks about ‘the moment’ just before stepping out and executing
21:24 – Gregg talks about feedback and leadership
25:04 – Gregg talks about organizing huge events – Euros 2018
27:24 – How did England Touch grow?
31:29 – Gregg’s Touch playing career
33:34 – Ethics and Touch
40:54 – High Performance and talents and skills
53:34 – Gregg’s new company ‘On the seven events’

A very special guest coming in live from inside his electric taxi in London. We discuss the Knowledge, Uber and other factors affecting the world of London taxi drivers.

Subscribe to his channel and like the vids: https://www.youtube.com/user/thutley
A couple of my favorites:
London Taxi Driver PLAYS Go Cabbies! GB: https://youtu.be/tnPuFtAAvd8
Taxi Driver SMASHES London Geoguessr Record!: https://youtu.be/PnbLvDTNE2I

Tom's website for Tours etc: https://www.tom.taxi/

You can catch the video version of the conversation here: https://youtu.be/wJytbdPkPxE

Timestamps:
2:10 - Tom introduces himself
04:40 - The Knowledge
06:47 - How Tom passed the Knowledge
10:34 - Tom's book
12:44 - Addressing weaknesses
18:18 - Uber
27:30 Taxi unions and price considerations
33:24 - Are their changes on the horizon in the trade?
37:00 - What's on the horizon for Tom?
43:02 - A dilemma for Transport For London
46:10 - Wrap up and goodbyes
47:55 - Tom's final words of wisdom

KC is another great friend of mine who I worked with in EF and he shares about his life and development over time.

You can find KC here on linkedin and share some positivity!: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kc-wai-79535618a/

You can find the video version of the podcast here: https://youtu.be/endLBirCzBE

Show notes:
00:00 - Nick intros show
01:42 - Nick Intros KC
03:42 - KC intros himself
08:30 - KC talks identity
14:20 KC talks diversity and inclusion
19:00 - Nick and KC talk Lego minifigures and different personality traits
21:27 - KC talks about changing first impressions or perceptions over time as you become more senior
28:10 - "Since leaving EF have you noticed changes in the way that you were once perceived?"
31:45 - KC talks about authenticity as a professional
35:45 - KC talks about people who are pushing too hard to be perfect and how important it is not to set yourself too high bars
39:00 KC talks about Asian education and the pressure to be the top and whether he sees changes
43:35 - Nick talks about the value of understanding competitiveness that comes alongside the extremely competitive style of education
45:00 - Reflection on the negatives towards the same style of education
47:30 - KC talks about his life with EF, leaving and structuring his job hunt
59:14 - KC Shares his advice and final positive words

A conversation with a friend and another former manager and colleague. Matt's honest and insightful post on Linkedin (see here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6778080201160048640-60_c) prompted me to reach out and ask for a chat.
We discuss how, as a manager and leader, he has navigated the challenging times of COVID whilst working for an international education company (with nobody travelling!) along with some thoughts on personal success and opportunity.

You can find the video version here: https://youtu.be/uDsqSRv89YE

Please like, subscribe and rate this podcast on Itunes or wherever you are listening and thank you for tuning in!

Show notes:
00:53 Matt’s introduces himself

05:55 Matt’s talks about the challenges of Covid times on the Tours industry 

11:21 Matt’s explains catching Covid and we discuss a little on opportunities that have arisen from it

15:00 Matt's talks about his competitive past and how he takes that into his professional life

19:30 Nick talks around teamwork dynamics with building a win

20:55 Matt’s talks about the importance of playing a role in a team

21:50 Nick talking around skills and talents to execute wins

23:15 Nick talks about Tour Directors in Tours and asks Matt’s how to keep them empowered and bringing them together as a team

24:37 Matt’s talks Tour Directors 

30:00 Matt’s talks about how honesty is so important in communicating through crises

30:50 We begin to talk “Trust” and the philosophy of “a beautiful customer experience every time”

38:30 Nick talks about working in the service industry and striving towards positive outcomes and working with purpose

40:45 Matt’s shares thoughts around achieving goals and winning

44:40 Nick shares his main reason for doing the podcast series

46:00 Matt’s shares advice to you ever people starting out

51:00 Matt’s says goodbye and leaves with a reflection

he didn’t need the surname to define her but it does! You may know her from a viral photo of her breastfeeding in the middle of a 106 mile (170km) mountain marathon race, but she is also a business founder, former finance director and an awesome human focused on making the world a better place.

A great conversation with Sophie about her journey in taking herself to higher levels in both personal and professional life.

You can also watch the video of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/A4OmD7IuA9E

Check out Sophie in all the following places:
Her latest video (a must watch and a must share/like/subscribe etc!): https://youtu.be/9QcbaUux5oI

Website: https://www.sophiepower.com/

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ultra_sophie/

Instagram (where she promises to reply!): https://www.instagram.com/ultra_sophie/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ultra_sophie?lang=en

Timestamps:
@01:10 - Sophie introduces herself
@03:45 - How did you get 'in ' to trail running?
@08:55 - Is it stubbornness? perseverance? or otherwise how would you define what gets you through the runs?
@13:00 - Trail runners are generally private - How does that align with having such a big impact viral photo?
@16:44 - what do you need in terms of team and help to set yourself up for those personal wins?
@21:24 - Is there something around 'purpose' that you can 'tap into'?
@25:37 - How do you manage to balance two sporty parents with life?
@31:36 - How does age factor into performance?
@38:12 - Sophie wraps up and tells us where to 'find' her
@39:42 - Sophie's final thought (and some awesome advice!)

Very honoured to have Richard Gerver talking about his experience of taking a failing school and leading it to winning a Unesco education award. Show notes below.

Check out Richard's website here: https://www.richardgerver.com/
Follow him on:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/richardgerver
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3fLODEj9_1-50hsClKznYQ
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/richard.gerver
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-gerver-2455913/
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/richardgerver/

And checkout his books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Richard-Gerver/e/B002NBISEO?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3&qid=1616598885&sr=8-3

You can also check out the video version of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/KWiznL34y5E

Show notes:
01:15 - Richard Introuces himself
08:15 - turning around a failing school (The Grange - Long Eaton, Derbyshire, UK) - intro
15:15 - Where did the 'wisdom' come from to solve the challenge?
21:25 - How do you plan to solve the challenge of a failing school?
28:28 - How to motivate learning?
34:45 - Elite sports - progress from childhood, how do kids who have never failed survive?
38:20 - How COVID might have a positive effect?
41:30 - Avoiding traps in parenting
44:40 - Changes in Coaching in Elite Sport - problem solving
48:30 - Richard's details and invite for connecting to him!

Thanks for listening

One for the marketeers and sales people amongst you!
Nina has founded the Austrian Leadership Academy and has spent her career so far specialising in marketing and communications. She has worked as an advisor to the government and companies and has worked in CX (Customer Experience), Crisis management and all other aspects of sales.

You can find the video version here: hhttps://youtu.be/CMlNmbRSWGg

You can find out more about the brand new Austrian Leadership Academy here: 

Thank you for listening!

Very excited to present another former colleague and incredible woman, Cristina Teuscher and her little man Ali Guerrero!
You can find the video version here: https://youtu.be/VMadCuK8HHo

 Please like, subscribe and comment wherever you are listening to this podcast or on the video!
Thanks so much for listening

Cristina swam on the United States National Team for eight years, representing the USA in two Olympic Games (’96 and ’00), winning a Gold and Bronze medal, and captaining the National Team for three years (1999-01). Cristina is a six-time National Champion, never lost an individual race during her collegiate career, including four NCAA titles, and is a former American and Olympic record holder.

She has coached both beginners, tri-athletes, and national elite level athletes. As the Robert H. Kiphuth head coach of Yale University Women’s Swimming and Diving Team, she has coached NCAA Division I Collegiate swimmers, and has collaborated with the most distinguished athletic programs in the country.

In the business world, Cristina has worked in Human Resources roles in both the finance and education sectors, focusing on coaching employees, mentoring new managers, developing talent and managing conflict resolution.  Most recently, Cristina began her own executive coaching practice focused on coaching, mentorship and transition.

Cristina holds a BA from Columbia University, an MBA from INSEAD and a Coaching Certification with Columbia University, Teachers College. Outside of work, she is a 500-hour certified yoga instructor.

Eduardo was trained under Ricardo Liborio, a legend in the BJJ (Brazilian Ju Jitsu) world.

He now lives in Oslo and is helping to run Frontline Academy, which is a multi-location fight sports club in Norway that dominates in competition across Europe.

I am a complete beginner whiter than white belt in Ju Jitsu but I love it and find the experience of training it fascinating because it goes beyond 'sport' and 'fitness' and challenges your ego, your resilience and your patience! Teta has been instrumental in helping me to learn this and I am so honoured he agreed to sit down and talk to me.

We talk about the sport and his journey. We talk about passion and dedication.

I loved the conversation and hope that you will enjoy it too.

You can follow Eduardo on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/erios_tetabjj/
If you're in Norway and want to try out BJJ or another fight sport then check out Frontline Academy here: https://www.frontlineacademy.no/

You can find video version of the podcast here: https://youtu.be/YFXSQccOMl4

When she is not helping boards and global companies drive their innovation and strategic agendas to craft more beautiful experiences for their users, Mafalda paints the world in Japanese ink (sumi) and creates her own objects of beauty.

Here are some of the things we talk about in this episode of the podcast:
1. Knowing your vision, and the core value leading Mafalda's personal journey – creativity
2. Learning as a lifelong habit, and how winning that “big goal” once boosts your confidence
for attempting to win, time and again
3. Evolving priorities at company board level, and some of the challenges ahead
4. How the principles of Japanese ink painting practice are relevant in a business context, and
as a board member
5. Mafalda's lifelong connection to art, and how it led her to Japan

You can find out more and buy Mafalda's art here: https://mafaldatenente.com/

Sofia was my manager for about 3 years during my time with EF. She is an amazing woman and shares her insights on role-models, competition, ambition and achieving in business.
It was genuinely one of my favourite conversations so far... as well as having been my boss, Sofia is also someone I consider a great friend!

You can watch the video of the episode here: https://youtu.be/ajKRhVzxBuo

Check out Sofia's podcast here: https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1521791512/rat-race-din-guide-i-ekorrhjulet (Swedish mostly!)

Renee is awesome and has set up a couple of amazing companies. Parents (and uncles/auntys etc) - Check out https://curiosity-box.net/

We speak about activating curiosity, science and Renee shares her thoughts on running a modern company and her somewhat unconventional and inspiring path to getting there.

You can watch the video of the episode here: https://youtu.be/PdxsEjh0bBY

Thanks for listening!

Find all about Luca including his awesome podcast here: https://lucasitaly.com/

Find the video of the podcast here if you are interested: https://youtu.be/G5nHVR8LYEA

Luca is a great friend and former colleague who I have worked closely with and got to know very well. He loves Italy, he is an awesome chef and he is also a very nerdy and interesting historian! This has combined to have him develop a brilliant blog and podcast.

Thanks so much for listening!

Find all you need here at his website: https://www.bendelahaye.com/ subscribe to his Youtube, Podcast and follow him on Twitter!
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/jGz6a7KO1kU

Ben is an old colleague of mine and we went to the same business school. We share a lot in common, especially deep interest in how people operate at their best.

His podcast “Superpower of confidence” has already had some awesome guests speaking about the intricacies of gaining and sustaining confidence and the potential pitfalls and challenges that come along with it.

Ben and I had a great conversation over a glass of wine once our kids were asleep! He also shares with me a very personal challenge that he himself was faced with. I am concerned that this may trigger some people. Therefore, should you need help, please either reach out to Ben or I, or call a helpline. You can find most countries support lines here: http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html
Thanks for listening.. and reading all this.. You're awesome! :)

Check out Carmina's business at https://hipekids.com/
Youtube video is here: https://youtu.be/D0TWKMfso3g

Carmina is an awesome energy bomb who has worked for a long time teaching English to all different types of people young and old. She has founded her second company Hipe Kids after winning a Hackathon competition and she now runs the company being based in both the south of France and the south of England.

I love her postive and solution oriented approach to life!
Thanks for listening!

Find Rory here: http://www.roaringberry.com/

and here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roryberry15/

Rory is a certified coach and is now helping people achieve their dreams through the lens of play, mindfulness and focus
"Busy does not equal productive" and "This year is helping us put the human back into humanity" are two of the points he made that resonated so well with me!
He is yet another awesome human and I am so happy that he agreed to come on the podcast!

Competitive and unbelievably driven, Marnie has some very special qualities and it was an honour to have an in-depth chat with her on her journey and relationship to 'winning'.

Marnie has founded multiple companies including Sporty Minis, MyBizAcademy and Sportsfit. She has also taught young people PE and has also coached high-level athletes. She has also competed at the highest level in both Indoor Netball (Nets) and Touch Rugby, representing England in both on an international level.
She now divides her time between all these businesses alongside business coaching, co-hostng the podcast @inspiringnurseries, mummying and of course, continuing her pursuit of sporting excellence.

I am so grateful that Angela spent her time on the podcast to discuss what winning means to her, how she has experienced success herself and how she has observed the success of others throughout her fascinating career.

Go check out and subscribe to her Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkQVrnXda5iWiEX-RwYxhEA

Her linkedin is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelawycheung/

Angela has worked with some of the best known content companies including 9 years at Disney as Regional Director of Production, Head of Production at FremantleMedia Asia and senior producer at MTV. With that work she also had the fortune to work alongside some incredible talent, like Dwayne Johnson, Jacky Chan, Peter Jackson, David Hasselhoff, Britney Spears, Angela Baby, The Muppets and the legends known as The Wiggles.

Her workshops and speeches regularly graded amongst the most popular among audiences at NYU, Northwestern, GeorgeTown University.

Easily one of my favorite conversations with an amazing and awesome woman.
Founder of non-profit Bridging Mind and Body (https://bridgingmindandbody.org/), educator and visual artist. Her fields of particular interest and expertise include Expressive Arts, Yoga, meditation, teaching, and of course being a mom!
An all-around incredible lady and I got to talk to her in-depth about her thoughts around the art world and relating it back to the win-building concept, how finding value and worth, especially in the arts is so tough and how she has helped people to find their way.
We touched on the importance of understanding your self and your behaviours and responses to the external forces that challenge us all.

I met Dan and Marwan in business school way back in 2006!
They have since founded Veridian Ventures to help angel investors to make smart decisions on early-stage companies. In the conversation, they offer some extremely valuable advice on both how to choose investments but also to start-ups looking to secure funding.

Please like, subscribe, and review as appropriate!

The video version of the conversation is here: https://youtu.be/NeBPuKtQnKw

More on Veridian Ventures:
Veridian Ventures is an angel syndicate offering carefully curated investment opportunities to our network of Investor Members. Veridian’s partners invest in each opportunity introduced to Veridian’s Members.

At Veridian they focus on innovative early-stage companies in the UK with strong growth and profit potential. Their steady flow of quality deals, combined with a methodical and thorough diligence process, enable us to identify superior investment opportunities.

One of the core values of the Veridian partners is to challenge and support ambitious and talented entrepreneurs, helping them to turn their potential into results. Their partners draw from a wealth of expertise, connections and investment experience to help start-ups raise capital, develop growth strategies and navigate the challenges of a rapidly growing business.

Website
http://www.veridianventures.co.uk

Art as a competitive endeavour? - David is a friend who has navigated the complicated and competitive world of the music industry having had his band (Apartment) signed by Universal. He has since accomplished many life learnings on top of this and we talk about approaches to failing and he speaks to his experience in BJJ (Brazilian Ju Jitsu).

Barney and I discussed a hobby becoming a habit, a ritual and ultimately an identity. I have always known Barney to be someone willing to leap outside his comfort zone in pursuit of self-improvement and 'betterment'. I'm very pleased to have captured this conversation.
Follow Barney on Strava here: https://www.strava.com/athletes/8374930

The runner Sage Canaday that Barney mentioned can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Vo2maxProductions

Awesome conversation with a kick-ass "most enthusiastic monkey on the planet" (her family's term!) former lawyer, HR director and now "Chief Enthusiasm Officer" with Women in Negotiation. I am so pleased to give Wies another opportunity to spread the word to all the kick-ass women (and men!) out there!

Listen to Wies' Ted Talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2WBeZH-HeY

Check out her website here: https://womeninnegotiation.org/

I talk to Marion who is living out in Shanghai about living a focussed life, coaching and her dream to speak 10 languages fluently. A dream that she concocted when she was just 10 years old... a "Smart Goal for a smart girl"!

We talk about John's incredible journey and adventures alongside the theme of courage and being brave enough to begin the journey towards winning.

To give a taste, he rowed from London to Paris in a whaling boat, scaled mountains all over the world including the Matterhorn and numerous peaks in the Himalayas, he rowed across the Atlantic Ocean with a friend (at the age of 60!) and the following year ran the Marathon des Sables ('the world's toughest footrace'). Besides all this he has a background of incredible experience as follows:

John Peck has spent the last 30 years of his life working in the field of leadership development.  His interest was aroused as a young Army Officer cutting his teeth as a leader of his platoon in the remote jungle of Belize.  He went on to become a Divisional Commander of Stoke Newington Police Station in the East end of London during the times of the riots in the mid-1980s where lives were at stake.

From thence was responsible for leadership development of senior officers in the Metropolitan before running courses nationally for Senior Police Officers across the country.

Since then - for the last 25 years, John has focussed his energies in his business – Tiger Teams -http://tigerteams.co.uk  on working with senior leaders and their teams from prestigious organisations such as KPMG, BT, BP and Salesforce and a host of growing SMEs. 

His passion – whether working with City Board members, or turn around work with factories in the North of England - is in getting people at all levels in the organisation to be truly engaged and excited about driving their business forward to uncharted water.

His book title ‘Restless’ says it all. He is never happier spreading this restless energy to his clients whether they are gang leaders from inner London, Gambling Addicts or C-suite leaders. After all - what could ever be more exciting than a good challenge!

Hot off the back of winning a place in the "Top 50 women in Tech in Norway" I interviewed Lisa about her path, her insights into the startup world and investment.
Please like, subscribe and review as appropriate.
Video version of podcast is here:
Transcript is here: https://tinyurl.com/5ejt3skk

About Lisa: Serial entrepreneur, executive manager, and experienced international non-executive board member now crossing into the investment world to advise startups to get the right kind of capital to grow their companies. Her expertise is in scaling international software product development for B2B and B2C.

Her experience spans large, complex, international technology projects that bring together business leaders, engineers, product teams and others, to rapidly implement best in class solutions. She has worked on products built for the North American, European, and Asian markets, with on the ground experience in Southeast and South Asia.
Key moments:
@5:20 – What is product management?
@10:30 – what are start-ups actually doing?
@16:30 – Lisa’s pathway – what part did luck play and what was deliberate?
@35:00 – testing out Kickstarter at its early days and some great kickstarter advice
@41:40 – How to handle the pressure of start-ups
@47:00 - European start-up and entrepreneur scene versus silicon valley
@51:00 - Has Silicon Valley lost its edge?
@59:44 – Lisa outs herself as not a ‘fail’ believer 😉
@01:07:00 Lisa talks about women in tech
@01:17:22 – Yet more great advice regarding an early stage company from Lisa
Transcript here:

Fitness, motivation, jokes and a dog.. that's his strapline but Mark is in the process of amassing a diverse and engaged following. He posts videos about his fitness journey with his intended outcome being 'above average'.
However, consistently achieving 'above average' has of course meant that he is now facing some challenges of being quite a bit more than 'above average' in certain things!
So we cover his life, his journey and touch on some interesting points around inspiration (what it should mean to be inspired) and also mental health.

To check out the video version of this podcast please click here (and feel free to like, subscribe etc etc!):  https://www.youtube.com/c/purenrg4life/
To follow Mark's channel please subscribe here:  https://www.youtube.com/c/MarkLewisfitness
Follow him on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/marklewispics/

Check out more about my Win Building podcast and journey here: https://win-building.com/

Dr. Giorgio Iemmolo - Polyglot and linguist - Transference of knowledge and applying diverse knowledge to business

Yet another ex-colleague at EF Education First, Giorgio currently manages the academics for the non-english speaking language schools around the world. He spends his days switching between his multiple languages in order to operate as a truly global citizen.

I hope you enjoy this episode.
Please find Giorgio here if you want to connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giorgioiemmolo/
Like and subscribe to the youtube channel here: https://youtu.be/VXL2Yu6tBOY

Thanks

Olav is an expert in education. He realised at an early age the benefit of changing habits and processes to enhance his educational experiences and fortunately for us, he then wrote about this.

He has the best selling book "Super Student" and has recently released his latest book, co-authored with Barbara Oakley (one of the world's leading experts in education) "Learn Like a Pro".

You can find Olav everywhere online but you should definitely check out his EDX course (free version is great too!) here: https://www.edx.org/course/llap?index=product&queryID=8aef48fc64d864320ab4f781e6b7bc25&position=1
And go buy his books here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=olav+schewe&crid=3OZ7ICKRWUJ7K&sprefix=olav+schewe%2Caps%2C105&ref=nb_sb_noss

Our conversation was recorded walking through the beautiful Frogner Park in our hometown of Oslo, Norway. I didn't manage to capture any video footage so this video is simply stock footage of Oslo (enjoy!)

This week I talk in-person to Göran Winblad. He has a youtube channel dedicated to running, he is a video producer, a coach and an all-round great human! He has also (since recording!) become a father to twin girls!

 Subscribe to his youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/goranwinblad
Check out this conversation in video on my channel (and subscribe!) here: https://youtu.be/fUC-koL3Bm8

2:35 Göran introduces himself

05:07 Göran’s competitive background and philosophy on ‘winning’

11:04 How does a competitive nature play out in “normal” life?

13:14 How does Göran target “success” in youtube?

17:12 What has been the toughest part in your journey?

25:00 Habits – Running every day

32:30 Who are your biggest influencers?

36:30 Finding balance

40:10 How to get good at something

42:00 How does one coach orienteering?

45:45 Göran sneakily turns a question back at me!

Sandy Kusano - Human potential coach

Please check her out and support her work... she is awesome!

Website: https://joyfuloptimist.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skusano/
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCugcbmtIQoeCejiwvW6KXQ

Also please check out my website (you might already be here!) - https://win-building.com/
and especially come support Mental Fitness Mondays - https://win-building.com/mental-fitness-mondays/
Timestamps:
@02:28 - Sandy introduces herself
@05:35 - Her love of travel
@08:49 - Why she got into coaching
@13:11 Retraining your brain
@19:23 How to avoid "freezing up"
@26:28 What tools to use to help people understand themselves better
@30:18 How to recognise when you're brain is being hijacked
@31:38 Change "Why is this happening to me?" to "Why is this happening FOR me?"
@37:43 "Fake it til you make it" discussion
@41:23 Sandy's new podcast