Tom Bosworth | Taking The First Step
Giving The Game Away
by GTGA Media
5M ago
TOM BOSWORTH | Taking The First Step | Out Now In the latest episode of the podcast, we talk to two-time Olympic Race Walker, Tom Bosworth, who provides some of the most powerful insights we’ve had on the series to date. During the conversation, we cover: - Captaining Team England and Winning Silver at the Commonwealth Games - Walking a mile quicker than anyone in history - How the first step is often the hardest part of achieving anything - Tips to manage our mental health - Becoming the first openly gay British track and field athlete  - Bouncing back from suicidal thoughts and depre ..read more
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Amy Williams MBE | Talent to Triumph
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by GTGA Media
7M ago
Amy Williams was propelled to stardom in 2010 after winning Britain’s first individual gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games in 30 years. Having only started Skeleton Racing at 19 years old, eight years prior to the Games, Amy’s story is one of dreaming big and following an ambition with focus and disciplined day-to-day habits. The topics we cover in this episode are:  - How a lack of resources can often be your biggest unfair advantage  - The importance of consistently getting your thoughts down on paper - How true enjoyment of your craft leads you to unlocking your potential - Con ..read more
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Anna Hemmings MBE | Beyond the Barriers
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by GTGA Media
7M ago
Anna Hemmings is a six-time world champion, two-time Olympian and now a world-class keynote speaker and performance consultant. Anna’s sporting career can be summed up as not only one of elite high-performance but also one of consistent success against the odds. Initially, this was proving the British Head Coach wrong – who had told her when younger that she was not big or strong enough to ever compete at the highest level of her sport. Later on in her journey, she would overcome an even bigger hurdle. At the peak of her career, Anna was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and told by doct ..read more
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Tony Stanger | Lessons in Leadership
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by GTGA Media
7M ago
Tony Stanger is a Scottish rugby legend - playing 52 times for Scotland and, up until very recently, holding the nation's record for total tries scored. Post-rugby, Tony became an author, a coach and a business owner with his high performance consultancy named ‘Stanger Pro’. In this episode we cover:  - Scoring Scotland’s most famous try - Leadership lessons from Sir Ian McGeechan - The importance of not tying one’s identity to their levels of success - Why parents are the most important element of youth development  - How asking honest questions can lead to high performance ..read more
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Anna Hemmings | Beyond the Barriers
Giving The Game Away
by GTGA Media
9M ago
Anna Hemmings is a six-time world champion, two-time Olympian and now a world-class keynote speaker and performance consultant. Anna’s sporting career can be summed up as not only one of elite high-performance but also one of consistent success against the odds. Initially, this was proving the British Head Coach wrong – who had told her when younger that she was not big or strong enough to ever compete at the highest level of her sport. Later on in her journey, she would overcome an even bigger hurdle. At the peak of her career, Anna was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and told by doct ..read more
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Christian Wade | Redefining Success
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by GTGA Media
10M ago
Christian is a former rugby player for England, British Lions & London Wasps. At 27 though, despite being one of the highest Premiership try scorers of all time, Christian took up a new challenge by becoming part of the NFL International Player Programme, securing a place on the Buffalo Bills squad & ultimately scoring a touchdown with his first competitive touch of a football. During the podcast, Christian talks about various mindsets, approaches and mental techniques he used during his career. The most notable of which was a mental shift he went through halfway through his career. Wh ..read more
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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson | 'Sport has the Power to Change the World'
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by Cam Scott and Joel Barber
1y ago
Tanni Grey-Thompson was born with spina bifida and subsequently became paralysed at the age of 7. Six years later, inspired by Paralympic legend Chris Hallam, Tanni began wheelchair racing and instantly fell in love with the sport. Tanni had won her first race within three years of starting, and just two years after that, Tanni won the London Wheelchair Marathon. This was the first in a long list of competitive wheelchair successes, and a testament to the mental strength required to overcome hardship and to compete at the very highest level of sport.  At the age of just 19, Tanni competed ..read more
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Thomas Hal Robson-Kanu | Taking Your Shot
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by Cam Scott and Joel Barber
1y ago
Hal’s most famous moment on the football pitch came in 2016 when, against all odds, Wales reached the Semi-Final of the Euros. In the quarter-final, Hal Robson-Kanu scored one of the most memorable goals in modern football history, beating three defenders with one Cruyff turn and putting it past Thibaut Courtois, one of the best keepers in the world at the time. The individual brilliance of the goal warranted it being awarded a Puskas award and to all football fans, it perfectly encapsulated the exciting journey the Welsh side had been on that tournament. Since that tournament, Hal has contin ..read more
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Adam Hollioake | Grief, Gratitude & Greatness
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by Cam Scott and Joel Barber
1y ago
Having captained the England cricket team, as well as later becoming both a professional boxer and mixed martial arts fighter, there is no one else in the world who has experienced a sporting career like Adam Hollioake has. Despite having been born in Australia, as well as living in Hong Kong throughout his childhood, Adam Hollioake captained the England cricket team for the first time in 1997. In that same year, he made his test debut playing alongside his brother. Adam and his brother would go on to share the field together across multiple seasons with England and Surrey C.C.C. In 2002 thoug ..read more
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Tony Underwood | Flying High: A Story of Resilience
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by Cam Scott and Joel Barber
1y ago
A British & Irish Lion, international rugby player and producer of some of the most memorable moments in English Rugby. Coming off the back of a Grand Slam win in 1995, in which Tony Underwood and his brother, Rory, scored 7 of the 9 tries their team scored all tournament, England entered the World Cup of that same year full of confidence. The highlight of that campaign for England would be a quarter-final win over Australia – a side who had beaten them in the final four years earlier - with Tony scoring one of the most memorable tries in English rugby history, out-running the reigning wor ..read more
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