Inspirational Leaders

This episode features Shaun Thomson - former world champion surfer, author, entrepreneur, father and husband. In this podcast he discusses his process detailed in ‘The Surfer’s Code – 12 Simple Lessons for riding through life’ and his number on best seller ‘The Power of I Will’. Shaun has been an academic and a motivational speaker who has toured the world discussing the power of purpose and choice in the lives of everyday people and how having solid foundations in attitude and direction can help empower individuals to lead their best lives.

Today’s episode features Naomi Armitage - a Psychologist and advocate for ‘Psychological Safety ‘in the workplace and an expert on the topic of fixed vs growth mindsets. Naomi has her own practice and has worked with some of Australia’s largest companies in transforming and empowering workplaces to create more innovative, productive and forward-thinking cultures. She provides practical advice on how individuals and leaders can better apply these learnings in their lives and help to better develop themselves and their teams.

This week's episode from our vault, features Richard ‘Richie’ McCaw, former New Zealand Rugby Union player and 2-time world cup winning captain of the All Blacks. From being approached at school about one day playing for the New Zealand Rugby team to then being highlighted as an All Black Great, Richie makes it really clear that hard work, perseverance, and dedication is what helped him transform this opportunity into a reality. “You do need the talent, there is no doubt on that. But a lot is attributed to instinct, perseverance, work ethics – a healthy mind set. You’ve got to have the mindset to put in the hard yards and there is no substitute for hard work! It’s not just hard work though its being smart. You need to understand the whole game and a range of things to help you perform.” – Richie McCaw Tune in to listen to how Richie achieved the dreams of every young NZ rugby fan. thepodcastboss.com

Tamika is an inspirational individual and entrepreneur who has created two fast growing companies and is also driven by a strong purpose. Despite challenges and trauma early in life she made the CHOICE to create a different future to what was playing out at the time. We covered a lot on the podcast including: · How hurdles and adversity have been turned into opportunities including a bout of chronic fatigue · How she has used journaling and daily reflection to increase her consciousness about what’s working well, and what needs to be worked on · How she is shining a light on woman globally and assisting with social housing initiatives · What attributes took her to become Metricon’s No 1 salesperson at a very young age · Moving her drivers from Fear to Love  · Advice for my young 9 year old daughter Sophie · How she has grown herself as a person · What daily habits she practices to get the most out of herself  There is no surprise that Tamika become the Gold Coast Business Woman of the Year in 2017 an

Presidents, entrepreneurs, athletes, actors and many others have used (Neuro Linguistics Programming) to propel themselves towards their goals and also stop the process of self-sabotage and in doing so unlocking their potential. In the show Shaun defines with [Gina Mollicone-Long](http://www.greatnessgroup.com/)(NLP guru, motivational speaker and world renowned author) and explores how NLP helps people change their thoughts, behaviours and habits in their quest to achieve their desired outcomes and to get out of their own way.  During the show we cover · The impact of the language you use · Dealing with anxiety · The “process” of change · Brain hacks to get your mind working for you · Habits and patterns of behaviour · The deference between the goal getter (conscious mind) and goal getter (unconscious mind) 

Welcome to the “Debunking your growth mindset”' podcast with Shaun McCambridge. We are going to unpack practical ways to help you grow and build on your current mindset and challenge old habits. This is a passion project of Shaun’s and a journey he has been on since the age of 20 when he became conscious that his mind wasn’t working for him. Since this time he’s been both passionate and inquisitive in how to shift his mindset to be a positive contributor.

Shaun McCambridge is the Managing Director of Stellar Recruitment, a devoted husband and father to four spritely children. Shaun created the Inspirational Leaders series to inspire emerging leaders and to shine a light on what it takes to be an inspirational leader. This podcast features Suzannah "Suzie" Bates - a New Zealand cricketer and former captain of the national women cricket team. She plays for the Otago Sparks in the State League, the Southern Vipers in the Women's Cricket Super League as well as for her national team, the White Ferns and the Adelaide Strikers. She is a former Olympian and professional basketball player. She holds the highest score and highest batting average in the New Zealand Women's Twenty20 cricket team. She was recognised as the ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year 2013 and won the ICC Women's ODI and T20I Cricketer of the Year again in 2015. Suzie has experience in mindset and performance at the highest levels of professional sport and is a keen advocate for living his valu

This podcast features Henry Nicholls, international cricketer for the New Zealand Black Caps and captain of the reserve A side. Henry has played cricket at a professional level from the age of 22 having begun his career playing first-class domestic cricket for his home province of Canterbury. In the years that followed he would be named to the New Zealand ODI team, and in 2016 debuted against Australia for the International Test Squad. Henry credits a structured’ ‘do the work’ approach to his cricketing success which has seen him go from a ‘player worth investing in’ (coach Mike Hesson) into a fully-fledged playmaker and regular for the Black Caps.  From a professional standpoint, how did you get your mind working for you? “There was a moment for me before I scored my first test 100\. I remember I had played 12 or 13 tests before that and hadn’t reached the century, and there was a lot of media noise and opinion about that which makes things difficult. I remember one game against South Africa, I went out and

  This podcast features Jonah Oliver, performance psychologist to The Essendon Football Club, Brisbane Roar A-League, Tennis Australia, The Queensland Institute of Sport and Golf Australia. Jonah currently consults in mentorship of leaders within the business world as well as many athletes and has acted as a high-performance specialist in several sporting organisations around the world. Jonah combines his deep understanding of neuroscience and sports psychology to deliver a unique, simple and effective approach to facilitating peak performance.         Using an Executive as an example; someone with a lot of pressure, both internal and external how do you help them build that capacity to perform despite adversity?  “Those that thrive in life often find ways of connecting to a greater purpose, and this comes from understanding your values. If I asked all of your listeners to take their shoes off and walk across some broken glass, you aren’t going to see a lot of interest. But what if I told you at the end of it

  This podcast features Peter Jackson, former CEO to Melbourne Football Club. Peter currently consults in organisation design and strategy, leadership and executive coaching. He has worked for Rio Tinto as a business analyst, moved into the manufacturing industry focussing on restructuring businesses and one day got a call from Essendon Football Club asking if he’d be interested in the CEO role available. Since that call he has spent 22 years changing organisational leadership and culture in football.     How do you move a culture in a direction where you can make meaningful progress? “You have to keep telling the story about what’s possible. And it’s true that a lot of people don’t believe you. Because they go back to the past… It’s a long process to actually make people believe that things can work.” “Going to work is the most significant use of your time as a human being. You’re going to work from 20-70years old… [As leaders] You’ve got to make a connection as to why people want to go to work? And people w

    This podcast features Tyrone Tongia, also known as Coach Cyclone. Tyrone is a personal trainer committed to engaging and supporting his clients through professional boxing protocols. His momentous boxing accolades are as a retired 3 x  consecutive Australian Pro Boxing Champion and coached a World Boxing champion Brett W Smith “Handful”. It all started when Tyrone was 9 years old and a friend introduced him to boxing as a means of fitness. How do you use fear as a catalyst to perform as opposed to it being debilitating emotion? “Just take action. In a boxing sense you can’t stop and think about it, you just have to react and create action. But there are other areas in your life where you do stop and think your way through it just that little bit more. Just identifying it and then what do you do… I think the fear at the start is much more different than towards the end of it.” “Boxing is just the vehicle, the real end goal there is about self-development and being a better version of yourself.” Tyrone not

This podcast features PlantMiner’s Michael Trusler, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Dan Wilson, General Manager, and Benjamin Somerville, National Sales Manager. PlantMiner is an Australian tech start-up success story and is now Australia’s largest and most successful construction marketplace. The trio’s passion is not only to create a company that is remembered for changing the construction industry but also for the success of their team. “We have a great culture and we hire for that culture; we train our staff well and reward our staff, [as well as] make them passionate about wanting to work for us” “We want to build a software and organisation that changes the construction and infrastructure industry in Australia and across the world” “[Know] who your customer is, [find out] exactly what your customer wants and built that product” This podcast explores PlantMiner’s journey to date in how it has become a game-changer in the construction and infrastructure sector. Reference list PlantMiner (https://www.plantminer.com.a

    This podcast features Melbourne Storm, Queensland State of Origin and Australian Kangaroos captain, Cameron Smith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Smith) . With four NRL Premierships, 11 State of Origins and a World Cup to his name, Cameron is the most decorated player in the history of rugby league and widely regarded as the best player to ever play the game. “You always want to be better…there are always small improvements in your life in whatever you are doing” “To get the very best out of yourself, you need to get out of your comfort zone, you need to take yourself to places where you don’t think you could go, both physically and mentally.” – Cameron Smith This podcast explores Cameron’s humble beginnings, hard-work ethic, dedication and his unwavering commitment for continual individual and group improvement.  Shaun McCambridge – Inspirational Leaders Podcast Shaun McCambridge is the Managing Director of Stellar Recruitment (http://www.stellarrecruitment.com) , a devoted husband and father to f

    This podcast features Justin Langer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Langer) , born and bred in Perth, has travelled all around the world playing, coaching and mentoring cricket.  He has played in over 105 test matches in his time and now works as Head Coach of Western Australian Cricket and the Perth Scorchers Cricket. He puts his great accomplishments and success down to focusing on the process (not the outcome), working hard and having strong male mentors. “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender” “The toughest times are the best times. You think at the time it’s the worst and it is, but it’s actually about improving and getting better” “You can keep moving forward or you can quit, you can give up or feel sorry for yourself. The question of life comes to you right then. In the toughest of times… What are you going to do? Are you going to keep fighting it, keep moving forward, or keep moving through it to move through the layers of your character, or are you going to give up?” – Justin L

    This podcast features Barry Robinson, President and Managing Director, Wyndham Hotel Group and Vacation Resorts, Asia Pacific. Currently the Wyndham business generates $300 milion and have over 5000 employees worldwide. He started working in the local family business which was a couple of hospitality establishments in Dunedin, New Zealand and became a General Manager at the age of 27. He then moved to Indonesia and then China to lead global hotel chains within those regions. “Moving into Wyndham, I had a vision for the business and it was a lot different to what others had in mind. And the timeshare industry has been around for years and I was trying to make major changes in direction and philosophy [which] was very challenging for some people. I was seen as a young CEO. Looking back, I was trying to move too quickly, was too aggressive. That is one of the key learnings I had” – Barry Robinson. This podcast explores Barry’s transparent and resilient entrepreneurial leadership style and his inspirational c

    This podcast features Anthony Yap, Managing Director at Good Price Pharmacy Franchising (https://www.goodpricepharmacy.com.au/) . At 23 years old he saved up $50,000 between three jobs and raised enough capital to buy his first pharmacy. He worked across all roles in the business from pharmacy assistant, warehouse coordinator, stock controller, manager, the pharmacist in charge, and everything else in between. By doing everything from the ground up there was complete accountability for success and it set up really good processes and procedures. “The biggest career changing moment was when a competitor opened up 2 doors down from us, 2 weeks before we were set to open our third store. They gave us the ultimatum of closing down or they would spend $3million to put our business in the ground. That was the career defining moment as it made us improve faster than we ever would have done in any other situation. We knew from then we could compete nationally”. – Anthony Yap This podcast explores Anthony’s sheer p

    This podcast features Richard ‘Richie’ McCaw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_McCaw) , former New Zealand Rugby Union player and 2-time world cup winning captain of the All Blacks (http://www.allblacks.com/) . From being approached at school about one day playing for the New Zealand Rugby team to then being highlighted as an All Black Great, Richie makes it really clear that hard work, perseverance, and dedication is what helped him transform this opportunity into a reality. “You do need the talent, there is no doubt on that. But a lot is attributed to instinct, perseverance, work ethics – a healthy mind set. You’ve got to have the mindset to put in the hard yards and there is no substitute for hard work! It’s not just hard work though its being smart. You need to understand the whole game and a range of things to help you perform.” – Richie McCaw Tune in to listen to how Richie achieved the dreams of every young NZ rugby fan.   Shaun McCambridge – Inspirational Leaders Podcast Shaun McCambridge is t

  This podcast features Nathan McCullum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_McCullum) , former New Zealand International Cricketer and now Senior Recruiter at Stellar Recruitment (http://www.stellsrrecruitment.com/) . Born and bred in South Dunedin, New Zealand he came from a successful family framework which always supported each other. Nathan suffered from Perthes Disease (http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00070) at a young age and was in a wheelchair for 9 months. The doctors constantly told Nathan that he could never run or play sports, however this proved to be the catalyst for his passion in achieving great success in cricket. “How do you define success? Trying to get to the point where you’re performing at a higher level consistently. The things that are involved are drive and determination and a willingness to work hard. And allowing yourself to be successful and putting in the hard work… It is having a clear plan about how you want to do things, and work hard but understand in time it will

    This podcast features Chris Rolls (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-rolls-417b3417/) , a serial entrepreneur and Managing Director, PieLab (https://www.pielab.com.au/) Venture Partners. You don’t have to look far into Chris’s career to see that he is a man of integrity, hard work and success. From creating an apparel brand in his 20’s, to buying, building and then selling one of Queensland’s most successful Real Estate ventures, he has had many successes including starting up a venture capital fund. His business career started when he was at school. He solved a simple problem by starting up and operating the school’s only canteen by purchasing soft-drinks & lollies and selling them at a mark up. Chris then went onto hold a plethora of jobs as a young kid; car washing, running a canteen, multiple paper runs, and horse racing sweeps, honing his start-up skills for major accomplishments later in life. Listening to this podcast, you will find it easy to see that Chris has always been entrepreneurial however

  This podcast features David Bulling (https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-bulling-3ab73b21/) , Director, Cook Brothers Construction (http://www.cookbrothers.co.nz/) . His first venture was in owning and managing one of New Zealand’s largest volume pubs at 21.