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For over 20 years, Shaun McCambridge has been inquisitive, learning and experimenting with different ways to leverage our greatest asset….. our minds, to work for us rather than against us.

Join Shaun as he engages with inspiring guests to provide you with tangible knowledge and insights to help you achieve more.

This show is powered by Stellar Recruitment and is inspired by our company purpose and WHY which is….. “Inspiring growth, Changing lives”. Shaun McCambridge is the Managing Director of Stellar Recruitment, a devoted husband and father to four spritely children. Ensure that you subscribe, rate and review!

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    • Health & Fitness
    • 5.0 • 29 Ratings

For over 20 years, Shaun McCambridge has been inquisitive, learning and experimenting with different ways to leverage our greatest asset….. our minds, to work for us rather than against us.

Join Shaun as he engages with inspiring guests to provide you with tangible knowledge and insights to help you achieve more.

This show is powered by Stellar Recruitment and is inspired by our company purpose and WHY which is….. “Inspiring growth, Changing lives”. Shaun McCambridge is the Managing Director of Stellar Recruitment, a devoted husband and father to four spritely children. Ensure that you subscribe, rate and review!

    How to best support my child in sport and school with performance psychologist - Jonah Oliver

    How to best support my child in sport and school with performance psychologist - Jonah Oliver

    Jonah Oliver is a world-leading performance psychologist he combines sports psychology and neuroscience to facilitate peak performance.
     
    He has nearly 20 years of working in high performance from Olympians, executives, and professional codes (Brisbane Roar, Gold Coast Suns, Essendon), to car racing teams (Porsche – Le Mans World Champion, V8s), indigenous performing artists and surgeons.
     
    Executive coach, author, speaker, and consultant on talent identification, leadership, and organisational performance around the world. Husband, father, entrepreneur.
     
    2.30 - How do you navigate the car trip home after a sports game when your kid has strong emotions?
     
    "Emotions tell us something, it's not ambivalence. They're not just sitting there. If there are emotions, it means they care.  So they care about something like the performance, their teammates, your approval, their own standards, feeling competent or feeling incompetent, whatever it is, there's something there to listen to."
     
    4.50 What is our role?
     
    Our role is to provide a cushioned landing so that they can feel and experience whatever's showing up and you're a safe pair of hands to allow them to just sit with that. Let them dictate what the car ride home looks likeSelf-reflection is importantSometimes kids need an object to discharge/vent to (often the parents) 
    08.44 - Our fears as a parent. I don't want them to …
     
    "Sport can be the greatest vehicle for learning about life in a safe way.  Life is hard and how do you survive in the jungle if you're raised in the zoo?  It's like sport needs to allow you to be exposed to failure to set back to I'm not as good as other people at some things that I need to solve this puzzle myself. "
     
    11.15 - How do you get your kids to see your intentions for what they are?
     
    You need to be clear on what your intentions truly areTypically when we want to step in and help it kicks us into command and control style of parentingWhen you teach a child something, you deprive them of the opportunity to discover it for themselves (Piaget quote)The consequence is our kids learn there's always something about me they need to fix, I'm not good enough.  
    15.40 - "What does success look like?  And what is the intention behind it?  If it's trying to protect them from failure because of your fears of them and what their life might be, if they don't succeed in that domain, then that's you. And you got to get the heck out of the way. It is a fun first mentality, just let them have fun."
     
    Your job is to, to remove all the weeds and maybe throw some manure and some lattice and a few things, but then let the plant grow in the direction it wants to go.When you take the plant and you wire it to the lattice and tell it which way to grow you don't have an independent, self-governed, self-determined human being. 
    20.00 - How do you help children identify and navigate self-doubt as a roadblock to them reaching their potential?
     
    We need to stop seeing self-doubt as a problemSelf-doubt is just the price of entry into lifeTake the time to listen to what is happening to the kid, what are the themes? Listen and learn what your kid is actually worried aboutThe most powerful thing you can say when they are feeling nervous is just to sit there and say "Yeh that makes sense". Meet them and see them Identify self-doubt as a gift and reframe it 
    27.00 - How to motivate kids to do something they may not love but may be important?
     
    Stop trying to make them love everything If our kids only do the things they enjoy and are motivated by then they learn a relationship that they only want to do tasks they are competent at/enjoy they will avoid the things they don't like. It sets up bad patterns.Boredom tolerance is critical for successMotivation comes and goes for everyone, be aware of the ebbs and flows of that"I don't enjoy doing X but I do it because of Y" 
    36.00 - How do you deal with the "I want to give up"? How do you unpack and deal with

    • 1 hr 5 min
    Living a life built on Purpose - Sandy from Traction

    Living a life built on Purpose - Sandy from Traction

     03.51 - Sandy’s journey to starting Traction
     
    “Why not start something that makes a direct impact on young people”
     
    8.00 - CEO Bike Build
     
    Young people growing into their potential and meeting expectations that might be held of them in workplaces. 
    It is so much more than the bike. Make the situation at Traction relevant to their outside life. 
    10.05 - Core fundamentals taught at Traction
     
    “We know isolation and loneliness are felt through the neural pathways in much the same way as physical pain. So the health impact of being isolated and lonely is as deleterious as smoking a packet of cigarettes a day over a long period. So for our young people, when they say that they just want to make friends, we take that seriously because quite often they haven't had many role models in how to build good relationships.”
     
    Traction allows providing young people with role models they have never had and teaches them confidence. It’s a wellbeing framework
     
    12.00 - Elements of wellbeing
    Be engaged in learningBeing activeBeing connectedBeing influential (we are all leaders) 13.32 - Tangible benefits of Traction’s program
     
    Sometimes the most tangible benefit is just for these kids to have one day a week where they feel safe and are learning not just surviving.
    It’s not a program you are sent to do, it’s an opportunity.
     
    17.04 - The 2 things you need in life
    1-  Love and connection 
    2 - Meaning and purpose
     
    19.00 - What has Sandy learnt in the corporate world and the Traction world
     
    Ordinary people working together can create extraordinary things
    Having a vision and team built around a shared purpose
     
    The challenge in not-for-profit space compared to the corporate arena is just the uncertainty around, or it's difficult to plan for the long term because of the pipeline of funding that's required to invest in, whether it be program delivery or developing the capacity as an organisation or investing in the infrastructure needed like without.
     
    22.30 - 
    “The energy comes from seeing the results and the difference we're making and we're about prevention. So there's a lot of attention being paid to youth crime in our community at the moment. And to me, there's work that has to be done on that. If we get in early and reach young people before they slip through the cracks in the system and get them on.
     
    Positive and trajectories to their potential and possibility, then it's a much smarter investment upfront than having to deal with the knock-on effects later.”
     
    23.45 - The cost of incarceration on society/community
     
    A massive trigger for youth crime is exclusion from school. As soon as you fall out of, or are excluded from the schooling system, who are you going to hang out with?
     
    28.20 - What do kids fundamentally need to have a positive/good/great life?
     
    -       Care and love
    -       Recognise that every young person has unique gifts, and brings different strengths, and try to understand what they are
    -       Encourage them to participate and have a go
    -       Education is key and there are so many ways to learn
    -       Have a community around the young people
     
    30.30 - What stands in the way of the grander vision you have?
     
    “It's about fuel in the tank. We've got a great model. We've, we know the attributes of powerful mentors and we are ready to scale up the program and reach more young people.
    We're ready to recruit, train and develop.”
     
    34.00 - What is your purpose and your why?
     
    ●      It’s about making a difference, something each day. Ordinary people working together can do extraordinary things
    ●      Be present within the community to find what is possible
    ●      Sense of belonging around a shared purpose/cause
    ●      We are not here for a long time so it’s about who is around you
     

    • 40 min
    From Broken to Mentally Fit with Jimi Hunt

    From Broken to Mentally Fit with Jimi Hunt

    2.00 -  The Background & Intro

    When Jimi bounced off of rock bottom he got to the point where he said “I have to do something different that makes my tomorrow different from my today because my today sucks.”

    4.00 - Picking up the tools and applying them
    Applications change the outcomes. Once you start seeing the gains you get “addicted to the gains”. 

    Talent for translating the information and putting it in a way he could understand and that others could understand. 

    6.00 -
    Doesn’t have to be a big event that sets you into that state. 
    “...the shove over the edge, you either fall to your death or you learn to fly. And that's what I decided as I was. I need to learn how to fly real, real quick… where can I, where can I build some wings from? Where can I get a parachute from?”

    07.30 - The difference between resilience and mental fitness

    Mental fitness is the ability to be able to see chaos coming and have the perspectives, understanding and tools to avoid it as it comes, or at least glance it off. 

    Is the ability to learn tools, techniques, perspectives, observations, and understandings that allow us to see situations unfolding as they unfold and be able to make really clear, confident, rational decisions in those that lead to the best outcomes for us.

    10 - What do you do to keep mentally fit?

    “Instead of telling me what to do, he told me why I should do it.” A simple start. 

    Future success is determined by past success. You're much more likely to succeed in the future if you have succeeded in the past.

    13 - Two key underpinnings for Mental Fitness
    Ability to observe your thoughts and the ability to regulate your nervous system.

    15.30 - The breath 
    The key is to move yourself from a sympathetic state to a parasympathetic state. Parasympathetic is your rest, rejuvenation, and relaxation state. You can do this through your breath. Allows you to be in a state that helps you be in a state to choose better and create better outcomes for yourself.

    17. 40 - Mental fitness for kids

    The parents are the biggest influence on a child’s life. You cannot teach what you do not know. “What is genetic in feeling is that you teach it to your children.” Parents control or dictate the environment or atmosphere people walk into.

    22.30 - Mental health continuum

    When you say mental health people think of mental illness.
    If you put in small, consistent efforts all the time then you will become mentally fitter. Continuum is being able to put ourselves on to figure out where we’re at and how we can move up.

    32.00  - Jimi’s why & putting yourself first

    “My why is to improve my mental fitness. I care about everybody secondary to myself and the more I connect to myself, the more I improve my mental fitness, the more I learn and the more ability I have to share that with others.”

    “And the happier the people are, the more mentally fit people are, the better employees they are, the more creative, the more productive, the less sick time, the less turnover, all of those metrics.”

    40.00 - Advice you would pass on to younger Jimi

    Links - 

    https://www.jimihunt.com - https://www.jimihunt.com/newsletter/

    https://www.instagram.com/thejimihunt
    https://www.facebook.com/thejimihunt

    • 44 min
    Neuroscience, Happiness and a complete Career Reinvention with Jeff Mckeon

    Neuroscience, Happiness and a complete Career Reinvention with Jeff Mckeon

    Intro to Jeff McKeon:
    Jeff is currently the Chief Growth Officer at Neuro Capability, he's a really interesting person and deeply kind. He's lived a great life and has reached this position where he genuinely loves what he does for work. He's got some great learnings to share as part of his journey. Jeff believes that our greatest asset is our mind. We are sure you will thoroughly enjoy this episode.
     
    02.20 - Reflection and Curiosity:
     "I'm just eternally grateful that I get to share a message and talk about the stuff that fills me with curiosity. And it comes around from those moments in your life. And if you're conscious of those moments and those decisions you make, and reflection I think is that thing, when you start to reflect at those moments, you think did I make a good decision? Did I make a bad decision? What did I learn from it? That's been my biggest transformation if I think about it."
     
    04.15 - Defining moments that have impacted your life 
    That's the power of connection and human connection. You never know what someone's got going on in their life.
    That's why we need to be kind. I always laugh that the other stuff, the negative stuff has a better PR team. So be kind. It's just that in those moments in life, you never know what someone is going through.
     
    11.00 - The impact stress has on your body
    Stress has a huge impact on our body long term. The term is called allostatic load, which is the impact on the machine because you're going too fast and too hard the whole time.
     
    "I can't change him, I have to change me. When I talk about change, sometimes you require that catalyst. "
      
    13.00 - The career reinvention
    In the moment you don't realise it, you just do what your instinct is. But that's when you have to take those gambles with the career transition. You have got to trust your instinct because my instinct had gone from a quiet little voice to that screaming voice saying you gotta get out, you gotta do something more with the rest of your life. You have to approach it in a whole different way. What can I learn from this?
     
    When you transition careers, you need that piece of paper to feel a little bit bulletproof. You have to back your instinct
     
    16.15 - Ben Crowe and the notion of being your inner fan and the inner critic.
    The biggest realisation is just being aware that the voice is trainable. Most people go through life hearing this inner voice and not realising that you can actually shut it off or you can diminish it or you can change it.
     
    The way the brain is wired is in the first five years. That's why it's critical in a child's development, the love and nurturing because it's happening the brain is wiring, not only are they learning to walk, they're learning, do I love this way? What's their condition, what's right, what's wrong?
     
    An example is how Ben Crowe worked with Ash Barty and her inner voice to identify that she is so much more than tennis, she is an individual and that's where that power of identifying your inner voice is.
     
    19.01 - Diminish your inner critic
    Ethan Cross talks about diminishing and harnessing your inner critic in his book, Chatter.
    Be aware of it and know that you don't have to listen to it because that's no longer relevant, that's the voice you heard when you were seven or eight.
     
    It's no longer relevant to who I am as an adult. But we learn it way back when we are judged when we are young. But we're still, it's the same voice. Quite often it'll be either a mom or dad or an authority figure. And it'll be the same voice and that's just because that got wired into us.
     
    20.30 - I am Enough
    The biggest thing Ben Crow does in his work is helping his clients to say, I'm enough. So when you believe you are enough, guess what happens? That inner voice gets silenced. Gets turned down because you're no longer listening to it because you're going, no, no, I'm enough.
    The power of reframing and rephrasing.
     
    21.30 - Helping your kids with their inner critic and bein

    • 54 min
    Trail blazing -The inspiring journey of Holly Ransom

    Trail blazing -The inspiring journey of Holly Ransom

    Intro:
    Holly Ransom has been named one of Australia's 100 Most Influential Women. She has achieved so much from a young age not to mention she has interviewed the likes of Barrack Obama, Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama just to mention a few.
     
    Holly has a consultancy business, Emergent Global, she is also a board member of Port Adelaide Football Club, she is an author, global speaker and podcaster and discusses topics like how to conquer public speaking, how to create rituals to get you to your best and how to cultivate a healthier and better mindset. She is certainly inspiring and it is an episode not to be missed.
     
    3.00 - Where did it all start?
    A summary of quotes from Holly. 
     
    “Strong sense of direction and lose hold of the reins.”
    “Always know what you are passionate about.”
    “When you walk past things you tell the world it's ok.”
    “What I have chosen to say yes to or put energy into comes back to the fact it was not something I was willing to walk past.”
     “It's about putting yourself where lightning strikes, where you are going to collide with your purpose.”
    “I was very lucky and I encourage people to do this;  volunteering gives you so many different opportunities to test out your thinking and meet extraordinary mentors that have taught me so many lessons.”
     
    06.36 - Which mentors have had the biggest impact on you and why?
    A variety of people moved beyond a conversation to working together ongoing, some people you have one conversation with and it's life-altering. But ultimately my grandmother is hard to go past with her powerful influence in my life.
     
    2 things her grandmother instilled in Holly:
    Incredible ability to leave anyone she interacts with feeling better. There are few gifts that you can have in life that are better than that. She would make people feel 10 ft tall and instil confidence in them.Leadership does not have to have a title. She could step into a situation where someone wasn’t being treated right and turn the situation around. If you walk past it you tell the world it's okay.We all have influence and power over our choices every day and that is leadership in action. We are all leaders, people are turning to us every day and are shaped by the attitude we are turning up with.  We often overlook the power of this. 
    10.15 - Shaun says, "One of the coolest things about leadership is seeing it in action, not just words. It's about leading from the front."
     
    11 - Leadership in today's time. What is your definition of what leadership should look like in 2023?
    Leadership by its very nature is contextual. Leadership needs to work with or against the forces around it to be able to achieve certain goals and objectives.
    What’s striking about leadership today is the way that we are putting it to work. It used to be hierarchical which would count a lot of people out.
    In this day in age, it's a distributed model of leadership where we have to be involved.
    A compelling vision, agenda level of trust and live true values. Where people get out of bed and want to be part of your vision.
    The greater level of accountability. Closing the gap, don't say one thing and do another.
     
    It's an exciting time to think of how we hold up different levels of leadership.
     
    How we lead and manage younger people is totally different to what it used to be.
    Diversity of influence around the boardroom is crucial.
     
    15.42 - An important role for people to play that are influencers, advisors and in the ears of leaders in all types of all shapes and forms.
    "One of the challenges for Changemakers is the way we tell the story to those we are trying to influence in a way that lines up effectively with what matters to them."
     
    17 - "I invite people in those situations to see the need for adaptation is on us as the changemakers. We have to do the work to change the story because the systems around us won't do it."
     
    18.15 - Tips around public speaking
    It's perfectly normal to feel nervous about it

    • 44 min
    No plan B with Mat Rogers

    No plan B with Mat Rogers

    Mat Rogers is one inspiring individual, not just inspiring as a sportsman or father but inspiring as the man beneath it all.From an ex-Wallabies player to a father of four, tune into this episode to hear why his drive and resilience are something we can all aspire to. 
    2.00 - The highlight or achievement of Mat's footy career:
    "Staying on the path, not getting distracted - not dragged away by the influence around you. I stayed committed to what I wanted to achieve. The only way to succeed is to put all your eggs in one basket and make it happen. Focus on one thing at a time and if one doesn't work out you focus on another egg. Zero in on your focus as there is so much going on in the world. That's what I am the most grateful for."
     
    When it comes to the people around him:
    "I didn't change my goal I changed my friends 
    Forget a Plan  B - stay true to your path"
     
    5.40 -Who was the hardest bloke you had to tackle?
    "Defence is an attitude, if you want to stop something you will put everything you can into it. Stand in the way enough to slow them down…
    …Tony Brown made my life challenging. Every player out there is a competitor and is going to be tough to take down.
    Be completely relentless"
     
    8.45 -  What was the most inspiring thing about your dad?
    "He didn't just influence through words, would influence through actions. Showing me not just telling me.
    After seeing it I knew I wanted to do it, I knew how much needed to go into it.
    I focused on the end goal because I saw my dad doing it. I remember seeing the work he would put in and the extras he would go through. "
     
    11.40 - You earn every win, no one is just going to give it to you.
    "He role-modelled greatness. Not everyone gets ribbons in life, you have to earn them."
    Matt's resilience has been the cornerstone of his achievements, he has faced so many challenges in his life.
     
    14.10 - "The reality is even when you have challenges, the world is going to keep turning. I like working under stress, through the tough times it's about just living again. I need my next goal, something to fire me up.
    I want people around me that are focussed and motivated and fired up about something."
     
    Living an intentional life rather than just existing.
     
    Intrinsic or Evolved ability to work under pressure? 
    "I rise to the thought of pressure. It was something from a  young age. 
    Reframed situations are usually ones that people avoid"
    What happens if we don't win? What happens if we do? Use it as an opportunity to thrive.
     
    20.40 - "I don't want to voice out negativity into the world.  You just tell yourself that you aren't going to, so you won't.
    The power of the voice. I want to put the books in my favour. Learned to be internally positive and rub off on those around me."
     "If all the people around you are positive then you can lift each other. Be way more positive than negative from the outset and even if there are some doubts, I will keep them to myself because the people around me might not have those doubts, so as soon as I voice them, all of a sudden they have them too. They might have the positive feedback to help me get over the bump."
     
    24 .00 - Mental health  
    Mat exercises every morning for an hour with his friend. They have a pact that they don't have any negativity in their morning routines.
    The busier you are, the more important it is as you have less of your own time.  It allows you to reflect on the day before and plan the day. Having me time in the morning is key.
     
    29.10 - Team sports allow you to have a goal set for you every week. 
    Having the game gave him purpose and when he retired he realised he didn't have that purpose in his life anymore. You need a goal with substance, work back from it and celebrate the milestones on the way. Put a date on it and a timeframe otherwise it's not a goal it's a wish.
     
    Goals in concrete and plans in the sand because life can change.
     
    "I perform best when the whip is lashed and setting a goal allows for this.

    • 59 min

Customer Reviews

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29 Ratings

T10tos ,

Well worth a listen

Great insights into how to improve the way we approach life. Shaun’s passion for learning and inspiring others is infectious. Fantastic takeaway messages from each podcast.

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Loved the variety of different perspectives towards mindfulness. I have taken a lot of little helpful tip away from these podcast that has help me improve how I deal with pressure and carry my self day to day.

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Fantastic information, thank you!!!

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