In this episode of The Athlete Welfare Podcast, I am joined by Louis Rolfe MBE, an ex-Professional Great British Paralympic Cyclist, representing both a Gold and Bronze Medal, and 2x World Champion excellences. 

In this episode of The Athlete Welfare Podcast, I am joined by Ronnie Wells, a Great British Skeleton Athlete, ex-Bristol City Football Academy Player, and ex-Sprinter. 

In this episode of The Athlete Welfare Podcast, I am joined by Robert C. Robertson, a Sports Mental Skills Coach specialising in Emotional Fitness™. 

In this episode of The Athlete Welfare Podcast, I am joined by Niall Lear, the Director of Rugby at Abu Dhabi Harlequins. 

Sharkey, an English Teacher at Hampton School, Director at TEAM ARCHITECTURE, Volunteer at Shout Crisis Text Line, and Level 3 Rugby Coach focusing on Character Coaching, discussed:

- Connection, collaboration and cohesion
- Masculinity and gender dynamics
- Teaching vs Coaching
- Re-drafting 
- Themieing and Storytelling
- Discovering a story you belong to 
- Implementing storytelling and themeing
- Understanding why, and how to use it

I hope you all love this this conversation as much as I did...

David Sharkey- welcome to The Athlete Welfare Community!

Jonny Huntington, an elite para-athlete, skier and mountaineer, a former British Army Officer and ultra-distance runner at Armed Forces Para-Snowsport Team (AFPST), British Army, and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst discussed suffering a brain bleed in 2014 leaving Jonny paralysed from the neck down on his left side, leading to extensive rehabilitation and discharge from the Army. We also discussed: 

- Holistic understandings of sport
- Objectives of sport
- Enabling ownership of happiness
- Complicated relationships with happiness
- Biological mechanical viewpoints
- Incentives 
- Intellectual and physical challenges 
- Creating a shift in interpretation of success
- Enjoying experiences more than the athlete endeavour 
- Removing external pressures
- Treating events as a rehearsal or practice 
- No pressures, just completion
- Operating in stressful situations
- The relationship between psychology and physiology
- Unforced errors under fatigue
- Understanding what, why, and how
- Cognitive and physical entities 
- The power of the internet 
- Being analytical 

I hope you all love this this conversation as much as I did...

Jonny Huntington- welcome to The Athlete Welfare Community

Leah Barrow, 800m Runner, Happiness and Positivity Coach at AIS Athletics UAE, and partner to Andrew McAslan, our Part I guest of our part to play in the Follicular Lymphoma Foundation's fund-raising push a fortnight ago, discussed:

- Regular checkins 
- Battling with grief
- Anxiety
- Physical symptoms
- Overcoming setbacks, challenges, and barriers
- Consistency, sustainability, positivity 
- Psychologists needing psychologists
- How we all need someone
- Exhausting all options outside of therapy 
- Holistic philosophies 
- Experiences and understanding creating approaches 
- Being a cheerleader for yourself
- Swapping 'no' to 'yes', 'I can't' to 'I can', and 'It's not possible', to 'it's possible'
- Foundations of wellbeing 
- Social media being used as a positive drive for change 
- What needs to change, and what can be done

I hope you are all inspired by this conversation; 
Leah - I admire your openness and honesty!!

Leah Barrow - welcome to The Athlete Welfare Community, 

Clare Sadler, a Performance and Flow Specialist, focusing on Leadership Development, Anxiety and Trauma Resolution, currently operating with USA Rugby 7's as a Mental Skills Coach, discussed:

- Thriving under pressure
- Developing clarity 
- Impact of internal conflicts
- Recovering from psychosocial, emotional, and physical injury
- Neuro-chemical thresholds limiting physical performance 
- Visually evoking fear
- Changing behaviours 
- Re-coding experiences
- The power of simplicity 
- Subconcious automated behaviours 
- Environmental behaviours 
- Plastic memories 
- Internal and external communication 
- Prediction making machines
- Content, process, and structure 

I hope you all love this this conversation as much as I did...

Clare Sadler - Beyond Instinct - welcome to The Athlete Welfare Community