Uncomfortable is OK Podcast

Kane Brisco farmer, father, partner, authour of "Tools from the top paddock", and founder of FarmFit joins the podcast.

Kane is a dude from the 'Naki just trying to inspire others to be better. He is open and real, and has conversations about lots of important stuff that most of us keep hidden. His ability to do this comes firstly from his lived experience of pain and trauma, as well as the self-awareness he has developed and the skillset he has learnt to process and grow from these experiences.

He is a bloody good dude, and we go to some heavy places today. Talking about pain and motivation, the reasons we need problems to solve, taking the power away from negative thoughts, the importance of acceptance, developing emotional literacy, and navigating discomfort.

It's a convo that is a bit rough in places, and a bit raw in others. If it triggers anything then please reach out to Kane or myself or someone you trust.

• FarmFit Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/FarmFitNZ/

• FarmFit Instagram | @farmfit_nz

• FarmFit Online Shop (where you can buy Kane’s book & other merchandise)  | https://farmfitnzshop.com

Ant Williams, world record freediver, leadership expert, keynote speaker joins the podcast. 

Portia Bing, counter fraud advisor and international track and field athlete joins the podcast.

Our conversation explores the complexities of life, of performance, leadership, identity and personal growth with the lens of sportplaced over the top.

We chat through

- Experimentation and refining processes

- Watching for gaps that you can leverage or develop your skillset

- The power of eliminating options

- The joy of improving when you're a beginner

- The value of having multiple areas of focus

- The challenges of missing Olympic selection

- Creating an internal pivot

- Reciprocally providing value in relationships

- The value of diverse backgrounds and experience in creating innovative solutions

- Understanding when to let go

- Creating a ripple effect of impact 

- and of course getting UNCOMFORTABLE

This episode is brought to you by www.healthmentors.nz

Improving performance through health and wellbeing

Recently I put together a short e-book helping people to craft an individualised health plan.

This episode is the audio version of the book plus occasional off script commentary around part of the topic

This episode is proudly brought to you be www.healthmentors.nz

What does the future of work look like? How does it look for organisations? How does it look for you and me?

They way we work is evolving and at times it's butting up against a lot of the social constructs we've previously held tight about what work is.

Belinda Morgan, flexible work expert and author of "Solving the part time puzzle" joins the podcast to help us make sense of this change and how it benefits us as individuals, as well as organisations.

Bel brings her expertise to the conversation and I bring some of my experiences working part time, and spending time as full time Dad for 11 months, plus the unconscious biases I had to face in that journey.

Callum McKirdy joins us un the podcast. Callum is all about amplifying the power of ADHD+ minds. He is a speaker, author, facilitator host of the "You, Me and ADHD podcast" and author of the the upcoming book "Tilt: thinking differently about thinking differently"

This is a conversation about understanding ourselves, and our superpowers and wading through the internal messiness as we do it.

We chat through

- Watching and understanding people

- Watching and understanding ourselves

- The power of people who think differently

- Embracing your quirks and differences

- Questioning "best practice"

- Callum's experience with his ADHD

- Working super hard to be "average" at certain tasks

- Dealing with our internal chaos

- Putting on a face to the rest of the world

- Including diversity in the workplace

- Starting with stupid so we can get to better

- Getting comfortable with looking like a Dick

Wahoo 300 episode's not out

In this special episode I'm joined by James Brummer-Taylor. International business consultant, Venture Capitalist, entreprenuer, and best man at my wedding.

James has spent over a decade inside a multitude of companies helping them to perform better across all aspects of their business. He has seen the themes that drive high performance, and also the things that don't work so well.

More recently James has left his decade long comfort zone in operational and strategic consulting to take on the new challenges of being a venture capitalist and entrepreneur

Today we talk through

• What makes a high performer
• Helpful mindset shifts
• Becoming a business athlete
• The power of practice and repetition
• James' 5 tips for improving your personal performance
• How James looks after his health to support his performance
• And how we can build our capacity to take on challenges

This episode is proudly brought to you by https://www.healthmentors.nz/ 

Reach out to Chris with questions or topics [email protected] 

This week on the podcast I'm joined by an old High School mate, Luke McFarlane.

Luke and a couple of his mates have set up The Lighthouse Project Charitable Trust which aims to raise money for local legends doing their bit to improve men's mental health here in New Zealand.

Earlier this year, Luke and his mates road tripped 6000km around New Zealand in 12 days stopping at 24 prominent Kiwi lighthouses along the way, and catching up with local legends striving to improve wellbeing in their communities.

In this episode we talk through

• Luke's journey with his mental health
• The ins and outs of 4 dudes in a campervan for 12 days on a tight schedule
• Some of the awesome people working to improve the health of Kiwis
• Opening up the conversation around mental health with your mates
• Role modelling honesty in how we are actually doing
• What the Lighthouse Project is striving for
• Challenges of fatherhood
• Some ways that we like to look after ourselves

Connect with the Lightlhouse Project https://www.facebook.com/The-Lighthouse-Project-104248205242011

This episode is proudly brought to you by https://www.healthmentors.nz/ 

Reach out to Chris with questions or topics [email protected] 

This episode flips the usual switch and I'm interviewed by Si Alhir.

Our conversation was recorded back in early 2020 as Covid was ramping up for an event si organised called "Transcending the Crisis"

Our conversation is all about pressure, it's effect on us, and how we can respond.

We talk through

- How we can become overloaded by pressure without even noticing

- The relationship between pressure and performance

- The importance of self-awareness and some practical tips

- Lots of exercise analogies

- Some practical ideas to reduce pressure

- Choosing the right direction to move in

- Putting knowledge into action

This episode is proudly brought to you by https://www.healthmentors.nz/ 

Reach out to Chris with questions or topics [email protected] 

In this episode we're joined by Chase Hughes

Chase Hughes is a leading behavior expert in the United States and the #1 bestselling author of two books on tactical behavior skills. He is the author of the worldwide #1 bestselling book on advanced persuasion, influence and behavior profiling.
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Chase teaches elite groups, government agencies and police in behavior science skills including behavior profiling, nonverbal analysis, deception detection, interrogation, and advanced behavioral investigation.

This episode was orginally recorded in 2020, and hasn't seen the light of day until now.

We talk through

- Leading our own behaviour

- The power of persuasion

- Looking after our future self

- Cognitive disonance and how we can get rid of it

- Why we should work on our weaknesses

Connect with Chase

https://www.chasehughes.com/

This episode was proudly brought to you by Health Mentors

https://www.healthmentors.nz/

Get in touch with Chris

[email protected]