Mantality

#073 Mental Mastery (with Ed Latimore)

Ed Latimore is a best-selling author, former professional heavyweight boxer, and competitive chess player. He also runs men's groups with a focus on self-improvement, porn addiction and sobriety.
In this episode, we spoke about engraining positive habits, sobriety, using public accountability to your advantage, actions becoming evidence, porn addiction, knowing when to quit when you’re an Elite sports athlete, and sparring with Roy-Jones Junior before the Mike Tyson fight.

#072 Connected, Conspiracies and Leeds United (with Paul Fox)

We welcome back friend of the podcast Paul Fox to catch up about Connected, our short audio drama during Covid, Leeds United, Conspiracy Theories and plastering! This was a fun conversation and something a bit more light-hearted than our usual fare.
Enjoy!

#071 Becoming the 0.1% (with Gareth Timmins)

Former Royal Marine commando, Gareth Timmins joins us on the Mantality podcast. Gareth has released his new book: “Becoming the 0.1% - How To Build An Elite Mindset”. The first-ever diary account of this training regime, charting the odds stacked journey of a 20-year-old recruit and the psychological underpinnings written by him 14 years later.Each week of training is accompanied by lessons on psychological shortcomings and performance. It uses real-life and often terrifying experiences to describe to the reader the psychological edge needed to succeed and cultivate a 0.1% mindset.Members of our Evolve coaching program joined us live in the audience and had the opportunity to ask their own questions directly to Gareth. We also discuss the book, Gareth's journey, and some wild stories from his time in the marines, including the biggest pirate attack ever off the coast of Somalia. Four marines had to fight off 50+ pirates. Tune in! We hope you enjoy it.

#070 Opening Up To More (with Craig White)

Craig White has worked with some of the biggest names in sport. Having started his journey as a strength and conditioning coach, he achieved success with major sporting institutions, such as the British and Irish Lions, Bolton Wanderers and Leicester Tigers.
Following a Yoga and Meditation Retreat in 2009, Craig embarked upon a journey of self-discovery that resulted in him broadening his mindset, as well as his coaching style.
Craig now spends his time coaching and consulting professional sports teams, as well as mentoring private clients. He is also the founder of Men Without Masks, an organisation committed to empowering men to live a life of purpose.
In this episode, Stevie and Craig discuss purpose, meditation, the term ‘man up’, the difference between rage and anger and much more. There’s also a Q&A with our Evolve members with some BIG questions.
Tune in! We hope you enjoy it.

#069 Becoming Relentless: Alistair Brownlee

Alistair Brownlee MBE is a British triathlete. He is the only athlete to hold two Olympic titles in the triathlon event, winning gold medals in the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. He is also a two-time Triathlon World Champion, a two-time World Team Champion, a four-time European Champion, and the 2014 Commonwealth champion.Alistair has just released his book Relentless: The Secrets of The Sporting Elite. In his quest to define ‘sporting greatness’, double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee spent nearly four years interviewing and training with some of the greatest minds in sport to discover what it takes to become – and remain – a champion.We talk about some of those ingredients and our Evolve members gain a one in a lifetime opportunity to ask their questions to a double Olympic champion too. A special podcast for the Mantality community that has only just begun…

#068 The Inner Chimp (with Steve Peters)

Professor Steve Peters is a Consultant Psychiatrist who specialises in the functioning of the human mind. 
He has clients across a wide range of disciplines from health and education to business and elite sport, including NHS organisations, the emergency services, schools and universities, national and Olympic teams, British Cycling, GB Taekwondo, England Rugby, England Football, Liverpool Football Club, British Swimming, UK Track and Field, Sky ProCycling, Masters Golf and World Snooker.
In all areas, he helps people to understand how the mind works, gain insight into their own unique mind and situation, and then develop skills to optimise individual performance and quality of life. 
He is also the author of the bestselling personal development book ‘The Chimp Paradox’ which has sold nearly 1 million copies since it was first published in 2012.
In this episode, we explored the ‘inner chimp’ and what that is, the reason we think the way we do, how to understand your emotions and thoughts, how to avoid self-sabotage, and what makes ‘a man’.
We thoroughly enjoyed this episode and hope you do too!
Head over to the Mantality website to download a FREE mind management tool on how to stop caring what others think of you: https://mantality.co.uk/coaching

#067 Drinking Culture & the Pressures of University (with Jack Middlemore)

In this episode, Stevie and Chris caught up with Jack Middlemore, who plays rugby for Dodger 7s, and recently took part in a documentary series called Blindside in which he shared about his struggles with mental health. Jack talks to us about the drinking culture and pressures of University and how difficult that can be on young people. He also shares with us his attempted suicide and what helped him to recover.
The Blindside documentary series, filmed by Alex Bowdery at Playmotion, is designed to #TackleTheStigma around mental health and highlight the importance of talking about mental health in sport, schools and life in general. It can be found on Playmotion's Vimeo or on the Dodger 7s and LooseHeadz social media channels.

#066 Two best mates on the mission to 'Go Beyond Stigma': 5 year anniversary episode (with co-founders, Stevie Ward and Dom Smith)

Mantality co-founders Stevie Ward and Dom Smith have been best mates since 8 years old. Many big life-defining moments have brought them to this point in Mantality, and they keep on coming... Join us as we sit down to look back over the five years of Mantality starting off as an online magazine, to then branch out and create a movement and a community that is pushing the boundaries of how men work on their mental health and mindset.
Get to know Dom, the HOW behind Mantality and what his journey has been like creatively too.

#065 The Struggles Beside Success (with Kallum Watkins)

Kallum Watkins is a British professional rugby league footballer who plays as a centre for the Salford Red Devils in the Betfred Super League and England at international level. He previously played for the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League and the Gold Coast Titans in the NRL.
Kallum is undoubtedly one of the best to play rugby league. We’ve all watched from the sidelines as he has given us some of our favourite moments in sport.
It was therefore even more of an honour for the Evolve members to be able to hold space for Kallum to share the struggles that sit beside his success.
Kallum’s honesty and openness shows his true leadership. We can all learn from Kallum’s commitment to accept his struggles. He recognises that this acceptance has helped him take a huge step forward in his career and his life as a whole.
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#064 Body On The Line (with James Graham)

We were delighted to be joined by rugby league legend, James Graham. James has played for St Helens, won two Super League Grand Finals and 3 Challenge Cups and was named Man of Steel in 2008. His career took him to Australia to play in the NRL where he played for Canterbury Bulldogs, where he won 2 NRL finals, St George Illawarra Dragons.
He also has 44 caps for England and 9 caps for Great Britain.
In this episode, we discussed his highly decorated career, his life after the sport and the realities of the sport with concussion, what the game can do, the reality of knowing there are potential health implications vs the life it lets you live and the platform it gives you.
This episode is a brilliant companion episode to the podcast with Dr Willie Stewart on concussion.
This was a really interesting episode and we hope you enjoy.