Show Notes
My guest this week questions the idea of what success is and how most people can look at sport and life in a very different way.
Laurence Halsted is a double-Olympian, a fencer who achieved European medals as well helping to take the GB fencing programme from amateur to professional and qualify for an Olympics in the team event for the first time in the modern era.
He’s a former performance director for the Danish Fencing Federation and now Director of Mentoring at The True Athlete Project as well as a performance consultant and coach. This podcast turns into a fascinating conversation that evolves around topics such as mentoring, dealing with failure and doubt, life balance and the power of positive relationships, but we start with the idea of self-compassion.
Show Notes: Deloitte - https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/explore/home.html Katie Warriner - https://www.theprimeclinic.co.uk/katie-warriner-psychologist Steve Peters - https://chimpmanagement.com/professor-steve-peters/ London 2012 - https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/london-2012 Rio 2016 - https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/rio-2016 Team Denmark - https://www.dif.dk/ Percy Cerutty - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Cerutty Herb Elliott - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Elliott Fiji Sevens Rugby Team - https://www.fijirugby.com/teams/national-7s/fijii-7s/ Sigatoka Sand Dunes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigatoka_Sand_Dunes Chris Skelley Podcast Episode - https://benryan.co.uk/podcast/episode-25-chris-skelley/ Owen Eastwood Podcast Episode - https://benryan.co.uk/podcast/episode-14-owen-eastwood/ The Second Arrow Buddhist Parable - https://mindfulnessmeditation.net.au/arrow/
More About Laurence Halsted: Personal Website - https://www.laurencehalsted.com/ The True Athlete Project Website - https://www.thetrueathleteproject.org/ TeamGB Website - https://www.teamgb.com/athlete/laurence-halsted/41H6AKeLqla6fzkNgslUth Book on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3JNaJbT Twitter - https://twitter.com/laurencehalsted Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/laurence.halsted/photos LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/3DlWgRF Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Halsted
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