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The Winning Mentality is a podcast dedicated to finding out the secrets behind sporting success. My name is Charlie Boscoe and I speak to athletes, coaches, journalists, team owners and support staff to find out what makes some people and organisations rise above the rest. For the biggest names in sport and the best behind the scenes stories, look no further. Each episode is an in-depth interview with a guest perfectly positioned to give a unique insight into their sport. The sports discusse ...
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Ben is a quite extraordinary character with an amazing story, which seems to have been made possible by his determination and no-nonsense desire to succeed in his chosen profession. By his early 40s, he’d already gone from PE teacher to head coach of England Rugby 7s, resigned from that job and was hunting for a new challenge. He found one in Fiji,…
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A 2 time National Champion swimmer turned elite mental performance coach, Seth Pepper has seen top level sport from every angle. His insight - hard-won from decades of experience - is fascinating and will of benefit to any athlete at any level. Even for those of us who watch on from the sidelines, he's got some superb advice.…
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A 2 time National Champion swimmer turned elite mental performance coach, Seth Pepper has seen top level sport from every angle. His insight - hard-won from decades of experience - is fascinating and will of benefit to any athlete at any level. Even for those of us who watch on from the sidelines, he's got some superb advice.…
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Sean Shelton is that rarest of things - a professional American Football player who plies his trade in Europe. The story of how he got from Tampa Bay, Florida to the Swarco Raiders in Innsbruck, Austria via Kansas, Paris and Helsinki, is fascinating, and his in depth analysis of his position on the field - quarterback - is staggering. If you don’t …
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Joining me this week I’ve got an athlete turned psychologist who’s creative and fun approach to her craft is both fascinating, and clearly effective. Madeleine Eppensteiner competed successfully in climbing competitions but after completing a degree in psychology she decided to combine her 2 passions, and started climbingpsychology.com…
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Axel Merckx was a professional cyclist who competed in 8 Tour de France and won Olympic bronze, a Giro d’Italia stage and the Belgian National Road Racing Championship. Now he’s mentoring young cyclists and steering them towards careers as successful as his.
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To call Steve Black - almost universally known as Blackie - a coach is barely to do him justice. He’s a manager, a motivator, a change maker, and so much more. This is a no nonsense analysis of sporting and business success from a man who has walked the walk for over 3 decades. Enjoy.由Charlie Boscoe
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I’m Charlie Boscoe and today I’m chatting to Jordi Cruyff - a man who’s experienced the highest highs and the toughest lows that professional sport has to offer. He played for Manchester United and Barcelona, was forced to retire due to injury and then came back a couple of years later just to prove he could. He’s been a sporting director in Malta …
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Steve House is one of the World’s best alpine climbers, with an extraordinary mountaineering resumé and Scott Johnston has a long and diverse athletic background, having excelled in climbing, swimming and nordic skiing, amongst others. Together they’ve teamed up to create a company called Uphill Athlete, and have also written 2 training manuals for…
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As a rule, active athletes don’t open up about how they feel and sport, and the care of professional sportspeople, is poorer as a result. Jamie’s searing honesty and openness should be an example to anyone of what courage really looks like. Forget the physical battle or rugby, saying that you’re not OK is sometimes the toughest challenge of all.…
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Bill Beswick is a sports psychologist who is famous for his work with the England football team, the England men's and women’s rugby teams, Manchester United and countless other sporting organisations on both sides of the Atlantic. He’s also, as he describes it, a man in shadows, quietly helping individual athletes and coaches with their psychology…
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After 2 failed attempts at Olympic success, Ben Hunt-Davis and his teammates in the British 8-man rowing crew decided that, ahead of the Sydney Olympics, everything they did would be based on one question - Will it make the boat go faster? Come Sydney the boat did indeed go faster, and how. This is an amazing story of determination and a sheer refu…
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As supremo of the SWARCO Raiders, Shuan Fatah is one of Europe's most successful American Football coaches. He started out in a (then) divided Berlin, and has since gone on to have huge success as a player and a coach of the game he loves. The lessons he's learned along the way have been many, and he's brilliant at talking about them. Prepare to be…
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Aged just 19, Janja Garnbret is already one of the most dominant athletes in the World. She's got a far better winning percentage than Serena Williams, Tiger Woods or Michael Schumacher, and she's only just getting started. Perhaps even more impressive than her results is her attitude - she's humble, motivated and keen to improve; traits she's goin…
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Regardless of where and how you live, you need to breathe, so why not investigate how to do it better? That's exactly what Patrick McKeown has done, and the result is the Oxygen Advantage method. This is mind blowing stuff, so sit back, take a shallow breath (not a deep one, as you'll learn today) and get ready to change all of your preconceptions …
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Klaus Isele is a busy man - he runs his own physio practice, is the team physio for the Austrian Climbing team, is creating a whole new method of treating finger injuries, looks after the World's best climber, and has a family. He's pretty funny too. Sit back and enjoy some great stories, insight and inspiration.…
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Gym owner, athlete and family man Jay Collins quit his safe and secure job in his early 40's in order to open up his own gym. It was a big risk but it has paid off handsomely; he's got 300 loyal customers and a community constructed off the back of his total commitment. If you want a lesson in how sheer hard work and determination can pay off, here…
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Back in Episode 2 of the podcast we chatted to skier, mountain guide and climber Tom Grant. At that time he was on a high having just made the first ski descent of the Caroline Face on Mount Cook in New Zealand. However, a few weeks after we spoke to him he tore his anterior cruciate ligament, putting him on the sidelines long term. We wanted to kn…
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Erik Weihenmayer lost his sight aged 14 but has since climbed Mount Everest (and the highest peak on every other continent as well), kayaked the Grand Canyon, and helped thousands and thousands of people overcome their own barriers. Prepare to be inspired...
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Sports psychologist, author and speaker Damian Hughes has just finished his latest book - The Barcelona Way; Unlocking the DNA of a Winning Culture - and we were keen to get him back for his second appearance on the podcast to discuss it. We cover building culture, getting buy-in, the effects of social media, coping with people who don’t fit into a…
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Brista Mayfield is a Crossfit athlete training 4 - 5 hours per day, a wife and a mother. In other words, she’s pretty busy, but she doesn’t let that stopping her do what she needs to. That dedication and discipline recently paid off in a big way when, for the first time, she qualified for the Crossfit Games - the pinnacle of her sport.…
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Sport Climbing is an activity you may not be aware of but you soon will be - in Tokyo 2020 it will make its debut as an Olympic sport. Jim Pope is one of Britain's rising climbing stars and one of the sport's most thoughtful characters.由Charlie Boscoe
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After 30 years playing and coaching in professional sport, there isn't much Tony Smith hasn't seen. He's now putting that experience to good use by helping football managers deal with the stresses and pressures with which he's familiar.由Charlie Boscoe
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Not many people, especially those who've had highs and lows like Peter Fox has, can say that they've never lost heart, never doubted that they would make it and never given up. He might not have been the most talented player but he out-worked everyone until he got what he wanted.由Charlie Boscoe
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White water kayaker Nouria Newman is a successful athlete who has retired from slalom kayaking and committed to an unmapped future. She's still learning and striving to improve, but where it will take her is still undecided.
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Carl Fogarty is the greatest superbike rider of all time. He won 4 World Championships, 59 superbike races, and also won the legendary Isle of Man TT, breaking the lap record in the process. A horrific crash ended his career in 2000 but he’s since run his own race team, won Britain’s most popular TV show and written 2 books. Today we’re chatting to…
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Derek Warwick is a motorsport legend. He raced for 11 seasons in Formula One, won the Le Mans 24 hour, and fell foul of the legendary Ayrton Senna when they almost became teammates in 1986. In addition, Derek is a successful businessman, a driver steward at Formula One races and a prominent member of the British Racing Drivers Club and the Motor Sp…
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Karen Darke MBE is a Paralympic champion, adventurer and speaker. She was keen runner, climber and orienteer in her early life but aged 21 she had a rock climbing accident and was paralysed from the chest down. Since then she’s hand cycled across Patagonia and the Himalayas, sea kayaked in Canada, skied across Greenland, climbed the 1000 metre high…
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If you need some inspiration today, you're in luck! Here's a compilation of 10 of our guests discussing the complex topic of motivation. What makes people continue to challenge themselves even after they've achieved their goals? Is taking risks a motivation in itself? If so, where is the line between personal reward and recklessness? Prepare to be …
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Lorraine Huber is a World Champion in freeride skiing and an athlete who analyses her performance like few others. Through self analysis and academic study, she's come to understand how and why she performs as she does, and she's got some amazing insights for the everyday person trying to be the best they can be.…
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After more than 3 decades at the top of rugby league in Australia and England, Tony Smith has a wonderful insight into the great sporting debates. Is the scoreboard king, or should sport be entertainment? How do teams create a winning culture? How do you measure success? What keeps sportspeople motivated and engaged? This is fascinating stuff, from…
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Stefan Vuckovic is the first man ever to win an Olympic silver medal in Triathlon. The sport made its debut at the Sydney Games in 2000 and in one of the best moments of that wonderful event, Stefan grabbed a German flag just before the triathlon finish line and danced the last 50 metres of the race, waving the flag and celebrating. On today's show…
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Margaret Bowling has combined a career as a television producer with a series of extraordinary ocean rowing adventures. She was the first Australian woman to row an ocean, the first Australian to row an ocean twice, and more recently attempted to row the notorious Bass Straight. She's got a pretty unique insight, and a great way of delivering it. E…
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Kriss Akabusi is a European and World Champion, an Olympic silver medallist, a television presenter, a motivational speaker and a businessman. When he was growing up in a children's home in London the odds were against him succeeding in anything, but his sheer passion coupled with an extraordinary work rate allowed him to live his dreams. Listening…
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Mike Brace CBE was blinded at age 10 and has since gone on to be a 6 time Paralympian, an integral part of the London 2012 Olympic bid team, and a participant in 50 sports. His sporting career has been - by any standards - extraordinarily long, varied and successful but he remains humble, self deprecating and very funny. If this doesn't get you off…
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Dan John is a legend of the coaching and strength training worlds. He combines weekly coaching workshops with lecturing and writing, and remains as passionate about his work as ever. He's vastly experienced, wickedly funny and full of brilliant, common sense advice. Enjoy.
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Robbie Shone is a cave explorer and cave photographer. He's explored caves on 6 continents and continues to push the envelope of underground exploration and photography. It might sound like your idea of hell, but Robbie's passion for what he does might just inspire you to explore the underground world...…
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As a former Land Speed Record holder, Richard Noble is a member of one of the World's most exclusive clubs. His passion and determination saw him claim the record in 1983 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, and 15 years later he was back, this time masterminding the World's first supersonic car (Thrust SSC). You'd have thought that the sound barrier …
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Peter Koren runs his own gym and in under 2 years has created a whole community around it through sheer hard work and passion. He promised himself early in life that by age 30 he wouldn't be working for anyone else and he managed it, via boxing camps in Thailand and a nomadic wander through Europe. If you ever wonder where hard work, enthusiasm and…
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To call Phil Liggett a legendary cycling broadcaster would be to undersell him - he is "The Voice of Cycling". He covered his first Tour de France in 1973, hasn't missed one since and isn't planning on missing one anytime soon. We tracked him down in Melbourne, Australia, to find out how he got started in cycling and where it's led him since.…
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Most people think that skiing is a pretty safe sport, where a broken leg is as bad as it gets. Think again - Tom Grant skis mountain sides so steep that a fall would be fatal and where avalanches and falling rocks are an everyday concern. In October 2017 he made the first ski descent of the 2000 metre high Caroline Face on Mount Cook, New Zealand's…
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Professor Damian Hughes is an international speaker and best selling author who combines his practical and academic background within sport, organisational development and change psychology, to help organisations and teams to create a high performing culture. We wanted to know how he changes mindsets in sporting organisations, and what every day at…
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