BROADCASTER, AUTHOR OF ‘CHAMPION THINKING’, HOST OF ‘THE LIFE LESSONS PODCAST’, SPEAKER
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The Life Lessons podcast has a simple mission: to have discussions that reveal something important about life and how best to live it. My guests range from the biggest sporting names on the planet, through to neuroscientists, psychologists, and world-renowned philosophers and thinkers.
For the best part of a decade I was the lead sports presenter for BBC Radio 1, covering all the biggest sporting events including the football World Cup in Brazil & the London 2012 Olympics. It was great fun, but in time I increasingly found the fixation with results, tactics and the score to be shallow. After all – sport is a metaphor for life, and I wanted to explore that.
That’s why I launched the ‘Don’t Tell Me The Score’ podcast on the BBC in 2018, since renamed ‘The Life Lessons Podcast’. While I increasingly venture into broader territories, I never lose touch with my sporting roots. Guests have included Jonny Wilkinson, Caitlyn Jenner, Dame Kelly Holmes, Boris Becker, Joe Wicks, Tony Adams and Ronnie O’Sullivan. But I also speak to world-renowned thinkers including Daniel Goleman, Sam Harris, Michael Pollan and Rupert Spira.
Key themes include the power of acceptance, digital minimalism, how to set your circadian clock – right through to the nature of reality and ‘non-duality’.
These conversations, and the bitesize episodes, have the power to change your life.
THE PODCAST
“An ingenious concept where sport meets psychology. And the best of the conversations are very good indeed”
“One of the BBC’s best mental health podcasts -full of warmth and spice.”
“Mundie’s show is thoughtful and warm and the conclusions it teaches throughout are often inspiring”
‘As the sports reporter for BBC Radio 1 for the best part of a decade, Simon Mundie was pitch-side at many of the most high-profile sporting events in history. It was often thrilling, but when he took to the airwaves to report on what he had seen, it increasingly felt like something was missing. The emphasis always seemed to be on results, tactics and the score. But as the saying goes, sport is a metaphor for life – so Simon set out to explore that.
Drawing on interviews with sporting legends from Jonny Wilkinson to Kate Richardson-Walsh, Will Carling to Goldie Sayers, along with psychologists, philosophers and world-renowned thinkers, Simon shares some of the tools and techniques that athletes have embraced to grow and evolve – as athletes and people. From developing emotional intelligence to the power of true acceptance and the joy of getting in flow, he explores eight universal themes that are highlighted in sport, but that are all too easily overlooked in the favour of simpler, shallower narratives about winning, trophies and 'success'.
What can that careers of Gaël Monfils and Andy Murray teach us about exploring our potential? What can England's Olympic gold-medal winning hockey team teach us about the power of being truly selfless? Wise and inspiring, Champion Thinking illustrates that whether in sport, at work or in our relationships, worshipping at the altar of success isn't going to bring us happiness. The contentment we are all looking for isn't somewhere 'out there' – it's actually so close that we tend to overlook it.’
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