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#151 Owen Eastwood - Performance Coach, and Author of 'Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness' Sleep Eat Perform Repeat
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Today we spoke with Owen Eastwood - Performance Coach, and Author of 'Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness'.
Owen is a performance coach with vast and diverse experience with high-profile elite sports teams around the world with a speciality around identity, storytelling, and culture. He has worked with the British Olympic Team, the English national football team, Harlequins RFC, Scotland rugby, the Command Group of NATO, the South African cricket team, the Royal Ballet School, and high performing corporate settings.
Owen, a New Zealander based in the UK with roots from Ireland has a unique approach that looks to an evolutionary understanding of a team or organisation, leadership dynamics, cohesion, wisdom from our ancestors, and what contemporary institutions do very well.
Today we start with the imagery on the front of the book and its origins, and why belonging is critical for reducing anxiety, improving confidence, and instilling trust. Owen unpacks the essence of the working environment and culture moving forward, psychological safety, and why a sense of connection and belonging is vital.
We enquire about sustaining success with teams where there is staff and player turnover, emotional availability for young professionals, and the harmony between boundaries and autonomy - a profound concept called tapu noa. A highlight of this one, Owen eloquently shares the Maori concept of 'whakapapa' - for the sun is shining on us now.
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Key Timestamps
0. 35 - The inspiration behind the book cover
2. 06 - Owen's current work with Harlequins + English FA
3. 52 - Wellbeing as a core responsibility
4. 52 - Recovery + creating space
6. 22 - Wellbeing monitoring in elite performance environments
8. 23 - Businesses need to focus on wellbeing
10. 04 - Belonging reducing anxiety + facing the challenge
10. 55 - Story of us
12. 43 - Looking back to get
13. 33 - 99% of our history we spent in tribes/kin
15. 18- Hard-wired sense of belonging
17. 07 - Good coaches create a shared identity
18. 08 - Becoming culturally mindful as a team
19. 35 - Tapu Noa described
22. 03 - Getting involved with the English FA
22. 53 - Listening + learning from Wayne Rooney, Michael Owen, and others
24. 10 - Gareth Southgate being highly relational + authentic
26. 26 - Trust and how we build it
27. 50 - Leaders and Emotional availability
28. 10 - Southgate + omitting talented players from Euros
29. 48 - Whakapapa and the timeline of us
31. 23 - how leaders can create a true legacy
32. 24 - What does High Performance mean to you?
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Today we spoke with Owen Eastwood - Performance Coach, and Author of 'Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness'.
Owen is a performance coach with vast and diverse experience with high-profile elite sports teams around the world with a speciality around identity, storytelling, and culture. He has worked with the British Olympic Team, the English national football team, Harlequins RFC, Scotland rugby, the Command Group of NATO, the South African cricket team, the Royal Ballet School, and high performing corporate settings.
Owen, a New Zealander based in the UK with roots from Ireland has a unique approach that looks to an evolutionary understanding of a team or organisation, leadership dynamics, cohesion, wisdom from our ancestors, and what contemporary institutions do very well.
Today we start with the imagery on the front of the book and its origins, and why belonging is critical for reducing anxiety, improving confidence, and instilling trust. Owen unpacks the essence of the working environment and culture moving forward, psychological safety, and why a sense of connection and belonging is vital.
We enquire about sustaining success with teams where there is staff and player turnover, emotional availability for young professionals, and the harmony between boundaries and autonomy - a profound concept called tapu noa. A highlight of this one, Owen eloquently shares the Maori concept of 'whakapapa' - for the sun is shining on us now.
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Key Timestamps
0. 35 - The inspiration behind the book cover
2. 06 - Owen's current work with Harlequins + English FA
3. 52 - Wellbeing as a core responsibility
4. 52 - Recovery + creating space
6. 22 - Wellbeing monitoring in elite performance environments
8. 23 - Businesses need to focus on wellbeing
10. 04 - Belonging reducing anxiety + facing the challenge
10. 55 - Story of us
12. 43 - Looking back to get
13. 33 - 99% of our history we spent in tribes/kin
15. 18- Hard-wired sense of belonging
17. 07 - Good coaches create a shared identity
18. 08 - Becoming culturally mindful as a team
19. 35 - Tapu Noa described
22. 03 - Getting involved with the English FA
22. 53 - Listening + learning from Wayne Rooney, Michael Owen, and others
24. 10 - Gareth Southgate being highly relational + authentic
26. 26 - Trust and how we build it
27. 50 - Leaders and Emotional availability
28. 10 - Southgate + omitting talented players from Euros
29. 48 - Whakapapa and the timeline of us
31. 23 - how leaders can create a true legacy
32. 24 - What does High Performance mean to you?
Social
www.instagram.com/sleepeatperformrepeat.com
www.twitter.com/SEPR_Podcast
www.linkedin.com/company/sleep-eat-perform-repeat/
www.facebook.com/SleepEatPerformRepeat
Please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Thank you for supporting the show!
37 min