On this episode of Previously Learnt, we had the absolute joy and privilege to chat with Verity Smith. This was such an incredibly inspiring chat which is absolutely jam packed full of life lessons and insights from Verity.

Verity is a blind international dressage rider, competing at able bodied elite level and winning, and is aiming to be part of the French able bodied Olympic team.

In addition, Verity is a global speaker, singer, songwriter, author, campaigner, mountain climber and charity founder.

This conversation blew me away, the sheer positivity and 'can-do' approach Verity has is truly inspiring.

We spoke of many things, including :

• Embracing the adventure of life
• The obstacle is the way
• Stoicism
• Living in the present
• The spirit of having a go
• Making the impossible, possible
• Not being blinded by vision

I took so much from this chat, I hope you do too

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With the Lions Rugby Test Series about to kick off, it was awesome to sit down and speak with former Bath, England and Lions player, Matt Perry.

This was a fantastic chat with Matt, who is founder of Transition15, a company which accelerates high performance team dynamics, as he shared his lessons and insights drawing on sport, business and life.

We spoke of many things, including :

• What meeting principle did Sir Clive Woodward teach
• Coaching, and what makes a good coach
• Attitude, commitment and getting outside of your comfort zone
• The importance of luck
• Dealing with pressure
• Of course, it was a great opportunity to talk Lions, including thoughts on who will make the Test team, and series predictions. It was also brilliant to hear Matt's experiences as a Lion, and how he found out he was a Lion and what was it like to play in the same side as Jason Robinson

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On this episode we had the absolute joy and privilege to speak with coach and author Berend-Jan Hilberts on his first ever podcast interview.

This was such an incredibly enlightening chat as we spoke of many things, including :

• Embracing and learning from tough times
• Letting go of the illusion you can control things
• Coming home to yourself and being at ease, especially in the modern and busy world
• Materialism, and why people care about what others think
• Human mind development, from the socialised mind to adult development theory and self authouring
• Why we should understand our personalities and explore them

I really hope you enjoy and thanks very much for listening

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