The Roaring Heads Podcast
Grant Giles is a clinical hypnotherapist and strategic psychotherapist, he is also a level 3 high performance triathlon coach with 23 years experience, a former professional triathlete with a passion for all things sport, mind and life. Grant takes you on a journey to a place far beyond our minds reach to discover the master key to all doors both in life and in sport. Grant loves to unpick the locks that appear to keep us limited through the patterns of thinking and belief. Grant moves us from contraction to expansion, from limitation to the unlimited via the natural and original source of human potential called conscious awareness, which the mind, thinking and belief appear in.Tune in for Grant's musings and interviews with athletes, coaches and psychology professionals each week.
Episodes
41 episodes
RH Episode #42- Bring The Pain Home
This podcast is devoted to our companion pain. There is an exhaustive list of the ways we have been taught to disassociate from pain.We are experts at resisting what we don't want to feel. Problem with that is, because we are resisting ...
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28:48
RH Episode #41- The Cheat Code
Ive been punching away at blogs for many years. In many ways that writing has become my own teacher. Raw curiosity has dragged me headlong into a personal investigation of my own state, and the writing it spawned has held a mirror ...
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39:02
RH Episode #40- Pattern Interrupt
We are full of patterns. Habitual, unconscious ways of being in the world built mostly around safety. Programmed patterns are running all the time in our training, many of them separating us from our own internal power. The pa...
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47:38
RH Episode #39- Fracture
Sport and indeed life, demand our attention, our presence and our focus. That focus is about retaining our personal integrity. It is to not speak against ourselves, or descend into self blame, self judgment or the self defeatist ta...
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31:07
RH Episode #38- The Embodied Athlete
Don’t define yourself as an athlete, embody it!What does that mean? It means bringing it home. The measurement of the process is useless without the awareness it takes to integrate it. The integration is about the ...
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29:33
RH Episode #37- Mark Jansen Triathlon Strongman
This week we had a chat with Mark Jansen about the challenges an athlete faces being an elite level age group triathlete and cyclist while working full-time in the corporate world. Mark is a super strong willed athlete, racing succe...
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40:54
RH Episode #36 - Respond Don't React
Want the best of yourself?It's not about how you react; it's about how you respond. Critically, it's about your state of mind as you respond that governs the quality of the action you take in that response. You'...
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RH Episode #35 - The True Athlete
I suspect that a warrior hides in the DNA of all athletes. Many of us are disempowered in these times though. We are so busy trying to be an athlete on an outer level and not quite coming to terms with what that means.So, in this podcas...
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RH Episode #34 - Laura Dennis Professional Triathlete - Overcoming Serious Adversity
In life we have times where we meet a crossroads where we have to make a choice. Profound life change can be a portal to a deeper existential shift in our perception of ourselves as human beings. This week we had a chat ...
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45:03
RH Episode #33 - The Scent Of Truth
People have ideas about mental strength which are not entirely true, often thinking they need to be ruthless with themselves.They tend to think they need to have an Ironclad will that shows no vulnerability, no mercy, no leniency. But t...
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RH Episode #32 - Gilesy's Three Pillars of Process and Progress
In this podcast I am discussing the three pillars of progress through process. Namely -Thrive Automaticity Discomfort I discuss the subsets of each pillar. The idea here is to p...
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39:30
RH Episode #31 - The Hierarchy of Mental Sports Performance
Most of our problems as athletes are bound up not in the way we physically train but in the way we think and react to the stimulus. No point in training like a champion and thinking like you have already lost. To make any real cha...
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37:57
RH Episode #30 - The Chase
The chase for the dream, the outcome, or the result is the motivating factor that encourages many people to get after their aspirations. In this podcast we explore what is important in terms of the energy that fuels our chase...
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28:55
RH Episode #29 - Real Success and its definition
When we get what we want, we want what we don’t have!! It’s a slippery slope, sometimes getting what we want is the worst thing that can happen to us. If it comes easy, it comes greasy, slips through our fingers and then the mor...
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RH Episode #28 - Karl Page, Journeyman on giving up alcohol and founding WOSUP
This week we are speaking with Karl Page, the founder of WOSUP (War On Single Use Plastics). Karl is somewhat of a journey man. We speak about the fantastic inspiration behind WOSUP, the idea behind the experience that sparked a movement of sus...
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RH Episode #27 - RACE DAY PAIN AND SUFFERING
There is nothing like race day pain and suffering to test our mettle. The deals we make with ourselves in the smoky backrooms of our minds, the tenuous connections that we make to our own internal strength, often frayed at the edges by the expe...
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31:15
RH Episode #26 - Psychological Mutations and that virus
Doubtful, fearful, reactive, defensive, divisive, alienating, isolating, estranging, inharmonious, disingenuous, manipulative, repetitive, cynical, victimising, dishonest, deceitful, underhanded, duplicitous, insincere, calculating, scheming, d...
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RH Episode #25 - Death By Body Image
The advent of Instagram and the body image sales pitch that has created influencers and so called successful movers and shakers, pushing us to look a certain way by targeting our unconscious need to fit and consume, can at times be a very destr...
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RH Episode #24 The Doubtful Performer
Doubt is the ultimate cynic. Are you sick of manifesting the opposite of what you want? Repeating the same outcomes regardless of the preparation? Feel like a victim, not a vict...
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29:36
RH Episode #23 - The Athletes Return Journey
What we often don't talk about is our journey as ex-athletes. It is a subject that we need to bring out into the open.Ex-athletes often feel like they have been swept under the carpet or put out to pasture in some way, but this projecti...
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40:26
RH Episode #22 - Fear and Doubt, Memory and Imagination
Fear and doubt rely on two critical aspects of mind that feed them their meals, those two mind based aspects are known as memory and imagination. They wreak havoc on our sense of peace, they take away our presence, limit our awareness a...
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30:58
RH Episode #21 - Intentional Resilience
Intentional Resilience is power made of many aspects. No athletic goal moves anywhere without desire and intention. The power of dreams is an internal process that drives a physical outcome. That internal drive can look a little like th...
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34:20
RH Episode # 20 - Mick Di Betta, WaterMan on The Channel of Bones
This week we are talking to waterman Mick Di Betta, the inaugural World Champion Molokai to Oahu prone Paddleboard Winner. Mick has been a top 10 fixture in that event for nearly 21 years, which is an amazing feat in of itself. Mick is ...
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RH Episode # 19 - Mark Turner - Fear and Doubt in High Performance Programs
This week we are talking to Mark Turner who has just finished a stint as Triathlon Scotland high performance coach. In this podcast we wanted to open a non judgmental discussion about the nature of high performance sports programs and w...
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Episode 19
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RH Episode # 18 - Dr Paris Williams, The Human Metamorphosis
This week we have a discussion with Dr Paris Williams. We discuss the transition that took Paris from world champion hang gliding athlete, to the depths of an intense personal inner transformation and awakening that led him on a journey of expl...
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