Mindset matters with Suzie Bates (NZ sporting legend) and Tyrone Tongia (former professional boxer, coach & business owner)

Suzie Bates
This is a wrap-up of the original podcast that featured Suzie Bates, a New
Zealand cricketer and former captain of the national women cricket team.
Suzie has experience in mindset and performance at the highest levels of
professional sport and is a keen advocate for living her values and her processes.

Suzie’s Highlights
4:00 Following your heart and trusting your instincts
4:43 How one conversation can change your life, key learning from Sarah Ulmer,
former NZ cyclist
5:50 Moments that often define your future, key learning from Gilbert Enoka, Mental
Skills Coach
6:50 Pivotal coach feedback

Following your heart and trust your instincts
Highly talented, Suzie had the option of pursuing either basketball and cricket; she went
with what she loved, cricket.

One conversation can change your life
While she was in High School, Sarah Ulmer, former New Zealand cyclist, spoke at her
school. The main message that Suzie took from that speech had a profound impact on her
life: that it is possible to achieve your dreams, if you go after your goals.

Moments are not all equal, key message from Gilbert Enoka, Mental Skills Coach
There are certain moments that you can be make a conscious choice that really define your
future.

Feedback from coach
One coach, early on in her career, said that she wasn’t at the fitness level that she needed
to be. She pivoted from a victim mindset to a growth mindset where she took on the
challenge head on.

Listen Now: https://audioboom.com/posts/7199086-inspiring-leader-high-performance-and-
inspiring-young-women-a-reflection-on-sporting-excellence

Tyrone “Cyclone” Tongia
This is a wrap-up of the original podcast that featured Tyrone Tongia, also known as Coach
Cyclone. Tyrone is a personal trainer committed to engaging and supporting his clients
through professional boxing protocols. His momentous boxing accolades are as a retired 3
x consecutive Australian Pro Boxing Champion and coached a World Boxing champion Brett
W Smith “Handful”. It all started when Tyrone was 9 years old and a friend introduced him
to boxing as a means of fitness.

Tyrone’s Highlights
10:45 How to navigate fear; it’s what we do with it that matters
10:58 Children can also learn from boxing and go through their own journey
11:50 Sense of community and being part of something

Cus D’Amato Quote
“The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it
onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what
you do with it that matters.”

How to navigate fear
Navigating fear through self-confidence, discipline and character.

Children having their own journey through boxing
Shaun’s children have also begun their own journey with boxing; learning self-
confidence, discipline, and character. It gives them strategies to navigate their own
fears and gets them out of their comfort zone.

Sense of community
Tyrone has created his own community with a true feeling that you belong. The common
thread of denominators includes like-mindedness, proactiveness, personal drive and respect.

Listen Now: https://audioboom.com/posts/7170773-inspiring-leader-tyrone-cyclone-tongia-
founder-cyclonehq

About the host
Shaun McCambridge is the Managing Director of Stellar Recruitment, a devoted husband
and father to four spritely children.