How to Strive - with Nick Adkins
Hi I am your host and coach Nick. With over 13 years of experience in professional sports coaching, I have dedicated my career to player and coach development across a variety of sports and industries. My expertise spans both on-field coaching and strategic development roles, where I’ve worked to enhance performance, build high-functioning teams, and foster long-term growth in athletes and coaches alike. In addition to my work in sport, I have also collaborated with businesses to transfer my coaching skills and principles into organizational development, helping teams and leaders thrive in dynamic environments through my transformational leadership approach. My commitment to continuous learning and fostering a growth mindset drives me to always pursue excellence in every aspect of my work.
Episodes
In this episode of How To Strive, we’re joined by Fiona Murden. Fiona is a chartered psychologist, award-winning author, Podcaster and performance coach.
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Dot to dot podcast
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Published books
Defining You
Mirror Thinking,
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In this powerful episode of How to Strive, Nick is joined by the inspiring and humble Jamie Carr, who shares the mindset, strategies, and deep resilience it took to complete two of the world's toughest physical challenges: running the Marathon des Sables across the Sahara and rowing the Atlantic solo and unsupported for 3,000 miles.
Together, they explore:
- How Jamie applied process goals and created personal ru...
In this episode, Nick dives into the Euro 2024 Technical Report, unpacking key insights and trends that are shaping the modern game. From goal-scoring to chance creation, pressing strategies, and low block structures, Nick breaks down what the data reveals and more importantly, how it influences his own coaching and development approach.
Topics include:
- Goals: Types, timing, and trends
- Chance creation and final third...
In this powerful episode of How to Strive, we’re joined by performance specialist Chris Key from Performing Perfectly to explore how you can develop unshakeable resilience and become more intentional in the way you communicate both verbally and non-verbally.
What we cover:
- How to process rejection and feedback without losing your confidence.
- Why your body language and tone might be saying more than your words and how...
In this short bonus episode, Nick introduces the Striver Board, a powerful visual and reflective tool designed to help you turn big dreams into daily action. Building on the Striver Table concept, this board helps you stay accountable to your values and goals in areas like health, relationships, career, and finances.
Learn how to create your own board, reflect on your intentions, and make small, consistent steps toward...
In this insightful episode, Nick sits down with Jody Palmer, a renowned Performance Chef, to explore the intersection of nutrition, performance, and personal growth. With a wealth of experience in crafting dietary strategies for elite athletes, Jody shares her journey, philosophies, and practical tips for anyone looking to enhance their performance through nutrition and level themselves up.
What You'll Learn
- Jo...
In this reflective episode of How to Strive, Nick invites you to imagine your life as a table, with each leg representing a pillar of your life that supports what you’re striving for. Whether your table top is happiness, fulfilment, or your birthday BBQ vision, this simple metaphor can help you assess your current balance.
Nick shares his own four table legs: health, relationships, career, and finance, and introduces a...
In today’s episode, Nick is joined by Will Webster, a globally respected figure in the rugby world, best known for his work coaching head coaches.
We dive deep into Will’s fascinating journey from player to head coach, with a detour through teaching English literature. Will shares how that unique path shaped his current role, and what it means to coach the people who lead others.
You’ll hear about:
- Planning success w...
In this episode, Nick revisits a powerful clip from his conversation with Cody Royle to dive deeper into the language of resilience. He explores how developing resilient thinking is a learnable skill and shares a brief but practical insight into cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), particularly around the role of positive and negative self-talk. To wrap up, Nick introduces a creative game he's using with his son ...
Episode Summary:
In today’s episode, I take you behind the scenes into a very personal reflection: what I’m striving for — and how that vision shapes my daily actions, career aspirations, and relationships.
I share the powerful image of my "100th birthday BBQ," inspired by lessons from the world of elite sport — especially the legendary All Blacks rugby team.
We explore how to set goals with purp...
In this episode of How to Strive, we sit down with Jason Lee — Olympic hockey player, elite coach, who continues helping people strive across sport and business. Jason brings a wealth of experience and insight into what drives high performance and personal development.
We dive deep into the foundations of resilience, the power of a growth mindset, and the subtle but impactful role of language in shaping behaviour and o...
In this episode of How to Strive, Nick is joined by Professor Mark Williams — a world-leading expert in skill acquisition and performance science. With decades of research behind him, Mark unpacks the key elements that make up an optimal learning environment and how these shape long-term learning and success
We explore practical strategies for acquiring skills, building resilience, and understanding the psychological...
Episode Summary:
In this episode of the How to Strive podcast, we explore the power of journaling as a tool for continuous improvement. Striving isn’t about perfection—it’s about making small, consistent changes that lead to long-term growth. These journal prompts are designed to help you reflect, take actionable steps, and enhance your mindset, productivity, and well-being. Whether you journal daily or are just s...
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In today’s episode of How to Strive, we are joined by Philip O'Callaghan, a dedicated teacher, tennis coach, and passionate advocate for skill acquisition. Philip shares his approach to teaching and coaching, with a strong focus on the principles of skill acquisition and how they’ve shaped his coaching style over time.
Through this conversation, Philip offers insight into how he fosters a...
In todays episode Nick shares an insight into the differences between a fixed and growth mindset. how you can build awareness of which mindset you have in certain situations along with how to be in a more desirable mindset when needed. Mindset being a reference to the impactful work of Carol Dweck.
He also explores briefly the work of the late Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who was a Hungarian-American psychologist, recognis...
In todays episode we are exploring the basic levels of sleep.
The aim of todays episode is to help you understand what contributes to a great night sleeps and offers you some ways to improve your sleep by tweaking your environment and your warm up to sleep performance.
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Dr Sean Cumming
Senior Lecture at Bath University sport and exercise science
Working with a number of sports, NGB’s including the Premier League, The FA, LTA and Premier League Academies.
Over 100 peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters.
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