STRIVE 365

STRIVE 365

The STRIVE 365 podcast aims to help athletes, coaches or parents of young athletes better understand the journey from the development phase (15 -21) into pre performance / performance phase (18-23), or youth international levels onto senior international environments. If you enjoy the content and want to show your appreciation, you can shout me a coffee using the link below: https://buymeacoffee.com/strive365

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July 12, 2025 62 mins

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What a pleasure to introduce one of NZs best individual coaches, James Mortimer.


A former NZ track star, who competed in the 2006 Commonwealth Games, James is not coaching some of NZ brightest, and fastest athletes.

 

The current coach of NZ fastest ever female athlete, Zoe Hobbs, Jame...

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This week we welcome the next instalment of our special guests, HPSNZ Sport Psychologist, Dom Vettise.

 

For the past 8 years, Dom has worked with some of NZ best athlete’s and teams on the world stag...

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Today, it’s a privilege to bring on former England international, Natasha Dowie to the show.

 

Having reached incredible heights over a long career, that includes winning the women’s FA cup and English Premier lea...

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This week, I’m excited to bring on my of my best mates to the show, current International age group coach, Alana Gunn.

 

Gunnie and I have been close friends for over 20 years and have shared a lot of tim...

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Career coach Mark Torcaso joins us today on STRIVE 365.

 

Having spent over 20 years working in the development of football within Melbourne, Mark earnt a reputation as a winner, throughout his time with powerhouse club Calder Uni...

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This week I’m honoured to bring Anthony Di Pietro, more commonly known as Chairman onto the podcast.

 

Anthony has been a major shareholder of the Melbourne Victory Football Club since its inception in 200...

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This week we welcome Tom Sermanni.

From coaching the Matildas (3 times), the US women’s national team, the NZ Football Ferns, working in Japan, USA & Australia in professional club football, Tommy has absolutely been there, seen that, got the T-shirt to...

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Todays guest is Geni O’Keeffe.

Geni is a mum to Poppy. A 17 year old talented football player, currently with our Melbourne Victory A league women’s squad as a youth development contracted player.

This is a great conv...

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Women’s Super League Head Coach and former Socceroo Dario Vidosic is this week's guest on STRIVE 365.

Having played professionally for more than 13 years in the Australian A league, G...

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Experienced youth coach Robbie Johnson joins us this week on STRIVE 365.

With over 35 years of coaching youth footballers in the UK academy system, as well a...

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This week, we welcome our next triple threat, Declan Edge.

One of NZ's most outspoken football personalities, Declan has the track record and mentality to back it up.

After a professional and internation...

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Hi guys, as we get close to launching into a new season of STRIVE 365, I hope you have enjoyed listening to some of the re-released eps from season 1. This weeks release is a re-post fro...

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Today, I welcome Wellington Phoenix AND Melbourne Victory Legend, Marco Rojas.

Marco is a fan favourite of two rival clubs, which isn’t an easy feat. We chart his football journey, where various overse...

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Today I welcome an old mentor of mine (of sorts), Ken Lynch to the show.

One of my roles at NZF was the HPAD (High Performance Athlete Development) Manager, where I ...

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Today on the show I talk with Sarah Rowe.

Sarah is an Irish international, 3-code athlete, starring in Galic Football, Australian Rules Football and real Football, Soccer Football.

With an incredible sporting journey that has led to playing in the All Ireland Galic Football final, to playi...

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Today it’s my pleasure to introduce Dr Craig Harrison to the show.

Craig and I first connected over 10 years ago when he worked as the NZ Football head of Sports Science.

Since then, he has dedicated his focus to improving the physical literacy of young athletes, as well as researching and educating the sport in...

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This episode is sponsored by Platform Sports Management, my trusted agency to secure a US College Scholarship. Reach out for a free consultation using my reference link https://info.platformsportsmanagement.com/affiliate-gareth-turnbull

Todays guest is Richard Bell.

Richard is a successful...

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Today we have a bonified coaching legend on the show...

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Maia Vink is a NZ football coach, who is the current head of women’s football at Western Springs in Auckland, NZ.

After a successful playing career in NZ, winning multiple national titles at school, club and federation levels as well as representing NZ at the U17 leve...

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