The Shaun McCambridge Podcast

What if high performance isn’t just winning, but winning without sacrificing your health, relationships, or sense of purpose? Shaun sits down with James Laughlin to unpack the habits that drive sustainable success on the field and off it. James shares practical frameworks for decision-making, prioritisation, and building routines that protect energy and prevent burnout.

Guest Bio

James Laughlin is a high-performance coach, keyn...

Zion Armstrong is a former elite athlete and global business leader. This episode explores the transformative power of mentorship, resilience, and intentional leadership. From a troubled youth in New Zealand to the global boardrooms of major corporations, Zion shares how sport, structure, and love helped shape his journey. This conversation is a masterclass in authenticity, parenting, and purpose driven leadership.

Key Themes &a...

With over 25 years of executive leadership in the energy and resources sector, Janette Hewson is a seasoned director and strategic leader who knows how to navigate both boom times and tough downturns. An expert in building strong internal and external relationships, Janette thrives on collaboration to deliver business objectives and drive results.

In the boardroom, Janette brings a respectful diversity of thought, sharp strategic in...

In this episode Shaun interviews Paul Miller, highlighting his rugby career with the All Blacks, Chiefs, Highlanders, Otago, and Southland. They Paul's journey, including highs and lows, battling cancer, and his transition into life after rugby. Paul is also a team member at Stellar Recruitment.

Rugby Career & Influences

• Early Days in Gore: Raised in a tough environment, played for King’s High School, Otago, and Southla...

Trevor Hendy is a legendary Ironman champion, mentor, and wellness advocate. Trevor takes a deep dive into his journey—from a young boy afraid of competition to becoming one of the most dominant figures in surf lifesaving history.

His story doesn’t stop at sporting success, Trevor opens up about the internal battles that came with fame, the personal challenges that forced him to redefine his purpose, and how he found tru...

In this episode, Shaun and James discuss strategies for starting the year strong, building sustainable habits, and finding purpose. James shares powerful frameworks elite performers use—from prime ministers to top athletes—to set and achieve meaningful goals.

Key Takeaways:
Reflection Before Resolution – Take stock of the past year by revisiting key moments. Ask yourself:

• What went well?
• What didn’t ...

Jonah Oliver is a distinguished performance psychologist known for his work with elite athletes like golfer Cameron Smith, V8 teams, surgeons, business leaders, and more. Jonah brings his wealth of experience to the table, discussing the intricate details of sustained high performance.

Key Topics Covered:

• Understanding Sustained High Performance: Exploration of what sustained high-performance means and how it can be achieved.
• ...

Attitude is Everything:

"A bad attitude is like a flat tyre. You can't go anywhere unless you change it." This applies to all facets of life: personal, professional, and family.

Three Basic Psychological Needs:

Relatedness: Quality of connection, feeling seen, heard, and valued.

Competence: Feeling good at something, is essential for motivation.

Autonomy: Having control over one's actions and environment.

Positive Energy vs. Energy Vampi...

This episode features Jeff McKeon, who speaks on the topics of overcoming adversity and the science of happiness. Jeff's journey from a challenging childhood with an alcoholic father to dedicating his life to neuroscience and helping others reach their potential is both inspirational and educational.

Key Quotes from Jeff McKeon:

• "When you're in that moment, you question everything about your life."
• "You can't be what you can't...

Phillip Di Bella is a Director at the Di Bella Group of Companies

Phillip Di Bella is a highly respected business entrepreneur with a unique ability to visualise and commercialise what many others never see. Though initially known for the establishment of Di Bella Coffee, which became Australia’s largest specialty coffee company, Phillip’s entrepreneurial spirit has brought success to other businesses such as...

Jonah Oliver is a world-leading performance psychologist he combines sports psychology and neuroscience to facilitate peak performance.

He has nearly 20 years of working in high performance from Olympians, executives, and professional codes (Brisbane Roar, Gold Coast Suns, Essendon), to car racing teams (Porsche – Le Mans World Champion, V8s), indigenous performing artists and surgeons.

Executive coach, author, speaker, and con...

 03.51 - Sandy’s journey to starting Traction

“Why not start something that makes a direct impact on young people”

8.00 - CEO Bike Build

Young people growing into their potential and meeting expectations that might be held of them in workplaces. 

It is so much more than the bike. Make the situation at Traction relevant to their outside life.
 

10.05 - Core fundamentals taught at Traction

“We know...

2.00 -  The Background & Intro

When Jimi bounced off of rock bottom he got to the point where he said “I have to do something different that makes my tomorrow different from my today because my today sucks.”

4.00 - Picking up the tools and applying them

Applications change the outcomes. Once you start seeing the gains you get “addicted to the gains”. 

Talent for translating the information and putt...

Intro to Jeff McKeon:

Jeff is currently the Chief Growth Officer at Neuro Capability, he's a really interesting person and deeply kind. He's lived a great life and has reached this position where he genuinely loves what he does for work. He's got some great learnings to share as part of his journey. Jeff believes that our greatest asset is our mind. We are sure you will thoroughly enjoy this episode.

02.20 - Reflection and Curiosity:

...

Intro:

Holly Ransom has been named one of Australia's 100 Most Influential Women. She has achieved so much from a young age not to mention she has interviewed the likes of Barrack Obama, Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama just to mention a few.

Holly has a consultancy business, Emergent Global, she is also a board member of Port Adelaide Football Club, she is an author, global speaker and podcaster and discusses topics like how to co...

Mat Rogers is one inspiring individual, not just inspiring as a sportsman or father but inspiring as the man beneath it all.
From an ex-Wallabies player to a father of four, tune into this episode to hear why his drive and resilience are something we can all aspire to. 

2.00 - The highlight or achievement of Mat's footy career:

"Staying on the path, not getting distracted - not dragged away by the influence around you. I ...

James Laughlin is a High-Performance Leadership Coach, he has worked with elite athletes, CEOs and huge companies, just to name a few. But above that, James is incredibly passionate about inspiring others to find their purpose, one step at a time.

2.00 - James speaks to his upbringing in North Ireland, which was not the easiest of upbringings given the hardships their nation faced.

But James was given the option of “Detention o...

Nam Baldwin has over 28 years of experience in the health, fitness and well-being industries across the globe. He specialises in emotional & physiological intelligence as well as peak performance. The magic of what Nam’s work achieves is how he simplifies the complicated science between brain and body to achieve performance and wellness.

3.30 - Dealing with adversity and how the breath is key

When it comes to dealing wi...

2.57 - "I feel fear exactly the same way everyone else does, if not, even more than that"

9.44 - The crazy thing about fear, it is kind of fascinating but also really frustrating.

Doesn't matter what your fear is, or how it compares to anyone else's fear, we all have different fears"

"We see different situations differently."

11.10 - "The only thing that really matters is if just one of your fears is in the way of something that’...