Mark started Opening Up in 2014 after his cricket club was hit with tragedy with the passing of his good mate, Alex, who took his own life.
Since then, Mark has been on a campaign to raise awareness for mental health issues and suicide prevention and travels around the world teaching people how every single person can improve their ‘mental fitness’, which is something that aligns with our message as coaches and mentors to our athletes.
As the name suggests, Mark and his now team of speakers, travel around the UK and more recently Australia and New Zealand encouraging and supporting cricketers to Open Up and talk to someone if they are struggling with their mental health.
Opening Up has won the support of many of England’s best cricketers who love the message it shares.
In this episode we discussed:
Plus a whole lot more.
This is a different chat to many of the others we’ve published previously but there are so many great things that you can learn from it and implement into your life and help with others around you.
Mark is a very clever guy who is changing peoples lives around the world so I’m thrilled to have sat down with him and heard more about his story. So lets get into this episode…
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The Mindset & Plans to Score Hundreds | The CM Show Ep 9
Is Khawaja the Best Batter in the World Right Now? | The CM Show Ep 8
Teague Wyllie - Lessons from the World Cup | The CM Show Ep 7
Jon Wells - The Grade Cricket GOAT | The CM Show Ep 6
Josh Philippe - How to Bat in T20 Cricket and Why the Sydney Sixers are so Successful | The CM Show Ep 5
How to Start a Career in the Sports Industry - Reuben Williams and Ryan Walker from SportsGrad
Developing Your Game Plan & the Langer Saga | The CM Show Ep 4
Mastering the Sweep Shot & Reshaping Your Identity | The CM Show Ep 3
Sam Fanning - How to score hundreds | The CM Show Ep 2
The Ashes, Kohli Back in Form & More | The CM Show Ep 1
Lessons from the T20 World Cup Final
Discussing Virat Kohlis recent technique and how great players still make mistakes
Monday Mentoring Ep 12 - Boost your confidence against the short ball
Monday Mentoring Ep11: How to play a straight drive
17 year old Teague Wyllie on his transition into senior cricket
Monday Mentoring Ep 10 - How to build your game plan around previous success
Monday Mentoring Ep 09 - Transferring your skills from the nets into a match
Kiwi star Daryl Mitchell: ”Do the work so then you‘re confident”
Monday Mentoring Ep 08 - Why making mistakes are crucial to your success
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