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…
Kate Cross speaks on the life of a professional cricketer and managing her mental health
Greg Shipperd speaks on winning the BBL and coaching Steve Smith
Cameron Bancroft talks about the mindset you need to be an elite cricketer
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Shahbaz Choudhry on founding Pace Journal
Mel Jones on managing working with playing at the highest level and progressing into commentary
Gideon Haigh talks about how he became a cricket writer and his thoughts on the current game
Josh Philippe on becoming a professional cricketer
NSW Rookie Ryan Hackney on taking his game to the next level
England sports psychologist Mike Rotheram on training under pressure
Steven Finn on focusing on the positives & using nerves to your advantage
Ben Brown on managing keeping & batting as a pro
International coach Charlie Burke on coaching at an elite level
Former England star Robin Smith on his journey to Test cricket
Will Pucovski on breaking records and chasing Test hundreds
Chris Tremain on how belief and luck to got him to the top
Aiden Blizzard on Opening the Batting with Sachin Tendulkar
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