#46 Sir John Kirwan - Mental Health in Sports & Coaching in Japan

The Benas Podcast

"Sir John Kirwan": Sir John Kirwan is a former Rugby legend in New Zealand, played for the All Blacks for ten years (1984-1994) before becoming a coach himself. He had the honors of coaching Italy & Japan national teams and learned a lot throughout that period. John struggled with depression as a player but didn't talk about it much before almost deciding to jump out of a window in Argentina. That's where his healing journey started and until this day he became the biggest advocate for mental health in New Zealand. He's the author of two books (All Blacks Don't Cry & Stand By Me) and helped establish a foundation named "Mitey" that helps young children to understand and deal with Mental Health. He also is the co-founder of 'Groov', which is a mental wellbeing platform to help deal with stress and anxiety at the workplace. "JK" had an open discussion today about his journey and his advocacy for this illness. He shared his thoughts on a 'daily mental health plan' and the six pillars of mental health, broke down some parts of it as well as what it means to create a 'to done list'! Apart from that, we also talked about mental health in athletes and coaches, how he approached his players when he saw them struggle and how his experience in Japan helped him understand a different way of doing and explaining things to his players. Please share and 'like' if you enjoyed this episode, lots of useful nuggets around a very important topic. If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Topics: Background & Suicide Thoughts "Daily Mental Health Plan" "To Done List" Perfectionism & Failure "Worry Map" Coach's Mental Health / "5 Bs" Team Culture / Captain Japanese Culture Keeping The Gym Clean "Espressos" aka ATOs #SirJohnKirwan #JohnKirwan #Rugby #MentalHealth #NewZealandRugby #AllBlacks Finding Sir John Kirwan: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnkirwan14/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnKirwan_14 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sir-john-kirwan/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/groovnow/ Website: https://www.groovnow.com/about/sir-john-kirwan Foundation: https://www.mitey.org.nz/ Sponsors: Not yet :) Finding “The Benas Podcast”: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-b-podcast/id1558492852?uo=4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Bw5UJNSQLKo0wUybEIza3 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-benas-podcast …or visit www.bmatke.com to find more info. Comment, Like & Share here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bmatke/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bmatke/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bmatke3 www.bmatke.com