*** The first episode of Experts Unleashed featured the legendary coach, Ben Crowe, and was originally released as a cut-down version to reduce the overall length. Well, we’ve changed our minds and are re-releasing the episode UNCUT! Watch the full Ben Crowe episode (bloopers…retakes…everything!) in this special edition of Experts Unleashed. ***

When the world's elite sports teams, performers, or execs need to optimize their performance, they turn to Ben Crowe. He's worked with No.1 tennis champion Ash Barty, Olympic Gold medalists, champion surfers, record-breaking race car drivers, and organizations like Nike. Ben uses a combination of research, psychology, anthropology, curiosity, and his own lived experience as a dad, husband, and son, to help people fulfill their potential.

In this episode of "Experts Unleashed," Atlassian's Dom Price chats with Ben about his history, story, childhood, and how that has shaped his values in how he operates today. They discuss elite performance and the relationship between sports teams and business teams, and they dig into the nuances of Ben's "Human being vs. human doing" framework, and the ways we can tap into our mindset to find incremental improvements in how we see and relate to the world.

They also discuss the "My User Manual" Play from Atlassian's Team Playbook. It's an exercise designed to help leaders share with their teams, and teammates to share with other teammates HOW they work. Think of it like this: when you buy a TV, it comes with a User Manual. But when you hire a human, there's no such helpful guidance. Ben takes us through his User Manual and how he finds balance and facilitates effective communication in his life.

More about Experts Unleashed

The world feels full of thought leadership and frameworks, when we’re actually hungry for lived experience, science, and pragmatic insights. Experts Unleashed seeks out amazing minds from their specialty fields and brings them to you, to unleash their wisdom in a way that will help you put it in action. Each episode aims to educate, provoke, inspire, and then activate… to give you the confidence to try someone new.

In this episode:

My User Manual Play: https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/plays/my-user-manual
More about Ben Crowe: https://mojocrowe.com/ben-crowe
Charity: https://www.yiayianextdoor.com.au/about

Chapters:

00:00 – Introduction

01:03 – Directors Commentary

02:31 – First Take – Welcome mindset coach, Ben Crowe

05:10 – Ash Barty, self-confidence, and self-worth

08:42 – Directors Commentary

09:12 – Second Take – Welcome mindset coach, Ben Crowe

11:31 – Ash Barty, A+B+C, and imposter syndrome

16:46 – My user manual and the power of balance and mantras

22:22 – Ben Crowe’s history

28:20 – Exercise: plot your life

35:07 – Elite sports lessons for business & play

44:08 – Principles for successful teams

46:40 – Human being vs. human doing

50:20 – Develop your own success list

56:06 – Impossible alone: advice for leaders

58:10 – Yiayia Next Door Charity
01:00:35 – Directors Commentary
01:01:12 – Outtakes, retakes, and conversation
01:08:38 – Directors Commentary