Every Day Is Mindset Day - Ollie Marchon - #193

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hi friends, welcome back. My guest today is Ollie Marchon, Nike master trainer, coach, athlete, business owner, father, husband and all-round great guy. I wanted to find out the principles as to how Ollie wrangles the chaos around such a multifaceted life. He is hugely popular online and for all the right reasons as far as I can see. So today, expect to learn why having faith in your future self is crucial, why honesty and integrity are a competitive advantage, Ollie's favorite approaches for training, his biggest insights into mindset and much more. There's so much to go through here. This is definitely an episode that you're gonna want to go back and listen to multiple times. If you enjoy it, give Ollie a shout out on Instagram. I'd love to hear what you think about it. Tons and tons of takeaways and I adored this conversation. So watch out for a potential in-person sequel once lockdown fully releases and me and Ollie can get ourselves in a room together. In other news, this episode of the podcast is brought to you by you. That's right, the only way that Modern Wisdom continues to grow is through support from listeners like yourself. So go and hit the subscribe button. It would make me so happy and it will ensure that you are notified every time that a new episode drops, which is Monday, Thursday and Saturday right now. The unrelenting lockdown schedule does not stop. Also, if you haven't picked up a copy of my Ultimate Life Hacks list yet, go and get one right now, chriswillex.com/lifehacks. Over 200 ways that you can upgrade your existence. This is every life hack we have ever covered on the show over the last two and a half years, nearly 3 million downloads, 200 ways to upgrade your life and it is free, not forever, but it's free right now. So go and get it chriswillex.com/lifehacks. Just open whatever podcast app you're listening on, press the link to the life hacks ebook and you can get your copy within five seconds and press the subscribe button while you are there. As I've said, it would make me oh so happy and you can do all of that before this intro music stops playing. But for now, it's time for the wise and wonderful Ollie Marchon.
Ollie Motherfucking Marchon in the building. How are you doing, man?

**Ollie Marchon** (2:36)
Mate, great, it's about time. I'm doing very well. I'm very pleased to be here. How are you doing, Chris?

**Chris Williamson** (2:41)
I'm good, man. This is such a long time coming. The internet is waiting for this. You feeling ready?

**Ollie Marchon** (2:50)
Yeah, I'm born ready, man. I've been literally looking forward to this all week. I've just had a cold shower just to wake myself up, make sure I'm primed and ready at my best. Let's get stuck into it.

**Chris Williamson** (3:00)
You're just making me look really pale because you're so tall. That's the main takeaway so far from this podcast. First things first, you played rugby for England Sevens, which was something that I only stumbled upon when you post a throwback Thursday photo of a fresh-faced Ollie from half a decade ago. What are some of the ways that playing high-level sport at a young age shaped who you are today?

**Ollie Marchon** (3:28)
It's a brilliant question. Firstly address that bit. Yeah, I guess anyone that sort of followed me of late over the last two, three, four years will only see me as like the fitness guy. But prior to that, my life was the beer on endle for me was rugby. I had a couple of spells as a professional rugby player, but my most successful one and I guess at the highest level was with England Sevens. And that environment in itself is a very high-pressurised environment. It's an elite sport and there's no where to hide. The game itself is very demanding, both mentally and physically. It's a bit like Formula One in terms of like a World Series. So you travel around the world from place to place and you'll be away for sort of two to three weeks at a time. And then you'll be back in the UK in training camp for sort of six, six to eight weeks. And during that time, the way England Sevens was set up is that we all sort of lived, all the players that had to commute in would live in a hotel in Teddington in London. So that environment, you're alongside the other players in, I guess, a nice hotel, but players digs to some degree. You're in an environment where you just eat, sleep and breathing, performance based sport. You're using every waking moment to try and just get a little bit better, understand the game a little bit more.