Building Better Humans ProjectI have recently been working with a Dual Olympic boxer, John Ume from PNG. Alongside Mili Saul, I have learned a lot about work ethic and they've reminded me that greatness isn't built on privilege, it's built on purpose.
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Heyteen glad As are here walking back to the Building Better Humans Project podcast. I wanted to talk a little bit today around working with the athletes that I'm currently working with, and I'm going to specifically stick to boxing, because of course I work in in other fields as well, and shalam suasso through rugby union. If you're watching the Queensland Redge Grand Final next week or this weekend, you'll see Lomie at seventeen, playing a phenomenal level of football. But I'm not going to talk about that so much today. I want to talk about boxing, and I want to talk about boxing because boxing and adventure, to me, are two of the most powerful forms of personal development. I'm not suggesting everyone needs to get into a boxing ring, but you certainly learn a lot about yourself doing that, and I learned a lot about coaching from doing that as well. Now most of you would know listening that my partner, Millie is a current put New Guinea National Championships, current Queensland Professional champion, and I may seem biased when I talk about her because she's my partner, and that's not necessarily the case, because I have the capacity to delineate between the athlete that I'm working with and the person that I'm in love with and I live with. But recently we've taken on another Pupuni Guinean athlete and he's a dual comwalth Games, been a dual Olympian, John Umer, and he's literally just come over done an eight week camp and his first professional fight with us, which was a very impressive first round stoppage. And I wanted to talk a little bit about what I'm experiencing because I've also worked with other high level athletes who World rated, Commonwealth Games, national champions, and there's a real difference between this level of entitlement that we experience with Australian athletes because everything is handed to them at some level, compared to these people that grow up in other countries where they have to really work for it and they therefore have a different work ethic. Now, you know, Johnny earned eighty bucks for his first professional fight as a duel Olympian in Australia, you would earn ten, fifteen, twenty thousand, Okay, And that's the difference we're talking about just there. But this is a little piece that I wrote that I wanted to share with you guys, because I thought it's an important lesson in the journey of personal development and the fact that some people are willing to work for things and other people feel like those things should be given to them for the work that they've already done in the past. And I just wrote this, and I wrote lessons from a duel Olympian what working with John Humey and Millie Saul has taught me? And so working with John hume a jewel Olympian from put New Guinea, has challenged me, changed me and reminded me while I coach in the first place. Alongside him, Milly Saul, another current athlete that I work with. They've been cut from the same cloth. Together they've reshaped the way I see high performance. Here is the truth. Not all elite athletes are crowded. Equal, not an opportunity and certainly not in mindset. In Australia, we're lucky ow athletes have access to world class facility, is funding, support staff, nutrition, has recovery, to a psychologists, everything, and still there's often this quiet undercurrent of expectation, an entitlement athlete to expect more from others than they demand of themselves. More time, more money, more attention, more respect. They want more just for showing up, just for being talented. But talent doesn't mean you owe anything, and John and Mirely prove that. These two never walk into a gym. What they're going to do you a favor. They show up with hunger, humility, and a fire in their gut that no funding package can buy. They don't ask for more, they give more. They don't expect handouts. They expect more of themselves. When something's not going right, they look inward, not out. When they're behind. They don't look to blame. They look to work. There's no whining about conditions or comparing themselves to what other athletes are getting. They squeeze everything they can out of what they have, and then they thank you for it. They're respectful to me as their coach, yes, but to everyone who's helped them along the way, the driver who picks them up, the trainer who wraps the hands, the person who pays for a meal of books of flight. They remember and they care. They're chasing world titles, that's the dream. But they're not waiting around for someone to hand them the keys to the kingdom. They're earning every inch of it from the ground up. And I see it in the little things, you know, the way they'll clean up after themselves when they finish, the way they arrive early and leave late. The way they're always hungry for feedback, always listening with full attention, the quiet thank you coach after every hard session, even when I've pushed them to the edge. This isn't just about boxing. It's about character. It's about values. It's about gratitude, not just for what you have, but for who's walked beside you to help you get there. John and Milly have taught me more than I've taught them. They've reminded me that greatness isn't built on privilege, it's built on purpose. That respect is earned by how you carry yourself when no one's watching, and that real champion expect more of themselves than they ever ask of anyone else. I'm proud to stand in their corner, not just because they're world class athletes, but because they're world class people.
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