Fourteen concussions in three years. A career medically retired before it ever really got going. And on the other side of it, a coach who'll tell you the most important thing he does has nothing to do with cricket.

Trent Keep has coached at almost every level the game has — community, pathway, remote and Indigenous communities, the Australian blind cricket team — and now sits inside a professional setup at Somerset in the UK. But the thread running through all of it is the same: get to know the person before you ever coach the player.

In this conversation Tim and Mario sit down with Trent to pull apart what happens when sport is taken from you, why your weekends and your identity quietly disappear with it, and why he refuses to tell anyone their career is over without first knowing their story. He drops a paradox that should sit heavy with every parent: we're asking eight-year-olds to play like professionals, and professionals to play like eight-year-olds.

It's honest, funny, occasionally dark, and full of the kind of one percenters you can actually use — whether you coach a team, run a business, or raise a kid.

Key themes

• Why "I am a cricketer" is a dangerous sentence — and what to say instead

• The quiet grief of losing the game: identity, mates, and what to do on a Tuesday night

• Person-first coaching, and the Outlook reminder that changed a player's whole view of him

• Coaching the Australian blind team — when you can't just show someone, you have to be heard

• Communication vs comprehension: they heard something completely different to what you said

• The grassroots-elite paradox: we've got the whole thing backwards

• Environment first — if someone "doesn't fit," look at what you built before you blame them

• Three good things a night, embracing the stuff-ups, and not taking yourself too seriously

Standout quote

"We're asking these guys at the top end to play more like eight-year-olds, and eight-year-olds to play more like top-end cricketers. If there's any parents listening, that should probably sit pretty heavy with you." — Trent Keep

Your kid runs onto that field and something happens. You forget everything you know about performance psychology and immediately start coaching from the sideline.Sound familiar?In this episode, Tim and Mario go deep on what children do naturally that most adults have spent years — sometimes decades — unlearning. From the way kids play without an outcome in mind, to the way they pick themselves up without a crisis of identity when things go wrong. There's a masterclass happening every Saturday morning at your local oval. Most adults are too busy shouting instructions to notice it.Tim shares the real story of watching his daughter run her district cross-country carnival — the nerves, the hug before the start line, the instinct to stay out of the way. Mario reflects on coaching young athletes for nearly two decades, the parents who arrive with their own unfinished business, and why he sometimes tells parents: your kid doesn't need you at training. Go for a run.The Norwegian model gets a mention. So does the pressure of getting in the car after a game. And why ice hockey players shake hands after battering each other for 60 minutes — but the loudest person at the oval is also the least qualified to have an opinion.What You'll Take Away- Why kids in flow are the purest model of performance we have — and what kills it- The single thing Tim says to his kids before any event (and the one thing he refuses to say)- What Norway got right about youth sport that the rest of the world is only starting to understand- How to separate performance from self-worth — a skill that has to be built early or it gets expensive to learn later- Why parents at training sessions can actively hurt the coach's ability to do their job- Mario's daughter's genius move: choosing sports her dad knows nothing aboutThe One PercentersPlaying cricket and running is not who you are. It's what you do. The moment a kid internalises that — truly internalises it — they've got a psychological edge most adults are still chasing.That's the one percent. And it starts earlier than you think.GET IN TOUCHMario Buchsmario@healtheticacoaching.comFollow @healthetica_coaching on LinkedIn, Instagram and moreTim Buxtontim@timothybuxton.comFollow @timothykbuxton on Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Threads and moreDISCOVER MORE & SHAREIf you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe on Spotify, YouTube, or your favourite podcast platform. We appreciate your reviews and shares — help others discover the power of aligning your purpose with your performance!

What if the hustle was never the point?

Tim and Mario get into one of the most provocative questions of our time — not whether AI is going to take our jobs, but whether the things it's replacing were ever really ours to begin with.

From Nick Cave refusing to let AI near his music, to ultra-runners choosing suffering they didn't have to choose, to a young artist refusing help mid-painting — this episode asks a confronting question: are we outsourcing the very struggle that builds us?

This isn't a tech episode. It's a human one.

In this episode:

• The question that stops most people cold — if AI did everything you did this week in 4 minutes, how would you feel?
• Why the productivity obsession was always a story we told ourselves
• What Nick Cave's stance on AI reveals about creativity, struggle, and soul
• Mario's engineering lens — AI as the hammer, not the hand
• Why ultra running is booming in an age of optimization
• The difference between being productive and being authentic
• The one piece of advice Mario gives: own it

Key Quote:"AI can rob us of our self-worth if we give it too much — because it robs us of the confidence that comes from doing the work yourself." — Tim Buxton

Get In Touch:

Mario Buchs📧 mario@healtheticacoaching.comFollow @healthetica_coaching on LinkedIn, Instagram and more

Tim Buxton📧 tim@timothybuxton.comFollow @timothykbuxton on Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Threads and more

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