Champion Mindset Collective

Before you pour your savings and years into a business idea, how do you know whether it's worth building? Walt Thiessen shares the risks to check and how AI can help you test your plan. When the 2008 financial crisis wiped out the income from Walt's business and his wife's gardening service, their family struggled for years. Unable to afford a coach or even a self-help book, Walt start...

You can be brilliant at what you do and still lose clients because your message isn't landing. John Maybury shares how to find your authentic voice and make business conversations count. John Maybury joins Anthony Dahya at the Franchise and Small Business Expo Podcast Bach to talk about authentic business communication. Growing up around broadcasters, John developed a stutter as a child, yet w...

When your career no longer defines you, how do you start over? Zahrina Robertson shares the fear and creativity behind her reinvention. On Champion Mindset Collective, Anthony Dahya talks with Australian artist, author and speaker Zahrina Robertson about starting over when a career no longer fits. After fifteen years in branding and photography, Zahrina faced a professional conflict that shook her...

Trying to grow your small business while doing everything yourself? Carolyn Banks explains how confidence, community and a clear strategy make business growth less overwhelming. In this episode of Champion Mindset Collective, Anthony Dahya sits down with Carolyn Banks, CEO of NZ Businesswomen and NZ Business Academy, at the Podcast Bach during the New Zealand Franchise & Small Business Expo. Carol...

Business growing but everything still depends on you? Eddie Yi shares how delegation, clear systems and practical AI can help you step out of daily operations and lead. In this Champion Mindset Collective conversation, Anthony Dahya sits down with Eddie Yi, founder and CEO of Ditans Group. Eddie shares how a staffing problem he disliked became a business opportunity, and why working harder alone d...

Afraid of hearing no? For a lot of business owners, fear of rejection is what holds them back, not a lack of ideas. Verity Craft shares how to stop fearing no and build confidence through action. Verity is a keynote speaker, facilitator, book coach and co-founder of Intelligent Ink. After a lifetime of theatre auditions and more than a decade growing a business, she learned that rejection is not a...

Are you constantly saying yes when you really mean no? People-pleasing can look like kindness, but over time it can leave you exhausted, resentful and disconnected from what you actually want. In this episode of the Champion Mindset Collective, transformational coach, speaker, entrepreneur and bestselling author Sunniva Holt shares what it really takes to stop living for everyone else and start ch...

Has your business become busy without really moving? In S3E274 of the Champion Mindset Collective, Anthony Dahya speaks with Ankur Shrivastava, founder of StratMate, startup mentor, Senior Business Analyst at ASB and host of Let’s Talk Strategy. After redundancy in 2024, Ankur chose to create rather than simply wait for the next opportunity. That decision led to entrepreneurship, startup mentoring...

Why do capable people know what they should do, yet become a completely different version of themselves when pressure rises? In this episode of the Champion Mindset Collective , Anthony Dahya sits down with Dr Travis Fox , creator of MindPersonas®, MPHIOS® and co-creator of PersonaForce™, to explore the identity patterns influencing decisions, relationships, leadership and performance. Dr Fox make...

How to Rebuild Confidence After a Major Setback | Caro McCourtie What happens when you survive something incredibly difficult, but your confidence still takes a hit? In this special Champion Mindset Collective conversation, recorded at The Podcast Bach at the NZ Franchise & Small Business Expo 2026 , Anthony Dahya sits down with executive coach, motivational speaker and entrepreneur Caro McCou...

What does it really mean to give hope? In Episode 271 of the Champion Mindset Collective, Anthony Dahya is joined by Garon Govender and Fredric Susil Doss for a deeply personal conversation about living kidney donation, dialysis, kidney health, service and what it means to turn hope into action. Garon Govender, founder of the Sikhanyisa Foundation, shares why he is preparing to donate a kidney to...

If you’re successful on the outside but feel stuck, depleted or disconnected on the inside, this conversation is for you. Rebecca Pate shares how to stop playing small, rebuild self-trust and make your next career move with courage. In Episode 270 of the Champion Mindset Collective , Anthony Dahya speaks with Rebecca Pate, career and leadership coach, speaker and former digital product leader. Reb...

🎙️ HOW TO REBUILD YOUR LIFE AFTER LOSS: THE 4Ps FOR MOVING FORWARD If grief, loss or adversity has left you wondering how to rebuild your life, Trunnis Goggins II shares the 4Ps framework — Purpose, Planning, Passion and Persistence — as a practical way to move from pain towards a meaningful next chapter. In Episode 269 of the Champion Mindset Collective , Anthony Dahya sits down with Trunnis, fou...

If your business has stopped growing, the problem may not be strategy. John Stock explains how founders can remove their own growth ceiling by choosing better clients, communicating clearly and focusing on outcomes. In Season 3, Episode 268 of the Champion Mindset Collective , Anthony Dahya speaks with John Stock, Chartered Structural Engineer and Director of Romulus Consultants in Christchurch, N...

If you keep starting healthy habits and falling off when motivation fades, the problem may not be discipline. In Episode 267 of the Champion Mindset Collective, Anthony Dahya speaks with Matthew Rial , founder of Firefli Fit and Novel Ventures, about behaviour change, consistency, identity and building habits that last. After hip surgery and frustration with his health, Matthew applied ideas from...

Anthony Dahya speaks with Dr Gabriela Rosa, Harvard-trained fertility specialist and founder of The Rosa Institute, about what couples can ask when tests look normal but conception or pregnancy still has not happened. They explore unexplained infertility, male fertility, semen analysis, recurrent miscarriage, failed treatment, the F.E.R.T.I.L.E. Method and the mindset needed to keep moving through...

Anthony Dahya sits down with pitch advisor, four-time best-selling author and veteran professional speaker Topher Morrison for a practical conversation about one of the most common founder problems: knowing your business deeply but struggling to explain it simply. Topher breaks down why founders wing their pitches, why phrases such as 'next level' and 'game changer' weaken credibility, how specifi...

Why do you keep attracting the same type of person? Dr Stephen Paul Edwards returns to explore repeating relationship patterns, emotional dependency, self-worth, boundaries, forgiveness and accountability without self-blame. After four marriages, Stephen realised there was one common denominator in all of them: himself. The conversation explores childhood conditioning, fear of abandonment, the int...

What if the thing you thought was wasted time was actually building skills you could use later in life? In this episode of the Champion Mindset Collective, Anthony Dahya speaks with Nathan Graham, founder of Synthetic Echo, AI consultant, author and entrepreneur, about gaming, failure, mastery, human behaviour and hidden strengths. Nathan shares how gaming once became an escape that cost him a job...

AI may become faster and cheaper at almost every task. Derek Rydall argues that your lived wisdom, identity and courage to be yourself are what make you irreplaceable in the AI age. In this episode of the Champion Mindset Collective, Anthony Dahya sits down with bestselling author and teacher Derek Rydall to explore one of the biggest questions of our time: as AI becomes more capable, what is a hu...

If customers hear your message but do nothing, communication may not be the real problem. Bob Rogers explains how leaders use story, emotion and experience design to change customer behaviour. Key Takeaways - Start with the end in mind. Define the specific change in customer action or behaviour before discussing the message, technology, story or creative treatment. - Make the experience about the...

Success can look impressive on the outside while you feel numb, angry or empty underneath. In this episode, Anthony Dahya speaks with performance psychologist and former professional Muay Thai champion Nico Verresen about high achiever burnout, stress management, emotional regulation, heartbreak and the hidden cost of constantly pushing through pain. Nico shares how retinal detachments and seven s...

You can be highly capable and still lose access to your best thinking when pressure rises. In this episode, Anthony Dahya speaks with Antoinette Engelke about leadership under pressure, nervous system regulation, decision fatigue and her 3-Brain Alignment™ approach to reconnecting the gut, heart and mind. Antoinette shares how her own corporate stress wake-up call changed the way she led, why self...

You can look successful on the outside while chronic stress, anxiety or recurring symptoms become harder to ignore. Anthony Dahya speaks with Sarah Dawkins about subconscious beliefs, identity, nervous system safety, external validation and the mind-body connection. Sarah shares the question that changed her direction, the conflict she felt leaving nursing, and three questions for examining whethe...

Your business may not have a traffic problem. It may have a clarity problem. In this episode Anthony Dahya speaks with J-Ryze about hidden profit leaks, fear of definition, brand foundations, founder ego, follow-up and the stranger-to-sale journey. J-Ryze also shares how homelessness and surrender changed his understanding of identity and why he believes founders need to choose business physics ov...