The Dom Harvey Podcast

Sam Cane may be exceptional as the captain of the All Blacks rugby team.  But how well can he arrange a marriage proposal? In this bite size clip from the full podcast conversation, Harriet Cane shares the entire story of her surprise marriage proposal.  Its a very cute story and Sam deserves soome credit for his planning and execution in keeping the entire thing as a surprise. If you like this, c...

Harriet Cane has many hats.  She is an Early Childhood Education teacher, she is a new first-time mum, she thrives on competition and has participated in numerous Half Ironman and running events.  She is also the wife of All Black Captain, Sam Cane. In this conversation we discuss her relationship with running and her competitive spirit. her relationship with Sam including how they met and how he...

This bite sized snippet comes from the full conversation with Zac Guildford.  If you want to hear the whole thing, it's episode 21 of Runners Only with Dom Harvey. 11 years ago, Zach Guildford was part of the All-Blacks squad that won the Rugby World Cup in that epic final against France in Auckland.  By then he had also won a Commonwealth Games gold medal for the sevens.  He was friends and teamm...

11 years ago, Zach Guildford was part of the All-Blacks squad that won the Rugby World Cup in that epic final against France in Auckland.  By then he had also won a Commonwealth Games gold medal for the sevens.  He was friends and teammates with Richie, Dan and co and went on to earn $500,000 a year. His life today looks very different.  He has no money and is on home detention in Christchurch.  B...

Now that she has turned her back on elite athletics, Rosa Flanagan from the Two Raw Sisters cooking duo is healthier and happier than ever.  In the bite sized clip from our full conversation, she offers her advice for any young athletes (or the parents of) for how they can avoid ending up in the physical and mental shituation she ended up in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

Two Raw Sisters are Rosa and Margo Flanagan from Christchurch.  They specialise in using plant based foods (but they DO cook and use ovens!) Before Rosa Flanagan was a Raw Sister, she was a supremely talented track athlete who had her sights set on the Commonwealth and Olympic Games.  This quest for success came at a huge cost to her physical and mental health. This is a podcast episode of two hal...

In this bite sized clip taken from the full conversation with Joseph Parker, he talks openly and candidly for the first time about his 4 year  long battle for name supression which ended in March last year. Here is a link to one of the news stories at the time: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2021/03/heavyweight-boxer-joseph-parker-named-as-sportsperson-allegedly-linked-to-international-drug-...

I have been lucky enough to interview Joseph maybe 20 times since he first became a professional boxer ten years ago.  But this is the first time I have sat down with him for an in-depth conversation. If you are a boxing fan, you’ll love this.  But I honestly think this is an enjoyable conversation for all.  We cover so much ground here outside of the ring including running, his relationship with...

WARNING:  Unfortunately, this audio is not perfect.  Due to the nature of Kerry’s injury, he was unable to get real close to the microphone (Sorry about that- I need better equipment for occasions like this).  But I hope you guys can get past these audio issues and still appreciate this story from 2 of life’s most inspiring people. Kerry and Ali are couple goals.  They met at a trail running event...

The 1960 Olympics in Rome have historical significance for New Zealand, then a little known country of just 2 million people.  Murray Halberg and Peter Snell both in black singlets won gold medals on the track within an hour of each other.  Not long after that their friend and training partner, Barry Magee won a bronze medal in the dark in the marathon. As well as all being Kiwis and friends.  All...

88 year old Barry Magee was, in his own words, only a “decent runner” compared to his training partners in the 1950s.  Then again, his training partners were Peter Snell and Sir Murray Halberg.   (Barry’s best 5000m time was 13.39 so you be the judge about his talent or lack of!!).  The three Arthur Lydiard coached athletes went to the 1960 Olympic games in Rome.  Expectation was high for Snell an...

"A Kiwi man and a Canadian man walk into a bar in Switzerland with a swan..." It sounds like the beggining of an average joke, but this actually happened!  Before he was a famous Olympic gold medalist and reality TV star, Eric Murray and a mate "borrowed" a swan from a lake and took it to a bar. If you enjoy this snippet, please listen to the full interview with Eric Murray Thanks,  Dom. Hosted on...

Eric Murray is currently on Dancing With the Stars in NZ.  Prior to this he was one of New Zealands greatest ever athletes (Rowing) This was the second half of our 2 hour 20 minute conversation. In this chat we discuss how an Olympian celebrates after winning a gold medal, the time he smashed a world record by six seconds, some of the dodgy stuff he got up to overseas before he was famous, the twe...

In August last year one of Erics best friends took her own life.  Olivia Podmore was just 24.  Her and Eric had spent the weekend in Queenstown then returned home to Cambridge together, visitng her mum on the way.  He was the last person to see her alive and one of the first people to find her after she lost her battle with mental illness. Her final Instagram post detailed her frustrations with hi...

This is part one of my very first ever two part podcast.  Eric came over and we just yarned for over two hours so I decided to split it in two.   I do need to include a warning here- towards the end we get into a fairly intense discussion about mental health and depression, and in particular the suicide of his good friend Olivia Podmore last year. If you find any of this triggering, here are some...

Cam Calkoen was born with cerebral palsy.  20 years ago the only thing that made him happy was watching the TV show "Havoc and Newsboy."  Cams mum wrote a letter to Newsboy (Jeremy Wells) and he replied.  Cam STILL has that letter pinned to his wall.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cam Calkoen was born with Cerbral palsy.  This has made everything he has achieved that much more difficult than those of us born without the condition.  Even though he has done thousands of hours of public speaking, in this moment from our conversation he shares, for the first time ever, the lowest point of his life where he made a spontaneous decision to try and end it all. It's raw.  It's vulne...

Cam Calkoen is a motivational speaker, para-sprinter and mountain climber. He has achieved all this and much more despite being born with a condition called cerebral palsy.  It’s a condition I knew very little about so I found it very educational to sit down with Cam. I really hope you guys get something out of this conversation too.  If you would like to follow Cams journey on Instagram, this is...

99 year old coaching legend (and all round great New Zealander) Arch Jelley is joined by his 89 year old second wife in this short highlight episode.  They share the unromantic (yet still incredibly sweet) story about how they went from friends to life partners. If you enjoy this clip, feel free to listen to the whole exceptional episode with this inspirational Kiwi.     Hosted on Acast. See acast...

Arch (Archibald) Jelly was the career-long coach of John Walker, Olympic gold medalist and one of our best runners ever. I am so glad I got to meet Arch and now get to share this story with you. In this conversation you'll hear: What it was like living through the great depression of 1930 in Dunedin. His experiences inside submarines during WW2. The story of how he coached John Walker to be one of...

Lets face it, the last two years has been a dumpster fire for alot of people due to the pandemic.  In this short snippet from episode 12 with NZ Olypic runner Camille Buscomb, she talks about the impact the pandemic had on her mental health and also shares her hacks for being resiliant when things don't go your way. Thanks for listening.  This episode was sponsored by Strength Meals co (Available...

Camille Buscomb is an Olymic athlete from Hamilton.  She can tun 5km in under 15 minutes (which is nuts)  and her 10km time is 31.13.  She is currently 7 months pregnant and still running 10km most days. In this.  Lots of run chat in this episode.  But as usual, we cover a whole lot of ground.  Big love to the sponsors of this episode:  Strengthmealsco.co.nz (You'll find them at Countdown).     Ho...

This snippet is for anyone who skipped Mondays episode with NZ cricket all rounder Jimmy Neesham or just hasn't got round to listening yet (maybe you intentionally didn't listen coz you don't like cricket LOL). High performance sport is mentally tough.  And cricket has got to be one of the most mentally taxing sports of them all.  In this very short clip, Jimmy talks about what he knows from exper...

Jimmy Neesham is a New Zealand cricket legend who started running at the beginning of the pandemic.  As you'd expect there is a fair bit of cricket chat in this conversation.  But we cover a tonne of other stuff too.  He's a fascinating guy and I really hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Big love to my sponsors of this episode, Triumph & Disaster.     Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...

This snippet comes from Mondays conversation with Laura Nagel.  She is a track runner who is unbeaten on the track this year and holds the NZ titles for 1500, 3000 and 5000 metres. 5 years ago a Doctor (not Dre or Phil- a real life medical doctor) told her a knee injury was a career ender (LOL). This is how she pushed through.  This clip includes a brilliant way to re-frame any sporting injury any...