Few people know what is required mentally to achieve at the highest level of elite sport, and fewer still know what it’s like to have to apply that mindset to a life changing injury.

Nathan Stapleton is an Australian professional rugby league player who most recently played for the London Broncos in the Kingstone Press Championship. He previously represented the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League, primarily playing as a wing, fullback, and center.

In this episode he shares:

- His early life in rural Australia

How he ended up in elite level rugby

- The pressure and expectations he was under as an athlete

- The emotional lows he experienced in football

- The mindsets he leaned on when things got tough

- What the cost of his drive and discipline was

- The experience of losing his mum at 23

- The moves he made after the sharks

- His experience with his wife having a miscarriage

- Why he wasn’t prepared to deal with the miscarriage.

Key Quotes

“Because I always buried myself in physical work I didn’t know how to handle it mentally

"It was a lot harder than I was anticipating."

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