Today's episode features Niall O’Murchu, an official Wim Hof Method Instructor. Niall has had a huge impact on my own life and the lives of 1000’s of others and strongly believes that you can transform how you feel and think by using your breath, nature and the Wim Hof Method.

In this episode we discuss, the Wim Hof Method, why it has risen to prominence in recent years, how the Wim Hof Method improves focus and the ability to maintain clarity and calmness amidst chaos, the application of the Wim Hof Method for leaders of scaling businesses, how to lock out fear and surrender, the importance of self-leadership and why exposure to the cold is one of life’s great teachers

Listen out for:
• How Wim Hof is a simple, highly effective, scientifically proven way of improving your health, strength and mood.
• Wim Hof is centred around three pillars: learning how to breathe in a very specific way, combining breathing with a gradual exposure to the cold and using the cold and breathing to sharpen and strengthen the mind.
• One of the deep lessons of the cold is that it teaches us how to surrender, it teaches us to let things unfold and to not try and control them.
• The beauty of the breath is that it works both ways. We can simply change how we breathe and that changes how we feel and how we think.
• The most effective way of dealing with stress, uncertainty and worry is changing how we breathe.
• You can develop greater mental resilience by getting into the cold.
• For any person who wants to improve their performance, whether that is in the boardroom or on the basketball court, being able to use your breath and cold together to sharpen the mind is like having an unfair advantage.
• ‘The limit is not the sky, the limit is the mind’. Wim Hof
• The mind is the master of everything. The mind is the master of the breath.
• For the business leader to scale up that mountain, the vision has to be there. The vision isn’t muddled by tactics. So, we are either in the tactics or up in the vision.
• The more we practice the breathing, the more we practice the cold, the more we realise the mind is an ally, rather than an enemy.
• ‘You never get your best ideas in the office’ Brendan McGurgan, Simple Scaling

About the Host
Brendan brings 25 years’ experience of scaling businesses. Most recently, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.

He currently acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of the CDE Group), a company he co-promoted in 2006. In 2019, he co-led the successful private equity funding round which secured investment from IIFL, India’s leading integrated financial services group to support the company’s future growth ambitions throughout the Asia region.

In 2016, he was awarded the Institute of Directors UK Young Director of the Year and Overall Director of the Year. An avid sportsman and advocate of self-leadership through good well-being practices, Brendan is also training to become a Wim Hof Method instructor.

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