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How NZ's Most Unlikely Basketball Legend Was Built: Brother Battles, Bleeding Fingers, Zero Shortcuts

How NZ's Most Unlikely Basketball Legend Was Built: Brother Battles, Bleeding Fingers, Zero Shortcuts

Hunger & Heart with Kaila Colbin vor 2 Monaten

A podcast about wild ambition and fierce compassion

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Hunger & Heart with Kaila Colbin

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Raw conversations with sports legends about wild ambition and fierce compassion

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Dillon Boucher was so sure he'd made the 2000 Olympic team that
his wife had already booked her flights. But when they announced
the squad in alphabetical order — by the third one he knew he
hadn’t been selected.

What Dillon did next is the definition of commitment.

He quit his job, started a coaching business so he could keep a
ball in his hands all day, and trained until his fingertips split
open.

By his own admission, pursuing basketball full-time back then was
“absolutely madness.”

Dillon made the Tall Blacks the following year and went on to
become one of our greatest ever.

In this conversation the unlikely legend unpacks how someone with
no natural athleticism built a career at the top: the coach whose
belief changed everything, why every loose ball is critical, the
difference between consequences and punishment, and why the
willingness to do hard things is the most underrated strategic
advantage there is - on the court, in the boardroom, and at home.

Whether you're leading a team, raising kids, or wondering if
you're good enough for the room you're in, this one's for you.

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A huge thanks to Celebrity Speakers for supporting this episode.
If you want to book Dillon Boucher for a keynote and leave your
audience hungry for more, visit celebrityspeakers.co.nz.

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