Performance Intelligence
by Andrew May
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The show that unlocks potential for everyday life.
Mental Skills and Leadership Coach, Andrew May, talks to an all-star guest list of experts to unlock every edge of performance.
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- Bite Size: The Routine Behind One of Cricket’s Great Bowlers | Michael Bevan & Jake Trbojevic · 12 minGlenn McGrath never told his teammates what time he’d see them in the morning. Everyone already knew where he’d be: in the pool, 90 minutes before the bus left, every match day…
- The Surprising Mental Skills Behind a #1 Rock Star | Marcus Bridge (Northlane) · 1 h 5 minBefore you go looking for your next big idea, go back to your last great one. Marcus Bridge was four months into fronting Northlane when the band recorded Node. It went to #1 and…
- Bite Size: What a Performance Psychologist Got Wrong About His Own Life | Dr Michael Gervais · 10 minThere is a phrase elite performers use to keep people at a distance without ever saying so directly: don't look at me, look at my performance. Dr Michael Gervais, the sport…
- The Science of Neurotransmitters: 5 Chemicals Every Leader Must Understand | Dr Tom Buckley · 59 minMuch of what leaders put down to stress, or to a lapse in discipline, is chemistry at work. Andrew chose five of these moments, drew a real scenario from our coaching practice…
- Bite Size: Why “My Door’s Always Open” Isn’t Enough | Keegan Hipgrave · 13 minMost leaders have said it. My door’s always open. Far fewer realise their team is watching whether they ever walk through a door themselves. Former NRL player Keegan Hipgrave was…
- 198 Culture Expert: How Leaders Measure, Own, and Fix the Culture They Inherited | Karl Treacher · 36 minIf culture’s in HR, it’s in foster care. Karl Treacher has spent 25 years inside boardrooms, including the war room of a big four bank during the Royal Commission, and he has…
- Bite Size: The Hidden Cost of a High Performing ADHD Brain | Lindy Hadges · 7 minLost jobs. Bankruptcy. Marriages that did not survive. Unmanaged ADHD can leave a trail most of us never see, because the risk-taking that looks like drive on the outside is fed…
- 197 How a CEO Built Leadership Capacity + Created a Ripple Effect in His Entire Team | Byron Cannon · 1 h 17 minYou’re exceptional at your job. That isn’t the problem. The skills, the experience, the judgement, you’ve spent years building those and they aren’t going anywhere. The question…
- Bite Size: Stop Promoting Your Best Performer Into Leadership | Lisa Alexander · 8 minAsk Lisa Alexander who the best coaches she has known were, and almost none of them were the best players. Alexander spent a decade running the Australian Diamonds netball team…
- Bite Size: How To Coach a Client Through the Worst Year of Their Life | Nam Baldwin · 11 minDivorce at the start of the year. A great white shark attack, live on television, in the middle of it. The death of his eldest brother at the end. That was 2015 for professional…
- Bite Size: Why Win-At-All-Costs Doesn't Survive Contact With Business | Michael Klim · 7 minOlympic gold medallist, Michael Klim, explains why the mentality that won him 17 years of world records nearly destroyed his life after retirement. Michael took the same…
- Bite Size: What Creatine Actually Does to a Desk-Bound Brain | Dr Tom Buckley · 10 minCreatine has spent decades filed under gym supplements, something for building muscle and nothing else. Dr Tom Buckley says that filing is out of date. A recent meta-analysis…
- Bite Size: The Weeks You're Allowed to Just Survive | Andrew May & Angela Poon · 1 minMost productivity systems quietly punish you for a bad week. Andrew May's Better Week framework budgets for them. The target is 25 to 30 genuinely good weeks a year, a number…
- Bite Size: The Skill Sport Teaches That Leaves You Lonely | Stuart Clark & Steve Rixon · 13 minYears of touring teach cricketers to be very comfortable in their own company. Coffee when you want it, lunch when you want it, a day built entirely around you. Former Test…
- Bite Size: How to Step Down Without Screwing It Up | Michael Bungay Stanier · 9 minMost people who benefit from the status quo work hard to keep it. Michael Bungay Stanier, Rhodes Scholar and bestselling author of The Coaching Habit, says it was built for him…
- 196 The Science of Mental Fitness: Why Movement is Non-Negotiable | Dr John Ratey · 1 h 8 minA professor at Harvard and MIT wrecked his knee and stopped running the 7.5 miles he ran every night of his adult life. 5 months later he could not finish his own work. He was…
- Bite Size: The Simple Habit That Flattens Your Energy Crashes | Dr Amantha Imber · 9 minMost nutrition advice focuses on what you eat. Dr Amantha Imber, an organisational psychologist and author of The Health Habit, became more interested in what happens after you…
- 195 Conflict Expert: What Swallowed Words Costs a High Performing Team | Tim Duggan · 1 h 7 minYou have rehearsed it in the shower. You have written the message and deleted it. And every time the moment arrives, you find a reason it can wait until next quarter. That…
- Bite Size: The Two Steps That Stop a Player Throwing a Punch | Gilbert Enoka · 8 minA young player once told Gilbert Enoka that his advice was rubbish. On the field, when a referee makes a call he disagrees with, he wants to throw a punch, and no amount of…
- 194 Performance Nutrition: Lessons From Special Ops + Elite Athletes for Everyday People | Jessica Spendlove · 1 h 9 minElite athletes and Special Forces do not eat like you do....and the reason you fade in the afternoon is usually something you did that morning. Jessica Spendlove will tell you…
- Bite Size: You Are Almost Certainly Underestimating Yourself | Craig Harper · 9 minThere is a gap between what you are capable of and what you are actually doing. Craig Harper has spent 40 years studying it. His view: the gap is not primarily a talent problem…
- 193 Mental Agility: Why it's so Important & How to Train it | Andrew May, Angela Poon, Jacqui Louder · 56 minSome people get sharper when the pressure lands. The meeting turns hostile, the plan collapses, the number comes in wrong, and they are still thinking clearly while everyone…
- Bite Size: A Debrief Won't Fix a Numb Team | Ex-SAS Soldier Harry Moffitt · 8 minA suicide bomber walked into a crowded local event in rural Afghanistan, and Harry Moffitt's small medical team spent the day treating the dead and dying. By the afternoon his…
- 192 We Have Misdiagnosed a Generation of Exhausted Leaders | Andrew May on DLTOMI · 1 h 4 minYou're probably treating recovery as the reward for hard work, when elite sport treats it as part of the work. Andrew May has spent more than two decades coaching in sport and…
- Bite Size: Forget Your Why. Start With How... | Keith Abraham · 15 minMost goal-setting advice starts with your why, the deep, soul-searching question everyone knows they're meant to answer but rarely do. Keith Abraham, one of the world's leading…
- 191 Mental Skills that Saved the Only Person to have the #1 Radio Show in 2 Countries | Christian O'Connell · 1 h 24 minWhat do you do when the version of yourself that's winning is also the version that's breaking? You know the feeling, hitting every number, saying yes to everything, and still…
- Bite Size: A Bad Day is a Jacket, Not an Identity | Rose Herceg (WPP President, AU/NZ) · 8 minRose Herceg, President of WPP Australia and New Zealand, has a specific image she uses to stop a hard day turning into something bigger, something she thinks most people have…
- 190 The Science of Fasting & How to Use It for Sharper Thinking | Dr Tom Buckley · 1 h 4 minWhen did you last actually let yourself feel hungry? Not the "due for a snack" kind. Properly, deliberately hungry, on purpose. If you can't remember, you're not alone. Now…
- Bite Size: What a Great Coach Does When Your Confidence Is Gone | Jason McCartney · 7 minMost leaders try to restore a struggling performer's confidence with a pep talk. It almost never works. When Jason McCartney had written himself off, a coach did something far…
- 189 The "Why Not?" Mindset: How to Break Self-Imposed Limits | Matt Formston · 1 h 14 minWhat goes through your mind when you're trapped underwater by a 50-foot wave? For Matt Formston, it's not fear. It's making an omelette. After losing 97% of his vision at just 5…
- Bite Size: The Embarrassing Habit Even Smart People Have | Andrew May on Healthed · 8 min"I know this." Andrew May hears it from some of the smartest people in the country, right before they admit they are doing none of it. The gap between what we know and what we do…
- 188 Producer of X Factor, Big Brother: How to Build Brands People Buy & Can't Ignore | Maz Farrelly · 28 minWhat do people say about you when you're not in the room? How are they introducing you, summing up your work, your professionalism, your brand? Now imagine you had control over…
- Bite Size: The Exercise Formula Was Never Designed for Women | Dr Paul Batman · 7 minWomen achieve the same cardiovascular health benefits as men at roughly half the exercise volume. Yet the standard exercise guidelines prescribe identical amounts for both. Dr…
- 187 The Science of Sleep High Performers Swear By, From Special Forces To CEOs | Dr Jemma King · 1 h 2 minThe best performers in the world have found a competitive edge that's completely free. You can use it too, and it starts tonight. When Dr Jemma King put wearables on Australia's…
- Bite Size: Why Being Underestimated Might Be Your Greatest Asset | Nic White & James Slipper · 10 minNic White played 77 test matches for the Wallabies. For most of that career, he felt like he was one bad game away from being dropped, one coach away from being told he was not…
- Bite Size: Mental Rehearsal Is Not Mindset, It's Neuroscience | Andrew May · 8 minJim Carrey wrote a cheque to himself for ten million dollars when he was a broke, unknown actor. Sara Blakely visualised a billion-dollar business and an Oprah appearance before…
- Bite Size: ADHD It's Not Laziness, It's Low Dopamine | Lindy Hadges · 12 minSince the 1700s we have described this condition in the language of character. Lazy. Undisciplined. Careless. As recently as 2023, an Australian parliamentary inquiry heard the…
- Bite Size: He Ran His Recovery Like a Pre-Season | Jason McCartney · 13 minThe first thing Jason McCartney asked for wasn't a doctor. It was a whiteboard. Badly injured and facing months in hospital, he didn't ask "why me?!". He set a goal, picked a…
- Bite Size: You've Accepted a Lie About Getting Older | Craig Harper · 8 minThere's a moment in your 50s when you start planning for decline instead of planning for growth. Craig Harper never had that moment. At 60+, he's more committed to his physical…
- 186 How to Access Flow State & Significantly Boost Performance | Dr Sue Jackson · 1 h 13 minHave you ever finished a presentation, race, meeting or performance and someone asked, "How did it go?" only to realise you can barely remember it? Not because you failed but…
- Bite Size: Why a Psychophysiologist Thinks We're Treating Depression Wrong | Dr Paul Taylor · 10 minMost conversations about depression treatment start and end with medication. But what if that starting point is too narrow? Paul Taylor challenges a widely accepted assumption…
- 185 The Science of Ozempic and What Happens After You Stop | Dr Tom Buckley · 1 h 0 minInside the venom of a desert lizard, scientists found a molecule that does something the diet industry spent 50 years failing to do. It quietly switches off hunger. That molecule…
- Bite Size: How to Stay Hungry After Success | Dan Haesler (Mental Skills Coach Penrith Panthers) · 7 minMost teams spend their lives trying to reach the top. Very few have to answer the question of what happens when they get there. The Penrith Panthers have won 4 consecutive NRL…
- 184 LIVE: The Mindset that Drives an AFL Premiership and a Full Career Reinvention | Kieren Jack · 60 minTalent gets you through the door. It does not keep you in the room, and it has almost nothing to do with what you become. Kieren Jack is proof. The last pick in the AFL rookie…
- Bite Size: The Survival Skill That Keeps Reporters Calm on Air | Ali Piotrowski · 12 minEver lost your composure right when you needed it most? In a high-pressure moment, when everyone's watching and one wrong move costs you, most people freeze. This reporter…
- 183 The Question Nobody Asks High Performers: Who Motivates the Motivator? | Craig Harper · 49 minThe kind of person who's been helping others perform better for 40 years doesn't usually admit they're struggling. Craig Harper did. His dad is in the hospital. The drive is five…
- Bite Size: The 8 Health Behaviours that add 26 Years to Your Life | Dr Tom Buckley · 15 minCould eight daily habits, locked in by 40, really add more than two decades to your life? The research says yes. And the habit at the top of the list is the one most senior…
- 182 Friendship, Footy, and What's Next? | Wallabies James Slipper & Nic White · 53 minHow do you build a team where people will run through a wall for each other? Not metaphorically. Literally. James Slipper, the most capped Wallaby of all time. Nic White, the…
- Bite Size: What an Olympic Recovery Scientist Really Thinks of Your Fitness Tracker | Shona Halson · 9 minYou've got more data on your body than any generation before you. Heart rate variability, readiness scores, recovery metrics. But are you actually recovering better? Dr Shona…
- 181 The Recovery Crisis Nobody Talks About: Doctors, Executives, & the Burnout Myth | Andrew May on Healthed · 42 minYou know what you should be doing. More sleep. Better recovery. Less time running on empty. You have known it for years. So has every burned-out doctor, executive, and elite…
