Performance Intelligence

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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.

  1. 1d ago

    Bite Size: You Are Almost Certainly Underestimating Yourself | Craig Harper

    There 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 or a knowledge problem. It is a psychological one. Fear, the need to be right, poor self-awareness, and an unwillingness to tolerate discomfort are quietly capping the performance of people who are objectively skilled, experienced, and intelligent. And the higher you rise, the easier it becomes to avoid confronting that. You can find Craig at his website:https://craigharper.net/Follw him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/craiganthonyharper/Listen to The You Project:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-you-project/id1342430567 High performance is not about pushing harder. It is about building the capacity to perform when it matters and sustain it over time. Hosted by Andrew May, one of Australia’s leading experts in human performance, leadership and mental skills, the Performance Intelligence Podcast explores how leaders, athletes, coaches and researchers think clearly, manage pressure and consistently perform at their best. Drawing on more than 20 years working with senior executives, elite sporting teams and the Australian Defence Force, Andrew combines candid conversations with evidence-based performance insights and practical strategies you can apply. Episodes span leadership capacity, performance psychology, mental skills, energy management, strategic recovery, productivity and wellbeing. Listen to think more clearly, lead more effectively and perform at your best for longer. Get in touch through:Our websiteBook AndrewFollow us on Instagram, Linkedin, FacebookWatch this episode on Youtube If you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.

  2. 5d ago

    Mental Agility: Why it's so Important & How to Train it | Andrew May, Angela Poon, Jacqui Louder

    Some 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 around them has gone quiet or gone hard. That is Mental Agility. The capacity to move between demands, tasks, roles and relationships while staying grounded and effective when conditions change. It is trainable, and it is the capability every organisation is now asking for without ever having taught it. PQ founder, Andrew May, PQ COO, Angela Poon, and Sports Psychologist, Jacqui Louder, spent 6 months building mental agility into six layers.  What your brain does to you under pressure. Why your body sets the ceiling on your thinking. How your identity decides what an event means before conscious thought gets a say. The six seconds that stop you saying the thing you regret. How to actually retain what you learn. The hardiness that has you growing through pressure instead of surviving it.Now, they are walking you through all six layers here, with one strategy from each you can use this week. Andrew brings you into his real life test of mental agility with a gripping story of being upside down, underwater, strapped inside a helicopter fuselage in the dark, with an instructor offering him a way out.  But what he does next is where mental agility shows up... 00:00 The word everyone uses and nobody can define04:12 Your brain under pressure is not a character flaw07:21 What AI can't give you11:10 Elite sport, clinical psych, actual clowns14:24 Why an insurer is training this17:51 Leaving KPMG for a startup23:43 The three zones28:18 The brain runs on the body35:03 Why the same words land differently on different people39:14 Hanging up the bad day jacket46:55 Upside down, underwater, offered a way out52:25 How to work with us Learn more about a Mental Agility program for your team here or email us at support@performanceintelligence.comContact Jacqui Louder here

    Mental Agility: Why it's so Important & How to Train it | Andrew May, Angela Poon, Jacqui Louder

  3. Aug 23

    Bite Size: A Debrief Won't Fix a Numb Team | Ex-SAS Soldier Harry Moffitt

    A 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 unit sat in near silence, exhausted and numb. Moffitt, who spent close to three decades in Australia's Special Air Service, reached for the one thing he carried on every deployment for exactly this reason. What happened next, in the middle of one of the worst days of his career, became one of the most effective group resets his unit ever experienced, and he says he has never seen anything else do the same job. You can find Harry at his website: https://harrymoffitt.com.au/Order a copy of Harry's book: https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781761563133/Connect with Harry at his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrymoffitt/Follow Harry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harrymoffitt353/?hl=en

  4. Aug 19

    We Have Misdiagnosed a Generation of Exhausted Leaders | Andrew May on DLTOMI

    You'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 business, and Andrew thinks we have misdiagnosed a generation of exhausted leaders. Call it burnout and you go looking for rest. Andrew says the shortfall is usually capacity, and the first move is measuring it rather than resting on it. Pod O'Sullivan had Andrew on Don't Let The Old Man In podcast and asked him the things he does not get asked on his own show. It was too good to leave over there, so we are bringing it to you here. 00:00 The plan you don't have01:11 Burnout is not what you think it is04:25 Vitamin FLPJ: fun, laughter, play, joy06:52 The CEO who has never burnt out09:45 Train hard, push hard, recover hard12:25 What executive blood profiles show16:17 Your father, your son, and you18:45 The waterfront house and the crash23:47 The five metrics worth tracking30:17 You'd spend a year planning a renovation38:55 Wearables: who they help, who they wreck44:38 Why sauna beats cold50:21 The toast that explains burnout54:05 Three things to start this week01:00:25 What your 75 year old self would ask01:01:24 I've burnt out almost twice Listen to the original episode: https://pod.fo/e/5543c9Watch the original episode: https://www.youtube.com/@DontLetTheOldManInPodcast/videosFollow Pod on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/padraigbosullivan/ Follow DLTOMN: https://www.instagram.com/dltomipodcast/

    We Have Misdiagnosed a Generation of Exhausted Leaders | Andrew May on DLTOMI

  5. Aug 16

    Bite Size: Forget Your Why. Start With How... | Keith Abraham

    Most 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 authorities on goal achievement, thinks that's exactly backwards, and too hard for anyone with a job and a diary. He starts somewhere else entirely, with a short list of feelings almost nobody names out loud before setting a goal. Once that shifts, the goal itself, the reasons behind it, and the people who can help all fall into a completely different order. What that starting question actually is, and why it beats a purpose statement, is the part worth hearing.  You can find Keith at his website: https://keithabraham.com/Or at his LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/keithabrahamOrder a copy of Keith's new book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Unstoppable-Velocity-Goals-Reality-Faster/dp/1394389302

  6. Aug 12

    Mental Skills that Saved the Only Person who has had the #1 Radio Show in 2 Countries | Christian O'Connell

    What 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 walking away from the day feeling like you performed it rather than lived it. Now imagine finding the exact moment that stopped working, and the one small shift that got you back. Most high performers don't burn out overnight. It happens one performance at a time, right up until the body forces the stop, mid show, mid meeting, mid life. Christian O'Connell has hosted the #1 breakfast radio show in 2 different countries, the only person to do it. He built that success on a persona so complete he stopped recognising himself underneath it, until panic attacks started hitting him minutes before airtime.  Christian walks you through the exact mental skill that pulled him out of it, the same one he now teaches others to use before they hit their own breaking point. You can keep performing until something forces you to stop. Or you can borrow the skill that saved someone who'd already won twice. 0:00 — The reflection he didn't recognise 5:40 — The epiphany behind a show built on being unscripted 9:12 — "F**k off home": Australia's brutal welcome 19:49 — The morning his mother-in-law nearly died on air 21:03 — The radio tuner dial: shifting from fear to joy 32:12 — The woodshed: never running out of things to say 35:32 — What Jerry Seinfeld taught him about mastery 46:19 — Bruce Springsteen: "thank you for being my purpose" 1:02:18 — Running on clean fuel instead of dirty fuel 1:04:41 — Ricky Gervais, and the courage to admit you're not okay 1:09:56 — Why storytelling is the most underused skill in business 1:22:48 — How to work with Christian O'Connell You can find Christian at his website: https://christianoconnell.com/Buy a copy of Christian's book: https://christianoconnell.com/unscript/#pre-orderListen to the Christian O'Connell Show: https://www.thechristianoconnellshow.com.au/Connect with Christian on LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/christian-o-connell-8615a6314?trk=people-guest_people_search-card

    Mental Skills that Saved the Only Person who has had the #1 Radio Show in 2 Countries | Christian O'Connell

  7. Aug 9

    Bite Size: A Bad Day is a Jacket, Not an Identity | Rose Herceg (WPP President, AU/NZ)

    Rose 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 lost the ability to do.   Running a business of 2,500 people through a genuinely volatile industry, she has no shortage of bad days. What she refuses to do is let one bad day become a bad week, a bad month, or a story about who she is.   The image itself is deceptively simple. What's harder, and more useful, is the discipline she has built around actually using it.  You can find Rose at her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rose-herceg-025982bb/

  8. Aug 5

    190 The Science of Fasting & How to Use It for Sharper Thinking | Dr Tom Buckley

    When 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 imagine using that discomfort as a lever instead of avoiding it. Every reflexive snack, every meeting that runs straight into the next, every bite you take before your body even asks for it keeps you running on one setting. You never give your body the signal to switch fuel sources, sharpen your focus, or clean house at a cellular level. The fog, the afternoon slump, the stubborn weight that won't shift: that's the bill for never stopping. Dr Tom Buckley has spent more than 22 years reading the bloodwork of Performance Intelligence's executive clients, translating what's happening inside hundreds of high performers into how they eat, train, and lead. He's back on the podcast to explain what fasting actually does inside your body, why the meal you were told never to skip has a cereal company to thank for that reputation, and how two nights a week without dinner might be the highest-leverage habit in your week. You could keep running on constant fuel and wonder why your energy never settles. Or you could learn to use hunger as a lever instead of an enemy. 03:35 The fat that's easiest to shift, and where it sits 05:41 Ghrelin, leptin and the people who never feel full 09:03 Three fuels, one easy habit: why carbohydrate wins by default 10:27 Metabolic flexibility: the skill Western living has trained out of us 16:08 The story that's driven Dr Tom for 35 years 21:47 What fasting switches off first 22:47 Ketones: the fuel that skips the insulin queue 25:13 Fasting and the new GLP-1 drugs are chasing the same biology 27:33 The shortcut risk: trading discipline for a jab 28:17 What decades of fasting research actually agree on 31:16 The benefits nobody puts on the label 33:21 Andrew's own Tuesday and Thursday fast, and why it finally clicked 36:01 The worst thing we do as humans, and the second worst thing 41:20 Autophagy: the cellular housekeeping everyone's talking about 44:22 Marvellous mitochondria, and why the name always gets a rerecord 45:00 The 18:6 protocol Dr Tom and Andrew actually live by 46:37 Why 6pm to midday captures most of the benefit 48:49 The client who fasted every day and undid his own progress 50:06 Why Dr Tom says don't pull this lever before your late 30s 51:39 David Sinclair's one-meal-a-day experiment 53:06 The 24-hour fast Dr Tom takes on international flights 54:50 Why women need a different rulebook entirely 58:29 Dirty fasting and dirty keto: the shortcut that costs you later 60:47 Dr Tom's cliff notes for the time-poor listener Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/iiDAwpx78yoThe resource Dr Tom referenced for women's fasting protocols: Fast Like a Girl by Dr Mindy Pelz: https://fastlikeagirl.com/ You can find Dr Tom at his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-buckley-06a76b98/Listen to Dr Tom and Andrew talk GLP-1s: https://performanceintelligence.com/the-science-of-ozempic-and-what-happens-after-you-stop-dr-tom-buckley/

    190 The Science of Fasting & How to Use It for Sharper Thinking | Dr Tom Buckley
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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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  • Creator
    Andrew May
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    448
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    © 2025 Performance Intelligence
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