26 episodes

The Focused Mind Podcast is presented by Psychologist Stu Holliday who has worked in music, elite sport and top 100 companies. The interviews aim to help us more deeply understand the psychology of human performance to understand the mindset of guests in their area of expertise to help you develop yours to achieve your goals.

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The Focused Mind Podcast is presented by Psychologist Stu Holliday who has worked in music, elite sport and top 100 companies. The interviews aim to help us more deeply understand the psychology of human performance to understand the mindset of guests in their area of expertise to help you develop yours to achieve your goals.

    Interview with Noel Brick & Dan Robinson

    Interview with Noel Brick & Dan Robinson

    Stu Holliday, Noel Brick, & Dan Robinson ‘The Psychology of Running’ podcast.

    This episode supports your understanding and use of the Psychology of Running book!

    Show Notes


    Intros and how this episode supports the book with added context
    Context of the RESIST project on endurance running and our respective roles and work within it.
    Recollections of RESIST and its impact within Sport Psychology Research
    Where listeners can find RESIST videos (see below) from the original project to support the skills and strategies covered in ‘The Psychology of Running’
    Dan’s thoughts as a runner and coach on ‘The Psychology of Running’ and how people can use it to support their running
    The background, context, and intention of the book by Noel
    How our collaboration came to happen.
    Touchpoint running books that position our book in the field
    Stu on the Physical aspect of running becoming more psychological.
    Noel on how you can use the book and how brain health improves through running
    Chapters 3 and 4 on how you can use your mind more in your running performance
    Dan on how he uses psych strategies in his coaching and uses runners' existing psych skills to allow them to improve
    A conversation on the evidence of open goals, a chat on process/performance and outcome goals!
    Our favourite runs and why (from both a physical and psychological perspective).

    RESIST VIDEO LINKS (as discussed in the episode):
    https://resiststopping.wixsite.com/resist/videos

    BOOK LINK (30% off):

    https://www.routledge.com/The-Psychology-of-Running/Brick-Holliday/p/book/9781032068619#:~:text=From%20evolutionary%20perspectives%20on%20why,motivations%20and%20benefits%20of%20running.

    • 49 min
    Interview with Chris Madden & Tamsin Embleton

    Interview with Chris Madden & Tamsin Embleton

    Following on from previous guest Chris Madden (Episode 20), we wanted to bring the head of MITC (https://musicindustrytherapists.com/), Tamsin Embleton on to have a more in-depth discussion on the work we do in the music industry supporting artists, staff, and crew in person, virtually, at festivals, and how needed the work of caring professionals is a necessity in this modern day and age.

    Tamsin gives us her background working for the likes of Anna Calvi and Standon Calling, and a bit about her working practice and style of work. This episode is aimed at anyone in the music industry, music fans, the psych curious, or who wants to know how their favourite bands, labels, or artists may have people like us supporting them.

    We talk more in-depth about our respective training, how we got into the industry, and the importance of our own self-care and emotional management, working in an industry renowned for pushing its employees' work hours, sleep patterns, and overall well-being (which is all covered in more detail in Tamsin's book 'The Touring Manual').

    As you'll hear, this was a fun episode for us to have the time and space to connect and share what we do behind the scenes to support other people as a group of practitioners. We hope you enjoy it.

    Links:

    Jonah Hill Stutz documentary: https://www.netflix.com/title/81387962

    MITC (Music Industry Therapy Collective: https://musicindustrytherapists.com/

    The Touring Manual: https://www.touringmanual.com/

    Chris Madden, Psychotherapist: https://chrismaddentherapy.com/

    Stuart Holliday, Psychologist: https://www.focusedmindcoaching.co.uk/

    • 1 hr 10 min
    Interview with Sean Warburton

    Interview with Sean Warburton

    Sean Warburton (@seanaldo26.2) is a Manchester-based runner and podcaster (The Local Runners), who has completed 38 marathons, and holds a PR of 2 hours, 38 minutes. In this 3rd episode of the mini-series on Autumn marathon, we turn the spotlight on how to cope if you get injured in the build-up to your main race of the year. How can you mentally cope better, to improve both your overall well-being, and how you come out of the injury into your next training block?

    What tips, techniques, and strategies has Sean applied to help him overcome missing out on training for this coming weekend's Berlin Marathon and instead focusing on coming back stronger for a Spring marathon next year? How has his psychological training skills that helped him PB twice in succession (in his 37th and 38th marathons!) transfer to the injury rehab process? Listen in to find out how.



    Podcast & Book links for listeners:

    The Local Runners podcast episode 46 (where I guested): https://open.spotify.com/episode/6buasVtVpb1ejzj3izxnCt?si=40c7f186940f4085



    The Strength Running Podcast by Jason Fitzgerald



    Endure by Alex Hutchinson.



    The Comeback Quotient by Matt Fitzgerald

    • 42 min
    Interview with Ross Braden

    Interview with Ross Braden

    Ross Braden is an elite British marathon runner who finished in 12th place in 2022's London Marathon (in a time of 2:14:32). A client of mine, Ross has broken client confidentiality to talk and reflect on the psych skill training we worked on together in preparation for that event, and in preparation for his upcoming 2023 Amsterdam debut appearance, he is an exceptional talent and we discuss how he works on his mental fitness in order to help him fulfill his potential on race day.



    This episode is part of the Autumn 2023 marathon preparation series by Focused Mind Coaching in order to help athletes at all levels mentally train their fitness, resilience, and flexibility specifically at this time of the calendar season. With the GOAT (Eliud Kipchoge) racing Berlin Marathon on the 24th of September, attempting the World Record for the marathon distance, we aim to show how you can take a little from his thinking and my work and research and apply it in your discipline, training, and racing.

    • 38 min
    Interview with Matt Fitzgerald

    Interview with Matt Fitzgerald

    Matt Fitzgerald is a running coach, retreat owner, and to most psych-curious runners and triathletes, a prolific author on how to improve performance. A dedicated, evidence-based, (and non-academic) researcher of how to wring as much out of your discipline as possible, his pithy, and eloquent prose has helped runners at all levels improve, covering topics including training, diet, and mindset.

    As a professional Sport Psychologist, I’ve wanted to interview Matt for a long time, as he has the mass reach that a lot of academics and pros don’t, but does have the respect of his Worldwide audience and athletes. This interview, from the tale end of 2022 covers his last book ‘On Pace’ which offers runners tips, tools, and intel on how to best dose out the right speed across your specific discipline. 

    We also cover his time training with former Focused Mind Podcast Ben Rosario of the Hoka NAZ elite which he wrote about in ‘Run like a pro, even if you’re slow’ and ‘Running the Dream’ as well as his work as a run coach with his company 80/20. We delve deep into matters of the mind that he and I respectively face as a coach and Sport Psych.

    Towards the end of our interview, Matt reveals information about his latest venture, ‘Dream Run camp’ which is a runners retreat in Flagstaff, AZ, which he has set up with his wife, and to date over 20 runners have been put through their paces to make gains in their overall performance.
    Links:https://mattfitzgerald.org/ Matt’s personal website

    https://www.8020endurance.com/ - Matt’s Coaching company and websitehttps://dreamruncamp.com/ - Matt’s runners retreat

    • 53 min
    Interview with Sarah Broadhead

    Interview with Sarah Broadhead

    Sarah Broadhead is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist based in Sheffield, UK. With extensive experience in business and sport (including 3 Olympic Cycles as the Psychologist for GB TaeKwondo), she set up ‘Broadhead Performance’ 5 years ago.

    In November 2022 she published her first book, Perform and Thrive: A Sportsperson’s Guide to Mental Health and Wellbeing, aimed at athletes, coaches and psychologists at all levels. In our conversation we discuss her background, history, and we can all improve our performance by having sound mental health as a platform on which to build. For avid and aspiring writers, she gives great advice about how you can improve your mental health in the writing process!
    A former manager of mine, I’ve been wanting to get Sarah on the podcast to catch up with her on sport, business, and psychology, and this interview didn’t disappoint! We hope you also enjoy.
    You can find out more about Sarah via her Website: https://broadheadperformance.co.uk

    LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sarah-broadhead-9952417

    Instagram: @sarahbpsych

    • 39 min

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