Performance Intelligence with Andrew May Andrew May

In this Bite Size from episode #64 Manly Sea Eagles superstar Tom Trbojevic and Andrew talk about Tom’s unusual family business: playing NRL for the Manly Sea Eagles. Tom talks about what it is like to play with two of his brothers professionally and what it was like for all of them growing up.
Andrew also shares some heartwarming comments Tom’s brothers have made about Tom and what he is like as a person and a player which leads to Tom getting a bit choked up and emotional.
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Just like putting a fitness program together to train the body to be healthy, fit, flexible, and strong; we can do the same for your brain. Sustainable high performance requires an inside out approach and there are critical inflection points in our lives where it is vital to 'do an inside job.' Are you armed with the skills to do this?
Listen to a live recording of Andrew presenting his Inside Job presentation to ACTA, where he leverages neuroscience (scientific study of the nervous system and brain) performance psychology and 20 years experience coaching some of the world’s leading athletes, CEOs, and entrepreneurs.  
 
Performance psychology shows training the mind is like learning a new skill, like playing the guitar or ice skating. And we need to keep practising (reps and sets) and have the right coaching and support until we become competent and gain mastery.
Learn to be calm under pressure through front-loading cognitive skills, so they can then be drawn upon when needed most. In this episode Andrew explores:
3:40 His backstory and why he needs to tap into mental skills on a daily basis.
6:25 The challenges facing leaders, listening to your body’s warning signs and getting excited (or not) about living to 100 years old.
11:40 Critical inflection points in your life where you need to do and Inside Job and the biological and sociological defaults we all have to navigate.
17:35 How to do an IOS upgrade on your mind, the 12 Essential Mental Skills and why stoicism is such an important part of storytelling.
22:05 How to deal with the 70,000 thoughts you have reach day, the Reticular Activating System and Andrew’s first real heart break.
29:00 Self-awareness, Tim Tszyu’s dedication to training his body and brain, the importance of storytelling.
35:20 Being calm is trainable, getting the right balance between stress and recovery right, and the physiology of stress.
38:10 A day in the life of an athlete vs a a day in the life of a corporate worker, micro recovery breaks, and the inverted U hypothesis.
42:00 Andrew and Angela Poon's experience participating in the Royal Australian Navy's Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET), the 3x3x3 Down Regulation method and how to Up Regulate (add energy when you need it).
52:30 How Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn trains mental skills, awareness around how you show up as a leader and being aware of energy levels for you and your team energy (social contagion theory) 
58:15 Q&A session led by Chris Mclachlan from CBA

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In this Bite Size from episode #58 burnout expert Dr Tom Buckley gives us his clinical definition of burnout and how it differs from just being tired or needing a bit of a break. Dr Tom also explains why it is considered a syndrome and not a disease.
Andrew and Dr Tom also talk a bit about why we are seeing increasing rates of burnout not just in Australia, but all over the world and why it can be linked to a depletion of energy, both mental and physical.
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Greg Page, famously known as the original Yellow Wiggle, spent decades spreading joy through music. He contributed to multiple albums and touched the hearts of children worldwide. In 2020, during a live Wiggles performance, a sudden cardiac arrest changed the course of Greg’s life. Thanks to his fellow band members, a wonderful nurse in the audience, and paramedics, Greg survived this frightening experience.  Prompting him to establish Heart of the Nation, dedicated to improving systems geared towards finding, accessing and using AEDs when someone is in cardiac arrest.
Greg is a songwriter, cricket fan, devoted family man, and an avid music collector, once owning the fourth largest Elvis memorabilia collection in the world (which he donated to a museum in country NSW). 
In this episode Andrew and Greg discuss:
4.40 How The Wiggles picked their iconic colours and yellow is not his favourite colour.
5:15 Greg’s love for being on stage performing, and some of his experiences in live performances growing up.
9:30 Being a blend of introvert and extrovert, attending events for a purpose, and the diversity in the new Wiggles.
13:30 How Greg met the rest of the band and formed The Wiggles, why their early childhood education was so important to overall success and Anthony’s passion for teaching children.
19:40 The Wiggles first ever concert, Anthony’s struggles with mental health, and the moment Greg went all in on The Wiggles.
25:00 Educators, musicians and then entrepreneurs, in that order. Delivering something unique to young children through music, and the naysayers during the early years who said it'll never work.
31:30 Greg's reflections on his impact on children’s lives, in the early days sharing equal equity with other members of The Wiggles.
33:30 Finding a balance between your personal identity and your performance identity.
36:50 Using Dr Google to get inaccurate medical advice, talking to Jonathan Edwards, a psychic medium, to help understand who you are and redefining spirituality.
43:50 Surviving a near fatal heart attack on stage, having your life saved by total strangers (while other band members were singing Hot Potato), and waking up to discover the full story of what happened on the morning news.
51:15 How the rest of the band reacted, fighting to give others the same chance, and the difference between cardiac arrest and a heart attack.
56:30 Frightening cardiac arrest statistics and low survival rates, how the Danish government are making strides towards dramatically improving survival rates, and who is most at risk of having a heart attack.
1:01:00 Anyone can use an Automated External Defibrilator (AED), the importance of putting your hand up to help in an emergency, and why Greg’s personal experience has made him so passionate about his crusade.
1:06:15 Your body keeps a score, putting 400 AED’s in service stations around Australia, and Greg’s vision for Heart Of The Nation in 10 years.
1:10:30 How you can support Heart Of The Nation, the importance of community in preventing heart attack deaths, and trying to improve the 5% survival rate for cardiac arrests.
1:15:45 Why trying to prevent heart attacks isn’t the only solution, how this is fully aligned with Gregs personal purpose.
1:23:00 Why Greg doesn’t take a salary for his work with Heart Of The Nation, some of the famous people Greg has met along the way, Andrew and Greg singing 'Rock A Bye Your Bear.'
You can find Greg at his Instagram: www.instagram.com/greg_page_yellowwiggle/Or at the Heart Of The Nation Website: https://www.heartofthenation.com.au/

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In this Bite Size from episode #81 Andrew and Ange are joined by Sergeant Joe Munro and Captain Brenda Youse, participants from our social mastery program as they share some of the skills they learned and how they are able to use them in a very real and practical sense.
Joe talks about how he was able to use some of the breathing skills to deal with a screaming baby at all hours of the night and Brenda shares how she drew on many of the skills to be mindful and how that mindfulness has helped her centre herself in stressful times. 

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Matty Lansdown is a scientist, nutritionist, and musician, with a background in nutritional epigenetics and disease research. A few years into working at a cancer hospital he began to feel like an imposter, "I was asking questions that no one else seemed to be asking, about the cause of disease and the impact of food on the body… It was so strange to me that quite obviously the majority of patients were overweight or obese and no one talked about their diet or their lifestyle. Ever."
Matty now focuses on the causes of overeating and the emotions we attach to food. And we’re not referring to Bridget Jones crying over her answering machine with an ice-cream tub in hand…we’re talking about real patterns stemming from a range of factors that can include our parents and their patterns, trauma, our relationship with money, how advertisers market to us, what we see online, and more. Through his podcast 'How to Not Get Sick And Die', Matty is on a mission to install new beliefs, new mindsets, and new patterns to live a happy, healthy life.
In this episode Andrew and Matty discuss:
3:45 What Matty was like growing up.
7:00 Making the difficult choice between studying drumming and forensics.
10:30 Matty coming to the realisation that there must be a more proactive approach to medicine.
14:00 Over 90% of diseases are caused by poor diet and lifestyle.
15:45 Nature doesn’t make mistakes and disease is biology’s way of trying to fix things.
18:00 What is emotional eating and why do people do it?
23:15 The majority of people are not aware of when they emotionally eat.
26:30 Why Matty almost exclusively works with people over the age of 50.
32:00 The main reasons people emotionally eat.
35:00 Why Matty helps people understand their emotions before he get them to change their eating habits.
37:30 The most common groups of people that emotionally eat, and Matty’s most challenging client.
40:00 The less confident introvert and why they might emotionally eat.
45:45 Why athletes have a higher likelihood to become emotional eaters after their careers finish.
48:45 The problem with trying to live like David Goggins.
52:30 The Dorito Effect and how food companies use your tastebuds against you.
57:30 Matty’s methods for helping people overcome emotional eating problems.
1:03:00 Stacking small habits on top of each other to increase likelihood of behaviour change and success..
1:05:45 How Matty learned about this method through his own personal experiences and therapy after growing up in a violent household.
1:14:00 Game Changers documentary and why going vegetarian might not be as much of a fix as it seems.
1:16:30 Adding weightlifting and meat to your weight loss plan.
You can find Matty at his Website: https://mattylansdown.com/Or at his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matty-lansdownListen to Matty's Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/how-to-not-get-sick-and-die/id1450212088

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