Performance Intelligence

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 have
01:11 Burnout is not what you think it is
04:25 Vitamin FLPJ: fun, laughter, play, joy
06:52 The CEO who has never burnt out
09:45 Train hard, push hard, recover hard
12:25 What executive blood profiles show
16:17 Your father, your son, and you
18:45 The waterfront house and the crash
23:47 The five metrics worth tracking
30:17 You'd spend a year planning a renovation
38:55 Wearables: who they help, who they wreck
44:38 Why sauna beats cold
50:21 The toast that explains burnout
54:05 Three things to start this week
01:00:25 What your 75 year old self would ask
01:01:24 I've burnt out almost twice
Listen to the original episode: https://pod.fo/e/5543c9
Watch the original episode: https://www.youtube.com/@DontLetTheOldManInPodcast/videos
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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/keithabraham
Order a copy of Keith's new book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Unstoppable-Velocity-Goals-Reality-Faster/dp/1394389302

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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-order
Listen 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

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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/

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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/iiDAwpx78yo
The 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/ 

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