Outperform The Storm

Life doesn't wait until you are prepared and ready. The call comes. The email lands. The deal collapses. The diagnosis arrives. The accident happens. The thing you did not plan for detonates the day you thought you were having. That's a curveball. Not ordinary pressure. Not scheduled stress. Not the hard thing you had time to prepare for. A curveball is the hit that arrives without warning, withou...

Most driven people still use a broken recovery model. They push hard. Ignore the signals. Override fatigue. Keep going because the work matters, the stakes are real, and there is always another demand waiting. Then something gives. Sleep breaks. Focus drops. Patience disappears. Decision quality gets worse. The body gets louder. The mind gets foggier. And only then do they start thinking about rec...

In January 2026, the World Economic Forum and the McKinsey Health Institute released a report that most leaders will skim past without absorbing what it actually means: in the age of AI, the human brain does not become less important. It becomes more important. The report — The Human Advantage: Stronger Brains in the Age of AI — introduces a concept called brain capital : the combination of brain...

The model of high performance has shifted. Quietly. Definitively. And most founders and leaders haven't caught up yet. The 2018 version was built on intensity. Hustle. Outwork everyone. Sleep when you're dead. Then the pandemic happened — and in the years that followed, that model broke. Not because ambition died. But because the assumption that more intensity equals greater performance crumbled....

You can be performing on the outside and still be quietly burning through the system that makes that performance possible. That is the problem at the heart of shadow burnout. In this episode, Martin Soorjoo takes on one of the most overlooked performance issues facing founders and leaders today: what happens when you are still delivering, still carrying the load, still hitting targets — but your e...

The world right now is moving fast. Faster than most of us have ever experienced. Markets are lurching. AI is compressing timelines and rewriting roles. Geopolitical uncertainty is at levels most founders and leaders have never had to navigate before. And when the world speeds up, every instinct says speed up with it. Match the urgency. Push harder. Keep up. That instinct is wrong. And it's expens...

In the AI era, the advantage will not go to the people with the most information. It will go to the people with the sharpest minds. The founders, leaders and professionals who win will be the ones who can think clearly while others are drowning in inputs. The ones who can focus when the world is fragmented. The ones who can learn faster, decide better, and stay mentally sharp under pressure. In th...

In this episode, I share the story of being woken at 3am to find our bedroom on fire and the two specific, trainable tools that kept me thinking clearly so that I could get my family out alive. The very same tools used by SAS, SBS, and Navy SEAL operators in the most hostile environments on earth. The storm of 2026 is not slowing down. AI is accelerating expectations. Workloads are compounding. Wa...

In February 2026, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told the Financial Times that most tasks performed by lawyers, accountants, and other professionals will be fully automated within 12 to 18 months. Companies aren't waiting for proof — they're already restructuring workforces around AI's   future   capability. The future is rewriting the present. Now. And yet the dominant advice remains: stay cur...

The person who sleeps least does not win. They collapse first. Modern grind culture has weaponized exhaustion. We celebrate permanent Ganbaru—all-out effort, all the time—and call it ambition. Then we suppress the damage and call it resilience. That is not strength. That is slow-motion self-sabotage. This episode exposes the fatal flaw in "power through" culture: your sympathetic nervous system is...

The volatility of 2026 is not a phase. It is the new environment . If your strategy is to 'bounce back' failure and burnout are on the cards.   Elite operators—from Special Forces warriors to high-stakes leaders—do not just "bounce back" from pressure. They grow stronger and extract lessons that make them more capable . They are Antifragile . This episode is a manual for upgrading your operating s...

In today's always on and always connected world, the ability to be indistractable is an invaluable superpower.   We formulate our best ideas and produce our best work when we have uninterrupted times of laser focus.    There has been no time in history when it has been easier to be distracted. Many lay the blame at the door of technology and the internet and some argue that a radical approach of d...

If your listening to this podcast then there's a good chance you're interested in improving your performance and achieving your potential. To really be effective at doing so you need a number of things including.   The right strategies, techniques, tools, nutrition and supplements   The ability to monitor progress and measure results; and   A coach to give you feedback and encourage behavioral cha...

In this episode, Dr Scott Sherr, explains the power and potential of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)   Dr Scott is a board certified Internal Medicine Physician specializing in Health Optimization Medicine and Health Optimization Technologies and is one of the world's leading experts in hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy also known as HBOT.   Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is not just a powerful tool for treat...

In this episode, Scott Nelson, Co-Founder of  Joovv  explains the science and benefits of of Red Light Therapy We discuss   Why we need Photobiomodulation (PBM) now more than ever    The consequences  of blue light and people staying indoors most of the time   The compelling research behind PBM   High profile users and endorsers of PBM including doctors, elite athletes and biohacker.   How PBM ben...

Resilience is something we all need but don't necessarily know how to develop it.   My guest today is Dr. Rick Hanson, one of the world's leading psychologists.   Dr. Hanson is a New York Times best selling author, guest speaker at NASA, Oxford, Stanford and Harvard to name a few and the host the very popular Being Well podcast.   Dr. Hanson's most recent book is 'Resilient – Find Your Inner Stren...

My guest today is Dan Brule, who is regarded as the world's leading expert and pioneer in the field of breathwork and the author of  "Just Breathe: Master Breathwork for Success in Life, Love, Business and Beyond."     For thousands of years, people from every corner of the globe have used hundreds of techniques to unlock the tremendous power of the breath - in order to achieve their potential or...

My guest today is Steve Glaveski who among other achievements is the author of Employee to Entrepreneur – How to Earn Your Freedom and Do Work that matters. Steve is the CEO and Co-Founder of Collective Campus, a corporate innovation and startup accelerator based in Melbourne, Australia with clients across the world, including many corporate giants. In addition to already having authored two other...

In this episode I discuss looking at strategies used elite performers, including Special Forces operators and Olympic athletes to stay on target no matter what obstacles they face, handle extreme pressure  and mentally  prepare for challenges.

In today's episode I discuss the critical importance of the right mindset and how to upgrade it.

In today's episode Scott Mautz explains the power of inspiration and how people can rediscover it in their work.

Today's episode is a solocast where I discuss the problem of pressure and outline 3 effective strategies for managing it.

In this episode  former Navy SEAL Sniper and New York Times Bestselling Author, Brandon Webb, discusses his latest book 'Total Focus - Making Decisions Under Pressure' 

In this episode Dan reveals the mental preparation secrets of how athletes and top performers including Seinfeld and Carly Simon prepare  for  their big events.