Performance Intelligence

How do you work most productively? Digital wellbeing expert Dr Kristy Goodwin provides some sage advice on discovering how you work best, including understanding your chronobiology type and aligning cognitive tasks to the best time of day for you. Dr Kristy shares the story of why she became so interested in digital wellbeing, an interest that started following a serious injury to her son while sh...

Modern humans are the most overweight, depressed, medicated and addicted cohort of adults that has ever lived. Our genome has not changed in over 45,000 years, but the world has changed enormously and there are multiple mismatches with modern life. Homo Sapiens thrived because we could hunt down prey with the tools we made, ate a range of natural foods from the environment and led highly physicall...

What is it that makes a good leader? In this Bite size from episode #13 Padraig O'Sullivan gives us his thoughts on what it is that makes a good leader and how the type of business you are in can drastically change the optimal course of action you should be taking. Padraig also shares an example of one of his friends who works in recruiting and how over the past year alone their needs have shifted...

Deano Gladstone is a qualified Personal Trainer, Founder of ‘Power of the Breath’, Bondi Lifeguard, Oxygen Advantage Master Instructor, Breathwork Facilitator, Certified Ice Bath Instructor, Yoga Teacher, Holistic Health Coach, Public Speaker and Performance Coach. As one of the regular faces on Bondi Rescue, Deano literally knows what it’s like to save someone’s life and has resuscitated over 30...

Have you struggled to adapt to working remotely and in the office? Andrew and Angela talk through their experiences working in both large and small businesses and how the switch to hybrid work has disrupted many people’s flow and operating rhythm. In this bite size they also discuss what they think is the biggest problem most workers are facing at this point in time: poor energy management, so lis...

Michael Rowland and Lisa Millar are co-hosts on ABC News Breakfast, fronting a live TV audience every weekday morning for 3 hours. In this candid interview Michael and Lisa discuss tips on presenting both live and to a camera, how to improve interviewing technique, building a high performing team, why Michael dislikes the word ‘chemistry’, questions they have always wanted to ask each other, the i...

What steps do you take to boost your wellbeing? In this bite size Andrew and Dr Tom discuss the best and simplest ways to increase your wellbeing and help you feel your best. Dr Tom draws on his knowledge as both an academic and athlete to give some real life examples from the London Olympics of how some athletes struggled with the basics of wellbeing and how it ended up costing them in performanc...

Carl Honore is a world-renowned journalist, speaker and author and is globally recognised as the godfather of the slow movement. After speed-reading a bedtime story for his son involving a scaled-down version of Snow White and the 3 Dwarfs, he had an epiphany that he was rushing through everything in life without taking the time to savour what really matters. That is how the revolutionary, best-se...

Do you enjoy doing regular exercise? In this bite size edition from episode #30 Looking in the Rear View Mirror, Angela Poon shares her story of finding an exercise class that she actually likes, after struggling to enjoy regular gym workouts for years. Angela explains how her relationship with exercise has recently changed, for the good! Ange now looks forward to her Pilates classes each week and...

The Performance Intelligence Podcast is back! After having a break to recharge over the Christmas period, Andrew and The Wizard are in the studio again, excited to be recording new episodes for 2023. In the first episode of the year, we discuss: Podcast housekeeping and the 3 different types of interviews we plan on continuing throughout the year - High Performer Series, The Science Of and Perform...

Do you know what your operating rhythm is for your day, week, month and year? In this Bite size from a recent keynote Andrew presented he talks through the concept of an operating rhythm and why it is so important to find yours, especially when working in a team. Andrew explains the idea of chronobiology and how aligning your day to your body’s natural clock can be a huge boost to your productivit...

What does it take to be an entrepreneur? Red Balloon founder Naomi Simson imparts on us a brilliant piece of advice she was given at the start of her entrepreneur journey by the founder of nudie juice: “being an entrepreneur is a bit like being a clown punching bag, everyday you get hit and you just have to keep getting back up”. She also shares the mindset that has allowed her to be successful an...

Have you ever had to join a pre existing team? INXS frontman Ciaran Gribbin recalls joining INXS as their lead singer and how his life of working in music across different bands had prepared him to integrate into such a tight unit. Ciaran also speaks about some of the work he did with the individual members of INXS, writing and recording songs together, some of which is still unreleased. He looks...

Craig Tiley joins the Performance Intelligence Podcast in this bite size episode to discuss his love of tennis and how he grew his 'resilience muscle' as a young man playing tennis around the world. Craig shares what he loves about the great game and how he has even named his pets after tennis superstars. Leaving home at the age of 17 to travel the world and play professional tennis taught Craig t...

What exactly happens to your body as it heats up? In this bite size from episode #25 Dr Tom Buckley compares the human body to a car engine, where it burns energy to create movement with the added side effect of creating heat. Dr Tom also gives some insight into how the body self regulates its heat and how the way the body removes heat is a very logical process. Andrew and Dr Tom also share how th...

NRL player Reed Mahoney shares how he upped his game playing for the parramatta eels, starting with an inquiry into how he can play more consistently from game to game, eventually leading him to start coaching with Andrew. Reed talks about how with Andrew’s help he set up pre performance routines to get him physically and psychologically ready before every game as well as starting to journal to re...

Have you ever been truly vulnerable with people in your life? In this Bite Size from episode #46 entrepreneur Lisa Messenger shares how she brought true vulnerability to the corporate stage in her keynotes years before Brené Brown. Lisa shares her struggles through life including a long battle against alcoholism, during which she realised that everyone can suffer from the issue which inspired her...

How do you train to get better at things like public speaking and presenting? In this Bite size Mental Skills coach Aaron Walsh gives some tips on how to reduce nerves and anxiety around presentations and similar performance moments. Drawing parallels between the corporate world and the sporting world Aaron tells how he prepares athletes for similar moments and how the skills are fairly easily tra...

Have you ever been for a health assessment or physical? In this bite size Dr tom and Andrew talk about what is measured in a human performance assessment and why it can be good to undertake in the process. They explain how a human performance assessment is about increasing performance rather than preventing disease, which a lot of other health assessments are focused on. They also discuss the idea...

It’s the end of 2022 and Andrew is looking back on the 5 most popular (based on downloads) Performance Intelligence Podcasts for the year. Counting down from number 5 to number 1, along the way Andrew explains why he enjoyed each episode and what the discussion taught him. We're taking a break from recording new content over the holiday period, and we'll be back in late January ready for another b...

What goes into the day to day workings of running one of australia’s biggest sporting competitions? In this bite size from episode #19 Todd Greenberg sheds some light on what makes the inside of the NRL headquarters tick, the answer? Relationships. Todd talks about how he had to maintain over 72 individual personal relationships with key personnel from all the clubs in the competition and how his...

Nigel Marsh is a former recalcitrant, now 'qualified' provider of advice. He is co-founder of Earth Hour and The Sydney Skinny, and his TED talk on work life balance has been viewed over 5 million times. He has spent the past 30+ years forging a global career in CEO and Chairman roles at D'Arcy, Leo Burnett, Y&R Brands and The Leading Edge. Nigel has written four best-selling books including t...

How much does your digital distraction cost? Dr Kristy shares some incredible stats on digital wellbeing and how the cost of being distracted by digital devices can not only take a toll on your brain power but also the economy as a whole. Dr Kristy also gives some tips to ensure that you are working to the best of your ability, with strategies on how to make your schedule more flexible while still...

Setting goals is a lot like driving a car. The majority of time is future-focused, looking ahead out the front windscreen. Research shows it is important to also periodically check the rear view mirror and remind ourselves of achievements made and where we have come from. As we inch agonisingly closer towards the end of another big year, Andrew and Angela Poon from StriveStronger discuss the 7 (pl...

Can you recognise when you are getting too emotional? Rugby Legend George Gregan joins us in this bite size episode to elaborate on his experience with mental skills and gives us an amazing example of how early on in his playing career he recognised the need to train his mind to avoid losing games before they had started. He also talks about the mental skills coaches that helped him in his journey...