Performance People

What can you learn about performance in about 10 minutes from the best in sport, entertainment, business and politics? Performance Hacks gives you two great performance tips you can apply to everyday life from each of our Performance People podcast guests. In this episode, the most decorated female sailor in Olympic history explains why a routine is everything and her husband Nick champions commun...

Tommy Fleetwood + Clare Fleetwood. Golfer + Manager. Husband + Wife. Tommy Fleetwood is one of the most recognisable and loved golfers in the world. With 6 DP World Tour wins, a Race to Dubai title and a winning Ryder Cup record, he’s established himself at the game’s top table.  Joining Tommy is his wife and manager, Clare Fleetwood. In this episode, they discuss the reasons why Tommy’s head...

Kenton Cool + Jazz Cool. Mountaineer + Performance Coach. Husband + Wife Kenton Cool is one of the world's leading mountaineers, with the highest success rate of any guide on Everest, summiting 16 times. He has also conquered the ‘seven summits’ – the highest mountains on each of the world’s continents. And he is the only Brit to ski down two 8,000m peaks. Joining Kenton is performance coach, Jazz...

Dame Sarah Storey + Barney Storey. Athlete + Coach. Wife + Husband. Sarah Storey’s numbers are phenomenal; 28 Paralympic medals, 17 of them gold across 2 different sports. With two kids in tow and still motivated to achieve more, she’s having a tilt at her 9th Paralympics in Paris next year, by which time she’ll be 46 years-old. Joining Sarah is her husband, Barney, who has 3 Paralympic cycling go...

James Dyson + Jake Dyson. Inventor + Inventor. Father and Son. Performance People are on the road again, this time at Dyson’s UK base near Swindon to sit down with Sir James Dyson and his son and business partner, Jake. Sir James is one of the UK’s most successful businessmen, reimagining household products like the vacuum cleaner and hairdryer. Along the way, he’s turned his passion for engineeri...

Sam Warburton + Chris Tombs. Leader + Performance coach. Friend + Business partner. Sam Warburton captained Wales 49 times, guiding them to a Six Nations grand slam in 2012. He’s probably best known though for leading the British & Irish Lions on two undefeated tours, before being forced to retire at 28. As well as rugby punditry, Sam now has a podcast series of his own, ‘Captains’. Alongside...

Lesley Paterson + Dr Simon Marshall. Screenwriter + Psychologist. Husband + Wife. Lesley Paterson is a 5 time triathlon World Champion, author, screenwriter and film producer. In 2006, Lesley bought the film rights to the World War 1 novel,  All Quiet on the Western Front , wrote a screenplay and used her triathlon winnings to fund her dream of getting the film made. Four Oscars and seven BAF...

Hannah Mills + Nick Dempsey. Sailor + Coach. Mum + Dad. Hannah Mills is the most decorated female sailor in Olympic history, with two gold medals and a silver. A fierce campaigner on environmental issues in her role as IOC Sustainability Ambassador, she is also an advocate for women in sport and leads the female representation for INEOS Britannia in the Americas Cup and for the Emirates GB Sail GP...

Sir Mo Farah + Lady Tania Farah. Husband + Wife. Mo Farah is Britain’s greatest male long distance athlete. He upset the global order from 2011 to 2017, bagging 10 world titles, including the Olympic ‘double double’ over the 5,000 and 10,000m. But in a heartbreaking admission last year, Mo revealed he had been illegally trafficked to the UK as a child and he had hidden the secret from all but thos...

Performance 10 gives you the best performance led bits from our original podcasts in edited 10 minute cutdowns. Each episode follows two key themes that emerged during the recordings. In this performance 10, Chris Kamara on maintaining performance despite a debilitating neurological condition and Ben Shephard on how he weaponises imposter syndrome to guard against complacency. Takeaway thinking… s...

What can you learn about performance in 10 minutes? Performance 10 gives you the best performance led bits from our original podcasts in edited 10 minute cutdowns. Each episode follows two key themes that emerged during the recordings. In this performance 10 recorded at Diddly Squat Farm, Jeremy Clarkson talks boats, cars, tractors and farming and Kaleb shares his dreams of owning his own farm and...

What can you learn about performance in 10 minutes? Performance 10 gives you the best performance led bits from our original podcasts in edited 10 minute cutdowns. Each episode follows two key themes that emerged during the recordings. In this performance 10, Helen and Ben discuss the brutal nature of the Olympic rowing programme and Steve lifts the curtain on a typical night in. Takeaway thinking...

What can you learn about performance in 10 minutes? Performance 10 gives you the best performance led bits from our original podcasts in edited 10 minute cutdowns. Each episode follows two key themes that emerged during the recordings. In this performance 10, Alastair Campbell’s advice to King Charles and Fiona Millar on how Alastair functioned in a high performance role in Downing Street despite...

What can you learn about performance in 10 minutes?  Performance 10 gives you the best performance led bits from our original podcasts in edited 10 minute cutdowns. Each episode follows two key themes that emerged during the recordings. In this performance 10, Michael Johnson reveals how his Olympic mindset helped him to recover from a devastating stroke and his coach, Clyde Hart, has a top s...

What can you learn about performance in 10 minutes?  Performance 10 gives you the best performance led bits from our original podcasts in edited 10 minute cutdowns. Each episode follows two key themes that emerged during the recordings. In this performance 10, cycling siblings Fran Millar + David Millar describe how true grit got them through the toughest period of their lives and why love ca...

What can you learn about performance in 10 minutes?  Performance 10 gives you the best performance led bits from our original podcasts in edited 10 minute cutdowns. Each episode follows two key themes that emerged during the recordings. In this performance 10, endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh discusses how he exercises his courage muscle and his mind coach, David Becker explains how he can alter...

What can you learn about performance in 10 minutes? Performance 10 gives you the best performance led bits from our original podcasts in edited 10 minute cutdowns. Each episode follows two key themes that emerged during the recordings. In this performance 10, motorsport’s first couple, Susie + Toto Wolff discuss the leadership principles they live by and the rigorous discipline that anchors them....

What can you learn about performance in 10 minutes? Performance 10 gives you the best performance led bits from our original podcasts in edited 10 minute cutdowns. Each episode follows two key themes that emerged during the recordings. In this performance 10, father and son sports promoters, Eddie + Barry Hearn talk about the passion that has fuelled their rise to the top and the sacrifices they h...

As Toto Wolff told us in S1, Ep 2. of Performance People, there is much more to write about this year when we didn’t win compared to the last 7 years when we did. Following that theme, there are many more times we’ve ballsed up intros, outros and links during recording than we care to mention or share, until now… Enjoy our cock ups as well as our favourite moments in our season 1 bloopers + best b...

Chris Kamara + Ben ShephardFootball pundit + TV presenterColleagues + FriendsChris Kamara has brought an infectious personality to our television screens for over 25 years. “Kammy” as he’s known to TV audiences, started out as a pro footballer before becoming a manager and then joining Sky Sports as a reporter and pundit, most famously working with Jeff Stelling on Soccer Saturday. In 2021, Kammy...

Helen Glover is a two-time Olympic rowing gold medallist, triple World champion, quintuple World Cup champion and quadruple European champion. Helen only took up rowing in 2008, aged 21. She won Olympic gold just four years later at London 2012. After Rio 2016 she stepped away from rowing to get married and have children. A delayed Tokyo Olympics saw Helen get back in the boat in 2021 and become t...

Alastair Campbell + Fiona Millar Spin doctor/journalist/mental health campaigner + Journalist/educational campaigner Life partner + Life partnerAlastair Campbell is a journalist and author but is best known as Tony Blair’s formidable former press secretary and director of communications and strategy. Since leaving No.10, Alastair has been a vocal advocate for mental health charities following his...

Michael Johnson is widely regarded as one of the greatest sprinters of all time. In the 1990s, he dominated both the 200m and 400m, winning 12 Olympic and World Championship gold medals and breaking world records in the 200m, 400m and the 4 X 400m relay. Since retiring from the track he has forged a successful broadcasting career while running his own sports performance business. Alongside Michael...

Fran Millar built her reputation as a highly accomplished sports executive alongside Sir Dave Brailsford with Team Sky, rising through the executive peloton from Director of Business Operations to Head of Winning Behaviours and ultimately Chief Executive of the Ineos Grenadiers. In 2020 she traded cycling tours for catwalks, with her appointment as CEO of British fashion brand, Belstaff. Alongside...

One of the UK’s most charismatic TV presenters, Jeremy Clarkson has been entertaining the nation for some 40 years with his uncompromising take on the car industry and life in general. At 62 and with no fewer than 10 jobs at the last count, Clarkson is now trying his hand at farming.  Joining Clarkson is Kaleb Cooper, Jeremy’s sidekick from the smash-hit reality TV show, Clarkson’s Farm. On t...