Pitlane Life Lessons Podcast

This week, I'm looking at the way an F1 team like McLaren gets to the root cause of its car problems to find a fix, rather than simply just treating the symptoms that show up on the surface and how we should all do the same. Enjoy. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta: https://instagram.com/f1elvis Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/F1Elvis/... Download ou...

This week, we look at F1 testing and I share some insights into what we can learn from understanding the body language and other layers of communication that lie behind the official press releases and interviews. Studying and interpreting things like the subconscious language our bodies give off in difficult moments can give a fascinating extra dimension to what's going on behind the messages we r...

In this week's episode I've got some useful tips for getting closer to whatever you want out of life. I'm looking at F1 race strategy as a model for building your own strategy for navigating the path from where you are now, to where you want to be. Plus, in part two, I'm reflecting on my own experience of debilitating nerves during pitstops and giving you some tips on how to overcome your own in t...

This week, I'm looking at how we bring the right people into our businesses and lives to help us achieve success and I propose a radical take on the traditional recruitment process that we could all benefit from. Also, during F1 'launch season', I'm asking, is it actually the right decision for teams to launch a 'fake' car to the public in this day and age? Enjoy. Follow me on Twitter: https://twi...

This week I'm looking to the world of F1 to help us to become more intentional about the many decisions we make every day that feed into the success or failure we see further down the line. Plus, as time management and efficiency become even more critical in today's Formula One, what can we learn to help ourselves manage our own busy diaries? Enjoy and please let me know what you think. Follow me...

In this episode, the first of Season 6, we look at why most new year resolutions fail and how we can learn from the way F1 teams go about forming new habits and processes that last. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta: https://instagram.com/f1elvis Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/F1Elvis/?sub_confirmation=1 Download our new SeedStream App for all your...

In this final episode of Season 5 I'm looking at the topic of recovery, both at the end of a long gruelling F1 season, but also every single day of our busy and stressful lives. We also take a closer look at relationships, both when it comes to F1 drivers and teams as we look ahead to a new season with people moving to new roles, but also the relationships which we're all part of in our personal o...

This week I'm passing on something I learned at McLaren in 2007, which led to winning the F1 World Championship in 2008 with Lewis Hamilton and how the same thing continues to help me every day and can help you too. In this week's episode, after a personal experience myself, I'm appreciating the benefits of putting some care and attention into the needs of your team. Plus, two words uttered by Seb...

In this week's episode, after a personal experience myself, I'm appreciating the benefits of putting some care and attention into the needs of your team. Plus, two words uttered by Sebastian Vettel to a friend of mine this week, have highlighted their much under used power. Enjoy and don't forget to check out my new partners, Car Gods Detailing. Links below. Car Gods Detailing: https://cargods.com...

In this week's episode I'm asking is it possible that we can utilise kindness to become one of our biggest strengths and if we want to win in sport, business, or life in general, could, or even should, kindness be a key cornerstone of our long term strategy? Enjoy and don't forget to check out my new partners, Car Gods Detailing. Links below. Car Gods Detailing: https://cargods.com/ Follow me on T...

In this week's episode I'm looking at how brands and businesses harness their individual identities to drive sales and keep customers and clients coming back and asking, "why can't we do the same?". Plus, I'll give you a tip from F1 for helping to figure out exactly what your true identity really is and how you can use it to your advantage. Enjoy and don't forget to check out my new partners, Car...

In this week's episode, I'm helping a listener to decide whether to take her dream job in F1 and after World Mental Health Day, does the advice we give sufferers offer key performance advantages to us all in striving for high performance? Enjoy and don't forget to check out my new partners, Car Gods Detailing. Links below. Car Gods Detailing: https://cargods.com/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twit...

In the week when Max Verstappen becomes F1 World Champion for the second time, I'm asking what do the other drivers now do, with many races still to go, yet zero possibility of reaching their goal of becoming World Champion? How should we react when our targets become unachievable? Plus, looking at the F1 budget cap ands seeing what we can learn about managing our own finances better? Enjoy and do...

This week I'm looking at the example of Red Bull's very difficult call to box Max Verstappen from an almost certain pole position at the Singapore Grand Prix and asking how they came to that tricky conclusion and then how can we learn from it to help us make the difficult choices in our lives. Enjoy and don't forget to check out my new partners, Car Gods Detailing. Links below. Car Gods Detailing:...

This week, we look at F1's focus on creating the right image and giving offf the right impression to clients and ask how can we do the same to get us closer to the success we want? Plus, if F1 teams need ALL the ingredients to win and even one missing stops that happening, how can we apply a similar mentality to our own lives? Enjoy and don't forget to check out my two new partners, Omologato Watc...

Let's go! Season 5 is here and I hope the podcast is getting bigger and better. Thank you all for being part of it. This week I'm talking about how life would look if we think of it as an F1 Grand Prix, would we make different decisions and how could they influence a different result? Plus, listen until the end to discover a life changing party trick that changed the course of my existence when I...

In the last of the current series, this episode looks at F1's latest driver contract scandal and asks what we can learn from it. The importance of delivering on promises and building a solid reputation is often overlooked in many aspects of life, but it can have a huge knock on effect whether we get it wrong or right. Plus we look at how to deal with some of the really difficult moral dilemmas we...

In this week's episode, I look at a situation I faced this week around the Grand Prix that highlighted the importance of being patient at times and being uncompromising at others, but importantly knowing when to use which strategy. Enjoy. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta: https://instagram.com/f1elvis Download our new SeedStream App for all your F1 news and content: h...

In this week's episode, I'm using examples from the F1 driver market to highlight the best methods we can employ if we need to convince someone of our value. In business, family or life situations it crops up all the time, moments where we need to sell an idea to a client, persuade an employer to give us a job, or entice a potential love interest that we're the one for them...ever when F1 drivers...

Using the example of an F1 driver on pole position for a big race, how can we learn to cope in the most important moments of life, when pressure could take over and diminish our performance? Plus, when stress builds or worry takes over, I've got a technique taught to me in F1, that has transformed my life and could transform yours too. Enjoy. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...an...

In this week's episode I look at the message that Sebastian Vettel put out to the world to announce his retirement and how we can learn lessons on how to treat other people and ourselves better than we do today. I've also got some handy techniques we can use be more self motivated when it comes to achieving the things we want to achieve. Enjoy Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...a...

In this week's episode I'm looking at how seeing a changing world as an opportunity and not as the threat that many people immediately see it, is something that F1 teams excel at and we can too. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta: https://instagram.com/f1elvis Download our new SeedStream App for all your F1 news and content: https://www.seedstream.org/ Buy my F1 book, T...

This week I'm looking at the signals we constantly receive from our bodies and minds, like and F1 team receives data from their F1 car to formulate a race winning strategy and seeing if we can do the same. Plus, trying to see where and how we can all become bigger inspirations to those around us. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta: https://instagram.com/f1elvis Download...

In today's episode I reveal the most valuable gift I received from my time in F1 and why booing fans highlighted one of the best tricks for success in business and life, that most people simply pass by. Enjoy. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta: https://instagram.com/f1elvis Download our new SeedStream App for all your F1 news and content: https://www.seedstream.org/ Bu...

This week, I'm analysing Ferrari's F1 decision making process and looking at some big moments in my life that could be seen as conclusions, but I've chosen to see as stepping stones towards the next achievement. Plus, I'm giving away the brand new F122 official F1 game, something I'm proud to have been a part of. Enjoy and good luck. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta:...