Pitlane Life Lessons Podcast

In this week's episode, the first of Season 4, I'm looking at some of the unbreakable bonds we created within teams at McLaren's F1 operation and analysing the lessons we can learn from to build trusting relationships in our personal, social or professional lives. Enjoy and please leave a rating and review if you can. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta: https://instagra...

F1 is introducing new rules to protect the teams from themselves and in this week's episode, we're looking at how the sport and the teams approach accountability for their own actions and what we can learn from it. 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.or...

This week I'm looking into the question of who's the best F1 driver on the grid and relating that to the way we judge others in our lives. Also, difficult though it was, I've shared some of my own biggest struggles and weaknesses in the hope that it can help me to start working on them and help others to start thinking about doing the same. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and...

This week I'm looking at Daniel Ricciardo's struggle in McLaren's F1 car and asking how we might be able to use the skills we have within us, together with considered communication to support those struggling around us. Plus, after a moment at a Liam Gallagher gig I ask the question...when is it ok to just quit? Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta: https://instagram.com/...

After the Monaco Grand Prix, what can we learn from two great teams who produced very different F1 cars, yet who are so closely matched in performance? 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, The Mechanic, in all formats here: https://a...

This week's episode looks at what we can learn from F1's power struggles and following big decisions from Mercedes and Aston Martin, is it sometimes better to take a temporary step backwards in pursuit of longer term success? 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.se...

This week I'm drawing on my experience of working with Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso to answer the question of how you stop two F1 drivers from pulling a team apart in pursuit of their own personal goals? 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...

Looking at the importance of the journey to our big destinations in life, not just the destinations themselves. Plus, how we can reframe one of life's big questions to help encourage a better outcome all round. 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/ B...

This week, I've been speaking to Joe Wicks, The Body Coach, about the topic of innovation and how different industries approach the subject in comparison to F1. Plus a question from a listener around how to manage relationships provided a subject matter we can all relate to and learn from. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta: https://instagram.com/f1elvis Download our ne...

This week I'm looking at the Williams F1 Team stripping the paint from their car to save weight and asking how can we apply the same process to our lives in pursuit of our goals? Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta: https://instagram.com/f1elvis Download our new SeedStream App for all your F1 news & content: https://www.seedstream.org/ Buy my F1 book, The Mec...

This week, I'm looking at the methods used by the Mercedes F1 Team in understanding and responding to the failures of their early season struggles and how we can apply a similar philosophy to the low points in our lives. Plus how we can all learn to realise the importance of the people round us, not just the importance of their job title. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and In...

In a week where the F1 World Champion failed for the second time in three races to reach the chequered flag, is there something we can all learn to make us more reliable and higher achievers? Plus, a hidden lesson from McLaren's Ron Dennis, that's helped me to be a better parent this week. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta: https://instagram.com/f1elvis Download our ne...

This week, I'm exploring the idea that as data and modern tech has grown to such a level and we've become so reliant upon it, as is sometimes the case in F1, do we forget to utilise the old fashioned tool of common sense in our modern day, high pressure decision making process? Also, with F1 on its way to Las Vegas for a GP, what can we learn from this controversial decision? Follow me on Twitter:...

This week I'm looking at how simple communication skills can win or lose a Grand Prix and how we can learn from that. Plus, thinking about how F1's latest rule changes have lessons buried within them that we can all benefit from. 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 & conten...

In this week's episode I'm looking at the compromises F1 teams make in the search for ultimate performance and how most of us could do better in this regard when it comes to the compromises of our time everyday. I'm also passing on techniques that F1 teams use to generate better reactions from their people in moments of failure. Enjoy. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta...

This week the podcast looks at lessons I teach some of the worlds biggest and well known businesses, that I learnt from my daughter's under 12 girls football team...as well as some of the key techniques F1 teams use at the end of a day's testing that have literally changed my life. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta: https://instagram.com/f1elvis Download our new SeedSt...

In this episode we look at, not only how seeing things from other people's perspective can help in understanding their point of view, but how it can also help deliver us a competitive advantage over our competition...in F1 and beyond. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta: https://instagram.com/f1elvis Buy my F1 book, The Mechanic, in all formats here: https://amazon.co.uk...

This week we look at the secrecy and intrigue around the F1 pre-season test and how judging what we see there can tell us something about how we all judge others around us. I'm also talking about getting the balance between technology and human experience right and the potential consequences of getting it wrong. Welcome to Pitlane Life Lessons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

In this episode I'm giving my take on the way F1's governing body, the FIA, have handled the mess following last year's Abu Dhabi GP and I use examples from some of the worlds biggest companies that I've spoken to this week to re-evaluate what defines success in our lives. Enjoy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week I'm looking at the various approaches to launching brand new cars that different F1 teams have taken and what lessons we might be able to take from them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to a brand new season of the Pitlane Life Lessons podcast. In this episode I'm looking at an exercise in reframing goals and targets that the McLaren F1 team went through, that we can all benefit from every day of our lives. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/f1elvis ...and Insta: https://instagram.com/f1elvis Buy my F1 book, The Mechanic, in all formats here: https://amazon.co.uk/M...

In this final episode of Series One of the Pitlane Life Lessons Podcast, we look at why F1 is such a hotbed of innovation, why the wider world and industry is often left behind in that respect and how we can all learn from F1 teams to become more innovative thinkers ourselves. Thanks as ever to www. OmologatoWatches.com for their support, I highly recommend you follow them on social media below: F...

This week I'm discussing how powerful it can be to tap into an inspirational legacy, how so many people & businesses have one when they think they don't & how we can all play our part in creating our own legacy to be proud of. Welcome to Pitlane Life Lessons. Thanks as ever to www. OmologatoWatches.com for their support, I highly recommend you follow them on social media below: Facebook -...

F1's an industry populated with some brilliantly inspiring and great leaders, but also at times some, quite frankly, terrible ones. I've been lucky enough to learn important lessons from both types over the years that continue to shape my own leadership style and in this podcast I'm passing many of those on to you. Thanks as ever to www. OmologatoWatches.com for their support, I highly recommend y...

The way an F1 team approaches a Grand Prix can help form the basis of a more flexible life for us all, where multiple and adaptable race strategies help to navigate a constantly changing landscape. If we want to emerge from the challenges of life, relationships and business with an advantage, and still on course to achieve the same immovable goals, we need to be flexible about how we get there. Th...