Performance Intelligence

What do you do when the version of yourself that's winning is also the version that's breaking?
You know the feeling, hitting every number, saying yes to everything, and still walking away from the day feeling like you performed it rather than lived it. Now imagine finding the exact moment that stopped working, and the one small shift that got you back.
Most high performers don't burn out overnight. It happens one performance at a time, right up until the body forces the stop, mid show, mid meeting, mid life.
Christian O'Connell has hosted the #1 breakfast radio show in 2 different countries, the only person to do it. He built that success on a persona so complete he stopped recognising himself underneath it, until panic attacks started hitting him minutes before airtime. 
Christian walks you through the exact mental skill that pulled him out of it, the same one he now teaches others to use before they hit their own breaking point.
You can keep performing until something forces you to stop. Or you can borrow the skill that saved someone who'd already won twice.
0:00 — The reflection he didn't recognise
5:40 — The epiphany behind a show built on being unscripted
9:12 — "F**k off home": Australia's brutal welcome
19:49 — The morning his mother-in-law nearly died on air
21:03 — The radio tuner dial: shifting from fear to joy
32:12 — The woodshed: never running out of things to say
35:32 — What Jerry Seinfeld taught him about mastery
46:19 — Bruce Springsteen: "thank you for being my purpose"
1:02:18 — Running on clean fuel instead of dirty fuel
1:04:41 — Ricky Gervais, and the courage to admit you're not okay
1:09:56 — Why storytelling is the most underused skill in business
1:22:48 — How to work with Christian O'Connell
You can find Christian at his website: https://christianoconnell.com/
Buy a copy of Christian's book: https://christianoconnell.com/unscript/#pre-order
Listen to the Christian O'Connell Show: https://www.thechristianoconnellshow.com.au/
Connect with Christian on LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/christian-o-connell-8615a6314?trk=people-guest_people_search-card

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Rose Herceg, President of WPP Australia and New Zealand, has a specific image she uses to stop a hard day turning into something bigger, something she thinks most people have lost the ability to do.  
Running a business of 2,500 people through a genuinely volatile industry, she has no shortage of bad days. What she refuses to do is let one bad day become a bad week, a bad month, or a story about who she is.  

The image itself is deceptively simple. What's harder, and more useful, is the discipline she has built around actually using it. 
You can find Rose at her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rose-herceg-025982bb/

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When did you last actually let yourself feel hungry? Not the "due for a snack" kind. Properly, deliberately hungry, on purpose. If you can't remember, you're not alone. Now imagine using that discomfort as a lever instead of avoiding it.
Every reflexive snack, every meeting that runs straight into the next, every bite you take before your body even asks for it keeps you running on one setting. You never give your body the signal to switch fuel sources, sharpen your focus, or clean house at a cellular level. The fog, the afternoon slump, the stubborn weight that won't shift: that's the bill for never stopping.
Dr Tom Buckley has spent more than 22 years reading the bloodwork of Performance Intelligence's executive clients, translating what's happening inside hundreds of high performers into how they eat, train, and lead. He's back on the podcast to explain what fasting actually does inside your body, why the meal you were told never to skip has a cereal company to thank for that reputation, and how two nights a week without dinner might be the highest-leverage habit in your week.
You could keep running on constant fuel and wonder why your energy never settles. Or you could learn to use hunger as a lever instead of an enemy.

03:35 The fat that's easiest to shift, and where it sits 
05:41 Ghrelin, leptin and the people who never feel full 
09:03 Three fuels, one easy habit: why carbohydrate wins by default 
10:27 Metabolic flexibility: the skill Western living has trained out of us 
16:08 The story that's driven Dr Tom for 35 years 
21:47 What fasting switches off first 
22:47 Ketones: the fuel that skips the insulin queue 
25:13 Fasting and the new GLP-1 drugs are chasing the same biology 
27:33 The shortcut risk: trading discipline for a jab 
28:17 What decades of fasting research actually agree on 
31:16 The benefits nobody puts on the label 
33:21 Andrew's own Tuesday and Thursday fast, and why it finally clicked 
36:01 The worst thing we do as humans, and the second worst thing 
41:20 Autophagy: the cellular housekeeping everyone's talking about 
44:22 Marvellous mitochondria, and why the name always gets a rerecord 
45:00 The 18:6 protocol Dr Tom and Andrew actually live by 
46:37 Why 6pm to midday captures most of the benefit 
48:49 The client who fasted every day and undid his own progress 
50:06 Why Dr Tom says don't pull this lever before your late 30s 
51:39 David Sinclair's one-meal-a-day experiment 
53:06 The 24-hour fast Dr Tom takes on international flights 
54:50 Why women need a different rulebook entirely 
58:29 Dirty fasting and dirty keto: the shortcut that costs you later 
60:47 Dr Tom's cliff notes for the time-poor listener

Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/iiDAwpx78yo
The resource Dr Tom referenced for women's fasting protocols: Fast Like a Girl by Dr Mindy Pelz: https://fastlikeagirl.com/
You can find Dr Tom at his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-buckley-06a76b98/
Listen to Dr Tom and Andrew talk GLP-1s: https://performanceintelligence.com/the-science-of-ozempic-and-what-happens-after-you-stop-dr-tom-buckley/ 

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Most leaders try to restore a struggling performer's confidence with a pep talk. It almost never works. When Jason McCartney had written himself off, a coach did something far more deliberate, and it pulled him back from the edge of walking away. The approach is simple, repeatable, and the opposite of what most people reach for.
 You can find Jason at his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-mccartney-oam-b10a39217/

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What goes through your mind when you're trapped underwater by a 50-foot wave? For Matt Formston, it's not fear. It's making an omelette.
After losing 97% of his vision at just 5 years old, Matt has become a Paralympian, world champion, world record holder, and the first blind athlete to conquer the legendary waves of Nazaré. But today isn't about the achievements...it's about the process behind them.
Matt shares the 8 hard standards that have shaped every part of his life, from elite sport and leadership to parenting and business. Matt believes standards matter more than goals, explains why your "glass ceilings" are often self-imposed, and the mindset you can learn that turns perceived risk into opportunity.
Whether you're leading a team, chasing a personal goal, or simply trying to perform better when life gets hard, Matt offers a tried, tested, and successful framework for building trust and lasting high performance.
 00:00 37 seconds under a 50ft wave
 02:41 One word for every achievement
 06:32 Blind at five, and the story everyone gets wrong
 10:05 Nearly dead or in jail
 11:23 Perfect process, not perfect vision
 13:41 The eight hard standards
 14:37 Values in a mahogany case
 15:24 Standards without consequences are just wishes
 18:56 Five minutes early or you're late
 21:00 Andrew's team rate him live
 27:35 The standards meeting nobody runs
 29:15 Why high standards make people feel safer
 32:51 He refused to learn what the best in the world could do
 35:16 Making an omelette while being held under
 39:26 The flap of skin costing him 100 feet
 44:24 The only standard that matters: coming home
 48:09 The bullshit audit
 01:07:49 The list of 12, and the six he wasn't
 01:10:38 Why most people never set a goal
Buy a copy of Matt's new book: https://www.mattformston.com/books-hub
Visit Matt's website: https://www.mattformston.com/
You can find Matt at his LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/matt-formston-am-gaicd
Or at his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattformston/?hl=en
Listen to our first episode with Matt: https://shorturl.at/ICL5l

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