You know what you should be doing. More sleep. Better recovery. Less time running on empty. You have known it for years. So has every burned-out doctor, executive, and elite athlete Andrew May has ever worked with. The problem is not knowledge. It is the gap between knowing and doing. And most people are misdiagnosing the reason for that gap entirely.Andrew May is a Mental Skills and Leadership Coach who has worked with ASX executives, elite sporting teams (Wallabies), and the Australian Defence Force. Andrew gets honest about his own near-burnout at 40, what it took to turn it around, and why even the most informed, high-functioning people are still getting recovery wrong.From there, it gets practical. What strategic recovery actually looks like inside a high-demand schedule. Why most people calling it burnout are actually chronically under-recovered. The exercise prescription that builds real performance capacity without flogging yourself. And how to finally close the gap between what you know and what you do.This one is for doctors. It is also for anyone who has been running hard for too long and suspects the wheels are starting to wobble.00:00 Burnout rates in medicine are above 80%, yet doctors know more about the body than almost anyone. Why the gap?05:14 Andrew's own near-burnout at 40: marriage breakdown, external validation, and the mate from Dubbo who cracked it open.10:44 Most people calling it burnout are actually chronically under-recovered. Andrew explains the difference.13:04 What strategic recovery looks like in practice, including how Andrew applies it with the Australian Defence Force.20:25 Why physical activity is not recovery, and the exercise prescription that actually builds performance capacity.26:02 Sleep deprivation degrades judgment, memory and decision-making. Andrew challenges the eight-hour myth.28:47 A simple plate-based nutrition framework, intermittent fasting for men over 40, and why women need a different approach.34:14 How to close the gap between knowing and doing: self-reflection, barrier mapping, and building real accountability.40:10 Key messages, close, and why how you show up changes how everyone around you performs.This episode was originally published on the Healthed podcast with Dr David Lim. You can find the original interview here.Visit the Healthed website: https://www.healthed.com.au/ Use Code "PQPODCAST10" to get 10% off your Lumo Coffee order:https://lumocoffee.com/ Interested in sharing your story? Email Producer Shannon at [email protected] today with your story and contact details. Learn more about Andrew and Performance Intelligence: https://performanceintelligence.com/Find out more about Andrew's Keynotes : https://performanceintelligence.com/keynotes/Follow Andrew May: https://www.instagram.com/andrewmay/Watch the Performance Intelligence Podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@performanceintelligencepodcastIf you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.

Backstage. Heart hammering. Sweat beading. Every mental tool in the toolkit, breathing, self-talk, all of it, failed Dr Michael Gervais in real time.Michael is one of the world's leading performance psychologists and was moments away from presenting to the international body of sports psychologists. The researcher whose theory he was challenging was sitting in the front row. And he was falling apart.What pulled him back had nothing to do with technique. It was accidental. Mundane, even. And it became the foundation of a 27-year daily practice that he still runs today.Presence is not a personality trait. It is not something you either have or you don't. It is a trainable skill, and most of us have never once trained it deliberately.This conversation will change how you think about pressure, performance, and what it actually means to show up when the moment counts.You can find Dr Michael at his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichaelgervais/Listen to the Finding Mastery Podcast: https://findingmastery.com/You can find JC at his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-clarke-1152a065/?originalSubdomain=au Use Code "PQPODCAST10" to get 10% off your Lumo Coffee order:https://lumocoffee.com/ Interested in sharing your story? Email Producer Shannon at [email protected] today with your story and contact details. Learn more about Andrew and Performance Intelligence: https://performanceintelligence.com/Find out more about Andrew's Keynotes : https://performanceintelligence.com/keynotes/Follow Andrew May: https://www.instagram.com/andrewmay/Watch the Performance Intelligence Podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@performanceintelligencepodcastIf you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.

Most people think they're pretty good at reading people. Maz Farrelly says they're not, including you. Maz has sat across from more than 20,000 people across 30 years of television production. Big Brother. X Factor. Celebrity Apprentice. She has watched people try to hide, perform, charm and deceive their way through a room. She knows exactly what they're doing.Maz shares what three decades of casting, producing and reading talent has taught her about human behaviour, and why most of us are missing signals that are right in front of us. She unpacks her ABCDE framework for reading anyone in the first minute, explains why the word "authentic" is almost always a red flag, and tells the story of the moment Arnold Schwarzenegger taught her something fundamental about how culture actually travels through a team.30 years of watching humans perform under pressure will teach you things no leadership course ever could.If you want to get better at reading people, hiring well, or simply understanding what you're signalling before you open your mouth, this conversation will change how you walk into your next room.00:00 Meet Maz Farrelly — 30 years, 20,000+ interviews, Big Brother to X Factor02:37 Can you spot a star before they blow up? The reality TV casting truth03:00 Why sincerity beats talent — even being "sincerely awful" works05:46 The 10,000 hours debate: Gladwell vs. Epstein on mastery and range09:21 How to read anyone in the first minute — the A-B-C-D-E framework10:28 Clothes, body language, content, delivery, entertainment — what yours says about you13:46 Charisma: why it makes great CEOs, cult leaders, and con artists16:00 Big Brother casting gold — the man living in a car park with a British accent35:10 Maz reads the host live — and nails it39:33 The authenticity myth: why saying "I'm authentic" proves you're not44:57 Confidence paradox — the moment you think you've cracked it, you're done55:08 How to find out who you really are: the question framework that actually works57:09 Why failure is where the smart money is59:54 Women read the room differently — and why that's not a compliment to society1:06:00 Attention is currency: what Ozzy Osbourne and McEnroe understood that most don't1:11:15 Ozzy Osbourne, ants, and a straw — completely on brand1:14:23 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paula Yates, and one very awkward seven minutes1:18:13 The leadership lesson Arnold didn't know he was teaching1:21:01 Why most people can read a stranger in three seconds and don't realise itFind Maz at: https://www.mazspeaksglobal.com/Download Maz's Speaker Kit: https://www.mazspeaksglobal.com/#speakerkitWhy You Should Book Maz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maz-speaks/details/recommendations/?detailScreenTabIndex=0 Use Code "PQPODCAST10" to get 10% off your Lumo Coffee order:https://lumocoffee.com/ Interested in sharing your story? Email Producer Shannon at [email protected] today with your story and contact details. Learn more about Andrew and Performance Intelligence: https://performanceintelligence.com/Find out more about Andrew's Keynotes : https://performanceintelligence.com/keynotes/Follow Andrew May: https://www.instagram.com/andrewmay/Watch the Performance Intelligence Podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@performanceintelligencepodcastIf you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.

8 blokes showed up to help a mate with prostate cancer. They cleaned his house, mowed his lawn, scrubbed his kitchen. 3 hours of work. No gym. No program. No heart rate monitor.Dr Paul Batman ran the numbers afterwards and told them what they'd actually done. The equivalent of three five-hour marathons.Most of us have been thinking about movement the wrong way. We wait for the perfect workout, the blocked hour, the gym membership we'll actually use. Meanwhile the people living longest are the ones carrying their own groceries, climbing their own stairs, and mowing their own lawns.Dr Paul Batman is an exercise physiologist, university academic, and one of Australia's leading voices on active living. In this conversation, he breaks down what METs actually mean, why fitness snacks work, and how to build more movement into the life you already have, without overhauling any of it.You can find Dr Paul at his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-paul-batman-9092a052/ Use Code "PQPODCAST10" to get 10% off your Lumo Coffee order:https://lumocoffee.com/ Interested in sharing your story? Email Producer Shannon at [email protected] today with your story and contact details. Learn more about Andrew and Performance Intelligence: https://performanceintelligence.com/Find out more about Andrew's Keynotes : https://performanceintelligence.com/keynotes/Follow Andrew May: https://www.instagram.com/andrewmay/Watch the Performance Intelligence Podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@performanceintelligencepodcastIf you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.

Most conversations about ADHD stop at the diagnosis. This one goes further.ADHD expert, Lindy Hadges, gets specific across the three groups where ADHD is most misunderstood and most consequential: high performers in business and sport; women, who are being diagnosed in their mid-50s after decades of masking; and children, whose ADHD behaviours look very different at home than at school.Lindy is an ADHD specialist, clinician, and director of the ADHD Foundation Australia. She brings science, honesty and genuine compassion to a conversation that is long overdue.If someone in your life needed to hear this, send it to them.1:45 Why the 9 to 5 desk job is one of the worst environments for the ADHD brain, and what works instead.4:20 Brain breaks, pulsing and the panoramic gaze: practical strategies for ADHD in a corporate role.5:55 How the ADHD brain self-medicates with stress, deadlines and adrenaline, and why that often backfires.7:40 Why ADHD brains need protein every two hours, and why fasting may be working against the ADHD brain.12:15 The only way to recharge an ADHD brain to 100% and why it has to be done alone.15:15 ADHD and sleep: why the brain skips REM, the long term costs of that, and what magnesium can do about it.17:50 Why ADHD people need a body double, what that relationship looks like when done well, and how to avoid making it exploitative.22:20 Self disclosure at work: who to tell, what to say, and why transparency protects the whole team.27:30 ADHD in women: why it's chronically underdiagnosed and why menopause is one of the most common triggers for late diagnosis.31:05 The grief of late diagnosis at 55: finally understanding three failed marriages.33:40 Lindy's choice to homeschool five children, and what the classroom gets fundamentally wrong for ADHD kids.37:25 The brain girdle: why ADHD children behave at school and fall apart at home, and what parents can do.41:35 Practical school advice: Montessori, monthly brain break days, and what good classrooms can look like.47:30 What Lindy wants to see in the next ten years: moving past both deficit language and toxic positivity.50:25 Where to get help: ADHD Foundation Australia, low-cost counselling, and the next practical step to take today.View the ADHD Cake model: https://performanceintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ADHD-Cake-of-Understanding.pngFind out more about the ADHD Foundation: https://adhdfoundation.org.au/about-usConnect with Lindy: https://ccaa.net.au/practitioner/200102-14/ Use Code "PQPODCAST10" to get 10% off your Lumo Coffee order:https://lumocoffee.com/ Interested in sharing your story? Email Producer Shannon at [email protected] today with your story and contact details. Learn more about Andrew and Performance Intelligence: https://performanceintelligence.com/Find out more about Andrew's Keynotes : https://performanceintelligence.com/keynotes/Follow Andrew May: https://www.instagram.com/andrewmay/Watch the Performance Intelligence Podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@performanceintelligencepodcastIf you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.

A leader from one of Australia's biggest banks called Andrea Clarke with a problem. 5000 employees. 1 AI tool. 0 opens.Not one person had clicked the app.Andrea's response wasn't to talk about technology. It was to talk about fear. Because what that leader was really dealing with wasn't a training gap or a communication failure. It was something older and more fundamental: we are not wired for change. We are wired to protect what we have, conserve energy, and stay exactly where we feel safe.Status. Identity. The quiet confidence of knowing how to do your job well. AI doesn't just threaten people's roles. It threatens all of it at once.Andrea Clarke is one of Australia's leading voices on change leadership, and in this Bite Size she makes a case that most leaders aren't ready to hear: the problem with your AI rollout started before you introduced the tool. You skipped the conversation people actually needed. Still on the fence? Andrea has these words: Redeploy yourself before AI redeploys you.Subscribe to the Performance Intelligence Podcast for more.You can find Andrea at her website: https://www.andreaclarke.com.au/Or at her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaclarke2020 Use Code "PQPODCAST10" to get 10% off your Lumo Coffee order:https://lumocoffee.com/ Interested in sharing your story? Email Producer Shannon at [email protected] today with your story and contact details. Learn more about Andrew and Performance Intelligence: https://performanceintelligence.com/Find out more about Andrew's Keynotes : https://performanceintelligence.com/keynotes/Follow Andrew May: https://www.instagram.com/andrewmay/Watch the Performance Intelligence Podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@performanceintelligencepodcastIf you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.

You've probably heard the word ADHD more times than you can count. You might even use it yourself. But if someone asked you to explain what is actually happening in the brain of a person living with it, could you?Most people can't. And that gap, between the label and the reality, is where a lot of pain lives.Lindy Hadges is a Psychotherapist, ADHD expert, and board member of the ADHD Foundation Australia. With 16 years in clinical practice and hundreds of clients behind her, she is not here to give you a textbook definition. She is here to tell you what she has seen in the room, across careers, relationships, and decades of misdiagnosis. And she does not hold back.This conversation will shift something for you. Whether you have wondered about your own wiring, watched someone close to you struggle without explanation, or led people who seem capable but consistently fall short of what you know they can do.Part 2 goes deeper into ADHD in women, children, athletes, and high-performing corporate leaders.1:30 What is happening in the ADHD brain: dopamine, noradrenaline and the prefrontal cortex.3:25 How prevalent is ADHD, and are we getting better at finding it?7:50 The ADHD identity cake: why trauma and family of origin shape the full picture.11:00 The real cost of undiagnosed ADHD: relationships, careers and bankruptcy.13:05 ADHD vs ASD: key differences and why a trained clinician matters.15:05 Why Lindy changed her mind on medication and the diabetes analogy that reframes it.17:55 The moment of diagnosis and why clients almost never react with relief.20:15 The weight of shame: missed deadlines, lost jobs and hiding failure every day.22:30 Medication fears and what amphetamines actually do in the ADHD brain.25:45 Why Lindy became an ADHD specialist and the crisis of self-doubt that came with it.27:50 From underachievement to clarity: a client case study on slow diagnosis and breakthrough.33:25 The strengths of ADHD, hyperfocus in action and Andrew's possible undiagnosed traits.37:50 The three types of ADHD and why the combo is the most common and most exhausting.39:30 How formal diagnosis works in Australia and why you should never go to the psychiatrist alone.44:45 Self-awareness and self-regulation: the two skills at the centre of working with ADHD.View the ADHD Cake model: https://performanceintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ADHD-Cake-of-Understanding.pngFind out more about the ADHD Foundation: https://adhdfoundation.org.au/about-usConnect with Lindy: https://ccaa.net.au/practitioner/200102-14/ Use Code "PQPODCAST10" to get 10% off your Lumo Coffee order:https://lumocoffee.com/ Interested in sharing your story? Email Producer Shannon at [email protected] today with your story and contact details. Learn more about Andrew and Performance Intelligence: https://performanceintelligence.com/Find out more about Andrew's Keynotes : https://performanceintelligence.com/keynotes/Follow Andrew May: https://www.instagram.com/andrewmay/Watch the Performance Intelligence Podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@performanceintelligencepodcastIf you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.

What does Deep Purple have to do with the All Blacks scrummaging better? More than you'd think.Mike Cron is one of the most successful rugby coaches in history. In this Bite Size, he tells the story of one of his strangest coaching ideas, where it came from, why it should not have worked, and why it did.Learn more about Mike here: https://www.mikecroncoaching.co.nz/   Use Code "PQPODCAST10" to get 10% off your Lumo Coffee order:https://lumocoffee.com/ Interested in sharing your story? Email Producer Shannon at [email protected] today with your story and contact details. Learn more about Andrew and Performance Intelligence: https://performanceintelligence.com/Find out more about Andrew's Keynotes : https://performanceintelligence.com/keynotes/Follow Andrew May: https://www.instagram.com/andrewmay/Watch the Performance Intelligence Podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@performanceintelligencepodcastIf you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.

October 12, 2002. AFL star Jason McCartney was on holiday in Bali. By the end of that night, 202 people were dead, and he had burns to 50% of his body. Most people with his injuries spend 3-4 months just getting out of hospital. Jason was back on the football field in 5 months.What got him there was not superhuman toughness. It was a specific set of skills, built through years of setbacks, that clicked into gear when everything was on the line. Skills that translate far beyond sport.1:05 A career built on resilience before Bali even happened6:15 Nearly walking away from football...and what brought him back14:50 That night in Bali: what he remembers20:25 Goal-setting from intensive care27:20 The decision to return and play one last game32:40 What he pushed through in training that he never told anyone39:20 Doing the psychological work: compartmentalisation, exposure therapy, and why talking about it healed him48:25 Building elite culture at GWS and what leaders get wrong about performanceSubscribe on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Learn more at performanceintelligence.com.You can find Jason at his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-mccartney-oam-b10a39217/ Use Code "PQPODCAST10" to get 10% off your Lumo Coffee order:https://lumocoffee.com/ Interested in sharing your story? Email Producer Shannon at [email protected] today with your story and contact details. Learn more about Andrew and Performance Intelligence: https://performanceintelligence.com/Find out more about Andrew's Keynotes : https://performanceintelligence.com/keynotes/Follow Andrew May: https://www.instagram.com/andrewmay/Watch the Performance Intelligence Podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@performanceintelligencepodcastIf you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.

Nobody feels ready. Not elite athletes before competition. Not doctors before a high-stakes exam. Not leaders before the moment that defines them.Psychologist Lisa Martin has spent her career working with people at the edge of their performance. Her finding: readiness isn't a feeling you arrive at. It's a practice you build. The people who perform when it counts aren't calm because they're confident. They're composed because they know how to come back to themselves when pressure hits.Lisa and Andrew unpack what readiness actually requires: self-awareness, flexibility, and the willingness to sit with discomfort rather than run from it. And the mark of someone who's truly ready? They don't dread the storm approaching. They walk toward it.Find Dr Lisa Martin at: Level One Psychology — https://www.levelonepsychology.com/ LinkedIn — https://au.linkedin.com/in/lisa-martin-phd-506067a Use Code "PQPODCAST10" to get 10% off your Lumo Coffee order:https://lumocoffee.com/ Interested in sharing your story? Email Producer Shannon at [email protected] today with your story and contact details. Learn more about Andrew and Performance Intelligence: https://performanceintelligence.com/Find out more about Andrew's Keynotes : https://performanceintelligence.com/keynotes/Follow Andrew May: https://www.instagram.com/andrewmay/Watch the Performance Intelligence Podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@performanceintelligencepodcastIf you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.