Elite athletes and Special Forces do not eat like you do....and the reason you fade in the afternoon is usually something you did that morning.

Jessica Spendlove will tell you exactly what. She will also tell you what to eat when you have 4 minutes and no time to think, whether the supplements you bought are doing anything at all, and why she rarely recommends that a woman fast.

Jessica is a performance dietitian with more than 15 years behind her, a decade of it in elite sport across 7 professional teams, Olympic medallists, world champions and premiership-winning sides, plus 7 years with Special Forces Command.

Jessica has heard every version of "I'm already doing everything right" and she has never met anybody whose nutrition she could not improve. And she is happy to be challenged on that!

The reason it lands is that she got it wrong herself. Jessica spent years feeding elite athletes while running on adrenaline, cortisol and caffeine, and it took her own data to stop her arguing with herself.

If you have been telling yourself you will sort your nutrition out when things calm down, start here.

00:00 The day we took nutrition off the table
03:44 Seven professional teams at once, running on adrenaline, cortisol and caffeine
06:12 The reply-all email that got her roasted at the Christmas party
11:46 The keynote she nearly pulled out of, and the data that made the call
17:19 The three hour morning window where it all comes apart
20:14 The domino habit has to survive your worst day
31:41 You can't ice bath your way out of chronic sleep debt
39:25 Why she almost never recommends fasting for women
55:25 Same meal, different order, different result
01:04:00 Walking into a room of commandos and getting it wrong
01:14:42 How to work with Jessica Spendlove

Contact Jessica through her website, Linkedin, or Instagram.
Buy Jessica's new book "For The Long Run" here.

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High performance is not about pushing harder. It is about building the capacity to perform when it matters and sustain it over time.

Hosted by Andrew May, one of Australia’s leading experts in human performance, leadership and mental skills, the Performance Intelligence Podcast explores how leaders, athletes, coaches and researchers think clearly, manage pressure and consistently perform at their best.

Drawing on more than 20 years working with senior executives, elite sporting teams and the Australian Defence Force, Andrew combines candid conversations with evidence-based performance insights and practical strategies you can apply.

Episodes span leadership capacity, performance psychology, mental skills, energy management, strategic recovery, productivity and wellbeing.

Listen to think more clearly, lead more effectively and perform at your best for longer.

Get in touch through:
Our website
Book Andrew
Follow us on Instagram, Linkedin, Facebook
Watch this episode on Youtube

If 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.

There is a gap between what you are capable of and what you are actually doing. Craig Harper has spent 40 years studying it. His view: the gap is not primarily a talent problem or a knowledge problem. It is a psychological one. Fear, the need to be right, poor self-awareness, and an unwillingness to tolerate discomfort are quietly capping the performance of people who are objectively skilled, experienced, and intelligent. And the higher you rise, the easier it becomes to avoid confronting that.

You can find Craig at his website:https://craigharper.net/
Follw him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/craiganthonyharper/
Listen to The You Project:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-you-project/id1342430567

High performance is not about pushing harder. It is about building the capacity to perform when it matters and sustain it over time.

Hosted by Andrew May, one of Australia’s leading experts in human performance, leadership and mental skills, the Performance Intelligence Podcast explores how leaders, athletes, coaches and researchers think clearly, manage pressure and consistently perform at their best.

Drawing on more than 20 years working with senior executives, elite sporting teams and the Australian Defence Force, Andrew combines candid conversations with evidence-based performance insights and practical strategies you can apply.

Episodes span leadership capacity, performance psychology, mental skills, energy management, strategic recovery, productivity and wellbeing.

Listen to think more clearly, lead more effectively and perform at your best for longer.

Get in touch through:
Our website
Book Andrew
Follow us on Instagram, Linkedin, Facebook
Watch this episode on Youtube

If 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.

Some people get sharper when the pressure lands. The meeting turns hostile, the plan collapses, the number comes in wrong, and they are still thinking clearly while everyone around them has gone quiet or gone hard.

That is Mental Agility.

The capacity to move between demands, tasks, roles and relationships while staying grounded and effective when conditions change. It is trainable, and it is the capability every organisation is now asking for without ever having taught it.

PQ founder, Andrew May, PQ COO, Angela Poon, and Sports Psychologist, Jacqui Louder, spent 6 months building mental agility into six layers.

1. What your brain does to you under pressure.
2. Why your body sets the ceiling on your thinking.
3. How your identity decides what an event means before conscious thought gets a say.
4. The six seconds that stop you saying the thing you regret.
5. How to actually retain what you learn.
6. The hardiness that has you growing through pressure instead of surviving it.

Now, they are walking you through all six layers here, with one strategy from each you can use this week. Andrew brings you into his real life test of mental agility with a gripping story of being upside down, underwater, strapped inside a helicopter fuselage in the dark, with an instructor offering him a way out.

But what he does next is where mental agility shows up...

00:00 The word everyone uses and nobody can define
04:12 Your brain under pressure is not a character flaw
07:21 What AI can't give you
11:10 Elite sport, clinical psych, actual clowns
14:24 Why an insurer is training this
17:51 Leaving KPMG for a startup
23:43 The three zones
28:18 The brain runs on the body
35:03 Why the same words land differently on different people
39:14 Hanging up the bad day jacket
46:55 Upside down, underwater, offered a way out
52:25 How to work with us

Learn more about a Mental Agility program for your team here or email us at support@performanceintelligence.com
Contact Jacqui Louder here