Built for Pressure with Zoran Stojković | A Podcast for Tech CEOs, Leaders and Atheltes

Learn how to use anti-goals and Munger's inversion theory to level up your own performance in life or business.

Built for Pressure is a podcast made for anyone serious about performance. Listeners include tech CEOs, investors, head coaches, firefighters, police officers, doctors, athletes, military leaders.

Host & Producer: Zoran Stojković, speaker and performance advisor to military units and pro sports. 

Contact:

• Speaking & Consulting Inquiries: www.kizo.ca
• Contact: [email protected]
• Instagram: @kizoperformance
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoranstojkovic/

Zoran pulls a foundational lifestyle brief out of the vault to shatter common myths about rest. Using a pro basketball player’s sleep logs as a diagnostic tool, this episode reveals why passive sleep does not equal nervous system recovery, and maps out the active protocol executives need to optimize deep non-REM recovery.

Built for Pressure is a podcast made for anyone serious about performance. Listeners include tech CEOs, investors, head coaches, firefighters, police officers, doctors, athletes, military leaders.

Host & Producer: Zoran Stojković, speaker and performance advisor to military units and pro sports. 

Contact:

• Speaking & Consulting Inquiries: www.kizo.ca
• Contact: [email protected]
• Instagram: @kizoperformance
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoranstojkovic/

Zoran breaks down the "4x4 Box Protocol," a physiological tool used by elite combat athletes and special operators to override the fight-or-flight response during an amygdala hijack. This episode details how business professionals can use this somatic override switch to reset their heart rate and reclaim their cognitive edge when facing sudden corporate hostility.

Built for Pressure is a podcast made for anyone serious about performance. Listeners include tech CEOs, investors, head coaches, firefighters, police officers, doctors, athletes, military leaders.

Host & Producer: Zoran Stojković, speaker and performance advisor to military units and pro sports. 

Contact:

• Speaking & Consulting Inquiries: www.kizo.ca
• Contact: [email protected]
• Instagram: @kizoperformance
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoranstojkovic/

Zoran surfaces an essential B2B brief from the vault exploring informal organizational authority. By analyzing a professional hockey team's real locker room dynamics, this episode provides a framework for identifying, navigating, and leveraging unspoken power vectors within high-performing corporate teams.

Built for Pressure is a podcast made for anyone serious about performance. Listeners include tech CEOs, investors, head coaches, firefighters, police officers, doctors, athletes, military leaders.

Host & Producer: Zoran Stojković, speaker and performance advisor to military units and pro sports. 

Contact:

• Speaking & Consulting Inquiries: www.kizo.ca
• Contact: [email protected]
• Instagram: @kizoperformance
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoranstojkovic/

Zoran introduces the "3-Plane Stack Protocol," a scheduling framework borrowed from high-stress aviation operations to eliminate multi-tasking errors. This episode provides corporate leaders with a concrete blueprint for sequencing competing priorities to avoid cognitive redline and maintain team execution.

Built for Pressure is a podcast made for anyone serious about performance. Listeners include tech CEOs, investors, head coaches, firefighters, police officers, doctors, athletes, military leaders.

Host & Producer: Zoran Stojković, speaker and performance advisor to military units and pro sports. 

Contact:

• Speaking & Consulting Inquiries: www.kizo.ca
• Contact: [email protected]
• Instagram: @kizoperformance
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoranstojkovic/

Zoran shares a highly requested vault episode centered on sustainable executive energy. Moving past traditional time management, this episode uses an ultra-marathon coaching example to demonstrate why tracking your physiological power grid and safeguarding your human battery is the ultimate antidote to executive burnout.

Built for Pressure is a podcast made for anyone serious about performance. Listeners include tech CEOs, investors, head coaches, firefighters, police officers, doctors, athletes, military leaders.

Host & Producer: Zoran Stojković, speaker and performance advisor to military units and pro sports. 

Contact:

• Speaking & Consulting Inquiries: www.kizo.ca
• Contact: [email protected]
• Instagram: @kizoperformance
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoranstojkovic/

Zoran returns after a strategic break to introduce a new 2x/week episode cadence and apply the sensory discipline of Formula 1 drivers to modern corporate execution. Learn how elite drivers filter out high-speed peripheral distractions on the track, and how to build a mental "Sensory Shield" to protect your cognitive depth during chaotic project windows.

Built for Pressure is a podcast made for anyone serious about performance. Listeners include tech CEOs, investors, head coaches, firefighters, police officers, doctors, athletes, military leaders.

Host & Producer: Zoran Stojković, speaker and performance advisor to military units and pro sports. 

Contact:

• Speaking & Consulting Inquiries: www.kizo.ca
• Contact: [email protected]
• Instagram: @kizoperformance
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoranstojkovic/

Zoran brings a critical brief out of the vault to address pre-performance anxiety. Drawing on a case study of a Vancouver tennis coach whose players choked from over-activation, this episode provides a tactical toolkit for executives to consciously downregulate their autonomic nervous system before entering high-stakes boardrooms.

Built for Pressure is a podcast made for anyone serious about performance. Listeners include tech CEOs, investors, head coaches, firefighters, police officers, doctors, athletes, military leaders.

Host & Producer: Zoran Stojković, speaker and performance advisor to military units and pro sports. 

Contact:

• Speaking & Consulting Inquiries: www.kizo.ca
• Contact: [email protected]
• Instagram: @kizoperformance
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoranstojkovic/

Zoran breaks down how elite protection details separate background noise from actual operational hazards using the Intent-Capability framework. By translating a high-stakes tactical security scenario into a blueprint for corporate leaders, this episode demonstrates how to prevent cognitive overload and protect team focus from high-noise, low-impact distractions

Built for Pressure is a podcast made for anyone serious about performance. Listeners include tech CEOs, investors, head coaches, firefighters, police officers, doctors, athletes, military leaders.

Host & Producer: Zoran Stojković, speaker and performance advisor to military units and pro sports. 

Contact:

• Speaking & Consulting Inquiries: www.kizo.ca
• Contact: [email protected]
• Instagram: @kizoperformance
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoranstojkovic/

Zoran dismantles the myth that all performance slumps are mental. Through the lens of a venture capitalist's burnout story, this episode introduces the SENSE framework and the concept of the Human Battery, explaining how physiological depletion masquerades as a lack of mental toughness and how to use Intelligent Recovery to restore elite executive function.

Built for Pressure is a podcast made for anyone serious about performance. Listeners include tech CEOs, investors, head coaches, firefighters, police officers, doctors, athletes, military leaders.

Host & Producer: Zoran Stojković, speaker and performance advisor to military units and pro sports. 

Contact:

• Speaking & Consulting Inquiries: www.kizo.ca
• Contact: [email protected]
• Instagram: @kizoperformance
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoranstojkovic/