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

How information flows within a team or unit impacts not only how well the work gets done, but how connected the people feel. Too much information shared in the wrong way is going to lead to inefficiencies. Too little information shared in the right way can lead to poor decisions a well.

Learn lessons from the TV show "House of Dragon" that relate to effective information flow practices you can use within your team

Resources mentioned:

• TV Show "House of Dragon" (HBO)

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/

Power dynamics are those hidden rules that govern an environment the people who live and work within that space. 

Learn how to audit the power dynamics in the space you're working or living in, impacting the following areas:

• People
• Culture
• Systems
• Structure

Resources mentioned:

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/

Finding purpose in today's hyper-connected world is challenging, but even more imporatant than before.

Reflection quesitons:

• Why am I doing this?
• How can I create meaning from this?
• What am I exceptional at? 

Resources Mentioned:

• Simon Sinek - Friends Exercise
• Psycho-Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz
• Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

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/

For years, every human creates scafolding to make sense of their personality, experiences and values. Some of the scaffolding is created by society, family and the social circles you hang out in. Some is part of the wiring you're born with. 

Learn how to start letting go of some of the 'scaffolding' that's been part of your life for years.

Resources Mentioned:

• The Untethered Soul

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/

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/