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When Dr Jemma King put wearables on Australia's Special Forces in 2017, the culture was "sleep when I'm dead". Within months, those same soldiers were showing off their recovery scores and competing over who slept the most. Not because they went soft. Because the data showed sleep was making them faster, sharper and safer, and elite performers chase anything that does that.

Jemma has spent a decade measuring what great sleep unlocks in people whose decisions matter: Special Operations Command, Olympic swimmers, CEOs. Her conclusion is genuinely exciting. Sharp is recoverable at any age, and it doesn't take supplements or gadgets. It takes a handful of deliberate habits the world's best are already using.

Jemma introduces you to the midnight librarian who explains your 3am wake-ups (and how to give her the night off), the express bus that takes you straight to deep sleep, and how to build your own Sleep First formula around your biology and your life.

Your upgrade is waiting.

00:00 It's 3am. You're awake again.
02:05 Two experts, one room at last
04:20 Meet your midnight librarian: why you wake at 3am
07:55 The other 3am suspects: temperature, gut bugs, sugar and alcohol
12:22 The welcome practice: making peace with 3am
15:04 "Mother nature is like the mafia"
16:36 Why the pub sometimes beats the pillow
19:01 Wearables: who should buy one, who should bin one
20:57 The traders who made more money reading their own heartbeat
22:39 The five metrics worth tracking
25:17 Catch the express bus: the case for sleep consistency
29:26 The DEC2 gene and the ruthlessly selfish habits of the world's best
32:19 How Special Forces went from "sleep when I'm dead" to sleep competitions
36:35 The pattern that made a stress scientist write a sleep book
38:14 Your Sleep First formula
40:20 Burnout, insecurity and the six whys
44:27 Kids, dogs and the family bed
50:53 The spoon test: are you sleep deprived?
52:24 Bed temperature, Eight Sleep and why the news wrecks your night
55:37 Why tired brains see threats everywhere
57:23 Testosterone, saunas and protecting the crown jewels
1:02:14 Sleep First and where to find Dr Jemma King

Learn more about Dr Jemma: https://jemmakingbio-pa.com.au/
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Listen to the previous episode with Dr Jemma: https://performanceintelligence.transistor.fm/episodes/44-dr-jemma-king-getting-kidnapped-in-russia-working-as-a-stunt-double-and-performing-under-pressure

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Nic White played 77 test matches for the Wallabies. For most of that career, he felt like he was one bad game away from being dropped, one coach away from being told he was not in the plans. He was told exactly that in 2015. So he left.

What he did next, and why he came back, says a great deal about what actually drives elite performance over the long haul.

This is a conversation about the difference between proving people wrong and knowing your own worth, and why both matter more than most leaders admit.

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Jim Carrey wrote a cheque to himself for ten million dollars when he was a broke, unknown actor. Sara Blakely visualised a billion-dollar business and an Oprah appearance before either was remotely plausible. Easy to dismiss as coincidence. Harder to dismiss once you understand what an fMRI shows when a person runs a scenario in their mind. 

Andrew May breaks down the neuroscience behind why mental rehearsal works, and why leaders who ignore it are leaving a genuine performance edge on the table.

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Since the 1700s we have described this condition in the language of character. Lazy. Undisciplined. Careless. As recently as 2023, an Australian parliamentary inquiry heard the same words still follow people through their lives.

Lindy Hadges explains why a condition that sits in the brain attracts shame that an identical shortfall in the pancreas never would, and what happens the moment someone stops believing the story they were told about themselves.

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Connect with Lindy: https://ccaa.net.au/practitioner/200102-14/

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The first thing Jason McCartney asked for wasn't a doctor. It was a whiteboard.

Badly injured and facing months in hospital, he didn't ask "why me?!". He set a goal, picked a deadline, and started working backwards, the same way he had for every season of his AFL career.

What he learned about handling the moments that flatten everyone else is something most leaders never have to discover until it's forced on them.

You can find Jason at his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-mccartney-oam-b10a39217/

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There's a moment in your 50s when you start planning for decline instead of planning for growth. Craig Harper never had that moment. At 60+, he's more committed to his physical and mental performance than most 35-year-olds. 

This isn't about genetics or obsession. It's about asking a different question: what would I have to do differently to stay in the game? His answer might surprise you.

Craig Harper is a high-performance coach, author, and speaker specialising in sustainable performance and behaviour change. 

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

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Have you ever finished a presentation, race, meeting or performance and someone asked, "How did it go?" only to realise you can barely remember it? Not because you failed but because you were completely immersed.

Dr Sue Jackson is one of the world's leading researchers on flow and co-authored the defining book on the subject alongside the man who first named it, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

Sue takes you inside one of the most sought-after and least understood states in human performance.

Why do some moments feel effortless while others feel like a grind? Why can pressure elevate performance one day and destroy it the next? And why do some of our best performances seem to happen when we stop trying so hard to force them?

Using examples ranging from Olympic athletes to Wallabies captain Harry Wilson's match-winning moment against Argentina, Sue explores why some performances feel effortless, why pressure can either sharpen or derail us, and why trying harder isn't always the answer.

This is about attention, confidence, pressure, preparation and the hidden conditions behind extraordinary performance.

Because flow isn't something you find. It's something you allow.

00:00 Why your best performances can be the hardest to explain

02:14 The psychological state that fascinates elite performers

05:58 What athletes mean when they say "everything just clicked"

10:08 Flow vs clutch: two very different ways to perform under pressure

13:09 Harry Wilson's match-winning Wallabies moment, and what it reveals about performance

19:27 The letter that changed Sue Jackson's career

26:51 The hidden ingredients behind a flow state

28:00 The challenge-skill balance that can make or break performance

32:00 Why anxiety might be closer to flow than you think

39:03 The attention crisis nobody is talking about

42:18 Are we losing our ability to focus?

45:40 The coaching habit that can pull athletes out of the moment

48:53 Why flow feels energising instead of exhausting

50:32 Can you perform brilliantly without being in flow?

52:18 The mistake people make when they try to force flow

54:31 What extreme athletes understand about being fully present

57:19 The surprising connection between deliberate practice and effortless performance

59:00 How to experience more flow in everyday life

Dr Sue Jackson
Website: www.drsuejackson.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drsuejackson
Instagram: @suejackson_flow
Facebook: drsuejacksonflow
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Books:
Flow in Sports (with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 1999): drsuejackson.com/flow-in-sports-book
Experiencing Flow: Life Beyond Boredom and Anxiety (2024): drsuejackson.com/new-book-experiencing-flow

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Most conversations about depression treatment start and end with medication. But what if that starting point is too narrow?

Paul Taylor challenges a widely accepted assumption in mental health care that antidepressants are the primary or most effective solution for depression.

What he argues is not simplistic and not anti-medication. It’s more uncomfortable than that: that for many people, medication alone may not be enough to meaningfully address the deeper drivers of depression.

That raises a harder question most people never get asked: if medication isn’t the full answer, what is?

This is a conversation that sits in the tension between science, treatment norms, and lived experience. And it may change how you think about the way depression is actually treated in practice.

You can find Dr Paul at his website: https://www.paultaylor.biz/
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Inside the venom of a desert lizard, scientists found a molecule that does something the diet industry spent 50 years failing to do. It quietly switches off hunger.

That molecule is now the most talked about drug on the planet, and it's sitting in the fridges of millions of people who couldn't explain how it works if you paid them.

Dr Tom Buckley, 30 years in medicine and a professor at Sydney University, has looked at the evidence and called these drugs revolutionary.

But what about "Ozempic face"? What if the wait comes back after you stop? Who should never touch these drugs? Dr Tom and Andrew get into the science so you finally have all the answers you need.

 00:00 – A desert lizard that eats twice a year
 03:32 – What a GLP-1 actually is, in plain English
 07:36 – Ghrelin and leptin: hunger and fullness, explained
 10:23 – The venom that cracked the hunger code
 14:06 – Why your body is built to hold onto fat
 15:19 – How to raise GLP-1 without a prescription
 18:10 – Become the CEO of your body and brain
 22:10 – You don't lose fat cells, they shrink
 24:39 – "Ozempic face," and why you lose weight slowly
 28:17 – The "Limitless" effect: cognitive horsepower
 29:28 – 76 trials, 40,000 patients: the evidence
 30:47 – Lancet 2024: heart attacks and strokes down
 32:11 – Why Tom calls these drugs regenerative
 34:18 – Who should never take it
 35:23 – The side effects nobody mentions upfront
 41:19 – On it and off it: what you have to get right
 48:14 – Most regain 75% within a year of stopping
 50:09 – Metabolic rebound: worse than where you started
 52:51 – The hidden economy GLP-1s are reshaping
 56:13 – Tom's cliff notes

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Most teams spend their lives trying to reach the top. Very few have to answer the question of what happens when they get there.

The Penrith Panthers have won 4 consecutive NRL premierships. In an era designed for parity, they've achieved something almost unheard of in modern sport. Which raises a fascinating challenge.

How do you keep people motivated when they've already achieved the goal?

How do you maintain standards when success becomes normal? 
How do you avoid complacency when everyone around you is telling you how good you are?

Dan Haesler, Mental Skills Coach for the Penrith Panthers, shares what it takes to sustain excellence after success.

But this isn't really about rugby league. It's about leadership, culture, psychology, and human behaviour. Whether you're leading a team, running a business, building a career or pursuing your own goals, eventually you'll face the same challenge: how do you keep growing when you've already won?

You can find Dan at his Website:https://danhaesler.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danhaesler/?hl=en
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danhaesler/?originalSubdomain=au
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