Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Jo Kelleher.

Jo-Anne Kelleher is a UK-based Sport and High-Performance Psychologist specialising in emotional regulation and performance under pressure. She works with athletes, coaches and high achievers to help them understand their nervous system, perform consistently when it matters most, and turn ADHD into a competitive advantage rather than a limitation.

Jo-Anne is the creator of the Regulate, Reconnect, Reengage, Reflect™ framework, supporting coaches to apply neuroscience-informed strategies in real time without lowering performance standards.

She also offers a free resource, The Ultimate Performance Toolkit: Turn Your ADHD into Your Competitive Edge, designed to help athletes optimise focus, manage emotional intensity and build sustainable high-performance habits.

Download the free guide here:

https://keyaspirationssuccess.com/optimising-performance-for-adhd-athletes

For more information of her services, you can contact her at [email protected]

Jo-Anne's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo-anne-kelleher/

Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

George: www.focuperform.co.uk

Dr Amber M. Shipherd is an award-winning scholar and leader in sport, exercise, and performance psychology and serves as an Associate Professor and Performance Psychology Program Coordinator at Texas A&M University–Kingsville. Recognised for excellence in teaching, research, and service, she has over 15 years of experience developing and delivering undergraduate and graduate coursework across sport and exercise psychology, injury psychology, research methods, and various applied performance domains.

Dr. Shipherd is a nationally recognised authority on teaching in sport, exercise, and performance psychology and is co-editor (with Dr. John Coumbe-Lilley) of the field's only two pedagogy-focused texts: High Impact Teaching for Sport and Exercise Psychology Educators (2020) and Equitable and Innovative Teaching Practices for Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology Educators (2025). Her research program advances the science and application of self-efficacy, stress mindset, sport injury prevention and rehabilitation, and evidence-based instructional practices. Her work has been widely published and supported by competitive funding from organisations including the Association for Applied Sport Psychology and the NCAA.

A Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) and Fellow of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, Dr Shipherd currently serves as Chair of the Student Development Committee and Coordinator of the Teaching Sport and Exercise Psychology Special Interest Group. She is also the owner and Lead Mental Performance Consultant of Next Level Mind Consulting and has delivered applied mental performance services since 2008 to athletes, coaches, teams, and injured individuals ranging from youth to Olympic and professional levels. She resides in south Texas with her husband and their two dogs and enjoys hiking and weightlifting.

Amber's Insta: https://www.instagram.com/docshipherd?igsh=MWIyaWhwdnY1eW12ZQ==

Amber's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amber-shipherd-phd-cmpc-faasp-9a655613/

Book: https://www.routledge.com/Equitable-and-Innovative-Teaching-Practices-for-Sport-Exercise-and-Performance-Psychology-Educators/Shipherd-Coumbe-Lilley/p/book/9781032697093

Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

George: www.focuperform.co.uk

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Dr Charlotte Ord.

Dr. Charlotte Ord is a Counselling Psychologist with a specialised focus on body image, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, and relationships with both the self and others. She is the author of Body Confident You, Body Confident Kid, published by Bluebird (Pan Macmillan), and advocates for a holistic, inclusive approach to health and well-being that celebrates and honours body diversity.

Dr. Ord has worked with professional athletes, sports institutions, and organisations to foster a more supportive and inclusive body image culture. Drawing on her extensive experience as a two-time UK Personal Trainer of the Year and former owner of two personal training gyms, she brings a unique blend of expertise in international strength and conditioning coaching, combined with psychology and psychotherapy.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drcharlotteord?igsh=MXh6MWZlcDJncjh1

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-charlotte-ord-20032997?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

Website: https://www.charlotteord.com

Book: Body Confident mind, Body Confident You - https://amzn.eu/d/2LStWNR

Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

George: www.focuperform.co.uk

Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Matt Rogers.

Matt Rogers is recognized throughout the U.S. as a coach, author, consultant, and speaker with more than 25 years of experience in athletics and education. As a college basketball coach, his men's teams won multiple Conference Championships and advanced to multiple NCAA National Tournaments, earning him Conference Coach of the Year honours along the way. Matt built his reputation on developing athletes with confidence, discipline, and unbreakable self-worth, both on and off the court.

He also spent eight years as a university athletics administrator and later served as Senior Head Scout for the largest college recruiting organisation in the U.S., where he guided over 4,000 families across 30 sports through the recruiting process.

Today, Matt is the founder of Significant Coaching, LLC, and the author of Significant Recruiting: The Playbook for Prospective College Athletes, a 5-star reviewed guide helping families navigate the college recruiting process. He also created the Recruit's Journal Series and the Significant Recruiting Launchpad classes—practical resources that keep athletes focused, organised, and intentional throughout their journey.

A national motivational speaker and host of the Significant Coaching & Recruiting Podcast, Matt challenges athletes, coaches, and leaders to replace the pursuit of success with the pursuit of significance to remove mere chance from their recruitment endeavors.

You can find all his content, schedule a strategy session or read his weekly Blog of Significance on coaching, parenting, and recruiting at CoachMattRogers.com

Connect with Matt

• Facebook: recruitcoach4U

• Instagram: coachmattrogers

• X: coachmattrogers

• LinkedIn: rogersmatt16

• TikTok: coachmattrogers

• YouTube: coachmattrogers

• Threads: coachmattrogers

Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

George: www.focuperform.co.uk

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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Dr Tom Seabury.

Dr Tom Seabury is a psychologist and coach who has heavily focused on racket sports in recent years. He has supported athletes of all ages and levels to sharpen their decision-making and problem-solving under pressure to unlock consistent performance when it matters most. Tom combines a blend of psychological insight and practical coaching to support athletes in turning preparation into performance on the court.

Tom's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tom-seabury-4552131a0/

Tom's Insta: https://www.instagram.com/coach_seabury?igsh=MWhucHU0Z3R2ZmhqNw==

Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

George: www.focuperform.co.uk

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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Jordan Brookes and Jack Lawrence.

Jack is a sport psychologist in training who works with golfers of different abilities around the globe. Jack helps golfers strengthen their mental game to perform with confidence under pressure, as well as a big focus on the individual outside of their sport.

https://www.instagram.com/jl_sport.psychology?igsh=MXhuc3o3MG85amVhcQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

Jordan is a sport psychologist in training currently undertaking his professional doctorate. He works as a golf caddy alongside providing sport psychology support to higher level golfers. The support he provides is mainly on the course and in golf simulators to allow golfers the chance to work on the mental skills in the moment with real-time support.

https://www.instagram.com/sportpsychcaddy?igsh=MWxpM3BnMmVjeHl1OQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

Sport Psych Caddy Platform: https://www.instagram.com/sportpsychcaddy_club?igsh=ZWxlaWRpbTdvazZ3&utm_source=qr

Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

George: www.focuperform.co.uk

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today, we are very fortunate to be speaking with Professor Marc Jones.

Marc's work is focused on understanding the impact of stress on health, wellbeing and performance in individuals and organisations. He has ongoing work across a range of settings, including sport, business, military, medicine, and analogue space missions. This work explores stress and its consequences for health, wellbeing, and performance from a biological, psychological and social perspective.

Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

George: www.focuperform.co.uk

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Welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to welcome back David Durand.

David Durand is a sports performance and psychology coach. His background and training is in clinical psychology, while he also has a strength and conditioning certification from the NSCA and a mental performance consultant certification from the AASP.

His business, Real Development LLC, offers sports training services that combine mental, physical, and skill development for athletes. David focuses on helping individuals develop through a holistic perspective that increases their long-term potential rather than over emphasising short-term success.

Better Than Before: A Psychological Guide for Injured Athletes is a transformative resource that helps athletes use the injury experience to grow—not just physically, but mentally, emotionally, and psychologically. Designed for high school and college athletes, this guide delivers research-backed tools to support recovery from the inside out.

Book: https://amzn.to/4jB0yJa

David: https://realdevelopment.org/about/

Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

George: www.focuperform.co.uk

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Dr Andrew Wood is a performance psychologist with nearly a decade of experience working at the highest levels of elite sports, and organisations. The most notable and recent role involved working with the English Football Association for 5 years, specifically supporting the England Blind Football team as the lead sport psychologist at European and World Championships.. Beyond his practical experience, Andrew is an accomplished scholar, having published over 20 peer reviewed scientific papers in the fields of high performance, stress, emotion, resilience and rationality.

Dr Andrew Wood's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-andrew-wood-32a78654?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

George: www.focuperform.co.uk

Sporting Bounce: The online directory of sport performance specialists. Sportingbounce helps connect specialists in sport psychology, nutrition, sports massage, injury rehabilitation, coaching, and fitness training with clients. With a daily spend on Google Adwords, social media advertising, and excellent organic rankings on search engines your business will get found on sporting bounce. Visit sportingbounce.com to find out how sporting bounce can help you. Don't forget that listeners of this podcast can get 50%

off the Premium membership package by entering the code performance, that's "PERFORMANCE" meaning you get the best possible coverage for less than 20 pence a day!

Sequoia Books:

This week's episode is sponsored by a book! ADHD in Sport, by Dr Josephine Perry.

ADHD in Sport: Strategies for Success illuminates the ADHD brain in sporting environments, looks at the benefits of exercise on ADHD, the impact of ADHD traits on sporting performance, has chapters full of tools to help wellbeing, training and competition, information on co-occurring conditions and ADHD medication in sport and concludes with chapters for coaches, parents and partners to help them successfully support and scaffold.

If you have ADHD (or spend time with those who do) then this book will give you tools, techniques and strategies to thrive and succeed in sport.

The book is published by Sequoia Books & is available via all platforms and the Sequoia website at www.sequoia-books.com/catalog/adhd use code bases30 for 30% discount via the Sequoia site. Also take a look at the site for many more sport & psychology based publications, where the discount applies to all sports books!

Dr Aura Goldman is a practitioner psychologist specialising in trauma-informed psychotherapy for high performers. Chartered by the BPS and accredited with the HCPC, BASES and NCPS, both her practice and academic work is rooted in the psychological and philosophical study of transformation through adversity. She has worked with a wide range of high-performing clients including elite athletes, medics and first responders, entrepreneurs, and academics. Aura integrates Somatic Experiencing, ACT, and Person-Centred Therapy to help clients resolve trauma, reconnect with their bodies, and perform from a place of alignment rather than survival.

Aura: https://www.linkedin.com/in/auragoldman?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

Website: https://auragoldman.co.uk

Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

George: www.focuperform.co.uk

The online directory of sport performance specialists. Sportingbounce helps connect specialists in sport psychology, nutrition, sports massage, injury rehabilitation, coaching, and fitness training s with clients. With a daily spend on Google Adwords, social media advertising, and excellent organic rankings on search engines your business will get found on sporting bounce. Visit sportingbounce.com to find out how sporting bounce can help you. Don't forget that listeners of this podcast can get 50% off the Premium membership package by entering the code performance, that's "PERFORMANCE" meaning you get the best possible coverage for less than 20 pence a day!

Sequoia Books:

This week's episode is sponsored by a book! ADHD in Sport, by Dr Josephine Perry.

ADHD in Sport: Strategies for Success illuminates the ADHD brain in sporting environments, looks at the benefits of exercise on ADHD, the impact of ADHD traits on sporting performance, has chapters full of tools to help wellbeing, training and competition, information on co-occurring conditions and ADHD medication in sport and concludes with chapters for coaches, parents and partners to help them successfully support and scaffold.

If you have ADHD (or spend time with those who do) then this book will give you tools, techniques and strategies to thrive and succeed in sport.

The book is published by Sequoia Books & is available via all platforms and the Sequoia website at www.sequoia-books.com/catalog/adhd use code bases30 for 30% discount via the Sequoia site. Also take a look at the site for many more sport & psychology based publications, where the discount applies to all sports books!