The Human Performance Podcast

My guest on the podcast this week is Nigel Paine. Nigel is a change focus leader with a worldwide reputation and a unique grasp of media learning and development in the public, private and academic sectors. He's written three books in the learning technology space and and while at the BBC headed up their learning development operation, developing leaders and a brand new onboarding experience to ramp up all of their staff. He speaks regularly at conferences around the world and teaches in a doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania. We discuss onboarding systems, his unique insight into learning development, how it's progressed over the last 20 years, and we also look at how new technology is emerging to empower the workforce and how you can implement change at your organization right now.

In todays episode, we talk to Karin Hurt, CEO of Let's Grow Leaders, and an experienced executive, speaker and writer. Karin was named of one the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trusted Business Behavior by Trust Across America and Multiplier of the Year by the Wiseman Group.

We talk about getting the most out of your new hires, nurturing an innovative company culture and allowing every single employee to have a voice.

On the Podcast this week is former premiership rugby player and coach James Parkes. Following his time in rugby, James has gone on to found Evexia Health International Limited, an employee wellness and wellbeing app. In terms of human performance, James is extremely well versed in getting the best out of his team and people, and has some great tips on how to constantly be your best and stay motivated.

On the Podcast this week is the legendary author, speaker and entrepreneur Joan Koerber-Walker. Joan is President and CEO of the Arizona BioIndustry Association and founder of CorePurpose, Inc. and in this weeks podcast discusses how to grow your company, the most important aspects of company culture and how to get the most out of yourself and your people as your business scales.

Whether you are a YouTube creator, startup CEO or a doctor, being able to delegate effectively is one of the most important skills to free up your time and scale your work. However lots of people struggle with delegating things as they lack a repeatable process and sometimes find that relaying information to others is more time consuming than actually doing a task themselves.  FREE DELEGATION TOOL https://bit.ly/AYdelegate

In todays episode, I discuss the Virti Journey, from our company's roots, to our growth to our Series A funding round of $10 Million Dollars. 

We announced a Series A round of $10m for Virti led by IQ Capital with participation from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Fundraising is considered by some founders to be the hardest part of scaling a technology company. For me, this round was the opportunity to accelerate our mission to improve human performance by fundamentally changing how people learn, train and perform.

Despite having graduated from medical school in 2009 I can still remember a ton of medical facts and anatomical knowledge in a huge amount of detail because I learned it over a long period of time. Whether you're studying for an exam or learning a new language you want to ensure that you are maximising your time and learning as efficiently as possible to get the maximum benefit from your learning.

Being productive is all about having a process that predictably achieves your goals. Whether studying for an exam, launching a product or building muscle you need to have a process that reliably and efficiently helps you to succeed.

Having a reliable process that predictably helps me to complete tasks quickly is the cornerstone of my productivity. I've used this process for scaling companies, generating passive income, staying fit and developing pretty much everything that I do and I honed it down over time.

The 5 phases: planning, research, prototype, implementation and reflection can be applied to literally anything and I'm going to break each down for you below.

My guest on the podcast this week is Nad Narimani. Nad is an English mixed martial artist and UFC star, who started his professional MMA career in 2011. Nad won the Cage Warriors Fighting Championship Featherweight Championship against Paddy Pimblett in April 2017.

With a record of 10 to 2, he competes in the featherweight division of the UFC. Nad is a lifelong learner and coaches both children and athletes in mixed martial arts to help them get the very best out of themselves.

We talk MMA training, what it's like to fight in front of a crowd and how learning and coaching can change your life.

My guest on the podcast this week is Wendi Friesen. Wendi is a worldwide leader in creating rapid change for life's difficult problems. Since 1994 her site at Wendi.com has influenced the lives of millions worldwide and brought insight, wisdom and spiritual growth to people in need.

As a flat broke single mother of two, with no resources, money, help or partners, Wendi created a transformation business for devoted followers who seek real change. Her work caught the attention of the media and she quickly became an authority on how to make rapid and massive change in people's mind, body and spiritual life.

Wendi.com grew to experience millions in sales in a short time, reaching the hearts and minds of people who understood how her sincerity and passion could transform their lives.

We discuss creating courage and focus to be more creative, breaking through your limitations and greatly improving your skills with powerful mental hypnotic practice and how does hypnosis affect your wealth and success and can anyone do it?

My guest on the podcast this week Liz Lewinson. Liz is the award-winning author of “American Buddhist Rebel,” “Women, Meditation, and Power,” and “The Power of the Loving Man.” A long-time practitioner and teacher of meditation and mindfulness, she enjoys up-ending traditional, repressive views of power, women, and men. Her executive career spans public relations, Wall Street technology, and non-profit management. A constant learner, she enjoys being taken on long walks by her two terriers.

We discuss how to practice meditation to boost you over pandemic, how raising your internal energy gives you a new approach to your daily performance and Liz provides some practical tips for gaining energy.

My guest on the podcast this week is Alison Pena aka Bad Widow.

Alison supports clients to tap into their innate resilience and take back their lives after loss with stories, insights and strategies. After losing her husband to pancreatic cancer in 2016, Alison designed new ways to re-engage, reinvent, and rebuild back to life, work and even love.

We discuss how to deal with grief, how companies can support employees through difficult times and how people can reclaim their lives and identities after major trauma.

My guest on the podcast this week is Lisa Erickson. Lisa is an energy worker specializing in women's energetics, sexual trauma healing, chakra manifestation, and kundalini awakening. She is the author of Chakra Empowerment for Women and The Art and Science of Meditation both published by Llewellyn Worldwide. She aids individuals through major life transits and trauma healing, with a particular focus on women’s sexual trauma. Lisa is certified in mindfulness meditation instruction and trauma sensitivity, and has trained in a variety of kundalini and energy healing modalities.

We discuss the impact of meditation on human performance and how to get started with energy work to improve your own performance.

My guest on the podcast this week is Randy Gage. Randy is a thought-provoking critical thinker who will make you approach your business — and your life — in a whole new way. Randy is the author of 14 books translated into 25 languages, including his recent worldwide best seller, Radical Rebirth.

He has spoken to more than 2 million people across more than 50 countries and is a member of both the Speakers Hall of Fame and the Direct Selling Hall of Fame. When he is not prowling the podium or locked in his lonely writer’s garret, you’ll probably find him playing 3rd base for a softball team somewhere.

We discuss the role of health in performance, the power of routines and the mental side of performance in reaching peak state

On the podcast this week is Simone Knego. Simone is the best-selling author of The Extraordinary UnOrdinary You, she is also a speaker, entrepreneur, and mother to six multicultural children. Sharing her journey of adopting three of her six children in foreign countries, her climb of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise cancer awareness, and all of the funny, scary, and inspiring stories that came along the way, Simone instills in her audience the powerful lesson that what you do matters. And it’s the little things we do each day that make the most difference.

We discuss Being a mom of six and the importance of self-care, Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mindset and the importance of believing in ourselves.

On the podcast this week is Susan De Lorenzo. Susan is a life coach who focuses on helping people who are emerging from life-altering adversities and guides them to evaluate the insights and wisdom that such times hold. She believes our “dark nights of the soul” contain amazing gems which we can use to construct an elevated platform that supports a joy-filled and authentic life and honours the journey and great being within. As a survivor of invasive breast cancer whose marriage dissolved as treatment ended, Susan draws upon her personal journey as well as her training as a life coach to give clients, readers and listeners the mindsets and tools to rebuild their lives in alignment with their deepest desires.

We discuss overcoming adversity, staying positive and what is essential in order to transform an adversity into a win.

On the podcast this week is Nate Palmer. Nate is a fitness and nutrition expert, coach, speaker, and writer who believes that being in incredible shape gives a massive advantage in business, focus, and relationships.

He also happens to be a dad, husband, and the #1 bestselling author of The Million Dollar Body Method and Passport Fitness. Nate helps business owners and entrepreneurs improve their physique, finances, and family time using fitness and nutrition as force multipliers.

We discuss nutrition, fitness, mindset and setting habits and goals when improving human performance.

On the podcast this week is David Richards. David is an international best-selling author, life strategist, and yoga instructor. He spent his early childhood living in various parts of the United States and three years living on the island of Okinawa, Japan. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in English, he was commissioned as an officer in the Marines. He earned two Masters degrees while on active duty and was part of the initial landing force in Somalia in support of Operation RESTORE HOPE.

David and I discuss Visualizing success, the power of meditation, and shaping our thoughts.

My guest on the podcast this week is Mike Cameron. Mike is a Canadian author, speaker, performance coach and advocate against Gender Based Violence. As a sales and leadership authority Mike has studied the impact that emotion has on human behaviour for over 2 decades. He has designed programs to assist individuals to tap into their emotions in a real and authentic way in order to become exceptional leaders and businessmen. His 2017 Tedx “The way men think of strong is wrong”, urges society to help redefine what it means to be a badass.  Mike coaches men to use his S.O.A.R framework to reconnect with their passions and purpose in life. His 2018 CBC Op-Ed “Dear Men” has been shared over 125,000 times and his keynotes addressing the importance of emotional intelligence have been heard all across North America. We discuss Mike's life-changing backstory, dealing with traumatic events and the impact emotion has on human behaviour.

In this episode, Rafael Grossman discusses the ever-fusing worlds of technology and medicine, and how we can use XR to drive great change in healthcare.

Rafael is a Surgeon, Educator, Speaker, Patient Advocate, Healthcare Futurist, and Immigrant - originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Throughout his career, he has focused on tapping the paradoxical power of technology to coexist with better, more humane medical care.

On the podcast this week, Emil Ekvardt talks about how high stakes poker changed his life, and how the lessons he learned from 12 hour-long sessions with no breaks and big economic swings helped him develop his mindset and increase his performance.

Emil picked up poker at age 16, and by 25 he was a poker millionaire. These incredible economic swings and extreme conditions made him obsessed with performing the best at what he does. Now, he's moved away from poker focusing on improving human performance and personal development, helping people to stop overthinking and find their passion.

On the podcast this week is Dr. Patrick J. Cohn. Patrick teaches mental skills and sports psychology strategies to athletes, teams, and corporate professionals to help improve performance. In addition to working with athletes and teams, Dr. Cohn teaches parents, coaches and athletic trainers how to help athletes achieve peak performance through mental game skills training. He is also the founder of the MGCP certification program for coaches and therapists.

In addition to his work with athletes, Dr. Cohn has also worked with major corporations such as IBM, Canada and USA Today. Furthermore, he’s been a sports commentator on the Golf Channel and has been featured in trade publications such as Golf Magazine and Golf Digest. He also participated in USA Today’s “Soul of a Champion” series and developed the “Soul of a Champion Test.” He was also featured as the mental game expert on Versus network.

We talk about improving mental performance and why in sports and business mental training is so important.

On the podcast this week is Karese Laguere. Karese is the author of Accomplished: How to Sleep Better, Eliminate Burnout and Execute Goals and a registered dental hygienist with a focus on orofacial myology. 

Karese, like many parents, suffered in silence while her children struggled with the symptoms of undiagnosed sleep and breathing issues. One visit to a pediatric dentist changed the trajectory of their lives. Already a Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH), Karese, trained with Sandra Holtzman, Lois Laynee and Sarah Hornsby to establish her orofacial myology knowledge. With this initial training and numerous others, in a few short years she had not only resolved all her children's issues, but helped hundreds of patients, children and adults alike, discover how great life can be functioning on full. Her private practice, The Myo Spot is now a leader in the quest for myofunctional therapy awareness and public education. Karese's mission is to transform and positively impact as many households as possible through dynamic breath, brain and body work.

We discuss the science behind poor sleep, why sleep hygiene is vital to being productive and helping you accomplish goals and the latest technology to help you improve how you sleep.

On the podcast this week is Kim "Kidd" Curry.  Kim worked in radio for nearly 33 years growing Miami's largest talk-time radio show until Multiple Sclerosis forced him to change his path in life aged 50.  What came next was a battery of doctor appointments, tests, therapies, expensive pharmaceutical drugs, hospital stays and adaptive equipment to live a quality of life worth living.

Since his diagnosis, Curry has written “Come Get Me Mother, I’m Finished” and “The Death of Fairness”

Kim discuss his diagnosis, how it changed his life, Kim’s book and his experiences working and growing a major broadcast radio station.

Website: https://www.krcurry.com/

On the podcast this week is Dominique "Dom" Brightmon, DTM, a certified self-leadership expert with the John Maxwell Team from Baltimore, MD that empowers and equips others to share their stories.

As an active member of Toastmasters International, he was the youngest Area Director in Region 7 at the age of 23.

An avid reader himself, Dom published his book titled "Going North: Tips & Techniques to Advance Yourself", the follow-up bestselling book titled "Stay the Course: The Elite Performer's 7 Secret Keys to Sustainable Success" and contributing author for, “Crappy to Happy: Sacred Stories of Transformational Joy”.

As the host of the Going North podcast, he interviews authors around the world to help listeners become inspired to one day publish books of their own and keep overcoming the daily obstacles we all have to face.

We discuss the importance of reading, self-leadership and more.

On the podcast this week is Jim Rajan. Jim is a former award-nominated producer and director at MTV-UK Networks and other TV production companies in London, Jim has now been running a successful Healing Practice for over 17 years. He is trained in Shamanic Healing, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Reiki, and Sound healing, and has been a diligent practitioner of Nicherin Buddhism for over 13 years, with a city-wide leadership responsibility. 

Jim has a dedicated global following of 6000 people on the meditation app InsightTimer for his guided visualisations and music for meditative practice. A self-taught musician, composer and producer, Jim has produced work for artists in London UK, Canada and North America as well as three of his own albums (The Cloud Forest, Nrty Hiran and Talisman). His work is currently available on Spotify, iTunes, etc. and of course InsightTimer. Jim’s work, courses and workshops are fundamentally based on the relationship between consciousness and sound. 

As an experienced Distance Healer Jim has an ever expanding client base across the globe. He's developed a way of connecting to a persons base frequency, in an empowering and enriching experience called The Healing Ceremony. This work is helping people transform their lives in all aspects from health and self-esteem, to fulfilment and living with true purpose. 

We discuss employee well-being, coping with lockdown and the benefits of visualisation and mindfulness.

To connect with Jim find him on Instagram at @jimrajan or at www.jimrajan.com

On the podcast this week is Dr Jonathan Sackier, MB, ChB, FRCS, FACS who is an internationally renowned surgeon, technology innovator and entrepreneur. 

Trained in Britain as a surgeon and recruited to the USA in 1989 he helped lead the laparoscopic surgery revolution. As a Professor at George Washington University in Washington, DC, he founded, and funded the Washington Institute of Surgical Endoscopy, a center for education, research & innovation. He is a Visiting Professor of Medicine & Surgery at the University of Virginia and his activities in basic and clinical research funded by multiple grants have led to many publications, chapters and books. He has served multiple journals as editor or reviewer, has been involved in medical societies at the highest level and has been honored for his work in many countries.

Jonathan’s collaborations with the pharmaceutical and medical device industry have resulted in technologies that have been brought to market with partners like Valleylab, Pfizer, Karl Storz, Applied Medical and Pall. In 1984 his team at Genethics discovered and patented a line of amniotic stem cells and then licensed the rights to a publicly traded British drug discovery company. He helped develop and bring to market the AESOP robot with Computer Motion, who had a successful IPO in 1997 and has also started a medical products contract sales organization, a locum medical agency and a communications company. He has consulted to many companies including Aventis, Cook, Integra Neurosciences, Bayer, Cryocath, Novartis and ConvaTec and has worked with the financial community on enterprise financing, mergers & acquisitions and due diligence.

A frequent commentator in the media, Jonathan has been a guest on radio and television many times to discuss various healthcare issues. In the mid-1990’s he hosted a television health magazine program “Health and Wellness” aimed at a senior audience for the Goodlife Cable TV network and served the communications company Spotlight Health with their celebrity featured outreach including the hugely successful Carnie Wilson web-cast which drove increased attention to bariatric surgery as an option for the management of morbid obesity.

Jonathan has served the National Committee of the Steppenwolf Foundation, is a Trustee of the First Star Foundation, the Virginia Hillel Board and previously chaired the Board of the Larry King Cardiac Foundation. He has sat on the Associate Board of AdvaMed (the medical device industry trade association) and on several corporate and scientific advisory boards.

On the podcast this week is Dr James Somauroo. James is the founder of somX: the healthtech communication agency which supports the best healthtech companies in the world. He covers healthtech for Forbes as a contributor and also hosts The Health-Tech Podcast, which has listeners in >100 countries. He is an anaesthetics and ICU doctor by training, has held roles in leadership, management and innovation at NHS England, Health Education England and the British Medical Journal and previously directed two healthtech accelerators; DigitalHealth.London, which provided startups with market access to the NHS, saving £48M for the UK health service and HS., which built, scaled and invested in deep technology companies. He has degrees in medicine, biomedical sciences and education and is a guest lecturer on healthtech innovation and entrepreneurship at academic institutions around the world.

Alex and James discuss the role of innovation for corporates, emerging technology in healthcare and the importance of education in workforce development.

Joining us on the podcast this week is Dr Alex Aquilina. Alex is a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon who played for England Rugby at Under 18 level. Alex is also a clinical research fellow with multiple academic publications in trauma and orthopaedic surgery and a PhD student at the University of Oxford where he is investigating patient reported outcomes as part of the NDORMS Musculoskeletal Research Unit. In addition Alex is a Health Education England simulation fellow and has undertaken research into remote training in rural Ethiopia using immersive technology. Alex discusses patient outcomes and communication in healthcare together with deploying remote training in resource limited environments.

This week's guest is Brad Chesham. Brad is a nurse educator and VR evangelist and founder of Bundle of Rays an Australian Education company. Brad has worked in acute specialties with a focus on intensive care.  This has been consolidated through a variety of international projects involving the British Army in Afghanistan, Australian Federal Police in Papua New Guinea and a multitude Oil & Gas projects across Mexico, Guinea and Norway for companies such as Exxon and CGG veritas and Commissioning new and revised services at two hospitals in South-East Queensland.

His mission is to provide innovative education to health professionals, using the latest immersive technology.

Alex and Brad discuss healthcare education, technology in learning and returning to the new normal.

On this week's episode Alex is joined by Professor Greg Whyte OBE. Greg received his OBE for his services to Sport, Sport Science & Charity, and was voted as one of the Top 10 Science Communicators in the UK by the British Science Council. Greg is an Olympian in modern pentathlon, and is a European and World Championship medalist. He is an expert in the field of sports and exercise science. Graduating from Brunel University, he furthered his studies with an MSc in human performance in the USA and completed his PhD at St. Georges Hospital Medical School, London. Greg is currently a Professor of Applied Sport and Exercise Science at Liverpool John Moore’s University and Director of Performance at the Centre for Health and Human Performance at 76 Harley Street, London. Greg's former roles include Director of Research for the British Olympic Association and Director of Science & Research for the English Institute of Sport.

Greg is the preeminent authority on Exercise Physiology and Sports and Exercise Performance in the UK. An internationally recognised expert in the field, Greg has extensive professional experience assessing, treating and improving the performance of patients, sporting enthusiasts and athletes ranging from cancer sufferers to celebrities attempting their first mountain summit to Gold medal seeking Olympians.

Greg is well-known for his involvement in Comic Relief, since 2006 Greg has applied his sports science work to assist various celebrities in completing some of the toughest challenges. 

As a result of his work, Greg has helped raise over £45million for charity.

Greg and Alex discuss human performance, achieving impossible challenges and lots more

This week Alex is joined by Dr Lance Black, MD, MBID who is the Associate Director of the Texas Medical Center’s TMC Innovation program.

Dr. Black served previously as Medical Device Innovation Lead, and draws on his extensive military, medical, and engineering expertise to support the resident companies of TMCx in developing innovative healthcare technologies.

After earning his B.S. in Biological Engineering from Louisiana State University and his M.D. from LSU Health Sciences Center of New Orleans, Dr. Black served in the U.S. Air Force and deployed overseas twice: first as Chief of Medical Staff for Manas Transit Base in Kyrgyzstan, and then as a Squadron Flight Surgeon in Okinawa, Japan.

During his time in the armed forces, Dr. Black helped to create modular medical facilities for civilian use, and designed and implemented safety protocols for F-22 stealth fighter pilots and their crews.

Inspired from his work with Wounded Warrior amputees, Dr. Black utilized his background in Biological Engineering to focus on the design and development of medical devices. Following his exit from service, Dr. Black received his Masters of Biomedical Innovation & Development from Georgia Tech, including a year in their Masters of Industrial Design program.