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.