The Built For Pressure Podcast

Most founders measure every metric in their business except the one running it.

Them.

In this episode, recorded on the move with the dog, I break down the checkpoints I use with every client to assess the asset that drives everything else. When energy drops, decisions slow and the business starts to feel flat, the problem is rarely strategy. It is the operating system underneath the skin.

In this episode:

Minimum standards. Why the basic behaviours are the first to go when pressure rises, and why they are the only KPIs that protect your output.

I share my own non-negotiables, from six training days a week to protein at every meal and morning light through a Manchester winter.

Physiology before psychology. Emotions are signals, not reality. When your physiology is right, your thinking becomes clean and you operate from power rather than force.

The stories you tell yourself. How we delete, distort and generalise information, and what my time in the back row taught me about chasing every ruck instead of picking my shots.

Stepping off the dance floor. How elite leaders move between first, second, third and fourth person perspective to see the bigger game.

What winning actually means. 

The minimum numbers you need to hit over the next 12 weeks to finish the year calm, focused and fulfilled.

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