The Psychology of Success Season 1, Episode 17: Emma Wiggs MBE is simply the best paracanoeist in the world. As an 8 time world champion and current Paralympic champion, Emma is at the pinnacle of her sport. Listen to how Emma contracted a virus in Australia, whilst on a gap year that resulted in her losing the use of her legs and was confined to a wheelchair and yet, this did not limit her going forward due to her inspirational mindset. Emma is competing at the Tokyo Olympics...

Yael Averbuch West represented the United States as an International footballer during her 15 year playing career as well as playing in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) for teams such as; Washington Spirit and FC Kansas City. Yael also co-founded and is the executive director of the NWSL Players Association in America. Listen to how she struggled with the pressures of elite performance and the impact that it had on her career and life in general, which peels back the layers of what...

Barbara Rupf Bee is the current Head of Allianz Global Investors for EMEA after a stellar career in the financial services industry. Listen to how Barbara didn't even want to work in the financial services and yet today, is part of the leadership team at Allianz Global Investors that is managing 500 Billion dollars of assets for institutions all across the globe. Follow us on Apple podcasts and Spotify to ensure you don't miss an episode of 'The Psychology of Success'! Click on the link...

Lauren Johnson is a mental conditioning coach in the United States having worked with athletes at all levels of sport from the IMG Academy in Florida to most recently with the world famous New York Yankees baseball team.    And in the past 12 months, Lauren has decided to start her own company so she has the flexibility to continue to work with professional athletes but also with military personnel and business leaders. Listen to how Lauren has learnt lessons from some of the highest...

Ishveen Anand is a trailblazer in the sports marketing industry having built OpenSponsorship into the world's largest marketplace connecting brands to athletes for digital marketing campaigns.

John Amaechi OBE is a respected organisational psychologist, best-selling The New York Times author, sought after public speaker, executive coach and Founder of APS Intelligence. He is a non-executive director of a £2.4bn healthcare organisation, in addition to being a board advisor for several FTSE100 organisations in the financial, legal and professional services, technology, publishing, engineering and retail sectors. In 2019, John was recognised as one of HR’s most influential thinkers by...

Dan Lowes is a top gun fighter pilot, a member of the world famous Red Arrows acrobatic team and is also a Keynote Speaker for companies around the world.

Ken Doherty was the world snooker champion when he beat the greatest snooker player of all time, Stephen Hendry, in the final at the famous Crucible Theatre in 1997.

Josie Rourke is a director, artistic director and business woman who has blazed a trial through the mostly male dominated industries of film and theatre.  Josie who originates from Salford near Manchester grew up in, what she describes as a lower middle class household but was always praised for the creativity she displayed as a child.After graduating from Cambridge University, Josie worked with Academy award winner, Sam Mendes as his assistant director before becoming the first female...

Jairek Robbins is a world-class Keynote Speaker and has delivered speeches across every continent on the planet; from Dubai, India, Australia, UK, Africa and everywhere else in between! He is also a best-selling author and executive coach for some of the leading directors of numerous multinational companies.As the son of American personal development guru, Tony Robbins, Jairek created empowering beliefs from the people closest to him that he could be and do anything he chose to.After...

Leon Mann is on a mission to enrich the sport and media industries through his roles as a business and talent consultant, filmmaker, and a champion for inclusion and diversity.Starting as a junior sports reporter for the BBC, Leon felt like he wanted to make a change if he were to follow his ambitions of being a broadcaster on TV as there were very few people who looked like him.With incredible courage and a lot self-belief, Leon set about changing the norm by setting up and founding the...

Brendan McGurgan is the co-founder of Simple Scaling and the former group MD of CDE Global. Brendan led a team that grew from 15 people in 2003 to 700 people across the globe by 2020 with offices on every continent and a turnover of nearly £100,000,000. Born and bred in Portadown, Northern Ireland Brendan qualified as a chartered accountant and began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers before finally joining CDE as Finance Director. His ability to navigate his teams through the choppy...

Shaka Hislop is a former Premier League and International player but definitely not your typical footballer. Shaka graduated from Howard University in the US in mechanical engineering and immediately interned at NASA studying with and learning from some of the brightest minds on the planet. Shaka played for Newcastle Utd, West Ham and Portsmouth under the likes Kevin Keegan and Harry Redknapp as well as alongside some of the most iconic names in English football history; Alan Shearer, Peter...

Jamil Qureshi is a Performance Psychologist with some of the biggest names across the world of sport. He is an accomplished Keynote SPeaker in the business world and one of the few Psychologists who has studied astronauts on the NASA space programme. Jamil believes that the price of success is always paid in full and in advance and has learnt this from being the Psychologist with the European Ryder Cup winning team in 2006 alongside working with 6 golfers who became the No. 1 player in the...

Jay Fiedler was a Quarterback for 12 years in the National Football League (NFL) and in 2000 replaced Dan Marino as the starting Quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. Jay's career took him from Philadelphia Eagles to the Minnesota Vikings, Jacksonville Jaguars and the Miami Dolphins before ending his career in his home town of New York with the Jets.His inimitable leadership style got him on to the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' and he was also inducted into the National Jewish Museum Sports...

Kriss Akabusi MBE OLY MBA is still the British record holder for the 400m hurdles as well as being a world and European champion in one of the most difficult sports in athletics. Kriss competed in 2 Olympic Games as well as 3 world championships, winning gold in Tokyo in 1991.Kriss joined the army before going on to have an elite sporting career which helped him transition into a TV presenter on shows such as 'Record Breakers' and 'The Big Breakfast'.Post sport, Kriss has gone on to be an...

Leon Lloyd was an integral part of a Leicester Tigers team who were one of the most successful English rugby teams in the history of the sport. Leon scored the winning try in a Heineken Cup final (2001) as well as scoring over 460 points during the 6 Premiership League titles they won over a 12 year period, which takes a dedication to improvement and constantly striving for excellence. Having lived with England World Cup winning captain, Martin Johnson at the tender age of 17, which shaped...

What does success mean to you?Do you want to be successful?Have you ever though about it in real detail?I have been fascinated by this field of psychology and mental performance since I was a young professional at Tottenham Hotspur and having worked with 2 Sport Psychologists at Norwich City, I have come to the realisation that the only thing I ever need to work on in my life is my psychology, my mindset, my mental performance, my mentality…I don’t really care what you call it! What I’ve come...