According to the Kantar Health National Health and Wellness Survey 2012-19, 1 in 4 of the general population is likely to be suffering from poor mental health in any one year. This translates to nearly 2 billion people who could be suffering from mental health challenges worldwide.

Poor mental health severely impacts an individual’s ability to thrive both personally and professionally and there is an all too obvious need to provide individuals and organisations with the means to support mental wellbeing. One important way of doing this is to build a meaningful base of support around you.

My guest on this episode, Mike Pagan believes in helping clients achieve positive mental wealth through building handpicked support networks and helping them unlock significant performance improvements. Mike has worked with entrepreneurs, small businesses, corporate board members and professional sportsmen and women, domestically and internationally.

He is a coach, author of four books and a non-executive director. He is the first to admit that his approach is not a standard one, he can be blunt, direct, honest and open where necessary. His Book ‘Mental Wealth: Unlock your potential, enrich your life’ is available for purchase here:https://www.mikepagan.com/mentalwealthbook orAvailable on Amazon Now

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We all know that getting a good night’s sleep is a vital part of peak performance. Without it we are more likely to be short tempered, easily distracted and make poor decisions. Recent research showing how much is spent on sleep medication and sleep aids every year in Europe and America only goes to support how far people are willing to go to achieve a good night’s sleep.

Back in February 2021 I was fortunate enough to hold a conversation with Yadid Ayzenberg, as part of the Hospitality Resilience Series I co-hosted with Jonathan Humphries and Chris Mumford. At the time Yadid was leading the development of sleep technology at Bose Corporation as their Global Head of Sleep.

Yadid is best described as a curious, thoughtful, energetic, entrepreneurial spirit who has over 20 years’ experience of innovating, creating, building, and scaling consumer products and technology platforms. In 2014 he was co-founder and CTO of the Sync Project, which developed the concept of using music as precision medicine. The Sync Project was eventually acquired by the Bose corporation in 2018. He has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is also one of the major shareholders of Bose Corporation. Bose is a company rooted in cutting edge research, which is one of the reasons the founder, Amart Bose, donated the company to this particular institution.

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In the world of Elite sport the process by which young talent is nurtured, developed, encouraged and supported from eager youth to successful Olympian is a fascinating but challenging journey. I discussed this journey with the Bath and England rugby player, Ruaridh McConnochie in an earlier episode and my guests on this episode discuss this process but from the viewpoint of the Coach. To hear from those who design, deliver and review this incredibly tentative developmental process presents a fascinating opportunity to understand more about performance management.

Chris Atherton and Jack Grundy, both currently working at the RYA, have spent their entire careers getting the very best out of the athletes in their care. For proof of this simply take a look at the GB medal tally for Sailing in the recent Olympic Games.

Chris Atherton is the National Performance Manager for British Youth sailing. Responsible for helping develop sailors from grassroots to Olympic athletes, a process often referred to as ‘the English and UK Talent Pathway’. Jack Grundy, has over 12 years’ experience working within the Talent Pathway as a practitioner and manager for institutions such as Higher Education, Sport England, the English Institute of Sport and other National Governing Bodies. Jack has worked with a great number of athletes from a wide variety of Olympic and para Olympic sports including; Skeleton, wheelchair fencing, triathlon and offshore sailing. He currently manages and delivers the British Youth Sailing Performance Squads, and transition programmes taking athletes from Youth to Olympic Class.

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