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The Performance Psychcast

The Performance Psychcast

By: Greg Parry & George Mitchell
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Welcome to our podcast around the mental side of performance, both in sport and business. Your hosts are Greg Parry from Arcope and George Mitchell from FocusPerform. Here we will speak to a variety of guests such as sportspeople, sports psychologists, members of the army, businesspeople, so basically anywhere where psychology can be applied to mental health and performance. We are hoping to shed a light on what it is like to work in performance psychology and how it can be applied to the individual and the real world. www.arcope.co.uk www.focusperform.co.uk Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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  • The Performance Psychcast - Episode 59 - Trauma / PTSD in Athletes - Dr Aura Goldman
    May 13 2025

    Dr Aura Goldman is a practitioner psychologist specialising in trauma-informed psychotherapy for high performers. Chartered by the BPS and accredited with the HCPC, BASES and NCPS, both her practice and academic work is rooted in the psychological and philosophical study of transformation through adversity. She has worked with a wide range of high-performing clients including elite athletes, medics and first responders, entrepreneurs, and academics. Aura integrates Somatic Experiencing, ACT, and Person-Centred Therapy to help clients resolve trauma, reconnect with their bodies, and perform from a place of alignment rather than survival.

    Aura: https://www.linkedin.com/in/auragoldman?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

    Website: https://auragoldman.co.uk

    Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

    George: www.focuperform.co.uk

    The online directory of sport performance specialists. Sportingbounce helps connect specialists in sport psychology, nutrition, sports massage, injury rehabilitation, coaching, and fitness training s with clients. With a daily spend on Google Adwords, social media advertising, and excellent organic rankings on search engines your business will get found on sporting bounce. Visit sportingbounce.com to find out how sporting bounce can help you. Don’t forget that listeners of this podcast can get 50% off the Premium membership package by entering the code performance, that’s “PERFORMANCE” meaning you get the best possible coverage for less than 20 pence a day!

    Sequoia Books:

    This week’s episode is sponsored by a book! ADHD in Sport, by Dr Josephine Perry.

    ADHD in Sport: Strategies for Success illuminates the ADHD brain in sporting environments, looks at the benefits of exercise on ADHD, the impact of ADHD traits on sporting performance, has chapters full of tools to help wellbeing, training and competition, information on co-occurring conditions and ADHD medication in sport and concludes with chapters for coaches, parents and partners to help them successfully support and scaffold.

    If you have ADHD (or spend time with those who do) then this book will give you tools, techniques and strategies to thrive and succeed in sport.

    The book is published by Sequoia Books & is available via all platforms and the Sequoia website at www.sequoia-books.com/catalog/adhd use code bases30 for 30% discount via the Sequoia site. Also take a look at the site for many more sport & psychology based publications, where the discount applies to all sports books!

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    49 mins
  • The Performance Psychcast - Episode 58 - ADHD in Sport - Dr Josephine Perry
    Apr 1 2025

    Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Dr Josie Perry.

    Dr Josephine Perry is a Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist who runs Performance in Mind, a consultancy focused on helping people accomplish more than they had previously believed possible. She integrates expertise in sport psychology and communications to support athletes, stage performers and business leaders to develop the approaches, mental skills and strategies which will help them achieve their ambitions. She has worked with athletes across 28 different sports, a whole range of professions and has published six books including Performing under Pressure, The 10 Pillars of Success and ADHD in Sport.

    Josie’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephine-perry-2460655/

    Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

    George: www.focuperform.co.uk

    The online directory of sport performance specialists. Sportingbounce helps connect specialists in sport psychology, nutrition, sports massage, injury rehabilitation, coaching, and fitness training s with clients. With a daily spend on Google Adwords, social media advertising, and excellent organic rankings on search engines your business will get found on sporting bounce. Visit sportingbounce.com to find out how sporting bounce can help you. Don’t forget that listeners of this podcast can get 50%

    off the Premium membership package by entering the code performance, that’s “PERFORMANCE” meaning you get the best possible coverage for less than 20 pence a day!

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    48 mins
  • The Performance Psychcast - Episode 57 - Reimagining Talent Development in Sport: Seeing a Different World - Dr Andy Borrie & Dr Emily Ryall
    Mar 11 2025

    Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Dr Andy Borrie and Dr Emily Ryall.

    Andy currently splits his time between working as a Senior Lecturer in Coaching and Professional Practice (University of Derby) and running his own consultancy business. Andy’s roots are in applied sport science and high performance sport but he is now consulting on professional development projects across multiple industries as well as leading the professional doctorate programme at UoD. During his applied sport career Andy worked as a consultant on a range of Olympic and Home Country performance programmes. He has also served as a Board member for three UK National Governing Bodies of Sport.

    andy.borrie@ahbconsultancy.co.uk

    a.borrie@derby.ac.uk

    Dr Emily Ryall is a world-renowned philosopher on issues related to sports, games and play.

    She has written and lectured on a number of topics over the past 25 years from good governance in sport, the implementation of technology in officiating, the value of games and play as part of a good life, and critical thinking.

    She is author of Philosophy of Sport: Key Questions and Critical Thinking for Sports Students, and co-author of a series of books on the philosophy of play, and is associate editor for the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. She is also on the Rules, Standards and Ethics advisory committee for UK Athletics, and on the Integrity Advisory Board of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES).

    Email: eryall@glos.ac.uk

    Book: https://www.routledge.com/Reimagining-Talent-Development-in-Sport-Seeing-a-Different-World/Borrie-Ryall/p/book/9781032573946

    Discount code for the book 25EFLY1 for 20% off the price.

    Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

    George: www.focuperform.co.uk

    The online directory of sport performance specialists. Sportingbounce helps connect specialists in sport psychology, nutrition, sports massage, injury rehabilitation, coaching, and fitness training s with clients. With a daily spend on Google Adwords, social media advertising, and excellent organic rankings on search engines your business will get found on sporting bounce. Visit sportingbounce.com to find out how sporting bounce can help you. Don’t forget that listeners of this podcast can get 50%

    off the Premium membership package by entering the code performance, that’s “PERFORMANCE” meaning you get the best possible coverage for less than 20 pence a day!

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    57 mins

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