Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dive into the minds of the world’s greatest athletes, leaders, thinkers, and doers with Dr. Michael Gervais—a high performance psychologist and world-renowned expert on the relationship between high performance and the mind. Dr. Gervais’s client roster includes Super Bowl winning NFL teams, Fortune 50 CEOs, Olympic medalists, internationally acclaimed artists, and more.
On Finding Mastery, Dr. Gervais sits down with the best at what they do, like David Goggins, Brene Brown, Toto Wolff, soccer legend Abby Wambach, neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella — translating their life stories, mental skills, and personal practices into applicable tools you can use to unlock your potential.
Walk with us to the edge of human possibility and learn what you are capable of. New episodes every Wednesday.
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 72 minutes
- Episodes
- 573
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Microsoft EVP Judson Althoff on Striving for Excellence and Finding Balance
Judson Althoff is executive vice president of Microsoft’s Worldwide Commercial Business organization.
He leads the company’s commercial business strategy and over 40k people across the globe in a wh…
01:14:28 |
Wed 13 Sep 2017
Executive John Nordstrom on Building Corporate Culture, Relationships, Authenticity
This conversation is with John Nordstrom -- of the Nordstrom high-quality fashion retailer in the US -- whose history has gone from a small shoe store, to having over 350 large luxury department stor…
00:42:36 |
Wed 06 Sep 2017
Dr. Albert Bandura on The Theory on Creating Human Results
This conversation is with Dr. Albert Bandura.
This conversation was an honor. He's literally a living legend in the field of Psychology -- He's an extraordinarily innovative scholar whose work in so…
01:14:22 |
Wed 30 Aug 2017
English Cricketer Alec Stewart on Authenticity, Work Ethic, and Vision
In these conversations, it's my intent to really dig, relentlessly dig, to work to understand the truth. The truth of the nature of the conversation, but also the truth of the person.
And opening up…
00:51:28 |
Wed 23 Aug 2017
Texas Basketball Head Coach Shaka Smart on Bringing Out The Best in Others
Shaka Smart is the Men’s Basketball Head Coach at the University of Texas and he's got a phenomenal way about himself.
It just jumps out of this conversation how much he cares about other people, ho…
01:36:38 |
Wed 16 Aug 2017
Major MJ Hegar on Escaping Death, Remaining Calm, and Trusting Self
First - real quick if you haven’t heard yet, we are pivoting from an ad-supported model to a crowdfunding model and we really need your support!
You can learn more at findingmastery.net/support - it…
01:29:28 |
Wed 09 Aug 2017
Golden State Warriors President Rick Welts on Culture, Leadership, Alignment
This conversation is with Rick Welts.
He has 40 years of experience in the NBA and is currently the President & Chief Operating Officer of the Golden State Warriors who have just won their second ch…
01:38:55 |
Mon 24 Jul 2017
Dr. Harry Edwards on Human Rights, Sport and Society
This conversation is loaded. The center of the conversation is Dr. Harry Edwards journey to impact human rights through the experiences of the African American athlete.
Often times when people are a…
01:36:22 |
Mon 17 Jul 2017
Siri Co-Founder Adam Cheyer on Having a Vision, Approaching Insurmountable Challenges, and Authenticity
If you have an iPhone, you know Adam Cheyer's work. He was the Co-Founder of Siri, Inc.
He's now the Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Viv Labs.
Their mission is to: Radically simplify the world …
01:19:17 |
Mon 10 Jul 2017
Author Jon Gordon on Team Building, Relationships, Connection
Jon Gordon is a best-selling author: including The Energy Bus, The Carpenter, Training Camp, The Seed, You Win in the Locker Room First and The No Complaining Rule…..and his newest book: the power of…
01:10:26 |
Mon 26 Jun 2017
Author Wendy Behary on Narcissism and High Performance
Wendy Behary is a founding fellow and consulting supervisor for The Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Aaron T. Beck Institute). Wendy has a specialty in treating narcissists and the people who live with …
01:10:57 |
Mon 19 Jun 2017
Psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman on Authenticity, Creativity, and Confidence
Scott Barry Kaufman is primarily interested in using solid psychological science to live a creative, fulfilling, and meaningful life. He's earned his research chops -- He received a Ph.D. in cognitiv…
01:22:38 |
Thu 08 Jun 2017
SportsCenter Anchor Lisa Kerney on Growth Mindset, Vision, Being Present
Lisa Kerney is an anchor of the evening and night editions of SportsCenter. In this conversation we learn what it's like to have a childhood dream -- and -- more importantly how to make decisions tha…
00:53:34 |
Wed 31 May 2017
Warrior Tu Lam on Warfare, Service, Survival
This conversation is with Tu Lam. Tu is a modern day warrior, respected by his peers to have a very special understanding of elite war fighting. Tu shares how he was raised as a warrior. This convers…
01:30:43 |
Wed 24 May 2017
In Remembrance: Tottenham U23 Coach Ugo Ehiogu
This conversation is with Ugo Ehiogu, whom I just met in Great Britain. He was a former English professional footballer. If you're in the states you would call him a soccer player.
He had a long car…
00:32:26 |
Mon 15 May 2017
Stanford Professor Tina Seelig on Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Tina Seelig is a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Management Science and Engineering, and a Faculty Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University School of…
01:30:39 |
Thu 11 May 2017
Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport Toto Wolff on Risk, Innovation, and Winning
This conversation is with Toto Wolff. If you follow Formula One, you know what Toto has helped build over the past handful of years. He's an owner and the Executive Director of the Mercedes AMG Petro…
00:52:10 |
Wed 26 Apr 2017
GRAMMY Winner Nile Rodgers on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Music, Collaboration
This conversation is with Nile Rodgers. If you've listened to music in the last 40 years, you've heard his work. By trade, he's a musician and a producer -- He's a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of…
01:28:44 |
Wed 12 Apr 2017
Google Pioneer Chade-Meng Tan on Joy at Scale & Global Peace
Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is a Google pioneer, award-winning engineer, international bestselling author, thought leader and philanthropist. He retired from Google as its Jolly Good Fellow at the age of 4…
01:22:56 |
Wed 05 Apr 2017
Sleep Expert Pat Byrne on Sleep Science & Leveraging Technology
This conversation with Pat Byrne is really about the building of an entrepreneurial venture based on sleep technology. The importance of getting quality sleep is a well accepted principle, research b…
01:20:15 |
Wed 29 Mar 2017
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