Winning Minds With Wilkinson
Winning Minds With Wilkinson is the podcast for athletes, coaches, and business leaders who want to master the inner game and consistently perform at their best.
Hosted by performance coach and budding sports psychologist David Wilkinson, this show goes into the mental skills, mindset shifts, and psychological tools that enable consistent, peak performance in the world of sport, business and coaching.
From solo episodes packed with practical strategies to real, no-fluff conversations with elite performers, industry leaders, and consultants, you'll learn how to develop your mental skills and put them into practice. Areas such as resilience, focus, self-awareness, anxiety, confidence, leadership and clarity under pressure, to name a few.
If you’re serious about high performance, mastering your craft, and building a winning mindset — you’re in the right place.
- Update frequency
- every 28 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 21
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
#20 Inside the Mind of a Modern Footballer - Coleby Shephard.
In this episode, I sit down with professional footballer and coach Coleby Shepherd, someone I’ve known since he was a teenager, when I used to train him at my gym.
From never touching alcohol to inve…
#19 Can’t Stay Motivated? Here’s What’s Really Going On
Can’t Stay Motivated and being consistent? Here’s What’s Really Going On
How hidden patterns, burnout, and perfectionism are getting in your way.
In this solo episode, I’m breaking down the real reason…
#18 From Surviving to Performing: Helenlee’s Story of Inner Work, Creativity & Building a Business with Purpose
In this powerful and personal episode, I sit down with my wife, Helenlee — a high-performing woman, mother, wife, and business owner — who shares her story with honesty.
We go into her story of survi…
How to handle people and situations when feeling trigged, frustrated and stressed
For this episode, I took a question for a client and regular listener of the show.
His question was - How do we move forward when faced with chaos?
To add some context, he wants to know how to move for…
#16 What Do You Want? Why 92% of People Can't Answer This Question
This may sound a little controversial coming from a coach who lives and operates in a world where it's about goal setting and achieving goals, where often the first question asked by a coach is - Wha…
#15 Graham Marsh - How Raising Self-Worth Inspired Business Profits and Team Culture
My intention for my interview-style sessions is to invite my clients as guests so they can share their stories. They will share their business journey, their highs and lows, and how coaching has supp…
#14 Nick Williams From Burned Out Stockbroker to Successful Entrepreneur
My intention for my interview-style sessions is to invite my clients as guests so they can share their stories. They will share their business journey, their highs and lows, and how coaching has supp…
#013 Master The Mindset of Elite Performance
This episode is a little different because I’m not going to discuss one subject area in depth…
I’m actually going to share the top 9 things I have learned this year about performance, mindset and pers…
#012 Struggling With Self Worth and Not Feeling Enough, Here's What to Do!
The topic of self-worth and not feeling good enough will speak to almost everyone.
The challenge is when it affects us achieving the results and outcomes we want for our lives; for most people, this …
#011 How to Build a High Performing Team - Special Joint Episode with Tom Cockerill
I sit down with Tom Cockerill. Tom is co-owner and director of group sales for Cockerill & Co group, which specialises in mentoring, sales, and training for flooring companies worldwide. He is also c…
#10 Ian Proctor - Building a Business, Handling Heartbreak and Achieving Flow State
My intention for my interview-style sessions is to showcase to the listeners the impact coaching can have on our performance and, when done correctly, how it can unlock our true potential.
So, I want…
#09 Why we should STOP trying to solve our problems and do "this" instead
In episode 9 I talk you through PROBLEMS and why what we think our problems are aren't real!
Most people don't have a problem. This is a bold statement to make, and in this episode, I will explain wh…
#08 Trevor Pill - How To Optimise Culture, Leadership and Work/Life Balance in Business
My intention for my interview-style sessions is to showcase to the listeners the impact coaching can have on our performance and, when done correctly, how it can unlock our true potential.
So, I want…
#07 How to Deal With Anxiety and Reclaim Inner Peace
We all know the detrimental effects anxiety can have on us; it can affect our mental health, wellbeing, creativity, and performance.
With so much written about it and more people being aware of it, w…
#06 Why Living And Leading Authentically Is The Key To Success
In episode 6 of the Unleash Your Potential podcast, I dive into authenticity, which has been a buzzword for a while, but I feel it has become diluted and its importance lost.
“Once you know who you a…
#05 Peak Performance Unleashed: Daily Habits for Success and Growth
In episode 5 of the Unleash Your Potential podcast I focus on, unleashing your peak performance through daily habits that increase your success and growth.
In this episode I discuss:
- What does unlea…
#04 How to Overcome Feeling Lost or Lacking Direction
In episode 4 of the Unleash Your Potential Podcast, I talk with you about how humans simply can't live at our potential if we don't have a clear direction, purpose or mission. It goes against our pri…
#03 The 4 Words Hurting Your Clarity, Focus and Energy.
In episode 3 of the Unleash Your Potential podcast, I share the 4 everyday words we use that dramatically affect clarity, focus and energy levels by raising our anxiety, stress and pressure levels.
…
#02 How Our Words Create Our World
In episode two of my Unleash Your Potential podcast, I discuss the power of language and the way our words shape our mindset and world.
Language is one way we communicate and it's very powerful. It's…
#01 Why People Miss Out On Their Goals
In this first full episode of the Unleash Your Potential podcast, I will explore why 99% of people don't achieve their biggest goals and why they miss the mark.
It's got nothing to do with willpower,…