Pressure doesn’t arrive politely. It doesn’t wait for confidence. It shows up when something matters.
For sports psychologist Dr Lisa Martin, the work isn’t about removing pressure or silencing the mind. It’s about understanding what happens when the moment tightens — and staying available rather than overwhelmed.
Through her work with elite athletes, including Ironman champion Ali Day, she’s seen how hypnosis, imagery, language, and expectation shape performance long before the moment arrives. The words used in preparation often become the voice people hear under pressure.
Pressure doesn’t ask you to feel ready. It asks what you’ve trained.
2:00 Imagery with Ali Day & why language matters
10:00 Hypnosis, pain, and what’s misunderstood
17:00 What “being ready” really means — and why most people aren’t
22:00 Pressure as a storm: run from it or step into it
30:00 ACT vs CBT and why acceptance beats control
38:00 Working with negative thoughts, values, and simple frameworks
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What is Performance Intelligence?
There's IQ. There's EQ. Introducing PQ. All things human performance with PQ founder, Andrew May, exploring the latest in human performance with an all-star cast of subject matter experts covering physical and psychological wellbeing, performance psychology, sport, business, entertainment, the performing arts, leadership, and science.
Learn valuable lessons that can be applied to optimising performance in your personal and professional life. Performance Intelligence applies to the way we turn up in relationships and the way we turn up at work, it applies to the way we perform in front of 10,000 people and the way we perform in front of one.