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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais
Mental Health
Leadership
Resilience
Mindfulness
High Performance
Emotional Intelligence
Relationships
Personal Growth
Creativity
Olympics
NFL
Parenting
Self-Improvement
Olympic Games
Meditation
Super Bowl
Empathy
Performance Psychology
Team Dynamics
Mental Resilience

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. Ger... more

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Recent Guests

Ross Szabo
Leading youth mental health educator; founder of Human Power Project; UCLA Geffen Academy wellness director
Geffen Academy at UCLA
Episode: The Psychology of Youth Mental Health | Ross Szabo
Dr. Stacy Sims
Exercise physiologist, nutrition scientist, author of Roar and Next Level
Episode: Women Are Not Small Men | Dr Stacy Sims
Eddie Jones
World Rugby coach known for turning teams around
England national rugby union team; Japan rugby team
Episode: The Psychology Of Building Team Culture | Eddie Jones
Daniel J. Siegel
Harvard-trained clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA, neuroscientist, author
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Episode: The Psychology Of Parenting | Dr. Dan Siegel
Valter Longo
Professor and Director of the Longevity Institute at USC, author of The Longevity Diet and Fasting Cancer
USC Longevity Institute
Episode: The Psychology of Fighting Cancer | Dr Valter Longo
Mike Macdonald
Head coach of the Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Seahawks
Episode: The Psychology Of Winning The Super Bowl | Seattle Seahawks Coach Mike Macdonald
Lisa Miller
Clinical psychologist, professor at Columbia University, author of The Awakened Brain
Columbia University
Episode: The Psychology Of Spirituality | Dr. Lisa Miller
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Molecular biologist, mindfulness pioneer, founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Episode: The Psychology of Awareness | Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mark Manson
Best-selling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*** and Everything is F***
Author
Episode: The Psychology Of Not Giving A F*ck | Mark Manson

Reviews

4.6 out of 5 stars from 2.9k ratings
  • Great Conversation

    I love this podcast. I want to make a note in Mike’s recent interview. Him speaking about why he did not go for Ivy League baseball. I feel like there was a missing piece in his belief system of his parents. Children can’t not chase their dreams unless it’s an agreement on the parents part as well. When you’re a child you can’t see how your current decisions will affect your future, but the adults in your life can. As a mother, if my child has a dream and wants to do all the little mundane thing... more

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Danshmell
    United Statesa month ago
  • Always a great podcast!

    Michael has a great way of asking probing questions to get more out of his guests for the listener. I love the way he makes me stop and think and all I learn from the wide variety of guests.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Benhockeycoach
    Canada3 months ago
  • Always learning

    I have been listening to Finding Mastery since the start and I learn something new with every episode. Dr. Mike is able to create great conversations that make it feel like I’m in the room with them.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Calendar maven
    United States4 months ago
  • Dr. Gervais

    Dear Michael,

    I just listened to that episode you did with Nir Eyal on belief’s. I just wanted to tell you that I found this to be very true because in the past, I was having some difficulty falling asleep.

    I did not want to get into the whole medication thing. So what I did was take a white Tick Tack (knowing that it was placebo, but hoping it would work to give me some shut eye). To my amazement it did. Even though I knew it was a placebo.

    Alison Schuback

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Ali Schuback
    United States5 months ago
  • Dr. Gervais

    I love the Gottman’s (Julie and Jon). What great information to go into the new year with. Alison Schuback

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Ali Schuback
    United States7 months ago

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Thought-provoking and deeply actionable insights for personal and professional life.
Guests bring a rare mix of rigor and real-world experience.
The show excels at extracting practical mental-skills from elite performance stories.
Some listeners note frequent sponsor reads and desire for more guest talk time.
Consistently high-quality conversations that push listeners to reflect and act.

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The Psychology of Youth Mental Health | Ross Szabo
Q: What does mental health mean to you and how should we define it for everyday use?
Mental health is about how we address challenges in life, not the absence of problems; it involves awareness, vocabulary for feelings, and concrete coping strategies that can be practiced and improved over time.
The Psychology Of Building Team Culture | Eddie Jones
Q: What is your method for addressing performance under pressure?
Acknowledge the pressure, rehearse handling it in training, and use private, immediate feedback to guide players toward the right behavior without public humiliation.
The Psychology Of Building Team Culture | Eddie Jones
Q: How do you approach building identity for a team?
You blend the end-in-mind picture with the current group by evaluating both the historical context and present realities, then fill the gaps with targeted leadership, culture, and training behaviors.
Women Are Not Small Men | Dr Stacy Sims
Q: What is the core difference between training women and training men?
Stacy Sims emphasizes tailoring training to women's physiology, including responses to circadian rhythms, hormone fluctuations, and muscle adaptations, rather than applying male-centric data. Training should account for different VO2 thresholds, hormonal cycles, and nutrition timing to optimize outcomes.
The Psychology Of Spirituality | Dr. Lisa Miller
Q: How protective is personal spirituality against mental health disorders according to Miller's findings?
High personal spirituality with or without religion provides strong protective effects, including around 80% protection against addiction and about 82% protection against completed suicide in the data analyzed.

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This show centers on elite performance, mindset, and practical psychology, featuring deep-dive conversations with athletes, researchers, executives, and thought leaders. Episodes explore high-performance habits, resilience, decision-making under pressure, and the mindset shifts that drive sustained excellence across domains such as sports, leadership, entrepreneurship, and wellness. Notable strengths include evidence-based frameworks, actionable techniques, and a candid, curiosity-driven interviewing style that often ties personal stories to universal performance principles. A standout trait is the breadth of guests—from Olympic champions to happiness researchers and behavioral scientists—giving listeners a broad toolkit for personal and pr... more

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