Welcome to another episode of Tip Top: Grow Your Business with Metronomics! In today’s episode, host Shannon Byrne Susko is joined by Joe O’Connor, lecturer in sport and exercise science at Munster Technological University, corporate athlete coach, and researcher focused on how health, fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle habits impact C-suite performance. Together, they unpack how elite sport principles, evidence-based performance science, and structured rhythm can help CEOs and leaders perform at a high level without burning out. Discover how successful CEOs, leaders, and entrepreneurs use proven systems, coaching, and community to turn obstacles into growth opportunities.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why “consistency should be your intensity” and how sleep, simple routines, and planned rest create sustainable high performance for ambitious business leaders.

How to think of yourself and your team as “corporate athletes,” using stress–rest oscillation, movement, and basic health habits to boost clarity, creativity, and decision-making.

Practical ways CEOs and leadership teams can build rhythm into their weeks—so they protect their energy, avoid burnout, and extend not just lifespan, but health span and impact.

Whether you’re looking to spark team motivation, drive sustainable growth, or develop your leadership skills, this podcast delivers actionable strategies, expert insights, and inspiring stories to help you thrive.

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About Metronomics

Metronomics partners with CEOs and leadership teams to drive top-line growth through our proven playbook, customized software, and certified coaching community. Metronomics gives CEOs and leadership teams ‘the how’ behind establishing and reinforcing behaviors that get results. The Metronomics playbook brings together knowledge and insights from the best business thought leaders of our time. And this playbook has been proven as a complete, repeatable system for growth. Metronomics now has 80+ certified coaches teaming up with CEO and Leadership teams across the world to ensure the areas of focus - strategy, execution, cash, people, culture, and leadership - are receiving the right attention for growth. More about the Host: Shannon Susko Metronomics’ founder, Shannon, built and sold two companies less than six years apart – including a sale that ranked in the Top 3 Mid-Market Deals on Wall Street in 2011. Fellow CEOs begged Shannon to share her secret to success, which pulled her out of retirement. This led to Shannon writing three best-selling books and starting a coaching practice. Since then, 80+ coaches have become Metronomics certified and have helped hundreds of businesses across the world to grow.

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