

Total Mental Performance
Kyran O'Neill
The TMP podcast is for business owners, high achievers and coaches who want to harness their most powerful asset: their mind.
Join our Founder Kyran O'Neill, a leading Mental Performance Consultant based in Dubai, UAE for interviews with top performers revealing practical insights to break mental barriers and harness peak performance.
If you'd like to learn more about Mental Performance Consultancy with Kyran, check out the below resources
www.kyranoneill.com
www.totalmentalperformance.com
Apply for coaching 👇
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Join our Founder Kyran O'Neill, a leading Mental Performance Consultant based in Dubai, UAE for interviews with top performers revealing practical insights to break mental barriers and harness peak performance.
If you'd like to learn more about Mental Performance Consultancy with Kyran, check out the below resources
www.kyranoneill.com
www.totalmentalperformance.com
Apply for coaching 👇
https://link.systemisedtoscale.com/widget/form/toEAREUSx1uuzmSSVwfl
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Feb 12, 2023 • 55min
Christian Chapman - Delivering a World-Class Coaching Service
Christian Chapman is the co-founder of the @physiquecollective.
Our first interaction together went a little like this:
Kyran: Would love to have you on the podcast sometime brother, happy to shoot over zoom or if you ever have plans to be in Dubai
Christian: Give me a date, I’ll fly in
Kyran: Does this week work for you?
Christian: Flights booked, see you then.
We’ll dive into:
- Christian's eventful journey from hospitality business, through car sales, to a thriving coaching business with well over 100+ clients
- How Christian and Kyran harness their ADHD and use it as a super power
- Christian's recipe for being motivated and “on it”.
- How we can be persuaded into feeling like a loser and how to change it.
- What are 3 main reasons holding people back from reaching peak performance?
- How both, TMP and Physique Collective use network effect to change thousands of lives
- Using your personality to attract clients
- Slowing down to speed up

Jan 23, 2023 • 34min
Conor Carlson - Consistency, Discipline & World-Class Standards
Conor Carlson is the co-founder of Team Accomplish. Conor's team is building a community of powerful individuals by unlocking their true potential.
In today's episode we'll explore:
- How consistency and discipline brought Conor into fitness coaching
- Kyran's secret of becoming world-class coach right when you start
- How to start with no pressure yet HIGH standards (and the revenue will take care of itself)
- How Conor built confidence before taking his life to the next level and moving to Dubai
- Delivery vs Business and how to balance them to thrive
- 3 exact steps on how to communicate your value to yourself and have the confidence to charge what you're really worth
- Challenges and advantages of running business with a partner
- What world-class coaches focus on
- Conor shares some of the challenges that fitness entrepreneurs who have teams face
- How to reduce your anxiety around sales and numbers

Jan 9, 2023 • 46min
Paul Standell - What Even Is The Fucking Point?
The TMP Podcast is back for 2023!
Today’s guest is Paul Standell, founder of the PT project and expert in bio-mechanics.
- Beating OCD at 26
- How to leverage your dark energy and make it your fuel
- An existential exploration into what is the fucking point?
- How to be authentically you
Dive into this episode by following the link in the bio.

Dec 18, 2022 • 28min
Dan Martin - How to break the 20-30 client plateau mentality
Stuck at 20 - 30 clients?
Looking to push on to holding a 50 - 75 client business consistently?
Our entry level TMP Evolution Program Leader Dan Martin and I discuss some of the common mental performance puzzles that stop you from getting there.
- Guilt & shame and how to overcome it.
- Fear of losing control and how it doesn't let you grow
- How to use fear like fire?
- Fear of it all coming crashing out
- Do you even need to scale? If yes, WHY? If no, how to own it and fully enjoy it.
- Using dark energy as your vehicle, but changing it before it burns you out.
Tune in to explore this together.

Dec 12, 2022 • 39min
Lewis McFarlane - Money Mindset - From Scarcity to Powerful Abundance
Our today’s guest is evolution client Lewis McFarlane. Lewis is the founder of the Peak Performance Project. He helps ambitious lads in their 20’s unfuck themselves, break the shit cycle and build a world class physique.
We’re speaking to Lewis having just completed his Foundations phase (the first) of his TMP.
We’ll dive into:
How Lewis overcame his scarcity mindset and started owning it
How scarcity mindset doesn’t let you fully enjoy your life and coaching
How Lewis turned his sales calls into connection calls and signed more clients at higher prices.
Becoming magnetic to attract the clients you will LOVE
Kyran’s take on what separates “winners” from “losers”
How to behave your way into a fulfilling and successful life

Dec 4, 2022 • 48min
Louis Calvert - Being powerfully authentic
This episode’s a heavy one…
One of my best mate’s Louis Calvert, Founder of the Power Project and Men’s coach in a HUGE episode today.
We grew up together, boxed together, partied together, travelled together and loved / hated each other in many ways.
This is arguably the deepest episode to our personal story and the story of TMP being born, he was there from the very start.
We'll dive into:
- How bodybuilding gave Louis sense of mission
- How TMP's first paid client was found in the Irish pub in Spain
- How the coaching style and mission of our boxing coach Martin set Louis and Kyran up for becoming leaders
- Boxing Club being the nest of most Louis's and Kyran's mindset wins
- Authenticity. And how being on the right frequency attracts the right people
- Louis felt like he needed to be muscular and I needed to fight to be loved
Join us by following the link in the bio.

Nov 27, 2022 • 34min
Ruchita Davda - From Dentist, to Coach, to Fitness Entrepeneur
TMP super client Chita has gone through a massive career and identity shift evolving from dentist to a thriving online coach. It was a pretty bumpy road, but Chita grafted through it.
We'll dive into:
- How Chita got her first fitness client
- Chita's massive identity crisis and how she managed to navigate through it
- Kyran's identity crisis and how he felt after giving up boxing
- How Chita crafted and connected deeper with her WHY
- Chita's journey to discover the reason behind her feeling she had to "PUSH-PUSH-PUSH" all the time
- How Chita got to the understanding "She's enough" and built solid boundaries to protect her downtime
- Chita's deep work helping her own her story

Nov 14, 2022 • 41min
Dan Martin - Addiction, Corporate Competition and Performance
Today we are joined by our very own Dan Martin.
Dan is one of our Mental Performance Coaches who leads our entry level one to one coaching programme for coaches at the 30 - 50 client mark looking to take their performance and their business leadership to another league.
Dan will share insights from his own journey with 9 years of B2B Sales Background, leading teams, and successfully overcoming 9-year-long addiction.
We will explore:
Dan’s life journey and how being adopted influenced his life
How Covid 19 made Dan face and overcome his addiction
Most common addictions in coaches
What’s the only sustainable source of validation
How to optimise your life and coaching for joy
How to leverage self-doubt to help you in your coaching career
How to rule your life instead of your emotions ruling you.
How to stay in the coaching game
How exactly TMP takes coaches from overwhelmed to thriving

Oct 31, 2022 • 39min
Archie Gravenor - Totally Mental Evolution
Free Masterclass "How to Sell & Coach Like a Therapist. Register here: http://free-masterclass.totalmentalperformance.com/how-to-sell-like-a-therapist
Our today's guest is TMP super coach Archie Gravenor. Archie is the founder of Optimised Entrepreneur. He's helping entrepreneurs get in the best physical & mental shape of their lives.
Archie has come a hell of a long way here at TMP. He started in our Academy group coaching programme (for coaches at 20 clients looking to get to 50+) 12 months ago barely breaking even. With the tools and mindset shifts he made, particularly around sales he was able 5x his business.
Moving on from there he took graduated and then upgrade into our signature one to one Evolution programme. He has evolved himself to an entirely different league emotionally, financially and as a leader.
We'll dive into:
- How Archie began online coaching business when he had 0 clients
- How Archie conquered sales anxiety turning sales calls into connection calls (and increasing his conversion rate from 40% to 90%)
- How to sell your coaching without twisting the knife
- Framework to reduce your anxiety around client drop-offs (how to tell client's "graduation" from your under-delivery as a coach)
- How Archie gained clarity of thinking & decision making
- Three things that COMPLETELY changed the game for Archie
- Small vital things Kyran does DAILY to feel grounded
- Deep mindset issues behind the procrastination and how to resolve them
- How to approach mindset motivation for it to enrich you, rather then burn you out

Oct 23, 2022 • 42min
MJ Lennon - Boxing, Resilience, and Changing lives
Our today's guest in MJ Lennon. MJ is the Head dude of ECA Global Academy, owner of ECA Gym in Belfast. Also, he helps fitness professionals become entrepreneurs.
MJ will share his exciting story from working in his father's pub in Belfast to opening his own facility and, eventually, a consulting business.
We'll dive into:
- Fighting and business being the best personal development tools
- How MJ opened his own gym 11 years ago
- How MJs and Kyran’s boxing background make business feel easy
- How sport helps in regulating your mindset and getting confidence
- How fitness brings up the best in people
- What is pressure? And who makes us feel it?
- Why MJ Lennon enjoys so much working in fitness industry