Dr Phil Clarke is a performance psychologist and researcher.

Why do athletes lose control of skills they’ve mastered for years? Why does pressure turn automatic movements into chaos? And can you actually train your way out of the yips?

Expect to learn what the yips really are (and how they differ from choking), why perfectionism and fear of judgement make athletes more vulnerable, how psychological and physiological systems interact under pressure, why your internal narrative determines how severe the yips become, how teammates can help or worsen the problem, why pressure training needs to be personalised, how athletes can build a mental “utility belt” to stay composed, and why the yips appear not just in sport, and much more.

00:00 What Are the Yips? Full Explanation

01:15 The Psychology and Neurology Behind the Yips

02:55 Types of Yips: Type 1, Type 2 & Type 3

05:10 Why the First Yips Episode Is So Important

06:55 How Overthinking Causes Skill Breakdown

09:27 Choking vs The Yips: Key Differences

12:55 Panic, Trauma and Loss of Motor Control

14:33 Perfectionism and Fear of Judgement in Athletes

18:06 Who Gets the Yips? Pros vs Amateurs

20:05 How Your Internal Story Creates Anxiety

22:33 Socially Prescribed Perfectionism Explained

29:15 How Expectations Increase Pressure in Sport

31:57 Can You Recover From the Yips?

35:17 Best Coping Strategies for the Yips

36:41 EMDR Therapy: Does It Work for the Yips?

38:57 Mental Skills That Reduce Performance Anxiety

42:08 How Teammates and Coaches Should Support the Yips

49:45 Challenge vs Threat: Performing Under Pressure

55:35 Why “Be Fearless” Is Bad Advice for Athletes

1:00:36 How to Train Under Pressure (Yips Simulation)

1:12:13 Personalised Pressure Training for Athletes

1:21:33 The Yips Outside Sport (Music, Speaking, Aviation)

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Dr. Warren Farrell is the author of The Boy Crisis, Why Men Earn More, and Role Mate to Soul Mate. So why are so many boys struggling in school, dropping out, and feeling lost in life? Why are suicide rates among men four times higher than women? And why do so few people seem willing to talk about it?Expect to learn why fatherlessness is the single biggest predictor of male struggles, what “dad deprivation” really does to boys, and how the empathy gap between men and women makes it harder to have honest conversations, why many men are emotionally unavailable, what the “happy wife, happy life” myth gets wrong, and how we can start to rebuild healthy relationships between men and women.00:00 – Why young men are struggling today03:00 – Fatherlessness and “dad deprivation”07:00 – How family breakdown affects boys and girls differently10:30 – What is The Boy Crisis?13:00 – Male suicide rates and mental health gaps16:00 – Why it’s so hard to talk about men’s issues18:00 – The empathy gap explained22:00 – “I wish I wasn’t born male” – the identity crisis in boys26:00 – Feminism, pay gaps, and reframing male privilege34:00 – The difference between male privilege and male responsibility43:00 – How communication breakdown leads to divorce and the boy crisis60:00 – Emotional unavailability in men and where it comes from74:00 – Sport, suppression, and emotional unavailability78:00 – Creating emotional safety in relationships83:00 – What makes a good man85:00 – The importance of fatherhood and role models87:00 – Where to find Dr. Warren Farrell’s work

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Dr. Sami Timimi is a consultant psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and author of Searching for Normal.

Why does it feel like everyone suddenly has ADHD or autism? Are we medicalising normal life? And what if the mental health crisis isn’t biological—but cultural?

Expect to learn why ADHD and autism were never true medical diagnoses, how mental health labels became lifelong identities, why resilience can’t be taught but must be lived, how therapy culture breeds learned helplessness, why “mental health awareness” may be harming kids, how social media glamorises illness, and why reclaiming responsibility is the antidote to a culture obsessed with being unwell.

00:00 – Intro: Why everyone seems to have ADHD
01:00 – The rise of ADHD, autism and mental health diagnoses
03:00 – Are psychiatric disorders real medical conditions?
06:30 – How ADHD and autism expanded from rare to common
11:40 – Why people hold onto mental health labels
14:00 – The history of ADHD and “upside-down science”
18:30 – How adult ADHD became a global identity
24:30 – The link between diagnosis and identity politics
30:00 – The danger of victimhood and loss of resilience
35:00 – Why resilience can’t be taught—it must be lived
39:30 – How overprotection creates learned helplessness
43:00 – The false relief of a diagnosis
48:00 – Why mental health became a brand
52:00 – The beauty of diversity and human uniqueness
57:00 – How to build resilience through experience
1:00:00 – Parents, coaches, and raising mentally strong kids
1:02:00 – Why “mental health awareness” may harm children
1:06:00 – Autism rates are skyrocketing—what’s behind it
1:09:30 – Redefining what “normal” really means
1:13:00 – From mental health to mental strength
1:15:00 – How focusing on problems creates more problems
1:20:00 – Reframing problems as skills to learn
1:22:00 – Can we recover from over-diagnosing society?
1:24:00 – Pushback from psychiatry and the mental health industry
1:27:00 – Technology, distraction, and social media’s impact
1:32:00 – The glamorisation of mental illness online

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