From Recruitment to Racing: An Insightful Conversation with Nick Day

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From Recruitment to Racing: An Insightful Conversation with Nick Day

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This episode explores how fear, ambition, and identity shape performance in sport, leadership, and life. Through stories from endurance sport, entrepreneurship, parenting, and coaching, the conversation examines why driven people struggle with balance, how fear disguises itself as wisdom, and how clarity of purpose enables sustained high performance without regret. The discussion introduces a practical framework—the “fear equation”—and reframes failure, recovery, and courage as skills that can be trained rather than traits you either have or don’t have. 00:03 – Background in sport, business, and coaching 09:30 – Identity, ambition, and always needing a goal 12:40 – Burnout, plateaus, and changing pursuits 15:05 – Recovery as an extreme, not moderation 20:10 – Why fear demands understanding, not avoidance 22:15 – The Fear Equation explained 26:40 – Fear of success vs. fear of failure 30:45 – Reframing failure and public judgment 36:00 – Values conflict: work success vs. family presence 45:55 – Paying the “fear tax” over a lifetime

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