{"podcast":{"title":"Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais","slug":"finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955","podcast_index_feed_id":4955,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/finding-mastery","website_url":"http://www.findingmastery.com","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/1b/7d/32/1e/1b7d321e-8d97-4243-9e9d-cfa87fdd2355/80a942c601e5aa10075b1f6a0a7ebd2a417522904e0a5f78d5e0fdd3f887bb13ee819e380f7c4c76626bc328d9ddd463c0be3400081e4e9131546757d7b71035.jpeg","author":"Dr. Michael Gervais","episode_count":633,"summary":"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. Gervais sits down with the best at what they do, like David Goggins, Brene Brown, Toto Wolff, soccer legend Abby Wambach, neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella — translating their life stories, mental skills, and personal practices into applicable tools you can use to unlock your potential. Walk with us to the edge of human possibility and learn what you are capable of. New episodes every Wednesday.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T06:20:11.791859+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955"},"episode":{"title":"The Psychology Of Building Team Culture | Eddie Jones","slug":"the-psychology-of-building-team-culture-eddie-jones","published_at":"2026-07-08T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955/the-psychology-of-building-team-culture-eddie-jones","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955","url":"https://findingmastery.com/podcasts/eddie-jones","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/120/rss.art19.com/episodes/c44ab3df-ec40-4d5e-a687-58ea57e7e2db.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"How do great leaders build teams to become who they're capable of becoming, and prepare them to handle their emotions when the pressure is highest? Eddie Jones is one of the most accomplished coaches in world rugby. He has led Australia, England, and Japan on the international stage, and guided Japan to one of the greatest upsets in rugby history at the 2015 World Cup. He has built a career on turning teams around, creating pressure, and challenging more from the people he leads. There is a fine line in that work. Too little challenge and we never understand who we can become. Too much and we create the wrong conditions to explore. That line has not always been easy to walk. Eddie’s demanding methods have drawn criticism over the years, and his exits from England in 2022 and Australia in 2023 came under intense public scrutiny... a chapter he alludes to here when he describes the mistake of letting the noise come down on top of him. In this conversation with Dr. Michael Gervais, Eddie walks through how he builds team identity, starting with a picture in his head of how a team could play and then closing the gap between that vision and the group in front of him. He explains why he keeps training about 70% successful, so the 30% of failure becomes the learning, and why training should always be harder than the game. He makes the case that immediate, private feedback beats public humiliation every time, and that the best coaches ask far more questions than they answer. Eddie also talks about understanding the individual, why coaching has shifted from team-based to one-on-one, and how a single moment of feeling important from a coach 30 years ago still moves him today. He opens up struggles he has faced with his own emotions, the mistakes he has made, the generation that t…","meta_description":"How do great leaders build teams to become who they're capable of becoming, and prepare them to handle their emotions when the pressure is highest? Eddie…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4695,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955/episodes/the-psychology-of-building-team-culture-eddie-jones/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955/the-psychology-of-building-team-culture-eddie-jones.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}