#478 Firefighter Jack Goodwin on Elite Performance, Mental Health & Finding Meaning Beyond Success

About this episode

Jack Goodwin discusses resilience, mental health, and the psychology of high performance from his experience as an elite athlete.

In this episode of The Firefighters Podcast, I sit down with Jack Goodwin for a powerful conversation exploring resilience, trauma, identity, and the psychology of high performance. A Great Britain international athlete with personal bests of 13:35 for 5,000 metres, 29:16 for 10,000 metres, and a 61:05 HYROX time, Jack shares lessons learned from years competing at an elite level and how those experiences shaped his understanding of mental health, discipline, suffering, and purpose. Together,...

People in this episode

Host: Pete Wakefield

Guest: Jack Goodwin

Topics covered

• elite performance
• mental health
• resilience
• trauma
• identity
• psychology of high performance
• discipline

Keywords

• elite performance
• mental health
• resilience
• trauma
• identity
• psychology
• discipline
• purpose

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Organizations: Great Britain

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