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Outperform the Storm is for high achievers who are still performing — but no longer from full capacity.Under sustained pressure, your thinking slows, your focus fragments, your patience drops and your recovery never feels complete. You're still functioning, but the edge is harder to access.That's Shadow Burnout: performing while quietly depleted.Hosted by Martin Soorjoo — performance coach for past 16 years, former human rights barrister 15 yrs, and PE backed startup co-founder— this show gives you practical, research-backed ways to stay sharp, recharge properly and perform under pressure without burning out.This is not motivation, wellness or another productivity hack.It is a performance operating system for pressure, overload and uncertainty — combining nervous-system regulation, upgraded cognition, mental performance, strategic recharge and antifragility.Expect clear thinking, hard truths and practical protocols you can use before the meeting, during the crisis week, after th
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Signup to Generate a PitchOutperform the Storm is for high achievers who are still performing, but no longer from full capacity. Under sustained pressure, your thinking slows, your focus fragments, your patience drops and your recovery never feels complete. You're still functioning, but the edge is harder to access. That's Shadow Burnout: performing while quietly depleted.
Recent episodes include "You're Not Finished: How to Ignite Your Competitive Fire" (25 October 2026, 10 minutes), "The 90-Second Edge: How to Handle Life's Curveballs" (7 July 2026, 8 minutes), and "The Continual Recharge Protocol: Outperform Without Burning Out" (30 May 2026, 16 minutes).
Outperform The Storm publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 43 episodes.
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Outperform The Storm is an education podcast with 43 episodes published.
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Somewhere along the way, many of us stop playing to win. We start playing not to lose. Success makes us cautious. Responsibilities mount. Setbacks knock our confidence. We become more concerned with protecting what...

Life doesn't wait until you are prepared and ready. The call comes. The email lands. The deal collapses. The diagnosis arrives. The accident happens. The thing you did not plan for detonates the day you thought you were...

<p >Most driven people still use a broken recovery model.</p> <p >They push hard.<br /> Ignore the signals.<br /> Override fatigue.<br /> Keep going because the work matters, the stakes are real, and there is always...

<p > In January 2026, the World Economic Forum and the McKinsey Health Institute released a report that most leaders will skim past without absorbing what it actually means: in the age of AI, the human brain does not...

Episode #39
<p > The model of high performance has shifted. Quietly. Definitively. And most founders and leaders haven't caught up yet.</p> <p > The 2018 version was built on intensity. Hustle. Outwork everyone. Sleep when you're...

<p >You can be performing on the outside and still be quietly burning through the system that makes that performance possible.</p> <p >That is the problem at the heart of shadow burnout.</p> <p >In this episode, Martin...

Episode #37
<p > The world right now is moving fast. Faster than most of us have ever experienced.</p> <p > Markets are lurching. AI is compressing timelines and rewriting roles. Geopolitical uncertainty is at levels most founders...

<p >In the AI era, the advantage will not go to the people with the most information. It will go to the people with the sharpest minds.</p> <p >The founders, leaders and professionals who win will be the ones who can...

<p > In this episode, I share the story of being woken at 3am to find our bedroom on fire and the two specific, trainable tools that kept me thinking clearly so that I could get my family out alive. The very same tools...

<p >In February 2026, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told the Financial Times that most tasks performed by lawyers, accountants, and other professionals will be fully automated within 12 to 18 months.</p> <p...

<p > The person who sleeps least does not win.</p> <p > They collapse first.</p> <p > Modern grind culture has weaponized exhaustion. We celebrate permanent Ganbaru—all-out effort, all the time—and call it ambition...

<p >The volatility of 2026 is not a phase. It is the new environment .</p> <p >If your strategy is to 'bounce back' failure and burnout are on the cards. <br /> <br /> Elite operators—from Special Forces warriors to...

Outperform The Storm
<p >In today's always on and always connected world, the ability to be indistractable is an invaluable superpower.</p> <p > </p> <p >We formulate our best ideas and produce our best work when we have uninterrupted times...

Outperform The Storm
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<p >In this episode, Dr Scott Sherr, explains the power and potential of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)</p> <p > </p> <p >Dr Scott is a board certified Internal Medicine Physician specializing in Health Optimization...

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<p >In this episode, Scott Nelson, Co-Founder of Joovv explains the science and benefits of of Red Light Therapy</p> <p >We discuss</p> <p > </p> Why we need Photobiomodulation (PBM) now more than ever <p > </p> The...

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<p>Resilience is something we all need but don't necessarily know how to develop it.</p> <p> </p> <p>My guest today is Dr. Rick Hanson, one of the world's leading psychologists.</p> <p> </p> <p>Dr. Hanson is a New York...

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<p >My guest today is Dan Brule, who is regarded as the world's leading expert and pioneer in the field of breathwork and the author of "Just Breathe: Master Breathwork for Success in Life, Love, Business and Beyond."...

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<p>My guest today is Steve Glaveski who among other achievements is the author of Employee to Entrepreneur – How to Earn Your Freedom and Do Work that matters.</p> <p>Steve is the CEO and Co-Founder of Collective...

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<p>In this episode I discuss looking at strategies used elite performers, including Special Forces operators and Olympic athletes to stay on target no matter what obstacles they face, handle extreme pressure and...
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New York Times bestselling author of "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life", Nir and Far
Founder of WHOOP, WHOOP
board-certified internal medicine physician, certified in Health Optimization Medicine, specialist in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Integrative HBOT & Health Optimization Medicine (HOMe)
UGA Athletics Association Professor of the Humanities at the University of Georgia, Northwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church
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