Professor P with Dr.Peykar
What does it take to be influential in today's world? Dr. Parsa Peykar -Mental performance consultant, university professor, and author- joined by world-class experts from diverse fields explore practical lessons on leadership, influence, and service.Each episode of the Professor P Podcast is designed like a mini research project, built around a central “research question” tied to the theme. Every episode unfolds in three parts: 1.Book Review or Art Analysis – exploring ideas that set the stage.2. Expert Conversation – insights from leading voices across diverse fields. 3. Student Reflections – real feedback and fresh perspectives from university students. Across all episodes, one theme remains constant: every guest leaves listeners with at least one simple act of kindness to put into practice. The Professor P Podcast is a fun, engaging “university” for everyone—delivering both educational and experimental lessons to inspire you to grow, lead, and make an impact in your chosen field. More than a podcast, it’s a movement to add value to your life—and to encourage you to add value to others. 📩 We’d love to hear from you! Share your comments, ideas, or just say hi: contact@parsapeykar.com
Episodes
What is the heaviest thing a human being can carry?
For some, it is grief. For others, it is responsibility. For elite athletes, it can be the weight of expectation, from coaches, teammates, supporters, and entire nations.
In this episode of the Inner Game of the World Cup series, we explore one of the most powerful forces in sport: pressure. Why do some athletes rise to the occasion when millions are watching, while others struggl...
THE WORLD CUP SERIES
Every four years, the world stops.
Billions of people from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds become emotionally connected to the same moments, the same victories, and the same heartbreaks.
But the World Cup is more than football.
Behind every goal, every penalty, every upset, and every championship run lies a deeper story about pressure, fear, confidence, resilience, leadership, belief, and human p...
🎙️ MINI EPISODE
🌿 Spiritual Reset: 3 Tools to Anchor Performance Through Faith & Meaning
In high performance environments, we are constantly taught to optimize, improve, and push harder. But what happens when achievement alone stops feeling fulfilling?
In this Mini Episode, Dr. Peykar explores the deeper side of performance, identity, and purpose. This conversation is a reminder that true greatness is not only built through d...
What if peak performance is not just physical or mental, but spiritual?
In this powerful and research-driven episode of Human Performance 360, we explore one of the most overlooked dimensions of elite performance: faith, meaning, and purpose.
Joining us is world-renowned psychiatrist, researcher, and Duke University professor Harold G. Koenig, one of the leading voices in the science of spirituality and health. For decades, Dr. Koe...
What if the greatest limitation in performance is not physical… or mental… but perceptual?
In this mini episode of Human Performance 360, Dr. Parsa Peykar explores the connection between awareness, consciousness, and elite performance — and why the next frontier of human potential may not come from pushing harder, but from perceiving more clearly.
Across elite sport, leadership, and creativity, we continue to observe moment...
What if peak performance wasn’t about pushing harder... but letting go?
In this episode of Human Performance 360, we explore one of the most powerful paradoxes in performance psychology: the more you try to control performance, the more it slips away... and the more present you become, the more effortless it feels.
In a world obsessed with results, metrics, and outcomes, we’ve been conditioned to believe that more effort equals bet...
What if the limits you experience are not physical… not cognitive… but perceptual?
For decades, performance has been optimized through training the body, sharpening the mind, and refining behavior. And yet—across elite sport, leadership, and creativity—we continue to witness moments that don’t fully fit within those models:
Flow states where time dissolves. Clarity that emerges without effort. Performance that feels less like force...
Everyone has ideas, but very few turn them into real results. We live in a world obsessed with inspiration—new goals, new visions, new possibilities—but there is a dangerous gap between thinking and doing. The space between the lightbulb and the target is where most people get stuck. In this episode, we explore why ideas feel powerful yet rarely translate into action,...
What if the reason you’re not changing… isn’t a lack of discipline—but the wrong system?
In this Human Performance 360 Mental Reset, we unpack the science of lasting change—grounded in the work of Richard Boyatzis and modern neuroscience.
Because here’s the truth: Most people try to change through pressure—discipline, obligation, fear.
And it works… briefly.
But under stress, the brain reverts to old patterns. Not because you’re we...
What if the reason most people fail to change… isn’t lack of discipline—but misunderstanding how transformation actually works?
In this episode, we dive deep into the science of sustainable change with one of the world’s leading experts in leadership and human development, Richard Boyatzis.
A distinguished professor at Case Western Reserve University and a pioneer in emotional intelligence alongside Daniel Goleman, Dr. Boyatzis has...
What happens when the noise stops?
No distractions. No validation. No external voice telling you who you are or what to do next.
Just… you.
In this thought-provoking episode of Human Performance 360, Dr. Parsa Peykar explores the hidden space most people avoid—the silence where clarity, identity, and truth begin to emerge.
Because high performance isn’t built only in action. It’s built in awareness.
When everything gets quiet, some...
Are faith and science truly in conflict — or are they both essential tools for unlocking peak human performance?
In this powerful episode of Human Performance 360, Dr. Parsa Peykar sits down with Dr. Thomas G. Plante, a leading psychologist at the intersection of spirituality, ethics, and mental health, to explore one of the most misunderstood questions in modern performance psychology.
We often think of high performers as purely r...
Most people think nutrition is about dieting.
High performers know it’s about biology and output.
Whether you are an athlete preparing for competition, an executive making high-stakes decisions, or a professional navigating long cognitive days, the same question applies:
Is your nutrition supporting your performance — or silently limiting it?
In this episode of Human Performance 360, Dr. Parsa Peykar explores nutrition as applied p...
What if the quality of your decisions, your leadership capacity, and your emotional control were shaped not just by mindset—but by metabolism?
In this episode of Human Performance 360, we explore a powerful but often overlooked truth: human performance is biological before it is psychological. Every strategic decision, every moment of focus, and every emotional response is powered by the brain’s metabolic systems. And those systems...
Self-efficacy is not confidence. It’s not optimism. It’s not hype.
It’s your brain’s belief about one specific question:
“Can I execute the actions required in this situation?”
And that belief determines everything.
When self-efficacy is strong: • Effort increases • Persistence rises • Emotional regulation improves • Recovery from failure accelerates
When it weakens: • Avoidance grows • Anxiety spikes • Identity feels threatened
In...
What separates two equally talented performers under pressure?
Often, it’s not skill. It’s not preparation. It’s belief.
In this episode of Human Performance 360, Dr. Parsa Peykar sits down with Deborah Feltz, distinguished professor at Michigan State University and one of the foremost authorities on self-efficacy in sport and exercise psychology.
Building on the foundational work of Albert Bandura, Dr. Feltz has spent decades rese...
Spiritual Reset is not about religion. It’s about returning to center when pressure tests your identity.
In high performance environments, adversity is often framed as an obstacle to overcome quickly. But growth doesn’t always accelerate under pressure — sometimes it deepens.
A Spiritual Reset is the intentional pause that allows you to:
• Separate circumstance from identity • Regulate emotion without suppressing it • Reconnect to ...
What if adversity wasn’t the enemy of greatness—but the training ground for it?
In this episode of Human Performance 360, Dr. Parsa Peykar sits down with Dr. Sarah Schnitker—a leading researcher on virtues, patience, resilience, and thriving—to unpack what science reveals about growing stronger because of hardship, not just surviving it.
Together, they explore how high performers can reframe struggle as a catalyst for chara...
If nutrition feels confusing, you’re not failing—you’re paying attention.
From contradictory headlines to diet tribes and viral certainty, modern nutrition is loud, polarized, and exhausting—especially for high performers who genuinely want to eat well, feel energized, and protect their long-term health.
In this episode of Human Performance 360, Dr. Parsa Peykar offers a Nutrition Reset—not a diet, not a rulebook, and not another l...
Is nutrition science settled — or is it all just one big food fight?
From keto to vegan, low-carb to plant-based, we’re bombarded with diet headlines that seem to contradict each other every week. But where does real scientific consensus actually exist… and where are we still locked in controversy?
In this episode of the Human 360 Performance Series, Dr. Parsa Peykar sits down with Dr. Chris Gardner, Stanford professor and world-r...
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