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Unlocking Human Potential with Andy Hosgood
Hosted by Andy Hosgood · EN
Welcome to Unlocking Human Potential with host Andy Hosgood, a show dedicated to exploring what it really takes psychologically, behaviourally, and practically to help humans thrive, through conversations with leaders, founders, coaches, behavioural experts, and people shaping how humans perform and grow.
Is this for you?
Are a Leaders, founders, business owners and ambitious professionals who want to do more than just “perform” they want to grow, inspire, and bring out the best in themselves and their people.
The mission is simple:
To explore how individuals and teams unlock potential in themselves, in others, and in the organisations they shape.
Every episode is a deep but relaxed conversation built around three core questions:
- Optimising Yourself:
- Unlocking Potential in Others:
- And the best advice for you the listener
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Nyla Whelan on Confidence, Self-Worth & Reinventing Yourself in Midlife
Mar 2401:07:14Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailHealthy by Nyla founder on mindset, women’s health, confidence, self-worth, habit change, motherhood, and authentic transformationWhat happens when you stop chasing perfection… and start becoming more fully yourself?In this episode of Unlocking Human Potential, Andy sits down with Nyla Whelan, founder of Healthy by Nyla, to explore mindset, confidence, women’s health, self-worth, motherhood, stress, and sustainable transformation. Through her coaching, Nyla helps women build stronger bodies, healthier habits, and more confidence — but behind that work is a deeply human story of self-doubt, people-pleasing, burnout, and growth. Nyla speaks openly about growing up with insecurity, navigating her parents’ divorce, becoming a mother, raising children with autism, overtraining, stress-related health issues, and the pressure of trying to look like she had everything together while internally feeling very different. In this conversation, we explore:how mindset shapes choices, behaviour, and outcomes why perfectionism and external validation can quietly drive burnout how stress, sleep, and recovery affect health more than most people realise why authenticity is one of the most powerful tools in personal growthand how women can rebuild confidence at any ageNyla also shares practical tools that listeners can use straight away, including walking in nature, positive affirmations, gratitude, and getting honest about what they really want from life. This episode is for women, parents, coaches, leaders, and anyone interested in mindset, confidence, women’s health, self-development, recovery, and human potential.About NylaNyla Whelan founder of Healthy by Nyla, online coach, and a passionate advocate for helping women build stronger bodies, healthier habits, and more confidence in themselves. Through her coaching, Nyla supports women in learning how to train with purpose, fuel properly, build lean muscle, and break free from the cycle of extreme dieting. But behind the coaching is a real story of growth. Nyla’s journey through motherhood, challenge, and self-development has shaped the way she shows up today with honesty, warmth, and a level of authenticity that makes her deeply relatable to the women she supports. This episode explores the lessons she’s learned, the strength she’s built, and how becoming more fully yourself can unlock real transformation”@Healthy_by-nylaSupport the show
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The Edge of Chaos: Rick Cost on Leadership, Performance & Human Potential
Mar 2401:28:03Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailRick Cost a performance leader on sports science, recovery, leadership, environment design, and helping teams perform at the edge of chaosWhat does it really take to build a high-performance environment in elite sport?In this episode of Unlocking Human Potential, Andy sits down with Rick Cost human movement scientist, physiotherapist, and high-performance leader working at the top level of world sport to explore the deeper science and philosophy behind performance, leadership, recovery, and team culture.Rick shares a fascinating perspective on performance through the lens of entropy: the idea that great environments need enough structure to create safety, but enough disorder to spark innovation, growth, and better thinking. He describes strong leadership as helping people operate at the edge of chaos where structure ends, but creativity and ownership begin. This conversation explores:how elite leaders create safe but agile environmentswhy values and clarity give people confidence to think for themselves how trust, belonging, and shared leadership unlock better ideas why leaders should guide people rather than over-control them and how performance, recovery, and personal wellbeing must work together over timeRick also speaks honestly about family, travel, leadership pressure, and the importance of leading by example including sleep, recovery, and not glorifying overwork. This episode is for coaches, leaders, founders, practitioners, and anyone interested in high performance, sports science, leadership, team culture, recovery, and human potential.About Rick Rick Cost, a human movement scientist, physiotherapist, and one of the most respected minds in elite sports performance. With more than 25 years working at the highest level of international sport, Rick has helped shape how teams think about performance, recovery, and the science behind keeping athletes operating at their absolute edge. Rick’s career has taken him across Olympic sport and elite football, including leading performance environments at Dutch giants Feyenoord, directing high performance for U.S. Soccer, and today overseeing performance at Olympique Lyonnais in France’s Ligue 1. He’s known for bringing together sports medicine, strength and conditioning, analytics, and emerging technologies to better understand the balance between training load, recovery, and injury prevention. But beyond the data and science, Rick’s real mission is helping athletes and teams unlock their potential, pushing the limits of performance while protecting the wellbeing of the people behind it.So today we explore what it really takes to build high-performance environments in modern sport and also some more about entropy of the sun!Ricks LinkedInSupport the show
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