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OUTPERFORM Podcast
by Scott Welle
The OUTPERFORM Podcast brings you inspiring people and messages to help you perform your best, personally and professionally. Featuring Scott Welle, #1 best selling author and motivational speaker, the insightful episodes will give you tools and strategies to achieve greater health, happiness and high performance (the trifecta of what it means to “Outperform The Norm”). Feel free to screenshot and share the show on social with #outperform so I can personally thank you for supporting the Outperforming movement and helping to make the world a better place. Also please rate and review if you find value! Visit OutperformTheNorm.com for more peak performance strategies.
Episodes
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Get Your MIND in Shape
“We all have a default operating system, and this OS can single-handedly govern our behaviors and results.” —Scott Welle. This episode uncovers three ways you can get your mind “in shape”: consume the RIGHT TYPE of information, surround yourself with better people and cultivate self-awareness. Do...
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Be Successful, Never Superior
“Superiority inhibits curiosity and, from that, vital opportunities can be missed.” —Scott Welle. This episode discusses the mentality that is the enemy to learning and growth: Superiority. If you're reading this, I'm betting you're successful (whatever that means to you). And with greater levels...
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2 Questions You MUST Ask for the Next Level
“Where are you starting and why aren’t you already there?” —Scott Welle. This episode reveals the 2 questions you MUST ask if you want to achieve the next level of performance in ANYTHING, whether it’s personally, professionally, athletically or otherwise. Simply stated, if you know where you’re...
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Are You Coming Across as Fake?
“If it’s 50 degrees and sideways rain, don’t tell people it’s 75 degrees and sunny. You’re LYING to them!” —Scott Welle. This podcast episode is a continuation of a virtual training I recently had on identity-based behavior and coming across as real and authentic. Make no mistake about it, a...
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Not Taking Action? Here’s Why.
“If we’re not taking action towards something, it’s almost always because we don’t know WHAT, HOW, or WHY.” —Scott Welle. In this episode, I discuss something that plagues all of us from time to time: Inaction. Usually, a lack of action (for ourselves or others) comes from not having the “CRM.”…
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The Neuroscience of Tenacity
“Do hard things. There’s a specific, tangible, brain-related benefit to doing them.” —Scott Welle. In this episode, I discuss the value of doing hard things, plain and simple. ANYTHING worthwhile and challenging requires tenacity to be able to accomplish it. And there’s a SPECIFIC way for you to...
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Prove Them Wrong
“Every successful person I’ve seen has, at some point, had someone that told them they weren’t good enough. And they were driven to prove them WRONG.” —Scott Welle. In this episode, I discuss the psychology of success that is not popular and not mainstream: taking the doubters, haters…
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How to Elevate the Play of Others
“You don’t need to KEEP them there, but you do need to MEET them there.” —Scott Welle. In this episode, I discuss leadership and a foundational strategy to elevate the play of others. If you find that your message isn’t resonating with someone (team member, kids, speaking audience, etc.), chances...
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Getting Complacent?
“Yes, you can be deeply grateful for where you’ve been and where you are, AND still be driven towards where you want to go.” —Scott Welle. In this episode, I discuss one of the most common traps that we can all fall into: getting complacent. It happens for a variety of reasons but the remedy is...
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Never be the Hero of Your Own Story
“Never be the hero of your own story.” —Scott Welle. Have you ever wanted to be more influential? Have more people follow you, not just on social media but offline as well? Then there’s one specific strategy to consider using: Never be the hero of your own story. When you make OTHERS the hero of...
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You Matter
“The single best predictor of life satisfaction and well being is the feeling that you’ve contributed something of VALUE to others” —Scott Welle. YOU MATTER, and that’s what this episode of the Outperform Podcast is about. Most of us know it, but we too often forget it, and it’s the primary…
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This is the Race You're Running
“This is the race you’re running. And as difficult as it might be, you must deal with it.” —Scott Welle. This episode of the Outperform Podcast is about the race you’re running—personally, professionally or athletically. Whether you consciously chose it or whether something was thrust upon you...
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How to Become an Exceptional Leader
“Who has been a great leader AND who has been a poor leader in your life? Why? What did they teach or NOT teach you?” —Scott Welle. This episode of the Outperform Podcast unveils how you can become an exceptional leader, all by asking, answering, and implementing, two very simple questions. Very...
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HELP! I Need Motivation!
“Motivation is an emotion, a feeling, and it’s something we ALL need more of from time to time.” —Scott Welle. This episode of the Outperform Podcast is dedicated to the singular topic of motivation. How to get it, how to keep it, how to find it if you’ve lost it. The simple (but not always…
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5 Ways to Improve IMMEDIATELY
“The Norm does information. Outperformers do implementation.” —Scott Welle. In this episode of the Outperform Podcast we discuss the five ways to improve your performance IMMEDIATELY: start, stop, continue, do more of, do less of. That’s it. And as long as you take your “information” and move it…
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The Stories That Keep You Stuck
“Your explanatory style determines your destiny, plain and simple.” —Scott Welle. This episode of the Outperform Podcast is about the stories we tell ourselves, specifically the “explanatory style” we use to explain the things that HAVE or HAVE NOT happened in our lives. Research has shown that...
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STOP Overreacting!
“All Outperformers have mastered the skill of putting space between the stimulus and the response.” —Scott Welle. In this episode of the Outperform Podcast, we talk about a skill that all Outperformers have: putting space between the external environment (the stimulus) and what they do about it...
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Embracing Headwinds (Tailwinds Take No Talent)
“How you perform in headwinds is not only a testament to your character, it’s what makes you an Outperformer.” —Scott Welle. This episode of the Outperform Podcast is about “headwinds.” Figuratively speaking, this means how you deal with adversity and resistance. The Norm looks seeks “tailwinds”...
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Define Your 2024 (Instead of Letting 2024 Define You!)
“Proactively define your 2024. Don’t reactively let 2024 define you.” —Scott Welle. This episode of the Outperform Podcast is about a simple strategy to make the most of your 2024: identifying ONE word or ONE phrase that will act as your theme for the year. It will not only constrain your focus…
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3 for ’23: The Questions to Ask
“Ask better questions, get better answers, get better results.” —Scott Welle. This episode of the Outperform Podcast unveils the three questions you should ask in evaluating your year. They’re simple, big picture questions but if you ask them, it’ll put your year in the proper context and help…
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The KEY to Goal Achievement
“How can you find incrementally more enjoyment from putting in the WORK towards what you want.” —Scott Welle. This episode of the Outperform Podcast unlocks a KEY to goal achievement that almost never gets talked about: immediate gratification. We hear constantly about choosing meaningful,...
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Do You Have a Fear of SUCCESS?
“Many people say they have a fear of failure. What they ACTUALLY fear are the expectations and criticism that come with SUCCESS.” —Scott Welle. This episode of the Outperform Podcast dispels one of the most prevalent myths out there: the fear of failure. Most people don’t fear failure, they fear...
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Is Your Ego Getting in the Way?
“Outperformers play the long game. They know it’s not about starting small; it’s about finishing BIG. It’s not about where you are; it’s about where you’re GOING.” —Scott Welle. This episode of the Outperform Podcast unpacks something that often gets in our way: EGO. We all have one, and whether...
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Losing Mom & Dad (we all have a story)
“Don’t be sad that it’s over; be glad that it happened.” —Scott Welle. This is the most vulnerable episode of the Outperform Podcast I’ve ever recorded. It’s my story of losing both my Mom & Dad before the age of 38. I share this not for clicks or for sympathy, but to share what I learned from…
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The Art and Science of Being Grateful
“Having an attitude of gratitude is one of the single greatest performance enhancers for our lives.” —Scott Welle. In this special Thanksgiving episode, we talk about gratitude. Simply stated, when you’re focused on what’s good, what’s right, and what you have, you cannot be simultaneously…
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Finding Flow: Part II
“There are four specific things Outperformers do to consciously create the conditions and focus necessary to enter the flow state.” —Scott Welle. For the FLOW visual, visit https://scottwelle.com/flow In this episode, we cover four things you can do to more consistently enter the FLOW State. 1....
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Be Someone ELSE! (secret of elite performance)
“Operating without worries, fears and insecurities is not fake. In fact, it’s the realest, most authentic version of you.” —Scott Welle. In this episode, I discuss the fastest way to boost performance: creating an Alter Ego. It’s something ALL elite performers do in certain uncomfortable…
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Positivity, Productivity, and Personal Satisfaction (FLOW: Part I)
“It’s all about single tasking. Focusing on one thing makes it manageable...and seeing tangible progress towards that is the remedy to overwhelm. ” —Scott Welle. For the FLOW visual, visit https://scottwelle.com/flow In this episode, we talk about a special state of peak performance: the FLOW...
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How Outperformers Build a Reservoir of Resilience
“Reference Points are your reservoir of strength and self-belief for fighting future battles.” —Scott Welle. In this episode, we talk about resilience. It’s something we know we need to Outperform: if you get knocked down, you must be able to get back up. But we don’t always want to go through…
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More Motivation is NOT the Answer (less of this *IS*)
“Clear the path between you and what you want and WATCH what happens.” —Scott Welle. In this episode, we talk about shoving distractions aside. Are Outperformers more motivated? Absolutely. But I’d argue that an equal, and perhaps greater, contributor to their success is that they’re also less...
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Finding Comfort in Discomfort
“Get comfortable being uncomfortable. Uh huh…easier said than done!’” —Scott Welle. In this episode, we’ll tackle nerves. We all have them, so do I. And nerves are your body’s way of signifying that you’re about to do something outside your comfort zone and something that is meaningful to you.…
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The Infinite Complexity of Knowing What You Want
“Knowing what you want is a surprisingly complex equation. There are four things to help you ‘figure it out.’” —Scott Welle. In this episode, we’ll discuss a difficult question to answer: What do you want? This is a question I’ve asked myself many, MANY times, and although I don’t have all the...
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Big Wins Cannot Happen Without This
“Small wins are - and always will be - the precursor to big wins.” —Scott Welle. In this episode, you’ll hear about the importance of small wins, what they are, why they matter and how you can build on them. And even though it’s not often what you hear in “mainstream media” - it’s a better…
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A Better Approach for Peak Performance
“We think a lot in our lives about what we need to DO. We would be better served if we also thought about who we need to BE.” —Scott Welle. In this episode, you’ll hear me discuss one of my favorite concepts: Identity-based behavior (or what I call, “Live It” in my latest book, Daily Execution....
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How Elite Performers Strategically Set Goals
“O.P.P.? Yeah you know me!” In this special episode, I peel back the curtain on my “O.P.P.” framework that I use to help individuals and businesses strategically set goals. It sounds simple but that doesn’t mean it’s easy, and once you 1) know what you want, and 2) map out the Outcome…
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Who Are You REALLY Competing Against?
“The greatest competitive advantage comes from those that choose Mastery.” —Scott Welle. In this episode, you’ll hear how to gain a competitive advantage, the best way to bridge the gap between high achievement and fulfillment, and why a Mastery Orientation is far superior to an Ego Orientation…
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The KEY to Unlocking Higher Levels of Performance
“Self-limiting beliefs are the governor on your individual potential.” —Scott Welle. Most people who are seeing subpar results in a given area of their life don’t understand WHY. They think it’s bad luck or bad genes or bad timing. It’s not. In this episode, I not only tell you WHY this is, but...
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Stop Being So "Realistic!"
“Telling someone to be realistic is telling them to be self-limiting.” —Scott Welle. The OUTPERFORM Podcast is BACK! After a hiatus, this is the first of 15 episodes (released every Monday) between now and the end of the year. The short clip is from a keynote speech on not governing yourself with...
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How to Stop Caring About What Other People Think
“When you are so convicted in your values and what you stand for it will supersede any fears of negative reactions or worries about what other people think.” —Scott Welle. This episode is a deeper discussion of a conversation I had recently with a coaching client about not caring (or caring less)...
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The TRUTH About How Outperformers Think of Health, Happiness & High Performance
“When you wake up every day and reinforce this into your psychology, I PROMISE it will translate to more decisive action and better behaviors towards what it is that you say you want.” —Scott Welle. In this solocast, I discuss one of my FAVORITE topics: health and high performance. Especially...
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What Are You Proud Of? (2022 Recap + Lessons)
“One simple, straightforward question: What are you proud of in the last year?” —Scott Welle. I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on 2022 over the last couple of weeks (as I’m sure you have as well!) and this episode is about identifying the things with which you’re most proud in 2022. I’m sure…
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One of the Best WAYS to Have More Best DAYS
“What happens on your best days?” —Scott Welle. This is a question I asked a coaching client yesterday (he had an idea...but wasn't exactly sure). This episode is about identifying the things that happen physically, mentally, emotionally, behaviorally, socially, spiritually, etc., on our best…
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The 3 "Pains" That Keep You From Taking Action
“Confidence and belief in yourself is built by getting comfortable being uncomfortable. But to do that, you have to be able to overcome the three pains that prevent action.” —Scott Welle. You’ve probably heard the phrase, “Get comfortable being uncomfortable.” We all know we NEED to do it to...
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The Power of Performance Goals (from a live keynote speech)
“The way that you cross the finish line of a 100-mile ultramarathon is the same way you accomplish anything in life—by setting benchmarks, milestones and checkpoints.” —Scott Welle. This episode is an excerpt from a live keynote speech in Columbus, Ohio, where I’m discussing the importance of...
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Ask These Two Questions Every Friday
“Instead of measuring yourself against some perfectionistic ideal, a far better gauge is simply where you were on Monday to where you are now.” —Scott Welle. In this episode, I reveal the two questions you should ask yourself every Friday to evaluate whether you’ve “Outperformed” (Hint: They’re…
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The Motivational API
“If you’re ever lacking ‘motivation’ in any area, ask yourself the question, ‘am I struggling to start, sustain, or strengthen?’ THAT is the Motivational API.” —Scott Welle. In this episode, I peel back the onion on one of the questions I get asked most often: “How do I get more motivated?”…
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The Top 5 Reasons to Bring The Joy!
“I get asked often what I say to myself before I step on stage. I always say the same thing: ‘Bring The Joy!’” —Scott Welle. In this episode, I reveal the top 5 reasons you should bring the joy to everything you do. Yes, it sounds like common sense…but that doesn’t always make it common PRACTICE,...
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A BETTER Way to Get What You Want (it’s NOT more “motivation”)
“Life is hard enough as it is and instead of attempting to summon such a massive, monumental amount of motivation every time we want something, what if we asked a better question such as, ‘how can I clear the path and make it as EASY as possible to have success?’” —Scott Welle. We’ve all set a…
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The Courage and Confidence to Pivot
“You may be doubting yourself, wondering whether what you’re doing even matters…or will ever amount to anything. I’m here to tell you that it WILL.” —Scott Welle. This episode is a story from a recent closing virtual keynote in which technology did not cooperate…AT ALL! First time for everything…
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Why Being Nervous is a PRIVILEGE
“Nerves are your body’s way of expressing that you’re about to do something heroic.” —Scott Welle. One of the questions I get asked frequently is, “Do you still get nervous before speaking on stage?” The answer is YES. The day I stop getting nervous is the day I stop speaking. In this short...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The OUTPERFORM Podcast brings you inspiring people and messages to help you perform your best, personally and professionally. Featuring Scott Welle, #1 best selling author and motivational speaker, the insightful episodes will give you tools and strategies to achieve greater health, happiness and high performance (the trifecta of what it means to “Outperform The Norm”). Feel free to screenshot and share the show on social with #outperform so I can personally thank you for supporting the Outperforming movement and helping to make the world a better place. Also please rate and review if you find value! Visit OutperformTheNorm.com for more peak performance strategies.
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