The Mental Toughness & Body Show
by Robb
The Mental Toughness & Body Show is hosted by Robb Evans, an Australian high-performance coach, author, podcaster and health advocate. With more than three decades in health, fitness, mindset and human performance, Robb shares practical ideas to help people think better, live healthier and perform at a higher level. Episodes explore mental toughness, strength, nutrition, longevity, mindset, personal development and lessons from life, business and conversations with high performers.
Episodes
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Ep 2158: It’s the Way You Do Everything
In this episode I discuss the way we do things and consider whether or not you believe the way you do one thing is the same way you do everything.
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Ep 2157: Redefining Your Definition of Success
In this episode, I challenge you to reconsider whether you're pursuing your own version of success or simply following expectations established years ago. Perhaps success today is less about accumulating more and more about freedom, health, meaningful relationships, personal fulfilment and having...
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Ep 2156: Good Leadership or Failure?
In this episode I discuss the example of Tesla's Cybertruck and whether this is a great example of effective leadership or complete failure.
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Ep 2155: Your Health Span Matters More Than Your Lifespan
In this episode I discuss how data shows that there's a 10 year gap between our lifespan and health span, why that matters and what you can do immediately to enhance your health span.
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Ep 2154: Finding the Positive in Everything
In this episode I discuss how I can find the positive in everything and why it hasn't always been that way.
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Ep 2153: Confidence Is Built Through Evidence
In this episode I discuss how confidence isn't positive thinking, instead it's an accumlation of proof, through action and results, that you can trust yourself. I explain how to build yours.
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Ep 2152: Why We Keep Breaking Promises to Ourselves
In this episode I discuss the psychology behind why we keep breaking the promises we make to ourselves and how to break this cycle.
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Ep 2151: The Health Cost of Living Permanently Stressed
In this episode I discuss the relationship between chronic stress, sleep, eating behaviour, energy, recovery and decision-making. Most people live in a state of distracting themselves from stress. It's time to start understanding and managing it effectively.
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Ep 2150: Beyond the Title: The Mindset of Julie Inman Grant
What does it take to lead with courage, remain resilient under pressure and stay true to your values when the world is watching? In this episode of The Mental Toughness & Body Show, I sit down with Australia's eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, for a fascinating conversation that goes…
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Ep 2149: The Dangerous Middle Ground of Health
In this episode I discuss the dangerous middle ground of health that millions of people sit within. You're not sick enough to be frightened, but you're nowhere near thriving.
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Ep 2148: Moving the Needle
In this episode I discuss what it takes to move the needle of progress every day rather than simply focusing on the occasional stepping up for yourself.
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Ep 2147: You Can’t Out Train a Poor Lifestyle
In this episode I discuss why you cannot out train a poor lifestyle and what to do instead.
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Ep 2146: How to Build Your Mental Toughness
In this episode I discuss what it takes to build your mental toughness. Not in one giant leap, but rather the daily habits you can instil into your routine.
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Ep 2145: The Underrated Skill off Adjustment
In this episode I discuss the skill of being able to adjust to your circumstances, environment, mood, and any challenge you experience to still ensure you can achieve your high performance outcomes.
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Ep 2144: The Conversations You Keep Avoiding
In this episode, I explore one of the hardest parts of being human: having the conversations we know we need to have, but continue to avoid. I unpack why we put them off, what that avoidance can cost us, and practical strategies to break the cycle and approach difficult conversations with greater...
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Ep 2143: The Performance Gap Between Knowing and Doing
In this episode I discuss the performance gap that exists between having the knowledge about achieving a different outcome and actually doing what it takes.
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Ep 2142: What is Your Health Adherence Problem?
In this episode I discuss a slightly different edge on creating a healthy lifestyle and explore what helped me create a healthy sustainable routine that became easy for me to adhere to.
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Ep 2141: The Fitness Industry Has Confused Hard With Effective
In this episode I discuss how I believe the fitness industry in Australia is failing and confusing hard with effective improvements in health, fitness and wellness.
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Ep 2140: Mental Toughness Without Self-Destruction
In this episode I discuss what it means to be mentally tough without an outdated mindset of destroying yourself in the process.
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Ep 2139: What Fitness Teaches You About Leadership
In this episode I discuss how the elements of remaining fit and healthy teach us about what being an effective leader in 2026 looks like.
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Ep 2138: Are You Training Your Weaknesses or Hiding From Them?
In this episode I discuss your weaknesses and whether you are driving yourself to face your weaknesses and turn them into strengths, or do you continue to hide from them. It's time for you to step up.
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Ep 2137: Creating Psychological Endurance
In this episode I discuss a great modern interpretation of mental toughness. High performance isn't simply tolerating more pressure, it is retaining judgement and effectiveness under sustained pressure. Psychological endurance is being identified as an important leadership capability in 2026.
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Ep 2136: When Personal Development Becomes Another Form of Avoidance
In this episode I discuss when personal development can become another form of excuse and avoidance and how to break that cycle.
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Ep 2135: What if Social Media Vanished
In this episode I discuss the concept of social media vanishing and what would that mean to you if you no longer received external validation for your daily life.
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Ep 2134: Are You Fit for an Emergency?
In this episode I discuss whether your body could cope if you had to carry someone, climb stairs repeatedly, walk 15km, move furniture or physically help another person and whether this forms part of your definition of health.
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Ep 2133: The Psychology of Quitting Too Late
In this episode I discuss how we often talk about not quitting too early. What about continuing with a business, relationship, strategy, goal or commitment long after the evidence says it's no longer right?
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Ep 2132: The Decisions You Should Never Make When You’re Exhausted
In this episode I discuss how fatigue alters judgement around food, relationships, money, work and training, and why recognising your vulnerable decision-making windows is a high performance skill
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Ep 2131: How Did I Get Here?
In this episode I discuss what it means to stop, reflect and reverse engineer your success up to this point.
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Ep 2130: Preparing to Take Flight
In this episode I discuss my high performance routine for interstate travel at a moments notice so that your life strategies still remain your point of focus and achievement.
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Ep 2129: Can You Trust Yourself Under Pressure?
In this episode of The Mental Toughness & Body Show, I discuss what it means to trust yourself when you are under pressure. Self-trust is often discussed as confidence, but today I talk about the the practical side of your decision-making when you are tired, stressed, anxious, embarrassed, angry…
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Ep 2128: What Happens When the Goal Stops Exciting You Halfway Through?
In this episode I discuss what happens when the enthusiasm of the goal and the novelty wears off half way through the achivement of a goal. We often think about the beginning and the end but the middle is where the real work takes place.
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Ep 2127: What Would You Change?
In this episode I discuss that question of having a time-machine and living certain parts of your life over with the knowledge and wisdom you have today, and asking what would you change. Today's episode is inspired by Sylvester Stallone and what he said he got wrong in Rocky IV and would change…
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Ep 2126: Your Weekly Success Review
In this episode I discuss the importance of taking time each week to review your successes, recognise the progress you’ve made and identify what has worked well. By reflecting on your wins, you can build confidence, reinforce positive behaviours and better prepare yourself mentally for the...
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Ep 2125: When to Stop Solving Problems
In this episode I discuss when it is that you need to stop solving problems. We can become so conditioned to constantly fixing, improving and finding solutions that we forget not every problem needs our immediate attention. Sometimes the better decision is to step away, allow things to unfold,...
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Ep 2124: Filtering Your Priorities
In this episode I discuss an approach to filtering your priorities so that your time, energy and attention are focused on the things that have the greatest impact on your outcomes. We can often convince ourselves that everything is important, but when everything becomes a priority, nothing really...
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Ep 2123: How to be More Consistent
In this episode, I discuss one of the biggest challenges we face when working towards high-performance outcomes: consistency. It’s rarely a lack of knowledge, ability or ambition that holds us back. More often, it’s our ability to keep showing up, doing the work and maintaining the right…
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Ep 2122: What Should You Stop Chasing?
In this episode, I explore the things we chase in business, career, health, wealth and life, and why it’s important to regularly question whether they still deserve our time, energy and attention. What once felt important may no longer align with who we are, where we’re going or what we truly value.
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Ep 2121: How Do You Measure Your Success?
In this episode, I explore what it really takes to achieve success, and, more importantly, how you choose to measure it. What if the measures you’re using to define success aren’t actually giving you an accurate picture of your reality?
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Ep 2120: The Tipping Point
In this episode, I explore the tipping point in personal, professional and intimate relationships, the moment when something we have tolerated, overlooked or excused can no longer continue in the same way. I discuss our individual biases around judgement, patience, loyalty and tolerance, and ask…
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Ep 2119: Creating Your 12-Week Plan
In this episode, I discuss how creating a focused 12-week plan from now until the end of 2026 can be a powerful framework for high performance, challenging what you achieved during the same period in previous years, finishing the year with purpose, and entering 2027 further ahead than you thought...
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Ep 2118: Judging Your Self-Voice
In this episode I discuss the world of judgement that we live in, yet often the person who negatively judges us most is ourself. I explore how to overcome this to live out our true full potential.
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Ep 2117: The Discipline of Stopping
In this episode I discuss the discipline of knowing when, and how, to stop the busyness of our daily life in order to recover, restore and regenerate our energy levels.
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Ep 2116: Relief Is Not Always Proof You Made the Right Decision
In this episode, I explore why feeling relieved after a decision doesn’t always mean it was the right one. Sometimes relief comes from escaping discomfort rather than choosing what serves us best. I discuss how to recognise the difference and make decisions that support your values, growth and...
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Ep 2115: Courage Doesn’t Mean Discomfort Disappears
In this episode I discuss why comfort doesn't disappear because you're courageous. Higher achievers certainly feel discomfort but they learn how to step into the discomfort anyway.
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Ep 2114: The Danger of Becoming Excellent at Coping
In this episode I discuss how dangerous it can be be mentally tough to cope with everything all the time. Being able to endure a situation doesn't necessarily mean you should continue accepting it.
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Ep 2113: What’s Driving You?
In this episode I discuss what is driving you to achieve your life strategies and how we can influence our blueprint to success, happiness and fulfilment.
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Ep 2112: Are You Being Too Stubborn?
In this episode I discuss stubbornness and how that can negatively impact your higher performance outcomes, how to be aware of it and what you can do to change it.
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Ep 2111: Envy Can Be Useful Information
In this episode, I explore how envy can reveal something you want but haven’t fully acknowledged yet. Rather than judging the feeling, you can get curious about what it’s telling you and use that insight to guide your next step.
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Ep 2110: Your Emotional Recovery Time Is a Performance Metric
In this episode I discuss what it means to have emotional recovery from the things that we don't necessarily discover until it becomes a problem and how to effectively achieve faster than you think you need to.
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Ep 2109: Confidence Isn’t Always the Answer
In this episode I discuss why confidence isn't always the answer and sometimes you just need better calibration. Self-belief is amazing, but we need confidence in being able to accurately judge our abilities without blindly believing we can do anything.
About this show
The Mental Toughness & Body Show is hosted by Robb Evans, an Australian high-performance coach, author, podcaster and health advocate. With more than three decades in health, fitness, mindset and human performance, Robb shares practical ideas to help people think better, live healthier and perform at a higher level. Episodes explore mental toughness, strength, nutrition, longevity, mindset, personal development and lessons from life, business and conversations with high performers.
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