Welcome back to the Slice of PIE podcast.

This episode is part 2 of the conversation with Robbie Anderson. If you like digging into the performance world of Formula One, as well a casual mentions of the importance of Portuguese Restaurant chain Nandos – then you’re in for a real treat!

If you’re interested, check out the first part of the conversation with Robbie – the link to that episode is here:

https://www.sliceofpiepodcast.com/987202/episodes/19336453-36-psychology-in-formula-one-dr-robbie-anderson

...but even if you’re jumping straight in at this point, there’s more than enough to take from this part without neccesirly needing to listen to part 1 first.

As a reminder, here are the key places to find Robbie and his work:

You can follow Robbie here:

Website:

https://www.performingminds.com/about

Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbieanderson1/

Who is going to let us under the bonnet of the Formula One world? We are very fortunate to get the 'inside track' via Dr Robbie Anderson, Head of Performance Psychology at Hintsa F1 programs as well as Founder and Director of his own company Performing Minds.

Reading out the rest of Robbie’s achievements and experiences could be podcast episode in itself – some of his notable previous positions include first team performance psychologist at QPR, Head of Psychology at INEOS Grenadiers Cycling and Psychology Lead at England rugby – throw in positions with GB Taewknodo and GB canoing as well as positions in the private sector in the world of Hedge Funds and a decades long stint working with Steve Peters at Chimp Management where he was latterly Managing Director – and you have a podcast guest with an awful lot to shine a light on.

And we did cover an awful lot. To the extent that this conversation was enough to fill TWO bumper episodes of Slice of PIE – so this first part will be going out in June, and we’ll try and get the second part of the interview edited and on the channel by the end of the summer. So stayed tuned for part 2 once you extracted all of Robbie’s great insights from this first peak under the hood.

You can follow Robbie here:

Website:

https://www.performingminds.com/about

Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbieanderson1/

The first episode of 2026 is a compelling sneak peak behind the curtain of elite European professional football, with the fantastic Dr Peter Schneider.

Peter is a mental performance coach with a PhD in Sport Psychology and dual master’s degrees in Sport & Exercise Psychology and Diagnostics & Intervention, trained at the University of Leipzig and the University of Jyväskylä. Across 4 seasons leading mental performance at RB Leipzig, he helped build high‑performance habits that translated into two DFB‑Cup titles and a Supercup victory.

And in this episode we get to hear some fascinating stories and anecdotes from this world, punctuated by some pearls of wisdom on elite performance, and the lives of elite performers.

You can follow Peter here:

Website:

https://www.peterschneider-mpr.com/

Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterschneider85/