About Us
Why we started Total Mental Performance...
I used to think I was an overachiever back in the day as a former:
- International boxer and Mens England team member.
- Graduate from the Peter Jones’s Enterprise Academy.
- Software sales guy who opened / closed £400,000 of new business EdTech sales aged 17 and later successfully signed fashion clients including Pepe Jeans, Hackett, Moss Bros, Warehouse aged 22.
- Nutrition app and eCommerce business founder
- “Down and outer” in £15,000 of debt living on my aunties sofa to £40,000 saved having travelled/partied around the world in less than 3 years.
Stretching out after an England Boxing training camp at the GB Olympic Centre
ON THE SURFACE EVERYTHING LOOKED CONFIDENTLY IN CONTROL...
- However, I tried (and evidently but fortunately failed) to take my own life due to an eating disorder, anxiety, depression, two addictions and eventually burn out.
- Borrowed £15,000 from a close friend and lost it all in a failed business.
- Wasn’t good enough to make the Team GB boxing team and lost my place on the England team.
- Lost two girlfriends due to previous abandonment and anxiety issues.
you win some you lose some
Along that journey, I’ve been incredibly fortunate to work with incredible mentors, coaches and companies. I’ve learned some great models, techniques and thinking processes that have fundamentally changed both my own life, our clients and colleagues lives for the better.
I discovered you really can be courageous, ambitious and driven to do big things without the constant need for validation, over the top pressure we as high performers put on ourselves. Without letting our emotions take control of us whether that be fear, stress, feeling low, guilty, anger or insecurity.
Which is why I built Total Mental Performance, our online mental performance coaching service which helps ambitious overachievers and high performers conquer their mindsets for sustainable peak performance.
Take care,
Kyran
Returning to the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy to deliver a mindset management workshop to the next generation of young entrepreneurs
MEET THE TEAM
KYRAN O'NEILL
Founder
Kyran is the Founder of Total Mental Performance and Mental Performance Coach.
His background in international boxing and software sales in highly competitive markets is where he discovered the profound shift having a world class mental performance coach can make in both performance and quality of life.
On top of his experience in high pressure environments he is a qualified NLP practitioner, performance coach and Cognitive Hypnotherapist.
His wider ambition for Total Mental Performance is to help over 1000 people with their mental performance by the end of 2023 all over the socio-economic scale with the charity partnership with mental health charity Amaudo.
DR kate blackford
Senior Mental Performance Coach
Dr Blackford leads our female mental performance programme. She specialises in PTSD and Anxiety for women, holding a degree in Psychology and Ph.D. in Organisational Psychology with 13 years experience of leadership, coaching people and organisations through positive change.
She’s a Master Cognitive Hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner as well as member of both the British Psychological Society and Quest Cognitive Hypnotherapy Practitioners Association.
“I had it all – the nice home, car, well paid job, loving partner. I was outwardly successful: a Ph.D., years of managing corporate change, leadership and coaching people in the workplace. But… I’d wake up every morning feeling dread. Sit in work meetings not able to breathe. Worried about what my boss thought of me. Panic attacks each night.
It was only when I turned to a Cognitive Hypnotherapist and mental performance coach for help that everything changed. Now I wake up every morning happy to be alive.
I was so inspired by this change, it felt natural to train as a therapist and Mental Performance Coach myself. I wanted to help women, who struggle with anxiety, find a way out too. Today I have the honour of being able to do this every week.
Daniel Martin
Mental Performance Coach
Dan leads our entry level mental performance coaching programme for coaches at the 30-50 client market looking to push onto the 10k months and beyond. He’s a qualified cognitive hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner with over 9 years in highly competitive corporate sales / leadership roles.
A former body builder who messed up his steroid cycle and having struggled with many addictions whilst still being a high performer in his corporate roles, Dan has a unique perspective on how to help clients get to that next league.
Lola Chikivchuk
Marketing Manager
Lola is an incredibly resilient, creative and bright marketing manager who oversees all of marketing systems and delivery. Having escaped the Ukraine / Russian war with two children on her own, whilst continuing to deliver for TMP (at her request!) she has gone to build a powerful marketing department.
darina ian
Marketing Intern
With a similar story to Lola, Darina has been doing an excellent job at editing all of our reels, creating graphics and making sure.
We have high hopes for her here at TMP!
Amaudo Charity Partnership
Inspired by the work of the Nigerian mental health charity Amaudo, Total Mental Performance set up “Help yourself to help others”.
For each programme taken out by a TMP client they support a mentally ill homeless person for a minimum of two weeks with residential and psychiatric care.