389 - Thriving Under Pressure- How an IRONMAN Exec Rebuilt for Peak Performance
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.9 • 651 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Purple Patch Podcast! In this episode, Jeff Dolan, an international executive at Starbucks, shares his journey from a busy executive to a high-performing triathlete. Initially, he struggled with balancing his demanding role with his passion for triathlon. After joining Purple Patch Fitness, he learned to focus on quality training over quantity, integrating nutrition, sleep, and recovery. This approach led to significant improvements in his performance, including PRs in 70.3 and IRONMAN races. Dolan emphasizes the importance of adaptability, energy management, and the value of small, consistent improvements. His story highlights the benefits of integrating sport into life to enhance overall well-being and performance.
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| 0:00.0 | Folks today, you're going to listen to a special one, a wonderful conversation with Jeff Dolan, |
| 0:07.0 | an international traveling executive for Starbucks who has unlocked the recipe for high performance across both sport, life and of course work. |
| 0:17.1 | If you're interested in continuing the conversation and understanding how you can unlock that same recipe, to show up better with greater presence, Jeff's going to focus on that a lot today, and then feel free to reach out to us. |
| 0:30.9 | We offer complementary needs assessments where we want to understand your goals, your life situation and enable you to integrate sport into life |
| 0:39.1 | to show up better and of course get faster on the races and the events that are important to you. |
| 0:45.2 | It's free, it's pressure free and the worst that can come from it is that you're going to have |
| 0:50.3 | a little bit of a strategy in a path forward to enable you to fuel your success. |
| 0:54.6 | And of course, if it works out that we're a great partner for you, we'll ensure we'll get you |
| 0:59.1 | into the right program, whether it's one-to-one coaching, like Jeff, integrates into, or of course, |
| 1:04.4 | our highly popular squad program. Reach out info at purple patchfitness.com. Cheers. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 1:15.0 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 1:20.8 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 1:24.7 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere |
| 1:28.7 | in a great sport into life. |
| 1:39.7 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 1:50.0 | And today, this is a conversation that I've been excited about for a long time. |
| 1:52.7 | So the Purple Patch athlete, Jeff Dolan. |
| 1:55.6 | He's also vice president at Starbucks. |
| 1:58.1 | And he leads international development. That means that he's overseeing 88 countries. |
| 2:02.0 | It was store development and of course what that means is a tremendous amount of travel. |
| 2:08.8 | Jeff is not a triathlon growing up. He wasn't an endurance athlete. In fact, he was a hockey player. |
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