Episode 348: Mastering Performance with Panos Kakoullis on Endurance, Leadership, and Growth

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon interviews Panos Kakoullis, a long-time Purple Patch athlete, at the Hawaii IRONMAN training camp. From Boardroom to Finish Line—Listen to Panos Kakoullis on Balancing High-Stakes Leadership with Elite-Level Endurance Performance. Panos shares his Greek Cypriot background, growing up above a fish and chip shop, and his journey from becoming an accountant, later Senior Partner at Deloitte to CFO at Rolls Royce. He discusses his transition from powerlifting to endurance sports, influenced by his wife, and his 16 IRONMAN completions. Panos emphasizes the importance of consistency, recovery, and integrating sport into life. He highlights the role of curiosity, growth mindset, and releasing mental weight in his success. Looking ahead, he plans more marathons and a cycling trip across Italy.

Panos reflects on the challenges and successes in his professional life, including the importance of integrating sport into his busy schedule. Panos recounts how he and his wife decided to do a marathon and then a triathlon, despite initially swearing never to do an IRONMAN. He emphasizes the importance of consistency over heroism and the need to prioritize recovery and nutrition. Matt and Panos wrap up the conversation, with Matt expressing his admiration for Panos' journey and achievements

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:04.4	The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential.
0:10.4	Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential.
0:14.4	The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life.
0:32.6	Goodness me, what a guest we have with us today.
0:39.7	We have a long-time Purple Patch athlete, a good friend, and someone that is on the right side of London.
0:42.9	Panoskakoulis, thank you very much for joining us on the show.
0:44.4	Great to be here.
0:47.3	Great to be here in this brilliant location.
0:48.1	Yeah, that's right.
0:50.2	We are recording on location here.
0:54.4	That's why we are, if you're watching the show, we can see that Panis and I are very intimate.
0:59.7	We're sitting close to each other because we are at the Hawaii Iron Man Training Camp and the Purple Patch Training Camp in Hawaii that we do annually. This is your second camp. You are
1:04.5	returning for another dose of excellence. It is. Last year I came, I said to the team when we came, last year I had no idea what to expect.
1:14.3	This year, as soon as the plane touched down, as soon as I thought, I know exactly what I'm in for and I'm loving it.
1:20.6	It's fantastic. And as we go through this conversation, I should point out that I'm a little bit of a shaken man right now.
1:29.1	I am a coach that is lacking in confidence because two hours ago, Panos laid me over his
1:36.4	knee and beat me senseless in a set of running intervals, which I can safely say, I think,
1:41.8	is the first time that that has ever happened.
1:47.9	And it wasn't through a lack of effort on my part, let's put it that way.
1:50.7	You could hear my thundering steps coming behind you, I think.
1:56.7	I could. On the very last interval, I knew, I knew, I had reeled him in on the previous one.
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