3-Michelin Kitchen to Yoga Mastery: Discipline, Chaos& Why Systems Beat Motivation w/ Alex Vidreiro

At 15, Alex left school to become a chef. By 19, he was working in a 3-Michelin-star kitchen in Monaco. 14-hour days, zero margin for error, and a culture where stealing your knife was just part of the game. Recorded live at our Madeira retreat, this conversation traces how that environment built him, and why meditation, picked up almost by accident, became the skill that changed everything. We get into: What it's actually like inside a 3-Michelin kitchen; the hierarchy, the pressure, the sabotage Why he walked away from peak fine dining at 19, and the diminishing returns of chasing the last 10% How a stiff, "skinny fat" cook found his way into meditation, yoga, handstands, and calisthenics "Greasing the groove", the low-intensity, high-frequency method that took his pull-ups from 6 to 13 Why systems beat motivation, every single time If you're chasing performance in any domain, training, business, or otherwise, this one's full of perspective you can actually use. 🎙️ Unapologetic Performance Podcast 📍 Recorded at our Madeira retreat Follow Alex: instagram.com/alexgvidreiro Alex's website: https://dailyminimum.netlify.app/ Unapologetic Performance: unap.co.uk Follow along: @unapperformance Follow me IG: @jorge_unap #UnapologeticPerformance #Podcast #Discipline #Yoga #Calisthenics #MichelinChef