Series Two Preview

The High Performance Podcast is back for Series Two! Thank you to everyone who has been with us so far and welcome to all of you just joining in.

Returning for a second series, broadcaster Jake Humphrey and leading organisational psychologist Professor Damian Hughes speak to more world-class performers from business, sports, music and arts to hear their first-hand experiences and what lessons they've learned along the way.

Episodes are released every Monday and we kick off Series 2 with the manager of one of the biggest football clubs on the planet, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, on July 13th.

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The High Performance Podcast returns for a second season with broadcaster Jake Humphrey and organizational psychologist Professor Damian Hughes. The podcast features interviews with world-class performers from various fields, including business, sports, music, and the arts, who share their first-hand experiences and lessons learned along their journeys.

The first episode of the second season features Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the manager of Manchester United Football Club. Solskjaer discusses the cultural changes he has implemented at the club, his relationship with the players, and the impact of Bruno Fernandes on the team.

Other guests in the second season include Ollie Smith, a professional dancer with the Royal Ballet, who shares his experiences of overcoming adversity and achieving success in the world of dance. The podcast also features insights from business leaders, musicians, and other high achievers.

The High Performance Podcast is available on all major podcast platforms and is released every Monday. Listeners can subscribe to the podcast to receive new episodes as they are released. The podcast is also available on smart speakers, making it easy for listeners to access the content on their preferred devices.

The podcast aims to inspire and motivate listeners by sharing the stories and experiences of successful individuals from various walks of life. The podcast is also a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning more about the psychology of high performance and the factors that contribute to success.

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[02:40.280 -> 02:44.600] hi everyone it's Jay Comfrey here and I'm very pleased to say that the high
[02:44.600 -> 02:45.060] performance podcast is back for a second series and I'm very pleased to say that the High Performance
[02:45.060 -> 02:49.600] Podcast is back for a second series and I want to start with a thank you really. I want
[02:49.600 -> 02:54.600] to say thank you for everyone who downloaded and listened and subscribed. Thank you for
[02:54.600 -> 02:59.380] making it the number one sports podcast in various countries. Thanks for helping us become
[02:59.380 -> 03:04.800] the second largest sports podcast in the UK in 2020. All of the people from the business
[03:04.800 -> 03:05.320] community that listened to it and of course everyone who shared clips and the things they sports podcast in the UK in 2020. All of the people from the business community
[03:05.320 -> 03:09.120] that listened to it and of course everyone who shared clips and the things
[03:09.120 -> 03:12.520] they learned from the podcast across their social media accounts. The impact
[03:12.520 -> 03:16.400] was wonderful and I'm so pleased to say that we're back and of course back
[03:16.400 -> 03:21.240] alongside me our resident professor, a man who always seems to just ask the
[03:21.240 -> 03:25.280] right question at the right time. Damien Hughes is with me again. Damien,
[03:25.280 -> 03:30.080] are you ready to go again for series two? I'm really excited to be back, Jake. It's really
[03:30.080 -> 03:35.680] fantastic that we've got some brilliant guests that have been equally honest and illuminating
[03:35.680 -> 03:41.200] in sharing their backgrounds and their journeys and their careers that any listener can take
[03:41.200 -> 03:47.760] something away from it and learn from and apply it in their own lives. And I think it's probably worth sort of explaining to people what we've been doing for the last
[03:47.760 -> 03:53.360] little while. We had a few series two recordings already in the can before the shutdown. We
[03:53.360 -> 03:58.240] obviously then couldn't record stuff for a while, we did a few remote records, but then we've been
[03:58.240 -> 04:02.960] sitting two meters apart, going to people's gardens, recording. It's been weird, Damien,
[04:02.960 -> 04:06.320] being two meters apart from you all the time, I won't lie.
[04:06.320 -> 04:08.800] But I'm so pleased with what we've managed to record now.
[04:08.800 -> 04:11.600] What were the highlights for you from the first series
[04:11.600 -> 04:14.360] now that you've had a kind of month or so to reflect?
[04:14.360 -> 04:17.120] I think what I found really fascinating
[04:17.120 -> 04:20.680] was just how open and honest and vulnerable that people were
[04:20.680 -> 04:23.760] and that relates not only to their successes,
[04:23.760 -> 04:27.840] but equally to how they were prepared to be open and honest oedd, ac mae hynny'n ymwneud â nid unig i'w cyfansoddiadau ond yn unig i sut oeddent yn parhau i fod yn agos ac yn ddiogel
[04:27.840 -> 04:32.960] am eu ffailiau, beth oeddent wedi dysgu onodd, pam ddynt ddigwydd ac beth oeddent wedi'i ddweud i sicrhau
[04:32.960 -> 04:40.640] nad oedd hynny'n digwydd yn unwaith eto. Rwy'n credu bod hynny'n cymryd amser o ddiddorol a'r ffurfiol
[04:40.640 -> 04:45.920] o'n gweinwyr, i fod yn parhau i rannu hynny gyda ni, oherwydd y byddai Dane Kelly Holmes yn siarad am
[04:45.920 -> 04:51.680] eu problemau iechyd mental, oherwydd y byddai Dylan Hartley yn siarad am ei problemau disyplynol,
[04:51.680 -> 04:58.480] neu oherwydd y byddai Tom Daly yn siarad am ei angenion sydd ganddo fel father ac fel athleta,
[04:58.480 -> 05:03.360] rwy'n credu, rwy'n teimlo'n ddiddorol iawn i ddarlithio ato, ac rwy'n credu bod hynny'n gwneud nhw'n
[05:02.280 -> 05:05.720] quite humbling to listen to it. And I think that made them very, very human.
[05:05.720 -> 05:07.080] I think it took away the idea
[05:07.080 -> 05:09.040] that we only focus on the outcome,
[05:09.040 -> 05:10.600] but you see something of the struggle
[05:10.600 -> 05:12.320] that is taken to get there.
[05:12.320 -> 05:13.880] I also really enjoyed learning more
[05:13.880 -> 05:15.280] about the person themselves,
[05:15.280 -> 05:18.520] rather than just the public figure that we see so often.
[05:18.520 -> 05:21.320] I really liked the conversations about parenting
[05:21.320 -> 05:23.160] and whether it was someone like Dylan Hartley
[05:23.160 -> 05:27.640] who had learned things from his parents that he still carried with him to this day or
[05:27.640 -> 05:32.560] whether it was Robin Van Percy talking about whether his son's gonna be a loser
[05:32.560 -> 05:36.360] or a winner and you know millions of people watched that clip of Robin
[05:36.360 -> 05:40.120] talking on social media so I think it resonated with people at home as well
[05:40.120 -> 05:44.300] and I think from a personal perspective one of the main reasons I wanted to do
[05:44.300 -> 05:45.040] this podcast
[05:45.040 -> 05:47.280] was that I grew up in a small village.
[05:47.280 -> 05:52.240] My mom's a teacher, my dad was a charity worker, and I used to look at high-performance, high-achieving
[05:52.240 -> 05:57.040] individuals in any genre and think, hmm, wonder what their secret is.
[05:57.040 -> 06:00.320] And I wonder whether one day anyone will ever tell me the secret.
[06:00.320 -> 06:02.400] And then I realized there is no secret.
[06:02.400 -> 06:05.500] And sitting and having these conversations with people who've achieved so much,
[06:05.500 -> 06:07.700] you know, you are, we are talking about people
[06:07.700 -> 06:11.200] who've got to the level of best in the world at what they do.
[06:11.200 -> 06:12.700] There was no secret, was there?
[06:12.700 -> 06:16.600] It was quite often just resilience, self-belief,
[06:16.600 -> 06:19.600] and as Stephen Bartlett famously said on series one,
[06:19.600 -> 06:21.300] believing that he could.
[06:21.300 -> 06:23.300] Yeah, I think that's absolutely right, Jake.
[06:23.300 -> 06:25.040] I think that what
[06:25.040 -> 06:29.040] each of these individuals has done is share with us a lot of the processes
[06:29.040 -> 06:32.840] that they've taken from whether that's their belief and their mindset, whether
[06:32.840 -> 06:37.040] it's the decisions that they've made, whether it's about the friendship groups
[06:37.040 -> 06:41.080] that they've surrounded themselves with or the commitment that they've had to
[06:41.080 -> 06:46.960] put in and invest to achieving success. I think that everybody's got their own y gallent ddod i mewn a'u cyfrif i ddysgu cyfansoddiad. Rwy'n credu bod pawb yn cael ei stori eich hun,
[06:46.960 -> 06:50.560] ond mae pattern y byddent i gyd wedi'i ddemonstru
[06:50.560 -> 06:53.520] nad yw'n ymwneud â bod yn ddod â ddewis ddynion gwych,
[06:53.520 -> 06:57.360] mae'n ymwneud â'r aspectau sy'n cael eu control,
[06:57.360 -> 07:00.160] a rwy'n credu y gall y myfyrwyr ddod i mewn a ddatrys
[07:00.160 -> 07:01.040] i'w bywydau eu hunain,
[07:01.040 -> 07:02.080] hefyd os yw arnyn nhw ar eu hunain,
[07:02.080 -> 07:04.160] neu fel dweud, ar eu plant
[07:04.160 -> 07:10.240] a'r bobl rydyn nhw'n gweithio gyyda nhw. Felly dwi'n dweud i chi beth, gallwn wneud y gwir i weld beth mae'r seriw 2 yn ei gael
[07:10.240 -> 07:15.280] ar gyfer ni, oherwydd rydyn ni wedi bod yn ddiddorol i sefydlu a gwrthwynebu nifer o gofynion ffenomenol,
[07:15.280 -> 07:20.320] eto, sydd wedi bod yn ddiddorol, yn ddiddorol, yn ddiddorol a'n ddiddorol yn llunio
[07:20.320 -> 07:26.080] am eu storiau eu hunain. Felly un o fy mhobl f oedd ein cyntaf gwestiwn, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
[07:26.080 -> 07:31.200] Nawr rydw i wedi bod yn ddiogel iawn i gyd gwybod Ole am nifer o flynyddoedd, ac rydw i'n gallu ddod yn ddiogel
[07:31.200 -> 07:37.040] y bydd y sgwrs rydyn ni'n ei gael gyda ni yn ddiweddar, yn ystod y decaed, yn y ffordd
[07:37.040 -> 07:40.960] mae'n hyfryd fel unrhyw un rydw i wedi'i gael dros y diwedd diwethaf, o ran sut o ffyrdd o ffyrdd a'r ddiddorol
[07:40.960 -> 08:06.000] o'i ffyrdd o'i ffyrdd o Ffyrdd Norweig i Manchester, yn enwedig fel chwaraewr cymdeithasau ei hun,
[08:06.000 -> 08:10.000] ac y diwrnod cyntaf fe wnaeth e'i gysylltu â phobl.
[08:10.000 -> 08:16.000] Nid yw e'n dod yma yn meddwl, dwi'n y llaw, dwi'n ymddangos, dwi'n ymddangos, dywedwch i mi.
[08:16.000 -> 08:20.000] Na, fe gysylltu â phob cyngor staff.
[08:20.000 -> 08:21.000] A dywedwch chi hynny?
[08:21.000 -> 08:25.720] Ac wrth gwrs, dyma'r teulu, Man United, r. Manni and I, we've always been a family.
[08:25.720 -> 08:32.040] And Sir Alex, the way he's created this atmosphere in this training ground,
[08:32.520 -> 08:33.960] I think is unique.
[08:33.960 -> 08:35.600] I was not like a player as well.
[08:35.600 -> 08:38.520] I did my best and that's all I can do.
[08:38.560 -> 08:39.600] This is me.
[08:39.600 -> 08:44.880] But then I realized after a while that this isn't me at Cardiff
[08:44.920 -> 08:46.000] because that wasn't me.
[08:46.000 -> 08:51.000] It was a challenge. I was too stubborn maybe to, when I took the job, say,
[08:51.000 -> 08:57.000] I'll manage this. I needed maybe different skill sets.
[08:57.000 -> 09:03.000] Maybe I was said I was open and honest, and my door was always open with the players,
[09:03.000 -> 09:05.600] but maybe I was still a little bit too distant
[09:05.600 -> 09:10.000] and I didn't get that relationship that I wanted with the players.
[09:10.320 -> 09:12.320] And in my last five years,
[09:12.480 -> 09:16.160] I've been a different manager, to be fair, and more relaxed.
[09:18.960 -> 09:22.280] It was such a great conversation to be invited to Carrington,
[09:22.280 -> 09:25.140] where Oli does his work, and to really, for the first
[09:25.140 -> 09:30.480] time I think, drill down into the cultural changes that he's imposed at Manchester United
[09:30.480 -> 09:34.640] and the results of which we're seeing on the pitch and the conversation about Bruno Fernandes
[09:34.640 -> 09:39.860] and what he brought to the club was remarkable. So that's the first episode, Oli Gunnasolciai,
[09:39.860 -> 09:44.200] it's out on Monday, the podcast is out every Monday just to help you start your week with
[09:44.200 -> 09:45.840] some inspiration and
[09:45.840 -> 09:50.320] to lift you up with a bit of positivity. But it's not just about football, it's not even just about
[09:50.320 -> 09:56.560] sport. Ollie is our first guest, but there's all this as well on series two of the High Performance
[09:56.560 -> 10:00.640] Podcast. Ollie Smith
[10:00.640 -> 10:06.920] I think over the years, if I'm honest with you you my dad beat me to a pulp two or three
[10:06.920 -> 10:12.240] times a week and I never learned but what that did I remember going to bed
[10:12.240 -> 10:17.800] wanting to die when I'm eight nine ten and I thought if ever I have kids they're
[10:17.800 -> 10:21.600] never gonna feel this way so it made me a better dad. So at the heart of
[10:21.600 -> 10:26.960] everything I did was every single effort of every single session counts.
[10:26.960 -> 10:30.480] So you know, if you get to the start line knowing there's nothing more that you could
[10:30.480 -> 10:34.760] have done, if you can truly say you've done everything you can possibly do, then you can
[10:34.760 -> 10:35.760] relax in the day.
[10:35.760 -> 10:36.760] It's a bit like studying for your exams.
[10:36.760 -> 10:41.640] If you've done the work, you can enjoy the experience and you know, whatever happens,
[10:41.640 -> 10:42.640] happens.
[10:42.640 -> 10:45.880] You know, my partner tells me partner says that he senses freedom.
[10:45.880 -> 10:47.840] He senses that I go on, I jump,
[10:47.840 -> 10:50.040] and I'm not thinking of what's coming next
[10:50.040 -> 10:53.120] in the way of like, I'm not thinking technically,
[10:53.120 -> 10:55.040] which for me, it's so important.
[10:55.040 -> 10:57.760] Because there are incredible dancers in the company,
[10:57.760 -> 10:59.480] obviously, I mean, the Royal Ballet
[10:59.480 -> 11:01.560] has incredible male and female dancers,
[11:01.560 -> 11:03.960] and each one has their quality.
[11:03.960 -> 11:07.400] The dancers that I love watching are the dancers that have complete freedom in their eyes
[11:07.400 -> 11:09.600] and you see a dancer that has complete freedom
[11:09.600 -> 11:12.400] and a dancer that almost feels like he's just chatting with you.
[11:13.800 -> 11:14.800] Oh, it's going to be so good.
[11:14.800 -> 11:19.200] Look, Damien and I can't wait for you to hear it, to listen, to share your thoughts with us.
[11:19.200 -> 11:21.600] And please, when you've listened to the episodes,
[11:21.600 -> 11:23.400] we love to get feedback on social media.
[11:23.400 -> 11:29.600] So feel free to get in touch and share your thoughts with us. I'm really excited to say that Lotus are also joining us
[11:29.600 -> 11:33.520] again for series two, they were a wonderful partner for the first series and we're so
[11:33.520 -> 11:39.040] pleased that Lotus cars are with us once again. So that's it really, High Performance Podcast is
[11:39.040 -> 11:43.360] back, you can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, we're of course available on smart
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[11:46.600 -> 11:51.840] business, the arts, just make sure that you start your week every Monday with
[11:51.840 -> 11:57.120] the High Performance Podcast. Episode one is Oligon Associa, the Manchester
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