E190 - Lord Bilimoria: Adversity into opportunity - Building a global beer empire with Cobra
Lord Bilimoria is a businessman and life peer in the House of Lords. Founding Cobra Beer in 1989, in this interview Lord Bilimoria distils decades of business experience into valuable lessons. After attending university at 16, Lord Bilimora came to the UK on a scholarship at 18. It was then he identified a space in the market for Cobra Beer, inspired by his youth in India.In this episode, they discuss how being creative and an innovation is crucial for an entrepreneur and how to cultivate these skills. He offers the tips he uses to problem solve, how to pursue optimism and how his motto, “problem, solution, action”, plays into his everyday life. He shares with Jake and Damian his failures, successes and how he has learnt to identify when to give up and when to push through. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1 Maj 202354min
The importance of adaptability with Neil Fachie
These bitesize episodes focus on the greatest lessons we’ve learnt from the guests we've had on the podcast.In this episode Jake and Damian reflect back their conversation with Paralympian, Neil Fachie. This episode was recorded via Zoom during the pandemic, Jake and Damian discuss how this set up sometimes led to more open and honest conversations - this was definitely true in the case of Neil.This bitesize clip explores how Neil dealt with the struggles of his disability and how it has taught him resilience and problem solving skills.You can listen to the full conversation here: https://pod.fo/e/c1ace Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
28 Apr 202312min
Guenther Steiner: No f**k's given, F1's most outspoken team boss (E189)
Guenther Steiner is a renowned motorsport engineer and team manager, best known for his current position as the Haas Formula One Team Principal. With over 30 years working in motorsport, Guenther is highly admired throughout the community and has become a leading figure in popular Netflix series, ‘Drive to Survive’.In this episode, he describes how he found his way to a career in racing, his approach to management and how he nurtures his relationships with drivers and team mates to help push the team forward. In addition to this, Guenther shares how it feels to watch one of his team suffer from a serious crash, and the burden of hoping to see them emerge from the wreckage.You can read more of Guenther's story in his new book. More information is available at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451686/surviving-to-drive-by-steiner-guenther/9781787636279- - - - - - - - -We're on tour! Grab the last tickets for our live theatre tour coming to Nottingham, Oxford, Northampton, Glasgow, Cardiff, Guildford, Leeds, Salford - https://www.thehighperformancepodcast.com/live2023.Watch all episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/highperformancepodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
24 Apr 20231h 3min
What advice would you give your younger self?
“What advice would you give your younger self?” Since the beginning of the podcast, Jake and Damian have asked this question in almost every conversation as a way of finding out what a high performance life has taught the interviewee. In this episode, they reflect on why this question is important, what they’ve learned from asking it, and review a few of their favourites from Rio Ferdinand, Steven Bartlett and Lucy Easthope.Listen back to:Rio Ferdinand - https://pod.fo/e/15914Steven Bartlett - https://pod.fo/e/16ca9Lucy Easthope - https://pod.fo/e/120622 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
21 Apr 202316min
E188 - Phil Giles: The man who helped build Brentford FC
Phil Giles is the current Director of Football at Brentford Football Club, responsible for overseeing player recruitment, scouting and youth development. With over a decade of experience at Brentford, Phil shares how to have honest conversations with staff and players, what it means to be a good Director and how to share bad news with a team, among much more.In this episode, Phil shares the things he does to make Brentford different to any other club. He discusses the qualities he looks for in players and how he determines if they will be the right fit. They discuss his relationships with risk, positivity and humility. Phil divulges the killer questions he asks his players. - - - - - - - - -We're going on tour! Grab the last tickets for our live theatre tour coming to London, Nottingham, Oxford, Northampton, Glasgow, Cardiff, Guildford, Leeds, Salford - https://www.thehighperformancepodcast.com/live2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
17 Apr 20231h 5min
From the Pitch to the Classroom: Kit Brown's Playbook for High-Performance Teaching
In this special bonus episode in partnership with Get Into Teaching, Jake chats to Kit Brown, a primary school teacher and a semi-professional footballer. Kit has accumulated over 1 million social media followers sharing his passion for teaching and education. He shares the rewards of being a teacher and how the small wins make the hard work worthwhile.Jake and Kit discuss the skills he has gained in football that he applies to his teaching, including how to build resilience in young people and how he brings a high performance mindset into the classroom. He shares with Jake the creative techniques he uses within the classroom, like rapping about the water-cycle or cutting up his tie to teach the kids about fractions. “Teaching is what you make it… make it creative”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
14 Apr 202312min
E187 - Brent Hoberman, lastminute.com founder: the hard truths of entrepreneurship
Brent Hoberman is an entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded lastminute.com and made.com, both of which went on to be valued at $1 billion dollars. Being born in South Africa, from a Jewish family and moving to England to attend boarding school, Brent identifies being an immigrant and an outsider as a driving force in his work. He shares with Jake and Damian how he used his misfit status to create his own path, and now actively looks for outsiders and mavericks to work alongside him. They discuss how to build credibility as an entrepreneur and why this is so important. Brent doesn’t believe that anyone can be an entrepreneur, he reveals the traits and skills he looks for in young employees. After over 20 years of managing people and founding businesses, Brent shares the secret to finding the right employees, how to create and maintain a dynamic culture and how to find the benefit in controversy. - - - - - - - - -We're going on tour! Grab the last tickets for our live theatre tour coming to London, Nottingham, Oxford, Northampton, Glasgow, Cardiff, Guildford, Leeds, Salford - https://www.thehighperformancepodcast.com/live2023.Books Out Now:The High Performance Daily Journal - 365 Ways To Become Your Best! smarturl.it/HPJournalHigh Performance: Lessons From the Best on Becoming Your Best https://amzn.to/3WcJnBs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10 Apr 20231h 9min
Discovering Your Ikigai: Finding Purpose, Passion, and Fulfilment in Life with Hector Garcia
In this special episode, Ikigai expert Hector Garcia joins Jake and Damian to discuss how utilising Ikigai will get you closer to finding your purpose. Ikigai is a Japanese word that means ‘reason for being’. Hector explains to Jake and Damian how people can find their Ikigai and the actions you can take to change your life once you find it. They reflect on previous podcast guests and see how their ideas apply to the theory of Ikigai. These guests include: Chase & Status: https://pod.fo/e/11ea47Roxie Nafousi: https://pod.fo/e/13054fDanny Cipriani: https://pod.fo/e/14797eIkigai has transformed the lives of countless people, this episode will get you a step closer to uncovering your purpose and leading a more fulfilling life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
7 Apr 202343min
