BITESIZE #21 | Rio Ferdinand: Dealing with expectation
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This week’s bitesize boost of inspiration comes from the first ever guest on the podcast - Rio Ferdinand! This chat set us on the way to where we are now, five series later.
In this clip Rio tells us how he dealt with expectation…followed by a fascinating chat with Jake and Damian. Have a brilliant Friday.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of High Performance is brought to you in association with BetterHelp. |
| 0:04.0 | They have over a thousand therapists in the UK already providing access to mental health support |
| 0:10.8 | with expertise in a wide variety of mental health challenges. And I've been there. I have had |
| 0:16.5 | mental health support, I've had therapy. My wife is exactly the same. We go to the gym all the time |
| 0:21.3 | to make sure that our bodies are in good shape. We don't only go to the gym when we're injured |
| 0:25.5 | and I think that it should be exactly the same when it comes to our mental health. So I am delighted |
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| 1:08.9 | This episode of the High Performance podcast is sponsored by Get Into Teaching. And you know, |
| 1:13.9 | we've worked with Get Into Teaching now for the last couple of years because we know that so many |
| 1:18.1 | of you teachers listen to this podcast and we love that and we respect the amazing work you do |
| 1:23.6 | and we stand alongside you as you inspire the next generation. And I was thinking, if I was a |
| 1:28.4 | teacher, what would I teach and how would I teach it? And I've actually been inspired by a teacher |
| 1:35.7 | called Mr. Weeks who reaches out to us regularly to tell us that he's created High Performance Lunch |
| 1:41.6 | Times at his school. So what he does, he gets a bunch of kids together to host their own podcast, |
| 1:45.9 | they invite a guest in and they talk about all things, High Performance and Interview the guest, |
| 1:51.0 | they do exactly what Damien and myself do on this podcast. I would also make sure that I definitely |
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