Delia Smith: The power of silence (E220)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Delia Smith CH CBE is a culinary icon having sold over 21 million cookery books, and is also joint majority shareholder of Norwich City FC. In this conversation, Delia opens up about her spiritual journey, the transformative power of community and her time at Norwich.
Her spirituality is a central theme of the episode - now at 82 years of age, she describes how her relationship to community, politics and silence has transformed over time. Delia shares with Jake and Damian how dedicating one hour (she started with just 10 minutes) a day to quiet time has reshaped her perspective on life's challenges.
Having been a key member of the Norwich football family for over 27 years, community is central to Delia’s life. Delia discusses how to create, support and maintain communities in a time when everyone feels so disconnected. Her time at Norwich has also brought many challenges, including joining the board when they were days from bankruptcy and dealing with rude fans and cruel chants. She shares what it feels like to find true freedom and how she has come to accept herself and the difficult realities of life.
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| 1:05.0 | Hi there. You're listening to high performance, the award-winning podcast that unlocks the minds of some of the most fascinating people on the planet. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm Jay Cumpfrey and alongside Professor Damian Hughes, we learn from the stories, successes and struggles of our guests, |
| 1:20.0 | allowing us all to explore, be challenged and to grow. Here's what's coming up today. |
| 1:27.0 | I feel that if something's wrong, I want to do my bit to put it right and I don't think that's unique to me. |
| 1:37.0 | I think everybody has that sort of capacity in them, but it just needs to be brought out. |
| 1:44.0 | I really don't believe this wonderful, beautiful thing, |
| 1:48.0 | calls human existence is just going to come to an end with climate change and it is going to come to an end. |
| 1:54.0 | If we don't do something about it, that's it. It's extinction. |
| 1:58.0 | Or as one writer put it, unite or perish. |
| 2:02.0 | One vote every five years is not living in a democracy, not in any way, shape or form that's all we're given. |
| 2:09.0 | We have to find a way to let the people in community be the politics. |
| 2:17.0 | Don't be fooled by this charming, lovely person underneath their steel. |
| 2:25.0 | So today we welcome the owner of Norwich City Football Club, TV chef and author Delia Smith to the high performance podcast. |
| 2:33.0 | So Delia is now in her 80s. She's been a chef for over 60 years. |
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