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The High Performance Podcast

E101 - Karl Lokko: A lesson in the importance of placing empathy over opinion

The High Performance Podcast

High Performance

Sports, Self-improvement, Mindset, Growth Mindset, Health & Fitness, Non-negotiables, Education, Life Lessons, High Performance

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Karl Lokko is an activist, public speaker, influencer and businessman. Son of previous illegal immigrants, Karl became a gang leader at 14 years old. His gang (Mayhem and Destruction) had over 60 members at its height. But, aftering finding spirituality in his late teens he has turned his life around. Now, he works to reform gang culture and empower black youth with his companies Black Seed and BRXTN Studio. Karl has always worked as the personal advisor for Prince Harry.


In the latest episode of the High Performance Podcast Karl shares with us his experience in gang culture, the struggle of being a young, successful black man in Britain and his relationship with regret.


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0:00.0

Hi there, welcome to the 100th and first episode of the High Performance Podcast. Thank you very much for all the lovely messages

0:08.3

congratulating us on hitting a century of episodes last week with Bear Grills. If you haven't heard it yet, it's well worth listening to.

0:15.0

I mean, we've had some lovely feedback from lots of people, including a message that we got on Instagram.

0:19.8

We've got a lot of these actually. This one's from Alice and she says, I had no idea till I listened to that podcast episode

0:26.6

that dip, dip, dip was the scout motto and stands for do your best, do your best, do your best, do your best.

0:33.2

Dip, dip, dip. This is something I will tell my children because no matter what results they get, if they've done their best, that is enough.

0:40.6

And on that note, welcome to another episode of the High Performance Podcast. Agif to you for free every single week.

0:48.6

It's the podcast that turns the lived experiences of the planet's highest performance into your life lessons.

0:54.2

So today, allow the greatest leaders, thinkers, sports stars, entertainers and entrepreneurs to be your teacher.

1:01.2

This is what's in store today.

1:04.2

And it was almost like a muscle. Eventually I got to the point where I got a lot of my kind of notoriety for being fearless.

1:14.2

My wasn't about like a demo of violence I perpetrated or about the amount of money I made that's not what I got my notoriety. I got my notoriety from being considered fearless.

1:28.2

They told me to stop, I never stopped. You know, my mother who kind of carried me in high in the months gave birth to me, clothed me, she begged me to stop, I never stopped.

1:37.2

You know, but for this, this is for me, I just don't believe in it, no more.

1:41.2

Each day I left the house, I'd put on a mask and then when I come home, the mask is redundant. So I took it off.

1:48.2

Exclusion is what will cause a person to subscribe to a way of being that is technically not with the direction of the mainstream or even seen as something that is pleasant.

2:03.2

You know, because they genuinely feel as if they have been excluded from the option that is available to everyone else.

2:11.2

You know, so for me, it's around an inclusion that needs to happen across the board.

2:17.2

This episode is a really interesting one. It's a story about someone's life as much as someone's lessons.

2:24.2

So Karl Loco was one of the most feared and in his world respected Ganning leaders in the whole of London.

2:33.2

And the stories that he will share with you will shock you.

2:37.2

And I suppose in a strange way inspire you in equal measure.

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