E155 - Lindsey Burrow: Finding reasons to live

The High Performance Podcast

High Performance

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

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

High performance is many things too many people. For some, it's winning the coveted prizes. For others, it's being held in the highest esteem. Sometimes, it's about showing up, day after day, being courageous in the face of adversity.

Today's High Performance Podcast guest is one half of an incredible team who have achieved all those definitions of high performance. It’s our privilege to welcome Lindsey Burrow as the latest guest in our series to celebrate the Rugby League World Cup.

Lindsey's husband, Rob was a stand-out star of the sport, a titan in a world of giants. He was central to the all conquering Leeds Rhinos era of dominance. In 2019, he was diagnosed with the cruel illness of Motor Neurone Disease. It's a battle he chose to fight on his own terms.

Facing this battle alongside him was Lindsey, his childhood sweetheart and mother to their three children. In this moving discussion, she shares how identifying a sense of purpose - to give hope and inspiration to others - has been important in maintaining their strength; she offers insights into the mental ability she has learned to be able to provide a stable, living home for their family and finally, she explains why Rob's 'no tears' policy has given them a resolve in the face of the most unimaginable pain.

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome along to the second special episode of the High Performance Podcast celebrating
0:06.6	the Rugby League World Cup which is happening at the moment and these are conversations with
0:11.2	the Loner to Professor, are amazing Damien Hughes speaking to people who are the heart of Rugby League
0:18.9	and you might be thinking of Rugby League coaches and CEOs and players and German and pundits
0:24.1	and experts. Well today we're talking to the wife of a former Rugby League player because
0:31.5	high performance comes in many ways for many different people. You may well think that it's being
0:37.4	successful financially. For others it's winning that trophy and lifting it above their heads for some,
0:42.9	it's all about what others think of them. But you know what for some people it is about showing
0:48.8	up day after day and being courageous in the face of adversity. And today we welcome to the
0:56.9	High Performance Podcast Lindsay Barrow. Now Lindsay's husband Rob may well be someone you've heard
1:02.7	of. He was a standout star of his sport. He epitomised High Performance on a rugby field. He was
1:09.4	the Titan of Rugby League central to the amazing era that the leads Rhino's enjoyed. Yet a few years
1:17.0	ago he was diagnosed with motor neuron disease. And it's a battle that he decided to fight
1:23.2	but he decided to fight it in a way that he fought on the rugby pitch giving it his absolute all.
1:29.8	But as we all know and as he knows and his family know this is currently not a fight that you can
1:34.8	win. But he's not alone. He's fighting it with his childhood sweetheart Lindsay and in this
1:41.3	incredibly moving conversation she shares with us the importance of identifying a sense of purpose,
1:48.4	the power of hope, why passing inspiration to others matters so much, where as a family they find
1:56.6	and maintain their strength. She also offers insights into the mental ability that she's created
2:02.8	to be able to provide that stable loving home for their family despite everything that's going
2:08.2	on around them. And she also explains why Rob's no tears policy has given them resolve in the
2:14.5	face of such a painful period in their lives. I also want to let you know that we had a conversation
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