Hi there, I'm Jake Cumpfrey and this is High Performance. The podcast that reminds you that it's within your story, your ambition, your purpose, it's all there.

We just help to unlock it by turning the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons.

So right now, enjoy a conversation with one of the most remarkable athletes on the planet.

I felt like forever and I just remember darkness and I mean I knew how bad it was the risk of bleeding out and you know, in the middle of nowhere and I needed a blood transfusion and just that realization actually this could be it.

And then it was my mom came in and she was the one that had to say, you know, I'm so sorry.

They did everything they could, but they were unable to save all of your life and they had to amputate. Life is never going to look the same again and actually I'm not sure right now I want that life or I want to know what it looks like.

The world is not going to change for you. Often you don't have it option so you have to change for it and you know, you can sit back and think, oh, things are really unfair and really hard.

But ultimately the only thing I can change is me, my actions, what I do, my attitude. If I've given an opportunity or someone asks me to do something and the first thing that I feel is fear and self-doubt for me, that is a trigger, that is something you must do.

Or that is something you at least need to explore because I know that it's something that's going to stretch me, it's going to make me uncomfortable and that is a good thing.

That's the kind of conversation you can expect from the chat we had with Steph Reed here on high performance. So Steph is an incredible Paralympic athlete, but the fact that she competes at the highest level is only a very small part of her story.

You're going to hear what I must be honest is a very emotional and incredibly moving story from someone who talks about the trauma of an accident that completely changed her life, the way that her parents dealt with it and the things that they did to make her realize that her life wasn't over.

Nurse Claudette, we speak about and we moved to tears talking about what she did for Steph, the way that her classmate's reacted when she walked back into the classroom with a prosthetic leg all the way through to the power of life being a team sport.

She chooses her coaches why she's constantly learning why you have to become comfortable and almost excited about self doubt and the fact that the best coaches on the planet are selfless coaches.

You're about to walk into the mind of someone who has lived a traumatic yet incredibly rewarding life and you're going to have a seemingly honest account of what life is like inside her elite sporting environment.

So please join me in welcoming Steph Reed to the high performance podcast.

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