E178 - Jordan Henderson: Serve to lead - why being selfless matters

The High Performance Podcast

High Performance

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

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Jordan Henderson is the current captain of Liverpool FC and an England international. Under his captaincy, Liverpool have won six trophies including the Champions League and, their first Premier League title in thirty years.

In this episode Jordan shares how as an only child, the displacement of his parents divorce at the age of six, impacted his life. Although for Jordan, “football is everything” to him, when his dad was diagnosed with cancer his world was turned upside down, providing a shift in his perspective.

Jake, Damian and Jordan discuss building culture, how Jordan deals with the impact of media scrutiny and how he has developed the sense of confidence he needs to back himself. Jordan hails the immediate impact that Jurgen Klopp had at Liverpool, what it has taught him and the why the Champions League win was such a defining moment for him.

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0:00.0	Hi there, I'm Jay Cumpfrey. This is High Performance. The podcast that reminds you it's within.
0:07.6	Your ambition, your purpose, your story are all there. We just help unlock it by turning the
0:12.4	lived experiences of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons. So right now,
0:17.9	I'll allow myself and Professor Damien Hughes to speak to one of the most impressive footballers
0:23.9	in the Premier League. So this guy can be your teacher. Today, this awaits you.
0:31.2	Everything to get to that point, dreams, hard work, dedication, sacrifice,
0:37.5	feel, yeah, everything that went along with that, to get to that moment,
0:43.5	made it even better, really. You're going to really impressive the impact he had within the first
0:49.2	couple of days in that game was crazy, like the stats, the run and stats, the intensity watching
0:54.4	the game was off the charts really. Now, I know an manager can have an impact, but this impact for me
1:01.2	was another level really. I can't really control anything else other than I need to make sure
1:07.8	that I perform and give absolutely everything to try to see if he's life-raily and trying to make him
1:13.6	the cover is best he can. I didn't want other people worried. I didn't want my best friend,
1:19.4	my wife, my mum, dad to worry about me struggling because of football. There's much bigger things
1:26.8	going on in the world, but for me, football was everything. So welcome to High Performance,
1:33.6	Jordan Henderson. I think first of all, let's give Jordan and the team around him huge credit for
1:38.7	allowing him to come on this podcast and share things that you just don't hear a leap football
1:43.2	is talking about, particularly at the time when Liverpool have been struggling for form. I think
1:47.9	it's so easy to not put your head above the parapet to not talk about all of the nuances and the
1:53.7	vagaries and the things in sport that we don't see when your team are struggling. So for Jordan to
1:59.2	come on this podcast and be willing and happy to talk about life at Liverpool, I can't thank him
2:04.2	enough. I think it's a measure of the man, but you know what, please understand that this is not
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