E185 - Keir Starmer: My learnings from life, loss and love

The High Performance Podcast

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

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer is the current Leader of the Labour Party. A self-described “undersharer”, Keir takes this opportunity with Jake and Damian to open up about his childhood, his leadership style and what it’s really like to be the Leader of the Opposition. As a big football fan, Keir shares what he has learnt from watching Arsenal play and why he has developed such a love for the game.

Discussing his career as a barrister, Keir shares his difficult experiences representing people on death row. He explores the current adversarial system in politics, how it really feels to speak in parliament and how Keir would change the system.

On a more personal note, they delve deep into Keir’s childhood. He shares how although his mum struggled with Still’s disease she was continually determined and courageous. He reminds himself, “if mum can get up, I can get up”. He shares with Jake and Damian what he would do differently when facing the death of his father and what he would tell his parents if they were alive today.

In this episode they discuss decision making in leadership, when to trust others' judgement and how to shut out the noise.

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0:00.0	Hi there, I'm Jay Kung-Ferig, this is High Performance and this time we welcome
0:06.9	Sekiya Stama. Being lead a lead party or lead the
0:11.6	opposition is a bit like being the England manager where everybody can do your
0:15.8	job better than you. Everybody's got an opinion on your job that you should be
0:19.0	doing, I wouldn't have played him at left back or I don't know what I'm
0:21.1	talking about. I know what difficult decisions are and I know they have to be
0:24.7	taken. You cannot have a situation where say well that's too difficult, I'm
0:27.4	gonna walk away from it, that isn't leadership. My mum was very very ill all of
0:32.7	her life and she had this amazing courage and she would always get back up
0:39.3	somehow, she'll get back up and get back to her feet and so when I'm in that
0:44.1	moment I just, there's a bit of me that thinks if my mum can get up I can get
0:50.2	up. I didn't grow up thinking I would be or particularly wanting to be an
0:57.0	MP. It's not about Kierstaama walking through the door number 10. Push to one
1:02.4	side what you can push to one side, focus on what you're trying to achieve and
1:05.1	remember it isn't about you because when you're being subject to that kind of
1:09.1	grittism it feels very person. I don't regret very much in life but last time I saw
1:19.3	my dad he was in hospital, died and I walked away. I knew he was going to die and I
1:29.4	didn't turn around to go back and tell him what I thought and I should have done.
1:38.5	Okay so let's just front up right at the very top. We know that this episode
1:43.4	will be divisive okay because it's about politics and politics is incredibly
1:47.6	divisive but if there's one calling card of the high performance podcast it's
1:52.2	that this podcast is about understanding. It's not about opinion so do you know
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