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The High Performance Podcast

E196 - Kevin Sinfield: Why I’ll never stop fighting for my friend Rob

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

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Sinfield returns to the podcast, after two years, to discuss how his career, mindset and approach to life has changed since Jake and Damian last sat down with him.


Kevin is a rugby coach, currently the defense coach for the England Rugby Union national team. In his career as a player, spanning almost three decades with Leeds Rhinos, Kevin played 521 games for the club, finishing with 3,968 points. As a coach, he was a key part of the World Cup management team that took England back to the World Cup Final in 2017.


In this episode, Kevin shares how Rob Burrow’s diagnosis has changed his life, including finding fulfilment, community and providing hope to others. He discusses his most important lessons as a coach and why it is so crucial to focus on empathy. Jake and Damian catch up on everything they’ve missed in the last two years, including how he gets through the most difficult days, the importance of family and overcoming micro-annoyances.


Kevin’s book The Extra Mile: My Autobiography is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Extra-Mile-My-Autobiography/dp/152990305X


Donate to the Rob Burrow Centre for MND Appeal: https://www.leedshospitalscharity.org.uk/Appeal/mnd-centre-appeal



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0:00.0

Hi there, I'm J. Cumfrey and this is High Performance. The award-winning podcast downloaded

0:07.0

over 50 million times that takes the lessons and learnings from some of the planets most

0:11.8

fascinating people. We remind you that your version of High Performance is already within.

0:17.4

It is simply doing the best you can where you are with what you've got. Realising life

0:23.0

is a series of seemingly small decisions that can often create big changes. Right now,

0:28.7

I allow Professor Hughes and myself to remind you of your power by unlocking the mind of

0:33.6

another fascinating guest. Today, this awaits you.

0:39.3

Whilst ever Rob were willing to fight, I felt like he needed to see me fight with him.

0:44.0

When you find somebody who gets M&D, what I've been told by family members is friends

0:49.1

disappear from the members stop visiting and I thought I'm not doing that. I'll be with

0:54.5

him every step and he'll always know that. And that, my job is to try and get from A to B,

1:03.2

in one piece, to try and raise a lot of money so that the specialist and surgeons and the best

1:10.0

M&D people across the UK can get their heads together and try and find a cure. And for those who

1:14.5

don't know what we did was run around the number seven, we've run seven K an hour, whatever

1:20.0

we're left in the hour where there's a break, we went every hour on the hour. We've got a member

1:23.8

of the M&D community to ring a bell one minute before a start. So let us know exactly why we're there,

1:30.5

we're there, story, a few others to go. This family is, I think they've shown us because they've

1:37.1

been so public as well, they've shown us what living is. Sometimes we lose track of what's important

1:42.4

and how we met the most at the time we get it, we don't get a long time, so what do we, how do we use

1:47.2

it? I think they've shown us all what living is and how to meet the most of the time. And I'd also

1:53.5

certainly have shown us all what love is. So it's a welcome return to high performance for Kevin

1:58.8

Sinfield. We sat down with Kevin at Twickenham just a few days ago actually straight after their

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