E31 - Kelly Jones: Not being controlled by fear
The High Performance Podcast
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4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Singer-songwriter Kelly Jones is the frontman of rock band Stereophonics. Kelly was born in South Wales, has achieved more than 10 million sales, six No 1 albums and 11 Top 10 singles (including the chart-topping Dakota), along with 23 platinum sales awards and one BRIT Award.
Kelly spoke about the requirement to embrace - and "walk towards" - vulnerability, in order to access creativity. He recounted the benefits and cost of a furious work ethic and he shares the high performance lessons taught by Bono, Bowie and Bob Geldof.
Kelly’s solo album 'Don't Let The Devil Take Another Day' is out 4th December and the accompanying documentary is in cinemas (where possible) from 11 December and premiere online from 18 December.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, welcome along to this week's High Performance Podcast. As always, it makes a huge |
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| 0:12.1 | And for Damian and I, this podcast is all about creating an impact with people. So if you |
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| 0:22.4 | so much for doing that in advance. And this week's episode is so interesting. I'm not sure |
| 0:28.1 | we've had a conversation like it. Here's the kind of stuff you're going to hear. Yeah, you |
| 0:32.8 | be- obviously you're the bastard in here because you know, you're letting people go or they'd |
| 0:36.8 | let themselves go. I was honest with everybody saying I want to keep pushing it as far as |
| 0:40.2 | we can push it and I was very ambitious and driven at that point and whoever didn't |
| 0:45.2 | want to jump on board really, that was it. So there's so much awaiting you in this week's |
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| 1:01.7 | I think it really does make a difference when you can see what people are talking about |
| 1:05.1 | as well as hear them. But it's time for this week's episode. I really hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:09.4 | Damian and I got so much from this conversation with a man we have great respect for. It's |
| 1:14.5 | time for this week's High Performance Podcast. This episode of High Performance is brought |
| 1:22.9 | to you in association with BetterHelp. They have over a thousand therapists in the UK already |
| 1:28.3 | providing access to mental health support with expertise in a wide variety of mental health |
| 1:35.3 | challenges. And I've been there. I have had mental health support. I've had therapy. My |
| 1:39.8 | wife is exactly the same. We go to the gym all the time to make sure that our bodies are |
| 1:43.3 | in good shape. We don't only go to the gym when we're injured and I think that it should |
| 1:48.2 | be exactly the same when it comes to our mental health. So I am delighted to bring you this |
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