E35 - Siya Kolisi: A simple guide to achieving greatness
The High Performance Podcast
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4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Siya Kolisi is the captain of the South Africa national team and the Stormers in Super Rugby. He is the first black man to serve as captain, leading the team to a historic victory in the 2019 World Cup Final.
Siya lifting the trophy is the enduring image of the whole tournament. Having grown up in poverty, Siya has become an inspiration off the field as well as on it. Named this year as the most influential person in rugby, he was also named a global advocate by the United Nations for its Spotlight Initiative to end violence against women.
Following the success of The Springboks Rugby World Cup triumph, Siya and his wife took the initiative to create The Kolisi Foundation to assist vulnerable South African households and individuals who combat the struggle of poverty daily - https://kolisifoundation.org/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, welcome along to this week's high performance podcast and the first part of |
| 0:06.8 | 2021. Listen, it starts here, okay, it's the final episode of the third series before |
| 0:13.0 | we do our wrap up episode next week. But the fact that it's the first week of 2021 |
| 0:17.1 | means we have big plans and they're coming away this year. The first thing I want to |
| 0:21.5 | let you know about is that we're going to be bringing you some high performance highlights |
| 0:25.0 | every single day in January on social media. Small clips from the podcast just to lift |
| 0:30.9 | you up and help you feel inspired, new year, new year, all that kind of stuff. So every |
| 0:36.0 | single day come to the high performance podcast for a little hit of inspiration and of course |
| 0:40.7 | you can get an awful lot more by heading to our YouTube page as well. Just search for high |
| 0:44.8 | performance podcast on YouTube and you can find us there. As always, it's so helpful if |
| 0:49.6 | you can rate and review us and as always, this week's episode, the first of 2021 is one |
| 0:56.3 | you need to listen to. Here's what's coming up. People gave me this platform, I know |
| 1:02.6 | I walked as hard as I could but without people supporting me and I've got to be the voice |
| 1:07.1 | for the people as well when they need me. I'm not just a sportsman, I'm far more than |
| 1:11.3 | that. Ah, so excited to bring you this episode and actually at this point I'm going to |
| 1:16.2 | give lots of credit to Damien Hughes because he was like a dog with a bone. He had a friend |
| 1:21.0 | who knew today's guest, he reached out to them and he reached out to them again and again |
| 1:25.9 | and again and eventually the call came to say that our guest would be on the podcast. |
| 1:31.5 | We were so excited and as it turns out, he really enjoyed himself. I feel like he got |
| 1:36.1 | a lot out of it and I really hope that you do as well because the messages that he has |
| 1:40.1 | and what he stands for are so strong. Just to let you know that the first couple of |
| 1:44.3 | answers you hear, the audio quality isn't great but we corrected the problem and so stick |
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