E66 - Thomas ‘Hal’ Robson-Kanu: The real power of pure positivity
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
It’s another EUROS special! Today we welcome Thomas ‘Hal’ Robson-Kanu, a professional footballer with West Brom and Wales. In 2016 Hal not only scored one of international football’s most memorable goals with his strike against Belgium at the European Championship but he also set up his own health drink company, the Turmeric Co.
Inspired by his own injury troubles, The Turmeric Co now has tens of thousands of customers, including the England rugby team and professional football clubs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, welcome along to this week's High Performance Podcast Euro 2020 Special |
| 0:06.4 | brought to you in association with Woop. |
| 0:10.0 | I was really thinking long and hard about this episode and the way to introduce it and |
| 0:13.7 | I think the key thing for me, the key thing with all these high performance podcasts is |
| 0:18.0 | really the message that I want to give you which is it is okay to rethink what you thought |
| 0:24.3 | yesterday. |
| 0:25.3 | It's okay to rethink the way you think, in fact the best type of thinking is probably |
| 0:30.9 | rethinking and I think this podcast is going to get you to rethink as so many of them do. |
| 0:36.7 | We're about to speak to a man who is a professional footballer. |
| 0:39.9 | He was so close to making the Wales squad for this year's Euros. |
| 0:43.8 | He scored probably the most famous goal in their history. |
| 0:47.2 | Yet he comes on the High Performance Podcast and he talks to us about epigenetics which is |
| 0:52.6 | how your behaviour and your environment can affect the way your genes work. |
| 0:56.3 | We get into a deep conversation about psychopsybenetics which is the art of steering your mind towards |
| 1:03.2 | productivity and positivity. |
| 1:05.5 | Once again please rethink the way you think today. |
| 1:09.6 | I want you to rethink the way you think about the Wales player Thomas Howe Robson-Kanu. |
| 1:17.5 | Here's what's coming up. |
| 1:20.6 | So those feelings aren't nerves. |
| 1:24.6 | It's actually excitement but it's only how I perceive those feelings. |
| 1:30.1 | So I was perceiving it previously as nerves but then once I read the book and began thinking |
| 1:36.1 | more about it I switched that in my head and I began saying well when I feel nervous |
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