E85 - John McAvoy: It's not where you're from, is where you're at that counts

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

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

This week Jake and Damian speak with current Nike athlete, and former convicted armed robber, John McAvoy.

John speaks about how his past and time in solitary confinement transformed his view of life and what fuelled him to succeed in the sporting world.

John became the proud holder of three world records and seven British records in indoor rowing, all achieved in confinement.

John’s book – Redemption is available to buy here.

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0:00.0	Hiya, how's it going? Welcome to a brand new episode of the High Performance Podcast.
0:05.4	Before we get going, I've got some big news. We are coming on tour around the UK.
0:10.6	We're coming to a city near you. It's an amazing show that we're creating and we want you to be there, obviously.
0:17.3	Details are yet to be fully announced. However, you can get in there early. All you need to do is scroll down in the
0:23.6	description for this podcast and you will see a link. Click the link, register your interest.
0:28.7	I will send you an email when we're ready to announce exactly what we're doing and exactly where we're coming.
0:33.6	But I'd love you to join us on the High Performance Podcast tour throughout 2022.
0:39.0	Right, time to crack on with today's episode. You're about to hear from a man that you might not have heard of.
0:44.8	But after you've listened to this podcast, you will be thinking about him and his philosophy and his life and his lessons all day.
0:53.4	Here's what you can expect on today's episode.
0:56.2	All of these people that I was mixing with as a young kid were all involved in criminal activity.
1:02.1	And then that whole world becomes completely normalised to you.
1:06.3	I didn't want to die in prison, I didn't want to go out bed one night and never wake up ever again and that
1:11.2	beat the end of my life like locked in a cage. I have never physically been in so much pain in my life.
1:18.3	If you said to me today, I had the power to revive my life back and not spend 10 years in prison, I wouldn't not do it.
1:25.6	I would go back there and spend every single one of those 10 years sitting in that cage.
1:30.5	So you're about to hear from someone who at one point was one of the most wanted criminals in the country.
1:36.5	He was a career criminal, he grew up in a criminal family.
1:40.4	He thought that people like you and I that worked hard and paid our taxes and earned our money within the system were the fools.
1:46.4	And he thought that the way that he lived his life was the real answer.
1:50.5	And as you'll hear in this episode, I came into this with quite a firm belief that you're either a good person or you're a bad person.
1:58.9	And what he explained throughout this conversation is that it's not about being a good or a bad person, it's about the environment in which you're brought up, the environment in which you live.
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