Hi there, I'm Jake Humphrey and this is High Performance, the podcast that reminds you it's within

your ambition, your purpose, your story are all there, we just help unlock it by turning

the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons.

And to mark International Women's Day, we want to celebrate someone who we think is a true

high performer by asking her to tell you a little about her journey. Now there are thousands

of stories of people across the world who are performing highly, but we want to hand

the microphone over to someone else. We want to allow you to hear Dr. Nishmut Manek,

a practicing NHS GP, as well as being a doctor she hopes her own podcast called Next Gencast,

she also writes brilliantly about her experiences in the world of medicine for publications such

as The Guardian, which is a newspaper in the UK and we think that you're going to love

what she has to say. So on International Women's Day I'm going to hand you over to Nishmut.

So I'm Nishmut Manek, I'm a relatively newly qualified GP in Cambridge. I'm currently

on maternity leave at the moment with my two girls who are three and eight months. So

apologies if I'm not that coherent because as well as being really nervous and feeling

like a total imposter I'm somewhat in the brain fog of having little children. But thank

you so much for having me on. I can't believe I'm doing this. I'm a huge fan of the podcast.

I listen to it all the time. The reason I chose general practice is really

all about the people. Someone said something to me at medical school which just really hit

home about what GP is all about. They said in the hospital diseases stay and people come

and go and in general practice people stay and diseases come and go. And that just really

sums it up well for me. So the thing that I love about being a GP is forming relationships

with people and their families over time and being a part of people's stories in some

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