End of Year Review: Our Most Impactful Conversations & Our Biggest Guest Responds!
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
As High Performance wraps up its sixth year, Jake Humphrey, Damian Hughes and producer Will sit down to reflect on the moments, conversations, and lessons that defined 2025. In this special end-of-year episode, they revisit the guests and ideas that resonated most, not just in downloads and views, but in lasting impact.
From the strategic thinking of Ian Graham to the raw honesty of Tom Aspinall and Boris Becker, the year was shaped by stories that went far beyond success. Jake and Damian also reflect on why episodes with Carlos Sainz, Triple H, and Steve Peters struck such a chord, and the moments that stayed with them long after the microphones were switched off.
This episode also looks ahead to what’s next. Drawing on insights from conversations with guests like Alistair Brownlee, Roman Kemp, Heston Blumenthal, Stephanie Romiszewski, Sara Pascoe, and Jonathan Haidt, Jake and Damian reflect on the lessons that mattered most, from mental health and sleep to parenting, performance, and perspective, and what they’re taking forward into the year ahead.
Listen to the episodes mentioned:
Gareth Southgate https://pod.fo/e/358861
Callum Wilson https://pod.fo/e/2da5b0
Tom Aspinall https://pod.fo/e/2d3d2e
Ian Graham https://pod.fo/e/2d2c5b
Callum Nicholas https://pod.fo/e/2ac276
Boris Becker https://pod.fo/e/32edab
Triple H https://pod.fo/e/2c762a
Heston Blumenthal https://pod.fo/e/2aa828
Sara Pascoe https://pod.fo/e/2b7c84
Daniel Dubois https://pod.fo/e/2a90bd
Jonathan Haidt https://pod.fo/e/2a4563
Stephanie Romiszewski https://pod.fo/e/2b5370
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, early Happy Christmas from High Performance. |
| 0:05.3 | Happy Christmas, I hope wherever you're listening to this, you're settling down and getting ready for a really lovely relaxing break. |
| 0:11.4 | And my present from you hasn't arrived yet, and this is now the 22nd of December, so there's only three days to go. |
| 0:16.2 | What are you planning? |
| 0:18.4 | Nervous laughter. |
| 0:20.8 | Nothing. Yeah. What my present for you? |
| 0:22.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:23.6 | I wish a peace and happiness and contentment type-assed. |
| 0:28.6 | Well look, we've come to the end of another year of high performance. |
| 0:32.6 | So we came into the studio this morning and Will our producer who's in the room, |
| 0:36.6 | Hi Will, hello guys. He said, so here we go then. Six years we've been doing this for. And it still stops me in my tracks when I think it's been six years. I've spent more time hosting this podcast than I had hosting Formula One. Really? Yeah. I did four years on F1. I think that's a good example of where something |
| 0:55.5 | starts as a passion. You know, like we were both passionate about it when we were out from the |
| 1:00.2 | very beginning and I think that that's really important to share with people, isn't it? That |
| 1:04.6 | it is genuinely what drives us. Yeah, well, because we have the same goal on day one. Not to be salacious, not to chase the clicks, |
| 1:13.3 | not to put out conversations that we know are going to do good numbers |
| 1:16.1 | but actually aren't very valuable to people. |
| 1:18.0 | You know, we ask ourselves the same question about our kids before every record, |
| 1:21.2 | which is, does this leave the world a better place for our children? |
| 1:25.1 | And I think it's worth showing. |
| 1:26.5 | I don't think it's betraying the confidence that one of the |
| 1:29.3 | biggest buzzes I got this year was when Gareth Southgate agreed to come and chat with us. |
| 1:35.1 | And part of the reason was that he'd met us five years earlier. |
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