Ep.40 When Do You Know It's Time To Walk Away? Taking Career Risks With Iconic TV Presenter Jake Humphrey
Working Hard with Grace Beverley
sophie@grace-beverley.com
4.2 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Jake Humphrey is one of the UK’s most iconic television broadcasters. Jake is best known for presenting Premier League Football on BT Sport or the F1 on BBC Sport. He has also previously hosted children’s television on CBBC. in 2020, Jake launched the successful High Performance Podcast with professor Damian Hughes, offering an insight into the lives of high-achieving individuals who share their success stories. Their spin-off book High Performance: Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best has also become a Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller, revealing the methods of the most remarkable athletes, coaches and entrepreneurs. . A man of many talents, Jake is also co-founder of sport broadcast agency Whisper Films and investor in Coral Eyewear. Given his on-screen success and humbling presence, you would never know that Jake’s journey started with failed A-Levels, a sacking from McDonalds and family grief, set-backs our conversation reveals he now uses as fuel to excel in everything that he does.
- Jake’s earlier failures that led to success
- how his Grandma’s suicide changed his mindset
- how failing school changed his career
- learning perfection doesn’t come for free
- social media and instant gratification
- learning there is no right way of starting your career
- the idea behind his production company Whisper
- starting a production company at the rise of social media
- turning his company from a dream into a money making business
- why hiring changed his business
- the risk that transformed his company
- the biggest learnings in Jake’s career
- why Jake made the decision to leave the BBC
- learning the secrets behind success
- the guest that changed the game for High Performance
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| 0:31.9 | The person that I met with said BBC Sport doesn't employ people like you. |
| 0:37.4 | The 2012 Formula One season has come and gone. |
| 0:40.8 | I did feel underappreciated and under love. |
| 0:43.6 | And I felt like the only way to do that was to walk away and show someone else what I could |
| 0:48.1 | do and deliver my talents. |
| 0:49.8 | Welcome to our new home. |
| 0:52.2 | Welcome to BT Sport. |
| 0:54.6 | And it would have been the easiest thing in the world to stay at the beep for another four years, |
| 0:57.5 | but I thought, you know what, I'm not going to sit in the comfort chair. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm going to take a risk. |
| 1:00.9 | You're going to be on the earth for 70 years, right? |
| 1:03.0 | You don't need to achieve everything in the first 21. |
| 1:04.9 | The phone rang, and it was a guy from the BBC and he said, I saw some of your TV show that you were working on this weekend. |
| 1:12.9 | You're a shining star in a sea of shit. |
| 1:14.8 | Everywhere you look, you're shown perfection. |
| 1:18.2 | What I want people to understand is that that perfection didn't come for free. What is up, guys, and welcome back to Working Hard Hardly Working. |
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