How Europe's youngest top-flight manager learned to BACK HIMSELF with Will Still (E213)

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High Performance

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

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🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Will's story is a testament to the power of authenticity and resilience in the world of football management.

Will Still is a professional football manager and former player, currently managing Ligue 1 club Stade de Reims. Aged 30, he is the youngest manager in Europe's top five leagues, and first became a manager at age 24. Will shares with Jake and Damian how he deals with outside pressure and how his commitment to honesty, vulnerability, and staying true to himself has been his guiding force. After dropping out of university in Belgium, Will moved to the UK to pursue a Football Coaching degree. Despite the culture shock, the move cemented Will’s commitment to a career in football.

They discuss how his style as a manager has developed since he first started, with vulnerability and honesty always being at the forefront of his work. Will discusses what it was like to turn down a job offer from Vincent Kompany and how a quiet self-confidence is crucial to his work. This is a conversation about passion, commitment and authenticity.

Will's journey reminds us that the road to success becomes much easier when we begin embracing our true self.

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0:05.5	It's called How to Change Your Life. And over the last few years, as we've spoken to hundreds
0:09.7	of Olympic athletes, billionaire founders and leading coaches, we've noticed they have an
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0:20.0	the five simple steps that take you from where you are to where you want to be.
0:24.6	It's everything we've learned from the incredible guests that we've spoken to.
0:28.7	It's never too late to change. And this book will show you how to do it.
0:33.6	How to Change Your Life is available to pre-order in Hardback, E-Book and Audio Book. Now.
0:42.0	Hi there, you're listening to High Performance, the award-winning podcast that unlocks the minds
0:46.3	of some of the most fascinating people on the planet. I'm Jake Humphrey and alongside Professor
0:51.5	Damian Hughes, we learn from the stories, successes and struggles of our guests, allowing us all to
0:57.2	explore, be challenged and to grow. Here's what's coming up today. I'm big, I'm ginger, I talk
1:04.8	half-decent English, half-decent French, I'm from Belgium working in France and I'm going to get
1:10.8	things wrong, deal with it. I'd pay to stand on a perfect football pitch, freshly mongrous,
1:18.7	with a ball, 15-8 in-players or more, and a set of cones, so I'd pay to do that. I'm pretty sure
1:25.6	I would have asked any of one of those players to run at that brick wall and smash the head through
1:30.4	it, they would have done it, because that's what team needed. You know, every person in the world says
1:35.5	they hate losing games, but I actually feel proper, proper shit when I've lost the game.
1:43.6	So today we welcome to High Performance, the manager of Staddaire will still. Now Staddaire
1:49.5	play in league on in France, one of Europe's top five leagues will is the youngest manager
1:56.1	in any big league in European football. He's 30 years old, not only that, he started in management
2:01.6	at 24. Can you imagine that? And he went from coaching the Preston Under 14's team to taking his side
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