How Jake Humphrey's ‘Horrible’ School Days Made Him a Better Parent
Happy Mum
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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This week, we welcome broadcaster, High Performance Podcast host, and father of two, Jake Humphrey, to the studio.
Jake and Giovanna share their experiences of being bullied at school, with Jake sharing how those early challenges later helped him navigate public scrutiny as the BBC’s F1 presenter. He also talks candidly about fertility struggles and the deal he made with his wife while trying to conceive their first child during long periods away for work...!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of Happy Mum, Happy Baby, the podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | Today's guest is Jake Humphrey. |
| 0:13.0 | Now, Jake, he's been someone that I have known for a while. |
| 0:17.1 | We've got lots of friends in common. |
| 0:18.9 | We've bumped into each other in different places. |
| 0:21.2 | But the thing that I think he is most known for now is the high performance podcast. And I absolutely |
| 0:27.1 | love it. It's him and Damien. And they have chats to different people who, at the height of |
| 0:32.8 | their career and a height of success, and they talk to them about their career and, you know, what drives |
| 0:38.1 | them and what success looks like to them and what high performance looks like to them. |
| 0:41.6 | I think it would be really easy to think about that podcast looking a certain way, but I actually |
| 0:46.1 | encourage you to listen to it because I've listened to it a lot over the years and it actually |
| 0:50.4 | gives you a really interesting insight that is maybe not what you think it will be. |
| 0:56.9 | As I said, he's absolutely incredible. |
| 0:59.2 | He's got two children, Flo and Sebastian. |
| 1:01.7 | His wife, Harriet, sounds like an absolute delight. |
| 1:03.7 | I have met her. |
| 1:04.3 | She is a delight. |
| 1:05.3 | And he's someone who obviously, with high performance, talks a lot about growth, about how we learn from different experiences. |
| 1:15.7 | And I found it really interesting actually to hear what he had to say about how his kids react to all of his wisdom. |
| 1:22.5 | Because I know if it was me with the wisdom, you'd go one ear and out the other. |
| 1:26.6 | But here it is my chat with Jake |
| 1:28.8 | Humphrey. I'm not saying you shouldn't chase the dreams that you have, but don't think that |
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