Hey, you're listening to high performance. This is the award-winning

podcast that unlocks the minds of some of the most fascinating people on the

planet. I'm Jake Humphrey and alongside Professor Damian Hughes we will learn from the stories successes and

struggles of our guests allowing us all to explore be challenged and to grow

here's what's coming up today. I remember doing the heptathlon not really understanding how I could be good at this event because I couldn't throw the shot,

couldn't throw the javelin, couldn't do the long jump very well.

I had a lot of doubts and I think knowing

that all those little failures and things that go wrong if you take something

away from it and you're able to pocket that somewhere and keep it and be able to

call upon it. I think that just keeps helping adding to that mental

strength. Your body changes so much and it's not just you know you been pregnant for nine months and labor and all those

things that you go through those like massive traumatic moments I couldn't push

myself as hard as I did before 2012 I couldn't train like that anymore

had to train smart and check like really changed the way I trained and

that made a massive difference. Yeah I think I found those moments quite

frustrating when she kind of called me a tab pole.

I think it's just unnecessary and it made me think actually, you know, as an athlete and one that's performing a little bit higher than someone else

you should be gracious you know you're having the success have your moment but don't

belittle someone else's moment and that's one thing that I would never do.

Hi this is Damien and today we welcome the fabulous Jessica Ennis Hill to the show.

Now, Jazz competed at the highest level of international athletics for well over a decade, challenging herself physically and mentally on a regular basis.

She's a triple world heptathlon champion, a European champion, and most famously

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