Katherine Ryan: Learning To See Life From a New Perspective
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we revisit a captivating conversation with comedian, actress, and presenter Katherine Ryan.
Reflecting on her inspiring discussion with Jake and Damian, Katherine opens up about how her unwavering focus on her daughter’s well-being empowered her to pursue her stand-up career with fearless determination.
Listen in as Katherine shares her journey from struggling as a single mom to making the decision to create space for women in the industry by stepping away from Mock the Week. She offers valuable insights on embracing positivity, leading with gratitude, and the true meaning of hard work.
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| 0:00.0 | I was always definitely strange. I had a strange perspective so I think being an |
| 0:06.4 | outsider is what felt like home to me. There's no woman in this country with |
| 0:10.9 | a Saturday night TV show. I knew that if I was sitting in |
| 0:13.6 | that chair that I was preventing one of my female peers from having a go and |
| 0:18.8 | being on that show was life-changing. I always knew that I was lucky and so I should be grateful and it |
| 0:25.1 | was gratitude that attracted wonderful things into my life. That was the voice of |
| 0:30.1 | comedian Catherine Ryan and this is high performance the show that explores the stories |
| 0:35.2 | and the ideas of some of the most extraordinary people in the world. I'm Jake Humphrey and I know that like so many of you |
| 0:41.2 | I'm just fascinated with becoming a better version of myself. |
| 0:44.5 | And I'm Damien Hughes and expert in the world of high performance. |
| 0:48.1 | I've been lucky enough to work with the England National Football team, the Scotland Rugby team and a range of professional sports teams right across the world |
| 0:56.3 | as well as with leading business people to help them understand how to get the best out of themselves |
| 1:01.6 | and others. In this podcast we discuss both how people |
| 1:06.1 | can achieve great things and the why that drives them to do so. So Catherine, you know |
| 1:12.0 | it's nice sometimes to actually have some fun on a show as well like |
| 1:14.6 | sometimes it can be quite a serious conversation high performance and she's able to |
| 1:19.0 | impart really interesting life lessons but with a constant undertone of comedy, which I really enjoy because it's almost |
| 1:27.2 | makes the lessons easier to absorb. Does that make sense? |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah, there's that great quote in the Jait that, you know, laughter is the shortest distance between two people and I think like when she came in, you know, she really connected with everybody. |
| 1:38.1 | She wanted to come along and share her wisdom from her career in the trenches in many ways but equally she was happy to share this with us |
| 1:46.7 | and make sure that she gave us the best podcast she did and I think she's definitely achieved that. |
| 1:51.7 | And Damien says they're from the trenches and I can imagine |
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