Stepping outside of your comfort zone
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jake has an honest chat about being out of your comfort zone. The High Performance Podcast is currently touring the UK and although this is extremely exciting, it can bring about lots of new challenges. For Jake, one of the challenges is public speaking to thousands of people.
He opens up about the pressures of performing on stage, making sure the audience enjoy themselves and turning the podcast into an exciting live show. Jake reflects on how he had to learn to lean into his fears in order to face them and how you can too.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome along to the latest episode of the High Performance Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Now every Wednesday for the subscribers to High Performance Plus, Damian or myself, |
| 0:08.8 | we're just kind of sitting, chatting, sharing our thoughts really. |
| 0:11.6 | And we actually thought that this Wednesday we would allow everyone to have a listen |
| 0:15.6 | into this, not just the people who subscribe to our subscription service, |
| 0:19.7 | because I want to talk to you about, I guess, being out of your comfort zone really, |
| 0:23.8 | the power of fear and worry and anxiety. |
| 0:28.0 | So we're currently on tour with the High Performance Podcast, and I do a big sort of peace |
| 0:33.8 | during our tour nights about using fear as a throttle, not a break. |
| 0:38.8 | And I know that many of you come to High Performance because you don't want stupid, useless, |
| 0:43.2 | cliched comments like that, you actually want some substance. |
| 0:46.0 | So I want to give you some substance really. |
| 0:47.9 | I want to talk to you about how fear can be used as a throttle rather than a break, |
| 0:52.2 | and why it's so important. |
| 0:53.6 | So let me be totally honest, okay. |
| 0:56.0 | Being on stage, doing a live show is myself and Professor Damian Hughes |
| 1:00.7 | all well out of our comfort zone. |
| 1:02.6 | I remember actually standing backstage a few weeks ago at the London palladium, |
| 1:06.7 | and like, this is the palladium, by the way. |
| 1:08.9 | So underneath the stage, you've got the ashes of Bruce Forsyth. |
| 1:14.0 | You've got the Royal Box to your left, you've got about 3,000 seats in front of you. |
| 1:18.4 | Trust me, going on stage at the London palladium is a good way to scare yourself. |
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