The Truth About Pressure: What It Builds in You
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Pressure shows up at the front door in broad daylight, stress lurks in the shadows of your own mind. One is the world’s expectation. The other is your own resistance to it.
In this episode, Jake and Damian unpack the crucial difference between pressure and stress, and why understanding it can transform how you handle challenges. Drawing insights from guests like Tom Aspinall, Steve Hansen, Barry Hearn, and Alistair Campbell, they explore how top performers prepare for pressure, ground themselves in high-stakes moments, and reframe fear into freedom.
With practical tools and powerful stories, this episode is a guide to staying centred when life speeds up, listen in as Jake and Damian share how to turn pressure into progress and stress into strength.
Listen to episodes mentioned:
Tom Aspinall:https://pod.fo/e/2d3d2e
Steve Hansen: https://pod.fo/e/1ecdda
Barry Hearn: https://pod.fo/e/157c60
Alistair Campbell: https://pod.fo/e/f40aa
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Don't forget next week's episodes are available early, exclusively on the high performance app. |
| 0:05.2 | Out now, England International and Newcastle United Defender, Dan Byrne. |
| 0:09.9 | This is a paid advertisement from Better Help. |
| 0:12.4 | Men face a lot of pressure to provide, to perform, to hold it all together. |
| 0:16.3 | But bottling things up, I promise you, because I know from personal experience can lead to burnout, |
| 0:26.3 | depression, or even worse. You know, real strength is not staying silent. It's opening up and getting support. We've had so many amazing guests open up on this show. But whether it's a podcast, |
| 0:32.1 | a friend, or a loved one, or a therapist, you need to talk to someone. And therapy isn't just |
| 0:37.3 | for major traumas either. |
| 0:38.7 | It's a powerful tool for setting boundaries, |
| 0:40.7 | building healthy habits, and becoming the best version of yourself. |
| 0:44.2 | And with over 5,000 UK therapists |
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