Who are you without your job, role, or title?
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Who are you when the job title drops away? This episode digs deep into the question we often avoid but desperately need to ask ourselves.
Jake and Damian dive into the importance of knowing who you are beyond your role, sharing honest and powerful insights from guests like Simon Sinek, Phil Heath, Ali Abdaal, and John McAvoy. They unpack how easy it is to confuse identity with achievement, and why that can leave us lost when the spotlight fades.
From writing your own obituary to asking a friend what truly makes you you, this episode offers simple yet profound ways to reconnect with your real self, beyond the job, the status, or the performance.
It’s a grounding reminder to live with purpose, let go of regret, and define success on your own terms.
Listen to the episodes mentioned:
Simon Sinek: https://pod.fo/e/18ee0e
Phill Heath: https://pod.fo/e/2313e6
Ali Abdaal: https://pod.fo/e/213471
John McAvoy: https://pod.fo/e/f0815
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Introducing our new how-to masterclass series, learn from Olympic champion, Jess Ennis Hill, |
| 0:06.1 | physiologist Olly Patrick, and our very own expert, Damien Hughes, exclusively on the high-performance app. |
| 0:13.4 | This episode of High Performance is brought to you by London Business School. |
| 0:17.6 | At High Performance, we believe progress is driven by fresh perspectives, open minds and the |
| 0:22.4 | courage to do things differently. And that's why we're proud to be supported by London Business |
| 0:26.5 | School, a global community of strategists, leaders, listeners and explorers. London Business |
| 0:32.3 | School brings together people from around the world who see challenges in radically different |
| 0:36.6 | ways. It's a place where |
| 0:37.8 | difference is not just welcomed but seen as essential to growth. With global scholarships and |
| 0:42.8 | alumni in over 160 countries, it's a school where diverse thinking leads to meaningful impact. |
| 0:49.4 | LBS believes that difference drives progress. If you want to find out how bringing together unique |
| 0:54.7 | perspectives creates real change, search London Business School or visit London.edu. |
| 1:04.5 | Welcome along. You're listening to High Performance and one of our regular episodes where |
| 1:08.3 | myself and my sparring partner, Damien Hughes, will focus on some of the things that we know you are struggling with. |
| 1:13.6 | So many members of the high performance community reach out |
| 1:16.1 | and tell us about things that are causing them upset or disquiet in their personal lives. |
| 1:21.3 | And one of the things that you speak about a lot |
| 1:23.0 | is that you fear people judge you based on your job role or your job title. |
| 1:29.1 | So today we're going to hear from some previous guests who join us on high performance and help you to understand how you can |
| 1:33.3 | reframe who you are, what success looks like, and understand that you are so much more than what you do |
| 1:38.9 | for a living. Damien, we've heard this time and time again, and I think it's really important |
| 1:43.1 | because whatever we do for a job, at some point all of us are pretty much going to stop doing that thing. And if we don't know who we truly are underneath, I sort of stumbled my way into the corporate world, |
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