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The High Performance Podcast

Welcome to High Performance. Through fascinating conversations with remarkable guests, Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes uncover the secrets behind High Performance and explore how we can all become the best version of ourselves. We focus on uncovering the learnings from top performers in every field, from sport to entertainment, business, health and wellness.​ No matter where our guests have excelled, they all have fi

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Mauricio Pochettino & Jesús Pérez: What Man United Fans Can Expect
Nov 2026
How To Be A Better Mate
Nov 2026
The Man Who Exposed How Big Tech Engineers Male Rage | Jon Ronson (E447)
Nov 2026 · 4 books
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The Castle
Daniel Lavelle
“Your book, The Castle, is incredible. It's about Men losing those anchors”
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How to Change Your Life
unknown
“We wrote a book called How to change your life”
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The Psychopath Test
Jon Ronson
“It was for my book, The Psychopath Test”
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The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
“Malcolm Gladwell, ten thousand hour role, the tipping point, these So people really want that”
Jenson Button: How I Nearly Threw Away My F1 World Title
Nov 2026
Harry Kane: The Ballon d’Or Winner Nobody Saw Coming
Nov 2026 · 5 books
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The Mundanity of Excellence
Daniel Chambliss
“reminds me of a brilliant paper from a psychologist called Daniel Chablis. The paper's called The Mundanity of Excellence”
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Pressure: Lessons from the Psychology of the Penalty Spot
Geir Jordet
“he wrote a book, fascinating book about penalty taking. He is the king of penalties. He studies penalties”
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Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer
“there's a brilliant book by a guy called Joshua Fur called Moonwalking with Einstein where he talks about the okay plateau”
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The Captain Class
Sam Walker
“Sam Walker wrote a brilliant book on this called The Captain Class, where he went and studied like the greatest sports teams of all sports in our in the whole of history”
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The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
James Pennebaker
“wrote a book called The Secret Life of Pronouns”
Lewis Moody: Preparing His Family for The End & Choosing To Live (E446)
Nov 2026 · 3 books
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Mad Dog: An Englishman
Lewis Moody
“the battles you had as a child, that you write about very movingly in the book. The The truth behind Mad Dog”
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The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Bronnie Ware
“if you've ever read the book, you know, The Regrets of the Dying, you realise that people don't end up doing the stuff that really matters”
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Fronting Up
Lewis Moody
“When you read your book. Fronting up. You actually realise that there's so many moments in your life which of course they're negative moments”
How to Build a £100m Business | Jordan Schwarzenberger
Oct 2026
Why The Best Never Stop Feeling Fear
Oct 2026 · 2 books
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Atomic Habits
James Clear
“I'd like to also play a clip from James Clear,'cause I think this is also a very valuable clip when fear does show up. So this is the author of Atomic Habits talking to us about fear”
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The 5 Second Rule
Mel Robbins
“I invented the five second rule by sheer luck during one of the worst moments of my life”
Jimmy Carr
Oct 2026 · 3 books
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
“Cardman's very good on this system one and system two thinking. Yeah. I think you should have made this an example in the book because it's system one thinking is setups. To jokes”
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
“I think Audis Huxley was right. We will We will give away Oh freedom. for uh cheap dopamine. You know, he even predicted it. He said it would be uh tablets. he thought it'd be a tablet called Soma”
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Before and Laughter
Jimmy Carr
“I wrote A book. called Before and Laughter, which was kind of a It was It was like I was writing like a I mean that we sold it to the publishers as like a celebrity biography”
Richard Hammond: Life After Top Gear & Turning Down the BBC (E444)
Oct 2026
Why You Can't Stop Comparing Yourself
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
“Do you remember John Haight when he he told us when we had him on and we were talking about his book, The Anxious Generation”
Christian Horner: Red Bull Betrayal, Geri’s WARNING & Unfinished Business in F1 (E443)
Oct 2026
Dr Chris van Tulleken: The Food Industry Wants to Buy My Silence
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Ultra-Processed People
Chris van Tulleken
“the author of the best selling book. Ultra processed people”
Are We Part of the ‘Optimisation Podcast’ Problem?
Oct 2026
How a Clothing Brand Dominated F1's Greatest Teams: Alessandro Benetton (E442)
Oct 2026
Jess Ennis-Hill: Why I Wanted London 2012 To Feel Scary
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Unbelievable: From My Childhood Dreams to Winning Olympic Gold
Jessica Ennis-Hill
“Like when I was reading your book that you brought out. The year after that Olympic win. I noted that you use the word fear. Fifteen times in it”
The 5 Things High Performers NEVER Say
Oct 2026 · 3 books
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The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
Twyla Tharp
“Tyler Tharp is she's an author of creative habits, but she describes how she gets up at half past five”
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Black Box Thinking
Matthew Syed
“He's done a number of books. The Uh black box thinking and bounce. uh the two that come to mind”
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Bounce
Matthew Syed
“He's done a number of books. The Uh black box thinking and bounce. uh the two that come to mind”
Linford Christie: The Real Story Of Olympic Gold, The Doping Ban & Walking Away (E441)
Oct 2026
Robin van Persie: The Truth I Had to Admit to Become World-Class
Oct 2026
The Permission You're Waiting For Doesn't Exist
Sep 2026 · 3 books
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Clear Thinking
Shane Parrish
“Let's listen to Shane Parrish, she's the author of the brilliant book, Clear Thinking”
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Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Susan Jeffers
“someone bought me a book by a lady called Susan Jeffers when I was seventeen called Feel the Fear. And do it anyway”
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The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
“Stephen Pressfield called The Art of War”
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