Jamie Peacock - Rugby League legend and motivational coach

Leeds Business Podcast

What does it feel like when you’re the best in the world at something, and then can’t do that anymore?

In this week's episode we speak to Rugby League legend Jamie Peacock MBE, who is now a business coach and motivational speaker.

Jamie tells us how the skills and habits that took him to the top of the tree can help you in your business, how captaining a team helps with presentation skills and he shares with us how to build confidence (and dealing with Imposter Syndrome) amongst other great advice

INTRODUCING JAMIE PEACOCK MBE

Jamie Peacock played over 550 Rugby League games over 19 seasons including 49 caps for his country which he captained for 8 years. At the end of his career in 2015 he had become the most decorated player of the modern Super League era winning a total of 9 Grand Finals, 4 Challenge Cup Finals, 4 World Club Challenges as well as being selected in the Super League Dream Team 11 times, the World 13 twice, World’s Best Forward twice and in 2011 he was recognised for his services to the game and awarded an MBE.

As well as working in commercial for the Leeds Rhinos and as a Rugby League analyst for the BBC, Jamie now runs a number of successful different enterprises ranging from the Be A Champion Health & Wellbeing programme that over 100,000 people have completed, motivational talks such as ‘Champion Teams’ in which he covers 12 aspects in 3 areas of Self-Performance, Leadership and Team Collective that enable a team to become champions and finally he runs a Building Champions Leadership Coaching program that drives high-performance and builds strong, lasting personal development improvements and leadership habits, companies to have used this program include HSBC, NHS, McDonalds, O2 and Sky Bet.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

[00:00:30] The move from sport to the outside world

[00:04:00] The early autobiography

[00:06:00] The transferable principles from Rugby to coaching

[00:08:30] The move to motivational coaching

[00:10:30] Team building

[00:13:00] ‘Be a Champion’ book and well-being programme

[00:16:00] ‘Building Champions’ book

[00:18:30] Replacing the dopamine of playing Rugby League

[00:21:00] how captaining a team helps with presentation skills

[00:22:00] Why Jamie didn’t want to get into Rugby coaching

[00:23:00] How to build confidence (and dealing with Imposter Syndrome)

KEY TAKEAWAYS & BUSINESS LEARNINGS

• Be driven by trying to be excellent in what you do

• Common ground, common purpose and honest conversations build teams

• Positive mindset, sleep well, eat healthily and being active build your mindset armour

BEST MOMENTS

“I learnt a lot about myself in the 18 months after my career ended”

“Microactions that you can do every day make a difference”

“I’ve developed the skill of taking a room with me when I’m speaking”

VALUABLE RESOURCES FOR YOU

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Website: https://www.jamiepeacock.co.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-peacock-mbe-4b2aa746/

Instagram (personal): https://www.instagram.com/jamiepeacock10

Twitter (personal): https://www.x.com/jamiepeacock10

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ABOUT YOUR HOST

Phil Fraser went from an accidental kitchen table start up, with no investment, all the way to multi-million pound sale to a PLC 18 years later. He’s travelled the full SME business journey of launch, growth, scale and exit.

As well as hosting the Leeds Business Podcast, Phil now works with ambitious SME-owners as a Business Sounding Board (think somewhere between Business Coach and Business Mentor). In simple terms, he’s ‘a pair of ears and an extra pair eyes’ for SME Owners helping them to be better at what they do. Phil’s mantra is It doesn’t need to be ‘lonely at the top’. He helps Business Owners to be better business owners, by helping with their clarity and focus.

As a Business Sounding Board, he gives SME Owners the time & space to regularly discuss their challenges and opportunities, with no sense of judgement or bias, and in complete confidence. This allows them to explore their options in full, culminating with a list of issues to address/clarify, a clear target in mind, a roadmap to success, and a renewed enthusiasm and confidence for the challenges ahead.

Phil has appeared as a guest on over 60 podcasts, webinars and interviews, from around the whole globe, talking on a variety of business subjects. You can view them all at https://philfraser.co.uk/watch-hear-phil/.

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