Jake Humphrey

How to give feedback that actually lands with impact.

How to develop character and not just performance.

And why?

For Mel...

The real win isn't the gold medal.

It's who you become on your way to getting it.

I'd love to welcome to High Performance, the brilliant Mel Marshall.

So Mel, will you take us back to your origin story?

Because I do know a little bit about your background and I'm interested in when you first developed that growth mindset because you weren't coming from an environment where high performance was necessarily all around you.

So when did you discover your talent for swimming then?

Because like Jake said in the introduction, you were an incredible athlete in your own right.

So tell us a little bit about that journey of discovery.

But the obvious question, Mel, is why?

Why did you feel you had to win?

I love that.

You pushed over there, that 2004 experience Mel, but I'm fascinated in terms of going back to that, that you were that competitive animal that was going in there as a favourite for those Athens games.

What happened then that enabled you to discover that, that powerful sense of why?

So who helps you now then as a coach?

And now that we transfer from, you're not an athlete now, you're a coach and a person.

Who coaches you now with keeping those questions honest and allowing you to retain that balance?