Jake Humphrey on Grief, The Trauma Of Childhood Bullying & His Mission To Save Young Men
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What early experiences shaped Jake Humphrey’s outlook on failure and resilience?
How did I dismiss that moment so much? Oh, that's the
hardest part. Tell everybody what happened.
I never thought a kid from a little village in Norfolk would be travelling the world working in Formula One. Why? I was a late developer, Davina, I'd failed my exams at school, I was being bullied and I was fired from McDonald's. But if you keep trying, almost everything that you need's already within your
Oh my God, Jake
So in the end you're presenting the Premier League, the Champions League, you've got like three hundred staff, you've got two kids, a happy marriage. But I felt like none of it mattered. I loved my wife, my kids, but I felt like I was getting everything wrong. On the outside you would have looked at my life and thought, God, that is amazing But I was lost in this little world. I felt so out of kilter.
We've actually got something for you. I'll give you that and I'm gonna ask you to read it out to us.
Oh wow. Oh. Oh long. Would you read it to us? Daddy.
Jake Humphrey. I want to start by saying I'm gonna intro you, I think, as um a brilliant example. Of uh a great man. Oh wow. And I'd quite like to deep dive into your upbringing because your parents had such an amazing impact on y who you are as a person. Um your dad in particular, I think. Tell me a bit about um your dad.
Yeah, oh I mean my dad is um on every level my hero. I felt really sad actually, because last year Eddie Jordan passed away, who I worked with him for a long time. Yeah, it was
like a father figure. It was like a father figure to
me. And you know, because Eddie was well known, obviously, there's a lot of media around him. And I was asked on the day that I got the news he died, actually, I got asked to go and do an interview on like Radio 5 Live. And it was it was only a throwaway comment. But my mum said to me, and it hurt a bit, she said to me a couple of days later, she goes, Oh, Dad was wondering if you'd even say such nice things about him. And I think he'd heard me talking about Eddie and thought. Wonder if I've had that impact. So can I just be absolutely clear, my dad absolutely has had that impact on me.
Can I just say that's really sweet?
I know. But I think that we d we do worry, don't we, about the impact we have on our kids and we kind of Yeah. I can imagine my dad like son of a farmer from Whiz Beach in the Fens in the UK, who, you know, grafted all his life with a real care for other people and was a charity worker his whole life. I can imagine that he would look at what I shared with E. J., travelling the world, working in Formula One, experiencing things that I never thought a kid from a little village in Norfolk would ever experience. And then it's natural for him to go I was I wonder where my impact lies here. And so I'm so pleased you've asked me about my dad because I want him to realise that the impact he's had on me is l more than he will ever know.
And I like that. You know, it's um he can think that he's had an impact. He doesn't really realise. And He deserved so much praise for what he did because he was the son of a farmer. But my dad had a calling to do something different. So when he was a teen, 18, 19, he left Whiz Beach to work on the kibbutz, right? In Israel. Wow. And left home to go and pursue that dream. And then my granddad, his dad, was going to a wedding. So he went and bought um a morning suit. And And he went to show his brother who they were farmers, they were they were brother farmers. And there was a potato picker there. And his brother had taken the guard off the potato picker. And as my granddad said, look at the top hat and tails I've bought for this wedding, the potato picker caught the the back of the tails of his jacket and pulled him into the machine.
This is in the nineteen sixties. And if you know how a potato picker works, your base is snapped him in half.
Oh God.
I know. So you know, thank God he wasn't killed, but he w his back was broken. Oh my gosh.
How did childhood bullying and school struggles influence Jake’s career path?
And then he ended up in a wheelchair for life. Now in those days you were given like a ten ten years to live if you were paraplegic.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What early experiences shaped Jake Humphrey’s outlook on failure and resilience?
0:00–3:50
2
How did childhood bullying and school struggles influence Jake’s career path?
3:50–8:13
3
What role did Jake’s family and his father play in his personal development?
8:13–13:27
4
How did Jake transition from kids’ TV to sports broadcasting and the Premier League?
13:27–18:29
5
What does Jake believe about modern masculinity and the ‘manosphere’?
18:29–23:15
6
How does Jake suggest we support young men navigating toxic online spaces?
23:15–28:01
7
What parenting lessons does Jake share about letting kids fail and staying present?
28:01–33:49
8
What final takeaways does Jake offer on empathy, failure, and redefining success?
33:49–1:01:36
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Begin Again with Davina McCall
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