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Anna Hemmings MBE

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“So, Anna Hemmings.com. My training consultancy call is called Beyond the Barriers. So BeyondtheBarriers.co.uk. I'm on LinkedIn. You'll find it.”
2021-01-19 · The Diary of a CEO · I Won 11 World Titles Because They Said I Couldn't - Anna Hemmings MBE · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have that aha moment about a limiting belief. You know, getting the new dream job, engaging with the team, being a more confident leader, whatever it is. I love it when I see that change and that transformation in other people, helping them to change habits, to change behaviors, to excel, to get the best out of themselves. That's what really motivates me now is helping others to fulfill their potential.”
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“I love helping others now, helping others, learning from my experiences in sport and taking those lessons and bringing them to other people, mostly in the business world and developing people. spent a lifetime with coaches who were developing me or the athletes and the team and It's the same thing. It's about developing people, you know, in sport it was about getting results through people, developing those people to get results in sport and now I'm using that to get results for people in business by developing people. And I get a real kick out of, you know, if I'm coaching someone and coaching a director or a leader, whoever it is I was coaching this morning and seeing them.”
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“Yeah, so I returned two years later and won the World Championships and European Championships in 2005 and then went on to win two more times after that and compete in Beijing three years later.”
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“And that's why you'll get lots of different, if you research CFS, there's so many different scores of thought, oh, it's a post-viral fatigue. There's lots of, yeah, I guess physiological explanations for it. And maybe, and there's probably lots of clinical research behind that suggests that it is, I don't know. But my experience was that something else, and that's all I can go by, really.”
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“And you're going to figure out what it is that you need to do differently to get back to training in a really healthy way. And when I returned back to training, I was able to change lots of things about my environment, about the people I was with, about the pressures I put myself under. You know, all of these things that I'd figured out. And then I trained harder than I had before because I was in a really healthy environment and place and I was listening to my body and my mind. They call it mind body. And I was able to tune into that and go, every time I was anywhere near just, not feeling quite right, I'd go, what's my mind body telling me right now? What is it that's going on that it doesn't like? What do I need to be aware of? And then I could thrive after that.”
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“So it's not the first example And, you know, like your loneliness, my calling to get back. It's an alarm bell, right? You're feeling really lonely, and it's a warning sign to you. It's a message to say you need to do something differently. And this example, get back to your tribe And in the same way that my body, the alarm bells were, I'm going to make you so tired that you can't train. So then you're going to listen.”
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“But if you think about many illnesses, ailments from getting a, you know, craft and people get a headache when they're stressed. People will get a migraine at the end of a stressful period. People will get So there are so many illnesses that can be considered as emotional but manifest. Phys”
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“I need people to get energy, and I'm not surrounded by people. That's just one example of one of the triggers. But, you know, so it was about finding out, what do I need to thrive?”
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“And so, and I remember actually one of the very first things I did with my sports psychologist, he got me to do, I think it was like a Myers-Briggs type assessment, identifying what kind of personality type I was. And I was a stable extrovert. And I don't know what he ever really did with that information. But looking back now, that's such useful information. So for someone, if someone had known that and they could see that I was training every day on my own without support, without people to feed off, that's where I get my energy. Of course I was losing energy and tired. I wasn't getting...”
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“I don't even know if they landed or not And, you know, when you meet the people afterwards and you go and engage with them, and how are you going to apply this and what are you going to put into action and all of that stuff? That's the energy that I get. When I go and do my work And that's missing right now. You're getting it a bit, but not in the same way.”
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“Over and over again, I love the connection that I get and the feedback and the, you know, I can't even hear people laugh at my jokes that I think it's supposed to be funny.”
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“And that's why, you know, we talked earlier about motivation and what gets you off in the morning. And actually going in to hear about Susan's weekend or, you know, to see your friends and the connection and the buzz from the atmosphere. And that might be what gets you to work, not the task that I've got to do, but actually the people I'm going to hang out with. And that environment, and we need to understand what is that environment that we thrive in. And I think people are realizing that over the last 12 months, you know, and especially the extroverts have found this really hard. And if you live on your own and you're not able to go into work.”
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“Wasn't sustainable, and that was why I had these periods of oh, yeah, three weeks falling apart, and I'd have to stop. And then when I'd get back to an environment that was I was happy in, it was all good and I would train hard and I'd be amazing and I have full of energy. And I had my best year. And then I would change and the environment would change. And so my environment and the people around me and my emotional happiness was some of the things that I needed to get a grip on.”
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“But didn't realize because I was so focused on the goal and the end goal and got to train hard and this is what it takes that I was so not in tune with what was going on emotionally. And I was at my best when I was training in a group environment with a coach by my side every day supporting me. I'm an extrovert. I get my energy from other people. And there I was spending my days alone. doing this really intense training program on my own. That is not conducive to a really good mental and emotional health. And so it was really clear that that”
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“Thought that was enough. And actually, I didn't, I'm not a robot. And I needed human connection and I needed emotional support and I needed a place to vent and I needed to be able to show frustration. And when the training was hard or when I was exhausted and I had no one to even talk to on the riverside bank, you know, I'm talking to the ducks. You know, it's like I had no outlet for my emotions. I had no, and I didn't even speak up and tell my coach that I was frustrated that he sent me the program only two minutes before I needed to be at the training. You know, I was going to train. Because there's this five-hour time difference. And I just. Was probably quite unhappy”
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“And I didn't realize this at the time, I was isolating myself. And I think I, so I wasn't engaged. There was my club. I was at my club, but I would turn up to my club and they'd all go off and train separately and I'd train on my own. And then I'd often turn up at times when they weren't there. I wouldn't engage with the British team really much. And I was just more and more isolating myself and then getting frustrated because I didn't have a coach who was by my side. And I thought that all I needed to do was train hard. I thought, and the reason I stuck with this coach was because he was a great coach and I thought the training program was brilliant. And I thought all I need to do is follow a great training program and work really hard.”
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“Encourage me to go find someone really specialized in sprint racing. So I ended up for three years having a coach who was based in another country. And I would go and train with them sometimes and then I would come back to the UK and I would train on my own. And he would send me the training program. We'd speak on the phone. He'd email it to me. I'd do the training. And I would basically train a lot of most days I would turn up to the training, do the training. And I was motivated enough to be able to push myself really hard. I had no problem with training on my own in the sense that I, you know, some people can't push themselves hard enough. I haven't got the motivation to turn up and do that. But the problem with that was that”
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“So there was no medicine, there was no pill, there was no massage treatment. There was nothing like that. It purely is. Recognition that the mind and the body are connected, and therefore, I needed to figure out what these triggers are. So to give you a bit of context, leading up to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, I left the coach that I was working with that had got me to become a world champion, but I now wanted to go and race at the Olympic Games. And he was very much a marathon coach.”
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“I think we need to be honest. I think that we need to be transparent. And the more we can be transparent and we can be honest in what we do, the better relationship. And we figure it out together.”
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“And actually, right now, I don't know how we're going to get out of this, but I do have confidence in my ability and all of us together as a team that we're going to find a way.”
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“The thing that you have to believe we always, no matter what the situation is, we can only be truly great at what we do if we believe without doubt that the future is bright.”
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“So it's confidence. We're going to figure this out because we are good at what we do. You know, our definition when we do our resilient leader workshops is a resilient leader's confidence in who they are. What they do and understands their areas of strength and their areas of development and finds way to bounce back and create opportunities. And so if I'm confident in who I am and what I do, yeah, I can admit that I don't know what to do right now. But I know that I have the skills and the resources within me and my people that we're going to figure this out. I don't know what that way forward is yet, but I know that we're going to find a way.”
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“Yeah. How do we connect with people? Was actually, oh, you're just a human being who's scared too. And I'm scared. And therefore, it's okay to be scared. But actually, I'm scared, but we're going to find a way.”
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“And this is a bad situation that we didn't want to happen. And let's admit that. Let's put that on the table and be honest about it because people, we build trust with people when we're honest and we show a little bit of vulnerability in humanity. And that's how we build relationships because otherwise we're just putting up this tough guy front all the time who doesn't have any feelings, right?”
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“I think there's a balance actually. And I think in business. If you are able to be a little bit vulnerable, and I'm not saying vulnerable to the point where you look really weak, but vulnerable to the point where you're honest. And you might go, do you know what shit's happened? And actually, I'm a little bit scared, but we're going to find a way. And I don't know how we're going to figure this out right now. And it's not great. It's about having confidence in who I am and what we do and confident in the people around us. And my team and you lot and all of us that we're going to figure this out. So there's a balance there between I'm human. And yes, I'm scared like you because this is shit.”
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“Yeah, so when you're on the competitive arena of sport and you turn up on race day, poke a face on, game face, I'm tough, whether I've missed the last two weeks because of an injury or for whatever reason, you're never going to know that. Because I'm here today and I'm on fire and I'm ready to race. And that's brilliant on the race arena. But outside of that, not helpful. Not helpful in so many ways in terms of building relationships, in terms of building trust. You know, we talk about trust earlier. You can't build trust and relationships unless you open up, unless you express vulnerability.”
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“When I was competing or before in the beginning, the emotions were different. But in the middle of the illness, like not just not sharing it with people, not expressing how... Hard, I'm finding this, how tough this is, that, how sad I am, how frustrated I am, how just I can't cope anymore kind of emotions. Those emotions I wasn't even expressing in the middle of the illness. Yeah, I'm being poker face, Anna, who has learned to do this because that's what you do in sport, right?”
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“And actually, when I started to, one of the biggest and most powerful steps that I took was opening up to people, to the people closest to me, sharing what I was experiencing with them, allowing them to see my struggle and my vulnerability and let them help me. That was a big turning point for me was being able to. And share and open up. Because part of what I was doing was I was isolating myself by not sharing it. And that was perpetuating it.”
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“And so for me, non-expression of emotion is one of the most common triggers. And that certainly was the case for me to the point where I didn't open up. To anyone, really, I have really close friends. I have family. I have a sister I'm really close to. And of course, I shared it with them. But I cried on my own for sure. But I never cried in front of anyone else. I didn't really express how bad it was. In fact, to the point where people would ask and, you know, how are you doing? Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine. And I would just block it out to them all the time. And that was just making it worse.”
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“Listen to the alarm bells, they'll get louder and louder and louder to the point where eventually they just go, right, done. You're just not going to move now. You're not going to until you listen up. How loud do I need to get before you're going to listen? And for me, it was to the point where I couldn't train. When I can't train, I'm going to listen up because now it's really bad. And now I need to pay attention. And so I'm not particularly articulate at explaining what the physiological what's going on physiologically, but that's my interpretation of how the symptoms arrive and how you deal. And then what I did so that the treatment that I did is about identifying what are those triggers, what are those things that your body and mind are saying, I don't like.”
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“I believe Based on the treatment that I did, which was a treatment called reverse therapy. And it was founded by a chap called Dr. John Eaton. And back, it was only just it was quite a new therapy when I did it back in 2005. Essentially, the symptoms are like alarm bells going off in your body. So these symptoms, the pain, the fatigue, the exhaustion, the can't focus, any of the symptoms that you're experiencing are alarm bells and your body's way of telling you that there are things going on in your life that your body doesn't like, whether that be pressures, stresses, relationships, environment, emotions, all sorts of things that are triggering these symptoms and these alarm bells. And basically, if you don't.”
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“There is a way out. There has to be a way out. And I guess I didn't know whether there was, but I just had to believe that there was. And I had to believe that I would get out of this, and then I would find a way back and that I would get back to training and macing one day. Otherwise, what did I have? Not that my life would be over if I couldn't paddle, but just that's what that belief, I think, is what kept me going in that time. And eventually, to cut a long story short, I did find a treatment for the illness. And I did recover and I did get back. But it wasn't an easy journey.”
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“Yeah, just like this is my, you know, this is my identity. This is who I am. This is my life. This is my career. I still have ambitions left to fulfill. And I don't want something like this to end my career. I want to end it on my terms when I choose that I'm done. And so. Yeah, that summer watching the Olympic Games on the telly in Athens, it was devastating. But I guess I always believed that I would find a way. I was like, there has to be a solution to this. There has to be a way out. And I guess that. I'm a very optimistic person and a very much a possibilitarian, I call it that. I don't know if that's a word. But believing that it's possible.”
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“Well, you might get back in a car, but you're never going to race at that highest level. You won't race again That was a pretty big moment.”
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“That it wasn't overtraining because for six months I had been doing less training than everyone else in my group. I can't be overtrained. I'm doing less than everyone else because we were so conscious of this, Arana's over training, that was not overtraining. And the doctor's like, oh, you've overtrained. I was like, Jesus. And I just, and then that was it. I didn't train again for 18 months. And after working with the team doctor, I went to other doctors. I tried conventional medicine. I tried alternative therapies and nothing was working. And that was the hardest part as well was that one, you can't really tell me what's wrong with me. And two, you can't tell me how to deal with this. And then, you know, I went to see one doctor and he said basically there's no cure. There's no treatment and you're don't think you're ever going to get back in a kayak.”
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“So in the beginning. Frustrated, devastated, confused, sad, lonely, so many different things. Frustrated because also we didn't really know what it was. And the doctors are saying it's overtraining. And actually, when I reflect on the previous two years, I'd had episodes of fatigue, which I now know were episodes of that same illness, but that only lasted for two weeks or three weeks or six weeks. And I would stop training or I'd really cut back on training and then I'd be able to come back and I'd be fine again. And so I only know that it was, I knew in my heart when I went to see the team doctor that one day and I remember it.”
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“And so this frustration of, I can't see it and therefore there must be nothing wrong, you know, it's mental health, right? You know, people who were suffering with depression or anxiety or whatever it is, we can't see it. And so we don't know it and we don't understand it. And so the mental and emotional battle was really challenging. And even people in my sport not understanding what's wrong with Anna, oh, she can't cope with it anymore, or she's too lazy to train or whatever they're saying, all these things. And that's hard.”
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“And they still thought it was overtraining. That's the immediate assumption, right? Athletes tired, muscle ache, must be overtrained. So they diagnose you, they offered me this program of gently build up your return to sport. So start with 10 minutes at a heart rate of 115. I can't remember and then 15 minutes at 115 and then 20 minutes and 30 minutes. And when you can get to 40 minutes, then we can go up to 120 heart rate and so on and so on. And so I went out, my training group and my coach were all in Florida. So I went out to Florida to train, and I just couldn't get past 20 minutes. And so I went to see a doctor in Florida. The doctor, he ran some blood tests and basically, like, I still looked like an athlete. I'm still pretty muscley. I'm fair. I'm lean. I'm in Florida. I've got a tan. And he basically looked at me and said,”
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“You can't see it. So it's not, you know, I got frustrated to the point where I actually wished that my skin was covered in spots so that people could see that there was something wrong with me and could understand that I was going through something, that I was in pain, that I was, you know, unwell. But I looked fine. So I got diagnosed with the illness in 2003, beginning of the season. It was like April. And then So following year is coming up to the Olympics 2004. So I'm training for the Olympics or wanting to be training. So six months later, it was only six months later that they actually diagnosed it because it takes six months for them to eliminate everything else and go, oh, this was fatigue that's been going on for more than six months. Therefore, you have chronic fatigues syndrome. And I went off to Florida. And the sports team doctor was saying, right, you need to do this graded return to exercise. They think they originally.”
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“Some people have symptoms. I didn't get this so much, but sort of, you know, like can't concentrate, can't focus, brain fog. Some people are actually bedridden. Some people are actually in a wheelchair. Luckily, I wasn't as bad as that, but I was bad to the point where, yeah, I couldn't be in my kayak paddling for more than 10 minutes at a very light, gentle walk type pace. Having gone from winning world championships for two and a half hours at a very high pace Can't get my hands up here. I was literally two months earlier able to rattle off 100 press-ups in one go and then cut my hands up here for more than 10 seconds. So that's the physical element. And that's only the physical element. But the mental and emotional battle was just as challenging because”
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“So, yeah, like you say, was 25, 26 when I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. And yes, it's more than just fatigue. It's not just that I'm tired today. Being devoid of energy, exhausted almost on a permanent basis. It also for me included muscle pain to the point where my muscles were muscle ache to the point where it was painful to the point where I couldn't stand in the shower and hold my hands up here to wash my hair for more than 10 seconds because it was too painful.”
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“And also, you know, or whether it's the fear, or oh my God, it's so far away. We've got another four hours to go, it might be, you know, whatever it is. Well, actually, let's just do the next five minutes and let's see if that is feasible because it probably is, right? Can I do one yet? Can you take this next step? Yeah, I can definitely take that next step. Okay, can you take the next one? Can I take the next one? And that feels really feasible.”
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“Looking down and thinking, but how the heck am I going to get back down? Because that looks really scary and it's slippery and there's scree. So the ground is loose. And I'm like, don't even think about that right now. All you need to do is take one step at a time, one meter at a time. That's all I want you to focus on. And one meter and one meter and one meter. And we'll figure out the rest. And you might not even get to the top. Who knows? You might, you might not. We might stop. But just do one meter at a time. And then we'll figure out the down bit and we'll take it one step at a time on the way down. Because that's all we can do, right? In that moment, is take one step at a time. And it's the same whether it's a goal to achieve X turnover in a business or this many sales or whatever the business is or whatever walk of life.”
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“As you do, and I There was probably 10 of us in the group. One of them, one of the girls that was on the group was a friend of mine. And she had, I don't know why she joined the group, but she had a fear of heights. Oh, God. And we're climbing a mountain. And it was fine for the first day and a half because it's just like a windy road. The morning of the summit, it's literally we're going up. We feel like we're going up a steep mountain. And there's boulders. And she literally. She's so scared of heights. And she said, and I can't do it, I can't do it. And eventually I was like, Julia, you just need to focus. What her biggest fear actually was also getting down.”
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“So, yeah, so I use that. But I mean, I think when you talk to people, you can start to, you know, the more you get to know someone and you ask them questions and you see the way they operate and you see them light up when they get certain feedback or when they're doing certain pieces of work. So we can start to get a feel for that just when we get to know people”
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“Yeah, so there's some brilliant work from a chap called Dean Spitzer, and he talks about supermotivation and this idea that there isn't, you know, there's intrinsic and there's extrinsic motivation. So what we use a diagnostic actually when I work with clients and it will identify, it forces you to pick because we all want maybe some recognition or some achievement or to feel like we're making a contribution or to be with people, all of these, but it really forces you to identify what really”
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“I don't need to win. I just want to I want to feel ownership of this piece of work. Actually, that's what's really important to me. And how do you find out”
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“And tap into both of those and start to ask what is it that am I getting that every day? And if I'm not, how can I get that from work? What is it that I need to get? And also really interesting, you know, if you're a leader of a business and you're working with a team, are my drivers influencing how I operate with others in my team? You know, so if my driver is a sense of achievement, but your driver is to make a meaningful contribution I'm pushing you going. No, we need to win this and we need to get the next pitch. And you're like, no, I just want to really help these people. I'm pushing my driver onto you and that's not working for you. So it's really important to be aware of what my driver is and know that it's not the same as yours chances are.”
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“Knowing what is it that's going to get you out of bed today, that's when we start to get the best out of people or the best out of ourselves. And so, you know, when I work with leaders, it's about what motivates and drives me intrinsically, not just the carrot and the pay slip and the promotion and, you know, and all of that. That's the external stuff, which isn't very sustainable. Need to know what drives us as individuals, but also what drives our team.”
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