YouSaid · the spoken record

Anna Hemmings MBE

lines on the record: 103
first: 2021-01-19
most recent: 2021-01-19
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“It might have been, and actually on other days, it might have been actually, I want to get out and go train because I want to see my teammates because we have a laugh and there's banter and it's fun and I enjoy the connection and the sense of that being part of a team and the community and all of that. And so it's this, the affiliation that's driving me on some days. But for others, I can think of some of the girls in my team actually a sense of recognition was a big driver. So needing that, you know, today, you know, you worked really hard. You've really put everything into that session, like hearing that from the coach or, you know, look how far you've come or look what you've, you know, the progress you've made. So, everyone, and so when a coach can tap into that.”
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
“That if I do this training today, then I'm going to get better and I've got a test on the weekend and I want to hit that target. I want to smash the target actually because a good chance I'm going to win the World Championship is not just hitting the targets. I need to smash the targets. And so that sense of achievement for me was a big driver for other people in my team.”
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
“Well, yeah, so I do a lot of work around intrinsic motivation and understanding what drives us. And we all have different drivers. And unsurprisingly, one of my drivers is a sense of achievement. And so my driver wasn't necessarily on that particular day, oh, I've got a train really hard because I want to win the world championships in two years' time. My driver was probably more that my coach has set targets every month that throughout the winter for five months of the winter, we would have targets every month. In the gym, there would be certain exercises in the gym that we've got to hit, we would do tests on. We would do time trials on running and swimming and on the water. So as part of our cardiovascular training. And for me, that was really, I loved hitting those targets, basically. That monthly, right? So if I do, and I know.”
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
“Yeah, that wasn't appealing every day. Luckily, the funding came in and we got to go travel and train in warmer climates in Florida and wherever else. Yes, there's this goal that's the world championships, it's the Olympic Games, it's, you know, those big dream goals that are highly motivating. But on those every single day, I'd be lying if you could say that goal in four years' time is what got me out of bed on that rainy freezing cold, you know, January morning.”
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
“That's at the core of it because if we don't believe it can happen, then what's the point? And so, yes, we absolutely have to take action, but we need the motivation to take action. I can't say that, you know, 100% of the days that I was training, I was, oh, yeah, I can't wait to get out there and go training. It's probably freezing outside. It's like middle of winter. On the water, on the river Thames, and it's like ice.”
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
“So I think you're absolutely right. You know, when we visualize, it gives us the motivation to believe that it can happen.”
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
“It's like the law of attraction, and it starts to activate that in your life and bring in the people, the resources, the environment, the circumstances that you need to achieve your goal. And so now, what do I do? I probably, I do spend some time consciously going, right, I'm just going to spend two or three minutes visualizing my goal. I'm seeing it happen. I'm seeing it realize. But then other times I'm probably just, you know, driving. I'm going to visualize now is really powerful because then you start to. Really, it starts to ingrain in the subconscious.”
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
“The front. I'm going to see, imagine they'll start being delayed, or it's a full start. All these eventualities so that when it comes to the event, I'm prepared and it can just all unfold and I'm not phased by anything that happens. But most importantly, I've seen it happen the way I want it to happen. And then I believe that it can happen. And what visualization also does is when we're visualizing a goal, for example, it starts to activate the subconscious to generate creative ideas about how we can achieve our goal. It's my, I don't know how it works and why it works, but it's mind-blowing and it does work. And it starts to get your brain to perceive and recognize the different resources that you need to achieve your goal.”
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
“So, a little bit of both. As an athlete, it was definitely something that I would sit down. Usually I'd be lying on my bed. I would have done some relaxation because the more we clear our mind and relax, the easier it is to visualize and to see really clearly. And so it would be a conscious, right, I'm going to spend the next 15 minutes or even two minutes or five minutes or whatever time I had visualizing my next race and seeing myself execute that race plan as perfectly as I can and in exactly the right way. And I would visualize everything from if it was the Olympic discipline and we got nine boats on a start line, I'm seeing my, I don't know which lane I'm going to be in when it comes to race day. So I'm seeing myself racing every lane. I'm seeing myself with the headwind, with a tailwind, with it raining. I'm seeing myself cock up the start because that might happen. But then I'm just going to recover from it and I'm going to see myself recover and I'm going to see myself win from behind. I'm going to see myself win from behind.”
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
“And what could I achieve? And what could this look like? And the power of visualization is that your mind does, when it's, when you see it really vividly, your mind doesn't know the difference between a vividly imagined experience and a real life experience.”
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
“Well, then I would think about rather than what I'm afraid of, I'm think about what I'm excited about. And so rather than I'm afraid of what I'm going to leave behind or I'm afraid of what might happen, I'm more about what could happen. And when we focus on what we want and what we could have, and you know, it's optimism, isn't it? It's about what's possible and what could I achieve. You know, and you asked me earlier about, you know, some of the things about sports psychology. And visualization was a massive technique. That I learned from my sports psychologist and employed and still use all the time. And I think when you can start to visualize That new role person identity could be. And when you bring it to life with all of your senses and see it really vividly, then that's exciting”
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
“Totally, and we should all have multiple careers And I think as time, you know, as we're living longer and longer, we all will have multiple careers. And I think we need to find the courage to step into new careers all the time and reinvent. and just recognize that there's so many skills that we can transfer. From that other career label identity and bring into the next one. And that's what will allow us to succeed into the next one. And recognizing that we're never going to grow unless we step out of that comfort zone and yeah, get a little bit scared of who this new person could be or would be or should be. And we'll find out. And that's the exciting thing is we're going to find out.”
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
“That's who I am, and it's hard to let go of that because it's part of who I am. It's comfortable, right? And you know who that person is, what the behavior of that person's like, and you're stepping into a new”
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
“It took me and it still takes me, I catch myself saying, you know, I'm an athlete, I'm not a business person. And I go, oh, I, you know, I don't have a background in business. Yeah, I've been running a business for 11 years and I was a professional athlete for 15 years. So it's almost, you know, I have almost the same amount of experience in business as I do in sport. Yet I label myself for so long and that became my identity. And your identity is CEO of a social media company. And so.”
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
“I think that it becomes your identity There's a bigger part of the problem. You know, it's like when an athlete retires from sport.”
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
“I think they're not helpful. And I think it's really important that we're aware of those labels that we're giving ourselves. And the awareness is the first step, right? We can't change it if we don't notice it. So we need to notice the label in the first place. And then it's a bit, you know, it's a limiting belief, really, isn't it? And so is that label serving me? Is it helping me achieve my end goal?”
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
“I think it's important to highlight both. I think it's more important to work on exploiting your strengths. And I would, so we do a lot of diagnostics, we use behavioral profiling and all of that kind of stuff. And all of that will bring up both. And I think it's important to really be aware of your areas of development. But ultimately, if I'm sat on the start line of the world championships and I'm focused on my weaknesses and all the things I need to avoid. My confidence is fragile. Chances of performing it on rest slim. And so in that moment, I absolutely need to have on the tips of my fingers what my strengths are. And I need to know them and I need to be able to exploit them. And I think the more you work on those.”
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
“Well, so you work on identifying those strengths. What are those strengths? So we do this all the time. We work with clients on what are those strengths and where's the evidence of those strengths. And when they start to see the evidence of those strengths, well, you know, so I'm working with a client and so one of your strengths is being an authentic leader.”
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
“A trophy or society. Because you're compared to, oh, I got this award. Against all of these other people. And I won this trophy, and I want past this grade. And it's always against somebody else and a society rather than looking at the intangible attributes. That allowed you to achieve those successes because that's what isn't measurable against society and is transferable to other domains.”
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
“But what's more valuable is what you had. The non tangible stuff. Because if we go through life only assessing our success on the tangible stuff, Then our confidence, our self belief, actually, and they're two different things, will be quite fragile.”
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
“You were gathering evidence. You were looking at your strengths, which is part of the puzzle. You may not have had the experiences and the evidence of the achievements and the certificates and all of that.”
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
“Because quite often someone will go, oh, well, I achieved that, but it was because the weather was good on that day, or I achieved that because my team, my team did it really. It wasn't me. So it's about starting to unpick actually, what role did you play in that success and what are the attributes that allowed you, your strengths, your attributes that allowed you to achieve that? And then we start to build up the bank of successes and The strengths and the attributes which we can transfer into any scenario.”
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
“And then you cock it up because you're, and we think in images. And so, when you think of something that you messed up, you're seeing yourself doing it, right? You're imagining it in your mind right here and now. And so the trick is to consciously recall the positive experience. The successes. And if there's nothing in the bank exactly of that experience, those chances are there's something similar. There's always something similar. And so I would work with clients to identify what are all of the successes that you've had, not just in that specific scenario, but let's look at lots of different successes and then let's pick out what What are the attributes that allowed you to achieve those things?”
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
“Absolutely. It perpetuates the doubt because you're reminding yourself of, oh, remember last time when you did it, you cocked it up and you messed up and you didn't cock it up.”
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
“Chances are we might pick the experience of when we failed. And then that's when we start to regurgitate all those thoughts and feelings of embarrassment and anxiety and nerves. And that doesn't help us.”
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
“Yeah, exactly. And I think that is a big part of where we get our confidence from is like our past experiences. So whenever we do something, we start to build a bank of memories. And when we're at the next situation. There is similar, we can choose to draw on the bank of negative experiences where we cocked it up, or we can choose to draw on the bank of positive experiences where we succeeded and we did it really well. And the trick is, and you know, if we, and if we're not conscious about 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
“So, what's a more helpful belief and starting to unpick what would be a better way of seeing this? What are my strengths? And what would be a new belief that would serve me better?”
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
“Identifying beliefs that are so, you know, we would start probably with what are some of those limiting beliefs and start to unpick how are those beliefs, how are they serving? I wouldn't be interested in necessarily where they've come from. I would be interested in how they are serving us right now and how are they not serving us? Because sometimes we're believing them because they're serving us for a purpose. They're helping us in some way, but more often than not, those beliefs won't be serving us. So starting to unpick that, you know, almost like what are the pros and cons of having this belief here. Right now, that I can't achieve this, or that one of my limiting beliefs was that I'm not very good at sales. You know, I had to, you know, I've run a training consultancy after, you know, find clients.”
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
“A huge question. How do we overcome our limiting beliefs? It's actually something that I work on a lot of coaching clients.”
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
“And I really believe that this is often what stops people from fulfilling their potential. And that's why I love helping people with noun. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Their mental game is what stops people from being the best they can be.”
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
“Doubt, anxiety, nerves, lack of confidence. All of that stuff prevents us from being at our best. And that essentially is what one of the big parts of what a sports psychologist is helping you to do. When an athlete, when you line up and there's nine of you on the start line at the Olympic Games, all of them, all of those athletes were trained hard. They're all in amazing shape. They're all super fit. They're all, you know, strong. They're, you know, physically, not a huge amount of difference between those nine, you know, think about a hundred meter sprint. At the Olympic Games, there's not a lot of difference between them What is it that makes one of them win on the day? And not often, it's often not the strongest, fast, fittest who wins on the day. It's the one who's the strongest up here.”
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
“How do we get in our own way? The doubts, the thoughts that we think, the doubt that that seeds, the nerves overcoming us so becoming so nervous that you become paralyzed almost, choking under pressure, focusing on the wrong things, not being confident in yourself. So many things that we do. Fear.”
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
“So I think that I didn't know about that then, and neither did a lot of people, but my mom was pretty quite growth mindset. And I instilled that quite a lot in me. For example, she, you know, this idea of just constant learning, constantly wanting to learn and be better and recognizing that we can be better all the time. We can improve and looking outside for other areas of expertise, learning from other sectors and all of that. And she was the one that, you know, it wasn't like I was struggling with my mental strength and confidence or anything. It was just, what else do we need to do? Who else can help us? Who else can, what else, you know, we don't have all the answers? We want to learn. I've got to learn from everyone. And I always encourage clients in the business world, you know, who can we constantly be learning from all the time.”
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
“That was part of, and you talk about, you know, you asked me earlier what is it that made me a little bit different or why did I succeed when others didn't? And I think part of that was Have you had a growth mindset”
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
“Yeah, so I did. I worked with a sports psychologist from the age of 16. Oh, really? Wow. Yeah, so really young. And I think that”
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
“Because once you've opened up and you've bared yourself a little bit, then I feel, oh, well, he's done it, then it's okay, and no one judged him and no one knocked him. And it's like, oh, okay, well, I can do it too. And knowing that. No one's, and when there is that trust, then we know that actually I'm not going to be, that's not going to be held against me, whatever it is that I share, it's not going to be held against me in the future. It's not going to be used and I'm not going to be shot down for 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
“So one of the things that you can do, and this is what I work with teams and leaders, and it's about vulnerability. It's about being able to be vulnerable with your people, with your team, being able to admit weaknesses, admit mistakes. It's about being able to say, I don't know the answer. I don't know where we're going. I don't know how to deal with this or just being able to be vulnerable. And that isn't always easy to do. But when you start to do it, Gives permission to people, you know, if you do workshops where we're trying to build trust and people always say, you know, at the end, we might ask them something like share something about a challenge from your childhood. And when people go around and they share and we say, What made it difficult or hard to do? And they say, Well, it made it easier when someone else went first.”
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
“And they do that because they haven't had their say, they haven't been able to disagree and back and forth with their ideas and have that debate. Even if your idea isn't gone with, they at least want to feel like I've had my say. And I've had my opportunity to put forward my thoughts and my opinion and my suggestion. But actually, at the end of the day, this is the best idea for the team, then fine, let's go with that. But at least I've had my opportunity to speak up.”
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
“There's not enough trust in the team. If you think that you're going to be shot down, if you think you're not going to be listened to. And then the problem with that is that we then walk out of the room and you've probably been in meetings, right, where people all sit in the room and they all nod and go, yep, brilliant, yeah, we're all going to do that. And then they walk out of the room and they go, you got nothing coming. You think I'm going to do that?”
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
“So in a team, It starts with trust. If we don't have trust in a team, then we can't have healthy conflict. And healthy conflict is when we, healthy debate. So this is about being able to know that all of the people in the team have the same objective, the same. We're all going to got the same goal. We're trying to achieve the same thing. And you put forward an idea. And I disagree with that idea. But if we don't have trust in the team and you're the boss, then I'm not going to put my hand up and say, I disagree. I don't think we should do it like that. I think we should do it like this. I think that this is the way we should go. I think we need to go down this route. We won't have that argument, an argument, debate, conflict, whatever you want to call 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
“Yeah, I do. And that, so winning world championships in a K-2, getting to the Olympic Games in a doubles was very satisfying for me. Whenever I was able to prove that actually you don't have to be what you're describing as this kind of shape. That's not what makes someone fast and useful in a kayak, in a double kayak or in a four. So that used to annoy me”
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
“Yeah, definitely. I loved winning. Why? I love the. I love the joy of winning, but I also loved improvement and I loved getting better. Quite often, I was told, so they're in kayaking, there's singles, doubles, fours, K1, K2, K4. And I was always told, you know, not big enough, not strong enough, but also definitely not big enough or strong enough to be in a K4. Definitely not big enough to be in any of the crewboats. K2, K4, you need to be big and strong for those boats Probably shouldn't say this, but they used to, it felt to me, define big and strong as fat. And if you were, so I was skin and bones, I was really skinny. And so I didn't look strong. But they thought someone who looked chunky had a big backside. Was strong”
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
“And so, and I was determined that No one's going to tell me I'm not strong enough because I can't change how tall I am, but I can change how strong I am.”
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
“Devastating, right? This is the sport that I'm falling in love with, that I'm, this is probably I'm about 12 years old. So at this stage, I am training quite regularly. I've already been to the national championships. I've got my site set on being in the Great Britain Junior team. devastating. But I think because of that, I just went, well, I'm just going to keep going. I'm going to keep trying. I don't care what you've said. I don't care. This is what I want to do. I'm going to give it a go. And I love it. And I think I'm doing okay at it right now. And I'm just going to keep trying. What that did for me was made me work harder to prove that actually because I was told specifically you're not big enough, you're not strong enough. And yeah, I can't change my height, but I can become stronger.”
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
“And I was told regularly, too small. One of my coach, actually, the club coach, who was also the great written team coach, came up to me at a certain point when I was really into the sport and said, I just don't think you're ever going to be big enough or strong enough to ever be a great kayaker. Knowing that I was really wanting to be a great kayaker, but also knowing that I did some other sports and was kind of going, maybe you should go and do those because I know I just don't want you to put all your heart into this and not succeed.”
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
“That's difficult. I definitely worked hard and lots of people work hard, right? And I worked really, really hard. And I think. I think one thing that made me even more determined was that so as I mentioned already, when people see, think of a kayaker, they often think of someone quite tall, they often think of a rower, right? And they're different sports, but most people think rowa and they think super tall, big. And I am a little bit small, not typically the typical size for a kayaker. So generally a little bit taller, broader shoulders. I'm five six.”
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
“But how realistic is that? And then I stumble upon this sport and this club and these young athletes are turning up, training, they're just like normal people to me. Well, if they can do it And these normal people who just work really hard can get there, then why can't I? said the”
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
“Yes Yeah, I did. I did watch the Olympics on television. I recall Los Angeles. I definitely recall watching Seoul. And really being into that. So, you know, by soul, I'm like 12 years old, I guess. Watching thinking, I want to be an Olympian. I want to be in that event one day. And then kayaking came along. And you're right, because of those people, it didn't feel like, because I guess probably when you're watching it on TV, it's like, oh, this is this thing that other people do. And it's far away. And how do you ever, yes, we'd all love to be in the Olympics movement, not everyone. But, you know.”
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
“Yes, I agree. I also had discovered the Olympics probably around that time. And was inspired by the Olympics. And I do recall from that young age thinking, just the Olympics is just this amazing.”
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
“So, well, when I first stepped into the kayak that first summer, I was just under nine years old. And I can't say that at that age I was going my first day in the kayak. I'm going to go to the Olympics. It wasn't that. And it probably wasn't until the following summer that I actually...”
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