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Diane Modahl

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first: 2020-02-03
most recent: 2020-02-03
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“I'd go with them because again they've moved away from sport and they've got successful businesses outside of where you would expect to see them and their journey. and their inspiration is crazy, isn't it?”
2020-02-03 · The Diary of a CEO · E46: Diane Modahl - Doping, Defeat and Determination · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“His mind set it's more than sport with him. He taps into what we all need in life which is an attitude of I get how life works and I'm going to play it in my favour. So I will be looking to him to steady us down, and Because we're all a bit giddy.”
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“Well, that's why I can say that because I am married very happily married I would have, I'm torn between Kevin Haw and Will Smith. I think I'll go for”
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“The only thing that you can change or we can change is you. And ultimately, on accepting that and making a positive change, We only need to touch one life because they will pay it forward. If we are kind and generous I would also have the rock, the”
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“March then is because the same inequalities don't exist so it didn't potentially in my mind I'm thinking maybe you know as you've just described when something is Absolutely important to you.”
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“You know? It's a tough question. During that time, I often ask myself this question, would I be on the streets marching? Would I have been on the streets, you know, putting my life at risk? Or would I be at home watching from afar thinking, you know, come on, you can do this. Can you imagine the choices people would have had to make? It's incredibly difficult.”
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“Not for Marle Luther King, but I mean Yeah, but it might not be for the reasons that are obvious. I would ask the most ridiculous question, what motivated him? What kept him going? Because obviously his life was at risk every single day, but he kept going.”
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“as a catalyst for change forces an emotion whether your team wins or loses or you get a PB or something amazing happens you feel something and as an organization we understand that clearly so our team want to be engaged and have fun and be entertained so anybody on our team will be having so much fun but also making a huge impact to the lives of young people across this city”
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“Yes. Well, obviously get in touch with me, my team via the website. We are launching our ambassador program in our 10th year anniversary. We are seeking 10 ambassadors from various elements to raise £10,000 each for us to ultimately raise £100,000 to change the lives of those young people. So we are looking for group ambassadors, so people who want to get together and do fundraising initiatives, sports ambassadors, brand ambassadors and community ambassadors. And we're looking for 10 ambassadors in our 10th anniversary year to raise 10,000 pounds to help us change lives. Come on board. You will have so much fun with us. We understand that we're in the business of entertainment.”
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“Sustainability for the business. We're good at what we do in the sense of supporting young people to fulfil their potential, but my job as a CEO is all encompassing, and I take that responsibility really seriously, and that's my priority right now, and I'm really driven to be able to connect with more people, network with more individuals that will enable me to achieve my goal, which in effect will positively affect the lives of young people.”
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“More concerned with living. Right now I'm alive and I want to give every ounce of what I have to give whilst I'm alive I am going to die and that's going to happen but it's that element of control and that's the part that I can't. I'm not afraid of dying. I don't want to be in terrible pain and that time comes. I'm more concerned with living and I'm happy to be alive. There's so much more to achieve. And you know we talked about what does the next few years look like for me and that underperformance, the thing that is at the forefront of my mind is”
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“Probably not because I think at some point I'll stop being a mum and I'll start being a manager because the twelve and thirteen year old at the moment need a mom And they want me home in the evening, you know, being there. And I want to be there too. But at some point they're going to say, oh, you know, what are you doing here? We don't want you around kind of thing. So I suspect that it's probably where it should be and how it should be right now. Yeah, we are getting there, but whether we'll get there in terms of what that total balance looks like. Probably not.”
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“I also want to be able to I suppose I was going to say from a family point of view just be there for my family I always think that actually because I'm so committed to the success of the business that balance is often difficult but so for me it's about deliberately being able to get the balance right from being a good family person as well as being a decent business woman”
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“Actually, yeah, I can only say that based on what I have achieved already Em and so where I am now I think in my mind what I'd like to do more of is use the knowledge to be able to support other businesses to shape their agenda particularly around disadvantage socioeconomic disadvantage and to be able to shape some of those national governing bodies that have the power and the influence to look at things differently. I think some of that work is already happening but what I'm saying is that I think boards now is what is driving me to get on boards to be able to shape the agenda but with a special or specific agenda in mind which is about changing the landscape of how we interact with people who are coming from inner city.”
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“All is important to have because that is what is allowing individuals to get out of bed in the morning. It might be their one thing, that purpose, despite everything else that is going on, but it's the person that the individuals are becoming that is more important than anything else. I never want to go meddle at the Olympic Games. But my 11-year-old self Wanted to It was what kept me going, and on that journey I'm now sitting in front of you having this conversation.”
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“I think this is a conversation that I'm actually having at the moment with my team in terms of managing expectations. But in many ways it is not the goal that is important. It's not the goal, it's the person he's becoming in pursuit of that goal. So it's right that you myself and others who get approached all the time, how do I become, you know, the next Hussein Bolt, to encourage that. And it is a process and it is a journey. This trust that inevitably builds because of the communication that's happening is really important, but it's not on your terms. If we can't fund something or if somebody isn't able to get into a competition because they're not at that level, that doesn't matter. We have to be honest with that and say you're not quite ready yet or I can't afford to fund that but keep seeking, keep pushing. So being truthful, acting with integrity, being honest is really important.”
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“Nothing in life is free. If your ambition is to be the next you same ball, we will go on a journey with you on that. If you want to be the next Dane Kelly Holmes, let's make that happen. Let's help you map out a plan so that you can achieve that. If you want to be the next entrepreneur with the next new idea, let's be an enabler to fill in some of the gaps that need filling in order for that journey to happen. So our work is very much about developing character and establishing the right positive behavior habits that will enable young people to be absolutely world-class athletes, but world-class citizens that are able to give back to society, give back to the economy, and to be amazing people.”
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“Yes, we set up for one reason and one reason only my husband and I established that the charity in twenty ten, this is our tenth anniversary year and we're very excited about that. Thank you. Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not. So the mission or drive in terms of the foundation is to open more doors, to create more opportunities, to say to young people”
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“for trust to grow, and then that's when the behaviour change starts and the character development starts. So you need two, you need the two things, you need someone to believe in you initially and someone to be prepared to go on this sort of twisting, winding journey as the emotions ebb and flow.”
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“Who go hand in hand Because often what needs to happen is you need someone to say I see a spark in you. If you work hard, if you listen, if you're on time when I come and knock on this door to take you to training, I can help you fulfill your potential, and those small steps then enable that individual to build and grow their confidence. But if you're at home and somebody's saying clean your room, where's your tie? You are late today, you've got another detention. It will slowly suffocate the potential ambition that you have in here. So you need someone to say how you doing? That was a brilliant assignment that you handed in. You were late, but I need to see you on time next time. So you need that sort of encouragement. And once that exists, it provides a strong platform then for a relationship to develop.”
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“Young people who are desperate for an opportunity to be seen and to be heard, to be come the best that they can be. And we all know that Manchester is a great place to live, it's vibrant, it's thriving. And in fact, I think it's ranked as one of the best places to live. But there are 34 wards in Manchester, 29 of them are the most deprived in the UK. We are ranked fifth worst in terms of income deprivation. So as a young person growing up in this city and you might be living in a chaotic lifestyle, let's say, where is your opportunity for you going to come from? More importantly, where are you going to find the confidence to put yourself forward in the first place to be able to access some of the opportunities?”
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“Correct, and that's where the disadvantages sits, so I don't think any of us, whether which ever marginalized group you sit in, want a hand out. What we want is a hand up. And in order to get that hand up, if society and the stereotypes and that institutionalized racism exist, you never really going to get a hand up, not through will of trying, just through circumstance. So if one of the ways to do that, provided you can do the job, you've got the skills, your values align and the behaviours are there to be able to do the job, then I think a hand up is essential. It's essential because in my line of work, we work within the top 20% areas of deprivation, working with”
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“In all of us. Absolutely. And that will have a direct knock on effect on the opportunities that are available for men. Women for disadvantaged young men. Part of me feels and agrees with the fact that we should have positive discrimination if over the amount of time that we have tried and failed to encourage more women into boardrooms, into strategic positions, part of me agrees with that.”
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“I think disadvantage comes in many different guises and I do not dispute for a second that there is subconscious or institutionalized racism that exists in business.”
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“A couple of umbrellas, fuck. I suppose for me, much to the annoyance of people I am around I come from a family of people who have worked hard to achieve. You know, my mum and dad left everything behind in Jamaica like most immigrants to make a better life for themselves here in England and they landed in flipping sunny Mosside. So, what I'm saying is Just witnessing work ethic and being around individuals who want to make a better life for themselves has somehow shaped who I am. And they are my guiding principles when I'm having a down day or a low day I just think about the hardships, the difficulties that they would have had to overcome, and my parents are two amazing people.”
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“I have days where I'm tired and I have days where I think flipping eck why has why is it so difficult? Why can't that just be done? We've spoken about that, or that's happened. But I don't have days where I think I can't be bothered. Oh, I can't be bothered to get out of bed today I want to get out of bed Wow have he looked outside lately That's awesome out there. It's raining for”
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“I'm thinking and it's a very difficult question to answer because I don't wake up in the morning and say I'm going to be motivated today. I'm going to motivate the team. I'm motivated because I want to be here. I love what I do I want to challenge myself more to be better than I am It's almost innate, I can, by what I'm seeing, what I'm hearing and the individuals I'm around, but motivation for me is about who I am and what I want to achieve. And it comes back to what's your purpose Why are you here? What's your why? And it's about goals without a goal where headed So I stay motivated by challenging myself, by adding value to myself daily, by asking people, how am I doing? What's my experience been like with you recently? So I'm looking to fill up my own reservoir so I can be better every day.”
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“History is important, and until we put right what was done so terribly wrong, how can we have faith in the system moving forward? So I see it as a duty almost to continue to be the thorn In the side of the authorities, if I never get compensation I will accept that I will live with that my husband won't have a different view on it. However, it's deeper than that because This case what happened to me, my husband and my family never happened prior I was the first British athlete to test positive and to overthrow the verdict and it's important that we protect innocent athletes and there is no guarantee that this couldn't happen again”
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“I am flying I have found my life's purpose I know that where I am right now is where I am supposed to be I am giving my all in this second, in this moment on this day what happened to me almost twenty five years ago does not influence where I am headed but emotionally deep down I refuse to quit and accept that Second best I am worth so much more than that, but more importantly so is my husband and my family who live through this tragedy. So part of me feels if I say die, box it's done. Move on I am quitting. And I'm not going to quit If there is hope I will continue to write letters to Sebco. I will continue to be brave enough to stick my head up and say to the International Athletic Federation It was wrong that what happened to me and to us and history is important.”
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“I was robbed of a retirement that should be a positive reflection on being a loyal servant to sport. And I think resentment, regret, no. But we were never, ever given the justice we deserved. We never received a full apology. We never received compensation. And my husband and I, who was my coach at the time and also guilty by association, we never ever fully returned to a reputation of winners. And that is what makes me feel sad and talking about it also reminds me that the hope is dying forever. receiving the compensation that we deserved, and hope is the last thing you ever want to lose.”
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“It makes me feel sad. It makes me feel sad and that is an emotion that I don't want to stay around because I remember we always have a choice. I choose to be happy, I choose to be ambitious, I want to be challenged. I want you to tell me how it is because I can take the truth. But that element right there, I can't control because it's an emotion that takes me to a place that you're absolutely right. There's no doubt about it that”
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“behind the Olympic champion Maria Matola bought that bronze medal, Stephen, was worth ten times more than the gold medal I had won and the Commonwealth Games record I had broken back in nineteen ninety. And although it was hard fought and won that bronze medal, it was more than that In effect, two fingers up to the authorities to say, you know Fuck you, you got it wrong.”
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“Ironically, as much as I hated sport and what it had done to me I'd been a kind advocate at that stage for almost eighteen years and this is how it treated me. The way I got through it was by running and ran myself into the ground to my detriment I became poorly just running, running and pushing and want my coach who was also my husband at the time realized was the only way besides the evidence and being exonerated and cleared, the only way I would restore at least some of my reputation was to get back on track and do what I do best and start winning again and I had four years from being sent home to try and regain the gold medal that I should have won. In fact I did come back I won a bronze medal.”
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“By then I'd lost my livelihood, my reputation, my confidence, everything, every mile I had run, every way I had pushed, every squat I did, I was told was a lie, didn't happen, you cheated. It was a hollow victory, and sport for me was no longer a place where I felt at home.”
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“So with our experts we took two random samples, an international tennis player and an international marathon runner. And we were able to replicate knowing what happened to my sample when it left me and ended up in the laboratory, where it travelled, how it travelled, how long it was left on the windowsill for, the temperature at that time we replicated everything and allowed those two random samples to degrade, to become contaminated with bacteria. And guess what happened? Both those samples tested positive for testosterone. We went back into court and we won on appeal, but in many ways that's where the journey just started. It wasn't a victory. It wasn't one of those punch your fist in the air moments at all.”
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“And that's all we had to go with, that the sample that I gave was no longer the same sample that was now being tested in the laboratory, but at that time there was no evidence to back up or to prove that a degraded sample would give rise to a false positive result. So we went to the hearing in December, having been sent home in August and told we lost the hearing, we lost based on there was no evidence to back up that theory. You go away, you prove that a degraded sample can give rise to a false positive and then will talk again. Of course we appealed so we had a number of months to go out and prove that theory. When you are innocent and truth is on your side, you will do anything to get to the truth, and that's exactly what we did.”
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“We don't know what's going on, but I love you. We're going to get through this. He didn't say that, but just seeing him and that action gave me some strength. And literally overnight we had to become experts, scientific experts, legal experts in trying to understand what happened to that sample. And we were able to bring on the best experts from all over the world, actually, America and London, the best barristers. What happened to my sample after doing a race in Portugal nine weeks prior to being told I had apparently cheated was the sample was left on a windowsill at the peak of the summer in July and it had given rise to bacteria. The temperatures at the time were 72 degrees. It was on the windowsill for 48.”
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“How ridiculously beautiful at the same time? Has that just normalized the trauma I was going through? And what that said to me was.”
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“I stepped out of the ambulance, the ambulance door closed, and on the other side of the door was my husband. with a bunch of roses”
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“And I am so relieved that despite being sedated I had the strength to turn to this official and say No I don't want to cover my face I've done nothing wrong and these plans were being hatched how are we going to get her off the plane to protect her, to take care of her health and her security and they decided to take me off at the back of the plane where food is normally transported up on a little conveyor belt or a lift type thing so myself and the nurse were ushered off at the back of the plane and in a way that was a mistake because we were then fortuned to the media because we were at the mercy of being lowered down on this extremely slow lift and all the press were just taking as many pictures as they could. I was put in an ambulance. There was an ambulance waiting for us on the tarmac and we arrived at a hospital in London.”
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“On the journey back from Canada to London I couldn't speak. I wanted to speak. I wanted to shout out loud and say what the heck is going on and I just couldn't. I just could not articulate any words so I started to write how scared I was, how desperate I was, I was totally out of control. And when the plane landed everyone else was allowed to leave the plane and myself and the nurse were asked to stay on, and a security guard came on and he said Look love there's press everywhere on the tarmac and it's not going to be easy for you. Apparently the story had broken. I was not aware of this but on the flight home the story had broken in the national press and he said to me do you want a blanket to cover?”
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“And it wasn't until Susan said No, Diane, I have to pull you out that I realised it wasn't a mistake she was talking to me and this was real. To be fair, I don't remember too much of what happened after that. I do remember waking up on the floor with Sue, this team official, looking over me, smacking my face saying breathe, Diane, breathe, you must breathe. And I looked up at her thinking, what's she talking about? Why is she telling me to breathe? The room then became packed with doctors and nurses they were so concerned about my health apparently I had passed out I was unconscious for some minutes and very quickly I was sedated with valium I was put on a plane with a nurse and arrived in Heathrow and that was the day my life changed forever”
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“And Susan said to me, I actually do need to have a word with you. Can you come into my room? And typical athlete mode, I'm on this tunnel vision now. Got to prepare. I've got a title to defend. And it wasn't until she forcibly encouraged me into her room that I realized, okay, I'll give her the minutes that she needs, and then I'm off. And then she did something really bizarre, which on reflection now was so beautiful, actually. She took hold of my hands, and she looked directly into my eyes, and she said Diane, a drug test you gave nine weeks ago has tested positive. I'm stood in this room in a village, and she said I said actually to her you've made a mistake. I need to get back to my room and prepare for my rest.”
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“It was relatively random. In 1994 I was at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada. I was there to defend my Commonwealth Games title. I had one gold four years before. And I was in the best shape of my life. The morning of the race arrived, beautiful morning, the kind of morning every athlete prays for it was still, so no wind great for breaking records, the sun was shining, and I woke up on that morning, left the Commonwealth Games Village to do what I would do on any typical race day, and started at a warm-up, run a couple of miles, do some drills and some stretching, and then some run throughs where I'm testing my legs and making sure that The energy is there, the pace and”
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“Wow, that's fascinating. I've never actually asked the question why me why did this happen to me? And in many ways, you know, what you've just said almost answers that question. We don't know.”
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“And we'll have this debate, and I'll say okay, let's do four. Let's wait a minute, do four more, wait another minute, do another four so I want all you can give me not just your best So I know that on any occasion I've given all I can hundred percent So my regrets have come from where I've sort of lost control of the situation. And there what I'm talking about is a really difficult period in my sporting career where right at the peak of my performance, I wasn't able to achieve what I was able to because I was pulled out of a race.”
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“My head goes straight away to Things that I haven't been able to control. I think my way of dealing with things is I am pretty much a pragmatist. I will give you the best that I have. In fact, I won't give you the best. I'll give you all because the best isn't really all you can give me, is it? If I say to you, give me how many press-ups you think you can do, you'll say probably. Yeah, I'll get to four. And I'll say, I bet you can get to five.”
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“And how is it going? And I've only really been able to do that as the businesses have reached a place where we are more stable. We haven't achieved a state of stability that we would like to. But it's inbuilt in our culture, in recognizing and celebrating what we are doing. And one of the headlines that we are striving towards as a business is to celebrate our successes.”
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“It's incredibly hard The nature of a performer, somebody who is achieving or trying to achieve excellence and a culture of high performance means that you are constantly critical about how you are doing and what you are not doing. And it is difficult to then celebrate where you've had success. So for example winning medals at championships the first thing that athlete and coach often does is look at where you went wrong, where you lost that tenth of a second or why you didn't win gold. You ended up winning silver because the nature of trying to strive and be the best means you are looking for those marginal gains and that's where the attention goes. So in many ways I've had to teach myself to reflect and to stop and to look at Actually, how have you done?”
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“business, the next event, the next presentation, the next meeting, but actually at the heart of that is people and is a person. So unless we are able to fill ourselves up and add value to ourselves, read more, get out more, talk to people, learn and be prepared to absorb what we're hearing. You can have the best goal in the world, but it's not going to happen unless you are continually adding value to yourself.”
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