James Gough: GB Rowing to Hospital Bed to Serial Entrepreneur

from Total Mental Performance · host Kyran O'Neill

Most people suffer unintentionally.James chose it.In this pod, I sit down with entrepreneur and former GB rowing athlete James Gough, who went from having his Olympic dreams cut short by serious illness to building a multi-division global business.From losing his athletic identity to rebuilding from a hospital bed, this episode is about why certainty isn’t motivation, it’s identity.When you know who you are, you stop negotiating.You stop spiralling.And success becomes inevitable.

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