Presented by Andy Thomas, Director at Physiquipe
"I have come across many impressive and inspirational people in my time in medical technology education and sales. I have always had the goal to run an interview series with these people, to find out more about them personally and what led them to the career they ended up in. I am genuinely looking forward to each of these! I hope you find it interesting too."
Our Featured Life Story Podcasts
Mark is back, and we start with his involvement with Michael Owen's emergence as a teenager. He explains the challenges of managing a player who was so good, but was still developing physically. We go in to the reasons Mark left Liverpool FC, what it was like going to work for the team he supports and designing the Sunderland FC 'Academy of Light.'
Dave was physiotherapist during the glory years of both Wigan Warriors RLFC and Manchester United FC. He talks about how he got started in physio despite it not being his early passion, his 14 weeks away with the British Lions as well as how he really wanted to stay on at Wigan before the move to MUFC. Roy Keane recently spoke about how good Dave was during his ACL rehabilitation and Dave discusses this period from his perspective. We also go in to what it is like managing personalities such as Robbie Savage, Paul Ince as well as Sir Alex Ferguson.
Dave has been working in top level sport in the US for the last 12 years. Having worked in the Premier League for many years, he tells me why he decided to leave Chelsea to work in a new sport and country. Dave gives great insight in to how he worked with some of the most successful managers and coaches in a variety of sports, such as Phil Jackson and Jose Mourinho. We also delve in to how he builds his own team within both sporting medical departments, the sports software solution (Apollo) and the physiotherapy business he started in 1998. Dave gives great insight into both psychology and business decision making. I will certainly be incorporating some of this when we are recruiting!
Phil was Team GB’s Lead Physiotherapist at the Rio 2016 Olympics. He is also a visiting professor of the Ulster Sports Academy at the University of Ulster and teaches on a number of postgraduate sports medicine programmes at various UK and European universities. He is now working with Irish Rugby overseeing the integration of the regional and national side. Phil talks about the importance of medical practitioners working in different (sporting) environments to help develop enhancing skills and learning. He also discusses some of the inspirational people he has worked with such as Andy Farrell and Tyson Gay. I really found Phil's perspective on developing teams fascinating..!
I have encountered many incredible people in my life, but Polly has one of the most tragic AND inspirational stories I have come across. Having been in the Sari Club regularly myself during a two week holiday the previous year, the Bali bombing was shocking to me. Little did I know that 15 years later I would meet someone whose life it completed devastated in every sense. As they were enjoying a night out in the Sari Club, Polly's husband of five weeks, her bridesmaid, and seven other friends were all killed by the terrorists on 12th October 2002. Polly was the sole survivor of the party of ten suffering 43% burns. In spite of this, she has set up an amazingly successful charity, Dan's Fund For Burns (named after her husband), which is providing incredible support for burns centres and victims across the UK. Her story is an absolutely remarkable one...
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