86. Tyrone Mathurin: Driven to succeed

enNovember 16, 2022

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About this Episode

Tyrone Mathurin talks to host Sue Stockdale about being a racing driver in Team BRIT, which aims to become the first ever all-disabled team to race in the Le Mans 24-hour endurance race â the most iconic endurance sportscar race in the world.

Whilst riding his motorbike in 2005, Tyrone crashed which caused four nerves to be torn from his spinal cord. During surgery to reattach the nerves, doctors were unaware of a hematoma putting pressure onto his spinal cord and a week later he awoke from an induced coma, paralysed. Fast forward to 2022, and Tyrone is behind the wheel at the Silverstone circuit in a specially adapted BMW 118, where previously he had watched Moto GP as a spectator. Tyrone talks about his life growing up, how he endured the challenge of being paralysed, and how he became a racing driver in Team BRIT.

Find out more about Team BRIT:

Website https://teambrit.co.uk/drivers/tyrone-mathurin/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TeamBRIT
Twitter https://twitter.com/teambritracing
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/teambritracing/

Key Quotes:

'My career really started from a negative to a positive, from having a motorcycle accident to getting the chance to race motor cars'.

'I decided to jump on a motorcycle, and then that's when life went the opposite way for me'.

'My nerves detached from my spinal cord, which caused my right arm to not move'.

'It was a long road to the beginning of my recovery and I was in intensive care for three months'.

'There wasn't a support system there to help you through it, I had to do it myself'.

'I met a guy who was in a wheelchair and he gave me the inspiration to not give up- to work hard and you can get through it'.

'I'd never thought I would be actually in the pits at Silverstone doing motor racing'.

'The innovation behind our hand control system puts us on a level playing field. Once we are in a car, the disability goes out of the window'.

'Youâve got to persevere from what you believe in and over time it will happen'.

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âSitting, doing nothing, we don't really do that in our normal lives.â
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[00:05:02] Managing anxiety.
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[00:14:58] Nan Shepherd and The Living Mountain.
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"The thing about Greenland that I love is the people and nature and how they mix."
What I really like to do in my professional life is startups. I love to do something from scratch because I can develop it together with other people."
"For me, variation is the spice of life."
"Nothing about us, without us, means that Greenland does not want to be exploited. Greenland wants to be a part of what is going on in its future."

Time Stamps
[00:04:05] Fascination with Greenland's culture.
[00:05:07] Choosing a career path.
[00:11:13] Living on Thule Air Base.
[00:13:42] Freedom and confinement in Greenland.
[00:21:44] Civil-military cooperation in Greenland.
[00:28:25] Embracing curiosity and variation.
[00:31:06] Greenland's self-assertion and global role.

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[00:26:48] Learning from others and serendipity.

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"I know very little about computer hackers, but they seem to make change so quickly and resourcefully in very complex computer systems."
âAfter studying many cases around the world, addressing different kinds of sustainability problems, I identified the four workarounds that are very unconventional."
"Most of my research ideas didn't come out of time that I spent just thinking. It's actually from others."
"Complicated solutions are not very good in complex situations - simple solutions are good in complex situations".

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Poornima is the founder and CEO of TalentED Consultancy ApS. Poornimaâs work in DEI focuses on expanding the dimensions of diversity we address with an emphasis on intersectionality, empowering individuals to be active allies of inclusion and enabling inclusive leadership.She has been recognised as one of the worldâs 30 up-and-coming thinkers whose ideas will make an important impact on management thinking in the future by the prestigious Thinkers50.

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Time Stamps
[00:01:09] Squiggly career paths.
[00:03:31] Microaggressions and gender biases.
[00:07:32] Inclusion and diversity interests.
[00:10:32] DEI as a zero-sum game.
[00:13:54] Fear in diversity and inclusion.
[00:18:35] Allyship and its definition.
[00:22:19] Progress in active allyship.
[00:25:47] LGBTQ+ community acceptance.
[00:27:45] Addressing fear and inequality.

Key Quotes

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"I went to the program director and said, I'd really like to be considered for this role. And he looked at me and said, not until you've got a lot more white hair".
"Fear is a topic that we really need to put on the table.
"When we look at diversity as a zero-sum game, that it's one group against another, we actually do more harm."
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
"Allyship is a lifelong process of building supporting relationships with people who are from underrepresented, marginalised, discriminated groups."