Deaser Originals

Hello, I'm Joy Barton and welcome to The Edge, my brand new podcast series for Deezer Originals.

Now most of you will know me from the football pitch and maybe occasionally from the headlines too,

but I also consider myself many things, a pundi, a father, a bit of a thinker.

Over the past few months, I've found myself away from sport, banned from the game of love,

and I've been using my time to explore something I've always been interested in,

the mindset and the psychology of the game, to have the edge, as I would call it.

Now, to me, the idea of the edge can mean a lot of things, being on the edge of success,

the edge of failure, the edge of change.

But on the edge, I feel, that's where you truly find out about yourself, it's where you

truly grow and prosper as an individual.

And on this show, I want to explore that.

To speak with the people I look up to in the worlds of performance,

sport, music, politics and beyond,

and to find out what living on the edge really means to them.

Well, in last week's episode, we spoke to Sean Deich,

my old boss and Burnley FC manager.

It was a great chat, and if you haven't heard it already, you should go back and start this podcast from the beginning.

But in episode two today, I wanted to get away from my usual realm to interview somebody from a completely different field, although no less competitive.

Our guest this week is a proven winner,

who was quite literally written a book on success, a journalist, an author and a spin doctor.

He was Tony Blair's spokesperson and strategist during Labour's 1997 rum to victory. I am, of course,

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