E166A - Michael Ball and Alfie Boe: How to prepare like it’s nothing, and deliver like it’s everything
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Michael Ball & Alfie Boe are a musical duo that have been recording music together since 2016, their most recent record ‘Together in Vegas’ is their sixth studio album. They are known for their complimentary voices and opposing personalities.
This conversation comes to you in two parts: Part One is with Michael and Alfie together, delving into how to handle rejection, the benefits and challenges of working in a team and how to master your craft. They delve deep into their childhoods, their fight for success and their struggle with loneliness.
In Part Two, Jake and Damian chat to Alfie alone. This conversation is a deep exploration into Alfie’s mental health struggles, his time in rehab and the loss of his father.
You can listen here: https://pod.fo/e/1560f0
The conversations are very different, but both have amazing and useful takeaways that you can apply to your own life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Jake Cunkfrey and this is High Performance. The podcast that reminds you that |
| 0:07.5 | it's within your ambition, your purpose, your story. It's all there. We just help unlock |
| 0:12.5 | it by turning the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons. |
| 0:18.2 | And today myself and Professor Damien Hughes are going to speak to two incredible performance. |
| 0:23.7 | But you know what, this conversation today is not about performing. It's about the behaviors. |
| 0:28.3 | It's about the psychology behind getting up on stage and crucially how you can perform |
| 0:33.3 | as a team. Because in a rare move for high performance, we're joined by not one, but two guests. |
| 0:39.6 | We're joined by Alfie Bow, who's had an incredible career. He's a true theatre icon, Grammy |
| 0:44.7 | nominated, he's won Brits, he's won Tony Awards. However, life off stage is not easy and |
| 0:51.2 | we'll talk about that today. And Alfie is alongside Michael Ball, a man who's released |
| 0:55.1 | multiple number one albums. He had the fastest selling single of 2020. He's a TV host, he's |
| 1:01.4 | a radio host, he's a prolific, hugely successful performer. But again, life is not without his |
| 1:08.1 | challenges. So here's what you can expect from Michael Ball and Alfie Bow on the High Performance |
| 1:14.1 | Podcast. I love doing it. I love getting on the stage without. So I went in an overture |
| 1:19.9 | starts for a show. I just think all of that can wait. This is what matters at the moment. |
| 1:26.3 | And it lifts me in it and it hopefully lifts them. Music is everything to me. Music is |
| 1:31.4 | what feeds my emotions, my soul, my everything, my performance, my life. I know what I'm worth. |
| 1:39.8 | Alfie knows what he's worth, but one and one makes more than two when you put us together. |
| 1:46.5 | And something different happens. It creates something different that neither of us could |
| 1:51.5 | do individually. So the way this works is that we recorded this episode with Michael Ball |
| 1:59.1 | and Alfie Bow, but halfway through Michael had to leave. And the conversation moved in such |
| 2:03.2 | an interesting direction that we've decided to release this podcast as two episodes. So |
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