Hi there, I'm Jay Cumpfrey and this is High Performance. The podcast that reminds you that

it's within your ambition, your purpose, your story. It's all there, we just help unlock

it by turning the lift experiences of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons.

And today myself and Professor Damien Hughes are going to speak to two incredible performance.

So we recorded this episode with Michael Ball and Alfie Boe, but halfway through Michael

Ball had to leave and the conversation moved into such an interesting and fascinating

and personal direction that we've actually decided to release this podcast as two separate

episodes. If you haven't already listened to Michael's episode alongside Alfie, it's

available now and I would recommend listening to that before you get to this one for a

flavor of how these two very different characters have become such successful collaborators.

Then this is what happened after Michael left and we spoke to Alfie.

Now I've learned from mistakes, I've learnt from my trauma and it was important for me personally.

I hope that there are listeners out there that don't have to go through the person trauma

that I've had to go through or those mistakes that I've made but I'm sure that they will

have, you know, the other ways of making mistakes or trauma that they've come across

to make them develop in life and make them become who they are. So I wouldn't change

anything.

I think it's important to point out at this point that there are themes of suicide in

today's episode of the High Performance Podcast and I can't thank Alfie enough for sticking

around and having a really deep conversation with us about the struggles that he's been

undergoing recently. You know, I had no idea. I thought I knew from reading the press

and doing my prep for this interview what Alfie Bo has been through and the challenges

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