Hi there, welcome along to a brand new episode of the High Performance Podcast. Conversations

with people who absolutely lead the way in their chosen fields and they share things on

here that you simply won't hear them talk about anywhere else and they're sharing those

things with one aim and one aim only to improve your mindset so you can live a more high performance

life. You know, one thing I always say to the guests before we start the record, whether

you're in person or doing it over Zoom or whatever, I say listen, please just don't treat

this like any other interview because I know you do loads of interviews. This is all about

really enriching people and the only way that we can really help people live a better life

is by you being completely honest and 99% of the guests change completely when you say

that to them and they've realised that this isn't about them, it is about you, it's about

you listening to this and I think sometimes we still have guests where they run through

the PR stuff but what me and Damien often notice is that happens for the first 20 minutes

and then as soon as they've sort of run out of the usual stuff they talk about, that's

when we get to the real golden part of it and I think they also understand very quickly

if they don't already listen to the podcast that me and Damien are not here to you know

turn them over or cause the problems or look for Salacious Headlines, we are literally

just doing this for good reasons and good reasons only and I'm going to be totally honest

right when I first started this podcast I was certain we needed household names, people

who you listened to this knew who they were already so you'd be flicking through podcasts

and there's so many podcasts I've told you before that I almost didn't do this, it was

only after I picked up the phone to Fern Cotton who has happy place and I said look shall

I do this podcast, it seems like there's a lot of them out there, I think we're just going

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