The White House is not a fish bowl. It's an aquarium. I went from a crane operator's family, to Tufts and Harvard Law School, to Goldman Sachs, to building two successful businesses. Now I get the chance to work for the American president. I was as white as a ghost when I saw my phone. I'm getting lit up by Donald Trump.

He's the President of the United States.

If he's coming after me on Twitter, it's very personal.

Just watch what I do with this,

because it'll be a lesson for you in resilience.

It'll be a lesson for you in pulling something together

after you have fallen

off a horse.

You just heard the voice of Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House Communications Director

and now host of the Restis Politics US, who joins us today here on High Performance.

My name's Jake Humphrey.

And like a lot of people, I'm just trying to get the most I can out of my life,

which is why I'm keen to use my 20 plus years of experience in broadcasting to pick the brains

of some of the most fascinating people in the world to learn a bit about their ideas, their experiences and

their mindset. And I'm Damien Hughes. I've spent my life working in high-performance cultures.

I've worked with professional sports teams all over the world, including the Scotland

Rugby Union and the England national football teams. So today we're joined by man who worked

his way up from a blue-collar background in Long Island, New York, to a seat at the most

powerful table in the world during Donald Trump's term as US president. However,

after just 11 days in the job, Anthony was dismissed and had to learn the hard way about how to

pick yourself back up and keep pushing forward. It was a fascinating conversation with someone that's

been in the room where it happened. He's been close to one of the most talks about men of our generation,

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