Charlie Copsey has 20 years experience in production working on BBC Radio 5 Live's 'Fighting Talk', since then, Charlie has started her own business - 'The Underground Fan Club' where she creates fan experiences like not other. 

She noticed that most talent would be awesome and charming off screen but when they were on screen they would almost go into autopilot which prompted Charlie to come up with a way to allow people to feel more comfortable and let fans see their true personalities.

Charlie has gone through the mental turmoil of going out on her own and starting a business and is now smashing it and her lessons for anyone looking to take a leap of faith and just get going are essential ones.

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Josh Brandon has over 20 years experience in talent management, working with musicians, actors, athletes and influencers. Josh has seen people go through every stage of stardom and understands better than most the difference between making it and missing out. 

Josh is also highly educated after studying at Oxford, MIT and Henley Business School. 

Josh has founded multiple start-ups and ventures along side his talent management career. 

He's had a birds eye view of multiple formats of high-performance and may just be the perfect person to bring life to the show title of human alchemy as he's seen people make that change more than most. 

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Stuart Lancaster is a highly experienced professional rugby coach who has worked at all levels of the game. He has played professionally, coached at academy level, first team level and international level as well as coaching overseas in France and Ireland. 

I sat down with Stuart after he had just been released from Racing 92 and before he took his role at Connacht. Stuart spoke about the challenges of leading in a different language, dealing with players who have lost the desire to improve, the difference between international and club teams, delivering tough feedback and how to create a culture. 

Stuart is someone that is constantly trying to improve and while Stuarts field is rugby, he is incredibly knowledgeable when it comes to leadership and coaching. So, if you're looking to build a team, sharpen your leadership skills or learn what it's like running a professional sports team, this episode is for you. 

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I had no idea at all what to expect when starting a podcast, what would be easy, what would be hard or what to expect. 

Before the podcast moves in a different direction, I thought it would be interesting to take you through the process of starting a podcast and what I learned throughout as well as some of the big mistakes I made and a couple of wins. 

It's a also a great time to introduce the plans moving forward and who I've brought on to help make the podcast better, so if you're interested, join me for a 20-minutes and find out all about it.

In this episode I speak with an old teammate of mine, Marcus Watson. Marcus had a really diverse career that saw him compete at the Olympics, tour the world with England 7's and compete at the highest level of club rugby in both the U.K and Italy. What I think you'll learn most from Marcus is how to reflect on your experiences in a healthy way. One of the benefits of a conversation like this is that you get to see how people were really experiencing events in a way that would have been hard to observe at the time. For example, Marcus talks about how winning an Olympic medal left him feeling fairly apathetic despite his expectations. 

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In this episode, I sit down with Jamie Monk. Jamie used to be a top level runner who trained with Mo Farah and posted some unbelievably fast times. Jamie gives insight into just how must of a gulf there is between good runners and the best of the best as well as how you could very quickly improve your running times and technique. 

While running was Jamie's sport, his thoughts on performance and achieving your potential are extremely valuable and his experience interviewing British sporting heritage like Jonny Wilkinson, Joe Root and Jessica Ennis have given him a fascinating view on what it means to be high-performing. 

Jamie is a great guy to be around and makes the area of high-performance very simple, when it can often be over complicated and drowned in buzzwords and vagaries. 

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Conor Gilsenan played 9 seasons of professional rugby in Ireland and England before retiring due to concussion. He then went on BBC's 'The Apprentice' before finding a groove in the sales world. 

Conor was incredibly honest about how his career panned out and how he struggled after his career came to an end. If you want to understand how to thrive in a high-performing environment, I don't think you could find a better man to listen to. Not because Conor has achieved everything he wanted to but because of his ability to reflect and analyse honestly. 

Professional sport is hard, Sales is hard and reality TV is hard. Gilly has experienced it all and shares his learnings brilliantly in this episode.

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In a slightly different episode, I sat down with Alan Hertz in one of London's oldest pubs that has a fascinating story. 

While he hails from North America, Alan considers himself a Londoner after 40 years in the capital. 

Alan was a professor of the humanities at Hult International Business School for over 25 years and he's one of those people with a vast knowledge of all things but especially the history of London. 

In this episode, Alan talk about the Blitz, the best parts of London and much more.

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In this episode, Ben Mercer takes us through his journey from professional rugby in England and France, retirement, becoming a bestselling author, building a brand as a literacy influencer and leveraging his passion. 

Ben has a great view of life and gives really useful insight into how you could develop your own passions and build a career that is fulfilling and rewarding. 

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Part 2 of my conversation with Sam Larner focuses on where game theory can be applied in professional sport, how stats can influence recruitment and more sneaky stats and tactics from the world of sport.

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