Hey podleters, I hope you're well. In this episode I speak to Alistair Campbell, who's

probably best known for being Tony Blair's right-hand man. Funnily enough, I came to know him

through his work to do with mental health, and he also now happens to be one of my best

friends, Dads. We discuss his new book, Living Better, How He Learned Survived Depression,

and lots more. I really hope you enjoy it, and as always, please do rate, review, and

subscribe. Bye!

Hello and welcome to Ableton. Today I'm joined by Alistair Campbell. Hello, I'm

Alistair Campbell. How are you? I'm okay. So for people who don't know who you are,

can you tell us and give us an intro to Alistair Campbell? Who are these people? The

listeners. But none of them know who I am. Probably not. No, I'm joking, but you can't

be everyone knows who you are. No, I don't. So what do I have to do to say who I am in my own

words to some of you who's never heard of me? Yeah, so if you had to describe what it is

that you do and what it means for you, how would you describe that? Okay, well my website

Alistair Campbell.org, where you can buy my new book, Living Better, How I Learned Survived

Depression, it says Alistair Campbell, writer, communicator, strategist. Why tend to say

to people on how some of us on planes when, where was the recently, it was in Albania? Right?

I've got a plane and it was in Italian. I was sitting next to it and it's quite, because

it's in Britain most people do veiled in who I am. So I can say I'm honest to get, if they say who

I am honest to come and then usually, oh yeah, or they know me anyway and they say, oh you're

honest, come line here. So it's sort of, but with this Italian who clearly didn't have a clue

where I was and so I, the asked me what I did and I said, well I used to be in politics. I was

Tony Blair spokesman, they've nearly always heard of Tony Blair. I was Tony Blair spokesman and

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