The Accidental Cancer Discovery That Saved Anastacia (E437)

Anastasia, welcome to High Performance. It's so nice to meet you. Thank you very much for being here. We should also say big thanks to the players of Postcode Lottery who are helping to fund an amazing breast cancer charity called Breast Cancer Now. We're going to meet their CEO in a bit, but you're here to talk about your own breast cancer journey.

And as I was reading through your story, I kind of got this sense that every time something in life tried to diminish you, somehow it actually had the effect of making you bigger and greater than you were before. So if you're cool with this, I would love to go through some of those moments that from the outside and maybe even from the inside felt like it was going to diminish you. Sure. And you proved the opposite.

So before we talk about your story and what actually happened to you, I'd love to rewind to you at 34. millions of records being sold, arenas being filled, the career that you had fought so hard to make a reality, that amazing voice that caught everyone off guard when they heard you sing for the very first time. What was that Anastasia like? She was still quite shocked that people were very excited and wanted to embrace the voice and the look and the vibe I had because I didn't really feel I had someone to look up to that was that. So

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