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Alex Hepton

Director of Performance Wellbeing and Safeguarding Ltd and former Arsenal FC academy safeguarding lead, working on wellbeing and neurodiversity in sport.

Oct 7, 2026

RustyHOST
1:49
Do you want to, do you want to share, you can share your story wherever, however you want to start on whatever things my immediate, uh, The thing I think about when I see you is thinking about you in your classroom, but you don't have to go that far back into your life.
2:04
No, I will.
2:05
I actually introduced myself the other day on a session only using the labels I'd been called, which was a different way to introduce myself because we were running a session based on how many times we get labelled through our lives.
2:21
And the earliest label I remember was wild.
2:25
Wild five-year-old.
2:26
And my mum, I remember my mum saying to my step-mum one day, don't give him Coca-Cola because he goes wild.
2:36
And that stuck.

52 MINS LATER

RustyHOST
54:40
how else do people, like, know? Yeah, like, how do you know how we want to be? Yeah.

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