Joe Reilly Podcast

Nick Compton is a former cricket player and England batsman who is now an author and photographer. In today's episode he lifts the curtain behind the scenes of international cricket. From training routines, the evolution of the game, and players' wages, to explaining the background of the fielding pitch named “silly mid-off”. Nick then opens up about his struggle from professional to retirement, h...

Eddie The Media Trainer helps businesses and individuals manage all things PR. From curating relationships with journalists to setting up interviews to getting featured in the biggest news outlets in the world. Eddie pulls all his strings in order for his clients to generate more sales through publicity.  He has some fascinating takes which we delve into the the episode, from why you should never...

Harry Donoghue is an Oxford graduate who runs an Instagram page dedicated to Latin and poetry.  We discuss a wide range of topics in today's episode, from the two Latin phrases on the Great Seal of the United States and what they mean, why things can be solved by walking, why the 9/11 monument in New York which quotes Virgil is wrong, why Churchill wasn’t clever enough to study Latin, what Joh...

Cody Townsend is a professional skier and adventurer supported by Salomon, Swatch, and Yeti. Cody is a mammoth of the outdoor world having forged a career on snow for the best part of three decades, and shows no signs of slowing up or stopping.  In this episode we discuss where Cody and Winston Churchill share similarities, the next project after The Fifty series which took him five years to compl...

Rylan Schadegg is a 4x DEKA World Champion and a Spartan, HYROX and Obstacle Course Racer (OCR). I spoke to Rylan earlier this year in Episode 26 about his racing, training and background. But since then he’s been hampered with an acute medical issue which has seemingly put a stop to all athletic endeavours and races.  He lifts the curtain to it all at the start of the episode, and we we delve int...

Matt Stephens is an ex-professional cyclist and GCN presenter who now commentates and presents for Eurosport, Sigma Sports, Zwift and many other outlets. We’ve all indirectly spent hours in Matt’s company through his work at GCN and Eurosport, and so I wanted to get a flavour of the man behind the microphone. We ended up having a broad-ranging conversation including some cycling topics, and some n...

Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri returns to the to discuss the life, politics, and philosophy of Edmund Burke. Ioannes wears many intellectual and academic hats and we discuss his background, work in the House of Lords, and books on Lord Byron in Episode 49.  The first ten minutes Ioannes provides a historical account of Burke's life, and then we delve into some of his ideas and writings. Why did he...

Noah Dines is a skier who is on a mission to ski 3 million human-powered feet in one year. That means skiing uphill - without the aid of a chairlift - some 10,000 feet or 3000m every day. Noah has been chasing winter to accomplish this world record and has skied 5-8 hours every day across Europe, North America and now Chile. We discussed the challenge, his daily routines, ethos, how he occupies hi...

Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri is an academic, House of Lords advisor, biographer of Lord Byron, has three master's degrees and is currently completing a PhD in Intellectual History specialising in Eighteenth-Century history of political ideas. And that is just scratching the surface.  Ioannes was fascinating to talk to and he gives a real insight into the work which goes on in the House of Lords....

Ralph Allwood who is a British choral conductor, composer and teacher. Ralph was the Director of Music at Eton College for 26 years, has conducted over 40 choirs for the BBC, and now on a mission to make music and singing accessible to as many people as possible. We discuss a wide range of topic in this episode: should we change the British national anthem? Is the experience of singing Handel the...

Kieran Brown is a travel content creator on a mission to travel to every country on planet Earth, and this episode is jam-packed with tales and stories from the first 97 countries in which he has visited. Sit up and be tense at his encounters with the Taliban, the brutality of some border controls, the terrors of Columbia, the hospitality of Pakistan, his hitchhiking trip from Asia to London with...

Ryan Mallinson is a businessman and founder of Mallin & Sons based in Yorkshire, England. A few years ago, Ryan realised that most wax jacket owners - be it Belstaff or Barbour - didn’t know that their jackets could be rewaxed and continue to wear as good as new. And so, he set out on a mission in his Red Mini Clubman and Tweed Cap to travel the length of the country collecting, reproofing and...

Robin’s Reverie is an Instagram page dedicated to Robin’s year of living and travelling in Italy. Having studied languages and art at both Durham and Oxford University, he set off to Italy for a year of teaching, exploring, and learning.  As his time there draws to a close, we discuss his main lessons and takeaways from his immersion in the Italian way of life.  We discuss everything from  Why you...

Luke Hodges is a style consultant, content creator, and entrepreneur. Suits, celebrities, and style are a mainstay in our society, and in this episode, we dissect and discuss each of those points, amongst many other topics.  Luke works with clients who are looking to invest in their wardrobe, and we discuss the best brands to look out for, why the suit isn’t dead, vented vs charity shops, what to...

Joseph Tate is an illustrator and artist who draws inspiration from British and traditional styles and creates drawings for the Instagram age. Hailing from Nigeria, he began drawing to express his views on fashion and has since grown a business working with well known luxury brands. Tate's love for British culture and his father's influence on dressing well have shaped his artistic style....

Sophie Griffiths is a gundog trainer of the Instagram page The Spaniel Diaries. She bought a cocker spaniel as a pet and after just a few weeks realised that the little ball of chaotic energy needed an outlet, and so found gun dog training. In this episode we discuss her journey from field sports rookie to working on shoots 4 days a week and owning three spaniels.  What was the best training metho...

Tom Cantwell is a gundog trainer who uses the tried and true methods of gundog training on under-stimulated pets and he regularly sees amazing results. Working breeds like Spaniels and Labrador’s are common as household pets, and yet can cause terror when not given a job in which they were bred to do. Tom believes he has an answer, and in todays episode we discuss why, from the shooting field to t...

David Serradell is an underwater wildlife photographer and diver. We discuss his filming adventures around the globe from Antartica, Mexico, and Patagonia. His tales of swimming and filming with rays and humpback whales. How he was bitten by a shark but why we shouldn’t fear them, the difference between scuba diving and free diving, how to hold your breath for 6 minutes, how he balances time away...

Sammie Ellard-King is financial educator on a mission to make education around money accessible to all. After amassing £24,000 in personal debt in his mid-twenties, Sammie decided the break free with the claps of debt and set his life back up for the future. In learning all he could about savings, spending, and investing, he realised that’s lots of other people also don’t know anything about respo...

Charlie Thorburn is a world-renowned dog trainer and founder of Mordor Gundogs. People from all over the world purchase his dogs or send theirs to get trained by him and his team - from Alaska to Australia and all across the U.K. In the first half of this episode we speak about Charlie’s background, the everyday reality of dog training, shooting, and he answers the all important question: Labrador...

Thomas Wunderlich is a cliff diver and self-described "send addict". Cliff diving is a sport which just stops you in your tracks, especially when you see videos like Thomas’s which are over 30m off bridges. But contrary to what you think when initially seeing these jumps, you’ll learn in the episode that it’s all very calculated and safe - there is months, and at times years behind these...

Robbie Balenger is an ultra runner with legendary exploits. He has run across America, outlasted a Tesla on foot, to his self-styled Colorado Crush where he completed the 26, 50, and 100 Leadville races, the Colorado trail, and all of the Colorado 14,000s in a single summer.  Robbie has been on several of the best podcasts in the world to discuss his exploits, and so I wanted to get more of a behi...

Michael Sandbach is a Hyrox athlete and doubles world record holder. The sport of Hyrox has taken off this year and Michael has been at the forefront of its boom. We discuss a broad range of topics in this episode: His weekly training split,  The 5000kcal eating days that’s required  Why Hyrox is more accessible than CrossFit  How he trains in the Doha heat where he’s based now  His advocation for...

Mats Klingberg is the founder of the Trunk Clothing and is an aficionado in menswear, travel, and food. Hailing from Sweden, Mats had a broad education; first studying business, then fashion in New York, and then hotel management in Switzerland. I also discover in the podcast that he dabbled as a chef in the Royal Marines, a fitness instructor in a gym, and a controller for an energy company. Afte...

Justus Hansen is a mens style consultant and social media personality. Finding clothes that you like, that fit, and won’t go out of fashion is hard. But Justus is here to help. Learn what is a capsule wardrobe and how to build one - Why you shouldn’t wear back socks - How clothing changes the way people respond to you - Why you shouldn’t buy luxury brands - Why the current old money trend runs com...