Joe Reilly Podcast

Patrick Grant is a fashion designer, businessman, and judge of The Great British Sewing Bee. He took over Savile Row tailors Norton and Sons aged 33, turning it from near bankruptcy to a global success. He then relaunched the defunct Norton subsidiary E. Tautz & Sons making it of international distinction. He then relaunched other brands such as Hammond and Co and Cookson and Clegg, before fou...

Glen Weinstein is a personal trainer and kettlebell coach. We talk about his use of a Mace and Sandbag and how it’s a more primal way to train, what session leaves him feeling the best after more than a decade of trying every sort of exercise and sport, why you shouldn’t count calories long term but can be good for you short term, we discuss what is better: general of specific movements, Glen demy...

Henning Schuldt is a 26-year old artist, boxer, creator, and athlete from Germany. Henning had a lot of great takes on all aspects of life and we covered topics such as: his balance from the high octane world of boxing to the mediative state of painting. Why we should strive to be a warrior poet and what that means. How his mantra of keep creating motivates him, The dark side of art in history. Ho...

Mitch Hutchcraft is an explorer and adventurer who plans to swim the English channel, cycle to India, and then run from sea-level to base camp, before summiting Mount Everest. We discuss his background in the Royal Marines, what it was like to row from the Canaries to Barbados where he rotated on 2 hour shift every day and night for 7 weeks, his cycle across America and his training, preparation a...

Nick Butter is the first person in the world to run a marathon in everyone country on the globe, running 26.2 miles in 196 countries. He’s also ran around Britain, is an author, speaker and coach. Nick has been on a lot of podcasts in his time and has been interviewed by every news publication you can think of. Instead of asking the usual questions about his big adventures, I wanted to find out mo...

Jacob Wester is a big mountain backcountry skier and film maker. It was so good to sit down with Jacob and we talk about everything skiing - backcountry, big mountain, park and ski cinematic. We cover topics such as: - His evolution from park competitions to big days in the back country - Typical day in the life of a professional skier & weighing up avalanche risk - The toll of chasing the snow th...

Rylan Schadegg is a 4x DEKA World Champion and a Spartan, Hyrox and Obstacle Course Racer (OCR). This was one of those episodes were I had planned topics of conversation and set questions, but 10 minutes into the episode they’d gone out of the window and we went down rabbit hole after rabbit hole, it was a super fun and interesting conversation. We cover topics such as: how Rylan balances competin...

Till Daling is a content creator, farmer, and photogrpaher who documents life on his rural Norwegian farm. After several years living in the high octane, busy city life, Till decided to buy a farm in rural Norway to live and work on. Till’s now daily routine and life is something out of a novel, from working with the seasons and living off the land, to his adventures with his husky, to his tales o...

Andrew Shaw is a physiologist who helps people change their bad habits and make positive changes. Andrew has a unique style and delivery of messages and advice which has garnered some amazing results as he’s now one of the fastest growing Instagram pages out there. I wanted to sit down with him and pick his brains on the issues he talks about and go deep in the advice he gives. In todays episode c...

Luka Grey is a charisma coach and content creator. I took 10 of the titles from Luka’s videos and asked him to expound on each, at the end of the episode you’ll know: - why charisma matters - Why it’s important to call yourself charismatic even if you’re not - What’s self-aggrandisement and how you should implement it into your life - Why Luka rejects most clients - And how to unwire your limiting...

Justin Hast is writer, presenter, collector, and all-round watch enthusiast. Watches has always been a topic which fascinates me but one I knew little about, and so it was an absolute pleasure to sit down with Justin and treat him as my agony aunt, and ask all of those questions I’ve been dying to ask someone in the know. We talk about the differences in watches, from a pilots watch, to a sports w...

Hollie Jenkins runs the Instagram page “The Edinburgh Spaniels” where she posts about her adventures with her two working cocker spaniels, Hugo and Spencer. Hollie started documenting her canine adventures when she completed all of the Scottish Munros, 269 of which were with her fluffy friends by her side. In this episode, we talk about everything to do with Hugo and Spencer - hiking and running w...

Joshua Al-chamaa is a professional CrossFit athlete and captain of the Fittest Team On Earth. We cover an unbelievably wide range of topics in this episode, from the serious: behind-the-scenes at the CrossFit Games, training routines, nasal only breathing, maximising performance whilst being a new father, have we had peak CrossFit with events like Hyrox taking hold, and why his background as a dan...

Damian Hall is an ultra-runner, author, coach, and environmental activist. As we approach the new year, you may start thinking about your fitness goals for 2024. Well, how does a 268 mile trail running race across the U.K, in the middle of January sound? No? Well, Damian is gearing up for the aforementioned Spine Race for the 5th time. We talk about his prep leading into the race, hilarious tales...

Allie Ostrander is a professional runner, mental health advocate, and content creator. This episode takes a deep dive into all sorts of topics from Allie’s journey with an eating disorder and how sharing her story has helped, how applying abstract philosophy can help your training, Allie’s thoughts on balancing social media and performance, why 28km is not a short race, what Killian Jornet is real...

Will Bowyer is a sports lawyer at the London firm, Lawrence Stephens. Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes for a big football transfer? The contracts, laws and agreements? Or what the role of sports agents are and how they work in the world? Will gives us a behind-the-scenes look at all of the background work which goes into keeping the sporting circus on the road. He shares insig...

Glen Weinstein is a kettlebell coach, back-pain specialist and fitness trainer. In todays episode we talk about, why our training aims should revolve around being the most pain-free 80 year old possible, why 20 minutes of Kettlebell work 4-5 times a week is more than enough, how to deal with back pain, should consider barefoot shoes, and why consistency is your superpower. Glen puts a lot of his c...

Mike Foppen is a professional middle distance runner, Olympian, Nike Athlete, and holds the Dutch 5000m record in 13:05. Have you ever wondered what goes on inside the heads of athletes as they race? Or wondered what their go-to pieces of advice would be to become faster at running? Or what you have to do in order get a contract with Nike? Have you ever considered the value of a training plan, or...

Francesco Puppi is a world champion and Nike sponsored trail runner. In this episode, Francesco has some great insights on when to seek outside help, how to balance the pain cave in training, and the main differences in the US vs Europe when it comes to running. He also had a fascinating insight as to why you should race shorter distances, and not just complete ultras. We discussed all that and ma...

Simon Tolhurst is a portrait artist and painter who has drawn thousands of people from all backgrounds. We talk about how art can change the way you view the world, the difference in painting and drawing, where art newbies like me can start, his method and takeaways from sitting down with such a breadth of people, and what he means by the “eye sees and the hand reacts”. The student portraits we ta...

Finn Crockett is a professional cyclist and Commonwealth Games medalist. Finn and I go way back to racing as juniors on the same team and have shared many thousand kilometres of road training and racing together. It was great to get a behind the scenes look to his story, the constant setbacks, navigating the fragile British racing scene, taking third at the commonwealth games with some hilarious s...

Jamie Blackett is an author, farmer and conservationist.  We talk about many topics which affect the rural countryside in today's age, such as: re-wilding and if it's any actually better for the environment, the issue of having no apex predators in Britain, why banning fox hunting was not listening to the science, why Jamie has changed his farming methods away from chemicals, how he advocates for...

John Kelly is an ultra runner, father of four and tech guru. John’s accolades are legendary, he’s a twice finishers of the Barkley Marathon, one of only two people in the world to do so. He’s also competed and won several other races, including the 268 mile Spine Race in the U.K.  In this episode, John has some great insights about balancing work, family and training. Why he did 130 reps of his lo...

Professor Mike Stroud is an endurance athlete, doctor and researcher.  This was a terrific episode where Professor Stroud told the stories of his year spent on Antartica, attempting to walk to the North Pole, crossing Antartica continent with explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, as well as many other epic expeditions.  We discuss the human body and how everyone can access the survival mechanisms to allow...

Stafford McDowell is a professional rugby player for Scotland and Glasgow Warriors. We talk about Stafford’s near retirement a few seasons ago, a typical training week for a rugby player, we discuss the stereotypes of club rugby positions and if they’re accurate, the Six Nations, the Rugby World Cup, and why Stafford’s first international cap wasn’t quite what he imagined. Find me on: Instagram: h...