Love Your Career

This week we are joined by an absolute legend in Becky Prifti, Central People Director for PureGym. Having joined in September 2019 Becky began in the company as People Partner and has seen the huge growth that PureGym has gone through in the last 5 years to not only grow themselves to the UK's largest operator but also one of the largest operators in Europe, growing from people partner to hea...

This weeks guest is the mecurial Steve Shaw! Steve is the Co-Founder and Director For Stronger Wellness who specialise in creating smarter fitness spaces, improved workouts and training recovery, accessible to everyone. Having worked across the industry from clubland in Sales and GM positions to sales director and senior leadership positions, Steve is the perfect man to pass on his tips on how to...

This episode is a really special one as we are joined by Steve Ward, Chief Transformation Officer with Go Fit. Perhaps unknowingly, Steve once imparted the most valuable advice that has helped shape the Love Group and over the course of our chat, I'm sure that he will have a huge impact on you too! As former CEO of UKActive, Steve is one of the most well known and recognisable people within fi...

We are super excited about this one - the man needs no introduction but Carl is an industry legend, fitness extraordinaire and one of the most generous people in the sector in terms of helping others and giving his time. With years of amazing industry experience, Carl gives us so many pearls of wisdom and imparts vital knowledge on how you can elevate your career and take it to the next level! We...

This week we are joined by Rowland Omamor, managing director for Lampton Leisure. Lampton offers a suite of fitness and wellbeing facilities for local people. Rowland set up the company in October 2020 having been in the private sector for a long time, and has made real waves in the public sector. Rowland has been in the sector now for 24 years with his first job in leisure being a food and bevera...

Wow, what a treat this week we have! We are joined in the studio by Justin Tamsett, chair person and podcast host! Justin is recognized Internationally as a thought leader who delivers in a unique style and with quality content. He began his career in 1989 as a gym instructor before opening clubs from 1993 to 2008. He began chairing REX Roundtables in Australia in 2005 and joined the US team in 20...

What a guest we have this week! In our latest episode we are joined by Duncan Anderson, the founder of South Downs Leisure. Duncan is the founder CEO and Managing Director of South Downs Leisure, running leisure centres and swimming pools across Sussex, including Splashpoint in Worthing and Sea Lanes in Brighton. The company won The Sustainable Business Award 2022 and has been shortlisted for the...

This week we are joined by the legendary Steve Bambury, COO of 1Life management solutions and Lawrence's Cricket nemesis. Steve has built an amazing career in the industry starting as a sales and marketing manager for Leisure Connection to progressing all the way through to a senior leadership role as COO of 1Life - and he tells us how. In this episode Steve talks to us about how to make a las...

This week we are joined by Dave Alstead, commercial director at Xplor Technologies. Dave has a wealth of fitness industry experience with over 20 years under his belt. Dave's background in operations and across the supply chain means he's worked with some of the industry's most prominent players – including David Lloyd, Les Mills, and ukactive. His passion lies in working collaboratively to create...

This week to help usher in the new year we are joined by Natalie McGuire - what an episode it is too! Natalie is currently part of Space & Place as their business development and engagement officer and has had a hugely successful career prior to this working with Welcome to Yorkshire and Swim England (where she still sits on their board) amongst others. Natalie describes her career from school to...

In our first episode of 2025 we are absolutely thrilled to welcome Rob Cunningham to the podcast. Rob is the director of leisure and business development for BH Live. Rob brings with him more than 15 years’ experience in health, fitness, sport and wellbeing. Rob started his career working in the high-end private sector fitness industry moving to public sector in recent years. Having begun his care...

What an absolute treat we have this week as we welcome Caroline Constantine, Managing Director of Right Directions. Right Directions employ a number of highly experienced leisure managers across the UK who are able to provide specialist support in both quality manager and health and safety. Starting out in the industry as a DM post uni, Caroline climbed the ladder before starting the company in 20...

This week on the show we have Dan Edwardes Founder and CEO of Parkour Generations. Parkour Generations the award winning multi-national professional organisation for the dynamic movement discipline of parkour / freerunning. Parkour Generations provides the highest quality education, coaching, movement fitness programming, elite performance and production work. Dan offers a unique insight to how pa...

We are incredibly privileged to welcome Jon Kohn onto the Love Your Career Podcast in our latest episode. Jon is the Co-founder of Thrive Gyms and former head of commercial for David Lloyd Clubs across the UK. With a wealth of experience across a number of roles, Jon is a truly exceptional guest and will impart so much wisdom. You can find out more about Jon and Thrive Gyms below. https://thrivegy...

This episode is a really important one.  Sarah is a former Global Director and UK Head of the inspirational Movember group.  Raising awareness of mental and physical health is a huge part of our wellness, and what could be more important to our sector than that.   Hear more about the origins of Movember, how it all began to where it is now, a truly awesome story and journey.   We also hear Sarah’s...

This week we are joined by the amazing Louise Anderton, People Director for PureGym UK, Denmark and Switzerland. A relative newcomer to the fitness industry, Louise has made a huge impact already in driving the success of PureGym in the last year. Bringing a wealth of experience from the Hospitality and retail sectors, Louise brought her talent to PureGym in January of this year. A podcast with so...

When we say we have a guest on this week that is universally loved within the fitness industry - we aren’t kidding. Everybody’s favourite Business Development Director, this week we welcome Active Insight’s Julie Allen. Julie is truly one of the industries most loved faces who has excelled throughout her career from working with Herts Sport Villahebto her time with the air ambulance service. Julie...

This week we are absolutely delighted to welcome Clemency Lion to the podcast. Clemency is part of UKActive’s exec team and joined in June of 2023 as Director of Research, policy and communications. Clemency’s background prior to joining the UKactive was filled with parliamentary experience, working for the government as a special advisor and in Parliament as chief of staff. In this episode Clemen...

Love Your Career - Rebecca Passmore Wow, what an absolute honour and privilege to welcome Rebecca Passmore onto the podcast today. Rebecca is the Group COO for PureGym, overseeing the leadership of PureGym UK, PureGym Switzerland and PureGym Denmark Having spent 5 and a half years with PureGym in senior leader positions, Rebecca has helped to oversee the huge growth in the company and pushed them...

Love Your Career - Jo Matthews Jo is the Co Founder of Ten Health and Fitness which was born post a car accident that Jo suffered and has since blossomed into of the most recognisable and respected in the industry . In this podcast, Jo shares her journey from pre Ten to how the guys first started and beyond. She discusses long term thinking and pragmatism in business and finding meaning in your ca...

Love Your Career - Paul Bowman Paul is the dynamic CEO of Wexer. With a deep passion for the fitness industry, Paul has been at the forefront of integrating technology with fitness. In this podcast, Paul shares his journey through the fitness industry, from his early career to his current role. He discusses the challenges and opportunities of leading a tech-driven company in a rapidly evolving ind...

What a guest to have on the podcast, Marc Diaper, CEO of Gymbox. Marc is an inspiration when he talks and how he leads and within this chat he articulates brilliantly how he does this in such an authentic way.  His passions, his journey and his decision making are all discussed.   So much of his success and so much of his method is about people and he constantly refers to his senior team, his part...

Our next guest is one on the nicest people in our sector, plus he also crosses over into our other sector of childcare too! Danny Melling is the Interim Director of Member Experience at ukactive and is someone we have come to know really well as a friend, client, candidate and recently as a colleague on the Suppliers Council with Lawrence. Danny has a very authentic, clear and passionate view of o...

This week we welcome Steffie Bryant, a long time friend of Love Recruitment and Chief of Staff at Keepme.ai. Steffie is our first two time guest on the Love Your Career Episode however this is her first release and she explains why in the episode. Having worked in clubland in senior roles and in senior leadership roles in other parts of the industry, Steffie truly has a unique view of the industry...

We are so lucky this week. Not only do we have the first ever live recording of this podcast at the independent gym conference, we welcomed industry legend Kevin Yates. We cover all the usual areas and pursuits of the podcast but we also try and cover key areas that would be applicable to independent gym owners. Kevin is excellent in covering these areas and also making it appeal to the wider sect...