On a Mission Podcast 2.0

Homeless at 15. A multimillionaire by 40. Now he’s helping millions of people chase their dreams. Simon Squibb is an entrepreneur, investor and social media phenomenon with millions of followers watching him give strangers the opportunities he never had. After losing his father as a teenager, Simon found himself sleeping on the streets with no money, no qualifications and nobody to turn to. He sta...

What if the biggest thing holding you back isn’t your circumstances, but the story you’ve been telling yourself?   From a terrified young boy who was bullied relentlessly and didn’t want to be alive, to becoming a three-time martial arts world champion and successful entrepreneur, Gordon Burcham knows what it takes to completely transform your life.   In this episode of the On a Mission Podcast, G...

James O’Keefe spent years around gangsters, dealing drugs, fighting and womanising. In his own words, he was “Andrew Tate on steroids.” Today, he’s the founder of Unguarded Warrior, helping people break the patterns that nearly destroyed his life. James grew up with an alcoholic father, was thrown out of home at 15 and lost his dad soon after. He went on to become a professional MMA fighter and bu...

Andrew Hulbert went from starting a company in his bedroom in his pants to building and exiting a business for $100 million before the age of 40.   An incredible achievement, but this conversation is about far more than business.   Andrew’s life could very easily have gone in a completely different direction. He was wild, fiercely ambitious and willing to take risks most people wouldn’t entertain....

What happens when you stop trying to avoid adversity and start seeing it as part of the deal?   Former Royal Marine Commando, MMA world champion and elite performance coach Martin “Stapes” Stapleton returns to On a Mission, and as always, no subject is off limits.   Stapes has spent most of his adult life operating outside his comfort zone. From war zones and professional fighting to business, coa...

A two year old girl leaves nursery with a man who wasn’t authorised to collect her. By the time her mother is told, her daughter has already been returned. What happened in between remains unknown. In this episode of On a Mission, Jody Riley tells the full story of the day her daughter Rosie was taken from nursery by a man Jody did not know, the account she says she was initially given about what...

Daniel O’Reilly became one of Britain’s first huge social media stars as Dapper Laughs, building an audience of millions with a character that was loud, laddish and deliberately pushed boundaries, until it all came crashing down.   Branded misogynistic, accused of promoting rape culture and effectively cancelled, Dan went from having his own ITV show and sold out tour to becoming one of the most h...

Tim Storey has spent decades working with some of the most recognisable and successful people on the planet.   Oprah Winfrey, Kanye West, Robert Downey Jr., Quincy Jones and Stevie Wonder are just some of the names connected to a man who has become known around the world as The Comeback Coach.   He’s a world renowned speaker, bestselling author, life strategist and spiritual leader who has spoken...

Most people don’t need more information. They need the right answer, from the right person, at the exact moment they need it.   In this special episode, TalentDec co founders Dean Kelly and Ellie McKay reveal the thinking behind a new expert marketplace designed to make valuable knowledge and real world experience far more accessible.   Dean sold his first company at 30 for an eight figure sum bef...

Millions of people know Adam (ADMT) for his incredible voice, but what I love most about him isn’t his music. It’s the person behind it.   It was an absolute pleasure to sit down with one of my good friends and an all round brilliant human being, Adam Taylor.   Behind the sold out shows, record deals and millions of views is someone who, for years, struggled to believe he was good enough. Adam spe...

We’ve never had more access to information, yet it’s never been harder to know who or what to trust.   Social media has created a generation of experts who look successful. AI can give two completely different answers to the same question. Millionaires are selling courses on building wealth, despite making more money from the courses than the thing they’re supposedly teaching.   So how do you sepa...

Twenty one years ago, serial entrepreneur and wellbeing expert Hannah Lanel made a split second decision that saved her life. On the morning of the 7/7 London bombings, Hannah was sitting on the Tube when she looked up and made eye contact with another passenger. An overwhelming sense of dread washed over her. She got up, ran off the train and left the station, despite the fact it wasn’t even her...

In this episode of On a Mission, I sit down with female entrepreneur, author and founder Chloë Bisson to talk about the reality of building and scaling a seven figure business whilst raising a newborn.   This is an honest conversation about female entrepreneurship, motherhood, postnatal depression, burnout and the mental load that comes with trying to balance it all.   Chloë opens up about becomin...

What happens when the life and soul of the party can no longer escape himself?   In this episode of On a Mission, Eth Power joins Ellie McKay for a raw and deeply honest conversation about addiction, shame, identity, self destruction and recovery.   For years, alcohol and drugs were at the centre of Eth’s life. What began as chasing confidence, connection and escapism eventually spiralled into cha...

In this episode, I sit down with Andy Ramage, former City broker turned one of the leading voices in the alcohol free movement, for a raw conversation about alcohol, stress, identity and the habits many of us have normalised for years without ever really questioning.   What starts as a discussion about drinking quickly becomes something much bigger. We talk about the reality that alcohol is often...

  This episode was actually recorded a couple of years ago, before alcohol became the mainstream conversation it is today. Listening back now, it’s fascinating how many of the things we discussed then are starting to become widely talked about in 2026.   Ahead of tomorrow’s brand new episode with Andy Ramage, I wanted to re release our original conversation because so much of it still feels incred...

Maajid Nawaz was radicalised as a teenager and built his life around an extremist ideology that led to his arrest in Egypt, prison, and torture, before walking away from it and rethinking everything he once believed.   Years later, after becoming a well-known voice in counter extremism, he lost his role as a presenter on LBC during Covid, publicly labelled and ridiculed for his views.   This conve...

He Wasn’t Built For This… He Became It   Darren Grigas has completed a world first 127 mile foot crossing of the 55 million year old Namib, run 100 miles across a frozen lake in temperatures down to minus 50, taken on uncharted rainforest, and completed Marathon des Sables alongside Sir Ranulph Fiennes.   Most people look at extreme endurance athletes and assume they’ve always been wired different...

Renowned performance coach Michelle Flynn works with high performers operating at an elite level, people at the top of their game who, on the surface, look like they have everything under control.   She was doing the same.   Training hard, disciplined, performing at a high level, until her body shut her down. Twice.   It’s something she now sees constantly, high performers still delivering, still...

Mark Whittle is someone who’s spent years studying what actually drives human behaviour, performance, and fulfilment, and why so many people still feel lost even when they “have it all”.   From working with high performers, athletes and entrepreneurs to building his own platform, Mark has seen first-hand what happens when success on paper doesn’t translate to real happiness. Because for a lot of p...

Caprice Bourret is proof that reinvention doesn’t have an expiry date.    From becoming one of the most photographed women in the world to building a film career from scratch in her 50s, she’s lived multiple lives and she’s still not done.   Three years on from her first appearance on On A Mission, Caprice is back and this time she’s gone all in. Producing, acting, writing and running entire film...

Great to welcome back Dr. Dain Heer, internationally renowned speaker, bestselling author, and co-creator of Access Consciousness, a global movement active in over 170 countries. From a childhood marked by abuse and poverty to a career as a chiropractor who once felt suicidal, Dain’s life radically changed when he discovered practical consciousness tools that opened a completely different way of l...

In this episode of the On a Mission podcast, I’m joined by Jess Cunningham, TV personality and founder of Belief Coding.   Jess talks candidly about her time on the hit BBC show The Apprentice, the biggest opportunity of her life, when suppressed memories of childhood abuse surfaced out of nowhere, just as she was stepping into the limelight for the first time.   Trying to hold it together on the...

As the biological uncle to Catherine, Princess of Wales, Gary Goldsmith is no stranger to media scrutiny, scandal and public controversy.   Gary made his millions in the IT recruitment world and was a prominent figure within the recruitment sector long before the press notoriety.   In this episode, we talk about all of it. Entrepreneurship, success and being part of the royal family. The scandal t...

Greg Parkin has exited multiple seven figure businesses, completed Ironman triathlons, and in his fifties is preparing to run 108 miles across the Pennine Way in winter. His life has been shaped by pressure, risk, discipline and a mindset built around pushing limits.   This episode explores what it really takes to build and scale at that level. The appetite for risk. The tolerance for uncertainty....