Sport and Life

Aaron McLean is a retired professional footballer who played at many levels of the pro game, from non-league to the Premier League. His former clubs include Aldershot Town, Peterborough United, Hull City and Bradford City. Since retiring from football Aaron has worked as a coach and football analyst and pundit in the media. Aaron is launching a new podcast, coming soon.  To follow Aaron and discov...

With new year resolutions abound, I spoke to James Golden - a fitness professional with more than two decades of experience training and advising athletes and regular people - about where to start in adopting healthy habits. Do we need to start with one habit, or can we work on multiple areas of our life - like sleep, diet and movement - at the same time?  James has been a gym owner in the pa...

Oli Mell won the IKMF title in the middleweight category in 2021 - a marathon kettlebell event.   Oli is a former commando in the Royal Marines and runs his own outdoor gym in Nantwich Cheshire (UK), Wolfpack Fitness.  Follow Oli and the gym: @wolfpackfitnesscheshire & www.wolfpackgym.co.uk 

Matt had an 18 year career in professional football playing for Gillingham, Wolverhampton Wanderers, West Ham United, Norwich City and Woking. He also played international football for England.  He retired in the summer of 2021 and is working as football analyst/pundit for media companies, including Sky Sports.  Follow Matt on Instagram: @matt_jarvis_official 

Ross Mitchell has worked in health and fitness for decades, as a personal trainer to the public and athletes. He also works as a teacher and mentor to aspiring personal trainers and takes part in MMA training as a hobby. In this conversation we speak about the pillars of health, what people who want to adopt more healthy habits should focus on in 2022 and why new routines must be realistic to an i...

In his first job as a football manager, Michael Duff led Cheltenham Town FC to the League 2 title (fourth tier of English football) for the first time in the club's history.  The team were mid-table at the time of recording this conversation in League 1 (third tier).  As a player, Michael played in the top 8 levels of English football, in ascending order, culminating in time in the Premi...

Chris is a retired sports marketer and successful businessman and also a race horse owner. But here we talk about his 60-year-long membership of the nomadic sports institution, The Gloucestershire Gipsies Cricket Club and the fine new book that Chris has pulled together to celebrate the club's centenary: Gloucestershire Gipsies 100 NOT OUT.  For more info on the club and the book: https://www...

Luke Watkins, from Swindon in the UK, is a former Commonwealth Cruiserweight Champion.  He currently holds a 15-2 record. Here we talk about his story, his background in ice hockey before finding boxing at the age of 19 and his future ambitions.

Optometrist Dhruvin Patel developed the blue-light-blocking Ocushield products and has seen the business grow exponentially in recent years - during which time he appeared on the Dragons' Den TV show, receiving investment in the company. Here Dhruvin expains the danger of blue light and how ubiquitous it is in modern life - from laptops and phones to street lighting and car headlights.  For m...

Ed Gates joins the podcast to talk about Creaffeine Creatine Coffee - a pre-workout drink that combines high levels of caffeine with creatine. We discuss the scientifically-proven benefits of creatine and caffeine on exercise performance and different types of exercise (as well as everyday work/life performance) - and the process of making a coffee and bringing it to market.  For more info: h...

Jon Palmer is a sports writer for Gloucestershire Live and has more than two decades experience in sports journalism. He is a sports journalism lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire and rejoins the podcast to discuss his new book - All Your D reams Are Made - that documents Cheltenham Town Football Club's historic 2020/21 title-winning season.  Follow Jon @JonPalmerSport .

Juggy Sidhu is an online coach specializing in transforming the health and fitness of people from Indian backgrounds. Juggy takes a holistic approach to well-being - his clients have input from psychologists and doctors in the service provided, as well as his fitness and nutrition expertise.  For more information: https://www.juggysidhu.com/ and follow Juggy on Instagram for great tips applic...

George Groves was a hugely successful boxer - World, European, British and Commonwealth Champion - in a storied and high profile career. He retired at the age of 30, having last fought in 2018. It was also a career born out of adversity and an underdog mindset - George missed out on selection for the 2008 Olympics, but charted a path to the summit of the sport without the huge profile push the Oly...

Mark Hudson had a long and distinguished professional football career at clubs including Fulham, Crystal Palace, Cardiff City and Huddersfield Town. He has also worked as a coach and was twice interim manager of Huddersfield Town.

Steve Kean was a professional footballer, who know has more than two decades coaching experience including being assistant coach at Fulham and manager at Blackburn Rovers in the Premier League. He's also coached/managed in Brunei, Singapore and Australia and currently is working training coaches for the Scottish Football Association. 

Phil Denton is the Headteacher of St. Bede's Catholic High School in the north west of England. He is also the co-author of 'The First 100 Days: Lessons in Leadership From The Football Bosses.' Phil wrote the book with former footballer, now manager of Tranmere Rovers, Micky Mellon.  To complete the book, Phil and Micky spent the last three years meeting with Premier League managers, includin...

Luke Varney has enjoyed a fairy-tale football career - from non league he played all the way up to the Premier League with Blackpool. His former clubs also include Charlton Athletic, Derby County, Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds United and my local club Cheltenham Town.  He's now back with his local non-league club Quorn where his journey began and he's focusing on building new career in fitness t...

Dr. Radha is a practising NHS GP, broadcaster & campaigner for wellbeing.  Radha is the medical expert for BBC Radio 1’s daytime show, Life Hacks and the co-presenter of their weekly Life Hacks Podcast. For more, see http://drradha.co.uk/. This interview is on making positive change to improve our health - including seeing more of loved ones - and was originally recorded for the @cheltenh...

JJ Draper is a singer/song writer. He's playing this Saturday, October 2nd at The Camden Assembly in London.  JJ's music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7ee7dtYPnmTZDPdqgeBbhC Social media: @iamjjdraper

Tony Wrighton has been a broadcaster in the UK for more than 20 years, including 15 years at Sky Sports. He also produces and hosts a health podcast called Zestology, which is focussed on discovering the lifestyle habits key to maximising energy - this after Tony was left devoid of energy following a virus he picked up in a jungle. (listen to pod: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/zestology-en...

Ady Britton guided Bath City - a semi-professional football club - to the fifth tier of English football (a largely professional league). He also combined coaching in football with building a successful business as a day job. He continues to work in the south west of England as a football scout. 

Ran is a GP (doctor) in England working for The NHS, but also runs a private practice helping people optimise their health and performance taking a pre-emptive approach. Here we cover sleep, movement, nutrition, supplements, stress and more as vehicles to maximise the strength of our immune systems.  Follow Ran on Twitter: @CotswoldOptimal

Mark Neilson is a boxing promoter in the west of England with over a decade of experience putting on shows. He's a former amateur himself and the son of former pro heavyweight boxer Eddie Nielson who fought Joe Bugner and Frank Bruno in a long career - https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/2592 More details on Mark's upcoming shows here: http://www.neilsonboxing.co.uk/

A talk about mental and physical health for men - and tactics for living in the opaque modern world where roles like being a dad are fluid and open to interpretation.  Anthony Astbury used to work in finance in London, but left that lucrative life to pursue a more fulfilling career, becoming a life and fitness coach before co-founding The Whole Man Academy, which aims to help men 'live life b...

Anthony Taylor has a 7-5 record in MMA, but is boxing Britain's Tommy Fury - half-brother of Tyson Fury - on August 29th on the undercard of Jake Paul v Tyron Woodley.