The After Hours Lounge

Great to have pro MMA Bellator fighter Ross Houston on the podcast this week! We discussed his beginnings in martial arts just as a hobby, to him later quitting his well paid job in the oil and gas industry in Paris to open up his own gym back home in Inverness and focus more on the training to try and go pro. A few years and many wins later Ross returned to Paris, newly signed to fight for Bellat...

Honoured to kick off my podcasts for this year with this dude. Connor came on the pod to discuss his battles with an eating disorder. We discussed him losing a load of weight in high school and the positive comments that followed, only to disappear once he arrived at uni where nobody knew him before the weight loss. This led to Connor taking up boxing through uni, leading to over exercising, and b...

Just me on this one. Not done a solo episode in a while, thought I'd just come on and waffle about some things in my brain! This Christmas is set to be a bit shit for a lot of people, however, its also the Christmas that you don't need to cook for 2043593 people, you don't need to eat turkey cos you feel you have to, you don't need to go on that bloody Christmas Day walk when all you want to do is...

Great to round out my podcast for 2020 with one of my close friends, Max Rowe! 🙌🏼 Max is a professional windsurfer and all round UK windsurfing legend having spent almost a decade on tour competing and 4 of those years within the top 15. We discussed his late start into windsurfing and his attitude of keeping professional yet trying not to put too much pressure on himself and enjoy the journey....

Great to be joined this week by my friend Dicky Dale! I've known Dicky for a couple of years now, having met through windsurfing. What we didn't know about each other was our mental health struggles and stories. Dicky spent the best part of 20 years working in the city in the finance industry, from starting out to his time on the board at Citigroup. Dicky has vast experience and insight into what...

Stoked to be joined this week by 2 of my very good friends, Laura & Emily. For the best part of the last 10 years we worked together teaching windsurfing out in Greece for a company called Club Vass. Great to chat to these 2 about their experiences working there and how doing seasons is a 'proper job' and why it prepares you so well for whatever you go on to do after. It was epic to reminisce...

Pleasure to be joined this week by Scottish photographer Mike Guest! In Lockdown 1 Mike found himself back to home in Edinburgh, all work projects on hold, not really knowing what to do with himself. Then him and a friend came up with an idea. They'd get up every morning 1 hour before sunrise, get a wetsuit on and go and film in the ocean as the sun came up. They named the project 'Dawn Days'. Sin...

Honoured to be joined this week by Selema, my only guest so far to have voiced a surfing penguin in one of my favourite films, Surfs Up! We discussed many things starting with his life as a world renowned action sports commentator and presenter and why surfing is his chosen love. We then moved onto one of the serious issues that no matter how hard many people have tried, cannot be ignored in 2020...

Great to be joined by Ben this week, founder of Witterings Fitness, a gym based on the south coast. It was awesome to get into the ethos behind Ben's gym. The reasons behind having no mirrors on the walls and why it's not all about giving you the 6 pack for the Instagram and more about allowing you to keep your body and mind stronger so you can get the most out of life. We discussed the mental blo...

Honoured to be joined by the mighty Ed Goodman this week! Ed started a group called Freelance Heroes on Facebook in 2016, with a view to create a space for people working from home to have a community of others in the same situation to rely on. Whether its advice on tax to ideas for a future venture. We discussed why Ed started Freelance Heroes, how successful it has become since, his views and ad...

Joined once again by one of my great friends Bruce. He founded a company a couple of years ago called Turtle Straws, selling sustainable drinking straws, but also educating people on the difficult subject of sustainability. (we did a whole episode on him starting this, its really good too 🙌🏼) This time around it was much more of a general chat, I haven't really done a general one before, theres...

Honoured to be joined by Nick Hounsfield, founder of The Wave in Bristol, the UK's first Wavegarden inland surfing lagoon. We discussed many things, from his history of surfing leading him down this wild ride of creating a wave pool in the UK, to using The Wave not just as a place for people to enjoy something fun, but to create a place for people to spend time in an environment they're not used t...

So stoked to have Ed, host of the excellent and acclaimed podcast @aneedtoread, in the lounge this week 🙌🏼 We discussed many things, why men need to practice self love a bit more and realise its ok, why you care waaaaay more about losing your hair than literally EVERYONE else in the world, including whoever you're trying to sleep with and why finding a passion is essential in life 🥋🏄🏼 The big...

Great to be joined by my friend Ewan this week! We discussed his history getting into rugby, the lad culture within the sport and his experiences with it (there are some funny/slightly disgusting stories told 😅). We touched on why his team began spending less time at the bar and taking training more seriously and what that did for their morale. The main reason that Ewan came on though was to chat...

Great to be joined this week by James Dempster, head of Cobb Digital, a digital marketing agency based in Brighton. We discussed many things from Burger Kings latest epic marketing campaign, lockdown, decided what to do with your life after uni and our favourite beers. The main reason James came on though, was to chat about him being recently diagnosed with Autism. It was so interesting hearing mo...

A real pleasure to chat to ex Irish and British surfing champion and all round surf legend Easkey Britton. We discussed her experience studying the effects of time in the ocean on peoples mental states, the similarity between surfing and life and how the ebb is just as important as the flow. Enjoy

My guest this week is Jack Turley, he was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis a couple of years ago and ended up having to have major surgery and get a Stoma bag fitted. We discussed what daily life is like, I asked all the usual questions he must get asked all the time! (thanks for being so accommodating) His honesty and frankness on the subject was really refreshing and super inspiring, it's a sub...

Stoked to be joined this week by Jamie Turpin 🙌🏼 Jamie is a former Royal Marine Commando having served and trained all over the world. It was awesome to get an insight into the mindset given to him after nearly a decade of serving. We discussed many things, from his adventures while serving around the world (including windmilling in a brothel in Belize 😂) before going into mental health within...

Great to have Cammy Saile on this week! For a 19 year old this guy has been through more than most will ever go through. We chatted about his life changing car crash 10 months ago. He broke his back and neck among other injuries, but as he says multiple times, he'd take that any day over the effects it had on his mental health. After a failed suicide attempt, he took inspiration from Tyson Fury's...

Super excited to share this one with you all! Most of you are probably familiar with Jay now, his story has spread like wildfire in the last few weeks, culminating in him appearing on Ladbible's channels to the tune of over 1M views just on Instagram. Jay was born with Cerebral Palsy, after being confined to a wheelchair and enduring a difficult time at school he fell into a dark place within his...

Just me on this one! It's been a bit since I did a solo episode, been a bit since I did any episode and I apologise! Been super busy getting life back on track after lockdown that the pod took a bit of a backseat briefly. But I am back now and fired up to keep this train rolling. I discuss whats been going on in my life, where my heads at now that the world is switching back on and why I think we...

Great to get Lewis back on for part 2 🙌🏼 We chatted more about Lewis's experience within the powerlifting world, the benefits of having a team around you, expectations of where you should be in life and why life goals are relative to what you want to get out of it. A great chat with one of the most interesting people I've had on! (and definitely the biggest 💪🏼) Enjoy 🍻

'Times going to pass, whether you like it or not.' Lewis said this early into the conversation and for me its the epitome of what he stands for. Lewis got into the gym in his early teens and hasn't looked back since. We discuss why he felt like he needed to get into going to the gym at the time, body image as a male and how going to the gym made life all that easier and gave him a mindset to carry...

Man, what an epic conversation this was. Will came on to chat about his time in India with his girlfriend Connie, how he kinda just stumbled into a yoga retreat and what it was like. We discussed so much more than just his time spent out there, from finding a passion in life, to making sure you don't label yourself as just 1 type of person, turns out it is possible to be someone who enjoys and pra...

Jim and his dad Ralph made a real impression on Netflix's latest show, 'The Big Flower Fight' for their wholesome, earnest and downright awesome relationship and creations. 🌳🌺 A main theme for them was Jim's openness about his issues with mental health and anxiety, culminating in them creating an 'Anxiety Monster' in one of the later challenges that represented his anxiety enveloping him with no...