The Mojo Podcast

Jon Mailer is the founder of PROTRADE United, Australia and New Zealand's leading business advisory and coaching organisation for the trades and construction industry. He's also the author of Not Just a Tradie — a book less about what to do and more about who to be. But before the business success came the breakdown. When his daughter was just six months old, Jon was running a 24-person business c...

What does it mean to truly lead from the inside out? In this episode, I sit down with Matt Hocking — founder of planet-centred design and impact agency LEAP, co-founder of GOODFEST, B Corp ambassador, and one of the most genuinely thoughtful leaders I've had the pleasure of talking to. Matt's journey began at The Eden Project, where his deep fascination with the natural world first took root, and...

David McQueen works with CEOs and boards when decisions start to carry more consequence than certainty. He's someone who sits in rooms where the stakes are high, the information is incomplete, and there's no margin for error. In this episode, we discuss: What mojo means when you work at the sharp end of leadership The role of humanism and treating people with genuine respect Why silence creates sp...

Ben Branson built Seedlip into the world's first non-alcoholic spirit brand. Five years after our first conversation, he's back - this time with a new venture (Sylva), recent autism and ADHD diagnoses, and a completely different understanding of himself. We talk about what the pandemic taught him about pivoting fast, why he's now extracting flavours from wood, and how discovering he's neurodiverge...

Davie Gowans built the business, hit the numbers, ticked all the boxes society said mattered, and felt emptier than ever. In this conversation, Davie opens up about the moment he realised that "success" as the world defines it wasn't the finish line he thought it was. What followed was a journey of stripping back – the control, the expectations, the identity tied to achievement – to find something...

Dr. Alice Bunn works in space. Actual space. So when she talks about high-stakes collaboration, she means it. This conversation goes deep on leadership, trust, the courage to be wrong out loud — and why surrounding yourself with the right energy matters more than most of us admit. Alice's full bio is below.  Hope you love it  Richard 🦋  And if you'd like to book a free 30 minute discovery call wi...

Oli Johnson is a 3x founder, exited entrepreneur, and the creator of PrescribeLife. AI , an AI-driven health tech solution helping leadership and performance coaches to help their clients stay healthy and high performing. With two decades of experience in technology within investment banking in London before launching and scaling multiple ventures, Oli brings his own perspective on the high-pressu...

"There is no White Knight coming to save you." My former boss Lindsay Pattison said this to me recently, and it landed hard. Lindsay was global CEO of Maxus, part of Mark Read's core WPP team, running a global agency network at what she calls "200 miles an hour." At that speed, you don't have time to question whether you're going in the right direction. You just go. Until the day she realized: thi...

When everything changes, how do the best leaders not just survive but find their groove? The Mojo Podcast: Mojo Under Fire explores the defining moments that either break leaders or forge them into magnetic forces others want to follow. In this episode, Emma Stace shares her journey of leadership, emphasising the importance of self-awareness, accountability, and building relationships within teams...

As we close the  6th series we’ve been reflecting on Commitment. A concept we all understand but that can prove elusive and even fearful for us. In this series we’ve gone under the skin of Commitment - how we can commit to ourselves, to our values  our purpose - and the payoff we can see when we literally choose not to have any more choice -commitment is one of life’s beautiful paradoxes It’s been...

My guest this week is Holly Budge the founder of UK Charity, ‘How Many Elephants’, and World Female Ranger Week. Her impactful work has been celebrated worldwide, including by Sir David Attenborough and HRH Prince Edward. She was recently voted ‘Woman of the Year in Non-Profit’, listed in the Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise, and is an official UN Women UK Delegate.  As a professional speaker Ho...

My guest this week is Scott Gray is an Artist and DJ from London. He is joint founder of Ibiza's iconic Melon Bomb DJ collective and creator of the art and design brand Chapter. The Island of Ibiza (where Scott now resides) is the main influence and really kick-started  his art and musical career. We met at Scott’s home in Ibiza - where the walls are filled with his favourite art and he serves a c...

Luke Sutton was a professional cricket player for nearly 20 years. He was club captain of Derbyshire CCC and also played for Somerset CCC and Lancashire CCC. Although he was primarily a wicketkeeper, he was also a very skilled batsman. Luke is now an agent to a number of high profile sports and media stars, and an owner of multiple businesses within the sports industry. He has weekly podcast calle...

Today's guest is Azeem Amir. Azeem is 25 and has been visually impaired since birth. However, he has never let it be a barrier to success. Azeem plays Blind Football professionally for the England and Great Britain blind football team and is working towards achieving international success. Playing across the globe he and the team are aiming to qualify for the next Paralympics. His football skills...

My guest in epsiode 5 of series 6 is Sam Dean - co-founder of theHub Ibiza A very special professional community space where I live and where I’m a long standing member. Forget what you think you know about co-working spaces, what Sam and the team have created is much more as he’ll explain This is a refreshingly candid conversation about founder energy, being an entrepreneur and a leader of a fast...

Welcome back to The Mojo Podcast. Series 6 of the Mojo Podcast is all about Commitment. A concept that has real weight and meaning for us, as we have all committed at some point in our life and perhaps you're considering a new commitment right now. It's a deeply meaningful area and I wanted to explore it further. So for this season I'll be talking to an amazing array of guests about what commitmen...

***EXCLUSIVE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2024 SPECIAL*** Welcome back to The Mojo Podcast. Series 6 of the Mojo Podcast is all about Commitment. A concept that has real weight and meaning for us, as we have all committed at some point in our life and perhaps you're considering a new commitment right now. It's a deeply meaningful area and I wanted to explore it further. So for this season I'll be tal...

Welcome back to The Mojo Podcast.  Series 6 of the Mojo Podcast is all about Commitment. A concept that has real weight and meaning for us, as we have all committed at some point in our life and perhaps you're considering a new commitment right now. It's a deeply meaningful area and I wanted to explore it further. So for this season I'll be talking to an amazing array of guests about what commitme...

Welcome back to The Mojo Podcast.  Series 6 of the Mojo Podcast is all about Commitment. A concept that has real weight and meaning for us, as we have all committed at some point in our life and perhaps you're considering a new commitment right now. It's a deeply meaningful area and I wanted to explore it further. So for this season I'll be talking to an amazing array of guests about what commitme...

Welcome to a very special episode of The Mojo Podcast - a bonus episode on a subject I'm passionate about. And not one but three amazing guests - together in a studio in central London to discuss a profoundly important topic which they all have immense expertise and experience in. We’re talking about building a fairer and more equitable workplace and specifically how men can find the mojo to bette...

This week on The Mojo Podcast we land on a subject which is likely to effect us all at some point, to some degree. We’re talking about stress and specifically the stress that can come from working your way to the top of your game or profession and then the ongoing battle to stay there. Our conversation centres around my old industry - advertising and media. A dynamic, fast paced & intense busi...

Another HUGE subject to tackle this week - and one which has a massive effect on our Mojo - we're taking about Sleep. My guest is Tracy Hannigan is a qualified sleep therapist, one of the few recognised by the Society for Behavioural Sleep Medicine. Tracy uses only evidence-based approaches in supporting adults with insomnia as they reconnect to their natural ability to sleep and to live the activ...

This week - after a short hiatus (moving house) - The Mojo Podcast is back with a wonderful guest and a fundamental subject area: Breathing & Breathwork. Ali Gilling is a trauma-informed breathwork, yoga and mindfulness practitioner who has been travelling extensively around the globe as a nomadic yogini for over 25 years, running retreats and workshops internationally since 1999. Her journey...

This week we turn our attention to the world of work and our invitation is to think about how we can collaborate even better - especially when we think about hybrid working patterns. We talk about flow, feedback, trust, empathy and radical candour - amongst other things. My guest is John Monks. John is the co-founder of Curve where he leads the facilitation and coaching practice. He’s clocked up m...

My guest this week is Vedic Mediation teacher - Jillian Lavender. Here she is in her words... When I learned to meditate back in 1995 I had no idea that I would end up being a full-time meditation teacher. At the time I was walking right up to the line of a major burnout. Living in Sydney, setting up a publishing company, spending my life on a plane. I felt tired and stressed. On the recommendatio...