The Mojo Podcast

My guest this week is Ruth Ramsay and we talk about sex. Ruth is an adult sex educator and coach. She helps people of all genders understand who they are sexually, what they most need and desire, and how to move towards that. Her clients value her ability to create an entirely judgement-free, safe space to talk about their sexual lives. On this episode Ruth talks about how she works with her clien...

My first guest of the 5th series of The Mojo Podcast is Bodhi Aldridge . Here we go deep on the subject of Purpose - as Bodhi is a brilliant guide to this important theme. Fundamentally, it's about brining meaning to life.  Bodhi works as a mentor and facilitator, supporting leaders and business owners around the world. He uses a range of skills developed over 35 years as a lawyer and business own...

Welcome back to The Mojo Podcast - Series 5 In this 5th series I’m having more intimate and powerful conversations with a brilliant and diverse group of guests. This series I’m calling them The Practitioners -  experts in their field about what drew them to what they do and how more people can experience what they do.  The purpose of this series is to allow yourself to ask yourself a key question...

Welcome to the summary episode for the 4th series of The Mojo Podcast - The Founders. In this series I had the pleasure of talking to 13 successful founders and magnificent human beings over the 10 episodes in the season. Busy people who created the time to talk to me and share with you the secrets of their 'founder mojo'. I sought out a diverse group of founders to ask them about what mojo means...

Welcome to the final episode of the 4th series of the Mojo Podcast - and what a way to finish. This week I talk to Jamie McCloskey the co-founder of fast-growing snack brand Love Corn It was a conversation with Jamie 3 years ago that led to the seed of an idea that eventually became The Mojo Podcast. I was fascinated about Jamie's ability to take all his skills, strengths and positive beliefs from...

To mark the 50th episode of The Mojo Podcast, I invite two great friends and highly successful founders onto the show for a really insightful and powerful chat about the founder mojo. Anna Barez-Brow n and Caroline 'Cal' Whaley launched Shine 4 Women 9 years ago after both having successful corporate careers but looking for their next step - in their language, this 'bigger game' of founding theor...

My guest founder this week is Karen Cinnamon . Karen has been dubbed the “Oprah of Jewish Joy” and the Queen of Jewish Positivity . As the founder of Your Jewish Life – the premier podcast, Instagram account and weekly newsletter for Jewish and Jew(ish) millennials, Karen reaches, and positively impacts, over 1 million users every week. Additionally, she is the founder of Smashing Life , the faste...

This week we explore the passion behind the underdog. We delve into the fashion industry and understand the mojo required to make change. After years of working for global brands and retailers, Joshua Scacheri recognised that there was an alternative way of doing things that was less damaging to the planet. Joshua envisaged a mindset change and business model shift that didn’t have to compromise s...

My guest this week is Anda Gansca the Co-Founder and CEO of Knotch , the content intelligence platform enabling companies like Zillow, Dropbox, Walmart, Bank of America, Salesforce and others to accelerate content-driven customer journeys. A regular thought leadership contributor to the trade media and industry at-large, Anda has been named to both Forbes’ and Inc.’s annual 30-Under-30 lists, AdWe...

This week on The Mojo Podcast we have a look at what it's like to launch a business with your life partner as your business partner. I talk to Laura Clacey who together with her husband Karol Oataszewski launched the modern craft cider brand - SXOLLIE - over 8 years ago. This episode introduces a completely  new dynamic to the founders story and Laura is highly generous in sharing her insights int...

Another week, another birthday celebration. This time we mark the 4th anniversary of the founding of Craft Media . And I'm delighted to say again a success story of two female founders: Jen Smith & Sally Weavers .  This is a brilliant conversation which I could subtitle - "The Power of a Chat over a Cup of Tea". As this is how they came together as a foiunding duo, and how they make connection...

On this week's epsiode we celebrate the first birthday of the business founded by my guests Kate Merritt & Laura Braithwaite . In Febuary 2021, Kate and Laura launched Liberty Hive connecting media, marketing and martech specialists to businesses quickly and easily. Their vision is to disrupt the media industry by dialling up flexibility in the workplace, made possible by creating a dedicated...

My guest founder this week is Ben Gallagher from B+A - a research and strategy consultancy. Ben began his career as a journalist working at the intersection of youth culture and politics on the team that launched Sir David Frost’s seminal magazine programme with Al Jazeera International. Following this he worked as a strategist at a number of leading London advertising agencies before crossing to...

In this the first episode of series 4 of The Mojo Podcast, I talk to Ally Owen founder of the Brixton Finishing School Her mission is to help make the advertising industry more diverse by introducing and training talent from previously under-represented backgrounds. See below for more details and links. You'll hear an amazing founder story in this episode. Ally talks about the catalyst to leaving...

Welcome back to The Mojo Podcast - series 4 This season, I’ll be talking to an incredible group of Founders - people who found their Mojo by creating something new - a business, brand, charity, movement or community. In this series we shine a light on the approaches, habits and attitudes of successful founders.  You'll hear inspiring stories and key lessons from a wide variety of people - some who...

And here we are, the final episode of a wonderfully varied 3rd series of The Mojo Podcast. And what a way to finish, a hugely enjoyable and inspiring conversation with former England Rugby 7s captain, Ollie Phillips. But being a former Rugby professional (and once voted best 7s player in the world) is a mere snippet of who Ollie is. He's a global adventurer, world record holder, entrepreneur and b...

Sarah Robb O'Hagan is a high-energy combination of disruptive business leader, fitness fanatic, and cheerleading mom, having been named among Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business” and Forbes "Most Powerful Women in Sports". She led the reinvention and turnaround of Gatorade as its global president, the digital transformation of Equinox Fitness Clubs as its President and the transformat...

This week's episode is all about dreaming big, no matter what the obstacles in your way might be. I have the great pleasure of talking to Captain Donald Lawson about his dream to be the first African American to compete in the epic and perilous Vendée Globe Non-Stop-Solo-Round-The-World yacht race in 2024. His course towards this epic voyage was set at the age of 9 when he found himself on a large...

Let me introduce this week's amazing guest with a quote about her: “If Superman and WonderWoman had a love child it would be Lara” Richard Reed CBE, Founder of Innocent Lara Milward is an athlete, entrepreneur, mother, leader and advocate. She believes that the physical and the psychological are intrinsically linked. She believes that ‘I move therefore I think’ and that confidence can be trained j...

A real treat of an episode this week as I interview someone whose books I've devoured and whose podcast I can't get enough of. He is somone who is exceptionally well placed to talk about mojo in sport. Professor Damian Hughes is a sports psychologist and visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. An expert on high-performance sporting cultures, Damian's research has been praised by...

This week I have the great pleasure of talking to a role model from the world of Women's Rugby    Marlie Packer plays her club rugby for Saracens and is a regular in the England team. She has a long list of accolades to her name. From her position as flanker she helped England win the Rugby World Cup 2014, in 2017 was a losing finalist vs New Zealand, she is a 4 x Grand Slam winner, and also regul...

This week my guest is Duncan Slater, former Royal Airforce infantry solider and his story of injury, recovery and incredible sporting achievement. We start in the far north of Scotland, then move to war-torn Afghanistan before taking us to the searing heat of the Saharan desert in southern Morocco. Duncan talks very candidly about the incident in Afghanistan which left him critically injured after...

This week on The Mojo Podcast we delve into the world of US College sports: high stakes, high pressure environments where massive professional contracts in the NFL or NBA can be dreamed of, but only for the very talented few. A world where student athletes combine full-time studies with elite level full-time athletic performance. Indeed, US College sports collectively takes more annual revenue tha...

This week The Mojo Podcast meets Adam Burgess, TeamGB canoe slalom medal prospect at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games. In a sport where the margins are so fine, where your course is constantly moving and flowing and the difference between winning Gold and coming in 10th maybe a couple of seconds. Success is as likely to be down to how you set up mentally for a run as your physical preparedness and ski...

Welcome to the first episode of series 3 of The Mojo Podcast This week I talk to Great Britain Para Table Tennis star Martin Perry. Born with no hands and one leg, Martin found a natural attraction to sport growing up with his three older brothers in Paisley, Scotland. He found his calling at aged 16, as he says, "table tennis seemed the obvious choice for a guy with no hands”. After being inspire...