The Mojo Podcast

The Mojo Podcast returns on Jan 25th for Series 3 Another series of Revealing, Inspiring & Positive stories from amazing guests. Sharing what they have learned from their Mojo Journey, for you to think about and apply to your life. Series 3 is all about Sporting Endeavour. I’ll be taking to elite performers, World Cup winning players, athletes who have taken on incredible challenges, as well a...

A timely and poignant episode to end the second series of The Mojo Podcast. This week I'm joined by Nadine Asmar from her home in Beirut. Nadine is a resilient entrepreneur with an international experience of more than 20 years in business strategy and human capital development. She has led teams, launched brands and worked in volatile markets. She believes in the importance of rebalancing the rel...

What does it feel like to step up onto a stage in front of 50,000 people? What does it take to put your heart and soul into a song you've written and then wait for the reaction? And how do you truly understand what you're supposed to be in life? These are some of the areas we cover in this week's episode as I'm joined by singer/songwriter/music teacher Shean Williams. Shean has been involved in th...

This week on The Mojo Podcast my guest is Ben Branson the founder of Seedlip and Æcorn Drinks , the world’s first distilled non-alcoholic spirits and aperitifs. Ben shares the ups and downs of his mojo journey from conceiving the idea for Seedlip in his kitchen and his first listing in Selfridges to where the brand is now. With offices in the Chilterns, Los Angeles and Sydney, Seedlip is now avail...

Welcome to the Mojo Podcast This week we’re looking at the not insubstantial subject of Global Harmony & Universal Mojo Much of what I speak to guests about each week is very personal and individual mojo. This week I wanted to look at our Collective or Universal mojo a little more Why now you may ask? Well, this is a something of a rare episode as I’ve also timed it to coincide with an event t...

How much attention do you give to how you are sitting or standing right? How does your body feel? Are there any niggling areas of pain? Maybe you favour a certain position or stance because it just feels better for some reason. This week on The Mojo Podcast it's about our posture; how we hold ourselves, how we sit, stand and walk. After breathing these are perhaps the most basic, unconscious actio...

What does it take to leave what on paper looks like the best job in the world? Why would you want to turn your back on life in 1st class seats, five-star hotels and Michelin star restaurants? This week the Mojo Podcast investigates the mojo behind entrepreneurialism - the burning desire to step out of a corporate role and to create something of your own. And I have not just one amazing guest, but...

The image in the logo of the Mojo Podcast is a vibrant butterfly - I love the image and the symbolism for a podcast about how we deal with, learn from and grow from change in our lives. And this week's episode is right on the money in this area. My guest this week is Mark Shayler and he talks to me about his own development and growth - his path to transcendence . Mark very openly and honestly poi...

We've probably all experienced a form of trauma in our lives - loss, sickness, abuse, discrimination, injury, redundancy - and right now trauma levels seem to be at a peak. This week we look at what can grow beyond the despair of trauma and these experiences can fundamentally reshape us and even provide renewed purpose in life. My guest has lived through her own experience of deep trauma following...

How are your key long term relationships doing in this strangest of years? Relationships with your partners and loved ones, with friends, with colleagues and yes, of course, the key one - your relationship with yourself. Whether by choice or not - you may have spent some time reflecting on these relationships recently. What's the context for your key relationships? What do they mean to you? How ar...

This week on the Mojo Podcast we talk about finding your true path in life, in my guest's case - her true colours. Karen Haller is a leading international authority in the field of applied colour psychology, specialising in business brand colour, interiors, healthcare and wellbeing. Having studied colour for over 20 years she understands how colour affects us, influences us and how businesses and...

This week on The Mojo Podcast we talk about how to have a radically different relationship with money. My guest this week has done just that. Born in Nigeria, a migrant to the UK as a teenager - Ken Okoroafor grew up seeing his parents struggling day in day out just to get by. This experience drove him on to seek a new path. We talk about how Ken used education as his launchpad, and how he beat th...

The electronic dance music industry is known for its superstar DJs and dynamic club culture, its synonymous with partying hard and good times but perhaps not with so well known as the rock and pop music industry for raising money and supporting charity, despite the billions of dollars dance music generates every year (* yes 2020 apart which has been something of a challenging year). My guest this...

A very warm welcome back to The Mojo Podcast - it's wonderful to be back with the second series of the show that goes in search of the meaning of mojo and looks to understand this vital essence. Every week I talk to a diverse group of brave and fascinating guests about their own mojo story. My guests openness leads to revealing and inspiring conversations for you to hear and, as part of my mission...

After a short break as we welcomed our baby son into the world, the Mojo Podcast returns for it's second series from August 3rd. Listen in each week as we meet a diverse group of brave and fascinating guests with amazing mojo stories to share. They reveal how they lost and regained their mojo. And how they work hard to keep their mojo right where they need it to be. Their incredible life experienc...

As one listener to the Mojo Podcast pointed out in a recent review - this podcast series is about "deep and raw conversations that offer great perspectives each week". And that is an excellent summary of this week's conversation, which is the last in the first series of the Mojo Podcast. Louis Nethercott is a former Royal Marine Commando, veteran of tours in Afghanistan and now one half of a duo o...

This week, The Mojo Podcast talks to a prominent social media creator to understand the impact of publicly sharing much of your life on your mojo.   Joanna Shimwell is a creator, farmer, businesswoman and adventure sports fanatic. She shares her life on the farm, on her bike and in freezing cold lakes with 1000s of followers on Instagram & You Tube every day.   On this episode Joanna very cand...

My guest this week has been in actual storms and he’s helped people find their way out of their own personal storms. Richard Bellars is a true traveller; leading expeditions, going on adventures and doing great work all over the world. In this episode, Richard shares his experience and hard-won wisdom. Our conversation is full of gems of ideas, learning and techniques for finding calm, which we ca...

This week's episode is about courage in the face of disease. Indeed, finding the beauty within dis-ease. My guest this week is Carrie Montgomery and she knows a thing or two about resilience, courage and adaptability. Developed in the face of a long history of medical issues in her life from breaking her back as an 18 year old to most recently contracting encephalitis at the end of 2019. She has u...

Life is full of ups and downs. How we cope with the rollercoaster of life often defines us. My guest this week has certainly experienced the highs and lows of life. From performing on-stage with Fat Boy Slim in front of 500,000 revellers in Rio to mixing cement on a wet Brighton building site a few days later. Howard Boyle tells his mojo story of escape. From a chance decision to make his way to I...

My guest this week is Ben Arogundade the author of “My Terrifying, Shocking, Humiliating, Amazing Adventures In Online Dating” in which he chronicles his own dating experiences as a man in his early 50s thrust into the app-dominated world of dating. During his time dating he worked out how to make the system work for you rather than against you, and he shares his both painful and hilarious anecdot...

In a time of crisis, how do we consider the possibilities beyond our immediate anxiety? We're all looking out into the unknown right now, it’s both uncomfortable and strangely exhilarating. Leading to perhaps a clash of feelings and thoughts, certainly something I've been considering this past week. My mojo has been all over the place. So my conversation with Barry Holmes was perfectly timed and i...

This week's episode is all about energy. Energy is at the core of my mojo and many of the people I’ve interviewed so far. So I wanted to go deeper on the subject of energy and understand why it's so foundational to our mojo. To do this I turned to a global expert on energy and someone who works daily to help individuals and businesses increase their energy Chris Baréz Brown is the founder of Uppin...

This week’s episode is all about kindness - what that looks like in the workplace and how it can be a business superpower My guest today epitomises prolific kindness in his work and brings tremendous energy and vigour to the show. Daniele Fiandaca is co-founder of Utopia - the business change consultancy. Also the Co-founder of Token Man - an initiative to give Men in industry a better understandi...

*International Women's Day special episode* What happens when your work life and personal life are put into conflict and hard choices have to be made? How do you thrive in motherhood when your very identity is challenged? How do you recalibrate what success now means for you, when your targets in life fundamentally change? Well this is exactly what my guest today faced and overcame before setting...