The Motive Podcast

On this week's episode of The Motive Podcast is Jason Graystone. Jason helps people achieve true financial independence and live their most inspired life. Jason Graystone started his first business at 22 years old. Since then, he has built multimillion-dollar businesses online as well as the service sector. As well as a successful entrepreneur, Jason is a professional investor, speculator and...

On this week's episode of The Motive Podcast is Liam Tuohy, a health and fitness coach who specialises in helping neurodivergent clients. After becoming a qualified health and fitness coach and being diagnosed with ADHD himself, Liam set out to help those like him stay on the right track by channelling their energy into health and fitness. Building his company from the ground up by himself, Li...

On this weeks episode of The Motive Podcast is Matt Fiddes, a respected expert in the international world of martial arts, fitness, and entrepreneurship. Matt first discovered a talent for martial arts at seven years old after being bullied at school. Five years later, he won his Black Belt. Leaving school at sixteen with no qualifications, Matt opened the first Matt Fiddes Martial Arts School in...

On this weeks episode of The Motive Podcast is Carl Scott and his girlfriend Karla. Carl talks about being an ex gang member, losing his friend to knife crime and also being a victim of knife crime himself. He also explores his experiences with abuse, drug addiction and prison. Karla explains what life is like with a partner struggling with staying clean and on the straight and narrow. Carl has tu...

Terry Dunnage was set alight by his uncle in Paignton, Devon 2007. His uncle subsequently died in the fire whilst Terry survived by jumping out of a window. However things changed forever and Terry spent the next 3 months of his life in a coma fighting for his life. Further battles of immense proportions were to follow and it ended with Terry wanting to end it all. Fast forward 17 years and Terry...

A man who stood his ground and didn't run. Roy Larner saved countless lives with his heroic actions during the London Bridge Terror Attack. Three machete-wielding terrorists deliberately drove a rented van into pedestrians on London Bridge before rampaging through Borough Market slashing, stabbing and murdering people in and around pubs and restaurants. Having kicked and battered their way thr...

Chris Baker tells his story on The Motive Podcast this week. He opens up on how the managed to turn his life of crime around and plans to help others do the same. Chris' journey is a crazy one. Suffering trauma throughout his life such as his dad being sentenced to life in prison, being racially abused, losing his arm and facing multiple stints behind bars. Chris is now doing incredible work i...

A normal guy who wants more from life, Aaron Knightley is an energetic, loud and larger than life personality who has always sought hard work and a "good old challenge". ​ Coming from a very hard working background, Aaron learned the true value of never giving up and always striving for better! Family first and foremost! ​ An Investor, Entrepreneur and Content Creator, Aaron loves the en...

At the age of 21, James was diagnosed with Acute Myloid Leukaemia and underwent five months of intensive chemotherapy. Determined to resume training for the sport he loved, James began the road to physical recovery as soon as he achieved remission. Within a few days of returning home he was back in the gym and immediately returned to university to complete his final year of studies. He did all thi...

On this week's episode of The Motive Podcast is Jack Draper, a former Boxer and current Bare Knuckle Fighter. Jack was 10-years-old when he first became interested in boxing. He trained on and off until his first boxing match when he was 17. He has 12 boxing matches under his belt with eight wins and four loses. In bare-knuckle bouts, Jack has had had four fights with three wins and one draw....

This week's guest on The Motive Podcast is Atiq Rehman, a man who has made it his mission to provide support and spread kindness through charity and good deeds. After losing a very good friend to cancer, Atiq felt lost and was unsure what to do. Through this he, along with friends set up and registered his first charity Children of Adam. Since then he has also set up Unspoken where he has help...

From drug runner to ultra runner. That's how Christian Quick describes himself in his social media profiles. But there is so much more to his story. Growing up in Newmarket, Christian recounts how he fell into the drug scene while still at school and before long found himself selling to 'people in the public eye.'Christian details how he became so rooted in the 'club community'...

This week's guest on The Motive Podcast, Marc Singer is a highly trained professional coach, a graduate of (IPEC) the institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching. After being badly bullied at school, Marc became involved in a gang full of violence and drugs. Although having enjoyed a great upbringing and from a loving family, he went off the rails. Having moved on from that life, he found...

From playing a White Walker to being battered by Batman and bruised by Bond, Erol Ismail has a career that stuntmen around the world could envy. You've probably seen him in many of your favourite films and tv shows, but never realised who exactly you were looking at. Erol has played characters and performed stunts in Game of Thrones, James Bond, The Batman and many more, including the new Aqua...

Lucia Farina's story is one of resilience, grit and determination. This week's guest on The Motive Podcast, Lucia holds nothing back as she speak about traumatic experiences that led her to run away from home at sixteen years-old, before later moving to Australia to build a new life for herself. Lucia's gripping episode explores how to deal with your inner demons, love yourself and ult...

Stefan-Pierre Tomlin, who shot to fame as Tinder's most-swiped man, is this week's guest on The Motive Podcast. Now a successful model and businessman, Stefan tells how he was scouted by Abercrombie & Fitch while working at Hamleys, and reveals how juggles his many businesses. The man who received 14,6000 swipers on Tinder also reveals his tips for the well-known dating app and a secre...

Former “Machachari” actor Ian Nene, alias Almasi, is this week's guests on The Motive Podcast. Ian tells George of how he came to learn of his mother's diagnosis of cancer and how he dealt with it at a young age. Later, Ian would leave home and convert to Hinduism, going on to live in the monastery for a number of years, before moving to England where he still resides. In this brutally hon...

This week's guest on The Motive Podcast is Joanna Montgomery, the founder of Little Riot, a company that creates human-centric technology products. After creating a viral internet sensation with first product ‘Pillow Talk’, a device for connecting families across distance, Joanna continues to explore ways for people to stay connected, but not distracted. Joanna tells George just how a universi...

Michael Likalu's story is one of inspiration and dedication that few can comprehend. Being left homeless and alone in Congo as a child when his family moved to the UK, Michael re-united with them years later only to find himself on the streets again, relying on the kindness of to provide him with a safe play to stay. Taking inspiration from the great Floyd Mayweather, Michael decided that boxi...

MasterChef winner Steven Edwards is this week's guest on The Motive Podcast. Since winning MasterChef: The Professionals in 2013 and becoming one of the youngest ever winners of the competition at the age of 26, Steven has gone on to open up hsis own company 'etch', offering diners a chance to experience Steven's food either at their home or at one of his pop ups held in hotels &am...

Former cricketer turned fitness instructor and gym owner, Javeno Mclean, has taken on an incredible mission to help make exercise more accessible for everyone. Javeno, from Manchester, has won Community Hero Award for his work with the elderly and disabled, helping them get involved with exercise and activities that would have previously been out of reach for them. On this week's episode of Th...

Harry Harvey, founder of ‘The UK’s Premier Garage Flooring Company’, Garage Style, is this week's guests on The Motive Podcast. Business runs in the family and so it was for Harry too when he set out on his own venture with Garage Style. Before long business was booming and he now employs a team of expert garage floor layers who work up and down the UK for some of the biggest names in social m...

Neah Tuohy has spent a combined total of 16 years in prison across multiple sentences. She had already been convicted of a string of offences by age 24, at which time she was sentenced to a further 12 years in prison after being found guilty of glassing a man in the face during an altercation at an Essex pub in 2015. In this week's episode of The Motive Podcast, Neah bares all on her time insi...

Former professional boxer turned actor Chris Evangelou is this week's guest on The Motive Podcast. Chris recalls fighting on the undercard for Tyson Fury at Wembley, brushing shoulders with Floyd Mayweather and 50 Cent and goes in detail around his injury that made medical history. Later, discover exactly why Evangelou swapped the ring for the make-up chair as he started to pursue a career in...

British comedian Dapper Laughs is this week's guest on The Motive Podcast. Dapper, real name Daniel O'Reilly, talks us through his journey right from the very start. From becoming a successful comedian to getting cancelled and 'that' Newsnight appearance, to dealing with grief and being ready to 'check out'. Now sober for more than a year and host of his own podcast, Menace...