360 Life Stories

So Jonathan Blakeley didn’t pick up a commentary mic until he was 34. During lockdown, living on his own and working in COVID test centres, he wrote to every non-league football club in London asking if they needed a commentator. He ended up at Kingstonian FC. We talk about calling games sat right in among the fans, a playoff semi-final that pulled in his biggest audience yet (and how much of it h...

So most of us wait until we feel ready before we do the thing. Kim Ingleby reckons that feeling might not turn up at all, and you’re allowed to go anyway. Kim’s a sports therapist and coach who’s worked with Team GB athletes and spoken at TEDx Bristol. Growing up, though, in her words: “I was shy. I was awkward. I was chaotic, messy.” At school she was told the business she wanted to start would n...

Paul Connolly started out in care and counselling. At 40, after a talk at Old Trafford, he went back to university to study sports psychology, and that took him into the dressing room at Manchester City and on to Lancashire Cricket. In this conversation we talk about what he saw behind the scenes in professional sport, why he says there's no research to back up spotting a superstar at six, wha...

So Luke Harrison was the start on Monday guy. All or nothing, every time, and it kept leaving him with nothing. Luke went from bullied kid to miserable plumber to coach and PT in South Shields. In this chat he tells me why the hardest part of changing wasn't learning new habits but letting go of who he thought he was, and what little and often looks like when you actually live it: bed by nine,...

Shane Nugent has spent close to ten years helping people fix their nutrition, and he'll tell you straight that meal plans mostly don't work. In this episode we get into why "the customer is almost never right" in nutrition, what it's actually like running a business through its hardest eighteen months, imposter syndrome that never fully goes away, and some client stories that...

In this episode of 360 Life Stories, Luke Doran talks about building a career that looked successful from the outside while feeling completely unfulfilled inside, the moment his wife's pregnancy scan changed everything, and the decision to walk away from that career to retrain as a personal trainer. We also get into the eleven hour surgery his newborn son went through, what Luke learned about...

Renee McGregor has spent 25 years working in sports nutrition, including with Olympic, Paralympic, and Commonwealth athletes. In this episode she talks with Iain about reaching what she calls the pinnacle of her career, and realising she wasn't enjoying it. They also get into why over-exercising has become normalised in society, how her approach to nutrition shifted away from just numbers, and...

Saffron was building an elite sports career until one cross-country jump changed everything. This is how she rebuilt. Saffron Cresswell was a decorated rider, winning team medals and competing at the highest levels, when a fall at Bramham International resulted in paralysis. We sit down to discuss the four months of hospitalisation and rehabilitation that followed, and the specific, difficult choi...

My latest conversation is with Alex Chapman, who has spent years coaching everyone from Premier League footballers to Paralympic athletes. We talk about pressure, performance, and what actually matters when you strip both of those away I’m Iain Pritchard. I'm someone who’s spent years working at the intersection of health, performance, and human potential. I’ve helped people from all walks of...

Lottie represented Great Britain in Para Powerlifting at the Paris Paralympic Games. This conversation covers the National Dwarf Games invitation that changed the direction of her life, discovering powerlifting almost by accident, the burnout in 2022 that nearly ended her career, and what it actually took to get back on the platform in Paris.

James Boardman went from Royal Marine Commando and Sniper to helping men rebuild their identity, leadership and self belief from the ground up. In this episode he talks honestly about growing up without stable foundations, why he joined the Marines, what it was like leaving the military after nine years, and how he says that if he hadn't joined up, he'd probably be one of his own clients t...

128 marathons. One rule. Leodhais ran Newcastle to New York in distance, back to back, while working full time. The physical side wasn't the hardest part. He came out of it with a six-word mantra he still uses every day. This episode is about what the miles actually do to you and the conversations they unlock. Follow Lewis on Instagram: ncl_to_nyc

Ryan Cooper Henniker has run global campaigns for Reebok, Adidas, and Y3, launched the first ever global brand campaign for the Lego Group, and now runs his own purpose led agency called Intent. But before any of that, there was an empty club in Manchester, a stunt involving ten guys in matching blue hoodies, and a career built on saying yes before he was ready. In this episode we talk about his e...

Rachel Holmes has spent nearly four decades shaping the group fitness industry, from teaching her first class in her dad's pub function room in 1986 to creating programmes like Fitness Pilates, Menofit, Walking Fit, BrainFit and KSFL, and training instructors around the world. In this episode she talks with Iain about the unglamorous reality behind the classes, building an audience before buil...

Pete Cohen built a career on speed. Fitness competitions, a TV show, a weight loss program that actually worked, all of it fueled by a belief that stopping was dangerous. Then his body disagreed, and it took him ten years to recover. In this conversation, Pete talks about what burnout actually cost him, what he learned from watching his wife Hannah fight her own battle for over a decade, and how b...

A scientist analysing COVID and neurodegeneration… who also writes poetry and plays Ultimate frisbee. Dr Harry T Mason’s journey weaves engineering, medical imaging, AI, and public engagement into something far more human than most people imagine science to be. From Oxford engineering to infant ECG research and AI bias in healthcare, Harry shares how curiosity, compassion, and creativity shape his...

Ever wondered what happens when the glamour of a high-flying City job crumbles? Tim Drummond’s journey from ambitious futures trader to behaviour change coach is a story of reinvention, resilience, and honest self-reflection. What began as personal training evolved into something deeper a systematic approach to psychology, coaching, and sustainable business growth. Tim shares how curiosity about h...

Sophie didn’t plan to work with runners in fact, she once hated running. Now she helps endurance athletes recover better, train smarter, and stay healthy. In this episode of 360 Life Stories , physiotherapist Sophie Vecchione shares her journey from psychology and neuroscience into physiotherapy, her time in the NHS, and what led her to build Run Free Rehab and specialise in endurance sport. We ex...

What happens when the race ends but the drive to perform never does? In this episode of 360 Life Stories , I sit down with Andrew Steele Olympic sprinter turned health tech founder to explore how elite sport, resilience, and curiosity shaped his journey into entrepreneurship. From competing on the world stage to building Stride, a preventative health company connecting DNA, microbiome, and blood d...

What happens when you stop playing by the rules and start asking better questions? In this episode of 360 Life Stories , Ben Dando shares his journey from the high-pressure world of FMCG into founding his own agency, Uncharted Territory . Along the way, he opens up about burnout, leadership, creativity, and why brand purpose has to go deeper than clever words. This is a conversation about standing...

One sip in New Zealand changed everything. Queues down a Newcastle street made it real. Founder Toby Davison shares how a scrappy market set-up became North Shore from vans and shops to a new roastery training the next wave. This is a story about patience, discipline, and building a brand that puts the North-East on the speciality coffee map. We cover: The ‘wow’ moment that rewired how he saw coff...

Stay in the loop of new episodes - https://360lifestories.co.uk/signup What if starting again isn’t failure, but the beginning? In this episode of 360 Life Stories , Yasmin shares her journey from waitressing with minimal qualifications to becoming a senior NHS physiotherapist and eventually launching her own online practice. Yasmin talks openly about returning to education later in life, navigati...

What happens when theory meets reality and reality doesn’t care about your plans? In this episode of 360 Life Stories , I sit down with Dr Mark Hines an ultra-endurance adventurer and academic who’s spent decades testing performance in the harshest environments on Earth. From 1,000-mile Arctic races and jungle marathons to lecture halls and biomechanics labs, Mark shares what endurance really look...

A single moment can change everything. In this episode of 360 Life Stories , Nigel Whitehouse shares how surviving the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami led him to leave banking and start a luxury truffle business from scratch now selling around the world. We talk persistence, mistakes, learning on the job, navigating COVID, and why owning your brand and marketing matters more than most people think. A grou...

From selling leftover pies in Stoke to helping scale KIND Snacks into a £25m business Ash Cope’s journey is anything but predictable. And the biggest leap of all came when he walked away from corporate safety during a global pandemic with a newborn in his arms. In this episode, Ash shares the real story behind the pivots, risks, stumbles, and deeply personal battles that shaped him and why he now...