The Ben Price Experience

A business automated a three-hour weekly report down to one click. Steve Jones asked a simple question: what does she do with those three hours now? Nobody knew. "Strategy should drive AI. AI shouldn't drive strategy." In this conversation, Steve explains why most businesses will waste the capacity AI creates, and why staff who save time with AI often hide it. He shares how IKEA chose to redeploy...

"An affirmation really is a wish." If you have ever said something positive to yourself in the mirror and heard your inner critic laugh, you already know the problem. Fiona Mary Ferrar explains why. Flipping a judgement over like a pancake leaves the roots in the ground. In this episode of The Ben Price Experience, Fiona explains how she builds declarations with her clients. First you find the old...

Jonny Wilkinson has said openly that he was both successful and miserable at the same time. Simon Hartley worked with him for many years, and he believes you do not have to trade one for the other. In this episode of The Ben Price Experience, Simon shares what he has learned from studying the best in the world. That includes Olympians, F1 pit crews and a world barista champion. He explains why som...

"Your life demonstrates what it is that you really value." Many capable men believe they have lost their sense of purpose. Seamus Fox, a coach to founders and business owners for over two decades, argues it never left. It shows up in where you spend your time, money and energy. In this episode of The Ben Price Experience, Seamus explains how to spot your real values and why "should" and "have to"...

James O'Keefe was arrested many times for fighting and stealing. Today he teaches men, and professional boxers, how to use the breath to stay in control. In this episode, James breaks down what he does when he feels the old reaction rise. He takes a breath, questions whether the feeling is true, and asks what his part is in the situation. Ben shares the difference between anger and rage, and the m...

J ames Hassett has spent twenty years in sport and human performance, and close to a decade of it running on almost no energy. In this episode of The Ben Price Experience he explains why founder fatigue is an energy problem rather than a time problem, and what to do about it. James worked in sports marketing at Reebok before moving on to the 2007 Rugby World Cup and the London 2012 Olympic and Par...

What does it take to build the capacity for more without simply adding more pressure? In this episode of The Ben Price Experience, I sit down with Adam W. Barney to explore what happens when the next level of leadership requires more than just working harder. Adam spent two decades in the corporate world, managing more than $100 million in advertising spend and leading teams inside global organisa...

Ben Coomber finished a charity event simulating the ascent of Everest, had a beer and a pizza with his brother, and woke up the next morning unable to get out of bed. He was not unfit. He had built three companies, trained hard, played sport and travelled constantly. A year later he still could not walk two thousand steps without spending the following day unable to move. What he had was long COVI...

Most men who hit the number do not talk about the week that follows. Will Polston has a name for what leads up to it. He calls it "when-then syndrome". When I achieve this, then I will be okay. When I get there, then I will be all right. He was running it himself for twenty years, and he can trace where it started. He was about ten. His father left the house at five in the morning, came home at ei...

Former paratrooper Keith J Abraham on ayahuasca, psychedelic therapy for veterans, and ten days alone in the Peruvian jungle. Keith served in Iraq and then Afghanistan in the summer of 2008. When he came home the standard routes did not touch what he was carrying. He tried antidepressants three times and stopped, describing himself as devoid of all emotion, blank and feeling nothing. He would rath...

Men don’t need another lecture about “toxic masculinity.” They need somewhere they can tell the truth. In this raw conversation, I sit down with Jonnie Jensen, founder of the High Value Man Project, to explore what happens when a man loses himself inside work, marriage, fatherhood and the pressure to hold everything together. Jonnie speaks openly about losing his mother at nine, being beaten by hi...

Owen O'Malley started meditating at four years old. Not because anyone taught him. He just pulled the covers over his head and went somewhere else entirely. Then school happened. University. A career in salmon farming. Thirty years of the matrix, as he calls it. And then Tony Robbins, a room full of the world's wealthiest people, and a system that changed everything. What Owen taught me about mone...

James Preece is a leading UK dating coach with over 21 years of experience helping single men and women find love and navigate the frustrations of modern dating. In this episode we cover why "be yourself" is the worst dating advice you will ever receive, the real reason men are struggling on dating apps, attachment styles and what yours is telling you about your past, the Superman complex and why...

You've built the business. Led the team. Hit the numbers everyone said mattered. And somewhere underneath all of it, a quiet voice keeps asking: who am I to be doing this? When does someone finally work it out? In this episode, I sit down with Michael Serwa, a coach with over fourteen years of experience working exclusively with high achievers, to talk about the imposter syndrome that almost no su...

Ben sits down with Kenny Mammarella-D'Cruz, the Man Whisperer, a men's group facilitator with nearly 30 years of experience helping men get out of survival mode and into a life that's actually alive. Kenny's story is extraordinary: raised in a Welsh refugee camp after fleeing Uganda, shaped by Fiji, Calcutta and decades of working with men at their lowest. He had to unfuck himself first before he...

In this episode, Ben introduces the King's Reckoning, a truth-gathering exercise that will shatter your illusions about who you are. This is a 360 review. But it's terrifying. And it's essential. What You'll Discover You Have a Completely False Idea of Who You Are Every man has blind spots. Not flaws. Just behaviors, energies, and patterns that are obvious to everyone else but invisible to you. Le...

The Leadership Audit: Why You Can't Lead Others Until You Lead Yourself In this episode, Ben introduces the King's Leadership Audit, the tool that reveals whether you're actually leading or just managing consequences. This isn't about your business performance or your team's results. It's about you. What You'll Discover Why Self-Leadership Comes First No one will follow a man who cannot lead himse...

In this episode, Ben walks through the Kingmaker Journal and explores the question that determines everything: Who are you? Why are you here? This isn't abstract philosophy. This is the foundation of your initiation. What You'll Discover Why Most People Get This Wrong You think your identity is your job, your role, your achievements. But there's something deeper underneath. Something truer. This e...

In this episode, Ben tackles one of the biggest blind spots in entrepreneurship: the inability to see progress. Most business owners feel like they're not making progress. They feel behind. They feel like they're failing. But the truth is, they're just not acknowledging what's actually working. What You'll Learn Why Seeing Gaps Becomes a Liability The skill that got you here (spotting problems and...

The Kingmaker Journal Why Identity is Everything In this episode, Ben the Kingmaker Journal, a tool he's developed to help entrepreneurs and leaders build the structure, energy and flexibility needed for sustainable success. But this isn't about productivity hacks or business strategies. It's about who you're being. What You'll Learn The Three Elements of Success Energy, flexibility, and structure...

The Questions Every Man Never Learns to Answer There is an architecture to masculine development. It is not random. It does not happen at random times for random people. There are questions your nervous system has been asking since before you could walk and most men go to their grave without ever answering them. In this episode, Ben Price maps the developmental stages of a man's life, from infancy...

In this episode, Ben Price sits down with coach, mentor, and guide Ian Price to dissect the hidden psychological barriers that keep even the most successful entrepreneurs from reaching their full potential. From the "wrong narratives" we inherit in childhood to the sophisticated ways we sabotage our own growth, Ian explores why million-pound business owners still struggle with imposter syndrome an...

80% of all suicides are male. Boys are falling behind girls at every academic level. 90% of girls in British schools report sexual harassment. These are not separate problems. Ben Price — former British Army Intelligence Corps soldier, father of two sons, men's coach and initiator — makes the case that every crisis of young men in Britain today traces back to the same missing thing: initiation. In...

Most men were never shown the way. No rite of passage. No elder. No moment where someone looked them in the eye and said, you're ready. Ben Price is a men's coach, former British Army Intelligence Corps officer, and founder of The Kingmaker Initiation Programme. He works with entrepreneurial men who are outwardly successful but know something is missing. This podcast is that conversation. The one...

1. THE CROSSING - Men, Initiation and the Second Half of Life Most successful men hit their 40s with everything they were told to want. And feel nothing. This conversation with Ori Latter, men's coach, former Israeli soldier and single dad, goes into why achievement without initiation leaves men hollow and what the crossing into the second half of life actually demands. Key soundbites: 00:02 "A lo...