Movers + Mavericks

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast This week we are going into world of mindset and specifically resilience with a chap who’s about as as well versed in resilience as you can be as he served in the UK Special Forces for many years. Simon Jeffries has taken much of what learned during his time at the pointy end of things and combined it with neuroscience and other psychological methodologies to create The Natural Edge, a company and program he has co founded to support individuals and groups to develop robust and resilient mindset practices. Because we all know that the hardest part in anything is quietening the voice inside our head that tells us to stop, or stay in bed a little longer. This is a podcast I have been wanting to have for many months, but timings weren’t quite right, so I’m rally pleased we have gotten the chance to do it.We talked about a bunch of things, the usual resilience aspects but also about emotions and how in order to become truly resilient we have to be aware of our emotions

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast. This week is the last of our series on food following on from Dr. Jenny Goodmans 2 episodes “Staying Alive in Toxic Times”. I have to say it was an unexpected podcast and as is often the way just an unexpectedly good conversation, full of insight from left field and an area that we hadn't necessarily thought about, which followed on from the overall conversations with that we've been having in this series whether Abby Rose of Farmerama, Peter Greig of Piper's farm, or Glen burrows at Ethical Butcher. I say left field because entering the Regenerative Farming rabbit hole, can easily be clouded by a meat-only bias. And remember this all started with talking about “staying alive in toxic times” whilst supporting our individual, personal health, rather than an eating bias/dogma, which is where seems to be the media portrayal of Regen Farming, an opposition of meat versus plants rather than it being about a return to the principles of nature, homeostasis,

Hey there and welcome to the we move podcast. So we've had a few weeks off for the start of the year coinciding with a few weeks of waiting for our guests to become available. So this week we are continuing our conversations about food and farming, all linked with the podcast titled Staying Alive in Toxic Times. and because, food is super important for us all as it is the root of many of the problems regarding health and wellbeing. Todays episode we speak to Glen Burrows founder of Ethical Butcher who we have had on a couple of times, but this episode is specifically to talk about Regenuary which is the initiative for the month of January to raise awareness and encourage us to buy our food from producers who follow a Regenerative approach to farming, because the food is better for us and the process is better for the planet. What always strikes me is how these ideas for eating, getting healthy, or back in shape tend to be just for a month in the year, rather than a way of living and a constant practice.

Hey there and welcome to the we move podcast. So today we are speaking to Peter Greig from Piper's farm. Peter is not only a generational farmer but also a generational retailer in the sense that the produce the farms grew, they also sold directly through their own family food retail business. Pipers farm started as something different, by Peter to become a destination for meat that is produced sustainably and in harmony with nature. As a retailer it creates links between ethical producers who they know and trust. They believe in Family farms not factory farms moving away from the industrialisation spreadsheet farming Peter talks about seeing first hand, whilst supporting native breeds of animals bringing the idea of local food even more close to its natural source. All Whilst supporting the idea that as a society it’s important to eat less meat and that we do eat has been raised and produced in a way that has respect for the animal, respect for the farmer and respect for the landscape. the 3 vital compo

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast. This week we explore a couple of the themes from our episodes with Dr Jenny Goodman, author of Staying Alive in Toxic Times.Why is food today not what food was when our parents and their parents were growing up? What has happened to cause this shift?It became apparent in the podcasts with Jenny that we would need to get a deeper insight into the reasons why the food we eat today is not as nutrient dense and complete as the food our parents and their parents grew up eating, in order to get more of an understanding as to how this connects with the health of the world around us and ourselves.Jenny mentioned these ideas, and more specifically soil health. I mean what even is soil and what is Regenerative Agriculture all about? Is it all hyperbole and buzzwords like so much in the media. And in the UK scene there is one person we go to, Abby Rose. Abby is a farmer, soil health advocate and co-host/producer of the Farmerama podcast. A super podcast resource on farming to

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast. Part 2 this week of our conversation with Dr Jenny Goodman on how to stay alive in toxic times. For those coming to this podcast at this episode, I would recommend listening to part 1 after or before this one. We are talking health, what it is, what it means to be (healthy) and how we can maintain our health in the world we live in as it now more than ever has many aspects which work against our natural body. Without our health we are nothing, and without having a guide on the journey to good health, it becomes increasingly difficult to get there. Dr Goodmans book, the namesake for this series Staying Alive in Toxic Times is a brilliant guidebook for the journey. Informative and easy to read. A must for everyone who is feeling they have more to give and is a little lost on the way. Dr Goodman is fantastic at articulating her experience both in and out of the medical world. Continuing where we left off, we explore the ideas of diets, fads and fashions of eating, fro

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast.Start of a new series with this podcast. Inspired by our guests book, which when I picked up felt like the eloquent and authoritative documentation of methods, approaches, tips and tricks that I have been learning since 2014 when I realised my own health journey was not perhaps the most enjoyable one.And that has been my understanding of what health is for each of us. It’s a journey, that takes us through different ages, stages and environments and the secret sauce to the enjoyment of the journey is awareness, understanding and an approach which is supple. And in that I am talking about an approach that allows us to move through environments which are less enjoyable, be able to anticipate without fear what is approaching us in life. There will be of course unexpected discoveries along the journey of health but having the requisite skills to navigate out of environments which do not cultivate our Selves and beings is essential. And it is the consequences of the envir

Hey there and welcome to the wemove podcast.So, we're now back and looking forward to bringing you the next sort of series of podcasts, we've got two gear ones lined up with a couple of brands that we really fond off for doing very, very different things. And then back to our usual journeying amongst ideas of movement health, well being. So today, we are in conversation with Louis and Staz the founders of Thrudark, a brand which sits at the intersection of outdoor performance, physical training and experience both founders gained in UKSpecial Forces Their prior experience alone makes them interesting guys, but how did two operators get to becoming designers and creators of some of the most advanced and rigorous gear on the market today?Knowing what is needed when it is actually a matter of life and death gives a very clear filter and perspective in which to create something necessary, and this is where the idea started. From experience in some of the most hostile environments in the world. So it&apo

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast. Another gear one this week where I talking to two founders Lamorna and Tamara of Blue Elvin on a mission to transform a woman's ability to train.Blue Elvin which makes very specific products for power is engineered for women who do functional training, and uses pioneering impact technology to protect the body from barbell bruises and scrapes. Because whilst some invariably guys like to wear their bruises or their bruises, scrapes and gashes with pride. There are people that don't, and I don't blame them because it really hurts when you get your shins caught on the wrong side of a solid object.So they started training back in 2016 but didn't really anticipate the transformative effect that it would have on their lives, they became physically stronger and fitter, and as a result started to think differently, becoming more resilient to problems, more patient to learn complex movements and this filters through to other areas of life.But in their own

Hey there and welcome to the weMove Gear podcast where I talk to brands who have caught our eye by doing something we find interesting or would wear and use. These are not gear reviews per se, rather conversations about the journey from the start to the present and onwards. Inspired by my interest in the people behind the brand, because it is their energy that comes through in the product and makes for something special.And this week I catch up with Ryan Wills to talk about his collaboration with Reigning Champ, his inspiration for the range and returning to his past career with fresh eyes and a new perspective.

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast We have been having many conversations with people as we work out the route forward for the podcast and weMove as a whole. Most we haven’t recorded, but these four seemed right record and put out. In a way they are the types of conversation we have when we are on our travels, following a curiosity but with no real set direction. They are the kind of chat we would have around the kitchen table with a brew. In order of release we speak to Rob Wilson, co founder of Art of Breath, chiropractor and master healer Perry Nickelston, friend of weMove and Nurse Paul Jones and to finish the series, music producer and co founder of the band Killing Joke, Martin Glover aka Youth. We will be releasing podcasts under our Gear series, where we talk to the creators of brands in the realm of movement, health and wellbeing and then returning in a few weeks with an updated format for new and existing listeners. Thanks as always for listening, these conversations are ones that might tak

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast We have been having many conversations with people as we work out the route forward for the podcast and weMove as a whole. Most we haven’t recorded, but these four seemed right record and put out. In a way they are the types of conversation we have when we are on our travels, following a curiosity but with no real set direction. They are the kind of chat we would have around the kitchen table with a brew. In order of release we speak to Rob Wilson, co founder of Art of Breath, chiropractor and master healer Perry Nickelston, friend of weMove and Nurse Paul Jones and to finish the series, music producer and co founder of the band Killing Joke, Martin Glover aka Youth. We will be releasing podcasts under our Gear series, where we talk to the creators of brands in the realm of movement, health and wellbeing and then returning in a few weeks with an updated format for new and existing listeners. Thanks as always for listening, these conversations are ones that might tak

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast We have been having many conversations with people as we work out the route forward for the podcast and weMove as a whole. Most we haven’t recorded, but these four seemed right record and put out. In a way they are the types of conversation we have when we are on our travels, following a curiosity but with no real set direction. They are the kind of chat we would have around the kitchen table with a brew. In order of release we speak to Rob Wilson, co founder of Art of Breath, chiropractor and master healer Perry Nickelston, friend of weMove and Nurse Paul Jones and to finish the series, music producer and co founder of the band Killing Joke, Martin Glover aka Youth. We will be releasing podcasts under our Gear series, where we talk to the creators of brands in the realm of movement, health and wellbeing and then returning in a few weeks with an updated format for new and existing listeners. Thanks as always for listening, these conversations are ones that might tak

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast We have been having many conversations with people as we work out the route forward for the podcast and weMove as a whole. Most we haven’t recorded, but these four seemed right record and put out. In a way they are the types of conversation we have when we are on our travels, following a curiosity but with no real set direction. They are the kind of chat we would have around the kitchen table with a brew. In order of release we speak to Rob Wilson, co founder of Art of Breath, chiropractor and master healer Perry Nickelston, friend of weMove and Nurse Paul Jones and to finish the series, music producer and co founder of the band Killing Joke, Martin Glover aka Youth. We will be releasing podcasts under our Gear series, where we talk to the creators of brands in the realm of movement, health and wellbeing and then returning in a few weeks with an updated format for new and existing listeners. Thanks as always for listening, these conversations are ones that might tak

Hey there and welcome to the weMove Gear podcast where I talk to brands who have caught our eye by doing something we find interesting or would wear and use. These are not gear reviews per se, rather conversations about the journey from the start to the present and onwards. Inspired by my interest in the people behind the brand, because it is their energy that comes through in the product and makes for something special.And this week I catch up with Asher Clark, Creative Director for Vivo Barefoot who we are no strangers to ourselves. The barefoot revolution seems to be gaining momentum and Vivo are doing good things in this space, as you would expect from the team who literally have shoe making in their genes. The surname Clark is no coincidence here.Asher knows his game and is super open about what Vivo are trying to do and most interestingly for me anyway is how they see what they make as foot wear rather than shoes. We talk about the elephant in the room of the “ugly shoe” which barefoot brands for sure f

Hey there and welcome to the weMove Gear podcast.This is a new and I am hoping on-going series where I talk to brands who have caught our eye by doing something we find interesting or would wear and use. Gear has always been an area of interest for me, from selecting climbing gear as a youth to starting my own brand back in 2005. And what these conversations are about is the interest I have for the people who start the brands because they think they can do something special. Because for me it is those reasons that people resonate with something. You can feel that energy. These are not gear reviews but rather conversations about the journey from the start to the present and onwards.We kick off our new podcast series on Gear this week with a chat with Seb Beasant, founder of the active wear brand Torsa who feature on our site in a review of the core offering they have. We chat through his start in the industry to what he sees as his and Torsas role in the world of making clothing and the plans for the future.I

Hey there, welcome to the weMove podcast.From day one we believed and still do that movement is perhaps the most important tool for self-discovery and becoming a better version of ourselves.Whilst this idea is very easily commercialised and the meaning lost in favour of the latest colour of t-shirt. The importance of movement has never gone away.When you move, you see the world in a different way. When you see the world in a different way, positive internal changes begin to happen. Problems that you had no longer seem to be front and center of your mind, and solutions that you needed somehow appear.Now when you combine movement with an active pursuit to work through an issue or problem to make sense of it, that can feel like quite a powerful combination.And that is where we pick up this week's podcast with a chap called William Pullen, a psychotherapist and author who specialises in depression, anxiety, self-confidence and “boarding school syndrome” who uses running as the vehicle for working through blo

What’s it like to go from smoking 60 cigarettes on a night out, to waking up the next day and deciding to make a change and take up running. Something as simple as running round the block can literally move you to change your life and that is where this week’s weMove podcast goes. We talk to Simon Freeman, co-founder of running publication Like The Wind magazine. Having met Simon a few years ago, through a shared interest in printed magazines with weMove and Like the Wind we knew him to be a runner but I never really asked him why he ran, and even his where his passion for running came from, we would simply shoot the breeze and put the world to rights. And it's one of those stories that could easily be applied to anyone who is looking for a change or a re routing of there current life path. Simon is a regular guy who made a couple of decisions based on his life and channelled that energy into something more positive unintentionally taking him on a journey that would see him finish in the top 100 at the L

Hey there and welcome to the we move podcast.This week we are catching up with Carl Paoli, who was the first person we had lined up to see when we started weMove. For those of you who haven’t heard of Carl, I heard of Carl as a result of his bestselling book Freestyle Connection, What I then found out was that he was coaching gymnastics movements to various action sports athletes and also at the time some of the fittest people on the planet in the CrossFit realm. So he came with a professional pedigree that interested me back in 2015/16 when I was exploring movement over sport.So Chris and I met with Carl in San Francisco that began the start of a connection as we were unknowingly on a similar trajectory for challenging what we had become for we can be.Carle was definitely experiencing, and explaining movement in that way. To move by feel, to understand the foundations, and when, when you understand the foundations, you can go and explore for yourself, and that makes the movement the practice whatever you&apo

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast.Breaking up our, loose theme on Shadow Work, masculinity, and self-improvement. Chris and I wanted to speak to someone who's within our circle, and is a nutritional therapist, and that's Grace Kingswell.We've known Grace for a while. But what made this podcast timely, was her calling out of Oatly the non-dairy milk brand in particular their ‘Barista version’ for it’s use of ingredients which are known to compromise health and vitality, whilst being marketed as a positive health choice.So we wanted to speak to Grace about this because she has and is positively vocal about this new trend for industrially produced non dairy drinks and her comments were triggering a lot of people about how to eat, what to eat and why to eat.I feel she's got some super, valid points. Chris and I are not nutritionists, or nutritional therapists, but we are our own nutritional experiments of one who have discovered without doubt, that a return to simplicity in what we e