Movers + Mavericks

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

Be curious about what you read and who you train with.This weeks podcast is a result of a t shirt a guy would wear when we trained alongside each other @whitehartcrossfit. Efrem Brynin trains @whitehartcrossfit and I remember seeing his T shirt with the logo and slogan Strongmen on it. I got it but I also didn’t until I began to see a few more around in the box. So I got curious about what it meant and what it was for.Turns out Strongmen is a bereavement charity Efrem founded with Daniel Cross after being connected by one of the SAS Who Dares Wins team as they had both been on the show and suffered from unexpected loss.Hearing this it felt right to do what we can to share what they are doing and how just because culture has shown that men deal with life events like bereavement in one way, does not mean they aren’t looking for a more connected way for them to express the rise and fall of grief and bereavement which can literally make a once stable world fall apart around the person.We are all strong, and cultu

The sports field is literally a proving ground, and in this weeks podcast we explore an idea that maybe the proving ground is not fully understood and that we often attempt to prove something that doesn't need to be proven. That, you are enough and you have always been enough.Now imagine what that shift in understanding would do to how we show up on the field, that you are in the field because of who you are.That is what I take from our podcast with @rick_cooper, ex rugby player, fireman and now leadership coach and speaker. We talk, Competition. Connection. Resilience. Leadership, how to pick yourself up when you are told you will never walk again and more.Thanks brother for your time, as always it was a pleasure.If you like the pod and feel like buying us a coffee to keep us fueled, then follow the link in the bio.Peace☮️, love❤️ and rigor✊.

Welcome to the weMove podcast. When does sticking at things and never quitting become detrimental and negative to progress? Quitting, is a term that has so many negative connotations. There is so much glamour in the social media feeds of never quitting, doing something whatever it takes that it can get clouded and confused. I am all for the idea of not quitting, but sometimes I do wonder what it’s all about when slogging away at something, where the stakes are not related to what really matters, like life/death. Todays podcast is with David ‘Jacko’ Jackson, one half of @schoolofcalisthenics, former professional rugby player who had to make the decision to call time on his professional playing career due to culmination of impacts, tackles which were slowly over time affecting his longevity as a human. Jacko suffered a seizure during practice, leading to the necessary scans etc to confirm that the life forward from then on would need to be different. This is where quitting is legitimate, though still a tough pi

Chris and James riff on Paul Warrior's 30 day Atlas ball program and Chris' dive into  Shadow Work

Chris and James discuss thoughts from 2020

This weeks episode we are on the bike, exploring one persons infatuation with the bike, or at least that’s what he was originally thought it was.Turns out it was a vehicle for expression, but not of the ego image that is so often the case. But something deeper, the bike was a support vehicle to connect with what was needed. To grieve the passing of his dad, a big transition in the scheme of life. We spoke to Dhiren half way through this year and this conversation really was a gem. Articulate, and willing to ask questions of himself that many suppress, Dhiren spoke about cycling, the infatuation that occurs when we begin the movement journey of a specific genre (in this case cycling), the addiction of feeling fitter, stronger, more capable and the all too common gentle attrition of the physical self that comes from endurance pursuits.Sports are neutral, inert. It is us that give them a charge be that positive or negative. I fear that we are illiterate and ill prepared in our comprehension of why we move. That