Movers + Mavericks

This week, we’re catching up with Ieva and Misha, founders of The Beyond Berlin Club—a growing movement platform based in Berlin.A few weeks ago, Chris and I met Ieva in a cold Berlin to talk about running. What started as a chat about running quickly evolved into a deeper conversation about community, fitness, and their unique approach—one that now includes tennis. The Beyond Berlin Club has been growing steadily over the past couple of years, becoming a hub for people looking for something fresh in their fitness journey. Tennis, in particular, offers a multi-dimensional experience: it’s challenging, complex, frustrating at times—but also incredibly rewarding. In this episode, we dive into the world of tennis and, more importantly, the barriers people face when trying to play. In Germany, traditional clubs and coaching systems often feel outdated, catering to a narrower audience rather than embracing the modern tennis enthusiast—whether they’re a raw beginner or a seasoned athlete. Ieva and Misha are flippin

This week, I’m talking to Reka and Dorina, the founders of Budapest Racquet Society—or BRS—in, you guessed it, Budapest.We’re in the early days of this new tennis club movement, but something exciting is definitely happening at the intersection of social community and sports. Running and training have paved the way, and now tennis is stepping into the spotlight—and it’s emerging fast.For a certain generation, the concept of social community is second nature. People are craving connection and movement, whether it’s reconnecting with something they loved as kids or finally trying something they’ve always wanted to but found intimidating. Tennis has traditionally carried that air of exclusivity, but these new clubs are flipping the script. They’re all about connection, community, and a genuine passion for the sport. BRS is a perfect example, making serious waves in Budapest’s tennis scene.In this episode, we dive into Reka and Dorina’s tennis backgrounds, the tennis culture in Hungary, and why Budapest seems esp

Today, we’re taking a slight detour from tennis to dive into the world of pickleball with Jasper, co-founder of ASTES—a standout equipment brand making waves in this booming sport.ASTES caught my eye while I was exploring pickleball. I wasn’t sure where they were based, but their clean aesthetic and high-quality products stood out immediately. Lucky for me, the team sent over one of their paddles, and I can confirm—it’s superbly made. If you’re in the market for pickle gear, I highly recommend checking them out.Now, I’m a tennis player at heart, and while pickleball and padel are more “fun on the side” for me, they’re the main event for so many others—and I fully get it. What makes pickleball and padel so exciting is their accessibility and lower barrier to entry, especially compared to tennis, which often comes with layers of tradition and perception. That’s a big reason why pickleball and padel are booming—courts are popping up everywhere, taking over underused tennis courts, while tennis clubs seem to be s

This week, I’m chatting with Stuart, Editor-in-Chief of Bagel—the most stylish tennis magazine out there. Stuart’s journey is a fascinating blend of junior tennis and a career in fashion and culture, including his time at the iconic i-D magazine.This episode follows on from my conversations with Bisque and ATS in Amsterdam, diving deeper into the new, emerging culture in tennis. Stuart and I also take a trip down memory lane, reflecting on our junior tennis days.Enjoy the episode—and more importantly, grab yourself a copy of Bagel. It’s beautifully designed and perfect for anyone into the culture of tennis or personal stories from the sport.Peace.

Hey there and welcome to the wemove podcastIt was the end of the tennis grand slam of the Australian Open at the weekend. Pretty pumped for the level of play in both men's and women’s. Congrats to Madison Keys and Jannik Sinner for their displays of Slam winning play. Continuing the theme of tennis with today's episode but focussed on the community level. A couple of episodes back we spoke to Amsterdam Tennis Society about the growth of their social tennis club, and closer to home, we have just spoken to the founding trio of Bisque Tennis club in London.Run club formats are established and continue to grow, which continues to amaze me at the evolution of the running and running community space. It’s a model that's inspiring people to get up and run, move and ultimately change their physical and mental states, which is fantastic. Now this has been happening for a while, plus other sporting communities have been growing, in the training space for example with CrossFit, Hyrox and also climbing and

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast.Tennis and racquet sports are getting a fair bit of attention at the moment. Tennis is picking up as it often does with a dip into fashion, and more so recently with the film Challengers and the Netflix series Break Point getting some attention (although that could have made more of an attempt to cover the behind the scenes tennis world of adulation, isolation, struggle and success). With the Padel and Pickle scene booming it is not just tennis, though while the others are fun, it is tennis that has caught my eye from it cropping up in conversations on mental fitness and longevity, the reliance of self, childhood memories, skill development, the rise of competition and the idea of winning and human connection and community.Over the course of these episodes I’ll be speaking to a variety of players from raw beginners, to seasoned athletes, coaches and community builders. And today it is the community building. We are social beings at heart, we want to be around like m

Hey there are welcome to the wemove podcast.This week we continue Chris’s conversations into the Nervous System. In conversations one and two of this series, the focus has been with experts in nervous system regulation in Irene Lyons and Dominik Koch. Both of whom Chris has worked with and learned from in his own explorations and practices in NS regulation, and understanding the way in which his body has processed injuries and events throughout his life.Whilst speaking to the experts is great, it only gets us part of the way there. Hearing other experiences of those who have been on the journey is also invaluable in understanding and making sense of the process, what is arising and how others are responding. And it was with this spirit Chris spoke to our next guest who kindly responded to sharing her thoughts and ideas on the Nervous System from personal experience to practical experience in her projects and businesses. Kate Kavanaugh is a butcher, regenerative farmer, nutritionist and walker, founder of West

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast . The next episode in our exploration of the nervous system, this week Chris talks Dom Koch, one of the practitioners we have worked with for many years, about how the nervous system is the governing body for our movements, but when it feels unsafe or from past experiences, it might reduce the number of options available to the body.  The body is always giving you the truth, telling you where you are at. How we respond to that truth is crucial in moving forward.  Do you force yourself to move or do you let your body move into place? Allowing our bodies to move, the body will more likely move in the way you want it to. Forcing anything, never really works.  There is no right or wrong in movement but there are options, many of which might be forgotten, ignored, shut off from due to pain, memory, past experience   Your body will use what it has and deems safe, but it might not be the most efficient. If there is then pain then it creates limitations on how the body can

The weMove podcast is getting in to the Nervous System, what it is, what it does for us and how we can relearn how we communicate with it to take us from a place of fight, flight, freeze, fawn to a more regulated alert and healthy state giving us back the power to experience life and movement.  We have heard the phrase Nervous System many times and trauma equally as much. The last few years the word trauma has become increasingly used and focussed on. However we have felt being stuck in this place of trauma contemplation was not the place to be, nor was covering our past with experiences that took us away from what we were feeling, be that ice baths, breathing practices, daily training, ointments and potions. None of which are wrong but our bodies tell us what the problem is through these sensations that if we numb them, we cannot feel. And if we cannot feel, then we cannot heal.   Our guest @irenelyon Irene Lyon, MSC. and nervous system expert, teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous sys

Hi there and welcome to the weMove podcast. This episode revisits our farming series ran a few months ago as since then Chris has been documenting in film the farmers and the relationships the farmers have with the land and most importantly the animals on the land. This podcast directly accompanies Chris’s film The Dairy Farmer, hearing how Sophie Gregory became a dairy farmer, her relationship with farming as a business and it’s direct connection to the health of humans. There are many levels to the phrase “we are what we eat”, but we literally are because what we eat, becomes our flesh and blood. It nourishes us with it’s nutrition for good and bad (in direct correlation with the lifestyle the animal/crop has led, think pasture raised cattle who live on the land versus antibiotic filled, synthetic food eating cattle, kept in conditions less than optimal for their health, let alone ours) Eating well is the same process for the food that feeds us, and eating for our health and vitality becomes a simple proces

New podcast up.In a sea of brands, I find it more challenging than I thought to find those with genuine energy for inclusivity, united by a true love for the pursuit/movement they practice, in this case, cycling. And Universal Colours does just that.So much of creating something is about the intention of choice and this is often ignored because it takes time. Yet there is a great power and transference of energy when intentional decisions in design are made. It can be felt, not necessarily needing to be understood by those who come across it. Some brands just feel right and in an increasingly uncertain world, Universal Colours feel increasingly right.We catch up will Inge and Will, the brand and creative leads behind UC. Getting into how and why they started. Where the idea of “emotional durability” fits in, how that idea is transferred from the physical pursuit to the product range itself and what and how they see inclusivity in a sport/pursuit that can be seen as liberating and exclusive in equal measure.Bu

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast. It has been a while. This week's episode is with Ben Massey, the founder, and creator of RAD Global, the new upcoming brand in the fitness and training space. A hybrid of CrossFit, streetwear, and action sports. An interesting mix of worlds but authenticated by Ben’s history in the elite training and Crossfit space, having competed at the Crossfit Games a couple of times. A goal of Ben’s since he discovered the sport. It was the feeling after competing at the Games that sewed the seeds for RAD, with Ben wanting to create something more, something that gives back and inspires, and a brand seemed like the way to do it. No easy feat to start with shoes, they require significant investment to create something that comes up against the big 5 shoe brands and the many after. So, you sell your gym and double down on creating something that can stand alongside the big players. And that is what Ben did, from having the idea to tracking down the designer of the shoe in P

Hey there and welcome to the we move podcast. We have been away for a few weeks again whilst we waited for our next two pods both of which are a bit more gear based, specifically footwear and the ideas behind the two brands. We love brands, and gear, like we love food and farming and we also love the world around us and these two worlds often times are given a bad rep, but brands like food does have a place in the world. Since the farming series and conversations we are regularly having at our sister platform Commonground, where we work with brands and companies to support their communication to making their customers feel seen, safe and heard. We have been connecting some of the dots as to what is being sustainable, is it even a thing or is there something more appropriate and meaningful brands can be pursuing and integrating. And it is in this context that the next two podcasts are based. Perhaps increasingly the way brands are communicating feels like a cover up for the problems that they create as a resul

Hey there and welcome to the weMove Podcast. Today we are following on from Simon Jeffrey's podcast on resilience taking excuse the pun, a dive into cold water immersion and wild swimming with Gilly MacArthur, who has a long background in the outdoors being a climber and a face within the industry but she's also the co-founder of @bluemindmen and @wonderfulwildwomen both initiatives to get people inspired and maybe excited to discover the benefits of getting in the water, even better when it's cold. GIlly has been and still is a massive advocate of getting in cold water, particularly up in the Lake District, and using it as a way to, as always raise awareness for mental health or mind health as i am preferring to call it. And I just wanted to get another take rather than the obvious ones in the Wim Hof world, etc. Of what getting into cold water really does and how it really benefits. And Gilly has had an interesting history in that she had a big fall whilst climbing over in the states and with

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