On a Mission Podcast 2.0

What happens when you stop trying to avoid adversity and start seeing it as part of the deal?

Former Royal Marine Commando, MMA world champion and elite performance coach Martin “Stapes” Stapleton returns to On a Mission, and as always, no subject is off limits.

Stapes has spent most of his adult life operating outside his comfort zone. From war zones and professional fighting to business, coaching and starting again,...

A two year old girl leaves nursery with a man who wasn’t authorised to collect her. By the time her mother is told, her daughter has already been returned.

What happened in between remains unknown.

In this episode of On a Mission, Jody Riley tells the full story of the day her daughter Rosie was taken from nursery by a man Jody did not know, the account she says she was initially given about what happened, and the serious que...

Daniel O’Reilly became one of Britain’s first huge social media stars as Dapper Laughs, building an audience of millions with a character that was loud, laddish and deliberately pushed boundaries, until it all came crashing down.

Branded misogynistic, accused of promoting rape culture and effectively cancelled, Dan went from having his own ITV show and sold out tour to becoming one of the mo...

Tim Storey has spent decades working with some of the most recognisable and successful people on the planet.

Oprah Winfrey, Kanye West, Robert Downey Jr., Quincy Jones and Stevie Wonder are just some of the names connected to a man who has become known around the world as The Comeback Coach.

He’s a world renowned speaker, bestselling author, life strategist and spiritual leader who ...

Most people don’t need more information. They need the right answer, from the right person, at the exact moment they need it.

In this special episode, TalentDec co founders Dean Kelly and Ellie McKay reveal the thinking behind a new expert marketplace designed to make valuable knowledge and real world experience far more accessible.

Dean sold his first company at 30 for an eight fig...

Millions of people know Adam (ADMT) for his incredible voice, but what I love most about him isn’t his music. It’s the person behind it.

It was an absolute pleasure to sit down with one of my good friends and an all round brilliant human being, Adam Taylor.

Behind the sold out shows, record deals and millions of views is someone who, for years, struggled to believe he was good enough. Adam speaks with incredible hones...

We’ve never had more access to information, yet it’s never been harder to know who or what to trust.

Social media has created a generation of experts who look successful. AI can give two completely different answers to the same question. Millionaires are selling courses on building wealth, despite making more money from the courses than the thing they’re supposedly teaching.

Twenty one years ago, serial entrepreneur and wellbeing expert Hannah Lanel made a split second decision that saved her life.

On the morning of the 7/7 London bombings, Hannah was sitting on the Tube when she looked up and made eye contact with another passenger. An overwhelming sense of dread washed over her. She got up, ran off the train and left the station, despite the fact it wasn’t even her stop.

Hours later, she discov...

In this episode of On a Mission, I sit down with female entrepreneur, author and founder Chloë Bisson to talk about the reality of building and scaling a seven figure business whilst raising a newborn.

This is an honest conversation about female entrepreneurship, motherhood, postnatal depression, burnout and the mental load that comes with trying to balance it all.

Chloë opens up about becoming a director at just 24, building a s...

What happens when the life and soul of the party can no longer escape himself?

In this episode of On a Mission, Eth Power joins Ellie McKay for a raw and deeply honest conversation about addiction, shame, identity, self destruction and recovery.

For years, alcohol and drugs were at the centre of Eth’s life. What began as chasing confidence, connection and escapism eventually spirall...

In this episode, I sit down with Andy Ramage, former City broker turned one of the leading voices in the alcohol free movement, for a raw conversation about alcohol, stress, identity and the habits many of us have normalised for years without ever really questioning.

What starts as a discussion about drinking quickly becomes something much bigger. We talk about the reality that alcohol is often the only...

This episode was actually recorded a couple of years ago, before alcohol became the mainstream conversation it is today. Listening back now, it’s fascinating how many of the things we discussed then are starting to become widely talked about in 2026.

Ahead of tomorrow’s brand new episode with Andy Ramage, I wanted to re release our original conversation because so much of it still feels incr...

Maajid Nawaz was radicalised as a teenager and built his life around an extremist ideology that led to his arrest in Egypt, prison, and torture, before walking away from it and rethinking everything he once believed.

Years later, after becoming a well-known voice in counter extremism, he lost his role as a presenter on LBC during Covid, publicly labelled and ridiculed for his views.

This...

He Wasn’t Built For This… He Became It

Darren Grigas has completed a world first 127 mile foot crossing of the 55 million year old Namib, run 100 miles across a frozen lake in temperatures down to minus 50, taken on uncharted rainforest, and completed Marathon des Sables alongside Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

Most people look at extreme endurance athletes and assume they’ve alw...

Renowned performance coach Michelle Flynn works with high performers operating at an elite level, people at the top of their game who, on the surface, look like they have everything under control.

She was doing the same.

Training hard, disciplined, performing at a high level, until her body shut her down. Twice.

It’s something she now sees constantly, high performers ...

Mark Whittle is someone who’s spent years studying what actually drives human behaviour, performance, and fulfilment, and why so many people still feel lost even when they “have it all”.

From working with high performers, athletes and entrepreneurs to building his own platform, Mark has seen first-hand what happens when success on paper doesn’t translate to real happiness. Because for a lot of people, hitti...

Caprice Bourret is proof that reinvention doesn’t have an expiry date. 

From becoming one of the most photographed women in the world to building a film career from scratch in her 50s, she’s lived multiple lives and she’s still not done.

Three years on from her first appearance on On A Mission, Caprice is back and this time she’s gone all in. Producing, acting, writing and running entire film producti...

Great to welcome back Dr. Dain Heer, internationally renowned speaker, bestselling author, and co-creator of Access Consciousness, a global movement active in over 170 countries. From a childhood marked by abuse and poverty to a career as a chiropractor who once felt suicidal, Dain’s life radically changed when he discovered practical consciousness tools that opened a completely different way of living and creating.

We alway...

In this episode of the On a Mission podcast, I’m joined by Jess Cunningham, TV personality and founder of Belief Coding.

Jess talks candidly about her time on the hit BBC show The Apprentice, the biggest opportunity of her life, when suppressed memories of childhood abuse surfaced out of nowhere, just as she was stepping into the limelight for the first time.

Trying to hold it together on the outside while everything intern...