Take Flight

Cecilia is the co-founder of RWL (https://www.resultswellnesslifestyle.com) along side business partner Lucy Mecklenburgh, a celebrity personal trainer and huge inspiration to so many. Born in Paris, Cecilia grew up in Tunisia, New York and Miami before coming to London in the 1990's, and finally settling in Essex. Cecilia’s younger years were spent in hospitality working in restaurants, chalets and managing hotels. Her pivot into the world of fitness happened as a result of a huge personal challenge in her mid-thirties. Cecilia suffered from postnatal depression following the birth of her son Fabio and found that whilst antidepressants made her less depressed, she felt ‘less’ of everything else; less happy, less energetic and less joyous. After being on medication for 6 months and desperate to find a different solution, Cecilia turned to exercise and started training with one of Miami’s top personal trainers. Her life changed and she quickly came off Medication and found her natural high using exercise as a therapeutic method and form of meditation. Cecilia felt inspired to promote the power of exercise to other women, and upon moving back to the U.K become a Personal Trainer herself and opened her first Boutique PT studio in 2008. A second studio soon followed, where she met fellow co-founder Lucy Mecklenburgh and they started what would become a multi-million pound business. In 2013 Lucy and Cecilia’s fitness brand launched to become the first of its kind online Fitness Platform in the U.K, first as Results with Lucy and now rebranded for 2020, as Results Wellness Lifestyle, with a community of 500,000 followers across social media. As Cecilia approaches 5 million paid for workout sessions from her client base, Cecilia is almost certainly now the U.K's No.1 Personal Trainer. She brings a level of energy, love and passion to her unique brand of fitness, that radiates through to those following along and i certainly felt that energy speaking with her and I’m so pleased I’m able to share her story with you today. What I would ask you to think about during this conversation is this. Are you over complicated things? We have a tendency to over complete and I’m guilty more than most here. Consider whether you are over complicating things and also ask your self with this challenge that you are facing right now what ever it is.... what are you choosing not to see? There’s often some gold in all challenge we face if we’re willing to see and hear them. https://fl1ght.co.uk/ If you enjoyed this episode you may enjoy this episode with Esme Gummer, celebrity trainer and SAS.WDW contestant: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/028-esmee-gummer-overcoming-paralysis-smashing-sas/id1339336927?i=1000430033436

Spencer is an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Clean Co and Eden Rocks Jewelry and a television personality. He was first brought into our lives as the central figure in tv series Made In Chelsea. Since, he has done some much in tv as a presenter, but also as a contestant winning the Jump in 2017, reaching the final of celebrity master chef in 2018 and even winning a BAFTA as part of the made in Chelsea cast in 2011. Spencer also has his own show with wife vogue Williams - Spencer, Vogue and baby too. Which was so popular it came back for a second season the same year. I actually loved watching both too! But, what I was most interested to hear about was Spencer’s life as an entrepreneur and how he built Clean Co and transformed his life through sobriety. Clean co is truthfully what I have been crying out for. An extremely low alcohol replacement to traditional alcoholic drinks. Clean co launched a clean gin and a clean rum to start with and I was fascinated to hear all about Spencer’s vision of broadening their product offering beyond liquor and essentially striving for world domination in this market! I was so impressed by his mindset, his desire to help people and the clarity of his vision. Clean co just secured a further £7million investment on top of the 2mil investment they had at the beginning of the year, so a massive congrats to the team. I’ll raise a clean gin to that. We talk all about entrepreneurship, family life, body transformation, jujitsu and the power of clean and optimal living. A truly powerful conversation that I'm extremely grateful we had. To find out more about Clean co, go to https://clean.co/ - ENJOY!

This episode is with professional footballer, and former Watford FC & Jamaica Captain, Adrian Mariappa. Adrian, or Mapps as best better known, has had a 15 year professional career spending 10 of those years in the best footballing league in the world, the English premier league. He’s made over 400 appearances for club, most of them for His boyhood club Watford and 50 appearances Internationally for Jamaica. Name any footballer of notoriety and Mapps has played against them and likely held his own. Cristiano Ronaldo, yes. Messi, yes. Suarez, Hazard, Henry, yes. He’s reached two FA cup finals narrowly missing out on winning both and as a natural born leader was the captain of his club and country. But it’s not all been smooth sailing. At 15 he was told he would be released by Watford. We hear all about how he turned to basketball and athletics at this time to improve his jump height and speed. We hear about the many times he’s been at clubs, including Crystal Palace, where he’s had a change in manager who has dropped him, so time and time again he’s had to fight to get his place back. At one time being the 7th choice centre back. This conversation was incredibly eye opening and highlights the importance of perseverance and persistence as we strive to achieve our goals. I hope you enjoy!

Thomas is a professional footballer for West Brom & Wales - and the Founder & CEO of The Turmeric Co. His career started as a youth player at arsenal and then reading and in 2007 he made the reading first team going immediately out on loan for two seasons before going back to reading where he had great success - including being part of their 2011-2012 championship winning season. He made his premier League debut in 2012 ! In 2016 he signed for West Brom where he still plays today and is currently having his most prolific season of his career as he settles into his new number 9 role under manager Slaven Bilic. Thomas currently has 336 professional appearances for club with 51 goals. And 42 appearances internationally for wales with 5 goals - including most notably his unbelievable goal against Belgium in the 2016 euros - perhaps his most career defining moment to date. Beyond this, in 2018 Thomas founded the turmeric co . Having experienced 2 potentially career ending injuries he began researching dietary supplements that would help manage his pain, inflammation and immune system - his 15 years of research and developed finally led to the best in class selection of turmeric, ginger and beetroot shots they bought to market. Thomas is such an incredibly impressive individual. So intelligent and so articulate - his outlook on life and understanding of the internal world vs the external world and how we can best navigate these in order to live a happy fulfilled life is some of the best advice we have ever had on this podcast. We talk all about the power of gratitude and what he believes allowed him to achieve what he’s done so far - and it’s only the beginning. This episode is brought to you by The Turmeric Co - https://theturmeric.co/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIzfzdzPmN6gIVMYBQBh2Rrw5kEAAYASAAEgLinvD_BwE

George is a former World Champion boxer, who fought for professionally for 10 years! George held the WBA super-middleweight title from 2017 to 2018, and previously the European, British and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles between 2010 and 2014. As an amateur, He won the ABA middleweight title twice in 2007 and again 2008. I’m 2013, He famously fought Carl Froch in a hugely controversial fight that was stopped in favor of Carl, after George won the first 7 rounds! It led to the rematch Froch groves 2 in Wembley in front of 80,000 people. George had 4 title fights and finally won in 2017 - in the episode he talks all about his journey of becoming World Champion, building a championship mindset and how it was his lifetimes work - how he nearly killed Eduard Gutknecht months before his retirement and the impact thats had on him - how we can all deal with confrontation with a positive outcome, plus so much more. George is an absolute gent. I hope you enjoy! Twitter: https://twitter.com/StGeorgeGroves?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor This episode is sponsored by The Turmeric Co: https://theturmeric.co/ For more from Take FLIGHT: https://fl1ght.co.uk/

David Meltzer is the former CEO of legendary sports agency Leigh Steinberg (the agency the film Jerry Maguire was based on!) and the founder of sports 1 marketing (arguably the most notable sports marketing firm in the world). David is also a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist, a 3 time international best selling author, a top 100 business coach, a podcast host and a globally recognised motivational speaker. All in all, David is an absolute baller. David started with nothing and became a millionaire 9 months out of law school and a multi millionaire at 32. He then lost everything he had made, hitting rock bottom, only to make it all back again. He is one of the most incredible people I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with. If you liked our Ed Mylett episode (often referred to as the best episode we’ve ever recorded - https://fl1ght.co.uk/podcast-blog/020-ed-mylett), then you will absolutely love this! It is such an incredible pleasure to share someones journey who has walked the path I aspire to walk too. You can learn more about David here : https://dmeltzer.com/ Social : https://www.instagram.com/davidmeltzer/ Listen to more Take FLIGHT here : https://fl1ght.co.uk/podcast This episode is brought to you by Carter & George Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation clinic. https://www.carterandgeorge.co.uk/

Mark is a professional big wave surfer, award winning spear fisherman, free diver, photographer, filmmaker & Hollywood stuntman and lives on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii. Whether it’s free diving or spear fishing Mark is often holding his breathe for up to 7 minutes under water! And on the surf board he's probably surfing waves ranging from 60-90ft tall. He’s often dealing with the highest stakes possibly in life or death circumstances. And despite winning the 2008 spear fishing World Cup and being one of the youngest big wave surfers ever to be sponsored at 13, he says his greatest achievement to date is probably just staying alive! His outlook on life is Incredibly unique. The weather and the surf dictate entirely what he is doing that day. If the forecast is showing a storm and big surf in Europe - he’ll jump on a plane to get there the following day. He is the ultimate example of someone who is living their truth and constantly in the present. It is such a pleasure to be able to share his journey and advice on Take FLIGHT. Enjoy! Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/healeywaterops/?hl=en Website : https://markhealeywaterman.com/about/

Henry Fraser is the Sunday Times Best selling author of his book 'The Little Big Things'. He also recently released his new book 'The Power In You'. He is a professional mouth painter and a highly sought after motivational speaker. In 2009, Henry was paralysed from the shoulders down. Since, he has developed the most incredible mindset, and his outlook on life is one we would all benefit from adopting. Henry is one of the most inspiring people I've spoken with and I am honored to share this conversation. As ever, thank you for listening. For more from Take FLIGHT, visit the website here :  Art : https://henryfraserart.com/art/ Socials : https://twitter.com/henryfraser0?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor - https://www.instagram.com/henryfraser0/?hl=en Best Selling Book : https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-little-big-things/henry-fraser/9781409167785 New Book : https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-power-in-you/henry-fraser/9781841883366 -------------------------- This episode is brought to you by carter and George. Carter and George is an elite medical treatment facility. Founded by long standing friends professional physiotherapist Rhys Carter and professional rugby player for saracens, England and the British and Irish lions Jamie George. Carter and George are an incredibly unique medical facility, as their mission is to provide the level of service that Jamie gets day in day out as a professional international athlete and deliver that level of service to the general public.  Find out more at https://www.carterandgeorge.co.uk/

Join me for this coaching session as we create the vision board that will allow you to create your future. This is a follow on from our goals setting sessions. Use your goals to create your vision board and display as a consistent reminder for who you want to become, as well as a reminder of the daily actions you can hold yourself accountable for. Enjoy using the LAW OF ATTRACTION to your advantage. -------------- This new podcast will provide guided sessions of some of the practices we’ve discussed on the podcast delivered by myself and other experts in their field. No longer will you wait for the podcast to finish before taking action, you’ll be acting in the moment while listening. You can expect to be introduced to coaching sessions, guided meditation and breathwork - as well as other personal development practices designed to make you healthier, happier and more fulfilled. We’ll also explain the benefits - and often times science - behind why these practices are important to incorporate into our regular routines. Before we start I want to say a massive thanks to you, for continuing to listen and support Take FLIGHT, but more importantly continuing to want to better yourself - I encourage you to keep searching for the answers to life’s big questions - and I wish you the best on this incredible journey we’re all experiencing. ---------------- Season 1 of PPP is sponsored by Home Run. The sports nutrition bar designed to fuel your post work workout! http://homerunsnacks.com/

Enjoy this deeply relaxing Yoga Nidra session guided by the fantastic Jess Horn. Jess is the founder of Jess Horn Yoga, a yoga teacher, a mentor to aspiring yoga teachers and host of regular wellness retreats.  Practicing Yoga Nidra is a fantastic way to move from your sympathetic nervous system, fight or flight response, into your parasympathetic nervous system, rest and digest response. Activating this response allows us to fully adapt and recover so we can maintain our optimal output when we go again! I hope you feel renewed after this session. Enjoy. https://www.jesshornyoga.com/ -------------- This new podcast will provide guided sessions of some of the practices we’ve discussed on the podcast delivered by myself and other experts in their field. No longer will you wait for the podcast to finish before taking action, you’ll be acting in the moment while listening. You can expect to be introduced to coaching sessions, guided meditation and breathwork - as well as other personal development practices designed to make you healthier, happier and more fulfilled. We’ll also explain the benefits - and often times science - behind why these practices are important to incorporate into our regular routines. Before we start I want to say a massive thanks to you, for continuing to listen and support Take FLIGHT, but more importantly continuing to want to better yourself - I encourage you to keep searching for the answers to life’s big questions - and I wish you the best on this incredible journey we’re all experiencing. ---------------- Season 1 of PPP is sponsored by Home Run. The sports nutrition bar designed to fuel your post work workout! http://homerunsnacks.com/