Flat White Chats || Hosted by Lee Thompson

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Ben John onto the podcast, we discuss Bens' journey into rugby, his career, his battle with concussions and the link to mental health and then finally life after rugby.Ben is now running his own fitness and rugby coaching business; which he makes use of social media and having a space in London in which to train clients as well as running online PT programmes and rugby skills programmes.Thanks for your time this week mateBen can be found on instagram @therugbytrainerEpisodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Jamie Acton, former rugby league player now launching his own mental health app off the back of his rugby career. Jamie had a really interesting story all about his struggles with mental health throughout his career, how it impacted on his playing style and influenced him outside of rugby. This episode is full of knowledge bombs, thank you Jamie for your time.Jamie can be found on instagram @jamieactonEpisodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Sean Laidlaw, The man who saved a dog from Syria but in turn that dog saved his life. To hear Sean’s story from being told he would never amount to much at school to being a high flyer during his career in the Army and with the IED bomb disposal team. To then leaving the forces, having a rough turbulent time not knowing who he was or understanding his identity post army career. And then a phone call to give bad news and a working holiday to Syria changed his whole life around by finding Barrie, the adopted war dog and now runs a brilliant gym down in Thurrock with a great team and community there all buying into Sean’s ethos of training and lifestyle.Sean can be found instagram @sean_liloEpisodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Leon Bustin and John Chapman AKA The Lean Machines onto the podcast.We chatted through who the boys are, there early rise into the online youtube world, current state of the fitness industry and the links between mental and physical health.It was brilliant to chat to the boys, and to learn from them during the chat.The boys can be found on instagram @theleanmachinesofficial where they chuck out an unbelievable amount of high quality free fitness and life related content.Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Chris Lord onto the podcast; Chris is an ex rugby teammate of mine who still plays for Bury St Edmunds rugby club. Chris story is one of rise to fall and then rise again, having been playing the best rugby of his career to then being diagnosed with testicular cancer and beating that off to now just having his first child. It makes for a phenomenal listen and an important message to.Chris can be found on instagram @chris_lord15Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Lloyd Ashley onto the podcast, Lloyd is a current professional rugby player for Ospreys and runs a mental health & wellbeing business called 'Living well with Lloyd Ashley'It was phenomenal to chat to Lloyd about mental health, wellbeing, books and general outlooks on life. The work Lloyd is doing alongside the WRPA is incredible and will hopefully help a lot of current players build themselves a future outside of rugby. I cannot thank Lloyd enough for his time; Lloyd can be found on instagram @lloydashley91Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I wanted to try something different alongside my friend James Goodall, between us we came up with the idea of Friday night chats. The aim of this is to have people send in a few things they want to hear discussed by two mates over a couple of beers on a Friday night. This week we discussed dating, how to deal with thing of your control & trying to regain control and then finally self sabotage.If you have something you would like to hear discussed send me a message on instagram. Follow James on instagram @jaygoodall for photography and videography based posts. Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome the girls Sara Ford and Alice Loombe who together make up FRESH; which offers activities to enhance physical and mental well being. We discuss through the venture that is FRESH, mental health, the negatives of social media for mental health and then the future. These girls have an unbelievable amount of contagious energy which I think comes across throughout the podcast, this was a good fun one to record and chat to.The girls can be found on instagram @fresh.social for all news relating to FRESHEpisodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Beth Willis onto the podcast; this was an unbelievable chat between both of us about our own mental health journeys and lives. This is as open and raw as i've probably been on this podcast so far. It was brilliant to chat to Beth in such an open and honest manner between us both. I cannot thank Beth enough for her time. Hopefully you can learn something from this conversation and chat.Beth can be found on instagram @bethwillis_ptEpisodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome James Elliott onto the podcast; James is an airborne soldier, performance coach, mental resilience coach and a knowledge bomb central. During this weeks episode we chatted through James career, mental health, mindset and resilience. This was a thoroughly enjoyable chat, I learnt a lot in the 50 minutes I got to chat to James. James can be found dropping knowledge bombs and insights on instagram @jameselliottofficialEpisodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Felicity Rosina onto the podcast, Felicity is a online PT who specialises with female clients and runs an online platform called “The Sassy Squad” We chat through female fitness & the sassy squad, social media advertising and mental health. This was a thoroughly enjoyable chat and insight with Felicity. Felicity can be found on instagram @felicityrosinaEpisodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Ruaridh McConnochie onto the podcast. Ruaridh is a professional rugby player, currently playing for Bath and England. This week we chat about Ruaridh journey into rugby, the rugby world cup and then the work outside of the game Ruaridh is doing for Shout. This was a real eye opening episode for myself to learn from Ruaridh and an absolute pleasure. Ruaridh can be found on instagram @ruaridhmcc Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Jack Burton AKA King of the Smugglers onto the podcast. Jack is head of design at Budgy Smuggler UK, so is the man behind the madness. Jack came on to discuss his journey into his role at budgy smuggler, the lockdown period and then we spoke a lot about mental health and Jacks personal battles. It was sensational to get Jack on to chat, Jack can be found on instagram @jack_w_burton and @budgysmugglerukEpisodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Will Wilson onto the podcast. Will is an ex professional rugby player for Wasps, who earlier this year opened up about his mental health battle. It was brilliant to chat too Will all about his career, his future and his mental health battles. I learnt a lot of from hearing Will’s views on aspects of life, hopefully you will too. Will can be found on Instagram @willwilson1997Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Dr Sarah Bailey AKA The Gym Medic onto the podcast. We chat through Sarah journey into becoming a doctor, her role as a doctor, mental health side of being a doctor as well as discussing her role as a sports medic, fitness instructor and just generally being an all round ball of energy. Sarah can be found on instagram @thegymmedic Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Charlie Davies onto the podcast. Charlie is a former professional rugby player who's career started out in Paris and ended in Northampton. We chat about Charlies' rugby career, being there for friends during tough times and supporting them and finally his post career life working for defected records, and how that all came about. Charlie can be found on instagram @charliedavies_9, thank you as always for your time. Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Ethan Waller onto the podcast, it was quality to chat through an unorthodox entry into rugby via sevens as a prop, food quite a lot of food and touched on some mental health side of things as always. If you're after a quality pizza in and around the Worcester area then check out @sliceslicebabyuk on instagram, @ethanwaller on instagram and also check out Ethan podcast called Need for Feed. Thank you again for your time, its always greatly appreciated.Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Mark Jennings onto the podcast to discuss his rugby career, life after rugby and his mental health journey. Marks journey from Namibia to a night in a Manchester cell is a rollercoaster of a story, depression, drugs, alcoholism, PTSD and managing all of this while still being a professional rugby player. I cannot thank Mark enough for wanting to come and talk openly to me about his story, and his future plans. Mark is working on some incredible supplements for the brain called Neubria, be sure to have a look at these!Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Flavian Obiero onto the podcast, Flavian moved to the UK from Kenya during his teenage years, and his since made himself a career within the British pig industry. Along the way though he has faced adversity, and overcome it. We discuss BLM, racism, mental health, farming and fitness. This was a phenomenal podcast for myself to record and learn about BLM from Flavian. Thank you for coming on!Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Theo Brophy Clews & Harry Elrington of Rugby Grub and London Irish RFC onto the podcast. We chat nutrition, fuelling performance and mental health. It was excellent to chat to the lads, and learn from them both about nutrition. You can find the lads @rugbygrub on instagram to keep up to date with there latest recipes, tips and advice for fuelling yourself.Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Emily Slater onto the podcast, Emily is a pro female golfer in her first season on the professional tour. We discuss lockdown golf, getting back into the game post lockdown and then anxiety and mental health to finish with. It was excellent to hear from Emily.Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Tom Lindsay onto the podcast, this episode is raw and honest about mental health, the impacts on your life, the journey and the future of coping with mental health. It was excellent to chat to Tom so openly and honestly about mental health. I cannot thank Tom enough for coming on and telling his story.Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Francois Van Wyk, Northampton Saints. We discuss rugby, mental health and the most important matter of Budgy Smugglers. Was really interesting to chat to Francois about his journey from South Africa, to Australia and currently playing in England. Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Andrew Tracey, works out in places you usually park your car, founder of you are not your gym membership, mens health editor and all round top guy. We discussed functional fitness, stripping back fitness, breaking the fitness moulds and touched on his impossible structures business. This episode is full of knowledge bombs to help with your fitness and education. Andrew can be found on instagram for all fitness ideas and education; @theandrew.tracey Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Matt Garvey, Bath Rugby. Matt has been a professional rugby player for 11 years, starting out with London Irish and currently playing for Bath. He has made over 200 first team appearances in Premiership rugby, along the way he's picked up 2 x England Saxon caps as well as captaining Bath for 2 seasons. We discuss Matt's rugby journey, injuries, mental health and a bit of the future of rugby. Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Please like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Oliver Whiteman of OWNutrition. We discussed fad diets, calorie deficit, fuelling for performance and cycling. You can find Oliver on instagram @ownutrition_uk for all nutrition tips and advice. Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Like and subscribe to the podcast. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Amber Stobbs of Crystal Palace Ladies FC. With it being Mental Health Awareness week, this is a special episode in which we discuss football and mental health. Ambers story is pretty incredible, and released a hard hitting article recently talking about her mental health which is available here: https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/2020/may/palace-womens-amber-stobbs-mental-health-awareness-week-story/    You can find Amber on instagram @amberstobbs If you do happen to find yourself struggling or suffering with mental health issues, please talk to someone. You're not alone and its not weak to speak, its the bravest first step you can take! Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson. This week I welcome Adam Towler from CaveFit Edinburgh onto the podcast, we chat fitness, mindset, budgy smugglers and rugby. You can find Adam on Instagram @adam_cavefit for workout plans, mindset and budgys! Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from. Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.

Welcome to Flat White Chats; hosted by Lee Thompson.This week I welcome Kent cricketer, Sean Dickson onto episode 1 of the podcast. We chat about life, cricket, mental health and a couple of quick questions at the end. Episodes will be released weekly and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you fancy tuning in from.Take a look @flatwhitehchats on instagram for all updates regarding future guests of the podcast.