Fit For My Age

Yannick Picard had a successful career in property sales until a series of events made him review his life. 

The result of that review was a career change. Now Yannick is a coach helping people identify and manage the saboteurs that stop them from achieving their potential.

In this episode of Fit For My Age Yannick explains to Michael Millward what a saboteur is and that we should not always view them negatively. Sometimes they can have a positive impact!

Michael and Yannick also discuss the assessments that Yannick offers which help people identify their saboteur.

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Fit For My Age is made on Zencastr.

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Travel to the Places Mentioned in this Episode

Yannick and Michael mention a range of places in this episode of Fit For My Age, including the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb and CN Tower in Toronto.

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Find out more about both Michael Millward and Yannick Picard at Abeceder.co.uk.

Matchmaker.fm

Thank you to the team at Matchmaker.fm the introduction to Yannick.

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Being a Guest

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Stranded away from home during the COVID pandemic Rui da Silva looked at his iPhone as it processed another software update and decided that he needed an emotional update. That led to a review of how he lived his life and the establishment of Balanced Rebel, a health coaching provider.

In the episode of Fit For My Age Rui explains 

• how humans create and manage energy and
•  how we can all improve our management of energy levels.

Rui dscribes to Michael that people who effectively managed their energy have more choices in every aspect of their lives.

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Fit For My Age is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms like Spotify, Apple, and Google. It really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER. 

Travel

Rui is based in Egypt, and travels regularly to the UAE and Europe. 

Even if you don't travel as frequently as Rui the best way to make your travel arrangements is with The Ultimate Travel Club, because The Ultimate Travel Club is where you will get trade prices on travel including flights, and hotels.

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Find out more about both Michael Millward and Rui da Silva at Abeceder.co.uk.

Matchmaker.fm

Thank you to the team at Matchmaker.fm the introduction to Rui.

If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests or if like Rui, you have something very interesting to say Matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made. Use our offer code for a discount on membership. 

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Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for more information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote our referral code.

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Being a Guest

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Thank you for listening.

When the gym I attend True Personal Training in Wetherby launched a running club, I somehow ended up as a runner.

It wasn’t planned but I caught the bug! Now running has become a fun new part of my health and fitness routine.

To learn more about running I watched videos, read books, magazines, visited websites, and listened to a lot of podcasts. I decided to invite the experts that I learnt the most from to join me on a special series of Fit For My Age programmes: Learning how to RUN.

The first episode features a conversation with Barry Kurch the host of Running For Your Life podcast 

Barry who lives in EL Paso in Texas, USA, also discovered running later in life, but is now a committed but sensible runner. 

In this first episode of Learning how to RUN Barry goes back to basics with advice about the equipment a new runner really needs, the resistance training that will help with running and the how to maximise the advantages of running.

Using the affiliate marketing links on this page may create a financial benefit for the publishers.

Fit For My Age is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms like Spotify, Apple, and Google. It really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER. 

Travel to Texas, USA

Barry lives in El Paso Texas USA. If you would like to visit Texas or any part of the USA, the best way to make your travel arrangements is with The Ultimate Travel Club, because The Ultimate Travel Club is where you will get trade prices on travel including flights, and hotels.

Visit the Ultimate Travel Club and use our offer code to receive a discount on your membership fee.

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Find out more about both Michael Millward and Barry Kurch at Abeceder.co.uk.

Matchmaker.fm

Thank you to the team at Matchmaker.fm the introduction to Barry.

If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests or if like Barry, you have something very interesting to say Matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made. Use our offer code for a discount on membership. 

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Three the network

If you are listening to The Independent Minds on your smart phone, you may like to know that Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Vist Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three. And the special offers available when you quote my referral code. 

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Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on Fit For My Age, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

Helen Bennett is a food coach, who helps binge eaters, bulimics & "grey area disordered eaters" all over the world, regain control and create a healthy relationship with food again.

Helen has personal experience of being someone who was successful and appeared to be in control of her life, until she was behind closed doors with food, when all control was lost. 

For 20 years Helen followed the cycle of:

• Start with good intentions.
• Lose control and eat to excess. 
• Feel terrible guilt and shame.
• Try to undo the damage (extreme restriction, over exercising, purging)

When the traditional solutions failed her Helen was left more broken and ashamed. 

Changing compulsive eating habits can be harder than quitting alcohol or cigarettes, especially when we know that food is good for us.

In a frank conversation Helen tells Michael Millward 

• about her own relationship with food, 
• how the problems developed
• her catalyst to change
• the lessons she learnt in the process that others may benefit from.
• the physical changes Helen made 
• how she retrained her brain.

The best body for you is a healthy body.

Now enjoying a positive relationship with food Helen reflects on how she has changed and now lives more positively.

Helen also offers advice for people who live or work with someone who may have a negative relationship with food.

Using the affiliate marketing links on this page may create a financial benefit for the publishers.

Fit For My Age is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms like Spotify, Apple, and Google. It really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Travel to South Africa or Spain

Helen is originally from South Africa, but now lives in Spain. If you are visiting either South Africa or Spain, the best way to make your travel arrangements is with The Ultimate Travel Club, because The Ultimate Travel Club is where you will get trade prices on travel including flights, and hotels.

Visit the Ultimate Travel Club and use our offer code to receive a discount on your membership fee.

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Find out more about both Michael Millward and Helen Bennett at Abeceder.co.uk.

Being a Guest

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

Thank you to the team at Matchmaker.fm the introduction to Helen.

Podcasters looking for interesting guests and people with something interesting to say know Matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made. Use our offer code for a discount on membership. 

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Three – the network

Three has the UK’s Fastest 5G Network with Unlimited Data, so listening on Three means you can wave goodbye to buffering.

Visit Three for more information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three. And the special offers available when you quote my referral code.

• WPFNUQHU

We appreciate every like, download, and subscriber.

Thank you for listening.

In 2023 it was estimated that ten percent of the men in the United States had some form of mental health condition.

It's fair to say that a man must be one in a million to be a successful international model.

After a successful professional sports career Jonathan Niziol became a successful international model with representation in all the major markets. He has featured as the ideal man on the cover of over 100 romantic novels and in campaigns for Hugo Boss and Jockey, as well as editorial work for Men's Health.

Jonathan is also a man with mental health challenges.

In this episode of Fit For My Age Jonathan tells host Michael Millward about his additions and mental illness and how he addressed those challenges to rebuild his life.

This episode of Fit For My Age includes discussion of topics which some listeners may find distressing. Jonathan talks honestly about his experiences of addition, and of surviving same-sex sexual assault.

Jonathan Niziol is represented by:

• Sutherland Models
• The Campbell Agency

Jonathan Niziol Websites

• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• You Tube

Fit For My Age is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms like Spotify, Apple, and Google. It really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER. 

Travel to Texas

Although Jonathan was born and raised in Canada he now lives in Texas USA. If you would like to visit Texas, a good place to plan your travel is The Ultimate Travel Club. It is where you will get trade prices on travel including flights, and hotels. Visit the Ultimate Travel Club and use our offer code to receive a discount on your membership fee.

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Find out more about both Michael Millward and Jonathan Niziol at Abeceder.co.uk.

Matchmaker.fm

Thank you to the team at Matchmaker.fm the introduction to Jonathan.

If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests or if like Jonathan, you have something very interesting to say Matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made. Use our offer code for a discount on membership. 

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Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on Fit For My Age, please contact using the link at Abeceder.co.uk.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

If you have liked this episode of Fit For My Age, please give it a like and download it so that you can listen any time anywhere. 

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Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abeceder is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

Most employers recognise the potential of sport to help build teams and give people confidence. But for many of their employees, participation in sport ended when they left education.

So, how do you create a sport related employee event that delivers benefits for both the employer and their employees. Especially for people who haven’t participated in sport for many years.

In 2016 John McClarey founded Business Fives.

In this episode of Fit For My Age he explains to Michael Millward of Abeceder how Business Fives creates inclusive business sports competitions.

John describes how the inclusive nature of Business Fives events creates a unique proposition that not only adds value to clients and their teams, they also support corporate social responsibility activities.

Business Fives offers competitions across soccer, rugby, golf, and e-sports.

Business Fives on Social Media

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• LinkedIn

Fit For My Age is made on Zencastr.

Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform, on which you can create your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms like Spotify, Apple, and Google. It really does make creating content so easy.

If you would like to try podcasting using Zencastr visit zencastr.com/pricing and use our offer code ABECEDER.

Travel to Scotland

Business Fives is based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

If you would like to visit Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland, a good place to plan your travel is The Ultimate Travel Club. It is where you will get trade prices on travel including flights, and hotels.

Access the Ultimate Travel Club, and use our offer code to receive a discount on your membership fee.

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Find out more about both Michael Millward.

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on Fit For My Age, please contact at Abeceder.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

If you have liked this episode of Fit For My Age, please give it a like and download it so that you can listen any time anywhere.

To make sure you do not miss future editions please subscribe.

Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abeceder is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

When news broke that two of the richest businessmen in the world are keen participants in martial arts, social media burst into action planning a bout between the two and predicting who might win.

It then became apparent that these two billionaires are not the only successful and powerful men who are actively involved in martial arts. So, Michael Millward, managing director of Abeceder and host of Fit For My Age decided to ask longstanding good friend Martin Morrison about the connection between martial arts and being successful at work.

Martin has been involved in martial arts since he was a teenager and has competed in several competitions.

Michael and Martin have known each other for about twenty-years.

In a fascinating conversation Martin explains the journey of self discovery that martial arts takes participants on and how that positively impacts every aspect of their life.

This episode of Fit For My Age was recorded using Zencastr.

Abeceder started podcasting during lockdown. The Team thought it would be a bit of fun. It turned out to be a huge learning curve. If we had waited it would have been a lot easier, because now you can use Zencastr.

So, if you have thought about podcasting before and want to avoid the costs and the learning curve use Zencastr like we do at Abeceder.

With Zencastr's all-in-one podcasting platform, you can create your podcast all in one place and distribute it to Spotify, Apple, and other major destinations.

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Fit For My Age host Michael Millward, the managing director of Abeceder meets Spencer Cave, a gymfluencer.

Like many people Spencer didn’t really enjoy playing sport at school, the sports on offer in PE lessons didn’t really work for him. When he left school, he decided to find a sport that worked for him.

Spence found that sport in the gym. He started working on himself, built his strength and changed his body shape. People who criticised his weight at school eventually started following his gymfluencing social media profiles.

In this episode of Fit For My Age, Spencer explains to Michael how starting weight training impacted his lifestyle, and offers advice for other people who want to get fitter.

Michael also mentions seeing a YouTube video from USA based content creator Mark E Miller

Find Spencer Cave on

• YouTube
• Instagram
• TikTok

Fit For My Age host Michael Millward, the managing director of Abeceder meets Nicole Berschback from The Total Potential to discuss the benefits of taking a family approach to achieving a higher level of health and wellbeing that informs every aspect of family life.

We live in a world that tells us we must be the best version of ourselves, and that if we just try hard enough, we can have it all. In reality, we do not exist as stand-a-lone individuals. As human beings we are social animals and are more likely to be successful when we work as part of a social group.

Nicole explains to Michael how anyone can create a real-life way to achieving their Total Potential by working with their family to create a culture of wellness the whole family can thrive in!

In this episode of Fit For My Age from Abeceder, Michael Millward meets Mustufa Kanmiya from MK Fitness.

There are many reasons why people join a gym. Some people want to build a great body. Others want to get lose weight, whilst for some people it is a social activity, with health benefits.

Mustufa explains his own reasons for identifying that he needed to start going to the gym.

Initially there was very little to show for his enthusiatic activity.

Then he decided to learn about how to be a successful gym user.

In this episide of Fit For My Age Mustufa shares that knowledge with Michael. 

It's not all about shifting metal.

You can connect with Mustafa via Instagram