Have you struggled to take responsibility for your passion? Do you find it challenging to follow what you want rather than what others expect? Has there been a time when you got lost pursuing your passion?

For the fourth episode of this great podcast, we were joined by online cooking sensation Jon Watts to speak about his passion for cooking.

Jon didn't have the best of starts where he didn't know what to do in his early years. This feeling of being lost directed him down the wrong path, where he ended up in prison at 18. Yet, his time in prison was when he discovered his passion for cooking, all thanks to the Duke of Edinburgh award. Jon's tenacity was born thanks to this special award, leading to him working with Jamie Oliver. He worked in the kitchens for several years but has decided to take his passion to the next level. Jon decided to go alone by opening a food truck, has gotten big on social media, and has appeared on ITV's This Morning. He also goes into schools and prisons to tell his story and to motivate those not to give up.

In this episode, we covered what life was like in prison for Jon, how to go it alone and to use vision boards to your advantage.

Topics covered

What was Jon like at 16

Life in prison

Duke of Edinburgh Award being the template for life

The birth of Jon’s tenacity

Working with Jamie Oliver

Going it alone

Vision boards

What does passion mean?

This podcast was hosted by Hamish Hallett and produced by Empart Media.

Have you struggled to define success for yourself? Are you someone who doesn't know what matters to you? Do you find it difficult to permit yourself to make mistakes?

For the third episode, we were joined by business mentor, podcast host and investor Bethan Jepson to speak about her passion for entrepreneurship.

Bethan grew up in quite a hectic family, with her dad being a lawyer and then a business owner and her mum being a carer. This upbringing showcased how her parents succeeded but sacrificed many important things in their lives, like relationships, happiness, and much more. From such an upbringing, Bethan went on a mission to be her own version of an entrepreneur and to achieve success without sacrificing. She learnt so many lessons along her journey by finding out that a life of variety enables more learning. Not just that, but she found out what truly matters to her away from the noise and how she permits herself to make mistakes.

In this episode, we explored many topics with Bethan, including Bethan’s non-negotiables, if she always wanted to be an entrepreneur and why we sacrifice things for success.

Topics Covered - 

Who does Bethan want to be and become?

Bethan’s truth?

Did Bethan always want to be an entrepreneur?

Why do we sacrifice things for success?

Bethan’s non-negotiables

Lessons

What does passion mean?

This Podcast was hosted by Hamish Hallett and produced by Empart Media.

Are you someone who doesn't back yourself all the way? Have you struggled to celebrate the small wins while pursuing your passion? Is life the best form of education?

For the second episode of season five, we explored these questions with the founder of Boys Get Sad Too, Kyle Stanger.

It is safe to say that Kyle has had a pretty unconventional journey into what he does now. Growing up as an actor, to having his entrepreneurial and creative instincts limited at school was a crazy start to pursuing his passion. Yet, what will surprise you is how he backed himself through the ups and downs. From a four-word scribble to now being one of the most successful clothing brands in the United Kingdom, Kyle stayed persistent with BGST, even when times got tough. He celebrated the small wins more than the big ones and is a perfect example of proving people wrong. There is never one explosive moment when it comes to success, and from this conversation with the founder of a successful clothing brand, this message holds a lot of weight.

In this episode, we investigated a wide range of topics, including if life is the best form of education, the breakthrough moment for BGST and the golden rule for business.

Topics covered

Kyle’s unconventional upbringing

School limiting Kyle’s entrepreneurial and creative instincts

Second-hand experiences of depression

Life university

From a four-word scribe to Boy’s Get Sad Too being in the wild

Where does Kyle’s tenacity come from

When was the breakthrough moment for BGST

The golden rule for business

What does passion mean to Kyle?

More from Kyle

https://boysgetsadtoo.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwidSWBhDdARIsAIoTVb0r775Ui25cgiqVO-YQxyTR5PEKZSfvA_xw_Ch84gnRnfENbZ4Ua6saApaQEALw_wcB

https://www.instagram.com/kylestanger_/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/boysgetsadtoostudio/?hl=en

Are you someone who lacks confidence and tries to find confidence outside of yourself? Have you aligned yourself with what you think, say and do? Have you felt you've had any failures while pursuing your passion that you don't know how to learn from?

In the first episode of a new season of this great podcast, we dived into these questions with Sam Moinet, founder of Student Breakthrough, who has a passion for education.

Sam has gone through a somewhat unconventional journey into his passion. He encountered failure early on in his path by not getting into the British Army, which was a devastating blow to his ambitions, well-being and confidence. Yet, failure can direct us towards a new path that is fulfilling, advantageous and enlightening. That is what occurred to Sam, whereby after a few coaching sessions with an experienced coach, he realised what he was supposed to do. Through his 3B programme, which we looked into during the episode, to his public speaking, he is on a mission to inspire students to achieve greatness in every corner of their lives.

In this episode, we explored a wide range of topics, including seeing failure as a blessing, vulnerability and the purpose behind Student Breakthrough.

Topics covered

The one thing we should know about Sam

Early roots

Sam’s wish to go to the army

Failure being a blessing

Student Breakthrough

Taking and giving

Vulnerability

Being in harmony with what you think, say and do

The 3Bs

Why does Sam do what he does

What does passion mean to Sam

More from Sam

https://www.studentbreakthrough.com/about-me/

https://www.instagram.com/studentbreakthrough/

https://www.facebook.com/studentbreakthrough/

For the last episode of season four, we were joined by the one and only Dayna Pereira to speak about her passion for comedy. As a comedian and self-improvement podcast host, Dayna has gone through life’s imperfections. Whether that is failure, dealing with imperfections or societal beliefs, this comedian has gone through all that life can throw at us. Yet, she has laughed through such flaws and has claimed the title of the 'participation trophy wife'. Rather than seeking perfection, it is all about trying our best and doing the best we can regardless of what is thrown our way. There were many great lessons from this episode, like accepting the misalignments in life, finding solutions out of misery and having excitement around growth. Not just that, but Dayna touched on how she got into comedy, how she has embraced failure and the lessons she has learnt while pursuing her passion.

Topics covered - 

How Dayna’s passion for comedy starts

Relatability within comedy

Laughing through life’s imperfections

Participation Trophy Wife

Embracing failure

Intertwining personal development and comedy

Laughter being therapy

Lessons

What does passion mean

More from Dayna -

https://daynapereira.com/

https://www.instagram.com/trophywifedayna/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/TrophyWifeDayna?s=20&t=ePm9nFTxGpSeuoaJNou9Rg

For the fifth episode of the fourth season of this fantastic podcast, we had the pleasure of having Vaughn Granger speak about his passion for entrepreneurship. Vaughn is someone with true grit and has that entrepreneurial spirit that many entrepreneurs have inside of them. However, he is a bit different and loves to have people around him who are even better than him regarding business, personal development and other things. The business owner doesn't set for mediocre and is all about helping people create confidence in themselves through clothes. Vaughn has many lessons he has learnt while pursuing his passion and shared with Hamish the importance of recognising your gifts, his upbringing and most importantly, what passion means to him.

This podcast is hosted by Hamish Hallett and is produced by Empart Media.

Topics covered

How does Vaughn’s passion for entrepreneurship start?

Early roots

Do people have what it takes to become entrepreneurs?

How to recognise your gifts

Importance of having people around you

Not settling for mediocre

lessons

what passion means

More from Vaughn

https://www.vaughngranger.com/

https://www.instagram.com/vaughngranger/?hl=en

https://linktr.ee/vaughngranger

We had the honour of being joined by Catherine King to speak about her passion for data. In the fourth episode of the season, Catherine, the Head of Digital Content & Community for Corinium, a digital and data company, has always enjoyed bringing data to life. Since going to university, she has found her passion or, as she says, found her flow through data. Not just that, but she was part of the Conference News Under 30 for the class of 2021 and has grown strength by strength within Corinium. There were so many important lessons to take from this episode, such as attracting like-minded people with your passion, using whatever privilege we have for the better of others and understanding that no one can do it alone.

In this episode, Hamish spoke to Catherine about university life, living in your flow, and the lessons she has learned while pursuing her passion.

This episode was hosted by Hamish Hallett and produced by Empart Media.

Topics covered

How does Catherine’s passion for data start?

Bringing data to life

University life

First day at Corinium

Living in your flow

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Conference News Under 30 for the class of 2021

Lessons

What does passion mean

More from Catherine

https://www.instagram.com/catherine_king_/?hl=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cat-king/

https://www.business-of-data.com/podcasts

For the third episode of the season, you will listen to a unique experience and passion for beach football from the one and only Michael Butler, the Bahamas national beach football goalkeeper. It seemed destined for Michael to play beach football due to the many beaches around the Bahamas. From being the ball boy during the beach football matches to now representing his country, he has had one hell of a journey. However, Michael isn't any old beach football player and has lots of wisdom to share with others who have a similar or completely different passion to him. The importance of being humble and the art of working hard and remembering how you make people feel are important lessons not only Hamish had learnt from talking to the beach goalkeeper but are lessons that we hope you, the listener, will learn too.

In this episode, Hamish spoke to Michael about where his drive for beach football came from, what is it like playing for the Bahamas national team and the many achievements that Michael has accomplished.

Topics covered

How Michael’s passion started

Where Michael’s drive comes from

Playing for the Bahamas national team

“People will always remember how you made them feel.”

Achievements

Humbleness

Lessons learnt

What does passion mean

More from Michael

https://www.instagram.com/likemike279/?hl=en

https://www.tiktok.com/@mikeybutler279

For the second episode of the season, we were joined by CFO, Founder & Co-Host of Next Level University, Kevin Palmieri, to speak about his passion for personal development. For Kevin, he found his passion at his lowest, whereby even though from the outside he had the so-called “perfect life”, he didn't feel fulfilled. This is despite having, in his words, a beautiful girlfriend, a high paying job, a sports car, and his dream body. There were times during his life that he contemplated life and experienced anxiety and depression, but in spite of all of these crippling lows, he came out of the other side. By going through such challenges, he found personal development, met Alan Lazaros, his podcast partner and learnt so many things about his passion, if that is through podcasting or other outlets. In this episode, Hamish spoke to Kevin about what truly makes us happy, what attracted to Kevin to his passion and setting boundaries.

If you loved this episode as much as we did, please share this episode with your friends and on social media and go and give this podcast a rating and a review!

This podcast is hosted by Hamish Hallett and is produced by Empart Media.

Topics covered

Finding personal development in your darkest times

What truly makes us happy

What keeps Kevin pursuing his passion

The influence of Alan Lazaros

How to admit weakness

Are those around best for your future or best for your past

Setting boundaries

Lessons from podcasting

What passion means to Kevin

More from Kevin

https://www.nextleveluniverse.com/

https://www.instagram.com/neverquitkid/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-palmieri-5b7736160/

Season four of In Pursuit of Passion is back for another season after a short break!

For the first episode of the season, we were joined by a body language consultant and founder of Simply Body Talk and CueKids, Khyati Bhatt. From working with elite forces in the Indian military, to international companies like Google, Khyati has coached many people and companies. But how did her passion start, what drew her towards her passion and how does she embrace the responsibility of being a founder of an international company? Hamish wanted to find answers to these kinds of questions when sitting down with Khyati. Growing up in an entrepreneurial family, it seemed that she had the toolkit to start a business. Not just that, but she had the people around her to thrive, like Joe Navarro, a world-leading expert on body language and Paul Ekman, an American psychologist. In this episode, Hamish dived deeper into the early beginnings of Khyati’s passion, how she founded Simply Body Talk and how she responds to those deemed 'uncoachable'.

If you loved this episode as much as we did, please share this episode with your friends and on social media and go and give this podcast a rating and a review!

This podcast is hosted by Hamish Hallett and is produced by Empart Media.

Topics Covered

Khyati’s early beginnings of her passion

Growing up in an entrepreneurial family

The foundation of Simply Body Talk

Embracing responsibility

How to keep control of your business

Joe Navarro and Paul Ekman

Achievements

Responding to the uncoachable

What keeps Khyati going

What passion means to Khyati

More from Khyati

https://www.instagram.com/khyati_simplybodytalk/?hl=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/khyati-bhatt/?originalSubdomain=in

https://simplybodytalk.com/