Stripping Off with Matt Haycox

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I used to be the UK's biggest strip club owner. Today's guest spent years on the other side of the stage.

Ashley Edelman went from the army, to a drug dealer's spare room in Cornwall chasing stripping work, to a Britain's Got Talent audition that's racked up 88 million views. Then came the bodybuilding, a marriage that taught him more than he bargained for, and a party lifestyle he's lucky to have come out of. What happened next took him to a rainforest monastery in Thailand, a business built out of a bust-up in Dubai, and three hours in no man's land trying to get out when the drones hit.

Ever had a "life-changing" experience that changed sod all? Ashley reckons he knows why. We get into frog poison, toad venom and the spirituality crowd who wear it like a costume, and I ask him the questions you're all thinking. And yes, we talk porn. He's got his views. I've got mine, and I'm not giving it up.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction to the Journey
1:38 From Military to Stripping: A New Path
9:33 Marriage, Divorce and Self-Discovery
14:51 Energy, the Dark Night of the Soul and Breathwork
21:58 From the Monastery to Dubai
32:36 Exploring Plant Medicine: Kambo and Bufo
40:59 Who He Works With and Emotional Conditioning in Men
46:16 The Role of Sexual Energy and Distraction
52:28 Anxiety, Fear and Finding Happiness Within
55:01 The Adult Industry: Perspectives and Realities

Connect with Ashley
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/consciously_ash/
Website: https://theunshakeablemethod.com/ 

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In these ‘Naked Truths,’ I’ll be spotlighting my favourite, most impactful moments from past episodes of Stripping Off with Matt Haycox. These are the moments that hit hardest, offer the most value, and deserve to be heard again.

Behind the fitness coach who's helped thousands of people transform their bodies is a man who battled bulimia in secret for over 30 years.

In this Naked Truth, Scott Harrison opens up about an eating disorder that started at 13, rooted in childhood bullying, and quietly followed him through marriage, fatherhood, and building a business that's changed thousands of lives - including relapses he's had even now. He lays out, without flinching, the full list of what shaped him: the bullying, the eating disorder, a divorce, and the loss of his son. Then the conversation turns, and Scott explains how the discipline he found in karate and boxing became the thing that put it all back together. Would he change any of it? He says no, because it's exactly what taught him to help everyone else find their way out.

Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:05 - Bulimia
3:04 - Martial Arts & Fitness Creates a Balanced Mind and Body

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In these ‘Naked Truths,’ I’ll be spotlighting my favourite, most impactful moments from past episodes of Stripping Off with Matt Haycox. These are the moments that hit hardest, offer the most value, and deserve to be heard again.

Your £100 isn't worth £100 anymore and the official inflation figures aren't telling you the whole story.

In this Mic Drop, entrepreneur and financial advisor Spencer Lodge breaks down what actually causes inflation - and it's not Russia, and it's not supply chains. From living through Brazil's hyperinflation, where bread was repriced three times a day, to watching Argentina cut the value of his bank account in half overnight, Spencer explains why governments printing money is the real problem, why every country is just a badly run business, and why the UK can't take the one medicine that would fix it.

If your money's sitting in a bank account earning 2%, this is the wake-up call.

Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:05 - Spencers Views on the Inflation Crisis
4:44 - How to reverse inflation
6:21 - Where does it all end? How do you fix the deficit?
10:55 - Can a country go bankrupt?

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In these ‘Naked Truths,’ I’ll be spotlighting my favourite, most impactful moments from past episodes of Stripping Off with Matt Haycox. These are the moments that hit hardest, offer the most value, and deserve to be heard again.

Most people confuse not caring with being fine. Jamie White thinks that's depression.

In this Naked Truth, Matt and Jamie trace the line between genuine resilience and putting a brave face on - moving from a real conversation about a friend who couldn't change, through Jamie's theory on what depression actually does when you let it run its course, to Matt's admission that two and a half years of legal battles and chronic illness probably tested that line more than he's let on. Jamie's conclusion: Matt hasn't just survived stress. He's been training for it his whole life. The question is whether that's genius or self-inflicted chaos - and whether any of it matters if the answer to "are you happy?" is still yes.

Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:05 - Why Most People Don't Change
3:53 - Matt's Darkest Period: Legal Battles & Resilience
9:40 - Are You Actually Happy? The Binary Question

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In these ‘Naked Truths,’ I’ll be spotlighting my favourite, most impactful moments from past episodes of Stripping Off with Matt Haycox. These are the moments that hit hardest, offer the most value, and deserve to be heard again.

Most people discover Bitcoin through Reddit or a friend's investment tip. Daniel Pekic found it on the dark web - buying Xanax to come down from cocaine-laced parties. What started as an accidental transaction became a financial philosophy.

In this Naked Truth, Daniel traces the exact moment Bitcoin stopped being a number on a screen and became the cornerstone of how he protects his wealth, his freedom, and his future.

Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:05 - Discovering Bitcoin
1:41 - The Moment Bitcoin Clicked

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Most people won't change until the pain of staying the same hurts more than the change itself.

In this special episode, Matt sits down in Bali with his good friend Jamie White for a good old fashioned chat. Jamie, a coach who works with successful entrepreneurs on everything except the business: the stress, the relationships, the burnout, and the personal blocks that strategy and funnels can't fix. With no agenda and no script, Matt opens up about the moment that transformed his health, a comment from his ex that sent him from pushing plates away at dinner to discovering TRT, and why he now credits her comment as one of the best things that ever happened to him.

They also get into why Jamie deliberately pushes back on clients who want to hire him, whether Matt has ever actually been depressed, treating stress as a muscle you can train, the "will it kill me or bankrupt me?" framework for making fast decisions, why how you order starters predicts how you hire staff, and the case for outsourcing your flaws instead of fixing them.

Chapters
0:00 - Intro
1:27 - Bali as a Reset: Finding a New Chapter
3:20 - Health, Fitness & the Wake-Up Call
16:43 - Jamie's Coaching World: What He Actually Does
21:50 - Why Most People Don't Change
28:14 - Matt's Darkest Period: Legal Battles & Resilience
34:14 - Are You Actually Happy?
39:16 - Making Decisions Faster
46:35 - Know Yourself, Delegate the Rest
50:49 - Relationships: Stop Trying to Change People
54:05 - The Energy of Place: Bali, Dubai, New York & Ireland
57:41 - Going Home: Why Ireland Is Hard for Jamie

Follow Jamie:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamiewhite
Website: https://jamiewhite.com/

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He has a £10M net worth, face tattoos, and absolutely nothing to sell you - and that alone should tell you this conversation is going to be different.

In this episode, Matt Haycox sits down with Daniel Pekic - Australian expat, Bitcoin holder since under $1k, and one of the most genuinely unbucketable people on the internet. They get into how Daniel actually built his wealth (hint: it starts on the dark web), why he considers $10M unimpressive by Dubai standards, and the one trait he believes the TikTok generation has completely lost.

Daniel doesn't hold back on the bigger picture either: the nanny state laws he happily breaks and why, his take on Western decline and whether it gets better before it gets worse, immigration, multiple passports, and what it really means to live as a sovereign individual. If you're tired of podcasts where someone's quietly selling you something, this is the antidote.

Chapters
0:00 - Coming Up
0:14 - Intro
1:40 - Who Is Daniel Pekic?
6:18 - The Cost of Impatience
15:02 - Building a Tattoo Empire in Bali
17:55 - Managing Artists & Running a Profitable Shop
23:51 - Why Business Partnerships Fail
29:50 - How He Actually Discovered Bitcoin
31:26 - The Moment Bitcoin Clicked
35:58 - Bitcoin vs Altcoins & Crypto Sovereignty
43:09 - Steroids, TRT & Performance
51:39 - Breaking Laws & Where to Draw the Line
56:46 - Is the West in Managed Decline?
1:01:32 - Immigration & What Daniel Actually Means
1:07:47 - Where He'd Actually Choose to Live
1:13:19 - Multiple Passports & Flag Theory
1:16:47 - The Face Tattoos: Regret or No Regret?
1:20:51 - What's Next for Daniel

Follow Daniel:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AskPekic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danielpekic/
Website: https://askpekic.com/ 

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The fitness coach who spent 30 years hiding the secret that started it all.

Scott Harrison built one of the world's biggest online fitness programmes - 77 countries, tens of thousands of participants, a 100% success rate across chronic illness. But behind the results was a man who had been badly bullied at 13, carried an eating disorder through marriage and fatherhood, went through divorce, and lost a son. In this episode he strips it all back: where the darkness came from, how long he carried it, and why he wouldn't change any of it.

We also get into the fitness myths Scott has spent eight years dismantling. Why calorie deficit is the wrong focus, how you can party twice a week and still keep your results, what food actually does to your hormones, and what it really took to turn Rylan Clark from a malnourished nine stone into the person he became. One of the most honest conversations we've had on Stripping Off.

Chapters
0:00 - Coming Up
0:05 - Intro
0:48 - A Life Changer in Fitness, Nutrition & Mindset
2:37 - The Six Pack Revolution Programme
4:06 - Why Calorie Deficit Is the Wrong Approach
6:07 - How to Get Drunk AND Have a Six Pack!
7:02 - Extreme Fat Loss Results. 100% Success Rate
10:10 - What Is the Biggest Obstacle to Starting?
12:45 - How Food Rebalances Your Hormones
15:44 - Bulimia
18:44 - Martial Arts, Discipline and the Ripple Effect
22:02 - Fitness Myths Debunked
28:25 - Training Rylan Clark and Elite Athletes
29:10 - Inside the Six Pack Revolution
31:25 - Final Thoughts

Follow Scott Harrison
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamscottharrison/
Website: https://thesixpackrevolution.com/ 

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In this compelling episode of Stripping Off with Matt Haycox, Matt sits down with Natalie Russell, a self-esteem and relationship recovery coach whose incredible story is one of resilience and transformation. Facing a life of abuse, addiction, prison, and toxic relationships, Natalie has endured unimaginable hardship. But instead of letting her past define her, she’s used her journey to inspire others and empower herself to become a role model for breaking generational cycles of pain.

Natalie’s story will resonate with anyone who’s experienced adversity, whether it’s in relationships, personal growth, or addiction recovery. She shares the inner resolve it takes to walk away from toxicity and the process of healing that she calls “learning to love the woman that I am.” As Natalie so powerfully states, “If I can’t find a decent man, I’m sure as hell going to raise two.”

This episode is a must-listen for anyone ready to break free and create a life of purpose.

Chapters
0:00 - Coming Up
0:17 - Intro
0:36 - Natalie's Background
6:32 - Smoking Cigarettes, Self Harming, Sexual Abuse
11:22 - Self-Harming Motivation
13:01 - Pregnancy at 14 from Sexual Assault
15:38 - Leaving her Dad's house
17:15 - Prison 5 Times by 22
20:36 - Out of Prison and Swearing Off Drugs
23:57 - Moving into the YMCA for a Fresh Start
27:50 - Are You Fighting Back?
29:56 - Lacking the Ability to Say No
32:28 - The Turning Point for a New Life
36:39 - Becoming a Relationship Coach
37:39 - Common Traits in Clients
39:54 - Why do girls pick the bad boys?
42:45 - Toxic Relationships & Advice on Getting Out
47:30 - Stand Out Client Stories
49:25 - What does the Future hold?
50:34 - Final Thoughts

Follow Natalie Russell
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamnatalierussell/
Website: https://www.natalierussell.uk/ 

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The Gladiator Mindset. Two heart attacks, £100 million lost, and 20 years learned the hard way. Then $700 in his pocket, everyone had given up, and Dubai was supposed to be a fresh start.

Dariush Soudi built and lost empires - gyms, tech companies, franchises - before arriving in Dubai broke, broken, and starting again from scratch.

In this conversation with Matt Haycox, Dariush breaks down what doing it the hard way really costs you, why most people are conditioned to lose before they even start, and how walking into every room like a gladiator became the philosophy that rebuilt everything.

Chapters
0:00 - Coming Up
0:16 - Intro
0:49 - Dariush's Childhood
5:38 - Future and Career Prospects as a Child
9:51 - Why did your family move to England?
10:20 - Skiving A-Levels
11:20 - Going into Sales, Working Hard, Becoming a Natural
12:26 - Biggest Mistakes You've Made in Sales
16:03 - Dariush as a Parent - Anger Issues, In and Out of Prison in England Growing Up
17:24 - Dubai Jail
22:46 - Sales Career in Dariush's 20s
28:16 - Dodgy Business Partners and Heart Attack from Stress
33:36 - Arriving to Dubai with No Money
37:05 - The Origin of 'Gladiator'
39:16 - Selling Events
46:04 - Why Dariush Does What He Does
47:52 - Final Thoughts

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dariushsoudiofficial/?hl=en
Website: https://dariushsoudi.com/ 

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