On a Mission Podcast 2.0

The Psychology of Not Quitting with Greg Parkin

Greg Parkin has exited multiple seven figure businesses, completed Ironman triathlons, and in his fifties is preparing to run 108 miles across the Pennine Way in winter. His life has been shaped by pressure, risk, discipline and a mindset built around pushing limits.
 
This episode explores what it really takes to build and scale at that level. The appetite for risk. The tolerance for uncertainty. The resilience required when the stakes are high. Greg breaks down the psychology that connects entrepreneurship and endurance sport, and why the same mental traits show up in both arenas.
 
We go deeper into his relationship with alcohol and how it became embedded in business culture and high performance environments. Greg shares how stress, identity and drinking were more connected than he realised, and how stepping away from alcohol sharpened his thinking, improved his stress tolerance and redirected his energy.
 
Key moments include:
 
✔ Building and exiting multiple seven figure businesses.
✔ The psychology behind entrepreneurs who refuse to quit.
✔ The emotional comedown after major achievement.
✔ Preparing for 108 miles across the Pennine Way in his fifties.
✔ The mental breaking point in ultra endurance and how to push past it.
✔ High functioning drinking in ambitious environments.
✔ The stress patterns that fuel alcohol use.
✔ Turning discipline into long term sobriety.
✔ Why resilience is built through discomfort.
 
A conversation about ambition, identity, endurance and the discipline required to evolve when success alone is not enough.
 
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His Father Was Murdered. He Refused to Break with Gian Power

At 23 years old, he received a phone call that changed everything.
 
His father had travelled to India for work. Days later, he was missing. Weeks later, a confession came in. Murder. The body was never recovered. The assets were taken. The legal system stalled. And overnight, Gian Power lost his hero, his security, and the life he had known.
 
This is not just a story about grief. It is about what you choose to do next.
 
In this deeply moving episode, Gian shares what it was like to navigate an international murder investigation in his early twenties while sitting professional exams in London, facing alleged conspirators across the table, and writing his own legal letters because he could not afford representation. He speaks openly about the confusion, the anger, the injustice, and the moment he realised that nobody could control how he responded.
 
Instead of allowing bitterness to define him, Gian channelled everything into building something bigger than himself. He founded The Power of Storytelling with one clear mission: to make workplaces more human. Today, the organisation works with hundreds of global brands, using storytelling, neuroscience and lived experience to change cultures from the inside out.
 
We also explore the psychological tools that kept him standing. Meditation in office bathrooms. Emotional regulation. Gratitude as a daily discipline. Turning anger into focus. And the neuroscience behind why sharing your story can literally save someone else’s life.
 
Ten years on, the fight for justice continues. But so does the mission.
 
Key moments include:
 
✔ The phone call that confirmed his father’s murder and the body that was not his.
✔ Losing his inheritance, his childhood home and financial security overnight.
✔ Facing alleged conspirators and navigating international legal failures.
✔ Why he refuses to let anger define him.
✔ Meditation, emotional granularity and the psychology of resilience.
✔ The neuroscience of storytelling and how shared experiences change the brain.
✔ Supporting the Missing People charity and the reality of unresolved loss.
✔ Building a global organisation from tragedy.
 
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Royal Marine Commando Aaron Moon: Blown Up, Written Off, Still Standing

Aaron Moon is a Royal Marine Commando whose life changed in seconds in Afghanistan when his vehicle hit an IED. He died twice on the flight home, woke from an induced coma to life changing injuries, and later faced the letter that ended his military career for good. 
 
In this episode, Aaron talks honestly about what came after, the denial, the loss of identity, the darkest period where he drifted and lost direction, and the moment he decided to take control again. He shares the mindset framework he built through it, why he calls it the Rebel Mindset, and how it became the foundation for rebuilding his life with purpose, direction, and momentum when everything else had been stripped away. 
 
Years later, Aaron came close to dying again. Another life threatening moment that forced a hard reset and exposed how easily survival can turn into stagnation if you stop pushing forward. 
 
Now Aaron is taking his message into prisons, working with men written off by the system, and preparing for his biggest challenge yet. Cycling Route 66 solo, 2,570 miles across America on one leg, chasing a world record, funding the challenge himself so that every penny raised goes directly to charity. This episode is for anyone navigating darkness, rebuilding after loss, or refusing to let adversity be the end of their story. 
 
Key moments include:
 
✔ Being blown up in Afghanistan and dying twice on the flight home.
✔ Why losing his military career hurt more than losing his leg.
✔ The denial and drifting that followed recovery.
✔ How the Rebel Mindset was built.
✔ Facing death again years later.
✔ Taking his work into prisons.
✔ Cycling Route 66 solo on one leg for a world record.
 
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Martin Stapleton From Combat to Cage Warriors and Beyond

Martin Stapleton (Stapes) returns to the On a Mission Podcast for his third appearance, and once again, this is a conversation that goes far beyond fighting.
 
Since we last sat down together, Martin has stepped back into the cage, this time on his own terms. A former Royal Marine Commando, a world-level MMA fighter, and an entrepreneur, Martin has lived multiple lives that demand extreme resilience, discipline, and emotional control. This episode captures where those worlds collide.
 
We talk openly about coming back to fighting in your forties, why age is often used as an excuse rather than a limitation, and what it really means to enjoy the process rather than chasing outcomes. Martin shares the reality of lockdown nearly destroying his business, draining his savings, and forcing him to rebuild from the ground up. 
 
Stapes goes deep into identity, loss, ego, and purpose. Why so many high performers struggle when one chapter ends, how identity can either anchor you or trap you, and how suffering can become a source of strength rather than something to escape.
 
We dive into emotional regulation, mental health, and the uncomfortable truth that resilience is not about never getting knocked down, but about how quickly you respond when it happens. From combat zones to the octagon to entrepreneurship and fatherhood, Martin explains how the same core principles apply, just in very different environments.
 
This is an honest and raw conversation about endurance, responsibility, and choosing to keep moving forward when it would be easier to stop.
 
Key moments include:
 
✔ Martin’s return to the cage and why he refused to let his career end on someone else’s terms.
✔ How lockdown nearly wiped out his business and the mindset that carried him through rebuilding.
✔ Why suffering is a skill and how it shaped his confidence long before success arrived.
✔ The role of ego in high performance and how it evolves with age and experience.
✔ Identity, purpose, and why losing one label does not mean losing who you are.
✔ Emotional regulation, mental health, and what real resilience looks like under pressure.
✔ Why enjoying the process matters more than outcomes at this stage of life.
 
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The Human Illusion and the Mechanics of Control with David Icke

For more than three decades, David Icke has been one of the most censored and relentlessly challenged voices in modern public discourse. Banned from countries, erased from platforms, publicly ridiculed and dismissed, yet still standing thirty five years later as many of the conversations he began have moved steadily closer to the mainstream.
 
This was never going to be a surface level conversation.
 
In this episode, David takes us through the full arc of his journey, from his early years inside the BBC and British politics to the moment his perception of reality fundamentally changed. What follows is a deep exploration of consciousness, perception, control, belief systems, power structures, and the mechanics of reality itself, not as abstract theory, but as forces that actively shape how humanity thinks, fears, complies, and lives.
 
We explore what David means by the human illusion, why he sees reality as frequency based rather than solid, and how perception becomes the primary lever of control. This conversation moves far beyond politics and into the deeper systems that influence identity, belief, religion, media, education, technology, and human behaviour at scale.
 
David also breaks down why political leaders are not where real power resides, how global systems operate through compartmentalisation, and why keeping humanity locked into rigid belief structures prevents deeper awareness. We discuss artificial intelligence, digital identity, programmable money, and why the next phase of control is not enforced through force, but through perception and consent.
 
This episode is expansive, intense, and intentionally uncompromising. It is about widening the frame, questioning what we think we know, and understanding how deeply perception governs experience in the modern world.
 
Key moments include:
 
✔ David’s explanation of the human illusion and why visible reality is only a tiny fraction of what exists.
✔ How frequency, consciousness, and perception shape human experience and behaviour.
✔ Why power does not sit with politicians, presidents, or public figureheads.
✔ The role of religion, education, and belief systems in long term mass control.
✔ Artificial intelligence, digital identity, and the future of perception based governance.
✔ Why awakening is not political, and why real awareness sits beyond left and right.
 
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Covid, Censorship and the Doctor Who Wouldn’t Back Down with Dr Peter McCullough

He became one of the most visible medical voices of the Covid era by refusing to stay quiet. One of the most published cardiologists in history, he challenged the official response in real time and paid the price for it. When he questioned the narrative, they tried to erase him.
 
Peter McCullough returns to the On a Mission podcast as our most listened to guest, after years of censorship, platform removals, and sustained attempts to discredit his work. None of it worked. The questions he raised never went away and much of what he warned about is now playing out in real time.
 
This conversation revisits the decisions that shaped the pandemic response and follows their consequences through to today. We talk about why early treatment was shut down, how waiting until hospitalisation became standard practice, and what that meant for patient outcomes. We unpack testing and death reporting, the pressure placed on clinicians, and how media messaging and coordinated language shaped public fear and compliance.
 
Dr McCullough also shares the deeply personal experience of treating his own father outside official guidance, exposing serious flaws in protocols that were presented as unquestionable. The discussion moves into myocarditis, all cause mortality, vaccine injury reporting, and long Covid, including the role of the spike protein and why so many people are still dealing with long term cardiovascular, neurological, and inflammatory symptoms.
 
This is a continuation of a conversation many tried to shut down. It is direct, detailed, and grounded in what has now stood the test of time.
 
Key moments include:
 
✔ Why early treatment was sidelined and the consequences of hospitalisation first protocols.
✔ Testing and death reporting and how the data became distorted.
✔ Treating a family member outside government guidance.
✔ Myocarditis, athlete risk, and shifting narratives.
✔ All cause mortality and unresolved excess death signals.
✔ Long Covid, the spike protein, and long term health impact.
 
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When Stress and Menopause Collide with Health and Wellness Expert Gudiya Dagur Patel

Wellness expert and Harley Street clinic co-founder Gudiya Dagur Patel joins the On a Mission podcast to unpack why so many women feel exhausted, overwhelmed, reactive, and disconnected despite doing everything right.
 
This conversation will resonate with high-functioning women who are juggling work, family, health, and responsibility while quietly running on empty.
 
Gudiya works in health and wellness, yet her own life followed a familiar pattern. Constant pressure. Always coping. Always pushing. No obvious warning signs. Until a routine test revealed stage four kidney cancer with no symptoms.
 
From there, the focus turns to what actually drives burnout in women. Chronic stress. Emotional load. Hormonal change. Nervous system overload. Years of minimising what the body is signalling.
 
Menopause and perimenopause run through this conversation, including why symptoms are so often missed, misunderstood, or mislabelled as anxiety or depression, and why many women feel like they are losing control of their energy, emotions, focus, and resilience.
 
Alcohol, distraction, overachievement, and productivity are framed as coping strategies rather than personality traits, and the cost of never slowing down is laid bare.
 
If you are tired all the time, struggling to switch off, snapping more than you used to, feeling foggy, flat, or not like yourself, this episode will connect dots that are rarely joined.
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Key moments include:
 
✔ Why burnout disproportionately affects capable, high-performing women.
✔ How chronic stress shows up physically, emotionally, and hormonally.
✔ Early menopause and perimenopause signs many women miss.
✔ Why hormonal issues are often misdiagnosed as mental health problems.
✔ Cortisol, nervous system overload, and emotional volatility.
✔ Alcohol and distraction as common coping mechanisms.
✔ Why rest feels uncomfortable after years of over-functioning.
✔ What recovery actually looks like when stress has been long-term.
 
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Break Free from Addiction and Stop Repeating Destructive Patterns with Dr John Demartini

World-renowned behavioural expert Dr John Demartini is back on the On a Mission podcast, and he does not disappoint!
 
Demartini has long challenged mainstream psychology and self help frameworks, particularly around trauma, addiction, burnout, success, and responsibility. In this episode, those challenges show up clearly in how he explains behaviour, why people stay stuck, and why many popular approaches never reach the root of the issue.
 
We get into the uncomfortable truth around why addiction is rarely about the substance itself, why burnout is often created by living in obligation rather than priority, and why many of the behaviours people want to eliminate are quietly serving a purpose. Demartini explains how unconscious motives drive behaviour, how emotional payoffs keep patterns in place, and why real change only happens when those drivers are exposed rather than avoided.
 
The DeMartini Method runs throughout the conversation as the structure behind these views. It is used to explain why people repeat the same cycles, why responsibility is often misunderstood, and why removing blame without restoring accountability leaves people exactly where they started.
 
Another unmissable episode 🔥
 
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Key moments include:
 
✔ Why addiction is rarely about the substance and more about the unconscious benefits it provides.
✔ How behaviours people label as destructive are often solving problems they have never identified.
✔ Why burnout is driven by misaligned priorities rather than workload or effort.
✔ How living by obligation creates stress, distraction, and emotional volatility.
✔ Why victim narratives feel validating but quietly remove control.
✔ How trauma is often approached in ways that reinforce identity instead of resolution.
✔ Why values dictate behaviour, money habits, leadership style, and decision making.
✔ How responsibility becomes a route back to clarity rather than blame.
 
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Jaymie Icke: Questioning Authority In A System Built On Fear

Covid. Censorship. Digital ID. Vaccines. Health freedom. Alternative media. Government overreach. Institutional control. Parenting in a system you no longer trust. These are no longer fringe talking points. They are the fault lines running through everyday life, shaping how people think, comply, spend, raise their children, and hand over responsibility without realising the long term cost.
 
Jaymie Icke joins the On a Mission podcast as he talks openly about the ridicule he experienced growing up as the son of the world-renowned “conspiracy theorist” David Icke. Jaymie reflects on being judged and targeted for things that happened long before he was old enough to understand them, watching his father be publicly mocked, and then witnessing years later as many of those warnings quietly shifted from ridicule to accepted reality.
 
We talk candidly about Covid as a breaking point, how censorship escalated the moment questions were asked, and why digital ID represents a far bigger shift than most people understand. Jaymie is honest about initially buying into the Covid narrative, the embarrassment of realising he was wrong, and why that moment triggered a much deeper reassessment of authority, trust, and personal responsibility.
 
The conversation also goes into why dependency is the real mechanism of control, how alternative media filled a vacuum when mainstream narratives collapsed, and why health, education, money, and parenting all sit at the centre of the same system. This is not theory or performance. It is lived experience, uncomfortable realisations, and the consequences of choosing comfort over responsibility.
 
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Key moments include:
 
✔ Buying into the Covid narrative and the moment it fell apart.
✔ Why censorship escalated when questions were asked.
✔ How ridicule is used to silence dissent.
✔ Growing up under media scrutiny as David Icke’s son.
✔ Watching so called conspiracy shift into accepted reality.
✔ The rise and suppression of alternative media.
✔ Digital ID and why it changes the rules completely.
✔ Health freedom versus engineered medical dependency.
✔ Education, indoctrination, and parental conflict.
✔ Why dependency is more powerful than force.
✔ What actually happens when people stop complying.
 
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The Architecture Of Mass Compliance with Multimillionaire Dean Kelly

Dean Kelly returns to the On a Mission podcast for one of the most anticipated conversations we have released.
 
Dean founded his first business at 27, sold it to a PLC for an eight figure exit, and became a liquid multi millionaire by 30. He went on to become the youngest CEO on the UK stock market and has since built, scaled, and exited multiple businesses. On paper, the story could stop there. It never does.
 
Dean originally came on the podcast to talk about those achievements. Our conversations never stay there. We first connected during the pandemic, at a time when much of the official narrative did not sit right. What followed were challenging discussions around power, incentives, and how decisions are really made behind the scenes. Dean has a way of interrogating ideas rather than accepting them at face value, which is why these conversations consistently go beyond surface level commentary.
 
This conversation moves through money, power, fear, and responsibility, exploring how people are conditioned to avoid discomfort, outsource thinking, and stay reactive rather than sovereign. It also looks at what it genuinely means to future proof your life and protect your family in an increasingly unstable world, without panic, paranoia, or blind trust in institutions.
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Key moments include:
✔ Dean’s journey from eight figure exit to public markets leadership.
✔ Why conversations about success rarely tell the full story.
✔ The difference between money problems and spending problems.
✔ Why people instinctively move away from pain and the long term cost of that avoidance.
✔ Power, control, and the incentives driving global decision making.
✔ What future proofing your life and family actually looks like in real terms.
 
This episode is for people who challenge conventional thinking and want a clearer understanding of how money, power, and responsibility really operate.
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