ARVRA WELLNESS: Own Your Health

Emma Storey-Gordon is the founder of ESGfitness and author of The Fat Loss Coach for Women: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Feel Incredible (Penguin). With a BSc in Sport & Exercise Science and over a decade coaching clients one-on-one and in groups, Emma has helped thousands of women escape yo-yo dieting and build a sustainable approach to fat loss that actually fits real life.Her work cuts through fitness industry noise with an evidence-based, no-nonsense approach — she's known for calling out bad science and quick-fix culture as much as for what actually works.Book: The Fat Loss Coach for Women — PenguinInstagram: @ESGfitness

Amy Rushworth is a women's empowerment coach, relationship coach, and somatic healing practitioner based in London. She's the host of The Amy Rushworth Show, a self-improvement podcast helping women build confidence, break unhealthy patterns, and step into more empowered versions of themselves.Amy's approach blends transformational coaching, breathwork, and somatic healing — shaped by her own journey healing from PTSD and rebuilding her confidence from the ground up. Through 1:1 coaching, online programmes, retreats, and her podcast, she's supported thousands of women worldwide in overcoming self-criticism, comparison, and the fear of judgement.Social links:Instagram: @thisisamyrushworth — 53K followersWebsite: amyrushworth.comPodcast: The Amy Rushworth Show (Apple Podcasts & Spotify)

In December 2020, Ali Turpie's life changed in a matter of hours.At just 30 years old — fit, healthy and active — Ali suffered a major stroke that left him completely mute. He couldn't say a single word. He couldn't even say his own name. Doctors told his family he would be lucky to ever string a sentence together again.He didn't accept that.Ali treated his recovery like training. Speech therapy became skill work. Single sounds. Basic words. Short sentences. Over and over again. Because just as repetition builds muscle, repetition builds neuroplasticity, and Ali knew how to show up and do the work.In under six months he defied every doctor's prediction and learned to speak again. Today he is the founder of Calm + Chaos, a gym built on the lessons his stroke taught him about intensity, recovery and the extraordinary resilience of the human brain.Follow Ali on Instagram: @aliturpie

Alex Crockford is someone who has built one of the UK's most engaged fitness communities — with nearly 400,000 followers over on Instagram at @alexcrockford. Alex is a certified personal trainer, actor, and founder of the Alex Crockford App, which helps people build strength and wellbeing through training and lifestyle habits that actually fit real life. What I love about him is that he's not selling perfection, he's selling consistency, self-respect and showing up.

This week I'm joined by Jim Chapman, one of the original British YouTubers and a pioneer of the Brit Crew generation who helped build the influencer world before anyone knew what to call it. Author, illustrator, presenter, and self-described fashionable dad, Jim has spent over a decade building one of the most recognisable voices in British culture online. With 2.2 million Instagram followers and a psychology degree he never quite put down, he's someone who thinks deeply about identity, mental health, and what it actually means to show up as a man in today's world. 📲 Follow Jim: @jimchapman

Lauren White is a UK-based motivational speaker, life coach and influencer who turned her darkest chapter into her greatest purpose. After battling addiction, mental health struggles and eating disorders at 18, Lauren got sober and went on to work with the Amy Winehouse Foundation and The Prince's Trust, delivering talks to young people across the country. Now with over 100K followers, she's built a community around radical honesty, mental wellbeing and helping people find the light. This is one conversation you won't want to miss.@iamlaurenwhite