On this edition of The Warrior Academy Podcast we speak with instructor Badr about his influences growing up in South Africa and how his journey thorugh martial arts leads to a lifestyle of fitness and healthy habits. As one of our newer instructors, Badr brings a diverse range of skills and appraoch due in part to his background. Learn more about his journey here and how he is already helping Warrior Families to implement healthy habits and lifestyles at home.

Welcome back to The Warrior Academy Podcast. We're back speaking to industry experts about all things character development. We take a deep dive into the world of child behaviour, what that behaviour means and how parents can learn how to better communicate with their child.  Pascale work with parents struggling with their little children, overwhelmed by parenting in this modern day. Her approach is to lead you to explore your triggers, understand your children’s needs and learn to be intentional in your responses to create positive, healthy relationships. Pascale runs several programmes for parents looking to improve their communication and relationships with their children. You can learn more here: https://www.parenting-moments.com/ We got the chance to speak with her about her programme and how she has worked with The Warrior Academy over the years to provide our instructors with invaluable help and advice on dealing with children of all types.

Ben Kirk is the Co-Founder and Director of INSPIRED SCHOOLS and Inspired Somerset. Ben was a former secondary school’s PE teacher, but his journey to becoming the co-founder of Inspired Playgrounds started when he founded another business, Key Stage Coaching. Key Stage Coaching (now Inspired Somerset) still operates in Somerset, providing outstanding PE lessons to Primary Schools and this was the springboard to the creation of Inspired Playgrounds. When entering back into the world of Primary School PE, some 8 years after leaving a role for the local sports partnership to go travelling. Ben and his partner Marcus Holmes observed significant changes in teacher’s workloads and the physical literacy and activity levels of the children. This sparked the need to come up with something innovative, which could make a real difference to the lives of the children at Primary Schools. What started as a way to get children more physically active during the school day has grown to improve behaviour, helping children to engage more with their learning, giving teacher’s time back, developing sports leaders that schools are proud of and that play an active role in the school, and of course, still raising physical activity levels as there are such huge benefits of doing so.

Steven began his career as a Police Officer, During those ten years at Norfolk Constabulary, he gained his high calibre status attaining the position of Detective and a Chief Constable’s Commendation for disarming a person with a handgun, during an armed robbery. It was shortly after this that Steven utilised social media as a strategy to develop his personal brand and build BIGDaddyPR. Steven, together with his team, soon to launch a new Cyber Bully Awareness course for learners, teachers and parents for the increasing need for E-safety advice and education in schools.

Obi James is a Leadership Coach, Mediator and Culture Change Consultant who specialises in transforming relationships and teams. She has successfully trained, mentored and coached individuals, leaders, partnerships and teams - through periods of extreme change and uncertainty. Obi set up her consultancy business in 2010 and has worked with countless private partnerships and teams in organisations including Mayor of London’s teams, Morgan Stanley, NHS, Barclays, Lloyds, Farfetch, Save the Children, ActionAid UK and Royal African Society. A parent herself, Obi's relationship coaching work during lockdown has amplified the need for us to reset our personal partnerships. She will be speaking to us about the importance of prioritising healthy and empowered relationships, particularly as parents.