Hello, hi and welcome. I am your host Emmagan Awardner and in my nearly 20 year career as a beauty and health writer, I have

interviewed a lot of people.

Supermodels, entrepreneurs, authors, celebrities and doctors, and many of these conversations

had a real impact on me, and I'd come away feeling inspired, excited, informed,

and really empowered. And at the back of my mind I'd always think, I wish I could just publish

the tape so people could really feel that conversation.

Well on this podcast you get to feel the conversation.

I talk with experts, guests and a few friends who I hope will inspire, inform and empower you

and maybe also challenge you whether you're looking for self-help, self-improvement,

beauty advice, health insights, business know-how or just some good old-fashioned life advice

and a bit of a laugh.

It's all here. Welcome to the show.

My guest in this episode of the podcast is John McAvoy.

John McAvoy's story is the stuff of dreams, so the fact it's a reality is honestly really quite something.

To call it inspirational is to almost undersell what he has achieved and chosen to do. John was in prison, serving his second sentence for

armed robbery. It was a double life sentence actually. And he was in the

highest security prison in the UK when he discovered an ability.

He was on a rowing machine, one of the wardens in the gym noticed his speed, tallied it against

current British and world records and set John on a path to breaking them in prison.

Breaking that record in prison was an epiphany for John and in that moment his life changed completely.

No more crime he was focused on becoming an athlete and he achieved it and is now a Nike-sponsored athlete and a free man.

But that's not all. Realizing and understanding his ability to change and asking himself whether his life would have been different had he found sport and not organised crime at an early age, he uses his own example to inspire kids and encourage people tempted or involved in a life of crime to see

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