Matt Hampson
The Mid•Point with Gabby Logan
The Midpoint
4.3 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful episode of The Midpoint, Gabby Logan is joined by former England rugby international and inspirational speaker Matt Hampson.
Matt opens up about the life-altering injury that left him paralysed at just 21, and the moment everything changed — physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Together, Gabby and Matt explore what it truly means to reach a midpoint in life: the reckoning with loss, the rebuilding of identity, and the determination required to find purpose beyond the game. Matt speaks candidly about resilience, leadership, and how adversity reshaped his outlook on success, fulfilment, and happiness.
Honest, moving, and ultimately uplifting, this conversation is a reminder that while we can’t always control what happens to us, we can choose how we respond — and that the midpoint can become the start of something even more meaningful.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Midpoint. My guest today has mastered the art of a multimedia career |
| 0:09.2 | and to an extent the art of reinvention. He sold more than 10 million copies of his self-help books |
| 0:14.8 | right back to the first big hit he had on his hands, which was a number one bestseller. |
| 0:19.8 | Change Your Life in Seven Days is now 20 years old. |
| 0:22.9 | And from that success, a career was born that took Paul McKenna from working in local radio |
| 0:27.4 | and Topshop as a teenager to appearing on Capitol Radio and then to a decade of TV appearances |
| 0:32.8 | and eponymous shows as the nation's favorite behavioral hypnotherapist. |
| 0:37.1 | Now age 62, he's back with a new |
| 0:39.0 | version of Change Your Life in seven days. So you might not want to change your life exactly, |
| 0:44.0 | but I thought it was a good opportunity to chat to a man who might have some tips on changing |
| 0:47.9 | a few of our bad habits and fine-tuning the positive ones at the midpoint stage. |
| 1:01.0 | Paul McKenna, welcome to the midpoint. |
| 1:01.8 | Thank you, Gabby. |
| 1:02.7 | It's lovely to be with you. |
| 1:07.8 | And I don't know where to start in a way with you, because there's so much that you have done and so much you're known for and so much I think along the way of your journey |
| 1:12.8 | kind of feeds into a midlife audience actually so I think we're going to start at the end |
| 1:16.9 | because you're just relaunching is that what you do when a book book has been published for 20 years |
| 1:22.1 | yes it's unusual yeah you're talking about change your life seven days. The book that kind of started it for me. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.2 | What happened was I reread it about a year ago. |
| 1:32.2 | My publishers and I had a conversation. |
| 1:35.0 | And, you know, in its time, it was a revolutionary kind of self-help book. |
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