Parky Profiles: Jagdeep Aujla
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
Podot
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Our final profile of this summer series has a very particular set of skills... Jagdeep Aujla is a London-born karate champion and martial arts enthusiast who, since his Parkinson's diagnosis, has established the Dopamine Warriors Boxing Club. Jagdeep joins the Movers & Shakers in the pub and shows all the resilience you'd expect from the Bruce Lee of PD – but also some cheering optimism about embracing the challenges of the condition and fighting through.
Sponsored by Boardwave, who support Cure Parkinson's.
Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Jeremy Paxman.
Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.
Sound mixing by Ewan Cameron.
Music by Alex Stobbs.
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| 0:00.0 | Podo. |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:12.0 | The show is generously sponsored by Bordwave, an exclusive European networking community for software founders and CEOs. |
| 0:19.0 | Boardwave is a passionate supporter of Cure Parkinson's. |
| 0:22.7 | For more details on the charity's progress around research and its fundraising, please visit |
| 0:27.8 | cureparkinsons.org.org.com.com. Hello and welcome to another episode of Movers and Shakers, the award-winning podcast about Living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm Rory Kathleen Jones, and we're back in the pub for another in our short summer mini-series of Parky profiles where we meet fascinating people living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:50.7 | Now, this week's guest is a black belt in karate, so I don't want to keep |
| 0:55.6 | him waiting, but let's just check who's turned up. Nicholas Mostyn. |
| 0:59.7 | Gillian Nasi Salomon. Paul Mayhujah. Mark Maudill. And our very special guest this week |
| 1:05.4 | is Jagdeep Odhler. Jagdeep runs a very popular boxing class for people with Parkinson's in East London. |
| 1:11.6 | He's a UK rep to next year's World Parkinson's Congress in Phoenix, Arizona, |
| 1:16.1 | and he's heavily involved in both fundraising and raising awareness. |
| 1:19.9 | I seem to bump into him everywhere I go, and today's no exception. |
| 1:23.6 | Welcome, Jagdeep. |
| 1:24.7 | Thank you very much, everybody from from Movers and Shakers team. |
| 1:28.9 | Before we get down to the story of your quite recent diagnosis, |
| 1:32.7 | we always like to start by getting to know about your story before Parkinson's. |
| 1:37.4 | Gillian, why don't you take the lead? |
| 1:39.2 | Well, let's start with where you grew up. |
| 1:41.0 | How about that? |
| 1:42.0 | I actually grew up in an area called Plasto, which is in |
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