MY TOP 5 RELAXWITHRIZZOLI EP'S

New here? Maybe you've been a fan for a while. Either way, here is a list of my Top 5 RelaxWithRizzoli podcast episodes. Lets dive in!

5. S3 E8 - My Personal 2023 Review

So, Number 5. 2023 was huge year for me in many respects, not only did I move in with my girlfriend at the time and travelled abroad with a girlfriend for the first time to Spain and Greece, we also broke up later in the year which hurt like hell! Family politics started the year as we had to move out of our house which we had been in for 11 years. I saw my favourite podcast, JaackMates Happy Hour Podcast, live on tour. I got invited to London to a professional podcast studio with my mates Brad and Tom from For F1 Sake to record a podcast there, they needed a camera man so I happily went with them. Met Ted Kravitz from Sky Sports F1 there at an event too! I had my second scholarship for racing in a Citroën C1 at Blyton Park. Sam Ryder in Leeds. Saw my mate, Spider-Man, win his first British GT race. Spain on a yacht. Flew with my dad many times. Worked driving supercars around Dunsfold, aka The Top Gear Test Track. Yes, it was PHENOMENAL! Then Greece...

That's only HALF way through the year. A lot happened and I run through it all in this episode.

4. S1 E1 - The First Episode

Ah back to where it all began. So much about me is different from then to now. This episode I remember was recorded UNDER MY BED with me sat on a beanbag, the sheets effectively making a soundproof studio. I remember filming it clear as day. Talking about me of early 2021, at the time I had never had a relationship and I didn't have a relationship with my dad. He was out of the picture. I wonder how awkward I sound back then...let's both take a listen and make fun of me.

3. S1 E10 - RelaxWithLetica - From Childhood Trauma and Assualt To Becoming An Inspiration and an Icon To All Women!

Now this was my first very different episode I ever recorded. This episode was with a amazing woman called Leticia who grew up in Jamaica and has been though the pits of hell and came out an inspiration. She was homeless, she had been abandoned by her family and sexually assaulted all by the time she was 17. She now works with and inspires thousands of women to chase the life they want.

This episode definitely opened my eyes to some of the horrors millions of women go through and is filled with some amazing quotes from Leticia. A really deep inspiring episode.

2. S4 E1 - Victim Mentality and How To Stop It

Episode 1 of the full rebrand. The first Video Episode and the first of a series for me personally. Coming into Season 4, I wanted to shift focus from JUST Formula 1 to becoming a better person. Having this in mind, I wanted to create a series of episodes that I can re-listen to make me a better person when I feel myself slipping into old habits. My goal is to make myself and lots of other people, better people in the present and future from listening to the me of the past.

This is where I started to think about to make this podcast and brand more me! I then thought of a new logo, which I wanted to bring my Greek side out instead of using a generic logo and the first few logos looked TERRIBLE. As I kept messing around with the colours, I eventually landed on with what we have today and I LOVE IT! Genuinely, so proud of myself for making that on my own!

Then it was time to make the first episode. As I said previously, I wanted to make myself better and there's no better place to start with me and this generation than to talk about Victim Mentality! It's SUCH a huge part of us at this age and we just don't recognise it. So enjoy this episode and I hope you can take something away from it!

Now Number 1...

1. S4 E5 - MY DAD! Leaving and Divorcing My Mum, Moving from GREECE to the UK and Learning How To Be A Healthy Dad!

Now, there really couldn't be any other episode to take the Number 1 slot is there?! A 2 hour episode that we finished filming at 1-2am and my dad had to leave to get a flight from Heathrow at 6am to go home to Greece. Talk about commitment. This conversation ranges from everything from his racing career back in the 1980's and moving to the UK to talking about him and my mum divorcing when I was 7/8 years old and him subsequently leaving for 4 years and going back to Greece.

I think this was such a beautiful healthy chat that men, dads and sons are scared to have because of this modern day stigma of manliness. I think the key to becoming a man is being able to have a conversation like this without letting peoples judgement get to you and understanding that this is the healthiest ways you can communicate.

Well there you go! My top 5 episodes to get you started or to listen to again. The topics range far and wide but honestly, I love that.