First Things THRST

Mike Thurston

Booking Overview

A weekly long-form interview show focused on entrepreneurship, fitness, performance, and personal development, typically featuring accomplished entrepreneurs, content creators, and specialized professionals with compelling personal journeys. Credible pitches include founders with significant exits, fitness and health-performance experts, recognized creators, and authoritative professionals with distinctive life or career perspectives; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 150

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: United Kingdom

YouTube: 268.0k subscribers

Instagram: 1.0M followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

firstthingsthrst@gmail.com

info@mikethurston.co.uk

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Host

Mike Thurston - Fitness entrepreneur, content creator, and host focused on entrepreneurship, performance, and personal development.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Accomplished entrepreneurs, founders, content creators, and specialized professionals with demonstrated expertise, meaningful career achievements, or a compelling personal transformation.

Required Achievements:

Founded and scaled successful companies, Achieved major business exits, Built recognized professional expertise, Developed a notable public profile or audience

Recent Guest Discussions

Father Moses McPherson - Orthodox Christianity, Spiritual Practice, Faith, Family, Responsibility, And The Limitations Of Material Success

Peter Rahal - Building And Scaling Consumer Brands, Product Development, Entrepreneurship, Business Exits, And Post-exit Identity

James Sexton - Marriage, Divorce, Relationship Maintenance, Compatibility, Financial Planning, Parenting, And Emotional Resilience

Recent Topics

Entrepreneurship, Fitness, Content Creation, Performance, Self Improvement

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

First Things THRST

E151 - Hypnotherapist: The 10 Beliefs Controlling Your Life Without You Knowing

September 02, 2026

Jim Curtis spent 25 years building major health media companies like WebMD before realising conscious knowledge only gets you halfway. He breaks down why willpower and motivation are temporary until you reprogram your subconscious beliefs, how your identity determines your reality, and what's actually holding you back from the life you want.We also cover the real difference between actual hypnotherapy and the fake billionaire hypnotists selling quick fixes on social media.The Book of Poss...

E150 - The Psychology of The 'Nice Guy' Who Always Loses Mercedes Coffman

August 10, 2026

Mercedes Coffman is a marriage and family therapist who's noticed everyone's making the same mistake with dating, confusing intensity with compatibility.She breaks down what chemistry actually tells you (nothing about long-term potential), the nervous system's role in partner selection, and why your past trauma is attracted to familiar dysfunction. Also covers how men and women assess partners differently, and what actually needs to happen before you decide someone is your person.00:00 Introd...

E149 - Rewire Your Mind For Success: The Psychology of the Top 1% Performers | Michael Gervais

August 03, 2026

» Produced by Hack You Media: pioneering a new category of content at the intersection of health performance, entrepreneurship & cognitive optimisation.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hackyoumedia/Website: https://hackyou.media/Michael Gervais spent 25 years coaching world-class athletes and discovered that fear of other people's opinions is more powerful than most realise it is.He explains why our brains are still running prehistoric programming and why the best in the world treat p...

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info@mikethurston.co.uk

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