Takona Tlks with Thomas Gray, aka That Guy Gray, presenter, content creator, and vocal mental health advocate. Tom has built an audience around sharing stories, history, and open, honest mental health conversation. He's known for his to camera, in car, one take videos as well as presenting for Kwik Fit at the British Touring Cars. We barely scratched the surface on the things he's been up to and as my parking ran out at our recording location we had to call time at an hour. It was however a very lovely chat and this episode even has a video counterpart on its way. Toms biggest audience are on instagram and TikTok under ThatGuyGrayFor more from Takona head to www.takona.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Takona tlks with Luke Scambler, Youtuber, presenter, builder and breaker of many cars, and a good talker. A thorough chat with many tangents and many stories, proper car conversation. To see more from Luke check out his youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/@GarageofLukeFor more from Takona head to www.takona.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Takona Tlks with Rich Hall the man behind Great British Sports Cars, an independent car maker based in Nottinghamshire. Rich shares the story behind where the company started, how it's grown, and where it's heading. With a good mix of challenges and success thrown in for good measure.See more from Great British Sports cars at: https://www.greatbritishsportscars.com/See more from Takona at: www.takona.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Takona Tlks with Hamilton James - A car youtuber, presenter and in his words, failed car dealer. A long, authentic, and at times deep episode looking quite thoroughly at both cars and mental health.For more from Hamilton check out his youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxpuEELfejiUJrlMlZlDbFwFor more from Takona head to www.takona.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Takona Tlks with Automotive youtuber Freddie Hernandez aka Tavarish. One of Americas and possibly the worlds biggest automotive youtube content creators. Freddie has built his name around the phrase "I am the warranty" and his journey has taken him from fixing his cars on a driveway to buying flood damaged Mclaren P1's to build into something unique. We sat down for a good old chat about his journey, some of the harder things to manage in being so well known, along with the usual life, the universe and everything. See freddies Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/tavarishAs always more from Takona can be found here: www.takona.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Takona tlks with Dr Erdem Pulcu, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford, he's also a proper car enthusiast. We look into some of the brain science around mental health, his research into brain scanning, and his love for cars. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Takona Tlks with Sam Fretwell, founder of the Classicwise specialist car dealer in Southwell Nottinghamshire. Going from an incredibly difficult situation following a nasty car crash and turning that experience into the motivation to build a truly brilliant business doing fantastic things. We get into the story behind how Classicwise came to be. For all things Classicwise head to https://www.classicwise.co.uk/For all things Takona head to https://www.takona.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Takona Tlks with Nathan Chadwick, freelance car journalist for magazines including Magneto, Hagerty Drivers Club and Classic Car Mag. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Takona Tlks with Tim Foster, one of the men behind Rallying With Group B a community of enthusiasts, car owners and service suppliers who offer event organisers a one-stop solution for supplying spectacular eye-catching, well-driven and professionally organised cars.  RWGB were the first demonstration group to be officially recognised by the UK's motorsport governing body, Motorsport UK. We are regulated, insured, and approved to run and organise display & demonstration events with the safety of the public as our primary concern.Tim and I were introduced by the team at Race Retro as Rallying with Group B will be hosting the live rally stages across the weekend, something I'm personally quite excited to go and see. (Hence wanting to talk about such a cool thing on the podcast) The Race Retro team have even offered a £2 off code for Takona Tlks listeners, use TAKONA2 at checkout. https://www.raceretro.com/For all things Takona head to www.takona.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Takona Tlks with Mark Foster, Formula one and Aston Martin Valkyrie Designer and founder of Rock Solid Rigs race simulator rigs. Mark and I talk through his career starting from entering Formula one, through to working with Adrian Newey on the Valkyrie, and now designing and building Racing Simulator Rigs. See more of Marks Sim Rig work at www.rocksolidrigs.com and more from Takona at www.takona.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.