In this episode of The Pharmacy Planet Podcast, host Boo Dhaliwal sits down with one of the most unconventional pharmacists in the profession today: Jesi Moyano.

A pharmacist, motorsport presenter, CrossFit commentator, DJ, entrepreneur, content creator, and motorcycle tour operator, Jesi has built a career that challenges many assumptions about what pharmacists can achieve outside traditional healthcare settings.

From working in community and hospital pharmacy to presenting for Honda Racing, interviewing athletes at major CrossFit competitions, and launching international motorcycle tours, Jesi's story is a powerful reminder that a pharmacy qualification can be the foundation for a career far beyond the dispensary.

The conversation explores career flexibility, entrepreneurship, personal branding, networking, resilience, and why pharmacy professionals shouldn't feel limited by conventional career paths.

Table of Contents

1. An Unconventional Route into Pharmacy

2. Why Locum Pharmacy Created Career Freedom

3. Building a Personal Brand Through Social Media

4. From Pharmacy Student to Motorsport Presenter

5. Breaking Into CrossFit Presenting and Live Events

6. The Power of Rejection and Persistence

7. Living a Double Life: Pharmacist by Day, Presenter by Night

8. Entrepreneurship and Send Zen Tours

9. Bilingual Presenting and International Opportunities

10. Why Networking Creates Opportunities

11. Is Pharmacy Facing a Reputation Problem?

12. Can Pharmacists Build Multiple Careers?

13. Jesi's Advice for Future Pharmacists

14. Key Takeaways

15. Podcast Transcript

An Unconventional Route into Pharmacy

Unlike many pharmacists who move directly from school into university, Jesi's journey followed a different path. She began working in a pharmacy at just 16 years old after leaving school. Within months, she had completed dispensing and healthcare training and quickly realised she wanted to progress further within the profession. Initially, pharmacy wasn't even her first-choice degree. Jesi originally applied to study nutrition but narrowly missed the entry requirements. Thanks to her pharmacy experience, Keele University contacted her through Clearing and offered her a place on the MPharm programme instead. What began as an unexpected opportunity ultimately became the foundation of an incredibly diverse career.

Why Locum Pharmacy Created Career Freedom

One of the biggest themes throughout the podcast is flexibility. Rather than committing to a traditional full-time pharmacy role, Jesi chose to work as a locum pharmacist across both community and hospital settings. This approach allows her to organise pharmacy work around her other professional commitments. She describes booking periods of pharmacy work in advance, fully immersing herself in clinical practice, before switching gears to travel, presenting, events, or entrepreneurial projects. For ambitious healthcare professionals, locum pharmacy can provide a level of freedom that many other careers struggle to match.

Building a Personal Brand Through Social Media

Anyone who follows Jesi on Instagram quickly realises her account isn't a typical pharmacist profile. Motorcycles, travel, fitness competitions, motorsport paddocks, presenting gigs, and international adventures sit alongside pharmacy content. Jesi explains that she made her social media accounts public when she started presenting professionally. Her goal wasn't simply to gain followers but to document her journey and demonstrate what is possible when people pursue opportunities outside their comfort zone. Personal branding has become increasingly important for healthcare professionals, and Jesi's success highlights how authenticity and consistency can help create opportunities in unexpected industries.

From Pharmacy Student to Motorsport Presenter

Perhaps the most surprising chapter of Jesi's story is her journey into motorsport broadcasting. While studying pharmacy at university, she was already balancing multiple jobs, including working in pharmacy, delivering pizzas, and serving in the RAF where she was learning to fly aircraft. Looking for a new challenge, she applied for a presenting role at charity boxing events. After interviewing competitors and producing promotional content, other opportunities began appearing. Her first major breakthrough came in motorcycle racing. Jesi started presenting at smaller motorsport events before eventually working within the British Superbike paddock and presenting content for Honda Racing. Interestingly, she wasn't initially a motorcycle expert. Instead, she positioned herself as an enthusiastic newcomer who could ask the questions many new fans were thinking but felt too intimidated to ask themselves. That fresh perspective helped her stand out.

Breaking Into CrossFit Presenting and Live Events

The same pattern repeated itself when Jesi entered the CrossFit world. After taking up CrossFit herself, she began attending competitions and quickly identified an opportunity. First she started DJing events. Then she offered to emcee them. Eventually, she became one of the presenters for major competitions, including Watsalona, where she presented to a livestream audience of approximately 85,000 viewers. Her message throughout the conversation is simple: You don't always need extensive experience before starting. Sometimes enthusiasm, preparation, and a willingness to learn can open doors that initially seem out of reach.

The Power of Rejection and Persistence

One of the most valuable lessons from this episode is Jesi's positive attitude towards rejection. She openly shares that many of the opportunities she enjoys today came only after repeated attempts, follow-up messages, and hearing "no" more than once.

Rather than viewing rejection as failure, Jesi sees it as a natural part of the journey. Her success has been built on consistency, visibility, and a willingness to keep moving forward, even when opportunities didn't come immediately.

  • Keep showing up
  • Keep improving
  • Keep reminding people who you are
  • Keep creating opportunities

Eventually, someone will give you a chance. This mindset of resilience and persistence has played a key role in Jesi's success across multiple industries, proving that determination often creates opportunities where talent alone cannot.

Living a Double Life: Pharmacist by Day, Presenter by Night

Throughout the discussion, Jesi describes what she calls having a "double life." One week she may be working clinically as a pharmacist, supporting patients and optimising medicines. The next week she could be interviewing professional riders, presenting international sporting events, or travelling across another continent. Despite the excitement of her media career, Jesi remains passionate about pharmacy. She recently expanded her clinical responsibilities by becoming a clinical pharmacist within Spire Healthcare, developing expertise in areas such as perioperative medicines management and anticoagulation. For her, pharmacy continues to provide purpose, intellectual challenge, and meaningful patient interactions.

Entrepreneurship and Send Zen Tours

As if presenting and pharmacy weren't enough, Jesi has also launched a business with her partner called Send Zen Tours. The company offers all-inclusive motorcycle touring experiences designed to remove the logistical challenges often associated with adventure travel. Participants simply arrive and ride. Accommodation, routes, meals, planning, and support are all arranged in advance, allowing riders to focus entirely on the experience. The first tours are planned in Colorado, with future expansion into Spain and Colombia also being considered. The project reflects Jesi's wider philosophy: Combine your passions, create value for others, and build a lifestyle around experiences rather than limitations.

Bilingual Presenting and International Opportunities

Jesi's Spanish heritage has opened even more opportunities. Fluent in both English and Spanish, she has presented CrossFit competitions bilingually and helped event organisers increase engagement with Spanish-speaking athletes and audiences. Being able to communicate across cultures has allowed her to stand out within international events and broaden her professional opportunities far beyond the UK. For healthcare professionals, it's another reminder that transferable skills often create opportunities outside traditional clinical settings.

Why Networking Creates Opportunities

A recurring theme throughout the episode is networking. Many of Jesi's opportunities in motorsport, presenting, and business development came through relationships rather than formal job applications. From Honda Racing to motorcycle touring companies and helmet manufacturers, professional connections repeatedly opened doors. As Jesi explains, once you start building relationships, one introduction often leads to another. Networking isn't simply about collecting contacts. It's about building trust, demonstrating value, and staying visible within your chosen industry.

Is Pharmacy Facing a Reputation Problem?

The conversation eventually turns towards the pharmacy profession itself. Both Boo and Jesi discuss concerns around pharmacy's public perception and whether pharmacists receive the recognition they deserve within healthcare. Jesi believes the profession has tremendous value but sometimes struggles to communicate that value effectively. She also highlights how pharmacy can vary significantly across different regions and settings, with private clinical services increasingly showcasing the wider capabilities of pharmacists. The discussion raises an important question: Are pharmacists doing enough to showcase the incredible opportunities available within the profession?

Can Pharmacists Build Multiple Careers?

One of the most inspiring aspects of Jesi's journey is that she hasn't left pharmacy behind to pursue her other passions. Instead, she has used her pharmacy qualification as a strong foundation, allowing her to explore multiple career paths while continuing to make a meaningful contribution to healthcare.

Her story challenges the traditional belief that professionals must be defined by a single role. Today, Jesi successfully balances a diverse portfolio of careers, including:

  • Pharmacist
  • Clinical Practitioner
  • Presenter
  • DJ
  • Motorsport Personality
  • Business Owner
  • Content Creator
  • Motorcycle Tour Operator

As she continues to embrace new opportunities, Jesi's journey serves as an inspiring reminder that a career in pharmacy doesn't have to follow a conventional path. For students and pharmacists alike, her story demonstrates that with ambition, passion, and determination, it's possible to build a career that's both professionally rewarding and personally fulfilling.

Jesi's Advice for Future Pharmacists

Towards the end of the episode, Jesi shares her most important message. Pharmacy offers security, flexibility, transferable skills, and endless opportunities. But pharmacists shouldn't feel restricted by traditional expectations. Whether that's entrepreneurship, content creation, consulting, digital health, prescribing, education, media, or entirely new industries, a pharmacy qualification can open far more doors than many people realise. Her advice is simple: Figure out what excites you and build a career around it.

Key Takeaways

This episode highlights several powerful lessons:

  • Pharmacy can be a platform for multiple careers/li>
  • Flexibility creates opportunities
  • Personal branding matters
  • Networking accelerates growth
  • Rejection is part of success
  • Entrepreneurship often begins with solving problems
  • Healthcare professionals don't need to fit a traditional mould
  • Passion and persistence can create entirely new career paths

Jesi Moyano's story demonstrates that pharmacists don't have to choose between professional credibility and personal ambition. With the right mindset, it's possible to build a career that includes both.

If you're a pharmacy student, pharmacist, healthcare professional, or aspiring entrepreneur, this episode offers a fascinating insight into what can happen when you stop viewing your career as a single path and start treating it as a collection of opportunities.

Podcast Transcript

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Boo Dhaliwal: [00:00:00] Israel or Palestine?

Jesi Moyano: Hey, I'm Jesi Moyano, and welcome to the Pharmacy Planet Podcast

Boo Dhaliwal: Uh, hi, Jesi. Thank you for coming to the Pharmacy Planet podcast. Um, so when I invited you, Jesi, I had a little bit look at your profile, and you're a busy girl, aren't you? Sure am. You're busy. So as well as being a pharmacist, 'cause I had to read, and the reason why I invited you on in the first place, is the sheer depth and breadth of the sort of stuff you're doing, which is motorbike presenter, CrossFit presenter-

Posted: June 15, 2026
Author: Pharmacy Planet