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Bex shares her story from early life in London, shaped by a loving family and growing up fast while her mum lived with MS and her dad worked decades in policing. She reflects on a career filled with both extraordinary moments and real trauma, and the pull she’s always felt to “give back” by passing on what works beyond policing into everyday leadership, work, and relationships.

A core theme is self-awareness. Bex talks through the “iceberg” exercise she uses with negotiators: what people see on the surface versus what sits underneath values, beliefs, emotional drivers, past experiences. Her point is simple: you can’t lead well, help well, or negotiate well if you don’t understand what’s driving you first.

From there, she makes negotiation practical and human. Active listening is the foundation. Seek to understand someone’s perspective before trying to move them. Earn trust through tone, pace, and presence not just words. She also warns against “preset scripts,” and offers softer, more opening language like “Tell, Explain, Describe,” instead of sharper “what/why” questions that can land as accusatory.

The conversation closes on transition and resilience. Leaving the police wasn’t clean or easy especially alongside losing her mum because it brought grief, identity loss, and the sudden absence of structure and support. Resilience, for her now, is broader than “cracking on”: it’s building a healthy network, setting personal challenges, choosing work that fits, keeping things fun, and learning to say no without guilt as part of protecting what matters.

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Bodhi Aldridge teaches leaders how to strip back the armour and lead from what’s real. In this conversation, he lays out his core framework for true freedom—inner, outer, and relational—and why most high achievers can win on paper while still feeling trapped.

Aaron and Bodhi explore the search for the “holy grail” and the shift from chasing success outside ourselves to reconnecting with essence within. They unpack embodied presence, attention as a leader’s greatest asset, and the difference between resistance and flow in everyday life.

They also get practical. From sitting still for five minutes a day to reflective journaling, Bodhi explains why simple daily practice matters more than peak experiences. There’s an honest look at fatherhood, midlife pressure, and the quiet question many leaders ask in their forties: Is this it?

If you’re building a business, raising a family, and navigating transition without wanting to burn everything down to find meaning—this conversation offers a grounded place to start.

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And here is the podcast he mentioned, True Freedom with Richard Stokes. 

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This conversation with Tom Dear explores creativity not as artistry, but as a fundamental human capacity for problem solving. Drawing on his journey from amateur rugby into the creative and brand world, Tom reflects on the tension many high performers feel between seemingly opposing identities. Rather than choosing one side, he shares how learning to sit in the middle where structure meets play became a turning point in both his work and his sense of self.

A central theme is the distinction between pressure-driven action and genuinely creative states. Tom introduces the idea of NEA (Negative Emotional Attractor) and PEA (Positive Emotional Attractor) states, showing how urgency, stress, and constant stimulation can shut creativity down. In contrast, practices like play, nature, mindfulness, aspiration, and compassion open the space where insight and flow emerge often when we stop trying to force outcomes.

The conversation also gets practical. From simple doodling exercises to rethinking how leaders, founders, and creators approach content, branding, and idea generation, Tom offers grounded tools that help people access creativity without performance pressure. His approach reframes creativity as something already present, waiting to be unlocked rather than imported from outside.

At its core, this episode is about permission. Permission to loosen the tie, rethink how we work, and stop outsourcing creativity to “experts.” For high performers navigating transition, it’s a reminder that flow isn’t found through more force—but through creating the conditions where thinking, energy, and authenticity can reconnect.

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Charlie Radclyffe's story is a hard pivot: British Army officer, injured on duty at 24, and an overnight shift from fully fit to paralysis. He speaks about the strange clarity he felt early on almost skipping the “expected” stages and how the fighter response took over: rehab, grind, “get better.” Alongside that, a quieter thread ran in the background: the sense that this was also a “quest,” a forcing function for deeper learning, identity change, and meaning.

A core theme is the tension between fight and quest. Charlie explores how fight can become a refusal to accept the present, and how quest can create a strange attachment to the “after,” as if recovery might mean losing the growth. Over the last year, his relationship with “loss” shifted less partitioning life into before/after, more acceptance, and less charge when old triggers show up.

That charge mattered because Charlie’s injury didn’t end at the injury. The legal and administrative reality pensions, tribunals, repeated errors, “brown envelope” letters kept pulling him back into the story. He describes how that system can freeze people in the lived harm, and how the process itself can become corrosive, especially for those with fewer resources, less support, or active mental health strain.

Out of that experience, Charlie has built work to bridge the gap between legal complexity and the lived reality of veterans navigating claims. He speaks with a new tone: compassion without denial, accountability without bitterness. And he lands on a practical vision convening major charities, then decision-makers, then law firms not to “wrong” anyone, but to shine a clear spotlight on what’s failing, what’s working, and how to make the path less damaging for the people already carrying enough.

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A single report cracked the silence. When Laura stumbled across research on child sexual exploitation in gang settings, she suddenly saw her teenage years reflected back in detail language for what had been unnamed, proof she wasn’t alone, and a doorway to tell her mother at last. 

From that moment, a decade-long journey gathered momentum: specialist services, nights of journaling, breath that softened panic, movement that thawed freeze, and a gradual return to a body that once felt unsafe to live in.

In this conversation with Laura Coveney, we talk openly about sexual abuse, exploitation and their long-term impact. Laura shares her story of losing her dad at 14, her family collapsing around her, and being drawn into a world of gang members and drug dealers who sexually exploited her at a time when she was looking for somewhere to belong. If you’ve experienced sexual abuse or trauma yourself, or you’re close to someone who has, please know this episode may be activating. Look after yourself and listen in a way that feels safe.

That moment shattered her isolation, helped her find language for what happened, and led to a clear decision: “I will do whatever it takes to reconnect to myself.”

 Laura talks about “keep going no matter what” in a way that includes rest, collapse, trial and error, misdiagnosis, and slowly rebuilding safety in her body through movement, journaling, breath work, somatics and, more recently, cycle syncing  which she now calls “an entire navigation system.” 

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 If this moved you, subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review, what part of Laura’s story stayed with you?

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What if physical performance looked less like punishment and more like momentum? We sit down with performance coach Chris Tombs whose résumé spans World Cup-winning rugby, professional cricket, action sports, and high-performing everyday people to unpack a framework that actually fits a busy life. No biohacking gimmicks, no three-hour sweat marathons just proven habits and smart training that compound.

Chris breaks down the trifecta behind durable results: mobility to move pain-free, aerobic capacity as your energy engine, and strength as your structural chassis. We dig into why consistency beats motivation, how to microdose training on messy days, and the art of finding a volume “sweet spot” that builds you up instead of breaking you down. 

Expect practical takeaways like the eight-to-one habit framework sleep, steps, mobility, hydration, protein, training, and one grounding hobby that helps you win more days with less friction. Along the way, Chris shares the behaviours of the truly elite: high standards, integrity, and a relentless commitment to the process so the outcome takes care of itself.

If you want performance for real life  more energy, fewer aches, better confidence, and the freedom to say yes to adventure this one’s for you. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs a reset, and leave a review to tell us the one habit you’ll start this week.

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In this episode we sit down with Jo Bradshaw, Everest summiteer, expedition leader, and leadership coach. But this conversation quickly moves beyond altitude, summits, and achievement. Jo shares a non-linear life story shaped by uncertainty, fear, loss of confidence, and repeated reinvention from working with horses, to corporate roles, to standing on the highest mountains in the world.

What emerges is a deeper conversation about leadership under pressure, responsibility for others, and the cost of chasing external milestones as proof of worth. Jo reflects on what mountains strip away rather than what they give bias, ego, comparison, and the illusion that strength looks only one way. 

Whether she’s talking about surviving the Everest earthquake, leading teams in extreme environments, or navigating menopause and identity shifts later in life, the focus repeatedly returns to presence, honesty, and self-trust.

This is an episode for high performers in transition, those questioning whether the next summit, promotion, or achievement will finally deliver clarity or peace. Jo offers a different lens: growth that comes from attention to the small inputs, ownership of internal states, and the courage to adapt without losing yourself.

If this episode sparked something for you, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs it, and leave a review to help others find us. What 1% change will you make today?

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In this conversation, I sit down with Judith Kromberg a political scientist shaped less by theory and more by lived experience. Judith has worked across post-conflict environments with the UN and EU, lived in multiple countries, and now finds herself in Sweden, studying the relationship between the European Union and Greenland. What stands out isn’t the roles she’s held, but how consistently she’s followed her own internal compass while moving through complex systems, cultures, and identities. 

We talk about what it means to belong to a place, a culture, and to yourself and how that sense of belonging can become a base from which to explore rather than something that confines you. Judith reflects on growing up Catalan, living as an outsider in different countries, and learning how cultural intelligence, accountability, and self-awareness shape how we navigate unfamiliar environments. 

The conversation also moves into resilience not as a performance trait, but as something forged quietly through uncertainty, recovery, and adaptation. From post-war Kosovo to long hospital stays after a life-changing accident, to researching Inuit resilience in Greenland, Judith offers a thoughtful, human perspective on how people survive, adapt, and make sense of the worlds they move through. 

Throughout, Judith’s compass points to a simple, powerful stance: stay curious, hold yourself accountable, and keep asking better questions across borders and beliefs.

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If the room is full of nods but decisions still stall, the problem isn’t a lack of harmony it might be a lack of skilful disagreement. Aaron sits down with leadership and culture coach Dean Leek to unpack how teams can turn conflict into a competitive advantage without burning people out. 

From elite sport to FTSE boardrooms, Dean has seen what happens when “win at all costs” collides with real human limits, and why sustainable performance starts with health before high performance.

We dig into one gold‑medal story that still stings: a last‑minute weight cut that delivered a podium but raised hard ethical questions. That moment became a leadership pivot—plan for dilemmas, debrief honestly, and define what “winning well” actually means. 

Dean breaks down the practical side too: how to narrow the authority gap so people speak up, how a two‑minute meeting primer invites challenge, and how to build structures like disagreement zones that create clarity about when to debate and when to decide. The goal isn’t consensus for its own sake; it’s progress through rigorous, respectful thinking.

Along the way, we explore serendipity, imposter syndrome as a hidden superpower, and the both‑and mindset that lets empathy and accountability coexist.

If you lead a team, coach, or just want better conversations at home, this is a roadmap for disagreeing well and enjoying it.

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