How to be Curious

When Curiosity Becomes a Superpower

What happens when you stay curious about your limits, your career, and your purpose?

In this conversation, I’m joined by Dr Lucy Gossage — a 14-time Ironman champion, consultant oncologist, and accidental endurance icon. From her early days racing for fun during a PhD, to standing on podiums around the world, Lucy has always followed her instincts over convention.

But her story doesn’t stop at medals. We explore how curiosity led her away from professional sport and back into medicine, how it fuelled her creation of Run My Way, and how it's shaped her evolving take on movement, meaning, and identity.

Whether it’s choosing to stop at her peak, treating cancer patients with empathy and energy, or taking on ultra-distance challenges for the sheer joy of them — Lucy reminds us that being curious isn't just a mindset. It’s a way to keep growing, even when the world expects you to settle.

This is curiosity at its finest. Slavko Ilich has spent over 40 years mastering martial arts, serving in elite special forces, and working behind the scenes in Hollywood on Den of Thieves and its sequel.

In this wide ranging conversation, we explore what decades of discipline and high-risk environments can teach us about mindset, control, and adaptability. We talk about staying calm in danger, the mental game of elite performance, and how curiosity took Slavko from combat training grounds to movie sets.

And we finish where it matters most: why self-defence is something everyone should care about — and what you should do if crisis ever finds you.

Linda Ashmore shares her remarkable story — from becoming the oldest woman to swim the English Channel, to completing three IRONMAN World Championships, to overcoming breast cancer.

She reflects on what drives her, her lifelong passion for swimming and triathlon, and what it really means to live fully in your 70s.

Proof that extraordinary people live among us — and a brilliant reminder of where curiosity can lead.

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Mark Allen is a six-time IRONMAN World Champion, widely considered one of the greatest endurance athletes of all time. Inducted into the IRONMAN Hall of Fame and known for his legendary Iron War with Dave Scott, Mark’s career helped redefine what was possible in long-distance triathlon.

But his success wasn’t just physical. Driven by curiosity and a constant desire to improve, Mark became a pioneer in heart-rate-based training and brought a holistic approach to the sport — blending fitness with mindset, spirituality, and recovery.

He’s the co-author of Fit Soul, Fit Body, a speaker, coach, and still a voice of wisdom in the endurance world. His story is one of excellence, evolution, and the kind of curiosity that keeps pushing the boundaries of what we think we’re capable of.

If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to go further — in sport or in life — this one’s worth your time.

Ever wondered what it takes to complete the epic endurance event that is Arch to Arc?
 Or swim the English Channel?
 Run the Marathon des Sables?
 Swim around Manhattan?

Welcome to the world of Kate Mason — endurance athlete, and quiet powerhouse.

Oh — and she’s done it all in her 60s.

Join us as we explore the extraordinary life of an ordinary individual who just kept going.

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Tom and I chat about playing Rugby at an elite level.   What it was like playing for Northampton Saints, London Irish and being part of the Junior England teams who won the World Cup.

But what happens when that bright rugby career is brought to an abrupt end?  We talk about how injury can affect a career, mental health and leave players in an abyss.

We talk sport adventure, whether cycling, swimming, running or triathlon.    

The first person to swim from Lands End to John O Groats, we learn all about what the driving force was behind this and many other adventures.

Cycling around the World, across Europe and around Britain and the challenges that this can present.

And in Triathlon, we talk about his unique set of triathlon experiences, including being the only person to have swam, cycled and ran the length of Britain, whilst also currently holding the record for longest triathlon in the World  (around the coast of Britain).

Add a sailing record, cheese rolling in Gloucestershire, author of mulitple books and selling a business for £1.

Martin and I talk about the sport of speed kitesurfing and what it takes to become British Kitesurfing speed champion and the 500m speed record holder.

We talk about his aspirations on the World stage and compare the differences needed to compete over 500m and the nautical mile (1800m).

Some of the best places to kitesurf for speed are discussed including France, Namibia and Weymouth.  

Chatting with 3 time Olympian, Olympic medalist, previous World Champion and Record holder about swimming.

We talk about...

Depression and the effect this had on his swimming before retiring... 

His incredible come back after 7 years away from the pool and his aspirations about the upcoming Tokyo Olympics and how swimmers have changed over recent years...

What it is like to be an Olympian and how each games was a different experience...

What it was like being part of the ISL and racing alongside Caeleb Dressel...

The importance of weight training and fuelling alongside swim training...

What his training looks like now and how his mindset and approach has changed.

We talk about all things nutrition and sport.  

We get an insight into the world of elite sport, working on the tour de france, with formuala 1 drivers, endurance athletes and body builders.

What is happening in the world of sports nutrition and the future of an industry that seems to constantly be evolving.