Tommy Lewis is a running coach and content creator who left a career in sales and tech in London to build his own run coaching business and spent the last year living and running across Vietnam, Thailand, India, Egypt and the French Alps.

In this conversation, we talk about:

- Why the nomadic dream is harder than it looks from the outside

- How running became a spiritual guide through his darkest moments

- The hidden cost of building a business on social media

- Quitting corporate life to build something of your own

- Why hitting the "f*** it" button is better than waiting for the perfect moment

Tommy is the founder and run coach of That’s Runnable:

Website - https://thatsrunnable.com/

Tommy is the host of That’s Runnable Podcast:

https://thatsrunnable.com/podcast/

You can find Tommy here:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tommyrunpt/?hl=en

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tlewisuk/

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Will Simpson is a serving British Army major and founder of Real Meal, a high performance nutrition bar with over 600 calories in - it's bloody good for endurance and expeditions.

In this conversation, we talk about:

- Managing a military career, a startup, and parenthood all at the same time

- Dealing with personal branding as a private military guy

- How fear of failure can be a more powerful motivator than chasing success

- Building a business with no investment and 42 product iterations

- Why hard work is the one variable entirely within your control

Will is the Founder of Real Meal:

Website - https://realmeal.co.uk/

Find Will here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-simpson-54657b67/

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Preet Chandi is a four-time Guinness World Record breaker, British Army veteran and polar explorer. She has skied to the South Pole alone three times, sometimes for as long as 70 days carrying up to 120kg.

In this conversation, we talk about:

- What 70 days of complete solitude does to your mind

- From the British Army to solo polar exploration with no skiing background

- How anger can drive momentum without becoming the thing that controls you

- Why failure on her second expedition built the resilience that made her third a success

- How to take the first step into the expedition world

Preet’s website is here:

https://polarpreet.com/

Preet is here:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/polarpreet/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/preet-chandi-mbe-5897a3199/

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Tom Livingstone is a professional climber, two-time winner of the Piolet d'Or and Founder of the Young Alpinist Group, a mentorship programme supporting the next generation of alpinists.

In this conversation, we talk about:

- How he turned climbing into a full-time career over ten years without a plan

- Why he disagrees with awards in climbing

- What life as a sponsored climber actually looks like

- Why failure happens roughly half the time and why that is fine

- His advice for young people who want to pursue an uncertain path

You can find Tom here:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tom__livingstone/

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@tomlivingstone1154/videos

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Tom Livingstone is a professional climber, two-time winner of the Piolet d'Or, which is widely regarded as the Oscars of mountaineering, and founder of the Young Alpinist Group, a mentorship programme supporting the next generation of alpinists.

In this conversation, we talk about:

- How he turned climbing into a full-time career over ten years without a plan

- Why he disagrees with awards in climbing

- What life as a sponsored climber actually looks like

- Why failure happens roughly half the time and why that is fine

- His advice for young people who want to pursue an uncertain path

You can find Tom here:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tom__livingstone/

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@tomlivingstone1154/videos

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Oli Broom left a corporate career at 29 to cycle from England to Australia following the Ashes, ran a charity in Rwanda, and went on to found The Slow Cyclist, a business taking people on journeys through some of the most remote landscapes on earth.

In this conversation, we talk about:

- Quitting a corporate job at 29 with no guarantee it would work out

- Cycling across the world on £5 to £10 a day

- Building a business that survived Ebola, COVID and a war in Ukraine

- How he dealt with the mental and physical impact of serious injury

- Why your twenties are the decade to embrace uncertainty

Oli is the Founder of The Slow Cyclist:

Website - https://www.theslowcyclist.com

You can find Oli here:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/olibroom/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/oli-broom-a970922a/

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"If I end up in a gutter with absolutely nothing, I don't mind because I'm trying my hardest to do what I want to do." - Waldo

Waldo Etherington is the founder of Remote Ropes Limited, a rope safety specialist for remote wilderness expeditions.

In this conversation, we talk about:

• Funding his entire early career on credit cards while living in a car and a hammock
• Why he runs his business for experience and community over money
• Using Google Earth to expose illegal logging and protect an indigenous rainforest
• Rigging for climbers like Alex Honnold and why even he finds it scary
• Twenty years of expeditions and the isolation nobody warns you about
• Why you need far less than Western society tells you to be happy

Buy tickets to the Lamo Auru showing and Q+A on 28th July here:

https://thecastlecinema.com/programme/111075/lamo-auru-old-forest-new-lines-q-a/

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Wuzdopamine people. In this episode I talk about 5 lessons from 55 adventurers:

1. You do not need to be an adventurer, to be an adventurer

2. Adventurers are entrepreneurs

3. You don't want their life

4. Being a generalist of the outdoors is underrated

5. You can change the course of your life

You can find me here:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/offgrid.jake/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-billsberry-hawkins-561a0812b/

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Kenton Cool has summited Everest more times than any other non-Sherpa climber in history. He is a British high-altitude guide, mountaineer, and the man responsible for leading some of the world's most recognised names, including Ranulph Fiennes and Ben Fogle, to the top of the world.

In this conversation, we talk about:

• Why Everest might now be too dangerous to climb

• The unglamorous early years that made him the best in the world at what he does

• Why the Sherpas are the most underrated people in mountaineering

• Ego on Everest and why it gets people killed

• Attending more funerals than weddings

• An unexpected emotional breakdown during an NLP session

• Why English capitalist culture doesn't sit well with him

• How to actually build a career in the outdoors

• What you lose by never going travelling

• The financial cost of climbing Everest

• Why a 10 day silent meditation retreat caught his attention

Kenton Cool’s website is here:

https://www.kentoncool.com

Kenton’s social handles are here:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kentoncool/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenton-cool-687b06a/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/KentonCool/?locale=en_GB 

Ash Bhardwaj is a journalist, author of Why We Travel, and Army reservist who spent six months travelling from Norway to Crimea retracing the new Iron Curtain.

In this conversation, we talk about:

- The neuroscience of why humans are wired to crave stories

- The inner turmoil of not having a single career path

- How AI gives rise to the importance of storytelling

- Joining the Army Reserve at 29 and learning servant leadership

- Should people be holidaying in America?

- How social media turned travel into a performance

You can find Ash here:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ashbhardwaj/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwinbhardwaj/

You can find Ash’s book, Why We Travel, here:

Book - https://shorturl.at/6kaPu

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