Pursuit of the Impossible

What if the biggest obstacle to achieving your impossible goals isn't your ability, but your relationship with fear?

In this episode of Pursuit of the Impossible, Rich Maule sits down with Brett Bailey to explore rejection, emotional honesty, nervous system regulation, flow and the inner transformation behind meaningful achievement.

From Brett's confronting experiments with rejection to the relationship between ambition and surrender, this conversation challenges how we think about success, control and personal growth.What if achieving the impossible isn't just about what you accomplish, but who you become along the way?

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00:00:00 Intro

00:02:26 Seriousness and Impossible Goals

00:05:40 Brett's Most Confronting Experiment

00:09:27 What Rejection Taught Brett

00:11:46 Fear and the Nervous System

00:14:00 Teaching the Body Through Experience

00:19:33 Joy, Movement and Embodiment

00:24:56 Beyond the Comfort Zone

00:27:08 When Positivity Becomes Avoidance

00:30:49 Acceptance and Emotional Honesty

00:38:18 Flow and High Performance

00:41:40 Identity and Performance Pressure

00:49:24 Why We Lose Connection With Flow

00:55:10 Pursuing the Impossible From Presence

00:56:55 Brett's Million Dollar Goal

01:00:39 Goals, Surrender and Spiritual Bypassing

01:04:51 Brett's New Impossible Goal

01:12:21 What Makes a Goal Impossible?

01:14:21 Why Big Goals Should Serve Others

01:20:10 Learning to Accept Yourself

01:30:00 Rich Turns the Question Inward

01:31:32 A Moment of Vulnerability

Haha!! This is a test recording we did that we never intended to publish!!! but it turned out that a really beautiful conversations unfolded in the process so we thought we'd just put it out there and see if anyone wants to listen!We talked about following your joy, trusting your intuition, taking risks, navigating fear, letting go of expectations and learning to recognise the difference between genuine excitement and good old trauma patterns kicking in, including me (Jade) admitting to thinking I didn't "feel the spark" when I first met Rich haha. Anyways, if you watched this. Leave us a comment to let us know you were here and if you want more of this sort of stuff!!Jade xCHAPTERS00:00 First test recording 00:23 Bashar’s five principles for following your excitement 01:38 Making room for small moments of joy 02:02 Knowing the answer while fear negotiates 03:09 Taking the leap and staying aligned 04:20 How long would you keep going without visible success? 04:54 Setting a financial runway for the podcast 05:28 Why Jade wants to focus on one thing 06:20 The income opportunity she chose to turn down 06:49 Savings, security and fear of failure 08:03 Following joy when opportunities come up 08:38 When excitement comes from trauma, not joy 11:07 How to tell joy from trauma driven desire 11:41 Contraction, compulsion and unconsciousness 13:06 What joy feels like in the body 14:23 Wrapping up the first studio test

In this episode, Rich sits down with Mike Chang, founder of Flow60 and creator with an audience of over 4 million, to explore how the body, nervous system and consciousness shape our capacity to pursue impossible things.

They explore fear, relaxation, self-trust, letting go of outcomes and why true fulfilment requires more than external success.

Mike also opens up about the recent death of his mother and how he stayed present through grief, acceptance and loss.

A conversation about training the body, expanding what we can hold, and learning to fully meet life as it comes.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction

03:14 Why Relaxation Changes Your Emotional State

09:59 Relaxation Is a Skill, Not a Choice

15:06 The Body as a Vehicle for Success

20:07 Making Decisions Through the Body

21:35 Inner Presence vs Outer Presence

25:35 Creating Without Getting in Your Own Way

29:29 Goals, Attachment & Letting Go of the Outcome

42:26 Processing the Death of Mike’s Mother

47:28 Staying Present With Grief

54:56 Mike’s Spiritual View of Life & Death

01:03:13 What Happens to Our Awareness at Death?

01:11:16 Mike’s Mission With Flow60

01:17:17 The Daily Body Practice

01:24:36 How This Helps You Do Impossible Things

01:28:29 What Mike Is Struggling With Right Now

What if the experiences that break us are also the experiences that create us?

After losing someone he loved, Warren Roberts spent seven years avoiding grief. Eventually, he became numb — disconnected not only from grief, but from feeling fully alive.

Then something changed.Through an unexpected reconnection with nature, Warren began allowing himself to feel again. The grief he had spent years avoiding became something he describes as a gift — not because loss isn’t devastating, but because it revealed how precious it is to be alive.

That experience eventually became Living Legacy Forests — Warren’s mission to transform cremated ashes so they can nourish trees, creating living forests where people can remember those they love through life, growth and beauty rather than loss alone.

But this conversation goes far beyond grief.Warren and Rich explore intuition, synchronicity, creativity, the language through which we interpret reality, why pursuing something extraordinary can bring our deepest patterns to the surface, and what happens when we stop treating adversity purely as something happening to us. Warren shares a powerful metaphor for creation: an artist begins with a block of stone and an image in their mind. As they repeatedly shape the stone, the artwork gradually emerges — but at the same time, the process is shaping the artist.The art creates the artist.

The conversation ultimately asks a much bigger question: what if the thing you’re pursuing isn’t only something you’re here to create — but something that is creating you?​

 @pursuitoftheimpossible  explores what happens when ambition becomes a vehicle for transformation — and who we become in pursuit of the things that once seemed impossible.

00:00 Coming Up

01:48 Why Warren Is Trying to Change the Way We Experience Death

03:25 Seven Years of Avoiding Grief

05:49 “Grief Is a Gift”

08:20 How Nature Brought Him Back to Life

10:13 The Impossible Idea That Changed Everything

13:19 Holding Grief and Gratitude at the Same Time

17:58 What It Means to Turn Someone Into a Tree

19:51 Where Do Extraordinary Ideas Come From?

27:11 What If Reality Isn't Separate From You?

29:48 How Language Shapes Your Reality

58:13 Why Adversity Is an Initiation

01:01:21 The Act of Facing Your Fear Changes It

01:04:55 Warren's Vision for Living Legacy Forests

01:09:40 The Art Creates the Artist

01:11:45 Stop Chasing Big Goals — Do What Makes You Feel Alive

01:14:10 Finding the Thing You're Fascinated By

01:16:13 Why Doing What You Love Can Be Terrifying

01:19:11 Following Your Heart When Nobody Believes You

01:20:37 Creating Something Everyone Thinks Is Impossible

01:21:01 Why You Shouldn't Know What You're Doing

01:24:47 If You're Not a Little Scared, Are You Really Living?

01:26:43 Use Your Illusion — Or It Will Use You

01:29:20 The Trap of Conditional Happiness

01:31:19 How to Be Happy Without Getting What You Want

01:34:35 Final Thoughts

What does it really take to build an extraordinary life, not just in business, but in who you become along the way?

Christian Reyno is a successful entrepreneur and founder of The Nude Group, but this conversation goes far beyond business. He speaks with unusual honesty about the inner work that success has demanded of him, confronting childhood wounds, learning from failure, trusting his intuition and having the humility to recognise where he still needs to grow.

Christian shares how the pressures of entrepreneurship became an unexpected catalyst for personal growth. In his words, business doesn't give you the luxury of pausing while you work on yourself: the challenge is happening now, and sometimes you have to grow quickly enough to meet it.

The conversation explores ambition, vulnerability, fatherhood, relationships and what happens when your definition of success begins to change. Christian also opens up about the role his wife has played in his evolution — bringing a perspective and intuition he doesn't naturally possess, and challenging the idea that success has to be achieved alone. This is a conversation about the work nobody sees behind an extraordinary life — and why what you're building externally may demand that you evolve internally. 

@pursuitoftheimpossible  explores what happens when ambition becomes a vehicle for transformation — and who we become in pursuit of the things that once seemed impossible.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Coming Up

00:51 Meet Christian Reyno

02:18 When Ambition Stops Being Fun

09:29 The Reality of Chasing Impossible Goals

13:26 When Your Definition of Success Changes

16:38 Can Business Become Inner Work?

30:23 Why Business Forces You to Grow

43:56 “Why Would Anyone Care What I Have to Say?”

45:48 The Conflict That Changed Our Relationship

48:23 The Childhood Breakthrough That Changed Everything

57:33 Why Growth Can’t Wait

01:02:08 What Failure Is Really Trying to Teach You

01:05:28 Learning to Trust Your Instincts

01:09:20 Masculine, Feminine & the Power of Intuition

01:15:57 The Conversation That Nearly Broke His Marriage

01:18:26 How Fatherhood Changed His Ambition

01:21:14 How to Actually Access Your Intuition

01:44:49 When Your Body Holds the Pattern

01:51:55 The Skill That Changed How He Leads

01:59:40 What He’d Tell His Younger Self

02:02:14 One Thing to Take From This Conversation

What if the reason your biggest goal feels impossible is because the person you are today isn’t capable of achieving it yet?

François de Neuville has spent much of his life deliberately stepping beyond the limits of comfort.

A former commando paratrooper officer, extreme adventurer, author and founder of Man Uncharted, François has crossed remote wilderness, survived an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia, paddled alone through the Amazon and repeatedly put himself into situations that demanded far more from him than he knew he was capable of giving.

But this conversation isn’t really about extreme adventure.It’s about what happens to us when we deliberately pursue something that requires us to change.François and Rich explore why comfort can quietly limit our potential, why extraordinary goals sometimes require a degree of delusion, and how to distinguish between a challenge that will expand you and one that is simply reckless.

François shares the extraordinary story of nearly drowning while paddling alone through the Amazon — and the moment he realised he was physically looking backwards at where he should have gone instead of focusing on the only direction still available to him: forward.They explore how to regulate yourself when fear takes over, the difference between real and perceived danger, why knowing something intellectually is very different from being able to embody it under pressure, and why the pursuit itself can matter more than reaching the destination.

The conversation also goes deeper into ambition, ego, identity, emotional intelligence, self-ownership, vulnerability and the uncomfortable reality of pursuing something genuinely difficult: eventually, you will reach a point where you cannot do it alone. Because perhaps the real purpose of an impossible goal isn’t simply achieving it. It’s discovering who you have to become along the way.

‪@pursuitoftheimpossible‬ explores what happens when ambition becomes a vehicle for transformation — and who we become in pursuit of the things that once seemed impossible.

00:00 Coming Up

00:52 Meet François de Neuville

03:18 Why Too Much Comfort Makes Us Weaker

08:58 From Dreadlocks to Commando Paratrooper

10:44 Why You Need to Be a Little Delusional

15:24 The Real Reason We Avoid Impossible Goals

19:20 Alone in the Amazon

24:38 The Moment He Nearly Drowned

26:34 How to Think When Your Brain Is Panicking

27:40 Real Danger vs the Fear in Your Head

29:53 You Can’t Go Back — So Stop Looking Back

34:50 The Difference Between Knowing and Mastery

37:35 Why You Should Practise Being Uncomfortable

39:50 Surviving the Indonesian Tsunami

42:52 How He Stayed Calm in the Middle of Disaster

44:49 Why Modern Life Keeps Us Living in the Future

46:33 The Goal Isn’t the Destination

51:47 Is Your Best Day Ahead of You?

54:12 Why Acceptance Ends the Fight With Reality

58:31 Are Impossible Goals Just Ego?

01:00:58 “I Can” vs “I Need”

01:04:59 Is Anything We Do Truly Selfless?

01:11:24 Stop Identifying With the Outcome

01:12:47 Why He Signed Up for an Ironman He Hates

01:15:36 The Goal Is Who You Become

01:18:34 Become the Person Before You Achieve the Goal

01:21:44 Why Dreams Keep People Stuck

01:28:31 The Promise He Made After Nearly Dying

01:29:48 Why Regret Is a Lack of Ownership

01:31:41 The Power of Taking Full Ownership

01:33:12 Should You Trust Your Emotions?

01:36:58 Do You Want to Be Right — or Do What’s Right?

01:39:40 Your Identity Determines What’s Possible

01:41:23 The Language of a Victim Mindset

01:43:54 What to Do When the Goal Feels Impossible

01:47:30 The 3 Biggest Mistakes People Make

01:48:10 François Gets Vulnerable

01:49:26 The Impossible Goal He’s Struggling With Right Now

01:53:59 Why It’s Okay to Feel Helpless

01:56:31 You Don’t Have to Do It Alone

02:00:07 Be Delusional — And Do the Work

We’re husband and wife, we’ve never worked together before and now we’re trying to build a number one podcast together.

After years of building separate careers and businesses, we’re combining our very different strengths to create Pursuit of the Impossible from scratch.

We’re building the studio, finding extraordinary guests, learning how to make a world-class podcast and figuring out how to work together along the way.We have no idea where this is going to lead, but we’re going all in.

Follow the journey to see if we can build something exceptional together… or get divorced trying.Pursuit of the Impossible

A podcast exploring ambition, consciousness and human potential.