Sounds Human

It's Pick Your Brain time for Glenn Azar!

No one is safe from the hot seat, and Glenn claims he was more nervous for this episode than any of the other four.

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Wrapping up with Episode 4, we get to hear of the youth development programs Glenn is now running. We hear the hero's journey wrapped up and we understand the lengths Glenn has gone to add value to the world that he used to feel he needed to 'dominate'.

Content warning: This series of Sounds Human contains references to, and stories of, violence, aggression, war zone stories and the mental toll that can take. Caution is recommended to those sensitive to these areas of discussion.

Episode 3 takes us into Glenn's world of working with those in the sporting arena as a boxing coach and life mentor. By putting wellbeing before all else, his desire just to see the best in people shines through.

Content warning: This series of Sounds Human contains references to, and stories of, violence, aggression, war zone stories and the mental toll that can take. Caution is recommended to those sensitive to these areas of discussion.

In Episode 2, we get stuck into the adventure. Glenn's "Adventure Professionals" company has become well recognised in it industry and for good reason.

Hearing the story behind how it was formed and the achievements it has helped others experience needs to be heard by anyone questioning what human beings are capable of.

Content Warning: This series of Sounds Human contains references to, and stories of, violence, aggression, war zone stories and the mental toll that can take. Caution is recommended to those sensitive to these areas of discussion.

Glenn Azar is known in society for many roles. He is the founder of 'Adventure Professionals', a company dedicated to helping people of all ages and sizes get the most our of life with tours to Mt Kilimanjaro, Everest Base Camp and Kokoda.

He is a mentor to many young sporting professionals, an ex-military man and the father to a set of amazing and diverse children.

Most importantly though, he's as real and raw about his own journey through mental toughness, vulnerability and triumph as anyone.

Strap yourself in and enjoy the episodes to come, you'll be hanging on every word.

Content warning: This series of Sounds Human contains references to, and stories of, violence, aggression, war zone stories and mental health struggles. Caution is recommended to those sensitive to these areas of discussion.

We're throwing Aidan into the hot seat to "Pick His Brain".

Dig in and enjoy as we throw him in the furnace and take him off his pedestal.

Thank you to Aidan for an awesome season.

Leadership is a human experience not granted to everyone - especially in the business world.

But the leaders who can understand human behaviour and motivation on a deep level are the ones we all love to work for the most.

In the final episode, Aidan shares his perspective on leadership and what it means to lead other people through your business as a means for helping them become a better human being.

Usually an idea for a business is what hits us first, which is a moment many of us have fond memories of.

But very quickly, we realise for that idea to come to life we need to learn to market and sell. Only then, can we get back into focusing on the core operations of our business.

This is when the human experience of running a business can get super confusing. Aidan navigates us through the trenches of this stage of business growth and helps us align our great ideas with an approach to sales and marketing that genuinely works.

Episode 2 with Aidan starts to peel back the layer of the entrepreneurial journey and the strategies that can lead to predictable growth along the way.

Aidan shares the internal experience of getting his business off the ground and normalises what it's like to 'suck at the start of something' after running his first event (... that sucked).

And ultimately we learn that being OK with being at the start of something is key to long-term business growth.

Aidan Parsons is the founder and director of Keystone Executive Coaching based in Brisbane Australia.

Through the thousands of coaches and consultants I've met, Aidan has generated more success than 99.97% of them. But what's so attractive about Aidan is his ability to be stable throughout the journey of his success.

He's a family man, business man, health and fitness man and manages to balance it all to a level that makes it obvious he's got huge value to share.

Enjoy Episode 1 as we hear the origin story of the strong and stable human we know today before getting in the trenches of business and entrepreneurship in the episodes that follow.