The High Endeavours Podcast

David Bence is a retired Royal Navy officer who spent most of his military career overseas in the wake of 9/11. A Navy Diver by trade, countering mines, he left the military and ventured into the corporate consultancy world before a metaphorical brick hit him...twice (in 2017 and then again in 2024 NB David says 2023 in the pod). Listen to this Coaching Conversation during which we learn about what sustained David through a tortuous period of life.

Kate Muir OBE is still serving in the Royal Navy. After a long and very successful career Kate is now preparing to leave the Service and embark on a new career. In this coaching conversation, Kate discusses identity, complexity, status and things that help people and the planet. Compared to the bangs and explosions of Episodes 1 and 2, this conversation is gentler but no less impactful. It's also very 'live' because Kate is turning the page on an entirely new identity.

Josh Shaver served for 28 years in the US Army including 8 deployments around the world. Much of that service was in the aftermath of 9/11, the 25th anniversary of which is this week. Josh shares the painful price of service that he and those closest to him have been paying. As always, I'm left rather speechless and humbled of my guest's bravery in coming onto the show and their sharing of seminal moments in their lives.

My first guest is Mike Lewis, ex-British paratrooper whose life was changed forever 18 years ago today, when friendly artillery fire in Afghanistan mistakingly blew him and his colleagues up. Listen to this coaching conversation as Mike describes the events that day, and how he's navigated the high and low experiences since. Mike Lewis's High Endeavours make for a truly remarkable coaching conversation, underpinned by his identity and life purpose.