The Returning Warrior Podcast

Karen Darke is a powerhouse of an adventurer, athlete and inspiration. After becoming paralysed from the chest down following a climbing accident at the age of 21, Karen went on to achieve incredible feats of endurance, performance and bravery; Climbing Monte Blanc, Matterhorn and El Capitan. Skiing across Greenland. Hand cycled, skied and swam the length of Japan. Has won Paralympic silver in 2012 and gold in 2016. In 2017 was awarded the MBE for services to sport. She has written three books and founded Quest 79, a global campaign to help others find their inner gold through challenges and adventure culminating with the Pole Of Possibility in 2022 where she plans to reach lat/long 79 in Antartica, the final continent left for her to traverse. 

Through Adams life of extreme adventure, trauma and war, he was able to amalgamate his experiences and philosophies into a powerful experience he calls the Returning Warrior, a series of programs, courses, book and now a Podcast. All aimed at supporting the modern man and woman through some of life's biggest challenges, enabling them to undertake their own hero's journey. In this first episode Adam, recounts the harrowing tale of his brush with death, life in the Marines, and the power of framework known as the hero's journey, and how it may be the answer to solving life's biggest challenges.