The Unknown Path

"Peace is what happens when we move the noise. We clear the clutter. We stop the motion."

In this episode of The Unknown Path, Jem Fuller sits down with the one and only Tom Cronin — former money broker turned meditation teacher, film producer, and founder of the Stillness Project, an organisation that's introduced meditation to thousands of people around the world.

For nearly three decades, Tom's work has centred on the idea that the anxiety, panic and unrest most of us carry isn't just ours to begin with — it's inherited, encoded, and passed down long before we ever get a say in it. He's taught meditation inside boardrooms at Amazon, Coca-Cola and Harvard Business School, and now runs retreats across four countries a year, but his work started on the floor of his own home, in the middle of a nervous breakdown he didn't see coming.

In this conversation, we go beyond the retreats and the resonance charts into the story you likely haven't heard. It’s a journey that starts on the trading room floor in the eighties that ran alongside the Wolf of Wall Street years, through the health collapse that landed him in an ambulance thinking he was dying, and the two-minute documentary clip of a man meditating in a pinstripe suit that changed the entire direction of his life. This episode explores the beliefs that gets passed down through generations, directly impacting how we navigate the world and how Meditation can help us to live the life of peace and freedom many of us desire. You’'ll hear about the film Tom poured years into that never quite became what he wanted it to be, and the moment he got shouted down in a San Francisco cinema for saying AI might have something to teach an enlightened mind. If you've ever felt like the world's noise is louder than your own, this episode will offer you a perspective and medicine you may not have known you needed.

This week's conversation covers a story of collapse and reconstruction, the inheritance we don't get to choose, and what it actually costs to build a life around stillness in a world that won't sit still.

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In this conversation we go into:
— Nine years on a trading room floor, and the night his body gave out on the kitchen floor
— A documentary of a man meditating in a suit, and the Yellow Pages ad that started everything
— Why a broken leg heals in a cast, and what that reveals about the nervous system's need for rest
— The anxiety he says was never fully his — and what the "long body" means for what we inherit
— Making the film The Portal, and the vision that got lost somewhere in the edit
— Getting shouted down in San Francisco for putting AI next to enlightenment

About Tom:
Tom Cronin is the founder of the Stillness Project and a Vedic meditation teacher, retreat facilitator and film producer who has introduced meditation to people around the world through corporate training, his Zen Academy mentoring program, and retreats across Australia, Bali, New Zealand and the UK. He spent sixteen years as a broker on a trading room floor before a breakdown in 1996 led him to meditation, and he later produced the documentary The Portal.

Follow Tom:
🌐 https://www.tomcronin.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomcronin

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About The Unknown Path:
The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. Hosted by Jem Fuller.

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"You can't connect to your spirit through your mind. It's only through the heart, because the heart is the portal to the quantum, to the universe, to the higher self."

In this episode of The Unknown Path, Jem Fuller sits down with Alena Uzhnyeva — entrepreneur, founder of the I Am Creation Retreats and Summits, and a woman who's built two entirely different lives on two different continents. Known as the "fish queen" of Ukraine and Estonia's seafood trade, Alena started at twenty, sending emails for her uncle's small import company because nobody else on the team spoke English. Ten years later she was running purchasing negotiations worth millions and leading a team, before she left it all to build her own trading business from Estonia — now turning over twenty million euros a year with a team of seventeen. Then, six and a half years ago she landed in Bali for a holiday with her two-year-old son and she never left.

But what sits underneath that success isn't a straightforward story of rewarded ambition. It's a story about a body that had to break down before a life of alignment and fulfilment could be fully rebuilt. Alena grew up in a military household in small-town Ukraine, where achievement was an instruction — be first, be the best, don't ask questions. The messaging and childhood carried her into success in the corporate world where she out-worked everyone around her, until insomnia, gut issues and failing eyesight became her everyday reality. In hopes of finding a reset to keep moving forward, Alena attended a three-day retreat that cracked her wide open and led her to returning back into her office to resign with no plan moving forward.

This week's conversation moves through what came after that leap — a new business built from nothing while raising her son alone, a fifteen-year silence with her father that she chose to end, a relationship that finally didn't repeat the old pattern, and the slightly chaotic decision to run Bali's first fully legal international summit with three months' notice and forty speakers flying in from around the world. It's a conversation about the difference between chasing significance and building a life you can actually feel present in, and about what happens when you finally stop treating your intuition as something to override and go all in. Alena’s story is one of inspiration that redefines success beyond the numbers, money and burnout.

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In this conversation we go into:
— The three-day retreat in Kyiv that ended a ten-year career in one weekend
— Building a twenty-million-euro seafood business from Estonia while living in Bali
— The message that reconnected her with her father after fifteen years of silence
— Turning an idea into Bali's first legally licensed international summit, with forty speakers and 750 people, in three months
— Why she makes major business decisions in seconds now, instead of hours of meetings

About Alena Uzhnyeva:
Alena is the founder of the I Am Creation Retreats and Summits in Bali, bringing together international speakers and hundreds of attendees each year for conscious gatherings and heart-led leadership work. She spent ten years building one of Ukraine's largest fish export companies before leaving corporate life after a single retreat, and now runs both the seafood trading business she built from Estonia and her growing summit and retreat brand from her home in Bali.

Follow Alena:
🌐 https://www.iamcreationretreat.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/padmini.devi_
🌍 We Are Creation Community: https://www.wearecreation.world/community

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About The Unknown Path:
The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. Hosted by Jem Fuller.

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Follow the show:
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"Stop being who you're not."

In this episode of The Unknown Path, Jem Fuller sits down with Jack Canfield — Entrepreneur, co-creator of the billion-dollar ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’® series and author of the international bestseller ‘The Success Principles’. Jack’s conducted more than 2,500 workshops and trainings worldwide, sold over 500 million books in 43 languages, and spent five decades helping people close the gap between where they are and their highest vision of themselves.

For decades, Jack's work has centred around the idea that most of what holds people back isn't a lack of ability, but a belief formed in childhood about who they are and what they deserve that holds the drivers seat of their life. He’s stood in boardrooms to stadiums filled with thousands of people transforming the lives of millions of people, but his impact started many years ago in a small classroom teaching self-esteem to teenagers who needed someone to believe in them.

In this conversation, we go beyond the success into the journey in a way you haven’t heard before. Jack shares his story, as a scholarship kid at a West Virginia military school to the man behind one of publishing's most improbable success stories, and the mentors, chance encounters, and discipline that shaped the way there. We go through the early years, starting as a teacher earning $8,000 a year, to becoming a best selling author and deeply impactful entrepreneur by discovering and embodying the work that has changed the lives of so many people. If you know of Jacks work, you’ll know his impact on the world is big, but chances are you haven’t heard the man underneath the success in this way and I can’t wait for you to sit and listen and soak up all the wisdom.

This weeks episode covers an incredible journey of self discovery, the mechanics of building something successful that lasts and the work of unbecoming what no longer serves you. It's a conversation about permission, persistence, and the difference between striving for significance and simply being who you are.

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In this conversation we go into:
— Cold email to Harvard scholarship, and the private school that changed everything
— A mentor's challenge to set a goal twelve times his salary, and the visualization ritual he kept every morning for three years
— Fourteen months of daily outreach before Chicken Soup for the Soul hit a single bestseller list
— The ayahuasca journey that forced him to forgive Vladimir Putin — and what it revealed about his own need for significance
— Why "discover" is the word he'd choose over "become"
— His take on AI, job displacement, and why human connection becomes more valuable, not less
— The free belief-change call he still runs twice a year for thousands of people, decades after he stopped needing to

About Jack:

For over 40 years, he has been teaching entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders, and people from all walks of life how to create the life they desire.

As the beloved originator of the Chicken Soup for the SoulⓇ series, he’s taught millions of individuals his modernised formulas for success, and has trained and certified over 2,700 students to teach his content and methodology in 107 countries around the world.

Follow Jack:
🌐 https://jackcanfield.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jackcanfield_official

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About The Unknown Path:
The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. Hosted by Jem Fuller.

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Follow the show:
🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts
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#TheUnknownPath #JackCanfield #ChickenSoupForTheSoul

"I didn't give myself permission to be a visionary."

In this episode of The Unknown Path, Jem Fuller sits down with Brandon Fong — founder of Curiosity Island, creator of the Find Your Four framework, and host of the podcast Beyond Curious.

In this conversation, Brandon shares how a childhood shaped by financial insecurity, in one of the wealthiest school districts in his state, built the identity of someone who had to earn everything the hard way. Years later, that same drive led him into the business of building other people's visions, until a mentor ended their partnership without warning and left him with nowhere to go but inward.

Brandon's story is one of reinvention, and one that will make you question what permission you're still waiting for to chase the things you desire.

In this episode, we talk across a number of themes including the difference between learning and channeling, the cost of walking away from a version of success that isn't yours, and how the period of building for others became the foundation for Curiosity Island, and framework for finding the small percentage of actions that create the majority of impact.

This conversation explores what it takes to stop chasing someone else's definition of success, and a real look at what it means to build a life, and a community, from complete alignment. You wont want to miss this one.

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In this conversation we go into:
— Cold calling at twelve, and the free lunch program in the wealthiest school district in the state
— The single cold email that turned into running a mentor's marketing, adding 250,000 students to his courses, and a year spent living in Israel, Italy, and Thailand
— The business partner who left without warning, and the question it forced: what do I actually want?
— Why he still cringes at the old name of his own podcast, and why he wouldn't undo any of it
— What changed when he stopped calling it effort and started calling it channeling
— Dunbar's number, soul family, and why Curiosity Island will never grow past 54 people
— The plan to send a piece of it into outer space



About Brandon:

Brandon is a husband to his high school sweetheart, Leah, father to their daughter Kaiya, and head world builder of Curiosity Island™, the invite-only community he founded to help visionary leaders solve their hardest problems and accelerate their biggest projects. He also hosts the top 1% globally ranked Beyond Curious® podcast, where he's interviewed everyone from Olympians and NYT bestselling authors to an FBI hostage negotiator and the man who invented the cell phone. His life purpose is to create a more deeply connected world.

Follow Brandon:
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonsfong/
▶️ YouTube: https://gobeyondcurious.com/podcast/
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About The Unknown Path:
The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. Hosted by Jem Fuller.

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Follow the show:
🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts
📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/jemfuller
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemfuller/
🌱 More from Jem: https://jemfuller.com

#TheUnknownPath #BrandonFong #CuriosityIsland

"I didn't give myself permission to be a visionary."

In this episode of The Unknown Path, Jem Fuller sits down with Brandon Fong — founder of Curiosity Island, creator of the Find Your Four framework, and host of the podcast Beyond Curious.

In this conversation, Brandon shares how a childhood shaped by financial insecurity, in one of the wealthiest school districts in his state, built the identity of someone who had to earn everything the hard way. Years later, that same drive led him into the business of building other people's visions, until a mentor ended their partnership without warning and left him with nowhere to go but inward.

Brandon's story is one of reinvention, and one that will make you question what permission you're still waiting for to chase the things you desire.

In this episode, we talk across a number of themes including the difference between learning and channeling, the cost of walking away from a version of success that isn't yours, and how the period of building for others became the foundation for Curiosity Island, and framework for finding the small percentage of actions that create the majority of impact.

This conversation explores what it takes to stop chasing someone else's definition of success, and a real look at what it means to build a life, and a community, from complete alignment. You wont want to miss this one.

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In this conversation we go into:
— Cold calling at twelve, and the free lunch program in the wealthiest school district in the state
— The single cold email that turned into running a mentor's marketing, adding 250,000 students to his courses, and a year spent living in Israel, Italy, and Thailand
— The business partner who left without warning, and the question it forced: what do I actually want?
— Why he still cringes at the old name of his own podcast, and why he wouldn't undo any of it
— What changed when he stopped calling it effort and started calling it channeling
— Dunbar's number, soul family, and why Curiosity Island will never grow past 54 people
— The plan to send a piece of it into outer space

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:02:13 Brandon's World Right Now
• 00:03:00 What Is Curiosity Island?
• 00:07:00 Learning to Slow Down and Just Be Present
• 00:09:29 What His 10-Year-Old Self Would Think
• 00:10:43 Growing Up in an Entrepreneurial Household
• 00:14:24 Free Lunch Programs in the Wealthiest School District
• 00:16:05 Meeting His Mentor Jonathan and Genius Network
• 00:19:25 The Business Failure That Started Everything
• 00:20:13 Publishing a Book at 21
• 00:22:07 The Power of the Cold Email
• 00:23:30 What's the Worst That Can Happen?
• 00:24:54 Rebuilding From the Ground Up
• 00:28:03 Why "Seven Figure Millennials" Still Makes Him Cringe
• 00:30:05 Would He Undo That Chapter?
• 00:31:27 What It Feels Like to Be Fully Aligned
• 00:32:52 Consciousness, Telepathy, and Holding Beliefs Loosely
• 00:37:45 David Hawkins and the Levels of Consciousness
• 00:40:52 Mirrors, Not Mentors
• 00:44:08 What Curiosity Island Actually Is
• 00:45:46 Introducing Find Your Four
• 00:49:09 The 4% and the Exponentially Renewable Resource
• 00:51:00 The 4% Files Project
• 00:54:19 A World Record Sent Into Outer Space
• 00:57:30 Shortcutting a Friend's Dream: The Roderick Adventure Day Story
• 01:00:20 Founding the Center of Love Alliance
• 01:03:21 Dunbar's Number and the Future of Curiosity Island
• 01:05:12 Final Thoughts

About Brandon:

Brandon is a husband to his high school sweetheart, Leah, father to their daughter Kaiya, and head world builder of Curiosity Island™, the invite-only community he founded to help visionary leaders solve their hardest problems and accelerate their biggest projects. He also hosts the top 1% globally ranked Beyond Curious® podcast, where he's interviewed everyone from Olympians and NYT bestselling authors to an FBI hostage negotiator and the man who invented the cell phone. His life purpose is to create a more deeply connected world.

Follow Brandon:
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonsfong/
▶️ YouTube: https://gobeyondcurious.com/podcast/
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About The Unknown Path:
The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. Hosted by Jem Fuller.

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Follow the show:
🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts
📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/jemfuller
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemfuller/
🌱 More from Jem: https://jemfuller.com

#TheUnknownPath #BrandonFong #CuriosityIsland

"Freedom without forgiveness is just relocation"

In this episode of The Unknown Path, Jem Fuller sits down with Catalina Magee — former Miss Romania, Vogue Italia model, and founder of Trend Prive magazine, now a real estate investor, podcast host, and someone who volunteers her time with Las Vegas's homeless community.

Catalina shares what it was like growing up under communism in Romania, the ultimatum she gave her mother at sixteen, and the night in Germany she stood in a car park screaming for help while her husband lay fighting for his life after a house fire.

We talk about the years of abuse that shaped her childhood, the choice she made to forgive the man who caused it, and why she's landed on humility — not love — as the biggest lesson life has taught her. This conversation explores what it actually costs to build a life of gratitude out of a childhood built on scarcity and pain, and why the people we overlook are so often the ones who save us.

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In this conversation we go into:
— The ultimatum a sixteen-year-old Catalina gave her mother about her father, and the divorce it forced
— A stranger's invitation to Capri, and the night Mariah Carey stood two feet away
— The house fire in Germany that nearly took her husband's life, and the phone call that finally got him a hospital bed
— Growing up under communism in Romania, where the family had one orange at Christmas and prayed in secret beneath the floor
— Why homelessness isn't the choice people assume it is, and the questions Catalina asks instead of judging

About Catalina Magee:
Catalina Magee is a real estate investor, entrepreneur, actress and published author based in Las Vegas. She began her career as a model featured in Vogue Italia and the winner of Miss Romania, before founding Trend Prive magazine and going on to work across the U.S. Army, MWR, NCIS, the USDA and the US Embassy in Tel Aviv. She has since built and sold multiple businesses, and currently oversees a real estate portfolio, a wedding venture and a celebrity magazine, alongside ongoing volunteer work with Las Vegas's homeless community.
Connect with Catalina:
🌐 https://catalinamagee.com
📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/officialcatalinamagee
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catalinamagee/
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWGKSdXcO04gZV30EIM7tQ
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About The Unknown Path:
The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. Hosted by Jem Fuller.

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Follow the show:
🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts
📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/jemfuller
💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jemfuller
🌱 More from Jem: https://jemfuller.com

If something in this conversation lands for you, share it with someone who might need it today.

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I couldn't sit still. I was angry, and it was time to find the stillness.

In this episode of The Unknown Path we have the incredible Jared Angaza - Founder of Passage Collective, human rights worker turned indigenous wisdom keeper, and creator of the Coherence Protocol — an AI framework grounded in indigenous values.

In this conversation, Jared shares how a decade of human rights work across Rwanda and Kenya led to a profound low point, on the dirt floor of a Rwandan jail forcing him to find another way to respond to rage and look inside. Jared's story is one of fierce advocacy and resilience, and one that will make you look twice at what you've mistaken for strength.

We talk about the difference between resilience and anti-fragility, what surrender means when it isn't about giving up, and how that decade of hands-on community work became the foundation for the work he does today, building AI systems grounded in indigenous governance rather than fixed rules. This conversation explores what it takes to stop fighting for control and make space for something better to come through, and a beautiful exploration of the impact one driven person can have on a global community for the better.

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In this conversation we go into:
— A decade of human rights work across Rwanda and Kenya, including informant work that led to jail time
— Building a safe house in Kigali for forty-nine women and seventy-eight kids
— Adopting a son off the streets and learning a language with no textbook to teach it
— The night in a dirt-floor jail cell that changed how he responds to rage
— Building an AI framework out of indigenous wisdom instead of fixed rules

About Jared Angaza:
Jared Angaza is the founder of Passage Collective, building AI systems grounded in indigenous values through the Coherence Protocol and an Indigenous Governance Council of elders and knowledge holders from around the world. Before this work, he spent a decade living and working across Rwanda and Kenya, founding Team Africa Rising and the Treasure Center safe house, and building the ethical fashion brand Kaza alongside the women he worked with. More at passagecollective.com

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About The Unknown Path:
The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. Hosted by Jem Fuller.

What happens when you know something is true, but everyone around you is telling you it isn't?

In this episode of The Unknown Path, I talk with Dr Donese Worden, NMD, a physician who has spent twenty-seven years working across conventional and integrative medicine, and co-founder of a nonprofit researching metabolic approaches to cancer.

In her first year of medical school, Donese watched her mother suffer a stroke caused by a medical error. Doctors told the family she wouldn't survive the night and advised them to stop treatment. Donese trusted her gut over the doctors in front of her, refused, and her mother recovered. That same instinct has shaped her whole career. She now argues cancer should be treated as a metabolic disease rather than a purely genetic one, a position most mainstream cancer research still doesn't accept.

This episode is about trusting your own read on something, especially when the noise around you is telling you the opposite. Donese helps unpack the difference between conviction and stubbornness, and why waiting for permission to trust yourself usually costs more than getting it wrong.

In this episode:
— Why she believes cancer is a metabolic disease, not a genetic one
— The questions worth asking before starting any medical treatment
— Why she told the United Nations that AI still doesn't account for women properly

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Dr Donese Worden, NMD: Physician, researcher, and co-founder of a nonprofit researching metabolic approaches to cancer.
🌐 drworden.com
📸 Instagram: @DrDoneseWorden

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The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about.

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What does it really mean to rewrite the story that shaped you — without losing what it gave you?

In this episode of The Unknown Path, Jem Fuller sits down with Ron Carucci, co-founder of Navalent and a leadership consultant who has spent three decades advising CEOs through major organisational change. Ron shares his own honest reckoning with the origin stories we all carry, the vows we make young without realising it, and what it actually takes to unlearn a habit without losing the ability behind it. From a client whose entire career was built on protecting an old wound, to Ron's own journey through faith, depression, and the moments that quietly redirected his life, this conversation explores how facing where we come from can change how we move forward — without asking us to give up who we've become.

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In this conversation we go into:
— A client whose career was built on protecting a wound from childhood
— The vow made in silence, and the one that finally replaced it
— Ron's own years of depression and anxiety, and what shifted them
— The mentor who split his life into two distinct eras
— Why he almost didn't publish his article on the state of democracy

Ron Carucci: Co-founder and managing partner of Navalent, and author of Rising to Power and To Be Honest.
🌐 navalent.com

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The Unknown Path explores the unseen journeys behind extraordinary lives — real conversations about the failures, turning points, and unexpected moments that shaped who people became.

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At sixteen, Sean was given fourteen days to live. He survived — and then had to figure out what to do with the rest of his life.

Sean Swarner is a two-time cancer survivor and the first person with one functioning lung to summit Everest. He's gone on to complete the seven summits, ski to both Poles, and complete the Hawaii Ironman World Championship. But what moves me most about this conversation isn't the scale of what he's done, although they are incredible. It's what he came back with from being given fourteen days to live at sixteen that has platformed a meaningful and incredible life.

In this conversation, Sean shares his story from being a boy in a hospital bed to the man on the other end of incredible feats. But this conversation isn't about survival, it's the story of being alive. From resilience, choice and failure and what it all means when faced with the limits of what the body can achieve and survive, Sean opens up about this amazing perspective on what we can truly grow into as individuals when we strip away our comforts and certainty. If everything you knew was pulled away, what would you be left with? Who would you be? There are so many incredible teachings in this week's conversation, and it has left me with such awe and understanding of what it means to face life, even when there's fear staring back at you.

In this episode:

— What's left of a person when comfort, certainty and health have all been stripped away
— Why resilience has nothing to do with grit, and everything to do with loyalty to who you are
— The difference between chasing something you think will complete you, and meeting your own life with eyes open
— Why reaching the top can leave you hollow, and what Sean now calls a false summit

A conversation about what it means to be alive, from someone who was told he wouldn't be.

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Sean Swarner:
🎬 True North: The Sean Swarner Story — Sean's documentary of his North Pole expedition. Watch free https://www.amazon.com/True-North-%20Sean-Swarner-Story/dp/B07LBCSFCD
🏔️ The CancerClimber Association — Sean's organisation sponsoring cancer survivors up Kilimanjaro: https://www.seanswarner.com/philanthropy-2/cca
🌐 More from Sean: : https://www.seanswarner.com/

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The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. Hosted by Jem Fuller, a coach, facilitator, speaker and author who has spent two decades working with leaders on resilience, presence, and the human capabilities that shape how we live and work. Through coaching, workshops, speaking and retreats, both at home in Australia and in the Himalayas, Jem works with individuals and teams across business, government and education. You can learn more about his work, or join an upcoming retreat, by visiting https://jemfuller.com/ │ Instagram: @jemfuller