Great Escape Podcast

Everything we do reflects our personality and values. When we start and run a business, whether it is just us or a team of people, it also has a personality and values. The great thing is that we get to choose that...

One man's journey from the mental "hellness" and a suicide attempt to a TED talk and the experience of our birthright, mental wellness. David and I recorded this episode on August the 30th, one day before what he...

Lots of people have asked me recently what it is like to work for yourself. My answer is simple: it is wonderful. But the real answer is a little bit more complicated than that ;-)

Ellyn was following a career path that seemed to be the expected route for a career scientist but it was breaking her. Having the courage to get off the treadmill and start following her own path has saved more than...

Coincidences happen all the time. Something about the way our brains work means we're constantly spotting them. As an entrepreneur we can make use of coincidences to create opportunities and this is serendipity.

Ian was massively overweight, drinking and eating too much and heading for a serious health meltdown. He's turned it all around and is now an elite level triathlete. Doing it for himself made all the difference.

It is all too easy to think that we're alone in the world and when we start slipping into depression that sense is heightened. When we're trying to transform our lives and get out of an intolerable situation it is...

Dawn describes how her life fell apart with bullying at work and unreasonable demands to the point where she really felt she had no hope at all. Fortunately she and her family have escaped from that situation and in a...

There's always something new to learn. Part of the joy of life is discovering new things and putting them into practice.

Eric started life with all the privileges of a white middle class upbringing and education but quickly slipped into drink, drugs and crime. Time in prison gave him time to re-assess some of those decisions and the...

Are we too hung up on what we want life to BE like or to LOOK like? Perhaps if we focussed more on what we want life to feel like we'd have more clarity omn the direction to head.

Kenyon describes living the American dream and then realised that it isn't a "one size fits all thing" - How can one dream be right for all of us? So he set off to build the life he and his family actually wanted.