What does it take to keep going when the odds and the elements are completely stacked against you?

Record-setting explorer, veterinarian, and entrepreneur Dr. Geoff Wilson says resilience isn’t just grit or bravado.

It’s built on three things:

1. Purpose
2. Passion, and
3. Persistence.

In this episode, Geoff shares hard-won lessons from expeditions across Antarctica, Greenland, the Sahara, and the Arctic and explains how the same principles helped him build and lead a successful veterinary business.

From surviving a brutal Antarctic storm to rethinking what strength really means, Geoff makes the case that resilience is not something we’re simply born with, but something we can acquire through intent and practice.

In this podcast, you’ll hear:

• How purpose, passion, and persistence work together to build resilience
• Why vulnerability enables greater endurance than bravado
• What extreme expeditions can teach us about business, leadership, and avoiding burnout
• How keeping work, family, and personal dreams in balance sustains motivation

A powerful conversation about facing hardship, learning from setbacks, and finding the drive to get back up one more time.

Jeremy Utley is a world-leading expert in creativity and co-author of Ideaflow. In this interview, he tells us what Ideaflow is, and why it is the only business metric that matters. He is also a director of executive education at Stanford’s d.school and an adjunct professor at Stanford’s School of Engineering.

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The Space Shuttle Challenger and Columbia disasters, along with other failed missions led NASA to rethink how it fostered leadership and culture. Now, Crazy Might Work is using an ultra-modern version of the NASA 4-Dimensional Leadership Program, (based on the current space program) to share those learnings with other organisations and leadership teams.

In this special episode recorded at the Australian Space Summit in May 2024, Paul Hawkins talks to host Adam Thorn about the program, it's origins in Antarctica, whether leaders are born or made, and how NASA became the best place to work in federal government for the 12th year in a row.

Thanks for listening to the Crazy Might Work Podcast!

We hope you have enjoyed listening to the great conversations with extraordinary people.

For more resources, go here https://www.crazymightwork.com/resources/