For Tom Fitzsimons, alcohol offered something he’d been searching for since childhood: belonging. After moving from Belfast to England and losing his father at just thirteen, he spent twenty years believing the world was against him, using drink, anger and violence to escape the grief and disconnection he didn’t know how to name.

Then running gave him another way forward.

Tom went from being unable to complete his first run without vomiting to completing the Marathon des Sables and then running 3,100 miles from San Francisco to New York in 100 days. But this isn’t simply a story about extraordinary endurance.

It’s a raw, honest conversation about addiction, recovery and the stigma that remains long after someone becomes sober. It’s about the loneliness of changing your life, the people who hold belief in us before we can hold it for ourselves, and the quieter work of becoming that continues when the cheering stops.

Tom also speaks movingly about the deaths that have shaped his life, his struggle to understand and express love, and the poetry that has become a new way to release what he once carried through running.

Together, we explore:

• Why belonging can sometimes lead us towards the very things that harm us

• The difference between what we want and what we truly need

• Why sobriety deserves to be noticed, honoured and celebrated

• The stigma still attached to addiction and mental ill health

• Learning to receive and express love when it hasn’t always felt safe

• Why creativity isn’t reserved for people who already call themselves artists

This is a conversation about survival, responsibility and second chances.

But perhaps most of all, it’s about holding on to a passion for life, despite the sadness.

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There are moments when we know life cannot continue as it was.

Sometimes the threshold is unmistakable: a death, a relationship breaking open, a truth we can no longer avoid. At other times, it arrives quietly, as the growing realisation that who we’ve been can’t carry us into whatever comes next.

Season One of Life, Love & Legacy explored identity, visibility, alignment, kindness, truth and becoming more fully ourselves.

Season Two takes us deeper.

These conversations move through addiction and recovery, relationship rupture and repair, death and dying, grief, conflict, reconciliation, ceremony, ancestry, nature, community and transformation.

They ask what we do when something must be faced, honoured, released or remade, and what may become possible when life changes us.

In this short launch episode, I introduce the seven guests joining me this season:

Tom Fitzsimons

Motivational speaker, author, and former endurance athlete

Lottie Moore

Modern day medicine woman and guide

Monica Douglas

Conscious relationship mentor and minister

Penny Boycott

Celebrant, founder, community-builder and AMC Head of Learning

Katie Costello

Soul midwife, death educator and funeral celebrant

Jo Berry CBE

Peacebuilder, founder and international speaker

Richard Tyler

Soul therapist, poet, performer and Bard of Bath

Seven very different people, each bringing lived experience, wisdom and deeply human questions to the threshold.

Join me.

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What if legacy is less about how we’re remembered and more about how we’re living now?

In this Season One finale, I’m looking back at seven conversations that explored identity, visibility, self-worth, kindness, success, truth and the courage to live more fully as ourselves.

What began as an experiment in creating a different kind of conversation became something much deeper. Again and again, the subject of love led us back to the relationship we have with ourselves: how we see ourselves, trust ourselves, express ourselves and stop abandoning ourselves in order to belong.

I revisit the central ideas from each guest conversation and its accompanying Insights episode, including what it means to be born pre-approved, the quiet cost of hiding who we are, the fine line between achievement and self-abandonment, and the courage to believe things can be different.

This episode is both a reflection on Season One and an invitation to return to the conversations that may be calling you now.

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