Kate Bowler is one of the most thought-provoking voices on pain and suffering you'll ever encounter. Living her dream life – married to her high school sweetheart, a baby boy, and her dream job – she was diagnosed with stage four cancer just as everything fell into place.

In this bonus episode of Crisis What Crisis, I sit down with Kate to discuss her Crisis Compass. The four points of navigation that she turns to in order to help survive a crisis – a person, a habit, a comfort and a piece of advice. We'd love to know yours, let us know in the reviews...

Kate is a four-time New York Times bestseller, professor at Duke University, host of the Everything Happens podcast, and author of an exceptional Substack. Her latest book, Joyful Anyway, hit the shelves this month.

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I know what it is to have the right legal support around you when facing crisis. Kingsley Napley are the kind of lawyers I wish more people knew about – there to help you make the right decisions, protect what matters and build real resilience when the pressure is on.

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CHAPTERS:

00:49 A Person – Be a Roger: the quiet librarian who showed her what service really looks like

01:47 A Habit – Praying with her son every night

02:27 A Comfort – Roadside America, a 40-foot ceramic turtle, and how she befriended Tom Holland

03:49 A Piece of Advice – "It comes undone though, so don't skip to the end"

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Charles Tyrwhitt founder, Nick Wheeler, started the business with just £99, a Morris Minor (with a hole rusted through the floor), and zero understanding of how you make a shirt. Today, it’s a £400m global empire – but his story is one not short of tragedy.

In this bonus episode of Crisis What Crisis, I sit down with Nick to discuss his Crisis Compass. The four points of navigation that he turns to in order to help survive a crisis – a person, a habit, a comfort and a piece of advice. We’d love to know yours, let us know in the reviews...

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I know what it is to have the right legal support around you when facing crisis. Kingsley Napley are the kind of lawyers I wish more people knew about – there to help you make the right decisions, protect what matters and build real resilience when the pressure is on.

This episode is powered by Kingsley Napley, visit www.kingsleynapley.co.uk for more details.

CHAPTERS:

00:49 A Person – Learning from your children's fresh perspective

01:33 A Habit – 474 days of Duolingo (and still can't speak Italian)

02:32 A Comfort – Singing on a Brompton around London

03:12 A Piece of Advice – Stop stressing about what you can't change

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Nick Wheeler founded Charles Tyrwhitt with just £99 and a Morris Minor with a hole rusted through the floor (and zero understanding of how you make a shirt!). Today, it’s a £400m global empire – but his story is one not short of tragedy, with the loss of his mother aged just five years old, bankruptcy, and a catalogue of mistakes which meant he nearly lost everything.

In this episode of Crisis What Crisis, I sit down with the man who revolutionised British menswear. Nick Wheeler shares the raw, unfiltered reality of building a world-class brand.

If you want to learn about entrepreneurial resilience, business scaling, and the power of dogged self belief, this masterclass is for you.

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I know what it is to have the right legal support around you when facing crisis. Kingsley Napley are the kind of lawyers I wish more people knew about – there to help you make the right decisions, protect what matters and build real resilience when the pressure is on.

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SIX BUSINESS LESSONS:

1) Build to be loved. Nick's motivation has always been simple: to be loved. By his team. By his customers. It's made him £400 million.

2) Never give away a share of your business. The minute you do, someone else has the right to tell you what to do.

3) Be the best in the world at one thing. Not two things. One. Going bust taught him that.

4) Cut early. If something isn't working, be brutally honest with yourself about why. Don't wait.

5) The only real job of an entrepreneur is choosing the right person to run your business.

6) Be a tortoise, not a hare. Grow 10% every year. It's boring for the first 20 years. Then it becomes extraordinary.

CHAPTERS:

01:19 – Introduction

02:54 – The entrepreneurial gene

15:29 – From failed shoes to Charles Tyrwhitt

23:31 – Mistake one

31:07 – Mistake two

36:15 – The hardest lesson

39:31 – The pandemic

44:04 – Cracking America

50:37 – Building a brand people love

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As you know, on March 12th we sadly lost a titan of British media - Dame Jenni Murray.

I had the real privilege of interviewing Jenni in the early days of Crisis What Crisis? at a time when the podcast was really just finding its feet. She was open, generous, and kind - bringing the same warmth and razor-sharp intellect to our conversation that she gave to the millions who listened to her on BBC Women’s Hour for decades.⁠

In this episode, we spoke about her battle with cancer and her lifelong struggle with obesity, and the fat shaming she recieved from her own mother. She showed me that the "composed professional" that we all new from the radio was at times a mask for a deeper, quieter desperation. Perhaps most movingly, she shared with me her "rock bottom" moment and her phone call she had with the Samaritans...

Jenni was a pioneer who taught us that no topic was too difficult to discuss and that resilience is often found in the most honest conversations. She was a champion for women’s voices and a legendary broadcaster who will be sorely missed.⁠

I wanted to pay tribute to her and give you the chance to listen to her incredible life story one more time.

Ryan Holiday – bestselling author of The Daily Stoic, Ego is the Enemy, and The Obstacle is the Way – joins me on Crisis What Crisis to explore why intelligence doesn't protect you from stupidity, why modern life's frictionlessness is making us weaker, and what ancient Stoic philosophy can teach us about navigating today's world.

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IN THIS EPISODE:

00:00 Intro – Ryan Holiday’s Crisis Compass

00:18 Who Guides You in Crisis? (Marcus Aurelius)

00:58 The Power of Role Models in Stoicism

01:08 Daily Habit: Why Journaling Matters

01:24 Finding Calm: The Simple Power of Walking

01:46 One Rule to Live By (Epictetus’ Advice)

02:03 What Stoicism Really Teaches About Control

02:15 More Stoicism Episodes

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