This week's guest is adventurer, world-record holder, author and filmmaker Sean Burch.

Sean has climbed Everest solo, set eight world records and made first ascents of 140 previously unclimbed mountains. He’s also won National Geographic’s Ultimate Survival Alaska and spent decades testing himself in some of the world’s most extreme environments.

But there was something all that achievement couldn’t give him.

Peace.

Sean thought climbing Everest would finally leave him feeling fulfilled. He’d reach the summit, achieve his dream and get on with the rest of his life.

Instead, he found himself chasing the next challenge. And then the next.

Years later, he realised that none of those achievements could do the work he needed to do within himself.

He talks openly about divorce, the sudden death of a close friend, and a period when he was drinking not to celebrate, but to stop feeling. He also shares what helped him change direction, from focusing on his son to building a daily practice of meditation and gratitude.

We talk about the grandfather whose regrets changed his life, martial arts, surviving falls into crevasses, fatherhood, the Sherpas behind his documentary The Icefall Doctor, and the difference between being successful and feeling enough.

Because you don’t have to climb Everest to recognise the feeling of reaching a goal and wondering why you still don’t feel the way you thought you would.

Find out more about Sean: https://www.seanburch.com

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"It's like Diary of a CEO, but for people that have to do the school run."

After my younger brother Jordan took his own life last year, I sold the business I’d spent a decade building and decided to go all-in on creating something meaningful.

This podcast is the result.

Project Possible is about success through adversity. Motivation. Resilience. Second chances, and what's truly possible.

Because your past doesn't define your future. You do.

Expect interviews with famous faces and unsung heroes. Entrepreneurs. Athletes. Entertainers. Academics. Amazing people, and even more incredible stories.

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This week's guest is the Queen of Cooking for Kids - Annabel Karmel MBE.

Annabel is the UK’s number-one children’s cookery author and one of the most trusted names in baby and family food.

She has written 50 books, sold millions of copies and built an international brand that has helped generations of parents feed their children - including me.

But, before any of that, Annabel was a professional harpist. She performed internationally, appeared on television in front of 16 million people and even worked with Boy George.

Then her daughter Natasha died, in her arms, at just three months old.

Her life was forever changed. Annabel never played the harp again.

Instead, she turned her grief into a book that was rejected by 15 publishers - before selling five million copies and launching a career that has now lasted more than 35 years.

We talk about Natasha, losing music, starting again, motherhood, ambition, money, becoming 'Nanabel', and why Annabel is still building for the future.

Follow Annabel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annabelkarmel

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richleighpod

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"It's like Diary of a CEO, but for people that have to do the school run."

After my younger brother Jordan took his own life last year, I sold the business I’d spent a decade building and decided to go all-in on creating something meaningful.

This podcast is the result.

Project Possible is about success through adversity. Motivation. Resilience. Second chances, and what's truly possible.

Because your past doesn't define your future. You do.

Expect interviews with famous faces and unsung heroes. Entrepreneurs. Athletes. Entertainers. Academics. Amazing people, and even more incredible stories.

Subscribe now, wherever you watch or listen.

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Sign up now to the free weekly newsletter at: https://projectpossible.substack.com

For behind the scenes, giveaways, ways to get involved and more.

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Email: rich@richleigh.co

More about Project Possible here: https://www.richleigh.co/podcast

For this special milestone episode 100 of Project Possible, I look back on a year of throwing myself at the podcast, and the impact these conversations have had on my life, my outlook and my hope to be of service to others.

I talk about why building and selling a business didn’t leave me feeling fulfilled, learning to enjoy life again after losing my brother Jordan to suicide, fatherhood, health, money, and what success means to me as I turn 39.

I get into finding my own lane in a sea of podcasts - and recognising that asking life's bigger questions and having ambition doesn't stop just because you have responsibilities.

I also share some of the friendships and opportunities that have come from just saying yes, and my pride in joining the advisory panel of Dr Susie Bennett’s new charity, Action on Male Suicide.

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richleighpod

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"It's like Diary of a CEO, but for people that have to do the school run."

After my younger brother Jordan took his own life last year, I sold the business I’d spent a decade building and decided to go all-in on creating something meaningful.

This podcast is the result.

Project Possible is about success through adversity. Motivation. Resilience. Second chances, and what's truly possible.

Because your past doesn't define your future. You do.

Expect interviews with famous faces and unsung heroes. Entrepreneurs. Athletes. Entertainers. Academics. Amazing people, and even more incredible stories.

Subscribe now, wherever you watch or listen.

=====

Sign up now to the free weekly newsletter at: https://projectpossible.substack.com

for behind the scenes, giveaways, ways to get involved and more.

=====

Email: rich@richleigh.co

More about Project Possible here: https://www.richleigh.co/podcast