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Forging Resilience
There are people in this world with extraordinary stories, people who've been forged by challenge, transition, and adversity, and most of us will never get the chance to hear them speak honestly about it. Forging Resilience closes that gap.
Host Aaron Hill draws on a deep network of military leaders, elite athletes, entrepreneurs, and coaches to have the conversations that don't happen in boardrooms or on stages. Driven by curiosity and presence, Aaron doesn't follow a script or stick to a format, he follows the story. What comes out is something rare: real, unfiltered insight from people who've been through the fire and come out the other side.
Built for high performers, leaders, founders, and anyone facing a moment that demands more of them, this is the show for people who don't fit the mould, hosted by someone who doesn't either.
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Episodes
110 episodes
S3 Ep112 James Porter: The Quiet Cost
Success can look loud from the outside. Full calendar. Big responsibility. People relying on you. A life that looks like it is working.But what if it is quietly costing you?In this episode of Forging Resilience, I sit dow...
S3 Ep111 Louis Cole: The Price Of Being Seen
Your life can be your work, your brand, and your public story. That sounds like freedom until you realise the camera can start telling you who you are. Aaron Hill sits down with Louis Cole, filmmaker and one of the original daily travel vloggin...
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S3 Ep110 Leadership Roundtable: Lead Yourself First
Pressure changes people. So does transition.When teams shift, titles change, results matter, and the stakes keep rising, what does leadership actually require?In this first official Forging Resilience Roundtable, I’m joined by two...
S3 Ep109 Dr Sharon Pickering: The Permission Problem
You can be disciplined, ambitious, and genuinely committed to other people and still be quietly running yourself into the ground. We sit down with Sharon Pickering, a human factors expert with experience in safety critical environments, to unpa...
S3 Ep108 Ben Newton: Complete But Not Finished
Ben Newton has spent his life leading in extreme environments military, close protection, fire service, industrial rescue. But none of that prepared him for the hardest thing: leading himself.In this conversation, Ben and Aaron trace the...
S3 Ep107 Helen Lunnon-Wood: Transition Series #3
Belonging sounds like a warm word until you realise how often we settle for fitting in, shaving off the edges of ourselves to survive a culture. We talk about that difference, from early military moments where the team feels like “l...
S3 Ep106 James Malone: Honour the Impulse
War doesn’t stay in the past. And neither does the identity you built to survive it.Parts of this conversation go to some heavy places, including suicide and mental health. Today I sit down with James Malone, former Royal Mar...
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S3 Ep105 Jack McMillan: Slow Is the Skill
Most high performers are running on a nervous system that hasn't been given permission to recover. You feel fine. You're productive. And underneath it, you're running hotter than you know.Jack McMillan was an elite footballer who kept ch...
S3 Ep104 Helen Lunnon-Wood: Transition Series #2
Your service ends, but your decision load explodes. One day you are inside a system that tells you where to be, what to wear, and what matters. The next, you are choosing everything,for some, the smallest choices can hit the hardest.Hel...
S3 Ep103 Dr. Alice Loving: Connection Changes Everything
This is a conversation about what’s really going on beneath behaviour.We get into the gap between reacting and responding, and why most of us—especially under pressure—default to the behaviour we see rather than the feeling driving it. A...
S3 Ep102 Helen Lunnon-Wood: Transition Series #1
You can plan the exit date, but you cannot schedule who you become afterwards. Aaron Hill sits down with Helen London Wood, former RAF fast jet pilot and founder of High Flight Coaching, to talk honestly about transition as a living process tha...
S3 Ep101 Sam Smith: The Door Was Never Locked
You can spend years trying to fix a problem that was never locked in the first place. That’s the provocative premise behind our chat with Sam Smith, coach and author of The Door Is Never Locked, and it immediately changes how we think about res...
S3 Ep100 Susan Charlesworth: Preparation Beats Panic
Astronaut training sounds like a world away from everyday leadership, until you hear what Susan Charlesworth learned at the European Space Agency: the best crews succeed because they master the human skills, not because they are fearless. Susan...
S3 Ep99 Paul Blair: When Structure Disappears
What happens when the rank slides off and the real test begins? We sit down with Paul Blair, a former Parachute Regiment officer turned founder, to unpack the gritty reality of moving from elite military units to building and scaling products l...
S3 Ep98 Joel Spooner: Trust Under No Control
The room went silent when Joel’s son didn’t take his first breath. From that instant, everything accelerated: 45 minutes of resuscitation on the kitchen floor, an ambulance ride that felt like forever, and the surreal calm of a NICU buzzing wit...
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S3 Ep96 Becks Cant: Renegotiating Identity
Bex shares her story from early life in London, shaped by a loving family and growing up fast while her mum lived with MS and her dad worked decades in policing. She reflects on a career filled with both extraordinary moments and real trauma, a...
S3 Ep95 Bodhi Aldridge: The Holy Grail Within
Bodhi Aldridge teaches leaders how to strip back the armour and lead from what’s real. In this conversation, he lays out his core framework for true freedom—inner, outer, and relational—and why most high achievers can win on paper while still f...
S3 Ep94 Tom Dear: Creativity Is a Muscle
This conversation with Tom Dear explores creativity not as artistry, but as a fundamental human capacity for problem solving. Drawing on his journey from amateur rugby into the creative and brand world, Tom reflects on the tension many high per...
S3 Ep93 Charlie Radclyffe: When The Story Softens
Charlie Radclyffe's story is a hard pivot: British Army officer, injured on duty at 24, and an overnight shift from fully fit to paralysis. He speaks about the strange clarity he felt early on almost skipping the “expected” stages and how the f...
S3 Ep92 Laura Coveny: Breaking the Silence
A single report cracked the silence. When Laura stumbled across research on child sexual exploitation in gang settings, she suddenly saw her teenage years reflected back in detail language for what had been unnamed, proof she wasn’t alone, and ...
S3 Ep91 Chris Tombs: Built In The Boring
What if physical performance looked less like punishment and more like momentum? We sit down with performance coach Chris Tombs whose résumé spans World Cup-winning rugby, professional cricket, action sports, and high-performing everyday people...
S3 Ep90 Jo Bradshaw: The Mountain Within
In this episode we sit down with Jo Bradshaw, Everest summiteer, expedition leader, and leadership coach. But this conversation quickly moves beyond altitude, summits, and achievement. Jo shares a non-linear life story shaped by uncertainty, fe...
S3 Ep89 Judith Kromberg: Belonging Without Borders
In this conversation, I sit down with Judith Kromberg a political scientist shaped less by theory and more by lived experience. Judith has worked across post-conflict environments with the UN and EU, lived in multiple countries, and now finds h...
S3 Ep88 Dean Leak: Disagreeing Well
If the room is full of nods but decisions still stall, the problem isn’t a lack of harmony it might be a lack of skilful disagreement. Aaron sits down with leadership and culture coach Dean Leek to unpack how teams can turn conflict into a comp...
