Forging Resilience
by Aaron Hill
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S4 Ep118 Lee White: The Weight We Carry
S4 Ep118 Lee White: The Weight We Carry
About this podcast
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
The newest 20 of 116 episodes
- S4 Ep118 Lee White: The Weight We Carry · 54 min · Season 4 Episode 118Lee White describes his resentments as rocks in a rucksack. He’d take them out, revisit them, then carry them around again. Today I’m joined by Lee, a hospital director who…
- S3 Ep117 Ben Williams: The In Between · 55 min · Season 3 Episode 117The mindset that helps you survive hard things can also be the mindset that slowly breaks you. Erin sits down with Ben Williams, former Royal Marine commando, author, and startup…
- S3 Ep116: Rethinking Mental Toughness · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 116Mental toughness is having no feelings, right? That idea sounds impressive, but it quietly breaks people. We sit down with returning guests Matt Addison Black and Helen Lunnon…
- S3 Ep115 Mark Ormrod: Rebuilding From Zero · 55 min · Season 3 Episode 115Mark Ormrod knelt on an IED on Christmas Eve, 2007. Two legs gone above the knee. One arm gone above the elbow. The UK's first triple amputee to survive Afghanistan. This isn't…
- S3 Ep114 Kirsty Ward: The Resilience Trap · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 114Kirsty Ward spent 11 years as an RAF engineering officer, working on aircraft and armaments where precision wasn't optional. She was also, by her own account, on track for early…
- S3 Ep113 Sharon Pickering: Built in Basics · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 113If you’ve ever tried to “take a break” and found it weirdly uncomfortable, you’re not alone. Sharon Pickering joins me to unpack why permission to slow down can feel heavy for…
- S3 Ep112 James Porter: The Quiet Cost · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 112Success 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…
- S3 Ep111 Louis Cole: The Price Of Being Seen · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 111Your 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…
- S3 Ep110 Leadership Roundtable: Lead Yourself First · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 110Pressure 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…
- S3 Ep109 Dr Sharon Pickering: The Permission Problem · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 109You 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…
- S3 Ep108 Ben Newton: Complete But Not Finished · 51 min · Season 3 Episode 108Ben 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…
- S3 Ep107 Helen Lunnon-Wood: Transition Series #3 · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 107Belonging 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…
- S3 Ep106 James Malone: Honour the Impulse · 49 min · Season 3 Episode 106War 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…
- S3 Ep105 Jack McMillan: Slow Is the Skill · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 105Most 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…
- S3 Ep104 Helen Lunnon-Wood: Transition Series #2 · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 104Your 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…
- S3 Ep103 Dr. Alice Loving: Connection Changes Everything · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 103This 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…
- S3 Ep102 Helen Lunnon-Wood: Transition Series #1 · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 102You 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…
- S3 Ep101 Sam Smith: The Door Was Never Locked · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 101You 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…
- S3 Ep100 Susan Charlesworth: Preparation Beats Panic · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 100Astronaut 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…
- S3 Ep99 Paul Blair: When Structure Disappears · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 99What 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…
