Bryce Hoffman, the bestselling author of 'Red Teaming: How Your Business Can Conquer the Competition by Challenging Everything', helps companies plan more effectively by applying systems learned from business and the military. He became the first and only civilian to graduate from the U.S. Army's Red Team Leader Program at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Red Team Thinking is a systematic approach to making critical and contrarian thinking a part of any team's strategic planning process, providing a robust set of tools to challenge assumptions, expose hidden threats, and stress-test your plans and strategies. Red Teaming is an important discipline for any company owner, senior executive and strategist.

Nelson Dellis is one of the world's leading memory experts, having won the USA Memory Championships six times and earned the title of elite Grandmaster of Memory. He is also a successful mountaineer and Alzheimer's disease activist. Nelson was born with an average memory. Inspired by the passing of his grandmother from Alzheimer's disease, he started training his memory so that he could keep his mind strong and healthy throughout his lifespan. In a short time, he became one of the world's leading competitive memorisers. Memory is such a critical element of our identity and one that needs to be recognised, systematised and practised. ​

Dr Lee Warren is a practising neurosurgeon, Iraq War veteran, and author who specialises in the intersection of neuroscience, the mind and faith. Dr Warren advocates "Self-Brain Surgery", a method using our own cognitive awareness to change our mental habits, to heal from trauma, and improve the quality of our lives. Dr Warren shares the story of losing his son to a murder, the moment his world was forever changed. With true lived experience, Dr Warren explains the possibilities that exist for us to make structural changes to our own brain, so it's healthier and less prone to depression, anxiety, grief, worry, and other issues that make us unhappy and keep us stuck.

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Andrew Nunn is a mentalist who explores how perception, pressure, and hidden assumptions shape our decision-making. Rather than offering generic mindset advice, Andy shows how intelligent people get fooled by their own thinking — often in real time. On stage as a behavioural keynote speaker, through what seems to be live mind-reading and behavioural insight, Andy is able to demonstrate how failure reshapes belief, how perception distorts reality, and how the stories in our heads quietly shape what we do. In his own life, he was able to move from a place of addiction to running some of the world’s most challenging ultramarathons. Andy doesn’t just teach mindset; he shows us how we fall for constructs and how our minds and perceptions actually work.

Brad Beeler is a recently retired Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, where he became one of the agency’s most respected polygraph examiners and communicators. Brad has conducted more criminal polygraph examinations than any other Special Agent in the Secret Service's history and has served on numerous protective assignments, ensuring the safety of US presidents and foreign dignitaries, including George W Bush. No matter what profession you are in, knowing how to get people to cooperate and share information with you is a skill few master. We discuss Brad's new book, "Tell Me Everything: A Secret Service Agen'ts Proven Strategies for Earning Trust, Revealing the Truth, and Communicating with Anyone", which is filled with practical insights and backed by decades of real-world experience.

The results of the recent Gallup Worldwide Employee Poll show a continued decline in workplace engagement. How do you change this in your company? David Marquet, a former nuclear submarine commander, was named one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers by Inc. Mag. A true student of leadership, David is the author of the Amazon #1 Best Seller 'Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders, a book that does not get anywhere near the attention it deserves. Hear how David developed a workplace culture where everyone is engaged and contributes to their full intellectual capacity because they have more control over their work. Imagine a place where everyone is a leader.

Joey Klein is the author of the books 'The Inner Matrix' and 'Relationship Alchemy'. Joey grew up in pain, full of rage, unfulfilled, numbing himself with drugs and alcohol. It was a dark time - his relationships imploded, and he didn't care if he lived or died. Finally, he reached his breaking point and set himself on a quest to find the peace and the fulfilment he craved. He achieved this through an in-depth study of the world's ancient wisdoms: meditation, martial arts and spiritual traditions, along with the modern sciences: neurology, epigenetics, mindfulness, and psychology. The sheer breadth and depth of Joey's journey and his transformation make this a very compelling conversation.

Ainsley Melham has just finished playing the lead role in Disney's Aladdin on Broadway, for the second time. Born in Bathurst, west of Sydney, Ainsley studied at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) before scoring his first role in the children's musical group Hi-5, who were huge in Australia, Asia and the UAE. After 3 years with Hi-5 Ainsley departed to go back to his musical theatre roots. Shortly thereafter he won the title role in Disney Theatrical Company's Aladdin in Sydney, before taking that role to the bright lights of Broadway in 2019. He toured Australia in both Pippin (2020) and Wicked (2024) and in 2025 starred as Dwayne in Boop! The Musical on Broadway. Ainsley originated this role in the 2023 pre-Broadway run and continued with the production to Broadway last year. This is a wonderful story of hard work, a solid work ethic, dreams, grit, chasing a challenge, chasing the process, all the while remaining humble and grounded.

Dr Jim Loehr wrote a book that changed my mindset on performance. That book was 'The Power of Full Engagement'. Jim's philosophy is that managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness, and life balance. The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully, both on and off the job, by laying out the key training principles and providing a powerful, step-by-step program that will help you level up your energy and, thus, your performance. In recent months, I've been queried several times on the relationship between energy, health and wellness on ideas, creativity, leadership and performance, and this episode is the best reference I can give for that question.

People want to be seen, heard, valued, understood and appreciated. Jonathan B. Smith is a business strategist and Black Swan Negotiation Instructor with decades of experience. He has founded multiple companies over the years, and his work has helped companies achieve millions in revenue. His new book, 'Fight Less Win More', is gold - one of the most valuable books I have read recently. Daniel Pink, #1 NY Times bestseller, said: "Fight Less, Win More is a massively useful book for just about anyone who has to deal with the desires, foibles, and idiosyncrasies of other human beings." This conversation demonstrates the critical skill we can use in conversation to help people feel understood! ​