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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.www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-hill-synergy-coachinghttps://www.instagram.com/aaronhi
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- 1 weeks ago53 min
S4 Ep118 Lee White: The Weight We Carry
Lee 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 speaks openly about addiction, rebuilding his life and the daily work of staying well.He shares an experience in Thailand where two people he had harmed offered him forgiveness. We explore what that taught him about his own resentments, taking responsibility and learning to respond rather than react.We also talk about the expectations we put on people without telling them, being honest about how we feel, and sticking with change when it’s uncomfortable.Lee brings us back to a simple practice: doing the next right thing. In his relationships, in helping others, and on the days when life doesn’t go to plan.What might putting down one of those rocks look like for you?
- Jul 27, 202654 min
S3 Ep117 Ben Williams: The In Between
The 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 founder, to talk about the moment grit stops feeling like strength and starts feeling like a mask you cannot keep wearing. Ben shares what it looked like when achievement kept moving the goalposts, stress piled up, and disconnection turned into burnout, depression, and a brutally honest rebuild. We get practical and...
- Jul 20, 202653 min
S3 Ep116: Rethinking Mental Toughness
Mental 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 Wood to untangle what mental toughness, resilience and grit actually mean when the pressure is real and the standards matter, and what gets lost when these words turn into buzzwords. We talk about the social media version of Stoicism and why it often gets repackaged as emotional repression, then replace it with somethi...
- Jul 13, 202654 min
S3 Ep115 Mark Ormrod: Rebuilding From Zero
Mark 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 that story. Not really. It's what came after. Mark talks about the Royal Marine recruiting line he heard as a teenager "it's a mindset." He didn't understand what that actually meant until rehab. Prosthetics. A blank sheet. Nothing left to fall back on. He also talks about the year before that. Homeless, nearly jailed,...
- Jul 6, 202649 min
S3 Ep114 Kirsty Ward: The Resilience Trap
Kirsty 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 promotion right up until chronic ill health and burnout took the choice out of her hands. She's now the founder of InTah, helping high performers build careers that don't require self-sacrifice. We get into two things worth sitting with. Firstly, the resilience trap. Kirsty reframes resilience in a way that challenges...
- Jun 29, 202635 min
S3 Ep113 Sharon Pickering: Built in Basics
If 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 leaders, founders, and high performers and why that weight often comes from identity: the fear of being judged when you stop spinning all the plates. Sharon brings a human factors perspective shaped in safety critical environments, including work connected with NASA, and we translate it into everyday leadership resilien...
- Jun 22, 202644 min
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 down with returning guest James Porter, leadership communication coach and author of A New Way to Thrive.We talk about the quiet cost of success. The kind that does not always look like collapse. It can look like saying yes too often. Being needed. Staying available. Car...
- Jun 15, 202652 min
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 vlogging pioneers behind Fun For Louis, to unpack what it really means to grow up and evolve in public. We talk about the early rush of YouTube’s Wild West years: accidental virality, inventing a job that did not exist, and the relentless daily vlogging grind...
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About 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.www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-hill-synergy-coachinghttps://www.instagram.com/aaronhi
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