Chief Endurance Officer

Take your executive performance, personal accountability, and adversity management to the next level with game-changing insights on setting unwavering goals, celebrating strategic failures, and leading under pressure. It’s time to stop letting past labels dictate your future and start putting in the actual work required to achieve your vision. Who better to guide you through this transition than u...

Take your operational focus, enterprise AI strategy, and personal performance to the next level with game-changing insights on setting immovable goals, managing corporate burnout, and looking at leadership through a 50-year horizon. It’s time to stop relying on public AI models that harvest your data and start building private, deterministic AI infrastructure that your enterprise actually owns. Wh...

Take your energy, leadership, and personal longevity to the next level with game-changing insights on building sustainable daily habits, staving off executive burnout, and shifting from finite athletic goals to an infinite lifestyle. It’s time to stop chasing short-term intensity and start winning on the "boring days" through relentless consistency. Who better to guide you through this transition...

Take your leadership, self-awareness, and personal alignment to the next level with game-changing insights on breaking free from outdated survival identities, intentional room-stretching, and body-led discernment. It’s time to stop letting past strategies drive your future and start leading from deep internal knowing rather than performance-driven metrics. Who better to guide you through this tran...

How can a radical new definition of discipline transform your sales performance, executive endurance, and relationship with hustle culture? Today’s guest is a mindfulness instructor, keynote speaker, and serial entrepreneur. Introducing Aaron Hendon, Founder of The Mindful CEO, managing broker at Christine & Company with eXp, creator of the Mindful Sales Method, and best-selling author. Aaron...

How can 700-mile solo expeditions across Antarctica unlock capital, break open doors in business, and build an evidence-based FemTech company? Today’s guest is an inspiring polar explorer, M&A lawyer, and femtech founder! Introducing Jenny Wordsworth, North Face endurance athlete, polar explorer, former M&A lawyer, and CEO & Founder of Ovum. Jenny joins host Gregory McDonough to share...

How does a childhood battle with leukemia transform an individual into a world-record-holding ocean rower and successful serial entrepreneur? Today’s guest is an inspiring ocean rower, world record holder, and serial entrepreneur. Introducing Thomas Cremona, multiple world record holder, chartered accountant, founder of Casa Rooms, and Director at Malta Business Network. Thomas joins host Gregory...

How can high-performing executives prevent chronic stress and severe burnout while optimizing their biological healthspan for the long game? Today’s guest is an inspiring longevity innovator and health entrepreneur. Introducing William "Billy" Bosch, Founder and CEO of LONGevityX and former co-founder of Iconic Protein. Billy partners with host Gregory McDonough to share his personal journey throu...

What can five ocean-rowing world records and a childhood nickname like "Town's Busted" teach us about resilience? Today's guest turned early rejection into an extraordinary athletic and professional career. Introducing Andrew Towne, founder and CEO of Gregory Point, a fund building retail concepts across the country. Andrew partners with host Gregory McDonough to share how his endurance mindset, s...

How can designing extreme endurance experiences unlock deep human connection, empathy, and lifelong storytelling? Introducing Will Thomas, Co-Founder at House Innovations and Owner of Boltwood & Company. Will partners with host Gregory McDonough to share how building over 150 live events, including the Boston Triathlon, has given him a profound perspective on grit, community, and human vulnera...

How can an endurance mindset help you overcome brutal setbacks in both sports and executive leadership? Today’s guest is an unstoppable serial entrepreneur and Ironman ambassador. Introducing Stan Freemon, President and CEO at Hunter Freeman Group. Stan partners with host Gregory McDonough to share how he pushed through a catastrophic 35-minute transition delay during an Ironman to finish strong a...

How can lessons from extreme military service and 90 back-to-back ultramarathons transform business leadership and problem-solving? Today’s guest is a truly inspiring Oxford-trained chemist, world-class endurance athlete, military pioneer, and venture investor! Introducing Dr. Charlotte Kirk, Founder and CEO at CK Ventures and Venture Partner at Decarb Ventures. Dr. Kirk partners with host Gregory...

How can an endurance mindset transform business leadership and create lasting company legacy? Today’s guest is an accomplished CEO, CPA, podcast host, and endurance athlete who embodies the power of trusting the process! Introducing Trevor Gilmore, CEO at The Menke Group. Trevor partners with host Gregory McDonough to share how he built discipline through competitive cycling and marathons and tran...

What if the hardest year of your life became the reason you could handle anything after? Today's guest is a builder who turned a personal breaking point into the blueprint for a growing business. Introducing Dan Mosko, CEO of Altura Performance and founder of Elevation Everest. Dan partners with host Gregory McDonough to share how he built a high-altitude endurance race company while working 85-90...

What begins as one difficult step can become a complete transformation. In this episode of Chief Endurance Officer, Gregory McDonough sits down with Nick Hancock, Founder and CEO of Maximum Mileage Coaching, certified running and performance nutrition coach, competitive ultrarunner, and creator of the Max Mile app. Nick shares how endurance helped him navigate some of life's most difficult challen...

In this episode of Chief Endurance Officer, Greg McDonough talks with Tristan Wilson, a fourth generation family construction leader turned AI founder. Tristan spent eight years rising through his family's highway construction business in Louisiana, eventually managing the largest production facility of its kind in the state and leading the company's biggest industrial construction project ever, a...

What does it take to build a career that spans NCAA water polo championships, an Olympic trials near miss, the founding of what became USA Triathlon, and over $400 million in verifiable business growth? In this episode of Chief Endurance Officer, Greg McDonough sits down with Carl Thomas, a veteran sports and entertainment executive with major leadership roles at Universal Studios, the Association...

Crystal Hadnott was told she would need a cane for the rest of her life after a devastating accident left her partially paralyzed. Nine months later, she ran her first marathon. That decision sparked a journey that has now taken her through more than 150 marathons and ultramarathons, up Mount Kilimanjaro, and into a career helping organizations build sustainable growth through strategy, systems, a...

What happens when the obstacles that shape your childhood become the foundation for everything you achieve as an adult? In this episode of Chief Endurance Officer, Greg McDonough sits down with Bishoy Tadros, sales leader, author, endurance athlete, host of the Mile 40 Podcast, and the first Egyptian to complete all seven World Marathon Majors. Bishoy shares his journey from surviving childhood le...

What does it take to keep moving forward through uncertainty, pressure, and challenge? In this episode of Chief Endurance Officer, Greg McDonough sits down with Monika Sattler, CEO of Sattler Consulting GmbH, endurance athlete, keynote speaker, author, and cycling record holder. Monika shares how her experiences in both business and endurance sports have shaped her approach to high performance, re...

Sean Fay has spent 30 years building brands that became household names. Sonicare. OxiClean. George Foreman Grill. FoodSaver. As founder of Envision Response, he was there when those companies were small and helped craft the stories that made them impossible to ignore. He joins Greg to talk about what brand building actually requires, how endurance racing reshaped the way he sets goals and handles...

Today's guest is a founder, executive coach, and exit strategist who rebuilt from burnout to a 12X business exit and now helps other founders do the same. Introducing Don McLaughlin, founder and CEO of Aligned Ascent. Don joins host Greg McDonough to explore how running ultra endurance races in the mountains shaped his leadership philosophy, what it truly takes to prepare a business for a premium...

Today’s guest is incredibly insightful and action-oriented! Introducing Brent Peterson, CEO of Content Cucumber and host of Talk Commerce. Brent partners with host Gregory McDonough to explore the deep parallels between endurance sports and entrepreneurship. He also delves into how pacing, planning, and consistency shape both marathon performance and business success, and why human creativity stil...

Today’s guest is a visionary growth strategist who challenges business owners to think bigger, lead better, and push beyond perceived limits. Introducing Robert Clinkenbeard, CEO of Wilson360. Robert partners with host Greg McDonough to share how endurance training, strategic coaching, and incremental improvements can help leaders scale businesses, build high-performing teams, and unlock untapped...

What can endurance sports teach us about leadership, resilience, and long-term growth? Today’s guest brings a unique perspective on the connection between physical challenge and personal development. Introducing John Kelly, co-founder of Envelope Risk John joins host Greg McDonough to discuss how endurance experiences shape mindset, strengthen resilience, and influence leadership both professional...