Ordinary to Extraordinary - The Podcast

Alan Stein, Jr. is an experienced keynote speaker and author. At his core, he’s a performance coach with a passion for helping business leaders change behaviors. He spent 15+ years working with the highest performing basketball players on the planet (including NBA superstars Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, and Kobe Bryant). Through his customized programs, he transfers his unique expertise to maximize...

Liz McConaghy was the longest serving female crewman on the Royal Air Force Chinook Fleet spanning a 17-year career flying on the aircraft. Originally from a small town in Co. Down Northern Ireland she attended RAF Cranwell on her 19th birthday to begin her exciting career thereafter on Chinook Helicopters. She was the youngest aircrew to deploy to Iraq aged just 21 and also the only female crewma...

We all as children have dreams. Many a backyard or neighborhood field will play out a game-winning hit or goal to win World Cup glory. But few go on on to live this moment for real. Mitchell Daly is a professional baseball player, and a recent graduate from the University of Kentucky where he was a starting member of their College World Series baseball team. In Kentucky's first ever appearance in...

Dr Aman Hussain is a Performance Consultant, and Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Health at the University of Winnipeg. He travelled with a team of Sports Psychologists to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and has a rich knowledge and experience with performance coaching in sports and the performing arts. He is know researching how performance coaches can help those in medi...

"What keeps you awake at night?" That was a question asked to Capt. Hutch Stilgenbauer, MD, and one that has fueled his drive and determination to forge his career pathway. Not all routes to extraordinary are straight, and Hutch shares his early experiences of failures and how he overcame them to realize his dreams. Now a paramedic, a former Air Force Tactical Air Control Party, an EM physician, p...

In 1982, during the Falklands War, Rtd. Squadron Leader Martin Withers DFC, led a daring and remarkable bombing mission across 8000 miles of the South Atlantic ocean. It was to become at the time at over 15 hours, the longest mission ever flown by any aircraft in British military aviation history. The crew were faced with electrical storms over the icy ocean waters, a complex plan for multiple ref...

On today's episode, co-host Neil Jeffers goes to the other side of the microphone to tell us about he and his team were able to complete one of the toughest foot races on Earth: The Marathon des Sables. This is a 7 day, 250km ultramarathon across the Sahara Desert. Faced with extreme temperatures, tough terrain and endless sand, a requirement to carry all required kit and be self sustaining, they...

Extraordinary life lessons from an extraordinary life. Dr. Dale Carrison has had a fascinating and varied career. After starting out in the Navy, he became a Deputy Sheriff in California, and then a Special Agent with the FBI. He then decided to completely restart his career and embarked on 10-year training process to become a board certified emergency medicine physician. He spent 27 years as an a...

James Geering, a former firefighter, paramedic and stuntman, is the founder and host of the Behind The Shield Podcast, whose mission is to improve the wellness of the 1st-Responder community. With over 900 guest interviews with some of the greatest minds on the planet, he brings a wealth of information and experience to promote and sustain the mental and physical health of our 1st-Responders. Well...

Dr Claire Park MBE MBChB FRCA FFICM DipIMC DipRTM has served in The British Army for over 20 years, deployed to war zones numerous time as a member of their MERT team, and is now a reservist. She is a consultant in Pre-Hospital Care for London HEMS, and Critical Care for King’s College Hospital. Claire is the medical adviser to Specialist Firearms teams in the Metropolitan Police and sits on the N...

Over the last 24 years as a personal development coach, Jason has collaborated with outstanding performers in diverse fields—from elite athletes, musicians, physicians and tactical law enforcement officers to business leaders and entrepreneurs.  Through these experiences, Jason has observed how these individuals develop unique sets of beliefs and practices that equip them to thrive in demandi...

In April 1982, pilot Kev Sutton and his team were on a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter mission to track submarines under the South Atlantic ocean during the Falklands War. With 40-foot waves and freezing water temperatures, they lost use of one of their engines and were forced to ditch their aircraft into the ocean. Now a London HEMS pilot, Kev shares his memories of that event, and from it the les...

Professor Mark Wilson is dual qualified in neurosurgery and pre-hospital care. He is co-director of the Imperial Neurotrauma Center in London, UK, with a special interest in traumatic brain injury. He has been a HEMS doctor for London HEMS, and Kent, Surrey & Sussex HEMS, and is a co-founder of the GoodSAM app that provides next generation emergency tasking for police, ambulance EMS and fire/r...

Superintendent Adam Gallop is the Area Commander for South Cambridgeshire Police in the U.K. He has worked his way up through the police force in a variety of roles including neighbourhood policing, intelligence, covert operations and the major crimes unit. He has featured on the UK TV series, "24 Hours in Police Custody." We sit down to talk to Adam about his journey into the police and then up t...

Neil Laughton is an entrepreneur, a motivational speaker and above all an Adventureholic. Having been a Royal Marine Commando and in UK Special Forces, he has led expeditions all over the World. Join us as we find out how he rewrote the script. Neil's new book - Adventureholic: Extraordinary Journeys on Seven Continents by Land, Sea and Air. 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

Introducing HEMS colleagues and lifelong friends, David Hindle and Neil Jeffers, who seek to uncover the human factors from those who have rewritten the script. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.