Rise To Your Everest

165 days at sea. 8,000 miles of open Pacific. One nine-metre boat, and no way off. This week I'm joined by Jessica Rowe and Miriam Payne — the first women's team, the first pair, and the youngest team ever to row the Pacific Ocean non-stop and unsupported, from Peru to Australia. Along the way they raised over £120,000 to help young people find their own version of a challenge like this....

In Episode 10 of Rise To Your Everest , Adam sits down with adventurer, author, and former Marine Paul Harris, also known as The Warrior Walker. Paul’s story is one of relentless curiosity, mental resilience, and a refusal to quit. Best known for walking two full laps of the UK, Paul has spent years testing his physical and mental limits, not just in pursuit of adventure, but as a way of understan...

In Episode 9 of Rise To Your Everest , Adam sits down with Rhys George. Founder of Bearhug, entrepreneur, and long-standing supporter of the APEX community. For the past three years, Bearhug has supported APEX from the very beginning. But for Rhys, this partnership goes beyond business. Last year, he stepped onto the start line himself, experiencing first-hand the challenge, the community, and wha...

In Episode 8 of Rise To Your Everest , Adam sits down with chiropractor, father, and resilience advocate Nathan Chilton. Nathan’s journey has been defined by adversity and an unwavering mindset to keep moving forward. After multiple major surgeries, including an internal hemipelvectomy where over 75% of his pelvis was replaced with a bespoke titanium implant and the ongoing challenge of living wit...

In Episode 7 of Rise To Your Everest , Adam sits down with Andy Long, former England rugby player, high-performance mindset coach, endurance athlete, and founder of Impact2. Andy’s journey has been shaped by elite sport, rejection, personal loss, and a relentless pursuit of growth. From representing England at just twenty years old to being dropped and rebuilding, Andy shares what pressure really...

In this episode of Rise To Your Everest , Adam sits down with Kyle Banner, former Royal Marine, father, business owner, and founder of Dry Trek, for a raw and honest conversation about resilience, accountability, and rebuilding after life-changing adversity. Kyle shares his journey through military service, medical discharge, and the difficult transition back into civilian life. He opens up about...

In this episode of Rise To Your Everest , Adam sits down with endurance athlete and two-time world record holder Jack Jarvis for a raw and honest conversation about resilience, discipline, and rebuilding after life-changing adversity. Jack joined the British Army at just sixteen before going on to push himself through extreme endurance challenges. But in 2023, a skydiving accident forced him into...

In this episode of Rise To Your Everest , Adam sits down with Aaron Moon, a former Royal Marines Commando, endurance athlete, speaker, and founder of Reborn — for a powerful conversation about identity, resilience, and rebuilding after life-changing adversity. Aaron shares his story of being seriously injured in Afghanistan, losing his leg, and facing the far harder battle that followed: losing th...

In this episode of Rise To Your Everest , Adam sits down with Simon Hall. Entrepreneur, athlete, and speaker, for an honest conversation about rebuilding when life get's tough.  Simon opens up about life after elite sport, chasing adventure across the world, and the period where everything he had built collapsed. From business failure and personal loss to being forced to start again, Simon sh...

In this episode of Rise To Your Everest , Adam sits down with Rob Bridgewater, a property developer and performance coach, to explore what it really means to redefine success in a world built for comfort. Rob shares his journey from building multi-million-pound property projects to realising that material success alone wasn’t enough. He opens up about navigating tough seasons in business, staying...

In the first ever episode of Rise To Your Everest , Adam sits down with Dan Staves — personal trainer and ultramarathon coach — to explore what endurance really teaches us about life, discipline, and resilience. Dan shares his journey into ultra-endurance, the mindset required to keep going when your body and mind want to quit, and why learning to do hard things on purpose can shape confidence, id...

Rise To Your Everest is a podcast about choosing challenge, finding purpose, and becoming who you’re capable of being. In each episode, Adam Cayton sit's down with people who’ve pushed limits, faced setbacks, and rebuilt themselves through discipline, resilience, and community. This isn’t about highlight reels — it’s about the real climb, the lessons learned along the way, and what it truly t...