The Limitless Podcast with Nick Jonsson

The damage did not arrive as a breakdown. It showed up as protectiveness — the trait any team would praise in a leader, and the one that quietly drove decisions that were not the right ones, because he could not stand the thought of anyone else feeling what he had felt. Chris Hossfeld spent 27 years as a US Army infantry officer, four of those deployments in combat, the first as a company commande...

She went to a mindfulness coach the way a capable person approaches any problem: asking for tactics. She did not get any. What she got instead was the slow, unwelcome work of noticing what sorrow actually feels like in the body. Maria-Katarina Johannesson runs Links & Maria from Stockholm, building backlinks and digital PR for businesses that want to be chosen rather than merely seen. Six year...

A cardiologist in Singapore told him his heart was fine and the chest pains were probably stress. He heard that as clearance to carry on. Guy Ofek, founder and Chief Business Officer of the Singapore advisory firm Molinari, spent twenty years climbing — junior attorney in 1997, then the corporate world, then thrown into Asia — while treating a failing marriage as the ordinary cost of two careers....

Yamila Libutti started working at fourteen. She was the eldest girl in a Cuban household in the US, paying rent and helping raise her younger sister — fourteen going on forty, as she puts it. There was no straight path into college and no traditional route up. She began in paper medical records, kept asking why the systems were so painful for elderly patients and for the staff serving them, and th...

Seline Shenoy gave her life away in pieces, and each piece looked reasonable at the time. She had a career path mapped out in the United States, visa and sponsorship in place, and she let it go to move back to Dubai for the man she was seeing. She stopped mentioning the books she read. She stopped bringing up the research on human behaviour she found fascinating. At parties in his affluent circle,...

Scott Lester Woods was robbed on his 25th birthday. He was living in a Buddhist temple at the time, and someone walked into his room and took everything he owned. What he remembers is not the loss. It is that nobody there offered him sympathy. They felt sorry for the thief. Then they spent the next day asking him why his happiness was cheap enough that a stolen laptop could carry it off. He had go...

Patrick Engasser had the best excuse available to anyone in outside sales. He was born blind. He cannot drive. The work means walking into companies you have never visited, asking for the decision maker, and reading a room you cannot see. Two years in, he was ranked somewhere in the 500s out of roughly 615 sales professionals in his organisation. What makes this conversation worth your time is tha...

Ask most people to define healthy masculinity and you get adjectives. Yana Fry gives you behaviour. A man who is stable and consistent. Who does what he said he would do, shows up when he said he would show up, and finishes what he starts. She had to go and find that definition, because nobody handed it to her. Her parents divorced when she was eight, after her father spent twenty years married to...

In this episode of Limitless, I sit down with Aoife Leggett, mindset and performance coach, Master Breathwork Teacher, and founder of Three Sixty Coaching in Ireland, for a conversation about burnout, identity, breathwork, and the moment life forces you to stop pretending everything is fine. Aoife works with high performance athletes, riders, business owners, and individuals who want to perform at...

In this episode of Limitless, I sit down with André Du Rietz, the Swedish age group triathlete whose IRONMAN Kalmar finish became much more than a race story. André was on track for the best performance of his life. After a strong swim and bike leg, he was chasing an ambitious 8 hour 30 minute finish when everything changed. With around 35 km left on the bike, a puncture and broken valve ended the...

In this episode of Limitless, I sit down with Elika Tasker, Energy Strategist, speaker, wellness consultant, entrepreneur, and founder, for a conversation about burnout, relationships, purpose, and what it really takes to build success without losing yourself. Elika’s story is not about one collapse. It is about burning out twice before finally listening to what her body, relationships, and inner...

In this episode of Limitless, I sit down with Alexander Cork, Head of Admissions at Crimson Global Academy in Australia, for a conversation every parent should hear, especially when a child is no longer thriving at school. Alex shares a heartbreaking story about a young student in Australia who had been bullied for years and later took her own life. What stayed with me was not only the tragedy its...

In this episode of Limitless, I sit down with Axay Shah, entrepreneur, author of  In Nature We Trust , and founder of RawFoodiest, for a conversation about health, ageing, discipline, nature, and the responsibility we each carry for the life we are building. Axay’s turning point came at 50, when he noticed his energy was no longer the same. Many people told him that decline was simply part of agei...

High conflict divorce is not simply the end of a marriage. For many people, it becomes a fight for safety, sanity, children, finances, identity, and the chance to build a life beyond fear. In this episode of Limitless, I sit down with Vani Kovitch, Certified High Conflict Divorce Coach and host of  Endgame: Mastering the High Conflict Divorce , for a conversation that is both deeply personal and h...

In this episode of Limitless, I sit down with Matt Formston, a legally blind world champion athlete, world record holder, professional surfer, executive, board member, author, speaker, husband, and father. Matt has no central vision and only a small amount of peripheral vision, but blindness was not the part of his story that struck me most. What stayed with me was his honesty about the years when...

Some wake up calls arrive quietly. Roy Reid’s did not. In this episode of Limitless, I sit down with Roy Reid, founder of The Trust Transformation, executive coach, speaker, strategist, and coauthor of  The Trust Transformation , for a conversation about survival, isolation, trust, gratitude, and the second life that began after his body could no longer carry what he had been holding inside. Roy s...

Some forms of abuse do not arrive as one obvious event. They build quietly through confusion, self doubt, emotional manipulation, and the slow loss of trust in your own reality. In this episode of Limitless, I sit down with Chelsey Brooke Cole, licensed psychotherapist and specialist in narcissistic abuse, relational trauma, gaslighting recovery, and rebuilding self trust. What makes this conversa...

Jenn Lim helped build a global movement around happiness. As the Co Founder of Delivering Happiness with Tony Hsieh, and now founder of Beyond Happiness, she spent years helping leaders and companies create cultures built on purpose, values, and human connection. But behind that mission, she was carrying a very different reality. In this deeply honest episode of Limitless, Jenn opens up about writ...

In this episode of Limitless, I sit down with Tane Hunter, CEO and cofounder of Future Crunch, coauthor of Full Stack Human, and a voice I deeply respect on science, technology, adaptability, and what it means to stay human in a world moving faster than ever. What stayed with me most was not only his thinking around AI, attention, or the future of work. It was the personal story behind it. Before...

In this episode of Limitless, I sit down with Afeef Hussain at LUX* South Ari Atoll in the Maldives for a conversation that begins with leadership, but quickly moves into something more personal: what we carry, what we avoid, and what it takes to keep going when life feels heavy. Afeef speaks about lifelong learning, mentorship, purpose, and giving back with a calm honesty that stayed with me. His...

Olympic gold can look like the ultimate finish line from the outside, but as Emma Snowsill shares in this episode of Limitless, the body often keeps score long after the race is over. Emma is one of the greatest Olympic distance triathletes of all time, Olympic gold medalist from Beijing 2008, three time ITU World Champion, and World Triathlon Hall of Fame inductee. Yet the part of this conversati...

Not every life changing challenge arrives as a sudden collapse. Sometimes it stays with you for decades and quietly shapes the way you think, work, lead, and live. In this episode of Limitless, I sit down with Michael Hofer, Chief Financial Officer at Navajo Transitional Energy Company, for a conversation about pressure, health, resilience, and the discipline required to keep perspective when life...

What happens when the title, income, and career you built your life around suddenly disappear? In this episode of Limitless, I sit down with John Ravaris, Founder of UVPsolutions and author of Define Value, Drive Growth , for a deeply honest conversation about identity, self worth, career loss, and rebuilding from the inside out. From the outside, John had everything many leaders spend decades cha...

Most people avoid conflict because they believe it protects the relationship. But as Sanjay Yadav explains in this episode of Limitless, avoiding difficult conversations often creates the very distance, resentment, and emotional disconnection we fear most. Sanjay, Founder and Managing Partner of PurpleSky Partnership, shares why negotiation is not just a business skill, but a deeply human one. The...

From the outside, Amanda Lim looked strong. Fit. Disciplined. Successful. But behind the scenes, her life was quietly falling apart. In this deeply honest episode of Limitless, Amanda shares what happened after moving to Singapore with her then husband, only to watch the marriage collapse within months of arriving. Far away from family, emotionally isolated, and trying to hold everything together...