Unravelling the Universe℠

PASCAL LEE is a Planetary Scientist with the SETI Institute, Founder of the Mars Institute, and he's Director of the NASA Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) at NASA Ames Research Center [a field research project on Devon Island, High Arctic, where they plan future human missions to the Moon and Mars]. We talked about Pascal's time as a meteorite-hunter🌠, the planets in our solar system and whether they...

How to be SUCCESSFUL and achieve your goals with someone who has spent countless hours studying the minds of those that THRIVE: everyone from Nobel Prize winners to Olympians to Astronauts ✨   Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer in Anaesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine. She's a contributor for Psychology Today and Forbes magazines. She's one of the Top 30 Management Thinkers in the...

2Passports 1Dream talking tips and tricks for travelling on a budget, advice for YouTube success, and all the fun they've had in Thailand since beginning their journey. Adriana and Dylan are a couple of YouTubers and Travel Vloggers, currently living the dream and making videos from their base in Bangkok, Thailand. About a year ago, they decided to stop what they were doing and leave the 9-5 grind...

Karl Bushby is a former paratrooper, author, and current legend of exploration. In 1998, he left his home in the UK to begin the epic Goliath Expedition. Originally a 12 year plan to walk around the world, 23 years and plenty of close encounters with death later, he's still going, and is nearing the home straight.  The Goliath Expedition has two rules:  1. He can only travel on foot, no...

HAVE YOU MET... BAMBI CORSO-STEINMEYER Bambi is a passionate lifelong dreamer, and certified Law of Attraction Coach. She's been journaling and tracking her dreams since she was a teenager, and she tells us why it's so beneficial to do so. She recently published the book DreamTracking: Track Your Dreams and Transform Your Life.  If you enjoyed this episode, please check out episode 8 with Rob...

HAVE YOU MET... COLIN CHAPMAN Colin is a Primatologist, Conservation Scientist, Anthropologist, and Field Biologist. He's a Professor at George Washington University, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Member of the Committee of Research and Exploration at National Geographic, and an Associate Scientist of the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York. He is Director of the long term Kibal...

HAVE YOU MET... PAUL WATSON   Paul is a Marine Wildlife Conservation and Environmental Activist. He co-founded Greenpeace, and is the Founder of the SEA SHEPHERD Conservation Society. This Master Mariner has spent most of his career on the water, often risking his own life to protect the 'crew of Spaceship Earth'.  The wildlife that we simply CANNOT live without. He's won more prestigiou...

TERRY VIRTS is a former Air Force Test/Fighter Pilot, NASA Astronaut, Space Shuttle Pilot, and ISS Commander. He's flown 5,000+ hours in 40+ different aircraft, and has spent 200+ days in space. He's a Podcaster, Speaker, Filmmaker, Photographer, and Author, his latest book is titled How to Astronaut: An Insiders Guide to Leaving Planet Earth.  As well as being a guest on shows such as the Jo...

MANDY HARVEY is an award-winning jazz singer, songwriter, & inspirational speaker, who lost all her residual hearing by the age of 19. In 2017, she came 4th on America's Got Talent, her debut performance on the show convinced Simon Cowell to give her the 'Golden-Buzzer', & afterwards he compared her to Adele. She's also absolute fire with a ukulele in hand. I don't know what's more impress...

JAMES GWINNETT suffered a LIFE-CHANGING injury while playing RUGBY in 2013, a tackle-gone-wrong resulted in a BROKEN NECK. He fell into a downward spiral of alcoholism & depression. Eventually he managed to break out of the cycle, partly thanks to fitness, running, & ULTRAMARATHONS.    A few years ago he appeared on UK Channel 4’s: SAS: Who Dares Wins. A BRUTAL reality show where...

ADAM SMITH is a Food Waste Activist, Plant-Based Chef, and Ethical Entrepreneur. He's the founder and co-director of the amazing multi-award-winning global initiative: The Real Junk Food Project (TRJFP), and is one of a tiny minority of people who runs a business that actually values people above profits. He's faced, and has come through adversity in his own life, and those hardships have helped h...

STEVE BASKIS is a retired US Army veteran, who, in 2008, suffered severe wounds due to an improvised explosive device (IED), his injuries were extensive, and included loss of sight, multiple shrapnel injuries, along with nerve damage to his left arm. Thanks to his courageous and selfless service, he was immediately awarded the Purple Heart medal by the US President.  Today, he's an establishe...

SCOTT PARAZYNSKI is an astronaut, trans-medium explorer, passionate climber, author, entrepreneur, and physician. He's travelled more than 23 MILLION MILES in space, across 5 missions, conducting 7 spacewalks (totalling 47 hours) in the process. He's the first person EVER to have been to space AND summited the world's tallest mountain, Mount EVEREST.  He's a tech CEO, speaker, and is in the U...

WILL CHESNEY is a retired US Special Forces Navy SEAL. He, and his dog, Cairo, were involved in the US military's 2011 raid, Neptune's Spear, that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden. Will received a Silver Star and Purple Heart, and has since gone on to write a book about his heroic dog, Cairo, titled No Ordinary Dog, there's also a young readers version called Warrior Dog. We talk about lot...

RALPH BLUMENTHAL is a renowned journalist, author, & lecturer. For more than 45 years, he wrote for the New York Times. His career there has been as illustrious as it has been varied, he's previously been an arts and culture news reporter, investigative and crime reporter, and foreign correspondent, amongst other things. More recently at the NYT, he's been working on breaking UFO related stori...

CHRIS WADDELL is a world renowned skier, Paralympian, and speaker. He lost the use of his legs after a freak skiing accident, he went on to beat the odds and ended up making it into the US Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame, AND the Paralympic Hall of Fame. His 13 Paralympic medals are more than any other male monoskier in Paralympic history. He's the first paraplegic to successfully summit Mount Ki...

ROBERT WAGGONER is a renowned author and leading expert in the field of LUCID DREAMING . We had a fascinating and super varied conversation, that touched on everything from pre-cognitive dreams, and how to dream-fly, to dream figures, and whether it's possible to heal yourself via lucid dreaming. He was gracious enough to share some of his own mind-blowing experiences, and give a beginners 'how to...

ERIK WEIHENMAYER is the first blind person to ever summit Mount Everest, he's also climbed the rest of the 7 summits. He's led an expedition taking 6 blind children up a 7,000m mountain, discovered an ice palace, climbed El Capitan, ice-climbed up a frozen waterfall, parachuted, paraglided, sky-dived, he's kayaked down the Grand Canyon, including Lava Falls. He founded a non-profit organisation ca...

SHAUNAGH BROWN has had a far from ordinary life and career path, it's definitely one of the most unique I've come across. She's been paid to move mud at the bottom of rivers, be a firefighter, and has represented her country (England) at international level in multiple sports.    Five years ago, Shaunagh barely knew what rugby was. Two years after her first game, she made her England deb...

GUY LESCHZINER is a renowned consultant neurologist, sleep physician, and author. He's mostly known for his two books: The Nocturnal Brain , and The Secret World of Sleep . In this conversation we talk about common and extreme sleep disorders , why it's important to get good sleep, and how to actually try and do that.  HAVE YOU MET... LINKS All Podcast Links   Website   Instagram: @...

LAUREN ARTHUR is a zoologist, marine biologist, TV presenter, all round animal lover and passionate conservationist. She used to present DiveLive, underwater, now she is one of the safari guides on the Wild Earth YouTube channel , hosting live African safaris twice daily. She recently travelled to Ethiopia in hope of sighting the incredibly rare and endangered Ethiopian Wolf , and she's now an off...

STEPHEN JAMES O'MEARA is a renowned volcanologist, award-winning astronomer, and serial author. His books include Night Skies of Botswana , MARS: The Lure of the Red Planet , and a series of Deep Sky Companion books designed to help amateur astronomers get the most out of their observations. He's known for his legendary eyesight and observational prowess, which have helped him become the first per...

NIZAR IBRAHIM is a renowned palaeontologist, anatomist, National Geographic Explorer, and TED fellow. He's widely known for a discovery that National Geographic rates as one of the top 20 scientific discoveries of the last decade: finding an incredibly elusive partial Spinosaurus skeleton.  We talk about his incredible and unbelievable hunt for the largest predator known to have ever walked o...

JAMIE RAMSAY is an endurance adventurer, known mostly for his 17,000km run from Vancouver to Buenos Aires, Running The Americas. As part of this monster run, he had to cross both the Atacama Desert, and the Andes! During this expedition, he averaged over a marathon a day, every day, for over a year. In the 6 years since he became an adventurer, Jamie has amassed over 33,000km of human powered adve...