#150 - Adrian Hayes

Today we spoke with Adrian Hayes - British record-breaking Adventurer, Author, and Keynote speaker

Adrian is a British record-breaking polar explorer and adventurer, best known for reaching the three extreme points of the Earth—the Three Points Challenge...walking all the way to the North Pole, South Pole, and summiting Mt Everest, all in the shortest period of time (1 year, 217 days - his first Guinness World record). He has completed the straight-line vertical crossing of the Greenland ice cap, crossed the Arabian desert, and summited K2, known to be extremely challenging.

A passionate social campaigner and commentator, an Arabic and Nepalese speaking former British Army Gurkha Officer, who also spent two years in the Special Forces, Adrian has also written two books and featured in three documentaries to date. He is also an Advisory Board member for one of the future Mars projects.

A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he has lived and worked in 8 countries and traveled to more than 100. In his social commentator and campaign work, Adrian is an ambassador on economic, social & environmental sustainability, which we discuss in this episode.

We speak about themes for each year in relation to goal-setting, a huge rock of Adrians' philosophy as a leader. We unpack that moment when he reaches the top of a mountain...the experience, and how it is captured - food for thought for those of us stuck to our phones. Adrian opens up, and displays his vulnerability, shares his stories of grit...as to how there is something to be always taken from an experience, good or bad.

In this episode we discuss 🗣
- 🎁 Finding the gift in every circumstance
- 😁 Being truly authentic to yourself
- 🎯 Goal setting from a young age
- 🤳 Social media's subconscious hooks
- 🏔 What it was like on the summit of K2
- 🥇 Taking stock after a success
- ✊ Tapping into our gut instinct!
- 🍃Climate change and sustainability

Key Timestamps

• 0. 49 - Gift in every circumstance

• 3. 41 - Write down your goals

• 7. 56 - Goal Setting

• 8. 55 - Being goals taking more importance

• 9. 23 - Authenticity, victimhood

• 10. 35 - Active response, tap into gut instinct

• 12. 50 - Motivational speaker + self depressive

• 13. 30 - Feedback greatest gift we can get

• 17. 20 - Whatever you want to do be honest t authentic.

• 19. 15 - Survey of Everest climbs + good causes

• 19. 45 - Social media subconscious hook

• 22. 11 - Don't even post it 22-57- Beautiful surroundings t science

• 24. 16 - Top of K2

• 24. 57 - The journey back down

• 26. 18 - Take stock after the success

• 30-42 - Single issue tunnel vision and trade-offs

• 32-15 - systems and sustainability

• 33. 27 - High performance