Slowing down and trusting your intuition can help you navigate life's challenges with greater clarity. When we step away from our screens and reconnect with nature, we gain perspective, access our deeper wisdom, and find the courage to pursue meaningful work despite fear.

Jack Hubbard is a creative entrepreneur and co-founder of three successful businesses: PropellerNet, CoverageBook, and Answer the Public. His current focus is Dream Valley House, a community clubhouse in one of the oldest villages in the French Alps, designed as a mountain basecamp for founders, entrepreneurs, and creatives.

After moving to the mountains with his family, Jack experienced what he calls a "midlife retirement" due to Lyme disease, which led him to step back, slow down, and focus on family and health. Now recovered, he's working to create a space where work and life can fuel each other, and where people can gather to think, make, and move in nature.

This episode will help you

• Learn how slowing down and practicing patience can lead to clearer vision and better decision-making in long-term projects
• Discover how nature and mountain environments can foster creativity, meaningful connections, and access to deeper intuition
• Understand how to use technology as a liberating tool rather than allowing it to consume more of your time and energy

Highlights

• [00:06:55] What is Dream Valley?
• [00:13:31] Navigating moments of frustration
• [00:16:28] Taking time and slowing down
• [00:21:38] Jack's medical setback
• [00:27:33] Time to find purpose
• [00:30:24] Jack's vision for Dream Valley
• [00:33:29] Trust in the mountains
• [00:37:08] The human algorithm
• [00:42:13] What Fearless Forward means to Jack
• [00:44:21] Takeaways from Sally-Anne

Resources

• Connect with Jack via LinkedIn
• Connect with Sally-Anne via LinkedIn
• Bucketlist Business Planning – Jack’s Summercamp talk

In times of overwhelming challenge and uncertainty, the ability to silence the noise, listen deeply, and connect with something larger than ourselves – whether through faith, values, or inner wisdom – is what carries us through and reveals the path forward, transforming our struggles into purpose and our pain into the power to help others.

Ronel Hentschel’s work has been deeply influenced by her personal experience as the mother of a son diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a toddler. This shaped her career path towards supporting other families facing similar challenges, and led her to found Washing Parent, a digital publishing platform serving families in the Washington DC area with resources for education, support, and activities.

Ronel’s unshakeable faith has guided her through multiple personal challenges, and it creates for her a deep sense of trust that things will be OK, and the storm will settle.

This conversation will help you

• Quieten the noise during crises so you can hear the guidance that's already there
• Transform personal pain into purpose by channelling your hard-won knowledge and experience into meaningful support for others
• Create inner peace during turbulence by stepping back, abiding in what matters most to you, and trusting that clarity will emerge when you stop forcing solutions

Highlights

• [00:08:52] Silence the storm
• [00:12:32] The healing power of helping
• [00:17:40] Living a faith-based life
• [00:20:16] The conspiracy of improbabilities
• [00:22:16] How Ronnel sees God
• [00:29:36] When doors close, there is a reason
• [00:32:25] What it takes to trust unconditionally
• [00:38:07] Do you choose to be a victim or a warrior?
• [00:41:03] Forgiveness
• [00:45:48] What Fearless Forward means for Ronel

Resources

• Connect with Ronel via LinkedIn
• Connect with Sally-Anne via LinkedIn
• The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success, by Deepak Chopra

Humans are wired to fear uncertainty and the unknown, and we often avoid potential opportunities because they seem too risky or uncomfortable. We cling to familiar patterns even when they no longer serve us, worried about what might happen if we let go.

This week’s guest, Stephen Burt, suggests embracing uncertainty as a path to growth and creativity. By saying "yes, and" to our fears – acknowledging them while still moving forward – we can discover possibilities we might otherwise miss. This approach transforms fear from an obstacle into a doorway to new experiences.

Living in constant resistance to uncertainty constrains our potential and prevents us from using all that we have. We risk looking back with regret at opportunities not taken and parts of ourselves left unexplored.

So instead of automatically saying "no", you might try saying "yes, and what might be possible here?"

This conversation will help you

• Learn how embracing uncertainty can transform fear into a catalyst for growth and creativity instead of an obstacle
• Discover practical techniques for saying "yes, and" to your fears while still moving forwards towards new possibilities
• Explore how improvisational thinking can help you respond authentically without self-censorship in both professional and personal situations

Highlights

• [00:11:22] How to listen
• [00:16:32] Self-leadership through curiosity
• [00:20:20] When to hold on, and when to let go
• [00:24:40] Being as much as you can
• [00:29:33] Discovering
• [00:38:20] When fear meets improv
• [00:46:27] What Fearless Forwarwd means to Stephen
• [00:48:17] Takeaways from Sally-Anne

Resources

• Connect with Stephen via LinkedIn
• Connect with Sally-Anne via LinkedIn