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Alex Staniforth survived the two biggest disasters in Everest history as a teenager and never summited, and what the episode argues is the discipline that survival built: find a way or find an excuse, compare yourself to where you used to be rather than to other people, trust the inner voice that says something feels wrong, and let adversity make you prove people wrong. This companion episode brings together Alex Staniforth's conversation, entity by entity. What this episode covers:In Mount Everest history in two consecutive yearsOften that's the casePre preparation, everythingGo home and restListening to your inner voice, to your intuitionExperiences and the people I've been able to encounterLeft for the fightI'm it's a real privilege nowThat's epilepsy, whether that's just self-doubt or self-confidence Alex Staniforth, the record-breaking ultra-endurance athlete, author and founder of the mental health charity Mind Over Mountains, guest of The BEYOND Podcast Everest disasters episode; find a way or find an excuse; Mind Over Mountains. Listen to the source episode: Alex Staniforth podcast. Read the full story: Alex Staniforth on the full story. This conversation comes from The BEYOND Podcast, hosted by Aleksandra King. Narration is AI-generated. Everything said in the conversation is human. BEYOND network:BEYOND (the podcast)Elliott KingAleksandra King Agency

Fraud has industrialised, and the UK's own infrastructure makes it a hot spot: payments that move in seconds and a crypto network where fraudulent funds hub. Jessica Cath's anatomy runs from the romance scam's first contact to the snatched phone that becomes a snatched bank branch, and to the young people recruited as money mules. The defences are honest about their limits: banks monitor every payment flow with machine learning and scams remain hard to spot, the annoying are-you-sure questions are the engineered pause doing its job, and in the age of cheap deepfakes her closing instruction is simple: do not trust the face on the screen. This companion episode brings together Jessica Cath's conversation, entity by entity. What this episode covers:Ground in the day to dayThere are multiple different types of scammerAccount details send, me the moneyDone through money muelling when they're youngerStart and then it increases upwards quite quicklyYourself and banks must allow you to make paymentsGenerated images and videosTop three f red flags for scamming BEYOND network:BEYOND (the podcast)Elliott KingAleksandra King Agency

Feeling tired all the time is common, not normal, and Jennifer Hanway's account of the fix is biological rather than moral: willpower is five per cent and biology is the other ninety-five. The female hormonal system is the complicated one, which is why advice built on men fails women; intermittent fasting in perimenopause is, in her words, the worst thing you can do. The programme is unglamorous: protect lean muscle, mind minerals like magnesium, treat supplements as supplements, and read body composition rather than the scales, as her own same-weight wake-up call showed. This companion episode brings together Jennifer Hanway's conversation, entity by entity. What this episode covers:That are draining our energy every dayIt's does it require a littleGood and bad news is that our metabolism doesn'tIt's definitely doableAll this ballroom dancing stuffCoffee is most people's main form of antioxidantsStress right, see your doctor supplement, as neededThree to four times a day, three to four BEYOND network:BEYOND (the podcast)Elliott KingAleksandra King Agency

Parenting is not school: you cannot pass or fail it, and the worry that you are not good enough is itself evidence that you care. Emily Hughes replaces the exam mindset with two anchors, boundaries and belonging: boundary-less parenting serves nobody, belonging is the opposite of shame, and a child who knows their worth and knows they belong is a harder target for bullies. The work runs through the parent first, because a toddler accepts none of the baggage you carry, which is why she calls parenting the ultimate portal for personal growth. This companion episode brings together Emily Hughes's conversation, entity by entity. What this episode covers:It's never too lateA massive challenge to our need for controlGuide, the wise teacherTHESIS on sometimes and triggersRole is to support the child through that sufferingThemselves, we double down on belongingThat's gonna be life BEYOND network:BEYOND (the podcast)Elliott KingAleksandra King Agency

Cybercrime is not a technology story but an economy, and it is organised like one. State hacking is the new face of espionage and openly so; the people who do the criminal version largely learned to think in video games, where the whole skill is finding what the other side did not expect. Ransomware now runs as a franchise, the affiliate keeping eighty percent of what a victim pays, and the gangs behind it research a target with the same due diligence an acquirer would run before a takeover. Underneath all of it sits money laundering, without which Geoff White argues none of the rest would happen: the trick is not the theft but mixing dirty cash with clean, which is why criminals care where in society cash still lives. This companion episode brings together Geoff White's conversation, entity by entity. What this episode covers:It's the new face of espionageAccount, or one of my accomplices' accountsWhat we're now seeing is in Southeast AsiaTechnology– actually it starts with processes, business processYou've got three stages in your classic money launderingWherever you see lots of cashThey call themselves post-paid security Geoff White, the investigative journalist covering organised crime and technology, guest of The BEYOND Podcast cybercrime episode; ransomware; business email compromise. Listen to the source episode: Geoff White podcast · Geoff White episode on Apple Podcasts · Geoff White episode on Amazon Music. Read the full story: Geoff White on the full story. This conversation comes from The BEYOND Podcast, hosted by Aleksandra King. Narration is AI-generated. Everything said in the conversation is human. BEYOND network:BEYOND (the podcast)Elliott KingAleksandra King Agency

Surviving 14 high-calibre gunshot wounds in the 1994 Nuriootpa siege was not luck but trained mind management: over three hours on the ground while roughly 2,000 rounds were fired, McManus controlled panic and shock to keep blood in the prefrontal cortex, drew on preparation done five years earlier, and turned the experience into the philosophy he now teaches as sustained optimal performance, the deliberate alternative to unsustainable peak performance. This companion episode brings together Derrick McManus's conversation, entity by entity. What this episode covers:I was shot 14 times with a high-calibre roundsI fall to my kneesThe videographer kept the video runningHow can you stay calm if you're stuck divingNobody actually entered the house to risk their livesA scared animal is a very dangerous animal Derrick McManus, former South Australian Police STAR Group officer who survived being shot 14 times in a 1994 police siege, founder of Human Durability; Human Durability; sustained optimal performance. Listen to the source episode: Derrick McManus podcast · Derrick McManus episode on Spotify. Read the full story: Derrick McManus on Human Durability. This conversation comes from The BEYOND Podcast, hosted by Aleksandra King. Narration is AI-generated. Everything said in the conversation is human. BEYOND network:BEYOND (the podcast)Elliott KingAleksandra King Agency

Friendship runs on hard, measurable constraints rather than sentiment: Dunbar's number, the roughly 150-person limit, resolves into nested emotional layers (5, 15, 50, 150, then 500 and 1500), each demanding a fixed time investment of about 200 hours of face-to-face contact to make a close friend, while cultural similarity (the seven pillars of friendship), trust and shared bonding behaviours (the social toolkit, above all singing) decide who we keep.This companion episode brings together Robin Dunbar's conversation, entity by entity.What this episode covers:And- and coworkers in hereFaces you can put names to basicallyYou see this most clearly demonstrated in romantic relationshipsWe're very prone to following people who appear charismaticIs about handling three mind statesThis all hinges around how you define gossipA terribly important roleWhat then makes people wanna push others awayConfidence to handle weaker relationshipsBecause each relationship require, has its own time demandRobin Dunbar, Robin Dunbar, evolutionary psychologist and author of Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships; Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships; Dunbar's number.Listen to the source episode: Robin Dunbar podcast · Robin Dunbar episode on Apple Podcasts · Robin Dunbar episode on Spotify · Robin Dunbar episode on Amazon Music.Read the full story: Robin Dunbar on Dunbar's number.This conversation comes from The BEYOND Podcast, hosted by Aleksandra King.Narration is AI-generated. Everything said in the conversation is human.BEYOND network:BEYOND (the podcast)Elliott KingAleksandra King Agency