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Crisis What Crisis?
Crisis What Crisis? provides authentic, judgement-free and useful storytelling from those who have been at the brutal, sometimes life threatening, sharp end of crisis and who survived and thrived in the process. Host Andy Coulson’s own background as a newspaper editor, Downing Street Communications...
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LESSONS IN GRATITUDE: HOW TO REFRAME YOUR NARRATIVE
Gratitude is a mindset. It’s a tool that when deployed in crisis can be essential for reframing your narrative and your understanding. How we find gra...
Alex Goldie's Crisis Compass
Alex Goldie grew up walking on eggshells in a violent, alcohol-fueled household where he became the family peacemaker - literally throwing pillows int...
Mental Health Influencer Alex Goldie wants to be UNFOLLOWED
Alex Goldie grew up walking on eggshells in a violent, alcohol-fueled household where he became the family peacemaker - literally throwing pillows int...
Robert Paylor's Crisis Compass
In spring 2017, Robert Paylor seemed to be living a charmed life – starting for America’s top rugby programme, competing for a national championship f...
Robert Paylor: from paralysed to powerful
Robert Paylor was living the dream - a star rugby player at UC Berkeley competing for a national championship with his future mapped out perfectly. Th...
Three Dads Walking on suicide, grief and finding light in the darkest of places
In this episode recorded in 2024 and republished to mark World Suicide Prevention Day 2025, Andy is joined by three remarkable men, Andy Airey, Mike...
LESSONS IN RESILIENCE - HOW TO BOUNCE FORWARD
Resilience is not just about being able to bounce-back. It’s about bouncing-forward stronger and wiser than before. It’s about realising that your pre...
Natasha Silver Bell's Crisis Compass
From complete self-destruction to resurrection. Natasha Silver Bell proves that our lowest moments can become the foundation for our greatest purpose...
Addiction recovery expert: Natasha Silver Bell
From beauty pageants to international runways to waking up from a blackout to find her 13-month-old son eating Cheerios alone in his high chair – Nata...
Tom Hayes returns: this time, with justice
Twelve years after his arrest, five and a half years in prison, and countless rejected appeals, Tom Hayes finally heard the words he'd been fighting f...
Anthony Scaramucci's Crisis Compass
Wall Street titan, White House survivor, and now podcast provocateur, Anthony Scaramucci's life reads like a script with no shortage of plot twists.
Anthony Scaramucci: Crisis, character and comebacks.
Wall Street titan, White House survivor, and now podcast provocateur, Anthony Scaramucci joins Andy Coulson for an unfiltered, useful, funny and at ti...
Wrongly convicted Libor trader Tom Hayes tells his incredible story of resilience.
Tom Hayes is the city trader who spent five years in prison and who lost his wealth, reputation and home thanks to an appalling miscarriage of justice...
Bonus Episode: Cally Beaton's Crisis Compass
From high powered Hollywood boardrooms to hitting bottom in a psychiatric hospital, Cally Beaton’s journey is anything but linear. She opens up about...
Cally Beaton on finding freedom from falling apart
TV executive turned stand-up comic and best-selling author Cally Beaton joins Andy to share a powerful story of breakdown, reinvention, told with unf...
Bonus Episode: Mo Gawdat's Crisis Compass
Armed with a mathematician’s mind and a mystic’s heart, Mo has transformed personal devastation into global purpose. He is living proof that happiness...
The AI apocalypse or awakening? Mo Gawdat on raising Superman, self-evolving machines and why the real crisis is human stupidity
What if the biggest existential threat of our time isn’t artificial intelligence – but the people programming it?
In this urgent and mind-expand...
Mo Gawdat on using mathematics to survive unimaginable grief
From the boardrooms of Google X to the depths of unimaginable grief, Mo Gawdat’s journey defies every conventional narrative about success and loss. T...
Bonus Episode: Alix Popham's Crisis Compass
Alix Popham took hundreds of thousands of hits on the pitch – but the biggest came years after retirement. His is a story of crisis and clarity. Of ch...
Rugby Star Alix Popham on early onset dementia and starting a revolution in sport
Grand Slam-winning rugby hero, Alix Popham took hundreds of thousands of hits on the pitch – but the biggest came years after retirement. Diagnosed wi...
Bonus Episode: Simon Weston's Crisis Compass
Simon Weston CBE is a veteran, a charity campaigner and one of the most inspiring survivors of our times.
In 1982, while serving with the Welsh...
Simon Weston on anxiety, control and the battle from within
Lessons in Grit from a Falklands Hero - Simon Weston
Simon Weston CBE is a veteran, a charity campaigner and one of the most inspiring survivors...
Bonus Episode: Amanda Knox's Crisis Compass
What happens when your name becomes shorthand for a crime you didn’t commit? At just 20 years old, Amanda Knox was catapulted into global infamy after...
Amanda Knox on identity, imprisonment, and finding purpose through trauma
What happens when your name becomes shorthand for a crime you didn’t commit? At just 20 years old, Amanda Knox was catapulted into global infamy after...
Bonus Episode: Mark Turnbull's Crisis Compass
Mark Turnbull has spent thirty five years as a geopolitical communications strategist, working behind the scenes to shape some of the most consequenti...
Mark Turnbull on being ambushed in Baghdad, Cambridge Analytica and facing terminal cancer
Mark Turnbull has spent thirty-five years as a geopolitical communications strategist, working behind the scenes to shape some of the most consequenti...
Bonus Episode: John Roberts' Crisis Compass
John Roberts is one of Britain's most successful and energetic businessmen, a lad from Bolton who turned a one pound bet with a friend into a billion...
Founder and CEO of AO.com John Roberts on risk, empowerment, and the power of a one pound bet
John Roberts is one of Britain's most successful and energetic businessmen, a lad from Bolton who turned a one pound bet with a friend into a billion...
Bonus Episode: Kit De Waal's Crisis Compass
Bestselling author Kit de Waal has built a career writing stories that capture the reality of life on the margins, but her own story is just as compel...
Kit de Waal on rebellion, redemption and making crisis count
Bestselling author Kit de Waal has built a career writing stories that capture the reality of life on the margins, but her own story is just as compel...
Bonus Episode: Rupert Soames' Crisis Compass
Rupert Soames has forged a brilliant career leading businesses through some of the most daunting challenges. His professional journey has been defined...
Rupert Soames on resilience from trauma, leading through crisis and the power of positivity
Rupert Soames has forged a brilliant career leading businesses through some of the most daunting challenges. But behind the decades of success, there’...
Bonus Episode: Christina Perri’s Crisis Comforts
Multi-platinum singer-songwriter Christina Perri is best known for her hits A Thousand Years and Jar of Hearts, but behind her music lies a deeply per...
Christina Perri on fame, grief and turning pain into purpose
Multi-platinum singer-songwriter Christina Perri is best known for her hits A Thousand Years and Jar of Hearts, but behind her music lies a deeply per...
Bonus Episode: Simon Woodroffe's Crisis Comforts
Simon Woodroffe has lived many lives - he started as a stage designer for music legends like Rod Stewart and Stevie Wonder, then took a leap of faith...
Simon Woodroffe on risk-taking, reinvention, and creating Yo! Sushi
What does it take to turn adversity into opportunity?
Simon Woodroffe has lived many lives - he started as a stage designer for music legends li...
Bonus Episode: Tom Hayes’ Crisis Comforts
Who better to explore the road to resilience than someone who has endured one of the most dramatic falls from grace?
Tom Hayes was once a high...
Bonus Episode: Paul Stewart's Crisis Comforts
Paul Stewart is a former England footballer who played for Manchester City, Spurs and Liverpool. But behind the success was a harrowing secret – years...
England star Paul Stewart on turning a secret trauma into a mission of hope
Sensitive content: this podcast contains discussions of child abuse and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.
Paul Stewart is a forme...
Bonus Episode: Paul McKenna's Crisis Comforts
Paul McKenna is not just a world-renowned hypnotherapist; he’s a one man self-help powerhouse, a best-selling author, and a sought-after behavioural s...