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Crisis What Crisis?
Hard-earned lessons from people who've faced the worst and come back stronger. Hosted by Andy Coulson. Follow for weekly insights into the art of the rebuild. Crisis What Crisis? is powered by Kingsley Napley — the lawyers you want in your corner when the pressure is on. Visit kingsleynapley.co.uk
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LESSONS ON CONTROL: How to manage a crisis
What is the single most important concept in crisis management? Andy Coulson believes it's control — a lesson he first learned sitting on a plastic ma...
HOMESERVE FOUNDER: Going from broke to billions | Sir Richard Harpin
Sir Richard Harpin wanted to be an entrepreneur since before he knew the word. He sold conkers in the playground, bred and sold rabbits in his garden,...
ANYA HINDMARCH'S CRISIS COMPASS
Dame Anya Hindmarch started her global fashion business on a gap year trip to Italy aged just 18. Four decades on, she is the founder of one of Britai...
ANYA HINDMARCH “Everyday is a crisis when you’re running a business”
Dame Anya Hindmarch started her global fashion business on a gap year trip to Italy aged just 18. Four decades on, she is the founder of one of Britai...
ESTHER GHEY'S CRISIS COMPASS
Esther Ghey's 16-year-old daughter Brianna was murdered in a park near their home in Warrington in February 2023. What followed — the campaigning, the...
ESTHER GHEY: The fight to free children from their phones
In February 2023, Esther Ghey's 16-year-old daughter Brianna was murdered in a park near their home in Warrington, in a premeditated attack by two 15-...
KATE BOWLER'S CRISIS COMPASS: 4 points of navigation for when life flips upside down
Kate Bowler is one of the most thought-provoking voices on pain and suffering you'll ever encounter. Living her dream life – married to her high schoo...
KATE BOWLER: Everything DOES NOT happen for a reason
At 35, Kate Bowler had the life she'd always wanted: she was a Duke University professor, married to her high school sweetheart, with a one-year-old s...
NICK WHEELER'S CRISIS COMPASS: 4 tools for navigating crisis
Charles Tyrwhitt founder, Nick Wheeler, started the business with just £99, a Morris Minor (with a hole rusted through the floor), and zero understand...
CHARLES TYRWHITT FOUNDER: The uni bedroom business that now does £400 million in sales | Nick Wheeler
Nick Wheeler founded Charles Tyrwhitt with just £99 and a Morris Minor with a hole rusted through the floor (and zero understanding of how you make a...
Jenni Murray Revisited
In this special tribute episode, we revisit my conversation with the legendary Dame Jenni Murray. Recorded in February 2021 in the early days of the p...
RYAN HOLIDAY'S CRISIS COMPASS: 4 tools of a stoic philosopher
Ryan Holiday – bestselling author of The Daily Stoic, Ego is the Enemy, and The Obstacle is the Way – joins me on Crisis What Crisis to explore why in...
RYAN HOLIDAY: Why wisdom takes work (and smart people still do stupid things)
Why do genius-level intellects fall for conspiracy theories? How does someone who taught himself rocket science from Soviet manuals end up believing n...
TOM FRESTON’S CRISIS COMPASS: 4 Tools for Starting Over
After building MTV and rising to the very top of the global media industry, Tom Freston experienced dramatic setbacks that forced him to rebuild - not...
MTV CO-FOUNDER: building a $7bn Media Empire with ZERO experience in TV | Tom Freston
From building a multimillion-dollar clothing business in India only to be wiped out by a global trade embargo, to redefining pop culture for a generat...
SIR TREVOR PHILLIPS'S CRISIS COMPASS: 4 tools for surviving grief and intense pressure
Following the loss of his daughter Sushila to anorexia, broadcaster Sir Trevor Phillips reveals the daily habits, personal anchors, and life advice th...
SIR TREVOR PHILLIPS: Why we are WRONG about mental illness
After a 22-year battle with anorexia, Sir Trevor Phillips' daughter Sushila died aged 36 in April 2021. Now he's calling for a radical shift in how we...
GREG JACKSON: A bath is my crisis non-negotiable
In 2021, the UK energy market collapsed. More than 30 of the big energy suppliers went under. But, the business Greg Jackson founded, Octopus Energy,...
OCTOPUS BOSS: “I became the face of the energy crisis”
Greg Jackson, founder and CEO of energy giant Octopus Energy, is perhaps one of Britain’s most innovative CEOs.
In 2021, the British energy mark...
BODEN FOUNDER: How I survive a crisis
Johnnie Boden, founder of Boden, reveals how he survives crisis as a business leader.
In this Crisis Compass bonus episode of Crisis What Crisis...
BODEN FOUNDER: The secret to my £35M comeback!
For three decades, Johnnie Boden has turned cheerful prints, quality fabrics, and unmistakable English charm into one of Britain's most distinctive re...
Sam McAlister's Crisis Compass
For over a decade at BBC Newsnight, Sam McAlister secured the interviews others couldn't – Bill Clinton, Elon Musk, Stormy Daniels. But it was six mon...
Sam McAlister: How I got Prince Andrew to do THAT interview
For over a decade at BBC Newsnight, Sam McAlister secured the interviews others couldn't – Bill Clinton, Elon Musk, Stormy Daniels. But it was 13 mont...
RELAUNCH RORY STEWART: On his love for risk and a battle with bitterness
This is a relaunch of a previous episode, but the lessons contained within it are as important today as they were when we sat down to speak over two y...
LESSONS IN BITTERNESS: How to let go of the 'should have beens'
Bitterness is the poison you drink expecting someone else to die. It's the corrosive emotion born from crisis that fills your throat with bile and con...
James Brown's Crisis Compass
Professor James Brown is an author, podcaster and ADHD expert. Burnout, and a Christmas day spent contemplating his own death led him to get a private...
ADHD expert James Brown on the late diagnosis that changed his life
Professor James Brown is an author, podcaster and ADHD expert. Burnout, and a Christmas day spent contemplating his own death led him to get a private...
Richard Walker's Crisis Compass
Richard Walker OBE could’ve stepped straight into the top job at Iceland Foods, but chose to prove himself first—building a property empire in Poland....
GARY MARCUS: The conversation Silicon Valley doesn't want you to hear
In this second episode in our AI mini-series I met with Professor Gary Marcus live at the RAID conference in Brussels. Gary has been writing code sinc...
Iceland CEO Richard Walker OBE on Alzheimer's, Everest and earning respect
You’d think as the son of the founder Richard Walker OBE could have walked straight into the top job at Iceland Foods - the supermarket empire his par...
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 P...
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...