The Unknown Path

Jem Fuller

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The Unknown Path is about the quiet grit behind “overnight” success. Each week I sit down with founders, entrepreneurs, artists and change-makers to mine the moments that shaped them—doubts, detours, decisions, and the choice that changed everything. Come for the wins; stay for the wisdom. Build a fulfilled life that actually feels like you.

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From 14 days to live, to the summit of Everest: The story of Sean Swarner

At sixteen, Sean was given fourteen days to live. He survived — and then had to figure out what to do with the rest of his life. Sean Swarner is a two-time cancer survivor and the first person with one functioning lung to summit Everest. He's gone on to complete the seven summits, ski to both Poles, and complete the Hawaii Ironman World Championship. But what moves me most about this conversation isn't the scale of what he's done, although they are incredible. It's what he came back with from being given fourteen days to live at sixteen that has platformed a meaningful and incredible life. In this conversation, Sean shares his story from being a boy in a hospital bed to the man on the other end of incredible feats. But this conversation isn't about survival, it's the story of being alive. From resilience, choice and failure and what it all means when faced with the limits of what the body can achieve and survive, Sean opens up about this amazing perspective on what we can truly grow into as individuals when we strip away our comforts and certainty. If everything you knew was pulled away, what would you be left with? Who would you be? There are so many incredible teachings in this week's conversation, and it has left me with such awe and understanding of what it means to face life, even when there's fear staring back at you. In this episode: — What's left of a person when comfort, certainty and health have all been stripped away— Why resilience has nothing to do with grit, and everything to do with loyalty to who you are— The difference between chasing something you think will complete you, and meeting your own life with eyes open— Why reaching the top can leave you hollow, and what Sean now calls a false summit A conversation about what it means to be alive, from someone who was told he wouldn't be. ⸻ Sean Swarner: 🎬 True North: The Sean Swarner Story — Sean's documentary of his North Pole expedition. Watch free https://www.amazon.com/True-North-%20Sean-Swarner-Story/dp/B07LBCSFCD🏔️ The CancerClimber Association — Sean's organisation sponsoring cancer survivors up Kilimanjaro: https://www.seanswarner.com/philanthropy-2/cca🌐 More from Sean: : https://www.seanswarner.com/ ⸻ The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. Hosted by Jem Fuller, a coach, facilitator, speaker and author who has spent two decades working with leaders on resilience, presence, and the human capabilities that shape how we live and work. Through coaching, workshops, speaking and retreats, both at home in Australia and in the Himalayas, Jem works with individuals and teams across business, government and education. You can learn more about his work, or join an upcoming retreat, by visiting https://jemfuller.com/ │ Instagram: @jemfuller

55 phút
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A lifetime of Wisdom: Neale Donald Walsch's Story - Part 2

"Your life is not about you, it's about everyone whose life you touch and the way in which you touch it." Neale Donald Walsch is a best-selling international author of the Conversations with God series and a spiritual messenger whose work has touched the lives of millions. Last week's conversation resonated so deeply with so many of you, and I cannot wait for you to sit with this one. (If you missed it, make sure to have a listen). This is Part B of my conversation with Neale, and where we move into the wisdom of what eight decades of living has taught him about being human. Neale opens up and shares stories with me he hasn't told on a podcast before, the ones that have quietly shaped his understanding of love, abundance, and what it actually means to give people back to themselves. This is one of those conversations that stays with you. Neale's warmth, his humour, and the simplicity with which he reframes some of the biggest questions we carry as humans, made this such a gift to record. I'm so honoured to share it with you. In this episode (Part B):— What it has actually been like for Neale to be known by millions as the man who talks to GodWhy some people read a book and intellectually understand its message, but never embody it The "be the source" teaching Neale was given, and how to practise it in everyday life The three assignments Neale says he was given by God A story from his time on the street, and the understanding of abundance that came out of it ⸻ Neale Donald Walsch: His latest book, Letters to a Young Seeker: Departing Thoughts from an Elder, is written for young people, and for anyone still finding their way. It brings together the twenty-one most important messages from his Conversations with God dialogue, paired with poetry by his wife, award-winning poet Em Claire, and shares what Neale wishes he had known in his twenties, thirties, and forties. ⸻ Resources: 📖 Neale's latest book, Letters to a Young Seeker: Departing Thoughts from an Elder: [LINK] 📚 Conversations with God series: [LINK] 🌐 Work with Neale: nealedonaldwalsch.com ⸻ The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. You can learn more about Jem and stay up to date with his incredible work that spans across the globe or join an upcoming retreat by visiting the website. jemfuller.com │ Instagram: @jemfuller

1 giờ 8 phút
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When God Answered: Neale Donald Walsch's Story - Part 1

"I love you no matter what." That, in Neale Donald Walsch's words, is the message at the heart of everything he's been given to share with the world. For thirty years, Neale's work has been a companion to people walking through the hardest questions of being human and into the deeper truths of the joys of being human. What he has offered, in his best selling Conversations with God Collection is something profound that has changed the lives of many - a truth that we are loved without condition, that the divine is not somewhere we have to earn our way to, and that the wisdom we are reaching for already lives inside us. It has reached five million people across thirty-seven languages, and continues to reach more every year. What most people don't know is where that dialogue with God began for Neale. In this conversation we go beyond the books and into the humanness of his story right into the one-room flat above someone's garage, at rockbottom, where the morning he picked up a yellow legal pad and wrote an angry letter to God demanding to know what it takes to make life work. What came back was the beginning of everything that followed. This is Part A of a two-part conversation. In this episode we move through the full arc of Neals life — the childhood in Milwaukee that built the man, the unravelling that emptied him out, the morning the dialogue began, and the eighty-two years of living that have now distilled into his newest book, Letters to a Young Seeker. I can't wait for you to dive into this week's conversation. If you've ever come across Neale's work, you'll know we're in for an incredible episode. In this episode (Part A): The two weeks his marriage ended, his job ended, and a car accident nearly ended his life Fifty weeks on the sidewalk, asking what it takes to make life work The 4.30am morning the dialogue began, and the moment he realised the answers weren't his His mother, dying, asking him to dance on her grave Whether a soul actually chooses its parents before it arrives Neale Donald Walsch: Author of the Conversations with God series, translated into thirty-seven languages. His latest book is Letters to a Young Seeker. Resources: 📖 Neale's latest book, Letters to a Young Seeker: Purchase📚 Conversations with God series: Find the Books Here🌐 Work with Neale: nealedonaldwalsch.com ⸻ The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. theunknownpathpodcast.com │ Instagram: @jemfuller

57 phút
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Breaking Burnout, Faith & Redefining Success: The Nabeela Elsayed Story

She started as a barista making $6.50 an hour and ended up as COO of Walmart Canada, but that's not the most interesting part of the her story. This weeks episode is with Nabeela Elasyed. Former COO of Walmart Canada and CHRO of IKEA US, a Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches member, and the author of the forthcoming Breaking Burnout. She's spent 20 years leading some of the world's largest organisations before stepping away to follow a different journey. This conversation was such a pleasure. Nabeela and I are on very aligned missions in the world — and she brings a perspective I rarely get to sit across from. She went from a first-generation immigrant childhood, where work became both her escape and her identity, through twenty years at the top of the corporate world, to walking away from a seven-figure career and starting over. What she traces in this conversation is the interior cost of that climb — the postpartum depression and anxiety she carried in silence for years, what happens when the role that defined you is gone, and what it actually looks like to reimagine success once the title is gone. She's thought deeply about all of this. And she's lived every part of it. In this episode: The internal operating system that drives overachievers - where it comes from, and what it doesA decade of high-level executive performance sustained alongside hidden mental illness Why anchoring your identity in your career, your title, or any single thing puts you at serious risk when that thing is interruptedThe difference between loving your work and being in love with it Why people with deep purpose are actually more vulnerable to burnout Her faith as the one constant through the lowest momentsWhat the Gallup thriving scale tells us about the state of the global workforce, and why she's still optimisticThis is an incredible episode and if there's anything to take away from it, it's that that your value is inherent. You don't have to produce to rest, to be worthy, or to be loved. For a lot of high achievers, that's not an easy thing to hear — and she'd know. ⸻ Nabeela Elsayed: 🌐 Website: nabeelaelsayed.com 📖 Pre-order Breaking Burnout: https://www.nabeelaelsayed.com/breaking-burnout 📸 Instagram: @nabeelaelsayed 💼 LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabeelaixtabalan/?originalSubdomain=ca ⸻ The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people.

1 giờ 20 phút
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The "Why" that turned Broke into $1.5B: JP Newman's purpose playbook

Most of us are handed a blueprint for success before we're old enough to question it. But what happens when you've spent decades following that blueprint, only to find it delivers far less than it promised? JP Newman is the founder of one of Austin's most respected real estate private equity firms, with over a billion dollars in transaction volume, and the founder of Fulfillionaire, a space where leaders and high performers come to redefine success and explore why so many people who reach the success they've chased still feel like something is missing. In this conversation, JP reflects openly on how reaching the goals he'd sought for years brought anxiety instead of peace. From the limiting beliefs picked up in a childhood shaped by refugee family history, through twelve companies that didn't work and a decade of feeling like he had nothing to show, to building a billion dollar firm and discovering the money didn't bring the peace he expected. What emerges is something far more personal than a framework. A moment on a mountain trail at twenty-nine, alone, asking the universe something, where he found a fortune cookie on an otherwise clean path, read four words, and cried in a way he couldn't immediately explain. It was the first time he understood that everything he'd been searching for externally was something only he could give himself. This is a conversation about money, meaning, the net worth trap, ancestral scarcity, and what it really means to build a life that's genuinely rich, not just financially. In this episode: The net worth trap and why the anxiety that drives accumulation doesn't leave when the money arrives The limiting beliefs inherited from a refugee family history that meant money never felt safe, even when it came Twelve companies that didn't work and a decade of carrying no good story at parties The two questions he took an oath to at seventeen that quietly reorganised everything that followed A fortune cookie on a mountain trail and the story he's never told publicly before What love actually feels like to him now, in his own words⸻ JP Newman: fulfillionaire.com | @jpnewman_ The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. theunknownpathpodcast.com Instagram: @jemfuller

1 giờ 10 phút
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From Phantom of the Opera to Author & Coach: The Josh Piterman Story

Josh Piterman spent years becoming somebody. The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera. Jean Valjean in Les Misérables. Performing some of the biggest roles in musical theatre on Australia’s largest stages and London’s West End. But this conversation became much less about success itself, and much more about what happens when your identity becomes fused with performance. Josh speaks openly about masks — the personas we build to feel worthy, validated, and enough and the danger of losing yourself inside them. He talks about the adrenaline and exhaustion of eight shows a week, the imposter syndrome that never fully disappears, the burnout that accumulated underneath the applause, and the moment his body finally forced him to stop. What stayed with me most was hearing him describe standing backstage during Les Misérables, staring into the mirror before a show, and realising something inside him already knew he was done. In this episode: The performer mask and mistaking achievement for self-worthThe physical toll of carrying major theatre roles night after nightThe role Delta Goodrem played in changing the trajectory of his careerSinging at the Opera House and the call from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s teamBurnout, throat surgeries, and learning to listen when the body says noMeditation, breathwork, and the practices that helped quiet his mindWhy purpose isn’t something you achieve — it’s something you giveThe difference between becoming somebody and knowing who you are⸻ Josh Piterman is an internationally acclaimed musical theatre performer, singer, speaker, author, and coach best known for playing The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera and Jean Valjean in Les Misérables in Australia and London’s West End. He now also works in breathwork, mindset, meditation, and transformational coaching. ⸻ The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. theunknownpathpodcast.comInstagram: @jemfuller If something in this episode lands for you, share it with someone who might need it today. This conversation touches on burnout, identity, emotional struggle, and healing. If it brings something up for you, be gentle with yourself, and reach out to someone you trust.

1 giờ 22 phút
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How a Vegas Showgirl became a Bestselling Author & Sacred Storyteller: The Cynthia James Story

Cynthia James is an incredible human who has lived so many lives inside one life, it's hard to sum her up. I first met Cynthia earlier this year, sharing a stage at a conference before a mutual friend reconnected us months later. What's really stayed with me isn't the showgirl years or the cheque Ed McMahon handed her on TV — it's what got passed down to her through her lineage. Cynthia comes from a line of women who survived a great deal, and what came down to her through her grandmother wasn't the weight of it — it was a knowing. A voice in the body she learned to trust over her own mind, the thing that kept telling her when a chapter was finished, long before it was convenient or rational or anything she wanted to hear. In this episode: Growing up in a redlined Minneapolis neighbourhood she didn't know she was being kept insideOne of the first Black showgirls on the Vegas strip, and her grandmother's reaction to the feathersThe Star Search producer's single question before the finals, and the $100,000 that followed The song running through her head when she woke up crying during a painful divorce A conversation about what it costs to trust that voice, and what it gives back. ⸻ Cynthia James: Emotional integration leadership coach, international speaker, author of six books, and host of The Women Awakening Podcast. Website: cynthiajames.net Instagram: @cynthiajames777Cynthia's Books: What Will Set You Free · I Choose Me · Does My Voice Matter⸻This conversation touches on trauma and healing. If it brings something up for you, be gentle with yourself, and reach out to someone you trust. The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. theunknownpathpodcast.com Instagram: @jemfuller

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From a Rebel to a Maverick: The Yannik Silver Journey

At 14 he was cold-calling dentists to earn his first car. By his 30s he'd built a multi-million dollar internet business — and then walked away from it because the life he'd built and the life he was meant to live had stopped resembling each other. Confession — when we first got introduced, I jumped on the call not knowing who I was meeting. We just connected straight away. It was only afterwards that I went and looked him up and realised how many people this man has made an impression on. And here's the thing — the credentials are real. But they're not who he is. Yannick is someone who has spent decades doing the inner work alongside the outer work. Who sees synchronicities not as coincidence but as communication — a love letter from the universe across time and space. There's a story he tells in this episode about a chance meeting and a pizza dinner that ended with a blank cheque for hundreds of families in the Himalayan mountains to have their children's education funded. The number of things that had to align for that moment to happen is staggering. Yannick just calls that Tuesday. In this episode: — The moment he threw a cereal bowl across the room and what it forced him to confront — Why he sold his Aston Martin but kept his ticket to space — Non-dominant handwriting as a tool for accessing wisdom beyond the front brain — What he asked his 111-year-old self — and the answer that became Maverick 1000 The question he left me with: What might be within your grasp if you went higher in your thinking? ⸻ Yannick Silver is the founder of Maverick 1000, author of Evolved Enterprise, and one of the early pioneers of digital marketing turned cosmic catalyst. Find him at maverick1000.com and 1000sunsparks.com. ⸻ The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. theunknownpathpodcast.com Instagram: @jemfuller

1 giờ 8 phút

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The Unknown Path is about the quiet grit behind “overnight” success. Each week I sit down with founders, entrepreneurs, artists and change-makers to mine the moments that shaped them—doubts, detours, decisions, and the choice that changed everything. Come for the wins; stay for the wisdom. Build a fulfilled life that actually feels like you.

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