Fearless long-form conversations about power, resilience and the truth behind success. On The BEYOND Podcast, Aleksandra King, host and producer, sits down with founders, athletes, investigators and cultural provocateurs for the stories they rarely tell: the decisions, setbacks and relationships that shape high performers. A video interview podcast on YouTube with audio everywhere you listen, each episode goes past the polished version and into confidence, status, money, attraction and shame, so you can build a stronger career and a life that holds up under pressure. Aleksandra, a British female podcast host and former BBC The Apprentice candidate who famously walked out, asks what others will not. New episodes every 2 weeks at thebeyondpodcast.com.
Andy Hayler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJhlnZqcK4c) is the first person to have eaten at every three-star Michelin restaurant in the world, and his website carries a hundred reviews of Tokyo restaurants alone. He joins Aleksandra King (https://www.aleksandraking.com/), host and producer, on The BEYOND Podcast (https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/) to explain how the Michelin Guide works, what a three-star kitchen has to deliver, and where diners pay too much for food that is not worth it.
Founded in 1900 as a handbook for French motorists, the guide uses full-time anonymous inspectors and takes no money from restaurants, which is why chefs trust it above paid review sites. There are roughly 150 three-star restaurants in the world, and Andy Hayler rates Japan as the best country for food, from a Tokyo ramen chef who sleeps on the restaurant floor to tend the stock overnight to a restaurant on the rim of an extinct volcano. The Andy Hayler podcast episode turns at the end to wine and to where AI is starting to show up in restaurants.
In this conversation: what one, two and three Michelin stars mean, and what a three-star meal costs; why a one-star restaurant can beat a three-star; the German kitchens he ranks among the best in the world; raw fish, tapeworms and the Parasite Museum in Tokyo; the most common mistake people make when cooking for guests at home.
Watch the full episode: Andy Hayler on The BEYOND Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJhlnZqcK4c), on YouTube
Guest: andyhayler.com (https://www.andyhayler.com/)
Host: Aleksandra King (https://www.aleksandraking.com/), host and producer of The BEYOND Podcast and co-author, with Elliott King (https://www.elliottking.com/), of Marketing Wins (https://www.marketingwins.org/).
The BEYOND Podcast is fearless long-form conversation about power, resilience and the truth behind success, hosted and produced by Aleksandra King. New episodes every two weeks at thebeyondpodcast.com (https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/).
10 Oct 2026
Sue Stockdale: What the Arctic Silence Does to Your Mind
Sue Stockdale (https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/what-the-arctic-silence-does-to-your-mind-sue-stockdale/) answered a newspaper advertisement that asked whether she was man enough for the ultimate challenge. In 1996 she became the first British woman to ski to the Magnetic North Pole, thirty days and 350 miles across moving ice, and she joins Aleksandra King (https://www.aleksandraking.com/), host and producer, on The BEYOND Podcast (https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/) to describe what the cold, the silence and the fear did to her thinking.
What she brought back matters more than what she achieved: the next small step as the only plan that survives something impossible, the team mates you want when everyone is a novice and nobody can leave, and the flat truth that reaching the Pole was an anticlimax. A polar explorer, executive coach and author who co-founded Access to Inspiration (https://accesstoinspiration.org), Sue Stockdale also crossed the Greenland ice cap and led young people on expeditions in Chile and Antarctica. The Sue Stockdale podcast episode closes on asking for help, and why she now calls that a strength.
In this conversation: what thirty days of silence does to your thinking, and how to stop catastrophising; why she calls the Arctic an environment that wants you dead; the next small step rule for a goal that looks impossible; why good team mates beat star performers when survival is shared; how to sit with discomfort when there is nowhere to go.
Full episode page: Sue Stockdale on The BEYOND Podcast (https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/what-the-arctic-silence-does-to-your-mind-sue-stockdale/)
Watch the video episode: Sue Stockdale on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4ybkTvfmNA)
Guest: suestockdale.com (https://www.suestockdale.com/) and Sue Stockdale on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/suestockdale/)
Host: Aleksandra King (https://www.aleksandraking.com/), host and producer of The BEYOND Podcast and co-author, with Elliott King (https://www.elliottking.com/), of Marketing Wins (https://www.marketingwins.org/).
The BEYOND Podcast is fearless long-form conversation about power, resilience and the truth behind success, hosted and produced by Aleksandra King. New episodes every two weeks at thebeyondpodcast.com (https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/).
25 Sept 2026
Grant Murrell: The Psychology of Reading People, Building Trust and Success
Grant Murrell (https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/the-psychology-of-reading-people-building-trust-and-success-grant-murrell/) can tell a great deal about what you are thinking from the direction of your feet. A specialist in hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming and human behaviour, he joins Aleksandra King (https://www.aleksandraking.com/), host and producer, on The BEYOND Podcast (https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/) to explain what the signals people cannot easily control reveal about attention, interest and intention.
The conversation goes well past body language into why capable people still underperform: how fear can disguise itself as ego, why procrastination is really the tribe protecting you, and why lasting change is about who you are prepared to become rather than the techniques you pick up. Founder of Success Is A Formula (https://successisaformula.com), Grant Murrell has studied success since the age of fourteen. The Grant Murrell podcast episode closes on trust, congruence and the lane you choose to drive in.
In this conversation: what the feet and hips give away when the face does not; why the calmest person in the room holds the power; how fear can look like ego; what builds trust and what quietly destroys it; why ambitious goals become achievable once they are broken into smaller wins.
Full episode page: Grant Murrell on The BEYOND Podcast (https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/the-psychology-of-reading-people-building-trust-and-success-grant-murrell/)
Watch the video episode: Grant Murrell on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM7FnryLet8)
Guest: successisaformula.com (https://successisaformula.com) and Grant Murrell on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-murrell-a763a94/)
Host: Aleksandra King (https://www.aleksandraking.com/), host and producer of The BEYOND Podcast and co-author, with Elliott King (https://www.elliottking.com/), of Marketing Wins (https://www.marketingwins.org/).
The BEYOND Podcast is fearless long-form conversation about power, resilience and the truth behind success, hosted and produced by Aleksandra King. New episodes weekly at thebeyondpodcast.com (https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/).
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Steve Featherstone
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Engagement
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