In this episode of Life’s Tough, Explorers are Tougher, Bertrand Piccard joins Richard Wiese for a conversation about exploration, failure, innovation, and the mindset required to build a better future. Piccard reflects on how repeated failures shaped some of his greatest achievements and explains why curiosity, perseverance, and respect matter far beyond expeditions. For him, exploration is not only about going farther, but about challenging comfort, accepting risk, and staying open to what life can teach.

The conversation also dives into Piccard’s latest project, Climate Impulse, and his larger mission to prove that cleaner aviation and smarter environmental solutions can be practical, profitable, and inspiring. He argues that real change happens when pioneers prove what is possible and when environmental progress is framed not as sacrifice, but as opportunity. Along the way, he shares reflections on spirituality, crisis, aging, and death, describing life itself as the ultimate exploration.

This is Life's Tough, Explorers Are Tougher, with your host, Richard Weiss. Scratch the surface of an explorer and you'll find an adventure and a great story. This show is about their tales.

This podcast is a proud supporter of the Explorers Club and the EC50 Initiative. 50 people changing the world that the world needs to know about. For more information, go to explorers.org.