Jeff Garmire, known on the trails as "Legend", is one of America's most accomplished endurance athletes. A professional endurance athlete, thru-hiker, coach, author and podcast host, Jeff set the self-supported Fastest Known Time on the Appalachian Trail in 2025, an achievement that won FKT of the Year. He completed the 2,198-mile trail from Maine to Georgia in 45 days, 8 hours, and 37 minutes.

His resume is staggering: over 35,000 miles hiked and around 20 trail speed records, including FKTs on the Colorado Trail,John Muir Trail, Arizona Trail, and Long Trail. He's a Calendar Year Triple Crown finisher completing the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail in a single year and has trekked the 7,000-mile Great Western Loop. His book, Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance, chronicles that eight-month, 8,000-mile Triple Crown journey.

Jeff is also an outspoken advocate for mental health and the restorative power of time in nature. Based in Bozeman, Montana, he coaches endurance athletes and, famously, brings costumes, leopard print, and a sense of humour to a sport known for suffering.

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Sam Hall and James Brown are the co-founders of Hall Brown Family Law, the Manchester-headquartered firm they set up in April 2016.

The pair first worked together at JMW Solicitors, where they helped take the family department from a tier four to a tier one ranking before leaving to start their own firm. Within two years Hall Brown was ranked in the top tier of The Legal 500, and it now has offices in Manchester, London, Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham and Liverpool.

Both specialise in divorce and high net worth financial cases, and both are ranked Band 1 by Chambers. Sam trained in Leeds and moved to Manchester in 2008. He has acted for football manager Brendan Rodgers and is ranked by Spear’s among the top family lawyers in the country. James trained at a leading London family law firm and acted in the Supreme Court case Sharland v Sharland. He lectures, writes for legal publications and is widely quoted in the national media.

We discuss 10 years of Hall Brown, how to build a good culture and the problem with Sam. I hope you enjoy it....

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Sandy Tang is a chef and entrepreneur whosejourney has been anything but a straight line. Born and raised in Macau, she moved to the UK as a teenager and began cooking at fifteen to recreate the flavours of her childhood. She studied electronic engineering at the University of Warwick before, at just 24, signing up for MasterChef 2020 — cooking her wayto the final and finishing as runner-up in one of the show's most memorable series.

Rather than the restaurant route, Sandy chosethe supermarket shelf. With co-founder David Solomon she launched Love Sum, a brand of fresh, chilled, ready-to-cook "world dumplings" — from Chinese classics to Korean BBQ beef mandu — on a mission to make dumplings asubiquitous in British fridges as filled pasta. Produced sustainably in the UK, Love Sum is now stocked in Sainsbury's, Ocado, Selfridges, Booths and GoPuff.

In early 2025 she pitched on Dragons' Den, winning an investment offer from Peter Jones, and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list the same year. For Sandy, dumplings are about more than food: they represent family, celebration and connection.

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You can find Sam on socials at @SamJonesMCR

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