A chance encounter at a New Year's Eve dinner party. A Facebook post years later in a season of saying 'Yes!'. A talk neither of them knew would change everything. Charlie Peschardt has spent a career running toward crises: from a Navy cockpit to a hurricane-hit island, within the NHS and toward environmental sustainability - and somehow, serendipity kept weaving our paths and careers together in the most unexpected ways. In this conversation we explore what it really means to transform, not just recover, and whether resilience is a superpower or just a sophisticated way of asking people to endure more. One of those episodes that reminds you the universe has a plan - even when you can't see it yet.

Ben Hunter, who works in a children's home, looking after children and young people, who has been trained in safeguarding and supported young people through various online safety issues over the last two years, weighs up whether the proposed social media ban in the UK for under 16s is a good thing and will protect children and young people, or whether it could cause even more harm.

What does transformation actually look like from the inside - and what does it ask of you?

In the first episode of The Edge of Transformation, Andrea Gamson sits down with children's home support worker and former caravan salesman Ben Hunter to explore the journey of career change and recovery from addiction: what triggers it, what gets in the way, and what it means to lead differently once you've been through it.

This is a conversation that doesn't flatten the hard parts.

🎙️ The Edge of Transformation is hosted by Andrea Gamson, founder of Regenerous - a leadership development consultancy connecting corporate teams and social entrepreneurs through skills-based mentoring.

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