He promised his dying father he'd keep the family care home alive - then built a tech startup to help the entire sector.

In this episode of The Resilient Edge, Charlie Peschardt speaks with Dave Lim - Founder & CEO of Care Champion, a SaaS product company dedicated to improving care delivery in Care Homes.

Dave shares his journey as a former corporate product and marketing leader who left a comfortable career to keep a promise to his father and ended up building care-planning software from the ground up.

Dave's journey took him from running his father's care home through the post-COVID crisis in the sector, to launching a tech startup with no roadmap, all while raising two young daughters.

In this conversation we get into:

• The brutal, traction-starved early days of building Care Champion - and the advice that kept him going
• Moving from "managing tasks" to "delegating outcomes" with his team
• Why organisations confuse compliance with culture, and what real resilience looks like
• The value of stewardship as a key element of leadership
• Why how you do things matters as much as what you achieve

From the conversation:

"If you know you're doing all the right things and you're putting in all the work, just keep going - because eventually, luck will swing your way." - Dave

"Resilience is simply the ability to keep going no matter what... but without the willingness to learn, resilience can easily look like stubbornness." - Dave

"You give them the destination and let them figure out the best route.." - Dave

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face - and a genuinely resilient organisation trains and empowers employees from the ground up so they can adapt when that punch lands." - Dave

"How you do things in life matters just as much, and if not more, than what you achieve." - Dave

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If this conversation resonated, it's probably because you're navigating something similar - pressure, complexity, a decision that matters, or a transition you haven't quite figured out yet.

The Resilient Edge is hosted by Charlie Peschardt. I work with individuals, leaders, founders, and organisations who need clarity in complexity, order from uncertainty, and direction under pressure. If that's you - or someone you know - I'd love to talk.

Find out more at https://theresilientedge.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliepeschardt/

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Sharpen your resilient edge.

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Connect with David Lim

Email: David@carechampion.co.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlim20/

Website: https://www.carechampion.co.uk/

She responded to the Boxing Day tsunami, built cash systems in the BVI after back-to-back hurricanes, and represented 3,500 UN staff through one of the most turbulent years in UNICEF's history. What Zehra Rizvi learned about resilience, accountability, and why "leading with love and kindness" can be a winning strategy.

In this episode of The Resilient Edge, Charlie Peschardt speaks with Zehra Rizvi - humanitarian veteran, cash programming pioneer, and self-described "dogmatic" believer in personal growth. Zehra has worked with the Red Cross, the UN, governments, and independent consultancies across conflict zones, natural disasters, and institutional crises.

In this conversation we get into:

• How Zehra became the accidental aid worker — and what a filmmaking and anthropology degree has to do with disaster response
• The real difference between being a consultant and a staff member, and why moving between the two is harder than most people expect
• How cash systems built after Hurricane Irma quietly became the backbone of the BVI's COVID response years later
• Why resilience depends as much on the right person in the right chair as it does on systems and structures
• What chairing the UNICEF New York Staff Association during mass layoffs taught her about trust, transparency, and psychological safety

From the conversation:

"Don't let somebody else's insecurity make you shine any less than you do." - Zehra

"Before you anything, centre yourself in love and kindness, and then see where that goes." - Zehra

"I want to fail fast forward. That is going to be my mantra - let's see what happens." - Zehra

"I've never felt that helpless in my whole entire life. I had a front-row seat to what was happening, and I don't know how you keep doing what you're doing without completely losing your mind." - Zehra, on working in Jerusalem

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If this conversation resonated, it's probably because you're navigating something similar - pressure, complexity, a decision that matters, or a transition you haven't quite figured out yet.

That's exactly what I created The Resilient Edge for. I work with individuals, leaders, founders, and organisations who need clarity in complexity, order from uncertainty, and direction under pressure. If that's you - or someone you know - I'd love to talk.

Find out more at https://theresilientedge.com/

Or connect with Charlie directly

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliepeschardt/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theresilientedgecoaching/

The Resilient Edge is hosted by Charlie Peschardt. New episodes every two weeks. Follow or subscribe so you don't miss one. If this episode was useful, a review on makes a real difference and helps more people find the show. Sharpen your resilient edge.

Connect with Zehra Rizvi https://www.linkedin.com/in/zehra-rizvi-2623b527/

Zehra’s Humanitarian Cash Programme https://cash-hub.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/BVI-JCP-RCRCM-Case-study_BRC18-289_A4_WIP7_AW_Final.pdf

From working in the mainstream media to attending a talk about social enterprises overseas to launching one.

In this episode of The Resilient Edge, Charlie Peschardt speaks with Andrea Gamson - social entrepreneur, author of Social Starters: Make Changing the World Your Business, and founder of Netshift and Regenerous.

We cover how Andrea started a global social enterprise, why a master's degree in regenerative economics radically changed her worldview, and how she helps businesses and leaders work with purpose.

In this conversation we get into:

• How a freelancing experiment became a global social enterprise
• Burnout as a signal of misalignment and how her "six Ps of purpose" framework helps
• The mutual respect between corporate executives and grassroots social entrepreneurs
• What regenerative economics means, and how it reshaped Andrea's leadership & business
• Why resilience is about what you do after you fall down
• The case for "seventh generational thinking" - and why every leadership team should try it

From the conversation:

"If you haven't done.. the deep work of alignment...it's tricky when it gets tough. And then you've got to decide: do I really commit to this?" - Andrea

"The beautiful thing about growth - there is a messy part, where a culture of growth needs to have failure in it." - Andrea

"Be curious. Follow your instincts. If the word 'too' is in front of it - too bold, too wild, too crazy - that's probably exactly what you need to go and explore." - Andrea

Find out more at https://theresilientedge.com/

Or connect with Charlie directly

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliepeschardt/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theresilientedgecoaching/

The Resilient Edge is hosted by Charlie Peschardt.

New episodes every two weeks. Follow or subscribe so you don't miss one.

If this episode was useful, a review on Apple Podcasts makes a real difference - it helps more people find the show.

Sharpen your resilient edge.

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Scott Galloway Talk “How The US Is Destroying Young Peoples Future”

https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_galloway_how_the_us_is_destroying_young_people_s_future

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Connect with Andrea Gamson

Email: hello@socialimpact.support

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreagamson/

Website (and buy the book!): https://andreagamson.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreagamson/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@regenerousmentoring

Sign up for the Inner Quest: https://course.andreagamson.com/