045 Navigating crisis, uncertainty & adversity with Lance Burdett

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Imagine getting the news that your busted shoulder will, in fact, need urgent surgery. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then getting in the car and going straight home to get on a podcast interview with me.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Well, that’s what today’s guest did, despite the frustrating situation he found himself in. Actually, it’s exactly who he is that allows him to navigate shit like that and still have a great conversation. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">⁠I’ve learnt a few things about myself over the years. One of those is to write things down that pop into my head, or I’ll likely forget them.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Circle back to September 2020 and I heard someone on a radio show podcast and thought - ‘</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">this dude is switched on, I need to get him on the podcast’</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">- so I wrote down his name and the date of the podcast.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then forgot about it. Then I heard him again on the same radio show in New Zealand a few weeks back. I went back to my notes, found his name and the episode and listened to it again and in that moment stopped what I was doing and searched how to get hold of Lance Burdett.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I dig some digging, reached out, got a response, we booked a time and then I thanked my previous self.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I reached out to Lance because I wanted to explore his vast experience and expertise in navigating crisis, the brain, and being an ex-top cop negotiator for the NZ Police.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>In this Episode:</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lance and I start off by exploring some of his history, having left a secure job in the police at 57 to start his own business consulting on navigating tough situations and building g