The Brilliant Humans Podcast

What does it look like when someone chooses to stay — not because it's easy, but because they can see the gold beneath the surface? Heather Alford is a legend in the IT channel and founder of Counting Creators (...

What does it look like when someone genuinely doesn't run from discomfort — they run toward it? Mitch MacEachern walked into a stand-up comedy course at Toronto's Second City, threw out his entire prepared set at the...

Before the awards. Before the comedy stage. Before the sign language, the podcast, the fearlessness — there was a woman who looked at a child the world had written off and decided to write a different story. Siobhan...

What if a DNA test didn't just reveal a name — it revealed a woman who had already changed the world without you ever knowing she existed? Five years ago, Dan Albaum received a message that would rewrite his family's...

<p>Nine episodes. Nine guests. Nine brilliant humans who changed a life - and were publicly told so.</p><p></p><p>Before the next chapter begins, host Jonathan Griffiths pauses to do something simple but important: say...

<p>What happens when a fresh-faced kid in a Depeche Mode t-shirt walks onto your track and quietly dismantles everything you believed about winning? </p><p></p><p>For Kriss Akabusi MBE — Olympian, world champion, and...

<p>He grew up in a children's home in East London. Roger grew up as a grammar school boy on the South Coast, heading for a career in medicine. On paper, their worlds should never have touched. But geography — and a...

<p>What kind of man puts money behind the bar of a local pub for strangers, quietly funds redundant journalists, and turns down a fortune just to keep his concert tickets under forty pounds? Paul Heaton — singer...

<p>What do you do when two years of pain, specialists, and dead ends leave you wondering if this is just your life now? For Anna Stewart — adventurer, singer-songwriter, and former English teacher in Nepal — that...

<p>What does it look like when two people spend a lifetime quietly making everyone around them better? For Tom Barnes - sports media executive, endurance athlete, and one of a handful of people to have ever rowed an...

<p>Colonel Ray Rider flew F-16s, survived Vietnam, graduated top of his class at the Air Force's elite Fighter Weapons School — the real-life equivalent of Top Gun — and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, the United...

<p>What happens when a brilliant coach sees potential in the kid everyone else wants to kick out?</p><p></p><p>Coach Ed Harris didn't just teach Steve Price how to play American football — he saw something in a...

<p>Content Warning: This episode contains references to drug use and the death of a teenager. Please listen with care.</p><p></p><p>Angela Mabbs never thought of herself as brilliant. But when her daughter Fiona's world...

<p><b>What does it look like when one person changes the entire direction of someone's life?</b><br /></p><p>For happiness researcher and BU Happiness College founder Declan Edwards, the answer has a name: Sebastian...

<p><b>"I am officially overwhelmed. Thank you for listening."</b></p><p></p><p>When I started The Brilliant Humans Podcast, I wanted to shine a light on the people who make our lives better. I didn't realise quite how...