Luke Richmond - One Life. One Chance | OTM #026

So Luke Richmond is a professional adventurer, author, endurance athlete, and world record holder. Growing up in the Australian outback, Luke joined the Australian Army at just 17, served at 1RAR and deployed to East Termal. After four years of service and chasing the next big challenge, Luke packed up his life to travel overseas and landed in the UK. The transition, however, out of military life and the new environment led Luke down a path of heavy drinking and some drug addiction. before eventually finding himself at rock bottom, battling addiction and spending time in one of Her Majesty's prisons. We'll talk a lot about that today.

Mate, I could not fight to save myself, but as you said, the kicks, the elbows, the punches, all that sweat that was soaking up in the canvas was cleansing my body of all the drink and drugs and chemicals, but it was cleaning up my mind as well, and I was starting to shake off a bit of that shame. It takes a while to... but your brain to get back on track mate. Because at the end of the first month I was clean, technically, of all the toxins, but it wasn't until the end of the second month that everything inside me started to come alive again. All those dreams and aspirations and the goals and everything you'd had as a youthful young man started to come online. It gets so bloody hard that voice on your shoulder will start. Oh mate, you don't need to do this. You've proved yourself. This isn't safe. You should get down. All those little things, those games that start to play in your mind and you have to combat those as well to get to that objective. And even after nearly 20 years of doing this stuff, that voice will still be there. Now his tone has changed and the reasoning has changed, but he's still there and you have to be able to combat that as well. So there's a lot to it, mate, but when you finally stand on the top of these peaks and lift your fist in the air, oh, if you could bottle that feeling, oh, you'd want to live it every single moment of every day. But then you get to look out on a landscape that not many people get to see.

Welcome to the One True Measure podcast. Welcome to season two. Sammy. We're excited to be here. We're also excited to have these long-form conversations with exceptional guests about success. Not only success, but this individual journey to define success, to measure success. That's what we call the One True Measure. And this season, there's no exception. We've got exceptional people here. This gentleman today, we're going to talk about what it's like to be a modern-day adventurer. adversity how to build resilience and also you know this really simple but pretty profound philosophy that he lives his life on as a concept of one life one chance luke richmond welcome to the show mate

Mate, thank you very much for having me. You have had some heavy hitters in your first season, so I hope I can measure up today, mate.

You are definitely going to, mate, absolutely. And I'm excited to have the chat. And you text me, we joked about this before we jumped on, you text me on Monday and you said, mate, I'm going on a bit of an adventure. I'm going to be in Thailand. And you're living up to