The WildEdge
Podcast
With Claire & Ant Ackers
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The WildEdge Podcast is a space for founders and leaders who want to build successful businesses without losing their clarity, integrity, or sense of self along the way.
Hosted by co-founders Claire and Anthony Ackers, this podcast explores what it really takes to grow an aligned, high-performance business. Not through more noise, hustle, or pressure, but through deeper thinking, honest conversation, and time spent away from the desk.
Some episodes are solo reflections on leadership, identity, and decision-making. Others are conversations with entrepreneurs and experts who share what shaped them most, often through formative adventures in nature, challenge, and risk. Mountains, cold water, long walks, hard choices, quiet realisations. The moments where clarity tends to surface.
This is not a show about hacks, tactics, or quick wins. It’s for people who are capable, driven, and thoughtful, and who sense that the next level of their work requires something different. More truth. More space. More intention.
Our Episodes
WHEN the business is running you
A raw conversation about the messy middle of business, where founders feel stretched between work and family, stuck in delivery, and struggling to think clearly. This episode explores why energy, focus, and environment matter more than time when it comes to making better decisions and moving a business forward.
let’s slow down to speed up
Let’s slow down to speed up
We recorded this episode walking by the River Aire on one of the first properly sunny days of the year.
After a long winter of just getting on with it, it felt like something was starting to shift.
And that is exactly what we are seeing with founders and leaders right now.
Not a lack of ideas. Not a lack of strategy.
But overload.
The pace of business is accelerating. AI is speeding everything up. Decisions are stacking up faster than most people can process them. And instead of creating ease, it is creating pressure.
This is why time and space to think is no longer a luxury. It is essential.
In this episode, we talk about what it really feels like to be leading in this environment. The mental load. The constant decision-making. The sense that your business might be starting to outpace you.
We also talk about the founders we work best with. The ones who did not set out to be CEOs, but find themselves leading something that matters. The ones who are values-led, purpose-driven, and quietly questioning whether they are showing up as the leader their business needs.
And we explain what we actually do at WildEdge Worx.
It is not about going for a nice walk.
It is about creating the conditions for clear thinking, honest conversation, and better decisions.
Because you do not need more input.
You need space to think.
Why Leaders Need the Wild: The Rewilding Retreat Story
6am in the woods recording a podcast.
If you’ve ever wondered what the Rewilding retreats are actually about, this episode is for you.
Over the past four years we’ve watched something incredible happen on these retreats.
Founders arrive carrying the weight of business.
The pressure.
The decisions.
The constant noise.
Then a few days walking, talking, swimming and thinking in wild places changes something.
Clarity returns.
In this episode we talk honestly about what we’ve seen on the retreats and why the time feels right to introduce something new.
The first WildEdge men’s Rewilding retreat, led by Ant.
If the retreats have ever sparked your curiosity, don’t miss this episode.
🎧 Live now.
🎙️ New Episode: WildEdge Story – Welcome to the Messy Middle 🎙️
In this episode, we share the real story behind WildEdge Worx and how it came to life.
This is not the polished origin story told from a safe distance. It is an honest account of building something new while standing firmly in the middle of it.
Recorded outdoors and in motion, this conversation traces the Lake District dream that has been shaping our decisions for more than a decade.
Engineering Clarity: Why WildEdge Exists
Why WildEdge Exists: Engineering Clarity, Not Motivation
Most leaders do not have a motivation problem. The people we work with are not lazy, unclear, or lacking in ambition, intelligence, or drive. They are often the most capable people in the room, making complex decisions daily while carrying significant responsibility for their businesses, teams, and families.
From the outside, their businesses usually look successful. The strategy is sound, the reputation is strong, and progress is visible on paper. And yet, somewhere along the way, leadership can begin to feel heavier than it should. This does not show up as crisis or failure, but as a quieter sense that something has narrowed and become harder to sustain.
Clarity may take longer to access than it once did, and decisions that previously felt instinctive can start to require more effort and second-guessing. Energy can leak in subtle but persistent ways, sometimes showing up physically through poor sleep, tension, or a background sense that something feels misaligned. While performance may still look good externally, the internal cost of maintaining it increases.
In this flagship episode, Claire Ackers explores why this experience is so common among capable leaders, and why the answer is not more motivation, discipline, or pressure. At WildEdge, we believe growth is not a motivation problem, but an engineering problem. When the conditions leaders are operating under change, clarity returns, decisions become cleaner, and leadership begins to feel spacious again.
This episode sets out the philosophy behind WildEdge and explains why we exist.