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
🎙️ 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.