Dean Stott: Resilience, Transitioning from Special Forces to Crisis Management Expert, and Breaking World Records
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Dean Stott is a former British Special Forces soldier who served in the Special Boat Service (SBS). After a career-ending parachute accident, he transitioned into the private security sector, gaining renown for handling high-risk situations, including evacuating the Canadian Embassy in Libya. He later set two world records for cycling the 14,000-mile Pan-American Highway. Dean is now a motivational speaker, security consultant, adventurer, and podcaster known for tackling extreme challenges. Dean was awarded the distinguished honor of Member of the Most Excellent Order of The British Empire (MBE) for his services to sport, humanitarian and mental health awareness. He embodies resilience and adaptability in both personal and professional pursuits.
Dean has led an amazing life and is a master storyteller. We get into his abrupt transition out of the British Special Forces, developing a new path and career based on his strengths, and working with his wife Alana, also an MBE and complete force as Dean's business partner, as well as within her own career as an author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starratt. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette Starrett. |
| 0:08.3 | And you're listening to the Ready State podcast. |
| 0:15.6 | We are very excited to welcome Dean Stott to the podcast today. |
| 0:20.3 | Dean is a former British Special Forces soldier who served in the Special Boat Service, also known as the SBS. |
| 0:26.9 | After a career-ending parachute accident, he transitioned into the private security sector, |
| 0:32.2 | gaining renown for handling high-risk situations, including evacuating the Canadian embassy in Libya. |
| 0:38.1 | He later set two world records for cycling the 14,000-mile Pan-American Highway. |
| 0:43.0 | Dean is now a motivational speaker, security consultant, adventure, and podcaster, |
| 0:47.7 | known for tackling extreme challenges. |
| 0:50.2 | Dean was also awarded the distinguished honor of the member of the most excellent order of the British Empire, the MBE, for his services to sport, humanitarian, and mental health awareness. |
| 1:00.5 | He embodies resilience and adaptability in both personal and professional pursuits. |
| 1:05.8 | And what I would like to say is stick around for this conversation because it is really fun and Dean has a pretty |
| 1:13.8 | bonkers life and is an amazing storyteller. This honestly could have been the story of my own life. |
| 1:20.8 | Look, there's so many aspects of this thing that are interesting. You know, Dean's military service, |
| 1:26.6 | how he grew up, his injury in that transition. |
| 1:29.5 | But one of the things that I just love is how he and his wife together tackle pretty extraordinary |
| 1:38.0 | things. She's also an MBE winner, award recipient. Yeah, for her own work in human trafficking. |
| 1:44.0 | Yeah. And the two of them, |
| 1:45.3 | you know, I think if you're a busy family, if you're listening to this, you can relate and hear |
| 1:50.4 | all of the reflections of yourself in his bonker story, as in like, how do you raise kids? How do you |
| 1:57.1 | transition from different jobs? You know, when one partner is a superstar, how do you support that superstar, not lose your identity? |
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