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The Best You - A Coaching Podcast: Personal Growth Through Real Conversations · Gary Gillan

Loss, Endurance, and Living Deliberately: How Grief Creates Purpose and Personal Growth with Kevin Crowe

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Ryan said, “I don’t give a shit about any of that, I just want time with my family, my friends.”
Kevin Crowe talks about what gets clearer when time feels short. The conversation starts with a blunt idea: priorities change when someone may be running out of time. Gary introduces Kevin as an adventurer, endurance athlete, documentarian, founder, philanthropist, and Chief Operating Officer at Longview Systems in Calgary. The charity gives the episode its pull. Give a Mile is a registered charity in Canada and the United States, built around flights that bring people in palliative and critical care closer to loved ones. Gary keeps Kevin's work, adventure, and philanthropy tied to the same question: do the things a person does match what they say they value? The endurance stories make that feel less abstract. Kevin describes races with no power poles, no planes overhead, and no quick rescue nearby. A bad call out there can mean twelve, twenty-four, or thirty-six hours before help arrives. Gary picks up on the odd details: new conditions, a body reacting differently, decisions that have to be made while things are going sideways. Food gets weirdly revealing. Frozen food, flavor fatigue, Dr Pepper, and stubborn zippers are not side notes. They are the small problems that become big ones under pressure. The episode lands on endurance, choice, and the hard little habits of living deliberately.

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A reflective conversation about endurance, service, and what sharpens when time runs short.

Kevin Crowe and Gary Gillen frame this conversation around a simple but durable idea: priorities sharpen when time feels limited. Crowe is presented as an adventurer, endurance athlete, documentarian, founder, philanthropist, and Chief Operating Officer of Longview Systems in…

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Hear how extreme endurance and a values-driven life can snap priorities into focus.

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