Jim Mann: Pragmatically pushing your potential

Jim Mann has broken several Ultramarathon records whilst also scaling his business Undo, with the goal to remove a billion tonnes of CO2 by 2030.

He is one of the most ambitious and yet grounded individuals you will ever meet. To call him understated would be understating his understatedness.

As a child, he was a very average runner but his love of challenge and ability to outwork others has led him to break some of the hardest Ultra running records such as the Spine Challenger and the 30 Munros as well as winning the infamous Dragons Back race across Wales.

He studied ecology and after running several businesses set his sights on climate. He started with reforestation building the Future Forest Company. He is replacing himself as CEO there to set his sights on the carbon removal company Undo.

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Connect with Jim:

• Carbon removals - Undo
• Forest regeneration - Future Forest Company
• Chat business - Jim's Linked In
• Tweet - Jim's twitter

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Connect with Sam:

• Join the social podcast app - Podvine
• Sam's newsletter on creativity - Explosive Thinking 

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Chapters:

0:00  Pushing your potential

03:03 Building mindsets through ultramarathons 

03:49 Jim's running routine / training regime

04:27 Running as therapy and inspiration for Future Forrest

05:08 Jim's company - Climate

06:33 Jim's entrepreneurial mindset

07:53 Jim's mindset when he started running - Winning was a journey 

09:53 Jim's founder journey

10:52 Sam's founder journey

12:57 Example of Jim's experience where he tried pleasing everybody and took their advice 

14:12 Hiring mistakes

14:12 Dyslexic and running a business

15:00 Jim's future role in 5 years

16:40 Making the same mistake twice

18:12 Mental health

21:02 Scalability of businesses

23:04 Jim's journey with Future Forest and Undo

24:23 Inspiration for the enhanced weathering idea

26:09 Problem with climate and geopolitics

28:46 The importance of being optimistic

30:36 Any dark moments in ultra marathons

32:38 Scariest thing Jim has done

34:02 Earliest memories - tomatoes 

34:40 Kindest thing - little acts of kindness

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