Five lives, five shifts | The moments that stayed with us, Season Two.
28 October 2026
A CEO who left a rising career at 26. A winemaker who didn’t know what wine was. A woman carried up Kilimanjaro. A whistleblower’s most guarded chapter. A DJ who chose who he’d become next.
Five lives, five turning points. Richard Sutton revisits the moments from Season Two of Shift Happens that stayed with us: what pressure does to people, and what they did next.
IN THIS EPISODE:
• Adrian Gore, founder & CEO of Discovery: why chaos hides opportunity, and how a noble goal turns into relentless hard work
• Ntsiki Biyela, winemaker and founder of Aslina Wines: a pile of bursary rejections, an unexpected scholarship, and day one at Stellenbosch
• Tarryn Tomlinson, founder of LiveABLE and Able2Travel: climbing Kilimanjaro with rheumatoid arthritis, and learning to ask for help
• Magda Wierzycka, founder & CEO of Sygnia: the high-stakes decisions behind the 2017 email leaks
• Thulani “DJ Fosta” Headman: the day of his sentencing, a double life, and how music became his new identity
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Cold open: hard work, purpose and loss aversion
0:49 Welcome to Shift Happens
1:17 Adrian Gore: ambition vs. curiosity
3:03 Leaving a rising career to start Discovery
7:01 Why chaos creates opportunity
7:54 Ntsiki Biyela: from a university dream to winemaking
11:02 Day one at Stellenbosch
14:18 Tarryn Tomlinson: climbing Kilimanjaro
16:43 Carried through the storm
18:16 Learning to ask for help
19:51 Magda Wierzycka: the call, the emails, the flight
26:38 DJ Fosta: sentencing and the first days inside
29:59 Living a double life
31:01 Can prison become your identity?
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ABOUT THE SHIFT HAPPENS PODCAST:
Shift Happens is a podcast about transformation, growth and becoming the best version of yourself. Through people’s stories, we explore what happens when life applies pressure, when things change, and when doubt or failure forces a shift. These are honest conversations about the moments that shape us and what we can learn from them.
ABOUT RICHARD SUTTON:
Richard Sutton is an advisor on leadership, resilience and human performance, Director of SuttonHealth and Founder of FIRST/LIGHT™. His 25 years of experience include leading performance strategy for an Olympic gold-medal-winning team and advising seven former world No. 1 tennis players. He is the best-selling author of Shift Happens, Thrive, The Stress Code and Stressproof.
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