Tommy Kelly spent years in the Royal Marines operating in some of the harshest environments on earth.

But one lesson carried into business: Do hard things.

This became a conversation around discomfort, resilience, burnout and learning to keep moving when life gets difficult.

In this Bite-Sized episode of Screw It Just DO It, Tommy talks about the Arctic exercise that nearly broke his unit, the moment he artificially created chaos to force himself out of the Marines, and the Monday morning he walked into the office and told his co-founder he was done.

Key Takeaways

• Why doing hard things is the most practical form of resilience training

• What the Arctic night from hell taught Tommy about keeping going

• The screw it just do it moment — artificially creating chaos by leaving the Marines

• The burnout no one talks about: 12 years of compounding pressure

• Why being on the right path matters more than being at the destination

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