Lee and Rich discuss:

• Aspirations to become the world’s first conservation-focused unicorn company

• A love for sport feeding into a deeply instilled work ethic

• Sowing the seeds of the business idea at the Environment Agency

• Modern approaches to the indisputable need to take action around the environment

• Oxygen Conservation’s initial goals being blown out of the water

• Hiring people fundamentally better than you in business

• Parallels between business and sport, the environment and much more

Links & references

Lee Cooper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leecooperrecruiter/

Rich Stockdale: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richstockdale/

https://www.instagram.com/richstockdale_/

Oxygen Conservation: https://www.oxygenconservation.com/

https://www.instagram.com/oxyconservation/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxygen-conservation/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/trustpilot/

Get in touch: lee@extrology.com

Episode highlights:

“Good American Football players see pads not as protection, but weapons. If you want something, run through a wall to get it - American Football unlocked that for me.” - 11:25 - Rich Stockdale

“If you don’t have the right cultural fit, you can work really hard and be brilliant, but you won’t thrive.” - 25:30 - Rich Stockdale

“We talk about the world burning metaphorically when we talk about Oxygen Conservation. In London last summer, it was literally burning - the embers were still there.” - 34:45 - Rich Stockdale

“There was a huge uproar on Dartmoor - people are fed up of the natural environment being taken away from them.” - 37:10 - Rich Stockdale

“How you do anything is how you do everything. So we can’t take a pound from Shell, even if we give it back to nature. We need to do things in the right way in everything we do.” - 43:30 - Rich Stockdale

“I don’t believe in work-life balance, because it makes it sound like there’s a fight. If you do something you love, where’s the balance? Just do more of what you love.” - 47:10 - Rich Stockdale

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