Ep 024 - Fighting pirates, climbing mountains barefoot and hunting celebrities with Jordan Wylie

If you enjoy todays episode please leave a 5* review. It really does help the show massively to get positive messages to more and more people who are in great need! Today on The Best Version Of You, we are joined by Jordan Wylie - A former soldier, bestselling author, extreme adventurer and also one of the stars of Channel 4’s BAFTA nominated shows Hunted and Celebrity Hunted. Jordan grew up on the largest council estate in the UK and in the end joined the British Army after leaving school early with no qualifications. He served for ten years and saw Operational Service in Northern Ireland and Iraq where he specialised in military intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance operations. On leaving the Army, Jordan entered the world of Maritime Security, making headlines after armed Somali pirates boarded a ship that he was protecting and Jordan found himself in charge and forced to make critical decisions for the safety of his crew. It was this experience that led Jordan to write “Citadel: The True Story of One Man’s War Against the Pirates of Somalia”, which became a bestseller on publication in 2017. Jordan has since gone on to successfully complete numerous major charity expeditions, including the highly publicised 'Running Dangerously', which saw him run through Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, and 'Barefoot Warrior' which involved climbing Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, completely barefoot!  He has so far raised over a million pounds for charity and some of his expeditions have been made into documentaries on Sky TV. In recent years, Jordan has also returned to education, proving it doesn’t matter where you start in life, there is always the opportunity to assert yourself and try again, he now holds a BA (Hons) and MA in the field of Security and Risk Management where he is an industry thought leader and commentator in the mainstream media with regular appearances on Sky News and the BBC. You can follow Jordan on all social media platforms @mrjordanwylie and via his website www.jordanwylie.org