Trusting in the mountains

Slowing down and trusting your intuition can help you navigate life’s challenges with greater clarity. When we step away from our screens and reconnect with nature, we gain perspective, access our deeper wisdom, and find the courage to pursue meaningful work despite fear.

Jack Hubbard is a creative entrepreneur and co-founder of three successful businesses: PropellerNet, CoverageBook, and Answer the Public. His current focus is Dream Valley House, a community clubhouse in one of the oldest villages in the French Alps, designed as a mountain basecamp for founders, entrepreneurs, and creatives.

After moving to the mountains with his family, Jack experienced what he calls a “midlife retirement” due to Lyme disease, which led him to step back, slow down, and focus on family and health. Now recovered, he’s working to create a space where work and life can fuel each other, and where people can gather to think, make, and move in nature.

This episode will help you

• Learn how slowing down and practicing patience can lead to clearer vision and better decision-making in long-term projects
• Discover how nature and mountain environments can foster creativity, meaningful connections, and access to deeper intuition
• Understand how to use technology as a liberating tool rather than allowing it to consume more of your time and energy

Highlights

• [00:06:55] What is Dream Valley?
• [00:13:31] Navigating moments of frustration
• [00:16:28] Taking time and slowing down
• [00:21:38] Jack’s medical setback
• [00:27:33] Time to find purpose
• [00:30:24] Jack’s vision for Dream Valley
• [00:33:29] Trust in the mountains
• [00:37:08] The human algorithm
• [00:42:13] What Fearless Forward means to Jack
• [00:44:21] Takeaways from Sally-Anne

Resources

• Connect with Jack via LinkedIn
• Connect with Sally-Anne via LinkedIn
• Bucketlist Business Planning – Jack’s Summercamp talk