In the Season 4 premiere of How We Future, Lisa Kay Solomon talks with Alison Levine, polar explorer, mountaineer, leadership educator, and author of On the Edge, to explore what courage really looks like when the stakes are extreme.

From leading the first American women’s Everest expedition to skiing to both the North and South Poles as part of the Adventure Grand Slam, Alison operates at the edge of risk, resilience, and reinvention. This conversation is about how to lead, decide, and keep going in a world full of uncertainty.

Together, Lisa and Alison unpack what it means to:

• Reframe fear as a tool for awareness
• Redefine success when plans fall apart in high-stakes environments
• Recognize that progress doesn’t always look like forward motion
• Go “big and go home” instead of sacrifi ...