Episode 049: Richard Browning
In this episode, I sit down with Richard Browning.
Richard is the founder of Gravity Industries, former Royal Marines reservist, entrepreneur and known to millions as the real-life Iron Man!
Richard and I first worked together back in 2017 when Gravity launched to the world, and since then he’s flown jet suits across 50+ countries, worked with elite military and medical teams, built a global business worth $100 million and learned a huge amount about risk, innovation and resilience along the way.
But this isn’t just a conversation about technology or flight. We talk about grief, loss and the moments that shape who we become.
We talk about the huge gaps in education when it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship, and what could be done about it.
Richard opens up about the impact of losing his 'wonderful, creative, maverick inventor' father to suicide as a teenager.
He talks about how that experience fuelled his drive to build and to push boundaries, and why resilience matters more than ever - not just in entrepreneurship, but in life.
We get into:
• why he set out to build a jet suit with no business plan
• the hidden reality of risk, failure and experimentation
• military and medic use-cases that save time - and lives
• how grief changed his outlook on fear and challenge
• the role of resilience in innovation and society
• what flying actually feels like… and why he doesn’t dream of it anymore
This is a conversation about possibility, courage and what happens when we decide not to be defined by the hardest moments in our lives.
