Akshay Nanavati has overcome drug addiction, PTSD from fighting in Iraq with the Marines (where one of his jobs was to walk in front of vehicles to find bombs), depression and alcoholism that pushed him to the brink of suicide. Since then, by embracing his demons, he has built a global business (Fearvana), run many ultramarathons, climbed mountains in the Himalayas, spent 10 days in darkness and isolation, skied 350 miles across the world’s 2nd largest icecap, and become 1 of only 26 people to ski up a remote glacier in Antarctica, where he lost 2 fingers to frostbite. Despite 4 biological defects including a blood disorder that 2 doctors told him would kill him in boot camp, he is now embarking on the world's first solo, coast-to-coast, ski crossing of Antarctica, where he's spending 110 days completely alone skiing 1,700 miles. Combining his life experience with years of research in neuroscience, psychology and spirituality, he wrote the book “Fearvana," about which the Dalai Lama said “Fearvana inspires us to look beyond our own agonizing experiences and find the positive side of our lives.” Akshay and his wife Melissa are on a mission to help our human family explore the edges and fall in love with both play and suffering in order to create a life of greater meaning, joy and fulfillment.