In 2012, Port Adelaide was at its lowest, struggling on the field and fighting to survive off it. Rival clubs were chasing its brightest young midfielder. Travis stayed. He went on to play 387 games, more than anyone in the club’s history, and captained the side for six seasons.

For most of that time, his sense of worth rose and fell with the scoreboard. It took years, and some hard moments, for him to realise that what he did on the field was never the same thing as who he was. Today he works in Performance and Culture at Carlton and runs Human Being First, built on a simple idea: you are a human being before you are a human doing. On the red circle, he’ll take us to the edge of our potential, and to what stops us stepping off.

Few Australians have been closer to the edge of the map. Tim has skied unsupported to the South Pole, retraced Mawson’s starving 1913 Antarctic journey on the same gear and scant rations, and sailed a replica of the James Caird 1,500 km across the Southern Ocean in Shackleton’s wake.

But the expeditions were never just about the adventure. His campaigns helped secure 750,000 km² of marine sanctuaries around Australia’s sub-Antarctic islands and shape South Australia’s ground-breaking 2025 Biodiversity Act. Closer to home, he founded The Forktree Project, which is restoring habitat across the region. Explorer, Scientist and 2024 South Australian of the Year, Tim brings the view from the very edge to the red circle.