Phil Keoghan

Phil Keoghan is a New Zealand-born television host, producer, writer, speaker and adventurer best known as the longtime host of the multi-Emmy Award-winning CBS series The Amazing Race. His career has taken him across more than 100 countries, giving him a rare perspective on travel, resilience, storytelling and the human desire to test personal limits.

A Life Built Around Adventure, Purpose, and No Opportunity Wasted

Keoghan’s philosophy was shaped by a near-death experience at age 19, which inspired him to create a life list and later develop the idea behind No Opportunity Wasted. That approach has guided much of his work on television, in books, on stage and through personal challenges that invite people to stop postponing the lives they want to live.

His adventures have included cycling across the United States to raise funds and awareness for multiple sclerosis, retracing the 1928 Tour de France on a vintage bicycle for the documentary Le Ride, diving underwater caves, breaking a bungee jumping record and turning extreme challenges into stories of courage, purpose and connection.

In addition to The Amazing Race, Keoghan has created, hosted or produced programs including No Opportunity Wasted, Keoghan’s Heroes, The Human Edge, Phil Keoghan’s Adventure Crazy and Tough as Nails. His work often returns to the same central theme: ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things when they are willing to move beyond fear.

Phil Keoghan on World Footprints

On World Footprints, Phil Keoghan talks with Tonya and Ian Fitzpatrick about how The Amazing Race mirrors his own life, his passion for travel, his commitment to giving back and the near-death experience that inspired his “No Opportunity Wasted” philosophy.

Listen to Phil Keoghan on World Footprints in “From The Amazing Race to The Great Human Race with Raw Travel and Dominica,” where he discusses travel, giving back, and the near-death experience that inspired his “No Opportunity Wasted” philosophy.