#205 Lydia ODonnell Nike & Femmi Run Coach: Learning to Train Like a Woman, Losing Her Dad & Why She's Trail Running Now

Lydia O'Donnell is a professional distance runner from New Zealand and the co-founder and CEO of Femmi, a running app built around the female body. She was Nike's Head Run Coach, has been running marathons for over ten years and coaching athletes for more than five. Femmi came out of something she …

Matt Hauser on Going All In on What You're Good At & Identity Beyond Sport | Moments #24

Matt Hauser is an Olympic triathlete from the Gold Coast. He came home from his first Olympics not satisfied and decided he needed to go all in if he was going to compete at the top of the sport. A few months after we recorded this, he became World Champion. In this episode Matt and I talk about t…

"Be the best or I don't come back at all" Gretel Bueta Motherhood, Burnout & Commonwealth Games #204

Gretel Bueta grew up on the Gold Coast playing everything she could get her hands on. She signed her first professional basketball contract at 17, played three junior world championships and was named WNBL Rookie of the Year. Then she got glandular fever, stopped enjoying it and walked away from th…

#203 The Psychology of Bids for Connection: The Small Thing That Predicts Divorce

In this episode I get into bids for connection, the Gottman Institute's term for the small moments when your partner reaches out to you, and why how often you turn towards them is one of the biggest predictors of whether a couple stays together or gets divorced. I go through the newlywed research t…

#202 Jesse Campbell: How an Accountant Ran 2:44 Marathon in 18 Months

Jesse Campbell grew up in New Zealand, and works full time as an accountant on the Gold Coast while juggling Marathon training himself, coaching and Content Creation. He ran his first marathon in Queenstown in November 2024 in 3:28 18 months later he ran 2:44 in Osaka. That is 45 minutes off a mara…

#201 The Psychology of Obsession: A Healthy Dose, and When It Crosses the Line

In this episode, we discuss the difference between motivation, discipline and obsession, and why they behave like three different fuel sources rather than three settings of the same one. We get into the 2017 research on self control that found the most disciplined people are not the ones winning da…

200 Episode Q&A: What Motivates Me? Dream Guest? "It's Okay to Not Have It All Figured Out"

This is episode 200. In the last hundred episodes I got married, found out I am about to become a dad, and took this podcast full time. I ran Tokyo, Boston and London, with Berlin, Chicago and New York still to come. We brought on our first full time staff member, and we have not missed a weekly ep…

#199 Eddie Hearn: What It Takes to Be Great, "You Will Never Outwork Me"

This week on a special edition of the Keegan & Company Podcast we welcome Eddie Hearn. Eddie Hearn took over a promotion built by his father and turned it into the biggest name in world boxing. He runs around forty fight nights a year. This year Matchroom landed in Australia. A new deal with Foxte…

#198 Johnny Gannon: Bra Boy to Black Belt on Grit, Self Respect and Staying Curious

Johnny Gannon grew up in Maroubra in the Bra Boys era, when you did not talk about your problems and showing any weakness put you at the bottom of the pile. He has spent the last 25 years on the jiu-jitsu mats, took nearly 20 years to earn his black belt, and now runs eight-week health challenges w…

#197 Why Resilience Is the Skill Behind Every World Record | Lessons from the Canning Stock Route

Dr Geoff Wilson kite skied 5,306 kilometres across Antarctica on his own, the longest solo unsupported polar journey anyone has done. He holds a stack of other polar records and works as a vet in between them. Keegan spent two weeks with him on the Canning Stock Route, a recce for Geoff's next cros…