While Luke Bateman was playing in the NRL, his mum was paying his mortgage and ordering food to his door. Gambling had taken every cent he had, and hundreds of thousands more he didn't.

This week Keegan sits down with Luke Bateman: former NRL player, now an author, keynote speaker and one of the more honest voices going around on shame and addiction. We get into the gambling that spiralled in 2018, the suicidal low that followed, rehab and the 12 steps, and the tiny one-minute promises he used to start trusting himself again. He explains why vulnerability is the antidote to shame, why he hid his love of books from teammates for twenty years, and the fantasy novel that handed him a blueprint for who he wanted to become. Also in here: values as a decision filter, boundaries, and why he says he wouldn't change any of it for himself but wouldn't wish it on anyone.

For more just like this:
#101 Kieran Foran: "I Just Wanted to Have Peace". NRL Star on mental health, grief and finding peace after football: Spotify | Apple | YouTube
#146 Harry Garside: Masculinity, Vulnerability & Boxing: Spotify | Apple | YouTube

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While Luke Bateman was playing in the NRL, his mum was paying his mortgage and ordering food to his door. Gambling had taken every cent he had, and hundreds of thousands more he didn't.
This week Keegan sits down with Luke Bateman: former NRL player, now an author, keynote speaker and one of the more honest voices going around on shame and addiction. We get into the gambling that spiralled in 2018, the suicidal low that followed, rehab and the 12 steps, and the tiny one-minute promises he used to start trusting himself again. He explains why vulnerability is the antidote to shame, why he hid his love of books from teammates for twenty years, and the fantasy novel that handed him a blueprint for who he wanted to become. Also in here: values as a decision filter, boundaries, and why he says he wouldn't change any of it for himself but wouldn't wish it on anyone.
For more just like this: #101 Kieran Foran: "I Just Wanted to Have Peace". NRL Star on mental health, grief and finding peace after football: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5EqN4EDNha4N1tHmbF99xQ">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/101-kieran-foran-i-just-wanted-to-have-peace/id1695873736?i=1000704173075">Apple</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZsxlYbs3O8">YouTube</a> #146 Harry Garside: Masculinity, Vulnerability &amp; Boxing: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5J1knjZmt0vdzLXsgNKczY">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/146-harry-garside-masculinity-vulnerability-boxing/id1695873736?i=1000741193468">Apple</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BqstMQIArw">YouTube</a>
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Ever wondered what drives the world’s top athletes beyond the scoreboard?

Former professional NRL player Keegan Hipgrave uncovers the untold truths about mental health, resilience, and redefining success - one candid conversation at a time.

Ever wondered what drives the world&rsquo;s top athletes beyond the scoreboard?
Former professional NRL player Keegan Hipgrave uncovers the untold truths about mental health, resilience, and redefining success - one candid conversation at a time.

Keegan and Company

#193 Luke Bateman: Ex NRL Player turned Fantasy Author, Why Vulnerability Is the Antidote to Shame

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 daily fights with themselves, they are the ones who face fewer fights in the first place. We talk about discipline as obsession residue, the two kinds of passion that look identical from the outside and run in opposite directions underneath, the red flags that show the needle has gone too far, and Craig Alexander asking himself at the back end of his career whether he was being selfish. Keegan lands on where he sits on the spectrum, and leaves you with the question he could not shake: if the thing disappeared tomorrow, would you still know who you are.



This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/

For more just like this:

#129 Craig Alexander: Harder Than Ironman The episode Keegan quotes in this one, and the clearest example of the leash being held.

#151 Lachlan Jones: The Discipline Blueprint

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



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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 daily fights with themselves, they are the ones who face fewer fights in the first place. We talk about discipline as obsession residue, the two kinds of passion that look identical from the outside and run in opposite directions underneath, the red flags that show the needle has gone too far, and Craig Alexander asking himself at the back end of his career whether he was being selfish. Keegan lands on where he sits on the spectrum, and leaves you with the question he could not shake: if the thing disappeared tomorrow, would you still know who you are. 
This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/">https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/</a>
For more just like this:
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6CAPXwkcsUtGwQ8ILZeI99">#129 Craig Alexander: Harder Than Ironman</a>&nbsp;The episode Keegan quotes in this one, and the clearest example of the leash being held.
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5jy3GSBX3H1it4q1NTbFzA">#151 Lachlan Jones: The Discipline Blueprint</a>
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ygWbg9F1i7UFupwZEoKRb">#199 Eddie Hearn: What It Takes to Be Great, "You Will Never Outwork Me"</a> 
Listen and subscribe:&nbsp;<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4L7zyEBXeNYBDK4rRjBK0K">Spotify</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/keegan-and-company/id1695873736">Apple Podcasts</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Keeganandcompany">YouTube</a>
Follow for more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/keeganandcompanypodcast/">Podcast Instagram</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/keeganhipgrave/">Keegan's Instagram</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@keeganandcompany">TikTok</a>

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

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 episode in three and a half years. Thank you to everyone who has listened along the way. In this episode, I answer the same nine questions past guests recorded for episode 100, and then I watch back what I said the first time and react to it. I talk about the advice from Ali Day I have done every day since, finding out my partner was pregnant on the second of January, sitting in my car at the shops unable to see a way forward, and the stranger who knocked on the window. I cover what I do for my own mental health, why rest turned out to be the fuel rather than the reward, and the whats next for Keegan & Company.



This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/

If you want to watch our last Q&A, here is the one we did at 100 episodes:

#100 Keegan Hipgrave: Q&A

If you want to listen to some of our most listened to episodes from the last 100 episodes, check these out:

#106 Mary Fowler: ACL, Art and Long Distance Relationships
#164 Jai Arrow: Fatherhood and What Really Matters
#170 Grace Grove: Doctor, Runner & Content Creator | Being Yourself & Ditching Toxic Productivity

Listen and subscribe:
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
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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 episode in three and a half years. Thank you to everyone who has listened along the way. In this episode, I answer the same nine questions past guests recorded for episode 100, and then I watch back what I said the first time and react to it. I talk about the advice from Ali Day I have done every day since, finding out my partner was pregnant on the second of January, sitting in my car at the shops unable to see a way forward, and the stranger who knocked on the window. I cover what I do for my own mental health, why rest turned out to be the fuel rather than the reward, and the whats next for Keegan &amp; Company. 
This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/">https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/</a>
If you want to watch our last Q&amp;A, here is the one we did at 100 episodes:
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Ct2WGqBGHyszapcO1kBSs">#100 Keegan Hipgrave: Q&amp;A</a>
If you want to listen to some of our most listened to episodes from the last 100 episodes, check these out:
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0wUkdsaf0VYpKn0xPmdzzv">#106 Mary Fowler: ACL, Art and Long Distance Relationships</a> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0pt58KGH008CDE9ICD8gkF">#164 Jai Arrow: Fatherhood and What Really Matters</a> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/66s6NgrIrs0qikhJTksnpN">#170 Grace Grove: Doctor, Runner &amp; Content Creator | Being Yourself &amp; Ditching Toxic Productivity</a>
Listen and subscribe: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4L7zyEBXeNYBDK4rRjBK0K">Spotify</a> <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/keegan-and-company/id1695873736">Apple Podcasts</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Keeganandcompany">YouTube</a>
Follow for more: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/keeganandcompanypodcast/">Podcast Instagram</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/keeganhipgrave/">Keegan's Instagram</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@keeganandcompany">TikTok</a>

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

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 Foxtel brings seven of those cards onto Australian soil, available on Kayo, and the first is at The Star on the Gold Coast, headlined by Teremoana Teremoana and Michael Zerafa. The morning before the card, Eddie and Keegan ran 5k together and then sat down on the sand and recorded this. Grateful he gave us the time.

In this episode, we discuss growing up as Barry Hearn's son and why outperforming a successful father is its own kind of hard start, the drive behind his rule that nobody in his industry will ever outwork him, and why the person with a nine to five walking this beach can be more successful than the billionaire. We also discuss consistency (keep banging on the door, it might take one bang or a thousand), why his favourite saying, this too shall pass, is really about the good times, what interviewing Adam Peaty, Mark Cavendish, Mo Farah and Frank Lampard taught him about the cost of obsession, the selfishness it takes to be the best at anything, and the legacy he wants to leave by making boxing a prominent sport in Australia.



This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/

For more just like this 
#113 Tim Tszyu: Learning from Loss, Fighting for Redemption: Spotify · Apple · YouTube 
#146 Harry Garside: Masculinity, Vulnerability & Boxing: Spotify · Apple · YouTube

Listen and subscribe Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4L7zyEBXeNYBDK4rRjBK0K Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/keegan-and-company/id1695873736 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Keeganandcompany

Follow for more Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keeganandcompanypodcast/ Keegan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keeganhipgrave/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@keeganandcompany

This week on a special edition of the Keegan &amp; 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 Foxtel brings seven of those cards onto Australian soil, available on Kayo, and the first is at The Star on the Gold Coast, headlined by Teremoana Teremoana and Michael Zerafa. The morning before the card, Eddie and Keegan ran 5k together and then sat down on the sand and recorded this. Grateful he gave us the time. In this episode, we discuss growing up as Barry Hearn's son and why outperforming a successful father is its own kind of hard start, the drive behind his rule that nobody in his industry will ever outwork him, and why the person with a nine to five walking this beach can be more successful than the billionaire. We also discuss consistency (keep banging on the door, it might take one bang or a thousand), why his favourite saying, this too shall pass, is really about the good times, what interviewing Adam Peaty, Mark Cavendish, Mo Farah and Frank Lampard taught him about the cost of obsession, the selfishness it takes to be the best at anything, and the legacy he wants to leave by making boxing a prominent sport in Australia. 
This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/">https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/</a>
For more just like this&nbsp; #113 Tim Tszyu: Learning from Loss, Fighting for Redemption:&nbsp;<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/7kIpcy07kxIUjQd7YuPk4o">Spotify</a>&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/113-tim-tszyu-learning-from-loss-fighting-for-redemption/id1695873736?i=1000717018452&amp;uo=4">Apple</a>&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEMRNA2PR6w">YouTube</a>&nbsp; #146 Harry Garside: Masculinity, Vulnerability &amp; Boxing:&nbsp;<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5J1knjZmt0vdzLXsgNKczY">Spotify</a>&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/146-harry-garside-masculinity-vulnerability-boxing/id1695873736?i=1000741193468&amp;uo=4">Apple</a>&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BqstMQIArw">YouTube</a>
Listen and subscribe&nbsp;Spotify:&nbsp;<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4L7zyEBXeNYBDK4rRjBK0K">https://open.spotify.com/show/4L7zyEBXeNYBDK4rRjBK0K</a>&nbsp;Apple Podcasts:&nbsp;<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/keegan-and-company/id1695873736">https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/keegan-and-company/id1695873736</a>&nbsp;YouTube:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Keeganandcompany">https://www.youtube.com/@Keeganandcompany</a>
Follow for more&nbsp;Podcast Instagram:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/keeganandcompanypodcast/">https://www.instagram.com/keeganandcompanypodcast/</a>&nbsp;Keegan's Instagram:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/keeganhipgrave/">https://www.instagram.com/keeganhipgrave/</a>&nbsp;TikTok:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@keeganandcompany">https://www.tiktok.com/@keeganandcompany</a>

#193 Luke Bateman: Ex NRL Player turned Fantasy Author, Why Vulnerability Is the Antidote to Shame

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