Come Closer? Yeah, Nah... The Art of Emotional Avoidance. | Dr. Galit Atlas - 1061

Why do we sometimes push people away before they even get the chance to hurt us? And how much of what we call our personality is actually a bunch of survival strategies we picked up as kids? I had an absolute cracker of a conversation with psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas, who just happens to be the …

You're Not Broken. You're Running a Pattern. | Rebekah King - 1060

Why do we keep getting in our own way, even when we bloody know better? Beck King and I get stuck into the patterns, fears and stories that keep us repeating the same shit, why the problem isn't always the problem, and what it takes to actually make a change. Beck shares some of her own journey t…

Stop Waiting to Get Your Sh*t Together | Craig Harper - 1059

How much of your potential are you leaving on the table because you're waiting for the right time to get your sh*t together? We do we humans cling to comfort, certainty and the familiar, even when they're the very things keeping us stuck? Harps and I bang on in this ep about the stories we tell o…

Hard Things & Hand Grenades - Scott Douglas - 1058

Why do we sometimes find it easier to jump off a cliff, swim in massive surf or lift a stupidly heavy weight than have an honest conversation about how we're actually feeling? Well, these are some of the questions Scotty and I get stuck into as we explore the whole hard things conversation, and wh…

We Are What We Repeatedly Do | Tiff Cook - 1057

G'day whippersnappers. No guest this ep. Just you and me, sitting down for a chat about change. I've been having heaps of conversations lately while building Strong AF, and so many of them have brought me back to the same question: if I keep doing what I'm doing now, where does this take me? Beca…

The Dark Side of Being the Strong One | Vicki Connor - 1056

Vicki Connor has been through... well, honestly, I'm not sure how to describe it without sounding like I'm making sh*t up. A serious head injury that changed her personality. Type 1 diabetes from the age of seven. Major surgery at 15. Elite sport. Abusive relationships. Severe depression. A compli…

Too Healthy for a Heart Attack? | Katrina Umback - 1055

Katrina lost her husband Scott to a heart attack when he was just 42. He was fit, active, an exercise physiologist, didn't smoke, didn't have high cholesterol and had normal blood pressure. He'd even been to the doctor about chest pain. And yet, he still died. That experience, as you can imagine, …

Two ADHD-ers Walk into a Podcast Studio | Patrick Bonello - 1054

Two ADHD-ers walk into a podcast studio... what could possibly go wrong? Well, once we got past flamethrowers and weed killing, eventually we went down the rabbit hole of what happens when you finally understand how your brain actually works. Patrick was recently diagnosed with ADHD, and the diag…

How Narcissists Hijack Your Brain | Dr. Peter Salerno - 1053

Narcissism gets thrown around so much these days that I was really bloody interested to get underneath the label and actually talk about what we know, what we don't know, and where we've potentially got it very wrong. Dr Peter Salerno has worked clinically with people who meet the criteria for sev…

Finding the Glimmers | Claire Clark - 1052

Imagine being a rambunctious & ridiculously active weapon one minute, and one who's barely able to walk from the car to the supermarket without your heartrate sky-rocketing the next... Well, welcome to the world of Claire Clark... Claire was a paramedic, PT, yoga teacher, retreat organiser, ridicu…