Keegan and Company

In this episode, Keegan breaks down toxic productivity - the compulsive need to always be doing, achieving, or optimising until it stops serving your life and starts consuming it. Drawing on recent conversations with Grace Grove, Jackie Bell, and Dr. Megan Lee, plus a personal realisation that hit close to home, Keegan explores why people who work on things they love experience burnout more than anyone else, and what it actually costs when the people you care about get the leftover version of you.

For more just like this:
Grace Grove: How She's Training for a Sub-3 Marathon While Working as a Doctor
Dr. Megan Lee: The Rise of the Whimsical Era

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Rob Dalto has run all seven Abbott World Marathon Majors three years in a row. Recorded in Tokyo ahead of his 38th marathon, we discuss losing his dad to cancer and how that started the marathon journey. How it took him 10 marathons to break 4 hours and now he's running sub 2:53. Outside of working full time in tech, he makes great content about running the major marathons all around the world and co-founded the Bronx Burners, a run club and community program that has raised $400,000 and provided 44 academic scholarships for kids in the Bronx.

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#162 Jake Barraclough (RanToJapan): 280km Weeks, Running in Japan & Finding Your Limit

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Why do some tasks feel effortless while others feel impossible? Why can I run for hours but can't sit down and write for 20 minutes?
In this episode I sit down with psychologist and researcher Dr Megan Lee to break down the science of flow: the state where you lose track of time and perform at your best. We talk about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's research, Sue Jackson's nine dimensions of flow, why athletes access flow so easily, and how the rest of us can get there too.
We also get into a really honest conversation about where we both struggle. Megan can't get to the gym. I can't sit at a laptop. We talk about the 30-minute timer technique, atomic habits, habit stacking, and why starting is always the hardest part.

If you enjoyed this episode check our the other episodes we have done with Dr Megan Lee:
#121 Dr Megan Lee: How to be Happy
#169 The Psychology of Green & Blue Spaces
#167 The Psychology of The Whimsical Era

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Grace Grove is a paediatrics doctor, a marathon runner preparing for London Marathon, and a content creator who's built a community by just being herself. We talked about burning out in 2025 trying to do it all, why she's doing less this year and doing it with more intention. Going from serial people-pleaser to showing up as her true self. What working in paediatrics has taught her about giving people grace. The LSKD 10-year vision exercise that made her cry. Sitting on the bathroom floor before Sydney Marathon with pre-race nerves so bad she was convinced she had food poisoning. And why becoming a mum is the one thing she'd give everything else up for.
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How long do you actually need to spend in nature to feel the effects on your mental health? And once you do, how long does it last?
In this episode, Dr Megan Lee breaks down the research behind green and blue spaces - what they are, why they work, and what's actually happening in your body when you step onto sand barefoot or dive under a wave. We talk about the COVID study that changed the field, why social connection is consistently the number one predictor of wellbeing across all of her research, and why nature ties together all five pillars of wellbeing without you even trying.
For more just like this, listen to Megan's first episode; "#121 Dr Megan Lee: How to be Happy".
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