Roll With The Punches

Scott Anthony Douglas is back on the pod, and as always, his brain is doing 47 things at once while simultaneously making total sense of chaos, trust, travel, danger, discipline, trauma, intuition, and why sometimes you just have to climb on the bloody roof and ask questions later.
From paramedic work to mining, hospitality, motorcycles, skateboarding, oil rigs, Ireland, big-wave surfing, hitchhiking, sleeping in bushes, and somehow making friends with strangers in almost every corner of the planet... this chat went everywhere! But beneath all the epic and entertaining stories is something that fascinates me even more, which is Scott’s relationship with chaos, safety, trust, and that highly tuned internal radar that tells him when something is off before anyone else has even read the room.
So if you're up for a conversation about trusting your instincts, knowing yourself, staying pliable, and learning that sometimes the world is much kinder than we expect it to be. Unless your spidey senses say otherwise. In which case, off ya scoot 'n' see ya next time...

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Dave Greenberg is one of those blokes who has done more wild sh*t before breakfast than most of us will do in a lifetime.
Born in New York, he knew at eight years old he wanted to be a fireman, saved his first life at thirteen doing CPR on a stranger in the street, then somehow ended up in New Zealand doing more than 4,000 missions on the Westpac Rescue Helicopter. Ya know, just easing into life gently.
This chat went everywhere, which is exactly how I like it. Rescue helicopters, farmers finding wildly inventive ways to injure themselves, jumping into the ocean from a hovering chopper, crisis training, mindset, adrenaline, identity, ageing, pressure, and why chick flicks were apparently Dave’s emotional pressure valve. Sure didn’t see that one coming, but here we are.
What I loved most about this conversation was the bit underneath all the good yarns. Dave talks about the difference between assumed readiness and observed behaviour, which is basically what we reckon we’ll do under pressure versus what we actually do when life says, 'Righto superstar, your turn.'

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Winter punched me in the face this week, and it got me thinking about all the things that influence who we are, how we feel, and how we show up.
In this solo riff, I unpack the sneaky invisible shit steering the ship... from food, movement, recovery, stress, and hormones, through to the people we spend time with, the information we consume, and the environments we put ourselves in. I share why winter and perimenopause have forced me to get a lot more deliberate about my energy, why a yoga class reminded me how noisy life has become, and why cleaning up your social media feed might be one of the most underrated mental health strategies going around.
I also dive into tribe, belonging, accountability, novelty, and why sometimes the fastest way to change your mood, mindset, or momentum is simply to change what you're exposing yourself to.
Turns out, we might not control everything that influences us... but we can absolutely influence the things that influence us.
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In this ep Bobby and I wandered through ambition, expectations, creativity, performance, fear, trauma responses, authenticity, and the strange ways we can get in our own way. We talked about what happens when life gets chaotic, why some people thrive in a crisis but freeze over the smallest decisions, and how often we're trying to be who we think we're supposed to be instead of who we actually are.
We also explored why detaching from outcomes can sometimes make us more effective, why creativity doesn't respond well to force, and why some of the biggest breakthroughs happen when we stop trying so bloody hard.
As always with Bobby, we started somewhere sensible and ended up deep in the weeds of human behaviour, identity, and what it means to show up when life gets messy.

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Why are so many of us are unknowingly blocking ourselves from feeling loved whilst desperately trying to chase it?
Harry Reis is a renowned social psychologist and Professor at the University of Rochester who has spent decades researching love, intimacy, vulnerability, and what actually makes humans feel connected. He recently co-authored the book 'How to Feel More Loved' with Sonja Lyubomirsky, who is one of the world’s leading happiness researchers. Ripper collab right there, huh!
We spoke about online dating checklists, social media validation, the weird performance of modern identity, AI relationships, conflict, growth, and the fear most of us carry that if people really knew us… they’d leave. Harry also dropped one idea worth pondering... that love isn’t just romance. It’s belonging... it's being seen, understood, valued, and safe enough to be fully human around other people.
There’s also a lot in this one about the tension between comfort and growth too. Why relationships that never challenge us don’t actually deepen us. Why rupture and repair matters. Why conflict isn’t failure. And why the things that shape us most are usually the hard conversations, awkward truths, and moments where we stop hiding behind the polished version of ourselves.
Also… we somehow ended up talking about robot partners, Star Trek, and whether AI could ever replace human love. So, there’s that...

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