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Steven Mlinaric is a carpenter and former Australian Army combat engineer. He joined at eighteen, spent twelve years in, and deployed to Timor, Afghanistan, and Iraq — building watchtowers, rebuilding schools, and helping run a trade school for Afghan kids in the middle of a war. He made corporal, and by his own account loved every day of it. We trace the whole arc — the bus to Kapooka at eighteen, the deployments, the back injury he hid for seven months in Iraq because quitting wasn't something he did, and the three years after discharge when the hardest part turned out to be becoming a civilian again: panic attacks he couldn't name, a purpose he couldn't replace, and learning his own emotions off a printed sheet. This is a conversation about what the army trains into you and what it costs to untrain it — identity, purpose, and what it takes to feel human again when the thing you built your life around is gone. Disclaimer: This episode reflects personal experiences and opinions shared for discussion purposes only. Nothing discussed constitutes medical, legal, or professional advice. Please consult a qualified professional before making any health or lifestyle decisions.

Marlowe Hale is a doctor in Australia who works in rehabilitation and treats chronic pain, including a ketamine service for people other treatments haven't reached. (Marlowe Hale is a pseudonym, used at her request.) She came to medicine by an unusual route — an off-grid childhood in rural Texas, a degree in politics, a scholarship that put her on the other side of the world — and it left her with a stance that's gone rare in her field: she wants the evidence, but she doesn't always trust the people who decide what counts as it. We trace how she got here, and then into the work itself — what chronic pain actually is, how much of it lives in the mind, and why she treats so much of it with ketamine. This is a conversation about pain and how we carry it, the gap between knowing something and being able to prove it, and where a working clinician quietly breaks with her own profession. Disclaimer: This episode reflects personal experiences and opinions shared for discussion purposes only. Nothing discussed constitutes medical, legal, or professional advice. Please consult a qualified professional before making any health or lifestyle decisions.

Nathan Siles is a health educator and entrepreneur who runs a practice built around what he calls Foundational Health — light, water, mitochondria, and circadian rhythm. He trained in finance at ANZ in Melbourne before cancer redirected his career, and now runs his work outside, mostly barefoot, mostly in the sun. We trace how a Melbourne kid on track for a London corner office ended up living on a beach in Mexico, and what he thinks he learned about the body along the way. This is a conversation about the way environment shapes health, what conventional medicine answered for him and what it didn't, and what he thinks modern life is doing to the body. Disclaimer: This episode reflects personal experiences and opinions shared for discussion purposes only. Nothing discussed constitutes medical, legal, or professional advice. Please consult a qualified professional before making any health or lifestyle decisions.

Matt Richards is a general manager in finance, running a loan book that lends against vehicles, trucks, and equipment. He came up through a major bank's graduate program before taking over a small operation that now loses 75% less than its larger competitors. We explore how a childhood of wheeling and dealing with his father — buying hurricane-damaged boats in Florida, fixing them, selling them on — shaped the way he reads people in lending decisions today. This is a conversation about underwriting risk, the lessons that come from family rather than school, and what gets lost when judgement is replaced by an algorithm. Disclaimer:This episode reflects personal experiences and opinions shared for discussion purposes only. Nothing discussed constitutes medical, legal, or professional advice. Please consult a qualified professional before making any health or lifestyle decisions.

Nick Dawe is a Sydney-based chiropractor and movement educator whose work sits between rehabilitation, nervous-system regulation, and somatic practice. We explore how his thinking moved away from correction and performance-driven models, and toward safety, adaptation, and the conditions that make change possible. This is a conversation about the nervous system, treatment philosophy, parenting, and what it means to let go without collapsing. Disclaimer: This episode reflects personal experiences and opinions shared for discussion purposes only. Nothing discussed constitutes medical, legal, or professional advice. Please consult a qualified professional before making any health or lifestyle decisions.

Dan Arnold is a former gymnast with a background in architecture and structural engineering. He is the founder of Falsegrip – a movement-based training gym built on strength, mobility and long-term skill development. We explore how early adversity shaped his relationship to control and capability, and how fatherhood and ayahuasca fractured his old identity. This is a conversation about adversity, building the body as foundation, and the inner work required to evolve without losing yourself. Disclaimer: This episode reflects personal experiences and opinions shared for discussion purposes only. Nothing discussed constitutes medical, legal, or professional advice. Please consult a qualified professional before making any health or lifestyle decisions.