The first thing Jason McCartney asked for wasn't a doctor. It was a whiteboard.

Badly injured and facing months in hospital, he didn't ask "why me?!". He set a goal, picked a deadline, and started working backwards, the same way he had for every season of his AFL career.

What he learned about handling the moments that flatten everyone else is something most leaders never have to discover until it's forced on them.

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There's a moment in your 50s when you start planning for decline instead of planning for growth. Craig Harper never had that moment. At 60+, he's more committed to his physical and mental performance than most 35-year-olds.

This isn't about genetics or obsession. It's about asking a different question: what would I have to do differently to stay in the game? His answer might surprise you.

Craig Harper is a high-performance coach, author, and speaker specialising in sustainable performance and behaviour change.

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Most conversations about depression treatment start and end with medication. But what if that starting point is too narrow?

Paul Taylor challenges a widely accepted assumption in mental health care that antidepressants are the primary or most effective solution for depression.

What he argues is not simplistic and not anti-medication. It’s more uncomfortable than that: that for many people, medication alone may not be enough to meaningfully address the deeper drivers of depression.

That raises a harder question most people never get asked: if medication isn’t the full answer, what is?

This is a conversation that sits in the tension between science, treatment norms, and lived experience. And it may change how you think about the way depression is actually treated in practice.

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Inside the venom of a desert lizard, scientists found a molecule that does something the diet industry spent 50 years failing to do. It quietly switches off hunger.

That molecule is now the most talked about drug on the planet, and it's sitting in the fridges of millions of people who couldn't explain how it works if you paid them.

Dr Tom Buckley, 30 years in medicine and a professor at Sydney University, has looked at the evidence and called these drugs revolutionary.

But what about "Ozempic face"? What if the wait comes back after you stop? Who should never touch these drugs? Dr Tom and Andrew get into the science so you finally have all the answers you need.

00:00 – A desert lizard that eats twice a year
03:32 – What a GLP-1 actually is, in plain English
07:36 – Ghrelin and leptin: hunger and fullness, explained
10:23 – The venom that cracked the hunger code
14:06 – Why your body is built to hold onto fat
15:19 – How to raise GLP-1 without a prescription
18:10 – Become the CEO of your body and brain
22:10 – You don't lose fat cells, they shrink
24:39 – "Ozempic face," and why you lose weight slowly
28:17 – The "Limitless" effect: cognitive horsepower
29:28 – 76 trials, 40,000 patients: the evidence
30:47 – Lancet 2024: heart attacks and strokes down
32:11 – Why Tom calls these drugs regenerative
34:18 – Who should never take it
35:23 – The side effects nobody mentions upfront
41:19 – On it and off it: what you have to get right
48:14 – Most regain 75% within a year of stopping
50:09 – Metabolic rebound: worse than where you started
52:51 – The hidden economy GLP-1s are reshaping
56:13 – Tom's cliff notes

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Most teams spend their lives trying to reach the top. Very few have to answer the question of what happens when they get there.

The Penrith Panthers have won 4 consecutive NRL premierships. In an era designed for parity, they've achieved something almost unheard of in modern sport. Which raises a fascinating challenge.

How do you keep people motivated when they've already achieved the goal?

How do you maintain standards when success becomes normal?
How do you avoid complacency when everyone around you is telling you how good you are?

Dan Haesler, Mental Skills Coach for the Penrith Panthers, shares what it takes to sustain excellence after success.

But this isn't really about rugby league. It's about leadership, culture, psychology, and human behaviour. Whether you're leading a team, running a business, building a career or pursuing your own goals, eventually you'll face the same challenge: how do you keep growing when you've already won?

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Talent gets you through the door. It does not keep you in the room, and it has almost nothing to do with what you become.

Kieren Jack is proof. The last pick in the AFL rookie draft, too small and too slow on paper, he outworked every reason he should not have made it. Kieren played 256 games for the Sydney Swans, co-captained the club, won the 2012 premiership and earned a place in its Hall of Fame. Then he did the harder thing. He walked away at the top and started again, building a whole new career in business where his name meant nothing.

What carries across is the useful part. How do you keep performing when you are running on empty? What actually holds a team together when pressure hits? Why do the people who get knocked down and underestimated often end up the most dangerous?

Recorded live, in a room that was never meant to be a podcast. No script, no second takes. You've got a seat that wasn't on sale.

Whatever you are trying to build, you'll leave this one thinking differently about how you get there.

0:00 Pick 138, a famous surname, and why talent only opens the door
1:50 How the Swans built a dynasty on character, not talent
5:10 Missing the draft, choosing his own sport, and finding his identity
9:20 The 2012 flag, and what that team had that he's never seen again
17:40 Take the baton: the motto that outlived the players who made it
19:15 A season as co-captain, played on empty, in a dressing gown
22:05 When a private family conflict went public before his 200th game
28:10 Twins, no sleep, and what sport does and doesn't teach you about parenting
33:45 Why he studied an MBA mid-career, and why leaving the game made him better
37:00 A $120m deal in four months, and what footy gave him no MBA could
41:05 Joining the West Coast rebuild and flipping the member thank-you
44:55 Premiership to wooden spoon: what went wrong and what a rebuild takes
48:25 Q&A: carrying elite habits into everyday life when structure disappears
49:55 Q&A: what good culture really looks like, and who actually builds it
53:20 Q&A: leading young, learning empathy, and what he'd do differently at 20

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Ever lost your composure right when you needed it most? In a high-pressure moment, when everyone's watching and one wrong move costs you, most people freeze. This reporter learned to do the opposite.

Seasoned news reporter, Ali Piotrowski breaks down the one skill that kept her sharp through war zones, Middle East conflict, and the chaos outside Trump's indictments: calm. Not the kind you're born with. The kind you train.

She explains why composure became her edge, and why it can be yours too.

If you work in a fast-moving, high-pressure environment, this one's worth a few minutes of your time.

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