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Keegan Hipgrave

Ever wondered what drives the world’s top athletes beyond the scoreboard?

Former professional NRL player Keegan Hipgrave uncovers the untold truths about mental health, resilience, and redefining success - one candid conversation at a time.

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  • Sunday · 1 hr 7 min

    #206 Jaz Sloane: How Positive Reframing Got Her Through the Worst Year and a Podium at Kona

    Jaz Sloane had never run when she signed up for an Ironman. Ten months later she won her age group at Busselton and qualified for Kona. The year that followed was the most chaotic of her life, and she made the podium at the world championship anyway. In this episode Jaz and I discuss the challenging last 12 months; a breakup after five years, getting hit by a car in March, training in a sling, moving cities, house hopping because she could not find a rental, and building a whole new group of friends while she did it. She reckons she is good at positive reframing, and the interesting part is that she had to learn it. She spent two years and real money on mindset work before she started her business as a coach, and that is what carried her through. We also talk about the eating disorder she had in year eight and the trainer who pulled her out of it, why she signed up for a full Ironman with no background in running or cycling, what she does on the days she is not motivated, and why consistency is the most important thing. For more just like this: #176 Jacqui Bell: Youngest Person to Run an Ultra on Every Continent: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #170 Grace Grove: Doctor, Runner & Content Creator | Being Yourself & Ditching Toxic Productivity: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube A doctor who runs, on reading your own body instead of pushing through it. Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Wednesday · 17 min

    Moments #25 Emily Capodilupo (WHOOP) How to Train Around Your Cycle & What Each Phase Is For

    This is the part of my chat with Emily Capodilupo that we keep coming back to. The full episode came out in September 2024, and after sitting down with Lydia O'Donnell it felt like the right time to pull this section out on its own. Emily leads research and data at WHOOP. She was studying pregnancy while she was pregnant, watching her own resting heart rate climb by 15 beats and knowing exactly why. She went for her first run after her daughter was born and was surprised by how comfortable and how fast she felt. Most of what women are told about their bodies after a baby turns out to be social rather than physiological, and she has the data to show it. I'm grateful she talked about her own numbers this openly. In this episode Emily and I discuss the WHOOP study with West Virginia University that followed 18 women from preconception through postpartum, why a resting heart rate 15 to 20 beats higher in the third trimester is normal, and why recovery afterwards can be better than baseline. She explains what actually needs care on the way back, from a caesarean to diastasis recti and the six week check, and why VO2 max and lung capacity can both come out higher on the other side. We finish on training with the cycle rather than against it, what changes in the follicular and luteal phases, and why you cannot simply move your cycle so a big race lands in the right week. This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/ For the full episode: #66 Emily Capodilupo: WHOOP$3.6B Growth, Sleep Consistency Boosts GPA and Alcohol’s Effect on Recovery: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube For more just like this: #170 Grace Grove: Doctor, Runner & Content Creator | Being Yourself & Ditching Toxic Productivity: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #176 Jacqui Bell: Youngest Person to Run an Ultra on Every Continent: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #160 Andy Buchanan: Finding Purpose In Running: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • September 6 · 1 hr 25 min

    #205 Lydia ODonnell Nike & Femmi Run Coach: Learning to Train Like a Woman, Losing Her Dad & Why She's Trail Running Now

    Lydia O'Donnell is a professional distance runner from New Zealand and the co-founder and CEO of Femmi, a running app built around the female body. She was Nike's Head Run Coach, has been running marathons for over ten years and coaching athletes for more than five. Femmi came out of something she and her co-founder Esther Keown both went through: they lost their periods training the way they had been taught to. I'm grateful she came in and talked about it this openly. In this episode Lydia and I discuss why less than 6% of sports science research is conducted exclusively on females, and what that means for every coach you have ever had. She takes me through running 160 kilometres a week at 25, cutting carbs out entirely because a fad told her to, and ending up in hospital with her body shutting down. We get into RED-S, why losing your period was treated as a badge of honour, and the graph she saw for the first time at 27 that changed how she trains. She thinks cycle syncing is faddy, and she explains what she does instead. Femmi was built while less than 1% of venture capital was going to women, and she tells me what pitching close to 200 investors did to her running. Her dad was diagnosed with cancer in 2021. She talks about the six weeks in hospice, and the signs she believes he has been sending her since. This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/ For more just like this: #176 Jacqui Bell: Youngest Person to Run an Ultra on Every Continent: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #160 Andy Buchanan: Finding Purpose In Running: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #170 Grace Grove: Doctor, Runner & Content Creator | Being Yourself & Ditching Toxic Productivity: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • September 2 · 13 min

    Matt Hauser on Going All In on What You're Good At & Identity Beyond Sport | Moments #24

    Matt Hauser is an Olympic triathlete from the Gold Coast. He came home from his first Olympics not satisfied and decided he needed to go all in if he was going to compete at the top of the sport. A few months after we recorded this, he became World Champion. In this episode Matt and I talk about the choice he gave himself, grow up or step away, why he stopped calling any of it sacrifice, and the question his partner sent in that he struggled to answer. Describe yourself as a person without using triathlon. We sat down with Matt in early 2025. We are re-releasing this section now as a Moments episode because it is the part people keep coming back to. This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/ Listen to the Full episode here: #96 Matt Hauser: Triathlons, Tackling Challenges & Finding Community: Spotify · Apple · YouTube The full conversation this came from. For more just like this: #155 Jeremy Howe: More Than AFL: Spotify · Apple · YouTube #83 Jordan Kahu: Balancing Family & Business, Life after NRL, and Mental Health: Spotify · Apple · YouTube Life on the other side of the sport, which is where Matt's question is pointing. Listen and subscribe Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 30 · 46 min

    "Be the best or I don't come back at all" Gretel Bueta Motherhood, Burnout & Commonwealth Games #204

    Gretel Bueta grew up on the Gold Coast playing everything she could get her hands on. She signed her first professional basketball contract at 17, played three junior world championships and was named WNBL Rookie of the Year. Then she got glandular fever, stopped enjoying it and walked away from the sport entirely. Three months later she started playing netball socially with school friends, and did not make the district team. She went on to play more than 100 games for the Queensland Firebirds and over 50 for the Diamonds, won Commonwealth Games gold and the Liz Ellis Diamond as the best player in Australian netball, and came back after her first child playing some of the best netball of her life. She is now a mother of three. Grateful she came in and talked about all of it. In this episode Gretel and I discuss what happened when she came back to netball after having Bobby and found she was hungrier than she had ever been, why she decided she would either come back and be the best or not come back at all, burning out at 17 and her parents telling her to go work at the local bank and be happy, the netball trial she did not get picked for, how trying to play the perfect game cost her a Commonwealth Games, the quote she used to force selection, the 15 minutes a day nobody ever saw, her mum running the house as the family CEO, and whether motherhood is harder than professional sport. This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/ For more just like this: #191 Charlotte Caslick: 3x Olympian Rugby 7s Player on Training Through Pregnancy & Why Trying Hard Is Cool | Apple | YouTube #33 Allie Smith: Swifts Cult, Perfectionism and Building Confidence | Apple | YouTube Another netballer on perfectionism, and the New South Wales Swifts, the club Gretel played for in 2014. #27 Kelsey Browne: Journey with Body Image, Clinical Depression, and a Glass Half Full Perspective | Apple | YouTube A former professional netballer on what the sport took out of her. Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 25 · 13 min

    #203 The Psychology of Bids for Connection: The Small Thing That Predicts Divorce

    In this episode I get into bids for connection, the Gottman Institute's term for the small moments when your partner reaches out to you, and why how often you turn towards them is one of the biggest predictors of whether a couple stays together or gets divorced. I go through the newlywed research that followed couples for six years and sorted them into masters and disasters, and the part that actually matters, which is not catching every bid but going back to repair the ones you miss. I talk about the emotional bank account, Alexis Fernandez's tennis ball, the bird theory trend and Robert Irwin's answer to it, and why the phone is the biggest killer of all of it. I go into the year I spent making big grand gestures while missing the small ones, and what changed in the two weeks before I recorded this. This one was made with Denza. We packed the B5, drove up into the hinterland and set camp for the night, and that is where the episode was recorded. The cooler in the centre console kept the sandwiches cold on the way up, the boot is spacious and fits everything we need and this car is just such a pleasure to drive. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast. For more just like this #186 Alexis Fernandez The Neuroscience of Connection, Creativity & Heartbreak: Spotify · Apple · YouTube The conversation this whole episode came out of, and where the tennis ball comes from. #190 The Psychology of Monotasking: Why Being Bored Makes You More Creative: Spotify · Apple · YouTube The companion to the phone half of this one. How to Help People Feel Comfortable | Episode 179: Spotify · Apple · YouTube The instinct I did not have a name for until this one. #146 Harry Garside: Masculinity, Vulnerability & Boxing: Spotify · Apple · YouTube Listen and subscribe Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4L7zyEBXeNYBDK4rRjBK0K Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/keegan-and-company/id1695873736 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Keeganandcompany Follow for more Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keeganandcompanypodcast/ Keegan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keeganhipgrave/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@keeganandcompany See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 23 · 57 min

    #202 Jesse Campbell: How an Accountant Ran 2:44 Marathon in 18 Months

    Jesse Campbell grew up in New Zealand, and works full time as an accountant on the Gold Coast while juggling Marathon training himself, coaching and Content Creation. He ran his first marathon in Queenstown in November 2024 in 3:28 18 months later he ran 2:44 in Osaka. That is 45 minutes off a marathon in under two years, done around a nine to five. In this episode Jesse and I discuss why he started running, which had nothing to do with racing and everything to do with being lost after he stopped playing basketball. He explains what a day actually looks like at 4:30am, seven runs a week fitted around a full working day, and why that stopped feeling like discipline a long time ago. We get into the race he blew up in after Osaka and his honest read on why it went wrong. Most of it lands wider than running though. What putting a goal out in public actually does to you. How he handles comparison when everyone is posting their times. And what he would say to someone who looks at the people ahead of them and decides there is no point starting, which is that if you stick at anything you can progress at it, and that has carried into the rest of his life further than the running has. This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/ Follow Jesse: YouTube Instagram For more just like this #162 Jake Barraclough (RanToJapan): 280km Weeks, Running in Japan & Finding Your Limit: Spotify · Apple · YouTube #160 Andy Buchanan: Finding Purpose In Running: Spotify · Apple · YouTube Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 18 · 16 min

    #201 The Psychology of Obsession: A Healthy Dose, and When It Crosses the Line

    In this episode, we discuss the difference between motivation, discipline and obsession, and why they behave like three different fuel sources rather than three settings of the same one. We get into the 2017 research on self control that found the most disciplined people are not the ones winning daily fights with themselves, they are the ones who face fewer fights in the first place. We talk about discipline as obsession residue, the two kinds of passion that look identical from the outside and run in opposite directions underneath, the red flags that show the needle has gone too far, and Craig Alexander asking himself at the back end of his career whether he was being selfish. Keegan lands on where he sits on the spectrum, and leaves you with the question he could not shake: if the thing disappeared tomorrow, would you still know who you are. This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/ For more just like this: #129 Craig Alexander: Harder Than Ironman The episode Keegan quotes in this one, and the clearest example of the leash being held. #151 Lachlan Jones: The Discipline Blueprint #199 Eddie Hearn: What It Takes to Be Great, "You Will Never Outwork Me" Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 16 · 44 min

    200 Episode Q&A: What Motivates Me? Dream Guest? "It's Okay to Not Have It All Figured Out"

    This is episode 200. In the last hundred episodes I got married, found out I am about to become a dad, and took this podcast full time. I ran Tokyo, Boston and London, with Berlin, Chicago and New York still to come. We brought on our first full time staff member, and we have not missed a weekly episode in three and a half years. Thank you to everyone who has listened along the way. In this episode, I answer the same nine questions past guests recorded for episode 100, and then I watch back what I said the first time and react to it. I talk about the advice from Ali Day I have done every day since, finding out my partner was pregnant on the second of January, sitting in my car at the shops unable to see a way forward, and the stranger who knocked on the window. I cover what I do for my own mental health, why rest turned out to be the fuel rather than the reward, and the whats next for Keegan & Company. This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/ If you want to watch our last Q&A, here is the one we did at 100 episodes: #100 Keegan Hipgrave: Q&A If you want to listen to some of our most listened to episodes from the last 100 episodes, check these out: #106 Mary Fowler: ACL, Art and Long Distance Relationships #164 Jai Arrow: Fatherhood and What Really Matters #170 Grace Grove: Doctor, Runner & Content Creator | Being Yourself & Ditching Toxic Productivity Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 11 · 38 min

    #199 Eddie Hearn: What It Takes to Be Great, "You Will Never Outwork Me"

    This week on a special edition of the Keegan & Company Podcast we welcome Eddie Hearn. Eddie Hearn took over a promotion built by his father and turned it into the biggest name in world boxing. He runs around forty fight nights a year. This year Matchroom landed in Australia. A new deal with Foxtel brings seven of those cards onto Australian soil, available on Kayo, and the first is at The Star on the Gold Coast, headlined by Teremoana Teremoana and Michael Zerafa. The morning before the card, Eddie and Keegan ran 5k together and then sat down on the sand and recorded this. Grateful he gave us the time. In this episode, we discuss growing up as Barry Hearn's son and why outperforming a successful father is its own kind of hard start, the drive behind his rule that nobody in his industry will ever outwork him, and why the person with a nine to five walking this beach can be more successful than the billionaire. We also discuss consistency (keep banging on the door, it might take one bang or a thousand), why his favourite saying, this too shall pass, is really about the good times, what interviewing Adam Peaty, Mark Cavendish, Mo Farah and Frank Lampard taught him about the cost of obsession, the selfishness it takes to be the best at anything, and the legacy he wants to leave by making boxing a prominent sport in Australia. This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/ For more just like this #113 Tim Tszyu: Learning from Loss, Fighting for Redemption: Spotify · Apple · YouTube #146 Harry Garside: Masculinity, Vulnerability & Boxing: Spotify · Apple · YouTube Listen and subscribe Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4L7zyEBXeNYBDK4rRjBK0K Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/keegan-and-company/id1695873736 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Keeganandcompany Follow for more Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keeganandcompanypodcast/ Keegan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keeganhipgrave/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@keeganandcompany See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 9 · 57 min

    #198 Johnny Gannon: Bra Boy to Black Belt on Grit, Self Respect and Staying Curious

    Johnny Gannon grew up in Maroubra in the Bra Boys era, when you did not talk about your problems and showing any weakness put you at the bottom of the pile. He has spent the last 25 years on the jiu-jitsu mats, took nearly 20 years to earn his black belt, and now runs eight-week health challenges with chapters right across Australia. At 54 he still trains most days, teaches his three kids, and is as curious as he has ever been. We were stoked to get him in. In this episode, we discuss how training became his way of coping, why he reckons you have to look after number one before you can look after anyone else, and the mate who told him to respect himself. He explains his wheel of health, the eight-week challenge that has people quitting the drink for good, and learning to hold his breath for three and a half minutes on an empty lung by getting curious instead of scared. We also get into the Bra Boys years, the grit that came out of them, and what he wants for his own kids instead. This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/ For more just like this #164 Jai Arrow: Fatherhood and What Really Matters: Spotify · Apple · YouTube Listen and subscribe Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4L7zyEBXeNYBDK4rRjBK0K Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/keegan-and-company/id1695873736 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Keeganandcompany Follow for more Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keeganandcompanypodcast Keegan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keeganhipgrave TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@keeganandcompany See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 5 · 20 min

    #197 Why Resilience Is the Skill Behind Every World Record | Lessons from the Canning Stock Route

    Dr Geoff Wilson kite skied 5,306 kilometres across Antarctica on his own, the longest solo unsupported polar journey anyone has done. He holds a stack of other polar records and works as a vet in between them. Keegan spent two weeks with him on the Canning Stock Route, a recce for Geoff's next crossing, 1850 kilometres of Western Australian desert by wind power. Keegan recorded this one alone at sunrise, at the end of the trip. What stood out was not Geoff's fitness or his gear. It was how fast he came back to baseline when everything went wrong. In this episode, we discuss why emotional regulation is the skill behind Geoff's world records, the campfire conversations about building resilience in adults and in kids, the suicide rate among vets and the resilience training Geoff runs for his staff, why comfort quietly costs us, Keegan getting rag dolled out of a kite buggy for an hour before it all finally clicked, the experienced four wheel drivers who said the crossing was not possible, working within your means instead of jumping to extremes, the 50 kilometre ultra that made Keegan hate running for 18 months, and why the more space you have above your head, the bigger the idea gets. This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/ For more just like this #189 Oliver Foran: Mount Everest World Record (Sea Level to Summit), Losing his Mum 16 & Finding His Why Spotify | Apple Podcasts #131 Geoff Wilson: A Life of Adventure Geoff's full conversation with us, recorded before this trip. Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube Listen and subscribe Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 2 · 38 min

    #196 Geoff Wilson: 1800km Across the Desert by Wind & Why Hard Times Make Good People

    Geoff Wilson is one of the most experienced adventurers in the world, with a particular affinity for wind powered travel. He's crossed Antarctica (and holds the world record for doing so), the Sahara Desert and the Simpson Desert, to name a few. His latest mission is to cross the Canning Stock Route, an 1,850km route regarded as the most remote 4WD track in the world, using wind power or human power alone. This episode was recorded on the reconnaissance mission to scout out the project, shot in the Tanami Desert just outside Billiluna, WA. Thanks Geoff for having us out there. In this episode, we discuss how a wind powered crossing actually works, why the people who've walked this track by camel say the vegetation makes it impossible, kiting into Billiluna and the kids who'd never seen a kite before, why he changes kites instead of persisting with one that half works, the ice bath course and the young vet who wouldn't put her toe in, suicide in veterinary science, losing his dad and his best mate in the same twelve months, and why he thinks hard times make good people. This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/ If you'd like to hear more adventures from Geoff, we sat down for a full length episode last year. #131 Geoff Wilson: A Life of Adventure — Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube You may also enjoy these episodes: #124 Mark Mathews: Recreate the Fear — Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #156 Kitalé Wilson: How a Life of Adventure Taught Me to Slow Down — Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • July 26 · 1 hr 7 min

    #195 Alex Boyce (Sun Devil): Building the Viral Coffee Shop & Hitting Rock Bottom After Closing The Doors

    Alex Boyce is the founder and owner of Sun Devil. He grew up in Arizona and moved to the Gold Coast in his twenties. A few years later he started Sun Devil started as a farmers market stall, soon enough there were queues of 70+ people to get their hands on a Sun Devil coffee, before the doors shut overnight. In this episode, we discuss why he stayed silent when the rumours started, the decision to only ever do cold coffee, what it does to a business when one video changes the volume overnight, why Keegan thinks good marketing makes a bad product fail faster (Sun Devil has a good product), what money does to friendships, what happened during the months after the doors shut, and the stretch he describes as the first time he actually understood what depression was. This episode includes discussion of depression and suicidal thoughts. If you need support, Lifeline is on 13 11 14. For more just like this #141 Jason Daniels: The Real LSKD Story Building a brand from nothing and what it costs to keep it going. Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #146 Harry Garside: Masculinity, Vulnerability & Boxing Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • July 19 · 1 hr 28 min

    #194 Clint Kimmins Big Wave Surfer & Triathlete: No One's Coming to Save You

    Clint Kimmins has chased 60 foot waves at Nazaré and finished Ironmans. The thing he's most proud of is surviving six months in a maximum security prison. He went in at the peak of his surfing career with a beer belly and came out an athlete. This week we sat down with the big wave surfer and long course triathlete to talk about the surf club brawl that put him inside, the pile of letters that showed him he was actually loved, and the mindset that got him through the door on day one. We get into the harder stuff too. Losing his mum, the morning he woke to a voice memo from his dad, and how the two of them talk more now than they have in twenty years. And then there's Nazaré. One of the biggest days ever, borrowed gear, the wrong vest, over the falls near the cliff, held under longer than he's ever been. He calls it the best thing that's ever happened to him. Full episode out now. Related episodes #182 Alex Hermanson: Weighing 140kg & 30 Beers a Day to Running Ultra Marathons (Apple · YouTube) #180 Michael Hooper: Overthinking Nearly Broke Me. Now It's My Superpower (Apple · YouTube) #172 Rob Dalto: Losing Dad, 38 Marathons & Building the Bronx Burners (Apple) Listen and subscribe Spotify · Apple · YouTube Follow for more @keeganandcompanypodcast · @keeganhipgrave · TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • July 15 · 14 min

    Moments #23 Harry Garside: Softness, Masculinity & the Olympic Medal That Didn't Make Him a Man

    Harry Garside won an Olympic boxing medal, then sat in hotel quarantine with it around his neck, crying, because the thing he'd chased for sixteen years still hadn't made him feel like a man. He started boxing at nine because he felt soft next to his two older brothers, and spent most of his life wearing what he calls an impenetrable armour to hide it. This Moment is about the version of masculinity you never stop having to prove, why external validation stopped working once he finally had it, and what he found underneath when he went looking internally instead. We first ran this conversation in December, recorded a few weeks earlier in November 2025. After the response to our recent chat with Luke Bateman on shame and vulnerability, Harry's take felt worth putting back in front of you. Still one of our favourites. Listen to the full episode: Spotify | Apple | YouTube Related episodes: Justin Knussi: Vulnerability Is a Superpower — Spotify | Apple | YouTube Ryan Clark (Whippet): Bondi Rescue, Swimming the English Channel & Overcoming Fear — Spotify | Apple | YouTube Alexis Fernandez: The Neuroscience of Connection, Creativity & Heartbreak — Spotify | Apple | YouTube Listen and subscribe: Spotify | Apple | YouTube Follow for more: @keeganandcompanypodcast | @keeganhipgrave | TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • July 12 · 1 hr 23 min

    #193 Luke Bateman: Ex NRL Player turned Fantasy Author, Why Vulnerability Is the Antidote to Shame

    While Luke Bateman was playing in the NRL, his mum was paying his mortgage and ordering food to his door. Gambling had taken every cent he had, and hundreds of thousands more he didn't. This week Keegan sits down with Luke Bateman: former NRL player, now an author, keynote speaker and one of the more honest voices going around on shame and addiction. We get into the gambling that spiralled in 2018, the suicidal low that followed, rehab and the 12 steps, and the tiny one-minute promises he used to start trusting himself again. He explains why vulnerability is the antidote to shame, why he hid his love of books from teammates for twenty years, and the fantasy novel that handed him a blueprint for who he wanted to become. Also in here: values as a decision filter, boundaries, and why he says he wouldn't change any of it for himself but wouldn't wish it on anyone. For more just like this: #101 Kieran Foran: "I Just Wanted to Have Peace". NRL Star on mental health, grief and finding peace after football: Spotify | Apple | YouTube #146 Harry Garside: Masculinity, Vulnerability & Boxing: Spotify | Apple | YouTube Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • July 8 · 16 min

    Moment #22 Kieran Foran on Rock Bottom, Rehab and Just Wanting Peace

    This episode discusses suicide and addiction. If it brings anything up for you, Lifeline is 13 11 14 and 13YARN is 13 92 76. In 2016 Kieran Foran had just signed a $4.8 million contract to be a leader. Privately he was gambling, barely sleeping, and had started to think his two young kids would be better off without him - a thought he goes on to be his biggest regret... We recorded this with Kieran in January 2025 and it is one of the most honest conversations we have had on the show, so we are resurfacing it as a Moment. He takes us right back to learning to cope the wrong way as a teenager, the loop of therapy and relapse, the night he decided he was done, and what recovery actually looked like after that. Two rehab stints. Handing his finances to his wife. Just wanting a peaceful sleep. Almost ten years on, he is in a very different place. Since we spoke Kieran has retired and stepped straight into a head coaching role, and it has been nothing short of incredible to watch. He has earned it. For more just like this #185 Kori Sampson - Ultra-Marathoner: You Can't Outthink Your Mental Health — Sobriety, ADHD & the Marathon Majors: Spotify · Apple · YouTube Listen and subscribe Spotify · Apple Podcasts · YouTube Follow for more Instagram · Keegan's Instagram · TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • July 5 · 51 min

    #192 Jason Cadee: Australian Basketball Player, Four Words From My Coach That Changed How I Led

    Jason Cadee spent 15 years as a professional basketball player, 424 games across the NBL. It nearly ended before it began. At 18, not long after breaking into the Australian senior set-up, he was hit side-on by a semi-trailer at 100km/h on a Sydney freeway and trapped in the wreck for 90 minutes. He came out with a broken pelvis and, somehow, barely a mark on him. This week we sit down with Jason to get into the crash and what it did and didn't teach him, why becoming a dad landed harder than any near miss, the single piece of leadership advice that changed how he led, and what it actually takes to walk away from the only thing you've ever known and start again. Both his parents played for Australia, so basketball was never optional. Stopping was the hard part. For more just like this Aaron Booth on medical retirement and starting again: Spotify · Apple Jordan Kahu on life and business after footy: Spotify · Apple Listen and subscribe Spotify · Apple Podcasts Follow for more Podcast Instagram: @keeganandcompanypodcast Keegan's Instagram: @keeganhipgrave TikTok: @keeganandcompany See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • July 1 · 14 min

    Moment #21 Tim Tszyu: Flow State, Fluke Punches and the Shower Reset

    We recorded this with Tim Tszyu last year, and his shower story keeps coming up in recent episodes, so we have pulled fifteen minutes of it back out of the vault. Tim is a former world champion from Sydney, and boxing runs deep in the family. His dad Kostya was an undisputed world champion and Hall of Famer, and his younger brother Nikita fights professionally too. Since we spoke he has strung together back to back wins, the most recent over Denis Nurja on Easter Sunday, and on 26 July he steps in with Errol Spence Jr in Sydney, the biggest fight of his career. We appreciate him making the time back when he did. In this section, Tim describes what a flow state actually feels like from inside the ropes. The place where the world switches off, time slows down, where he can "hear his opponent's heartbeat". He explains why there is no such thing as a fluke punch, and how one clean right hand is really years of repetition. We get into stacking days, staying hungry when success comes easily, and why he refuses to get comfortable. He talks about the emptiness of his first loss and how it made him want to reclaim his throne, the five weeks between that loss and his wedding that finally gave him some balance, and the shower ritual he uses to wash off a hard day and reset before a fight. Plus the training methods he chose not to inherit from his dad, and the grandfather who still tells him he looks fat. Listen to the full episode with Tim Tszyu: Spotify · Apple Podcasts If you enjoyed this, you may also enjoy: Harry Garside on masculinity, vulnerability and boxing: Spotify · Apple Podcasts Skye Nicolson on losing her greatest teacher and finding peace: Spotify · Apple Podcasts Listen and subscribe: Spotify · Apple Podcasts Follow for more: Podcast Instagram · Keegan's Instagram · TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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