After I left the ABC yesterday at stupid O’clock in the morning, I wrote quite a long post about feeling like a failure. Don’t get me wrong, I’d had a great session on-air and felt really good about it, but it got me thinking about stuff. The post was pretty personal, and right when I [...]
A few years ago I noticed a bit of a pattern: I'd limp into the end of year thinking 'thank fuck that's over!'. And to be fair, there were a few challenging years in there for sure. But a couple of years back I made a conscious decision to look back at my year a [...]
The other day I saw a teeth whitening ad, and I thought, "who the fuck gets to decide what colour our teeth 'should' be? That bright white is beautiful, and the colour they actually, naturally are, is not?". This morning while I was having breakfast and the local 'spoggies', (House Sparrows), were tucking in to [...]
Yesterday in Australia we had a thing called 'The Melbourne Cup' - a horse race that supposedly 'stops the nation'. And as always, Australians spent an astronomical amount of money gambling on it and the associated races. In 2016 the figure was $657 million in just four days. That seems like quite a fucking lot [...]
I won’t be telling you anything new if I spend too much time describing all the shit things about social media. If you’re on it, you almost certainly already know. It’s a cesspit for negativity, toxicity, whinging, racism, hate and outrage. And worse, it’s trained people to be all those things in increasing amounts in [...]
It seems one of the catch cries of the time we find ourselves in right now is “but I’m entitled to my opinion” which, more often than not, roughly translated, means “I’m an asshole and don’t give a fuck about your feelings”. Because if someone told you they were upset by something you’d said and [...]
As you no doubt know by now, the new 'Dream Crazy' campaign by Nike (below) has already generated a shit tonne of conversation. Rather than add to the obvious "Kaepernick this/Kaepernick that" ruckus, I'd like to point out what no one is saying about it. Does the negative reaction to the Kaepernick component of [...]
Want to come to Cambodia with me in 2019? A little while back I was approached by a friend of mine who was heading to Cambodia towards the end of January 2019 to run an ultra with some friends. She'd been on both my Bali and Cambodia tours previously, and clearly a glutton for punishment, [...]
A few months ago I had this ‘crazy’ idea. But anyone who knows me, knows I have this whole ‘Redefine Crazy' mantra thing going on. So for me, crazy doesn’t get chucked in the (looney) bin, it as often as not, gets done. But first, let me backtrack a little. Five or six years ago [...]
OK good folks of the internet, here’s the dealio. When people fuck up, or shit goes tits up, the new buzz word is ‘pivot’. We don’t ‘fail’, we ‘pivot’. We change things up. Most importantly, we don’t fucking quit. We dust ourselves off, adjust ourselves, and take off in a new direction. My new direction [...]
