Glenn Manton is ... Australian sports star, An educator with a passion for our youth, Author of “put Your Damn Phone Down” and TedX speaker and an avid lover of music that thinks outside the square often resulting in thought provoking conversations with our youth and the community.

• The role of sport in his life growing up in Australia and 15 years as a career sports professional - Glenn played for Carlton and Essendon

• The concept behind the book “Put Your Damn Phone Down” to create conversation allowing people to disconnect to reconnect

• Our REAL world personality versus our ONLINE world personality

• The importance of sharing failures & mistakes in life, sporting career, relationships to develop as human beings - “I’m not afraid of failure, I’m afraid of lack of integrity and apathy”.

• Knowledge is key to life - understanding the power of good questions and asking yourself challenging questions and questions that might raise an eyebrow.

• The impact of social media on our youth - Being grateful for growing up without social media and WHY he now shuns Facebook and is just hanging on to instagram

• Doing a “Systems check” of your life, values, behaviors and influencing others to live to standards

• How to determine who to be in your inner circle of influence

• Why his playlist and music plays such an important role in Glenn’s life and relevance of the Lyrics - “It’s so lonely when you don’t know yourself” that made an appearance in his latest book

• A doctor tells Glenn “You are a right joke!” and how this impacted the trajectory of his life.

• Painful Gifts are opportunities to learn but you have to work on them and the importance of finding people on a similar path

So much more...

This episode is jam packed with actionable tips, and thought provoking conversation, I encourage you to listen and re-listen, check Glenn’s book out, think about putting your phone dow to have real, raw and honest conversations.  

If you are a parent, consider using his tools and tips to connect with your children.  As always, it was an honor and pleasure to have the opportunity to bring this interview to your ears and I appreciate you taking the time to listen and learn.

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