Bottled Up

This week on Bottled Up, Sunny and Mayank chat with Scott Henderson, the man behind Australia’s most popular Men’s magazine, Men’s Health.

Scott took over Men’s Health in 2018 with one goal, to redefine masculinity. Think of traditional men’s fitness magazine covers, and you’re probably picturing a ripped guy with his shirt off, it’s that image that Scott wanted to evolve. Good health means far more than perfect abs. Scott was instrumental in transforming the magazine to being about holistic wellbeing, with realistic and inspiring cover stories.

Such an interesting journey that didn’t actually start in journalism and crosses both founder life and working up a corporate ladder. Scott has produced content for the global Men’s Health Network, whilst also making a regular appearance as a health and men’s lifestyle expert on Sunrise, hosting events and panels, and contributing to digital and print publications including nine.com.au, WHO, and Women's Health among others.

In this insightful episode, we also delve into aspects of mental health not often discussed, such as male body image and eating disorders. As always, there will be plenty of takeaways, and just as many laughs. 

Scott Henderson - A little more about the legend:

Scott has always been in pursuit of a healthy and active lifestyle by combining passion and career. Following a degree in Sports Science and International Studies, Scott has worked in the sport, health and fitness industries in Australia, USA, Spain, and the UK, with a focus on content production & education.

Now as the editor and content director of Men’s Health Australia, Scott is able to share his passion for the industry with the wider international community through education, creative content, events, and storytelling.

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As always, Bottled Up is a passion project to help provide a voice to those many men who are going through the peaks and troughs of life. We are not trained professionals and if you're worried about someone close to you and their mental wellbeing, it's important to get professional advice.

Start a conversation with them and let them know that they're not alone and that there are many support resources out there - including friends, family, school chaplains and plenty more!

If you're feeling distressed or overwhelmed, Beyond Blue has a number of trained mental health professionals available 24/7 on 1800 512 348.

For immediate support, call Lifeline on 13 11 44 and in an emergency, always dial 000.

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Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

This week, Sunny and Mayank sit down with the wonderful and always smiling, Gus Worland.

Gus is a radio and television personality, having worked on Triple M breakfast radio and having hosted a three-part documentary series Man Up, which was focused on lifting the lid on the relationship between masculinity, social isolation, mental health and suicide. Fun fact, he also hosted a show called the ‘Cricket Tragic’ which followed his journey to search for fellow cricket tragics Australia wide!

Following the passing of his friend and mentor, Angus, Gus was triggered into action. Knowing that more was needed around education and connection, he left his breakfast radio gig and founded the not-for-profit foundation, Gotcha4Life which is an Australian mental fitness charity that works to end suicide through delivering programs that create meaningful mateship, build emotional muscle and strengthen social connection in local communities. Gus shared that the vision of Gotcha4Life is zero suicides; because no one life is worth losing.

What stood out to us, was Gus’ insatiable hunger and zest for life. This uncanny ability of treating life like a big cake just waiting to be devoured. We hope you enjoyed this one just as much as we enjoyed being a part of it.

You can find Gotcha4Life at:

Instagram: @gotcha4life

Website: https://www.gotcha4life.org/

You can find more on Bottled Up on:

Instagram: @BottledUpAus

Facebook: @BottledUpAus

LinkedIn: @BottledUp

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As always, Bottled Up is a passion project to help provide a voice to those many men who are going through the peaks and troughs of life. We are not trained professionals and if you're worried about someone close to you and their mental wellbeing, it's important to get professional advice.

Start a conversation with them and let them know that they're not alone and that there are many support resources out there - including friends, family, school chaplains and plenty more!

If you're feeling distressed or overwhelmed, Beyond Blue has a number of trained mental health professionals available 24/7 on 1800 512 348.

For immediate support, call Lifeline on 13 11 44 and in an emergency, always dial 000.

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Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Sunny and Mayank sit back and kick-off 2022 with a bang. Stay tuned for a cheeky rapid fire (juicy 👀) and an update on what’s ahead for Bottled Up.

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As always, Bottled Up is a passion project to help provide a voice to those many men who are going through the peaks and troughs of life. We are not trained professionals and if you're worried about someone close to you and their mental wellbeing, it's important to get professional advice.

Start a conversation with them and let them know that they're not alone and that there are many support resources out there - including friends, family, school chaplains and plenty more!

If you're feeling distressed or overwhelmed, Beyond Blue has a number of trained mental health professionals available 24/7 on 1800 512 348.

For immediate support, call Lifeline on 13 11 44 and in an emergency, always dial 000.

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Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Mayank and Sunny sit down for the final time in 2021 to review what certainly has been a hectic year.

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As always, Bottled Up is a passion project to help provide a voice to those many men who are going through the peaks and troughs of life. We are not trained professionals and if you're worried about someone close to you and their mental wellbeing, it's important to get professional advice.

Start a conversation with them and let them know that they're not alone and that there are many support resources out there - including friends, family, school chaplains and plenty more!

If you're feeling distressed or overwhelmed, Beyond Blue has a number of trained mental health professionals available 24/7 on 1800 512 348.

For immediate support, call Lifeline on 13 11 44 and in an emergency, always dial 000.

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Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

This week Sunny sits down with friend, fellow Global Shaper and Man Caver Daniel Datnow-Jamieson (DJ).

DJ has had quite an interesting period growing up through high school, which has turned him into the man he is today. He uses his story not only to inspire and empower people but is passionate about connecting to our authentic selves.

We touch on a number of different areas of DJ's life in this conversation, including:

• Uncovering the work of The Man Cave and his motivation for getting involved and helping young kids across Australia
• Navigating the move between 3 different high schools (including experiences between co-educational and single-sex schools)
• Delving into the experiences of bullying and racism (antisemitism) through high school
• Finding community and purpose through shared experiences in the creative space, including his involvement in the music industry and dance scene (DJ is a DJ himself)
• Adaption and the way that impacts and benefits our life
• Dopamine, intentionalism and designing the life you want to live (including how to balance social media)
• Overcoming Social Anxiety and becoming confident with others, following the bullying he experienced when younger (spoiler: includes some juicy stories from Revolver Upstairs aka Revs)

You can find DJ at:

https://www.instagram.com/sanctum.creative/?hl=en

Instagram: @sanctum.creative

Podcast on The Dopamine Matrix: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2iRD8zPy0G0b7uHFXBLVWf?si=4r8neyGmRlK6rZ56PMA6bw

You can find more on Bottled Up on:

Instagram: @BottledUpAus

Facebook: @BottledUpAus

Linkedin: Instagram: @BottledUp

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As always, Bottled Up is a passion project to help provide a voice to those many men who are going through the peaks and troughs of life. We are not trained professionals and if you're worried about someone close to you and their mental wellbeing, it's important to get professional advice.

Start a conversation with them and let them know that they're not alone and that there are many support resources out there - including friends, family, school chaplains and plenty more!

If you're feeling distressed or overwhelmed, Beyond Blue has a number of trained mental health professionals available 24/7 on 1800 512 348.

For immediate support, call Lifeline on 13 11 44 and in an emergency, always dial 000.

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Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Another week, another episode! This week, Sunny and Mayank get behind the mic to checkin on each other and provide an update on Bottled Up. It's a banterous one as both try our luck at comedy -- we share some jokes, life after lockdown and what's been keeping us busy lately.

In this episode we chat about:

• Life after lockdown: Sunny's conversations in the sauna and Mayank's recent 48 hour challenge
• Shoutout to some past guests
• Shoutout to upcoming guests (including the editor of Men's Health and a few more)
• Open the floor for more suggestions on what conversations you'd love to hear from us (drop us a DM or comment below)

You can find more on Bottled Up on:

• Instagram: @BottledUpAus
• Facebook: @BottledUpAus
• Linkedin: Instagram: @BottledUp

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As always, Bottled Up is a passion project to help provide a voice to those many men who are going through the peaks and troughs of life. We are not trained professionals and if you're worried about someone close to you and their mental wellbeing, it's important to get professional advice.

Start a conversation with them and let them know that they're not alone and that there are many support resources out there - including friends, family, school chaplains and plenty more!

If you're feeling distressed or overwhelmed, Beyond Blue has a number of trained mental health professionals available 24/7 on 1800 512 348.

For immediate support, call Lifeline on 13 11 44 and in an emergency, always dial 000.

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Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Another week, another episode! This week, Mayank and Sunny sit down with the Actor, Mental Health Advocate and Author of his own book, 'Move Your Mind', Nick Bracks. You may have seen him in Neighbours, Dancing with the Stars, Salt Lake and more.

Compulsive thinking was something nick grew up with. He knew he didn't fit it, but he didn't know how to navigate feeling different, At some point, things spiralled out of control and Nick found himself in the midst of what he now sees as his wake up call - a very dangerous car accident with his best friend in the car.

Nick has used his story not only to inspire and empower people but is passionate about removing the stigma around mental health, and does this in an optimistic and solution based way.

In this episode we uncover:

• Living in the shadow of his dad, Steve Bracks, the then Victorian Premier
• Reflections on his overly obsessive and ambitious desire to create his own legacy
• The power of the conscious and subconscious mind
• Building resilience during his youth years, that have now formed the foundation for a holistic outlook on wellbeing
• How we all make mistakes and the important to learn from them
• Why listening to your gut is one of the most important things to do
• What success really is

All this and much more in a very honest conversation. Right at the end, and for some fun, we went ahead and asked Nick he's on quick fire questions (including his favourite acting role and underwear brand!!).

You can find Nick at:

• www.nickbracks.com
• Podcast "Move your Mind", available on all major platforms
• Instagram: @NickBracks
• Twitter: @NickBracks

You can find more on Bottled Up on:

• Instagram: @BottledUpAus
• Facebook: @BottledUpAus
• Linkedin: Instagram: @BottledUp

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As always, Bottled Up is a passion project to help provide a voice to those many men who are going through the peaks and troughs of life. We are not trained professionals and if you're worried about someone close to you and their mental wellbeing, it's important to get professional advice.

Start a conversation with them and let them know that they're not alone and that there are many support resources out there - including friends, family, school chaplains and plenty more!

If you're feeling distressed or overwhelmed, Beyond Blue has a number of trained mental health professionals available 24/7 on 1800 512 348.

For immediate support, call Lifeline on 13 11 44 and in an emergency, always dial 000.

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Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

It's Movember time! What better way to start the month with a conversation we had with Global Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Director at Movember, Brendan Maher.

Brendan has been heavily involved in mental health throughout his career, having worked at Lifeline ad a General Manager, was the CEO of RUOK for 6 years before commencing his current role at the Movember foundation.

Key highlights from this conversation include:

1. Brendan's story within mental health as the ex-CEO of RUOK and Global Director at Movember
2. Brendan's journey with mental health and his key learnings
3. Brendan's vision for where he sees mental health in a post - COVID world
4. How to get involved with Movember with or without a Mo

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As always, Bottled Up is a passion project to help provide a voice to those many men who are going through the peaks and troughs of life. We are not trained professionals and if you're worried about someone close to you and their mental wellbeing, it's important to get professional advice.

Start a conversation with them and let them know that they're not alone and that there are many support resources out there - including friends, family, school chaplains and plenty more!

If you're feeling distressed or overwhelmed, Beyond Blue has a number of trained mental health professionals available 24/7 on 1800 512 348.

For immediate support, call Lifeline on 13 11 44 and in an emergency, always dial 000.

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Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Sunny sits with Matthew Jackman for Episode 30 of Bottled Up. Matthew lives with Bipolar Affective Disorder and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (defined by DSM/Psychiatry), is a sibling caregiver to his younger brother and sister who live with enduring psychosocial diverse abilities, and has lost his mother to suicide, and consequently his grandparents due to stigma. His experiences of distress and service use drive his passion for global social change in mental health. He is a global mental health advocate promoting human rights, social justice and lived experience as an academic science from public health and MAD STUDIES disciplines. Matthew describes the MAD Movement, which challenges the epistemological primacy of biomedicine in representing and informing global mental health. 

Through the Australian Centre for Lived Experience (TACFLE), Matthew aims to expand the literacy around mental health to include and prioritize lived experience as a vital source of knowledge.

More About The Australian Centre for Lived Experience (TACFLE):

TACFLE is an institute for lived experience leadership in global mental health. The Center was founded to challenge the industrial complex around the biomedicalization of human suffering and establish a discipline of lived knowledge for global mental health care.

Website: www.tacfle.com

More about Matthew:

Matthew qualified in Social Work undertaking counseling, case management, group therapy, community development, social research, social policy, and personal/systems-level advocacy across diverse intersectionalities. Matthew's advocacy and research reflect alternatives to biological approaches to wellbeing. He mobilizes MAD STUDIES as the scientific foundation for peer/lived experience work in mental health. Matthew represented the Western Pacific Region on the Global Mental Health Peer Network and was a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum. He has represented lived experience perspectives on the National Advisory Panel (mental health) for the Australian Association of Social Workers. Matthew is a Global Lived Experience Ambassador for Generation Mental Health. He consults the World Health Organisation in mental health. Matthew is trained internationally in certified peer specialist practice and is a visiting scholar in Psychiatry at Yale PRCH.

Matthew’s vision is to utilize personal power and privilege and mobilize vulnerabilities as strength and resilience, to make space for those with less power. Through giving voice to those silenced in achieving an equitable world justice is strived toward. Matthew instructs Mad Studies co-designing/producing a lived experience-focused critical mental health unit in Social Work. Matthew is proudly Mad, Neurodiverse, and Queer, utilizing his intersectional experiences of oppression and privilege in systemic advocacy.

These show notes are courtesy of ‘The Hope Project’ – who have hosted another great conversation with Matthew.

You can learn more about Matthew by visiting: 

https://hopefulminds.org/matthew-jackman/

https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/lived-experience-profile-matthew-jackman/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-jackman-he-him-57b28951/

Matthew is also speaking at several different events over the coming weeks: 

Finance and Mental Health Symposium (27 Oct, 2021 – 10AM – 12PM AEDT): https://bit.ly/3ElE61X 

Celebrating Consumer Leadership Forum (Thursday 28th October 2021 2-4pm AEDT): https://bit.ly/3mfwdF6

Our Future in Mind, Mental Health Summit (Nov 5 – 6, 2021): https://bit.ly/3b6LeCJ 

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This episode was recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and acknowledge that Sovereignty was never ceded.

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As always, Bottled Up is a passion project to help provide a voice to those many men who are going through the peaks and troughs of life. We are not trained professionals and if you're worried about someone close to you and their mental wellbeing, it's important to get professional advice.

Start a conversation with them and let them know that they're not alone and that there are many support resources out there - including friends, family, school chaplains and plenty more!

If you're feeling distressed or overwhelmed, Beyond Blue has a number of trained mental health professionals available 24/7 on 1800 512 348.

For immediate support, call Lifeline on 13 11 44 and in an emergency, always dial 000.

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Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

In episode 29, Ujjwal sits down with Tarang Chawla. Tarang is an Indian-born Australian lawyer, writer and anti-family violence advocate. In 2015, Tarang’s younger sister Nikita was murdered by her then-husband at the age of just 23. In this episode, we delve into a number topics including Tarang's life growing up in Australia, the life of his sister Niki and the lessons learnt after her passing.

We recognise that some of the themes discussed in this episode can be confronting and have different effects on people, but having these conversations help push the dialogue in ensuring that these topics are normalised <3 

~ Tarang Chawla ~

Instagram: @tarangchawla

~ Bottled Up ~

Bottled Up Instagram/Facebook & Linkedin: @bottledupaus

Bottled Up Website: www.bottledup.life

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As always, Bottled Up is a passion project to help provide a voice to those many men who are going through the peaks and troughs of life. We are not trained professionals and if you're worried about someone close to you and their mental wellbeing, it's important to get professional advice.

Start a conversation with them and let them know that they're not alone and that there are many support resources out there - including friends, family, school chaplains and plenty more!

If you're feeling distressed or overwhelmed, Beyond Blue has a number of trained mental health professionals available 24/7 on 1800 512 348.

For immediate support, call Lifeline on 13 11 44 and in an emergency, always dial 000.

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Music: https://www.purple-planet.com