Everyday Legends

In this episode, Nick shares some wonderful and inspiring stories of growing up in small-town Queensland and the kind of community that was, to the point that Barry from the local footy club just doing his thing played a monumental part in Nick becoming the man he is today.

There are wonderful lessons in stories like Barry's for us men striving for purpose in our lives and how to be impactful and useful members of the community.

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Many men dream of leaving their job to start something new, maybe even a business.

But then we're faced with the reality of leaving something secure, a solid paycheck and our basic survival needs taken care of.

These two things can often wrestle with a man's desire to apply himself to something meaningful, challenging, and inherently his.

There's something about building or creating your own thing that speaks to so many men.

But the risk of leaving behind the safe and secure can be all too overwhelming, to the degree that many men just stick with what's safe.

Not today's guest. Luc Wiesman started a website 'in his parent's basement (in the home he was renting off his parents) directed at giving men all the cool shit we often want; watches, travel, fashion, popular culture, cars. You name it, Dmarge became one of the first homes for curated men's lifestyle content in Australia.

On this episode:

Admittedly by Luc, the site was first a way to get invited to cool events, it soon became a realistic avenue for leaving his well paying job and putting all of this creative drive and energy into something entirely his.

In this chat with Luc we explore some of the specifics of leaving his job and stepping fully into his own gig, and the journey Dmarge has gone on as a brand from cool shit for men to intentionally choosing to be a site of all things for men.

This final piece really chooses to draw a line in the sand and say men need to be able to access content of all sorts including for our mental, physical and emotional wellbeing.

And so, Dmarge has evolved to really be FOR MEN.

And, as it turns out, this evolution has somewhat mirrored the evolution Luc himself has gone on.

In this chat we also explore his own deep dive into himself, finding himself on a retreat with 25 strangers diving into his deepest shit and coming out the other side so much better for it.

This chat brings a range of things from leaving a cushy job to taking on something with more purpose, to facing your shit and learning to have more compassion for our fathers.

I trust there will be something in here for you. Please share it with a man you think could benefit from it - give us a like, subscribe and review, it's a huge help in getting this in front of more men that it could support.

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In this Episode:

Lance and Mike start off by exploring some of Lance's histories, having left a secure job in the police at 57 to start his own business consulting on navigating tough situations and building genuine resiliency.

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Rock bottom is a term we usually associate with absolute destruction and utter worst-case scenarios.

It's a place we have to get up from - 'the only way is up' from there, as the saying goes.

Yet, for many men, rock bottom isn't waking up under a bridge covered in your own shit and piss and vomit having burnt every relationship you've ever had. For many, it's a very different, sometimes far more subtle, nowhere near as full-on place where simply something has to change.

But for so many men, we must reach our own point of rock bottom in order to make a positive forward-directed change.

If what we're suffering through isn't as bad as we think doing something about it will be, we won't do anything about it.

And that is what I wanted to explore in this episode.

In this episode:

I explore the idea of rock bottom, how we have almost romanticised it and why it takes hitting our own version of it for so many men to do something about the shit that isn't working for us.

I'll break down some of the societal beliefs that imapct this and offer a solution for how to reframe the mindset that takes us there and how to get out of it.

I trust you will learn something from this and invite you - no, challenge you - to do something meaningful with this information. It needn't be climbing the mountain in one go, as I discuss in the episode, but something towards a fuller, richer, stronger, more alive you.

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A short moment from the episode with Mike Campbell on the idea of the 'Lone Wolf' as well as how he goes about coaching men in this way.

He dives into his major caching program ELA - EVERYDAY LEGENDS ACADEMY and make the case for not only why everyday men can benefit immensely from being in a like-minded community of men, but why it's so immensely enriching and fulfilling.

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"Just be nice" - an often used sentiment that can, well, often lack depth.

Statements like 'just be nice" or "don't be a dick" lack any understanding of why someone might or might not be those things.

It's the same as saying "eat less if you want to lose weight" - sure, thanks for that, I had somehow missed that food is a major contributing factor to body weight.

It has no attempt to understand the behaviour behind it.

Everyone knows being nice is a good thing.

Everyone knows not to be a dick, not to lie cheat and steal, everyone knows not to fight people for a few potentially hurtful words.

Simple statements risk being shallow and hallow.

This is why when I had on today's guest I had to put this to him; Josh Reid Jones - Founder of the Just Be Nice Project.

In this Episode:

Josh is a wonderfully insightful, determined, huge-hearted and nice man. Not to be confused with a 'Nice Guy' (a differentiation we explore in this episode).

In this chat, we dive into the origins of the Just Be Nice idea as well as the organisation that, as Josh states it, is the only one in the world breaking down the real ins and outs of making an impact and helping organisations (and people) work out how to make the most impact in the community.

This goes beyond the tired and cliched model of charity - something Josh breaks down in a deeply accurate and wonderfully worded call out of charity style advertising and money-raising model.

We explore Josh's take on making an impact in the world, starting with one person.

And we look at the pyramid of being nice, starting with 'being nice' then to 'being really good at something' to 'doing good'.

This was a fascinating chat in which I really enjoyed diving into the next piece with Josh.

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Josh's bio: Josh Reid Jones is a social impact professional and social entrepreneur. He is the founder of the Just Be Nice project with the aim of changing the way that people help people; until they are housed, employed, and have positive mental health outcomes. Josh has been relentless in his pursuit of creating an environment that ensures people in need get the help that they need, when they need it, for as long as they need it, regardless of how they come to need help. Josh works daily to engage businesses, schools, organisations and communities in the process of creating extraordinary positive change in the world, through making ordinary positive change. Educating and engaging people while managing the resources necessary to ensure that everyone has assistance with housing, employment, and positive mental health outcomes. A non-executive director of one of Tasmania's largest social service providers Colony 47, a member of the board of directors for the Port Phillip EcoCentre, an RUOK Day ambassador and recipient of a range of awards and scholarships for outstanding contributions to social impact and non-profit leadership, Josh is committed to improving and expanding social impact and equality of opportunity both domestically and abroad. Where to find Josh:

• Website: https://www.jbnproject.com/
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A short moment from the episode with the Mark on how a conversation wanders through many aspects of being a great partner.

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Some voices just have weight. Some people do. I am blessed to have plenty of people in my life whose voices carry weight. Certainly to me.

One of those is a friend of mine, Nick Bradley-Qalilawa.

Nick is someone I've had on the show before, in episode 14 where we explored Race and Racism in Australia.

I always enjoy chatting with Nick and get so much insight from him - because he's such as insightful dude.

Lately, I've been watching some of his adventures in Fiji - a place that is very much home to him as a half Fijian Australian - he has been back in his village with his father.

And this was, in part, what I wanted to explore with him today - what we can learn from village and community life in our fast paced and ever-growing world.

In this Episode:

Something we touched on in our last chat, Nick and I explore the juxtaposition that has often been a throughline in his life: being half one thing and half another; European Australian and Fijian. Footballer and university student.

We explore how this can actually work, as it does now for Nick, as a bridge between those two worlds.

With this, we explore some of what Nick and his father are doing in bringing the villages of Fiji to meet the technology and opportunities in Australia and the 'developed world' and what we can also bring back and revive in our world that Nick's village still very much has.

In this, nick shares some wonderful and inspiring stories of growing up in small-town Queensland and the kind of community that was, to the point that Barry from the local footy club just doing his thing played a monumental part in Nick becoming the man he is today.

There are wonderful lessons in stories like Barry's for us men striving for purpose in our lives and how to be an impactful and useful members of community.

It doesn't have to change the world but it might just change your world and the lives of people in your world.

We also touch on something that is an every-increasing reality for many men: sharing a huge part of life with an ex-partner. For many that is co-parenting and striving to do so with a healthy relationship with an ex and parent of children in the middle of a break-up.

Well, for Nick it is a business that he still runs with his ex. A business the two of them co-founded that serves a lot of people and would be heavily impacted if they ended it or could not relate amicably and maturely.

I sense some great takeaways in this piece alone for many guys listening.

I trust you will get something from this conversation. Please share it with someone you think would enjoy, benefit from, and potentially be lovingly challenged by its content.

As always, if you have questions out of it - ask me. Hit me on social media @mikecampbellmc on Instagram or @Mike Campbell Man Coach on Facebook

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A short moment from the full solo episode on how nice Guys are not Good Men with Mike Campbell.

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A short moment from the full episode with Mike Campbel on how lack of commitment is costing you & what to do about it

Find the full episode of this Everyday Legends podcast episode number 38:

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