Her heart stopped. What she says happened next changed her life. At 23, Jules was dealing with two young children, divorce, unexplained illness and experiences she couldn't explain.

Then came the moment that split her life into a before and after. In this conversation, Jules shares her near-death experience, her life review, meeting Jesus and the message she believes she was given before returning.

What makes this story unique is what happened afterwards. Instead of returning to organised religion, Jules says the experience pushed her further away from church and deeper into her own spiritual path.

Today she works with people around the world through spiritual mentoring and one-to-one sessions. [

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At 16, Holly became addicted to heroin.At 20, she was sent to prison for heroin offences and served five years. When she was released, she started using again, moved to Thailand, and eventually found herself facing a sentence that would change her life forever.

Arrested in Thailand and handed a 33-year sentence, Holly walked into a prison she describes as "hell on earth". Cells holding 120 people. Women sleeping side by side so tightly that if one person turned over, everyone had to turn over. For the first ten months, all she cared about was staying numb and getting stoned.

Then one morning everything changed. Sitting in a Thai prison yard, looking into the eyes of prisoners who had lost all hope, Holly had a moment of brutal clarity. "Look what you've done to your life. "That day she made a decision that she has never broken. "I'm never using drugs ever again."

In this conversation, Holly shares:

• Growing up around violence, addiction and an escort agency run from the family home
• Becoming addicted to heroin at 16
• Her first prison sentence in Australia
• Losing her mother to a heroin overdose while incarcerated
• Life inside a Thai prison
• The moment she decided enough was enough
• Serving seven and a half years in Thailand
• Returning to Australia and rebuilding her future
• Working with prisoners today to help them successfully re-enter society

Today, Holly uses her experience to support people preparing for life after prison, helping them find housing, employment and a pathway forward.

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For 12 years, nobody saw what was really happening behind Jonny's party mask.

From the outside, Jonny looked like the life of the party. Inside, he was battling anxiety, shame, negative self-talk, repeated binge drinking, and a growing sense that he was losing himself. He wore different masks around different people until he eventually forgot who he really was.

In this conversation, Jonny shares the cycle that kept pulling him back, why every 30-day reset failed, the moment rehab forced him to confront the truth, and how running became the foundation for rebuilding his life.

We talk about addiction, identity, consistency, loneliness, recovery, gratitude, purpose, goal setting, and what happens when you stop asking how to quit and start asking what kind of life you want to build.

Today, Jonny is sober, engaged, running marathons, building Dry Culture, and helping others create lives they don't want to escape from.

KEY MOMENTS

00:56 Meet Jonny

03:10 The dark thoughts nobody saw

07:48 The 30-day sobriety cycle

10:20 Losing himself behind different masks

13:48 The wake-up call

14:20 Rehab and getting uncomfortable

15:46 Discovering the root cause

18:18 Running replaces drinking

24:17 Gratitude changes everything

26:07 Consistency beats motivation

30:00 Building Dry Culture

35:05 Helping others find their why

39:02 Why recovery felt slower than expected

47:13 Learning to choose hard things

49:54 Life after addiction

53:42 Nothing changes if nothing changes

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She Lost Millions Before Losing Everything Else | Andrea Simmons

Andrea Simmons shares her story of ICE addiction, crystal meth addiction, homelessness, domestic violence, recovery and resilience. After first trying ICE at 42 years old, Andrea's life spiralled into addiction, isolation and the loss of nearly everything she had built. Today she is the founder of the Australian Anti Ice Campaign and helps people across Australia and around the world break free from addiction and rebuild their lives.

Andrea had never touched drugs in her life.

After 21 years of marriage, years of domestic violence and giving up everything she had planned for herself, she finally walked away. For the first time in decades, she felt free.

Then a man she'd known for years reached out on social media.

On their first night together in a $3,000 Melbourne hotel room, he placed a glass pipe on the table. Andrea said she didn't do drugs. He told her it would help her relax.

Andrea was 42 years old.

She said yes.

Within months she was spending $500 a day on ICE. Her weight dropped to 39 kilograms. The walls around her turned black with smoke. Her daughter eventually called to ask why she hadn't heard from Andrea in six months.

Andrea believed it had only been a few days.

Then one night, alone in a vandalised church, everything changed.

A voice said:

"Get up and go home, my child."

Andrea replied:

"I've got no more home. Look at me."

That was her Feck It, No More moment.

Today, Andrea leads the Australian Anti Ice Campaign, an international not-for-profit organisation providing support, education and recovery pathways for people impacted by ICE addiction, crystal meth use and substance abuse.

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She ran a national team. Then she fell asleep on the couch.

Sue West spent close to a decade at the top of a senior research leadership role in Melbourne — the kind of job she used to love, full of travel and purpose. Underneath it, she was single-parenting three kids, caring for sick elderly parents, and working 14 to 15 hour days. Then COVID took away everything that had kept her going, and left just the grind.

About a year in, it happened. Mid-afternoon, sitting bolt upright on the couch, Sue fell asleep — and her own teenage son walked in and caught her. She calls herself "the leader of the pack." The mother. Asleep in the middle of a workday. It's the moment she asks herself: what the heck am I doing with my life?

She sat with that question for nearly a year before she did anything about it. When she finally moved, she gave herself one hour a day, seven days a week, for 90 days — just to explore what might come next. No pressure to have the answer straight away, just the commitment to keep showing up.

Today Sue runs two coaching businesses: Flourish After Fifty, for women over 50 navigating career and life transitions, and a second practice coaching senior academics at more than 16 Australian universities.

In this conversation:

◼️ A decade at the top of a national research leadership role in Melbourne

◼️ Single-parenting three kids while caring for sick elderly parents

◼️ What COVID took away — and what it left behind

◼️ Falling asleep on the couch in the middle of the day, and the moment her son walked in

◼️ Where the shame came from: success scripts, her father, and never talking about feelings

◼️ The 90-day practice: one hour a day, seven days a week, to figure out what came next

◼️ Rating her own life a 4 out of 10 — at the top of an outwardly successful career

◼️ Building two coaching businesses from scratch in her fifties — now working with women across Australia and academics at 16 universities

By the end of this conversation, you'll understand how a nap on the couch became the moment a senior leader decided to rebuild her entire career and identity in her fifties.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Cold open — "What the heck am I doing with my life?"

0:59 Welcome to Feck It, No More

1:45 Sue introduces herself

2:29 Top of the career: a national research role in Melbourne

3:37 COVID strips away the parts of the job she loved

6:09 "I kind of ran out of steam"

11:50 The lead-up to the Feck It moment

12:51 Asleep on the couch — her son walks in

14:02 Where the shame came from: success scripts and her father

17:01 How long the whisper had been building: "at least a year"

19:06 The 90-day practice: one hour a day, seven days a week

39:44 Rating her own life: a 4 out of 10

52:27 Perfectionism, self-esteem, and where it comes from

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He broke his neck at 25, halfway through medical school.

Dinesh Palipana moved to Australia from Sri Lanka when he was 10. He became a lawyer first, chasing a version of success that left him depressed for years before he even knew why. A doctor's kindness became the reason he switched to medicine.

Then, on a wet summer night, his car hit a puddle at speed, aquaplaned, and rolled. He broke his neck. Lying in the wreckage, he already understood what it meant — he was far enough into his medical degree to know there was no cure for what had just happened to him. And still, in the ambulance, the first thing he asked was how he'd get back to class.

It took four years. His mum woke him at 3am most mornings to get him ready. He studied until midnight, most nights, for years. He made it back — and became Australia's first quadriplegic medical graduate and medical intern in Queensland.

Today, Dinesh works in the emergency department at Gold Coast University Hospital. He's Queensland's 2021 Australian of the Year, holds an OAM, co-founded Doctors with Disabilities Australia, and wrote the book Stronger. He says he hasn't been depressed a single day since the accident — because hardship and depression, he's learned, are not the same thing.

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Angie Verzeletti was 15 years and 3 months old the first time she took ice. She'd met a boy - older, dangerous, exciting - and the first night they hung out, he introduced her to methamphetamine. Within six months he was physically abusing her. She thought that was what love looked like. By 16 she was selling drugs to support a habit, living in penthouse suites, surrounded by fast cars and cash, and doing things she never imagined were possible. Then she was arrested with a substantial amount of meth and a heap of cash. Standing in that moment she looked around and thought: this is pathetic.

This is not how I want my life to look. Nope. We're out. That was her first Feck It moment. The second came years later when she suffered an injury. She'd built a successful corporate career in mining by then — but she knew she was digging dirt, not changing lives. She stopped waiting. Angie Verzeletti is now a confidence and leadership coach, founder of Audacity Health, and host of the Entrepreneur Audacity podcast.

Her brand, her story, and her message are all the same thing: stop at absolutely nothing until you're happy.If this episode has brought something up for you, you are not alone.

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Kate Seselja had made a conscious decision to avoid drugs. She barely drank. She knew addiction ran in her family and had chosen to stay away from it.

At 18, her boyfriend sat her down at a poker machine. She put $20 in and won. That win was the hook. Within a month she was putting her entire pay in on payday — it would last an hour. She lost $30,000 in a single month.

For 15 years the machines had her. She had six children through it. She reached out for help repeatedly and was turned away every time. Nobody told her that gambling addiction makes you five times more likely to take your own life than any other addiction. Nobody told her the machine was designed to do exactly what it did to her. She was, in her own words, the perfect customer.

Kate Seselja is now co-chair of GHLEE — Gambling Harm Lived Experience Experts — and founder of the Hope Project. She has over 12,000 signatures on the Loss Limits Not Lost Lives petition and is actively pushing for gambling reform at a federal level.

She is done blaming herself. She is done letting the industry off the hook.

The petition is open to sign at ⁠✍️ SIGN THE PETITION: Ban online gambling ads! - The Australia Institute⁠  

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Mark Kempster knew he had a gambling problem within two years. He hid it for another eight. His first bet was at 14, at the local TAB, surrounded by the sporting club culture where a beer and a punt after footy was just what you did. Then smartphones arrived. By 20 he had a dozen gambling apps and accounts with all of them. Across the next decade he lost at least $100,000. But the money wasn't the worst of it. The hiding was. 

Lie upon lie upon lie, for eight years, to everyone he loved, because he feared that if anyone knew, they would decide he wasn't worth their time. Then came the day he outlaid every cent in his account. By the time he left the pub he didn't have a dollar to his name. In a car park, his legs went from under him, his nose started bleeding, and everything he'd been holding in for a decade came out.  

His partner gave him one chance to prove himself. He took it. Mark now works with the Alliance for Gambling Reform as a lived experience advocate, and right now there's a bill in the Senate that could change Australia's gambling laws.  

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Here's the truth about willpower: it was never going to be enough.

After 22, neuroscience says 90% of what you do runs on your subconscious mind. The habits you've built, good and bad, become automated programs your brain runs on repeat to save energy. And when you try to overpower those programs with willpower, you're fighting biology with a resource that runs out exactly when you're most stressed, most tired, and most likely to slip.

This episode breaks down how the three-part habit loop works, why you can't actually delete a bad habit but you absolutely can hijack it, and the single most practical tool Glenn has used with clients to remove decision-making from the equation before the urge even arrives.

Case studies from previous guests Kayli Halliwell (social anxiety and alcohol) and Enoch (gambling) show how the loop works in real life. Plus Glenn shares his own experience with an addictive personality and the single redirect that changed his trajectory.

The practical tool is the If/Then framework. You'll be able to write yours out by the time this episode ends.

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