This week we talk through why I finally launched Second Wind properly as a podcast, and how these live streams slowly turned from random conversations into a real archive of rebuilding life after redundancy.

We also get into GameStop’s attempted bid for eBay, Ryan Cohen’s wider strategy, and why I’m still holding positions most people dismiss as madness while generating income through covered calls and cash-secured puts. At the same time, the insurance arbitration linked to the £13,500 hospital stay in Kuala Lumpur has officially moved into the next stage after months of delays and legal back-and-forth.

There’s also airport chaos, cold plunge progress in Bali, a man boarding a flight carrying a full coconut with a straw in it, reflections on grief and adversity after listening to a podcast on the plane, and a chance meeting with a 72-year-old Scotsman in Bali that somehow summed up the entire point of this journey better than anything else this week.