At a workshop in the Midwest of the USA (yes, I went there!), someone said to me I bet you never find another community like this. Her gym was SO important to her life. It's kind of like that quote about dogs that Jake tells me every day... "Everyone thinks they have the best dog. And the wonderful thing is that none of them are wrong." The truth is I have found other communities like hers. Hundreds of them, all over the world. Today's podcast is about these wonderful communities.

“Rain drops on roses and whiskers on kittens... blah blah blah something, something with mittens...” OK, little do you know that’s actually how I sing it. And Jake asked, “Please don’t sing.” Except without a question mark. To get my own back I roped him into helping with today’s podcast: all about our favourite things. In this episode I take you, and poor Jake, through an exercise that gets you focusing on the things in your life that you love, that bring you joy and happiness.

I need to make an apology. Until recently i’ve been quite preachy. I’ve imposed my comfort zones onto others, saying and thinking stupid things like, “if you miss a workout or eat something “bad”, it’s because YOU DIDN’T WANT IT BAD ENOUGH”. But that’s because my life is set up to facilitate fitness, and having food as a top 3 priority. It’s easy for me. Some people have children. Some people have disabled children. Some people have very demanding careers. Some people just don’t give a shit about that last 1% of body fat. What’s easy and difficult for me is very different to what’s easy or difficult for you. Fitness professionals, myself included, need to acknowledge exactly that. Growth doesn’t occur for you in, or out of, someone else’s comfort zone. If you truly want to extend yourself, stop kidding yourself that what’s easy for you (5x5 deadlifts in your garage) is going to make you better at anything else just because it’s hard for someone else to devote themselves to the training. And stop kidding yourself that what’s hard for you is unnecessary because, believe me, making sacrifices you would find impossible is easy as pie for other people. Today’s episode of the Peanut Butter Podcast, “Pain, Comfort, and a little bit of Creativity” is out, and on fire.

Back in the land of electric kettles and Poppy the Pug-alier, I met and got involved in multiple communities along the 3400km way to Perth. Meeting and connecting with so many people, a few themes came up repeatedly: why do we keep doing things that make us feel like shit? Why are we so dependent on external validation? And what the fuck am I supposed to eat?!

Last week we left Perth to return to Melbourne. Driving south, after a few hours we landed in Margaret River and... stayed for a week because it's so bloody amazing. In this week's instalment of the Outback Adventure I talk about how the complete stripping of every comfort I thought I needed in life has changed my outlook and perspective on living. I didn't expect to fall in love with Australia.

We made it to Perth! In this episode we talk about the experiences of living in a van for two whole weeks, 3 days without phone reception (the horror!) and Saxon hunting bandicoots in Perth. From Ceduna to Perth, 1900kms, watching the Milky Way over immaculate white-sand beaches in the Australian outback with no phone, no internet, and no power: just me, my thoughts, and my creativity.

With a workshop in Warrnambool, and another in Perth, somehow Jake convinced me that driving 7000kms between the two was a good idea. In a campervan. A long way from the nearest Lululemon store. I have a van, two German Shorthaired Pointers, a hairy Englishman and a Skierg. In this episode we talk about what's happened in the first 1500kms!

One of the first people I met the first time I came to Boulder was Casey Easton, the owner of the enormously successful Food Lab - a place where people gather, learn, cook and eat - and the enormous adorable Mike, her Dogue de Bordeaux. From divorced and sleeping on friends' couches to a phenomenal business, this is Casey's story of where perseverance leads.

What started out as creating oars for themselves has grown into a business that operates in 33 countries, and a not-for-profit outdoor centre that brings some much needed life experience to children from all over America.

This week’s podcast is titled “sometimes, you just have to laugh.” The instagram snapshot of travel is all roses, champagne and caviar. But the reality is spilled raspberry vodka and sanitary pads. The instagram snapshot is comfy seats on the plane. But the reality is 9 hour delays in Las Vegas and avalanches in Yellowstone. In this episode I talk about everything that DIDN’T make it to Instagram on this last 8 weeks touring the US…