Dorthe Hummel is a high-performance coach to athletes and executive level employees.

All her research leads to explaining why biology is the true foundation of performance, identity, and wellbeing.

Dorthe's own wake-up call was when she suffered a brutal personal burnout. Leaving her bed ridden for 10 months.

She clearly explains her health performance framework called the "Coherence model" — a way of understanding how our hardware (genetics and cells), software (body systems and epigenetics), user (personality and psychology), and environment constantly interact.

We explore why one-size-fits-all advice fails high achievers, how biology quietly shapes our behaviour and sense of self as we age, and why real breakthroughs often come from removing what doesn't fit rather than stacking more hacks.

This was a CRACKER and will truly make you reconsider your own health!

Discussion Topics: What you will discover from listening to this Podcast:

• The importance of understanding your genetic blueprint
• Burnout and losing 10 months of your life
• Age related health struggles
• Overcoming burnout with meditation
• Your health's 'Coherence Model'
• Is work overload even a thing?
• The stress response from losing control
• Losing your identity
• Your methylation capacity
• Your body biology cannot compensate forever
• Rene Descartes society fragmentation
• GABA signalling
• Why nutrition is medicine

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

Your fellow being

Gareth

SHOW NOTES

Background, Context & Reference

Connect with Dorthe Hummel:

• Website
• Linktree
• LinkedIn

Discussion Links

• Analysing Genetic Blueprint
• Coherence Model
• Methylation Capacity
• GABA Signalling

People Discussed

• Rene Descartes
• Hans Amato

Music By

• Matthew Parker

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It's never too late to begin.

2026 still has 11 full months where you can make life changing progress...or you can just sit around scrolling and living through other people's lives and dreams.

Discussion Topics: What you will discover from listening to this Podcast:

18 Ways to to Make 2026 a RIDICULOUSLY Successful Year

• #1: Don't be a Wet Blanket.
• #2: Do Things You Deserve.
• #3: Don't Be Afraid to Reinvent Yourself.
• #4: Momentum is Messy.
• #5: Judgement is for Cowards.
• #6: Everyone is Living a Different Reality.
• #7: Show People How You Like to be Treated.
• #8: If You're Not Part of the Steamroller, You're Part of the Road.
• #9: Guard your Time Ferociously.
• #10: Avoid Emotional Embroilment.
• #11: Have No Expectations.
• #12: Be Intentional.
• #13: Protect your Emotions at all Costs.
• #14: Don't be Afraid to Hold Contrarian Views.
• #15: Lead Through Action.
• #16: Have Alone Time.
• #17: Strive for Something Unrealistic.
• #18: What You Pay Attention to Expands.

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"People are never able to out perform their own self-image. If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured the world will not raise the price."

Which is why I think that your Mindset is one of the most important things to grow, protect and nurture.

This week's Monologue Podcast is a new format and I'd love you to check it out YouTube. I'm refining my video content and this is the first step of improvement.

Discussion Topics: What you will discover from listening to this Podcast:

• Our minds are our strongest and weakest assets.
• Decision making around fear and confidence.
• An abundant mindset.
• Direct link between your physicality and your mindset.
• Growth vs Fixed Mindset.
• How to create a stronger mindset.

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I hear a lot of Dad's say they get bored and don't like to play. But, as with many things in life it's the things we avoid, or don't want to do which are exactly the things that we must be doing!

Essentially your child just loves being around you, because you are their everything.

For your child - a Mom's hug, is equivalent to Dads playing with them. It's an exchange of love, of oxytocin, of the feeling of being secure.

Do not underestimate your role as the playmaker.

Discussion Topics: What you will discover from listening to this Podcast:

• The viral discussion on X which kicked off this week
• Transitioning from Cub to Lion
• Sacrifices required stepping into fatherhood
• Playfulness being squeezed out of you
• Learning from your kids
• The lessons in kids games
• Involving kids in chores and adult tasks
• Playing the long game
• Your most important role ever as a Dad

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Hannah Scott, is an incredible lady who has been through absolute heartache and mental torture along her journey to becoming a Mother.

It took 10 years for her to finally have a baby after numerous miscarriages and failed IVF treatments.

Life eventually threw her some rope after she was completely broken and had almost given up all hope of being a Mom.

This is an incredible story of her battle to fall pregnant, and also how she now helps couples all over the world who cannot have children, for them to experience parenthood through surrogacy. It changed her life, and she is changing others lives.

Meet my guest this week, an amazingly strong woman, Hannah Scott, whom I'm super proud to call my friend.

Discussion:

Discussion Topics: What you will discover from listening to this Podcast:

• Early cervical cancer diagnosis
• Miscarriages and IVF failures
• Emotional torture of failed pregnancies
• Losing confidence as a woman
• Relationships strains
• Discovering uterine scar tissue
• Shiftting to surrogacy
• Founding Little Embryos Surrogacy Agency:
• Georgia's surrogacy process
• All things surrogacy

Hannah's Social Media Links

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Getting Old Squeezes the Life Out of You

A pervasive theme of getting old is losing that spark, that life force, that engaging energy that used to make you shine.

The older we get the more our confidence diminishes and our "mojo" from youthful days is squeezed out of us and exacerbated by responsibilities of bills, dependants and everything that comes with aging.

But maybe, if we remind ourselves what we miss, we can search for that person and bring them back to life again!

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Chris Williamson, recently posted a video about his health struggles over the last year or so.

Weaknesses are a tough thing for any man to admit. I really commend Chris for sharing his health challenges because it gets people talking and thinking about their own health too.

I wanted to share my thoughts, on some of the issues discussed, and also why I think taking care of your physical body is the most important thing you can do.

As the saying goes, "You can have a million worries, until your health is in jeopardy, and then you only have one worry"

You owe it to yourself and others, to be the healthiest you possibly can.

Discussion Topics: What you will discover from listening to this Podcast:

• Mould toxicity
• Comparing your insides to other people's outsides
• Epigenetics - the influence of your environment
• Stress - the body keeps score
• Simplify your life
• Importance of sleep
• Getting out into nature
• Removing distractions
• Collectively being more positive
• How to begin again

Social Media

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Have you found in recent years, you are distancing yourself from friends who have differing political views?

Is it causing you angst or separation in your relationships?

I know it's a tremendous challenge, but this is exactly what we MUST NOT BE DOING.

We are not meant to be divided along our differing political beliefs.

We should rather be united on values and morals.

In this week's Podcast, I discuss the above challenge, together with also providing commentary on a recent video by Andrew Tate, about digital enslavement.

Have you ever considered the prison technology has created?

How every single one of us is trapped in some way?

And collectively, how it's affecting us all negatively?

It's also distracting us from other important and valuable things we should be doing with our lives.

SHOW NOTES

Background, Context & Reference

Social Media

Website

Discussion Links

Andrew Tate Video

People Mentioned

Justin Welsh

Andrew Tate

If you've listened to the Podcast, you've heard me banging on about communication and why it's the most important thing we need to get right in the world.

I think that most issues stem from bad communication.

I think that most issues can be resolved with good communication.

The problem being, that the large majority of people don't know how to communicate well.

You don't have to go far to even test this hypothesis of mine.

• Think of the relationships in your own life, parents, partners, friends, kids - there is somebody that you always moan about because of the way they communicate, or perhaps their lack of communication.
• Watch conversational news programs and you have guests talking over each other.
• Listen to politicians speak and they never answer a question directly.

What I admired about Charlie Kirk, was his willingness to debate, to be verbally attacked, to speak to dissenting voices, to reach across the aisle and political spectrum to better understand each other. He also had an air of confidence about him because he knew what values and morals he stood for.

This week's monologue Podcast will be a regular fortnightly occurrence going forward.

Social Media

Website

Discussion Links

Jewel on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

People Mentioned

Joe Rogan

Charlie Kirk

Marc Ashton, is a well known former South African financial journalist.

Marc is also my buddy, although I haven't seen him since we left primary school 32 years ago!

He served as editor and managing director of a JSE-listed media company, honing his expertise in financial reporting and analysis.

Marc has a sharp mind. He sees the opportunity that exists in South Africa and is optimistic that we can get back to where we should be on the world stage.

We had a great chat, which was an awesome blend of buddies just catching up and trying to solve the world's problems ;)

Discussion Topics: What you will discover from listening to this Podcast:

• Reminiscing about school days
• Becoming a day trader at 16
• People's unhealthy relationship to money
• Fake experts 'teaching' people
• South Africa's media scandals
• Hitting rock bottom in life
• How compromised journalism is
• Old vs New Media
• Optimistic about South Africa's future
• The push-back to B-EEE
• How to get SA back on track

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

Your fellow being

Gareth

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Background, Context & Reference

Connect with Marc Ashton:

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• Linktree
• LinkedIn
• X

Discussion Links

• Caxton Media
• Bryanston Primary
• Media 24
• WITS University
• Between Two Ferns

People Discussed

• Joe Rogan
• Alec Hogg

Music By

• Matthew Parker

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