The Turning Point Podcast

On the show today we’re joined by a bloke who has experienced profound shifts in his perspectives of what strength means to him. 

Cameron Daddo was a teenager when he made his TV debut. And almost 30 years on he’s still one of Australia’s most well respected actors, having recently joined the cast of Home and Away. 

Cam is a dad, a husband and a huge believer in men’s mental health and he joins us now to discuss all of it. 

Your hosts are Lincoln Lewis & Scott Henderson

The Executive Producer is Elissa Ratliff

Audio Producer Jake Taylor

With thanks to Cameron Daddo. You can listen to Cam on his podcast Separate Bathrooms now.

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Lincoln and Scott are back for Season 2 of Men's Health Australia's Strength Sessions.

The new season will be released on the 3rd of April.

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Trent Maxwell or ‘Lifeguard Maxi’, as he is more commonly known, is the youngest ever Professional Lifeguard to work at Australia’s world-famous Bondi Beach. Maxi started lifeguarding at Bondi over 11 years ago as a 16-year-old trainee and his inspiring Lifeguard career has been well documented on Channel 10’s award winning show Bondi Rescue.

In 2016 Maxi became a Firefighter for NSW Fire + Rescue, then in 2018 Maxi earned the position of Qualified Rescue Operator as part of the Heavy Rescue team at the City of Sydney Fire Station. This unique career combination see’s Maxi as a much-needed young, positive, male role model for future generations.

In 2018 Maxi added the title of published Author to his credits, releasing his ‘Maxi the Lifeguard’ educational, fictional, children’s book series. In 2018 Maxi founded social enterprise ‘Live Learn Survive’ with business partner Leigh Mason with a vision to teaching life saving skills to children and young adults.

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From the outside, Lincoln Lewis looked to be living a charmed life. He had blazed his own path as an actor, winning a Logie Award in 2008 for his work on Home and Away. More recently, however, as new roles proved elusive and dark moods descended, the 31-year-old began to feel as though the pillars holding up his life were crumbling. Needing something solid to grab on to, Lewis accepted an MH challenge to overhaul his body in 12 weeks. What he learned along the way could be the blueprint for a transformation of your own.

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If you haven’t heard of Todd Liubinskas yet, take a knee: he’ll be a household name in no time. Coach, business owner, charity operator and MH fitness director, Liubinskas is a force to be reckoned with. You wouldn’t expect a bloke with Liubinskas’s credentials to be a paragon of selflessness and humility. But it’s these qualities – combined with his stellar command of all matters fitness (and, yes, the fact he’s jacked) that sealed his position at the top of the Australian fitness pyramid.

The ultimate nice guy of the fitness industry, Liubinskas spent 17 years exploring all that elite conditioning has to offer, before founding three fitness-focused businesses: CSP Gym, CSP Athlete Factory and Coaching Zone Five Dock.

Todd's impact extends beyond the gym. He works with local youth in Sydney’s west, and with the charity Let’s Get Going, which provides mentoring for adults with physical and intellectual disabilities, as well as his most notable achievement of 2019: the creation of global running phenomenon The 440.

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What if the simple act of greeting a mate or congratulating an opposing player on the sporting field had the potential to threaten everything you’ve ever held dear? So it was for Nathan Charles, the only person with cystic fibrosis ever to play a contact sport at an elite level. His whole life has been about taking precautions and diminishing risk.

“I always had the belief that I was, I wouldn’t say destined, but that this is what I was going to do and I wasn’t going to take no for an answer,” he says of his dream of playing professional rugby. “Ever since I could talk I wanted to be a Wallaby. It was never a sense of entitlement. It was just more of a belief that if you want something bad enough you won’t let anything get in your way. The only thing stopping you is yourself.”

You’ve probably heard athletes, entrepreneurs or motivational speakers say something similar in the past. The difference with Charles is that it isn’t a hollow aphorism. In cystic fibrosis he had an obstacle that traditionally shrinks your opportunities in life. Charles wouldn’t let it. “He seems to have defied science and defied logic,” former Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie once said of him. 

His story can inspire anyone who wants to achieve something extraordinary.

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WARNING - POOR AUDIO

“I’m very precious with my time, which is why I’m so disciplined,” says Wahlberg, who’s surprisingly softly spoken. “I try to inspire people that there is enough time in the day to accomplish all of your goals and find that great balance.”

We all have the same 24 hours in each day, but as Wahlberg identifies, how we use those hours really determines where we end up in life. From troubled teen years to the F45 investing, acting and producing legend he's become, Wahlberg now makes every second count towards building a solid future for himself, his family and those he inspires.

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Actor, Survivor fan-favourite, and founder of mental health charity Livin', Sam Webb has created a movement that is actively (and successfully) changing the culture of modern masculinity and strength. And he's saving 1000's of lives in the process.

If you or someone you know is having one of those days when everything seems a bit too much, follow the steps below to start feeling like you’re LIVIN again!

Emergency Support: If you or someone you know are in an emergency, or at immediate risk of harm to yourself or others, please contact emergency services on 000.  

Suicide and Crisis Support: To talk to someone RIGHT NOW contact:

• Lifeline 13 11 14
• Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467
• Kids Help Line 1800 55 1800

In an emergency, you can also visit your local hospital’s emergency department.

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Since appearing on our cover just six short months ago, actor, TAG Heuer ambassador, and Centr founder Chris Hemsworth hasn’t exactly been idle. He’s released his own health and fitness app, starred in the biggest movie of all time and rebooted another beloved ’90s franchise. So, what’s a man to do when he’s secured his position as one of the most recognisable and influential people on the planet? As Hemsworth reveals, sometimes the best way to move forward, is to take the difficult step backwards.

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What drives people to grow, to transform, to reinvent themselves? Two blokes, who through Men’s Health have become familiar with unlikely sources of strength, talk with guests who have experienced profound shifts in perspective, strength and well-being, either physically, mentally or emotionally.

MH editor Scott Henderson and national treasure Lincoln Lewis co-host this exploration of modern masculinity and the notion of ‘strength’.

As the banter flows, the lads chat to Hollywood movie stars, athletes, musicians, industry experts and extraordinary blokes on how they’ve found overcome adversity to find strength in their lives.

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