Dean Robinson has spent more than two decades operating at the highest level from working with elite athletes across the AFL and NRL to managing a private equity portfolio exceeding $300 million and leading over 700 staff.

From the outside, it’s a life defined by achievement, but this conversation goes somewhere deeper.

Success, when built on pressure and performance, eventually asks a different question, who are you beyond what you produce?

In this episode, Dean shares the internal shift that comes when external validation no longer holds the same weight, where fulfilment moves from outcomes to alignment, and presence becomes a discipline in itself.

This is a conversation about identity beyond achievement, about recalibrating the way you relate to success, and about what it means to lead, not just externally, but within your own life.

If you’ve built success but feel the tension underneath it, this will land.

Episode 19 of The View From Here.

What happens when the tools you’ve learned are no longer enough… and life asks you to actually live the work?

In this episode of The View From Here, Steph Bailey, twin mum, life coach, inner child practitioner, and breathwork facilitator, shares a perspective shaped not just by study, but by lived experience.

This conversation explores the deeper layers of inner child healing, nervous system patterns, identity, and motherhood, and how early beliefs and survival responses continue to shape how we show up in relationships, pressure, and everyday life.

We unpack the reality that many high-capacity individuals face, building a life that works on the outside, while navigating patterns underneath that were never consciously chosen.

Steph’s work sits at the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience, offering a grounded, real-life lens on what it actually means to slow down, create safety, and shift from survival into presence.

This isn’t about quick fixes or surface-level growth.
It’s about understanding what’s been running beneath the surface and what becomes possible when you finally face it.

🎧 If you’re navigating pressure, identity shifts, relationships, or the deeper layers of personal growth, this episode will land.

Danny Shannon knows what it means to rebuild a life from the ground up.

Clean since Christmas Day, 2009, Danny has spent the last sixteen years doing the real work, not just to stay sober, but to become the kind of man, father, and leader he once didn’t believe was possible.

Today, he’s the Founder & CEO of Encapsulator, the world’s first structured video journaling platform designed to document transformation in real time. Built from lived experience, it helps individuals, coaches, and recovery programs capture the shift: who you were, who you are, and who you’re becoming.

He’s also the host of A Colourful Past Podcast, where he goes beyond headlines to the stories behind the success adversity, addiction, pressure, resilience, and rebuilding.

This episode isn’t built for surface-level inspiration. It’s for people who understand that real change is private, disciplined, and earned and that building a life you’re proud of requires more than a moment. It requires a standard.

If you’ve ever felt like you were rebuilding in the dark, this conversation will land.

There is a version of leadership that looks calm, capable, and composed on the outside… while quietly carrying more than is sustainable underneath.

In episode 16 of The View From Here, Alisha Brennan, founder of Groundwork Studio, shares the lived experience behind the leadership she’s known for today.

This is a conversation about the slow accumulation of responsibility. About what happens when competence becomes expectation, and reliability becomes identity. And about the moment you realise that being the one who holds everything together is no longer working.

We explore recalibration, capacity, and the shift from urgency-driven success to something far more sustainable.

This episode isn’t about adding more.
It’s about understanding what was never yours to carry in the first place.

Lucinda Keily and Nick Midgley are the founders of Evolve a coaching platform built on the understanding that real transformation goes far deeper than what you see on the surface.

Lucinda is an FMG Bikini Pro and coach with more than 15 years of experience helping people transform their health, habits, and lives. Nick brings a very different but equally powerful depth to the work shaped by lived experience, recovery, fatherhood, and profound personal reckoning. Together, their work through Evolve is grounded in the belief that lasting change is never just physical. It is mental, emotional, relational, and rooted in the courage to face yourself honestly.

In this episode of The View From Here, we explore the stories, pressure, and perspective that shaped both of them. We talk about discipline, darkness, identity, growth, and what it really takes to rebuild a life from the inside out. This conversation moves beyond performance and appearances and into the deeper layers of responsibility, self-leadership, and transformation.

At the heart of Lucinda and Nick’s work is the understanding that people do not change simply by chasing better results. They change when they are willing to confront the patterns, pain, and internal narratives that have kept them stuck, and begin building something stronger from within. That is the work they now bring to their clients through Evolve.

This conversation is about more than fitness. It is about resilience, perspective, second chances, and the kind of transformation that changes not just how you look, but how you live.

This one goes deep.

Some conversations change the way you see the role you play in other people’s lives.

This episode of The View From Here is one of those conversations.

Jess Robertson, founder of Journey Together and author of Moments That Matter has spent more than twenty-five years working with children and the adults who influence their worlds.

In this powerful discussion, Jess shares why behaviour is often just the surface of a much deeper emotional experience and how the way adults respond can quietly shape how a child sees themselves.

We also explore the personal journey behind Jess’s work: finding her voice, setting boundaries and learning that caring deeply for others does not require self-abandonment.

A deeply reflective episode about connection, responsibility and the ripple effect of how we show up.

What happens when the identity that once defined you no longer fits?

Former Royal Marine Commando Dan Hall built his life on discipline, structure, and performance. Leaving the military meant stepping away from the very system that once gave him direction.

In this episode of The View From Here, Dan shares the untold side of that transition, rebuilding identity after the uniform, moving from the UK to Bali and then Melbourne, and learning how to create structure from within rather than relying on the environment around you.

What looks like discipline on the outside is often something deeper underneath: reflection, uncertainty, reinvention, and the quiet work of learning who you are when the rules change.

Today, as the founder of Urban Training, Dan works with busy professionals to create lasting change in their body, mindset, and lifestyle built on consistency and self-trust rather than quick fixes.

This conversation explores identity beyond titles, pressure beyond performance, and what it really takes to rebuild your life when the environment that once held you disappears.

Sometimes the biggest transformation isn’t physical, it’s internal.

Some careers are built.
Others find you.

In this episode of The View From Here, I sit down with Julie Anne Longano, founder of Peeps Consulting and one of the most trusted connectors in the media industry.

With more than 15 years across sales, agency, and integration, Julie Anne has built a name for seeing people clearly, spotting potential, trusting instinct, and connecting top talent with purpose-led companies in a way that feels deeply human.

Behind the professionalism is something even more powerful: intuition.

This conversation explores what happens when you stop forcing the path and start listening to what keeps calling you. We talk about pressure, purpose, motherhood, boundaries, fulfilment, and the quieter inner shifts that reshape how you lead and live.

This is an episode about perspective, trusting yourself and about recognising your calling when it won’t stop knocking.

Julie Anne, welcome to The View From Here.

What does it really take to build a town, without breaking it?

Ben Kirkwood has spent more than 20 years inside hospitality and tourism, running restaurants, managing hotels, and operating resorts across Australia and overseas. But this conversation goes far beyond business.

Long before “sea change” became a cultural shift, Ben made his own, moving to Byron Bay, opening his first restaurant, building a family, and committing to an industry that sits at the centre of both opportunity and tension.

Tourism can elevate a place, but it can also strain it. Through leadership roles with Destination Byron, the Byron Visitor Centre, and the Byron Chamber of Commerce, Ben has been in the middle of the real conversations, growth versus preservation, economy versus community, lifestyle versus livelihood.

Then came 2020, when in the middle of a global pandemic, Beach Restaurant was hit by a major erosion event that nearly took everything. Not just revenue. Not just infrastructure. But certainty. What happens when the ground beneath your life’s work literally disappears?

In this episode, Ben speaks candidly about pressure, stubborn determination, resilience, and the weight of responsibility that high-capacity leaders often carry quietly. He reflects on what achievement actually means, why fulfilment has changed over the years, and how his driving force has never been status, but care. Care for this town, the region and for building something that lasts.

When Ben says “The View From Here” means he’s made it to the top, it isn’t about ego, but about the perspective earned the hard way. If you care about leadership, legacy, community, or what it really takes to hold growth without losing soul, this conversation will stay with you.

Lauren Killey built her life on discipline, performance, and winning.

By her early twenties, she had earned her pro card, competed nationally and internationally, and become known as a high-performing athlete and coach. From the outside, it looked powerful. Controlled. Certain.

Yet the certainty was surface-level.

Behind the titles and prep seasons was a quieter unravelling a relationship that was ending, an identity built entirely on achievement, and a mental health crash few people saw coming. Giving up her WBFF pro card and the end of her five-year engagement did not just change her circumstances. They dismantled who she thought she was and she hit rock bottom while still appearing “fine” to the world.

In this episode of The View From Here, we explore what happens when your identity is built on performance and it collapses. The depression, dissociation, and silent pressure Lauren carried alone. The ego death that forced her to confront who she was beyond validation, physique, and achievement. What followed was not a quitting ambition; it was redefining it.

In her 30s, Lauren rebuilt, launching a new business model aligned with who she had become, not who she had been performing as.

Today, she still loves pressure, is still driven and competitive, but she leads from self-awareness, boundaries, and freedom rather than ego and survival.

This is a conversation about identity beyond titles, about collapse as catalyst and about becoming more than the role you once perfected.