Good Grief by Martin 100 days

Send us Fan Mail So when do you stop the story? This episode is about recovery from setbacks.  Setbacks confront us every day, so what can we do that’s in our favour to work through them and get back on track? A setback can be many things, it could be injury, a relationship breakup, health issues, an accident, the loss of a loved one and there are lots more examples that we could list. Depending o...

Send us Fan Mail Dilutional or Optimistic How we choose to describe the world and operate within it is entirely up to us. Sure, there are some rules — but experience and a lot of searching tells me we have the capacity to make magic in our lives and influence others along the way. This podcast is about recovery. Recovery from the loss of my son Buster some years ago, the slow journey back, and the...

Send us Fan Mail Arriving at ENOUGH- This is a journey of discovery and recovery, creating good habits and making a few more better choices along the way. Discovering that we are enough is a revelation, that being good at being us means that we don’t have to be any one else and being MORE MINDFUL is the gift I’d like to share. What began as a 100 day creative commitment, soon turned into an effect...

Send us Fan Mail About the Podcast How do I explain this podcast? It's insights into my life-changing journey — going from average to exceptionally average. What began as part of a 100-day creative challenge has extended to over 105 episodes of creativity and personal development, and I do this in the hope that the messages conveyed encourage you to notice that we all have within our power to...

Send us Fan Mail Good Grief by Martin 100 Days Season 14 · Episode 1 YOUR CHOICES ARE NOTHING TO DO WITH ME Life is all about the choices we make — turning left instead of turning right. The decisions we make heavily influence the outcomes, and jeepers, sometimes we can really make it hard for ourselves, despite the people around us who care about us telling us otherwise. A word of advice: stick w...

Send us Fan Mail This week we chat about a bunch of stuff. I had smoking surf sessions, comedy off the charts and some of my lowest of low points that resulted in a 14 hour sleep. A quick burning ducks, a creative comedy segment on micro plastics to make you smile. I reckon this is a cool episode and I run through self care, creativity through moderate activity, increasing neural pathways by just...

Send us Fan Mail Public Announcement- This is your real life! Kicking off with gratitude, we made it through what ever the past few weeks have thrown at us. There is a pattern, good stuff happens and then the gods go- time for a shit sandwich, next thing we’re curled up in a ball. We share simple strategies throughout this episode to help you to the other side hopefully in better condition. Those...

Send us Fan Mail Last weekend Australia celebrated a very contentious holiday Australia Day, many feel that date needs to be changed and I tend to agree. That aside I was glad of the holiday and the surf that came with the long weekend. I have just finished a run of five fringe shows, doing comedy and storytelling. It was a great experience and off the back of these shows I have new ideas to devel...

Send us Fan Mail We start with a surf report, 3.30am starts to make a run to the beach for sun up. Pumping 3m swell worth the early start. Getting into a 2026 mindset for work and motivation.  Comedy and performance in the shape of Fringe World PowerPoint comedy and Storytelling. A small voice can create an impact- be a voice in your community. Notice the magic in our world, reflecting on loss and...

Send us Fan Mail Happiness is a nice to have but not essential. Christmas is the signpost that the year's about to click over, so today we look back over a lifetime and reflect on the good times, the bad, and how we fared in the process. If we look at recent events close to home, there's so much reason for sadness—but today we have a chance to spread some joy, so let's step up and c...

Send us Fan Mail Dying in my hole and back! In this episode we introduce a few  simple strategies for catching ourselves when we are doing something positive, or something that we would like to do more of simply  by imagining a giant GREEN ARROW pointing up.  Then for things that are not so good for us, or what we should do less of, we think of a giant RED ARROW pointing down. The idea is that it...

Send us Fan Mail Today we talk about defusion.  * Defusion refers to the process of separating one's thoughts and feelings from one's actions, a concept most notably used in psychology. It involves detaching from unhelpful thoughts by seeing them as just passing mental events, rather than as literal truths or commands.  * We talk about meditation and an interview with Dan Harris and the...

Send us Fan Mail The benefit of not pressing record is, you get to practice and other stuff happens and it's amazing what can happen in 4 days. I've been doing Rostrum for 3 years now and this has been critical for my performance and presentation skills.  Last week I performed at Bunbury Comedy at the Lyric Theatre, plus Mad Cow at The Buffalo Club, and so my funny is on a roll with thes...

Send us Fan Mail Yes you have to pay for your good times (well I have to anyway) , this week I have a busted nose, sore legs and a broken rib from a recent bout of surfing misdemeanour’s. All the price of doing what you love eh. So I am making the most of the down time and taking the opportunity to be kind to my body and allowing the creative juices to flow. I share about getting a creative spark...

Send us Fan Mail Apparently the world is flat. We discuss Flat earthers v round earthers and yes it’s a head fuk to say the least! A very stormy surf report and getting smashed by my board last week. The Ska and British Music Festival ‘25 review. It was a cracker. ‘OUT OUT’, my new music project begins.  My Mindful workout, I call this stage the unravelling and by introducing some very simple/ sma...

Send us Fan Mail Today I am exactly where I need to be to make some very sensible decisions about how I can move forward and clean up my mess. Reason being is that I’ve been in a bit of a hole lately and yet even with all the reflective work I do,  I still get stuck in my head and with that I have unfortunately attracted a bit of conflict. So an unravelling has occurred and with that my mind feels...

Send us Fan Mail With this weeks can do attitude, we aim to help as many people as possible be open to a broader sense of self and help unravel some of our preset hardwiring. Full disclosure I had a surf this week so pretty chilled but note that this is the fourth time I have recorded this episode,  so hopefully this one will land as positive for you as it did for me putting this episode together....

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode we discuss the new Superman movie, the local winter surf conditions, a recent catch up with a few old school friends & my talented buddy Dr Cuz, star of a new feature movie ‘Unapologetic’. We have a big chat about the recent workshop I put on called ‘Getting Close to the Start Line’ and our future plans for the programme. The Tall Story event I am doing at a...

Send us Fan Mail Dad can you get the washing off the line. This message from my daughter Millie met me in the kitchen this morning and it prompted me to write an impromptu song and put it out on socials. Nothing to do with this podcast really other than do something creative each day. Today we reviewed the second workshop 'Getting close to the start line'. We had written feedback, face t...

Send us Fan Mail Last weekend we put on the first of a series of workshops called Getting Close to the Start Line. It was a great success and feedback from those who attended very enlightening and positive. So what did I learn, well don’t overwhelm people with too much in a short time.  Plus and let people reflect, be funny during the presentation and people notice when you are authentic. I will s...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is outlining some of the key elements of my workshop Getting Close to the Start Line, building strategy for those of you who want to play the long game. It’s also about recovery, dealing with loss and disappointment, simple ways to challenge negative self talk and with the simple daily routines I will share with you, how we can get as close to go in the most effective...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are in pursuit of a life in AWE A big episode, and this week we feature: - An end of life celebration. - Creating the doing- the upside of a 100 day commitment. - Cold showers- just get wet. - End of season 11 - Healing power of the ocean ( it's getting cooler and the swell is on the up). - Beach sauna. - Introducing the next project, living a life in pursuit of AWE....

Send us Fan Mail Can you hear me at the back? Massive shout out to everyone who supported Little Pedro at Settlers Tavern Margaret River. A quick surf report on my three sessions in the south-west on my 9’6” Mactavish Fireball, plus a quick overview of the chat at Gracie’s Store Gracetown. I’m so blessed up with inspiration, motivation and moving gradually forward and exceeding my own expectation...

Send us Fan Mail The power of Bunka’s red Cape is something that you will find out more about at the back of this episode, it is our hope that the story of Bunka will help any young child. Bunker will walk by your child and give them strength on their journey, remember imaginary friends are still friends. This week was five years since we lost our son Buster Vogt 1/4/2020 and so a lot of reflectio...

Send us Fan Mail How do you grab the attention of an audience. Is it the first line of a joke for a comic, the first moment on stage with the band or an opening to a presentation?  Well get that right and the rest is much easier for everyone and I know it’s true because Seth Godin told me that just before I walked on stage last week.               We go live at the State Library Theatre this week...