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Send us Fan Mail Gordon Auchinachie is an iconic skateboarder from Sydney who made a profound impact on the scene throughout the 90s and beyond. In this week's episode, Gordon shares about his life growing up in Mosman, finding skateboarding, skating in the city, getting sponsored, making the legendary video "Plebs", being offered the job as editor of popular magazine Skateboarding...

Send us Fan Mail Dean Wells is a skateboarder, creative, and former (somewhat controversial) reality TV show star. This week, I join Dean in his studio on the northern beaches of Sydney to discuss his life so far. Dean shares about his family's move from England to Australia, their humble beginnings in the western Sydney suburb of Auburn, their re-location to the city of Newcastle, why he got...

Send us Fan Mail UFC fighter Jamie Mullarkey is back on the show for the second time this year. Jamie discusses his up coming UFC fight in Las Vegas, fight camp, his long-term partnership with coach Ross Pearson, recovery modalities, diet, and the beautiful violence that is MMA. I think I like this episode better than our first one. Such a good dude. Enjoy, Shan⚡️ Jamie supports and advocates for...

Send us Fan Mail Legendary professional Australian Skateboarder, Mick Mulhall joins me for an in-person chat, live from his home in Five Dock, Sydney Australia this week. I'm joined by special guest co-hosts, and longtime friends of Mick, Darren Kaehne and Billy Harris. We commune with Mick at a delicate time in his life,  with the recent passing of his mother, combined with the arduous task...

Send us Fan Mail Craig Martin is a former Military Paratrooper who has completed multiple overseas deployments to locations throughout his long career, including locations such as Afghanistan and East Timor. In this week's episode, Craig discusses what it's like to be shot at in combat, living in a war zone, celebrating his 21st birthday in Afghanistan, the challenges of integrating back...

Send us Fan Mail Former Vice News and News Limited journalist, current article writer for Stab Magazine, and co-host of (the best surf podcast on the planet) Ain’t That Swell, Mr Jed Smith joins me for a chat from his home in the Northern Rivers of NSW Australia. Jed discusses his empathy for the working class, his personal struggle with PTSD, brain injury, the healing modalities he is implementin...

Send us Fan Mail This week I speak with former professional skateboarder, exceptional artist, husband and father, Mr Sidney Tapia. Sid joins me live from his Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia, to take us on a deep, authentic, and often raw journey, through his life so far.  Sid reflects on his tumultuous childhood and teens years, the challenges of being a child of migrant parents who divorced wh...

Send us Fan Mail *Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (PAT) This week, past guest, Psychologist, and Jui Jitsu enthusiast Mark Baxter joins me along with Artist, Curator of the Sporulation Psychedelic Art Festival , and Exercise Physiologist Melissa Errey. The three of us have an open conversation about mental health, it's inevitable fluctuations, trauma, and beyond. Melissa shares elements of her p...

Send us Fan Mail This week I catch-up with one of my personal favourite Australian Skateboarders, Mr Darren Kaehne. Darren and I have a relaxed, yet long conversation, at his house in Mona Vale on the Northern Beaches of Sydney Australia. Darren shares about his early years growing-up, finding a sincere passion for Skateboarding, meeting his wife, starting a family, and everything in between. We r...

Send us Fan Mail Jeffery Olsen and his son Spencer, are Near Death Experience survivors of a car accident that took the lives of Jeffery's first wife, and Spencer's mother, Tamara and Jeffery's son (Spencer's brother), Griffin. To add to the trauma of the event, Jeffery's leg was amputated in the process, he broke his back, endured eighteen surgeries, and five months in an...

Send us Fan Mail Jarrett Wilbraham is a professional MMA fighter and past guest. This week he joins me remotely to check in, discuss his recent title fight in Melbourne, and in true Jarrett fashion, we get deep into his ongoing healing journey. Despite being an absolute savage in the Octagon, Jarrett is a deeply sensitive, and empathetic human who attributes much of his healing journey to his cons...

Send us Fan Mail This week Ian "Chef" Larios shares his journey into becoming regarded as the world's best (and most sought after) Nutritionist and Dietician for the world's best fighters. After getting an opportunity to work with Sergio Pettis almost ten years ago, he has since been invited to be part of fight camps with the likes of Daniel Cormier, newly crowned light heavy w...

Send us Fan Mail Jeremy Rowling is a skateboarder, photographer, dedicated family-man, and a lifelong friend. It's an important episode for me. As a teenager, Jeremy was that person I looked-up to the most. He was a few years older, a few years cooler, confident, kind, funny, and the catalyst that held the crew together. Enamoured with skateboarding, and as the the oldest...he had a job. This...

Send us Fan Mail Ricky Roberts tunes in from St. Petersburgh, Florida, USA to check-in since last time he was on the show. Ricky discusses his latest writing endeavour, his more recent mental health issues of the last couple of years, finding his feet with parenting, why he is still progressing on a skateboard in his mid 40's, the success of his book "Thank you Skateboarding" and mu...

Send us Fan Mail Justin "Lockjaw" Van Heerden is the current Australian Eternal MMA Featherweight champion. In this week's episode, Justin discusses:  Life growing up in South Africa,  His family's decision to move to Australia Being subjected to bullying at school Becoming a father The importance of positive co-parenting relationships His Australian title His current injury pr...

Send us Fan Mail Chelsea Hackett is a female professional MMA fighter who is scheduled to compete in the Professional Fighters League in Florida this coming February 2023. Chelsea shares openly and honestly about the challenges of participating in a heavily male-dominated sport, her inner drive to succeed, winning a contract to the PFL, her Dana White contender series fight, Chinese Street fightin...

Send us Fan Mail Spencer Frost is a talented surfer and filmmaker from the suburb of Avalon, in the northern beaches area of Sydney, Australia. This week, Spencer sits down with me in-person to discuss his early days growing up, starting out in surf film-making, his transition into commercial projects with his own company Spencer Frost films, his early mentors, and a detailed behind the scenes acc...

Send us Fan Mail Jamie "The Hooligan" Mullarkey is a professional MMA fighter who is contracted to the UFC. In this week's episode, Jamie discusses:   Being added to the UFC284 roster in Perth, Australia.  An update on his fight camp preparation His life growing up in the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Why he was originally drawn to MMA. Coaches that have been influent...

Send us Fan Mail Wayne Cleveland is an iconic local from the Southern Sydney suburb of  Maroubra. Big wave charger and life-long surfer, Wayne is a larger than life character that is full of charisma, energy, and an innate kindness that underlies his robust stature and presence. This week, Wayne shares openly and honestly about the events of his wild life so far... Charging big waves, cocaine smug...

Send us Fan Mail Wow. What an absolute banger of a final episode for the year! Simon Wills is a pure skateboarder. And like most of my skateboarding related episodes, we barely talk about skateboarding. Instead, Simon takes us on a journey into his early years growing up in government housing in the South Western Sydney suburb of Campbelltown, he gives us an insight into the violent and often drug...

Send us Fan Mail Marlon Roche is an artist, sponsored skateboarder, empath and someone I consider a good friend. This week, Marlon and I record live in front of a small audience at King Pin Skate Supply. I attempted to talk to Marlon purely about skateboarding for this episode, however, most of the conversation is about smoking weed, perspectives on mental health, gardening, trauma, social etiquet...

Send us Fan Mail Dane Wilson is a lifelong surfer who's family have a deep history in surfboard manufacturing, creativity, and indirect influence on modern day surf culture. Dane joins me via remote recording from his home in Noosa, Queensland Australia and discusses his early surfing years growing up in Cronulla, taking over manufacturing of G&S Surfboards with his family at the age of 1...

Send us Fan Mail Jarrett Wilbraham is a professional MMA fighter who trains under the legendary head coach Joe Lopez at Freestyle Fighting Gym. With peers and mentors such as pound for pound UFC champion Alex Volkanoviski and Colby Thickenesse, Jarrett is poised to realise his dream of competing on the biggest stage in the world. In this week's episode, Jarrett shares openly about the bullyin...

Send us Fan Mail Josh Ku is a well loved, and renowned surfer from the east coast of Australia. He has proven himself time and time again at the most infamous slabbing waves around Sydney, the South Coast of New South Wales and beyond. A waterman in the truest sense. This week, Josh joins me live and in-person to discuss his lifetime in the ocean, his childhood in the eastern Sydney suburb of Maro...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode Ben Watts (aka GRILF) and Leon Paxton discuss their skateboarding journey, the importance of being part of a community, Ben's passion for spearfishing, his love for sharks, close encounters with Great White Sharks, having two seperate near death experiences in the same day, growing up in a rural town, skateboarding trick process and much more. A relaxed...