This week we host Bill Lennan who will teach us how to be 40% better! He was a kit who was introverted and had social anxiety.. so Bill built his own toolkit.

As Bills tells his story...

• Friend: How'd you get that role?
• Me: Talking with strangers.
• Friend: What? Talking with strangers is a gateway skill. It enables you to talk with team-mates, stakeholders, leaders, execs, and clients. It also makes interviews way easier.

Let’s get into it

04:50 Bill growing up… and Tim needs to grow up (according to Ben)

06:15 Bill working on cars- Ferraris and more….

07:30 More beautiful car ever made?

Ferraris or Lamborghini?

10:15 Life after playing with supercars

12:00 Introversion and anxiety- Bill’s toolkit

13:45 Everything is a system…. And so understand the mental models

15:00 Dialectical behavioural therapy

20:40 Getting use to discomfort- that is about growth!

22:50 Critical thinking skills- is this unsafe or not. How do you look at scary things?

24:30 The value in physical risk

29:20 Talking AI and software. The future?

33:11 The phones not the problem. It’s the absence of alternatives that is the problem!

34:20 Risks and growing up

36:00 Farming and how rural setting change our focus

38:15 Leaders- system, reps and recipes- ‘latticework’s’. The big models for leadership development

44:15 What is kaizen and why does it work?

46:30 Talking people and performance

52:20 Making tough and unpopular decisions- how to do it if we are overly familiar?

55:50 What’s in Bill’s library

1:00:00 Bill’s Powersong!

External Links

Bill on Linked In

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Music …. With thanks to:

The Externals – available on Spotify

Tim and Ben love breathing. Not just for the fact that it keeps them alive (although that is undoubtedly a strong benefit…) but also for the opportunity it gives to tap into the body’s autonomic nervous system and impact its emotional state. In this episode, they speak with Martin McPhilimey – someone who was researching the impacts of breath long before it was cool - and find out how the differences between some popular breathing techniques and when these are best applied.

07:30 Breath as the ‘core of the dynamic interplay’ between mind and body

08:30 Martin’s background – how he got interested in stress, breathing and sleep

10:30 The link between breathing and sleep

15:00 The importance of being a scientist and a practitioner

16:00 How Martin starts with a new client

21:00 The impacts and requirements for oxygen and carbon dioxide within the body

22:00 What is air hunger, why is it so powerful and what triggers it?

28:50 The benefits of increasing our air hunger tolerance

33:20 Using wearables to monitor and improve your breathing

36:15 Martin’s take on the utility and applicability of some of the more popular breathing techniques, including:

37:00 Box (or combat!) breathing…

38:30 …4-7-8 breathing…

40:25 ..and could 4-7-20 be better than 4-7-8?!...

41:00 …the physiological sigh, and…

43:45 Wim Hof or tummo style hyperventilation techniques

47:30 What Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu can teach you about breath

51:00 Tips and trick for increasing our tolerance to air hunger?

54:30 Martin’s business – Performance Through Health

59:15 The Performance Through Health breath science certification

1:01:30 How to incorporate breathing techniques for children

1:04:00 What does Martin do for Martin? (Including his jiu-jitsu practice with Ground Control Jiu-Jitsu)

External Links

Performance Through Health

Martin’s Insta – some great stuff on here, give him a follow

Martin’s LinkedIn

Contact Us

www.unforgiving60.com

Email us at debrief@unforgiving60.com

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Music …. With thanks to:

The Externals – available on Spotify

Dr Andrew Bengsen talks to us this week about controlling ferals! Animals that is. Andrew has over 15 years’ experience in pest animal management or research and has been with the NSW Department of Primary Industries, Vertebrate Pest Research Unit for a decade.

But also we discuss Andrew’s first career in the military- including serving in Rwanda over the period of the tragic and confronting Kibeyo massacre.

We talk about luck- both good and bad. And perspective.

As well as Andrews ‘role’ (very poor choice of words Tim) in the recent NSW floods, where Andrew’s family home was destroyed by the rising flood waters.

06:00 Andrew’s growing up and not finishing school. Joining the Army

11:45 Operational deployments being rare. Enter Rwanda

15:00 The complexity and challenges of peacekeeping operations

20:24 22 April 1995, the Kibeyo Massacre

24:00 Post Rwanda study … even without finishing school.

27:20 Being a bouncer in Townsville and learnings

34:00 Continuing study and enter into feral research (zoology and tropical ecology). The impact of feral animals and how we control them

47:20 Complexity!

55:00 Talking about the impact of the NSW Floods

1:01:00 The importance of community during the disaster

More on NSW DPI and Andrews Work is here:

https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/staff/profiles/andrew-bengsen

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-bengsen-b7913a193/

Contact Us

www.unforgiving60.com

Email us at debrief@unforgiving60.com

Instagram, Twitter: @Unforgiving60

Music …. With thanks to:

The Externals – available on Spotify

Mitchell Martin- available on Spotify