Apologies for the low quality audio today. It does improve as the episode progresses. This one is a raw solo entry, recorded on my phone in a coffee shop in Canggu, no camera setup, no plan.

Today felt like a shift. First easy run in over a month after a back injury, food poisoning and a rough few weeks, and the start of moving on from a minor heartbreak. Along the way I get into something I keep noticing: the moment a song or a place stops being part of your present and crosses over into nostalgia, and why that threshold feels so much sharper when you are travelling.

In this episode:

The nostalgia threshold, when familiar songs start to sting

Moving through heartbreak without dressing it up

Why walking into a new coffee shop scared me more than recording in public

Booking HYROX Bangkok with four weeks to train

The three levels of sharing personal stories, from private journal to public insight

If this format lands for you, let me know. And if you have not already, hit follow so the next one turns up on its own.

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The Chapter System: https://thechaptersystem.com

One minute you feel safe, supported and loved. An hour later the ground has shifted and it's fear, dread and unpredictability. That's emotional whiplash, and if you've ever been on that rollercoaster you know how exhausting it is.

In this solo episode I break down exactly what to do in the seconds, minutes and hours after the whiplash hits: the one message that buys you a buffer, grounding yourself in your body instead of numbing out, getting into the other person's shoes, honestly checking your own part in it, and acknowledging their feelings either way. I also take on the question everyone asks, why should I be the one doing all this work? It all leads to the bigger question that decides everything: how many baskets is your safety sitting in?

Whether it's a partner, a boss or anyone your sense of safety depends on, this is a practical playbook for the moment it hits.

If this one lands, share it with someone on their own rollercoaster and drop a comment to say so.

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Awaken Out of Context: https://awakenoutofcontext.com

The Chapter System: https://thechaptersystem.com

Ten weeks in Bali and I'm fried.

I came out here to up my content game, and in some ways I have. But I'm shattered. The agency, the podcast, the YouTube, the vlogs. I hired an editor over a month ago and somehow I'm still spending just as much time on revisions, feedback and SOPs as I was before.

So this one is completely off the cuff. No script, no polish, just me in a guest house talking through what's actually going on in my head.

I get into the strange day I looked at my Spotify analytics and saw a huge spike, and how the first thing I felt was not excitement but fear. I talk about whether I even want this to take off, the kind of person who tends to get famous being the exact kind of person who probably shouldn't, and the clip that suddenly pulled in a whole new audience while alienating another.

There's also the slightly mad realisation that I'm making a clip of myself saying I don't want more people to see my stuff, because I want more people to see it.

In this episode:

- Why ten weeks of hard content work hasn't given me the payoff I expected

- The Spotify spike that made me shake, and why fear showed up before joy

- Whether I actually want fame or just a bit of micro niche recognition

- The "girls vs women" clip, and getting two opposite signals at once

- Laughing at myself on camera, and the shy person underneath all of it

- Whether to gate my work, charge for it, or build something I can actually live from

- No guest this week. Just me, unedited, real life from a guest house in Bali.

🎙️ MY STUFF

Awaken Out of Context: https://awakenoutofcontext.com

The Chapter System: https://thechaptersystem.com