The instructions sold separately Podcast

Andrew is a Veteran, a businessman and the Co-founder of Ringers Western which is an authentic Australian clothing company.

Ringers Western started around a campfire on the cattle station El-Questro. Initially, run from a lounge room the brand has enjoyed a massive rise to prominence.

Andrew is a great human and is a big supporter of Swiss 8 We had a ball talking with him about life, tips for success and just how to be a good human.

We love him, we hope you love the episode 

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Dr  Romain Fathi is a Senior Lecturer in History at Flinders University, Adelaide, and remains an affiliated researcher at the Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po in Paris. 

His work focuses on the transnational dimension of war and its aftermath in European and Australian contexts. The First World War, war commemorations and Australian identity are my primary research interests.

We spoke about Australia's nation-building during the First World War and how the Aussie digger took a massive role in forming the collective image of who and what we see as Australian and Australian values even if some of it was a little made up.

Please have a listen. Romain is a brilliant man. He was fascinating to speak with, and his book Our Corner of the Somme is a must-read. 

Dan Pronk was the Special forces Doctor for 5 years, with four tours of Afghanistan and over 100 combat missions. he's the doctor that can and did shoot back.

After service, Dan completed an MBA and moved into medical leadership roles, including deputy director of a regional hospital, medical director, and co-owner of TacMed Australia, and author and Italian sports car mad.

He is also the medic Dr Dan on Channel Seven's SAS Australia.

With a story like no other, he is the epitome of the humble professional with some real-world experiences and lessons we can all use. 

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Aidan Muir & Tyler Brooks are Dieticians training and teaching some of the worlds elite athletes to achieve their goals. The level of knowledge and the lived experience was humbling to listen to. 

we covered everything from carb-loading to collagen supplementation and dispelled some myths along the way what an enjoyable episode from some of the leaders in the industry 

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Brett Turley is an Ex-Special operations, explosive detection dog handler, best-selling author and entrepreneur and a bloody good bloke.

We had a great chat about some of the bombs he found and some that he didn't! and the effects on him.  

He has also given a lot of his content for desk-bound athletes and training programs for free check out the link in the show notes.

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Show notes:

https://minimalismfitness.com/swiss-8/ 

Dr Geoff Wilson is a world-class polar explorer, dynamic keynote speaker and entrepreneur. He’s living a vast and varied life split between being a family man, veterinary surgeon and expeditionist - constantly squeezing every drop out of life. In this episode, we spoke about his near-death experiences finding purpose in life, resilience leadership and the difference between complaining vulnerable language. Dr Geoff Wilson is an absolute inspiration. We had a blast recording this.

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In this episode of the ISS Podcast, we sit down with a legend in the world of meat, Jess Pryles, the female Ron Swanson. From flat plate BBQ’s to low and slow smoking Jess is an expert in the whole journey from hunting to processing cooking Jess is a published author, Celebrity judge, and Co-founder of The Australian BBQ Alliance.

We had a ball. Go check it out and please like and subscribe.

Keith Banks is back, One of Australia's most decorated police officers, we discuss his new book Gun to the Head, it is amazing and confronting covering Keith’s undercover work, criminal intelligence, corruption, murder personal loss, the darkness and his fight out. We try not to give too many secrets away.

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Ever wondered what life would be like as a private security contractor in the bloodiest battle of the Iraq War (The Second Battle of Fallujah)?

Or what it would be like to find and develop the human sources required to hunt the world's most wanted bomb makers and terrorist leaders?

Have you thought about how intelligence is used to target the bad guys?

In part one of this ISS podcast episode, we speak to Shane Healey about all this and more.

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From the rugby fields in Australia to contacts in the jungles of Vietnam.

establishing the first reconnaissance platoon and serving as one of the country's elite warriors in the SASR.

Michael von Berg MC OAM takes us on a journey with the hope of not repeating history; we look at the mistakes a nation made over 50 years ago after the Vietnam war and the similarities with the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

 

Topics:

Operation Queanbeyan 

The first Australian reconnaissance platoon

Resilience

Moral injury 

Is history repeating itself 

Lived experience 

Getting on with life after you come home

Connections to tribe through trust.

 

Handy Links

 

https://www.trojanstrek.com/

This program cost the participant nothing. Held in SA and Qld.

 

https://www.rarnationalmemorialwalk.org.au/

Located at Enoggera, It is a living memorial of trees remembering some 400 plus of our RAR that have fallen.

 

https://vwma.org.au/

Micheal is an ambassador for the Virtual War Memorial, which is run out of SA. The RAR (SA). Everyone who has served should be on this for the posterity of an individual's military service, no matter what form, where it will be held in perpetuity. To give you an idea, here is Mick's page.

 

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