Alex Baldock is a high school teacher, a gym owner and a dad, and this episode is a proper look at how all three fit together. Alex grew up in Latrobe, learned some of his biggest life lessons from the coaches who set him straight, and now tries to be that same kind of role model for his students. We get into the moment he and his partner Sam chose to go all in on a gym instead of playing it safe, what it takes to run two of them while still teaching and raising kids, why sticking to your guns matters more than chasing fads, and why strength training has become so important for older members. It's honest about the sacrifices, the chaos, the days he comes home not at his best, and the reason he keeps going.

Alex Ives is twenty years into a career in tech, and this episode is him properly stopping to ask whether it's actually been worth it. It's a wide ranging one, the toll the industry takes and why he's had to learn to say no, the glass jar analogy that changed how he thinks about time and priorities, what a night inside a major tech outage actually looks like from the ground, parenting in a world that's always online, and the family history that's got him entering one of Australia's biggest charity car rallies year after year. Burnout, gratitude, community, and the small habits that actually help him switch off once everything else is stripped away.

In this episode:

• Twenty years in tech, and whether it's actually been worth it
• The glass jar analogy that changed how he thinks about time
• What a night inside a major tech industry outage actually looks like
• Why he keeps doing one of Australia's biggest cancer fundraisers
• Parenting and keeping kids safe in a world that's always online
• The hobbies and small habits that actually help him switch off

Keenan had the choice to take over his dad's motorhome business, and he turned it down. What came next wasn't a straight line. He took a job he ended up hating, got offered a spot in a uni course while he was there, and ended up working that job full time and studying full time at once, on top of a lot going on at home. It came to a head one morning when he was loading the car for work and nearly threw up in the driveway. In this episode Keenan walks us through that breaking point, quitting the job he begun to hate, finishing his degree, landing a spot as lead designer on a military drone trailer contract in his first year out of uni, and building his own 3D printed surfboard brand almost by accident along the way. We also get into anxiety, therapy, being medicated for the first time in his life, and the honest advice he'd give anyone thinking about jumping ship on their career.