MID-LIFE MEN PODCAST · 20 OCTOBER 2026
What Happens When Starting Again Goes Wrong?
With host Philip Briscoe. A conversation about starting over, losing a familiar identity and reconsidering what freedom means.
A Memoir
How to Lose
How to Lose
a Life You Love
A memoir of conditioning, collapse, and sovereignty, for anyone who built a life that looked right from the outside and felt like a cage from the inside.
I spent years building a life around freedom, achievement and self-reliance. Then, in my late forties, almost all of it came apart in Australia, quietly and out of public view.
This book is about what was lost,
and what was actually mine to keep.
A memoir about what collapse reveals when the life we built can no longer hold us, and the quieter, harder work of sovereignty on the other side of it.
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MOTIVATED MASCULINE MEN · RECORDED 8 OCTOBER 2026
What Does Freedom Mean When Everything Falls Apart?
With host Chris Chandler-Yates. A conversation about masculinity, identity, relationships, failure, self-reliance and rebuilding a life on your own terms.
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