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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam tell you what, at this time of year,

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Speaker 1: many of us are feeling tired, lost, in need of

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Speaker 1: a boost, needing to feel recentered and connected well. Seven

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Speaker 1: times World surfing champion Lane Beachley has a new book

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Speaker 1: out with wellness mentor Test Brauer. The book is called

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Speaker 1: a Wake Academy and it could transform your life. Lane.

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Speaker 2: Hello, that's in excess. It's a banging surf song.

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Speaker 3: It's just a banking song.

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Speaker 2: Can we just talk about the great surf trap? What's

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Speaker 2: been going on?

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Speaker 4: I was talking to the chaps the other day and

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Speaker 4: Cronulla Way, there just seems to be no surf.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well there's a bit on the Northern beaches. You're

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Speaker 3: just being starved down there.

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Speaker 4: But that's always this is what happens because on the

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Speaker 4: Northern beaches the sand is better and the surf is better.

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Speaker 1: True, So you can't argue with that.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's weird. Your sand is yellow on the

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Speaker 2: Northern beaches. If you notice that house.

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Speaker 3: Is white, Manly's white, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But it crosses over once you get up to avl

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Speaker 2: on the sand is yellow.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: You know, I could listen to this all day, but

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Speaker 1: I'd rather talk to Lane.

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Speaker 2: I've had to go back to wind surfing because I

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Speaker 2: better de evolving.

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Speaker 3: He's regressing.

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Speaker 1: At this time of year, many of us are feeling challenged.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what are you.

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Speaker 1: Suggesting we do?

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Speaker 3: I'm suggesting we stop and take a breath, because we're

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Speaker 3: just on the hamster wheel of life. We're getting too

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Speaker 3: out of control. We're losing connection with the things that

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Speaker 3: are really important to us, such as just our emotions,

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Speaker 3: which then prevents us from begin to connect with people properly.

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Speaker 3: Then we become siloed, and then we numb, or we drink,

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Speaker 3: or we just do things that we can sabotage our

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Speaker 3: long term health and well being. So this book is

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Speaker 3: providing you with a toolkit to help you rebuild yourself

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Speaker 3: from the inside out, because, as we know, if we

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Speaker 3: don't go within, we'll always go without. So it's about

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Speaker 3: helping people boost their energy, their empathy, and their emotional

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Speaker 3: intelligence to live a more happier and more purposeful life.

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Speaker 1: When you were in the you were at the height

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Speaker 1: of your fame and yet in the depths of some darkness. Yes,

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Speaker 1: could you've imagined yourself educating other people on how to

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Speaker 3: No, I couldn't even do it myself. That's what I

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Speaker 3: had to resort to dealing or drawing on the resources

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Speaker 3: of professionals and experts and therapists to help provide me

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Speaker 3: with the toolkit. So essentially Tessa and I have condensed

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Speaker 3: our life lessons and they lived and learned into a

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Speaker 3: toolkit to help people do the same, and we've saved

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Speaker 3: people thousands of dollars in therapy.

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Speaker 1: I'll send you send the invoices.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because my therapy is I just say, get a motorcycle.

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Speaker 2: You write a.

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Speaker 4: Motorcycle running moment, and just get what you do. You

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Speaker 4: live in the moment everything For me and I don't

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Speaker 4: drive a car. I just write a motorbike every day

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Speaker 4: and that's my therapy. But also I like getting out

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Speaker 4: in the surf. Yes, I like swearing when I go windsurfing,

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Speaker 4: because that is the dumbest thing in the history of

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Speaker 3: It is so but it.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't always have to be physical stuff, does it. You

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Speaker 1: can find you're in a piece and all the things

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Speaker 2: A surfer or.

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying having to jump on a motorbike.

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Speaker 2: You don't need to buy a motiv what you really need.

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Speaker 3: To do is just to stop and immerse yourself in

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Speaker 3: nature and connect with your emotions. But a lot of

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Speaker 3: us are too afraid to even connect with our emotions

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Speaker 3: want to know what we don't want to know. But

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Speaker 3: nature is our greatest healer. And if we can just

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Speaker 3: stop and center ourselves. Take one round of a box

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Speaker 3: breathing exercise in how for four seconds, hold for four seconds,

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Speaker 3: You create this sense of calm and clarity in your mind,

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Speaker 3: and then that empowers you to choose how you respond

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Speaker 3: to life's adventures. Otherwise we're always in this reactionary mode

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Speaker 4: And social media doesn't help, specially when we're talking about siloing,

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Speaker 4: once you click on that, you're in an algorithm.

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Speaker 2: So whatever that algorithm.

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Speaker 3: Is, it'll keep feeding you. Yeah, yeah, because it obviously

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Speaker 3: wants to distract you from life. And that's what social

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Speaker 3: media ultimately is, is this constant distraction, which creates a

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Speaker 4: We had you on the show just before talking about

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Speaker 4: Tom Caroly's. Okay, he cracked his head in the surf,

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Speaker 4: but then you were telling us this story.

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Speaker 3: He board flipped and he got the fin right up

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Speaker 3: his wreck done.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever had a similar thing? Have you had injuries?

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Speaker 3: Quirky quirky injuries? I certainly haven't had a fin up

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Speaker 3: my ears, So Finn.

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Speaker 2: Brothers, you take me all over to you. I'm sure,

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Speaker 2: Slider double date man.

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Speaker 3: But I've had plenty of injuries. I mean this, this

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Speaker 3: dimple on my face is actually a scar from my

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Speaker 3: board hitting me in the face and it split. Sorry,

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Speaker 3: that's the microphone split my face apart.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And I got dragged up the beach and I

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Speaker 3: got plumped on a stretcher in the I was in

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Speaker 3: Japan and the sand is black over there by the way,

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Speaker 4: Now imagine those people watching though they see lame Beach,

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Speaker 4: horse races where they go and shoot the contender. I

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Speaker 4: would have thought, well, you know, they put the curtain

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Speaker 3: Like the Hunger Games, Yes, the Hunger Games.

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Speaker 1: If he hadn't been there and stitch your face in

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Speaker 1: that way, what wouldn't happen.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. I must I would have been

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Speaker 1: Because that's a really nice it looks like a smile.

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Speaker 3: It does look like a smile line. But that's coming

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Speaker 3: back to the book talk a lot about building empathy,

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Speaker 3: ignoring the symptoms in pursuit of something. But firstly, we

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Speaker 3: don't know what we're pursuing, and secondly, we're pursuing it

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Speaker 3: I had.

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Speaker 2: I had.

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Speaker 3: I was tagged as having the compacts of a tiger shark.

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Speaker 3: And we can't which means none, which means zero. Exactly,

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Speaker 3: you're in my way, you're on my way, get out

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Speaker 3: of my way. And because I had no compassion or

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Speaker 3: empathy for myself, I can't extend that to anybody. We

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Speaker 3: can't pull from an empty cup, so we want to

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to take my sup board and got

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Speaker 2: in the lineup next to you.

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Speaker 3: Please don't see how that compassion.

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Speaker 2: It's so good to catch up with you. Awake Academy

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Speaker 2: is out now at all Good bookstores. Lane Beachley, thank you,

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Speaker 2: thank you, Brendan