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When You Know Something Has to Change, with Dr James Rouse
In this episode I talk with Dr James Rouse, author of "No Days Off", about what that moment looked like for him. Growing up around alcohol, instability, and pressure to just get on with things, he followed a path a lot of men fall into: drinking too much, pushing himself hard physically, and trying to outrun how he felt rather than face it.
Some men don’t crash. They just reach a point where they quietly think: “I can’t keep living like this.”
What makes this conversation different is how honest he is about how change actually happened. Not a breakthrough. Not a rock-bottom moment. Just a…
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