Latest / Toni, Jase & Sam - Breakfast Catchup / Look after nature and it'll look after you too with Aaron Fleming
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- 0:00Speaker 1: We Need to Talk, Tony Street's lifestyle and Wellness podcast.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Hello, it is great to have you with us today
- 0:10Speaker 2: on We Need to Talk. Here is a question for you.
- 0:13Speaker 2: What are you actively doing each week to support your
- 0:15Speaker 2: mental health. Maybe it's exercise, meditation, breath work, or making
- 0:19Speaker 2: sure that you connect regularly with your mates, But do
- 0:22Speaker 2: you include nature in that equation. Aaron Fleming from Doc
- 0:26Speaker 2: has a history of depression and he believes that nature
- 0:30Speaker 2: is one of the most important remedies. He hasn't had
- 0:33Speaker 2: an easy ride in his life. At sixteen, his right
- 0:36Speaker 2: lung collapsed not once, but four times. He had two
- 0:39Speaker 2: major surgeries, and has battle both depression and addiction. But
- 0:43Speaker 2: despite all of that and being told he could not
- 0:45Speaker 2: physically exert himself again, he then managed to compete in
- 0:48Speaker 2: multiple Iron Man so and I'd love to know how
- 0:50Speaker 2: that will end it up. Aaron is lovely to have
- 0:52Speaker 2: you with us today. Thanks so much for joining me.
- 0:55Speaker 3: My absolute pleasure. It's great to be here.
- 0:57Speaker 2: So first of all, can you tell us why you're
- 1:00Speaker 2: getting behind this big push to get people into nature
- 1:03Speaker 2: as a medicine for their mental health.
- 1:05Speaker 3: I have found this medicine myself. As you touched on
- 1:09Speaker 3: in that opening. Haven't had the easiest ride through life.
- 1:13Speaker 3: I had that particularly tough time as a teenager, and
- 1:16Speaker 3: it really did help to shape my values through those
- 1:19Speaker 3: difficult years. But one thing that I found was nature.
- 1:22Speaker 3: It was a healer, it was a therapist, it was
- 1:24Speaker 3: a teacher. It's also a playground. And I spent time
- 1:28Speaker 3: in nature and just fell in love with it, and
- 1:32Speaker 3: natures there for all of us. Doesn't matter who we are,
- 1:35Speaker 3: it will always be there, and it's such a good
- 1:36Speaker 3: healer for us.
- 1:37Speaker 2: When you say nature, what exactly are you meaning? You know,
- 1:41Speaker 2: are we talking going for a walk in the bush.
- 1:43Speaker 2: What are we talking about?
- 1:44Speaker 3: It could be anything. It could be doing something in
- 1:47Speaker 3: your backyard and doing something for the birds that come
- 1:51Speaker 3: and visit you in your backyard. It could be visiting
- 1:53Speaker 3: a regional park and going for those walks and getting
- 1:57Speaker 3: that deep fresh breath of air, looking at the grandeur landscapes,
- 2:02Speaker 3: looking at the coastlines. Or it could be going out
- 2:05Speaker 3: for multiple days as I now do now and having
- 2:08Speaker 3: that solitude and that space is to reset, to rethink,
- 2:12Speaker 3: and to build on that strongest bustle that we've got,
- 2:15Speaker 3: which is between.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Our ears being out and having that solitude on your own.
- 2:19Speaker 2: That can actually be an uncomfortable thing for some people
- 2:22Speaker 2: because then they get in their own head. Have you
- 2:24Speaker 2: always been comfortable being on your own?
- 2:27Speaker 3: I've taught myself to be comfortable in that space, So
- 2:29Speaker 3: when I started to venture out into nature, that wasn't
- 2:33Speaker 3: the first thing I did was go out for multiple
- 2:35Speaker 3: days on end. First of all, I did go out
- 2:37Speaker 3: with others. I learned to get my confidence in that
- 2:41Speaker 3: space first and foremost, I learned how to be safe
- 2:44Speaker 3: in that space. And then to the point where I
- 2:46Speaker 3: actually did enjoy my own company. I enjoyed the quiet,
- 2:50Speaker 3: I enjoyed listening, I enjoyed observing. And yes, I say,
- 2:53Speaker 3: I can go out for multiple days now on my own.
- 2:56Speaker 3: It's with good safety equipment with me a PLB, and
- 3:00Speaker 3: I have that time on my own, and it's really healing.
- 3:04Speaker 3: It's a great way to reset.
- 3:06Speaker 2: And you have had to heal because you have had
- 3:08Speaker 2: a bit of a rocky road. Let's go back to
- 3:10Speaker 2: what happened. First of all, when you were sixteen and
- 3:13Speaker 2: you had a collapse lung. How did that happen?
- 3:16Speaker 3: It's got a spontaneous new authorax. I suppose to keep
- 3:19Speaker 3: where there. It's spontaneous. You don't know it's going to happen.
- 3:22Speaker 3: They don't really know why it happens. It just kind
- 3:24Speaker 3: of happens. I was unlucky. My right lung did collapse
- 3:28Speaker 3: four times over a period of six months, required two
- 3:31Speaker 3: lots of pretty major surgery, number of years of recovery,
- 3:36Speaker 3: and to a point where I couldn't even wear a
- 3:38Speaker 3: backpack on my back for a number of years. I
- 3:41Speaker 3: couldn't walk a short distance to school and sept I
- 3:44Speaker 3: spent the best part of the year off school as
- 3:46Speaker 3: a sixteen year old. So it's a real tough time
- 3:48Speaker 3: in my life and a real important time in your
- 3:50Speaker 3: life as well. I had to teach myself on how
- 3:53Speaker 3: to find purpose and to find my why and to
- 3:57Speaker 3: kind of rebuild myself. And what was I saw as
- 4:00Speaker 3: ground zero at that time.
- 4:02Speaker 2: Is that sort of the time of your life where
- 4:04Speaker 2: you think a bit of the depression kicked in an
- 4:06Speaker 2: addiction or did that come later?
- 4:09Speaker 1: No?
- 4:09Speaker 3: Absolutely, I got myself into a real dark space in
- 4:14Speaker 3: those years.
- 4:14Speaker 1: It was.
- 4:17Speaker 3: The addiction that we refer to here was pain relief,
- 4:20Speaker 3: Like it was my body craving the pain relief that
- 4:24Speaker 3: I was on. It was epidurals, morphine pumps, lots of
- 4:27Speaker 3: tablets like it was the works, it was a cocktail.
- 4:30Speaker 3: I was shaking, My body was craving this. I didn't
- 4:35Speaker 3: know if I was a sleeper. I was awake, and
- 4:37Speaker 3: I got myself into this really dark space. And my
- 4:40Speaker 3: mom found me on the kitchen floor one morning at
- 4:43Speaker 3: three o'clock in the morning, and I just remember looking
- 4:45Speaker 3: at my mum saying, I can't do this anymore. And
- 4:48Speaker 3: I just found this really, really, this really deep space,
- 4:52Speaker 3: which you know, I knew I had to build myself
- 4:54Speaker 3: out of because when I heard myself say those words,
- 4:57Speaker 3: that wasn't me I was. That wasn't me speaking, It
- 4:59Speaker 3: was something else. And so I had to find that strength,
- 5:03Speaker 3: that courage, that bravery to be able to lift myself
- 5:06Speaker 3: out of that space with the help of others as well.
- 5:09Speaker 2: Now, how did you do that took us through that recovery.
- 5:13Speaker 3: There was a remarkable person in my life at that time,
- 5:15Speaker 3: which was my hospital school teacher. And lots of people
- 5:20Speaker 3: may not know, but hospitals do have schools, and my
- 5:24Speaker 3: school teacher at the hospital at that time used to
- 5:27Speaker 3: contact me every day, even once I was discharged in
- 5:30Speaker 3: that home used to contact me every day, and it
- 5:33Speaker 3: wasn't to do school work. There was never a math
- 5:35Speaker 3: thought English involved. It was just a chat and it
- 5:39Speaker 3: was just to get me to think about that next step.
- 5:42Speaker 3: It didn't need to be a big step by just
- 5:44Speaker 3: that next step or that next conversation or that next
- 5:47Speaker 3: goal that I could have for myself, which eventually did
- 5:49Speaker 3: get me back to school for four periods a week,
- 5:53Speaker 3: which for a lot of people would sound like an
- 5:55Speaker 3: absolute holiday, but for me it was quite quite taxing
- 5:59Speaker 3: to get back to school for four periods or four
- 6:01Speaker 3: hours a week. But yeah, it was just those really
- 6:04Speaker 3: small steps. It was not sidelining your support network. It
- 6:10Speaker 3: was really easy at that time to not actually want
- 6:12Speaker 3: to talk or see anybody, including those who are closest
- 6:15Speaker 3: to me, being really mindful not to signline that support
- 6:18Speaker 3: that was there.
- 6:19Speaker 2: Do you remember what your mental space was like around
- 6:23Speaker 2: that time? You know what sort of thoughts did you
- 6:25Speaker 2: have after the collapse lung incidents.
- 6:28Speaker 3: I was somebody who was always really goal driven. I
- 6:31Speaker 3: was really sporty, and so through that period of being unwell,
- 6:36Speaker 3: I kind of had the rug ripped out from underneath me.
- 6:40Speaker 3: I had goals to wear to sew and Fern and
- 6:42Speaker 3: to represent New Zealand and the Comwealth Games and all
- 6:46Speaker 3: these big cool goals. But then it ended overnight and
- 6:50Speaker 3: I really did think that, you know, my dreams were
- 6:54Speaker 3: just ripped away. And yeah, and then with the pain
- 7:00Speaker 3: and you know, the having to reset my social life
- 7:05Speaker 3: and everything again at a young age, spent time away
- 7:09Speaker 3: from home as well in hospital at a young age.
- 7:12Speaker 3: It was it was really I suppose I matured a
- 7:16Speaker 3: lot through that time because I had to make a
- 7:18Speaker 3: lot of decisions for myself at a young age. But
- 7:20Speaker 3: it was a really challenging time, that's for sure. I've
- 7:22Speaker 3: really tested my thinking and I did have to reset
- 7:25Speaker 3: my mindset.
- 7:28Speaker 1: Back to we need to talk with Tony Street.
- 7:31Speaker 2: How did it go with your relationships at the time,
- 7:33Speaker 2: with your friends and things. Did you find yourself quite distanced?
- 7:37Speaker 1: Yes?
- 7:37Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know my friends were supportive, but I distanced myself,
- 7:43Speaker 3: like I just I didn't have the energy, to be honest,
- 7:48Speaker 3: to put into that. My energy was was just trying
- 7:51Speaker 3: to get through every single day, and you know, everything
- 7:56Speaker 3: else took and sacked energy from me. And I decided
- 7:59Speaker 3: to there was distance there, and that's I suppose when
- 8:03Speaker 3: my hospital school teacher was brilliant because she coached me
- 8:08Speaker 3: through you know just how important those connections were, how
- 8:13Speaker 3: important it was to actually take that step back into
- 8:16Speaker 3: a classroom, how important it was to be able to
- 8:21Speaker 3: spend more time with my family. She kind of put
- 8:25Speaker 3: those really small achievable steps in front of me.
- 8:28Speaker 2: So you go from that point there where you know
- 8:31Speaker 2: you're depressed and you're addicted to these painkillers, and at
- 8:34Speaker 2: some point you end up competing in an iron man.
- 8:37Speaker 2: How did that happen?
- 8:39Speaker 3: My surgeon told me that I'd never be able to
- 8:41Speaker 3: physically exert myself ever again after that surgery, and for
- 8:46Speaker 3: five years I lived with pain. I lived with fear
- 8:50Speaker 3: as well that anything that I would do would step
- 8:53Speaker 3: me back into a hospital ward. So was I was scared,
- 8:58Speaker 3: And as I mentioned, I could carry a backpack on
- 9:01Speaker 3: my back. But then I was reading about a remarkable woman,
- 9:05Speaker 3: her name is Tracy Richardson, who was raising money and
- 9:09Speaker 3: awareness assistic pibrosis because sheared two kids with CF and
- 9:15Speaker 3: she did that through the sport of Iman. And I
- 9:17Speaker 3: grew up in to poor, beautiful place that the playground
- 9:20Speaker 3: that is Iman, and I was inspired watching this throughout
- 9:25Speaker 3: my early years, I knew how awesome it was to
- 9:29Speaker 3: be a finish line seeing people finish who had been
- 9:32Speaker 3: through some type of adversity, whether it's financial or relationships,
- 9:36Speaker 3: or depression or being overweight or starting can scratch. You know,
- 9:41Speaker 3: lots of people take on some kind of personal challenge
- 9:45Speaker 3: to do that sport. And I emailed Tracy instantly and said,
- 9:49Speaker 3: I'm going to do this. I'm going to continue your
- 9:51Speaker 3: legacy and I'm going to do this race, and I'm
- 9:54Speaker 3: going to raise money and awareness assistic probosis, primary and
- 9:57Speaker 3: lung disease and keep her thing going because her kids
- 10:02Speaker 3: needed their mum. So that's what I did. I signed up,
- 10:05Speaker 3: started from absolute scratch. My first run was four lamp post.
- 10:10Speaker 3: My first swim was half a length of the pool,
- 10:12Speaker 3: and then I turned around and swam back and got out.
- 10:15Speaker 3: I started fro amn absolute scratch to give myself a
- 10:19Speaker 3: chance to do what is a big day. Three point
- 10:23Speaker 3: eight kilometer swim, one hundred and eighty kilometer bike ride,
- 10:26Speaker 3: in a forty two kilometer run, a full marathon. It's
- 10:29Speaker 3: it's a big day at the office. But I gave
- 10:31Speaker 3: myself a year to do it.
- 10:32Speaker 2: You didn't start small, did You didn't start with like
- 10:35Speaker 2: just the local fun run. You went straight to the
- 10:38Speaker 2: big one. So you start and you do the one
- 10:40Speaker 2: lap of the pool, and you know the four lamp posts.
- 10:45Speaker 2: How were you nervous that pushing yourself like the experts
- 10:48Speaker 2: had said, was going to deteriorate your condition?
- 10:53Speaker 3: Really good question. One thing that I've learned about my
- 10:56Speaker 3: body is I can read it like a book. I
- 10:59Speaker 3: know the capacity that I've got in my breathing and
- 11:02Speaker 3: my lungs. I know signs of pain and have I
- 11:07Speaker 3: pushed myself too hard, too fast, too far, too fast? See?
- 11:13Speaker 3: I can read my body like a book. So it
- 11:14Speaker 3: was really I was scared. But I'm also not going
- 11:18Speaker 3: to wrap myself up in CommonWell, that's not how I
- 11:20Speaker 3: want to live life. The world is too big to
- 11:24Speaker 3: dream small. And I wanted to be able to do
- 11:28Speaker 3: this for sister fibrosis. These young kids in New Zealand
- 11:31Speaker 3: of CF could live, you know, through winters and that
- 11:36Speaker 3: tough battle that can have with sister fibrosis, and if
- 11:39Speaker 3: they can do that and the days that they spend
- 11:42Speaker 3: in and out of hospital, I can do this. And
- 11:45Speaker 3: I took that attitude into it knowing that there's people
- 11:47Speaker 3: out there watching me, knowing that I wasn't going to
- 11:52Speaker 3: give up when they going got tough, and so that
- 11:54Speaker 3: was the attitude I took to it.
- 11:55Speaker 2: Did you have moments where you thought, oh, I might
- 11:59Speaker 2: have been not a bit more than I can chew here,
- 12:01Speaker 2: I don't know if I can complete a full I.
- 12:02Speaker 3: Man absolutely absolutely, And in fact, the first race day
- 12:09Speaker 3: that I got to I got myself where I thought
- 12:11Speaker 3: I was physically ready, but then there was a storm
- 12:14Speaker 3: and the race was over half canceled because of this
- 12:18Speaker 3: weather event, and that really played with my mindset again
- 12:22Speaker 3: because you know, I had this goal. It was a
- 12:23Speaker 3: twelve month goal. I wanted to achieve this massive goal
- 12:31Speaker 3: for me, proved the medical world role, do this amazing
- 12:33Speaker 3: thing for kids with CF and raise money awareness being
- 12:37Speaker 3: inspiration to them. And then the goal wasn't there to achieve.
- 12:41Speaker 3: The dream had been ripped away. So I had to
- 12:43Speaker 3: again test my mindset, reset the mindset and make it
- 12:48Speaker 3: a twenty four month goal. But through that there was
- 12:52Speaker 3: the voice of doubt around can I do this? Have
- 12:56Speaker 3: I taken on too much? There's always a voice of doubt.
- 12:59Speaker 3: But I've trained myself not to listen to that voice.
- 13:03Speaker 3: And if anything, this has made me the most resilient
- 13:07Speaker 3: person that I know, because I have been able to
- 13:10Speaker 3: train to my mind to be my strongest muscle.
- 13:13Speaker 2: We talk about that a lot actually on this podcast
- 13:15Speaker 2: around neuroplasticity. You know, you can tell your mind what
- 13:18Speaker 2: you wanted to think, and it sounds like you have.
- 13:21Speaker 2: You've learned a lot about that mental space through this.
- 13:25Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely absolutely. I know what a tough day is
- 13:28Speaker 3: from being in hospital, and I know what a tough
- 13:33Speaker 3: day is out on an imn course. And so just
- 13:35Speaker 3: with everyday life now, whether it's work, whether it's relationships,
- 13:39Speaker 3: no matter what it is, everything else kind of pales
- 13:42Speaker 3: in comparison compared to what I know what a tough
- 13:45Speaker 3: day is. And so I don't sweet the small stuff.
- 13:47Speaker 3: I don't let things worry me when it shouldn't. And yeah,
- 13:52Speaker 3: I've just built this really strong mental resilience to be
- 13:54Speaker 3: able to not coast through life, but to deal with
- 13:57Speaker 3: life and to ensure that I put my effort in
- 13:59Speaker 3: the right places. And then I'm kind to myself. You know,
- 14:04Speaker 3: kindness to yourself is really important.
- 14:07Speaker 1: You're listening, Do we need to talk with Tony Street.
- 14:11Speaker 2: Your family must have had reservations about you doing this
- 14:14Speaker 2: because how many iron Man's have you done? Now?
- 14:16Speaker 3: It was supposed to be one and done, but what
- 14:19Speaker 3: I learned is that this sport's been so good for me,
- 14:21Speaker 3: not just for my health but mentally, and so I've
- 14:26Speaker 3: kept it going. I've been doing it for two decades.
- 14:29Speaker 3: I've done twenty two iron Man races now and shortly
- 14:34Speaker 3: I'll be heading to Hawaii to compete in the World Championships.
- 14:38Speaker 3: So yeah, like I said, you know, if you've got
- 14:41Speaker 3: a dream big and your dreams can come true. And
- 14:43Speaker 3: that's what I've done. I have dreamed big, and here
- 14:46Speaker 3: I am. I'm going to be at the World Championships
- 14:48Speaker 3: for the Olympics of our sport, and little or me
- 14:52Speaker 3: will be there. My parents were petrified when I started
- 14:56Speaker 3: this journey, but they are my biggest supporter. They've been
- 15:00Speaker 3: on the sidelines. They know that I'll be doing this
- 15:04Speaker 3: with or without their support. Bit of stubborness, I suppose,
- 15:08Speaker 3: and so they're my biggest cheerleaders. And it's so cool
- 15:12Speaker 3: to see them from the hospital bedside now to a
- 15:17Speaker 3: finish line and to share that that moment with them.
- 15:20Speaker 3: It's pretty cool.
- 15:21Speaker 2: Now, tell me what you do with doc because this
- 15:24Speaker 2: is your new job. Well it's not your new job,
- 15:26Speaker 2: but it's your job, and it's kind of how you're
- 15:28Speaker 2: advocating for this nature and mental health space as well.
- 15:34Speaker 3: Absolutely, so you know, nature is there for all of us.
- 15:38Speaker 3: And one of the things that I've learned through life,
- 15:41Speaker 3: and I learned it through those tough COVID years especially,
- 15:45Speaker 3: nature will always be there and it's a chance to
- 15:47Speaker 3: get out there and reset. But what helps even more
- 15:51Speaker 3: is when you give back to nature. So when you're
- 15:55Speaker 3: helping nature heal, and let's face it, nature needs some support.
- 15:59Speaker 3: When you helping nature to heal through giving back, whether
- 16:02Speaker 3: it is backyard trapping, whether it is getting involved in
- 16:05Speaker 3: a community group, or whether it is learning about nature
- 16:09Speaker 3: and increasing your knowledge, that in itself is just that
- 16:14Speaker 3: exponential benefit you get for your own well being. So
- 16:17Speaker 3: not only is nature there for you, but because you're
- 16:20Speaker 3: giving something to nature, it's giving you more back. And
- 16:23Speaker 3: that's what we're really encouraging people to do is let's
- 16:27Speaker 3: get the experience nature, learn about nature, but also when
- 16:32Speaker 3: you give back to nature, you're going to get that
- 16:34Speaker 3: such a good feeling that benefit, that reward, and it's
- 16:38Speaker 3: going to be fantastic for your mental health.
- 16:41Speaker 2: What are your favorite spots to go to or to
- 16:44Speaker 2: head to. Do you have any kind of couple of
- 16:46Speaker 2: phaves that you go to time and time again.
- 16:49Speaker 3: I do. I mean, I'm really lucky that I live
- 16:53Speaker 3: in a beautiful part of New Zealand. I know all
- 16:55Speaker 3: of New Zealand's beautiful, but I'm looking up the window
- 16:59Speaker 3: right now at the Markable's Mountain covered in so in fact,
- 17:02Speaker 3: it's slowing up my window right now, so it's yeah,
- 17:09Speaker 3: I live in these beautiful mountains in out Queenstown. I've
- 17:12Speaker 3: got fuelled a National Park on the doorstep, Mountain Spire
- 17:16Speaker 3: National Park on the doorstep. And being able to explore
- 17:20Speaker 3: our national parks that we've got in New Zealand is
- 17:23Speaker 3: one of my favorite places to go. A few years ago,
- 17:27Speaker 3: I hadn't done a single great walk. I've now done
- 17:30Speaker 3: all of them. I've collected the set and you know,
- 17:32Speaker 3: that's such a fantastic way to see in a safe way,
- 17:36Speaker 3: the best parts of New Zealand, and again a great
- 17:39Speaker 3: way to learn about mountain. It's about nature, about conservation
- 17:44Speaker 3: and to give back and there's plenty of other walks
- 17:47Speaker 3: as well, which you know, I just absolutely love love it.
- 17:52Speaker 2: It sounds like you've got a really good grip and
- 17:54Speaker 2: you have such a success story for having you know,
- 17:56Speaker 2: that tough time as a teenager. Do you have to
- 18:00Speaker 2: revisit those mental health techniques and things that get you
- 18:03Speaker 2: through or is it a is it plain sailing?
- 18:06Speaker 3: These days? It's never playing Salem because I'm a human
- 18:10Speaker 3: and you're always having to train yourself. You're always having
- 18:15Speaker 3: to test yourself. One of the things that I love
- 18:18Speaker 3: that helps me is I love to give back, not
- 18:20Speaker 3: just the nature, but to communities and people. I love
- 18:25Speaker 3: helping people with their own goals. I'm a really big
- 18:28Speaker 3: goal orientated person now, and helping people set and achieve
- 18:33Speaker 3: their own goals, just through some mental coaching is something
- 18:36Speaker 3: that I love. I love getting into a gym. I'm
- 18:39Speaker 3: a gym instructor also because I love helping people to
- 18:43Speaker 3: come in and focus on their fitness and their health
- 18:45Speaker 3: and building their mental resilience. I set myself different goals
- 18:49Speaker 3: as well. I'm not shy. I'm putting myself out there
- 18:54Speaker 3: to all sorts of different opportunities. I've been running marathons
- 18:58Speaker 3: around the world. Recently with marath on tours New Zealand.
- 19:01Speaker 3: I've been in London, getting to Boston next year. Recently
- 19:05Speaker 3: put myself out there on a television show like I
- 19:08Speaker 3: just I'm always out to kind of it was, but
- 19:11Speaker 3: I'm always just out there, kind of just living outside
- 19:15Speaker 3: that comfort blanket, because that's where real growth can happens.
- 19:17Speaker 3: And that's what keeps me healthy. I suppose if I'm
- 19:22Speaker 3: just keep myself comfortable for too long, that's why I
- 19:26Speaker 3: think is my space who almost vulnerable? So I just
- 19:30Speaker 3: need to keep pushing myself a little bit further, keep
- 19:32Speaker 3: growing as a person, keep growing myself as an individual,
- 19:36Speaker 3: and that's what keeps me safe. Yeah.
- 19:38Speaker 2: No, it's an admirable outlook on life. Just finally, Aaron,
- 19:41Speaker 2: if you had a word of advice for someone that
- 19:45Speaker 2: is struggling mentally, maybe they're in a similar space to
- 19:48Speaker 2: what you were as a teen, or maybe they're just
- 19:51Speaker 2: unsure how to get themselves out of a funk, what
- 19:53Speaker 2: would be what would be your advice?
- 19:57Speaker 3: I've got a couple of things. First, as you are
- 19:59Speaker 3: never ever alone, there is always people there to support to.
- 20:04Speaker 3: Sometimes you've just got to ask for the help, but
- 20:07Speaker 3: you are never ever alone and time and patience is
- 20:12Speaker 3: a healer. So just be patient with yourself, be kind
- 20:15Speaker 3: to yourself, and find that one thing that fills up
- 20:19Speaker 3: your cup, that ignites your fire, that feels your flame.
- 20:23Speaker 3: You find that one thing. It could be something really
- 20:25Speaker 3: simple like cooking or reading. Just find that one thing,
- 20:29Speaker 3: that little escape that you can find and just pour
- 20:32Speaker 3: a bit of energy into that.
- 20:34Speaker 2: Yeah, and if its nature, all the better because you
- 20:36Speaker 2: can get in touch with nature and give back at
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- 20:45Speaker 2: you head to Hawaii for the Iron Man Race?
- 20:49Speaker 3: There is a tenth of October.
- 20:51Speaker 2: Fantastic, the very best for that. I hope it goes
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