67. Mental Fitness Hacks for Women Who Feel Overwhelmed With Brooke McIntosh

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What if your next breakthrough starts with one more brave step? In this episode, Erin Davis talks with Brooke McIntosh, founder of the Just One More movement, to talk about mental fitness, courage, people pleasing and the power of small consistent action. Brooke shares the story behind her mission, from a life-changing accident to running around Australia and building a movement that helps people stop living out of alignment. Erin and Brooke also connect this philosophy to overwhelm, money, and self-trust, showing how real change happens through honest self-reflection and one courageous decision at a time. This episode is a powerful reminder that you do not need the whole path mapped out. You just need to start.

Key Points

👀 In this episode, Erin covers:
✅ How Brooke’s breaking point led her to create the Just One More movement.
✅ Why mental fitness matters just as much as mental health.
✅ The link between people pleasing, overwhelm, and living out of alignment.
✅ How Brooke uses mirror talk to build truthful self-belief.
✅ Why big goals are achieved through small daily actions, not giant leaps.
✅ How the Just One More philosophy applies to money, discipline, and growth.

⚠️ Brooke also shares details of her Mental Fitness Tour and upcoming workshops. Info here https://brookemcintosh.com.au/mental-fitness-tour

Timestamps

00:00 – Intro to Brooke and the Just One More movement
02:30 – The accident that changed everything
08:00 – People pleasing, self-abandonment and radical responsibility
13:30 – Getting honest about the life you actually want
19:00 – Why Brooke started running and how the mission grew
26:00 – Mental fitness, mirror talk and changing your inner dialogue
34:00 – Overwhelm, money stress and just one more step
43:00 – Training for the run and building mental strength
52:00 – Funding the dream and backing yourself fully
59:00 – Brooke’s tour, final reflections and where to connect

Next Steps + Resources

Connect with Brooke McIntosh
Instagram: @brookemackintosh__
Facebook: Brooke Mackintosh
Website: brookemackintosh.com.au

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Episode Transcript

was some people not
okay let me go live on this
so are you
are you live on zoom and then on Facebook group cool
yeah yeah
I had just make sure we are live
and it looks like we are
alright oh
it's not sharing my screen
hang on
and that
and
it's not it's not sharing that
I'll share that later anyway okay
um so we won't go live on Facebook
we'll just do it like this
it's not sharing the screen for some reason
so I don't wanna waste your time
I know you're super busy
so today on the podcast I have Brooke Macintosh
now Brooke is this crazy lady
who has done an amazing thing of running
around Australia she is just absolutely phenomenal
I love her movement which is just one more
and that talks about one more conversation
one more step one more action
and I am so very grateful to have you on the podcast
today Brooke
I'm excited to be here and chat all things
just one more all things money
all things story all things running and uh running yes
so good I'm so happy about that
ha ha ha so
can you give us a bit of an introduction to
who you are why you created this
and then we will come to
why did you run around Australia
because many people like me when I first saw you
I was like who even does that
but I really wanna I really wanna dive into that
so can you just give us an introduction about you
and who you are and what you do
yeah so I'm Brooke Mackintosh
clearly the woman who ran around Australia
I'm here to help
educate and empower every single person
to stop living a life that's untrue to themselves
and why I why just one more come about
is purely because for the first 26 years of my life
I was living a lie to myself
I was doing the things that I thought society
wanted me to do
I was doing the things that I thought my parents
wanted me to do that my friends wanted me to do
that social media wanted me to do
and it actually LED me down a massive
self destruction path and when I was 26
I was at the depths of depression
at the depths of suicidal ideation
at the depths of wanting to call it all quits
and thankfully I thank god every single day
it was an absolute miracle
but I was driving along the highway
going 100 km an hour
and I got hit by a truck going 100 km an hour
I was concussed for 15 minutes
and when I was concussed the words have courage
just kept flashing before my eyes
and I was like once I woke up
what I did was a habit
that I see so many women fall in the trap of doing
I jumped out of the car
I ran over and seen and made sure
and it's something that we have preached on about
especially with one specific day of the year
I ran over to everyone and I said
are you okay and I checked in with everyone else first
everyone else was OK everyone was shocked
but I didn't put on my own oxygen mask
and instead
I called the place that I was meant to be going to
and I said I'm so sorry
I'm stuck in traffic I'll be there in 15 minutes
and then I wow I took a
a step back
and I looked at the mess that I had created
because I wasn't mentally okay
and I was like
when are you actually gonna check in with yourself
when are you actually gonna have courage
to pull down the walls
and the mask that you've built up for so long
and say that you're not okay
and take responsibility for your life
and I did that day and I've never looked back since
and lying on that hospital bed that night
I said to myself what impact do you wanna make
and it was the impact to ignite
just one more conversation around our mental health
and now so more than ever before
around our mental fitness
because everyone has mental health
no one can argue that with me
everyone has mental health
you got a brain you got a heart
you got mental health
just like everyone has physical health
if we if we have a cut on our body
we go see a doctor
what do we do if we have a cut in our mind
what do we do
if we have negative thoughts running in our mind
well this is where I truly believe wholeheartedly now
it's about
it's about daily protocols with mental fitness
and training our mind to outsmart the game
and the game is life the game is basketball
soccer whatever game you're playing running
but ultimately the game is life
we have to learn how to harness our mind
the one thing that's with us for life
to be able to succeed
in whatever areas we wanna be able to succeed in
whether that's career
career relationships whatever it is
um the first thing that I believe
we have to harness is the power of our mind
so that's what I'm here to do now is educate
empower and equip every single Australian
every single human with the power of mental fitness
and that starts with what I believe is mirror talk
taking radical responsibility
for the reflection that we do
see in the mirror yeah
wow that's so powerful
and I have had a similar experience to that
I didn't have a car crash
but mine was um
being the accountant I did the treasury role for school
for PNC
but having the whole mental load of working full time
having kids running a business
doing all of the things was just so big
and there was one night
where I had to get to a meeting at school
the kids just wouldn't come and eat their dinner
and it was such a low point
and from that it was drive to the PNC
there was a telegraph pole
I don't know why I didn't drive into it
but it was this split second moment that it was like ah
like I need to do something different
but I did the same thing I got to school
wiped away the tears cleaned myself up
got myself organized
and walked in and delivered this Treasury
PNC meeting report and the lady next to me said oh
are you OK and I went yeah
yeah I'm fine
and I went I've just had the most
you know life changing experience
and I just went no
no I'm good
it's all okay I'll just
I'll just keep doing I'll just keep laughing
and so I
I think that we do that in our own way so often
of putting everybody else first
that we just don't even realize just how heavy
that mental load is until something snaps
yeah yeah
yeah and I'm like
I don't want anyone to get hit by a truck
and have to have that wake up call there
it's like I know
fuck off right now
and finally put on your own oxygen mask
because it ain't selfish
but that's what radical responsibility is
and if we wanna change the world
we have to first change ourselves
and that happens by putting on our own oxygen mask
and being like actually
maybe I'm not OK maybe I do need help for that
and letting go of the whole people pleaser in a
I say that and every single time I say people please
especially to women they're like
oh yeah
yeah guilty guilty
let go of that
cause like for me and correct me if I may be wrong
but maybe for yourself
our whole life was how can I help others
how can I help others how can I help others
how can I help others but then
what daily practice are you doing to help yourself
probably nothing nothing yeah
exactly exactly
you're shitting on your own self
and your own needs to people please
everyone else around you I'm like yup no
no no
that's not how you live a life in alignment
and have big hairy
audacious goals like I have
and what I've accomplished
was getting rid of the people pleaser in me
and being like this is where I'm going
this is what I'm doing
so how did you get rid of the people pleasing
because it's easy to say oh
just get over it or just just don't do that
but how did you actually
get over that people pleasing space
because you do have big goals
and you have achieved big things
so I'm curious what did you actually do
well I looked
the first step that I did was
I looked at myself in the mirror
and I said
what parts of my life do I not currently like
and to be honest
it was pretty much my whole parts of my life
I didn't like my friendship circle
I didn't like going out drinking every weekend
I didn't like the 5 o life
I didn't like any of it yeah cool
the finances were there I had a beautiful beach house
but that was the only part of my life I love
but then to sacrifice everything else for a beautiful
beach house I was like no
there's gotta be something more to life
so then I yeah
I did an order on my life where I
what parts of my life I actually liked
and what parts of my life I didn't
and then what my dream life would actually look like
if I got rid of all the stories
and I just let my imagination run wild
of what could be possible
I literally was like a two year old girl again
who had never held on to any stories
and I was like a whole big spill of what it
what my dream life would look like
but now I will pre frame
I couldn't envision my life pre doing this
pre car accident
I couldn't envision my life a week in advance
a day in advance because I just wanna be here
I would say things like I'm gonna die anyway
so what's the point I'm gonna die young
and I would say this and my mum said to my mum
mum stopped me in my tracks one day
and this is when I was about 24
I was walking along in the supermarkets with her
and I was just like mum
what's the point I'm gonna die at 27
and she turned around looked at me and she said
don't you ever say that again
you will live a long life
if you keep telling yourself that
my mum lost her mum when my mum
so my grandma was 40 she died very young
and ever since that day
my mum has been telling herself she's gonna live a long
long incredible life my mum's had a hard life
it hasn't been easy for her
but she is fit as a fiddle and kicking
and a huge inspiration of mine
she has so much courage
and I have no doubt she'll be here until she's 80
90 hundred years old if she wants to
and she will not let us put her in a home
and we do not want to put her in a home
we would not cage her like that
but it really stopped me and I was like fuck
if I actually do wanna live a life
then I've got to take responsibility
so I looked at all my areas of my life and I was just
like well if anything was possible
what would I what would I be doing
and I remember laying awake
I went back to 5 0 so I went back to my mind site
and I was laying awake in my donger
I was driving trucks at the time on a Rio Tinto site
laying awake at 2:00am in the in my donger
and I just couldn't sleep
I was like you just need to go to sleep
you just need to go to sleep
my mind was boggling with like
what am I here to do what impact am I here to create
like if nothing was off limits
like what would I wanna be doing
and it was
I wanted to create an impact to unite our nation
to have just one more conversation
now I vowed to myself
when I got back on site
that I would have a conversation about what happened
and my experience on my R&R
and I did and through that talk that I shared
that vulnerable share
that I shared in a toolbox meeting with the blokes
I had 20 blokes come up to me and say
thank you so much I'm going through divorce
I'm feeling the financial pressures
my kids are playing up
I'm home one month out of a week out of a whole month
and I'm suffering
and you just help me feel seen from that conversation
I was like OK
I'm gonna have a conversation with myself
every single morning and then with one other person
so I kept doing this for about three months
and then that night I was laying awake
2:00am in my donger I was like
how can I amplify this and if anything was possible
what would it what would I do to be able to do it
and I was like I've never been a runner right
this only happened four years oh really
I've never been a runner
this only has happened in the last four years
and I said oh wow
I would run because I love doing hard challenges
I love doing hard things
and what's gonna get more people talking and talking
is seeing a blonde head woman
out in the middle of nowhere
in the outback Australia
running on the side of the highway
they're gonna be like
what the hell is she running from
and it wasn't what I was running from
it was what I was running towards
and I was running towards
the impact that I wanted to create
and through running running became therapy for me
running and talking and it became very cathartic
and emotions are just energy in motion
so my running
allowed me to release a whole lot of these emotions
that I accumulated and stored inside my body
over the time and as a self
you would be able to testament to this
running is very cathartic
like emotions do come up
and you have these mental breakthroughs
and if you are courageous
enough to take just one more step
through that breakthrough
through that mental barrier
you have a breakthrough on the other side
and I love that so I decided to run 16 kilometers
I trained for nine months
I had a running coach
and every single day she said to me
it's not possible you won't be able to do it
but here's your plan it's not possible
you won't be able to do it
but here's your plan
so I grabbed the plan and I executed the plan
every single day on the start line I heard from her
and this was in August 2,023
never heard from her again
really yeah
I ran the 16 kilometers my family didn't believe in me
my friends didn't believe in me
they all thought that I was batshit crazy
but one of my best friends Taylor
she knows if I put my mind
my body and my soul to something
I will do it she knows as like if I say I'm gonna do it
I'm gonna do it and I'm not going back
so she was like yeah
she's crazy but I have no doubt she's gonna do it
it took me to run over 800 km
on day
Day 18 maybe of the run I called my dad and I said
hey dad I was celebrating
I said hey dad
I've just ran 800 km and he said
pipe down kiddo don't celebrate yet
you still have 900 km to go
oh wow
so yeah wow
me who backed me
I backed myself because I believed in the mission
I believed in the vision
and I knew if I took just one more step
and I aligned my daily choices with the vision
that it would come true that it would happen
I had no idea that's so good
that's so good
just align your daily actions with the vision
so we need to have the vision first
and then take those small
micro actions to actually make it happen 100%
and if you don't know what that vision is yet
like I didn't
you gotta order your life and you gotta ask yourself
what don't I like in my life right now
and then you start and it's like
if you don't like your friendship circle okay
well why don't you like your friendship circle
if you had nothing off limits
and you could have the most incredible
supportive friendship circle
what would it look like okay
would it be in
would you be in rooms with business woman
would you be in rooms with more supportive woman
would you be in I don't know
mining or
friendships that don't go out every single weekend
and just drink Friday
Saturday Sunday
would you be friendships who actually run
who actually Crossfit who actually train
what like friends with kids
what what would it actually look like
and what would you be doing
having more experiences going to Jimmy Car
going to Steven Bartlett experiences
what would that actually look like
and get really clear
and start putting yourself in those rooms
and taking those daily actions
to align yourself to those visions
and that's how the run around Australia unfolded
is I ran 16 kilometers not knowing what was possible
but I followed the plan and I executed daily
and when I crossed the finish line
I was like holy shit I looked around
and through the conversations that I had on the ground
on that run I realized that it's not just mining
and construction workers who suffer in silence
it's everyday Australians
it's every yeah and then
I carried this message all the way around Australia
and now what I realize is everyone suffers
you can't argue like everyone has mental health
no one can argue with me on that
but what we don't have yet
is the daily mental fitness protocols
and that starts by the internal dialogue
we speak to ourselves daily
so if you and your internal dialogue is shit
well no wonder why you can't perform
no wonder why you don't wanna show up
no wonder why you don't wanna stick to your
it to stick to your vision and your actions
no wonder why you're not disciplined
because your internal dialogue keeps telling you
you're not
and your internal dialogue keeps shitting on you
and saying you're not good enough
you never will be able to do it
you won't be able to do that thing
and for me
it starts right at the baseline of learning what our
internal dialogue is
and then building just one more step
just one more courageous decision to move forward
but to have courage to look at your reflection
and to look at yourself wholeheartedly
cause we are so much more than our external
we are so much more we have overcome our hardest days
we are human we make mistakes
and I believe that's where we have to start
is in the truth
not in these massive after affirmations
that I see so many people saying
they say affirmations like I am beautiful
and then what happens
but if you don't actually believe that
then how is that affirmation actually going to stick
your internal dialogue is gonna get yeah
bullshit I call BS on that
that's just why would you even say that
and you keep saying it and then you keep feeling like
no I'm a loser I'm not I can't it's bad
I why am I doing this so then you spiral out of control
when you just keep telling yourself these things
which you don't actually believe 100%
and that's where the power of mirror talk comes in
only when it's truthful though
and only when it's built on truth and it's stacked
now the truth is the truth
you can't argue with the truth
no one can but when you stack on the truth
more empowering phrases like for me
I looked at myself in the mirror
all I could say that fit
that felt good in my body at the time
four years ago was I am human
cause every time I tried to say to myself
I'm beautiful my internal dialogue would go no
you're not you're fat lazy
you're ugly like you're stupid
you're you're a loser and I couldn't outsmart it
the moment I outsmarted it was the moment that I said
I am human I have legs
I have arms and I started changing my phases
and then I started going I have strong legs
my legs just leg press 40 kilos in the gym
I just squatted 100 kilos in the gym
and started bringing
freight phrases like that into my internal dialogue
then I Learned to how to outsmart it
and then stack the reps and built on it
now I can look at myself and say
you know what you're doing good
I love you you're doing great
your younger self will be proud
but it didn't start there yeah yeah
that's so good how do you um
like your conversation just one more movement or
or the movement that you've created
just one more
so if women are feeling super overwhelmed
like this pressure and and like I'm a money coach
so if we talk around money
feeling super overwhelmed
super behind not doing enough um
guilty judgment shame all of those things
how do you use that one more conversation
movement
in order to help you progress through things like that
that are feeling so big and overwhelming
yeah just just one more is absolutely a movement
and it definitely is just one more conversation
but just one more is a philosophy of life
so yesterday I'm outside renovating my house and for me
in my head I'm literally going just one more brick
just one more brick just one more brick
cause we're getting rid of some renovations right
when it comes down to overwhelming stress
it's literally just one more step and breath
and breath has been a huge powerful tool of myself
you may not feel in the right place
to have just one more conversation about it
and if you don't it's right
just centering back to your breath
and knowing that
you will get through this with just one more
whether that
but also you will get through it with just one more
that's such a um
it's such a broad thing to say however
the true power is in getting
true clarity on where you're currently at
and having the courage to do so
so
if you're so overwhelmed and you're telling yourself
you're so busy but reality is
you're scrolling on Instagram for seven hours a day
you're not actually busy your priorities are off
and you're allowing your excuses
and your mind to dictate your business
and reality is you're just scrolling for 7 hours a day
and you're feeling so overwhelmed
because somewhere along the lines
these stupid fuckers of a phone
have now become our number one priority
it's like put the phone down
and you'll get seven hours back in your day
then what can you do with those hours
if your kids uh
I've got two step children
adore them love them
they live with us full time
it is challenging at times
but if your kids are screaming
and you've got work to do
you're in the kitchen cooking
and you go and you actually explode at them
it's like hold on a second
where haven't you allowed yourself
to have five minutes in the day
it's not on the kids
it's your responsibility to take that power back
because as soon as you outsource your power
and you explode on someone
they have the power
and you're never gonna get out of that cycle
until you take the responsibility back
so and like back to the overwhelmed feeling
well why are you feeling overwhelmed
what is it is it financial stresses
yeah yep
everyday Aussies are absolutely feeling
especially in the fuel crisis
okay well
what's the truth in that
can you not drive around for like 5 hours extra a week
can you take a shortcut can you ride a bike
can you go for a walk instead to the shops
if the shops are closer and really
getting clear on why you are feeling overwhelmed
and it really it's hard to do
it's uncomfortable to do
and that's what people don't like to do is that
I think it's that uncomfortableness
isn't it like
we don't like to sit in the uncomfortable or the quiet
or the slow or that real uneasy feeling
it feels challenging because we're not used to it
we we don't practice it
so then when something feels overwhelming
we just wanna quickly dismiss it
or we wanna quickly move through it
we don't actually wanna dive deeper and go well
what what is actually going on here
how what is going on underneath
because financial stress yes
there's a a crisis going on at the moment
but there are also a lot of people that have
a lot of money
that also feel in financial stress and overwhelmed
so
it doesn't matter how much you have or you don't have
it's how are you feeling about yourself
what are you doing how are you showing up
what are the underlying thoughts
that you have about yourself
that are leading to these feelings or these emotions
and never never
ever dismissing dismissing the power of just one more
right and the one daily reps like people go to me
how'd you run around Australia one step at a time okay
how do I save a million dollars
one dollar at a time one dollar yeah
put fucking dollar away
like if you're in we're we're talking money right now
if your goal is to save $10,000
but you're like I've got no money to work with
but yet you still got $2 $5
$10 in your bank account left of the week
put that into your savings cause that all adds up
it then stacks into compound interest over time
you don't say $10,000 with $10,000
you save it with the $1 and the small 1% reps over time
and yeah never ever dismiss the power of the 1% reps
and just one more I say that all the time too
like cause I do ultra trail marathons which are 50 km
so nowhere near your 16 kilometers
but 50 kilometers and for me
I am always talking about well
I'm not thinking about the finish line
I am just thinking about run to the next tree
or run to the next hill or run to where I can see next
it's not about running to the finish line
it is literally one foot in front of the other
that's what gets you to 50 km
yeah and it
it's exactly being in the present moment
and doing that just one more
so around Australia 14,000 km around Australia
well how did it how did I do it
I was exactly like you
I chunked it down into the smallest bite size pieces
and I moved just one more bloody road line
just one more crack in the road away
and I made games out of it as well
it's like coming into money
it's just one more just one more dollar in the bank
okay how many times
can you transfer one more dollar
across to your bank account
every single every single week can you do that
yeah and then when you start playing games like that
with just one more
and it is the smallest increment pieces
those smallest add up
and then you look back and you're like oh
I've got 100 bucks in there
and then you're more motivated to do more
to do better to choose just one more
like when I I remember running across uh
from Western Australia to South Australia
I started in Perth
to get to the South Australia border
took me bloody forever it took me like WA
the massive state
and it took me maybe three or four weeks or something
but I was getting at my wit's end
I was running 80 KS every day back to back
and it was day 31 of the run
I think and I calculated
I kept showing up doing the 1%
and then I calculated
how far is it from where I currently am
to the South Australia border
and I seen I can't remember the exact distance
but then I was like OK
get clear
get truth if I run and if I push hard today for 85 KS
92 KS tomorrow I would run 100 km and I
I literally did that
I ran 85 KS then 92 KS then 100 km
and when I looked back every day
when I looked back I was like
oh my god I just wanna go again
I just wanna go again cause I seen the small impact uh
small compound effect adding up over time
that when I ran 100 km that day
I was just like well
I ran 92 that kilometres that day
I wanna learn how to outsmart my mind again
and again and again
and play the game back and push further
because I know it works
because I know just one more step works
same when you're saving money
as soon as you hit that hundred dollars in the bank
account you're gonna be more motivated and determined
to go for the hundred and fifty dollars in the bank
to go for the two hundred dollars in the bank
that you're gonna push and you're gonna sacrifice more
yeah you might have to sacrifice two coffees a week
but fuck two coffees and you feel good about yourself
cause you stuck true to your words and your commitment
that outweighs the coffees yeah
how did you actually train
like you said you trained for nine months
how do you train to run 100 K's a day
like I ran 25 last Saturday and I ran through the
the back of the house and my husband went
oh my God what happened to you
you sound like you're about to die
and I'm like oh my God
I feel like I'm gonna die
and I've got four weeks until my 50 KS
I'm thinking holy shit how am I gonna run 50 KS
so how do you train for such a big event like that
um because for me
running is there is such a big mental aspect to it
it is not just physical
absolutely running is I teach on four components right
running is the byproduct there's emotional
mental spiritual and physical
the physical is the byproduct of all three
and the fifth one is your pillar
that's financials
you teach on that ha ha ha come back together
you've got five pillars of life ha ha
but it's emotional spiritual and mental
now I ran that so I trained for nine months
I ran 16 kilometers in 2,023
once that had done
I made the commitment to myself that in 2,025
I was gonna run 14,000 kilometers around Australia
so I gave myself three month break
I rested I recovered
I did whatever I wanted to do because rest is important
right and I really just in cherish more family time
but then one once training started
I was in it I was in the training phase
and I trained for 14 months to get to the start line
to run around Australia
that training kept increasing over time
the workload kept increasing
what never ever decreased was my strength training
now I strength train three days a week
runners a lot of runners
they just focus on the running aspect
but the strength is foundation
that's a that's the Pinnacle of a strong body
a strong a strong mind I believe as well
and that is what's gonna carry you the elite distances
to go around Australia to run an ultra
so for me strength was a non negotiable
I've been in the gym since I was 13 years old
weight training and I said to my running coach
I will not drop my weight training and he's like
don't worry I do not expect you to
because that's the foundation of a strong body
is your strength
through this though me being me
I am a very spiritual person
I am a very in deep like depth person
and I love to uncover the stories
that we tell about ourselves
so I used my training as my breakthroughs
so every time I'd go out on a long run
I was so excited because I was like ooh
what stories are gonna come up for me today
what barriers are we gonna have to break through today
and it was a complete experience
but it was just one more step
so my training started at my um
weeks looked like 100 kilometer weeks
and then it went to 150 kilometer weeks
and then for three months it was at 400 kilometers
I had to run in one week while maintaining a household
while maintaining my business
while doing three strength sessions a week
while making sure my own mental fitness was in check
but my time was on those trails
and I harness the power of the mind
body and soul and I just prioritized what my goal was
my goal was to run around Australia
my family knew it came back to communication
my family knew that was my goal
it they knew that I had to sacrifice some time
they knew that I couldn't go to all the events
that I wanted to with them
and they were fully supportive
because they seen me showing up daily
towards that goal and doing that daily actions
so much so that I would do ice baths and saunas
I have an ice bath and a sauna at home
and so much so that my youngest stepson Ollie
he started ice bath ice bathing and saunering with us
and he's like Brooke
why do we do this and it was such a cool moment
because he was watching every single thing that I did
and I also got to reparent myself through the process
but also reparent him in the reasons why we do saunas
why we do ice baths why we eat healthy
and when we do saunas we have to eat more
especially at his age we have to eat more
because we have to sustain our output right
we can't just be running
and burning off all this exercise
and all these calories and not actually inputting
any more healthy foods into our body
so I really got to teach him
and educate him in those ways
but for me it was like shit
these kids are watching every move I do
and he was just so intrigued
and now he absolutely loves the gym
he loves looking after his body
he loves moving his body me and my partner
we have never seen him read a book in his life
he is now I gave him a book a few weeks ago
because he was asking more about the gym
more about the body
more about the muscles and like creatine supplements
like naturopath what I've been doing
and I was like oh buddy
I've got a book for you I don't know if you'll read it
but I'll give you this book
I gave him a book that was like a four size
absolutely so thick
and he is halfway through reading it
yeah never seen him read a book before
and he has not put it down
and he's so invested in that
and I'm like oh my God
the kids are watching
so the kids were watching every single one of my moves
and I knew that to run around Australia
it wasn't it wasn't about the run
it was about who I had to become in order to do it
and who I had to become
came down to my daily disciplines
and my daily commitments to myself first
that now ripples out to every single other person
so in a nutshell
it looked like three strength sessions a week
five to six to sometimes seven runs a week
I had to hit 80 km before I even started
on the start line if I could run 80 km
just so I knew in myself that I could do it
but honestly it's just all mental
when your mind wants to quit
you go deeper okay
well why does it want to quit right now
or is this my body actually telling me to quit
like have I actually done damage to my body
or is it my mind wanting to quit
cause
your mind will always quit before your physical body
and there was multiple times where my mind
wanted to quit the moment I said
well what's actually coming up for me
and I uncovered the stories and the beliefs behind it
I kept going just one more step
yeah I was so uncomfortable
it was so challenging and so hard
but then the ah
mental breakthrough came through on the other side
and afterwards when I got off the treadmill
if I was running on the treadmill
when I came back inside
I would literally just start crying
and Matt Matt
my fiance was like why are you crying
like I'm just so proud of myself
for staying true to my commitment
when times got tough and a lot of people
they don't like to be in those uncomfortable situations
and that's what just one more
more is about is choosing courage over comfort
and choosing to put yourself
in the uncomfortable situations
and doing the hard things
knowing that just one more step
breath and moment
you will overcome it and you'll have a breakthrough hmm
that's so cool so cool
how did you actually fund running around Australia
without getting too personal with your finances
but you know cause people think
oh like
I wanna travel around Australia
or I wanna go and do this or I wanna do that
but how do you make that a reality
when we've got bills that we need to pay mortgages
whatever that looks like how do you move into
actually making that become a reality
your priorities your dreams
your aspirations and your priorities at the time
I kid you not
when I say I put every single cent into this run
when I was 5 4
I bought a house
I sold my house to be able to go out and do this run
I said to myself
I don't need a car while I'm running around Australia
I don't need to pay rego I don't need to pay insurance
so I'm gonna sell my car
I sold my car to be able to go run around Australia
I sold my business that I had at the time
I had an Airbnb management interior design business
and I sold that off I don't wanna manage that
while I'm trying to run around Australia
the run around Australia took everything from me
but it also gave me everything back in return
and I made that commitment and that decision for myself
the only things that I had to pay for was the caravan
was the food was the wages
but to make that happen
I had to I chose to sell my house and my car
because this mission this vision
and I just get choked up and emotional about it
this mission this vision
this is my purpose and I gave
I am willing to do whatever it takes to make people see
that there is light at the end of the tunnel
and that if we look after our mental fitness
and we install mental fitness protocols daily
you can overcome and achieve anything
so I did make that sacrifice
and it's paid off in leaps and bounds
because I am supported I
what I have now
and what we are building is my complete legacy piece
but it didn't come down for me
waiting for sponsors to come on board
I reached out to over 300 sponsors before the run
I secured a car sponsor with
I won't name them
I secured a caravan sponsor two weeks out from the run
they both pulled the pin
because they didn't say it was possible
but I seen it was possible
I knew it was possible and I knew I was gonna do it
because I fucking backed myself
and I believed so much in the purpose
and in the mission so then me and my partner
with the funds that I used to sell my house
we purchased the caravan that took us around Australia
I put out and I asked the community for support
if they knew anyone for a vehicle sponsorship
and the world works in incredible ways
when you put out something
you receive when you're ready to receive
and when you let go of the expectations
so I let go of all that I put it out and in 6 days
we had a car sponsored by GWA
not only that we had a fuel voucher sponsored by GWA
for the entire trip around Australia
and one of my support crews
wages was paid for the entire support
entire trip around Australia
I was never paid
but I can't expect someone to show up for my mission
unpaid
I will through and through because this is my purpose
this is my mission but my team on the ground
I knew they needed to be paid
so my house funded that
but GWA also helped fund that too
that's incredible
isn't it right that we just cap ourselves because we
we see all of these roadblocks in in front of us
and we don't have the courage to just go full on in
because we have that doubt
that hesitation that self doubt that
you know can I actually do this
will this actually work and I know for me
like I have hesitated so thank you for sharing that
that really inspires me to just like go just do it
just like step right in um
but I think we just get scared
because there's no guarantee there
there's no stability it's
it that's hard
and it's the most uncomfortable place to be in
don't get me wrong
I fucking had no idea sorry for swearing
but I had no idea how I was gonna pull this off right
yeah especially two sponsors pulled out last minute
my
my fiance Matt looked at me in the kitchen and he said
oh babe I'm so sorry
I'm sorry you won't be able to do this now
and I looked at him I was like
not not be able to do this
this is just a roadblock
this is just a challenge we're gonna overcome it
something's gonna happen and I'm gonna push through it
I believe the challenges are there
to make sure you want it
to make sure you want it bad enough now when I ran
and to make sure that that dream is authentic to you
and that you really do want it
so when I ran my first 16
I said I asked my family after I did it
we all went out for dinner and I asked my family
why didn't you believe in me
and they said went around the table and they're like no
I didn't believe didn't believe the one person
the two people sorry
who answered the question was
one was my older brother and he said
I didn't believe that you would do it
because every time
you said you were gonna do something in your life
and every time a challenge arose
you would back down and you wouldn't do it
and you'd give up
that's when for me the penny dropped
if you're going out
and you're achieving your own dreams for yourself
for your deeper purpose
your deeper mission and your deeper vision
you will do whatever it takes
I didn't run 16 kilometers
to prove to my family that I could do it
I did it to have just one more conversation
and to spark the mental health conversations
because it's real it's
it's what I'm here to do now
I went to my dad and I said to my dad
why didn't you believe in me
and he said
baby girl it's not that I didn't believe in you
it's that I didn't want to see you fail
I didn't want to see you get hurt
how how beautiful is that
that is just like just so beautiful
no parent wants to see their children fail
but also if we don't fail
is it even a failure if we never actually
if we don't take the lessons from it
I believe we don't fail
we've got the opportunities and we got the lessons
you take the lessons you get back up and you go again
you move forward
so coming back down to the challenges
with this run around Australia
there was multiple challenges
I had to fly one of my support crew out
in the middle of the Nullarbor
I had no support crew to come in and replace them
I didn't know who the fuck that was gonna be
but I met an incredible guy
two days after making that decision
to fly the support crew out
Dan is now one of my best friends
and he came on within two days
and supported the whole mission
moving forward and helped me get from Adelaide uh
pretty much from Adelaide
all the way up until Rockhampton
which is half of Australia
that happened just like that
because I let go of expectations
I push through the challenge
I seek truth okay this is where I'm at
I'm in a shit situation
but what can I do to move the needle forward
instead of halting everything
and what decision do I need to make
that's gonna move the needle forward
and the challenger
challenges and roadblocks are there to test
how bad you want it and to test if it's
if it's the thing that you actually want
like in four weeks time
we're going on an Australian tour
and we've just announced it
do you think that this is happening easy
no way
the roadblocks I stayed up until 1:00am this morning
but the roadblocks coming in I'm like
no babe we are doing this
we are doing this
and we'll do whatever it takes to make this Australian
tour a success
so that tour is the Mental Fitness Tour
tell us what is the tour about
how do we get involved
I saw that you're releasing tickets soon
so tell me what tell me all about it yes
so tickets go on sale on Friday
so I'm not sure when this is being released
but tickets go on sale August not August April
April April not August April the 17th
and I'm going on tour 10 cities in two weeks
all the way around Australia
and that's happening end of may
early June very very bloody excited for this
and this is us sharing the just one more story
sharing
the baseline framework of the mental fitness protocols
that exactly changed my life
and have me have me do what I get to do now
which is teach this to others
and that starts at the baseline
it starts with mirror talk
and it starts with having courage to purchase a ticket
to get yourself in this room
and to be vulnerable and courageous enough
to seek truth with where you're currently at
so we're gonna be sharing all about the just one more
we're gonna be taking you through the baseline
BGA framework mental fitness framework and um
it's gonna be just an incredible
incredible
so is this like a a speaking tour that you're doing
is that what yeah what you meaning yeah cool
that's so cool and you're coming to Newcastle too
so I am so excited cause that's where I am
so it is not a tour
so you are not expected to run 10 km or 20 km
oh damn it
this is a workshop tour and an interactive session
you will be required to choose courage
and to speak on the day um
and to share
if you do feel called to share your breakthroughs
there will be breakthroughs happening
but you will not be required to run 20 km
oh damn it ha ha ha sorry
ha ha ha
oh this has been amazing
a little run in there though
like maybe in Newcastle
maybe in some of the stops we could be like
alright I'm gonna go yeah
well come to Newcastle
Newcastle is I knew I know you ran through Newcastle
but it was like
I think there was floods happening in Newcastle
at the time when you were running
and it was like I couldn't quite meet
I got I got flooded there for five days in Newcastle
yeah to come in to see you
so I was planning to um
but yes I will definitely be seeing you
when you come to Newcastle
so I really appreciate your time today
what is like one last message that you wanna share
I know we haven't sort of spoken heaps about money
but I think everything that you talk about
it is all about having courage and it is having a
having the belief in yourself
to do these courageous things that may seem crazy
that may seem so far out of the box
that you have no idea how it's gonna happen
but
you just know that it's the right thing for you to do
so what is like wrap up
what do you wanna say to people
how can they find you um yeah
I just love what you do so yeah
it's um
just one more is really just a philosophy of life
now I know that um
you've mentioned that that we didn't touch on money
but everything that I've said today
apply it to your money
because you apply that to your foundations
and you'll see it grow it's just one more dollar
it's just one more savings
it's just one more fucking tax time
I see you doing a tax retreat and I'm like yes
tax retreat ah
but it's just having the courage to seek truth
where you're currently at
and where your financial situation is currently at
as well
because it takes courage to clear back the cobwebs
and to look at the truth
and then we get to build on that
but if you never actually seek the truth
and you continuously lie to yourself
you're never actually gonna build on solid foundations
and I spent 26 years of my life doing that
this has only been in the last four years
have I changed my mindset around that
have I built the mental fitness to go with that
and now have I been able to do what I do
in the last four years alone
I'm like Jesus
imagine if a 20 year old's listening to this
but no matter where you're at in your journey
it starts right now because the
the best time was to start was yesterday
and the second best time is to start right now
so start right now
because it's never too late to just start
but you just gotta start
and have the courage to just start
please don't get hit by a truck
and that makes your start starting point
make this your starting point
and you build on that
you build your foundations on that
so everyone can find me at Brooke Mackintosh
double underscore on Instagram or Facebook
we love a gold good old Instagram
I am on LinkedIn trying to learn that
um but my website is Brooke mackintosh.com.au as well
perfect I will put all of those details in the show
notes Brooke
I am so so very grateful to have spoken to you
um as I said
I've watched your journey around Australia
I am super
pumped to see you in Newcastle in a couple of months
and I just really appreciate what you're doing
and I've just taken heaps of notes
because everything you've said has just inspired me to
just get going one more conversation
take have the courage
and just step in and just do it
hmm just do it
that's just do it just easy
amazing thank you Brooke

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