Brendan Neil

From the Heart: Where Are the Men? There’s something deeply wired into us as humans. When danger shows up, we’re supposed to move toward it — not away. You see it when a father steps between his child and a threat. You see it when a man instinctively puts himself in harm’s way to protect someone vulnerable. It’s not taught. It’s primal. Protective. Necessary. And yet, increasingly, it feels like we’re losing it. A Country That Feels Safe… Until It Doesn’t Australia is, by all measures, a safe...

Ten years earlier, I didn’t finish. I set out to cover the entire Sunshine Coast under my own power — Run | Swim | Run — and I stopped when my body fell apart and the voices around me said it was sensible to stop. On paper, it was the right call. Thirty kilometres run. Ten kilometres swum. No fluids staying down. Body cramping. Hypothermia creeping in. No 25km run to the finish. On paper, stopping made sense. Inside, it stayed unfinished. That 2009 DNF didn’t haunt me because I failed. It...

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” That quote is most commonly attributed to Jim Rohn. Whether he was the very first to say it or not, the principle has echoed through decades of psychology, leadership, and lived experience. And this past week, I felt it firsthand. The Company You Keep I’m fortunate. I have great friends — people I genuinely admire. They achieve remarkably well, but in very different arenas. Business. Family. Health. Service. Creativity....