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EP16: Beyond the Summit: Lessons from Six Months of Growth

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Welcome to "The Uncommon Man Project," where we guide men to crush burnout, overcome challenges, and become the greatest versions of themselves. In this special episode, the team dives deep into the real issues men face, sharing raw stories, quirky listener questions, and hard-earned lessons over the last 6 months. 

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  1. Daily Reflection Ritual: Incorporate a simple yet powerful practice of daily reflection. Spend 5-10 minutes every morning or evening reflecting on what went well, what could be improved, and what steps you can take to align with your purpose. This tool helps you stay grounded, maintain focus, and build self-awareness.
  2. The "F* Around and Find Out" Framework**: Embrace the mindset of learning through action. Understand that mistakes are an essential part of growth. Use this framework to identify what risks you need to take, assess the lessons learned from failures, and refine your approach to achieve better outcomes.
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Joshua Hamilton: Welcome to a special edition of the uncommon Maine podcast where we help mean eliminate and crush burnout and become the greatest version of themselves. This week is going to be a little bit different than our normal weekly podcast that I promise you. There is going to be some incredible value in here along with hopefully some great laughs as well to connect you guys with more of what happens over here at the Uncommon Project, who we are as men, the issues we face and some of the pretty quirky questions from our listeners. But as always guys we will leave you with some really helpful tools in order to achieve the potential that you have in your life. So

Joshua Hamilton: what I want to start with this week Guys is I want to understand what's been going on in your world over the last six months. What have you learned from the summits that you've been gone after? What have been the summits that have chased down? And I guess some of the f*** ups that you've learned from some of the things that you f*** around and find out and some of the winds that you've had in Ryan, I'm gonna kick off with you, I know you've had a pretty cool, six months. What have been things that you've been working on and one of the big things that you've been most proud of, as well?

Ryan Nicholas: 

Ryan Nicholas: the first one that comes to mind outside of uncommon, man, stuff was I guess it's indirectly linked to uncommon man stuff because At the Bali event back in. Was it early May? I…

Joshua Hamilton: Yeah.

Ryan Nicholas: it was sort of the book end and end of a period of my life where they're being a fair bit of turmoils, stuff we've spoken about loosely on this podcast before

Ryan Nicholas: Pinned over probably the 12 months leading up to that. I think I slept in some of my own standards and habits and eating and training just to get specific and I was as out of shape as I felt I've been in a long time and we were getting on the raft to go rafting and got the Indonesian boys directing us getting a seated and I was on the same boat as Michael Cooper and I sat down in the little indo boys. I don't know over that sideway and Michael just leans over and he's saying you're a fat c***. and that kind of hit home. I would have liked to think that I would have been on the same journey since then anyway, but it really kind of sunk in and I made a pretty serious goal to Get fit again before the next event, which is in about what, three four weeks. Now, It has been a Pretty Cool Journey. I'm like my goal because I don't have any very accurate way of measuring body fat percentage.

Ryan Nicholas: I've got some scales that are in body that are pretty primo but inaccurate still, but just consistently inaccurate. So my goal is to get under 5% on that which I know is more like 10 to 12 in reality. But I just know that that's a measurement that I've hit before and I'm down about four point one on that. Ai. I stepped on a bit of some muscle that I lost and, I'm pretty happy with that progress. I think one of the learnings just a recent f*** around and find out. Was I kind of introduced a little bit just for the last couple of months, some just Replacement level growth hormone. And what I didn't anticipate was, how much it's increased my appetite. And I think that little bit hasn't really impacted the way I would have hoped. It's impacted almost negatively, but now I'm aware of it. It's a bit easier. So that's been a little learning there.

Ryan Nicholas: The other big one I suppose is the project. I was coming out with some names today actually, but a building project secured some amazing land building, a house for me Lena and potentially the extension of that family someday in the future. Because, yeah, I mean getting married in two months as well, which will be pretty cool. But plans to build a mini retreat space there for maybe, smaller uncommon events. But other organizations that are closely aligned with what we do and how we want to help and that's coming along nicely, it's a really exciting sort of time. There's definitely been some ups and downs with that, but I mean, we've got to the place recently. We're honestly


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Ryan Nicholas: I've come home walking from walking my dog in the afternoon. Where I normally sit down and do a couple of things deliberately like a conscious gratitude practice and multiple times, I've come home, just thinking, I don't even actually need the conscious practice, I'm just walking, my dog thinking life is so** great right now, which is just a really cool place to be and especially with everything that had happened, last calendar year and probably the year before that as well, it was like when you're in that pit, that's one thing I'll say is you just have no idea how quickly things can turn around. This is why I would have thought I could be where I am right now 18 months ago.

Joshua Hamilton: Right? the one thing that I'm probably most excited about all the stuff that you said there is when you finally get a tripod and a ring light, and you're just living the byerly influence a life, taking photos of your food. at the gym. Film yourself walking, your dog, like all of these things and really leaning into how much gratitude change your life. This is just gonna be fantastic, what a transformation.

Ryan Nicholas: I've taken one video in the gym and I try to do it when no one was in there. And you're the only person I send that video to and as I was taking that 30 second recording, somebody walked in

Joshua Hamilton: Might just lean into your Bali Influencer. lifestyle Hashtagguru. It's gonna be amazing.

Joshua Hamilton: On that note, I guess out of all the things, what are you most proud of the last six months?

Ryan Nicholas: that is hard to say, I think it comes back to what we are doing with uncommon, but I just think I'm proud of myself for

Ryan Nicholas: and I want to say a lot finding purpose, I don't think the purpose has really been there in most of what I've done through my adult life. And this comes back to Bali as well. I actually think a critical point in that and I've always been invested in what we do and passionate about it. But I actually think that workshop we did two days before the Bali event with Cooper in that room staring at a wall writing. Should town working through stuff for The sake of finding purpose like that really had an impact. that's really stuck with me.

Joshua Hamilton: It's probably a dark question Is there anything that I'm proud of in the last six months? That you've kind of changed.

Ryan Nicholas: What changed negatively or changed away from that? I wasn't proud of previously.

Joshua Hamilton: Yeah, you've changed away from

Ryan Nicholas: This is something that I haven't. I've shared with you. I don't think I've shared with many people at all, and depending on who listens to, this podcast could come back to me. But there was definitely a window where because of the businesses that I've been involved in previously. I've got introduced to, let's just say Some additional compounds and for medicinal purposes and for therapeutic purposes, but I think because of the easy access to them and the sort of person that I am as far as, Thinking I know better or at least for a temporary period I think I lent into that let's say just a little bit too much for all for a window. And definitely not proud of that little window that

Ryan Nicholas: that place where I was in whereas not really using it for the intended benefit, it was a bit more of an escape at times, but that window times definitely passed now as well. That's been part of the last six months for sure.

Joshua Hamilton: After that mouth on there. Thanks for sharing. it's a hard piece of the puzzle. As. What are you most proud of mate? What have you been working on for last six months? some of It's not a very good looking word but a mole in the background Might you just f****** the Badger just smashing away at things continuously. What is the summit that you've been working on for the last while?

Harry Orr: Sometimes it feels like I'm smashing my head against a brick walls. Sometimes, man, to be honest the working on a fair bit for a while there my focus kind of shifts or not swift's switches but it's more like, I guess a bit of a seesaw in terms of what gets most my attention that usually, from a workspace is either uncommon or primal, not in a massive shift but in terms of cool, where my focusing more on getting ads running or in content or things like that, which aren't too different. it's very similar avatars and stuff like that, and it's still all health based and stuff like that. But for a while, there was very heavy into the primal side of things trying to grow that. So I guess a win out of that for the last financial year was 150% growth in revenue from the previous financial year. But I guess then the lesson in that was there's not a whole lot to show for that.


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Harry Orr: Not a lesson in that is minted doesn't really report very accurately in terms of cost per acquisition and stuff like that so I've then learned to then have my own recordings outside of that to make sure that they're not just tricking me into dumping more f****** money. this adds getting great returns dump all your money into f****** this thing and it's the same people that were already** buying. So, literally Lynn since cutting my ad spend by a third since then. I think profit has gone up by over a hundred percent and total revenue has only gone down a small margin, but the distribution is f****** crazy like that's been

Joshua Hamilton: Just changing tracking.

Harry Orr: just for all because it was giving me false data on the ad spend, so it was saying that they were performing better than they were. So it was saying that, you just cost per result, was say 20 bucks and for me, I need it to be below 40. So as soon as you kind of see those marks awesome turn that ad spent up to, 50 60 bucks a day, whatever it is and kind of see how far that can go. But in reality, the people that were seeing the ad that it was attributing, those purchases with people that were already customers, that were already buying anyway, so it was bringing in I guess less new people. if I worked out how many of those customers that came in were actually new customers? It probably would have been instead of the 40 dollars, which it was telling me it was for a new customer. It was probably closer to maybe 80 90 dollars, which is way beyond where you'd say a good ad is kind of performing at, right? And so now having other markers in place to be able to determine the advocacy of those ads and stuff.

Harry Orr: That has been pretty important, right?

Joshua Hamilton: This is pretty massive night, that's on stock. I mean, watching you go on that journey, it's f***** phenomenal. The efficiencies that you run, two businesses with a newborn and, live in Sydney lifestyles pretty inside and so

Harry Orr: That's fine. I've realized getting to this point where I'm at. The next thing that I need to master is the marketing and the sales side of things with where primals at where I want to take that with where we're at with uncommon with, obviously even the yard doing stuff like that. The sales element is like that. Next thing that I think, if I unlock that will then take literally everything, you consider a master skill, will take everything out of the stratosphere, you can think, so,

Joshua Hamilton: I don't know. And I guess I'll ask the same question. I did have Ryan anything that you've not proud of in the last six months that you've got to move away from.

Harry Orr: a couple of times where I let me take over. the old me is like, when there's something that you don't communicate it. You just go and do it. You f*** I'll just f****** I'll just do it myself. f*** everybody else. I'm just gonna put my head down, I'll do it myself. I'll figure it out and do all that kind of stuff instead of I guess. Looking at other ways using other resources to kind of do things a little bit smarter, getting caught in that a few times wasn't very helpful. So that's something that I'm definitely working on. So that's the big thing that I think would have Had the biggest change over the last few months.

Joshua Hamilton: Yes, I like it. Nick. you've had a monument as last six months as well, but it is being a fire journey for What's been the summit for the last six months? Might not even working on


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Nick Vonpitt: Shifting how we doing things and, really aligning our vision and having an incredible trip to Bali and connecting there and creating change. And, executing on things that we dreamed about, 12 months ago, we said we're gonna do this and we started doing it and started happening. I think just all of that coming together that was absolutely incredible. and just from a personal standpoint, seeing How my kids have changed? Because I've got a variety of ages. I've got a four month old now a five year old and an eight year old. And just

Nick Vonpitt: It's all different levels of parenting and engagement and it's very reflective of my own journey. So in between that it's been having to look at myself at those ages and, trying not to do what was maybe done during my experience, but, undoing it, and doing better, and being conscious and being very aware of what I'm trying to project on to them versus they experience and just trying to facilitate and support them. So my son has been very family-based to be very honest with you and just building that unit and looking long-term at, What is this idea of legacy? and comparing it back to the business?

Nick Vonpitt: if I'm going to be a person that supporting other people in this space, with their parenting, or their business or in their lives, Does it really mean something? If I'm not able to facilitate that same change in engagement in my own household, so starting at a grassroots level, that's been like, the dance in my head and then with that, then all those moments of doubt and judgment. And, you really have to look at yourself and give yourself a lot of compassion. When you do f*** those moments up and just choosing to get up again and choosing to do better with new awareness more often than not, so,

Joshua Hamilton: Okay, and I guess same question. if you had anything that you've been unproud of that, you've moved away from

Nick Vonpitt: Just repeat that again.

Joshua Hamilton: Has he been things that you've been unproud of that. You've moved away from.

Nick Vonpitt: I think for me it's been a disengagement just in a lot of different areas. So I'd even say from a social setting like that, that's been difficult because I haven't managed my energy too. so it's not just an impact in one space, it's been with everything so it's very easy to step into that, work impact mode, it should download but

Nick Vonpitt: Forget to live and essentially that's what we teach people and even though you are having those moments, just the presence to really be in those moments and not just s***. I need to move on to the next thing. That's probably been the hardest thing over the last six months on my side that I've had to check and really reroute reroute how I've been engaging with myself and business and life. So it has gotten better. I will say, the last two, three months. That's when I had to make the massive shift with that a conscious shift, and I'm happy about that.

Joshua Hamilton: I like it. I guess from my side of thing. we've had our first kid. we had a boy Oakley which has been absolutely awesome. So many things have sprung from that so I think one of the things that I'm most proud of is Our community. The uncommon, how Protective isn't the words supportive and enthusiastic excited. For my journey and how amazing my own personal clients have been checking in how's I could go and housefully? How are you doing? How you finding this, and they're really being a massive part of the journey. It's bit to be honest, a bit of a tear jerking when I get on with my guys and they're just so

Joshua Hamilton: Invested in making sure that I'm doing. Which is often, as a coach. It's very much the other way around. You want your guys to be doing amazingly. And I think we business. we're here to the ultimate thing for business that needs their money to be able to create the structure that it has. And we all aim for impact. But You guys probably realize this is just how much bigger it is than business and how invested the guys that we coach and the community that we have are in this impact on doing well. And that's been a thing that I'm, by far, the most proud about. it is** epic. Obviously, very proud to be a dad too, but that has been phenomenal. So I'm really stoked with that. During the time of a little guy being born, we had a pretty


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Joshua Hamilton: But when I say we flew had a very rough labor and that was a really interesting experience going through that. Especially after we lost the little one earlier to am. God, I can't even think of the words.

Ryan Nicholas: Miscarriage.

Joshua Hamilton: Miscarriage. Thanks And so it was you going through that journey? With having a baby, but not going to plan and all these things and the weight that it carries with it, that was a real big experience. And it really looked to the test or the tools that we have in our toolkits, and the things that we teach other guys, as well, which is being amazing. But it's certainly took a hit on the training and I have a big summit that I'm working for and 2026. So I'm trying to stay present as being a dad and trying to let go of not being too hard on myself. cool. Yeah, I know you've got a smack in training and I'm getting back up to about nine and a half to 10 and a half hours a week. Again, and that sort of seems to be fitting. man, I'm tired at night and feels like. Can you walk the baby? Yeah. Yeah. She's like, You need to man up Skip that last night. I was like

Joshua Hamilton: Okay, vehicle vehicle but The thing that I am most not proud of and it's something that I'm really battling with is my** phone. I've never been so addicted to social media Instagram. I'll be holding my baby looking at him and he's staring at me smiling and I'll be like, what's happening over here on my phone. my God, What am I doing? how is this thing? Sucking my attention and I'm trying to use some things like I just leave my phone in my office but then because we work so many different hours Ryan and Barley got Nick in South Africa, get a message that certainly time I can get in contact with Nick be late at night so I might be on my phone and say nine o'clock at night, having a chair and making sure we've got everything.

Joshua Hamilton: And then of course, I'm getting dragged into Instagram, checking, What's the status of the post have we got all these things that go with it. So that's something that I am certainly not proud of and it's something that I am still working on getting better but it's something I really don't like it about me. it's really an addictive quality and I Do feel really weak for not being able to knock it out? Easy. And yet.

Harry Orr: Don't worry about our babies are boring. That's understandable. we used to joke that these just potato status,…

Joshua Hamilton: Yes.

Harry Orr: the first I don't know, maybe six months until they do something cool and then it's a little bit better but

Joshua Hamilton: He's just going to smiling mode, which has been pretty cool. I mean, okay, this is pretty legit. He woke up before going straight out of the bus and it was already smiling. That's a pretty legit way to wake up, bro. that's how you want it straight into the good stuff. So yeah. Cool journey though. Really excited about it and for those guys who already fathers and fathers I'm excited for it. It's gonna be awesome.

Ryan Nicholas: Not that I do that. I feel like this is the podcast not to share with our partners, just based on the bunch of things and what I have an idea of what's coming

Joshua Hamilton: Yeah, exactly. What's up next? Because there's some questions I'm quite excited about at these questions that have come. And I'm gonna throw them out there. So

Joshua Hamilton: one for one that was sent to Harry the reality of being a coach and it's effect on being a husband and parent, good or bad.

Harry Orr: It's different. it's hard because there's sometimes where I'll be talking to live and we'll be talking about or maybe something to do with her work, or talking about something and she'll call me out on being a coach.

Harry Orr: She's like, Can you stop just being a f***** coach. Stop asking me these questions, if I get more than usually two questions deep about something, in terms of clarifying, trying to go deeper s*** she'll call it out. She's f**** stop it. I know what you're doing, I'm not one of your clients. Cut that s*** out. I'm trying to be helpful. I just haven't gotten a good enough at kind of masking that yet.


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Joshua Hamilton: Yeah.

Harry Orr: So I need to work on that, but that's a good test. I know James used to say It's a good test. If you can get it passed, like the partner people that know you without them kind of hinting or what happening. That's a good sign but it's good in terms of the way that I guess you have to kind of keep developing. And then you start to see a lot of the patterns that you see in clients, then in your own relationships and stuff like that and then sometimes you're gonna need to take your own advice which humans in general aren't the best at doing, but it's good to know that you've got the tools there and it's just like I don't know, strengthens that in terms of being able to then implement but, Yeah.

Joshua Hamilton: I like that they're probably leads me on to a good question for Ryan and hopefully you've got some kind of valuable information to help guys out with this as well, just in terms of strengthening the relationship but Who is the pants in your relationship? It's pretty clear who wears up and Harry's, but what about you?

Ryan Nicholas: I hate that question. another question gets thrown around. amongst guys, and there's a lot of guys that deemed Controlled by their wives or partners are under the thumb. But I think,

Ryan Nicholas: In any Balanced could throw somebody off there. But what I would deem a well balanced relationship where There's the right amount of masculine qualities in the mail, balance with feminine qualities in the mail and then the right balance on the feminine female side. I think naturally. The male should be leading the male is the leader. And I know there's going to be a lot of people that's going to disagree with that. Probably not so much of our listeners.

Ryan Nicholas: But if you're constantly getting joked about as who wears the pants in your relationship, there's probably some work too. Exactly what that looks like. It's hard to say with that anymore context. But

Ryan Nicholas: Yeah, I think a man in a relationship should be leading.

Joshua Hamilton: And I think important to note on that I joked before that, I think we know who wears the pants and Harry's relationship because it's Harry, just to clarify and make sure everybody was clear on that.

Harry Orr: Unless the waitress gets the order wrong, then that's a hundred percent going to be live being change that s***. I mean, what? They made the food if I'm hungry, it's already here. I I've got stuff to do later. I don't want to wait, another 20 minutes from my meal but she's like, no, f*** that. They got it wrong, make them fix it and stuff like that. So, that's the only time so he's what

Joshua Hamilton: I done a question for you here because I've got someone I think I'd like at my dinner but then a guest. Who could you bring dinner alive? Just one person. Who would you have?

Harry Orr: 

Harry Orr: I don't really know. Let me think about it.

Joshua Hamilton: All right. Ryan, do you know? homozy.

Harry Orr: Homozy for sure. I was like,…

Joshua Hamilton: All right.

Harry Orr: there's someone That's always** there. Yeah, 100%.

Joshua Hamilton: The smaller version of I like it, right?

Ryan Nicholas: Is this a dinner party with our partners or just a boys dinner party. What's the context?

Joshua Hamilton: good question, good question.

Harry Orr: He's gonna bring up a dead stripper isn't on you.

Joshua Hamilton: 

Ryan Nicholas: I think regardless I was thinking about this and I want to say some cool historical figure. But there's a level of cliche lameness to any of those answers. I'm gonna say Shane one,…

Joshua Hamilton: Don't say Margo.

Ryan Nicholas: I'm gonna say, Shane. Just goes like,…

Harry Orr: Yes.

Ryan Nicholas: what, a legend on so many levels and just brilliant so** up on other levels and…

Harry Orr: The perfect balance.

Ryan Nicholas: fun like every layer that he would bring to a dinner party. I think would be pretty cool, maybe more. So if it was a boys party but even if the women without still session

Joshua Hamilton: I had my arm. I've got a clear winner's wreckage advice. Ricky devices hot…

Ryan Nicholas: yeah.

Joshua Hamilton: but just political genius in terms of satire and just really really smart and just could rip the shreds off anybody there including myself and just like I read it, just be absolute absolutely gold but it's a wonderful thing. That's a one. Have you guys got any more? Because we have a huge list of questions here that you want to bring in a particular importance to you.

Harry Orr: Does, which one stand out for you? Use your intuition, bro?

Joshua Hamilton: yeah, there was a couple for Nick but it's probably a question that goes for you guys as well because I'm not a nipped in this way, but what have you done to grow your hair?


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Ryan Nicholas: I've This year started to use some minoxidil combined with a needling protocol. I'm pretty sure the minoxidil that I've been getting off Tuckapedia, which, for anyone, that doesn't know that's the s** Indonesian version of Amazon. I'm pretty sure it's fake or, at least very weak and this next to zero results for it. So about my old business partner, you boys know about Dr. Anthony. He's hooking me up with some legit stuff soon, so maybe I don't think I'm gonna Running the locks that you've got Josh by the wedding, but maybe next year, something will be back in play.

Joshua Hamilton: just give it the full just straight out of the water.

Ryan Nicholas: Yeah.

Joshua Hamilton: It's Good. What about you Harry?

Harry Orr: I'm just gonna get straight to turkey with the hair transplant, Bro, there's no f*** around. So I'll go from nothing till just the full locks in a couple weeks.

Joshua Hamilton: Yeah.

Ryan Nicholas: It takes longer than that. Lucky just did it Lockies. Just come back. And he's got Is a process to it. He's saying it starts to come back and then that all falls out and then it comes through again, or something, it takes a few months.

Harry Orr: Yeah, it's going to hibernation for a little bit. I'm not coming back…

Ryan Nicholas: 

Harry Orr: till there's like a forehead.

Joshua Hamilton: I love that. Okay I mean this one for you if you could read Love Live One moment, what would it be and why?

Harry Orr: Can we change anything about it or just relive it?

Joshua Hamilton: Not gonna relive it.

Harry Orr: there was this one moment in Canada, which was absolutely grouse. So the mountain I worked in Canada was the biggest of the small mountains. And then over there for anyone that hasn' it's absolutely meant there's compared to the Australian Snow Mountains. There's no lines at all. And so on this mountain I was boarding with one of the other guys and we let legit didn't see another human on the entire mountain for a solid two to three hours and it was a pound a day. It was middle of January. it was just grouse. And so we will feel pretty present had a few of nature's goodies to help us with that side of things. And bro, I felt like I was in a video game just like carving through this power to going all the way down, and then this person, just kind of came out of the side. I was like, yeah, this is reality. I forgot about that for a little bit, it was just the best know that I've ever had, the best day that I've ever had, by far on the mountain, just cruising just everything felt like butter like anyone that

Joshua Hamilton: 

Harry Orr: It's rides or skis would know what that feels like and it was just phenomenal. Just couldn't get better than that. And there's no over there when you're sitting there on the chairlift and the flakes are perfect little flakes, little intricate things, you're looking at them, you feel like you're in a snow globe and it's just like you're not cold,…

Joshua Hamilton: Yes. Untouchable.

Harry Orr: but you're rugged up. You're just like this soul will be just like everything is perfect. You got nothing to worry about. You're not worried about work. You're not worried about anything else.

Joshua Hamilton: 

Harry Orr: You just like in that snow just grinding, it's like* talk to you. Every day of the week.

Joshua Hamilton: come on Ryan. You got beat that, What he got for us.

Ryan Nicholas: If this wasn't already the podcast not to share with our partners, the fact that you just came twice, probably.

Joshua Hamilton: 

Ryan Nicholas: Probably takes it to that level. Definitely.

Ryan Nicholas: Or I feel like you answered in the context of a day, not in a moment. So if we're talking moment, the only thing that comes to mind, that's a momentary thing. it says, a few lame giving this, but it was literally the first day that I properly met Lena. We've been chatting for a couple of weeks and she came and we're down the beaches at my lusty beach, and it's just, looking out at the water, just on a first day, with each other. It's just a really beautiful moment wise, but as far as actual day, I've got to see him all day. Not in the snow is actually encouraging National Park in northern Western Australia. Just the most amazing, beautiful gorgeous.

Ryan Nicholas: And I was there with a bunch of mates and one of the mates had grown up in Tom Price and spent time around the area. So I knew the gorgeous the back of his hand and we were just trekking down through these gorges. And we got to this little drop off and he's like, I just throw through the thongs off into the little pool below jumped in and he's like That's the point of no return. Now we've got a four-hour hike down through these gorgeous, to come out up and around the other side. And at that point we'd already reached I can't remember the grading but it might be level one through level five climbing gear and we were at the highest level and just in thongs in holding of camera and

Ryan Nicholas: Then it just turned into this epic trek down, it was just really, I don't think I've ever felt so alive, in nature, you can't just go back to where you came from. You've got this pretty hectic journey at one point, like climb probably a 20 meter almost year. Rock wall to get out where so easily couldn't slipped and God. But I was just epic.


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Joshua Hamilton: What?

Ryan Nicholas: Such a cool day photos from that day somewhere on a hard drive somewhere and just like something, I like every now. And again, I'll pull out and go out. That was such a cool day.

Joshua Hamilton: I've got two in my mind now but I'm not gonna share the one about flew after you've showed how lame it is sharing that one. So I actually have a similar one to Harry. it was the moment when I went to Japan for the first time I was with my brother-in-law, we created this story that my sister had left him at the altar and that was our story that we went around Japan with and he was like bro I know we're gonna be my future brother in law. But do you want to come home? My honeymoon. What was gonna be with your sister? That was the whole story. That's not a true story, it's just made the trip better, but we've got to Japan and we were coming got to the bus stop to go to the next day to the ski field. And guys, like I do, you don't you want to go follow us? I was like, Okay, we're on this freaking shuttle for ages. All the way around. The other side of the mountain, we get to the other side of the mountain.

Joshua Hamilton: There's one guy at the chair left, getting the cheers ready. I thought it was closed and three minutes to opening time. I'm like, Hey guys open. Remember this is like Nick Dick powder. It's like every day and he's three minutes. And Where is everyone? We hope on the shield. If we go up, we take. What is Strawberry Fields wasn't so well. Known back then it's just me and my brother-in-law. We went down and I've got a photo. It's so insane. it's blower power, it's all over here. It's f****** everywhere. Pretty much why I came twice when Harry mentioned it?

Joshua Hamilton: My old man, and a mum were meant to come and they pulled out the last minute for some random issues that they regret. Now that I got a picture in that moment that Hayden my brother and all took with an awesome camera and it's** phenomenal. I'm snorkel deep, just all you can see my face, is the crack of blue sky, which would have been the only blue sky. We saw the entire time, which was there for, 10 seconds and I'm just coming down and it's pure white. There's not a tract to be saying because there's no one to be seeing and I got home. I got that printed dance at a surgery. He was out for lunch. I f** win and got a laminated it's stuck at the end of his wall. So when he came back from lunch, he knew exactly what he had missing.*** do that again. because you never ever pull out of boys trip. that ever again. So that was the moment that I'd happily relive again. Again, this phenomenal phenomenal. Yeah.

Harry Orr: That's called.

Joshua Hamilton: Yeah, right, that time for probably one or two more. biggest regrets. and let's say, I know, we're at the level of awareness and wokeness. Now that our life is not full of regrets, it's of peace and tranquility and listens because we're gurus. But if you were just to say you have regrets in your life, what would one of the biggest ones? Be

Harry Orr: The only massive one or I guess close to big one that I would say, is that when I was younger, I wish I didn't pursue football. So, I'd never even considered that as a career path, as something, that was beyond, just what you play in your spare time on your weekend, stuff like that. It was picked to travel for scholarships for Sydney for Collingwood play the gate resort game for reserve someone else so they had that potential but just didn't consider that as something worth pursuing and then went to Chefing so obviously all that time is taken up with that. So that's a regret of mine.

Joshua Hamilton: I didn't realize we're yeah.

Harry Orr: But I didn't even know that was a path. So it wasn't something that I deliberately chose not to do. I didn't even know that was a thing. So,

Joshua Hamilton: Back standing in the prisons of royalty. Jesus didn't realize you're a big dick. So yeah. All right. That's a good regret. A lot that Idiot right.

Harry Orr: Broken

Ryan Nicholas: So funny that I think I knew that about you other Harry. I don't even know you're into AFL at all. Whereas in my childhood it was the opposite. if I didn't pursue sport in some serious way What are you doing? it was the exact opposite. Yeah, it's hard to say because if you truly regret something, he's saying you go back and change it. There's nothing that I could say that too because my life is so great right now, but if you could take, it's almost like a learning or whatever, I think in a lot of Places at different points in my life. I've run away from my problems rather than facing them head on and then maybe the other thing would be


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Ryan Nicholas: Even though I made certain choices and I was involved in a certain religion, which Controlled a lot of my life.

Ryan Nicholas: I suppose what I'm trying to say is there was probably 80 90 percent that I agreed with. At the time, there was a 10 to 20% that never really made sense to me, but I went along with it anyway and it's maybe like if something isn't resonating then. Don't just go along with it, don't just take the 20% with 80% if that makes sense.

Joshua Hamilton: Yeah, it makes sense. I'm not a swans reserve player but might regrets were early twenties. To similar times really one I just regret not having the label of discipline of training. I do now I'm like I think Harry and I have covered this once before as well. I'd have that time and I'd be like, right? Why we wasting time between?

Joshua Hamilton: Classes at university with drinking and partying when I could have been at the gym, just getting** savage on it, right in my black card or running faster, all those things, I regret not doing that. I regret not having someone who would be Alright f*****. This is what we're gonna do. Let's go. And then the regret that followed that was the. I wasted so much time, pining over a lost love that. I lost so much, So many years of bordering on depression from being sacked off by the woman you love at the time. He's just look back now. And it's laughable. It made me who I am for sure, like Ryan said, but yeah man, I could have been so much better. I think about now. I'm like, God, what could I be doing now? But

Harry Orr: So if we combine you guys then Ryan's ability to run away from his problems and your desire to be fitter running away from that, love for that all those years. Instead of just sitting there being a depressed muppet, you're going to be like, running Marathon's f**** 10 years ago, bro.

Joshua Hamilton: The funny thing was, it was what got me into endurance sports because it was literally running away from something that I didn't want to fight. good to laugh about dark times. It was a dark time. So good. Guys is there any other questions that you've had that? You'd like to answer from guys of sentimental?

Ryan Nicholas: yeah, that Just quickly because I thinking, What questions are you gonna throw that? I won't have an answer for. So I had a quick look over and there was one, I was like, what a dumb question? I just had to Google and the question was like, If you could have one useless superpower, what would it be? And I was like How do you have a useless If about so quickly Google that I still like these two were the best ones that I found invisibility in the dark. And then to be 13%. Bulletproof.

Ryan Nicholas: That I might.

Harry Orr: You only need your vital organs to be bulletproof and then you'll be sweet. Everything else can take you here.

Ryan Nicholas: And just before we do wrap upload though, Joshua now she's just posted in the group chat, a question He said Specifically for you Joshua, since becoming a father, has your mission changed and if so in what way,

Joshua Hamilton: A whole lot of it more. I think there has been one of the strongest change, and I think noticing that in the group as well. I have a vision of my head, it's real nice. Note to just think, Oops, I've left my kid in the street and then suddenly all our uncommon have just got some sorted and just watching them do his thing. And f****** just I like this bubble. Not living in a bubble. But just this idea that he's protected in whatever he do because of the community and people that he has around them. And that's what I want for everyone. And I'm like, okay, then we need men, who are** awesome who can give that. To our guys, which is why we have stronger community is out as our mission statement. And yeah. So now she hope that answers your question It's just being

Joshua Hamilton: It's so important that to keep going. And I think if I ask for anything from anybody listens this podcast, Would be Can you please share it? If you think it's helpful and you think the mission is something you aligned with Share it as wide and as far as you possibly can. And we run a we run a coaching business. We help guys who feel like they're burning out or they've got that potential that's sitting there always

Joshua Hamilton: Hate this idea when I was a teacher, we used to say yeah, Ryan's a lovely boy. He's got heaps of potential police, he's just not reaching it. But I talked to many men later around our age and later and they're like I just know this so much more that I could do. I know there's so much more I could attain these, I know it but for some reason it feels like this handbrake is on and that's what we help guys with and they create the normal change, the early changes always happen, the less stress, the more connected with their loved ones, and they lose weight and they get so much more time back and their life, and then a week, and then the business expands their life, expansive purpose, expense, they find a really deep meaning and really deep connection in their life and I think that's one of the coolest things that we do and If people want to come on.


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Joshua Hamilton: And do that program with us. I know there are other companies out there that do amazing jobs as well, but if that's something that you're sitting on the fence it go do something about it, get involved, make change, have that growth because once you experience that It's phenomenal and we have something that we call the uncommon way. We've just recently opened if that's something that you'd love to Reach out to Grab one of our resources. Join our group. What? You're all, And next June, we have our Project Bali, And there are still about 11 spots left, so there's not too many. But if that's something that aligns with you, it's an amazing event. I've a four days that we have an absolute blast and some pretty deep work. So, if that's something you'd just reach out to one of us,

Joshua Hamilton: Happy to send more information and connect with a bunch of resources. But with that note, guys, thank you so much for your time. Thank you to all those who sing questions and we'll be doing one of these again in the future. Good fun. I hope you learn a little bit more about us and a little bit more about our mission. Big love to you all. Keep doing you be awesome. Be uncommon. Cheers brothers.