The Untold Podcast

No More Almost's — Accountability, Showing Up & Making 2026 Count

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Season 3 starts here.

Me and Chris are going all-in on what actually changes your life: accountability, consistency, and doing the hard stuff when you don’t feel like it.

In this episode we talk about:

  • why this season has to be different (and why the podcast is at a crossroads)
  • Chris committing to 6 months off drinking + joining the gym (and the fear of walking in)
  • Ash joining Way of the Vikings (and getting humbled fast)
  • how small actions compound (and why “all-or-nothing” kills most New Year goals)
  • gratitude, perspective, and controlling what you can control

We’ve also launched Untold Podcast – The Community (private Facebook group) so you can get involved, share wins, ask for help, and keep us accountable too.

New schedule:
Mondays 5am — main episode
Thursdays 5am — short accountability check-in

Join the group, get involved, and let’s make 2026 the year things actually change.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2057132261687954

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New Season And Holiday Recap

SPEAKER_01

Welcome back to 2026 and another season of the Untold Podcast. Um, how are you doing, Chris? How was Christmas? It was good, mate. Really good.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, do you know it's the first time I've heard anyone say 2026 to be fair, and we're 13 days in, yeah. No, it was good, mate. Really nice, really relaxed, really chilled out, spent some quality time at home, a little man and the missus. Um ate too much, drunk too much, and now I haven't drunk for 13 days. Really? You're doing it then. I've actually done it, yeah. You're doing it. What about you?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it was good, mate. It was good, it was difficult at times, it was good at times, it was sad at times, but overall it was wicked.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I mean, you obviously your Christmas was a little bit different to probably it would have been well, it's not gonna be a little bit different, it was a lot different when it would it should have been really, but it was good because the all the family were together, the dogs were together in Spain, it was lovely, there was just a big part of it missing.

Promises, Accountability, And Compounding

SPEAKER_01

Um, but yeah, we did the first Christmas, we'd done his first birthday, it's quite funny actually. The girls were like, Dad, how old was Grandad gonna be? I was like, six seven. Six seven. Yeah, he would have been six seven, so in typical, typical thing. But we had a chat, and we both said at the end of 2025, like I made some promises to some guests, which we'll talk about in a minute. Um, you made some promises, and I think that it would be really good, maybe not even for season three, maybe just moving forward to talk about like accountability, to talk about compounding things, doing things that you don't particularly want to do, but you need to do them.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I think it's really important, mate, because people we talk about mental health last season was obviously mental health, wasn't it? We talk about business, we talk about everything. But actually, if you don't take accountability for what you're doing, you don't succeed in anything anyway.

Joining The Vikings And First Setbacks

Six Months Sober And Gym Anxiety

SPEAKER_01

No, and it shows up everywhere, it shows up in your fitness, it shows up in your eating, it shows up in your parenting, it shows up in your work, it shows everything. It's like this accountability and having people like Dan came on, the way of the Vikings. I said in the episode, I might join that. Well, last week I joined it. I must admit, mate, I thought it was just talk. No, no, no. If I say I'm gonna do something, five times out of ten, I'll go and do it and I'll get it done. So I joined the Vikings. So I decided on Friday, Dan messaged me, he's like, actually, we start tomorrow, mate, which was a Saturday. When I joined, I paid the money, done. About three in the afternoon, I started feeling rough like chess went. So I missed the Saturday morning because I was literally dying and I didn't feel right going in a gym. But I beat myself up because I missed the first morning. However, on the Sunday morning, I was up wherever we were, standing somewhere, hiking up to Devil's Dyke at 6:30 with 20 other lads. And I tell you what, it's a wicked group to be in. I was being called a wet wipe, I was being called a wanker, I was being called all these things by people I've never met in the WhatsApp group because I didn't show up to that first Saturday, and that's accountability. They're only joking, yeah. Like, and it's it's really good. Um, but that's something that I want to do for myself for 2026. Um, what about you? What have you done? Well, I know what you've done.

SPEAKER_00

I've stopped drinking, so I've done 13 days now. Um I'm gonna try at least until the World Cup, so six months. Really? Yeah, mate. Wow. Yeah, six months, that's my target. A minimum six months.

SPEAKER_01

Well, even if you come out to Spain to do a podcast.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, mate, I'm not I'm I'm I'm very focused when it comes to not drinking. I've done it before. I've I've done six months and then the euro I started and I started and never stopped, so um I'm gonna try six months this year, at least. I'm gonna I in my back of my mind I'm thinking maybe the year if I can get through the World Cup. Depends how good the non-alcoholic lager is by then. I might see if I can get some of that drink that makes you feel tipsy without actually having alcohol in it. Um I have joined the gym. I said I would join the gym. I've been talking about it for months. I joined the gym. I went to go for my induction yesterday, but guess what? You got no water. The gym was closed. Oh, you can write it, could you? I've psyched myself up for 12 days to go and have an induction and then I'll get a phone call at seven in the morning. I'm really sorry, but the gym's shut today, we haven't got any water. So yeah, the the plan is there. I bought the I bought the gym clothes, I've got the new shoes, I've got the new shorts, the t-shirts, I'm gonna look like an absolute twat, but I've made the effort to to pay the first monthly pill the bill, you know?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. And you get it done, like, and this is the thing, like I'm scared of the I'm scared that I've committed to commitment of showing up like Saturday morning, I've got to leave my house at 20 past five to be in the gym in Lansing at six.

SPEAKER_00

Well that's the best thing about this now, because if we're gonna be doing accountability, you can't hide from it, mate.

Fear, Starting Small, And Momentum

SPEAKER_01

I can't hide from it, and I can't hide from the group, I've got to check in with the people. And I've done a lot of fitness things in the past. I've had personal trainers, I've gone to the gym and stuff, and for me it's never worked because it's not been that like, but I feel like I've been accepted into this group, this Viking group of men who are like they're my people. Yeah, they're my people, they're not like the banter, the piss taking and stuff, it's it's brilliant. And I I I know it's early days, so we'll check back in six weeks whether I completed the first tour.

SPEAKER_00

I'm just looking forward to coming and filming the uh the cold water swim, mate. That's what I'm up for.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I might wait until the tour's in May. I might do another tour in May to do that. Um, and obviously, I know you you spoke about like joining the gym. Um, it's not easy walking in a gym, is it, when you've not been going to it?

Costs, Purpose, And Why We Keep Going

SPEAKER_00

Mate, I'll be honest with you, I'm quite a confident person, as you're probably aware of yourself, but the gym is a is a whole different ball game for me. I am so nervous in there. I've been I literally have worked up. I I join I signed up on the 27th of December, and I thought, right, I'll just go. And I couldn't. I thought, no, actually, I'll go next, I'll go tomorrow, I'll go tomorrow. Because most people feel like this when they go in the gym. You feel like everybody's looking at you. Even though 95% of them aren't, you are getting a few people going. I'll look at him in his new trainers like he's never been here before. Yeah. But it's that whole persona of or perception of people giving a shit about you, innit? We all get that. Like I've had it through TikTok, I don't have that fear now, I can record myself in public. But everybody has that fear of actually, what if somebody's looking at me thinking he's doing that wrong or you know, oh, why is he in here? He's a bit overweight, or but well, I'm trying to lose the weight, you know. Um but it's that own it's your own fear, innit? And the gym is the one place I've always felt uncomfortable until I've been there for a couple of weeks. So you start going, What mate, how you doing? Yeah, yeah. Like you get that reception from other people in there that you're not a newbie, that you actually you've been there a few times, even though that they're not feeling like that. It is um yeah, it I I am really nervous about it, I'm not gonna lie. Like, I think you've probably got the easiest option to start with, because obviously they're all blokes and they're all there for the same reasons. The banter wearing it.

SPEAKER_01

And it's dark, not because it's like.

SPEAKER_00

I mean yours is probably a lot harder than mine, but mentally I feel like it's it's really quite hard to go in a gym for the first time. And I've never been to this gym either.

SPEAKER_01

I guess as well, especially on your own. Like, I've been welcomed into a group on Saturday after they all went to the gym and I wasn't there. Oh, where's the new kid that didn't turn up? And that's like, oh shit, I can't like come on then, let's go. And last night we did this zigzag thing, and I've had a bit of a chest infection, I'm struggling. Like, there's another thing that we'll talk about. The dummy. The dummy is sat in the car now. I haven't touched my vape apart from the drive to work this morning, which is mad for me. As you know, yeah, I'd be sitting here before we start recording like a fucking crack addict.

SPEAKER_00

Like, yeah, it's not a visual effects we use, it's actually Ash's vape.

Gratitude Habits And Energy

SPEAKER_01

But last night we did this zigzag thing, and I've got all these lads, there's about 20 of them there, I guess. And it's just a big hill, concrete hill, up and down it, up and down it. Like some of them must have done 17, 18 times. Well, I did five. And I'm like, they're jogging up this hill, and I'm like literally crawling on my hands and knees to try and get up this hill. And I was like, Fuck me, Ash, you're really like it's bad, mate. It's bad. And I thought to myself while I was walking last night, I had my old man in my ear going, come on, keep going. And a part of me crossed my head and said, He died, so I didn't have to do XCC because I'm that unfit. I probably would have died too. You could be right there, yeah. Do you know what I mean? But yeah, it was uh but it's it's this whole like I showed up, I didn't want to go yesterday. Yesterday I was having a terrible day. My mum rang me up, she was in tears. Um she was missing my dad, she was on her own, she's got stuff going on in Spain. I was missing my old man, and I did not want it was pissing down the rain, I did not want to go and do exercise, drive 45 minutes because obviously the way of the Vikings is like Lancing Way, and I'm here, but I'm so glad I did it. I didn't want to go, but when I drive home, I felt that sense of like achievement and empowerment. And I think I always used to fill that with a gym. You probably do as well. Like, don't know, I haven't been yet. Well, but you've been putting it off, putting it off, put it.

Building Community And Thursday Check‑Ins

SPEAKER_00

Once you do it once, you'll be like, Yeah, it is always that initial fear, isn't it? Once you do something, it's like anything skydive. You get in a plane, you're absolutely crapping yourself. You jump out of the plane, I wouldn't know, and then you land, you your feet touch terra firma again, you're on the ground, then you want to go up again. You're like, can we go again? Like, it's the most amazing feeling, but it is That's how people become what they want to become, is because they can push themselves through that barrier. Most of the people out there, they don't they want to achieve things, but actually they know that it's very hard to start it, so they don't make that start. As soon as you do start things, it does become easier, doesn't it? It's like anything. The more you do something, the more easier it becomes. I'll go to the gym and I'll push the door open and I'll walk straight over to the gyms, and I'll probably put a camera up on the side and start filming me to see if my form's very good or not. Yeah. And then and all of a sudden I'll sit there and I think, oh fucking hell. Six weeks ago I couldn't even walk in this gym. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's just it is important to mention like that you the fear is good. I said it before on a podcast. The fear it fear is good because it means you want something.

Season Focus And Guest Criteria

SPEAKER_01

And you're pushing yourself out of your comfort zone. Like this year I've said to myself, I want to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Like it would be easy for me last night to say, Do you know what? I'm gonna make an excuse to not drive and do this in the rain because I'm comfy on my sofa. Instead, I was like, no, you can't, because that's the old you that you've got to move forward, you've got to make changes in order for your life to change. It's no one's gonna give it to you. Yeah, no one's gonna give it to you, and it's like with this podcast. So 45 episodes we've done now, about three and a half thousand downloads across 40 different countries, and like we're at a crossroads now where it's costing money, we're trying it out, we've shown up, we've been right. What should we talk about? Shall we talk about politics? No, let's record an episode and not air it because that's not what we're so like we're and we are going and keep going. And the question I had in my head was right, can I continue paying for this? Because the truth is, every month this podcast costing money, it's costing energy, it's costing you driving here, and yeah, it's good. We're getting some fantastic messages. I mean, you even got recognised in your local town as Chris from the Untold Podcast, which is fantastic. Um, and I think we're at that pivotable, p pivotable.

SPEAKER_00

Don't forget somebody said that I should be reading Deads of Stories on CBBs as well, mate.

SPEAKER_01

The new Tom Hardy. Yeah. Um but honestly, I don't want to stop it. No, I don't. It's never been about the money. Obviously, it would be lovely if it paid for itself and it didn't cost me money every month, but it's never been about the money for me. Like when we didn't do this, I missed it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And it's we have to show up.

Control The Controllables And Wrap

SPEAKER_00

I was saying to Vanessa just then, like the last few weeks where we haven't done this. Yeah. It's been torture on a Tuesday. Like, I I I think I love finishing my lives on a Tuesday morning and going in and giving my little boy a cuddle and a kiss and having a bite a bite of a bit of toast and then jumping in the car and driving over it, you know, because I know I've got there's a purpose there that we're doing something, we're trying to help ourselves, we're trying to help other people with what we're talking about and stuff, and it it does, it feels like you've you've lost something when you're not doing it, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and it's like a therapy session, I think. And some of the guests, like I put in the in the Vikings group, we have to do every morning we have to do three things we're grateful for. And this morning I was like, I'm grateful for the podcast, I'm grateful for the podcast because today I get to film it, and if it wasn't for the podcast, I wouldn't be in this WhatsApp group with you, lads. I probably wouldn't be focusing on being fitter and healthier in 2026.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Um, but like season two, mental health, it was important. It was important to discuss.

SPEAKER_00

It still is important, it still is important, really, but yeah, I did see the other day. I loved that series, mate. I'm not gonna lie, I think it was brilliant, I think it was so good. The guests that we had were just phenomenal, like from so there was so much variety in there as well. Like from Harry and Dan and Sam, and obviously um James as well. Like, if I've missed anybody else, I do apologise. Ryan, yeah. Ryan, yeah. Yeah. The variety was so good, but it was so every episode had something in it.

SPEAKER_01

And I think that's important, and that's what we want to do. We want to be like what I've said in like too, I want to be myself.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Just what and this podcast allowed like when I try and film content for the business and stuff, I'm still trying to be, still trying to be like the businessman, the businessman, and like I am the businessman, but that doesn't define me. Yeah, what defines me is like what defines who I am, and what defines you is who you are. Um it's yeah, it's we said a lot of things, um, and I said like I was gonna do this, I was gonna do XEC. Unfortunately I didn't do XEC, I'm doing that in March. Now Dan's come along, I'm doing the Vikings, but I needed to do that to realise fuck me, you got a lot of work to do to enjoy trekking across Northumberland for three days. Like your boot, my boots are fucked. I've done like three hours of hiking, and I've got a blister the size of King Kong on the on the back of my heel.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So the boot, if I'd have just turned up to XEC, I would have been in rag, mate.

SPEAKER_00

I would have been absolutely You probably wouldn't have been able to complete it if you got a blister like that already. No, probably not. Um which would have then set you back even further because you'd have been so disappointed in your own mental state, wouldn't you? That you probably wouldn't have ever done anything like that again.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. And I think like 2026, we all set these resolutions, and I've learned this. Right this year, I'm gonna give up smoking, I'm gonna give up drinking, I'm gonna I'll actually I'm gonna touch on something in a minute. Um I'm gonna get fit, I'm gonna eat better, and then so all of a sudden you're like, fuck, I've got to do all those things. I can't do that, so you do nothing. But I need to go back to something. Why, Christopher, have you decided to not drink? Why is that? What's the potential thing?

SPEAKER_00

I just felt like I was drinking not not all the time, but in all honesty, like I don't really like drink. I never really have, to be honest with you. Um I like the way it makes you feel, but I don't like the following day. And to be quite honest with you, I think I think that for me drinking it it clouds my judgment, it clouds my clarity, it obviously stops me from getting on with things. It makes me very well my procrast I just procrastinate all the time. You know?

SPEAKER_01

Does it fuck your self-confidence?

SPEAKER_00

Possibly, yeah, maybe to a certain extent, yeah. Um but going into 2026, I just wanted to I really like I'm fully aware that you you do a lot more behind the scenes than I do with this podcast. And I'm I'm I'm not somebody that's not gonna pretend that I I do, and and I think it's important to mention for everybody listening, actually, you do do a fuckload more than I do. Um obviously you are here and I am not, so it's much it is to a certain extent more easy for you because you've got everything here and there. But I'm fully aware that I don't, and I and I feel like 2026 I wanna I wanna do everything that I say I'm gonna do rather than go, yeah yeah, I'll do that, have a drink, get up in the morning, and I think I can't be fucked today, I can't be arsed. I I'll sit on the sofa because I'm a bit hungover, I feel a bit tired, because I don't sleep well when I drink. I want to get up in the morning and I want to be energized. I want to get up and I want to work, and I want to do the things I'm gonna say I'm gonna be, and I wanna I want accountability. Like, so this is why when you said about doing this for this season, to a certain extent, I was like, Yeah, fucking hell, what a brilliant thing. Because it's not us that just needs to be holding themselves accountable, it's our listeners as well.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. And that's what we wanted to create the space, didn't we? We wanted to. Well, I said last year, I want to be the most honest podcast. I'll wear my heart on my sleeve, mate. I'll sit in these episodes and I'll cry and I'll talk about grief, I'll talk about my old man, I'll talk about what I've learned and what I would do different the next time. I don't care. I want to be myself, I want to be unapologetically me. And if you like me, you like me. If you don't, fuck off. Because quite frankly, I don't give a shit anymore. Like, so much has changed, and like they say that 2025 was the year of the snake, and now we're the year of the horse. And I think for me and you personally and the podcast, like you've had some fantastic news this week. Now I'm not gonna wear that until we're ready to air it, but that's fucking incredible. And I just feel that in order to someone says you've got to you've got to be worthy of the life you want to live. Yeah, and I think that's this this year. That's like I want to get fitter, I want to get healthier, I want to eat better, I want to be more present for my kids and stuff. And there's certain things that I've realized in the last three or four months, they just don't fucking matter.

SPEAKER_00

They really don't matter. Yeah, I mean what you've gone through obviously over the last few months has has really, really hit home, like what is important and what isn't, you know. And I feel like obviously this is nothing compared to what you've gone through in the last four months, but for the last four days I've had no fucking water.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Right? And and you don't realise actually how lucky we are to have everything that we've got because the simple thing of water is more important than food.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I can't flush my toilets if I have a pony. I've got a four-year-old, I've got a wife. Yeah. I've got two toilets in my house. I can't wash the plates. I've got a four-year-old that eats and just makes everything dirty constantly. I can't have a shower, I can't have a bath, I can't even brush my teeth. Well, I can because I've got bottled water, but that's made me realise how lucky we are to turn a tap on. Fucking hell, mate. Going into the into the kitchen and turning the kitchen tap on just to wash your hands.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Like, we take everything for granted. And everybody like where I live, we've got Facebook groups, everyone is moaning so hard that it's everybody else's fault, right? I think people should just actually take a step back and realise you should be very grateful for having water anyway.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, the the owner of Southeast Water is an absolute bell end, and I don't care if he's listening, but for the money he gets, he's he's he's failed his job totally at the moment. But it's not anybody's fault if it's the reasons that they say it is, you know. Um but yeah, you you you you've got to really be so grateful for things this day and age, I think, because we do take things for granted. Yeah, sorry, mate. So I don't know where that comes from, mate, to be fair. I just I feel like I just went off a tangent there, didn't we? No, no, no, but no, you went a bit infuriated as a South East Water customer. Yeah, but I I would be, mate, I would be. Um sorry. What I will say, actually, if there's anybody listening that has been fighting people for bottles of water, sort your shit out.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Um if you can't wait in a line of uh to get yourself some clean water to drink and to to help your families, sort your shit out because everyone's in the same position. And yeah.

SPEAKER_01

No, and this is it. And like, this is why I would encourage anybody listening to this podcast to try it for a week. Write a list every single morning when you wake up of three things you're grateful for today. We live in a world where it's so easy. You go on TikTok, you go on the news, you go on Facebook, you go on Instagram, everywhere you look is negative. Yeah. This person's bombed this person, house prices are going up, this is crashing, mortgage rates, everything, blah, blah, blah. We live in a world where negativity is just so powerful. Prominent.

SPEAKER_00

It was only 50 years ago you couldn't even have a couldn't even have a warm shower.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Like, do you know what I mean? And if you look at what is good in your life instead of focusing on the shit that's not, Elliot Wise, he's a very good friend of mine. Like him or hate him, his message is simple. You get back the energy you put out, frequencies and energy. And this is something that I've been doing, like looking at quite a lot. And I believe it. I've started to, mate. I'm not gonna lie, last 12 months. If you go on a live in the morning and you're like welcome behind me for this week we've got this bundle here. Have you been watching it? Have you been watching this since the morning, have you? That's my thing. Um, whereas you're always like, right, this is this, we've got this bundle, check this out. People are gonna buy because of that energy. Yeah, and I think that should be everything we do, we've got to show up, and I think that's what this season should be about. Maybe even the podcast showing up, whether it's you're being a dad, a mum, a husband, a wife, a daughter, a son, a fucking employee, a business. We've all got to show up, but you've got to show up for yourself before you can show up for other people. And I think that's yeah, I don't like we we don't need to dress it up. It's not, we are two people living lives trying to have a better life, create more opportunities for friends, family, staff, blah blah blah. Like you've come in this morning with some news, which could affect me, yeah, and the podcast and the listeners. And I think holding each other accountable and doing the things that you say you're gonna do is important. Yeah. I'm gonna sneeze.

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I'm gonna cry.

SPEAKER_01

I don't remember to cry or sneeze. Um but this morning I created a Facebook community for the Untold Podcast for exactly this what we're talking about, and it's a private group, you can post in it anonymously. But the idea is me and you share our personal lives in there a bit more. The idea is we put our wins in. What have we done? What haven't we done? And then the listeners can go in and they can help each other out, and they can pick holes in us as well.

SPEAKER_00

Pick, yeah, fly our way and go. Hang on a minute, you haven't posted about you doing this. Have you done it or have you not? You know, because again, it's it's bringing us that accountability, and it also brings the engagement in from our listeners, which I think is the most important thing because a podcast is something you listen to. You know, you don't have to just listen to this podcast. You can you can talk to us basically now, and and I think that's that's a really important thing because people do listen and they they might not want to message in or do a voicemail, they might just jump on Facebook and go anonymous. Like, yeah, all you do is talk about.

SPEAKER_01

Give it to me toxic masculinity, toxic masculinity, misogynistic prick. Come on, fire it at me. I'm a pig, I'm a white.

SPEAKER_00

If you don't know what we're referencing there, go back to season two.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, go back to season two. Someone decided to leave us a one-star review. I've got a sneaky suspicion who it was or what it was about. Yeah. Um, but we're also bringing in a Thursday episode, Chris. Yes. Um, which is basically me and Chris holding each other accountable. We're gonna set some targets, and the next week, if we've not done it, then we're fucking gonna call each other out on it. I'm looking forward to that.

SPEAKER_00

That's why I need to be accountable. That's why that's why I need to drink this this year, mate, to try and keep my uh keep my things going.

SPEAKER_01

But yeah, I'm really looking forward to season three. Um, obviously, I know you've got I've got some notes, but I need notes because I have to try and keep it in line. Um we want you to be a part of it. Not you, Chris, you're already a part of it. We want you to be a part of it. Um, like, do you know what I mean? There's lots of groups on Facebook. This is private, you can post anonymously. If you want if you if you try not to post anonymously though, we we want to know who you are. Yeah, we would like to know who you are.

SPEAKER_00

Most people post anonymously if they're being nasty anyway. Yeah, yeah, keyboard warrior.

SPEAKER_01

But there are strict rules to the group. Yeah, you've got to be there for other people, you've got to help each other out, and we will moderate this like heavily. If you show up and start, if you've got constructive criticism for us on the podcast, that's fine. Then that's absolutely fine. I'll take it on board and I'll either call you a twat or I'll run with it. Um but join the community, no more with a phone number because I think someone gives us their phone number. I know what it is now as well.

SPEAKER_00

Do you? Yeah. Did you learn it? What is it?

SPEAKER_01

I don't want to tell you now, so you're gonna use it.

SPEAKER_00

I don't need to tell you now, because you're not using it, it's fine.

SPEAKER_01

But so the direction of this season is not just mental health. We probably will cover on some mental health because it's important. The podfather. I'm not happy about this, mate.

SPEAKER_00

I'm sorry. I I'm not happy about it. I was gonna use it today. This this is what I bought Ash for Christmas, right? And it's not even left the podcast studio in four weeks. I haven't been here. I've only been here for six days. I'm devastated that, mate. It was supposed to be used today. Not having that. Oh, don't start. I'll take it home with me. I'll be the podcast. I'm the podfather. I'll be the pod father.

SPEAKER_01

Um anyway, shut up. Uh the so this this season, this moving forward, um we're looking for founders, athletes, creators, tradespeople, parents, um, anyone who's showed up consistently and they've noticed that it's changed their life and it's changed their outcome. So if you know someone, I've got a couple of people looking, um quite interested in coming on, who have shown up for two or three years and it's completely changed their life from where they were. So I want to hear their story about doing little things each day. That's what my old man used to say. Do it just do a little bit each day and you'll be fine. A lot of times we don't do nothing. We show up, yeah, we show up, but we're not doing this. We're not spending time with the kids, we're finding excuses not to do the things we should do because it's comfier. Yeah, that's what I think. Um, we're not looking for famous people, we're looking for accountable ones. Yeah. We'll have a couple of accountable famous people if they're listening, obviously. A couple of accountable famous people.

SPEAKER_00

Draws a few more people in, but yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And that's it, I think.

SPEAKER_00

Like, just I'd like to get Donald Trump on. I think he's got some accountability at the moment, don't you?

SPEAKER_01

Fucking hell, don't, mate. Don't, don't, don't go down that route. Please don't don't go down that route. I don't want to do I want to live. That's not politics. I don't care when you talk about Donald Trump, it's not even politics. I don't even know what it is. I don't know what it is either, mate. I don't know what it is. I think it's um there's a lot of things going on in the world, and there's a lot of stuff that's shifting and like live in your own bubble, yeah, control what you can control. You yeah, you've got no water at the moment, but there are ways around it. Yeah, go to your mate's house and say, mate, I've got I've had no water four days. Can I come and have a shower? Can I come and fill up some buckets and drive and fill up some buckets? Do it is what it is, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00

Instead of sitting on Facebook fucking whinging and moaning and moaning and whinging, if you get just guys, if you're gonna fill up some buckets, make sure you put them in something and then because when you drive home, your car's gonna get very wet. Yeah, I don't want to give out terrible advice, Ash.

SPEAKER_01

Fill up the puddles, yeah. Um but yeah, focus on live in your own bubble, focus on control what you can control, don't really worry too much about what's on the outer.

SPEAKER_00

100%.

SPEAKER_01

100%.

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You're right.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, first episode done, episode done.

SPEAKER_01

First episode wrapped up. Um, because you've got to go for an important meeting, so we couldn't say that.

SPEAKER_00

I feel like you're rushing rushing the podcast because of my thoughts. Somebody else used to do that. I feel really good.

SPEAKER_01

We're not going down that road. I feel really bad looking at my phone, and my son's got his driving test today, and I'm waiting and waiting and waiting for this bloody phone call to say he's passed or not. So that's the only reason I've got my phone.

SPEAKER_00

We were hoping that he would call you during the podcast. I'm hoping he was going to call during the podcast. Because it's that accountability answering your phone when you need to answer your phone to your kids.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's it. It's a big thing showing up. So, like, if you're a parent, if you're a founder, if you're an owner, if you're someone that's gone through some stuff, and showing up has changed your life, then we want to hear your story. Join the Facebook group, search it on Facebook, the Untold Podcast Community Group. Um, it's just a short name then. It's just a short name, yeah. Well, I wanted it to say it on the tin.

SPEAKER_00

You'll find it. You'll find it. You'll find it.

SPEAKER_01

You'll find it. We'll share it. Um, and yeah, that's it. Episode one. Check out the bonus. We're gonna change Monday morning, 5 a.m. for the main episode, Thursday morning, 5 a.m. for our little bonus accountability episode. So we look forward to seeing you then. Yeah, man. I've been Ash, and I've always been Chris, and I'm still Ash, and I'll still be Chris next week. And we'll uh yeah, thanks for listening. Get involved, and we'll see you next week. Take care, guys. Thank you.