Episode 36 | The Gap Between Knowing and Doing

Stronger After The Storm

Stronger After The Storm
Episode 36 | The Gap Between Knowing and Doing
May 26, 2026 Episode 36
Dougie Smith

Episode 36 | The Gap Between Knowing and Doing

After everything I'd been through β€” the heart attack, the recovery, the lessons β€” you'd think I'd be the first to stop when my body told me to.

This week I wasn't. And it caught me out.

In this episode I talk about something every man who's been through a cardiac event wrestles with. The gap between what you know you should do β€” and what life makes you do anyway.

The signals were there. The fatigue. The breathlessness. That running on empty feeling. But finances, responsibility, and that deep instinct to just keep going overrode all of it. Until my body stopped asking politely.

If any of that sounds familiar β€” this one's for you.

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