This is going to be controversial.

I'm hoping that this podcast is going to provoke a respectful, positive, and constructive conversation about the situation we are facing.

The Blueprint is about success. It's about how to live an abundant life and how do we use education effectively to scale that for many - essentially how do we help more people live life to the full?  For months now, I've been sharing resources, stories, coaching, interviews with amazing people and whatever else I can to help this cause - and for the most part, I've avoided the 'elephant in the room'.

I've avoided speaking directly to the Covid crisis because 1) there are actually positive outcomes that we can find in the midst of this debacle. There are relationships that we wouldn't have otherwise made and opportunities that would not otherwise exist - and so I wanted to bring those to the surface. And 2) because what we focus on, we magnify - and I don't want to be a part of the problem. There is so much fear mongering going on in the media and in the government already. I want to avoid that space.

I have successfully avoided it for quite some time - but I can't do that anymore.

Today we're talking about the Elephant in the room.

I had no idea, when I recorded this podcast that the state was about to go into an unannouced full lockdown. We have ZERO cases right now, here on the Mid-North Coast, but because there are other cases popping up in a few areas of regional NSW - Gladys Berejiklian has hit the panic button.

Many would argue that this is no surprise. This is right on queue. I'm not going there. Hidden agendas are a rabit-hole I don't want to get pulled into right now. I want this conversation to be about the simple (but profoundly important) issue of what we are doing to ourselves as a society by accepting the mandates to wear masks and not address the real enemy that we are facing - FEAR.

I am a frontline worker. Not of the Covid crisis, but of the mental health crisis. I take calls often from people doing life very tough.

In 2020, there were more than 3000 deaths by suicide in Australia - many of these young people - and it rarely made the news. Meanwhile Covid case numbers were counted in 10s and sometimes 100s and we heard it every single day.

Watch out for the resources that I'll be sharing throughout the podcast (you can find these over on the blog) and the actions that we can all take today—hopefully, towards a more enlightened, positive, and forward-looking community working together for a healthier and happier future.

Let's start this conversation...