(#87) Running "Just One More" For Mental Health With Elite Athlete Brooke McIntosh

For everyone, our soul and spirit knows what it is we are here to achieve and to live for in each lifetime we are here to experience.

The truth is, for many of us we don’t listen or don’t have that awareness, choosing to follow what we believe is the path and journey for us, until spirit and our soul steps in and

When your soul is trying to get a message through, it will literally do whatever it takes to get the message across.

This is what Brooke McIntosh experienced one day driving on a highway.

Brooke is a former truck driver turned elite athlete, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and business coach.

On that fateful day she realised there was more to her life than what she believed and you’ll hear all about this in Ep 87 of the Alchemy Mindset Podcast.

Brooke shares her story of determination, courage, resilience and strength to go all in on her first ever 1600km run from the Pilbara to Perth.

“Impact to Ignite” was completed last year in 2023 and now leads Brooke to fully go all in on her next project “Just One More”, to run around Australia and be the first person to create a World Record in the shortest amount of time.

I love these kinds of stories as I find them so inspiring, empowering and encouraging. It is a massive reminder that if someone can step out of their comfort zone and set a goal or a challenge and achieve it. Then anyone can do the same on all levels and walks of life.

Our conversation circles a lot around energy and spirituality and how this can be incorporated into any goal or  project - even running!

We talk alot about the Holistic approach of Mind, Body and Sprit (Brooke’s secret weapon) to achieving her first run and how she is upping the anti and bringing in more to support her in next year's run.

This is something that I truly believe is going to be more prevalent in years to come. The importance to spirit and energy in any all aspect of life. And Brooke is proof that this can beneficial to running 1600kms down the West coast of Australia.

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Brooke shares very openly about her mental health state where she was considering committing suicide to end her own suffering. If you find this episode difficult to hear, please press pause and come back to it at a time when you might feel more comfortable and safe to do so.

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Hello, hello, and welcome to Alchemy Mindset. I'm your host, Anna Hasty, business mindset coach for women and a sound healer. If you are ready to become the most aligned, magnetic, and confident business woman you are worthy and deserving of being, visit Then this show is for you. This is where I share everything from mindset, energy and spirituality and how to embody your future self in business and life. Sprinkle that with deeply relaxing sound healings and meditations and you have the Alchemy Mindset Podcast. Hit subscribe so you always get the latest episode. Now let's begin. Hello, hello, dear listener. And welcome to this fabulous episode on the Alchemy Mindset podcast. I'm your host, Anna Hasey, and I'm so excited to share this guest interview with you today. So before we start this episode. Whether you're aware of it or not, your soul and spirit knows what you are here to achieve in this lifetime. It knows what you are here to live for and to experience. And the truth is for many of us, we don't have that awareness in some circles. They say that awakening, that awareness, that understanding that our soul and spirit have a divine purpose for us. And we are here to experience something, learn something, heal something within each lifetime that we in. on this planet. And for some of us, because we have our blinkers on, we're not able to be aware of what our soul and our spirit is trying to communicate with us. Spirit has to step in. The soul has to take control and. Sometimes that message can be as big as a high speed collision into a truck at 100 k's an hour. This is exactly what happened to Brooke McIntosh one day when she was driving down the highway. Brooke is a former truck driver, turned elite athlete, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and a business coach. And on that fateful day, she realized there was more to her life than she believed. In our episode today, she shares her story of determination, courage, resilience, and strength to go all in in her first ever 1600 kilometre run from Pilbara to Perth to raise awareness for mental health and the Blue Tree Project. Impact to Ignite was completed last year in 2023, and it now leaves Brooke to fully go all in on her next project and endeavour, Just One More, which is to run around Australia and be the first person to create a world record in the shortest amount of time. I love these kinds of stories. Like I honestly love reading or listening or watching movies or vlogs of people who are doing things that are exceptional, that push themselves to the limit, that test their own resilience and strength and courage because I find them so inspiring, empowering and encouraging. It's that massive reminder that if someone can step out of their comfort zone, set a goal or a challenge and achieve it, then it means anybody can do the same thing on any level. Within life and for anybody in all walks of life. One thing you'll hear the most within our conversation is not only Brooke's story leading up to that pivotal moment and how she decided that she was going to do this initial run from the Pilbara to Perth, a lot about spirit. And energy and how she's actually now creating a holistic approach of mind, body and spirit, which is Brooke's secret weapon, which helped her achieve not only her first run, but is now her tactic for upping the ante and bringing in more support for next year's run. And this is something that I truly believe is going to be more prevalent in years to come, that the importance of spirit and connection to your soul and energy or energetics in all aspects of life of no matter what we're achieving or doing, whether it's in business, whether it's in fitness, whether it's in our finances, whatever aspect of our life, we are now being asked to really bring in more of that energetic and spiritual aspect of ourselves. And Brooke is proof. In this episode, you will hear, she is proof that this can be beneficial to running 1600 kilometers down the West coast of Australia. Now, before we share so much more, before you hear all of Brooke's story, before you hear about this exciting project that she is working towards next year, I want to say there is a trigger warning. Brooke shares very openly about her mental health state and that she was actually considering committing suicide and entering her own suffering on that fateful day. Brooke had battled anxiety, depression, PTSD, and bulimia in her younger years, knowing firsthand the impact poor mental health can have on a person. And this is why she's now on a mission to run around Australia in 2025 and raise again 1. 4 million to the Blue Tree Project. Igniting the nation to speak up and seek support around mental health. So if you are currently in a time within your life where this episode may feel triggering and uncomfortable, that's okay. Please press pause and come back to it at a time when you feel like it will be more Impactful and beneficial to you. And if you are in a place where you are considering taking your own life or you are struggling with anxiety or depression, please, please, please seek support, whoever and however that may be, and continue until you find the solution and the resolve to help you be like Brooke and achieve your greatness. So without further ado and giving any more of our episode away, please welcome Brooke McIntosh to the Alchemy Mindset podcast. And let's begin. Hello. Hello. Hey, Brooke. Welcome. Welcome to Alchemy Mindset. I'm so excited. Just like beyond excited. I am hoping that we can replicate an amazing conversation similar to what we had at that pre dinner before the leadership forum earlier this year, because that was a moment where I was like, We really need a microphone. We need to press record on this. There is so much amazing wisdom and knowledge and just those divine conversations where you're like, people need to hear this. Like people need to hear this conversation. So welcome to the Alchemy Mindset Podcast. I am so pleased to have you here. Tell us what is happening in your world. Who are you, Brooke? What's going on? Who am I? There is so many versions of me. I'm elite athlete, business coach and speaker. I am rebellious as fuck. I don't go with the status quo and I like to go big or go home and create an impact. And that's exactly, I feel like why I'm here and why we're having this conversation today is the impact of the conversation that we had at that dinner when we first originally met. I run a lot and I impact a lot and I help others do the exact same. Yeah. I know, right? So are we going to talk more about your most recent endeavor, which was Impact to Ignite where you ran, you literally ran from the Pilbara to Perth at 1600 kilometers. How many days was that? So I ran Pilbara to Perth, 1600 kilometers, 60 Ks a day for 28 days. And that was nonstop? Nonstop. So it was over 28 days for people just to like put more into context. Yes. Because a marathon is like, what is that? 42 kilometers? Yeah, so every day you ran like over a marathon, like almost a marathon and a half. For 28 days straight. That's mad. That's so exciting. And these are the kinds of stories I love. Like I honestly am the kind of person who loves reading or listening or watching to people who have really pushed themselves beyond what I feel like is our comfort zone, our limits, you know, the story we've been brought up in and they've really pushed themselves to the extreme. to test themselves. And in your case, it was to raise awareness for mental health. So let's rewind the clock. What brought you to that moment where you Literally stepped out of your support van in the Pilbara and you put your running shoes on and you're like, I'm doing this. Like, I'm doing this for a cause. I'm doing this for a reason. And you're like, holy shit, I'm here. I'm at the starting line. And, but what happened in the lead up to all of that? Because there must've been a moment when you were like, I'm going to run for mental health. But usually behind that, there's a bigger reason why, right? Yeah, absolutely. So, my point where I was just like, I need to do this, was, I've battled through anxiety, depression, eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia, my whole life. And that started when I was 12 years old. And then, to experience that my whole life, and in August 2022, it was the week leading up to, I was battling suicidal ideation hard, and I had actually planned to take my own life that week. And it was in that week I was driving along on the highway going a hundred k's an hour and I literally got hit by a truck going a hundred k's an hour as well. And it was in that moment that I woke up, I regained my consciousness after the accident and I was lying in the hospital bed and I was like, whoa, like, This is my second chance at life. What impact do I want to create? Because how I was living my life beforehand was day to day. I had no plan. I had no purpose. It was literally like live life to the fullest and whatever happens, happens. And then in that moment on the hospital bed, I was like, there's more to my life than this. Like what impact do I want to create? And, you know, That's where I was working with Michael at the time and that's where I was like, you know what? I'm gonna run from Pilbara to Perth to raise awareness for mental health for those who are suffering in silence Because I realized in that moment that it wasn't that I wanted to go It was that I wanted the pain to end and I wanted the suffering in silence to end So then by me doing something drastic like this, I was like, hopefully this gets the conversation started What a powerful moment. Do you feel like that was spirit, just literally like slamming itself at a hundred Ks an hour via a truck into your life to really wake you up? Yeah, definitely because there was smaller moments throughout my life where like I had a scooter accident in Bali and I was in hospital with a, that should have been the end. There was another moment, and then I feel like this truck accident where I walked out literally. I woke up while I was still in my car, ran over to the truck driver, ran over to the other car involved and asked them if they were all okay. I was in shock, but for me to have no serious injuries at all except for severe whiplash, I feel like that was spirit being like, wait up, I've got to hit you by a truck for you to listen to the nudge inside of you that you want more, that you're born for more. From a young age, I always felt like I wanted more, however, I was seeking them more in the wrong crowds and the wrong circumstances. And then, yeah, in that moment, I was like, what I'm currently doing, like the partying, the drugs, the alcohol, it's not helping at all. And two years before that, so roughly about five years ago was the first moment where I discovered Breakaway and where I first discovered the moment and rewrote the belief that I was loved. And. That moment was so huge, but I had just like gotten back into my normal way of living that I forgot that moment. It was like this truck accident really made me realize that there is more to life and then the moment before that was a breath work session. So it was like after the truck accident, I was like, go all in on that own healing journey, what I'm here to do and then all in on my dream. Yeah, I've never looked back. Wow, that's an incredible story. And the fact that you just literally walked out of a massive high collision accident and you ran over to the truck driver and the other car involved and said, are you okay? Like without any form of injury, like you could have died, right? You could have died in that moment. And the fact that. Leading up to that, you had what you call a suicide idolization. So you'd been thinking of taking your own life and you'd been planning that out. And then in that moment, that could have been your moment. You could have had that moment where you passed away and just ended the silence and the suffering. Did you know you could get help or did you ever feel like you could get help and you tried? Or was there anything in that beforehand that you'd sort of gone, maybe I should speak to someone like this isn't right. Like I feel bad. I feel like I'm in a bad place. Did you ever think that was possible for you, or? Yeah, I felt like I tried to seek help multiple times, but through the people who would just shut me up. Or through the people who were just keeping me on this merry go round. Like it was all talk therapy, but it wasn't really addressing the root of cause. It wasn't really addressing like the childhood traumas, the sexual assault that's happened and past traumas that have happened in my life. It wasn't really addressing that. It was just more talk therapy and keeping me on the cycle. So therefore I was still living in the pain and I was never actually ridding the pain and it just never helped for me. And in the moment of the truck accident, I was literally having thoughts of like, I'll just crash into a concrete boulder right now and then my pain will be gone. Then I'll be okay. Better. My family won't feel like I'm a burden or I won't feel like I'm a burden on anyone. It will be easier for everyone. Those are the thoughts that I was having. And yeah. So I feel like I did try to seek help, but maybe not enough for the help that I needed or in the right areas. Yeah. So in terms of like professional help, or was it more like. Just trying to lean on friends or family that you thought could, like, be a good ear to listen or express your thoughts and your feelings, too. There was definitely more, like, a bit of professional help in there, and they're the ones who were, like, just labelling me. You've got ADHD, you've got bipolar, you've got depression. And I was like, I'm not a label. I knew I wasn't a label. I knew the label was because something had happened to me. And then, yeah, from that, then I'll go and have a conversation with my family or like my friends and they're like, don't worry about it, don't worry about it, and again, just push it down, push it down, push it down. And when you get told, don't worry about it, but you know inside that, like, you still feel that, you can't just turn a blind eye. Yeah. Yeah. It's almost like you're trying to push down further and further these feelings and emotions to pretend that they don't exist. But we all know a fact that in some ways they're going to manifest into your life and come out into your reality. And in that moment, you literally in a really horrible way, but in a wake up call way, you thought on during that drive, I'm just going to smash into a bollard. That will be the easiest thing. And then a truck ran into you instead, like the power of spirit and thoughts and everything within your reality. I think you touched on it a bit earlier, but I'd love you to share a bit more. Did you ever feel within your life leading up to that moment that you were destined for more, that you were destined for a life that wasn't in pain, that you were destined for some form of greatness or something exceptional? Because what we will talk about after this truck accident and what happened forwards is completely like. Taking the reins of your life and going, right, I'm going to change the game here and I'm going to live and lead my dreams and do something really powerful for others. Did you ever have that feeling? Was it ever a moment in your childhood, your adolescence, even as a young adult that, Oh, there has to be more to this. Like, I know I'm destined for more. Yeah. I can't pinpoint like when that exact moment was. But I definitely know growing up, like maybe when I was about seven or eight or even younger, I just knew I wanted more and I knew that that more was out there. However, because I kept living a life to side standards or like going for status quo and I kept actually chasing the real thing that I kept doing was I was chasing after validation from other people and I was chasing after the dreams of other people that were not mine to hold on to nor achieve. And that is the reason why I believe that I was down that suicidal ideation. I was down that depression spiral because I was never getting the validation that I wanted or achieving the dream that I thought was mine. I was doing it out of desperation. I was doing it out of acceptance. I was doing it out of seeking something from the external world when I was lacking it so much internally. And that's why nothing ever, well, I believe that's why nothing ever worked for me. I couldn't stick at anything because in the end I hated it. And I was like, well, what's the point of it? And I was like, this first thing, like this thing that I've now stuck up for so long, it lights me up every single day. I jump out of bed every single day. I live in purpose every single day. I no longer have. Those negative thoughts that I ever had, I validate myself every day. I love myself every single day, and it's all because I'm now living in pop. And, yeah, I just know that there's more to life. And I think this is where I get a lot of frustration come up, is because I know that there is so much more that people can be doing with their life if they one go just one more, and if they stop seeking the validation from others. Yeah. Wow. So that's kind of like the core essence of what you're wanting to help people with now having experienced. That massive realisation where your life was threatened and almost taken away from you. But you've been given another chance, like another final chance, right? You know, you survived a scooter accident in Bali, like gosh, how many of them happened, but you know, a scooter accident in Bali, other things beforehand and a high speed collision. So what happened that moment after was like, because you would have like come out of the hospital and gone, all right. I've been given another chance. Was it just within that moment you realised or did that take a while to kind of seep in as you were in that recovery kind of place? No, it was, so when I got to the hospital, there was literally like 15 doctors waiting for me. All they knew was high speed car accident, critical condition, we don't know. And then I got reeled in and when I'm in shock, I crack jokes. I was having all these jokes. And I remember just like lying on my hospital bed and I was alone for like two hours while I was waiting. But then my sister walks in, then my sister walks out, goes to the shop, and I just like bursted into tears. And I was like, I'm not proud of the life that I'm living. And I asked myself one simple question. I was like, this is your second chance, what impact do you want to make? And then I was like, yeah, we're going all in. I didn't know that I wanted to do the run in that specific moment, but I did figure out that I wanted to raise awareness for mental health in that moment and have an impact on people's lives. The run come about probably about three months later when I went back to cycling and went back to work. I remember just lying awake on my donna, my hospital bed. It felt like that. But I remember just lying awake in my dormer, and literally, I'm five foot, middle of nowhere, and it was two o'clock in the morning, and I just couldn't sleep, couldn't go back to sleep, and it was just this nudge, and this nudge, and it was coming through hard and hard, and it was like, you're gonna run from Pilgrim's Purse, and I was like, well, I've never ran more than 12km in my life. How am I going to make this possible? And then a name dropped in, Nick, and then my brother's name dropped in, Cam, as well. So then I messaged Nick, and I messaged Cam, I was like, I have this grand plan, give me a call tomorrow. And then the next day Nick called me, and Nick is a physiotherapist who I rate highly over in Sydney, and I told him, and he's like, this is nuts, but this is insane, let's get to work. And he put me in all contact with all these people. And then I told my brother, and my brother tried to downplay it. And try to, like, protect me and try to be like, I don't want my younger sister to hurt. I don't want my younger sister to fail. It's got me sort of trying to protect me in that way. And it was just interesting because if I had have only messaged my brother, then the run wouldn't have happened. But because I messaged Nick as well, and I feel like spirit led me to message Nick too. It was like, don't tell them. It was all the systems go. Yeah. So you had the support. You had someone who was like in your corner going, yeah, we can do this. Let's make it happen. Like, this is nuts, but I'm excited for you. Let's make this goal happen. And then you also had your brother going, are you sure? Like, is this really what you want to do? So you almost had that kind of confirmation that yes, it is possible. And you can do this and that you want to do this and someone's there to make you happen. But also that voice that no doubt you would come up against a lot. Yeah. As to people going, you're fricking nuts, right Brooke? Like you really want to run? Like who are you? Did you get that a lot within the preparation for all of this? Oh yeah, absolutely. So I laugh about it now, but at the time, actually I laugh about it now, but even at the time I won't mess. Oh well, it's done. It's done already. I'm a big visualizer and I've visualized my whole life now, but for me, the run was already done before I even started, but it took me. It took me to run 1, 200 Ks for my dad to believe in me. Wow. It took me to cross the Finnish land for my family to look at me and be like, oh shit, she's done it. Crazy. Your family, so your family like doubted you? The whole way through. I had no support from them from training. They would check in with me and be like, how's your training going? But then they would always make jokes, then they would always laugh about it, then they were always like, she's going to give up soon. In the back of their mind, that's what they were thinking. And then it literally took me to run 1200k for my dad to be like, Oh my god, fully believe in her now. I will give her a message every single day. Or I will, like, just do whatever. And then that night when I crossed the finish line at the City Beach Purse, the reason why I know this is because across the finish line, we all went out for dinner with my family afterwards. I went around the table and I asked my family, I was like, what did you think when I first asked you? Like, I'm just curious now, what did you think? Did you believe in me? Did you not? And every one of them said no. My brother was the only one, or my brother and my dad was the only one who gave me the reason for the no behind it. And in that moment, that is where I realized that when you chase your own dreams in life, you will do whatever it takes to achieve it. Because my brother said to me, he's like, I said no, because every time you told me that you're going to do something, you're It gets hard, you run up against the hardship, adversity strikes, and then you use that as your story up to why you can't achieve it. Yeah, that's a common thread for a lot of people chasing goals or trying to achieve something big or even just, you know, it doesn't have to be humongous, but as soon as there's a challenge or like a knock on the door that says, they just give up, right? Through that whole journey, I faced so many, I faced a few injuries. The biggest thing that I faced was the naysayers that I couldn't do it. But because I knew that this was my mission, this is my purpose, this is my dream, that I just went the extra distance. And that was like the greatest gift out of it all, I think, of it all, was like the amount of times that I've given up in my life because I knew that that wasn't my dream, but I was just trying to fill the void, fill the validation, fill the acceptance, fill the need that I needed. And this time I was literally doing it purely because of me, purely because of the impact that I wanted to create. Yeah. Absolutely. And how different is that within your own energy and within your own, like self confidence and the belief within yourself? Because I can hear you saying like, I've tried so many other things in life, but I've fallen short. And. Do you feel like that's because again, spirit, like your own soul was like, this isn't for you. Like you said, you were seeking external validation or you were doing it for someone else, but really in the essence, your soul was like, forget it, Brooke. This is not what we're meant to be doing in this lifetime. This is not our plan. Yeah, absolutely. And I reflect on that. And I'm like, every time that I listened, To my soul nudges, and I'm getting way better at doing it now, but every time I listen to those nudges, more stuff unfolds, and it literally just works out so, not effortlessly, because you still got to put the effort in, but it just works out a lot more with ease, instead of the resisting, it's like, go where you actually feel cold, listen to that thing that we're told to ignore our intuition, listen to that, It doesn't have to make sense. Yeah, exactly. Do you have like an example of something like that, that led you, that spirit and soul was coming through and saying, do this. And you're like, that feels a bit weird, but I'm going to do it anyway. And that sort of was like in part of creating this big project, which was the Impact to Ignite run. Yeah, I do. My biggest soul nudges that I always go back to is. One, I was in a relationship for five years total. In the six month period, I knew I shouldn't have been there. I ignored. I kept dismissing my own energy, kept dismissing my own intuition. I stayed in that relationship for five years. I didn't have a voice. I had no confidence. I didn't know who I was. I couldn't even go out of the house without asking him for his permission. And then finally I listened to that soul and I had enough courage to leave that relationship. And then I left. And what unfolded after that was just so much more happiness and joy. And another time was like, I knew I needed to leave Crawford and then I moved back down to Perth. Within two weeks, I bought my dream house. Wow! It would just come on the market like that. And now my new relationship, my mind was like, don't entertain it, like, don't wreck a good friendship. But now my soul is like, you need to, like, you want to be in this relationship. Go for it. And I'm in it and it's just the most beautiful thing ever. That's incredible. I'm so glad you've shared that because I think that's when, like you were saying earlier, like people fall short of their dreams and their goals because they hit a brick wall, they hit a hard moment, or they're not tuning into their soul's message because it just feels uncomfortable or it feels weird or like, you know, what are people going to think if I do this, or you really want me to do that? Like, and then. In actual fact, if they had listened and if they had just followed that thought, the most amazing, like you said, easier things come about, like duck just flows, look how amazing this relationship is that you've found yourself in, and all these other little things that can drop in towards. Leading you to your goal or to your desire or whatever you're working through so much more easier like it and you achieve it in the end. Yeah. And I always just revert back to like, if you're saying yes to one thing, you're saying no to a thing. So make sure whatever you say yes to, fully in alignment into where you want to go and your values in life. And if it isn't, well, you're caught blocking yourself from something better coming into play. You are, you literally are, aren't you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Okay. So you then realized I'm gonna run from, so you started in raha, is that correct?'cause that's where you'd been working for FIFO, is that right? Yeah, so I was working fi, I lived in Raha for about seven years and then I started working FIFO there. But my dad actually, this is how I feel like it's so much. even more entwined into the spiritual world is because my dad, and I feel like we can go here, but my dad actually has been living in Caracas since I was one year old. So I grew up in a split family and my mom left my dad when I was two years old. And we moved back down to Perth, but my dad had been living in Caracas my whole life. And for me, not only was the run to raise awareness and mental health and to do this, it was also like, It was like running from my dad's house to my mom's house, which is something that I envisioned my younger self doing my whole entire life. Wow. I've just got like major confirmation over that, like goosebumps all over. Like, wow, that's really special. Mm. And because I've never had from like someone growing up in a split family, it's like, okay, we'll go see dad every second holiday. So we'd see him twice a year. And it was like for us to go out there, it was a massive ordeal. So we'd go out there for two weeks or so. And it was never like, Oh, I just want to go to the dog park and pop down the road. It's like, ha. Because it was obviously the distance. So it was just like, yeah, I started in Kerala and another like piece to that puzzle was it was FIFO space, but it was also kind of like a home running for me. Absolutely. So it had that fulfillment within yourself, like fulfilling that inner child element and that maybe that brokenness that you'd felt. Growing up within your family. Is that true for you? Yeah, absolutely. And it was like, like before the run, I'd done a lot of work on myself around the lovable piece, because when my parents split up when I was so young, I thought I held onto the belief that I was unloved and that my dad didn't love me. So it was like, I. Pre run, I went back and healed a lot of that. That's what breathwork has given me, but then to do physically like on the run as well, starting from there and running all the way to my new home, it just like solidified the fact that I am well. Yeah. Wow. A lot more happens. Gosh, there's so much that goes in behind hearing your story here as to why you put this together. It wasn't just like, okay, I had a wake up call. I'm just going to raise some money for mental health because people need to know about this, which is important. I'm not trying to overshadow that at all. Like it is important to talk about mental health, health and suicide prevention and people to seek help and to have that awareness. But even the bigger, like there's more like personal elements intertwined within that, and that's part of your own healing journey. Yeah, and that's where I feel like everyone has the capability to reach their limitless potential. When they start looking at it as if not just as physical, they start having a little spiritual, the energetics, the mindset and combine it all. It's like, yes, what you can do is just. Wild. Yeah, I know. I'm just looking at you now. You were like buzzing going, can you not see how important and how beneficial this was for me? Like, can you see how this has just really enriched my life and just made me like this bigger, brighter, more impactful, powerful person to help share my message with others? Like I can see that within you. It's like, wow. Yeah. And not having ever met you beforehand, knowing the earlier versions of Brooklight, not having known you there, but I can just see within yourself to how much your spirit just glows with the fact that you started something and you finished it and you had an amazing impact within yourself. And then now you've got this even bigger moment. But Before we even get into that, I just want to know. So you said earlier that you'd only ever run like 12 Ks max. And obviously on this run, you were running 60 Ks a day for 28 days straight. What was your training like? What did you have to do? What was your mental preparation? What was the physical preparation? What were all the other elements that you had to put together? Training, what was that? Well, I was strength training three days a week and I was running six days a week in the end. The most I'd ever ran, I'd gotten up to into my training phase was 55 Ks. That was the longest distance. So I didn't actually run the 60 Ks until day one of the actual feet. There was a lot of recovery. There was a lot of working with my own mentor, my own mindset coach. There was a lot of on the run. That's when I started working with my light worker. And I see and noticed a massive difference as well. So now I continuously work with my light worker and have energy healing sessions with her now. Wow. So what did she do for you on the run? Like, cause you know, usually when you see people do these kinds of things, they've got like maybe someone to help them with recovery, someone to help them with like the support vehicle, but you never really see anybody with an energy healer or a light worker on that team. Like what does that, well, tell me more. I'm like, this isn't my secret. No, I'm totally ready to share this. Yeah. So I had a light worker work with me every single day. She come into my energetic field and clear that up. So for me at that time, I was still a little bit like. Blase in like the power of it. I was like, Oh yeah, you can do that. Cause she offered her services and I was like, this will be amazing. Whatever. I'll just say yes. And we'll see how it goes. By day two, I was like, Larissa, I need help. You need to do this thing again. And I was just hooked with that. But every day she was clearing out my energetic field and every morning she was like resetting me. Like if I had a little niggles come up, she'll check in with me and be like, how's your knees going? And then she'll work some stuff on the knees. And there was this one moment. Yeah. I was running, it was probably about 600 k's out of Kerala and I have never, ever, ever felt more terrified in my whole entire life than what it was running for the last 10 k's of that day. It felt like the energy of the land felt like I was in a horror movie. And I just remember finishing the day and my face was pure white and I could barely talk and Roland's like, what's wrong? And I'm like, I don't know. I need to talk to Larissa. Something has happened and I just can't put a finger on it. All I could say is that energy back there was just way off. So that night she worked on me and she just said that there was like a lot of spirits trying to attack onto me and hold onto me. And that's why like through that last 10 K I could barely breathe as well. And it was that hyperventilating and stuff. So she cleared all that. And then literally the next day I woke up and I hit a PB. I was on fire and I was just gun blazing. And that for me was confirmation that this shit works too. I think that's another part of the puzzle of next year's endeavor, which we'll get into is to run with more respect for the land. Things that I realized from that was that I'd never introduced myself. I never announced that I was coming. I never paid any respect to the land. And that was my biggest takeaway in those moments. And like for next year's endeavor, that's a massive learning curve for me to include into all that as well. Absolutely. I think that's so important. I feel like for anybody listening to this, and I guess like from what I've experienced, like I'm living in Broome, you've lived in Karratha, this is part of Australia that I feel is like very, very, very, very old country, and there's a lot of healing and a lot of spiritual energy around here, and From my last 11 years of living in Broome, my awareness of the energy of country, traditional custodians, the ancestors has been so much more like open and made more aware of and heightened that I do believe it's so important that wherever we go in the world, let alone just these specific areas to have that. Respect for country and know that the land has energy, the land has spirits, the land has history, and it's important for us to introduce ourselves, to make peace, to take care of country, you know, like I'm always one for like, pick up your litter people, pick up your rubbish, you know, take care of country, take care of spirit because. We are energetic beings and we are impacting the earth and the earth impacts us as well. So I'm so glad you've highlighted that, how important you feel like for next year when you do your big run, because you'll be passing. I'll be passing, like, I think, well, just in Australia alone, there's over 250 countries within Australia. Yeah. And I think this is what has been really prominent in my mind now is that, yeah, before last year's run, I was aware of country, but not to this extent. Yeah. And no one's really taught that either. If you're not grown up around it, if you're not around country, the elders, the Indigenous, it's not spoken about. No. You have no awareness. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have no awareness and it's like, it's not your fault because you don't know what you don't know. But now that I know that there's more country out there, I want to learn about it. I want to pay my respects to it. And that's another piece of the element that I want to bring into next year's run is to like acknowledge the traditional owners and the elders a lot more and show. whoever's watching that we need to do that too. Yeah, absolutely. I will add something on that because I'm originally from Victoria and I would have to say like my awareness and growing up with indigenous culture was probably very limited. Apart from like the random white Australia history you get taught in primary school and high school, indigenous culture was probably very little and few and far between. Having said that, I grew up in the eighties and the nineties, so a lot has changed. I'm hoping. But I'd been living in Broome for a few years, so I was. Beginning to be very much aware of indigenous culture, traditions, country, respect for the land. And I remember sitting on a tram in Melbourne, going to visit a friend going, I don't even know what country I'm moving through right now. Victoria and Melbourne is so built up. Like, does anybody have any connection to the land? Like, do we know what spirits are on this land or what was here prior to all these buildings and the shops and the roads? And I just felt like there was such a disconnect, like just no awareness, like it's all being smothered or pushed away or. Forgotten, and I'm sure it's all starting to have and brought more awareness. The more we have these conversations about the indigenous Australians, the first nation people, we're having more conversations about the importance of knowing history and knowing our culture. But at that time I was like, I have no clue of what country I'm on. I have no idea who I'm meant to be paying respects to or to acknowledge. Like, this is so. White Australia, like it's so like, just gone. And I feel like when you come to places, particularly like regional and remote parts of Australia, and I'd say like you and I are very lucky to have grown up and lived in these areas, you have so much more awareness and you have much more respect. So that is going to be something really cool that you get to share next year within your run to bring that awareness, to have that, as you said, that additional element and layer into what you're doing. I just think that is. What I'm going to do is like no easy feet, but I think it's going to bring a little bit more ease into the feet that I'm about to embark on as well. And particularly like, and you're right, like I remember our dinner conversation where you shared that story about how you ran, as you said, the last 10 Ks of that particular day and you felt like it was just the worst experience. You may find yourself in other areas of Australia, like exactly the same, because you know, there is a deep history with it now. country's veins. So to have a light worker come and work with you, I think that's incredible. This time I'm not just going to have one. I'm actually going to have 12 different light workers come work with me for the whole time. They're all going to be like, cause I'm going to be, well, the next endeavor is March next year. I'm running off. I was going to say jetting off, but I'm running off to run a lap around Australia. So I'm going to be running 80 K's a day, two marathons a day. Okay. For 180 days, and that's totaling 14, 000 K. So not only that, yeah, a lot. Look, I'm so excited for you. Honestly, I love hearing people's endeavors like this. I love hearing people's projects. I love hearing people's like, I'm going to push myself. I'm going to go to my limits. Yeah. So with that, that's 180 days. That's just under six months. So to have one Lightworker work with me probably isn't doable. So that's where they're going to be taking turns, tapping in, tapping out, tapping in, tapping out. Like everyone's going to be checking in with me every single day and like working their own magic as well as all work my own magic. So to have 12 Lightworkers come on board to help me achieve this endeavor with all the other support too. I'm just like, this is going to be epic. This is so freaking cool. I love it. So you're going to have 12. How do you know, how do you know these 12? Like, I think I only know a few, but how do you know 12? So the lady who helped me last year on last year's run, she is Saramatu and she has a master's training in lightworkers and what has been doing this for about 40 odd years. And she's picked some of her key students to come through and help. Wow. That's so great. Oh my God, what an amazing team. And I love this too, because we're going to talk a little bit more. I want to hear a little bit more about your physical training, the mental training, but that's your energetic, like, support team within your training and the actual event itself. I don't know if you've heard of Russ Cook. He was the first man that ran the entire length of Africa. I'm sure you've come across him. Have you met him? You're giggling. You're giggling on something. You're going to say, I know him. He's like my friend. I just remember like, I've watched some of his YouTube and his TikToks as well. I'm Ross Cook. I'm going to run the entire length of Africa, like every single day on repeat. And that's all that comes to my head. The entire length of Africa. Whenever someone says his name. So, yeah. Yeah. So you've got that on repeat every time you hear his name. I've only just come across him and we're slowly, Francois and I are slowly working through his vlogs on YouTube. But yeah, he's the same. Like he's running like, He was running like 80 Ks, but is it two marathons a day? Was he was doing 60? He was doing over a marathon every day. I would say he had a lot of hardships, including visas and vehicle problems, as well as like, you know, health related problems. I'm sure that running in Australia, you don't have to worry about visas or crossing different state lines, but with what I'm actually, what I was saying before that was like, I love that you've got the three elements because this is what we are. We're physical, mental, and we're energetic. What's happening in the physical training aspect? Like what is different or changed from last time? Or are you just continuing with the same training program? Like, what do you believe is going to get you across that line to do 180 days? Like, holy moly. So. My first step was actually like what's kind of drastically changed is I've got a new running coach now Who actually fully supports the mission and believes in me from the very get go whereas my last running coach didn't it was just like Oh, we might be able to do this. We might not so now I've got someone in my corner 110 percent from the get go think I'm crazy, but we're doing it Awesome. Love it. So training is like now, it's just increasing September, October, November, and December will be my heaviest load. So I'll be running anywhere from 200 to 300 Ks a week. That's probably about 30 to 40 hours worth of running a week plus. Okay. It's way more than that. That's okay. I'm not great at math. So I believe whatever you say. And then my strength is kind of the exact same, but just a lot more intentional behind it. My recovery has definitely increased, but also my holistic approach as in my diet and getting rid of a lot of the toxin buildup in my body now as well, which I mentioned like previous to this recording, like I've just started doing a heavy metal detox and for the last three weeks. I started that three weeks ago and for the first two weeks I was absolutely zonked, like bed bound. I had no idea how many toxins were coming out of my body, but I was like I need to do all that I can right now to get my body to be robust by the time March comes and it starts with the insides, your gut health, your hormones, the heavy metals and all of that. So that's been a lot different and again, I open up to see if I clean that up, how far my body can go to. Yeah, absolutely. Because you are literally doing like ultra marathon type running every single day. How long would you reckon it takes you to complete 80 Ks in a day? Like, would that be just nonstop or would you take breaks? Like, what would that look like? I'll definitely take breaks. So what worked really well for me last time was I would run 15 K stop, grab a bagel, eat while I was continuously running. And then I would stop at the 35 K mark. So I would stop just over halfway. So this time around, I'll stop at about the 45 K mark, I'll jump in like a recovery boot and have a quick nap. I'll do a meditation and then I'll get back on the run. So I'll stop for about an hour, recover, meditate, eat, and then get back on the run and finish off the day. So next time, next year, it will probably take me anywhere from, I would say 10 hours to about 14 hours every day. Wow. So that would be like a really early start. Cause I feel like when Russ cooks training, I think it took him until like he got this other guy to come on board and be part of the team. This other guy that came on, he was like, you got to get up earlier. Like none of this late morning start business for us. Like you're going to start early to finish your day properly. And Russell's like, yeah, I suppose I better do that. Yeah. I was like, what day are you up to? Like, right. Like this is madness. Anyway. So I'm guessing that it would be like a, quite an early start. Cause you know, from six to 6 PM, you know, judging by daylight, all of that kind of stuff. Well, what I noticed on the last run is if I hadn't had a good night's sleep, I was running so much more slower. So then from that, like my start time now will be at about 7 a. m. I'll start at 7 and then sometimes I'll start at 6 depending on how I sleep and what time I go to bed. But it will be priority 8 hours of sleep and then I'll wake up and get on the road. Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah. And then you said you use a recovery boot. Is that correct? Like what is that? The, the non runners. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a black roll and you put these pants on and then all of a sudden the pants and the legs, they blow up into like compression and then they compress your legs down and like help with blood circulation, help with the lactic acid buildup and the soreness and the tiredness of your legs. So it's just compression, like going in and out, like air flowing up and then flowing back down on your legs. Yeah. So it's almost like a kind of like a lymphatic drainage in a way, like it helps reduce inflammation throughout the body. Yeah. Wow. That's so cool. Gosh. There's so many cool things out there. So you're going to be doing that. So then what's in the mental health preparation here? So I continuously work with my light worker, like once a week, we have a session just to clear out everything. I work with my own mentor as well. And then. Yeah. Resilience building. Resilience building has been back on track now as well, but more with IFAW, um, and just to help keep my nervous system calm or train my nervous system to stay calm in like uncomfortable situations. Absolutely. What kind of like challenges do you think you're going to find out there on the road? Are you setting the intention like, no, there are no challenges, like spirits with me, my team's with me, we're just cruising through this every single day. Yeah. Absolutely. Peace. Honestly, that's what I feel like. I feel like the thing that I'm not terrified, but the thing that I am like a little bit hesitant about is the energy of the land moving through that. Like that's my biggest concern, but my biggest, like in my face at the moment, but everything else I'm like, my body's fine, everything else taken care of, just, just another day. I just got to run. That's it. That's all I got to do. So I think it's just, if I can nail the energetic side and moving through the land and not feeling the way that I felt. For those last 10Ks of that day, then definitely, possibly. Yeah. There's probably a lot your, um, Lightworker would be able to help you with, I'm sure leading up to that as well. Like. Vision casting of future projecting like out into the country, into land. Yeah. For me every day, I visualize myself waking up, putting my shoes on, going for that solid 80 Ks, going to bed, it done. And I've also envisioned myself crossing the finish line as it's already done. My body's still intact. I'm still feeling strong. I've raised the 1. 4 million, I've impacted worldwide and it's all gone. Oh my gosh. Amazing. So tell us the direction you're going to run in. Like, is there a plan in terms of the best way to run around Australia? Because you know, I think, is it across the Nullarbor? You can often get a headwind. Is that true? Or is, I don't know, I'm just, I have no idea. Which is the best way to run around Australia? What is the general route people take? What is the general rule of thumb? There is none. You take a car or a plane, but I am starting in Perth and I'm going to go south because I want to finish on the WA stretch because I've already done it. And I want that to be my home stretch. So I want to finish on that leg because it's just sentimental of me so much. So I'm like, I want to finish with all my chucky friends with dummies way behind me and then start going south. So Esperance or Albany Esperance, Nullarbor. Down to Adelaide, Melbourne, up to Sydney, through Queensland, Brisbane, and then up to Darwin. Straight home. Oh my goodness. It's been a logistics nightmare, because it's like, no, you have to take in consideration like weather, summer, winter, and all that, and honestly, there's no best time to run around Australia. You've got to do what you gotta do. Yeah, exactly. I don't, I was even thinking like. It's like, you know, chasing the sun. It's always hard because you got summer if you're going down south and then you're heading into winter, depending on where you are. And then you've got to get back up North. Like, Oh, it is hard. Like to what, so what time of the year are you starting? I was starting March cause that was kind of like. Enough time for training to take place as well. And March will be the latest time that I'll start. So then like I can take him to fat duck Pilbara weather around August, September, so I'll be finishing coming down the Pilbara coastline at the back end of August, which was when I started my last run. And although we had a heat wave, I'm just projecting and just hoping that we don't have a heat wave around that. Yeah, exactly. So you're coming down the coast generally in the dry season, which shouldn't be as hot as like a wet season. Yeah. Cool. That sounds exciting. And then do you have like any backup or leeway if there is a day where you have to have a rest day? Or is that just a non negotiable, you're like, I don't give a shit. I'm not resting. I'm just running every single day. No. So me and my team, within the 180 days, we've actually factored in 12 rest days. So whether I have a rest day, whether I don't, like I said, um, if I'm feeling good, I want to keep pushing. I'm going to keep pushing. What we're actually, like we've factored in 12 rest days, but the 180 days is kind of just like, that's what I want to achieve it in. I'm also going for the female, like for the female world record to run around Australia a little faster. And up next is I've got 150 days to play with, so it's not a problem. Wow. I was going to say, like, are you breaking any records here or are you just, just doing it in a speed that feels comfortable and right for you? How many other people have done this before you, like in terms of in the female category? So there's one female who has done it and she did it back in like 1996, I'm pretty sure. And she currently holds the world record for 360 days. Oh, wow! So you're hoping to like, literally like half her effort? Half that, yeah. And in the male category, Patrick Farmer currently holds the record for 182 days, I think. But I've actually, crazy, I've actually got a friend who's just about to finish his run around Australia. Yeah. And he, yeah, and he's going to be doing it in 168 days, I'm pretty sure, yeah. Oh, okay. So that's less than the previous guy. Yeah. Yeah, wow. And he, he has honestly pushed his body to the absolute limit, pure willpower and just determination. Which is great, but I think when you look at it from a holistic approach, as I do, yeah, it's going to be insane to me, like, I'm going to give it a go. Wow. So that's great. You've got someone you can. Yeah. Yeah. Get the inside, inside knowledge of what it's all like, right? Yeah. What happened to you? What happened to you? How did you survive this? Blah, blah, blah. But also, yeah, you're looking at from that overall perspective of the physical, mental and spiritual side, bringing that all together so that you could potentially be the first woman to smash the men's and women's like category in running around Australia in a world record time. Yeah. Brooke! We're so supporting you! Believe in you! But it's even so much harder as well because like there is no set route and it's kind of like what one person did may have an extra 80Ks, may have an extra 100Ks or whatever. Yeah. It's going to be insane. So yeah, that's what we're doing next year in the bag, in the bag, in the bag. We got this, but I feel like another part to my purpose and my mission is like that impact. And that's the message that I want to be able to spread with this is like, if you know your purpose, if you know what impact you want to create, go out there and do it in your business, in your life, whatever that is, like find your impact and just go. Absolutely. Cause we're all here to leave a legacy of some sort. Like for some of us, like yourself, it's a big message and a mission to share about mental health, about taking care of yourself. And in this case now, like incorporating the awareness of country and so much more than I'm sure is going to unfold from this whole entire. Project and endeavor that you're doing, which is called just one more. Correct. So some of us are meant to leave like that really big legacy, which what is what you're doing. And for some of us, it could be just raising our kids to be good humans or to do the inner work in healing on ourselves so that. We are leaving a clearer, more vibrant path for future generations that come through. So our legacy can be anything. It could be starting a business and showing people around you that it is possible to step out of the normal and create and empower yourself and lead in a way that's right for you. Or it could be running around Australia, sailing around the world. Who knows what it is? You know, we all have. A reason for being here on this planet. And we all have a reason for doing that soul and inner work, which you've basically shown with like your story here from that moment you had that horrible accident to the time right now where you're sitting here chatting to me, telling me about your goal for next year in your project of Just One More. I mean. It's, you know, you sometimes in those moments, you think, God, life is crazy. What we do is like madness, but this is what we're here to do. And in truth, like soul never gives us anything we can't handle. So it knows that you can handle this, that you've got this, that you have the drive, the energy and the determination to make this happen. This wouldn't have dropped in at 2am in the morning while you're lying in your donger at work going, what the hell am I doing with my life? Like What is coming through soul wouldn't have said you couldn't have done this if you couldn't it saying like yes you can and here you are you've done it once and you've done a small leg of that. Why not just add to it. Yeah. Wow. And that's where I go. It's like, like the challenges will come in and this is what I say to people and their clients and stuff all the time. Like the challenges are going to come in, but you can use them as leverage for who you need to become to be able to maintain and hold that vision or you can just follow it. And it's like when you remind yourself of what that impact, and you said it yourself, like the impact you're here to create may just be like, may be the perfect month. Maybe to nurture, maybe to give, maybe to provide, maybe to make your home a beautiful space or whether it's in business or whatever, like just do it well, be in that and do it wholeheartedly. Absolutely. Yeah. Lead from the heart, tune into yourself and your intuition, follow your own inner guidance and wisdom, do the inner work because that's what we're here as. You know, soul lifetime, like to develop and work on. Wow. I am honestly so excited for you. This is going to be an incredible project. I can't wait. I'm going to be supporting you. Are you going to come in and through broom or are you just going to go bypass us slightly on the highway? Like, can we come in and say hi? Do you run partner? Well, I said I'm probably just going to bypass, but I probably will like just camp out on the side of the road. But what I'm actually doing this time is I'm bringing whoever wants to run with me, they can come down with me. Whoever wants to chat, come chat. Whoever wants to come support, like wherever I am on the leg, if it's near you, come out. And that's what I'm inviting so many more people to do. So we've got run clubs coming throughout the whole of Australia to come run with this day. We're calling it. So come on or just come on next wave. Yeah. I love that. And so how can we follow you on all of this? And I also know that you're going to tell us something really cool. That's coming out towards the end of September as well. So tell us all that, how we can follow you, how we can donate and support you as well, because how much money are you raising? For in just one more in this project. So the thought process was, well, if I'm going to run 14, 000 K's, I'm going to raise 1. 4 million for the Blueprint project. Again, I want to raise 1. 4 million and the donations is open. There's different ways we can, like you can donate this time is one sponsorship or two. You can actually join as a part of a team and set your own challenge. And fundraise yourself, which will go to this Just One More as well, which will all tie in. So we've got a lot of people setting their own running challenges. You can run, swim, bike, ride. It's actually really cool how we've got it all set up this time. I'm like, this feels more as a collective, more as a community, more as a whole. Wow, I love that. So everybody's getting behind you. So while you're doing the hard slogs, they're also setting themselves up for their own challenges as well to achieve. Yeah. So it's more of a collective, which feels really cool. Yeah. But I'm going to be documenting the whole run on my YouTube and then showing a little bit on my Instagram account as well, which is just Brooke McIntosh, underscore, underscore, because there's another Brooke McIntosh out there. Dammit, dammit, you're the Brooke McIntosh, like, I'm sorry, the Brooke McIntosh. It's actually really cool. Like if you Google Brooke McIntosh with Gillian, I'm the first one to come up. I'm like, yeah. 100%. So you'll be documenting on YouTube. We can follow you on Instagram and what's coming out at the end of September. Yeah, so my documentary is coming out. It has just been aired all across Australia and it's still in process of being aired across Australia and New Zealand, which is really, really cool. But my previous run, Impact Weeknight, the 1600K run is coming out in documentary. So yeah, very excited for that. Wow. And where can we watch that? It will be up on YouTube or in the cinemas and stuff too. Yeah. That's so exciting. So exciting. Oh my gosh. Wow. Seeing yourself on the big screen. How fun. It's insane. Like we had the press screening last week and I was like, I'm like, it just goes back to like, you are the creator of your life. Take back the pen and create the life that you want to watch on the big screen, to watch In your life, like create that life. Yeah, absolutely. That's almost like, there's like a few hypnoses I've done in my time where it's like, you go into your own private theater and you pull back the curtains and you're watching some sort of movie or replay of something. And that's literally what you did in that moment in the Perth screening. You're like, wow, I'm here in a movie theater watching my life on the screen. As what I've visualized and imagined. Yeah, literally. And inside the docker, you see so much of me, of my backstory, of my personality, and it's just real raw, authentic. And literally this had the whole crowd, like it just took them all on a journey. People will love it. Crying and that's impact to me. Yeah. Beautiful, beautiful. Wouldn't it make that in itself, like without your next, you know, Project your next endeavor of just one more that is a legacy all in itself because that is there for anybody to save forever and ever and ever. It'll always be there. That's incredible. Thank you so much. Like, honestly, I know there's been so much within our conversation today, but I just want to say thank you so much for coming on and sharing this incredible journey. Like you are one of those people that I really love to watch, to read, to feel inspired by, because it's always like, if that person can do it, then I could do something like that. Or if that person has the drive and ambition to do it. That means there's drive and ambition available for me. Like it's that complete example of what we can do when we put our mind towards something, when we have that self belief and the self determination. So thank you so much. Thank you so much for coming on and sharing this incredible story and all the ins and outs of everything that's been happening as well as your secret weapon, out of the bag. Oh my God. All future athletes are now going to be hiring all the light workers. Well, I'd say the only limits you have are the ones you place on yourself. So, yeah. Yeah. It's been amazing, this conversation. Yeah, I've just loved this and I cannot wait to actually sit down with you. In, I don't know what it will be like 12 months time or even longer. Maybe even I find you as you're like camped out of Broome or something. Because I have a potty on the run. Yeah. And to find out how it all went, because this is so exciting. I love it. So thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you so much for this amazing conversation. And yeah, please, everybody go check out all of Brook's details. They're all listed below. Support the crap out of her as she runs around Australia. Wherever you are, like just go out there and cheer on. I don't know. Give her a measly bar. Give her an energy drink.. Water. Water. Yeah. Yeah. Amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you. It's been a great conversation. Thanks Anna. Yeah, loved it. Thank you so much for tuning in and listening to today's episode. 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