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my brother, he took his life. A year prior to that, I lost uh one of my closest friends to the same same
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circumstances and I got to catch a firsthand glimpse as to how underresourced and underfunded the
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mental health sector is in New Zealand. It prompted me to be like, "No, I've got
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to raise money, raise awareness, whatever it looked like." This is your second appearance on the podcast. First
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time was um September last year just when you were about to embark on this journey of running the length of New
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Zealand twice on the Tiaraa trail 6,000 km which you ended up doing in 114 days which works out to be an average of 52
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km per day. The thing is what I learned very quick is you're going to get injured. It's inevitable. It's just a
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matter of how soon and how effectively and how efficiently you can, you know, recover from that. The weather I
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encountered, which I had no idea I was going to encounter, was just extreme. That chunk of cash is going to bring
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some change and bring some value to men. And that for me is gives a lot of peace
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and it tells me that okay, the mission is somewhat complete. I'm at peace with
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that. [Music]