#441 – Life is Tough with Ollie Ollerton

The Free Man

Ben Coomber

Self-improvement, Education, Science, Natural Sciences, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Life is tough, but the question is are you going to stand up and tackle it head on? Ollie Ollerton from TV’s SAS Who Dares wins and with his bestselling book “Break Point” joins me to discuss the power of the mind, balancing being an alpha but also compassionate & understanding, tackling life’s low points, discovering your purpose and passions, how to make poignant life transitions easier, how to get your confidence back, and much much more.

1:17 An introduction to Ollie and how he became the person that he is today.
4:45 Feeling lost & finding purpose
10:54 Discovering your purpose by asking important life questions
18:39 Self development & the complexity of change
26:00 Accepting your demons & beginning to build a process around them that leads to your goal.
32:00 Being knocked down & re finding the person you once were
36:50 Mental wealth
40:45 Why you should write a contract with yourself
48:32 Understanding Ego
50:10 How to use breathing to help you make decisions from clarity & not panic.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Ben Cooper Radio, how an earth are you doing?
0:03.8	Ah, I'm excited for today's show.
0:06.7	The man I'm going to interview today, you would have seen,
0:09.4	I'm sure you would have seen, you would have maybe seen him on TV. You've probably seen an
0:13.6	interview before. You have maybe seen a book on the shelves of a bookstore. This
0:19.0	man has had an incredible journey. military, alcohol, addiction, depression, thoughts of suicide.
0:28.1	You might already be painting a picture.
0:29.7	You might already have an idea, I don't know.
0:31.5	So let's not be around the bush because the man
0:34.6	let's be honest has spent long enough in the bush in his early days let's
0:38.6	introduce the guest of the show. So today I am speaking to Ollie Ollerton. Ollie,
0:48.0	Ollie, hello.
0:49.0	How are you Ben?
0:50.0	Me I'm excited.
0:52.0	So am I. I'm like a I'm like a I'm like a I'm like a school boy not to not to chat to an
0:57.0	idle but I'd feel to chat to a peer that has some exciting insight to genuinely help people move through points in their life that they're trying to try to move through.
1:07.8	So I'm really excited about today's show.
1:10.3	Yeah, likewise, mate, and it's not an honor to be on the show of course and yeah, I'm looking forward to it
1:16.1	Yeah, I just like to say on that as well, you know my
1:19.2	You know, I'm not I'm not a self-proclaimed expert in self-development. Everything I talk about is something that I've experienced through,
1:32.0	it's time-served experience, so everything I talk about and we'll discuss today is something that I learn the hard way and some of the some of the methods and the processes I learned I was self-taught and you know it got me
1:48.8	from such a bad place to what I consider now to be such an awesome place so it comes
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