Carl Mackenzie (Filmmaking, Military Homecoming and British Knife Crime) - Episode 1137

Behind The Shield

James Geering

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness

4.9 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Carl Mackenzie is an award winning Writer & Director, who is passionate about creating commercially accessible stories with a social commentary. We discuss his journey into filmmaking, veteran mental health, knife crime and so much more.

Carl is a member of Directors UK and BAFTA. In 2016, Carl made his directorial debut with short film 'The Interrogation of Olivia Donovan'. The film screened at a special showcase at BAFTA 195 and was also awarded the Jury Special Mention for Outstanding UK Film at Manchester Film Festival 2017. This was quickly followed by his second short film 'Just a Day'.

Carl is currently in pre-production for his debut feature film 'Unseen Scars'. He is also developing feature film 'A Walk in the Darkness' and preparing to release his debut novel.

https://www.carlmackenzie.com/

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Transcend, a veteran-owned and operated performance optimization company
0:05.9	that I introduced recently as a sponsor on this show.
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0:14.5	There was initial blood work that was extremely detailed, and based on that, they offered supplementation.
0:20.6	So I began taking DHEA, BPC 157 for inflammation
0:25.3	based on the fact that I've been a stuntman, a martial artist and a firefighter in my whole life,
0:29.9	lots of aches and pains, dihexa to help cognition after multiple punches to the head and shift work
0:36.1	and peptides. Four months later they they did a detailed blood work again,
0:40.1	and I was actually able to taper off two of the peptides
0:43.2	because my body had responded so well to just one of them
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1:06.5	age. Now, as I mentioned before, the other side of this company is an altruistic arm called
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1:28.8	And if you want to hear more about Transcend and their story, listen to episode 808 with the founder,
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1:41.1	Welcome to the Behind the Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing, and this week it is my
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