Harry Moffitt II (Modern Stoicism, Forging Performance and Toxic Leadership) - Episode 1153

Behind The Shield

James Geering

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness

4.9 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Anthony ‘Harry’ Moffitt recently retired from the Australian Defence Force after almost 30 years, most of which was spent with Australia’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment as a Team Commander and Team Specialist. He has completed 11 active service deployments, including being wounded in action in 2008. Harry completed his time with the SAS as its Human Performance Manager. He’s a Registered Psychologist and runs a human performance consultancy working with sports teams, the military and industry.

In this second conversation, we discuss the impact of the pandemic, forging human performance, modern stoicism, toxic leadership, his new book and much more.

https://harrymoffitt.com.au/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Behind a Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing, and this week it is my absolute honor to welcome back onto the show, SAS Veteran, Registered Psychologist and Human Performance Consultant, Harry Moffitt.
0:14.8	Now, if you didn't hear my first conversation with Harry, it was episode 465, and discussed a host of topics including his first book,
0:23.5	11 Bats. In the second conversation, we really take a deep dive into mental health,
0:30.8	leadership, stoicism, and so many other areas, including his new book, The Fourth Pillar.
0:38.6	Now, before we get to this incredible conversation, as I say every week, please just take a
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1:05.1	now. So all I ask in return is that you help share these incredible men and women's stories
1:11.9	so I can get them to every single person on planet Earth who needs to hear them.
1:18.4	So with that being said, I welcome back onto the show, Harry Moffitt.
1:24.7	Enjoy.
1:27.2	Music Moffitt, enjoy. Well, Harry, I want to start by saying thank you so much for taking the time on your morning, my evening, as we return to another discussion on the Behind the Shield podcast today.
1:56.3	All right. Thanks for having us, James. Good to see you again, mate.
1:59.4	So, very first question people can tell from the time difference.
2:03.0	Where on planet Earth will be finding you today?
2:06.3	So I'm in sunny Melbourne, which is the southern southeast, most southern, southeast
2:13.2	and major city in Australia. It's soon to be the biggest, biggest city in Australia, I believe.
2:18.2	But springs upon us, we're just about out of the winter dross, and so morale is high.
2:24.6	Beautiful. So the last time that we spoke was roughly May, April of 2021.
2:31.1	So I would love to dive into some kind of takeaways from that period, you know, as well.
2:36.4	But before we do, talk to me about overall, you know, you've transitioned out of the
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