Shortcut: Drug dealing, car theft and escaping prison. This was Nathan's life.

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.

Our guest today, Nathan Crisfield, embodies a story of duality like no other.

From Albury, He was born into a tumultuous home life, with his father taking him under his wing at an early age to steal whatever they could off the back of trucks.

From ages 15 to 19, Nathan was out of school, using and dealing any drugs he could get his hands on. Remarkably though, he was also very capable and ambitious in his career as a truck mechanic. He quickly became foreman, then workshop manager at more than half the age of his fellow workmates.

This is all while selling and smoking copious amounts of ice. As you'll hear, this kind of dichotomy can only last for so long. Nathan's life soon becomes one of unbelievable chaos.

He descends so deep into a life of crime, that the fact that he has become who he is today is a true testament to the human capacity for change.

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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram

Guest: Nathan Crisfield. You can find him on Instagram, or by visiting Peakshape's website.

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.4	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in
0:19.9	Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.
0:26.0	This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.
0:29.0	So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will
0:33.8	contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian
0:38.4	true-crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
0:42.0	listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.
0:47.0	The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.
0:57.0	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.
1:07.0	Our guest today is Nathan. He's the owner and director of a successful gym called
1:17.4	Peak Shape. He's a life coach and a mentor specializing in working with at-risk young
1:22.2	people.
1:23.0	So why is he a guest on Australian true crime, I hear you ask?
1:28.0	Well, it's because this is quite a career change for Nathan,
1:31.0	who committed himself to being a bady as a preteen and
1:34.9	began his life of crime with the backing of his doting Nan. Nathan, like so many men we've
1:40.8	spoken to and about over the years on Australian true crime
1:44.0	spent his early childhood dealing with a familiar set of circumstances that led him to
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