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⚡ Australia’s first Advanced Sports Osteo and the Australian Osteopath of the Year 2024 - a leader in rural practice, sports osteo, connection, teams and culture. ⚡

11/10/2026

Table 13 was where it was at. ⚡🏆

Great company, plenty of laughs, incredible conversations and a table full of people who quickly felt like friends and the Allied Health Awards

A special shout-out to Mary Woodward, speech pathologist and winner of the Allied Health Impact and Innovation Excellence Award.

Despite insisting all night that she wouldn’t make a speech if she won, Table 13 managed to convince her otherwise. By the time Mary collected her award, we all felt like we’d won a little piece of it with her.

What she said on the microphone captured the spirit of the entire evening…

“I came here tonight knowing no one, and I’ve been embraced.”

That right there is what it’s all about.

The unofficial Spirit of the Awards Award goes to Table 13. 🏆

A true win for the night. A reminder of the power of connection, belonging and bringing people together.

Strangers at the start of the night. A team by the end of it. (No surprises there.) ⚡

07/10/2026

How much of what we think we’re capable of… is actually trainable?

Tonight we had Todd Sampson | Documentary Filmmaker in town… businessman, adventurer, award-winning documentary maker, long-time The Gruen Team regular and the man behind Redesign My Brain and BodyHack.

An incredible night exploring brains, discomfort, fear, performance and what humans are actually capable of.

Safe to say… this stuff is right up the alley.

Todd worked through three big ideas from years of testing the limits of his own brain and body…

Forced adaptation.
Visualisation.
Emotional regulation.

Put your brain somewhere uncomfortable and let it adapt.

Pay attention to what you visualise. Your brain responds to it as though it’s happening.

Learn to regulate fear so it can protect and inform you… without controlling you or keeping you exactly where you are.

That last one got me.

I asked Todd about the difference between protective fear and the fear that holds us back, keeps us small or stops us doing the thing we actually want to do.

Part of his answer…

“What would a brave person do?”

Then…

“What’s the worst-case scenario?”

Actually work it through. Not catastrophise it or let your brain write the entire story. What is the actual worst thing that could happen?

Often, when you pull it apart, it’s not actually that bad.

There’s something in that for me.

I’m spending a lot of time thinking about how humans bring more of what they want closer, faster… and how often the distance between where we are and where we want to be is created by fear and the stories we put in between.

More on that next year…

For tonight, what a bloody privilege to have Todd sharing his experiences, science and stories right here in Swan Hill.

Huge credit to Swan Hill Inc. for bringing him to our community, and to all those who supported for the night.

More of this in our little patch of the world please. ⚡

05/10/2026

39 years of waking up to this… and I realise how many times I’ve actually missed it.

Intentionally waking before the sunrise. Sitting. Waiting. Then when it arrives… bloody wow.

Powerful, quiet, reassuring. It doesn’t ask anything of you. It just exists.

You think sitting in silence means silence… until you actually sit in it and realise silence isn’t silent at all.

Maybe one of the greatest gifts I’ve been given lately is learning to notice things differently.

One of the most real things we can do is simply be present with ourselves.

At 39, I’m learning to stop missing it.

03/10/2026

Politics is exhausting… 
There’s probably been an increase in the number of political stories I’ve shared lately, but judging by the messages I’ve received behind the scenes, it clearly resonates with many people. 
I’m 39. I vote. I run a few businesses. I live and work straddling both regional and metro Victorian communities. I’ve hit every pothole in between… and I don’t pretend to know everything about politics. 
I’m definitely not here to tell anyone who to vote for. 
What I do believe in is taking responsibility for understanding the system we’re voting in… and helping others understand it too.

People don’t get taught enough of this very important stuff at school, considering how much it impacts their lives.

So, on a rainy day, I sat down and put together 11 slides in normal-person language. 
Some of this might seem bloody obvious to you. Awesome! Maybe it’s not so obvious to someone else. 
With the Victorian election approaching, I think it’s incredibly important that people understand how the system works. 
We’re all entitled to opinions… but surely we have a responsibility to understand what we’re forming those opinions about. 
If this helps even a handful of people, it’s worth putting out into the world. 
SAVE IT. SHARE IT. ⚡ 
Someone in your world might need it. 
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A little clarification… this is the VICTORIAN STATE election, not the federal election. Victoria votes for BOTH houses of Parliament on 28 November. These slides focus specifically on the LOWER HOUSE and how the Victorian Government is formed. 
Want to learn more? Head straight to the Victorian Electoral Commission:

https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/voting/how-voting-works/preferential-voting

02/10/2026

October is going to be wild. OSN Connect. Hold on to your hats… 👒💨⚡️

01/10/2026

Another day in the life. Today, I’m a clinic director. 🎬 
From 1 October, the Health Professionals Award has changed again. After July’s 4.75% increase, minimum wages for health professionals will rise by around 16 to 32%, phased in through to 2030. 
Fair and decent pay is a good thing. 👏 
But here’s what many people don’t know: the funding behind care hasn’t kept pace. Medicare rebates rose just 2.6% this year. Most NDIS therapy prices are frozen, and some were cut. DVA’s long-awaited fee increase doesn’t arrive until July 2027. TAC has lifted some professions, but not all. 
Wages are moving faster than the schemes that pay for care. So the gap has to go somewhere. 
This one’s for everyone:  🩺 Health business owners juggling reclassifications, payroll and rising costs with no HR department. Share this with your team and your community.  🎓 Grads and senior clinicians trying to plan a career while the numbers keep moving.  🤝 Clients and communities who want to understand what keeps their local health services running.  🏛️ Associations, insurers and funders: wages are rising, and fee schedules need to rise with them. 
Fair wages and accessible care should go hand in hand. 
Because we’re all in this together. 💛 

29/09/2026

CELEBRATING ALLIED HEALTH 🏆

We’re getting close to the 2026 Australian Allied Health Awards, and I’m really looking forward to being in Adelaide.

I’ve had the privilege of being part of the Selection Panel this year and reading through some of the incredible work happening across allied health around Australia.

The finalists will deservedly take centre stage… but the Gala is for our whole allied health community.

Clinicians, leaders, practice owners, educators, students, industry partners, colleagues and teams from across Australia.

I’m a big believer in getting good people in the same room. Celebrating the work matters, but so do the conversations, introductions and connections that happen around it.

🏆 AUSTRALIAN ALLIED HEALTH AWARDS GALA
📍 Adelaide Oval
📅 Saturday 10 October
🎟️ Use code JOINUS26 at checkout for Early Release Gala pricing.

https://www.alliedhealthawards.com/events/p/2026-allied-health-awards-gala-general-admission

And there’s plenty happening around the Gala too…

🥂 FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER | THE EVENING BEFORE

A relaxed evening before the big night, with a current buy 4 tickets, get the 5th free group offer.

https://www.alliedhealthawards.com/events/p/2026-evening-before-gala-group

And as a bonus, if you’re around Adelaide…

💚 We’ve also got an osteo catch-up on Thursday night with OSN Connect.

Shaping up to be a brilliant few days in Adelaide celebrating allied health, osteo and all the people behind it.

See you in Adelaide.

27/09/2026

Weekends in your shed… absolutely exhilarating…
IRC Race 5 at Winton with Emily Caccaviello

06/09/2026

Two big days in the high-performance space.

The 2026 Athletic Performance Summit at Mission Whitten Oval, followed by a smaller practical workshop across the Western Bulldogs high-performance facilities and Melbourne Fitness & Performance.

A great mix of performance, rehab, return to play, speed development and coaching, with plenty of practical application rather than just sitting in a room listening.

Day 2 with Jonas Dodoo and Nathan Kiely was a real highlight. Getting onto the floor, breaking down speed and multidirectional movement, and working through how these principles actually translate into rehab and return to performance. A good bit of ACL post-op RTP rehab in there too before things got super quick!!

Even better getting to share the two days with fellow Advanced Sports Osteopath Dr Tim McCormick (osteopath) , and Osteo colleagues David Squid and 𝗗𝗿. 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 .

I’ve always believed continuing to put ourselves in rooms like these matters. Learning from people working at the top end of sport, challenging how we think and coach, then bringing those ideas back into the way we work with our athletes and clients.

Two days very well spent. Thanks and well done to Western Bulldogs Institute , Harrison Scott | Performance Coach and team, Team MFP | The Home of Athletic Performance crew, Jonas T D , Nathan Kiely and all the speakers.

02/09/2026

Proud to bring SMA face-to-face events further into regional Victoria last night alongside my colleague Sam Kayll, on behalf of the SMA Victorian State Council.

After the success of our Geelong events over the past two years, last night we headed to Ballarat. Making the calls and getting around 30 people in the room was an incredible result, and another step in bringing SMA further into the regions.

Regional clinicians genuinely appreciate having events like this closer to home. We’re used to the extra time, travel and effort it takes to access F2F professional development in metro Melbourne, so seeing SMA show up regionally really matters.

A great night of practical, evidence-based sports medicine with:

Prof Joanne Kemp, Deputy Director of the La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, on hip pain in athletes and optimising treatment pathways.

Patrick Rowe, Lecturer in Physiotherapy at Victoria University, on ankle ligament sprains in sporting populations and translating evidence into clinical practice.

Dr Travis Haber, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, on exercise therapy for knee osteoarthritis.

A pretty great example of the impact F2F events can have when we bring them closer to home.

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