It's time to share my story...

<p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/bothsides-podcast/id1585830750" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Dan Beardall was seven when he watched his father come off life support after a work accident. He explains how that became the reference point for everything after it, why he spent nineteen years carrying emotions that arrived without a trigger, and what finally changed it.</a></p><p><br></p><p>The first in a solo series where Dan talks through his own journey rather than a guest&#39;s, with Isobel asking the questions.</p><p><br></p><p>What you will learn:</p><p><br></p><p>- Why losing a parent at seven set a worst-case reference point that made every later setback feel like life or death</p><p>- The years of only meat and potato, the asthma, and what he now thinks the body was holding</p><p>- What the H pylori treatment did to his gut, and the nine months of chronic fatigue that followed</p><p>- Why a ten day silent meditation retreat came before any of the plant medicine work</p><p>- The five things he would tell a young man who messaged him asking how to get out of it</p><p><br></p><p>Chapters</p><p>00:00 Why this series exists</p><p>00:39 Losing his dad at seven, and the reference point it set</p><p>03:46 A single parent, and the friends he stopped inviting over</p><p>06:43 Why a kid without a father grew up asking everyone questions</p><p>08:53 The science of achievement against the art of fulfilment</p><p>11:03 A Tony Robbins seminar, and the man who opened the next door</p><p>13:15 Every winter has a summer, and manufacturing your own</p><p>15:25 Emotions that arrived on schedule with no trigger</p><p>19:50 Asthma, two surgeries, and what he thinks the body was storing</p><p>22:00 H pylori, the treatment that wiped the gut, and nine months of it</p><p>24:12 What actually helped, and what never fully heals</p><p>26:23 Ten days of silence before anything else</p><p>30:52 Peru, and the man who channelled his dad</p><p>33:23 Reaching the summit and finding another mountain</p><p>35:56 Why he never told this story publicly</p><p>38:27 The DMs from young men that changed his mind</p><p>40:58 Five pieces of advice for the man he used to be</p><p>45:58 Cultivating the environment, and the risks you only take with backup</p><p>48:29 Cutting your losses without quitting</p><p><br></p><p>Dan built Bothsides on the idea that the inner work and the material work go together. Property is the material side, and it comes down to four poin