Keegan and Company

Keegan Hipgrave
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Ever wondered what drives the world’s top athletes beyond the scoreboard? Former professional NRL player Keegan Hipgrave uncovers the untold truths about mental health, resilience, and redefining success - one candid conversation at a time.

  1. 16 hrs ago

    #208 Matt Formston on Becoming the Partner You Want, How to Measure Trust & Why Standards Matter More Than You Think

    This episode includes discussion of suicide and voluntary assisted dying. If anything in it brings something up for you, Lifeline is 13 11 14. Matt Formston lost most of his vision at five years old, and the doctors told his parents his life was effectively over. He has since won world titles on a bike, been named Australia's best big wave surfer, picked up an Order of Australia medal, run sustainability at Optus and written a book called Why Not. This is his second time on the show. He came back in the same year he lost his dad, and I'm grateful he sat down and went as far into it as he did. In this episode Matt and I discuss why a kid with five per cent vision would tackle anyone on a footy field, and what he was really trying to prove. We get into the cycling coach who told him no, his formula for trust, standards times consistency times time, the diagnosis at five that his parents accepted and the prognosis they refused, losing one of his best mates at seventeen and the ten years off the rails that followed, the list of twelve things he wrote down in a dark apartment that turned his life around, the two weeks he spent with his dad before his voluntary assisted death in March, the I ams his three kids say out loud before they go to sleep, and the fishing hook that gave his book its name. If you want to listen to the first episode we did with Matt: #99 Matt Formston: Blind Surfing. Big Waves. Bigger Vision: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube For more just like this: #124 Mark Mathews: Recreate the Fear: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #164 Jai Arrow: Fatherhood and What Really Matters: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #105 Jake Baker-Daish: Addiction, Identity & Finding Purpose: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    #208 Matt Formston on Becoming the Partner You Want, How to Measure Trust & Why Standards Matter More Than You Think

  2. 5 days ago

    "The biggest blessing in disguise" Life Update: I Became a Dad Two Weeks Ago #207

    Two weeks ago my wife Em and I had our first baby, a girl. She arrived a fortnight early, a couple of days before the Sydney Marathon we had spent the year planning to run. This week's solo episode is a bit of a life update. In this episode I get into why her coming early turned out to be the biggest blessing in disguise, what it took to run a marathon on two hours and forty five minutes sleep, what a night with a newborn actually looks like, trying to get a set of squats in between settling her, update on the three majors still to run this year in Berlin, Chicago and New York, and the thing that surprised me most: it is the least I have ever slept in my life and my recovery has been in the green all week. This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks to DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. For more just like this: #187 Adam Elliott: Injury, Grief & Fatherhood In One Year: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #164 Jai Arrow: Fatherhood and What Really Matters: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #170 Grace Grove: Doctor, Runner & Content Creator | Being Yourself & Ditching Toxic Productivity: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube On letting the standard drop on purpose, and what happens when you do. Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    "The biggest blessing in disguise" Life Update: I Became a Dad Two Weeks Ago #207

  3. 13 Sept

    #206 Jaz Sloane: How Positive Reframing Got Her Through the Worst Year and a Podium at Kona

    Jaz Sloane had never run when she signed up for an Ironman. Ten months later she won her age group at Busselton and qualified for Kona. The year that followed was the most chaotic of her life, and she made the podium at the world championship anyway. In this episode Jaz and I discuss the challenging last 12 months; a breakup after five years, getting hit by a car in March, training in a sling, moving cities, house hopping because she could not find a rental, and building a whole new group of friends while she did it. She reckons she is good at positive reframing, and the interesting part is that she had to learn it. She spent two years and real money on mindset work before she started her business as a coach, and that is what carried her through. We also talk about the eating disorder she had in year eight and the trainer who pulled her out of it, why she signed up for a full Ironman with no background in running or cycling, what she does on the days she is not motivated, and why consistency is the most important thing. For more just like this: #176 Jacqui Bell: Youngest Person to Run an Ultra on Every Continent: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #170 Grace Grove: Doctor, Runner & Content Creator | Being Yourself & Ditching Toxic Productivity: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube A doctor who runs, on reading your own body instead of pushing through it. Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    #206 Jaz Sloane: How Positive Reframing Got Her Through the Worst Year and a Podium at Kona

  4. 9 Sept

    Moments #25 Emily Capodilupo (WHOOP) How to Train Around Your Cycle & What Each Phase Is For

    This is the part of my chat with Emily Capodilupo that we keep coming back to. The full episode came out in September 2024, and after sitting down with Lydia O'Donnell it felt like the right time to pull this section out on its own. Emily leads research and data at WHOOP. She was studying pregnancy while she was pregnant, watching her own resting heart rate climb by 15 beats and knowing exactly why. She went for her first run after her daughter was born and was surprised by how comfortable and how fast she felt. Most of what women are told about their bodies after a baby turns out to be social rather than physiological, and she has the data to show it. I'm grateful she talked about her own numbers this openly. In this episode Emily and I discuss the WHOOP study with West Virginia University that followed 18 women from preconception through postpartum, why a resting heart rate 15 to 20 beats higher in the third trimester is normal, and why recovery afterwards can be better than baseline. She explains what actually needs care on the way back, from a caesarean to diastasis recti and the six week check, and why VO2 max and lung capacity can both come out higher on the other side. We finish on training with the cycle rather than against it, what changes in the follicular and luteal phases, and why you cannot simply move your cycle so a big race lands in the right week.This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/ For the full episode: #66 Emily Capodilupo: WHOOP$3.6B Growth, Sleep Consistency Boosts GPA and Alcohol’s Effect on Recovery: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeFor more just like this: #170 Grace Grove: Doctor, Runner & Content Creator | Being Yourself & Ditching Toxic Productivity: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #176 Jacqui Bell: Youngest Person to Run an Ultra on Every Continent: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #160 Andy Buchanan: Finding Purpose In Running: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    Moments #25 Emily Capodilupo (WHOOP) How to Train Around Your Cycle & What Each Phase Is For

  5. 6 Sept

    #205 Lydia ODonnell Nike & Femmi Run Coach: Learning to Train Like a Woman, Losing Her Dad & Why She's Trail Running Now

    Lydia O'Donnell is a professional distance runner from New Zealand and the co-founder and CEO of Femmi, a running app built around the female body. She was Nike's Head Run Coach, has been running marathons for over ten years and coaching athletes for more than five. Femmi came out of something she and her co-founder Esther Keown both went through: they lost their periods training the way they had been taught to. I'm grateful she came in and talked about it this openly. In this episode Lydia and I discuss why less than 6% of sports science research is conducted exclusively on females, and what that means for every coach you have ever had. She takes me through running 160 kilometres a week at 25, cutting carbs out entirely because a fad told her to, and ending up in hospital with her body shutting down. We get into RED-S, why losing your period was treated as a badge of honour, and the graph she saw for the first time at 27 that changed how she trains. She thinks cycle syncing is faddy, and she explains what she does instead. Femmi was built while less than 1% of venture capital was going to women, and she tells me what pitching close to 200 investors did to her running. Her dad was diagnosed with cancer in 2021. She talks about the six weeks in hospice, and the signs she believes he has been sending her since.This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/For more just like this: #176 Jacqui Bell: Youngest Person to Run an Ultra on Every Continent: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #160 Andy Buchanan: Finding Purpose In Running: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #170 Grace Grove: Doctor, Runner & Content Creator | Being Yourself & Ditching Toxic Productivity: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    #205 Lydia ODonnell Nike & Femmi Run Coach: Learning to Train Like a Woman, Losing Her Dad & Why She's Trail Running Now

  6. 2 Sept

    Matt Hauser on Going All In on What You're Good At & Identity Beyond Sport | Moments #24

    Matt Hauser is an Olympic triathlete from the Gold Coast. He came home from his first Olympics not satisfied and decided he needed to go all in if he was going to compete at the top of the sport. A few months after we recorded this, he became World Champion. In this episode Matt and I talk about the choice he gave himself, grow up or step away, why he stopped calling any of it sacrifice, and the question his partner sent in that he struggled to answer. Describe yourself as a person without using triathlon. We sat down with Matt in early 2025. We are re-releasing this section now as a Moments episode because it is the part people keep coming back to. This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/Listen to the Full episode here:#96 Matt Hauser: Triathlons, Tackling Challenges & Finding Community: Spotify · Apple · YouTube The full conversation this came from. For more just like this:#155 Jeremy Howe: More Than AFL: Spotify · Apple · YouTube #83 Jordan Kahu: Balancing Family & Business, Life after NRL, and Mental Health: Spotify · Apple · YouTube Life on the other side of the sport, which is where Matt's question is pointing. Listen and subscribe Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    Matt Hauser on Going All In on What You're Good At & Identity Beyond Sport | Moments #24

  7. 30 Aug

    "Be the best or I don't come back at all" Gretel Bueta Motherhood, Burnout & Commonwealth Games #204

    Gretel Bueta grew up on the Gold Coast playing everything she could get her hands on. She signed her first professional basketball contract at 17, played three junior world championships and was named WNBL Rookie of the Year. Then she got glandular fever, stopped enjoying it and walked away from the sport entirely. Three months later she started playing netball socially with school friends, and did not make the district team. She went on to play more than 100 games for the Queensland Firebirds and over 50 for the Diamonds, won Commonwealth Games gold and the Liz Ellis Diamond as the best player in Australian netball, and came back after her first child playing some of the best netball of her life. She is now a mother of three. Grateful she came in and talked about all of it. In this episode Gretel and I discuss what happened when she came back to netball after having Bobby and found she was hungrier than she had ever been, why she decided she would either come back and be the best or not come back at all, burning out at 17 and her parents telling her to go work at the local bank and be happy, the netball trial she did not get picked for, how trying to play the perfect game cost her a Commonwealth Games, the quote she used to force selection, the 15 minutes a day nobody ever saw, her mum running the house as the family CEO, and whether motherhood is harder than professional sport.This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/ For more just like this: #191 Charlotte Caslick: 3x Olympian Rugby 7s Player on Training Through Pregnancy & Why Trying Hard Is Cool | Apple | YouTube #33 Allie Smith: Swifts Cult, Perfectionism and Building Confidence | Apple | YouTube Another netballer on perfectionism, and the New South Wales Swifts, the club Gretel played for in 2014. #27 Kelsey Browne: Journey with Body Image, Clinical Depression, and a Glass Half Full Perspective | Apple | YouTube A former professional netballer on what the sport took out of her. Listen and subscribe: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Follow for more: Podcast Instagram Keegan's Instagram TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    "Be the best or I don't come back at all" Gretel Bueta Motherhood, Burnout & Commonwealth Games #204

  8. 25 Aug

    #203 The Psychology of Bids for Connection: The Small Thing That Predicts Divorce

    In this episode I get into bids for connection, the Gottman Institute's term for the small moments when your partner reaches out to you, and why how often you turn towards them is one of the biggest predictors of whether a couple stays together or gets divorced. I go through the newlywed research that followed couples for six years and sorted them into masters and disasters, and the part that actually matters, which is not catching every bid but going back to repair the ones you miss. I talk about the emotional bank account, Alexis Fernandez's tennis ball, the bird theory trend and Robert Irwin's answer to it, and why the phone is the biggest killer of all of it. I go into the year I spent making big grand gestures while missing the small ones, and what changed in the two weeks before I recorded this. This one was made with Denza. We packed the B5, drove up into the hinterland and set camp for the night, and that is where the episode was recorded. The cooler in the centre console kept the sandwiches cold on the way up, the boot is spacious and fits everything we need and this car is just such a pleasure to drive. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast. For more just like this #186 Alexis Fernandez The Neuroscience of Connection, Creativity & Heartbreak: Spotify · Apple · YouTube The conversation this whole episode came out of, and where the tennis ball comes from. #190 The Psychology of Monotasking: Why Being Bored Makes You More Creative: Spotify · Apple · YouTube The companion to the phone half of this one. How to Help People Feel Comfortable | Episode 179: Spotify · Apple · YouTube The instinct I did not have a name for until this one. #146 Harry Garside: Masculinity, Vulnerability & Boxing: Spotify · Apple · YouTube Listen and subscribe Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4L7zyEBXeNYBDK4rRjBK0K Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/keegan-and-company/id1695873736 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Keeganandcompany Follow for more Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keeganandcompanypodcast/ Keegan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keeganhipgrave/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@keeganandcompany See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    #203 The Psychology of Bids for Connection: The Small Thing That Predicts Divorce
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Ever wondered what drives the world’s top athletes beyond the scoreboard? Former professional NRL player Keegan Hipgrave uncovers the untold truths about mental health, resilience, and redefining success - one candid conversation at a time.

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  • Creator
    Keegan Hipgrave
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    233
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Keegan Hipgrave
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