The View From Here

Nikki Foord
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Exploring the deeper conversations that often go unspoken. Beyond the highlight reel and the hero’s journey, this show focuses on the moments in between the pivots, pressure points, and internal shifts that shape how we see ourselves, our relationships, and our lives. These are unscripted conversations, filmed in real environments, designed to capture honest, authentic dialogue where nothing is performed. Real people. Real stories. Real perspective.

  1. The Military Discipline That Built The Internal Direction

    4D AGO

    The Military Discipline That Built The Internal Direction

    What happens when the identity that once defined you no longer fits? Former Royal Marine Commando Dan Hall built his life on discipline, structure, and performance. Leaving the military meant stepping away from the very system that once gave him direction. In this episode of The View From Here, Dan shares the untold side of that transition, rebuilding identity after the uniform, moving from the UK to Bali and then Melbourne, and learning how to create structure from within rather than relying on the environment around you. What looks like discipline on the outside is often something deeper underneath: reflection, uncertainty, reinvention, and the quiet work of learning who you are when the rules change. Today, as the founder of Urban Training, Dan works with busy professionals to create lasting change in their body, mindset, and lifestyle built on consistency and self-trust rather than quick fixes. This conversation explores identity beyond titles, pressure beyond performance, and what it really takes to rebuild your life when the environment that once held you disappears. Sometimes the biggest transformation isn’t physical, it’s internal.

    1h 29m
  2. The Power of Seeing Potential

    MAR 11

    The Power of Seeing Potential

    Some careers are built.Others find you. In this episode of The View From Here, I sit down with Julie Anne Longano, founder of Peeps Consulting and one of the most trusted connectors in the media industry. With more than 15 years across sales, agency, and integration, Julie Anne has built a name for seeing people clearly, spotting potential, trusting instinct, and connecting top talent with purpose-led companies in a way that feels deeply human. Behind the professionalism is something even more powerful: intuition. This conversation explores what happens when you stop forcing the path and start listening to what keeps calling you. We talk about pressure, purpose, motherhood, boundaries, fulfilment, and the quieter inner shifts that reshape how you lead and live. This is an episode about perspective, trusting yourself and about recognising your calling when it won’t stop knocking. Julie Anne, welcome to The View From Here.

    1h 22m
  3. The Hidden Cost of a World-Class Destination

    MAR 4

    The Hidden Cost of a World-Class Destination

    What does it really take to build a town, without breaking it? Ben Kirkwood has spent more than 20 years inside hospitality and tourism, running restaurants, managing hotels, and operating resorts across Australia and overseas. But this conversation goes far beyond business. Long before “sea change” became a cultural shift, Ben made his own, moving to Byron Bay, opening his first restaurant, building a family, and committing to an industry that sits at the centre of both opportunity and tension. Tourism can elevate a place, but it can also strain it. Through leadership roles with Destination Byron, the Byron Visitor Centre, and the Byron Chamber of Commerce, Ben has been in the middle of the real conversations, growth versus preservation, economy versus community, lifestyle versus livelihood. Then came 2020, when in the middle of a global pandemic, Beach Restaurant was hit by a major erosion event that nearly took everything. Not just revenue. Not just infrastructure. But certainty. What happens when the ground beneath your life’s work literally disappears? In this episode, Ben speaks candidly about pressure, stubborn determination, resilience, and the weight of responsibility that high-capacity leaders often carry quietly. He reflects on what achievement actually means, why fulfilment has changed over the years, and how his driving force has never been status, but care. Care for this town, the region and for building something that lasts. When Ben says “The View From Here” means he’s made it to the top, it isn’t about ego, but about the perspective earned the hard way. If you care about leadership, legacy, community, or what it really takes to hold growth without losing soul, this conversation will stay with you.

    1h 3m
  4. Beyond the Pro Card: Rebuilding Without the Title

    FEB 25

    Beyond the Pro Card: Rebuilding Without the Title

    Lauren Killey built her life on discipline, performance, and winning. By her early twenties, she had earned her pro card, competed nationally and internationally, and become known as a high-performing athlete and coach. From the outside, it looked powerful. Controlled. Certain. Yet the certainty was surface-level. Behind the titles and prep seasons was a quieter unravelling a relationship that was ending, an identity built entirely on achievement, and a mental health crash few people saw coming. Giving up her WBFF pro card and the end of her five-year engagement did not just change her circumstances. They dismantled who she thought she was and she hit rock bottom while still appearing “fine” to the world. In this episode of The View From Here, we explore what happens when your identity is built on performance and it collapses. The depression, dissociation, and silent pressure Lauren carried alone. The ego death that forced her to confront who she was beyond validation, physique, and achievement. What followed was not a quitting ambition; it was redefining it. In her 30s, Lauren rebuilt, launching a new business model aligned with who she had become, not who she had been performing as. Today, she still loves pressure, is still driven and competitive, but she leads from self-awareness, boundaries, and freedom rather than ego and survival. This is a conversation about identity beyond titles, about collapse as catalyst and about becoming more than the role you once perfected.

    1h 28m
  5. The Man Beneath the Mask

    FEB 18

    The Man Beneath the Mask

    What happens when success stops working and a person is forced to meet themselves without the mask. Luke Flegeltaub has built businesses, led teams, crossed industries, and generated hundreds of millions in sales. He has also lost everything. Multiple times. Through addiction, grief, bankruptcy, burnout, and identity collapse, Luke’s life has repeatedly stripped him back to nothing but responsibility and truth. In this conversation, we go beneath the surface of leadership and achievement to explore the unseen cost of building a life on pressure, escape, and proving. Luke speaks candidly about addiction and self-destruction for the first time publicly, the quiet weight high-achievers carry alone, and what it means to rebuild when there is no safety net and no one coming to save you. We talk about leadership beyond titles, emotional intelligence forged through suffering, letting go of being needed, and why fulfilment now lives in service, self-respect, and presence, not outcomes or status. This is not a motivational story.It’s a reckoning.A conversation about identity, responsibility, and the kind of leadership that can only come from having everything burn and choosing to rebuild anyway. If you’ve ever questioned who you are without success, felt the pressure of carrying it all quietly, or sensed there’s another way to lead and live, this episode will meet you where you are.

    1h 35m
  6. Carrying More Than People See

    FEB 11

    Carrying More Than People See

    The View From Here – Belinda Kirkwood What does it really take to survive and sustain success in hospitality? Belinda Kirkwood has spent over 20 years owning and operating Beach Restaurant in Byron Bay alongside her husband Ben, building a business that has weathered growth, reinvention, and the pressures of an industry that never slows down. In this episode, Belinda goes beyond accolades to share the real foundations of longevity, leading from the inside out, evolving through constant change, and navigating the unseen weight carried by small business owners. She reflects on steering a seven-day-a-week operation through COVID, selling part of the business, and why staff wellbeing and strong internal foundations are non-negotiable. Belinda also opens up about motherhood, health, and perspective, how raising two premature children reshaped her identity, priorities, and relationship with life and work. This is an honest conversation about leadership, resilience, letting go of control, and redefining fulfilment, both in business and at home. A powerful listen for anyone building something meaningful and wanting it to last.

    1h 4m
  7. Beyond Achievement: Healing the Patterns Beneath Success

    FEB 4

    Beyond Achievement: Healing the Patterns Beneath Success

    Lewis Huckstep, a Purpose & Transformation Coach, author, entrepreneur, and someone willing to speak honestly about the space between success and fulfilment. Lewis has built multiple seven-figure businesses, helped thousands of people transform their lives, and mastered the external game of achievement. But this conversation isn’t about performance, it’s about what happens underneath it. We explore the tension between the hustle chapter and the healing chapter, the quiet patterns that shape relationships and success, and the inner work most high-achievers avoid until life forces a pause. Lewis discusses stepping into parenthood, selling the gyms, releasing old identities, and what it really means to stop working all the time without losing yourself. Opening up about shame, inner child patterns, and the unseen weight that comes from carrying things alone, especially when you’re the one everyone else relies on. What makes this conversation powerful isn’t answers or formulas. It’s honesty. Lewis shares something many people don’t expect: he’s still figuring it out in real time. In doing so, he offers permission to soften, reflect, and redefine fulfilment as alignment with values, not endless output. This episode is for anyone who has achieved a lot, yet senses there’s more depth available when pressure loosens and identity evolves. This is Lewis Huckstep’s View From Here and it might change the way you see your own.

    1h 24m

  8. SEASON 1 TRAILER

    Welcome

    The View From Here was created to explore the conversations that sit beneath the surface, the ones that rarely make it into interviews, highlight reels, or success stories. In a world focused on outcomes and the hero’s journey, this podcast slows things down to look at what happens in between. The pivots. The pressure points. The internal shifts that quietly shape how we see ourselves, our relationships, and our lives. This is not a studio-based podcast, and that choice is intentional. These are not Q&A sessions or structured interviews. They are unscripted conversations. When conversation is the centrepiece, the environment must support it, not control it. Filming in real locations allows people to feel at ease, present, and human. The camera observes rather than directs, allowing depth to be felt rather than performed. Each episode is filmed in a space that feels natural to the conversation a café, a hotel, or a location chosen for its calm and authenticity. At its core, The View From Here is about a journey where someone has come from, what they have moved through and the moments that changed everything. While business and success may appear, the conversation goes deeper into identity, relationships, emotional challenges, and the pivotal experiences that shape who we become. These conversations exist to create perspective. Calm, human, and unpolished, The View From Here is a space for real stories, told in real settings, where nothing needs to be performed.

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Exploring the deeper conversations that often go unspoken. Beyond the highlight reel and the hero’s journey, this show focuses on the moments in between the pivots, pressure points, and internal shifts that shape how we see ourselves, our relationships, and our lives. These are unscripted conversations, filmed in real environments, designed to capture honest, authentic dialogue where nothing is performed. Real people. Real stories. Real perspective.

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    Nikki Foord
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