CSB - Robbie "Gooserooter" Shefford - Mental Health

Our monthly mental health catchup with the man with a plan and a caravan. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on gold Sport.
It's been a wee while since we've caught up with
our good friend, the man with the plan, the caravan
and the race tractor all over mainly the South Island.
Robbie the GUSERI that joins us again. Robbie, hope you're
well mate?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, not so bad. It's about cold down here, but
at the sun's out. Still a good date.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Well, you should pack your shorts because you're heading to
the North Island real soon to talk to a whole
bunch of Fontira truck drivers, Is that right?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, So we're heading up on the fifth tenth of July.
We're going to the Taranaki Track to pull on the
twentieth and then we're going through We're and then you
Parmerston North to talk to Fontira drivers and then we're
going to make our way up to Auckland. So we're
just anyone that wants to have a tool box meeting
with their drivers or company or young farmers groups, lines

(00:56):
or whatever. We're more than happy to call in and
yearn about love life and mental health.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
So if people do want you to pop by on
your travels in the North Island. How they get hold
of you.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
They just go to my Facebook page of the Goose
thru to at truck this and truck there, My phone
numbers there and my email address is there saying neither
this flick is a message, email or give us a
ring and we'll make it all happen. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Absolutely, of course you turn up at all these wonderful
venues with everything being towed around the place, the caravan,
the racetrack, of the whole lot.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Mate. Yeah, at this time, the racetrack is not going
to come up with us, so we'll just be us
and the cara of in. So we'll get on the
boat if it's still floating, and come across. But it's
one of the things in life. Yeah, Like I put
a paste up the other day. Yeah, I take taking
the pass away bit about you the boats for sale,

(01:51):
and yeah, I talked to pass and it looks like
it's been sheared quite a lot. But the boat is
like people. A boat doesn't think because of the water
around it. The boat thinks because of the water in it.
And it's the same with people. We don't think because
of the emotions going around around us. We think because

(02:12):
of what emotions. We absorb in our feelings, and if
we talk about our emotions and feelings and that sort
of thing, that releases us from those feelings, which releases
us as a person to carry on building that resilience
to keep making that step forward in life.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's an amazing inside into mental health really. And that's
a very very good analogy, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, And sometimes just talking with people with different analogies
of life, whether it's about the weather or when I
was on the dairy farm, the fire service, and just
breaking it down into simple things that people understand that
they look at I think, shit, he's actually right there.
It's like when we are Chickie turning around the Lower
South Island. I was talking to a guy just randomly

(02:57):
on the side of the road, and the next day
you send me a message you said, you don't actually
realize how much that came. And conversation on side of
the road helped. And that's what we want to have,
those random conversations with people on the side of the
road or tracking companies or whatever, just to try and
help them put life and perspective.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, remembering to talk to your mates, check on your mates,
and so on. It's in a way, it's simple, but
we still are quite reluctant to do it, aren't we.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yep yep, Because we were brought up that grown men
don't cry, and that is the biggest problem, and grown
men bottle up their feelings. And we've got feelings just
like everyone else, whether you know where kids, male, female,
we all have those emotions and it's releasing them talking
about them. But it's that barrier that grown men don't cry,

(03:49):
and that's what we're going to try and break down,
just as well as the mental health stigma as well. Well.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
It's going to be great to have you in the
North Island from the fifteenth of next month, so hopefully
you'll be able to get across high We won across
Cook straight and head to the big tract to show
and how old are and then further north.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, sure should be good up there. I haven't been
up there for ages since I was Oh, I think
I was up on a truck show, but I did
a wee bit of trucking to mcdell f eight years
ago when they were back and forth, so it was
mainly up and down State Highway one. So this is
a chance to break off the State highway. Our destination

(04:28):
has Auckland, but it's the journey along the way and
it's the same as life. Everyone's everyone's destination is still
the same. It's the journey we make get into our destination.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
You're right, mate, well done, Thank you for chatting with us.
The Man, the Plan, the caravan, Robbie the goes through.
To have a good trip mate, or talk when you're
in the North Island.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
No Irish tears mate, every good one.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Robbie Shepherd joining us here on gold Sport and the
Country Sport Breakfast