Personal development isn’t one-dimensional — to build better humans, every part of life matters.
Why does this podcast cover such a wide range of topics — mindset, relationships, health, finances, business, leadership and personal growth?
In this episode, Glenn explains the philosophy behind the Building Better Humans Project and why real personal development must be holistic. Life doesn’t happen in neat, isolated compartments, and neither does growth. Your career impacts your relationships. Your finances affect your stress. Your health influences your emotions and decision-making.
If you’re trying to improve one area of your life while ignoring the others, you’re likely holding yourself back without realising it.
This episode is a reminder that becoming a better human means taking ownership of the whole human — not just the parts that are convenient or comfortable to work on.
Whether you’re building a business, raising a family, strengthening relationships, or chasing personal excellence, this conversation will help you see why everything in your life is connected — and why that connection matters.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey, team gnes here, welcome back to the Building Better
Humans Project podcast. I just want to say that I
appreciate you being here, tuning in and doing the work
to make yourself a better human, because I'm going to
make the generous assumption that you're actually doing the work
and not just being entertained by the content that I
put out. Now, as always, this podcast is brought to
you by Adventure Professionals, where we believe that adventure is
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the best personal development in the world because you don't
just discover who you are by sitting in comfort. You
discover it by getting uncomfortable, by pushing your limits physically
and mentally, and by building a version of yourself that
you didn't even know existed. So if you're ready for
the next level challenge, you know where to find us
www dot Adventure Professionals dot com dot AU. All right,
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let's get into this episode. I want to talk about
something that I get asked, Oh, I'd like to say
occasionally a bit more often than that, and it's typically
why do you talk about so many different things? Why
not niche down like everyone says you should in the
personal development space? And look, I get it. In the
online world, we're told to specialize, to pick one problem
and one audience and one message. But that's not how
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humans work, and it's definitely not how personal development works.
I'm in the business of building better humans, and if
you want to build better humans, you don't get to
focus on just one lane. Humans are multi layered, where complex.
We're emotional, we're flawed, we're brilliant. But we're interconnected on
all of those levels. So when I talk about relationships
one day and discipline the next, and finances and emotional
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regulation the day after that, it may look scattered to
you from the outside, but trust me, it's not scattered.
It's strategic because all of those things feed each other.
You cannot fix one part of your life by ignoring
the rest, and you definitely cannot grow into the best
version of yourself if you're only focusing on one single
metric of success. Everything is connected. Let me give you
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a few examples. If you want to build a better
business or career, you'd better believe your relationships matter. You
better believe your health, you'd better believe your mindset, your emotions,
your habits, your ability to cope with stress, all of
it matters. Because business isn't just strategy. It's psychology, its energy,
its emotional stability, it's self belief, it's the ability to
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get back up when the world knocks you down. Business
success is never just business. It's who you are as
a human. Now, let's flip that. If you want a
better relationship with your partner, your emotional maturity matters. Your
ability to regulate yourself matters, your stress levels matters, and yes,
your finances matter. We all know money. Stress ruins more
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relationships than infidelity ever will. If you want a better
relationship with your kids, your health matters. Your routine matters,
your personal boundaries matter. Your ability to respond instead of
react matters. So when I talk broadly across multiple areas
of life, it's because life doesn't operate in neat little boxes.
Life is a system. It's a web. Everything touches everything
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areas on fire. The others smoke up pretty bloody quickly.
So let's talk about the human ecosystem. I see personal
development as just that, an ecosystem, not a checklist, not
a single skill, not one breakthrough moment that magically changes
your life. It's an ecosystem physical, emotional, financial relationships, psychological
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spiritual behavioral. What one part of the ecosystem thrives, it
lifts the others. When one part collapses, it drags the
others down with it. This is why I can't niche
down into just leadership content or just business, or just
relations or just fitness or just youth work. The people
who come into my world, whether through adventure professionals, Brocamp
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and Ale of Warriors, through onetock House, personal mentoring, or
the online programs, they don't come as one dimensional labels.
They come as humans. Full humans, and full humans need
full solutions. You don't get to say I want to
grow my career, but I refuse to work on my
self worth, or I won't have an incredible relationship, but
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I won't look at my health, my stress, or my finances.
That's not how growth works. Growth requires honesty, and honesty
requires breadth. The key message for me today is you
cannot escape you. Here's something I've learned working with thousands
of people across adventure, youth development, leadership groups, business and
interpersonal coaching. Wherever you go, you take you with you.
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Your habits come with you, your wounds come with you,
Your unresolved patterns come with you. Your belief systems come
with you. Your emotional triggers come with you. You can
change your partner, change your job, change your city, change
your circumstances. But if you don't change you, it won't matter.
This is why my content isn't need into a tiny
corner of the Internet, because life will never hand you
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one problem at a time. Life hands you multiple balls
to juggle simultaneously, and you need the skill set, the
mental skill set, to handle all of them. It is
my mission to build better humans. So let me make
this as clear as I can. My mission is not
to create better football players, better runners, better business owners,
better leaders, better partners, better parents, or better adventurers. Those
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things are just the vehicle. My mission is to build
better humans. Humans who have clarity, calm, self awareness, self respect,
emotional intelligence, discipline, strong habits, strong relationships, strong mental health,
the courage to chase meaningful goals, and the resilience to
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handle setbacks without falling apart. None of that comes from
one niche. None of that comes from one small slice
of life. You have to attack growth from multiple angles
because life hits from multiple angles. So the takeaway for you,
if you ever wonder why this podcast or my blogs
on the website or my social media content covers such
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a wide range of topics. It's because becoming a better
human is a wide range job, and I'd rather give
you something holistic and real than something trendy and narrow.
You deserve to build a life that functions well, not
just one area of it. You deserve to build the
strongest version of yourself, not just the polish version that
shows up on Instagram. And you deserve the support that
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recognize as you're a full human, not just a title,
a role, or a goal. That's the work that we
do here. That's the work that I'm dedicated to, and
that's why I will always cover everything that affects human performance,
human relationships, and human potential. That's it. Team. If today's
episode hits home with you, I'd love you to share.
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But really this was about telling you why I do
so much on social media and why I dig so
deeply across such broad ranges of topics. If I listen
to something, if I read something, if I hear something,
if I study something that I think is going to
add some level of change to you, I'm going to
do that. I don't go into businesses with the aim
of building a better business. I go with the aim
of building better humans because the business is made up
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of humans. Same for footy teams, same for anything else.
If you want to go deeper or you're looking for
more support, I'd love you to check out our online programs,
my personal mentoring, my business mentoring, any of our youth work,
or for the ultimate for me is join us on
an adventure professionals experience, because adventure will change your life,
personal developm will change your identity, and Building Better Humans,
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well that's going to change the world. Thanks again for
tuning in.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
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