June 5, 2025 • 5 mins
Brooke McIntosh RAN into the studio to update us on her incredible journey! She is currently over 6000km into her run around Australia to raise money for mental health, she is such an inspiration but incredibly humble and down to earth. What an incredible story and woman! To find out more and donate to a great cause, visit: https://just-one-more.raiselysite.com/
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
I heard podcasts, hear more kiss podcasts, playlists and listen
live on the Free Robie Kiff Now with Correo.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's the podcast by Great good.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Day Now I believe.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Studio.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Oh my goodness is here.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Welcome to the.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Studio, Brooke, good morning. Great to be here. It's a
little bit different than pavement roads out there.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I've been saying, you are extraordinary. You have left Perth.
You left Perth on the third of March, and you
are running around our huge country.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Why and it's a bloody big country. That's what I'm learning.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I'm just a girl out here, just getting having just
one more conversation around our mental health.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
And we rush on so much about our physical health.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
So I'm doing this physical feet and then I'm like,
all right, let's chat about our mental health, because at
least everyone experiences mental health at least once in their life.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So was that based on something that happened to you
or a family member.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Or me and my family?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
In August twenty twenty two, I was going through my
own depth of suicidal ideation, wanting to take my own life,
and I was involved in a massive high speed car
accident coming out of that. That was my realization that
I didn't want to pass. I just wanted my internal
pain to end. And that's when I personally started having
just one more conversation, and I've seen the light and
now I get to help others do the exact same.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Yeah, and that's what you learn. I guess when you
go through things, correct me if I'm wrong, But when
you start speaking about it, it makes everything so much better.
And that's what I feel like everyone needs to understand,
Like when you start talking about it, yeah, it actually helps.
So like having everyone like yourself, you know, doing all
these things actually tell people. Just start talking, you see,
(02:06):
to talk.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And you start feeling less alone.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
You start feeling like less of a burden, less alone,
that there's not actually something wrong with you. It's like
we're humans in your body, just having a human experience.
Some days we're gonna have sad days. Some days we're
gonna feel like crap, But let's just have a conversation.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, and you would have an incredible amount of time
inside your own head because you're you're running for eighty
kilometers a day. We worked out, is that about right?
Like two marathons a day basically.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah. Yeah, And I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Sometimes I don't listen to anything, don't listen to podcast. Really,
I'm just out there with me and my thoughts, and
I'm like, cool, what's happening? And honestly that I get
some days oware I'm running and I'm bursting into tears,
or I'm running and I'm on the side of the
road and I just scream.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It's honestly the best help here.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
A lot of people would have seen the Ned Brockman doco,
and I mean he did. He ran from Perth to
Bondai and raised two point five million. But watching that
documentary he really had to dig super It's hard and
he kind of struggled over the finish line, amazing feat
you're doing five times more than that? How do you
(03:11):
get your head in that game?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Just one more, one more, just one more. I look
at it as in just one more day. Yeah, I
never look at it the whole pitch.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
How BIG's a team you have, like just following you along?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Is it a lot of people or I've got to
support people on the ground. They're doing amazing. They're the meals,
making sure the caravans set up recoveries on point. Everything's
happening for me.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So you're sleeping in a caravan a lot of nights?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Right, so can you I just the logistics of this
is just blows.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
My mind to Yeah, it's night, ma, I wouldn't coommend.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
You wake up in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
How far do you run before you have a break?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
So I run from about twenty five k's and then
the guys meet me up twenty five k's. I have
my little waters on me and then I'll have a
solid meal there. Then I'll go for another fifteen k's,
have another pit stop, then go another tens tenths.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
So no, what follows you?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
They meet you?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, they meet me ten, fifteen, twenty five k's.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Have you ever not sort of got to the checkpoint
because something went wrong you shoe blew out or anything?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
No, no, no, I just keeping.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Twenty pairs of shoes, rotation about your body like what
about like your muscles, and just wear and tear.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, for the first four weeks, I was in so
much agony.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
But now my body has become really conditioned and it's
amazing what can what it can do?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And I find the niggles ease it out. How can
we help you, you're extraordinary.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Just by sharing the story. Definitely sharing the story, having
a conversation. But I truly believe before we have the
conversation with other people, we need to check in with
ourselves because if we're not okay, we can't help other people.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And you've got to fill your cup up first.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
So have a conversation with yourself and then reach out
to others and make sure that they're okay, and share
the story and donate to the cause by googling just
one more Brook and you'll find the donations link there.
The goal is one point four million, and my philosophy
is if I can run fourteen thousand kilometers, which is
a long distance, US as Australias can come together and
raise one point four million for mental health.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So what is that address again?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Money?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Just one more brook?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Was just one more brook?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Just one more brook?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
All right?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
So google that And by the way, if you don't
have someone you feel like, you can have that conversation
with Wifeline are there to listen. Thirteen eleven fourteen, Congratulations
for how far you've come, and all the best for
how far you've got to go?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
How far have you come?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
How thousand one hundred and fifty three.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
You're almost halfway.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Almost halfway, but not yet the second half quicker. Yeah,
that's why I'm like almost out, Like I've punch my
hate against the world, but now I just send it on.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Also, what an inspiration. Yeah, good on your brook.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah cheers guys, it's a top end. Let's go, let's go.
I heard podcasts, hear more kiss podcasts, playlists and listen
live on the Free Robie Kiff Now with Correo.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's the podcast by Great good.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Day Now I believe.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Studio.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Oh my goodness is here.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Welcome to the.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Studio, Brooke, good morning. Great to be here. It's a
little bit different than pavement roads out there.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I've been saying, you are extraordinary. You have left Perth.
You left Perth on the third of March, and you
are running around our huge country.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Why and it's a bloody big country. That's what I'm learning.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I'm just a girl out here, just getting having just
one more conversation around our mental health.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
And we rush on so much about our physical health.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
So I'm doing this physical feet and then I'm like,
all right, let's chat about our mental health, because at
least everyone experiences mental health at least once in their life.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So was that based on something that happened to you
or a family member.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Or me and my family?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
In August twenty twenty two, I was going through my
own depth of suicidal ideation, wanting to take my own life,
and I was involved in a massive high speed car
accident coming out of that. That was my realization that
I didn't want to pass. I just wanted my internal
pain to end. And that's when I personally started having
just one more conversation, and I've seen the light and
now I get to help others do the exact same.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Yeah, and that's what you learn. I guess when you
go through things, correct me if I'm wrong, But when
you start speaking about it, it makes everything so much better.
And that's what I feel like everyone needs to understand,
Like when you start talking about it, yeah, it actually helps.
So like having everyone like yourself, you know, doing all
these things actually tell people. Just start talking, you see,
(02:06):
to talk.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And you start feeling less alone.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
You start feeling like less of a burden, less alone,
that there's not actually something wrong with you. It's like
we're humans in your body, just having a human experience.
Some days we're gonna have sad days. Some days we're
gonna feel like crap, But let's just have a conversation.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, and you would have an incredible amount of time
inside your own head because you're you're running for eighty
kilometers a day. We worked out, is that about right?
Like two marathons a day basically.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah. Yeah, And I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Sometimes I don't listen to anything, don't listen to podcast. Really,
I'm just out there with me and my thoughts, and
I'm like, cool, what's happening? And honestly that I get
some days oware I'm running and I'm bursting into tears,
or I'm running and I'm on the side of the
road and I just scream.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It's honestly the best help here.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
A lot of people would have seen the Ned Brockman doco,
and I mean he did. He ran from Perth to
Bondai and raised two point five million. But watching that
documentary he really had to dig super It's hard and
he kind of struggled over the finish line, amazing feat
you're doing five times more than that? How do you
(03:11):
get your head in that game?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Just one more, one more, just one more. I look
at it as in just one more day. Yeah, I
never look at it the whole pitch.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
How BIG's a team you have, like just following you along?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Is it a lot of people or I've got to
support people on the ground. They're doing amazing. They're the meals,
making sure the caravans set up recoveries on point. Everything's
happening for me.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So you're sleeping in a caravan a lot of nights?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Right, so can you I just the logistics of this
is just blows.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
My mind to Yeah, it's night, ma, I wouldn't coommend.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
You wake up in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
How far do you run before you have a break?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
So I run from about twenty five k's and then
the guys meet me up twenty five k's. I have
my little waters on me and then I'll have a
solid meal there. Then I'll go for another fifteen k's,
have another pit stop, then go another tens tenths.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
So no, what follows you?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
They meet you?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, they meet me ten, fifteen, twenty five k's.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Have you ever not sort of got to the checkpoint
because something went wrong you shoe blew out or anything?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
No, no, no, I just keeping.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Twenty pairs of shoes, rotation about your body like what
about like your muscles, and just wear and tear.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, for the first four weeks, I was in so
much agony.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
But now my body has become really conditioned and it's
amazing what can what it can do?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And I find the niggles ease it out. How can
we help you, you're extraordinary.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Just by sharing the story. Definitely sharing the story, having
a conversation. But I truly believe before we have the
conversation with other people, we need to check in with
ourselves because if we're not okay, we can't help other people.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And you've got to fill your cup up first.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
So have a conversation with yourself and then reach out
to others and make sure that they're okay, and share
the story and donate to the cause by googling just
one more Brook and you'll find the donations link there.
The goal is one point four million, and my philosophy
is if I can run fourteen thousand kilometers, which is
a long distance, US as Australias can come together and
raise one point four million for mental health.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So what is that address again?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Money?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Just one more brook?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Was just one more brook?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Just one more brook?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
All right?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
So google that And by the way, if you don't
have someone you feel like, you can have that conversation
with Wifeline are there to listen. Thirteen eleven fourteen, Congratulations
for how far you've come, and all the best for
how far you've got to go?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
How far have you come?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
How thousand one hundred and fifty three.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
You're almost halfway.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Almost halfway, but not yet the second half quicker. Yeah,
that's why I'm like almost out, Like I've punch my
hate against the world, but now I just send it on.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Also, what an inspiration. Yeah, good on your brook.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah cheers guys, it's a top end. Let's go, let's go.
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