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Nick van der Kolk's Love and Radio features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. Get inside the mind of a rogue taxidermist. Find out what it's like to experience a stroke firsthand. Or spend time with an artist who gives away her life savings every night. You've never heard anything like it before.
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Russell Packer has lived one of the wildest arcs in rugby league - from a teenage prop playing men’s footy in Levin, to 100+ NRL games, prison, the threat of deportation, an MBA from one of the world’s top business schools, and a completely different life after footy.
Russell opens up about the parts of his story most people don’t see - the demons, the damage, the work, and the daily battle to be better for his partner Lara and their kids.
We talk:
• Discovering Wim Hof, ice baths and chasing healthy extremes
• Growing up in Foxton, playing men’s league at 14 and life lessons from Levin Lions
• The Sydney assault: what actually happened, the court case and media narrative
• A year in jail, isolation, anger, acceptance and the moment his daughter broke him
• Rebuilding his life and career after prison
• Nearly being deported from Australia and what that meant for his family
• Studying business, getting into AGSM and graduating with an MBA
• Moving into business: subdivisions, fencing and learning by failing
• Curiosity, reading, and a lifelong thirst for knowledge
• Raising an autistic son and becoming more empathetic and less judgmental
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