The Power of Sharing Your Personal Life - Behind the Pod

One of the weirdest parts of the podcast, is how normal it’s become to share intimate details of my personal life with strangers.

This is all connected to the attention-grabbing pic of me and my beautiful wife Bonnie (but we’ll get to that soon).

Between Two Beers started as a grassroots football show, where we deliberately removed our point of view, storytelling, and experiences - as a way to do a better job of telling others’.

But in 2025, it’s come full circle.

Last year we started a show called Accidental Business Owners, which has turned into a live coaching/live therapy session – and every time we release a new episode it’s a little bit terrifying.

We do it – because it’s a different way of providing value.

We’ve found that being super real, and super open, about our challenges, successes (and mistakes!) is the most relatable content we can make.

And we also do it for the feedback.

After a recent episode where I was bemoaning the struggles of maintaining relationships, raising a young family and building a business, a (divorced) friend of mine offered some sage advice.

“You have to prioritise dating your wife,” he said. “That time is not going to create itself. You have to fight for it.”

The advice itself wasn't groundbreaking - but the authority of the source it came from mattered. He listened, he cared - he went out of his way to get his message to me. And it hit hard.

Bon and I hadn’t had a night away together without the kids in eight years (four kids under eight was our excuse).

But last month we fought for it.

And we ended up having two different nights away from the kids - in one week!!

And holy shit, what a gamechanger for the relationship. It took us right back to the 'good ol days' where fun trumped responsibilities.

So I talked about it on the podcast.

And then another listener contacted me to say it hit home for him too – and he’d organised a much-overdue date night, which had greatly improved his home-life situation.

The point of all this is that sharing is powerful, and despite most of us being reluctant to open up about our personal lives, it can really help.

And if you're scared by the thought of sharing something personal to a community of strangers, same!!

But there's a chance that chapter could change someone else's life.

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