The Hack and the Hero
Media & Entertainment Podcasts
Two mates. 25 years of friendship. Two very different paths. Both are fathers, husbands and sons who love sport, but that’s where the common ground ends.
One is a 322 game AFL veteran, media personality, corporate speaker, and coach with a decorated list of sporting achievements – who fully appreciates that he has never had a “real job”.
The other is a Chief Financial Officer with twenty years of finance, business and leadership experience both in Australia and abroad. Despite his best efforts, a lack of athletic ability has meant he has a less than successful amateur sporting record.
Nick Dal Santo has a comprehensive Wikipedia page. Andrew Fitzpatrick does not.
When it comes to sport, business, relationships or any other topic - there's no holds barred.
The Hack and the Hero: from average to excellence in sport, business and life.
Location:
Australia
Description:
Two mates. 25 years of friendship. Two very different paths. Both are fathers, husbands and sons who love sport, but that’s where the common ground ends. One is a 322 game AFL veteran, media personality, corporate speaker, and coach with a decorated list of sporting achievements – who fully appreciates that he has never had a “real job”. The other is a Chief Financial Officer with twenty years of finance, business and leadership experience both in Australia and abroad. Despite his best efforts, a lack of athletic ability has meant he has a less than successful amateur sporting record. Nick Dal Santo has a comprehensive Wikipedia page. Andrew Fitzpatrick does not. When it comes to sport, business, relationships or any other topic - there's no holds barred. The Hack and the Hero: from average to excellence in sport, business and life.
Language:
English
Episodes
Episode #28 - Common Sense Party
6/8/2021
Dal and Fitzy are back on Zoom to ponder lockdown lessons from their own family homes (and others) around the water cooler. Plus there's a plea for a return of something that is becoming rarer by the day, and old ideas on what we can all think about improving.
It's all common sense.
Duration:00:42:06
Episode #27 - Wisdom Street
5/26/2021
In this episode Fitzy has some news on a secret project he's been working on. There's fresh discussion around the virtual "water cooler" (promise: minimal COVID related) as well as new material for a couple of the other becoming-regular segments: Please Come Back and What Would You Do?
Spoiler alert: www.andrewtfitzpatrick.com
Book for purchase with all profits to charity: https://andrewtfitzpatrick.com/books
Duration:00:45:03
Episode #26 - You've Lost Me
5/12/2021
In this episode there's a reflection on Mother's Day, Dal goes deep around the water cooler on what it does (or doesn't) mean when a sporting coach or leader "loses the players", after Fitzy gets his two minutes precursor of the Federal Budget. Plus ideas on what household items could/should be improved, school lunch boxes and another Facebook-stalking update.
Duration:00:42:17
Episode #25 - Water Cooler
5/5/2021
In this episode there's a trial of three new segments:
- The Water Cooler
- Please Come Back
- What Would You Do
...the introductions of which the boys get around to (finally) after the usual catch-up preamble!
Duration:00:44:10
Episode #24 - Equally Hard
4/27/2021
In this episode:
- Outcomes of last week's tech-test of Mark Zuckerberg's spying tactics
- Choosing the harder path
- Equality at Dal's golf club, and Fitzy's workplace toilets
- Being paid not to work and gambling windfalls
- Kids and money lessons
And if you spot a man walking around town with a peg hanging off his shirt that he knows nothing about...enjoy.
Duration:00:38:07
Episode #23 - Fire Up
4/21/2021
In this week's episode the fire is on at Dal's place for a warm chat on the world of Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, family loyalty and pride in children's achievements, and investing in 2021. There's even time to and run some tests on how closely Mark Zuckerberg and his mates are listening to our every move.
RIP Bernie Madoff (or not).
Duration:00:39:52
Episode #22 - Fool's Gold
4/7/2021
Vigilance! That's the message from this week's Episode. There's discussion on some recent and upcoming sport, memory of sport as kids, new relationships, the ATO and what can we can all learn from a recent flurry of scam and stitch up attempts.
Special thanks to John from the ATO.
Duration:00:38:49
Episode #21 - Keep the Change
3/31/2021
In the first episode of "Season 2", Dal and Fitzy catch-up to record for the first time since November 2020 and given the ever-changing nature of modern life, they start to explore all things change.
Who likes it, who doesn't, physical change, change as it relates to resilience and "change managers".
As with most episodes, it's mostly not-too-serious, most of the time.
Duration:00:39:35
Episode #20 - Finance, Freedom and the Future
11/11/2020
In the finale of "Season 1", Fitzy gets a chance to chat current financial and business trends with interest rates at a record low and lockdown restrictions easing. Dal gets stuck into the Americans and there's an eye to the future.
God bless America, and god bless The Hack and the Hero.
Season 2 coming soon.
Duration:00:37:24
Episode #19 - Sunny Boy
11/4/2020
Fitzy has changed...for a day at least. With life in lockdown (in Australia) moving into the past, the boys have a timely discussion on Fitzy's newly-found excitement for optimism.
What is it, where does it come from, how do you manufacture it in yourself and what could the future be like if we chose the optimistic path?
Duration:00:39:48
Episode #18 - Reflectionary
10/28/2020
Recorded the day before the 2020 AFL grand final, there's no better time to reflect on what makes grand final week great, and not many better to reflect with, than someone who's experienced it at the highest level multiple times. (read: not Fitzy).
From grand final day traditions before AFL stardom, wins and losses in preliminary finals, playing in the big one, recovering from it and celebrating one way or another, and the Brownlow Medal, it's all covered.
And unfortunately there's no time...
Duration:00:46:34
Episode #17 - Soapbox
10/21/2020
Dal and Fitzy discuss (listen to) some of their respective views on a few topical matters linked to Victoria's (Melbourne's) continuing lockdown situation, among other things.
Victoria's Premier, and his supercomputer, Trump and Biden, financial markets, Michael Jordan versus Lebron James, golf and other outdated traditions. It's a kaleidoscope soapbox!
Duration:00:36:56
Episode #16 - Shuttling to the Top: with Glenn Warfe
10/14/2020
Glenn Warfe has represented Australia as a badminton player or coach at three Olympics and four Commonwealth Games. Dal and Fitzy describe him as an enigma, but he's one of their best mates and his story is a compelling one.
He's a multiple medal winner across a number of international competitions, but his story is more that of dedication, sacrifice and grit in the face of long odds. Facing and beating those long odds brought life adversity, family and an Olympic dream together in the most...
Duration:00:41:33
Episode #15 - Back to the Future
10/7/2020
With COVID-19 restrictions dragging on in Melbourne and other parts of the world, many of us are watching more TV than ever. In this episode Dal and Fitzy reminisce on some of their favourite shows and movies growing up, what inspired them and what shows got past the parents watchful attention? And now as grown men with their own families, what are they watching and how does the experience for their kids compare to their own in the 80s-90s?
There's some questionable viewing choices shared...
Duration:00:39:47
Episode #14 - Two Whys Men
9/30/2020
Dal and Fitzy take a leaf out of the children's playbook to ask why are some things the way they are?
Typewriters, computers, cats, sport, work, titles and even water - broad topics with one focus - why?
Status quo, look out.
Duration:00:39:29
Episode #13: Running is life - with Sarah Klein (Part 1)
9/23/2020
Sarah Klein is an Australian marathon runner, educator and perhaps most importantly, super aunty to Dal's three kids. Sarah represented Australia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, but it is arguably her commitment to maximise her potential in all of life, and flip significant challenges into opportunities, that are her greatest achievements.
There's a litany of lessons scattered throughout this two-part conversation, for professional...
Duration:00:39:45
Episode #13: Running is life - with Sarah Klein (Part 2)
9/23/2020
Sarah Klein is an Australian marathon runner, educator and perhaps most importantly, super aunty to Dal's three kids. Sarah represented Australia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, but it is arguably her commitment to maximise her potential in all of life, and flip significant challenges into opportunities, that are her greatest achievements.
There's a litany of lessons scattered throughout this two-part conversation, for professional...
Duration:00:34:02
Episode #12 - Resilient Me
9/16/2020
Resilience is arguably the buzzword of 2020, particularly given the continuing challenges of living in a "Rona" world. But this isn't another "10 steps to greater resilience" workshop.
In this episode, Dal and Fitzy spend some time reflecting on some of their own highs and lows in years past, and challenges more recently, with a focus on what it's taught them about resilience, change and being adaptable.
What is resilience (really), and what is it not? How can we build more of it as...
Duration:00:41:49
Episode #11 - Don't Quote Me
9/9/2020
The men catch-up (virtually) to table - and explain the meaning of - some of their favourite quotes. Some they've used for inspiration or as philosophies of life to date, some they plan to in future, and some perhaps they won't.
There's some healthy debate on what they mean, who came up with them and how they might be (or might not be) used to guide us in our daily lives.
Who's the Hero in this one? You be the judge.
Duration:00:41:24
Episode #10 - Baskets and Blues: with Alison Downie
9/2/2020
Alison Downie is a stalwart of Australian women’s sport, playing at the highest level for 20 years across two sports. She played 326 games with Dandenong in the Australian Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL), was Rookie of the Year in 2002 and won three titles, the last in 2012. Retiring from top-tier basketball in 2016, she turned her attention to a career in the inaugural AFLW competition and was drafted by Carlton, finishing third in the club’s best and fairest that season and...
Duration:00:45:10