Dr Dan Pronk - The Debrief | OTM #024

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got Lockie back. Lockie's back. I'm back. The purple wiggle. Do you know you've watched the wiggles before? Oh,

back in the day.

Do you know Lockie? Do you know the new wiggles?

So is the new one Lockie?

Yeah. What?

Must be a good guy then. They've got like two of each wiggle, guys.

What? Two of each? What's going on? Nah, guys. Okay, you're not up with that.

Hey, guys, speak up.

We've started in the Wiggles. We're not talking about the Wiggles day. Hey, welcome to debrief number 12, end of the season. Yeah, wow. With Dan Pronk, Dr. Dan Pronk, which is really cool. Love this chat. And obviously, I think a really cool point that we mentioned on the podcast is we started with Ben and finished with Dan, which is a really cool serendipitous moment with both the brothers, right? Which is awesome. And wonderful guys, right? Yeah.

Well, now for season two, you need to find the sibling of episode one. Yeah, find the more siblings, right?

Siblings out there that you want to come on and chat, come and talk. So, Dr. Dan Pronk. So, combat doctor. Yeah. Both at the SAF and also to Commando. But once again, as we've spoken about, such depth of experience. Was the, is an author of three books, three books or four, three or four books. Yeah, wow. Multiple business owners is the medical director at TACMED, very big medical company as well. He's also, I think, going to be continuing to be on SAS Australia as Dr. Dan, the doctor. Wow. with Ant Middleton and a bunch of those other guys. I haven't watched it, but it's quite big here in Australia. And, you know, the list goes on and on and on for this guy. So he's not just obviously a combat doctor, but he's had a huge amount of experience in his life. He also did triathlon. Yeah, I was going

to say, even before becoming a doctor, like going professional.

Do you remember the story about him training triathlon? Do you remember that bit? How he got into the triathlon team? Oh,

yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. What's your take on that? Because I don't want to draw it. So what was your take on what Dan did to get involved in triathlon when he was like, hey, I can see I want to do this? Like what he did, what lengths did he go to? You just

have to – no, but like bring your body and like your mind to like a whole different level.

Yeah.

Like – that's the whole thing of like all these stories. Yeah. It's like pushing past those boundaries, building that resilience. And like, he took that, like I remember in one of the stories, he took what he did in there and brought to so many different aspects of his life. Yeah. So like bring it back to like other things we've talked about and like tying into the story. Like being, it's just hard to talk about doing something like that when you haven't really. But like, do you have to put yourself in that situation to learn it?

Yeah. We spoke about this last debrief, right?

Yeah.

And I think.

I'm trying not to tie it back in, but it's so hard. All these conversations. There's

common themes, right? Yeah, you need to put yourself in hard positions. And just for the benefit of the audience, if you haven't watched the podcast, Dan wanted to be a triathlete, physically moved his life to the Gold Coast, found out