AFL Star Tom McDonald from the Melbourne Football Club

Tom McDonald plays for the Melbourne Football Club – 2021 AFL Premiers. In this sit-down Tom educates Matt on the life of an athlete, their earning potential, how their careers are fashioned and what the transition back to a regular life looks like. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/Cc4oRKcgvuY -------------------------- DISCERNABLE Our Private Community: https://discernable.locals.com The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable & https://odysee.com/@discernable Our Town Hall on Ethics with Acting Senior Sergeant Krystal Mitchell: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learnethics Our Town Hall on Fleeing Australia and Golden Visas: https://discernable.webinarninja.com/live-webinars/7180138/register TOM MCDONALD https://twitter.com/tommcdonald92 https://www.instagram.com/tommcdonald25 -------------------------- 01:18 Tom’s football career 03:10 Tom McDonald gets into trouble for speaking against mandates 06:33 Tom’s pivot to business 9:03 Poker with Andrew Bogut and his classic cars 11:29 Buyer’s advocacy – are real estate agents a scam? 13:11 Salaries in professional sport 14:28 The psychological trauma of changing careers 17:29 The best job in the world 19:10 Using protein to crowd out bad foods 22:40 A week in the life of an AFL athlete 24:47 AFL strategy and tactics 26:50 AFL players are better looking 29:58 The Great Resignation – reimagining your work life 31:30 Talking business supply chains 33:35 The planet is under-populated 34:50 Misanthropy has infiltrated mainstream perspectives 37:40 The rise of podcasts and idea sharing 39:27 Tom’s friendship with Hamish Blake 41:00 The best hot chips 41:28 Tom’s top podcasts 43:30 Are elite athletes ‘stupid’? 48:14 Bec Judd in longform interview? 51:24 AFL diets and funding AFL clubs with poker machines 55:31 Hair lines and hair transplants 55:58 Getting Matt down to 100kg 58:27 Going on a 3-month bender 1:00:25 Kids prefer animal products over vegetables 1:02:25 People need to start speaking up for what they believe in