Dare to be Different with Craig White

In this episode, Craig sits down with former Springbok Leader Joe van Niekerk as he reflects on his journey from elite rugby leadership to spiritual inquiry, brotherhood, and a very different definition of strength.
The conversation explores grief, identity after sport, plant medicine, vulnerability, and why the deepest work of a man’s life may begin when the old role falls away.
SHOW NOTES:
- How losing his father at 13 shaped the fearlessness that drove his rugby career
- What happened when rugby ended and the next deeper search began 
- Why ayahuasca, retreats, and time in the jungle became part of his path 
- How he now defines masculine strength through range, balance, and truth 
- Why brotherhood, vulnerability, and relationship have become central to his life
Season 3 is proudly sponsored by Lightside Financial Planning - a fiercely independent, Liverpool-based firm focused on clear, human conversations about money. 
Find out more at https://lightsidefp.co.uk/

In this episode, sex and relationship expert Carla Crivaro explains why men can find themselves wanting more sex just as their partners begin withdrawing from intimacy. 
The conversation explores sexual disconnection, emotional safety, male shame, performance pressure and the everyday behaviours that can either weaken or rebuild connection.
SHOW NOTES:

- Why a mismatch in sexual desire often reflects a much wider loss of connection

- How mental load and control can create an unhelpful mother-and-son dynamic

- Why presence, honesty and emotional discipline help a woman feel safer

- How chasing orgasm and performance can pull both partners out of intimacy

- How listening, non-sexual touch, check-ins, play and clear boundaries can rebuild closeness
Season 3 is proudly sponsored by Lightside Financial Planning - a fiercely independent, Liverpool-based firm focused on clear, human conversations about money. 
Find out more at https://lightsidefp.co.uk/

In this episode, former Wales international Rhys Thomas returns for a third time to share what it was like to finally receive the call for a heart transplant after 12 years of waiting. The conversation explores fear, surrender, survival, gratitude, recovery, and how life feels when the future suddenly opens up again.
SHOW NOTES
 what it felt like to receive the call he had waited years for 
 how he approached the operation emotionally and mentally before going under 
 what waking up after the transplant was like and why it felt magical 
 how fear, survival, and uncertainty shaped the years before the operation 
 what he has reclaimed in himself since the transplant, including joy and softness
Season 3 is proudly sponsored by Lightside Financial Planning - a fiercely independent, Liverpool-based firm focused on clear, human conversations about money. 
Find out more at https://lightsidefp.co.uk/

In this episode, author and relationship coach Alison Armstrong breaks down how women often misunderstand men, and how that misunderstanding creates tension, shame, and conflict in relationships. The conversation explores respect, provision, partnership, emotional control, and the deeper pressures many men carry that women often never see.
SHOW NOTES:
- Alison’s story and turning point in how she saw men
- Respect, appreciation and what men respond to
- Purpose, provision and solving problems
- Shame, failure and the male experience
- Giving, receiving and relational balance
- Power struggles and misunderstanding in relationships
- Male self-control and emotional intensity
- Fear, anger and the “rage monster”
Season 3 is proudly sponsored by Lightside Financial Planning - a fiercely independent, Liverpool-based firm focused on clear, human conversations about money. 
Find out more at https://lightsidefp.co.uk/

In this episode, highly successful entrepreneur and Bournemouth Sevens founder Dodge Woodall shares what he sees in successful men who look fine on the outside but are struggling underneath. The conversation explores money, risk, burnout, marriage, emotional awareness, and why more men need honest support before things fall apart.
SHOW NOTES:
 Why many men with status, money, and responsibility still feel deeply lost 
 How risk, pressure, and obsession can drive entrepreneurial success and personal cost 
 What has helped him stay connected to his wife through years of building 
 How his parents shaped his self-belief, discipline, and way of relating to people 
 Why unresolved emotion eventually catches up with men in business and in life
Season 3 is proudly sponsored by Lightside Financial Planning - a fiercely independent, Liverpool-based firm focused on clear, human conversations about money. 
Find out more at https://lightsidefp.co.uk/