Into Deep

Founder of The Sharp Mind, psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, breathwork facilitator, and psychedelic-assisted therapy practitioner Rebecca Sharp joins Geoff for a deeply honest conversation about trauma, identity, motherhood, healing, and what it truly means to come home to yourself.

Rebecca opens up about growing up in a family of Holocaust survivors, the generational trauma that shaped her nervous system, and what it has felt like being a Jewish Australian in today’s climate. She speaks candidly about the fear, hypervigilance, and loss of safety many Jewish Australians are currently experiencing in Sydney following rising antisemitism and global conflict — and how those experiences can reawaken intergenerational trauma carried through families for decades.

From chronic hypervigilance and shame to learning how to feel safe in her own body, this episode explores the long road back to authenticity and wholeness.

Together, Geoff and Rebecca unpack adoption, motherhood, psychedelics, emotional healing, nervous system work, and the process of integrating the parts of ourselves we once tried to hide. Rebecca also shares the beautiful story of adopting her daughter — a journey that resonates deeply with Geoff, who was also adopted at birth.

This episode is vulnerable, powerful, and full of wisdom around healing, connection, and learning to fully embrace who you are.

What You’ll Learn:

🔥 How generational trauma impacts the nervous system
🧠 What it means to “come home to yourself”
💭 What it’s like being a Jewish Australian in today’s global climate
❤️ Rebecca’s emotional journey into motherhood & adoption
🌿 Why safety isn’t avoiding emotions — it’s learning to feel them fully
⚡ The role psychedelics may play in the future of therapy
👥 Why difficult conversations are essential in today’s world
🎵 How music, stillness, and authenticity help people heal

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Hayley Westoby joins Geoff to explore self-worth, relationships, mental health, and what it really takes to build a life that feels aligned from the inside out.
Founder of The Gambit Collective, Hayley shares her journey through anxiety, toxic work environments, and relationships where she stayed too long — and how doing the inner work changed everything. From journaling and therapy to building non-negotiables and learning to walk away, this episode is a deep dive into growth, resilience, and self-awareness.
Together, Geoff and Hayley unpack childhood experiences, identity, dating, business, and the small decisions that ultimately shape your life.
What You’ll Learn
🔥 How Hayley built self-worth after staying too long in the wrong relationships
 🧠 What doing the work looks like
 💬 The power of therapy (and why everyone should try it)
 ❤️ How to create non-negotiables in relationships, work & life
 ⚡ Why choosing your “hard” is key to long-term happiness
 🌿 The concept of your “ideal average day” and how to design your life
 💭 How to reframe anxiety as a strength
 👥 Why the right partner won’t require you to shrink or compromise
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Sunshine Zerda is a wellness facilitator, community builder, and former Team USA gymnast who helps people create higher-quality life experiences through music, movement, and connection. In this conversation, we explore inauthentic living, the “golden handcuffs,” corporate burnout, trauma, identity, and what it takes to build a life that actually feels aligned.
Sunshine opens up about spending years in a high-paying corporate career that looked successful on the surface—but felt deeply unfulfilling underneath. Caught between stability and truth, she shares the internal conflict of knowing something wasn’t right, while feeling unsure how to change it.
She also speaks candidly about her upbringing, surviving childhood abuse, and how those early experiences shaped her identity, relationships, and the patterns she carried into adulthood. From toxic dynamics to eventually finding safety and support, her story is one of both awareness and transformation.
Together, we explore how people lose connection to what they love, why fear and conditioning keep them stuck, and how taking small, intentional steps can begin to shift everything. We also dive into the role of movement, community, and environment in healing and creating a more aligned life.
If you’ve ever felt stuck in a life that looks good but doesn’t feel right, this conversation is a powerful reminder that change doesn’t require a perfect plan—just the willingness to take the next step.

Career change, burnout, purpose, and starting again in your 30s.
In Episode 26 of Into Deep, Geoff sits down with Ram Castillo — former design director, author, Lifeline crisis support worker, and psychology student — for a powerful conversation about identity, reinvention, and what it really means to build a life that feels aligned.
After spending 20 years in the creative industry and achieving many of the goals he once dreamed of — speaking around the world, writing books, and working at the top of the design ladder — Ram realised something surprising: success on the outside didn’t guarantee fulfilment on the inside.
What followed was a deep personal reinvention.
Ram shares the story of stepping away from an established career in design to pursue psychology in his mid-30s, the fears and doubts that came with that decision, and how mentorship, reflection, and support from his wife helped him navigate a major identity shift.
We also explore Ram’s work as a Lifeline crisis support worker, where he’s spent years holding space for people experiencing loneliness, emotional pain, and suicidal thoughts. Through this work he’s come to understand a powerful truth — that sometimes people don’t need to be fixed, they need to be witnessed.
Ram also opens up about his childhood experiences with bullying, growing up in a Filipino immigrant family in Sydney, and a recent spinal surgery that forced him to confront fear, surrender control, and reassess what truly matters.
This episode is a deep reflection on purpose, mental health, personal growth, and life transitions.
What You’ll Learn
• How Ram realised his “ladder was leaning against the wrong wall”
 • Why external success doesn’t always equal fulfilment
 • The identity challenges behind major career transitions
 • Lessons from working on the front line at Lifeline
 • Why witnessing people can be more powerful than fixing them
 • How Ram navigated fear and surrender during spinal surgery
 • The importance of mentors during life reinventions
 • Ram’s evolving definition of success
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Topics: career change, burnout, purpose, psychology, mental health, loneliness, identity, personal growth, life transitions

Geoff sits down with world title–winning and commonwealth games medal winning boxer Kaye Scott — known in the boxing world as “The Glamour” — for a conversation that goes far beyond the ring.
Kaye shares how she fell into boxing at 19, walking into a PCYC gym where she was the only woman and was largely ignored for months… yet kept showing up anyway. We unpack what it takes to stay the course when you feel out of place, and how that relentless consistency shaped her mindset, identity, and career.
Kaye also opens up about a defining moment in women’s sport: female boxing was once illegal in NSW, and she became the first legally sanctioned female bout in the state — a pivotal moment in the fight for opportunity and recognition.
We talk about:
The mindset shift that helped her become a world champion (and finally allow herself to feel proud)
Why being kinder to yourself improves performance 
The “bittersweet” reality of silver medals and chasing the top spot for years
Losing her Olympic dream after weight divisions changed, and what it forced her to face
Identity beyond sport — who are you when the thing you do gets taken away?
The reality of pay gaps in boxing, and why many champions still work “normal jobs”
OnlyFans sponsorship: judgement, autonomy, and using platforms as tools
Her definition of success: financial stability, health, purpose, relationships, and impact
If you’ve ever struggled with setbacks, perfectionism, or detaching from outcomes — this episode will hit.
🎧 Listen now: Episode 25 with Kaye Scott — available wherever you get your podcasts

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