What Happens Next?
When Steve Morris began weighing his own career transition, he went looking for answers. He reached out to former elite athletes who'd already faced the leap into life after sport, expecting stories of reinvention and hard-won wisdom. What he found instead were tales that, for some, ended in tragedy — and it left him more unsettled about his own looming Monday off than when he'd started. What Happens Next is the result of that search: an unflinching, deeply human series of conversations with athletes who've walked away from the spotlight and had to figure out who they are without it. In Season One, Steve sits down with former Wallaby Ben Alexander, Olympic legend Shane Gould, AFL premiership duo Easton Wood and Tom Boyd, and Olympic champion Mack Horton — each opening up about identity, loss, reinvention, and the question that haunts every retired athlete: what happens next? Now, listen to Season 2 for What Happens Next.
Episodes
In 2016, Mack Horton captured Olympic gold, but in the years that followed, things took a turn.
In the series 1 finale of What Happens Next, Steve Morris explores the compelling journey of Mack Horton. From the intense pressures of elite competition to his unwavering stance against doping, his career was defined by more than just medals.
As Steve navigates the uncertainties of his own retirement, he sits down with Mack to...
Two contrasting stories, with the same outcome. Tom, a number one draft pick, who battled immense pressure and mental health struggles, ultimately retiring at just 23. Easton, a courageous defender, who had to fight and scratch for every second he got on the field.
Their stories came together, and reached a romantic peak in 2016, when the Western Bulldogs won the AFL Premiership.
In episode 3 of What Happens Next, Steve Morris explor...
In 1972, at the Munich Olympics, a 15-year-old Shane Gould exploded onto the world stage, capturing three gold medals and setting records that would endure for a decade. Yet, within a year, she'd walked away from the pool, leaving the world stunned.
In episode 2 of What Happens Next, Steve Morris delves into the extraordinary and often misunderstood story of Shane Gould.
So often in life, we're forced to leave things we love an...
In 2013, the Wallabies were a game away from an unheralded upset against the British & Irish Lions. What happened that night defined the careers of many on the field, but no more so, than prop Ben Alexander.
In episode 1 of What Happens Next, Steve begins his own retirement journey by hearing the story of former Rugby Union superstar Ben Alexander.
A Brumby turned pub owner, Ben sits down with Steve in Canberra, and u...
Olympic champion Sally Pearson joins Steve Morris for the first episode of Season 2 of What Happens Next to take us inside one of the most extraordinary sporting careers in Australian history. From growing up on the Gold Coast with very little ... to becoming a teenage champion, travelling alone around Europe as a 19-year-old and ultimately standing on the start line of the 2012 London Olympic 100-metre hurdles final.
Sally re...
What happens when two teenagers from California record a song that becomes a massive hit on the other side of the world — while almost nobody in their own country knows who they are?
In this fascinating episode of What Happens Next, Steve Morris travels to Los Angeles to meet siblings Leslie and Benny Knauer, two of the members of the 1970s pop band Promises, whose infectious hit Baby It's You became a major chart succes...
Rory Underwood lived two extraordinary lives at the same time. For 14 years, he was one of England’s greatest rugby wingers, winning 85 caps, scoring a record 49 tries for his country, touring twice with the British & Irish Lions and playing in three Rugby World Cups.
But rugby was only half the story. For 18 years, Rory was also a Royal Air Force fast-jet pilot, flying Tornados and other aircraft at extraordinary sp...
From the warm waters of Durban's Indian Ocean coastline ... to the biggest, most dangerous breaks on Hawaii's North Shore, this episode traces the extraordinary journey of 1977 world surfing champion Shaun Tomson.
Steve Morris travels to Santa Barbara to sit down with the man once ranked among the top ten surfers in history — and finds someone far warmer than the stern competitor he remembers from old photographs. Shaun ...
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