When All Is Said & Done

By: Neale Daniher, Warwick Green

Narrated by: David Tredinnick

WINNER OF THE ABIA BIOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020

A wise man said, 'Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.'I understand the wisdom of this - right now, I don't have much 'forwards' left.

Neale Daniher sat down to pen a letter to the grandchildren he'll never get to know. And then he kept on writing ...

In 2013, the AFL legend was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease - a cruel and incurable condition. He had a choice. He could spend his remaining time focused on himself, or he could seize the opportunity to make a better future for others.

Neale is no stranger to challenge. He grew up on a farm in remote New South Wales, the third of eleven children. He battled injury during his football career with Essendon, then jumped on the coaching rollercoaster, leading Melbourne for a decade. As general manager of football operations, he was part of the West Coast Eagles' cultural rebuild.

From the hard-won wisdom of life on the land and the love of his family, to the triumphs and gutting lows of elite football, Neale has learnt to make the most of the cards he's been dealt - to always live with purpose and to appreciate what he has.

True to form, Neale chose to stare down the disease he calls 'The Beast', and in 2014 he co-founded FightMND, an organisation that has since invested over $40 million into research and care initiatives. In 2015, he became the public face of the foundation's biggest fundraising event, The Big Freeze.

When All is Said & Done is a book of stories and wisdom from a man who has always held his beliefs to the Bunsen burner of life. Neale is unflinchingly honest, sharing a timely reminder that, even though life doesn't promise to be fair, we all have the power to choose how to make our time on this earth matter.

©2019 Neale Daniher (P)2019 Macmillan Australia Audio

Great life lessons

This author has the best narrator for the telling of the author's life. I loved all of the lessons incorporated into everyday, real life scanarios. I recommend for all ages.
There is something to he said for someone like the author to be humble enough to admit his learning opportunities along the way. While I know nothing about football as they know it in his neck of the woods, I heard the lessons.
I wish the author well in every sense of the word.

a fight for the soul.

book is excellent from a self analysis perspective. Neale weaves his fight w/mnd (als in the us) as a spiritual and character development journey. helps if you know a little about Aussie rules football, but many insights can be gleaned w/o that background.