15/09/2026
If you need a motivational boost to help you take that next step, a good mate of ours tells his story. Glen Scholz has been through a lot in one life and he’s only halfway through it.
Take a listen and let us know what these stories mean to you.
GLEN SCHOLZ — CONTROL WHAT YOU CAN CONTROL | EPISODE 1
Some people talk about resilience.
Glen “Schultzy” Scholz has lived it.
He’s beaten cancer twice.
He’s undergone two stem cell transplants.
He served his country, including deploying to Afghanistan.
He was told he may never have children — yet went on to build a family with his wife, Kylie.
He rebuilt his body from almost nothing and became an Ironman, an Epic Legend, a national champion para mountain-bike rider and an elite endurance athlete.
But before all of that, there was just a country kid from Traralgon trying to work out where he belonged.
In Episode 1 of Control What You Can Control, we go right back to the beginning.
Schultzy talks about growing up in country Victoria, becoming an elite junior badminton player, recording an incredible 16.9 beep test, losing his way during his teenage years and leaving school without any real direction.
Then tragedy struck when his cousin — someone he looked at like an older brother — was killed in a car accident.
It forced Schultzy to start asking a question that would eventually change his life:
“What am I actually doing with my life?”
Then his mum gave him a push.
Defence recruiting came to town.
Schultzy walked through the door knowing almost nothing about the Army.
That decision changed everything.
Episode 1 takes us through his enlistment, recruit training and the beginning of his journey into the Royal Australian Armoured Corps, finishing as he heads into his Initial Employment Training to become a tanker.
What Schultzy didn’t know was that the lessons he was about to learn in the Australian Army would one day help him fight battles far greater than anything he could have imagined.
Cancer. Twice.
This is more than a story about survival.
It’s about adversity, mateship, family, service, resilience and learning to control what you can control.
This is the Glen Scholz story.
Episode 1 — Where It All Began.
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