“What am I really capable of?”
That was the question Lachlan Stuart couldn’t escape. As a coach, he had spent years helping men find the best versions of themselves, yet by 2024, he found himself coasting in the comfortable hum of Nashville.
Inspired by his wife’s relentless passion for her own dreams, Lachlan became obsessed with finding a mountain of his own – a challenge that would demand every ounce of his purpose and push him to his absolute limits. The result was a mission that bordered on the impossible: 58 marathons in 58 days. Spanning every U.S. state and Australian territory, the journey was set in the brutal heart of winter, turning a test of distance into a battle for survival.
But as the kilometres stacked up, Lachlan discovered that the physical agony of back-to-back marathons wasn’t just a fight against injuries, frozen trails, and travel chaos; it was a war against an inner monologue that labelled him a fraud and threatened to bury him in doubt. Through the long middle of the journey, Lachlan realised that true endurance lies in learning to shift strategies, perception, and capacity to outmaneuver the elements working against him. Somewhere between the frost and the fatigue, he learned a transformative truth: pain doesn’t change when you fight it; it changes when you stop giving it the wrong meaning.
States of Mind is a raw insight into what happens when you strip away the noise and confront your own resolve. It is a story for anyone who has ever felt lost or ordinary and wondered if they had more left in the tank.
Because when the body breaks, the only thing left to carry you is the person you’ve decided to become.
About Lachlan Stuart
Growing up in Toowoomba, Queensland, Lachlan was always passionate about health and fitness. That passion took him to France to play rugby, chasing the dream of a professional career. However, when that chapter ended, he returned home and hit rock bottom. He’d lost his sense of identity, his direction, and his confidence. Lachlan was surviving, but he wasn’t living.
That low point became his turning point. He committed to rebuilding himself from the ground up, not just physically, but mentally. He studied everything he could about performance psychology, completed his NLP Master Practitioner certification, and started coaching others who were facing the same struggles he’d overcome.
In 2017, he launched the Man That Can podcast to share these conversations with the world. In 2018, he founded the Man That Can Project. What started as a way to help a few mates has grown into a movement that’s now reached over 1200 men across 70 countries.
He’s also backed up his frameworks through extreme challenges, including rowing 30 marathons in 30 days and running 58 marathons in 58 consecutive days across every US state and every Australian state territory.
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