When war came to his village in South Sudan, Deng Adut was taken from his mother by rebels and forced to fight in the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army. He was just six years old. In his recent book “Songs of a War Boy” Deng describes in chilling detail the life of a child soldier - which includes horrific first hand accounts of battle, torture, death, and the kind of barbaric brutality that only humans inflict on other humans. When he was twelve, he was rescued by his older brother and smuggled...
Nov 13, 2016•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 160
Nathan Appo is an athlete, activist, TV host and Health and Lifestyle officer for Deadly Choices - which is an initiative targeting Urban Indigenous Health, particularly the mental health of young indigenous men. He’s raising money for Movember at mobro.co/deadlychoices I’m at mobro.co/osher He’s a great guy, I’m stoked to have him on. We met in the radio station so there’s some BG noise. Follow him on twitter @elusive_sausage Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omny...
Nov 06, 2016•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 158
Danielle Cormack is a talented actress from NZ who’s worked across both sides of the Tasman and the Pacific over her successful career. She was an original cast member on the landmark NZ soap “Shortland Street” and has appeared in brilliant TV such as “Rake”,”Deep Water” and the women’s prison drama “Wentworth”. Danielle is a fantastic human with a brilliant energy I know you’ll resonate with. We really go for it in this one, we dig super deep. It might need two listens. Danielle rocked up at my...
Oct 30, 2016•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 158
Phil Anderson is an Australian cycling legend. In a sport dominated by Europeans - Phil was the first non-European rider to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour De France. Think about the Jamaican Bobsled team turning up at the Olympics but actually winning. That’s what it was like - a rider from a country no one associated with cycling, riding so well he wore the leader’s jersey during the Tour De France. He’s still a big part of world cycling, he does a lot for young riders and regularly leads r...
Oct 23, 2016•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 157
Jono Coleman ( @jonocoleman ) is a legendary broadcaster from Australia who has had an incredible career here and in the UK. He worked on landmark stations like the earliest incarnations of JJJ, the BBC and at the huge upstart that was Virgin Radio in the 90s. Starting in the late early 80s I first came to know him on a kids’ after school show called “Simon Townshend’s Wonder World” you could really get away with wordy names back then. Now Jono’s a big bloke. He’s always been a big bloke, even w...
Oct 16, 2016•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 156
Dr Jen Rayner is a native Canberran who has written a remarkable book Generation Less: How Australia is Cheating the Young. If you’re a parent, if you’re a young person in Australia, if you’re at all interested in the Australian economy and what the future holds for our younger population - this is a very interesting chat. If politics makes you yawn, don’t worry - Jen is a brilliant communicator and puts forward her argument in such a clear and concise way you’ll leave this hour feeling smarter ...
Oct 09, 2016•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 155
Andrew Valder is co-founder of Garage Sale Trail, who are on Twitter @garagesaletrail What they do is coordinate a nation into having garage sales all on the same day, some 300,000 sales in all - in a way to bring communities together, reuse items and think about what waste really is. They’re in their 6th year and are gearing up for October 22 which is the date of this year’s sale. Check out their site garagesaletrail.com.au to investigate some of the items - there’s everything on there from pot...
Oct 02, 2016•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 154
Emma Alberici is a journalist that lives in Sydney Australia. She hosts the national nightly current affairs show on the ABC, Lateline. Formerly she was the European correspondent for the ABC, and now she holds our public figures accountable every night of the week. Her take-no-prisoners interviewing style has come under critique from people as high up the chain as our Prime Minister - and she and I talk about this, because she sees her role as someone who has the job of holding those in the p...
Sep 25, 2016•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 153
Travis Rice (@travisrice instagram) is one of the most talented and influential athletes to ever strap on a snowboard. Since his explosion onto the international scene at the age of 18, Travis has been pushing boundaries and challenging gravity on mountains all around the world. As a film producer, he's behind the most successful snowboarding film of all time "The Art of Flight" and his new film "The Fourth Phase" is apparently the most expensive action sports film ever created. His snowboarding...
Sep 18, 2016•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 152
Michelle Langstone is an incredibly talented actress from the west coast of New Zealand. You'll remember her from McLeod's Daughters and more recently 800 words. She came over ten minutes after I'd had some rather confronting news, so I just started recording and she talked me through it. Thanks to everyone who supports the show on patreon.com/osher - without you this episode wouldn't exist! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...
Sep 11, 2016•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 151
Tommy Little is a comedian, radio host and tv host from Melbourne Australia. You can catch him regularly in Australia on The Project on a Friday Night, and he's always touring around the nation doing standup. We talk a lot in this conversation about what it is to be a standup, what it is to have things go well - for example when you're doing breakfast radio and a late night show, and when things don't go well like when said late night show is cancelled. He's on instagram as @MrsTommyLittle and s...
Sep 04, 2016•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 150
Montaigne is a singer/songwriter/performer from Sydney Australia - her new album "Glorious Heights" is out now, and she's touring the country through September - details at Montaigne.com.au We met on twitter after she tagged me in a photo that she took of an old notebook full of "I love Matt Corby" signs she and her school friend had held up in a live audience at Australian Idol about ten years ago. That she now has a job where she's a performer is so wonderful to see. She came around to my hous...
Aug 28, 2016•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 149
Dan Rosen is the CEO of ARIA - The Australian Recording Industry Association. Among other things, ARIA provide the official pop music charts for Australia, as well as facilitating the annual ARIA awards which are our country's highest acclaim to give a musician. Dan has a cracking story, of how he became CEO of ARIA in the middle of the biggest market disruption in industry's history - and how he sees artists and fans moving forward together in the brave new digital world. He's a great chat, and...
Aug 21, 2016•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 148
Hot Dub Time Machine is probably the hottest DJ ticket in town right now. A creation of my guest today - Tom Loud. This time-traveling dance-party is currently packing out huge rooms all across Australia and Europe. He's redefining what it means to go and have a dance. He's opening dance culture up to a whole new audience, and he's spreading joy all across the world. Tom reached out to me over instagram - it turns out we worked together a long time ago, and he let me know about his success and h...
Aug 14, 2016•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 147
Chas Licciardello ( @chaslicc & @chas_usa ) is part of the incredibly successful Australian Satire collective The Chaser. You can see Chas every week on "The Checkout" on the ABC For over 15 years they've been calling out hypocrisy, lies and general bloviating by our public figures and making us either laugh or be outraged while they do it. Never one to shy from commitment to a joke, Chas has been arrested numerous times, received death threats and has even been assaulted in the street - all...
Aug 07, 2016•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 146
My guest is Madison Missina , she defines herself as a prostitute, a porn star, sex therapist, sex educator and sex worker advocate. We had a rather robust and frank conversation about how she ended up doing what she does, the role of sex workers in society (eg, assisting with the disabled etc) and spent a long time talking about the effect of porn as default sex education for a generation of young people. Madison has a new and very successful podcast with Mamamia called "the prude and the porns...
Jul 31, 2016•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 144
Socratis Otto is a gifted Australian actor best known at the moment for his role as Maxine in the women's prison drama "Wentworth" which has its season finale on Tuesday night this week. It's a demanding role, because his character used to be called Max - and is now Maxine. Foxtel here in Australia deserves enormous praise for its support of original Australian drama, and this show is one of the best. Socratis is an incredibly talented man, and was gracious enough to make the trek over from the ...
Jul 24, 2016•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 144
My guest this week is Dr John Demartini , he's a best selling author, speaker and teacher. He's written over 40 books, and travels the world 360 days a year. You'll hear in this conversation how he came to begin to explore what makes people tick and how he dug deeper into human behaviour patterns to understand why we do what we do. Might have seen him if you've ever watched the film "The Secret". He and I do differ on some aspects of what he speaks about, notably the treatment for clinical depre...
Jul 17, 2016•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 143
Steve Beckett is a marketing and product growth exec at Zwift.com - go have a look at that website for a quick video demo. What is Zwift? But he comes from a legacy of bike industry gigs, and this chat is pertinent at the moment with Tour De France being on - because he was there on the ground floor for the formation of Team Sky, one of the most dominant forces of cycling in recent years to emerge. This is a great story about how tech evolution in one sector can make a transformative leap ahead ...
Jul 10, 2016•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 142
Dr Glen Richards is a vet, entrepreneurial mega-success and a shark on the Network Ten hit show Shark Tank. It's Dragon's Den in the UK and shark tank everywhere else. He has an incredible story, and has some very powerful and interesting views on euthanasia. He's someone who's compassionately ended the life of thousands of incredibly loved but suffering pets - and we start to discuss what it would mean for our society if we looked at people's suffering in a similar way. If you're at all trigger...
Jul 03, 2016•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 141
Nell Schofield is an Australian actor, author, journalist and activist. She became a household name after her role in the landmark coming of age film "Puberty Blues", and was a part of the creation of the worldwide smash hit "Strictly Ballroom". Nell is also an advocate for Solar Citizens which is pushing for a 100% renewable energy Australia by 2030. She's a bloody delight and I couldn't be more happy that she came over for a cuppa on a cold and windy Friday arvo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
Jun 26, 2016•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 140
My guest today is film director James Fazio we're talking about the power of happiness through helping others and his documentary, which you can help make: Time Well Spent . Thanks so much for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 19, 2016•53 min•Ep. 139
Justin Hamilton is a stand-up comedian, writer, producer and generally wonderfully creative and funny man from Australia. He and I first met on a panel show called Good News Week in 2009. You can listen to his exceptional podcast "Can you Take this photo Please" and also hear him occasionally pop up on TOFOP with Will and Charlie which we talk about on this show too. This is a great chat because it speaks of the value of mentorship. The value of identifying a mentor and keeping that relationship...
Jun 12, 2016•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 138
Alice Fraser is a comedian, writer, and ex-lawyer from Australia. She's also host of the wonderfully cerebral podcast "Tea With Alice" which I'm happy to have been a guest on. We recorded both her show and mine on the same day, and if there's parts of this chat that don't make sense, perhaps go find the episode she and I did on her show to flesh things out. Alice has a very interesting story, a story about following what you believe in, finding your truth - and what monetary rewards balance agai...
Jun 05, 2016•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 137
Janine Allis is an Australian businesswoman and entrepreneur, CEO and founder of the incredibly successful Boost Juice franchises. She's also a Shark on Network Ten's Shark Tank which is on Wednesday nights. She's also a mother, an author, and has a story that you will not believe - which includes life working aboard David Bowie's private yacht. This story is brilliant because it's a triumph over what society expects from many people. That success is only open to those with a university degree. ...
May 29, 2016•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 136
The Honorable Leeanne Enoch is Minister for Innovation, Science and the Digital Economy and Minister for Small Business in the seat of Algester in QLD. In what is a massive deal for me and this very show - her wonderful staff reached out to me and asked if I could come and interview her. Considering the work she's doing and the story that she has to tell, I jumped at the chance. Leeanne is the first Aboriginal Australian Woman to be elected into the QLD Parliament, a woman who grew up On Country...
May 22, 2016•58 min•Ep. 135
Julie Stevanja is co-founder and CEO of Stylerunner.com Again, her story is bloody inspirational. In particular what I love about her tale is not only the grit to keep going, and her ability to see a gap in the market - but how she knew and valued the power of her personal network so much that she relocated back to Australia to build the business, and now is running an internationally massive retail operation from an office in Alexandria in Sydney. A quick word about prep. You know me. I always ...
May 15, 2016•53 min•Ep. 134
Jane Lu is the founder and CEO of mammoth fashion startup Showpo.com . She speaks about hearing the sounds of Tienanamen Square erupt when she was a child, moving to Australia and creating the life she loves. This is easily one of my favourites - because everyone loves a story of triumph. This episode is brought to you by the great supporters of this show who have pledged through Patreon.com/osher . For as little as $5 a month you'll have access to exclusive episodes and help make sure I can get...
May 08, 2016•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 133
Craig Bruce is one of the most iconic names in the Australian Radio Industry. For over 20 years he worked for the company which is now Southern Cross Austereo - first as an announcer, then as assistant program director and eventually rose to the role of group content director - means he's in charge of everything and everyone you hear on air that isn't a commercial. His reputation for spotting and developing new talent is beyond par, most notably with his development and then anointing of Kyle Sa...
May 01, 2016•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 132
Lola Berry is often called "Australia's favourite Nutritionist". She's a nutritionist, author, blogger, speaker and advocate for happiness. She even wrote a book about happiness. And five other books. You can buy them everywhere. She's a woman who has inspired hundreds of thousands of people all around the world to be kinder and more caring to themselves through food and nourishment - not just of their bodies but of themselves as a whole. Lola has a beautiful, warm and glowing energy that swept ...
Apr 24, 2016•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 131
