This week's episode is another mix-tape of some great conversations I've had on the podcast. This time we're focusing on people who managed to turn the thing that they love into reality, and what it took to make that happen. First up is Ben St. Lawrence, an Australian middle-distance runner, a two-time Olympian and an all around interesting guy. Ben’s not the first Olympian I’ve had on the show, however his story - his particular triumph over adversity and refocus of his life is one worth hearin...
Jun 25, 2017•51 min•Ep. 190
This week's episode is a supercut, a compilation, a best of, a mix tape! It features some of the best moments of the show over the last year or two that share the theme of overcoming adversity. We start with the Hon. Leeanne Enoch, Minister for Innovation, Science and the Digital Economy and Minister for Small Business in the seat of Algester in Queensland. Leeanne is the first Aboriginal Australian Woman to be elected into the Qld Parliament, a woman who grew up On Country in North Stradbroke I...
Jun 18, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 189
Eric Barker is a screenwriter, blogger and author from Los Angeles California. His successful blog is at bakadesuyo.com that’s also his Twitter handle @bakadesuyo . Eric reached out to me and asked if he could come on to talk about his latest book “Barking up the wrong tree” The surprising science behind why everything you know about success is (mostly) wrong. We spoke last week over Skype and he offered a real insight to a few nuggets of wisdom that will hopefully help you find success either i...
Jun 11, 2017•1 hr•Ep. 188
Bridie O'Donnell and I have known each other since our high school days. She has gone on to become a Doctor and a world record breaking professional cyclist. Bridie has some great things to say here about elite sport, becoming motivated and staying healthy. I'm grateful to be able to bring this conversation to you, because it's not someone I've just met, with me getting to know my subject as I interview them - this is me and someone I go way back with who happens to be a very interesting human b...
Jun 04, 2017•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 187
Matt Draper is an Australian photographer who’s work centers on capturing aquatic animals in their natural patterns of behavior. You can follow him on Instagram at @MattDraperPhotography . I wanted to chat to him not only because I love to scuba dive and I’m fascinated by the ocean and all in it - but also because he’s a man who’s figured out how to get paid to do what he loves to do. If there’s something that you’re incredibly passionate about, and you’d love to make it your career - listen to ...
May 28, 2017•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 186
@danilic is a writer, director, comedian and satirist from Australia who is currently the Executive Producer at Fusion in the US, he’s done a heap of work in Australia notably “A Rational Fear” and all his work on the ABC & SBS. He’s worked for Al Jazeera in the US as well and is a very smart and funny man in a new world of exciting digital broadcasting. He’s a returning guest on the show so we get straight into it, but if you’re interested in his background check out the first time he visit...
May 21, 2017•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 185
Jack Heath is the CEO of SANE Australia, where I am fortunate to sit as a director on their board. Jack started with a career in politics while the Labour government was in power here in Australia, and after a tragic incident where his cousin died by suicide - Jack started the Inspire foundation in 1997. Now known as Reach Out, It was the world’s first online mental health service for young people. After over a decade there, and successfully launching Reach Out in Ireland and in the US - Jack no...
May 14, 2017•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 184
Taylor Steele is one of the most iconic and prolific surf film makers of our time. Find him on instagram @taylorsteele . Through his film Momentum, released in 1992 - a then twenty year old Taylor captured a new and dominating style of surfing that hadn’t really been seen before as he filmed young surfers that would go on to become household names in the surf world: Shane Dorian, Rob Machado, Taylor Knox and of course Kelly Slater. As a film, it documented a complete shift in style and propelled...
May 11, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 183
Dr Mark Cross ( @DrMCross ) is a psychiatrist, author, television presenter and fellow board member of SANE Australia. For many years he ran the youth ward at Campbelltown Hospital in Sydney, however he’s moved on from that to focus on other things. He’s best known in Australia for his SBS TV show “Changing Minds”, which worked to destigmatize community attitudes to mental illness - and he produced a book of the same name. Mark and I sit together on the board of SANE Australia which works to he...
May 07, 2017•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 182
Mia Freedman is a publisher, author, podcaster, mother and all-around media-mogul. She started her career in the then highly-competitive Australian magazine industry, and soon became youngest-ever editor of Cosmopolitan magazine at the age of 24. In the middle of this career explosion she fell pregnant, and set a course for her the rest of her career which would see her balancing work, family, and the numerous attacks in the press that come with being a smart, outspoken and strong-willed woman i...
Apr 30, 2017•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 181
Mark Maloney is one of Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs, from a family of similarly excellent business people. His father built many different companies including an incredibly successful mining logistics company The Mac. However Mark is also successful in his own right - working as an investment banker in London before heading back to run The Mac before floating it on the stock exchange in 2007 and being a part of making his whole family multi-millionaires overnight. But Mark’s story i...
Apr 23, 2017•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 180
Michael Ware is a legendary international war correspondent originally from Brisbane, Australia. Through his career, Michael’s style has always been a first-person, front row seat to some of the most confronting and dangerous situations on this planet. From modern-day witch-hunting in Papua New Guinea, to profiles of deadly Mexican drug cartels, to going in to Afghanistan only weeks after 9/11 and being one of the few Western journalists to live full-time in Iraq during the war. He was the Burea...
Apr 09, 2017•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 179
Hayden Cox is a revolutionary surfboard designer from Sydney Australia. About ten years ago, he disrupted the traditional way of making surfboards much to the chagrin of the incumbent players - and patented a completely new way of making surfboards, which also gave surfers completely new ways to ride those surfboards. Even if you don’t like the beach - just listen to Hayden’s inspiring journey of how he created his business when he was still in High School, followed his passion relentlessly and ...
Apr 02, 2017•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 178
Michael Lawrence is co-Founder of Garage Entertainment The world’s largest action adventure film & TV collection - with over 3000 films around surfing, snow sports, cycling, and anything else that involves humans, adventure and the defying of gravity and or the elements. Most notable is Michael’s landmark documentary film Bra Boys: Blood is Thicker than Water - a film narrated by Russell Crowe. He’s a passionate storyteller, businessman and visionary in the field of digital distribution. He’...
Mar 26, 2017•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 177
Josh Zepps is a very talented Australian broadcaster based in West Hollywood in Los Angeles California. He’s done many things over his extensive career however his latest project “We the people live” is a podcast focused on making debate healthy again. In the last few years, you may have noticed online and elsewhere - especially in politics - that reasoned debate and discourse has vanished from the public space. Opposing viewpoints get shouted down from polarized positions, and utterly disregard...
Mar 19, 2017•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 176
Simon Gillett is a patron of the Amy Gillett Foundation, an Australian safe cycling lobby that pushes for safer conditions for all road users, particularly around getting the “A metre matters” laws passed around the country. Amy was an olympic Rower who competed in the Atlanta Olympics - Simon was her coach, they were married a few years later. Amy Gillett was married to Simon at the time of her tragic death in Germany in 2005. The laws that the AGF have been fighting for have been passed in man...
Mar 12, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 175
Stav Davidson is known as “The Survivor” in Australian radio. He’s been through around seven different line-ups but remained as the sole common player in B105 and now Hit105’s breakfast radio team. That’s no mean feat. When you think of how many times the breakfast team in your neck of the woods has changed - Stav has always been there. I’m so grateful to work with him, I learn from him every day - he’s funnier and faster than anyone I’ve ever worked with, and he never writes any of it. It comes...
Mar 05, 2017•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 174
Rachel Neylan is a Professional Cyclist who’s a part of the Orica-Scott team, she’s an Olympian, a silver medalist at the World Championships and a very driven and fascinating human being. Rachel Came to my house just before Christmas after reaching out to say she listened to the podcast on Twitter. She’d even post #podsie photos of her training rides when she was in Rio in the lead up to last year’s Olympics. So she came around to my house and we had a chat - a chat that was so engaging, that I...
Feb 26, 2017•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 173
Tim Daley is the head honcho over at CMC, a 24hr Country Music Channel on Foxtel. He grew up in Colorado Springs and eventually made his way to Australia - a tale he will share with you today. Tim was also my first ever producer in television. He was given the task of helping me, a guy who had never been on television - look a little less like I had never been on television. He was the man that indoctrinated me into life in Bondi Beach and became my upstairs neighbour for a few years. I’m gratef...
Feb 19, 2017•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 172
Ben St. Lawrence is an Australian middle-distance runner, a two-time Olympian and an all around interesting guy. We met at a Story Club show, one of his friends came up and said “hey you should get Ben on the podcast!” and we exchanged email addresses and then we were able to make it happen. Ben’s not the first Olympian I’ve had on the show, however his story - his particular triumph over adversity and refocus of his life is one worth hearing. He came to our old place in Bondi just before we mov...
Feb 12, 2017•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 171
Michael Beveridge is an Australian radio broadcaster who is known to breakfast audiences from his national weekend show, and night audiences from You Tube Hits which he hosted up until the end of 2016. Originally coming to the attention of Australians from his stint on Big Brother, Michael is prolifically funny on twitter @Mickyb273 - he and I caught up in Melbourne late 2016 when he was in a bit of limbo as often happens in the world of radio. His employment status comes up quite bit during the...
Feb 05, 2017•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 170
Laura Kmetko is an Australian Circus Performer who’s currently a part of the Cirque Du Soleil production of “Kooza” which is currently in Melbourne before moving on to Perth in April. Even though she’s been with Cirque for many years, this is her first time performing in Australia. We went along to the show in Sydney last year and it was incredible. I’ve seen a number of Cirque Du Soleil shows - including a few in Las Vegas in the permanently installed theatres constructed specifically for the p...
Jan 29, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 169
Peter Helliar is an Australian comedian best known as the bloke on the end of the desk every night on the news program “The Project”. He’s also a producer, a director, a writer and an actor. He’s a mad football fan, a loving and devoted father, and someone who’s worked very, very hard to be where he is. I was so happy that he came around to our old place in Bondi - he’s one of the busiest people on the planet, so to get this much of his time was superb. Enjoy this chat with Peter Helliar . Hoste...
Jan 22, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 168
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Jan 06, 2017•1 min•Ep. 167
It's holiday time and my podcast team are on a break. So here's a show I prepared earlier, but a show you've probably not heard. An exclusive patreon-only episode with Dr.Karl. If you like what you hear, for as little as $5 a month you can support the show and hear more chats like this, plus an exclusive check-in feed. Have a great NYE. Bring on 2017 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Dec 25, 2016•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 166
Zoe Norton Lodge is a published author, actor, and storyteller from Sydney Australia. She’s one of the people behind the wildly successful “Story Club” which happens in Sydney at the Giant Dwarf Theatre and also on the Story Club podcast. She’s also a performer/presenter on The Checkout - the consumer affairs show on the ABC here in Australia that is produced by the team from The Chaser. Zoe has a big role in my life, as it’s because of her that I was able to first speak about my run-ins with ps...
Dec 18, 2016•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 165
David Hunt ( @DavidHuntGirt on Twitter) is an Author, Historian and comedian. His latest book “True Girt” is out now, the follow up to “Girt” which I read last summer. It’s a "laugh-out-loud because you can’t do anything else" account of the dark underbelly of Australian history. David’s first book “Girt” was the basis of the brilliant podcast with Dom Knight “Rum, Rebels and Ratbags” which is still around. If there’s someone in your life that appreciates a good chuckle while looking at ourselve...
Dec 11, 2016•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 164
Phoebe Dunn ( twitter.com/ @phoebeAGF ) is the CEO of the Amy Gillett foundation. They’re the people that are behind the “a metre matters” bicycle safety campaign in Australia. She’s a very accomplished person, having worked as a lawyer, for the Federal Government as an advisor to the Federal Attorney-General and National Security advisor, and on the state level as Chief Of Staff for the Victorian Government. Phoebe and I met on the weekend that we went down to Lorne in Victoria to ride in Amy’s...
Dec 04, 2016•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 163
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Nov 27, 2016•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 162
Paul Middleditch is a multi-award winning director originally from New Zealand. Follow his adventures at @plazafilms on instagram He’s the mastermind behind bringing some of the most memorable commercials you’ve ever seen to your screens. Remember “It’s a big ad” for carlton draught? The brilliant Aussie Lamb diversity campaign from this year? And of course his incredible “It’s a Big Ad” for Cartlon Draught, including the skydiving one where the beer glass demolished a few houses? That’s Paul. H...
Nov 20, 2016•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 161
