My guest today is Jan Fran. Find her on twitter @Jan__Fran . Jan is the co-host of the nightly SBS news show “The Feed”. She’s an incredibly skilled journalist and documentary producer who’s covered stories in places you’d be to frightened even fly over. Her recent work is available to see online at https://www.sbs.com.au including her documentary “America’s first climate change refugees” which we talk about at length in this conversation. Jan speaks three languages, but because I only speak one...
Jan 21, 2018•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 220
Maz Compton is a well-known broadcaster from Sydney who for years was all over the TV when she worked on MTV, and later all over the radio, culminating in her Stint on the high-profile breakfast shift on 2Day FM in Sydney. That life is mostly behind her now, however she did write a book about her experiences which you can at https://www.mazcompton.net or on Amazon. Maz is a great chat, an inspiring woman, and I’m so grateful she came by the apartment to chat on a lovely Sydney afternoon. Ladies ...
Jan 14, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 219
James Mathison is an Australian TV Presenter, writer, father, activist and now politician. James and I worked together for many years on Australian Idol, and before that we worked together on Channel [v]. I’ve known Jim since 2000 and he’s still one of the most clever people I’ve ever met. He’ll read a paper cover to cover every day, read a book a week, and still find time to be a brilliant father to his two wonderful girls. James came around and we shot the breeze at my old place back in Bondi ...
Jan 07, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 218
My guest today is Adam Richard. He’s a standup comedian, writer, TV Guy and all ‘round wonderful human. We recorded this before Australia enthusiastically voted YES to marriage equality, so you’ll notice that there might be a bit of chat in there about the plebiscite - but I wanted to leave it in as a memory of what we as a country went through. Find Adam on Twitter at @adamrichard ( https://twitter.com/adamrichard ) and let him know you heard him here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
Dec 31, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 217
My guest today is a giant amongst men. He’s a man by the name of Quentin Kenihan. @qkenihan on Twitter. We’ve known each other about fifteen years, and I’m glad he’s a mate. He was born with brittle bone disease, which basically means if you hug him too tight, you’ll break him. The last time he told me, he’d counted 662 broken bones in his life. That number has probably eclipsed that number by now. Quentin has been told by too many doctors to count that “this could be it” and “you might not make...
Dec 24, 2017•50 min•Ep. 216
Chris Raine is the founder and CEO on the not-for-profit “ Hello Sunday Morning ” you can find him on Twitter by following @ckraine . And if you like, you can download that app daybreak. Downloaded from wherever you download me. Hello Sunday morning is all about creating a healthy relationship to alcohol. So when is conversation Chris and I talk a lot about his journey with alcohol, I talk about my journey with alcohol-most of the story you may have heard before but if you’re new it'll be the fi...
Dec 17, 2017•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 215
Nigel Marsh is an Author, Speaker, Body Image activist and the powerhouse behind “The Sydney Skinny” which is one of the largest organised skinny dips in the world, in an effort to promote body positivity and a healthier relationship with your self. Nigel wrote the best selling book “Fat, Forty and Fired”, and has a brilliant outlook on life that will challenge whatever amount of comfort you have in your comfort zone, causing you to look at what it is you’re doing with your day, or even your lif...
Dec 10, 2017•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 214
Mark Humphries is a comedian, writer, multi-linguist and satirist from Australia who currently bringing the funny every night on the SBS News Show “The Feed”. He’s the blonde guy, the funny one. On November 24th Mark and his writing partner put out an end-of year special which you can catch on SBS On Demand, it’s called “Privatise Now” - https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1092676163844/Privatise-Now-The-Feed-End-of-Year Mark is a super-interesting man, a man who’s created his own work out of ...
Dec 03, 2017•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 213
Joel Pilgrim ( https://www.twitter.com/joelspilgrim ) is the Founder and CEO of the Waves of Wellness Foundation. He also works closely with One Wave is All it Takes, who have featured on this show before. Joel is a surfer who has a passion for helping others, particularly in the mental health space. He’s worked as an occupational therapist for mental health patients transitioning back to life after hospitalisation and now runs a program called Waves of Wellness - Joel and his team are pioneerin...
Nov 26, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 212
Luke Ford is an Australian actor best known for his roles in Animal Kingdom, Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The Black Balloon and most recently What if it works? You can find him on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lukeford__/ We met at the premiere of What If It Works his latest film, which is an exploration into a love story between two young folks living with very different brains. Luke plays a man with severe OCD and he falls for a woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Both menta...
Nov 19, 2017•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 211
Barry DuBois is a carpenter, builder, developer, philanthropist and TV Renovation guru from Sydney, Australia. He is probably best known to Aussie audiences as the man who re-makes people’s homes on “The Living Room” which is on Network Ten on Friday nights. Two weeks before he and I had the conversation you’ll hear today, Barry announced to Australia that the cancer he’d beaten a few years ago was back, and aggressively so. Barry was kind enough to come around to our small apartment in Bronte t...
Nov 12, 2017•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 210
Mike Munro is an Australian journalist and author, who rose to prominence as a part of the early line-up of the then groundbreaking TV Show 60 minutes. He went on to host the nightly magazine show “A Current Affair”, which broke some of the biggest stories of its time, before editorially turning a corner that lead him to split from the show - which he talks about in this conversation. Mike’s latest project is called “Lawless” - The Real Bushrangers, you can see it in Australia on Foxtel and NZ o...
Nov 05, 2017•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 209
Alicia Malone is an author, film critic and friend who lives in Los Angeles California. She and I crossed paths a few times in our careers and grew to become quite close during my time in L.A. Difference is, she managed to stay afloat while I had to come back to Sydney. Alicia’s career path reads like a blueprint for success. When people ask me about getting into the industry, Alicia’s tireless work ethic, undeniable drive and creative creation of her own work is an example to follow. Alicia’s l...
Oct 29, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 208
Benjamin Law is an Australian journalist, author, screenwriter, activist and speaker. He shot to fame when the semi-autobiographical TV series based on his best-selling book “The Family Law” became a massive hit. He’s recently written the latest “Quarterly Essay” which addresses the “Safe Schools” education debate in Australia and is an active campaigner for equality in Australia. Benjamin is a wonderfully smart and charming man, who brings a kind grace to the topic of a demographically changing...
Oct 22, 2017•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 207
Dr Easkey Britton is a passionate ocean advocate from Donegal in the rugged North-West of Ireland. Find her on Instagram at @easkeysurf, where you can follow her adventures around the world. She and I met in Amsterdam when I attended the THNK school of creative leadership. Easkey is the co-founder of Waves Of Freedom - which uses surfing as a creative medium for social change. Last time she was on this podcast she described in incredible detail her joy of teaching women and girls in Iran to surf...
Oct 15, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 206
Sam Dastyari ( @samdastyari ) is an Australian Politician, he represents NSW in the Senate - and he’s a part of the Labor Party. He was only 30 when he won the seat and has made quite a name for himself in the four years that he’s been in office. A non-practicing muslim, Sam has drawn a lot of scrutiny from some people who can’t quite conceive of there actually being such a thing. I’ll let him explain it. Sam has quite a story, and in the comfort of my kitchen over a cup of tea he and I were abl...
Oct 08, 2017•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 205
Maz Compton is a well-known broadcaster from Sydney who for years was all over the TV when she worked on MTV, and later all over the radio, culminating in her stint on the high-profile breakfast shift on 2Day FM in Sydney. That life is mostly behind her now, however she did write a book about her experiences which we talk about here - but we also talk about what it was to have worked so hard to get the dream job and then have the dream job go away. You can find her book at mazcompton.net or on A...
Oct 01, 2017•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 204
Fiona O’Loughlin is an Australian stand-up comedian and Author, find her on twitter @FionaOLoughlin_ She came to my house one afternoon last week, with a documentary crew in tow - as she’s been filming the last few years of her life’s journey which will become a film before too long. Fiona has an incredible story. I will let her tell most of it, however it’s important to know how incredible her Comedy Career is, and what it means for someone of her profile to talk openly about the struggles she’...
Sep 24, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 203
Adele Vuko is one-third of the Australian all-female comedy team Skit Box. Find her on Instagram @adele_vuko She’s one of the brilliant women behind the viral explosion that was “Activewear” and part of a growing scene of successful online film makers that are finding a way to pay their bills and feed their kids through creating what they’re passionate about. Skit Box have recently finished working on incredibly funny sketch show available on Abc iView “Wham bam thank you ma’am” In this conversa...
Sep 17, 2017•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 202
Kim Portrate is the CEO of Think TV, an industry-led group promoting the use of television advertising in the marketing community. Find her on twitter @KimPortrate She and I worked together recently at a conference, doing a keynote on a bubble that many marketers live in. But Kim is so much more than that, she is a smart and funny person who has lived through the darker times of our industry with regards to equality, she even had a ‘hidden figures’ moment when it came to bathrooms at one of her ...
Sep 10, 2017•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 201
Sage Greenwood is the Managing Director of Wink Models, one of the biggest commercial and editorial modelling agencies in Australia. She has a very interesting story which I can’t wait for you to hear - it’s one you’ve heard before, especially when it comes to the behaviour of models living in cramped accommodation in Milan starving themselves for Fashion Week. However you may not have heard the one about the model with a double degree who goes on to pitch her dream gig at the CEO and finds her ...
Sep 03, 2017•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 200
Brandon Webb is a former SEAL Sniper, who served with the US Navy Seals in Seal Team Three. He’s now a NY Times Best-Selling author, independent digital media mogul, dad, experimental aircraft pilot, and all-around interesting and inspiring man to speak to. You can find him on twitter at @BrandonTWebb . Brandon is no stranger to this podcast. He was a part of an epic two-parter back in episode 61&62. I highly recommend going back and listening to his story. To catch you up to speed, Brandon ...
Aug 27, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 199
Mel Thomas is the founder of The KYUP! Project. You can find her on twitter @kyupproject Mel Thomas is a writer, speaker, media commentator and mother of two girls. She has more than 15 years martial arts experience in Hapkido, the Korean art of self-defence. Mel created KYUP! Project, a self-worth and self-protection program to break the cycle of violence against women and children. You see Mel was born into the cycle of violence, and that cycle continued within her as she grew up and became a ...
Aug 19, 2017•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 198
Morgan Koegel is the CEO of OneGirl.org.au They’re a non-profit that are on a mission to educate one million girls across Africa. They believe that every girl has a right to an education and work predominantly across Sierra Leone and Uganda. Morgan has had an interesting career that’s also included working in prisons in Victoria where she helped again with transforming lives through education. These two things alone are incredible reasons to hear Morgan’s story - however, there’s something else ...
Aug 13, 2017•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 197
Donita Menon is the Grief and Bereavement coordinator at the Leukaemia Foundation Australia , her job is to talk both with people diagnosed, and with families before and after the death of a loved one. She has a brilliant story and I can’t wait for you to hear it. It is fortuitous that we spoke on this day, as we’d had the podcast scheduled in for months in advance - My Mum was in partial remission and was still living independently when we booked it in. But by the time we came around to recordi...
Aug 06, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 196
Brendan Maclean is an Australian singer/songwriter/performer/unicorn who first came on this show about three years ago but suffered at the hands of the great file loss of 2015. He has been kind enough to return and boy do we have a lot to talk about. Brendan’s about to have a new EP come out in August 2017 and a new album in the works for early 2018 so a great time to have him on. Find him on twitter and Insta for more @macleanbrendan. This is a conversation for anyone who’s let fear hold them b...
Jul 30, 2017•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 195
Bruce Jeffreys is an entrepreneur from Sydney Australia. He is a cofounder of two successful businesses - GoGet and Dresden optics. This is a brilliant conversation about creating a disruptive business, and the lessons learned from just bloody going ahead and starting while figuring it out as you go. It’s a great chat with a fascinating man - who’s heart is in a great place and aligns his businesses with his passion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com...
Jul 23, 2017•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 194
Sophie Hardcastle is an artist, author and all-around adventurous soul from Sydney Australia. She shot to fame when she published her first book - Running Like China, a memoir of a life interrupted by madness. It chronicles her struggle with coming to terms with her own mental illness and life with a brain that operates differently than others. Her second book is a young adult novel called Breathing Underwater. Sophie is also an exceptionally talented artist, currently studying at Sydney College...
Jul 16, 2017•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 193
Nathan Cavaleri is an Australian musician, who you can follow at nathancavaleri.com or on Instagram at Nathan_Cavaleri . Nathan first came to the attention of Australia when he was still a kid - he had been diagnosed with leukaemia and the Starlight Foundation sent him over to the UK to Jam with the lead guitar player of the biggest band in the world at the time - Mark Knopfler from Dire Staits. Nathan was a prodigious guitar player, and the footage quickly captured the hearts of Australians - s...
Jul 09, 2017•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 192
This week's episode is a best of, mixtape, audible burrito with the lot all focused on comedy. This podcast has hosted many great comedians, and here are just a few. 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. I asked Pete about the first time he got an inkling that he might end up doing what he now does so well. Next up we have Alice Fraser - a comed...
Jul 02, 2017•48 min•Ep. 191
