Emilie Brabon Hames is author, Transformation coach and Nutrition coach, and one 1/2 of the team that helped me totally transform my body for the cover of men’s health magazine. You can find her online @ emiliebrabonhames . We heard from her husband Chief last week, and now it’s Em’s turn. Her story of how she went from a reclusive kid to one of the most powerful transformation coaches in the country, transforming literally thousands of lives every year with her Original Bootcamp work - well it’...
Aug 12, 2018•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 250
Chief Brabon is the Fitness Director at Men’s Health Australia, the CEO of TransformationCoach.com and CEO of Original Bootcamp. It was with Chief Brabon and his wife Emilie Brabon-Hames that I worked out every day for ten weeks to achieve my cover shot of Men’s Health Australia. When you spend an hour of your day with someone every day - you get to know them pretty well, and I got to know that both Chief and his wife Em have remarkable stories to tell. We’ll hear Em’s story next week, it’s comp...
Aug 05, 2018•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 249
Matt Griggs is a high performance coach, keynote speaker and meditation teacher from Sydney Australia, you can find him online at mattgriggs.com or on instagram @mattgriggs. For years Matt worked with some of the worlds most successful athletes in the surfing world, helping them focus in and out of the water for not only world-beating performances in competition - but with resilience out of the water too. Matt famously coached three-time world-champion surfer and shark-puncher Mick Fanning, and ...
Jul 29, 2018•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 248
Sally Rugg is an LGBTIQ activist and Executive Director of Change.org - find her on twitter @sallyrugg or on Instagram @_campaign_papi . Sally is a smart, charming, powerful person whose leadership and drive to make our community as inclusive and excellent as it can be is something I found inspirational. If you’ve ever wondered about why someone might pursue a career in activism, or indeed what life is like for someone who stands up in public and fights for the human rights of those underreprese...
Jul 22, 2018•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 247
Abdullah Zeinab is a plant-based ultra-endurance cyclist, a man with a crystal clear outlook on life and the capacity for incredible self-awareness. You can find him on YouTube by searching The Glucose Network , or follow him on Instagram @abdullahzeinab Abdullah is a prominent figure in both the plant-based and cycling community, his videos online and live streams are the stuff of legend. However - recently Abdullah completed the Indian Pacific Wheel Race, an ultra-endurance, unsupported bike r...
Jul 15, 2018•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 246
Kath Koschel is an incredibly inspiring human. She’s the founder of kindnessfactory.com and has a story that will break your heart three times before it lifts you up into the glowing warmth of the collective love of humanity. This conversation deals with suicide and the effects of road trauma, so if you do need to talk to anyone please seek help from your doctor or call Lifeline on 13 11 14. Kath’s story is one of the incredible power of human resilience and the overwhelming kindness of our comm...
Jul 08, 2018•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 245
`Paul Field is the Managing Director of international children’s entertainment mega-brand The Wiggles. He’s also an ambassador for Red Nose Day, which funds research and support around the incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS. Nine babies and children in Australia will die today as a result of SIDS, but that number is down 85% of what it once was due largely to the incredible research and awareness that Red Nose Day raises money to support. After listening to this, I’m sure you’ll w...
Jul 01, 2018•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 244
Rob Mills is an actor, singer, and musical theatre superstar from Melbourne Australia. You can find him on Instagram @robmillsymills. Rob first rose to prominence during the debut season of Australian Idol back in 2003, and as you’ll hear had a rollercoaster ride from there to where he is now. One that involved the highest of highs, and the very lowest of lows. In this conversation we do talk about the subject of suicide, so if you or if anyone you know needs help - in Australia please call Life...
Jun 24, 2018•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 243
Ditch Davey is an incredibly successful Australian actor and producer who first rose to prominence on the TV show “Blue Heelers” but has since gone on to appear in countless films and TV shows - notably Spartacus and Black Box, and most recently the TV show Harrow which you can see on ABC iView. Ditch is a remarkable man with a brilliant outlook on life. He’s a man who’s pursued a career in a seasonal industry, one that subjects you to the terrifying and constant judgment of who you are as a hum...
Jun 17, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 242
My guest today is Danielle Prince. On Instagram she’s @danniprince, follow her there and let her know that you heard her here. Danielle is a Commonwealth Games and Olympic Rhythmic Gymnast. In her words - rhythmic gymnastics is the absolute fusion between athleticism and art. It is the sport that is designed to make the impossible look easy. And Danielle’s story is one of how much time, effort, focus, and dedication it takes to do just that, to make the impossible look easy. Spoiler alert - rele...
Jun 10, 2018•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 241
Guy Sebastian is a singer, songwriter and producer from Sydney, Australia. He’s on instagram and twitter @guysebastian The first winner of Australian Idol back in 2003, he and I have known each other for most of our careers. We’ve had interviews along the way, at Channel [v] or on radio - but he and I have never spoken like we speak today. Guy Sebastian has an incredible voice, and is a very, very successful recording artist in Australia because he works harder than almost anyone. However along ...
Jun 03, 2018•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 240
Todd Sampson is an adventurer, award-winning documentary-maker, television presenter and businessman. Originally from Canada, he’s made a home for himself in Australia where he rose to become one of the most influential business executives in the country. Known to Australians as the guy in the t-shirt on one of Australia’s most successful and longest-running panel shows “Gruen”, Todd’s TV career took on a life of it’s own. Aside from his TV work, Todd's business resume is formidable. He’s the fo...
May 27, 2018•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 239
Jamie Pride is a serial entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and author on a mission to help shift the needle on startup culture. Find him on instagram @ jamiepride We’ve all heard the Cinderella story - two people create an iPhone app, sell their business to Google for $20M after 18 months and now everyone’s taking baths in Lambos and Bitcoin taking Uber Jets to Burning Man. However that’s not the real story. 92% of startups fail. And Jamie has a very real and personal experience of failure. Jamie ...
May 20, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 238
Melissa Ambrosini is an Author, Podcaster and Motivational Speaker. You can find her on instagram @melissaambrosini. Her first book “Mastering your Mean Girl” was an absolute hit, and she’s just released a new book “Open Wide”. We might not all be authors, we might not all reinvent ourselves and work hard to become authorities on self-help and self-love : but all of us have been at rock bottom, and Melissa’s story of how she came back from a place of true darkness and peril is one that will move...
May 13, 2018•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 237
Simon Hill is an entrepreneur and advocate for plant-based eating. Originally from Melbourne, he’s now based in Bondi Beach. You can find him on Instagram @plant_proof and online at plantproof.com - a guide to living a plant-based diet for people who like to be on the more active side of life. Simon’s story is just remarkable. He is one of Australia’s most successful young entrepreneurs, investors, and advisors. As we talked he was very humble about his businesses - just casually dropping that h...
May 06, 2018•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 236
My guest today is elite cyclist Shane Perkins, you can find him on twitter @perkoperkins . Shane is an Olympic Games Bronze Medalist, a world champion team sprinter and a former Keirin track world champion. Shane’s story is one of coming out from under his father’s shadow, committing to a goal and striving for what he wanted. We might not all be track cyclists capable of exploding an astonishing 2500w of power out of our legs, but we all have something that we want to get done. Shane’s story is ...
Apr 29, 2018•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 235
Fraser Bayley is a bodybuilder and trainer originally from NZ and now living in New Orleans, Louisiana. You can follow his adventures at @evolvingalpha on Instagram or FB. Fraser’s story is a heroes journey if ever there was one. From an unwell butcher who lived with a diagnosis of ADHD and then bipolar disorder, to a powerful bodybuilder who has achieved an incredible physique on a vegan diet. However, Fraser’s transformation is way more than physical. The way he describes the dark place he was...
Apr 22, 2018•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 234
Brett Robinson, or Robbo to his athletes and clients, is a high-performance coach who worked for years with the Australian Paralympic team. He’s since branched out into the wider community, hoping to bring his concepts and ideas that he learned and developed over the course of his incredibly successful career with elite athletes, and share them with the wider community. He has an excellent podcast that I highly recommend - Your Life Of Impact, which you can find wherever great podcasts are heard...
Apr 15, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 233
Bernie Black is the CEO of Brave Foundation , and the author of the book "Brave Little Bear: The inspirational Story of a Teenage Mother”. Bernie’s story is not uncommon, but it’s something we don’t really speak about still. Teenage pregnancy. I know that Bernie’s story will resonate with many people listening, and I am sure it might even be confronting to some people listening. Bernie has not only built an incredible life for her son, and now larger family - she’s risen to create an incredible ...
Apr 08, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 232
Luke Heggie is a comedian from Sydney Australia. I’ve known Luke since we were eight and growing up with him and watching his career flourish has been one of the true pleasures of my life. One new year’s day he decided he’d give stand up comedy a go. Less than a month later he’d won his heat in JJJ’s high-profile national Raw Comedy competition, and soon after that had won the whole thing. Since then he’s worked tirelessly to hone his writing, his delivery and his work. He regularly tours intern...
Apr 01, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 231
My guest today is Michael Cassel. He’s an internationally acclaimed theatre producer - when you see Lion King or “Beautiful” the Carole King musical - he’s the man who put everyone together in the same place to make the show happen. Hundreds of people didn’t suddenly decide to learn the same songs and dance routines and turn up in a theatre to perform them in synchronicity with thousands of people deciding to sit in that theatre - he’s the man that makes those moments happen. And he’s been makin...
Mar 25, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 230
Today’s show is with Dr Elise Bailylew, founder of Mindful in May and you can find out about her work at Mindfulinmay.org ( https://www.mindfulinmay.org ) It’s no mistake that Dr Bailylew is on the show today, as you know I’ve been trying to work a mindfulness-based meditation practice into my day as a way to help me deal with life now I’m off meds. It is certainly not enough in itself, but it’s one of the things that I use to help my brain work things out. I wanted to get Dr Bailylew on to mayb...
Mar 18, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 229
Geoff Wilson is a noted figure in the Australian Finance industry, he’s the founder and chairman of Wilson Asset Management. In the last year Geoff was named an officer in the general division of the Order of Australia for services to the business and finance sector, professional financial bodies and the community as a supporter of charitable foundations. I never grew up knowing anything about finance, the stock market, investment - it just wasn’t around me. It was only later in life that I star...
Mar 11, 2018•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 228
Tess Haubrich is an Australian Actor who you can find on instagram @tesshaubrich ( https://www.instagram.com/tesshaubrich ). She's currently starring in Wolf Creek 2, available on demand on Stan in Australia - she’s also in the Ridley Scott film Alien Covenant and kicking ass and taking names in the Jackie Chan film Bleeding Steel. She’s an absolute badass and proved this by showing up at the apartment with her 2yr old when the sitter didn’t eventuate. So, through this show you’ll hear the occas...
Mar 04, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 227
Sandra Sully is Australian Journalism Royalty. She’s the Senior News Editor for Network Ten News and has been the Anchor of their afternoon bulletin for more than a decade. She's on Twitter @sandra_sully (https://twitter.com/Sandra_Sully). Sandra is an astonishingly focused person, her dedication and drive to do great work is undeniable as you’ll hear in this conversation. In a time when news of varying reliability is coming at us from every angle ten times a minute through our phones, the role ...
Feb 25, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 226
Beverley Mirolo OAM is the chairman of the Leukaemia Foundation Australia and she’s participating this year in the world’s greatest shave. Bev’s got an incredible story - she grew up in country Queensland, trained as a nurse from the age of sixteen and is still a RN now in her 70s. Through her work she had first-hand exposure to the challenges faced by people living with blood cancers. She started working at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in 1980 where she played a major role in the planning and de...
Feb 18, 2018•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 225
Yumi Stynes is a Radio & TV Presenter, Podcaster, Photographer and writer from Sydney, Australia. You can find her on twitter and instagram @yumichild. She and I have known each other for 18 years now, and I get a bit teary at the end of this one when I start telling her how happy I am that she’s still in my life. Yumi and I got together at the house where she lives with her wonderful family, to talk about her new book. Look, there’s a lot of swearing in this episode - but we’re all grownups...
Feb 11, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 224
Lucy Durack is a singer and actress from Australia who came to prominence as Glinda the good witch in the Australian production of Wicked. Lucy's method for creating the life she desired is astonishing. You can follow Lucy on Twitter @lucydurack ( https://twitter.com/lucydurack ) Her story of how she manifested her dream role, how she stayed ready for when the opportunity came her way - is incredibly inspiring. I can't wait for you to hear this. You can see Lucy perform in Wizard Of Oz, which ju...
Feb 04, 2018•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 223
Hilary Innes is an Executive Producer at Network Ten, and she oversees the shows that I work on, including Bachelor, Bachelorette and the soon to be seen Bachelor in Paradise. Hilary is a legend of the Australian TV industry, and we talk all about her time working closely with Ray Martin during the heady days of the Midday Show on 9 - and yes, the famous Normie Rowe/Ron Casey punch-out segment was one she produced and she tells the whole story in this conversation. Hilary went on to be the Head ...
Jan 28, 2018•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 222
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Jan 24, 2018•55 min•Ep. 221
