Checking In #37
Checking in, January 10, 2020 Donate to the RFS Donate to FRRR Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
With every new day comes the opportunity to grow. Hosted by Osher Günsberg - a best-selling author, podcaster, TV host, husband, dad, stepdad, electric mobility enthusiast and part-time climate worrier. This podcast is here to help make today better than yesterday. Since 2013, the show has set out to improve life for you and the people you love. Sometimes it’s authentic conversations. Sometimes we’ll unpack the news or hear how Osher deals with life as a sober person with a different brain. But you’ll always hear something you need to hear (and laugh while you do). Listen to feel less alone, build better habits and discover some solution-based approaches for when life gets tricky.

Checking in, January 10, 2020 Donate to the RFS Donate to FRRR Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Donate to help with Bushfire recovery: https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/ http://frrr.org.au This week's Guest: Dr Nick Fuller is a Leading obesity expert at University of Sydney and RPA Hospital and Creator of Interval Weight Loss. His current position as research program leader within the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney involves working with government and industry to identify and develop cost-effective treatments for the treatment and management of obesity and related physical and...
Checking in, January 3, 2020 Donate to the RFS Donate to FRRR Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Briggs is an Indigenous Australian rapper, actor, comedian, and record label owner from Shepparton, Victoria. From his breakout album in 2009, Briggs has gone on to dominate the hip hop scene here and abroad. He’s released four solo albums, as well as the landmark “Reclaim Australia” with AB Original - an album that spoke volumes to the conversation about race relations in our country. A.B. Original were recently crowned APRA’s 2018 Songwriters of the Year and in 2017 won the ARIAs for Best Inde...
Tanya Hennessy is a comedian, author, broadcaster and YouTube superstar. Tanya has an incredible story to tell, and as a woman in Australian broadcasting has some excellent lessons about success when you’re up against it. A note here at the top of the show. Tanya wrote quite extensively in her book “Am I doing this right?” about body image. She wrote a whole chapter on it. During this conversation she brings it up, and we begin to talk about it. I called her before this originally went out, to d...
Checking in, December 20, 2019 Donate to the RFS Donate to FRRR Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Johann Hari is the author of two New York Times best-selling books. His first, ‘Chasing the Scream: the First and Last Days of the War on Drugs’, is currently being adapted into a major Hollywood feature film, and into a non-fiction documentary series. You can search for his Ted Talk “Everything you know about addiction is wrong” online or in the show notes. His most recent book, ‘Lost Connections: Uncovering The Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions’ really struck a chord wit...
Checking in, December 13, 2019 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Tom Nash aka @DjHookie is a DJ, promoter, speaker and quadruple amputee from Sydney Australia. At 19, Tom contracted severe meningococcal septicaemia which put him in a coma for three weeks, and caused the amputation of both his arms and legs. Tom is a shining light of a human. He was heavily involved in the Sydney party scene, around when I was most definitely out and about. I would bump into him all the time and was always fascinated watching him be able to light a cigarette with his articulat...
Checking in, December 6, 2019 Featuring the amazing Dan Ilic! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dr. Craig Costello is a Senior Researcher in the Security and Cryptography group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, USA. Where his job is to keep what you want secret a secret - basically using some very complex mathematics. He is among a formidable group of cryptographers who’s life’s work is to protect the internet against adversarial code breakers (aka cryptanalysts), both those that exist today in our classical computing world, and those that will exist in a quantum computing future. Needless...
Checking in, November 29, 2019 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rebekah Giles is one of Australia’s top lawyers and non-executive directors, an Ambassador for the Fertility Research Clinic at The Royal Hospital for Women Foundation, a mother, and a survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. 15 years ago, on the 26th of December 2004, a rupture along two tectonic plates - the Burma Plate and the India Plate, caused an undersea megathrust earthquake that shook the earth for a staggering ten straight minutes. The resulting Tsunami waves were up to 30m high and so...
Checking in, November 22, 2019 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ryan Holiday is an author, marketing genius, father, farmer and swimmer based in Austin Texas. Though I didn’t know it at the time, I first became aware of his work when he was in charge of marketing for the now largely defunct clothing brand American Apparel. It was only later when I read his brilliant book “Trust Me, I’m Lying - Confessions of a Media Manipulator” that I gained a scope of how easily what we see and hear and then feel can be so easily dictated to us by outside sources under the...
Checking in, November 15, 2019 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Beau Ryan is a former professional Rugby League player, who has since transitioned into a successful career as a TV and Radio presenter. He’s currently hosting “The Amazing Race Australia” on Network Ten, and has notably been a star of Sunday Night Takeaway, and The Footy Show. Beau’s career and personal life has not been without controversy, and his commitment to have a long hard look at himself, and reapply his energy to an unflinching focus on family and hard work is nothing short of admirabl...
Checking in, November 8, 2019 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Erin Brockovich is probably the most famous name in Law in the world. Making a name for herself when she went up against utility company Pacific Gas & Electric and helped bring together the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit in U.S. history on behalf of the people of Hinkley, CA who had been affected by polluted water. Erin went on to become instrumental in numerous other high profile cases, usually up against massive corporate entities who are using their size to get aw...
Checking in, November 1, 2019 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
DadPod with Charlie Clausen and Osher Günsberg Grab the podcast feed here: https://rss.acast.com/dadpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jesse Israel is a Meditation Leader and founder of The Big Quiet - a movement that brings mass meditations to iconic spaces around the world. He’s been on this podcast before, and I’m so damned happy to have him back to talk about his latest adventure. As someone who does his best to meditate every day, it’s always great to hear from a professional that I should be finding it as hard as I’m finding it sometimes. That in fact is the point. I’ll let Jesse explain it more. If you’ve heard about the...
Checking in, October 25, 2019 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dr Kirstin Ferguson is an Author, Activist, and Australian Corporate Heavy-Hitter from Brisbane Australia. She is Deputy Chair of the ABC and is an Adjunct Professor at the QUT School of Business and has previously been CEO of a global health and safety organisation. Formerly an administration Officer in the Royal Australian Air Force after graduating Dux of her Air Force graduating class at the Australian Defence Force Academy - on graduation, Kirstin was posted to an F-111 Squadron at RAAF Bas...
Checking in, October 18, 2019 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mike Smith is an experienced entrepreneur from Sydney Australia. He’s currently building his 4th business “Zero Co” which aims to pull 1,000,000 plastic bottles out of the system in Australia in their first year of operation. He and I met quite by accident, one day after recording at the Betoota Advocate, I headed down to the Bourke St Bakery to pick up a pie and a tasty treat for my wife, and he was outside having a meeting. We spoke briefly and he told me what he was doing, asked me if I would...
Checking in, October 11, 2019 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Peter Drew is an Artist from Adelaide, Australia. He’s famous for the street poster campaigns that he has put up all over the country - AUSSIE and REAL AUSTRALIANS SAY WELCOME. He holds a Masters Degree from the Glasgow School of Art. His artworks have been exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia and the National Gallery of Australia, though his most prominent work is installed on city streets. He’s written a book about his life, and the adventures and challenges he’s faced doing the art...
Checking in, October 4, 2019 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dr Nick Fuller is a Leading obesity expert at University of Sydney and RPA Hospital and Creator of Interval Weight Loss. His current position as research program leader within the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney involves working with government and industry to identify and develop cost-effective treatments for the treatment and management of obesity and related physical and mental disorders. He’s the Bestselling Author of Interval Weight Loss and Interval Weight Loss For Life....