Damien Woolnough is the the former editor of Vogue.com.au , deputy editor of Elle magazine and fashion editor of The Australian. 2018 has seen Damien step out from behind the masthead of other magazine titles to launch his own online publication: Marry the Man, a luxury lifestyle online platform and one-stop-shop for the increasing wave of men looking to do just what the title says - perfectly timed with the changing of the law in support of gay marriage in Australia earlier this year. Marry the...
Feb 19, 2019•54 min•Season 3Ep. 18
My guest today is journalist, author and documentary filmmaker Kale Brock. Kale cut his teeth in the media landscape as a teenage presenter on the TV series Totally Wild - AKA my childhood dream job. This year has seen Kale tour the country to promote his feature-length documentary The Gut Movie, a cinematic and widely accessible investigation into how our gut health can influence everything from our immunity to our happiness. Kale is my favourite kind of creative. He is a renaissance man with a...
Oct 25, 2018•58 min•Season 3Ep. 17
My guest this week is designer, artist and pop-phenomenon Stavroula Adameitis - though you may know her by her pop art moniker, Frida Las Vegas (www.instagram.com/fridalasvegas). I have long been a fan of Stav’s creative output, from her illustration, to her actually LOL-inducing Instagram captioning for said illustration, to the practical application of her aesthetic through jewellery design and now fashion and textiles and a foray into the “serious art world” through gallery shows and neon-fus...
Sep 06, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Gwendolynne Burkin is part of an exciting generation of Australian fashion designer that came up a the late 90s independent fashion boom time alongside alum such as Akira Isagowa and Lisa Gorman. But since then, a lot has changed in the Australian Fashion industry. Many of the names defined that period - how we dressed, what our high streets looked like, and the way Australian style was defined in the eyes of the world - have disappeared due to influences like highly competitive off-shore produc...
Jul 08, 2018•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Jez Smith is a photographer. He as created arresting images of world-famous talent such as: Christy Turlington, Cate Blanchette, Serena Williams, Miranda Kerr, Megan Gale and Jennifer Hawkins. And he has shot for publications like: Vogue Italia, Hapers Bizarr UK, Instyle, Elle, GQ and The Australian's Wish Magazine (my personal favourite). When it comes to shooting high-end fashion photography in Australia, Jez Smith has a reputation for being one of the best in his field. Why then, after almost...
Jul 04, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 14
For as long as I’ve known her, Mel Brady has been a stylist. However in the last couple of years, she has made the transition to model. And while this doesn’t sound too unusual in this, the era of ‘the slashie’, what is unique about this situation is that Mel is her mid-fifties… which has then meant she has added another slash to her career catchphrase: activist. Because, I found out, being a women in your fifties who decides not to fade into sexless oblivion IS is act of social rebellion - part...
Jun 08, 2018•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 13
What does it take to make work that is excites people on a national and international level? What are you prepared to do in order to make work you are truly proud of? My guest this week is theatre writer and director Declan Greene. He has a body of work that spans every major theatre institution in the country. He got his start in Melbourne’s literal and figurative underground - staging plays in underground carparks and building sites - and is now of the best regarded theatre makers of his gener...
May 27, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Lillian Ahen AKA Flex Mami is a DJ, an MTV host and a content creator... and a social media genius. Having come from a background working in PR to realising that she may as well just use the skills she was applying to working with brands on behalf of influencers for herself, she has launched and continued to reinvent her own career, leveraging off her self-identified USPs and boldly going after the sort of opportunities she once helped create for others. Flex has been that frustrated creative wo...
May 09, 2018•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 11
What does it take to be one of the most in-demand creative thinkers in Australian radio? I thought I’d ask Sam Cavanagh. He’s been a producer at Southern Cross Austereo since the early 2000s, and is best known for producing his good mates Hamish and Andy, but has has also acted as producer and a creative consultant on a countless other radio shows across the Austereo, Hit and Triple M networks. Sam Cav is revered in his industry. There’s no one who does what he does better. I wanted to chat to S...
Apr 25, 2018•52 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Today I’m chatting with Jan Fran: journalist, commentator, writer and host of the SBS nightly news show, The Feed. We have a practical chat about how to define and grow a personal brand. For many, this concept is still a bit on the nose, but it interested me to talk to Jan about it because she’s not an ‘influencer' - she’s a current affairs journalist - and yet she still needs to think about how to represent her work and elements of her personal life and process via social media in order to defi...
Mar 26, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Nick Fordham is a name that is mostly known inside the Australian media industry. He is a talent manager for a number of Australia’s best known media and sporting personalities. Possibly his most celebrated client in recent months has been Lisa Wilkinson, who Nick has worked with for over a decade. Nick Fordham is an ideas man. He belongs to a category of creative thinker that I like to call 'the strategist'. His super power seems to be in zooming out to see the bigger picture, observing how sys...
Dec 13, 2017•59 min•Season 2Ep. 8
My guest this week is Em Rusciano, who some of you may know as a top-rating breakfast radio host, a stand up comedian, singer, author, one time Australian Idol contestant and champion of all that is camp and glitter-encrusted. Em and I go a long way back- like ‘90s' "a long way back" and when I first thought about doing a podcast, she was one of the first people I couldn’t wait to talk to because she is the living embodiment of so many of the ideals that I’m hoping to champion with this podcast....
Nov 21, 2017•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 7
I like to start by asking my guests, 'when people say to you 'what to you do', what do you tell them?’ because for many people what we do can come to define who we think we are. Not having a job is often considered worse than having a job that makes you really unhappy. The security and structure offered by a role or a company is valued so highly, many people are content to stick around long after realising it’s not for them. After 17 years, rising up the ranks working in radio and network televi...
Nov 11, 2017•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 6
My guest today is Reece Carter, AKA The Herb Nerd, who has taken his love of creating remedies from things grown in his garden to building a platform where he can share ideas via videos for social media, TV appearances, speaking gigs and now books. Reece talks about his daily process, his mindset and even his fears in stepping out from his work as a naturopath working one-on-one with clients, into the media space where he is now sharing ideas with a much broader audience. This is one of my most ...
Oct 19, 2017•58 min•Season 2Ep. 5
This week my guest is Callum Francis, the star of Kinky Boots, which is just about to finish it’s Australian theatrical run after playing in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Kinky Boots is the Broadway & Westend hit musical about a guy who inherits a shoe factory and the drag queen who inspires him to think outside the box - and make women's shoes for men who dress as women. The show's themes of celebrating diversity couldn’t be more apt now. It’s almost as if it was meant to come into the ma...
Oct 11, 2017•47 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Jess Harris is the co-creator of the 'Twentysomething' - now screening on Netflix. Born out of the fear of not knowing how to 'be good at life' in her twenties - she and creative partner in crime, Josh Schmidt wrote, directed and starred in a no-budget series that went from community TV to the ABC - and even to flirtations with Hollywood. I caught up with Jess - appropriately raspy-voiced on the Monday morning after a big weekend - to talk about the highs and lows on her continuing journey of le...
Sep 28, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 3
When does time stop for you? When do you find yourself so deep in flow that an hour can fly by like a minute? Well that’s a great way to know that you are tapping your passions. For my guest, who you may know as the wellness influencer Lola Berry, that feeling can come from cooking, writing about cooking - she’s now written 10 healthy eating books - teaching and practicing yoga and making video content. She’s also a public speaker and TV presenter, she has a smoothie bar in South Melbourne calle...
Sep 21, 2017•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 2
My guest this week is Harvey Miller. He and Monty Morgan are the front men and masterminds behind Client Liaison, who have been carving a niche in the Australian music scene for over five years. What started as the most ‘Melbourne' of concepts: a party-band with an irony-infused, 80’s pop aesthetic, has since become a national - and now international - sensation. There is so much to discuss when it comes to the Client Liaison offering: the music, the videos, the theatre of their live shows, thei...
Sep 09, 2017•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 1
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Sep 09, 2017•5 min•Season 1Ep. 14
DJ and artist an club auteur Levi Cross - also known by the club moniker Salvador Darling - is riding a wave of Melbourne nightlife renaissance. In a time when Sydney and Brisbane struggle to find their dancing feet amidst increasing government restriction, Melbourne’s nightlife is ever-diversifying, ever expanding. Levi has been a part of the Melbourne night-life scene for over ten years - since he was 16. In previous of this podcast episodes I have spoken to creatives whose canvas was the phot...
Jan 13, 2017•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 13
You may know her from her work as a national radio host on both KIIS and Nova FM (right now she hosts the 3PM pickup on KIIS with Meshel Laurie) or you may have seen on the ABC quiz show Tractor Monkeys or through guest appearances on shows like Talkin’ Bout Your Generation, The Project, The Today Show, Weekend Today or The Circle. However, the endeavour I was most looking forward to talking to Monty about was a creation that was all her own: Show and Tell Online, which is a website, a podcast a...
Nov 29, 2016•41 min•Season 1Ep. 12
2016 has been a 'tipping point’ year for documentary maker and content creator Kirk Docker. After years of producing clever and subversive video and TV as a gun for hire, he has championed his own projects, making not one but two series for ABC. Earlier this year ‘Hello Stranger’, a beautifully shot vox-pops series, asked everyday Australians personal yet universal questions and then followed one of them home to document their life. This was followed by the release of 'You Can’t Ask That’, where...
Oct 13, 2016•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Shannon Dooley's weekly aerobics class Retrosweat gives patrons an authentic 80s aerobics workout - in multiple locations across Sydney each week. Every class is an utterly immersive experience, from the choice of mirrored-wall dance studios where the classes take place, to the height of Shannon’s blonde mullet to the array of high-cut G-string leotards worn by teacher and punters alike. Over the four years she has been leading the retro revival, Shannon has expanded her offering into collectibl...
Jul 27, 2016•39 min•Season 1Ep. 10
My guest is Lewis Hobba, whom some of you may know as one part of Veronica and Lewis - of the Triple J drivetime show. Lewis is a friend of mine, and the thing I enjoy most about him is his ability to balance his wit and cynicism with being absolute delight. In Lewis’ hands, humour is a sport where offers are returned with increasing abstraction. He is so quick, so innately funny - I love talking to him as much about philosophies as I do trivialities. He is another candidate for someone I know w...
Jul 19, 2016•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Emeli Paulo is a creative, but in different way to anyone else I’ve spoken to for The Naked Creative so far. She is the founder of Collective Potential – a social enterprise intent on creating change for individuals - and the world. Emily Paulo uses creativity as a tool to facilitate expression, exploration and breakthrough. This podcast was recorded before she launched the wildly successful ‘Collective Potential Podcast’, which has topped iTunes charts and not only shared the ideas of many dyna...
Jul 07, 2016•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 8
Kupono is a dancer for Madonna. I know. He has performed with through two world tours, three major music videos and her monumental SuperBowl performance of 2012, which is where it all began for his working relationship with one of the world’s longest standing, most successful pop stars. Kupono - or Pono for short – has finally landed back home in Hawaii after 15 months on the road with Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour, in which he performed over 80 shows in over 25 countries. I was interested in what ...
Jun 30, 2016•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 7
My guest is Natalie Harris, a stand up comedian who has been making a name for herself on the Melbourne comedy scene. For her comedy wasn’t a latent discovery - she has long thought it was “the only thing she was good at” - but the decision to act on that impulse to follow her creative pursuits has only come about towards the end of her twenties - and only now, a few years in, is she discovering her voice. Nat is one of a handful of people in the world that makes me literally LOL whenever I am i...
Jun 15, 2016•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Lachy Rose is the singer/songwriter and core member of the band Cousin Tony's Brand New Firebird which has been feted by Triple J and currently playing shows around Melbourne. Lachy is someone who I love to get together with to talk about creative process. He is a master of observing and fostering his artistry and it’s evident in his music: which is rich, varied and textured and wise beyond it’s years. It was conversations like the ones I would have with him that made me want to start this podca...
Jun 09, 2016•48 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Greg Waters has been an executive producer, writer and show-runner on a number of great Australian drama series. His credits include: Rake, Anzac Girls, Janet King, Paper Giants, Devil’s Dust, An Accidental Soldier, The Straights, Crownies and Dance Academy. Yet up until his early thirties he was working in politics - until he decided to defect to study at AFTRS, the Australian Film Television and Radio School. His most recent achievements are the second series of the tripped-out sketch comedy s...
Jun 01, 2016•58 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Tom Blachford and Kate Ballis are one of my favourite creative couples. They are both photographers, though this hasn’t always been the case. For the first few years of their relationship, it was only Tom who was the photographer, while Kate was working as a lawyer. Yet what started as a shared passion between them has grown into a thriving art practice and ever-expanding commercial endeavour. They have built a highly successful wedding photography company, RaspberryRobot, which allows them to s...
May 24, 2016•53 min•Season 1Ep. 3
