Kylie Rogers is one of Australia’s leading commercial and media executives. Her current role is Executive General Manager, Customer and Commercial at the Australian Football League (AFL). Her previous roles include National Commercial Director and National Head of Generate at Network Ten, and Commercial Director and Managing Director at Mamamia, Australia’s largest women’s media company, where she oversaw significant growth and profitability for the organisation in Australia and internationally....
Apr 06, 2023•47 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Film director and producer Maree Crabbe has worked with young people and issues affecting young people for more than 20 years. She has developed and delivered programs that focus on sexual violence prevention and sexual diversity and has contributed to public conversations through interviews on television and radio and articles in online and print media. Maree co-ordinates the program Reality Risk: Pornography, young people and sexuality which seeks to support young people and the broader commun...
Mar 01, 2023•47 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Genevieve is best known in her role as National Head of PR and Talent Relations for News Corp Australia. She has also worked on a number of advisory boards including the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Melbourne Press Club, as well as helping out at local sports clubs her children are involved with. Join us for this authentic and genuine conversation with this amazing mum as she shares her stories about her own life and her learnings along the way. We hope you enjoy this episode....
Feb 16, 2023•52 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Kim Kane is an award-winning Australian author of 25 books for children and teenagers. Kim’s books have been published throughout the world and translated into a number of languages. Before she began writing for children, Kim practised commercial law for a decade. Kim is an advocate for children’s writing and sits on the board of the Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation. Kim’s books include the CBCA short-listed picture book Family Forest, and her time-slip children's novel When the Lyrebir...
Feb 01, 2023•43 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Dr Sarah Meachem is an academic research scientist and health research advocate in the area of male reproduction. Sarah’s research has a clinical relevance for men’s health in the better management of male infertility and her work is recognised globally. She is the author of over 80 publications and has received awards for her vision for the nation’s health sector. Sarah completed her PhD at Monash University where she studied the hormone control of testis function. She is a Director of the Aust...
Nov 23, 2022•44 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Roshena Campbell is a barrister and Melbourne City Councillor who is passionate about contributing to Melbourne’s re-emergence as a vibrant and thriving city. She has expertise in commercial law and corporate governance and has represented some of Australia’s largest companies and state and local government bodies. Roshena holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from Monash University and a Masters of Laws from the University of Melbourne. She is a mother to three children. ...
Nov 16, 2022•45 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Martine Oglethorpe is a digital wellbeing and online safe educator, speaker and writer. For over 10 years, Martine’s blog, The Modern Parent , has been a trusted resource for parents on the challenges faced by families in the cyber world and has recently authored a new book, The Modern Parent – Raising a Great Kid in the Digital World. Martine has a background in secondary education, holds a Masters degree in Counselling and is a Mental Health Education Consultant at headspace. She is an accredi...
Aug 25, 2022•37 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Daisy Turnbull is a teacher, director of wellbeing, counsellor and now inspiring author of two books , 50 Risks to Take With Your Kids – A guide to building resilience and independence in the first 10 years and the follow up 50 Questions to Ask Your Teens – A guide to fostering communication and confidence in young adults. The books are underpinned by research and her own experience as a teacher of teens. Daisy is an accredited Lifeline crisis support counsellor and regularly volunteers on the c...
Aug 11, 2022•39 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Matt and Robyn Cronin endured great loss when their son Pat was killed by one coward punch. Since April 2016, Matt and Robyn have dedicated their lives towards research, awareness, and education in ending the coward punch through the Pat Cronin Foundation. The foundation provides free presentations to schools, clubs and community groups, helping young people create solutions to Be Wise, Think Carefully and Act Kindly. Hear Matt and Robyn’s inspirational story, and their fierce determination to h...
Aug 04, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Dr Zac Seidler, is a clinical psychologist, researcher and leading men’s mental health expert. Zac is the Director of Mental Health Training at Movember and Senior Research Fellow with Orygen at the University of Melbourne, Dr Seidler has dedicated his academic and professional career to men’s mental health and masculinity. His goal is to help reduce the staggering rate of male suicide worldwide. Through his research, Dr Seidler has advocated for a change in the way we think about treating men’s...
Jul 21, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Jacqueline Hey is the Chair of the Board of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and is also serving on the Board of Qantas Airways, is a School Council member at Brighton Grammar School and a member of Chief Executive Women. Between 1987 and 2010, Jacquie held several executive positions with Ericsson, including Managing Director, in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Middle East. She was the first female Director of Cricket Australia from 2012 to 2020. Jacquie holds a Bachelor of...
Jun 16, 2022•45 min•Season 4Ep. 2
In a career spanning 30 years, Paul Roos has been an Australian Rules Football player (Fitzroy, Sydney Swans), Head Coach of the Sydney Swans and Melbourne Football Club, media broadcaster and men’s wellness advocate. In 2005, he guided the Sydney Swans to the AFL Premiership, breaking a 72-year drought, and was inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame. He was named All-Australian seven times and, in his prime, was rated the best footballer in Australia. In 2018, Paul founded the Roos Men’s Wellness a...
Jun 03, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Join us for our latest podcast with Jennifer Keyte an accomplished journalist and broadcaster who we all recognise as the news anchor on Network Ten’s, Ten Eyewitness News. Jennifer is one of Melbourne’s most trust and respected presenters with decades of experience. She brings sophistication and glamour to our screens delivering news on politics, crime, justice, general Australian and worldwide news demonstrating an illustrious career. Jennifer commenced her career in radio quickly establishing...
May 12, 2022•34 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Dennis Barbour is the President/CEO of Partnership for Male Youth, Washington, DC which was formed to fill a gap in the health care system for adolescent and young male adults. Dennis attended Georgetown University and Washington College of Law, where he graduated with a JD. He has decades of experience in the non-profit health field, as a CEO and adviser to national and international organisations, and more recently his work has focused on disease co-morbidities and how they relate to the need ...
Mar 17, 2022•47 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Jon Muir OAM a recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to mountaineering, a Centenary Medal and the Australian Geographic Society’s Adventurer of the year. He started climbing full-time as a teenager and since then, he has gained ground-breaking solo records in climbing the south side of Mount Everest and navigating the Kedarnarth Peaks as well as walking to the South and North Poles without huskies or mechanical vehicles. In 2000 Jon paddled a kayak for 52 days along the e...
Mar 10, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Join us as Dr Margie Danchin talks to us about balancing work life as a parent, raising healthy boys and about vaccination, health and impact of the global pandemic. Associate Professor Margie Danchin, an immunisation expert who is a Clinician Scientist at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute at The University of Melbourne and consultant paediatrician at The Royal Children’s Hospital. Dr Margie is chair or a member of many Australian and international immunisation and advisory boards, inclu...
Dec 02, 2021•48 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Alex Rathgeber is an Award-Winning Australian actor, best known for his work as Billy Crocker in Anything Goes , the Tin Man in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Wizard of Oz and his UK performance of Raoul in the 21st Anniversary cast of The Phantom of the Opera in the West End. Originally from Horsham, Alex graduated from the world renowned Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2003, and established an amazing reputation across many performance disciplines including: musical theatre...
Nov 19, 2021•49 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Emma Murray is one of Australia’s leading mindfulness practitioners and high-performance mind coaches. As a former national-level athlete and with a Bachelor of Communications, majoring in Psych, Emma has always been passionate about the mind and performance. Emma works with elite athletes in all sports, corporate executives and companies, students and actors. Her work has played pivotal roles in Richmond Football Club’s 2017, 2019 and 2020 AFL Premierships, Dustin Martin’s three Norm Smith Meda...
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 13
Hunter Johnson is co-founder and CEO of The Man Cave, a charity that focuses on and teaches emotional intelligence to young men (boys aged 12-16) across Australia. He also leads STUFF™, a men's personal care brand that champions healthy masculinity. With a background in emotional intelligence, facilitation and social entrepreneurship, Hunter has worked with thousands of young people across Australia and his work has led to speaking engagements at the United Nations, Government House, Sydney Oper...
Sep 02, 2021•48 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Dr Kylie King, PhD is a Senior Research Fellow at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University. Dr King has a decorated career as a psychologist, with her main focus in suicide prevention research (male focus). Her work centres around developing, implementing and evaluating interventions that can have positive impacts on men’s mental health. Join us for this episode where Dr King talks about her family life, work and research and some of the factors leading to the preval...
Jul 15, 2021•36 min•Season 3Ep. 11
James Tomkins, OAM, is one of Australia’s most established and decorated rowers, having competed in 6 Olympic Games and countless other World Championships and Rowing Cups. He is also the only rower in history to win world titles in every sweep oar event. In 1997 James received an Order of Australia, was named as the Victorian Father of the Year by the Father’s Day Council of Victoria in 2008 and in 2010, he was inducted as a member of the Rowing Victoria’s Hall of Fame as well as being awarded ...
Jun 17, 2021•45 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Dr Matt Englar-Carlson’s work focusses on educating and training professionals about male mental health needs as well as how to work more effectively with boys and men. Matt is a professor of counselling and the Director of the Center for Boys and Men at California State University, Fullerton and a fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr Englar-Carlson’s scholarly interests are focused on how masculinity influences well-being, interpersonal relationships and self-identity. In partic...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Father of three, Daniel Petre, talks about his book ‘Father Time’, an Australian classic. About being a dad and about being mindful as parents, on how to attain balance in a working life, especially as someone who had great success in the corporate world as well philanthropy. Daniel Petre, a philanthropic internet entrepreneur, has been at the forefront of the technology industry in Australia for over 30 years. He is a successful technology executive, and has extensive experience in running larg...
May 13, 2021•45 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Dr Monty Badami looks through an anthropological lens to explore how we can help boys find their place in the world and offers some useful tips that you can use at home. Dr Surmant (Monty) Badami holds a PhD in anthropology and is the founder and CEO of Habitus, a social enterprise that uses anthropology, emotional intelligence and educational psychology to re-humanise schools, communities and businesses. Monty works with schools and communities to help teachers, students and parents to connect ...
Apr 22, 2021•54 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Dr Robert Blum is currently managing a global research project looking at the impact of gender and gender norms in society. In this episode Dr Blum talks about gender norms, the impacts on boys (and girls) while telling some incredible stories from his lifelong experience working with adolescents and paediatric medicine. Dr Robert Blum (MD, MPH, PhD) is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has e...
Mar 25, 2021•43 min•Season 3Ep. 6
In this week's episode, we’re joined by psychologist and international parenting expert, Megan De Beyer. Based in Cape Town, Megan travels the globe promoting positive parenting through workshops in which she guides mothers and helps them navigate the challenges of teenage years. Megan’s mission is to educate parents to help foster connected and meaningful relationships with their children. Megan talks about her new book, the role of nature in a post-pandemic world, and some tips about managing ...
Mar 03, 2021•45 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Dr Arne Rubinstein is an internationally recognised expert in Rites of Passage, adolescent development and parenting. With over 30 years’ experience as a medical doctor, counsellor, mentor, speaker and facilitator, Dr Arne has helped over 100,000 people globally with his program to support young people in making a safe and healthy transition into adulthood. Dr Arne was nominated for Australian of the year in 2008 and is the proud father of two wonderful young men (as well as a mentor to many oth...
Feb 17, 2021•39 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Dr Jacqui True is Professor of International Relations at Monash University where she is Director of the Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre. She is also a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, an Editor of European Journal of International Security, and a former Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Jacqui’s main area of research is focused on the political economy of violence against women, investigating the gender dimensions of violent extremism and terrorism in order...
Feb 04, 2021•43 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Major General Stephen Day, DSC, AM, is a highly decorated soldier who has held senior positions in the Australian Army. General Day’s established reputation as a distinguished and compassionate leader has seen him formally recognised by the Australian Government, the governments of France and the United States and the Queen, who presented him with the Distinguished Service Cross for his leadership in East Timor. However, General Day says that it is the failures that have most shaped his leadersh...
Dec 17, 2020•49 min•Season 3Ep. 2
In this episode we are joined by Will Pucovski, a professional cricketer playing at State level and having been selected to the Australian squad. Will chats to Ray about his professional life, his work as a cricketer and what it has taught him. Will also shares four key questions that he wished he knew as a young man. We hope you enjoy this week’s episode.
Dec 02, 2020•44 min•Season 3Ep. 1
