Despite being born without the lower half of his left leg, it didn't really occur to Don Elgin or his parents that he had a 'disability' until he was in high school. In fact, when he told his parents about a thing called the Paralympics - a big event called for people with disabilities - his dad told him in no uncertain terms that he didn't have one. Well three Paralympics, four World Championships and one Commonwealth Games later, we catch up with the one-legged bloke who doesn't have a disabil...
Dec 06, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 1727
Does sugar really cause ADHD? The answer might surprise you. In this Episode of TYP, our resident exposer of bullsh*t, revealer of truth and all-round killjoy (David Gillespie) takes us on another rollicking ride into the world of nutritional deception, misinformation and dubious health tick endorsements by dubious organisations recommending junk food masquerading as nutrition. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 05, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 1726
If you don't already know, play therapy is a real thing. An actual evidence-based treatment protocol that's currently being used with children in a broad range of settings and with great success. Less pills, more monkey bars, I say (do monkey bars still exist?). This was a fascinating chat with Dr. Sam Casey about the power of play as a potential tool for the treatment and/or management of a broad range of psychological, sociological, emotional and behavioural issues and as l often do, I learned...
Dec 04, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 1725
Jamie Stedman wears a number of hats to cover his delightfully bald head; he's a resilience workshop facilitator for businesses and organisations looking to support their employees in challenging work environments, a men's behaviour change facilitator with a large nonprofit organisation working with domestic violence offenders, and he works one-on-one with people navigating grief and trauma through the Rural Fire Service. As someone who grew up in a household that revolved around his stepfather'...
Dec 03, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 1724
At 17, Matt De Gruchy was legally blind, morbidly obese (over 150kgs at 170cm), on numerous drugs, dealing with a rare disease, trying to survive crippling anxiety and depression, becoming more and more isolated and socially disconnected and understandably, hating (his version of) life. To say that he has turned it all around, is a massive understatement but as you'll hear in this episode, he is indeed an inspirational young man with a great vision doing amazing things and helping countless peop...
Dec 02, 2024•50 min•Season 1Ep. 1723
Retirement is an interesting idea. In our culture, it's seen as a good thing. A reward for decades of toil, work and sacrifice; the trophy at the end of the career marathon, with the idea being that our life will be better (and so will we) once we transcend the work phase of our existence. Without spoiling what's to come in this episode, I'm of the opinion that retirement is not arbitrarily 'good or bad' but I do think it's important to consider the 'when, how and why' behind our retirement and ...
Dec 01, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 1722
Heston Russell has been through some horrible sh*t; physical, mental, emotional, personal and professional. Some of it he was highly trained for, some of it he wasn't. Some of it he chose, some of it he didn't. And while you might think his biggest challenges would have been as a Special Forces Officer in the middle of combat situations around the world, the reality is different. If you haven't watched the Channel 7 'Spotlight' doco that unpacks Heston's fascinating (and harrowing) journey to he...
Nov 30, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 1721
Just over four years ago, D'Andre Ricks was coming to the end of a lengthy prison sentence for selling drugs. Specifically, he went inside for being in possession of a kilo of cocaine. Today the guy who was fighting on the streets and involved in criminal activity from the age of twelve, is a dad (of three), a fiancé to Demi (hurry up and get married Mate), a business owner (Iron Monk Fitness), an Exercise Scientist (who topped his year at Uni), an Educator and one of the nicest blokes you'd eve...
Nov 29, 2024•55 min•Season 1Ep. 1720
Patrick slices virtual targets in half with his virtual sword, in a virtual world, while wearing his virtual reality goggles and then wonders why I hesitate to pay him a visit. This was another hour of pseudo tech talk, laughter and mayhem. Proceed with caution. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 28, 2024•58 min•Season 1Ep. 1719
Today we are revisiting one of my favourite chats with Dave Hughes. Hughesy is an Aussie icon, best known for his work on the telly, radio and comedic stage. And while I love Hughesy the performer, the bloke I got to chat with in this episode is a fascinating, deep-thinking, philosophical, meditating (twice a day), self aware human who is finding his calm in the chaos. And yes, he's still silly and funny but we already knew that. Enjoy :) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 27, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 1718
Radio host and TV personality Gus Worland is a ripper. I absolutely loved this chat with a great human who's doing great things to help other humans in need of someone to listen, care, support and occasionally, hug. Apart from being a well-known and highly-respected media performer (whose best Mate is Hugh Jackman), Gus is also the driving force behind Gotcha4Life; a charity working to prevent suicide and break the stigma around mental health issues. This was a warm, insightful and funny chat wi...
Nov 26, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 1717
I’ve spent most of my adult life turning theoretical 'somethings' in my head, into actual 'somethings' (businesses, programs, services, products, podcasts, books, speaking career) in the real world. In this episode of TYP, I offer ideas and strategies for those of you who might be considering turning that potential something in your head into an actual something that people can experience in the real world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 25, 2024•31 min•Season 1Ep. 1716
I had intended to do an entire episode with Tiff around the concept of 'turning an idea into a reality' and by the time we finished our preamble, we had taken a left turn at "guess what I did this morning" and thirty minutes had evaporated. All I can tell you is that the unplanned chat revolved around health, movement and ageing, that it was broadly relevant and we had fun. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 24, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 1715
You and I are creatures of habit, good and bad. We don't always do things because they 'work', we do them because we did them Yesterday. Last week. Month. Year. We do them because, we're sleepwalking through (parts of our) life. We do them because they're familiar, not effective. Because our parents did them, so now we do. We do them because they are habits we unconsciously adopted, not actions we consciously chose. And then one day, we find ourselves trapped in a psychological, emotional and be...
Nov 22, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 1714
Gillespo's back chatting about the new Al (a fake old lady, who's super chatty) designed to keep scammers on the phone, wasting their time and reducing their capacity to scam actual people (f**k those scammers). We also talk about Bunnings getting 'in trouble' for using face-scanning technology without the consent of their customers, the potential nefarious applications of such technology, me being filmed while I buy my groceries, the idea that 'being busy' might be good for people with ADHD, Ti...
Nov 21, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 1713
So I just met Dr. Jeffrey Gross on the podcast and I loved him so much that I asked him to be a regular on the show and he said yes. Giddy-up. I love my job and the fact that I get to 'hang out' with people who, in any other situation, l'd never even meet, let-alone become friends with. So good. In broad terms, we chatted about the evolution, attitudes, cults, limitations, pros and cons relating to the world of allopathic (Western) medicine, alternative treatments, biohacking, regenerative medic...
Nov 20, 2024•47 min•Season 1Ep. 1712
In this episode, Dr. Bill Sullivan (our favourite award-winning professor, author and science superstar from the Indiana University School of Medicine), tells us about being evolutionarily equipped for predators and dangers that no longer exist, and what impact that kind of hypervigilance can have on our mind, body, emotions and in general terms, our health. We also chat about status hierarchy (it's been around for millennia) and our need to feel superior, important and valued. We learn that sto...
Nov 19, 2024•50 min•Season 1Ep. 1711
Interpersonal intelligence is the ability to understand, interact, and communicate effectively with others in a range of settings and situations. It's about being able to 'read the room'. Know what to say and not say. And how. And when. And how much. And to whom. It's about knowing what's 'being said' when nobody's talking. It's about understanding someone else's reality in the moment. That your intention is probably not their experience. That your 'funny' is their offensive. Your clear concept,...
Nov 18, 2024•46 min•Season 1Ep. 1710
Bianca Chatfield and I were recently on Musical Theatre Superstar Josh Piterman's Podcast - Behind the Mask - and we had a ball chatting about all-things 'success'; the idea, the process, the experience, the appearance, the illusion and the science (art?) of it. This TYP episode is what's called (on Planet Podcast) a co-share, thanks to Josh and the good folk at Rolln Media. Enjoy. @gobehindthemask @joshpiterman @biancachatfield @rolln.media See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 17, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 1709
Bianca Chatfield and I were recently on Musical Theatre Superstar Josh Piterman's Podcast - Behind the Mask - and we had a ball chatting about all-things 'success'; the idea, the process, the experience, the appearance, the illusion and the science (art?) of it. This TYP episode is what's called (on Planet Podcast) a co-share, thanks to Josh and the good folk at Rolln Media. Enjoy. @gobehindthemask @joshpiterman @biancachatfield @rolln.media See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 16, 2024•47 min•Season 1Ep. 1708
12,688 - that's how many unread emails I have in my inbox and for some amusing (to me) reason, it gives Patrick anxiety. I should probably be concerned but he seems to be doing a great job, so l'll leave the worry to him and save myself some energy. This episode was the usual informal, freestyle, periodically-inappropriate affair, masquerading as an episode about tech. You've been warned. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 15, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 1707
I have a body but l'm not a body. I think things, know things, believe things and want things but l'm not thought, not knowledge, not a belief and not a goal. And of course I do things, own things, achieve things and create things but neither am I an action, possession, achievement or an outcome. And in the middle of all the things I'm not, there I am. Who I am to you, is not who I am to my mum, not who I am to my friend, not who l am to a stranger and not who I am to me. Identity is indeed a sl...
Nov 14, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 1706
Apart from being a friend, Kate Save is also the CEO and Co-founder of Be Fit Food, a Clinical Dietitian, Exercise Physiologist, Diabetes Educator, Corporate Speaker, TV Presenter, Entrepreneur and one-woman force of nature on a mission to help Australians improve their health outcomes. Kate dropped some serious knowledge (and truth bombs) in this chat. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 13, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 1705
Today I put my Exercise Scientist hat on and talk about some of the myths, mistakes, misconceptions and common misunderstandings people have about exercise. And of course, I share some general thoughts, suggestions and overall recommendations (but no personal prescription, of course). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 12, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 1704
Hi Team, I'm tied up with grown-up things today, so l have decided to share a (very) brief episode that I recorded last year for 'LIFE' about the opportunities, growth, insights and benefits (yes, benefits) that can accompany failure. Consider it a mini coaching session. See you tomorrow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 11, 2024•11 min•Season 1Ep. 1703
At 43, Nicole Liddell had never been to University, didn't know the difference between an undergraduate and post-graduate degree, was a single mum of three (still is), was living below the poverty line and struggling to feed her kids, was navigating numerous psychological, emotional and physiological issues, was a victim of domestic violence, had very little self-esteem, self-worth, self-belief or confidence, and to say that her future wasn't looking bright, would have been a massive understatem...
Nov 10, 2024•52 min•Season 1Ep. 1702
Hi Team, up to my blurry eyeballs today (Saturday as I type) in PhD writing, so today we’re revisiting an episode from a while back, that was very well received. See you on the morrow with a freshie. *Treading water. Spinning our metaphoric wheels. Stuck in a Groundhog Day of mediocrity, dissatisfaction and frustration. Wasted time, talent and energy. Thinking, habits, behaviours, rituals and fears that keep us trapped in a prison of our own making. This episode is a workshop (of sorts) about st...
Nov 09, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 1701
Not sure what's happening at TYP Central but boy, we've been having some very real, organic, unplanned and vulnerable conversations lately. We go in with an idea of what we might talk about and end up somewhere totally different. We plan for Sydney but end up in Perth. In this episode, the emotional curtain gets pulled right back and Tiff and I talk about her ‘motorbike riding buddy’ who’s “definitely not her boyfriend” (ahem..), living in an emotional, psychological, behavioural, and/or sociolo...
Nov 08, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 1700
(*Read the following synopsis in a cheesey radio voice for optimal effect)... Are all politicians psychopaths? Can ice baths 'treat' addiction? Has Gillespo ever ridden a motor bike? Why are Aussies becoming more distrusting? Is honesty a dying quality? Is it prudent to assume that people could be lying? All this (and more) in today's riveting instalment of (make your internal voice cheesier and a bit echo-ey.. the You (you, you) Project (project, project). See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...
Nov 07, 2024•31 min•Season 1Ep. 1699
What is the relationship between the situation we find ourselves in, and our experience in the middle of that situation? How much of our experience is created by the situation, and how much is created by us? My friend Joel Sardi does life from a wheelchair. He has a C5 spinal cord injury, no feeling from the chest down, some use of his arms, limited motor skills with his hands, a myriad of other physiological and practical challenges and in the middle of what is (from the outside looking in) a h...
Nov 06, 2024•46 min•Season 1Ep. 1698
