The Active, Healthy & Happy Podcast.

This episode of the AHH Pod we have the guru herself, Sue Mayes AM. Physiotherapist, PHD, previous director of Physiotherapy for the Australian Ballet for decades, Sue shares her journey of early career pivots, travelling the world and treating performers while literally carrying her child and treatment table. Then progressing to creating and implementing the physio program at The Australian Balle...

This episode of the AHH Pod we have the powerhouse Physiotherapist, Michelle Bergeron joining us. Michelle leads this conversation as she does with everything in life, authenticity. It's refreshing, creates rapport and provides awesome clarity for her clients and those she teaches and presents to each and every week. We cover Michelle's journey across Cirque du soleil, Aus Ballet, AFL and private...

This episode of the AHH Pod we are grateful to have Sarah Holland, Osteopath and founder of Valley Health Group. Sarah shares her journey from new grad clinician, into buying a business, making all the mistakes but 'failing forward' into creating a team, a clinic and a community that has maximum impact and allows Sarah to have her ideal week. This episode is a great example of balancing backing yo...

This episode of the AHH Pod we are grateful to have Barry Nguyen, Physiotherapist and founder of CliniScribeAI. Barry dives deep on his journey across physio as a practitioner and clinic owner before adding AI tech founder to his weekly flow with CliniScribe AI. We get to hear how Barry blends a passion for helping people into a week that now flexes between clinical hours and AI hours which both h...

This episode of the AHH Pod we are fortunate to have James Ferrie. James is a Podiatrist, highly regarded educator on ultrasound, shockwave and laser and has a clinical focus on regenerative medicine and it's place in Podiatric management. We get into the details of how James crafted a career that is different by continuing to lean into doing different things. From the courses he attended, the que...

This episode of the AHH Pod we are fortunate to have Cameron Bennet, Podiatrist and founder of the Lower Limb Conference. Tickets are still available for The Lower Limb Conference in Melbourne on August 1st, you will have to join the waitlist if you want to attend Brisbane in October (you've got to be quicker!) - check them out here - https://tllc.net.au/ Cameron shares some epic insights on all t...

This episode of the AHH Pod we are fortunate to have John Osborne, PHD, Podiatrist. John shares his journey of diving into every learning opportunity and level up available as a Podiatrist to find his ideal week across clinical load, research, speaking and teaching. Not without its hardship, John shares some helpful insights on what helped him to find his clinical interests, his area of impact and...

This episode of the AHH Pod we are fortunate enough to have Sarah Smith, Osteopath from Move Beyond. Sarah has had one hell of a journey that we get to explore in depth in this episode. Clinically across rural, city and international clinics Sarah levelled up in areas that were ahead of the times while also battling a personal health diagnosis and having twins along the way. If you are in need of...

This episode of the AHH Pod we are fortunate enough to have Wynter Chan, Exercise Physiologist from Melbourne Yoga & Pilates along for the ride. Wynter has had a career spanning academia, managing course curriculum, managing elite athletes into founding Melbourne Yoga & Pilates are growing it into the success that it is today. Today we cover great ground on career progression, how Wynter wanted to...

Victoria Chambers, Osteopathy and Head of Eduction at Move Beyond joins us today for a look at her career journey so far. An arts degree, into Osteo as a mature age student, some big career pivots that stretched Victoria's comfort zone and how there is epic value in being present in the moment, using your learnings and experience in relation to the human in front of you and why we need to stick to...

ProFeet Podiatrist Maddie Brown brings nothing but the hits to this Pod. Awesome insights into early career actions that set her up for success, how Mads worked her network to help facilitate her endorsement, how parenting has been a gift professionally with empathy, time management and getting things done in the moment and how all of this translates into how Maddie runs her mentoring sessions now...

Sports Physio Emma Draffin joins us on the Pod for an insightful look back at her journey into physio, the pivots in her private practice roles and her approach to health care and how she has come out the other side loving her impact and her life flow. Plenty of awesome actions in this chat as we dive into the opportunties, the hard things, the good and the bad that Emma experienced but how it all...

Footwear guru Brett Davis from ProFeet Footwear joins us today to talk about his journey from design and singage to retail director. This is an epic example of finding something that is both scary and exciting, backing yourself in, leaning on the mentors around you and committing to the journey to create awesome outcomes. If you have ever felt stuck, unsure of the next move or whether the timing i...

Today on the Pod we have David Spithill, Titled MSK Physiotherapist and Group Partner at Healthia. David is a guru when it comes to client communication, mentoring younger practitioners and leaning into to find out what drives and helps people best whether they are clients or practitioners. We cover his own journey from grad to management to ownership and the lessons he discovered along the way to...

An episode from the vault! Thank you to Michelle Funder from Move Beyond for sharing this recording from 2022. In this episode I go from host to guest where we explore my early post grad years, the clinical and non clinical learnings, the real world application and how I continue to iterate to find my best version of weekly flow and peak performance. Hope it gives you some food for thought and som...

Today we are fortunate enough to have Anabelle Hawkins, Podiatrist from ProFeet joining us. Anabelle is a certified guru on so many aspects of health. Belle combines an elite Podiatric skillset with a world class knowledge base on levelling up your mindset, mindfulness, goal setting, breath work amongst others to enhance your personal and professional life. Belle covers her journey in Podiatry so...

Annie Strauch, Physiotherapist and Managing Director of Performance Medicine joins us on the AHH Pod today. Annie is an absolute superstar. We cover her new grad physio journey from working in a public hospital setting, to setting off to London, starting 3 jobs, across 6 days and finding her way into a role supporting performers from London's West End. This career pivot into vocal and performance...

Zahra McDonald, 4th year UniSA Podiatry student joins us on the AHH Pod today. What an awesome chat! Zahra offers great insights into her journey to choosing Podiatry and a career in health, her challenges and hurdles along the way and how she has blended her interests in health with social media to create a 20,000+ following across TikTok and Instagram helping both University and High School stud...

Podiatrist and member of the ownership team at ProFeet, Roise Whiting joins us on the AHH Pod today. Rosie shares such great insights into her journey from part time, commuting new grad to business ownership, being an Endorsed Podiatrist and hitting the goals she sets for herself. If you feel like you're stuck doing hard things and not getting anywhere this is the Pod for you to see the value in p...

Osteopath and Founding Director of Beyond, Michelle Funder, joins us on the AHH Pod today. Michelle shares an epic story of her own career journey from jumping into the deep end in an overseas role with a cold call as a grad, to starting her own clinic to now growing her impact across mentoring, leadership, ownership and advocacy roles within the health space. This is a testament to leaning into t...

Podiatrist Blake Withers joins us on the AHH Pod today. Blake shares so many of his learnings from doing hard things early, saying yes to everything and working out the details later, the power of great mentors, what he would do differently if he was a new grad now and how he has built a career across clinical work, research, presenting and podcasting. Lock in for the next 40 odd minutes as this o...

Sports Podiatrist Oliver Tate from ProFeet joins us on the AHH Pod today. Oli shares his experience with switching from Pod to Physio and back again and how the ability to re-tool and add more treatment options, more insights and more impact helped to create his ideal week now managing a private clinical load, a consulting role at AFL level as well as business and mentoring roles at ProFeet. Set y...

Sports Chiropractor, Luke Nelson, joins us for an epic chat that covers leaning into lifelong learning, the importance of observing and listening more than we speak, how early career Luke struggled with poor client feedback and what he did to level up, how to improve client compliance and how to find your version of great flow in a working week and a career. Plenty to marinate on in this episode a...

Podiatrist Andrew Crutch joins us for a deep dive into what creates awesome consults and epic client results. Andrew speaks about his 20 year career journey, the lessons learned along the way and how his approach has changed over time to value the details that lead to clients smashing their movement goals. Plenty to learn from the great man in this discussion - enjoy! We hope that you enjoy the pe...

Physiotherapist Steve Ooi joins us for a masterclass in clinical and career mentorship. Steve covers his own progression from new grad physio to his now senior clinician and leadership role with Kieser, how he learned to ask for help and lean into those around him and why having deep partnerships with a small amount of other health professionals leads to better client outcomes. This is a ripper an...