The You Project

Among other questions, we explored… what’s the one trait that you keep seeing in people who start their own business? How do you trust again when all trust is broken? How to get past the guilt of putting yourself first? What’s more important to work on; the body or the mind? How do we know we are living in alignment? How do you know that enough is enough and it’s time for change? What’s the most e...

Victor Brick has 35 years of success in the fitness industry and is CEO of Planet Fitness Growth Partners (PFGP), the largest privately owned Planet Fitness franchise with 80+ clubs in the US and Australia. He’s chairman of the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation and a Global Wellness Summit Advisory Board member. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is one of my favourite episodes this year. Maybe, all the years. Harry Sanders is an extraordinary young man, doing extraordinary things. I don’t want to give too much away (and ruin the story) but I came away from this conversation feeling inspired, energised and to be honest, somewhat amazed. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode was a conversation between Melissa and I about the peaks and troughs, challenges and lessons, wins and losses, breakdowns and breakthroughs of our podcasting journey with The You Project (our fourth attempt at a podcast). It’s fair to say that, four hundred episodes in (plus a hundred or so pre TYP), we still don’t have it all sorted and we’re still learning but thankfully, we seem to...

Dr. Tami Roos has a PhD in Parapsychic Science, so it’s not surprising that we slid into some ‘woo-woo’ moments during this chat. Among other things, we spoke about the metaphoric intersection where all things logical, rational and practical collide with all things intuitive and spiritual, or as Tami calls it, ‘The Divine System’. She even took us through a meditative, calming breathing exercise i...

I loved this conversation with Barbara Arrowsmith Young. Such a privilege to chat with someone who is a world-renowned pioneer, researcher and authority in the area of brain training, brain science and neuroplasticity. At the age of six (in the 1950’s) Barbara was diagnosed as having a ‘mental block’, which these days would more accurately be described as, a severe learning disability. Since that...

Mel Tempest is a strong, powerful, no BS woman who grew up in the middle of danger, violence and uncertainty, who was discarded by her mother at eight, who left school at fourteen, who dealt with constant rejection and fear and who, at the age of eighteen, experienced the death of her first child; passing away thirty minutes after being born. Mel is a cancer survivor, a disruptor, a gym owner, awa...

Bobby Cappuccio is back to discuss what frustrates him about the self-help ‘industry’ (programs, products, promotions, promises), how we might navigate our way through the industry bullsh*t (and bullsh*tters) and why he’s started a podcast called ‘The Self-Help Antidote’. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of TYP, Nick Bowditch and I discover that we might be brothers from another mother. It’s seems we have a lot of the same issues, idiosyncrasies, stories and self-doubt. Along the way we discuss the importance of training our brain, age-appropriate behaviour, dealing with praise, self-promotion, starting a speaking career, being a loner, avoiding intimacy and lots more. nickbowditch...

Jason Cunningham (The Practice, Sen Radio, Network Ten and a few books) is a money and business bloke who doesn’t complicate the s**t out of things, doesn’t speak jargon and understands that we (the audience) don’t want a financial lecture but rather, useable, practical and relevant advice about optimising our career, business, money, energy and time. He’s also twenty percent Bogan and twenty perc...

Yet another fascinating chat with TYP favourite Ashok Gupta, exploring physical, mental and emotional health, healing and recovery. Enjoy. guptaprogram.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s fair to say that Don Wood (PhD.) could be considered (by some) to be something of a disruptor when it comes to the understanding, management and treatment of, things like intrusive thoughts, anxiety, depression, PTSD, panic attacks, addiction and even some chronic illnesses such as, auto-immune disorders, thyroid problems, cardiac and gastrointestinal diseases, and even, cancer. I honestly di...

Curiously, sometimes friendships don’t feel very ‘friendly’. You know what I’m talking about. We’ve all been in relationships that felt more like some kind of competition, painful obligation, situational necessity or community outreach project, than a healthy friendship. This brief episode is a quick dive into the ins and outs of friendship in all its’ weirdness, complexity, contradiction and some...

Like (nearly) all of our guests, Dr. Amy Silver is ace. Great communicator, story-teller and educator and she has a capacity to explore (what can be) complicated topics in a fascinating, relatable and user-friendly manner. I loved this chat (mainly about fear). Amy has a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Masters in Forensic Psychiatry, Masters in Performance, Bachelor with Honours in Psychology an...

Is happiness the same as joy? Or ecstasy (the feeling, not the drug)? Is excitement a version of happiness? What about contentment? The absence of anxiety? What about ‘bliss’? What’s that? Is happiness sustainable? Temporary? What role does our mind play? And what about relationships, career and money, what’s their role? Is there a biological component? Are some people genetically predisposed to b...

This episode is part two of our conversation about high-performance. Enjoy. 🙂 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When we hear the term ‘high performance’ what often springs to mind is the uber-successful, high-profile, annoyingly-talented superstars of business, academia, the military, sport, music, media, science, film, politics and so on. But for me (a not-super-talented human), high performance is really about our ability to get the most out of what we have (time, talent, energy, potential, skill, genetic...

Steve Holmes’ company (Springfree Trampolines) makes the world’s safest trampolines and the evolution of their brand and business is a story of creativity, design, engineering, collaboration, innovation, passion, perseverance, courage and significant financial risk. Over the last two decades, Steve and his business partner (Dr. Keith Alexander), have built an amazing organisation, team, culture an...

For this episode of TYP, I sat down (cyber-sat) with gym owners, Russell Jarrett and Brad Cunningham and the three of us waxed lyrical (whatever that means) about thriving, surviving, adapting and dying in the fitness industry. We spoke about the ongoing evolution and changing landscape of fitness in Australia (and beyond), what people want, need and expect from their fitness-health professional,...

What happens when we die? What’s on the other side? Is there another side? Maybe this is the only one? According to my training partner (the Crab) who died for 17 minutes at the gym… “there’s f*ck all.” According to my primary school teachers, there’s heaven (for the good kids), hell (for the bad kids) and purgatory (like an eternal halfway house), probably the best I could hope for. Depending on...

Lisa Tamati is one of the world’s best ultra-endurance athletes, a coach, podcast host, author, speaker and as it turns out, she’s also biohacker (somebody who uses science and technology to improve physiological function, performance, efficiency and outcomes). I can’t give away too much but, I may or may not be buying a hyperbaric chamber, having daily infusions of vitamin C and sleeping upside d...

At nineteen, I was an insecure man-child bench-pressing my way to nowhere in particular but at the same age, Ricardo Martinez was working at the coal face of chaos, taking 911 emergency calls, talking with highly-volatile people in extreme situations, informing and directing police officers, assessing dynamic and evolving scenarios in real time, making in-the-moment judgements and somehow, managin...

The last episode we did with Dr John Demartini almost saw me pull a cognitive hammy, just trying to stay in the conversation. We knew you’d love him as much as we do (and you did), so he’s back again. This time round we wind it back to a slightly easier-to-digest smorgasbord of insights. I even threw in a d*ck joke along the way and the good doc laughed. We talk about our relationship with out job...

Former Secondary Teacher, Exercise Physiologist, Author (Anxious Kids and Anxious Mums), Speaker, Mental Health Consultant, Wellbeing Coach and life-long anxiety sufferer, Dr. Jodi Richardson is back at TYP Central. She always brings great care, compassion, insight and common sense to the show, and this time was no different. Enjoy. drjodirichardson.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...

Is the idea of retirement better than the reality of it? Are people happier when their career is over? Is it a bad idea for some people? Should it be a graduated thing over time or a ‘finish work on Friday and be retired on Monday’, type of thing? Of course, there’s no single answer to these questions but it’s safe to say that the experience of retirement, is not always the theoretical fun-fest it...