WHAT I'VE LEARNT

Send us Fan Mail Kate Christie is Australia’s leading time management expert, bestselling author, and dynamic keynote speaker.  With five acclaimed books and a reputation for entertaining, high-impact presentations, she helps individuals and organisations reclaim hours of lost time. Kate empowers her audiences to design lives of purpose through smarter time habits and strategic planning.  A sought...

Send us Fan Mail Nick Bendel is a keynote speaker, corporate trainer, coach and author specialising in social courage. After spending six years having lunch with 500 strangers, he developed a framework that helps people overcome hesitation, build stronger relationships and create more opportunities. Today, he works with organisations and individuals who want to turn potential into action. Through...

Send us Fan Mail Robin Bailey has had the rug pulled out from under her more than most. As her career flourished (Robin is one of Australia’s longest serving female voices on commercial radio), her world fell apart when Tony, the father of their three boys, suicided when their children were aged only 10, 12 and 14. Robin slowly rebuilt their lives, and then five years later, her beloved husband Se...

Send us Fan Mail For almost 30 years Christian O’Connell has connected with millions of people live on air by embracing the unscripted moments that make us human.  He arrived in Australia a complete unknown and took his Melboume breakfast show to number one in just 15 months.  Today he hosts Australia’s first national commercial breakfast show and is the first broadcaster ever to top the ratings i...

Send us Fan Mail New York Times best seller Dr Shefali  joins me to explore the complexity of childrens anxiety, emotional fragility, or vulnerability in today’s chaotic world, and stresses you are not alone. The stats are real! Nearly 60% of teen girls reported persistent sadness - the highest percentage ever recorded. 1 in 3 adolescents experience an anxiety disorder, but girls are nearly twice...

Send us Fan Mail Jason Dunn is an elite, ultra-endurance athlete, having completed more than 14 IRONMAN competitions, multiple ultra marathons, and placing second overall at the Athletics Australia 100k National Road Running Championships. It is through these sporting endeavors that he honed his mindset and resilience.  Jason had a successful career in finance and wealth management. He is a Leader...

Send us Fan Mail Jess Spendlove is a leading voice on wellbeing and high performance Becoming a top performer is about talent, drive and ambition. Staying a high performer is about consistency, habits and non-negotiables. Her journey began as an elite athlete, where she became a state and national swimming champion across breaststroke, butterfly and individual medley. Before moving into the corpor...

Send us Fan Mail Award-winning film & television director Minkie Spiro likes to tell big stories. Her critically acclaimed body of work only proves her innate versatility to create cinematic masterpieces. Her hit series All Her Fault with Aussie Sarah Snook has become a global sensation, beating all records for the platform with over 2 billion hits in the first week. This mystery thriller is S...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Amy Wilson is a senior OCRF ovarian cancer research foundation researcher and endometriosis patient with lived experience including an ovarian cancer scare. Amy brings personal and professional insight to the OCRF mission: to detect ovarian cancer earlier, improve treatment outcomes, and prevent the disease altogether . Having just had her first child she is hopeful and dedicat...

Send us Fan Mail Over the past few years, Em has found herself navigating the end of an 18-year marriage, dating again in her 40s, single parenting, rebuilding her career independently and questioning many of the beliefs she’d carried since childhood about love, worthiness, approval and what it means to be a “good woman.” Her new national tour “Addicted To Love” grew out of that experience, but th...

Send us Fan Mail “We’ve lost the village”: Housing expert Lucinda Hartley on the loneliness crisis hiding in plain sight. Australia is facing a loneliness epidemic and according to housing expert and urbanist Lucinda Hartley, the problem isn’t just our busy lives or screen addiction. It’s the way our cities have been designed. From long commutes and car dependence to apartment buildings that prior...

You’re going to love S helly Horton as she explores all things Peri and Menopause!  She’s transformed her own perimenopause experience into a mission to ensure other women aren’t sideswiped like she was. 💕 Through her book, I’m Your Peri Godmother: A happily-ever-after guide to kicking perimenopause in the ovaries, and her signature sassy delivery, Shelly blends lived experience with expert-backe...

Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850

500+ scuba dives have taught this exec about business leadership D ane Hudson credits the late @visyforabetterworld former CEO Richard Pratt with guiding him on his life’s journey as a young @visyforabetterworld employee. Through half a century in the water, Dane Hudson has mastered the core tenets he brings to business coaching: heightened awareness and disciplined, deliberate action. Global CEO...

Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850

After leaving her 20 year marriage and finding her self single scared and confused in New York Amy @love.amy.nyc ❤️embarked on a brave exploration to find her truth. Now she can charge $40,000 to help others find love which she did ! “I track all of the beautiful love stories that I’ve had the privilege of watching bloom. And one thing they all have in common is this: unbridled and glowing gratitu...

“I did not tell my sister that our other sister was dying. Silence was the right choice, yet murky and painful” In family estrangement, the mud and dirt gets everywhere, Kathryn Heyman writes. “And it is very hard to undo what has been done” She is the author of 9 novels, and the acclaimed memoir, Fury. She has won numerous awards infact almost too many to mention. Her new book “Circle of Wonders”...

Fleur Marks was a high performer who built a successful career on drive and relentless high standards. Until the pace that fuelled this ambition triggered a life-threatening health crisis and landed her in what she describes as the ‘waiting room of death’. Fleur survived. But she also woke up.   Because beneath a polished surface, countless other high achievers are silently exhausted and questioni...

Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/ Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBk Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850

As one of the top endocrinologists in Victoria Dr Nellie Torkamani is spearheading transformation for many women with mid life challenges ranging from menopause obesity to diabetes. Having worked with her on my own personal health journey she has paved the way during midlife for me with clear guidance patience and support.🙏 We explore how the new raft of medications and resources have been transf...

Melissa Browne is an award-winning former accountant and financial advisor who’s spent 20 years building three successful businesses across different industries, and becoming an independent multi-millionaire along the way. She did it after a divorce in her early thirties left her with nothing.   Mel Browne is now a Financial Educator. She has asked thousands of women over the years at events, webi...

Starting the new year with a riveting interview with a brave articulate Australian Iranian medical student who shines the light on the dark depths of a diabolical regime - being the voice for her friends and family struggling in a bloodied and blacked out Iran where up to 20,000 are believe to have been murdered.💔 In a deep dive interview “Sarah” fears for her family left in Iran and even her saf...

Jonah Platt, one of the leading Jewish advocates and speakers globally, and host of the award-winning podcast, "Being Jewish with Jonah Platt," which has featured celebrities and high-profile individuals, such as Tiffany Haddish, Sheryl Sandberg, Van Jones, Ritchie Torres, and beyond. We had a deep dive interview last month never dreaming this carnage at Bondi beach would happen yet both...

As a surreal time in history with confluent sources of rage towards Jews enveloping so many western countries a NYC mayoral race turning into a global media war with nyc home to one of the biggest Jewish populations in the world, yet the biggest hit series in streaming right now is “Nobody Wants This” about an orthodox Rabbi falling in love with a non Jewish woman .. it’s as if the world has gone...

Life is like the ocean. It can be calm or still, and rough or rigid, but in the end, it is always beautiful.” Gerry Lopez   We’ve all been there: Exhausted by one of life’s waves, or maybe it’s turned into a rip. We struggle to keep afloat. Crippled by the fear of the unknown. Hesitant to dive in. Author of 🌊🌊Wisdom from the Ocean, Robert Kenn found many parallels between living his life and wha...