WHAT I'VE LEARNT

Amazing people inspire us to challenge ourselves. This Literacy story went global in many media outlets as it was so inspiring. Amazing People Schools UK supports young people, in both primary and secondary schools, to harness these innate character strengths, believe in themselves, and flourish. An example of this the global literacy success was featured in many international media outlets. It hi...

Kishan Gopal ( Tata literacy  Services) With almost a million beneficiaries in 17 states of India the TATA adult literacy program is transformative. The Adult Literacy Programme was set up to help the Government of India improve adult literacy rates, using the Computer Based Functional Literacy (CBFL) solution. Using the CBFL model, non-literate adult learners can achieve functional literacy (read...

Hi, Welcome to the What I’ve Learnt podcast I am Luke, one of the producers for the show. As a producer I live my work and helping Deborah and our team share so many wonderful stories. From food to fashion and art to music we’ve got you covered. With spring just around the corner, we wanted to highlight some amazing moments of the podcast from January and February. This Episode Features Rita Reich...

Kate Legge  Three decades into her marriage, journalist Kate Legge discovered that her husband, the Maserati-driving media executive Greg Hywood, was cheating on her. That was bad, but it gets worse. Hywood – for many years chief executive at Fairfax, publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and now the chairman of Free TV – admitted when confronted that he had been cheating on and off,...

He’s On a literacy mission and is an investor in Edsoma a powerful literacy APP. The world has experienced a shift since the pandemic broke out. Now, self-education has taken a stronger stand than ever, with remote learning and parents actively being school teachers’ assistants. This has, however, enabled poor quality learning and reading. To fix the situation, Kyle Wallgren got the idea to build...

Tom Richardson Chief Executive Officer Literacy Planet  Tom is on a mission to transform the way people learn. He is humbled to be leading the Literacy Planet team who are inspiring a lifetime of learning. Tom is a proud dad of three kids and loves nature, the outdoors, adventure and travel. Less Literacy Planet is a research and evidence-aligned literacy program, combining the science of reading,...

Sophie Walker  Australian Birth Stories  Nearly 300,000 women give birth in Australia each year and one third of them describe their birth experience as traumatic. “I wish someone had told me!' is the most common phrase for women after they give birth for the first time. Sophie’s ground-breaking new book The Complete Australian Guide to Pregnancy and Birth is out this month. Author of “Austra...

From the recent battlefields of Ukraine to the refugee camps of Greece and Syria, Dr. Alison Thompson has spent more than two decades helping those when they need it the most. And as the tragedy in Turkey unfolds with more than 20,000 deaths and thousands more impacted by the devastating earthquake Dr Alison’s team is on the ground to assist providing much needed resources to save lives . This is...

Taking care of our brain as we age is a critical choice .. Save Your Brain is a new book by renowned By Dr Ginni Mansberg, In it she provides simple steps and proven strategies to reduce your risk of cognitive decline - before it's too late The evidence is clear - almost half of all cases of dementia and cognitive decline are preventable. But sadly none are treatable. So what are the lifestyl...

Australian born pianist Rita Reichman began her performance career as a 3 year old child prodigy, the performance being on ABC TV. She has had an extraordinary education, beginning here with Jascha Spivakovsky and then at age 9 was invited to study at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. Two years later she was accepted to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, as one...

Hi, Welcome to the What I’ve Learnt podcast I am Luke, one of the producers for the show. As a producer I live my work and helping Deborah and our team share so many wonderful stories. From food to fashion and art to music we’ve got you covered. With spring just around the corner, we wanted to highlight some amazing moments of the podcast from November to December.... Kim Krejus is the Director of...

Dr Alison Thompson OAM  When the planes flew into the twin towers in New York City on September 11 2001, rather than lock her doors and stay inside, Dr. Alison Thompson packed a backpack with medical supplies, put on her rollerblades and skated into ground zero as a first responder. It was at this tragedy that Dr. Thompson realized her true calling – to be at the wrong place at the right time and...

 “Whoever saves a single life is considered by Scripture to have saved the whole world.” Dr. Rick Hodes is JDC’s medical director in Ethiopia. JDC is the leading Jewish humanitarian organization, working in 70 countries to lift lives and strengthen communities.  Initially arriving in 1984 to help famine victims, he returned in 1985 to teach at Addis Ababa University Faculty of Medicine, and has wo...

Hi, Welcome to the What I’ve Learnt podcast I am Luke, one of the producers for the show. As a producer I love our  work and helping Deborah and our team share so many wonderful stories. From food to fashion and art to music we’ve got you covered. In this episode, we are doing something special. As the end of the year is fastly approaching, we thought that we would highlight and showcase some of o...

Hi, Welcome to the What I’ve Learnt podcast I am Luke, one of the producers for the show. As a producer I live my work and helping Deborah and our team share so many wonderful stories. From food to fashion and art to music we’ve got you covered. In this episode, we are doing something special. As the end of the year is fastly approaching, we thought that we would highlight and showcase some of our...

Australians actors have always been Uber talented but they’re having a big moment in the sun with the likes of Margot Robbie, Cate Blanchett, Hugh Jackman and Rebel Wilson spearheading some trailblaising productions and featuring centre stage in some of the most awarded and revered global films. Baz Luhrmann, Russell Crowe, Chris Hemsworth and a stream of internationals like Matt Damon and Tom Han...

Hi, Welcome to the What I’ve Learnt podcast I am Luke, one of the producers for the show. As a producer I live my work and helping Deborah and our team share so many wonderful stories. From food to fashion and art to music we’ve got you covered. In this episode, we are doing something special. As the end of the year is fastly approaching, we thought that we would highlight and showcase some of our...

Hi, Welcome to the What I’ve Learnt podcast I am Luke, one of the producers for the show. As a producer I live my work and helping Deborah and our team share so many wonderful stories. From food to fashion and art to music we’ve got you covered. In this episode, we are highlighting some of our favorite moments from this past October... Featured with in this episode are: Peter & Suparna Cooper:...

Lisa Bolte Who hasn’t swooned watching ballets Swan Lake and recently I saw Romeo and Juliet so breathtaking .. now featuring on at The Australian Ballet at The Vic Arts Centre. Lisa Bolte is one of those rare talented people who’s life as a Principal Ballet dancer has taken her across the globe. Mesmerising audiences with her stunning and elegant performances she is truly a national treasure. She...

If you ever thought about the daily use of makeup wipes and their impact on the environment then get ready … each wipe takes 100 years to dissolve in landfill! That alone is enough to inspire groundbreaking science based wellness guru Natassia who founded Conserving Beauty, Australia's first water-responsible beauty brand, in 2021. Inspired by her belief that waterless formulas could offer mo...

Carlton player Chris Judd is just one of the many fans of one of Australia’s most highly regarded investors, Peter Cooper from Cooper Investors. Peters CI Brunswick Fund of which he is still charged with managing directly has returned investors an annualised gain of 16.79% since inception in 2004. However, Peter’s influence across the Australian investing landscape is much greater than the single...

Hi, Welcome to the What I’ve Learnt podcast I am Luke, one of the producers for the show. As a producer I live my work and helping Deborah and our team share so many wonderful stories. From food to fashion and art to music we’ve got you covered. In this episode, we are highlighting some of our favorite moments from this past September... Featured with in this episode are: Nikki Gemmell:  A best-se...

Barbara Kamler  Author  Love, regardless— the second collection from Melbourne-based author poet Barbara Kamler—is an enthralling gallery of poetic portraits celebrating love that endures.  It features a unique mode of storytelling, whereby interviews with fourteen couples are poetically crafted into rhythmic, syllabic verse.  For each couple, each poem explores the intimacy of first connecting an...

Nigel Featherstone “The day after I tried to kill my mother, I tossed some clothes, a pair of hiking boots, a baseball cap and a few toiletries into my backpack, and left at dawn.” Patrick has always considered himself a good son. Willing to live his life to please his parents, his sense of duty paramount to his own desires and dreams. But as his mother’s health continues to deteriorate and his si...

Nikki Gemmell is the best-selling author of thirteen novels and four works of non-fiction. They have been translated into 22 languages. Her distinctive writing has gained her critical acclaim in France, where she’s been described as a “female Jack Kerouac“. The French literary magazine Lire has included her in a list of what it called the fifty most important writers in the world – those it believ...