How to be Happy

Ashish Kothari is the author of the book Hardwired for Happiness and founder and CEO of The Happiness Squad a company that helps businesses and individuals to flourish. He’s an inspiring guest who transformed his own life prior to writing his book and has first-hand experience and advice on how to live more authentically. He is a speaker, consultant and coach and a podcaster himself. On this episo...

Alistair Horscroft is a philosopher, hypnotherapist and hypnotherapy trainer who teaches clients how to master their emotions and work through traumas using hypnotherapy. He is founder of the Mind Academy which provides courses and programs to learn and earn qualifications in coaching, NLP and hypnotherapy. On the podcast Alistair explains the difference between hypnotherapy and hypnosis and how y...

Jo Wagstaff had it all. Or so she thought. At 32 she was an executive at a leading wealth management company. She had the career, the fancy car, a beautiful home, husband and baby. Until it all began to unravel. That year her marriage ended and her dad died of cancer. To numb the grief Jo worked harder, drank more, used drugs for the first time and found the most dysfunctional relationship she cou...

Have you ever felt like you are the only person thinking or feeling a certain way? Dr Jen Martin has researched and compiled an amazing list of questions and answers about how we tick that will show you that you’re definitely not alone. Everything from why we have a fear of missing out, to why multitasking is so hard ( and ineffective) and why holding eye contact is exhausting. Does everyone have...

Megan Lewis is a Walkley award winning photographer who also has a special gift. She is an energetic healer, an ability she first discovered in her teens. She now works with people doing Subconscious Mind Healing as well as continuing her work as a documentary photographer. She is a beautiful woman, with a calm, clear spirit who lives a life helping others. She has some beautiful wisdom to share a...

Pam Ahern lives each day in tune with true happiness. She is the founder of Edgar’s Mission, a farm animal sanctuary in Victoria where she - and others - care for abandoned animals and animals rescued from factory farming. A loving advocate for the rights of animals, Pam approaches the subject without judgment or anger. But she wants us to talk about why we treat some animals - like our dogs and c...

Jelena Dokic is an extraordinary and inspiring woman. A former tennis international who achieved a top ranking of number 4 in the world, she has also had a personal and professional life beset by challenges. Throughout her childhood and teenage years she was abused physically and mentally by her father and coach Damir Dokic. She would hide the secret of this abuse for years only finally telling he...

Trinette Faint has done it all. She’s worked as a model and an actress, and at one stage was a personal assistant to Matt Damon. She has run her own online beauty company, has written two books and she is also a podcaster back in Boston where she lives with her dog Avery. But despite all her successes she always has a drive to more…in her words she has been “hustling all her life”. Today she talks...

Ep 17:    Belinda Elworthy is the CEO of Gotcha4Life a charity founded by radio and TV personality Gus Worland after the tragic death of a dear friend from suicide. It started as a charity to help men talk about their mental struggles but it’s evolved into a service supporting all people now. On the podcast we talk about why men can find it so hard to be vulnerable and how you can recognise if som...

Robyn Miller is a life saver for many women who find themselves overwhelmed by the responsibilities of running a household, especially after having children. A pediatrician as well as a wife and mother, Robyn created the Mental Load Project to help women more fairly divide household responsibilities with their partners so they can get out from under the heavy burden of the “mental load” and live h...

Hannah Stenning has spent the last year travelling around Australia in a campervan with her husband and five-year-old twins. Along the way she’s met a few snakes and emus and learned how to be resourceful with whatever food is available. But she’s also had a magical year learning how to be more present, and to appreciate the small things that can get lost in an otherwise hectic modern life. While...

Danika Johnston is a powerhouse, as well as one of the loveliest women you will meet. She has had a successful career in the media, working with companies such as Channel 10, Mamamia and Tiktok. She is now chief commercial officer at WeAre8 - a global social media app that puts people and planet first - so every time a citizen watches an ad on the platform - climate solutions and charities get pai...

Michael McQueen is a modern-day fortune teller. He’s a social researcher and trends forecaster - which means he’s usually one step ahead of the rest of us. He’s also a master at understanding how people make decisions, why they get stuck in certain mindsets and how you can learn specific tools to change other people’s minds. It’s a crafty skill but Michael hopes it’s used for more than just gettin...

Dr Rob Battisti has a hard job, but he makes it look easy. He is the Senior Clinical Psychologist at the Cancer Centre for Children at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead where he works with young cancer patients and their families. He is also the Clinical Director at Mind Plasticity, a multidisciplinary mental health service. He’s a father to a beautiful two-and-a-half year old daughter so he kno...

They walk among us, yet they are not like the rest of us. In a slightly unsettling chat, successful author David Gillespie talks about toxic people, including that most toxic of all, the psychopath. Far from being the stuff of fiction and movies, they are seemingly ordinary people who are missing the capacity for empathy. The result can be a nightmare for those who encounter them in the workplace...

David Robson is a UK-based science journalist who has written a fascinating book The Expectation Effect that proves what we expect to happen very often does. David explains all the scientific research that shows how changing your beliefs about something can improve almost any outcome, from healing better after injury, losing weight or even getting better results in the gym.  On the podcast you’ll...

Amanda Betts is a successful fiction writer - she’s just published her sixth young adult novel, One Song. And she is also an inspiring teacher of creativity. Working alongside young people in hospitals, Amanda has seen first-hand the transformative benefit of creativity. She believes people are fooled into thinking creativity is a magic gift owned by only the special few when in reality we all hav...

Gregory Smith has led an extraordinary life. But not always a happy one. After years of alcoholism, drug abuse and homelessness, he had an epiphany that led to a remarkable transformation. From that moment, he never again touched alcohol, drugs or tobacco. He went back to school and is now a university lecturer and author with a partner and young son - and a contented life. He is a wise man guided...

Paul Callaghan is an Aboriginal man from the land of the Worimi people near Newcastle on the NSW coast who has a great passion for storytelling. At 35 – when life looked about as successful as it could get - he suffered a nervous breakdown. He describes it as the best thing that ever happened to him because it set him on a course of self-discovery and reconnection with Aboriginal spirituality. Thi...

Dr Kieran Kennedy is a doctor specialising in psychiatry who has always had a passion for men’s health. Although he has traditional medical credentials, he is a firm advocate of basic wellbeing and its effect on the mind and body. He has just written a book called The Manual with former Men’s Health editor Scott Henderson. In this episode we talk about how men can reclaim their happiness. In this...

Lynne Malcolm knows her way around the brain, or rather, how the brain works. Over the course of a decade conducting interviews for ABC radio show, All in the Mind, Lynne has gleaned many insights into living a good life. Now she has written a book presenting some of the extraordinary facts and case studies from over the years. She talks to us about some of the insights she has now incorporated in...

Justin Couslon is a parenting expert extraordinaire. He has six daughters and hosts the hit Ch 9 TV show Parental Guidance. Justin has a raft of strategies and tips on how to raise kids and says being happier as a parent is also the key to raising happy kids. In this podcast he takes us under the bonnet to find out how you can be happy doing one of the world’s most demanding jobs – raising kids. O...

Amanda Hodgson is a healthy habits coach living in Sydney who teaches her clients how to form habits to achieve goals and create a happy mindset. But when her fit, healthy husband was struck down by a life-threatening condition at the end of 2020 Amanda was put to the test herself. The next two years required a ‘practice-what-you-preach’ mindset during a truly challenging period for her family.  O...

Peter Walsh is a personal organiser and life designer with a successful business in the US and Australia. In Australia you will have seen him on shows like the Living Room and Space Invaders. He also appeared on five seasons of Oprah. For Peter, decluttering isn’t about finding a new storage solution: he is always looking to understand the mindset of why people are holding onto things. On this epi...

Lisa Messenger is an entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker. She runs the successful multimedia business, the Collective Hub, and is well-known for her contagious positive outlook on life. But she hasn’t always been so positive. She has dealt with periods of depression and also quietly weathered a very challenging decade of fertility issues. Now, at 51, she is about to become a mum for the...