100 Not Out

If you’ve listened to recent episodes of Up For A Chat or The Wellness Guys , you will know that both Damian and Cyndi have been over in Anaheim for Natural Products Expo West, the largest “natural” food expo in the world. They came home with perhaps more questions than answers on where the nutrition market sits at the moment. A move towards vegan? Yes. A healthy move towards vegan? Absolutely not...

For the last 260 Mondays, 100 Not Out has released a podcast dedicated to helping humanity master the art of ageing well. On this 5th Birthday celebration, Damian & Marcus engage LIVE with the listeners on Facebook to reflect on the episodes that have meant the most to you. Episodes including Tommy Hafey , Billie Jordan and the Hip Op-Eration, Trevor Hendy , John Demartini , Celina Biniaz , Ed...

It’s with thanks to our 100 Not Out friend Bronnie Ware for introducing us to the work of our guest today. Toni Powell has lived an incredible life in her 60 years to date, and the list of experiences is inspiring in its variation. She grew up in some seriously toxic relationships before going on to have a sensational 40-years and counting marriage, she’s written a couple of books “What A Feeling”...

Like it or not, most people that go on a diet don’t keep it off. The longer it goes, the harder it gets for most people. That’s why Jenni Andrews is an inspiration. She turned her life around age 54. Jenni’s revolution began when she came across Cyndi O’Meara’s Changing Habits Changing Lives in 2013 and hasn’t looked back since. Not only has she lost 30 kilograms in that time, she has kept the wei...

Both Damo & MP have had a rollercoaster week. They’ve had some wild, fun times and some major challenges arise, many of them unexpected. It’s tested their resilience, and in this episode of 100 Not Out they discuss how to develop the resilience to deal with the rollercoaster of life. We draw on the wisdom of previous guests & recent real-life examples including Damian’s grandfather having...

It’s 1940 and Ada Murkies is a young Polish teenager of 17 when she hears a knock at the door. It’s 2 o’clock in the morning and it’s Russian army officers, demanding they pack their belongings within 2 hours and prepare to be deported to Siberia. Ada, her brother and sister, mother and grandmother are loaded on to the cattle cart and offloaded to Siberia – a TWO week journey. Once there, they wor...

The Unogwaja Challenge is a 1700 kilometre bike ride from Cape Town to Pietermaritzburg followed by the Comrades Ultra Marathon – a gruelling 89 kilometre race from Pietermaritzburg to Durban that must be completed in under 12 hours. The Challenge team consists of 12 people selected from around the world to participate and a team of 12 international supporters, and one of them is 65 year old – tha...

Karly Nimmo is going grey. She’s had enough of the rinse, enough of the regular trips to the hairdresser, enough of the time and financial cost of holding on to a more youthful look. Not only is Nimmo going grey, she’s documenting it on Instagram . She may call it ungracefully grey, we like to think it’s very graceful. With a courage not many choose to unfurl, Nimmo is sharing the ups and downs of...

Madame Suzelle Poole has been dancing since the age of 7. Today, more than seven decades later, Madame Poole continues to inspire, teaching classes for children in Dallas, Texas. Madame Poole’s story has gone viral since she was featured on the BBC. The 3 minute piece has been viewed over 29 MILLION times on Facebook alone (see below), with over 600,000 shares and a true legion of admirers all aro...

Dexter Kruger, now Australia’s oldest man at 108, joins us for the second time on 100 Not Out. His first appearance came on episode 17, which you can listen to here . The world’s oldest active author (his most recent is “Dexter at his prime”) returns to 100 Not Out with vigour, reciting not one, but two poems for us. And how do these books get written? Enter Janet Rowlings, the extraordinary woman...

Damian is just back from a trip to Cambodia with his wife, Amber, and they both had a bout of illness during the trip. Without his trusty cabinet of herbs, probiotics and tinctures, what did Damo do to bring himself back to health? After talking it out, there were 8 specific actions Damo took in order to best deal with his challenge whilst on holiday. But it wasn’t just what he did (or didn’t do)....

It seems that the longest-lived people with the most fulfilment in life are those that forgive easily. Dig deeper and it’s the very same people who have had experiences in their life that seem very difficult to find peace or grace with. The longest-lived, most-fulfilled people have truly used life as one long personal growth seminar. They have faced challenges and still come out the other end brim...

Marcus recently came across this BBC article, discussing some of the suggested reasons women live longer than men. Across any country, and across any period of time, women have tended to outlast their male counterparts by an average of 3 years. The reasons listed below and in this podcast are not our views, they are simply a summary of the BBC article. In this episode, we discuss the merits of eac...

Happy New Year to you! We wish you a 2018 full of fun, love, health, fulfillment and joy! This is the time of year when the creative juices are flowing. Put the losses from 2017 down to learning lessons, build on the victories, and add some spice into your set of goals to truly add some flair and energy to your life. Damian likes to write down 100 goals at this time of year. What he does with this...

Season’s Greetings to our beloved 100 Not Out listeners! This time of the year is often the most stressful for many. And whilst we don’t pretend to have all the answers, we share our tips on how we find ways to thrive during December. From financial stress, to health, family and work stress, it seems that all areas of life are impacted by the end of the year. But does it need to be that way? Our s...

Do you ever feel like every element of life is researched to within an inch of its life, costing trillions of dollars to taxpayers around the globe, and for what? Well, Damian for one has had enough and shares his thoughts on this episode. The topic of the media – and hanging on to idealistic beliefs around their role in society – also dominates the conversation. Our views on aging, and the path t...

This episode of 100 Not Out begins with a discussion around anger and it’s relationship to stress! At this time of the year, it’s far easier to feel stress, which means for a lot of people it’s far easier to get angry! As we develop this conversation we talk about how many people deal with their stress, and that is through an addictive habit of some sort. Whether it’s TV, recreational drugs, bread...

Eddie Jaku will tell you that he is the happiest man you’ll ever meet. And it would be very difficult to disagree! Having previously interviewed Eddie almost two years ago (a double feature on episodes 103 and 104 of 100 Not Out), we follow up with Eddie just shy of his 98th birthday at the Jewish Museum in Sydney. For the full background on Eddie’s story we recommend you listen to the previous ep...

This is part two of our interview with Holocaust survivor and Schindler Jew, Celina Biniaz. Click here to listen to part one of the interview. Celina was born in Krakow, Poland on May 28 1931. She is one of the last living survivors of Schindler’s List – the list of 1098 Jewish men, women and children who, more than 72 years ago, were saved from the Nazis and the Holocaust largely due to the human...

Celina Biniaz was born in Krakow, Poland on May 28 1931. She is one of the last living survivors of Schindler’s List – the list of 1098 Jewish men, women and children who, more than 72 years ago, were saved from the Nazis and the Holocaust largely due to the humanity of Oskar Schindler. This story was captured in Tom Keneally’s 1982 Booker Prize winning book, Schindler’s Ark. In 1993, Steve Spielb...

For the second time in as many months we welcome back Kale Brock to 100 Not Out, just hours after back-to-back sold-out premieres of his documentary The Gut Movie . The realisation of a major life’s dream is a great talking point on this episode, as is the power of fiction (most notably Wilbur Smith), which as you’ll find is the seed of The Gut Movie. We discuss taking time to reflect on great ach...

In this episode, we cross over to the States because one of the year’s most anticipated Documentaries has recently been released around the Globe the HEAL, and it focuses on a topic dear to our hearts on 100 Not Out. The Documentary is called HEAL and has been masterfully put together by esteemed filmmakers Kelly Noonan and Adam Schomer. It features experts including Deepak Chopra, Greg Braden, Br...

On this episode, we discuss the easily-lost element of any successful career – a successful apprenticeship. Behind every apprenticeship is a student willing to learn and a mentor willing to teach. Unfortunately, many aspiring entrepreneurs, business owners and employees are not willing to take advice or mentorship and that’s you are making your biggest Career Mistake. And on the flipside, many peo...

Do you exercise because you don’t like your body image? Do you exercise to avoid shaming yourself? Carl Hammington, host of BestMe Radio on The Wellness Couch, joins us to discuss body image amongst a range of other topics. Carl runs HealthFit Collective in Wellington, New Zealand, and has clients of all ages attending his integrative gym. His star clients are Leonard, 96 and his 93 year old wife,...

An entertaining, inspiring and enthralling episode of 100 Not Out for you this week (well at least we think so). Dr Barry Rushton has been a chiropractor for almost 40 years. He has 9 children (one of whom Damian studied with in New Zealand), has had a successful career in music (including being a drummer with Kal-Q- Lated Risk and Wilde & Reckless – with Richard Wilkins), and is madly in love...