Better Than Yesterday with Osher Günsberg

My guest today is Psychologist Tahnee Schulz.  Tahnee is a highly experienced psychologist with a background in mental health, trauma, substance use, complex co-morbid presentations and corporate psychology.  For the past four years, she has specialised in critical incident response and has worked with various people involved in and affected by the tragic passing of cricketer Phillip Hug...

James Fielding is a doctor, drummer, CEO and founder of a number of companies including Audeara. Find him on Twitter and Instagram @jamesafielding  He’s from Brisbane, Australia, and is one of the young guns of the very hot entrepreneurial start up scene there in Queensland.  James has quite a story to tell and in this conversation you’ll hear about how he as a doctor chose to pivot into...

My guest today is Ali Hill.  She’s the CEO of Australian Financial Review Fast 100 company Pragmatic Thinking, she’s a psychologist and a best-selling author of the book “Stand Out: A real world guide to get clear, find purpose and become the boss of busy”.  Seems like a pretty good idea, right? Her podcast is called “Stand Out life” and can be heard wherever podcasts are...

Catherine Milne is the publisher at Harper Collins - she’s the reason I have a book out.  Catherine is an extraordinary woman, with a wonderful passion for her work and the written word, she is warm and kind and as you’ll hear speaks with a romantic glow in her heart about story and the power of story.  Catherine has a tough job - taking chumps like me, who’ve never written more than 800...

Matthew Mitcham is a retired Olympic Diver who has a life full of firsts. He’s the first openly gay athlete to ever win an Olympic gold medal, winning that gold medal with the highest-ever single dive score in Olympic History.  While his career was incredibly high profile, and he indeed achieved dominance in his sport - it was what happened out of the pool that has in my opinion shaped the wo...

Emma Roche is an Australian author and whole-food plant-based food advocate who lives year-round in Belgium.  You can find her on instagram @plantplate I’m very aware of the privilege that I have as a white, male, middle class guy that I can afford to live a plant-based life.  Indeed at times in my life I have definitely gone overboard and bought the $20 jar of organic virgin dirt single...

Jarrad Seng is an Australian photographer, videographer, artist and former contestant on the toughest game on the planet - Survivor.  I’m very aware that as a white, straight, male, middle class person - that I was always seeing people that looked like me not only in the world but also on TV.  Jarrad didn’t have that.  With a mum from Christmas Island and a Dad from Malaysia - the p...

I’m sad today.  Because even though Wayne Coyne from the flaming lips tells us that everyone we know someday will die, it’s still tough when they do.  Over the weekend my friend, Disability Advocate, Author, Playwright, director, producer, actor and multiple podcast guest Quentin Kenihan passed away.  He was 43.  He was also a man that had been told he’s not going to live to se...

I am so excited to be sharing my conversation with Susan David with you.  Her book "emotional agility” was one of the books I devoured in the first few months of coming off of meds, as I tried to learn more about my head and about what’s going on when I get triggered with panic or rumination.  The wide angle view of Susan’s work is that discomfort or indeed uncomfortabl...

Marcus Engman is the head of Design at Ikea of Sweden.  With one billion customers on this planet - I’d be surprised if you have never lived with a piece of Ikea furniture.  This podcast was recorded as a part of a special Ikea event in Sydney, and they’d invited me to interview Marcus on the night and have a conversation about design.  But don’t worry this is not a conversatio...

Today I’m joined by LA Radio Superstar  Natalia Perez .  She’s an announcer on the super-important radio show Big Boy's Neighborhood on Real 92.3 in LA.  To give you an idea about how important this show is, the reason you first heard a Kendrick Lamar track on Australian radio is because Big Boy played it on his show first. He’s the one that breaks records to market. His e...

My guest today is Jarrod McKenna. Jarrod McKenna the is the Teaching Pastor at Cornerstone Church in Perth, he is the co-founder of "First Home Project", a community welcoming housing and “giving a hand up not a hand-out” to recently arrived refugees, and is a peace award winning nonviolent social change trainer. Jarrod obviously a very smart and charismatic man - not many pastors are anything les...

My guest today is my wife, Audrey Griffen. You can find her on instagram @audreygriffen. Long time listeners of the show will know her through the stories I tell about her, and if you’ve read the book you’ll know all about her and how we met. You’ll also know how she’s played an enormous role in helping me heal and indeed come back from the edge of sanity. Last week on the show you heard me tell T...

My guest today, once again is me. A few weeks ago legendary human, documentary maker, story teller, adventurer and all-around super-human Todd Sampson came onto my show and when he did, Todd insisted that one day he interview me. Part one was last week, and if you’ve not listened to that, please go back and check it out, because it will make this conversation have much more context. In this second...

My guest today, is me. A few weeks ago legendary human, documentary maker, storyteller, adventurer and all-around super-human Todd Sampson came onto my show and when he did, Todd insisted that one day he interview me. Well, today’s the day. It’s an incredible honour to have Todd do this - he’s one of the smartest and busiest men on the planet, and he took nearly three hours out of his day to come...

Emilie Brabon Hames is author, Transformation coach and Nutrition coach, and one 1/2 of the team that helped me totally transform my body for the cover of men’s health magazine. You can find her online @ emiliebrabonhames . We heard from her husband Chief last week, and now it’s Em’s turn. Her story of how she went from a reclusive kid to one of the most powerful transformation coaches in the coun...

Chief Brabon is the Fitness Director at Men’s Health Australia, the CEO of TransformationCoach.com and CEO of Original Bootcamp. It was with Chief Brabon and his wife Emilie Brabon-Hames that I worked out every day for ten weeks to achieve my cover shot of Men’s Health Australia. When you spend an hour of your day with someone every day - you get to know them pretty well, and I got to know that bo...

Matt Griggs is a high performance coach, keynote speaker and meditation teacher from Sydney Australia, you can find him online at mattgriggs.com or on instagram @mattgriggs. For years Matt worked with some of the worlds most successful athletes in the surfing world, helping them focus in and out of the water for not only world-beating performances in competition - but with resilience out of the wa...

Sally Rugg is an LGBTIQ activist and Executive Director of Change.org - find her on twitter @sallyrugg or on Instagram @_campaign_papi . Sally is a smart, charming, powerful person whose leadership and drive to make our community as inclusive and excellent as it can be is something I found inspirational. If you’ve ever wondered about why someone might pursue a career in activism, or indeed what li...

Abdullah Zeinab is a plant-based ultra-endurance cyclist, a man with a crystal clear outlook on life and the capacity for incredible self-awareness. You can find him on YouTube by searching The Glucose Network , or follow him on Instagram @abdullahzeinab Abdullah is a prominent figure in both the plant-based and cycling community, his videos online and live streams are the stuff of legend. However...

Kath Koschel is an incredibly inspiring human. She’s the founder of kindnessfactory.com and has a story that will break your heart three times before it lifts you up into the glowing warmth of the collective love of humanity. This conversation deals with suicide and the effects of road trauma, so if you do need to talk to anyone please seek help from your doctor or call Lifeline on 13 11 14. Kath’...

`Paul Field is the Managing Director of international children’s entertainment mega-brand The Wiggles. He’s also an ambassador for Red Nose Day, which funds research and support around the incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS. Nine babies and children in Australia will die today as a result of SIDS, but that number is down 85% of what it once was due largely to the incredible research...

Rob Mills is an actor, singer, and musical theatre superstar from Melbourne Australia. You can find him on Instagram @robmillsymills. Rob first rose to prominence during the debut season of Australian Idol back in 2003, and as you’ll hear had a rollercoaster ride from there to where he is now. One that involved the highest of highs, and the very lowest of lows. In this conversation we do talk abou...

Ditch Davey is an incredibly successful Australian actor and producer who first rose to prominence on the TV show “Blue Heelers” but has since gone on to appear in countless films and TV shows - notably Spartacus and Black Box, and most recently the TV show Harrow which you can see on ABC iView.   Ditch is a remarkable man with a brilliant outlook on life. &...

My guest today is Danielle Prince. On Instagram she’s @danniprince, follow her there and let her know that you heard her here.   Danielle is a Commonwealth Games and Olympic Rhythmic Gymnast. In her words - rhythmic gymnastics is the absolute fusion between athleticism and art. It is the sport that is designed to make the impossible look easy.   And Danielle’s story is one of h...