Better Than Yesterday with Osher Günsberg

Nell Schofield  is an Australian actor, author, journalist and activist. She became a household name after her role in the landmark coming of age film "Puberty Blues", and was a part of the creation of the worldwide smash hit "Strictly Ballroom". Nell is also an advocate for Solar Citizens  which is pushing for a 100% renewable energy Australia by 2030. She's a bloody delight a...

My guest today is film director  James Fazio we're talking about the power of happiness through helping others and his documentary, which you can help make:  Time Well Spent .  Thanks so much for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Justin Hamilton  is a stand-up comedian, writer, producer and generally wonderfully creative and funny man from Australia. He and I first met on a panel show called Good News Week in 2009. You can listen to his exceptional podcast "Can you Take this photo Please"  and also hear him occasionally pop up on TOFOP with Will and Charlie which we talk about on this show too. Thi...

Alice Fraser is a comedian, writer, and ex-lawyer from Australia. She's also host of the wonderfully cerebral podcast "Tea With Alice" which I'm happy to have been a guest on.  We recorded both her show and mine on the same day, and if there's parts of this chat that don't make sense, perhaps go find the episode she and I did on her show to flesh things out.  Alice has a v...

Janine Allis  is an Australian businesswoman and entrepreneur, CEO and founder of the incredibly successful Boost Juice franchises. She's also a Shark on Network Ten's Shark Tank which is on Wednesday nights.  She's also a mother, an author, and has a story that you will not believe - which includes life working aboard David Bowie's private yacht. This story is brilliant becaus...

The Honorable Leeanne Enoch is Minister for Innovation, Science and the Digital Economy and Minister for Small Business in the seat of Algester in QLD.  In what is a massive deal for me and this very show - her wonderful staff reached out to me and asked if I could come and interview her. Considering the work she's doing and the story that she has to tell, I jumped at the chance. &n...

Julie Stevanja is co-founder and CEO of Stylerunner.com  Again, her story is bloody inspirational. In particular what I love about her tale is not only the grit to keep going, and her ability to see a gap in the market - but how she knew and valued the power of her personal network so much that she relocated back to Australia to build the business, and now is running an internationally m...

Jane Lu  is the founder and CEO of mammoth fashion startup  Showpo.com . She speaks about hearing the sounds of Tienanamen Square erupt when she was a child, moving to Australia and creating the life she loves.  This is easily one of my favourites - because everyone loves a story of triumph.  This episode is brought to you by the great supporters of this show who have pled...

Craig Bruce is one of the most iconic names in the Australian Radio Industry. For over 20 years he worked for the company which is now Southern Cross Austereo - first as an announcer, then as assistant program director and eventually rose to the role of group content director - means he's in charge of everything and everyone you hear on air that isn't a commercial.  His reputation f...

Lola Berry is often called "Australia's favourite Nutritionist". She's a nutritionist, author, blogger, speaker and advocate for happiness. She even wrote a book about happiness. And five other books. You can buy them everywhere.  She's a woman who has inspired hundreds of thousands of people all around the world to be kinder and more caring to themselves through food and nouri...

Lauren Miller Cilento is the CEO of HMMG , one of the most significant talent management agencies in Australia. What she doesn't know about showbuisinness isn't worth knowing.  The daughter of one of the greatest producers and managers our country had ever seen - Harry M Miller, Lauren learned the business in the centre of some of the biggest media deals ever done in Australia.&nbsp...

Zahlen Titcomb is one of the founders of Five Ultimate and Bamboxers , both specialized apparel companies.  You may not realize this - but the game of ultimate frisbee is played by more people worldwide than Rubgy Union and Lacrosse combined.  That's a lot of people. It's a very special sport, there's no referees - the elite teams are all co-ed, there's a lot about it that's pr...

Jack Delosa  is an incredibly successful Australian entrepreneur. By the age of 27 he amassed a fortune of over $25M through his various startup ventures, including his largest public facing project. The Entourage - a business education company that teaches business in a way that universities don’t.  Jack’s one line story is that he’s the kid who dropped out of uni to become a...

Rachael Johns is one of Australia's most successful romance novelists. She's penned over fifteen books, and has amassed a legion of followers who look forward to what will next unfold in the impossibly romantic Australian outback where men are men who wander in from out of town to get work and then turn up one morning on the farm to lift heavy things with rugged muscled bodies in the sunset....

Sports Scientist, Physiotherapist, motivation guru and self described "Bogan who meditates", Brandon Hasick is here to talk to you about why your current workout sucks, and why life is better when you move.    This episode brought to you by the good people who supported the show over at Patreon.com/osher - thank you with all my heart! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

Simone Milasas is an entrepreneur, business coach and author of the book Joy Of Business. There's some great words in this one about reframing what your disadvantages are - for example how Simone turned being $187K in debt into a possibility.  This episode brought to you in part by the great humans who've supported through patreon.com/osher.  For as little as $5/month you can access excl...

Jason Wachob is the founder and CEO of MindBodyGreen.com You can find him on twitter at @jasonwachob Chances are you've read a blog post or two at mindbodygreen.com but if you haven't - it's a health and wellbeing community that's got 4000 contributors, over 12 million unique visitors every month, and a worldwide community of people dedicated to living the best life they can live whle while being...

This episode is brought to you by wonderful listeners who have leant their support on Patreon  My guest today is Georgina Venzin who’s the Youth Ambassador for the Mindshift Foundation - a place dedicated to raising the self worth of youth across Australia. They develop self-esteem programs for high-school teachers to provide skills to students, they’ve a pilot program happening now at a high...

My guest this week is Nathan Birch . Nathan is an incredibly interesting guy, he retired from regular work at 24 and is a self-made multi-millionaire. Following a strict protocol which he freely explains in this show - he's amassed a property portfolio of over 200 properties worth over $50M which after all is said and done provides him with more than $500K a year in passive income. ...

Mark Holden is a household name in Australia. He’s had more extraordinary careers than I’ve had hot dinners.  He’s been a Teen Pop idol, an on-screen soap opera heart throb, a heavyweight songwriter, publisher and manager in L.A., a music manager here in Australia who managed artists like Vanessa Amorosi, a judge on the first five seasons of Australian Idol, a cancer survivor and no...

Marcus Haney is a film maker, producer and photographer from Pasadena California. He’s on twitter  @marcushaney We spoke when he was in Australia for the premiere of his film “No Cameras Allowed”, which is the chronicling of a journey that starts with him and his friends sneaking in to the Coachella Festival in Palm Springs and ends with him being employed by the very bands he jumped a f...

This week's episode is with ABC Radio's Sydney breakfast host Robbie Buck.  He rates higher than all of my FM colleagues, has a pedigree from JJJ that is beyond par, and was once at the centre of a Bjelke-Petersen era QLD Police raid.  As we head into 2016, Robbie's story will leave you inspired to keep going until your dream job is a reality too.    x Hosted on Acast. See acas...

Damian Barbeler is an award-winning composer who I actually grew up with in Brisbane, and now lives with his family in Sydney. Find him at barbeler.com Damian's works have been commissioned from and performed in all parts of the world, his music is at the same time avant-garde and incredibly accessible.  He's got a PhD from the Sydney Conservatorium of music, he regularly teach...

Robert DeCastella is an International Sporting legend. He set the World Record for the Marathon in 1981, competed in four consecutive olympic games, took Gold at two commonwealth games, won the boston marathon, & set a city to surf record that stood for ten straight years.  He's also a remarkable man who's focused his life after competition on helping others. Not only...

Cassie Howarth  is an Actress from the Central Coast in NSW Australia. She's currently a major character on the landmark Australian TV show Home and Away, and is just a lovely human.  She came to my house one afternoon during the last week of their shooting schedule, and opened up about how her path to success pretty much broke her before redemption. It's a common story on this...