Forrest Chat

Aaron talks about Paranormal Investigations, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "I went back to London, and I'm laying on my bed that afternoon, and it's about November, so it's pretty well dark by about 5 o'clock. And I'm looking at the corner of my room where the door is, and it's like somebody's watching me. I'm getting really, really uncomforta...

Chris talks about being Share & Repair Networks, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "And there's five library of things, in various names. I think there's five, possibly by now five within western Australia. Mainly in the Perth suburbs, in the southern suburbs. And the one that I'm involved with will be hopefully, if we get a home." Repair Cafe...

Paul talks about Living on a Boat, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "So it was important for this decision to be made with him in mind and understanding the challenges that are associated with doing so. There was one major hurdle that I thought could have been an issue, but turns out it wasn't." Paul's work: Ginger Web Solutions https://www.ginge...

Dr Lynda Folan talks about being an Organisational Psychologist, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "We've known that for 70 years. And yet we've lost sight of the fact that actually, if we lose connection and people are working from home all the time, that's gonna cause a dysfunction in society." https://inspireddevelopment.net/dr-lynda-folan/ Abo...

Kurt talks about being a Marine Scientist, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "Like, if you go through any of my videos that I've created, there's not one video that is telling someone to do something. It's all about showing what's there and inspiring to want to learn and love and understand something, and then they can make up their decisions them...

Dr Patrick Jones talks about Mindfulness Based Wellbeing, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "I had a great opportunity to work once with  a share trader. And he was actually teaching, people how to trade. And what we worked on was managing the psychological or emotional response when a trade's going really badly, and the stock is dropping, and you...

Gabrielle talks about being a Healing Arts Practitioner, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "I like to call them, love lines rather than boundaries. So I can move them depending on how well-resourced I am in the time that I, that I these, these strict things. But yeah, sometimes I'm like, "Oh, I'm a little bit close to, like, overwhelm," or, I don'...

Amanda talks about being a speed boat racer, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "I was ready for the gold medal, the song, the National Anthem. And I was, as I said, second last. But I had worked really hard for that. I had worked, early mornings practising. Tim being a fantastic coach, telling me how to do this and that, and the other.  Learning t...

Ethan talks about being a digital creator, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "And it really worked, and people really appreciated it, and I was like, "Well, maybe I have more skills than I realise." So that was a real highlight. Taking these projects that I'd spent years figuring out how to- what to do with them and, finding just creative solution...

Jez talks about being a comedian, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "Less experienced comics are, are, are really actively learning from older comedians, more experienced comedians, sometimes to their detriment. Like, a lot of people will have an instinct of like, "Oh, I want someone to tell me how to do this," right? And that ends up becoming thi...

Tony talks about Mountain Bike Course Design, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "Typically by the time the event's come around you've put so much work into it, you know, you're kinda thinking, "Wow, is this all worth it?" You know, by the time you get there. But then when you see the riders on the day and it all comes together on the day and you s...

Ash talks about being competition gliding, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "Racing other gliders and seeing 'em out in front of you in thermals and having them, chasing you around, it's,  that to me is good fun." https://www.soaringspot.com/en_gb/search/?q=ashley+boyle

John talks about the Featured Wood Gallery and Museum, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. Bio John came to a Australind, over 30 years ago, and he's had the Featured Wood Gallery and Museum operating for about 30 years now. My favourite quote of the episode is "Oh yeah. It's, look, what, what do they say? If you've got a job that you love, you'll never do a hard day's work in your lif...

David talks about being both physician and patient, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "Hope is the exact ingredient that is, one of the famous, Neurologists from the Netherlands, named Bastiaan Bloem. He had a patient who talked about, we talk about dopamine replacement in Parkinson's, and Bas's patient, coined the term hopamine. If you give peopl...

Dave talks about The Event Team, what it takes, what it means and how to do it. My favourite quote of the episode is " That's where the responsibility is on, you know, people that, deliver events, to make sure that, people will be talking about that experience, whether it's good or, you know, maybe they didn't achieve what they wanted to achieve in terms of goals, but they'll still be talking abou...

Nicole talks about parkrun challenges, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "It's like a family, with so many different people that, yeah, and they're all, they're all happy to support you and I just love going and seeing all my friends that I'll probably have never met if I hadn't not gone to parkrun. That's incredible, you show up at parkrun, and c...

Gabby talks about being the Imperfect Painter, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "Lots, lots of everything. A lot of persistence. That's I think, the most important thing actually. As I'm sure any artist or any small business owner knows, it's not always  steady.  It goes up and down, and the downs can be very down and the ups can be very high, bu...

Lynette talks about setting up Black Swan Lake parkrun, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "I'm gonna do it this week. I'm like, oh yeah, okay, you can run.  Okay. And this is the first time I'd run it officially,  with like the people, the community. I'm like, oh yeah. Okay. And I remember starting up onto the path and just as I'm going round the...

Natalie talks about being an underwater photographer, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "So I think the biggest thing, or what brings me meaning is, what we do on the surface actually has impact to the ocean and, and has serious impact. And if we don't have a Blue World, is how I would call it, a good, healthy ocean, we actually lose the green par...

Helen talks about being a publisher, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "I think encouraging the author. Book launches, I love to go to book launches and see the elation on the author's face when the sales start happening. They're out there, their book is out there. I just as much enjoy them having that first book in their hands as as they are." ht...

Kelsey talks about being Canteen Manager, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "Yeah. I mean we have so much fun in the canteen. It's not, not too serious or anything like that, you know. We're all stepping over each other 'cause it is quite a smaller canteen. But, yeah, you know, Mum and I'll come back from a race and, you know, we'll be gloating ab...

Daniel talks about being a Bayswater Men's Shed member, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "We have a rule, uh, in our men's shed that, from 10 to 10 30, all machinery and all work stops. So you go into the meeting room and sit down and, yeah, have a, have a coffee, a cake or whatever you, and yeah. So it's, that's, that's very important cause that...

Gaye talks about being a hypnotist, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. My favourite quote of the episode is "So it's like having a head brain and a tummy brain. Basically what happens is you use your tummy brain for a wee while in hypnosis to override and release and, and just get yourself back on track basically, to better health and confidence and, better wellbeing." Hypnosynergy Hy...

Paul talks about Forrest. Chat audio podcast and plans for 2026. My favourite quote of the episode is "And you always feel good after you've listened to one of your podcasts because people are doing the things they love. And it's great to be able to share that with other people. And you don't know who you inspire by telling your story. And so I just like to say if you've got something that you do...

Santa Claus (aka Duncan) talks about being Santa Claus, what it takes, what it means and how you do it. It's a tongue-in-cheek look at Santa in society. My favourite quote of the episode is "Well, it's just that magic of Christmas time. It, uh, it can be a very tough time for people out there, of course. And, uh, the joy of Christmas is very, very important to bring that joy of Christmas time to t...