Growing Up with Delia Burgess

Mo Seetubtim is the founder & CEO of The Happiness Planner. moseetubtim.com @brandmentalist @happinessplanner

Bryan teaches me about Pyrrhonian scepticism. (Pyrrhonism is an Ancient Greek school of philosophical scepticism which rejects dogma.) Read my newsletter at: deliaburgess.blog Bryan Kam writes on the origins of complexity, selfhood, and suffering, philosophy of science, punctuated equilibrium, literature, film. Find Bryan at: bryankam.substack.com twitter.com/bryankam  bryankam.com patreon.co...

Australia’s greatest humanitarian failure is preventable. Jane Vadiveloo is the founding CEO of Children’s Ground not-for-profit and has a 20-year history leading reform and services provision with communities experiencing extreme disadvantage and trauma. Jane lived in the Northern Territory for 19 years and has over 30 years of connection to the Arrernte people in Central Australia. She has worke...

Mr Goode is the Chairman of The Ian Potter Foundation (since 1994 and Governor since 1987), the Chairman of the Boards of Diversified United Investment Limited (since 1991), and is Chairman Emeritus of Flagstaff Partners (having been Chairman 2010 – 2019). He was a Director of Woodside Petroleum Ltd from 1988 and Chairman from 1999 to 2007, a Director of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Lim...

Tom McDonald is a professional AFL player for the Melbourne Football Club. If things aren't going well in your life (like your AFL team wants to trade you and no other clubs want to pick you up), you can try blaming others but at some point you might need to "have a look in your own backyard". (Then you eat lots of meat, and end up winning a premiership.) Things I learnt, beyond the importance of...

Ron Shell was most recently Senior Vice President at PointsBet having joined the company in its infancy.  Lessons: - How an early run in with authority can be a defining moment in your life (for the better) - How if you always want to be no. 1, but you end up in a job where you don't really care then you'll probably be much happier doing something else - A lesson from Ron's immigrant parents:...

Lance Picioane is a former first round draft pick and AFL footballer who established mental health foundation Love Me Love You in 2013 to empower the community to take control of their mental wellbeing and to live happier, more fulfilling lives. As a teenager and throughout his AFL career, Lance was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Instead of asking for help, Lance turned to partying and sub...

+ how Paul ended up as the head of the China desk in the Defence Intelligence Organisation. Paul Monk is the author of eleven books, from his path-breaking 2005 book on the rise of China, Thunder From the Silent Zone: Rethinking China, to his latest book of love poetry, The Three Graces: Companionship, Discretion, Passion (2022). He has featured on both radio and television for many years as a res...

Charlie on being born to refugee parents, fleeing communism and the value of freedom, how good personal responsibility feels, why not knowing who you are means the opinions of others will matter too much, why happiness is about embracing your problems, three steps to develop self belief to achieve what you want, a better definition of success, how to get over the fear of rejection and much more......

Ben Ryan works in Investment and Portfolio Management at MaxCap Group. Ben is a corporate finance and investment professional having worked across both the Asia-Pacific and EMEIA regions with experience in financial modelling, portfolio/fund management, treasury management and complex financial analysis. He is a Chartered Accountant (CA) and holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance) fr...

Charlotte Scales is a digital marketing specialist. She lives in London in the beautiful flat she manifested. 

Isabella Sandak-Lewin: biomedical engineer, pole dancer, and ray of sunshine. Izzy is back! Listen to Part 1 at Ep. 4 - Izzy Sandak on anorexia and losing her best friend to Covid. IG: @ch0nkymarshmell0w

Andy Rose is back for round 2! (find part 1 on Ep. 16: Andy Rose: from pushing shopping trolleys to buying a Porsche, & losing it to pursue his true passion at 43) Andy is the owner of Snow Camps Europe and a ski instructor at Ski School Oberschneider in Kaprun, Austria. He is also the co-owner at Jausestation Bad Fusch Grill & Craft in Bad Fusch, Austria. 

Matthew Lesh is the Head of Public Policy at the IEA. He regularly appears across television and radio, including the BBC , Sky News and GB News , and has been published in the Daily Telegraph , The Times , The Spectator , The Wall Street Journal , the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian . He has written about the role of the business and the state, barriers to innovation, digital regulation...

Susie is a senior barista at an independent coffee shop in London

Bruce Cameron is a principal at Piper Alderman with broad experience in commercial law. His expertise encompasses mergers and acquisitions, the privatisation of government business, private and public fund-raising, venture and development capital finance, joint ventures, company applications and boardroom disputes.

"I began my career as an analyst in New York then worked in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia in senior executive and leadership roles with Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, HSBC and JBWere. As Scale Investors CEO, I facilitated patient capital investment into exceptional Australian early-stage businesses. My executive career has been quite the journey, super proud to have raised two amazing, now...

Tony Burgess is Chairman of Flagstaff Partners, an independent corporate finance advisory firm. Mr Burgess has over 40 years of experience in corporate finance in Melbourne, London and New York and was previously Global Co-Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for Deutsche Bank AG, based in London. Mr Burgess holds an MBA (Distinction) from Harvard Business School (1985) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Fir...

Paul is the author of eleven books, from his path-breaking 2005 book on the rise of China, Thunder From the Silent Zone: Rethinking China, to his latest book of love poetry, The Three Graces: Companionship, Discretion, Passion (2022). He has featured on both radio and television for many years as a respected commentator on international affairs. He has been a frequent and authoritative contributor...

Varad Mukhedkar is a 20 year old uni student from Perth, Western Australia Tiktok: @varadm_58 "The whole meaning of Man Up all changed for me in March of 2021 when one of my best mate’s, Michael, took his own life a couple of weeks into uni. Everything changed. My perspective, my values, my passions. So without parting ways with my initial drive, working in males mental health and suicide preventi...

Christopher Snowdon is the head of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs . His research focuses on social freedoms, prohibition and policy-based evidence. He is a regular columnist for EA magazine and an occasional contributor to Spiked, The Critic and the Telegraph. He often appears on TV and radio discussing social and economic issues. Snowdon is the editor of the Nanny State...

CONTENT WARNING - explicit content around suicide / drugs (if you are struggling, please see below) Dan Constable is a men's mindset coach and the founder of Proudly Me. He helps high achieving men go from self sabotage to a life of freedom, clarity & purpose. Find Dan on Instagram: @iamproudlyme Tiktok: @iamproudlyme Linkedin: Daniel Constable www.proudly-me.com   If you need to speak to...

Bryan Kam writes on the origins of complexity, selfhood, and suffering, philosophy of science, punctuated equilibrium, literature, film. Read the full essay How to end suffering through meditation: Dependent origination without any Pali at bryankam.substack.com   twitter.com/bryankam  bryankam.com patreon.com/bryankam

Jack Anderson is a uni student, writer, speaker, founder and chair of education non-profit ThrivEd, Ninja Warrior World Cup commentator and film producer. Jack founded and chairs Australia's first not-for-profit textbook authoring organisation. With a volunteer base of 20 writers ThrivEd authors Year 12 Textbooks using the proceeds from every two sales to produce and donate a third textbook to the...

Peter Costello served as the Treasurer of Australia in the Howard Government from 1996 to 2007. He is the longest-serving Treasurer in Australia's history. He delivered twelve federal budgets including ten surpluses. During this period Australia’s Sovereign Credit Rating was updated twice to its current AAA rating. Mr Costello set up Australia’s system of financial regulation by establishing the A...