Humans of Purpose

Aiden Rayner Aiden is the Founder of Don’t Move Until You See It , an online training platform, centred on visualisation training that he created; enabling exponential growth and improvement in chess performance. Aiden created this approach to chess training during his COVID-19 internment and it has enabled the bottom 10% of players in the world to the top 6%, in 9 months, studying just 10 minutes...

James Hatchman James is the Co-Founder and CEO of Voice of Health , a preventive mental health organisation that has developed a mobile app enabling people to connect with trained active listeners and a range of wellbeing tools enabling better self management of mental health. Our Sponsors We are proudly sponsored by Neon Treehouse , the best digital agency on the planet earth. Delicious and healt...

Luke Anderson Luke is the founder of Fair Threads , a social enterprise that enables prison inmates access to the world of prison compliant online retail clothing. Fair Threads is also planning for an ecosystem that provides pathways for ex-inmates to re-enter the workforce. This is a different sort of humans of purpose episode, where Luke essentially tells his whole life story, which is really im...

Bianca Stern Bianca is the General Manager of social enterprise cafe, All Things Equal . All Things Equal is a fresh take on the typical cafe in Melbourne, providing purposeful employment for people with and without disability in a ‘mainstream’ work environment. Our Sponsors We are proudly sponsored by Neon Treehouse , the best digital agency on the planet earth. Delicious and healthy soda Kreol i...

Sarah Pink Professor Sarah Pink is the Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University. She is also Co-Leader of the People Programme and Transport & Mobilities Focus Area at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society. Sarah is a true emerging tech leader and polymath; as we discover during the podcast, she is also a documentary filmmaker. Our Spon...

Sarah Davies This week I’m thrilled to welcome Sarah Davies AM to the podcast. Sarah is the CEO of the Alannah and Madeleine Foundation and holds a number of board non executive director roles too at Social Ventures Australia, Teach for Australia and the National Museum of Australia. Our Sponsors We are proudly sponsored by Neon Treehouse , the best digital agency on the planet earth. Delicious an...

Sarah Steel Sarah has an amazing podcast called Let's Talk About Sects , where she spends time researching, engaging with former cult members and producing a incredibly high quality storytelling podcast about cults that has had a really positive impact. Now just having commenced season 5 of her podcast, she has just released her first book called Do As I Say . Our Sponsors We are proudly sponsored...

Dr Megan Weier Megan is a Senior Research Fellow and Acting Research and Evaluation Director at the Centre for Social Impact at UNSW. Megan is doing some fascinating research into measuring social progress across different local government areas in Australia and uncovering some incredible insights and learnings that have already influenced and will continue to influence social policy making here....

Craig Hughes-Cashmore Craig is the CEO of SAMSN , which stands for survivors and mates support network. SAMSN’s vision is a world in which male survivors of childhood sexual abuse can easily access support and find understanding and acceptance. SAMSN believes male survivors of childhood sexual abuse can recover, support others to thrive and be leaders for change. Be sure to checkout SAMSN's STRONG...

Heshan Fernando This week I’m thrilled to welcome Heshan Fernando to the podcast. Hesh is the Founder of The Model Man . This is his coaching program for men around how to conquer stress and achieve success. Humans of Purpose Listeners Survey (HoPES) 2022 Be part of our annual survey to help us improve the podcast. This year 2 of the first 20 survey respondents will have the opportunity to appear...

Karen Mahlab This week I’m thrilled to welcome Karen Mahlab to the podcast. Karen is the Founder and CEO of Pro Bono Australia . Since 2000, Pro Bono Australia has shared news, careers and resources to help purpose-driven people and organisations grow their impact. With over 1.5 million people using their site each year, there is no question that Pro Bono News is the number one news outlet for Aus...

Andrew Kuypers Andrew is the Creative Director of A1 Studio . A1 Studio is a Melbourne-based full service design studio specialising in brand identities, art direction and photography. They help brands launch, evolve, grow and stand out in an ever-changing landscape. Our Sponsors We are proudly sponsored by Neon Treehouse , the best digital agency on the planet earth. Delicious and healthy soda Kr...

10 Useful Thoughts (Part 2 of 2) As we are taking 2 weeks off the podcast, I'm using this time to experiment by sharing across 2 episodes 10 of my most useful thoughts or pieces of wisdom that I've accumulated over the past few years of creating Humans of Purpose. The Last 5 (Summary) 'The fox knows many thing but the hedgehog knows one big thing' - Archilochus 'I walk into the fire always, and co...

10 Useful Thoughts (Part 1 of 2) As we are taking 2 weeks off the podcast, I'm using this time to experiment by sharing across 2 episodes 10 of my most useful thoughts or pieces of wisdom that I've accumulated over the past few years of creating Humans of Purpose. The First 5 (Summary) The 5 x 5 Rule - "You shouldn’t spend more than five minutes worrying about something that won’t matter in five y...

Kaitlin Tait Kaitlin is the Co-Founder and Head of Learning at ygap . ygap is an international organisation that creates positive change by making entrepreneurship more inclusive. Our Sponsors We are proudly sponsored by Neon Treehouse , the best digital agency on the planet earth. Delicious and healthy soda Kreol is the official drink of Humans of Purpose. Promotional Packages Our promotional pac...

Manny Hendrix Manny is the Director of Basketball at the Collingwood Basketball Association . Collingwood Basketball Association is a not-for-profit community based basketball club which offers young and older players in inner city Melbourne the opportunity to participate in a variety of competitions and programs. Our Sponsors We are proudly sponsored by Neon Treehouse , the best digital agency on...

Mike Davis Mike is Head of Strategic Partnerships and Communications at Infoxchange and also Chief Podcaster at Humans of Purpose. Infoxchange is a not-for-profit social enterprise that has been delivering technology for social justice for over 30 years. We are currently hiring for a Strategic Communications and Engagement Manager in my team, if you are a strategic communicator, inspiring storytel...

Margo Lydon Margo has been the CEO of Superfriend for over 12 years and is now acting as Chief Mental Health Advisor as she transitions to a new opportunity in the workplace mental health advisory space. Superfriend advocates for, equips and empowers profit-to-member superannuation funds and insurers to achieve mentally healthy workplaces for their staff and members. Our Sponsors We are proudly sp...

Felicity Green Felicity and I became fast friends after crossing paths in the for purpose sector about 8 years ago. She is bright, bubbly, whip smart and a great exemplar of the modern consultant. So much so that I followed her to work in her team at Spark Strategy in my last job, where she was Co-Founder and CEO. She has since begun a new chapter as Co-Founder and Director of Ensemble Strategy ....

Sarah Ramantanis Sarah is heavily involved in the world of philanthropy and is a marketing and communications professional by trade. She has just started a new role at General Sir John Monash Foundation and previously worked at Philanthropy Australia and is actively involved with Nexus Australia, Australia Youth Affairs Coalition and Kids in Philanthropy. Our Sponsors We are proudly sponsored by N...

George Peppou George is the Founder & CEO of Vow . Vow is a collective of innovators, engineers, scientists, artists and foodies working to improve the quality of life for people, animals and planetary health, by reinventing food from the ground up. Our Sponsors We are proudly sponsored by Neon Treehouse , the best digital agency on the planet earth. Get your free 1-hour digital strategy consultat...

Philip Dalidakis This week I’m thrilled to welcome The Honorable Philip Dalidakis to the podcast. Philip is the Managing Partner at Orizontas . Orizontas is a boutique corporate advisory consultancy that solves business challenges through strategic advice and deep expertise in political, market, reputational and climate risk. Our Sponsors We are proudly sponsored by Neon Treehouse , the best digit...

Jo Garner Jo is the Founder and Director of Strategic Grants . Strategic Grants helps build non-profit’s capacity through their GEMS grants database, grant writing, grants training, grants workshops, program design and monitoring and evaluation frameworks and strategic planning for grants success. Checkout the free "Best Practice Tracker" via their website at and get in touch with the team if you...

Dean Jacobson Dean is the Creative Director at Univers . Univers is a full-service design studio specialized in brand identity online and offline. Their core services are brand Identity, brand strategy, and the design and development of websites. Dean and I work about five metres away from each other at The Commons in Cremorne and we can oft be found discussing horror films, the best coffee cups a...

Emily Darnett Emily is a newly appointed Board Director at Family Life , she is a provisional psychologist and is working hard on her PhD in clinical psychology at Swinburne also. Emily is a proud Nipaluna women, she grew up on Yugambeh country and currently calls the Kulin nation home. Her current areas of interest are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing, social i...