julesFM - What If....

What if one unexpected moment changed not only your life, but the lives of thousands of women? In this episode, Jules sits down with Suzie Betts, founder of Boob Protect, to explore the personal journey that began with the discovery of a breast lump and led her to uncover an issue that had been hiding in plain sight. An issue that highlights a gap in protection for females in sport. Together they...

Vithyaa Thavapalan , Jules Thoughts She still calls herself unemployed. This is a woman who built the first fire investigation company of its kind in the world owned by a woman of colour. Who started a national community for South Asian women. Who's changed industry practice around domestic violence cases. And she calls herself unemployed, because nobody tells her what to do anymore. She controls...

 What if the community you needed didn't exist, so you built it yourself. In this episode, Part 2 with Vithyaa, also known as Vee, we talk about The self-doubt she carried. The notes on her phone about every small win, every quiet achievement, that she reads back to herself when the doubt gets loud like it does for so many of us.  The personal cost of choosing her own path. And the relationship in...

What if your parents, your family and everyone around you told you that what you wanted to do with your life was never going to work, that it went against everything your culture expected of you. And what if you did it anyway. Vithyaa Thavapalan asked herself exactly that question, took that step and became the first woman of colour in the world to start her own fire investigation company. And the...

What does it actually mean to be happy and are we even chasing the right thing? This episode is my personal reflection on my conversation with Dr Tim Sharp aka Dr Happy, clinical psychologist, founder of the Happiness Institute, and one of Australia's leading positive psychology experts. I share my three biggest takeaways from our chat, the ideas that really resonated with me, challenged me, and h...

What if the season that broke you was always the one building you? This is me thinking out loud after two conversations with Airleigh Frigo - Australian aerial skier, Olympian, and one of the most honest and self-aware people I've spoken to on this show.  For me, there were a number of things that really stood out and that I have continued thinking about. The image of Airleigh standing at the top...

What does success look like when the scoreboard stops being enough? In Part 2, Airleigh Frigo gets to the heart of what changed everything - not a podium finish, but four months of injury and rehab that quietly shifted her entire perspective. It was there, sidelined and still, that she discovered mental wellbeing, started looking after herself differently, and began thinking about who she wanted t...

Airleigh Frigo didn't grow up dreaming of being an aerial skier. She grew up as a gymnast - and it was a flyer on a noticeboard at her local club that changed everything. In Part 1, Jules talks with Australian Olympic aerialist Airleigh Frigo about the unlikely path that took her from the gymnastics floor to the Olympic stage, and what it actually feels like when you get there. The pride of repres...

Follow it. Trust it. Watch it unfold. Dave Griffin knew two things at eight years old - he wanted to tell stories, and he wanted to play AFL. What happened next is a masterclass in trusting the journey even when it doesn't look the way you planned. One game with the Sydney Swans. Running onto the MCG as a Hawthorn runner. A successful career in business. And all the while - the thing he loved most...

If you could define your ideal life… what would it look like? In Part 2 of our conversation with Dave Griffin, we go deeper into the inner world of a storyteller who writes to emotionally challenge people and hopes, in doing so, to impact them in a way he was also impacted as a child by the power of words. Dave speaks candidly about empathy as both his superpower and his kryptonite, what it means...

Dave is the perfect example of how success can look different for everyone. While he has been pursuing his career as a GM in a large footwear company, he has been quietly finding alignment for his passion to play on the MCG firstly, and then secondly as an author. His story shows how when you have a goal in mind, you can be off course most of the time but you can still find alignment in unexpected...

In Part 2 of my conversation with Tim Sharp — aka Dr Happy, we continue exploring what it really means to live well, beyond the metrics, milestones, and “when I get there” thinking. Tim shares his belief that from a very young age, we all have a sense of what energises us and where our natural strengths lie but we often don’t have the language, or the permission, to name or prioritise them. We tal...

In Part 1 of my conversation with Tim Sharp, aka Dr Happy, we talk about happiness from a place that’s often missing from the conversation. Tim shares how his interest in happiness began not through ease, but through struggle working as a clinical psychologist alongside anxiety, depression, and the parts of life that weren’t working. His own mental health challenges shaped his drive to succeed, bu...

Three Questions to Realign Your Life This Week This episode is a little different. There’s no guest, and I’m not sharing answers as an expert. I’m very much still working this out in real time  which is exactly why I wanted to record it. Lately, I’ve noticed how easy it is to feel slightly off without being able to name why. Not burnt out. Not unhappy. Just… misaligned. Like you’re doing the right...

After every conversation on julesFM, I take time to pause and reflect, not on everything that was said, but on a few ideas I’m consciously choosing to carry forward. In this takeaway episode, I share what I’m taking from my conversation with Elyse, shaped by her long career, lived experience, and honest perspective on success, growth, and control. There are three ideas I keep coming back to: You m...

In Part 2, Elyse shares the advice that she received late in the game that changed everything in the second half of her career. We talk about the moment she realised cricket doesn’t define her worth, and how reconnecting with why she started playing became an anchor through her journey. This conversation explores the practice of letting go, of outcomes, of selection decisions, of things that you c...

Elyse Villani is a cricketing great. Across a career spanning more than 19 years, she represented Australia on the world stage and built a reputation for resilience and leadership, showing that success in elite sport doesn’t have to follow a single script.   In Part 1, Elyse takes us inside a career shaped by constant challenge. The kind where you never feel like you’ve fully nailed it and maybe t...

In this episode, Jules reflects on something that’s come up again and again in conversations with Olympians, entertainers, founders, leaders, and in her own life. Success can feel awesome and it can confirm that what you’re doing is working. But it rarely changes you. The moments that shape us the most tend to arrive when things don’t go to plan, when the win isn’t there, when the outcome is not w...

In this Weekly Wins & Recap episode, Jules shares a candid update on her voice‑over journey  and why where she is at now feels like genuine progress, not just momentum. After being asked to deliver a relaxed, conversational read (in an English accent), Jules walks through the real work behind the scenes: honouring the brief, recording multiple takes, noticing when something technically “works”...

This episode starts with world records and ends somewhere a little more reflectively. On Friday night, I stood in a crowd singing ‘You’re the Voice’ surrounded by friends, strangers, nostalgia, and a surprising sense of ease. No one was trying to sound good. No one was being assessed. And somehow, that made everyone braver. In this Jules' Thoughts episode, I explore what that night revealed about...

Authenticity isn’t a performance. It’s a release. In this episode, Jules shares what turns out to be one of the biggest learnings she has made on this journey so far and that is the power and freedom of being authentically yourself. A misbelief she had was that being authenticity meant doing things right, sounding natural, choosing the right words, delivering value, and being honest in a polished...

In this solo episode, I share my thoughts on a book that genuinely shifted something in me: Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed. It’s an awesome exploration of how two industries, aviation and medicine, handle mistakes in completely opposite ways… and what that reveals about learning, growth, and human potential. Aviation treats errors as data. Medicine often treats errors as secrets. And somewhere...

In this recap episode, Jules reflects on her conversation with Janine Allis, founder of Boost, author, Survivor favourite, and a woman dedicated to helping others live with purpose. Jules highlights Janine’s next‑level authenticity, her down‑to‑earth humour, and the powerful reminder that showing up as your true self is where the real magic happens. Jules also explores Janine’s unconventional busi...

In Part 2 of this conversation, Jules explores Janine Allis’ powerful VERB and SOAR framework, the mindset model she lives by. While everyone drifts into VERB at times, the reactive, resistant, or negative state, Janine explains why choosing to become a SOAR thinker — solution‑focused, optimistic, accountable and open‑minded, is what consistently leads people toward opportunity, growth and “lucky...

In Part 1 of my conversation with Janine Allis, founder of Boost Juice, part‑owner of Retail Zoo, Shark Tank judge, author, Survivor legend, and CEO of the Business Academy we dive,  into the unexpected lessons that have shaped her life,  from what she learnt working with David Bowie (including a surreal moment alone with him on his boat!) to the mindset that helped her create Boost, long before s...