Mel Bampton Presents...How Human

This is a story about that inner turmoil that plagues so many of us. It’s the sinister chisel of self-doubt that both breaks us down but also propels us, it’s the quest of answers in a life that comes with no guidebook, the hurts that can swallow us whole or see us striving to do our best.    This is the story of Johnny Abegg, a once-aspiring pro-surfer, turned independent filmmaker, metamorphosis...

Live music, liberation, and the meaning of success - this conversation with Ben Ely is a deep dive into what truly matters. From the raw energy of Livid Festival and Brisbane’s underground music scene to Regurgitator’s intergenerational impact, we explore how creativity, relationships, and personal growth shape a musician’s journey. In this episode, I sit down with Ben for the first time since 200...

This is a conversation for men about men, but it is also very much a conversation for all people, no matter how you identify, because we're all in this gigantic exquisite shitshow together. It is about the gap many of us are feeling and starting to acknowledge in this juncture of our attempts at equality and in it, Ryk Goddard offers a fascinating approach to reducing the world's sufferi...

Is there any more difficult terrain to navigate as a human being, than heartbreak? That wretched feeling when you know something has to end, it’s crushing, you feel your whole world tilting sideways and you know that things will never be the same – whether that’s because of an event, someone has crossed a line that there’s no going back from or because of the slow corrosion of a relationship dying...

How does a small child recover from losing their Mum? Not just survive, full of self-destruction and fear, but learn great joy, even gratitude for the darkness that once was your universe? How do you come back from the shame of things you once did as a result of that sense of abandonment, to truly love yourself as an equally precious part of the same 'one big organism'?  I first met Clay...

Hannah Darling is abundant in life's extremes. She is poetry in motion and an alchemist turning despair, hardships and challenges into things of great beauty. From shining on the stage in the Australian series The Voice, to loving someone in the chaos of heroin addiction. She has seen the pointy fringes of life's edges first-hand. Hold onto your hearts friends, there’s a bumpy, beautiful...

What is the superpower of grace and how can it help us as humans to overcome enormous tragedy? Madeleine West has seen the best and the worst of the human experience. She is an actor, becoming a household face in the iconic Australian shows Neighbours and Underbelly, a mother of 6, author of the book Six Under Eight and a staunch environmentalist.  In 2002 Madeleine suffered terrible injuries when...

As a mother, a foster carer, a therapist and a fairly compassionate human being, I often watch the world in horror, as judgements are made about others disregarding the path they walked in their childhood. Often we express outrage at child abuse but when the effects of that abuse play out in that child during adolescents and into adulthood, suddenly all compassion dries up – we get convenient amne...

Over the past 15 years, since changing my career, my geography, my habits and my name, I've been on a great quest to learn about what makes us humans tick.  On this episode, I go solo to share some of the significant things I've learned about change along the way.  What it means to make big life changes - do they really matter? Why change is both so hard, as well as unavoidable. What is...

This episode takes yet another plot twist, with an indepth and intimate chat between two yoga teachers, together for 13 years, having raised 6 children between them and at times, holding on for dear life. In this episode I invited in my own wingman, Shane Turner, and we put ourselves - and our relationship - under the microscope to reveal our own patterns, the conditioning that we developed throug...

Dr Lauren Tober is a psychologist, a Senior Yoga Teacher and the creator of the Mental Health Aware Yoga Teacher Training. What I love about Lauren’s work is how she integrates evidence based data with that that is beyond the measure of science – the subtlties of the deeper self that yoga interacts with – in a clinical setting. She finds a way to expand beyond the confines of modern psychology thr...

In this episode, we’re jumping straight into the nitty gritty of an illicit drug with the worst publicity, with a former high level sportsperson who was well on his way to an incredible career as a pro basketballer before meth amphetamines took him over and diminished all other aspects of his world.  Jack Nagle is the founder of Real Drug Talk, he’s a recovery advocate and a real voice in the conv...

This episode is very different. Not looking so much at the patterns that we're stuck in but instead how big events can change us at our deepest levels. This is a story of one man being taken to his depths through intense loss, of a man who is still very much learning how to swim in the waters of a grief that most days he cannot see the edges of. Yet somehow, with the potential of the human mi...

What is the correlation between alcohol patterns and extreme sports? What part does self-identity play in trying to kick a harmful booze habit? And when you do go sober and you’re faced with the clarity of your own historical dickhead behaviour, how do you balance the books and feel not just accepting of who you were but good about yourself going forward? In this episode, we are focusing on one of...

Sometimes patterns present in identifiable habits - small and large. Sometimes patterns are written into the very fabric of our being; they have become a part of the way we view the world without us even realising we are looking through a filter. In this episode we are looking at what has become known as colonised conditioning. A term coined by Native Americans to describe the way European systems...

Welcome to the DISSOLVING PATTERNS series of Lissie Turner Presents... where Lissie takes you deep into the wiring of the human mind, through the unhealthy, unhelpful and harmful patterns that make us suffer. Through common negative patterns around food, alcohol, social media, sex, gaming, money, drugs, politics, religion and more, as well as through the deepest most pervasive patterns around love...

Recently at Splendour In The Grass, the Lissie Turner Presents... podcast took to the Forum stage for the season finale, with not one but two phenomenal guests. Take a listen as we dive deeply into unexpected connections that can rock our world, boiled egg throwing, life-changing lasagne, low carbon skills, love that ambushes, action born from eczema born from anxiety, rainbows out of dolphin hole...

Matt O’Brien is a unicorn: a warm loving friendship facilitating creature of magical proportions, with a billowing mane and an equally impressive moustache. In pubs, festivals and venues all around the country, Matt creates ways for people to connect. Deeply. Through fun and clever initiatives he breaks down awkward social barriers and enables complete strangers to become best friends, instantly....

Okay. This episode is very different. It is both very personal but also prolific. I would really, really like you to tune into this one... In 2018 an extraordinary little foundation that I had been in awe of at a very close level for nearly a decade – for their small all-female team of brilliant scientists, their incredible support of innovation, capacity to fundraise and of course, the integrity...

Yes, I know what you’re thinking. Why has Lissie chosen to chat with this very rugged looking bloke? Well hopefully by now you’ll trust me enough to know that if they’re a guest on this pod, there’s something a little bit rich and special lurking not far beneath the outer crust. Luke Andrews or Blue as his red hair has demanded he be called in this country, is like that in so many ways. At his hea...

Yes I know! How great are Kate's! As luck would have it, three Kate's of grand intrigue were delivered to yours and my podcast doorstep to share their incredible stories, their lessons, their challenges and their own unique gems of wisdom they've collected along the way. This third Kate in the grand trilogy of Kate's, is the fierce and radiant Kate Constantine. Once a jetsettin...

Dirt biking women. Snowboarding accidents. Living life to the extreme. Loving intensely. Losing beyond compare.  Tragedy germinating beauty, power and being fully alive. This episode is going to get you right in the belly.  Everything about it, is at the level of OOF. There is a MASSIVE story in here that will shock you, it will change you and hopefully it will inspire and move you in ways that in...

Get ready for one of the most beautiful episodes you'll hear.   A story about unexpected connections, grieving, reconciling in the most delicate and powerful of ways, about the potency of the Mother Daughter connection, of creativity as a flow-through channel for agitation and tension, and the magic of small nuances, turns of phrase and seeing the world with bright eyes and a colourful spirit...

Have you ever experienced such a deep belief in where you thought you should be in your life, who you should be but it didn't come to pass? When something didn't go your way, how did you peace with the new outcome? Sherrie Laryse spent a lifetime knowing that her life would contain a certain something; and that that something was part of her life's purpose. But life itself (or Wendy...

 As this podcast has gone along, it's reason for existing has morphed, refined and changed; each new guest creating a different reason for it's existence. A thread that's kept coming up is the obsession with celebrity - our fascination with putting certain people, doing certain things, up on pedestals above all others. Often giving people who are not so fabulous glory and money, whi...