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Hello there, We're delighted to share that season 2 of the Mindarma podcast will commence next week.  This year Dr Sadhbh Joyce will host the Mindarma podcast as our good friend - veteran journalist Dean Yates is working on finishing his memoir - which we are very much looking forward to reading. Listen in, as a selection of inspiring guests share their own stories of resilience and offer up...

Hello. It’s Dean Yates here, host of the Mindarma podcast. My next – and final guest -- for this year is Dr. Sadhbh Joyce. I was delighted when Sadhbh and her husband Jamie Watson, the co-founders of Mindarma , invited me to host this podcast series. It seems fitting to finish with a chat with Sadhbh. What struck me when I met Sadhbh a few years ago was her extraordinary knowledge of workplace men...

Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is Associate Professor Sam Harvey , chief psychiatrist at the Black Dog Institute and head of the workplace mental health team at the University of New South Wales. Sam is one of the world’s leading workplace mental health experts. Much of the ground-breaking workplace mental health research to come from Australia in the past decade has involved Sam. His advi...

Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is Marian Spencer, head of people and culture at the Black Dog Institute , a globally renowned medical organisation that researches every aspect of mental health. The Black Dog Institute translates that research into practical solutions for individuals, schools, organisations and governments. Marian has worked for 20 years in general and human resource manage...

Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is Guy Boland. Guy survived a light plane crash near Moree airport in March 2011 that killed his parents and older sister. The pilot of the six-seater plane was also killed. Guy suffered life-threatening injuries while his daughter Hannah was seriously hurt. Guy had more than 25 operations in hospital over the following years. He managed to recover enough to...

I’m delighted that our next Mindarma podcast features two guests, John McGarvey and Pauline Askin, who talk about their roles as peer supporters in the organisations they work for. John is a senior firefighter at Fire & Rescue NSW (FRNSW) and has been a member of the FRNSW peer network for over 10 years. John is also a Mental Health First Aid Instructor. FRNSW has had a peer support network fo...

Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is Pam Barker, CEO of YFoundations, a not-for-profit organisation supporting young people in NSW at risk of, and experiencing, homelessness. Yfoundations is the peak body representing such youth in the state.   Pam brings enormous knowledge, wisdom and passion in advocating for the homeless. Indeed, Pam herself was in and out of homelessness in Queensland for...

Our next guest on the Mindarma podcast is Miles Hunt, an industrial officer with the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, the union for Australia’s creative professionals. But in this podcast, Dean Yates talks to Miles about his decade-long career as a personal injury lawyer representing employees with psychological injury claims. As Miles explains, it was persistent bullying he experienced at...

In our first Mindarma podcast, Dean Yates talks to Senior Firefighter, author and PhD Scholar Tara J Lal.   Tara is a full-time firefighter in Sydney. She helps run the psychological wellbeing program for Fire & Rescue NSW. She is trained in suicide prevention and mental health first aid.  Tara is extremely passionate about mental health. She is now half-way through a PhD, in which she is rese...

Welcome to the Mindarma Podcast Series - real conversations about what really matters. Hear what's coming up in our first series and a little background on our host Dean Yates.