Roll With The Punches

Time sure flies when I'm chatting with Jem Fuller. Today we're curious about why that is... though Jem goes all Brian Cox on me for a moment and dives into a deep exploration of the fourth dimension, I was simply hanging by a cognitive thread at times.  We talk about how time is elastic and tends to stretch and contract in different circumstances and how it becomes seemingly obsolete when we find...

Get ready for me to run down some philosophical rabbit holes with Julian Baggini. I mean what else would I do when blessed with such an esteemed andeste prolific writer, philosopher and expert in personal identity? Given Julian's PhD research in personal identity, we're diving deep into what makes us who we are and how we relate to our identity. We unpack thinking and how to think critically (ie:...

Being around negative people can have quite an impact on us and in a lot of cases it can be good advice to give them a wide berth for the sake of our own energy or peace of mind. But what if this person is someone you deeply care about and don't necessarily want to steer clear of? Can we positively influence them? If we can, should we? Is our intention for them or for us? How can we co-exist with...

So I did a weird thing. Ok it's probably not that weird, but it was for me. Turns out I loved it though... I usually do when I scoot right out of my comfort zone and do un-Tiff-like things! Michaela Boehm joined us on the show in episode 520 talking about sex, love and embodiment and it was a ripper of an episode. Afterwards she invited me to attend her workshop when she came to Australia in early...

It's not often one might utter a sentence containing both 'professional chocolate dealer' and '20 years of binge-eating and Bulimia' in reference to the same person. But hey, today that's precisely what I'm doing.  Recently Shari Aubrey single-handedly transformed my relationship with chocolate forever at her Fiamma chocolate and cocktail pairing event. I'm a self-confessed chocoholic so she was s...

Get ready for a fun-filled episode of our podcast, featuring the one and only Tory Archbold! With her infectious energy and unstoppable drive, Tory is a force to be reckoned with. As the founder of Torstar, a marketing and PR agency, she's worked with some of the world's biggest brands, and she's also an accomplished author and motivational speaker. But what really sets Tory apart is her larger-th...

Get ready, because we have the 'Swiss army knife of humans, Gary Wilson back for some more entertaining conversation! He was our first guest on the show, and I vividly remember the excitement I felt in June 2020 as I sat down with him to record the first of many episodes. We joked back then that he would return for episode 500 (while mocking our own sarcasm), but lo and behold, we are now on episo...

Staying positive in a negative world can be challenging, but it is essential for our mental and emotional well-being. One effective approach is to focus on gratitude and cultivate a positive mindset, however Bobby and I raise the question around if and at what point positivity can actually have a negative impact on resilience? What is the impact of our expectations? And, how acceptance of circumst...

The concept that how you do one thing is how you do everything has always landed with me. Perhaps that's why I gained so much insight, self-awareness, and the ability to grow and evolve from the metaphorical mirror that the boxing ring held up to my face. Similarly reinforced by my experience with podcasting. These two arenas provided me with a platform for self-improvement and encouraged me to ex...

It all started at 12 years old. From Anorexia, as each mental health diagnosis got snubbed out and replaced with another, right through to Bipolar 1, Sarah Fay was strapped in to ride a 2.5 decade mental health rollercoaster as she grappled with understanding the labels, wrestled with suicidality and navigated life from a very narrow lens that never once offered any hope of ‘recovery’.  Sarah is n...

LeBusque is back and he's luring me into the metaphorical boxing ring with him! Ok I'm kidding, he's not really... but in true Mark LeBusque form he's nudging a few of my buttons over here (I wholeheartedly welcome) to test how rigid or perhaps bullshitty my stories might be (possibly... but possibly not). Cos that's what great friends who really want to see you grow do.  We talk about how humans...

JJ Flizanes is one of those humans who I simply love having the opportunity to draw wisdom and insight from. She's an Empowerment Strategist who works with conscious, spiritual truth seekers who want to remove emotional blocks to success, helping people identify sabotaging patterns and transmute struggle into joy... Sounds bloody good to me! I'm getting down to business in today's chat to discover...

Apparently, according to those who spend their time and attention researching mindset have found that some people perceive a version of what sounds like optimism for having a growth mindset... Hmmm, interesting. Well, if there's one person who knows how to weed out misconceptions in this world we live in, it's old mate Bobby Cappuccio! Currently diving deep into Carol Dweck's book Mindset , we are...

I was recently asked the question by someone, "Tiff, what do you do when you're ultra stressed and tired and simply resting doesn't help?" Great question and something I've had far too much experience being able to personally experiment with over the (almost) 4 decades of life I've lived. So today's episode I'm sharing what works for me at times when I'm exhausted, overwhelmed, stressed and feelin...

How much does our mind rule our physical experience? Does our story or belief about our body's performance play a bigger role in our healing? In my humble opinion I know it does, but I don't know how, and I don't know how I know... I just know. Harps and I discuss the evidence that we've seen, heard, and even experienced that tells us that mind over matter exists with academics such as Dr. Jeffrey...

Karen Faith is an ethnographer, a people researcher and an empathy trainer who's recent TED Talk captured my attention, so of course I reeled her in for a chat. I guess I should have expected just how deep I might go in conversation with an empathy trainer, and that we certainly did. The idea of empathy being teachable was a fascinating enough topic in itself, yet we talk about self-awareness in r...

Is there anyone who doesn't LOVE Johnny Ruffo? Nah, I didn't think so... We first saw him hit the scene in 2011 as an X-Factor finalist, only to rocket from there on in going from strength to strength in any arena he seemed to throw his hat in the ring for. Winning Dancing With The Stars in 2012, touring with One Direction, Backstreet Boys and New Kids On The Block and not to mention his role as C...

Let's be honest, we sure don't all revel in our own versions of The Brady Bunch when it comes to our families. To varying degrees, we have all versions of dysfunction, hurt, strain and sometimes (like Bobby talks about in this episode) serious trauma associated with our family members. I've seen many people grapple with the guilt and feeling conflicted around fractured relationships through no fau...

I often talk about how we are a product of our environment and how the feedback we take from our surroundings (both conscious and unconscious) shapes how we feel and how we behave. In recognising this, I feel like it's a pretty important thing to do an audit on every once in a while. In this punchy little episode I talk about a couple of perspectives on precisely how and why shaping and maintainin...

One of my all-time favourite guests is returning for yet another brilliant conversation.  In 1967 after 74 successful combat missions over Vietnam, Fighter Pilot Captain Charlie Plumb was shot down in his F-4 Phantom jet... On his 75th mission, only 5 days before he was to return home. Captured, brutally tortured and imprisoned in the Hanoi Hilton where Charlie remained a prisoner of war for the n...

He's back! Tech guru, Patrick Bonello from the OK Smartass podcast joins me today for a hearty banter about all things... not exactly tech, it seems. For a technology nut he sure knows a LOT about art, sport, veganism and the world at large. Our conversation meanders through a bunch of these topics, such as would you eat cultured meat? That's meat that's made by humans in petri dishes rather than...

One minute, Craig Brown was a church minister and happily married father of three. Then on a work 'trip' in Montreal in 2019, he did just that (trip, that is) and broke his patella... Seeing him sent home to lift his spirits with some recovery time over Netflix. Surely Schitt's Creek can deliver the goods and lift his spirits, right? Well that it very much did, along with throwing a cat amongst th...

Do you have an alter-ego? An alter-ego is defined as an alternate self, which is believed to be distinct from a one's original personality. In this conversation with Bobby (again after him delving into another great book) we talk about the strategies in which we can use our alter-ego to perform amidst our usual anxiety or inner-critic. Now let's just clarify we aren't talking about the type of alt...

If the money fairy floated by tomorrow and dropped you a big wad of cash to the sum of what one might call 'life-changing' (whatever that is for you)... what would you do? What would life look life? What would you change? Who would you help?  If you take a few minutes to actually think about this, do you actually know?? I feel like I didn't... and this bothered me. A lot. Feel free to tune in and...

Success. We're all chasing it, aren't we? So it would seem odd to realise that quite often we are yet to define what that even means to us individually. Hell, so many of us are chasing other people's version of success and when we achieve it only then to we take stock of what really matters to us and why this 'success' hasn't delivered the goods. Today Jem and I are talking about all things human...