Roll With The Punches

Imagine walking into a classroom and seeing the teacher sitting at a school desk as a young student runs the lesson. At first thought this seems somewhat absurd and surely likely to boast an unruly outcome, right? Well once you are immersed in a few minutes hearing Gavin McCormack's perspective on learning and teaching according as a schoolteacher, principal and Montessori ambassador, you may find...

John McDougall, MD, is a physician, speaker and best-selling author who teaches the importance of a whole food, starch-based diet in order to halt, reverse and heal chronic disease.  Doting grandfather, John McDougall started his career in medicine as a GP getting a well-rounded understanding of how to keep people well and healthy. Though he seemed to be falling short of his own expectations when...

Bobby has come in guns blazing this week after reading a post on social media...  'The Self-Help Antidote' is the name of Bobby's podcast due to necessity we have for auditing the bullshit that can get wheeled out as 'self-help' in today's world.  What is the cause and effect of 'absolute thinking', of the idea that anyone is right and there is one right way or answer to our problems, and those wh...

There’s training, then there’s training. I stepped it up this week and called out for a workout challenge from the guru himself, Craig Harper. Amidst executing his directive, I found myself going deep into a place in my mind I haven’t visited for a while. I LOVED it. So much comes to me in terms of knowledge vs application. How was it that I could find myself in that place when in that very moment...

Serving Others Is The Best Medicine For Ourselves | Dr. Stephen Trzeciak Dr. Stephen Trzeciak was at the top of his game as a research scientist until an unexpected question from his 12-year-old son transformed his life's work. "What is the most pressing problem of our time? Do we really know? And what would happen if we actually did?"   Landing ‘compassion’ as what Stephen believed for him was th...

Getting brilliant advice from the right people with the right information to share when it comes to health and energy is one thing. But when that right person is just exuding joy and vitality it sure is the icing on the (metaphoric, of course) cake that makes you want to go right ahead and embrace that knowledge. Well, it's fair to say Dr. Libby Weaver sure is that kind of person and having this c...

Laughter... when you really think about it, it's a bit of a weird thing isn't it? Like when all of our human functions were thrown together for our survival as a human species it kind of perplexes me that laughter got a look-in. However there's a heel of a lot of scientifically proven benefits to a good old belly laugh, there's even laughter yoga, believe it or not. So I'm chatting with someone wh...

Resilience. We all want more of it. We've all likely run low on it at times throughout this last couple of years. And we're all being told how to develop it from each and every angle. Today Bobby and I are having a conversation around the facts and fiction when it comes to resilience. We talk about trauma, healing, memories, forgiveness and exposure. A deeper dive into a topic we've bantered on be...

We've all heard of or read The Secret. We've all heard people shouting 'manifestation' from the rooftops and I don't know if it's just me and my world at the moment, but it seems to be buzzing with manifestation 'courses', workshops and coaches selling the 'how-to' around this elusive, kind of woo-woo protocol around creating the life and circumstances we desire. So I'm riffing on some of my own t...

If only self-confidence was a skill we could develop, huh? Oh, guess what… it is! Dr. Ivan Joseph caught my eye with his wildly popular (like 26+ million views popular) TED Talk ‘The Skill Of Self-Confidence’ and so I thought who better to lure into a conversation to extract some self-confidence gold from?? Dr. Ivan Joseph is a world-renowned leadership expert, best-selling author, keynote speaker...

I've had a plethora of 'tantric coaches' or 'intimacy and sexuality experts' *rolls eyes* reach out and pitch themselves for a conversation on this show and quite frankly I'd like to ( insert antisocial expletives here ). However, I actually reached out to the brilliant Michaela Boehm myself for this particular conversation after seeing her in action on Gwyneth Paltrow's Sex, Love & Goop Netfl...

Life, relationships, families, experiences, challenges, lessons... these are all the things a LOVE exploring in conversation and today I've lured in Mandi Bonheur to do just that. We talk about the good, the bad and the ugly of all the above things in Mandi's life. From finding out when her dad walked out with all her siblings except for Mandi, that he wasn't her biological father after all. Like...

This week Bobby and I tackle the critical components of life... such as my very strong opinion on chocolate being 100% worth it (but it doesn't belong in the fridge). We banter about each of our own personal experiences and protocols with intermittent fasting, about making mirco-changes and about the fundamental difference in results between forcing vs allowing in terms of productivity, creativity...

There are two things in my life that when I reflect on them, I can wholeheartedly say that they have evolved and grown me exponentially. One of them is obviously boxing, but I'm not talking about that today... Today I'm talking about networking and why it's the one thing that I can attribute much (if not most) of my growth and success to when it comes to business.  From a decade ago when spending...

We all just want to be happy. But what is it? Happiness, I mean. Is our interpretation of happiness a life without discomfort? Is it a life where we don’t feel the bad emotions or do the hard stuff? Isn’t that unrealistic? How do our relationships play into our happiness? When do we know if we need to walk away from certain relationships or when we need to navigate the conflict within them to stre...

Laura & Ash Morgan are a couple of new mums who welcomed their first baby boy, Charlie into the world 6 months ago. Being a same sex couple from a small rural town and going through the IVF process was eventful, but compared to many all in all a smooth-sailing affair... Until it came to giving birth.  Laura developed an Amniotic Fluid Embolism, a condition that the small rural hospital she gav...

Harps is back and this week we attempt to unpack the mystery behind why after potentially 1000+ podcasts (514 on this very show), I seem to get so damn overthink-ey and anxious having the lad, Craig Harper himself as my guest on the show.  We discuss the dynamic of managing the complexity of several relationship contexts in one (work, friends & mentor). The conversation moves into ego, what pe...

What can we learn today (with the rest of our lives still remaining) by considering the top 5 regrets of the dying? Bobby is reading the book by Bronnie Ware as we speak and so this is part one of a two part conversation around these top 5 regrets. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. I wish I’d had the courag...

One thing I have learned and pieced together in the ecosystem that is 'Tiff's world', is that the things that scare and terrify me, the things that make me mighty nervous or make me question my worth & capabilities, the things that make me feel like an imposter and evoke fear into my body and mind... Are the very things that fill me with the most joy, purpose, growth and satisfaction. And I no...

If you’re tuning in as an Australian, you’re likely to recall the horrific April 2020 Eastern Freeway tragedy that killed four of our Victorian police officers. Constable Josh Prestney, Leading Senior Constable Lynette Taylor, Constable Glen Humphris and Senior Constable Kevin King were preparing to impound a black Porsche 911 that was being driven at 149kph whilst under the influence of substance...

Damien Rider is an extreme adventure sports athlete and one who holds multiple world records. Damien completed a 17-day 500-mile solo (and unsupported paddle) in Australia’s shark infested waters. He encountered 21 sharks, starvation, dehydration, and was knocked unconscious numerous times before ticking this feat off his list. He skateboarded 2,500-mile journey along Route 66, a 56-day journey an...

It’s not often we acknowledge that is it? That sometimes doing nothing IS doing something, and perhaps it’s just the something we should be doing from time to time. Mark LeBusque is sliding back into the hotseat with me, very casually might I add, as he returns from his end of year downtime and wellness retreat where he undertook some emotional healing practices, had a couple of tarot card reading...

What can we learn today (with the rest of our lives still remaining) by considering the top 5 regrets of the dying? Bobby is reading the book by Bronnie Ware as we speak and so this is part one of a two part conversation around these top 5 regrets. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. I wish I’d had the courag...

This week I saw someone warning people on their socials to be careful about some 'greedy psychologists who are charging $250 a session'. The responses were an array (as you expect on socials) of everything from people agreeing with the greediness, through to a barrage of support for that being a fair and reasonable price to pay. So, this week I'm throwing some thoughts around in terms of how we pe...

Understanding neuroscience is indeed a relatively complex feat, so I’ve lured in someone who can talk at more a Tiff level on all things the human brain and the intersection of neuroscience, biology, physiology and technology. Tim Marzullo from Backyard Brains has done some pretty rad things to teach schoolkids about neuroscience, like building a remote-control cockroach (for real). Maybe next he’...