Roll With The Punches

Relationships aren't always a walk in the park. Work isn't always a walk in the park. So let's throw those two in bed with each other (oi settle down, I don't mean that literally). Let's talk about how we build and manage working relationships.  We build relationships in business, consciously or otherwise, both with our team and organisation, with our clients and suppliers or in networking situati...

Jud Brewer, MD, Ph. D. is a New York Times best-selling author and thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery,” who blends over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training and a career in scientific research. He is passionate about understanding how our brains work, and how to use that knowledge to help people make deep, permanent change in their lives — with...

How 'bout a 1440km stroll? Sounds like a tough gig if you ask me. Tony Pearce is taking off this September to clock up 1440km over 50 days, all in the name of raising awareness for the lasting mental health effects that working in trauma and emergency management has on workers in the sectors.  Tony was appointed Victoria’s first Inspector-General for Emergency Management in July 2014, an independe...

Hands up if you're running a business... or a side gig... or a household... or just life... Ever feel like you're super busy but super inefficient?  Yeah, me too at times. So Liz Fleming and I are having a lighthearted banter about what floats Liz's boat around all things efficiency. C'mon, listen in and you might just find yourself getting more done, in less time and opening up a little bandwidth...

I feel like resident genius Bobby Cappuccio is usually the flag holder for dishing out the life altering wisdom on our Sunday sessions but I think you'll find in this episode that I bring some seriously valuable insight to the table if you make it to the end of the episode.  Amidst reminiscing on some childhood memories in Brooklyn (for Bobby) and Tassie (for me) we discuss the importance of play...

He's back! The world renowned relationship counselor, lecturer and author John Gray, the man with the iron penis. We have yet another incredible deep dive into John's knowledge and experience looking at life through the lens of men vs women. How we are built, what makes us tick, what happens when we lean into our masculine as a female and likewise when we lean into our feminine as a male.  This co...

He's back! The world renowned relationship counselor, lecturer and author John Gray, the man with the iron penis. We have yet another incredible deep dive into John's knowledge and experience looking at life through the lens of men vs women. How we are built, what makes us tick, what happens when we lean into our masculine as a female and likewise when we lean into our feminine as a male.  This co...

Harps is back and after a little light hearted banter and exploring how we embrace conflict, confrontation and difficult conversations our interest moves back into one of our favourite conversational places... the soul.  Harps shares some seriously heartwarming (and heartbreaking) experiences of his that shaped his perspective and to be honest shaped mine hearing about it too. This conversation le...

This week we throw self-help under the bus... because so often self-help is actually not-self-help (because that help comes from others). We talk about language and definitions, thoughts and understanding, purpose and meaning, imaginary boyfriends and, of course, Bobby shares the key to happiness... or rapture.  This episode is (as the title states) another tangential conversation filled with thou...

Mark LeBusque is back... Well actually, it's the other way around. Mark had me back on his podcast Simply Practically Human and we bantered about some of our recent experience, what it was like meeting each other in real life and of course my journey from dogs to cats and my preconceived ideas about whether or not I was a 'cat person'.  Oh, don't worry... she's not a crap cat :) Enjoy! EPISODE SPO...

What can we learn by speaking to some of the greatest minds in the world today? Well, as I have experienced A LOT. Sarah Grynberg is a fellow podcast host who, much like myself, has paved her way to self improvement through speaking to some seriously amazing guests on her own show 'A Life Of Greatness'. Formerly the producer for Hamish & Andy, Sarah has certainly put her learning into practice...

Matty's back and we're talking all things meat pies and eating our feelings this week. Matty Lansdown is a scientist and nutritionist who's spent over a decade working in health and diving deep into all things food, bodies and minds.  We talk about emotional eating, the effects of humans living in the wrong positions on the globe (for what our genetics were equipped for) and how to deal with resis...

What if your weaknesses are actually indicative of your greatest strengths? Might that be a game-changing perspective or what!  This is the topic of discussion that Bobby and I are burrowing into today.  I recall the day (as I've recounted many times throughout the episodes of this show) that I questions my strengths and the attributes I had for a lifetime held in such high regard, and yet realise...

When it comes to disease, who beats the odds – and why? Who better to ask than Dr. Jeff Rediger, who has spent over 15 years studying spontaneous healing, pioneering the use of scientific tools to investigate recoveries from incurable illnesses. When it comes to spontaneous healing, skepticism abounds. Doctors are taught that “miraculous” recoveries are flukes, and as a result they don’t study tho...

Bill Bennett is an Australian writer, producer and director of feature films and documentaries. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he’s made sixteen feature films, four dramatized documentaries and five feature length documentaries. His feature films have won numerous awards, both in his home country of Australia, and internationally. In Australia, Bill has won Australian Film Institute...

Baby brain.. is it a thing? Oh I can hear ALL the mums our there giving me a resounding HELL YES! I did some polls on my socials the last couple of days and there wasn't a 'no' to be seen. But what does science tell us about the cognitive changes that occur throughout pregnancy? Best we drag in Dr. Sasha Davies, lecturer from Deakin University's Cognitive Neuroscience Unit heading up the Baby Brai...

One of our most basic human needs is belonging. We are hardwired to be part of a tribe, once a survival instinct that kept us alive that remains deeply embedded in our biology. But belonging has a dark side... shadow sides. How much does the drive to belong change our beliefs, behaviours and perspectives to keep us in our tribe. Our tribe could be a workplace, a sporting club, a religion.  Today B...

Gee whizz it would be handy if I/you/we came with a manual... a handy little map of ones self, huh? Across history, a number of systems have been used to decode and understand the complexity of human nature. Think astrological star signs, Myers-Briggs personality types and Enneagram numbers, to name a few. Well look out... I'm dragging in yet another one that most of you have unlikely heard of yet...

Parental grief is regarded as the one of the most intense and difficult experiences of grief. Layer upon that the shock of a completely unexpected tragedy and you have yourself a cocktail of emotions that no human should have to experience. Trevor Hone however, is one such human. We spoke to his wife Dr. Lucy Hone back in episode 362, hearing her experience not only as a mother but also quite uniq...

I loved this chat with Seamus Evans... Part of me felt like I'd just met my soul-brother! From sharing and comparing our respective lessons from the boxing ring, to harnessing our (at times) wayward emotions and learning about our cognitive blueprints. Seamus is an ambassador of The Tourette's Syndrome Association of Australia and has very recently explored medication for ADHD so we have a grand o...

"I AM ENOUGH" It's a powerful affirmation. Most of us don't believe it, many of us say it, write it and repeat it as a mantra. This week Mark Thomas opened up a dialogue with me to put the 'I Am Enough' affirmation under the microscope and define actually 'what is enough'? Which of course will vary from person to person. Perfectly timed question preceding my weekly podcast with Bobby Cappuccio so...

Yet again, I sit with one of Australia's best female body builders, Lisa Saygun and yet again, we don't quite make it to our planned conversation about squats, macros and body building. Last time Lisa shared her incredible story of homelessness (at 16), family mental health, generational trauma, medical hardships, anorexia and undisputable grit and resilience along the way. It was one hell of an e...

Do you ever just 'know' something? You can't explain how or why, but it doesn't even matter because you 'know' with such certainty that you don't need the evidence. Like you 'know' you were meant to cross someone's path... And so you listen to that knowing and lean in. You 'know' there's a worthwhile reason behind a seemingly difficult situation... And so you accept it more gracefully than you typ...

Ever find yourself having a good old chat to your cat or dog and wishing they could actually speak back to you? Just imagine the things we could ask them.  Like 'are you in pain? Why are you anxious? What's this destructive behaviour all about? What happened to you before you were rescued?' What a field day we could have!! Well guess what, we can! Well, today's guest Kerrie Searle can on our behal...

Truth, lies and hypocrisy... That's what we're talking about today.  If the 'philosopher' of an idea you've bought into actually lacks the alleged experience around this philosophy, does it matter? They're a hypocrite for sure, but does the philosophy itself still stand as credible?  Napoleon Hill is said to be such an example of this, as Bobby tells me today. Allegedly before penning the book Thi...