Roll With The Punches

Buckle up kids, we are going for a ride to the past, present and future of tech.  Patrick and Tor are a couple of super entertaining, self-professed tech nerds. Uniquely however, they're sure not your typical pair of IT whizz's...  More gadget-loving, future-thinking, tech-informed mere mortals like you and I (but they sure cracked my world wide open). We talk about everything from an external ute...

Shaun Resnik is back and boy oh boy do we have exciting news for you. I first had my good friend Shaun on the show back in episode #47 in October 2020. Back then we bantered on what it was like for Shaun immigrating to Australia...  'Coming out' to his South African, Jewish family...  Getting a handle on his own (and others) anxiety... and his what-was-then a fascinating journey into fatherhood vi...

Today I'm joined by the brilliant fitness and women’s health expert Amanda Thebe, who herself went from barely surviving menopause to thriving, by making specific changes to her diet, exercise, and approach to mental health. Amanda is refreshingly candid and pulls no punches as she cuts through the thicket of information (and misinformation) about menopause. We talk about the various types of meno...

Can we scale behaviour change? What does that mean and how do we do it?  Well, let's ask resident behaviour guru Bobby Cappuccio. Between cat videos of course! In this episode we continue on with some ideas around changing behaviour, working towards goals and the perception of the relationship between confidence and competence.  Oh and by the way... dogs do understand you when you say 'I love you'...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope... it's Infertility Man! Jon Summers is leading the charge when it comes to opening up the conversation around infertility for men. Just like women, men can experience a fertility diagnosis. And just like women, that diagnosis brings it uncertainty, fear, guilt and all sorts of emotional turbulence. Many men feel negative emotions as they watch their partners suff...

Ah, the narcissist. They lurk around, weaving amongst us like good folk, painting quite the charming picture indeed. Sometimes for years... decades even. This was the case for Susie Keratiotis who found herself in the middle of a decade long marriage that wasn't quite what it seemed. Until of course, a hidden gambling addiction rose to the surface and uncovered the whole shooting match.  Leaving a...

I wish I could see the look on your face right now as I tell you the 'introverted sales rep' is me. I know, I know... I'm chatty and people-y and work in the speaking, presenting and coaching space, it doesn't sound all too introverted does it! But I sure wasn't the one raising my hand to step out into the world as a sales rep, back in the day when I had a 'real job'. However that's where I ended...

What comes first, the chicken or the egg... What comes first, neurochemistry or behaviour... It's an interesting question. So I ask the best person I know to give me some insight, old mate Bobby Cappuccio. As usual he delivers the good around how our beliefs and behaviours are intertwined due to their cyclical nature and where we might start when we want to influence them. Especially the 95% of ou...

This is one of my favourite episodes! I'm speaking with the infamous John Gray, author of 25 titles including the world renowned best seller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus . If you think that book is a phenomenal resource then just wait until you sit in on this conversation. It's even hard to write a synopsis on this episode due to the number of things that John covered in this chat but h...

Beau Vernon grew up being quite the sportsman indeed, both passionate and super active across a broad range of sports. His athleticism saw him excel in Aussie Rules Football and his passion for the sport saw him looking for a future that revolved around this, a future that envisioned (much like the rest of this life thus far) never sitting still.  Things changed suddenly and dramatically for Beau...

You know what everyone seems to want lately... Better energy. Better performance, better health, better metabolism, better recovery, better sleep. The list goes on. Well, buckle up because today's guest is Dr. Eric, The Fitness Physician.  And would you know it, Dr. Eric is a health and performance optimisation physician who's all about helping people optimize their metabolism, health, and ho...

Can we be friends with ex's? And if so, how do we get there? This is one of the questions I discussed with Bobby today, along with a bunch of other curious questions around all things dating.. Like, how many of us are dating a resume rather than a person (ticking the box of supposed non-negotiables). How does the digital world change the dating landscape? Is it ok to 'date' multiple people at once...

Did you know grief changes our brain? As a matter of fact, Mary-Frances shares with me that so do relationships and bonding. I got curious around the whole 'science of grief' last month when I found myself in the thick of it all and wondering 'what's the purpose of this physical, emotional and psychological response to loss. So I found the leader in the field of research around complicated grief,...

In the previous episode Evelyn Field joined us to talk about schoolyard bullying.  However, bullying doesn't fade out at primary school... Schoolyard bullies become workplace bullies and the cycle continues. Evelyn is back to talk about what seems to be a far more prevalent problem than many of us might be aware. We talk about the ONE in THREE people who experience bullying at work. We talk a...

Sadly, too many of us carry around a story about being bullied at some point. It seems to be an ever increasing issue in schools and in today's social media connected world, that bullying can follow us home and reach us in places it couldn't once upon a time.  Evelyn M. Field, OAM is a practising counselling psychologist in Melbourne and a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society. She w...

In today's chat Bobby and I chatting about more of the human stuff.. the idea of paradox and the necessity that it is. Our interpretation of privilege and what it means to us and for us... and are we open-minded? Like really? And if we think we are (like reeeeally think we are) isn't that an indication that maybe we are not? SPONSORED BY TESTART FAMILY LAWYERS Website: www.testartfamilylawyers.com...

If you're into healing, recovery, performance optimisation and functional medicine you are going to LOVE this episode. I'm speaking with Dr. Jason Sonners on all things Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT).   Dr. Sonners primarily practices Functional Medicine taking on complex cases with autoimmune conditions, chronic inflammation and neurologic disfunction. We talk about how he stumbled ac...

If you asked me who Lisa Saygun was before this chat, I'd have told you she's one of Australia's best female body builders. I'd have told you she's got over two decades of industry experience, 51 competitions and an impressive resume of qualifications around physical and psychological coaching for competition and stage prep. I'd have told you if you wanted to step on stage or get in shape, then sh...

Regarded as a thought leader in the field of resilience psychology, tragic circumstances forced Lucy Hone, Ph. D to focus more closely on grief when her 12-year-old daughter was killed in a horrific motor accident. Adjunct senior professor at the University of Canterbury, an internationally sought-after professional speaker, best-selling author, and award-winning ‘pracademic’, Lucy has...

Happy Sunday... but no Bobby today! This episode I'm just mulling over some thoughts on how we get through life's (minor) tough moments, inconveniences and bumps in the road. As many of us do, this week I had a big, exhausting week that knocked me for six and left me feeling mighty depleted. But alas, I had commitments I had made and in the middle of the mayhem I thought I'd reflect on the experie...

In today's episode I have a yarn and share stories with weapon, Troy Knight. Troy is a former Combat Controller of the Royal Australian Air Force (those guys are known as the Special Forces unit of the Air Force). Troy has been deployed alongside members of the Special Operations Task Group in combat in the Middle East multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan. This type of career rarely comes withou...

I had a good laugh with Dr. John Tickell, but we cover some good stuff when it comes to health, healing and longevity... he's a straight shooter with a cracking sense of humour, I think you're like this ep!  Dr. John is a Medical Doctor, an international speaker, bestselling author and television personality, who has spent several decades travelling and studying the health, well-being and lon...

The infamous Dr. Bill Saunders is back and let me tell you… much like episode 168 and 243 with Dr. Bill, editing this episode and hearing what I was to be putting out live to the world made me feel all levels of discomfort and vulnerability. I wanted to intervene here in the intro and wrap context and explanations around things I’ve shared. I wanted to control the conclusions that peo...

How much of life do we spend running around seeking answers... too bloody much if you ask me. In my experience, life got better when I started to seek questions, not answers. So f*ck answers, and those who think they have them (I think they're the ones who aren't asking enough questions, to be honest). This is the gist of our banter today... Enjoy!   SPONSORED BY TESTART FAMILY LAWYERS Websit...

One of my fave musical Aussie lads, Mark Seymour is baaaaaack! This episode is actually the audio from our recent TV episode (if you're keen to watch the video you can check out the YouTube link below. We talk about some of Mark's recent music and the depth behind the lyrics. About the art of juggling life and one's identity in the middle of fame, success and accolades and we hear a couple of bril...