Roll With The Punches

He's a sports and science journalist, an author, speaker, film maker and a super interesting human.  I'm super lucky to have people like James Nestor give me a slice of their precious time and knowledge to banter behind the mics here at RWTP HQ. Nestor wrote the book Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What The Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves, in 2014.  This book racked up an impressi...

Grab a box of Kleenex pals, this one might stir up a tear or two. Ange & Foo’s story of infertility, IVF, adoption and surrogacy is one of equal parts resilience and heartbreak… of love and of loss... of joy and of grief.  Big thanks to my good lifelong friend Jemma for nudging Foo to get behind the mic and share their journey with us.  I’m sure there will be many listeners that will see themselve...

At 17 Harry Sanders was sleeping rough.  Eventually buddying up with another destitute lad he met amongst Melbourne's homeless community, the two navigated 12 months of couch surfing via Gumtree..  which as you can imagine isn't something you'd want any 17 year old doing. Today at 23, Harry sits with me and recounts the journey.  What an absolute superstar this guy is.  No brav...

Old mate Harps and I are back at it having a yarn about how to find and BE a good PT.  I fire the hard hitting questions his way and rummage around amongst the decades of experience and knowledge he has to offer. We cover things around training, exercise programming, physical transformation, the fitness industry, upskilling, how things have evolved, hourly rates, what to look for in a good PT...

If you thought Cinderella's shoe caused a f*cking tizz... Wait until you hear this episode. ONE girl. TWO army boots. THREE sizes too big.  What could such a cocktail result in I hear you ask?  Medical mismanagement, muscle compartment, perennial nerve damage, PTSD, chronic insomnia resulting in psychosis... Layered upon existing complex PTSD, bipolar, depression and some experiences I w...

Grab your runners boys and girls, we're going to jog it out! Theoretically there's very little getting in the way of the majority of people taking up running as a sport or pastime.  A pair of shoes and you're pretty much equipped...  Today I pulled in Brodie Sharpe, a fellow running and running focused physio to talk all things training load, programming, pre and post training routines,...

Meet Emily Wallace...  she bounded into the Melbourne Property industry all shiny and new under three years ago as a Buyers Advocate.  For those who don't know, that's someone who takes the purchasing of the what is often the largest financial and emotional asset in peoples lives into her own hands. In this fleeting amount of time she's taken her industry by the you-know-what's and made it her own...

We've all heard it, roared from the top tiers of entrepreneurial success.  Those who have seemingly made it, cheering down at us... willing us too, to succeed and rise to the top with them.  All we have to do is get up at 4:30am, rise earlier, work harder, do more, hustle hard. 'What-f*cking-ever'. That's my response to that.   This hardcore mentality sure has it's place in the worl...

One day us powerhouse women wake up, break a sweat, forget where we just put our keys three minutes ago, need a nap 2 hours into the day and are momentarily triggered by rage over a glass of spilt milk... can someone turn on the aircon over here? Welcome to menopause. What strikes me as odd is that something can be so taboo, when it is a natural life experience that ALL women go through at some po...

John Lee Dumas is an absolute weapon who's done what so many of us dream of.  He threw in the towel on mediocre and the misery of a corporate career that brought him no joy and threw all his eggs into an entrepreneurial basket of his own.    Entrepreneurs On Fire, a podcast where JLD interviewed a successful entrepreneur every single day, was born in September 2012.  Today JLD'...

He started the #IAM911 movement in 2016... a hashtag that overnight became the third top trending on Twitter.  He began taking the calls as a 9-1-1 Dispatcher from 2005.  Years of being the calm voice at the other end of the line to those in distress.  His name is Ricardo Martinez II and he now provides a platform to other voices on that end of the line when we are reaching out in t...

Gill Hicks is someone who's presence makes an impact on this world.  This I know from the brief conversations that I've had the pleasure to have with this incredible human.  This is surely the reason she defied the odds that were cruelly stacked against her in 2005 in London, when a suicide bomber boarded the same train at the same time and stood one person away from Gill as he detonated a bomb th...

Do you ever wonder who lives beneath the characters of your favourite TV shows?  Or how the minds tick of those who write the scripts that influence us in the name of entertainment?  I do. So today I banter with my workmate Rhys Mitchell... workmate in the boxing gym, not the TV screen (for me anyway).  You might know Rhys from his role as Kane Wheeler in Upper Middle Bogan, a role...

Holly Bailey is the epitome of someone who leads from the front.   An inspiring, dedicated and empowering powerhouse of an alpha female, wrapped up in an inspiring and approachable girl-next-door style package.  She's been in my circle for years and I have watched in awe at her ability to perform at a high level in everything she throws herself into, be it sport, business, networking, li...

We start an activity or sport, we train.  Training makes us improve, we train more.  We develop a routine, we become disciplined. Sometimes this very discipline we develop overrides our ability to make optimal decisions around are training and recovery.   In this episode I chat with Liz Cox, a now masters age running athlete who experienced all of this when she returned to her previously accomplis...

There's nothing I love more than a bloke-y bloke who's happy to raise his hand and call bullsh*t on some of that bloke-y bloke rubbish that has lead to men (and women) shutting down their emotions, putting on brave faces and battling all sorts of mental and emotional repercussions. In 2017 Mark threw down the tools, sold up city life and went country bound to create a space amidst nature wher...

Mark Victor Hansen is best known for co-authoring Chicken Soup For The Soul, I needn't have to explain much further, given that this book series sold over 500 MILLION copies globally...  not a shabby stat to be able to throw around, hey? Yep, here we are today rolling out a banter with this world renowned couple, Mark and his stunning every-bit-as-accomplished wife, Crystal Dwyer Hansen who togeth...

Sy Nadji, owner of William St Gym and Fight Promoter for Rebellion Muay Thai often doesn't let me talk in the gym... and you can imagine how I feel about this.  So to get around that speed hump I've invited him behind the mic for a banter. Genius, I know!! I was keen to hear a little from Sy about how he built two businesses single handedly and simultaneously to a successful level (William St...

Martha Brown, Banoffee was living in LA, struggling to cover the rent with a broken down car and phoning mum for clarity on just whether it might be time to realise chasing this dream in music could be 'ridiculous'. But then Banoffee received a phone call that saw her playing for Charli XCX as support for Taylor Swift's last world tour. Epic much?!? Two years later, Banoffee is back in Melbourne p...

Jo Vautier runs a spiritual healing practice on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria (Australia).   She thrives on all things meditation, mindfulness, reiki and spiritual healing, together with her accreditation and her own very real experience with drug addiction and recovery. We talk about how Jo landed in remand as a young lass due to drug offences.  How she fought her own addiction and explore...

Derrick was a Sniper, Special Ops Diver and Counter-Terrorist Operative with the elite Special Tasks And Rescue (STAR) Group of the South Australian Police. Performing at peak in a demanding role.  During a high-risk arrest in 1994, Derrick was shot 14 times in less than 5 seconds with a high-powered rifle and left lying on the ground, bleeding to death, for 3 hours before being rescued.&nbsp...

1440 minutes. That's how many you get in a day.   That's how many I get in a day.   That's how many Bruce at the corner store gets in a day. There's no 'time bank' where you can earn more, buy more or borrow someone else's. This is an awesome chat with one of my favourite flannel wearing humans Craig Harper where we talk all things time.   Time perception... Time management... Time usage... Time o...

At Christmas I caught up with Nick Reid for the first time in 20 years since we were at school.  Over this time Nick has spread his wings and spent a number of years living in the UK.  He eventually returned to the homeland in Tasmania (Australia) together with his Polish wife and their children and set out on a whole new career opportunity in his 30's as a submariner for the Navy. ...

Erin Cotter-Smith & Gill Hicks. Two epic women. One epic friendship.  We heard from Erin and her personal experience with vicarious trauma from 15 years of researching 911 first responders. This layered upon a range of medical traumas she has endured, all whilst hurtling through life as a high achieving disaster medicine expert and academic who sits on the boards of many worthwhile founda...

Could poo really be the antidote to an incurable mental illness? Sounds like a tough pill to swallow hey (they call them crapsules, actually) I mean who would even test such a theory anyway? Jane Dudley, that’s who.  She'd taken enough sh*t in life for the last 18 years.  What's the harm in taking just a little more, she thought. I stumbled across Jane as I searched for someone to speak with me on...