Roll With The Punches

Sara Prendergast was a phenomenal guest choice to invite onto the show, even before I knew her full 'story'.  And boy, do we love stories here at RWTP...   Sara is a super chic woman who is well accomplished as a female in her field, mining and construction.  She has been awarded Top 100 Most Influential Women In Mining along with many other impressive accolades that drew my attention to her exqui...

Coach Foulds is my kind of Academic.  Highly educated in the field of sport science and athlete development, Steve is a straight up, say-it-how-it-is chap who can convey complex research theories in layman's terms so the rest of us don't have the miss out on the gold nuggets of knowledge and progress. As an Educator of Fitness and Personal Training Steve specialises in athlete specific streng...

AFL's own unique breed of Field Umpire, Razor Ray hits the mics with me to talk all things life and high performance.  Ray hit my radar however, not for his umpiring fame, not even for his own high performance across sport, business or academia.  These things were just a cherry on top that happens to match our Roll With The Punches criteria once we sat him down in the 'virtual studio' he...

Krista Sirota was my teacher when I did my PT qualifications back in 2014.  She spent many years as a trainer and educator surrounded by some of the most forward-thinking in the industry both here in Australia and abroad.   In 2017 however she entered a very small 'elite' club as a female fire fighter.  Given that 96% of firefighters are male I was intrigued to hear about what the testing process...

Reformed black hacker turned Australia's best Cyber Hacking Expert.  Bastien Treptel had the Federal Police on his doorstep at 16 years old.   These days he is the founder of CTRL Group, Australia's progressive information security firm and ‘Cyber Hacker’ the Podcast.  Channeling his ever present passion for hacking into good rather than evil... lucky for us and Australian business's, I think you'...

Grant Edwards recently retired as Australian Federal Police Commander after 34 years of service.  Simultaneously over this time he set world records and competed at world level in strongman competitions amongst other various sports.   Grant is a high functioning and esteemed AFP member and athlete who, like many of us, came face to face with the effects of a life lived without an awarene...

Glenn Munso is founder of the Youth You Program and author of 'Drugs Do Not Discriminate' and 'I Quit Drugs, Now What?'  After taking and dealing drugs for many years Glenn at 21 landed himself in serious strife, facing heavy charges due to the violent, aggressive and unlawful character he had become... to a fair degree unbeknown to his mum.   Today we banter and have the odd chuckle abo...

After 3 years of relentless showing up and stepping up it seems I managed to wear my guru, Craig Harper down and get myself invited on his very popular podcast, The You Project  for a chat...  We had loads of fun and banter and Harps opened the lid on some real-ness to explore some seemingly unchartered territory in the life of this Tassie bogan.  We shoot the breeze on progress and...

This episode is raw, touching and damn special.  Because again, I reached out to someone in my own network and asked if they would share some of their life with me.... on air, of course.   This story was bigger than what I already knew of them. Listening to it again as I edited,  made me SO excited to share it and SO humbled that they trusted to share their story with me. Gee w...

Murder, suicide, hoarding and squalor, who cleans up the mess left behind? Sandra Pankhurst.  Sandra now runs Victoria's largest privately owned trauma cleaning company, and as we learned when we met Sandra P and explored her personal journey in episode 11, she didn't travel an easy path to get to where she is right now.  Today Sandra shares some tales of trauma's dirty little secrets......

Tony 'Jack The Bear' is a passionate mastering engineer (you hip kids might know what that means), he's a life long learner and an ever evolving credit to himself...  I love talking to people openly and honestly about life's ups and downs and how the hell we navigate and process them along the way.  I love that Tony has been around the block, tripped up, fallen down, gotten back up, lear...

Darren Hodge is a Victorian MICA Flight Paramedic of 33 years.  In such time he has experienced growth through witnessing some unfortunately well-known events such as the Bali Bombings and the Black Saturday Victorian Bushfires. It's not often us mere mortal get a peek inside the life of one of these fascinating that creatures that I like to refer to as superheroes.  They're incredibly r...

The 1999 Swiss Canyoning Disaster stole the lives of 21 young people, including 14 Australians.  Tiffany Johnson survived..  albeit with life-long injuries. She needed to put in the hard yards to move through survivors' guilt, PTSD and yet Tiffany dug deep within herself to find the incredible grit, determination and resilience required to bring her to becoming the incredible, inspiring and fulfil...

Paul Taylor, self confessed 'pracademic', covers the building blocks for cultivating resilience.  As a Former British Royal Navy Aircrew Officer, an Exercise Physiologist, a Neuroscientist, a Nutritionist and a student of Psychology he sure knows a lot of cool sh*t and he sure leads by example which is one of my highest values!  You'll love this chat and if you adopt a 'pracademic' attit...

Opening up publicly about gender reassignment brings about some natural questions...  What's going on below the belt?  How to relationships work on a physical level?  What does gender mean for sexual orientation?  So many curiosities and rabbit holes once we lay it all on the table... metaphorically of course!  So, Pharrell is back behind the mic again to open the door on all things sex, fun, conn...

How does it feel to step into vulnerability publicly amidst a health scare like cancer?  Chris is back after joining us in episode 10 to talk about his journey with the big C so far.  In this conversation we explore thinking, creativity, vulnerability, transformational change, business, relationships, having a purpose and emotions...  So many rabbit holes, so many ideas and concepts.  So many thin...

As one of Australia's leading educators and presenters, Craig's passion and time is spent exploring human behaviour and potential.  How our thoughts and stories run rampant behind the scenes of our minds without 'adult supervision'.  Craig's thought provoking conversations and ideas can shine a light on new ways of thinking and seeing... and thus, transform the way we do life!  I lo...

Gary Wilson our real life 007 bounty hunter is back for another episode of special operations stories and Australian television drama..  We talk about how he debriefed from life in the special operations group by reinventing himself as a TV personality, how he burrowed through the floorboards to save someone from the claws of a witchcraft cult... He even 'shows' us his exceptional talent of w...

Overcoming the tough stuff...   two average 'kids' (and a whippet) having a conversation about the sh*t times.  Peaks and troughs are a part of life and let's be honest, the good times wouldn't be so damn special if they weren't offset with a few deep valleys to contrast.  Pharrell spoke of his own personal experience with attempted suicide and depression back in episode 6 but...

'The Trauma Cleaner’ Sandra Pankhurst has lived an extraordinary life.   Adopted into an abusive family she emerged from neglect, malnourishment and violence, Sandra fathered children, failed her first marriage and sought out gender reassignment. From drag shows, brothels and violent rape she ‘rolled with the punches’ and turned her life around representing multiple business and community committe...

Chris Arms is, in my humble opinion, a brilliant mind intoxicated by forward-thinking insights.  He is meticulous in his work and runs a very successful company you will hear a little bit about as we chat.  Chris is fascinated by possibility and lives a life driven by the urge to make a difference in the world we live in and the lives of everyone in it.  This is more than some sort...

Epigenetics… the latest buzzword. But what does it mean? If you’re interested in improving your health, lifestyle, mental, social or emotional wellbeing then this episode is going to float your boat. Dr Cam McDonald is the man when it comes to the research and the proven science behind why some of us can walk past a bakery and gain 10 pounds while others can get up and smash a 6am HIIT workout eve...

A metaphorical sneak peek into life without vision.   James Pittar lost his vision over a 10 year period by age 20.  As the first and only vision impaired man to successfully swim the English channel I adored recording this episode. It’s not often with think of life in someone else’s shoes, but to do so with James was insightful, inspiring and informative. To me it highlighted how much of our own...

She’s back... Queen of vitamins, minerals and debunking nutritional bullsh*tery. This episode we had heaps of fun and packed it choc-a-block (did somebody say chocolate?) of nutritional gold nuggets. Yes that’s gold nuggets, not chicken! Alison shares the Alimentary scoop on vegan and vegetarian diets, keto cults, clarifying calories, fast weight loss, diet pills, bully hormones, set point theory,...

Pharrell is back... by popular demand!  We clearly covered off all things transgender pretty damn well.   So much love and respect flowed in with very few questions for things left unanswered.  In this episode we dig a touch deeper in the the transition process and a whole lot deeper into the emotional healing and development of self-love that Pharrell undertook from a place of complete despair an...