Stand Out Life

There is power in telling and sharing stories. Far too many stories in this country, in Australia, aren’t given the voice or the platform to be shared. My guest on this episode is both a story-teller and a community-creator. Marlee Silva is a proud Gamilaroi and Dunghutti woman living in Sydney. She is the co-founder of Tiddas 4 Tiddas, a social media initiative, which is dedicated to celebrating...

If you want something you’ve never had, you have to do something you have never done before”. My guest in this episode lives and embodies this. Australian Samantha Gash started running as a break from studying law. Little did she know those small steps would turn into a journey that has seen her run over 20,000km across every continent on Earth, and raise approximately $1.3million for charity whil...

Can you imagine riding for 24 hours? Now imagine that you are doing this through nature trails, and hairy turns, at speed, pushing your body to the limit? Today’s guest is an ultra mountain bike champion (something I didn’t know even existed before this chat). Jess Douglas is a life long cyclist and a mountain bike champion - 3 x world solo 24 hour & 3 x Australian solo 24 hour champion amongst ma...

Can you teach kindness? My guest for this episode not only believes that you can, she has built a curriculum around it and is taking this work to our education system with the aim of teaching and instilling kindness across our communities. Today I connect with a returning guest, the incredible Kath Koschel. Kath’s story is remarkable - so big in fact that we’ve already dedicated episode 83 to unpa...

When you use the word brilliant to describe someone, I’m wondering what comes to mind? Is it elusive, talent, just plain luck? In this episode we unpack what does it mean to be brilliant. Janine Garner grew up in Yorkshire in the north of England into a traditional farming family. Even from an early age she questioned the world she was in, and sought to explore new horizons. Janine has certainly t...

Imagine moving your business and your three boys from the Gold Coast to New York city ready to have a year of travel and adventures, a year you’ve been dreaming of for a long time, only to have a global pandemic turn up with other plans. From the heart of New York, with her three boys, today’s guest, Sel Watts shares what she is learning amongst the challenges that 2020 is bringing. Sel is an entr...

Welcome to Episode 100 of Stand Out Life podcast series. It’s an incredible feat to reach 100 episodes with incredible guests, and I wanted to celebrate this episode with someone closer to home, someone very special. In fact he’s the most special person in my life I sat down with my business partner, my life partner, my husband, Darren Hill. We talk all things from where his work ethic comes from...

In episode 87 of this podcast series I spoke with the proud Wiradjuri & Wailwan woman Teela Reid who referred to 2020 being the year of reckoning for Australia and it’s connection to our First Nation people. And a reckoning we are facing. WIth the Black Lives Matter movement here in Australia picking up voice I was of course eager to sit down with Teela again, to continue to unpack, to sit in the...

Amongst the massive shifts in our world there is a conversation that I have been wanting to have. A conversation diving into what it means to experience, recognise and respond to grief and loss. Something many of us are experiencing. All too often we associate grief and loss with finality. The end of something. And yet what so many are experiencing now and have been experiencing over the last few...

Jose Bryce Smith was once a Vogue Beauty Editors ‘best kept secret’, and today is the the Founder / CEO of clean luxury haircare company, Original & Mineral (O&M) and original pioneer of ammonia free hair colour in Australia There is purpose behind her persistence, she is in the business of saving your health through your hair. In this conversation Jose shares openly and transparently about her pe...

Creativity is now the strongest economic currency and Mykel Dixon helps people and organisations rediscover their creative potential, reclaim their creative confidence and redefine their value as creative leaders, teams and brands. A jazz musician by trade with an unconventional career path, Mykel Dixon was awarded Australia’s Breakthrough Speaker of the Year in 2018. Known for bringing with him a...

A previous global CEO, COO and current non-executive director, Michelle has owned, founded and headed up many companies in her twenty-five years in the corporate world. An elite athlete in her youth, she’s won awards in sport as well as business and personally overcome cervical cancer. Ever the optimist despite overcoming significant adversity, Michelle is an adult orphan who has also not only dea...

Tara Diversi is an Advanced Sports Dietitian and Accredited Practicing Dietitian. She has a fascination with human behaviour having also studied psychology and education. Tara exclusively works with ultra-endurance adventure athletes and marathon swimmers, having supported over 60 English Channel swimmers successfully complete their crossing! Tara has always shared a love for sport, from her surf...

Ariel Garten is a neuroscientist, innovator and entrepreneur whose driving purpose is to empower and help others overcome mental obstacles. She is the co-founder of InteraZan, the makers of Muse: the brain sensing headband. I wanted to dive in and find out more about this technology - it is a wearable headband that assists with meditation and mindfulness by providing bio-feedback from sounds to gu...

Today’s guest has an international background in business, psychology, and coaching - she has spent time with Marianne Williams, Richard Branson as well as running courage-building programs with organisations such as NASA, Shell, Deloitte, Morgan Stanley, Google, Salesforce and the UN. We spoke via Zoom across international waters as she is currently living in Singapore and has three children in t...

The pursuit of balance is an endless pursuit - it’s one that goes round in circles, has us trying to do it all, with the zen calmness of a monk, when the reality is that trying to find balance leaves us feeling exhausted. Is it really achievable or is balance all kinds of B.S? That’s the question that today’s returning guest dived into for her new book, launched today, Balance and other B.S: How t...

There’s not a single place of work that hasn’t been affected by the current corona virus. With plenty of organisations making the swift shift to work from home, reconfiguring the type of work they deliver, and redefining their strategic plans - it can have you wondering where does workplace culture fit into all this? Michael Henderson has worked with hundreds of organisations as a corporate anthro...

Creativity and art can be a dirty word for some of us. Particularly if you wear the art scars of your childhood or early life. Today’s guest, Penelope Bell’s life is told through her expression and connection to art. Growing up in country QLD she become fascinated in the fashion world, as well as fostering her drawing and illustration skills. Leading to what she does now for a job which is fashion...

Ep88 - Reconnect by Ali Hill

In this episode I sit down with proud Wiradjuri & Wailwan woman Teela Reid. Teela is a defence lawyer, former teacher, 5 x marathoner and activist. She was awarded UNSW Law Dean’s Women of Excellence List and was appointed tipstaff to her Honour Justice Lucy McCallum in the NSW Supreme Court. Ms Reid was invited to sit in on leadership meetings in Melbourne that began the foundation of the Uluru S...

Welcome to a New Year and a new Season (three) of the Stand Out Life Podcast!

It started with a blog post that he committed to writing twice a week, which lead to over 400,000 subscribers, which then lead in 2018 to the publication of an International best-selling book, Atomic Habits. James Clear unpacks why tiny changes create remarkable results. James’s articles receive 10 million hits each year and his work frequently appears in publications including the New York Times,...

Carissa Walford has established herself as a true triple threat within the Australian media industry. TV Host, Producer, Journalist and founder of the- In Bed With Carissa Network. An Astra Award-winning TV host, journalist and producer by trade, Carissa is a distinct personality in the music, fashion and entertainment world. Rising to prominence as the female face of Foxtel’s Channel [V], Carissa...

If you think learning how to walk again in your life would be hard, imagining having to do it three times. My guest today, Kath Koschel has faced serious personal, mental and physical setbacks. Her story is one of those stories that last with you long after hearing it - it is both remarkable and down to earth. But it’s her energy, her interest in humans and her….well….kindness that will stay with...

A master facilitator, a transformation driver, and an absolute Airline geek - Lynne Cazaly is on a mission to shake down . Her latest book is titled ‘Ish: The Problem with our Pursuit for Perfection and the Life-Changing Practice of Good Enough’. And perfectionism is a problem - it has been known to cause over-thinking, over-working, burnout, sleeplessness, and mental health problems like depressi...