The Active, Healthy & Happy Podcast.

This episode of the AHH Pod we are fortunate to have John Osborne, PHD, Podiatrist. John shares his journey of diving into every learning opportunity and level up available as a Podiatrist to find his ideal week across clinical load, research, speaking and teaching. Not without its hardship, John shares some helpful insights on what helped him to find his clinical interests, his area of impact and...

This episode of the AHH Pod we are fortunate enough to have Sarah Smith, Osteopath from Move Beyond. Sarah has had one hell of a journey that we get to explore in depth in this episode. Clinically across rural, city and international clinics Sarah levelled up in areas that were ahead of the times while also battling a personal health diagnosis and having twins along the way. If you are in need of...

This episode of the AHH Pod we are fortunate enough to have Wynter Chan, Exercise Physiologist from Melbourne Yoga & Pilates along for the ride. Wynter has had a career spanning academia, managing course curriculum, managing elite athletes into founding Melbourne Yoga & Pilates are growing it into the success that it is today. Today we cover great ground on career progression, how Wynter wanted to...

Victoria Chambers, Osteopathy and Head of Eduction at Move Beyond joins us today for a look at her career journey so far. An arts degree, into Osteo as a mature age student, some big career pivots that stretched Victoria's comfort zone and how there is epic value in being present in the moment, using your learnings and experience in relation to the human in front of you and why we need to stick to...

ProFeet Podiatrist Maddie Brown brings nothing but the hits to this Pod. Awesome insights into early career actions that set her up for success, how Mads worked her network to help facilitate her endorsement, how parenting has been a gift professionally with empathy, time management and getting things done in the moment and how all of this translates into how Maddie runs her mentoring sessions now...

Sports Physio Emma Draffin joins us on the Pod for an insightful look back at her journey into physio, the pivots in her private practice roles and her approach to health care and how she has come out the other side loving her impact and her life flow. Plenty of awesome actions in this chat as we dive into the opportunties, the hard things, the good and the bad that Emma experienced but how it all...

Footwear guru Brett Davis from ProFeet Footwear joins us today to talk about his journey from design and singage to retail director. This is an epic example of finding something that is both scary and exciting, backing yourself in, leaning on the mentors around you and committing to the journey to create awesome outcomes. If you have ever felt stuck, unsure of the next move or whether the timing i...

Today on the Pod we have David Spithill, Titled MSK Physiotherapist and Group Partner at Healthia. David is a guru when it comes to client communication, mentoring younger practitioners and leaning into to find out what drives and helps people best whether they are clients or practitioners. We cover his own journey from grad to management to ownership and the lessons he discovered along the way to...

An episode from the vault! Thank you to Michelle Funder from Move Beyond for sharing this recording from 2022. In this episode I go from host to guest where we explore my early post grad years, the clinical and non clinical learnings, the real world application and how I continue to iterate to find my best version of weekly flow and peak performance. Hope it gives you some food for thought and som...

Today we are fortunate enough to have Anabelle Hawkins, Podiatrist from ProFeet joining us. Anabelle is a certified guru on so many aspects of health. Belle combines an elite Podiatric skillset with a world class knowledge base on levelling up your mindset, mindfulness, goal setting, breath work amongst others to enhance your personal and professional life. Belle covers her journey in Podiatry so...

Annie Strauch, Physiotherapist and Managing Director of Performance Medicine joins us on the AHH Pod today. Annie is an absolute superstar. We cover her new grad physio journey from working in a public hospital setting, to setting off to London, starting 3 jobs, across 6 days and finding her way into a role supporting performers from London's West End. This career pivot into vocal and performance...

Zahra McDonald, 4th year UniSA Podiatry student joins us on the AHH Pod today. What an awesome chat! Zahra offers great insights into her journey to choosing Podiatry and a career in health, her challenges and hurdles along the way and how she has blended her interests in health with social media to create a 20,000+ following across TikTok and Instagram helping both University and High School stud...

Podiatrist and member of the ownership team at ProFeet, Roise Whiting joins us on the AHH Pod today. Rosie shares such great insights into her journey from part time, commuting new grad to business ownership, being an Endorsed Podiatrist and hitting the goals she sets for herself. If you feel like you're stuck doing hard things and not getting anywhere this is the Pod for you to see the value in p...

Osteopath and Founding Director of Beyond, Michelle Funder, joins us on the AHH Pod today. Michelle shares an epic story of her own career journey from jumping into the deep end in an overseas role with a cold call as a grad, to starting her own clinic to now growing her impact across mentoring, leadership, ownership and advocacy roles within the health space. This is a testament to leaning into t...

Podiatrist Blake Withers joins us on the AHH Pod today. Blake shares so many of his learnings from doing hard things early, saying yes to everything and working out the details later, the power of great mentors, what he would do differently if he was a new grad now and how he has built a career across clinical work, research, presenting and podcasting. Lock in for the next 40 odd minutes as this o...

Sports Podiatrist Oliver Tate from ProFeet joins us on the AHH Pod today. Oli shares his experience with switching from Pod to Physio and back again and how the ability to re-tool and add more treatment options, more insights and more impact helped to create his ideal week now managing a private clinical load, a consulting role at AFL level as well as business and mentoring roles at ProFeet. Set y...

Sports Chiropractor, Luke Nelson, joins us for an epic chat that covers leaning into lifelong learning, the importance of observing and listening more than we speak, how early career Luke struggled with poor client feedback and what he did to level up, how to improve client compliance and how to find your version of great flow in a working week and a career. Plenty to marinate on in this episode a...

Podiatrist Andrew Crutch joins us for a deep dive into what creates awesome consults and epic client results. Andrew speaks about his 20 year career journey, the lessons learned along the way and how his approach has changed over time to value the details that lead to clients smashing their movement goals. Plenty to learn from the great man in this discussion - enjoy! We hope that you enjoy the pe...

Physiotherapist Steve Ooi joins us for a masterclass in clinical and career mentorship. Steve covers his own progression from new grad physio to his now senior clinician and leadership role with Kieser, how he learned to ask for help and lean into those around him and why having deep partnerships with a small amount of other health professionals leads to better client outcomes. This is a ripper an...

Sports Podiatrist, Nelson Pollard joins us for a masterclass on mindset, curiosity and leaning into the hard things. From early career insights to pivoting during covid into managing a diverse case load of MSK clients today, Nelson shares a number of key learnings that we can apply both personally and professionally from today. We hope that you enjoy the pearls and the actions from the episode! Th...

Osteopath guru, Craig Russell, joins us today and produces bulk wisdom. Craig covers how he had to learn how to learn, the power of mentoring, of following your interests and progressing those interests into skills and the importance of respecting each individual that comes through that treatment room door regardless of background, influence or status. Epic insights and pearls that will stay with...

Physiotherapist, Clinic Mastery Director and love of doing the hard things, Jack O'Brien comes on the Podcast this week. We dive into burnout and clarity about what the real factors may be, the value in pushing your limits to grow, evolve and adapt, deciding things once and committing to them to make life easier and leaning into opportunities even if you have to overcome a bit of imposter syndrome...

Sports Podiatrist and early career mentor extraordinaire Chris Maher shares plenty of great lessons and ideas on finding the best clinical version of yourself. We get stuck into his love of learning, the courses that allowed him to have 'different screws for different purposes' and his growth in client communication to get key messages to resonate to help clients help themselves alongside our inte...

Physiotherapist and communication guru Sarah Yule drops in today to deliver some amazing insights. We cover reflective practice and its value for us and our clients, the different lenses of decision making we acquire from different workplaces and mentors and how we need to lean into the journey across a career to find our most ideal path. Sarah has an amazing way of communicating and delivering co...

Our resident superstar, Chris Culkin brings the energy into the booth for episode three. Chris shares his career journey so far from an arts degree and corporate role into a career pivot into Podiatry. Fast forward to now and Chris is a world class, high performing practitioner helping 60+ clients each week while mentoring four practitioners and providing insights and value as an owner of ProFeet....