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#45 with Justin Lehmann: 'As the Garden grows so does the Gardener' Justin Lehmann owns a prestigious acting studio in Melbourne, and has been teaching for over two decades, particularly focused on the Meisner Technique. In his own words, the Meisner Technique is about the truth, not the bells and whistles often associated with Hollywood and big screen acting. Actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Sam...

A podcast with two of my former students/sensational human beings. #44 with Allie & Viv: Youthful wisdom, reflections upon the halcyon days of year 8 homeroom and never talking about ATARs again with two of my incredible ex-students. Featuring The 90 Second Nugget, The Art of The List, A Note to Self and of course, Weird Fishes. Weird Fishes from around the 45 min mark. Album: Gracie Abrams - The...

Oscar O'Shea is a musician from Tasmania who quit his teaching degree to go all in on turning his music from a hobby into a passion. Along the way, he has encountered a struggle with his identity, and come to terms with depression and rather than detach from his pain, he has embraced the notion of learning every corner of the room. Welcome to Episode 43 of The Ebbs and The Flows. This episode feat...

Ned Balme is a newsreporter and journalist based in Queensland working for Channel Nine and a few years back was a punter for the University of Central Oklahoma. His story is winding and engrossing and his own struggle with his mental health has left a mark for the father he is his two children and how he reports the news. Sadly, technical issues mean 'Weird Fishes' was wiped and unsalvagable, how...

This is the Ebbs and The Flows: The Dan Sultan Story: From Old Fitzroy to Kimberley Calling: A story of a true artist finally arriving at himself. At the End of the Day we’re all just a work in progress. The Ebbs and the Flows is an emotional health movement focused on openness and transparency about the light and the shade of the lives we led and journeys we encounter. The Ebbs and the Flows is n...

#40 with Michelle Gerdtz: ‘Reading The Play, building and fostering connection in vital parent/child relationships and a fork in the road leads to a pot of gold.’ Michelle Gerdtz is an administrator and General Manager in the Geelong and Barwon region. She has been the Chairperson at AFL Barwon for the past few years, but has always been invovled in community sport. Her passion for community conne...

#39 Geoff Lemon The self feeding cycle of depression, the intersecting crisi-tunities cricket is facing and how a performing poet came to be a podcaster from a multifaced man with a flavoured milk obsession. Geoff Lemon is a wildly talented artist, writer, podcaster and poet who not so much fell, but ground his way into a career in cricket writing and journalism. As co-host of the revered podcast...

Fergus Linacre. Kingswood founding member. Award winning musician. Writer. Lover. Appreciater of life. Here is in the form you've never heard him before. Candid, considered, hilarious and telling. Fergus is a pretty special guy who has seen and experienced so much. The highest highs, some exceptionally deep lows around loss and grief, however he has a knack in embracing life as it is, and gains gr...

The Things we Carry is a title inspired by a book that had an indelible impact on me, and still does. Tim O’Brien’s ‘The Things They Carried’ changed me in many ways. It explored the depths of the emotional experience of the Vietnam War for soldiers. As an 17 year old, going to a quality school, surrounded by wealth and privilege, it was an eye-opening exploration of things I’d thought about previ...

It's been a bit of a hiatus for The Ebbs and The Flows but the show is back with a guest, and this is a thought-provoking, challenging and bloody fascinating chat with tradie, businesswoman and advocate Bardie Somerville. There are some heavy themes relating to suicide in this episode, but we do tread lightly. The reason I titled this: ‘The Seasons of Life and Death: Go Toward Life but Recognise D...

A seven part series of short podcasts revolving around challenging discussions and topics. The Things We Carry. On this episode, we focus on Shame and the impact it has on individuals, groups and society externally and internally. The Things we Carry is a title inspired by a book that had an indelible impact on me, and still does. Tim O’Brien’s ‘The Things They Carried’ changed me in many ways. It...

The Things we Carry is a title inspired by a book that had an indelible impact on me, and still does. Tim O’Brien’s ‘The Things They Carried’ changed me in many ways. It explored the depths of the emotional experience of the Vietnam War for soldiers. As an 17 year old, going to a quality school, surrounded by wealth and privilege, it was an eye-opening exploration of things I’d thought about previ...

The Things we Carry is a title inspired by a book that had an indelible impact on me, and still does. Tim O’Brien’s ‘The Things They Carried’ changed me in many ways. It explored the depths of the emotional experience of the Vietnam War for soldiers. As an 17 year old, going to a quality school, surrounded by wealth and privilege, it was an eye-opening exploration of things I’d thought about previ...

The Things we Carry is a title inspired by a book that had an indelible impact on me, and still does. Tim O’Brien’s ‘The Things They Carried’ changed me in many ways. It explored the depths of the emotional experience of the Vietnam War for soldiers. As an 17 year old, going to a quality school, surrounded by wealth and privilege, it was an eyeopening exploration of things I’d thought about previo...

Jack Davis from It's Cool To Cry joins The Ebbs and The Flows for episode 31. There are some heavy themes relating to suicide in this episode, but we do tread lightly. There's also plenty of swears. Other than that, it's a bloody ripper chat with a bloody ripper bloke. Jack has a message that really resonates with me, and many others, when it comes to emotional expression. Crying is cool. It's imp...

It's our thirtieth episode! And we want our fair share! How come artists and creatives are so often undervalued for their contribution to culture and society? Madeleine Thornton-Smith is an artist, a ceramicist, an art teacher and an activist fighting for fair conditions for creatives and artists across creative industries. She is passionate about the simplicity yet astounding power of what artist...

On this episode of The Ebbs and The Flows, Soft Chats about Hard Stuff, musician, advocate and writer Eliza Hull joins us for a gorgeous, moving and compelling conversation. Eliza is a musician living in rural Victoria, who has released 'Here They Come', an EP in 2023, representing her journey as a person who has come to terms with living with a disability and now performs and champions a vulnerab...

On this episode of The Ebbs and The Flows, Soft Chats about Hard Stuff, Reagan Morel joins us for a chat with our youngest guest on le pod. Reagan is a 20 year old studying teaching, but it is at The Reach Foundation where he does some fine and compelling work with young people across Australia. A beacon of happiness and joy for others, but underneath the veneer is a person working through his own...

On this episode of The Ebbs and The Flows, Soft Chats about Hard Stuff, Kierren Robinson is a boxer, the founder of Awakened Warrior - a mentoring and coaching platform to connect people to a greater truth, a husband and a quiet leader seeking to find his voice. We discuss empathy, compassion, leadership and the unending journey of grief on another Soft Chat about Hard Stuff. Kierren's beautiful '...

Matt LaFontine, founder of Safe Space Mornington and a man who belies expectation of a footy bloke is on a mission for mental health. On October 12, he will be Pulling Up for Mental Health. Join us as we discuss this venture, Safe Space, creating beautiful gardens (metaphorically and physically) and how he counters the notion of what it is to be a 'Footy Bloke' by opening his heart and working har...

Welcome to episode 25 of The Ebbs and The Flows with musician and creative Andy Bull who is currently writing an album in sixty days. This is a long form podcast because I just really enjoyed every last minute of this conversation. I know it’s not popular as we talk ourselves out of ‘the rambling man screaming into the wind’ length of anything these days – but I just found myself in the fortunate...

On the 24th episode of The Ebbs and the Flows and our first recorded remotely, Mia Dyson, multi-nominated ARIA artist, acclaimed musician and writer of the rugged and the radiant joins us to discuss her new album 'Tender Heart', how she faced panic and her deepest fears, her cataclysmic brush with the gap between life and death and her tender perspective on love, meditation and the study of the me...

“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”  Shane McCurry is the guest on th...

The third and final installment of Remote Community Musings from Balgo in the Kimberley in the North East of Western Australia. A conversation about broken systems, the little wins, the power of community and an enormous nod to an experience I will never forget. An important acknowledgement of the community I worked within - The Wirrimanu Aboriginal Community. Thank you.  The Ebbs and the Flows is...

Part II of our two part conversation with Raphael Wong, Opera and Musical Theatre performer who has just finished a run in The Phantom of The Opera at the Sydney Opera House. Raphael is a performer, but also a teacher, a mentor and a family man. Join us for a conversation about the highs and lows of performance, the bittersweet nature of rejection, fatherhood and which idol he'd bring along for a...