The Good Life: Andrew Leigh in Conversation

Clyde Rathbone on Karma, Wallabies and the Black Dog.  

Robert Putnam on Bowling Alone and living together.

Natalie Jeremijenko on feral robotic dogs, texting fish and inverted trees. Photo by Robert P. Cohen

GetUp co-founder Jeremy Heimans on New Power During our conversation, i asked Jeremy for tips for Australians visiting New York for the first time. He replied that the popular new restaurants are too hard to get into, but that there are plenty of eateries which are still good, even though they're no longer the new thing. After the interview, he gave me the list of New York eateries that he gives t...

Julian Le Grand on revamping social policy, advising leaders and the danger of perfectionism.

60. Kate McClymont on dirt, death and determination.

Alex Hutchinson on sweat science. If you'd like to learn more about Alex and his book Endure, visit his website here . 

Dalton Conley on growing up Honky, genetics and experimental parenting.

Terry Waite on solitary confinement, hatred and forgiveness.

Heather Garriock, Rob De Castella and Sue Read on training hard and living well.

David Walsh on profiting from blackjack, building MONA, and why most winners just got lucky.   PS - having reached a half-century of Good Life episodes, I'm conducting a listener survey - we'd love your feedback. The survey is  HERE . It will take you about a minute, and gives you a chance to suggest who you'd like to hear from in future episodes. Thanks in advance for sharing your insights and he...

Craig Emerson  You can find further information on The Boy from Baradine here .   PS - having reached a half-century of Good Life episodes, I'm conducting a listener survey - we'd love your feedback. The survey is  HERE . It will take you about a minute, and gives you a chance to suggest who you'd like to hear from in future episodes. Thanks in advance for sharing your insights and helping shape t...

Liz Forbat on the good death - recorded live as a part of Festival Muse   PS - having reached a half-century of Good Life episodes, I'm conducting a listener survey - we'd love your feedback. The survey is  HERE . It will take you about a minute, and gives you a chance to suggest who you'd like to hear from in future episodes. Thanks in advance for sharing your insights and helping shape the next...

Benjamin Law on sex, taboos and making wontons. If you'd like to learn more about Benjamin and his work, click here .   PS - having reached a half-century of Good Life episodes, I'm conducting a listener survey - we'd love your feedback. The survey is  HERE . It will take you about a minute, and gives you a chance to suggest who you'd like to hear from in future episodes. Thanks in advance for sha...

Dylan Marron on conversations with people that hate me If you're interested in Dylan's podcast, you can find information here .   PS - having reached a half-century of Good Life episodes, I'm conducting a listener survey - we'd love your feedback. The survey is  HERE . It will take you about a minute, and gives you a chance to suggest who you'd like to hear from in future episodes. Thanks in advan...

Tim Flannery on fossils, adventure and Indigenous mentors   To mark The Good Life's 50th episode, we're conducting a listener survey. The survey is HERE . It will take you about a minute, and gives you a chance to suggest who you'd like to hear from in future episodes. Thanks in advance for sharing your insights and helping shape the next 50 episodes. 

Peter FitzSimons on poetry, parenting and the red bandanna.

Nicholas Moore on risk-taking, crisis control and running to hip-hop.

47. Scott Rankin on Nijinsky, St Francis and growing up on a Chinese junk Scott is the founder, CEO and Creative Director of Big hART .

Kate Latimer on learning from the worldly philosophers.

Andrew Bassat on how calculated risk-taking turned SEEK into a global success.

Manny Noakes, principal author of the CSIRO diet. The CSIRO's online diet score calculator is avaiable here .  

43. Kurt Fearnley on Kokoda, struggles and gratitude. Kurt's autobiography, Pushing the Limits: Life, Marathons & Kokoda is available on his website . In the conversation, Kurt mentions that his wife Sheridan is about to give birth. Shortly afterwards, they welcomed into the world their second child, Emilia.

Terri Butler on optimism and her Labor of Love Terri’s book, Labor of Love, is published by Melbourne University Press .

41. Sue Read on peak performance