The Lived Experience

Send us a text My first solo episode! It's about time I shared my lived experience as that's what the podcast is about, so I have decided to tell my story in 10 - 15 minute solo episodes to give you an insight into the otherside of mental health that is not often talked about. There is a severely disproportionate amount of mental health awareness that does not focus on children who have a parent w...

Send us a text My guest is Dan Cahill, who has a remarkable story of hardship and growing up with a mentally ill parent. His father has BiPolar, and Dan shares some revealing stories about how much of an effect a parent with a mental illness can have on a child/young adult. Although Dan has endured great hardship, he hasn't allowed it to hold him back, and he has built an extremely successful busi...

Send us a text Rachel Worsley is the founder and CEO of Neurodiversity Media, a media company that promotes accessible storytelling augmented by technology. She edits the NeuroWork newsletter, which translates original research about neurodiversity in the workplace into stories and resources that empower the neurodivergent community, their supporters and business. Rachel has a background in medica...

Send us a text Ed Ross is the co-founder of TradeMutt which is a social impact workwear brand, by tradies for tradies. They make funky eye-catching workwear designed to start conversations about mental health among the blue-collar community, helping make an invisible issue impossible to ignore. Through the sale of Trademutt Workwear, they help fund free and unlimited professional mental health sup...

Send us a text Matthew Wong is the creator of Discernable, which is a large media channel that features various creatives and subject-matter experts. Matt's content reaches over 200,000 Australian viewers per week and has various programs. Not only this, Matthew Wong is an inspirational person who worked in several high-level professions, including being a pilot, medicine, law, along with selling...

Send us a text You may recognise Brad McEwan from his longstanding career 20 plus year career as an Australian television and sports journalist with channel 10. However, what you may not know about Brad is that he is an ambassador for Beyond Blue and the Satellite Foundation. He is now focused on a new goal; providing workshops, presentations, mentoring and strategies that focus on workplace menta...

Send us a text In this episode, I speak to Jonathon Gleeson who is a dairy farmer in South West Victoria and has achieved purchasing a dairy farm by age 30 with no assistance, which is a remarkable achievement. Jonathon goes into detail about how he exactly did this and also the mindset that is required to do this. He gives some great advice around long-term goal-setting and having a vision. I hav...

Send us a text Maria Figueiredo is a remarkable woman who experienced growing up with a single mother with BiPolar disorder as well as having an autistic brother in New York having immigrated from Puerto Rico at the age of 14. Maria goes right into detail about her experiences growing with a mentally ill parent and shares numerous stories that we hope can help other people in similar situations. B...

Send us a text In this episode, I talk to Haydar Hussein who is the founder of the Jim's Cleaning Group who turned his side-hustle into a multi-million dollar cleaning empire. He has over 860 franchisees in Australia and New Zealand is on target for 1000 franchisees by the end of 2020. He has achieved all of this in just under 20 years! It is a great story and Haydar tells us the journey from the...

Send us a text Did you grow up with a parent who had a mental illness? If so, then you will take a lot out of this episode with Mental Health Advocate Addy Dunkley-Smith. Addy is involved in a Victorian organisation called The Satellite Foundation who work with children, young people and their families where a parent has a mental illness. Addy contributes regularly as a peer facilitator, as a prog...

Send us a text What is it like to actually have BiPolar? In this episode, we go right into depth with Tim Beanland who talks openly about his condition and how his thoughts on mental health as a whole. Tim provides a great insight into how he views his condition and provides some inspiring thoughts around it. This is a great listen for anyone who is interested in learning about BiPolar II and thos...

Send us a text Tim Beanland, who is the creator of the expert's blueprint and is also a podcasting expert. We talk about all things to do with podcasting, social media, marketing, video content, and how he has now created a business out of his podcast content. I have also been a guest on Tim's podcast to talk about my experiences related to growing up with a single mother with BiPolar disorder typ...

Send us a text Simon Hogan is a former AFL footballer for the Geelong Cats who retired at the end of 2012 after being diagnosed with a depressive disorder. However, this has only recently been changed to BiPolar affective disorder type 2. Simon chats about his journey so far and the battles he continues to face. We go into depth about his more recent diagnosis around BiPolar and the various issues...

Send us a text Welcome to Episode one of the lived experience podcast with Joel Kleber. Our first guest is current Essendon Bomber (AFL) player, Marty Gleeson. Big thanks to Marty, Make sure you follow him on IG @marty_gleeson + Twitter @martygleeson35 Video version of this episode is available at https://youtu.be/k40TR3BHbc8 In this episode, we touch on the below topics in order: His backgroundSo...

Send us a text Welcome to the Authentic Convos Podcast! My name is Joel Kleber and I will be your host on what I hope will be a series of genuine conversations with a wide array of people from various walks of life. Like most people, my interests are wide-ranging which is reflective of the guests I have on the podcast. I don't believe in putting yourself in a silo with your content so I really hop...