The Wellness Puzzle Podcast

Nikki Barry is doing amazing things as a mindset coach, wellness professional, speaker, podcaster  and yoga teacher. She believes in living your healthiest life. One that allows you to live, heal and transform your life from within. Her holistic approach supports and sustains physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. She offers a variety of programs that helps you deepen your experience...

As I was talking to Sean Bell in Episode 102, called Run for wishes, I was amazing at the incredible believe and capacity of this young man. He had run 50 marathons in 50 days to honor his friend Joey and make a difference and was talking about his next adventure. That was to run from Cairns to Melbourne with a vision of 60 in 60 for 60. In other words, to average 60kms per day for 60 days to rais...

Jeff Teale is passionate about helping people turn their career hours into a meaning, fulfilling and joyful part of their lives. He spent many years of his life doing something that would seem to many as living the dream. However, he was not happy and even though he was travelling the world as a successful entertainer, he was not living his passion, and at the end of the day just doing it for the...

This is an awesome conversation with Tor Roxburgh and Patrick Bonello. Tor writes (fiction and non-fiction), is a sometime artist (public sculpture & painting), loves reading speculative fiction, is keen on philosophy, architecture, community activism, feminism and… generally likes thinking about things and doing things. Patrick started his career as a radio journalist, now he does fun stuff runni...

For much of her young adult life, Josie Warren  struggled with autoimmune disorders, severe food allergies, a debilitating eating disorder anorexia, alcoholism, ADD, and anxiety and depression. She was told by her medical doctors that each of her diagnoses was lifelong and that she just needed to manage them the best she could for the rest of her life. Josie felt crushed, like a lost cause and the...

Lynne Bowman is an energised grandmother and, at age 76, is more passionate and active than most. She is the author of several books, her newest book, "Brownies for Breakfast, A Cookbook for Diabetics and the People Who Love Them," is a cool, fun, beautiful, guidebook for anybody who wants to eat healthy: vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, gluten-free and sugar-free. Lynne has an impressive backgroun...

Keagen Hadley has found incredible passion and purpose through significant pain and trauma in his life. As a young man, he was a talented athlete and had a great future ahead of him in professional American Football. However, it was not meant to be as injuries and other challenges put an end to that dream forever. The saying goes when one door closes another one opens, and Keagan has been able tak...

On his website, Jem Fuller says: Through my colourful and wonderfully varied life, I have been curious as to how much influence we have over the quality of our experiences and the results we get. This interest has led me to study various ancient healing arts, mind practices and in the last 2 decades leadership, coaching, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Human Behavioural Profiling and Mindfulness Med...

Stacey Copas was a sporty, energetic and driven young girl whose life was turned upside down after diving into a shallow pool at the age of 12 years old. After breaking her neck, drowning and then being revived, she was told she would never walk again. Now in a wheelchair for life, what would she do with a future that at one point seemed so bright? After many years of despair, depression and drugs...

Demelza Fellowes has an impressive sporting and business background. She has played more than 180 games of high level netball, including 9 games with Australia. She has been a high performing executive with 15+ years experience in performance programs, commercial partnerships, marketing, events and entertainment across multiple industries, mostly sport. It all began because of her desire to experi...

I was totally spellbound as I listened the wisdom and felt the incredible energy of the amazing Cliona Byrne. She wasn't always so confident and radiant as she is now. She used to stand in front of the mirror, suck in her tummy, and emotionally beat herself up for how she looked. Her bitchy inner critic (as she calls it) used to love to tell her that she needed to lose weight. She said, "I’ve sinc...

I loved speaking with Dr Matt Zakreski. Full time American, part-time Aussie who spent many years down-under surfing, connecting with people and drinking VB. Dr Matt is a gifted and neuro-diverse person who has developed an incredible passion and become a longtime advocate for the underserved needs of Gifted kids, Dr. Matt has shaped his career around his passion for serving this population, start...

The story of Leanne Spencer starts in March 2012. She was working for a market data company in the City of London; her career had spanned about 17 years but she was bored and unfulfilled, and self-medicating against increasing stress levels with alcohol (lots of it, daily). She felt like she was wasting her life, bouncing from pay day to pay day and living in an increasingly unsustainable way. Thi...

The first thing I noticed when I read Jonathan McLernon's profile was his mission to he marry the Science of Metabolism with the Psychology of Behavior Change and the Compassion of Human Connection to create life-changing transformations with his clients. Wow, that is a powerful statement and one I wanted to understand more fully. Jonathan calls himself an online nutrition and fitness coach, but I...

The first thing you will notice about Rhianne Miller, as soon as she starts speaking, is that she is totally down-to-earth and passionate about loving her life. The first statement she made that grabbed my attention was that her goal is to  live a life that she doesn't need a holiday from. That is the life she has created for herself, so if that isn't a reason to listen to find out how she did tha...

Just as Todd Patkin should have been at the highest of highs, he spiralled into a breakdown, which left him depressed and suicidal. He had just sold his family business for $100,000,000.00, had a great marriage and healthy son, yet it got to the point, whilst at lunch with his father, he couldn't even decide between the coleslaw and the potato salad. His life of insecurity, low self-esteem and cha...

When Debi Silber experienced two heart-crushing betrayals, one at the hands of family, the other her husband, she responded in a way different to most. She became determined to learn everything she could about betrayal and how to heal in the fastest way possible. As a result she embarked on a PhD study to explore how we experience betrayal, and in the process became Dr Debi Silber and made three g...

Madii Himbury is a determined and inspiring Australian Winter Olympian. Madii's Mogul skiing career highlights include 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic finalist, 2017 World Championships 20th, 2017 World Cup 10th, 2019 Continental Cup 3rd. ​Madii has not experienced a smooth path to her success, having to overcome many physical and mental battles in the previous 14 years. This includes three ACL te...

Michael Alcée grew up seeing therapy and thriving go hand in hand.  As a social worker, his mother had an office on the side of their house, and he would often pass clients on their way out as he was riding his bike down the street. They looked so much lighter than when they came in.  Intrigued by the magic happening inside, he wanted to learn how to create and be a part of that magic, too. It was...

John Maher is an International Keynote Speaker and bestselling author on Road Safety, Risk, and Family. His life journey is one of incredible triumph over tragedy. When a serious car accident derailed his life, he was 42 years old, a successful businessman with a wonderful family that included four beautiful daughters. Doctors told him he would never work again. After surgeries, rehabilitation, an...

Kate Strong and I, from different ends of the world, spoke as guests on each others podcasts. To be honest, talking to Kate, I felt, and still feel, that I need to play a bigger game. As she shared her story with me, and then told me how she had given up all her revenue streams to focus on building a bike out of bamboo in preparation to ride 5000km around the UK to create awareness of climate chan...

I have to admit, I sat spellbound for the vast majority of this podcast as Charlene Madden told her story.  I need to just warn you, as a potential listener, this podcast and what Charlene has experienced in her life is confronting and may be triggering for some people. But let me tell you, it will also be very inspiring, healing and hope-giving as Charlene, despite decades of abuse, addiction, me...

Kara Bitar had what would most would believe was the perfect life. She had a great job as a lawyer, worked on complex cases involving interesting legal issues, was appreciated and supported by her colleagues, was able to do a significant amount of pro bono work for victims of domestic violence and was eventually named leader of the firm’s pro bono domestic violence program. She made a lot of money...

As a young man, Sean Bell had the Aussie dream of making at the highest level in Australian Rusle Football. He also had a passion for running as a way to re-connect with himself when things got tough. Well, things certainly got tough when his best mate died at a young age, and so he decided to give up football and focus on his running. After struggling to get through his first Melbourne Marathon w...

If you listened to episode 98, The third dimension, you will know all about the wonderful Shaun Hart. After battling with many years of pressure to perform as an elite athlete to form his identity, he discovered the third dimension of life that helped him move from performance based identity to identity based performance. He spoke about the six elements that make up third dimension living and help...