The Wellness Puzzle Podcast

I am incredibly excited to have reached episode number 100! When I started this podcast, I had no idea what I was doing, but, as I have done with many things, I just started one step at a time, one podcast per week and I simply kept going. To be honest, my first podcast was a little embarrassing, but with each week that came and each guest I had, the more I realised that this podcast is not about...

From a challenging upbringing and self-harm to being a teenage published author, broadcast journalist, and college instructor, “The Excitable Introvert” Jacqueline Shaulis leveraged her successes, failures, quirks, and proficiencies to become an international speaker, global bestselling author, and advisor to hundreds. She has done it by honouring herself, her introversion and being the amazing an...

Several years before his AFL career really took off Shaun Hart experienced a severe mental health challenge. His focus was on his fitness, his performance and his work ethic to the point of exhaustion, physically mentally and emotionally. It got to the point he didn't even want to get out of bed, and if it wasn't for his wife and the club chaplain, he would have given up. Instead, he went on to pl...

Elerrina McPherson had a dream from an early age to be on the radio. After being told she would need to get a four year degree in journalism, which she rejected, she looked for another way. After being noticed doing voice over work, she was offered a volunteer role at Juice 107.3FM on the Gold Coast in Queensland, and she jumped at the opportunity. Little did she know how long it would take for he...

Tammy Van Wisse is one of the most amazing people you will ever listen to. Having swam over 65000 km's as a world record breaking ocean marathon swimmer, she knows what it takes to go the distance. When I was a personal trainer, she was a client of mine, and I can remember the day, almost twenty years ago, when she came in to train with me at 9am in the morning, after just swimming 20km in the ope...

John Toomey is one of Australia’s most sought-after speakers on a variety of Human Wellbeing subjects. He is widely respected right across the world for his Speaking, his Writing and his guidance on Workplace Wellness and Leadership issues. Originally from the Central Darling Downs in Queensland, John now lives in Melbourne, Australia. He speaks with incredible presence and connection and a deep p...

Craig Harper and I go back many decades and he is a great friend and former business partner of mine. He is a powerful speaker, prolific  author, popular radio presenter and host of globally acclaimed the 'You Project' podcast. We are back together in this podcast with a mission to help you do things differently in 2022. We re-coined the well-worn, over-used and less-than-effective phrase 'News Ye...

Because of his very analytical right-brain thinking, Matheo Galatis was formally trained as a Chartered Accountant with experience in mining, banking, retail and distribution. However, what his educational advice failed to take into account was that this career was not his passion, not did it energise or excite him. Consequently, Matheo spent an immense amount of time learning and studying various...

Steve Pinner describes himself as a run-of-the-mill bloke who loves his family, loves his mates and loves his sport. He is passionate about helping men to be the best they can be and be positive role models in the life of the women, children and other men in their lives. He is well aware that there is a challenging stage for men between 35 and 55 years of age, as they transition into their older a...

I am blessed to have known Perry Venakis for well over 20 years, so far. When we met, he was just starting his personal training journey after a very interesting background as a mechanic, a farmer and then with a passion to help people with their health and well being. His journey led him to an intense interest in the role that nutrition played in body building, but also how it impacted every pers...

Helen Mac has been inspiring and empowering people for many decades. She is the author of two books, has contributed to another four, is a professional speaker, empowering trainer and passionate coach. Her message is strong and clear and it is that optimism is where we need to be, if living our best life is the goal. She explained to me the difference between optimism and positive thinking, and it...

John Carroll has had an incredible journey to be at the point now where his loving his life. For most of his childhood, he endured war in Zimbabwe, he then started a business, moved country, started a career that was not his passion, and found himself in a rut. After a near death experience, he stopped to question his life. From that moment he gained clarity about the life he wanted to live. The q...

Jan Cocks-Salvemini was born into a beautiful family with parents who encouraged her to dream big and fight for her dreams. That was certainly a profound strength when, at the age of 10-months, she became para-abled for life after being bitten by a diseased mosquito. She now has limited use of the right side of her body, wears a big bright red boot to get around, and is blissfully happy in her lif...

I have an incredible passion, in fact mission and purpose, to create a wave of wellness all around the world and help people live their best lives. My guest host Deborah Stathis has a very similar purpose. As I launch my latest book 'TEARS of Joy', I am truly excited about and expecting that this book will impact the hearts and minds of everyone who reads it. I want people to experience tears of j...

Kelly Murphy, Jarred Kellerman and I got together with one goal in mind. That is to help teenagers believe more in themselves, find more confidence in the strengths they have and feel empowered to speak up and feel heard. You may have heard that it takes a community to raise a healthy young person, but actually, it takes a healthy and aware community to raise healthy young people. This is why we s...

I first met Susan Meaney when she was senior leader, amazing athlete and Australian player with the Melbourne Phoenix Netball Club. Myself and my good friend Craig Harper had the privilege of doing the strength and conditioning work for the team for several years. She was a super-focussed and incredibly disciplined athlete who made the most of her time as a player, going on to play close to 250 ga...

Jemima Montag is an impressive young lady. At just 23 years of age, she impressed me beyond belief. Her sporting achievements include: 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, 6th place, 2019 World Championships, 10th place, 2019 World University Games, silver medal and 2018 Commonwealth Games, gold medal. In addition to her sporting prowess, she is an academic with a science degree and has accepted place to bec...

Pavel Verbnyak is a passionate man. He was born in communist Soviet Union, under very strict and controlling rule, and he had a passionate desire to be free from the limiting thoughts and beliefs that were a hangover from that time. Even though he was very young when the Iron Curtain came down, the Russian people were still very much conditioned with these limitations, and breaking free took stren...

Craig Harper and I go back many decades and he is a great friend and former business partner of mine. He is a powerful speaker, prolific  author, popular radio presenter and host of globally acclaimed the 'You Project' podcast. We are back together in this podcast with a mission to make you laugh. Well, at least smile. I always laugh with Craig, and have done for many decades. As we discuss, laugh...

Meryem Arpaci is a passionate coach and brand strategist who advocates to inspire people to be free and serve authentically in their purpose. She brings a wealth of knowledge in branding and creating purposeful impact and connection. Along with these, she is a dedicated to helping brands increase their purpose-driven impact with complete authenticity and world class branding strategies. Meryem Arp...

On his website, Dr. Jacques Mitchell states that he is on an assignment to bring encouragement, motivation and life changing tools into lives across the globe. He is doing it in a big way. He has more than a decade of public speaking and leadership experience, both in the secular world as well as the church environment. He is an accomplished self published author of seven books, including; Effecti...

The very last thing Yair Kellner said after this captivating conversation, and talking about more than 60 years of adventure, outdoors, camping, hiking, paddle-boarding, canoeing, climbing and bike-packing was this; It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Now in his mid-sixties, Yair is still loving his childhood, and all the adventures that go with it . From the age of five he has had a pa...

Pablo Miller is the pride of Karratha, Western Australia. He is the host of the morning show, 'Pablo for Breakfast' on Triple M, and is a celebrity of the town. After many years of travel and experiencing what the world has to offer, he settled down to a career in the media 10 years ago. A job offer in radio moved him from Melbourne to Karratha at that time. Little did he know that, within weeks o...

Up until the age of 12, Matthew Caruana had lived a very typical life for a child in the city of Sydney. He had a  great family, lots of friends and a comforting neighborhood, BUT everything was about to change drastically! He constantly questioned his self worth, self image and whether he even brought any value to the world? He often wondered if people would even care if he was alive or not? This...

Aldwyn Altuney has a long and celebrated career in the media. She is known as ‘Media Queen’ and has over 35 years experience in TV, radio, print and online media worldwide. She is an online TV Show Host (Media Mastery Show, Star Xpose TV, Truth Xpose TV, Business Xpose TV, Health Xpose TV, Travel Xpose TV, Movie Review TV & Animal Action TV) and is the director of AA Xposé Media. She is co-host Te...