The You Project

Professor Russell Foster (from Oxford University, no less) is one of those rare breeds of high-level academic with an amazing ability to break down the super-sciencey stuff into TYP-Friendly, easy-to-understand-and-apply info and inspo. Yes, I used inspo. You’re welc. Stop it. This chat is in my all-time top 20 (out of almost a thousand eps). Among other things, we spoke about circadian rhythms (w...

Don’t try to bulls**t Steve van Aperen; it won’t end well for you. Not gonna lie (pun intended), I was a little self-conscious and tried very hard to cut back on my lying for this episode. Steve is as an expert in the field of behavioural interviewing, reading body language and detecting deception. He has received extensive training from the world’s leading international investigative authorities...

Would you eat lab-grown meat? How can a Doctor of Chinese Medicine diagnose a problem with your liver by looking into your eyes or a dodgy back by poking the soles of your feet? Should athletes be able to wear shoes that make them run faster if they all have access to the same shoes? Should TYP have its own Mardi Gras float with Patrick and I out front (Titanic style)? How does looking back at Ear...

This episode is a chat with Doug Taylor, the boss of The Smith Family and he, and the organisation he leads, are good people, doing good things. The Smith Family has been working to improve the lives of children living in disadvantage for 100 years. They are Australia’s largest national education charity, supporting young Australians experiencing disadvantage to create better futures for themselve...

“The essence of Buddhism: (1) don’t be a dick (2) be kind to people (3) train your mind” – Charlie Morley (Buddhist Teacher). I didn’t want this episode to end. I loved the chat, loved Charlie and yes, I love my job. Charlie was a drug-taking, hard-living, wild young man who had a NDE (Near Death Experience) and who, through a series of twists and turns, became an internationally renowned Speaker,...

Doctor Lillian has slid back into the TYP Studio and she’s in fine form. She’s always great but I think this chat was her MVP TYP performance so far (acronym anyone?). This time we got to sneak behind the Doctor door and learn a little more about Lillian the person. We spoke about how much clinicians can/should speak about their own experiences (self-disclosure) with patients (it’s surprising), pr...

This was one of those conversations that I’m probably too stupid to be in but I guess when you’re the host, it’s unavoidable. And while I didn’t contribute much, I did learn about code-makers and breakers and Dr. Craig was kind enough to run a one-on-one workshop for me called ‘Cryptography for Dummies’ (a.k.a. ‘keeping your online sh*t safe from baddies’). Dr. Craig Costello is a Principal Resear...

Dr Lachlan McIver is a medical doctor, writer, activist and musician, specialising in rural & remote medicine, tropical medicine and public health and in his spare time, he has completed a PhD in global health. Originally from far North Queensland, his travels have spanned almost one hundred countries, treating patients in some of the most isolated, volatile, resource-deprived communities on t...

This is an interesting chat about the ever-present challenge of businesses wanting to make money, do some good in the world (for the planet and people) and let’s be honest, protect (or enhance) their brand along the way. It’s also about purpose and value driven people building commercial organisations with a primary focus of creating positive and sustainable impact in the world. I’m gonna be hones...

“What do you do?” “Oh, I design and build cities?” I thought being a podcaster, speaker and author was cool. Turns out, not a cool as I thought. We have so many ‘different kinds of smart’ on our show and I’m forever grateful that I get to meet and connect with such brilliant people. Lucinda Hartley is a globally recognised urban strategist, serial entrepreneur and sought-after keynote speaker on t...

Matt Golinski is a much-loved Australian celebrity chef and on December 26, 2011, Matt's wife Rachel and his three daughters died when their Tewantin home was engulfed by fire in the early morning. Matt, who tried desperately to save his family, suffered severe burns to forty percent of his body, spent eight weeks in a coma, four months in hospital and has spent a decade healing and recovering, ph...

You wouldn’t think a conversation about trauma could be uplifting, entertaining and even fun, but this chat with Dr. Sarah Woodhouse (trauma expert, research psychologist, author and coach) is all that and more because not only is she a high level academic with a great understanding of the science, but she’s also endured her own trauma journey and come out the other side with amazing compassion, i...

This is a fascinating conversation about human optimisation. Specifically, getting ‘better’ as we get older, challenging pre-existing norms and beliefs around physical potential for over forties, life-long learning, skill development, optimal cognitive performance at any age, self-limiting thinking, flow states, behavioural neuroscience and lots more. BIO: Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestsel...

Major General Mick Ryan (recently retired) is a highly skilled leader and strategist with thirty-five years of experience as an officer in the Australian Army, having deployed in many countries and been in the middle of much conflict and combat. In this episode, the MG and I speak about preparing for competition and combat in war, sport and life, how to train people for the most brutal and violent...

In this episode of TYP, Author, Coach and Business Bloke Jim Sheils and I speak about how some of us are simultaneously great at the career stuff but kinda-crap at the important stuff; you know.. family, life, communication, connection, parenting, health, happiness. As someone who went through a period of prioritising business and neglecting the important stuff, this was an insightful and meaningf...

Two Tommy eps in two days. This time we discuss my internal struggle with posting tough-love whiteboard messages (on social media) that (1) I believe are relevant and potentially transformative (2) are often misinterpreted and (3) can simultaneously inspire, inform and polarise. We also talk about the idea of teaching our kids ‘how’ to think rather than ‘what’ to think, what anti-aging actually me...

Tommy is back at TYP Central and this time talk about why we seek approval from people who don’t care about us (I’ve done it), why we’re so insecure, my walking backwards update (and why it’s so good), being barefoot in the supermarket (apparently it’s not okay), why we’re so crap at asking for help, my dodgy lower back and how I’m fixing it, the pandemic of poor posture and lots more. Enjoy.  vid...

I was recently on young Tiff’s show (Roll With the Punches) and we had a great freestyle, organic chat and so this episode of TYP is what us young kids call, a co-share. Among other things, we spoke about her (and many other people’s) propensity to push the metaphoric flush button before they finish weeing (blokes will get it). That is, impatience. And frustration. And unrealistic expectations of...

David Gillespie and I went into this episode with a planned topic and two minutes into our chat, he started talking about some other fascinating sh*t and our plan went out the window. At least you know this conversation is totally organic and unscripted. Yes, we’ve touched on psychopaths before but this time we did a deep dive into the psychology, sociology, anatomy and neurology of not only psych...

Dr. Stan Beecham is a ‘good ol’ boy’ from Georgia (in the US). He is a Sport Psychologist, High-Performance Coach, Author and as I discovered in this chat, Adventurer and Globetrotter. This time on TYP, the Doc and I talk about producing better outcomes with less effort (I think it’s called efficiency), getting in ‘flow’, being inspired by the achievements of others, exploring our potential (inste...

TYP Favourite Dr. Jodi is back sharing the love and this time we open a plethora of conversational doors, talking about the accuracy of our memory of events over time (it’s dodgy), why people are going nuts over true-crime podcasts (often women), cults (ours is launching soon), the power of ‘Influencers’ (for good and bad), quirky personal rituals (I reveal one or two of mine), creating deep conne...

Hugh Brasher is the Director of the London Marathon (one of the biggest marathons on the planet), philanthropist, wildly successful entrepreneur, motorcycle racer and visionary. Among other things, we speak about the transformative experience of doing hard things (like running a marathon) and the incredible love, connection and support that can happen (between total strangers) when a bunch of peop...

Yes, the title sounds like a piss-take but it’s actually the title of Rob’s cleverly-named stage show, which came into being after a stream of reviews essentially saying the same thing; “Rob Mills is surprisingly good.” Both a compliment and insult. Also, kind-of hilarious (and genius) when you use their back-handed complement to brand your own show. Rob is an Australian actor (including the last...

Patrick is back and this time we talk about control freaks, deep fakes, the nerd conference he attended, his recent trip to Amsterdam, the irrelevance and ineffectiveness of TV ads, the proliferation of internet-based businesses and careers (all the ‘new jobs’.. like podcasting), touring Rome in a golf cart, the meaning of dreams and lots more. oksmartass.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...

“What’s a good weight, time, distance, speed, result (for this activity, exercise, movement) for somebody at my age?” I’ve been asked a version of that question thousands of times and this episode is kind-of about that question. I began training bodies and working with the humans who live in those bodies forty years ago. Exercise Physiologist Russ Jarret has been doing the same for about thirty. W...