The You Project

I’m not gonna lie, when Tiff told me I’d be interviewing a world-renowned singing coach for TYP, I didn’t exactly punch the air with excitement. Well, that was my bad because Andrew Byrne is a fascinating New Yorker who has a deep understanding of Neuroscience, Human Performance, Effective Learning, Optimising Potential, Skill Development (all the shit I love) and he’s also pretty good at teaching...

If a Movement Guru, Philosopher, Healer, International Presenter, Wizard and Teller of Shit Jokes all lived in one body, that body would belong to Ian O’Dwyer. As always, this was an insightful and fascinating conversation with one of my great Mates and as always, there was a fair degree of silly-ness and laughter. When it comes to treating, healing, training and optimising the human body, OD is p...

Dr. Jodi Richardson is a favourite at TYP CENTRAL because, as well as her professional knowledge, academic research, vast clinical experience and awesome advice, she’s also real, vulnerable, honest, humble and highly relatable. Jodi has dealt with her own mental health issues since childhood, so when she speaks, it comes not just from a place of education and training but also, lived experience. I...

This is a coaching session of sorts. And not surprisingly, it is a conversation around making the ‘hard’ thing, easy. Or perhaps, easier. In it, I explore the idea of hard, the potential benefits of hard, the lessons to be learned from hard, the recalibration of hard, the stories we tell ourselves about hard, the language we use to create hard, the subjective nature of hard, changing our relations...

Craig Johns is fascinated with human behaviour, high performance, business and leadership (maybe it’s a Craig thing). He competed at an elite level in multiple sports and has worked as an elite coach around the world. Finding himself hospitalised multiple times through stress related heart problems and burnout, flat-lining on one occasion and undergoing a hip replacement and second pacemaker by th...

Rachel Berger is funny. Which is handy because funny-ness has been her job for a long time. Apart from being a comedian, she’s also a writer, therapist (of sorts), deep thinker, workshop facilitator and amazing teller of stories (hence the title of this episode). In the middle of her brilliant insights, humour, wisdom, compassion, down-to-earth-ness and a few self-identified issues, Rachel shares...

Kyle Riley is back at TYP Central and this time we talk about confirmation bias, life in the echo chamber, the impossibility of objectivity, food and fitness cults, unconscious operating systems, finding ‘optimal’ for our unique physiology, why the generic approach doesn’t work, why there is no ‘average’ human, how genetics influence personality, thinking and behaviour, why inconvenience is often...

When Rhys Mitchell moved to the US to pursue his acting, writing and producing dream, he literally slept in a cupboard at a friend’s house. Not a small bedroom, no, an actual cupboard. For months. Perhaps even more remarkable is that, after a night of socialising, he brought a girl home… to his cupboard! These days Rhys is best known for his work on the award-winning series, Upper Middle Bogan, Ba...

For this episode, Russ Jarret and I reconvene at TYP Central to talk about some out-of-the-box exercise ideas, why variety is crucial for progress, how adaptation happens, micro workouts, doing old things in new ways, optimal results with suboptimal resources and lots more. Enjoy. *Oh, and by the way, there’s a highly embarrassing story (shared by Russ about me, near the start) that I wanted edite...

Resident TYP Exercise Physiologist Russ Jarrett and I sit down and discuss the science and philosophy of living in a healthy body for as long as possible; thriving (instead of surviving) into old(er) age. Lots of nuggets in this one. Enjoy. russelljarrett.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For whatever reason, I’m regularly asked about my personal health habits; how I eat, exercise, socialise, sleep, recover, manage my mind and emotions, stay lean and keep on track. And while there’s no real magic (and I wouldn’t recommend my operating system to anyone else), I guess what’s somewhat atypical (for an Australian male) is that I’ve never had a beer (or any alcohol), never smoked, never...

For more than 25 years Perry Cross has been unable to breathe. A ventilator does it for him 24-7. Neither has he been able to move any part of his body, other than his head. At the age of 19 Perry was severely injured in a rugby union tackle. He used the devastating quadriplegia diagnosis to launch an inspiring career, selflessly devoting his life to driving awareness and research into spinal inju...

Dr. Vanessa Lapointe is a Parenting Expert, Author, Researcher and Child Psychologist. Or as I call her, Kid-Ologist. Raising, guiding, empowering, teaching and understanding children, is her thing. The science (art?) of raising happy, healthy, functional kids (how to be a great parent) is her passion, research and career. This conversation covered a vast amount of territory and as a non-parent, I...

Tara Diversi is a self-professed bogan. A funny, interesting, academic, intelligent bogan… but a bogan nonetheless. She’s also the President and Chair of Dietitians Australian. Fortunately (or not), we didn’t do another deep dive into nutrition (we’ve done enough lately) but we did talk about a sh*t-load of other fascinating things, like… (1) treating trauma with ice-water swimming (she is the fir...

At sixteen, Ciara Nelson was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and given virtually no chance of survival. And then she met amazing Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo, who had other ideas. We first chatted with Ciara on TYP as a cheeky nineteen year-old and now, as a fully qualified grown-up (21), she’s still cheeky and still giving me a hard time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A couple of months ago, I recorded an episode called ‘Becoming Ungiveupable’ and it went nuts. Lots of messages, lots of nice words and about double our normal listens. Well, this instalment of TYP is that ep. without the 15 minutes of fluff, small talk and chit-chat between Melissa and I. Just the get-your-shit-together stuff. Enjoy and maybe share with someone who might need some motivation. See...

I was recently on the ‘Simply Practically Human’ Podcast with Mark LeBusque and because I’m innately lazy, I’m back in the TYP hammock and doing another podcast ‘share’. Mark is a great fella, a deep thinker, a good asker of questions and this was (another) interesting chat with an interesting person about all-things being human. Enjoy. The Simply Practically Human Podcast See omnystudio.com/liste...

I assigned Tiff the task of asking me ten hard (but broadly relevant) questions about the human condition. Questions that I hadn’t been asked before on a podcast. She pulled it off. I had no idea what questions were coming before she asked them live during the recording. Of course, I banged on for too long, so we’ve made this a two-part-er. As always, this conversation is not a prescription or per...

I assigned Tiff the task of asking me ten hard (but broadly relevant) questions about the human condition. Questions that I hadn’t been asked before on a podcast. She pulled it off. I had no idea what questions were coming before she asked them live during the recording. Of course, I banged on for too long, so we’ve made this a two-part-er. As always, this conversation is not a prescription or per...

Tara Jarrett and I have been friends for thirty years. She worked for me as a PT and I lectured to Certificate 3 and 4 Fitness students for her company in the 90’s (when I was extremely young). Tara is an innovator, creator, survivor and visionary, who has consistently found a way to keep reinventing herself, to build successful businesses and to turn her creative ideas into real-world products an...

TYP Fave Geoff Jowett is back sharing the wisdom, insights, stories, bro-science and of course, the fun. Enjoy. @geoffjowett See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hi Team. This episode is a co-share, meaning… I recently sat down with my old Mate Andrew Jobling on his Podcast ‘The Health Puzzle’ and we waxed lyrical (whatever that means) about all-things happiness, purpose, fulfilment, self-worth, covid (sorry), life-long learning, perseverance and the silly idea of needing someone to ‘complete us’. After that, I stole his audio, turned it into a TYP episode...

Former NBA player (Dallas Mavericks, Chicago Bulls) two-time Olympian, NBL coach and player, handy tennis player and published author, Chris Anstey, is back. The big fella is part athlete, part philosopher, part story-teller and this conversation was lots of fun. All seven feet of it. Enjoy. chrisanstey.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We don’t always know what people are going through. Dayne Beams is a Collingwood premiership player and best and fairest winner, Brisbane Captain and best and fairest winner, All Australian... and for some of that journey, a bloke in the grip of addiction, depression, anxiety and desperation. This is one of the rawest, realest, revealing-est chats I’ve had on TYP. It’s full of fascinating insights...

I thought my job (what job?) was weird and atypical but I’m positively boring and common compared with Australia’s number one stand up Ventriloquist, Darren Carr. I love chatting with people from different professions and backgrounds with interesting stories and let’s just say, it takes more courage and talent than I have, to even attempt what Darren does 150 times a (non-Covid) year. Enjoy. See o...