Up For A Chat

Being a bloke, being a husband, being a dad its a total rollercoaster ride. There’s the indescribable love you feel for your family. But then there’s the suffocating pressure: ~ the crush of providing for the family ~ the overwhelming sense of failure of where you are with your finances compared to where you want to be ~ the endless frustration of uncertainty of whether or not your doing the right...

Janet is the co-author of ‘Tantric Sex and Menopause – Practices for Spiritual and Sexual Renewal’, a practicing psychotherapist since 1999, and TEDx speaker in Noosa, Australia in 2013. She is co-presenter of the life-changing ‘Making Love Retreat’ for couples, as created by her mentor and co-author and originator of the ‘Slow Sex’ movement, Diana Richardson, in Australia since 2012. She has been...

Alexx Stuart is the author of “Low Tox Life” and the founder of the thriving online education hub by the same name, made up of several e-courses, a podcast (one of the highest ranked in the health category in Australia), recipes, articles and community action resources for an ever-growing community of people wanting to be healthier and make our planet happier. She’s an educator, change agent, auth...

Justine Watson President & Co-Founder of Mesh Injured Australia had a TVT fitted in 2010 for SUI. She discovered in 2017 after a cystoscopy that the mesh had skewered her urethra in several places and was embedded in her bladder. With no other explanations for her years of pain and systemic illnesses and after much researching, she travelled alone to the USA for removal surgery a few weeks later....

I’ve tasted the bitter flavour of failure. I’ve chewed and brewed over the decision of quitting, and the ripples caused by personal defeat. The small number of times I’ve quit has haunted me to this very day. One day I’ll grow, develop and mature enough to make peace with these moments. These are the words of Jamie Milne, NZ Maori of Ngati Pikiao, and born and raised in Rotorua, is about pushing t...

Life can never be the same for the Chatters, after their discussions with Dr Jack Kruse ( episode 327 ) and Jason Bawden Smith (episodes 328 , 329 ). All three had their eyes opened, researched more, educated themselves and decided to make some changes. Cyndi had already decided that her lifestyle was already bringing in natures 3 secrets, she just needed to add a few tweaks. She was concerned abo...

The chatters began their conversation with Jason Bawden-Smith last week, the conversation continues on how light, water and magnetism and how they can effect health outcome, good and bad it all depends on whether they are native or non-native. Not having them is one thing but having too much of the wrong type will also cause issues. Here Jason speaks about the solutions; watch the sunrise, take li...

Jason Bawden-Smith is a successful entrepreneur, author and speaker. He has founded four companies during his business career, including one of largest and most successful environmental consultancy companies in Australia. But financial success came at a great cost. Jason developed 20 chronic diseases and cured himself by going to the beach and eating oysters—- okay it was a little more complex but...

Dr Jack Kruse is a neurosurgeon from New Orleans, he was on Up for A Chat in 2014.  Dr Kruse wants to make  a difference.  He is brash, knowledgable and confronting.  The Chatters are shell shocked and feel like they have had a full frontal assault by the end of the interview.  His three pillars for health are; water, light and magnetism.  He believes our 6th greatest extinction has been created b...

Our listeners, our selves our husbands are all impacted by the events that happened in New Zealand over the weekend.  Kim, Carren and Cyndi have had messages from their listeners asking to make sense of the shootings.  On Sunday night a vigil took place on the Sunshine Coast.  Our own Kim spoke at the vigil along with a young 23 year old New Zealand journalist – Tessa Patrick.  Tessa’s speech was...

Peter Brukner OAM is a specialist sports and exercise physician whose most recent position has been Australian cricket team doctor from 2012- 17. Peter is the founding partner of Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne and Professor of Sports Medicine at LaTrobe University. A founding Executive Member of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians, he served two terms as President and p...

Dr. Mariza Snyder believes living a healthy lifestyle shouldn’t be a chore. As a Women’s Hormone Practitioner, she believes that you can heal your hormones without hormones. She balances your hormones naturally using powerful essential oils and self-care rituals. By incorporating simple, daily habits, Dr Mariza says you can transform your life into a healthier, more vibrant one and become the CEO...

The Changing Habits Market Place is always on the hunt for new foods, they must be ethical, trusted, organic and/or chemical free and more often than not have a great story about how they came about. Krista is a leader in agricultural innovation and the co-founder and Managing Director of Natural Evolution, a company specializing in green banana and other waste produce products. She is an advocate...

Taylor Winterstein is on a mission, a young 29 year old mother of 2 and wife to a professional athlete.  She has a fire in her belly and nothing will stop her helping the next generations of parents to take back control of their family’s health.  She hasn’t always lived the healthy lifestyle, but a documentary woke her up and from there Taylor has become a self educated veracious learner to unders...

The Chatters divide themselves and Cyndi is interviewed about her latest study – condiments.  Tomato sauce, mayo, BBQ, sweet chili sauce are slathered on our food and children’s food.  Have you ever thought what lies behind the terms, acidity regulatory, thickeners, binders, flavors, rosemary extract.  Cyndi dives deep into what is written on the label and what is completely missed.  She discusses...

The Chatters interview Ben Stockwin – CEO of the Primary Industries Education Foundation Australia (PIEFA) he has extensive experience as an educator including 7 years as a teacher and 8 as a school principal in Queensland and Tasmania. PIEFA is the lead coordinating body for food and fibre education in Australian schools and operates the web portals primezone.edu.au and ‘Career Harvest’. Outside...

Kama Trudgen (MBBS) is a medical doctor who has worked as a General Practice Registrar in Aboriginal Medical Centres.  She has lived and worked on Elcho Island since 2009 and speaks Gupupuyngu. She is particularly passionate about preventative medicine and empowering people, and has stepped outside the Western medical model of health care delivery. Kama provides the support, education and resource...

Belinda Fettke is the wife of Gary Fettke a Launceston Orthopedic Surgeon who was given a life long nutrition and diet gag sentence without appeal by his medical governing body  (AHPRA) for recommending a low carbohydrate  diet to his diabetic patients.  Belinda is not only supportive of her husband but has uncovered some damming information related to the Dietitians Association of Australia, some...

Carren is a private person, but in this episode she reveals something about herself that she has not talked about in public.  Clint Paddison helps her get a full understanding of what has been happening to her over the last few years.  Clint Paddison is a man driven to be well.  He was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis but was not happy with the current schedule of drugs needed to suppress the d...

Alysha Habgood is a naturopath, but as a young woman she wasn’t happy with her body image.  Her breasts were too small.   Living in a modern world she decided she could do something about it by having breast implants. 4 months later she was sick, tired and was presenting with an autoimmune disease.  She tried everything hoping it wasn’t her breast implants, but years later the evidence was clear,...

Charles Massy is a farmer, author, regenerative farmer and OAM and has a Phd in Agricultural Science.  Cyndi interviews this amazing thinker on regenerative agriculture and how this way of farming is the new hero in the climate change debate.  Charles book Call of the Reed Warbler, discusses, the historical perspective of Australian Agriculture when the Australian Aboriginal managed the land.  Whe...

Christmas 2018, the chatters talk about their experience with Christmas, what they are doing, how they celebrate Christmas and all the trimmings.  The discussion talks about family crisis’s over Christmas and how the chatters do Christmas very differently.  Food, decorations, presents are all discussed with some wonderful hints and ideas for a wonderful celebration for this time of year.  The disc...

Cyndi  finished a 7 day meditation retreat with Dr Joe Dispenza on the Sunshine Coast and Carren has launched her Spirit Hive Project in Brisbane and Sunny Coast.  They both are excited about the prospects of what they have been doing.  Kim as always has a knack of asking the right question and getting the best and most out of each of them in order for you to listen in on the growth of these two w...

There is a lot happening in the Chatters lives, so it’s catch up today.  Kim talks about her book The Art of Self Love, Carren explains her latest venture Spirit Hive and Cyndi has been in planning mode for 2019 and there is more information regarding her campaign to stop the spraying of Roundup by her council.  As always the catchup has times of rawness, how do they cope with the changes, the ins...

Lauren Brisbane owns QCamel, the first Australian camel milking farmer. Lauren is not your usual farmer, she thinks outside the square, her animal husbandry is more like a caring facility for women and children.  You know with Carren and her love for animals that she wouldn’t interview anyone that was not only caring for animals but for the planet.  Lauren’s story is unique, she was a farmer but w...