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Kim Portrate is the CEO of Think TV, an industry-led group promoting the use of television advertising in the marketing community. Find her on twitter @KimPortrate

She and I worked together recently at a conference, doing a keynote on a bubble that many marketers live in.

But Kim is so much more than that, she is a smart and funny person who has lived through the darker times of our industry with regards to equality, she even had a ‘hidden figures’ moment when it came to bathrooms at one of her workplaces.

Kim’s story is for anyone struggling to achieve in a corporate environment, it's a story of triumph, of balancing a career and family, and living a life passionately in the direction of your choice.

I sure hope you enjoy this conversation with Kim Portrate.

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Sage Greenwood is the Managing Director of Wink Models, one of the biggest commercial and editorial modelling agencies in Australia. She has a very interesting story which I can’t wait for you to hear - it’s one you’ve heard before, especially when it comes to the behaviour of models living in cramped accommodation in Milan starving themselves for Fashion Week. However you may not have heard the one about the model with a double degree who goes on to pitch her dream gig at the CEO and finds her own career path in a life after modelling.

It’s an inspiring story of creating your own luck and the value of connections, persistence and professionalism.

Hold on, she’s a bundle of energy and has an infectious enthusiasm - which I hope rubs off on you as it rubbed off on me.

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Brandon Webb is a former SEAL Sniper, who served with the US Navy Seals in Seal Team Three. He’s now a NY Times Best-Selling author, independent digital media mogul, dad, experimental aircraft pilot, and all-around interesting and inspiring man to speak to. You can find him on twitter at @BrandonTWebb .

Brandon is no stranger to this podcast. He was a part of an epic two-parter back in episode 61&62. I highly recommend going back and listening to his story.

To catch you up to speed, Brandon grew up in California and learned to love the water very early on. When school didn’t really work out for him, Brandon got a job on a dive boat, getting paid to lead scuba diving groups while he was still a teenager.

Soon after, he found his way into the US Navy, and quickly became a highly skilled operator. Setting his sights on becoming a US Navy Seal, Brandon faced a lot of adversity as his skill level made him invaluable to have around, and his Commanding Officers reluctant to release him to try out for the SEAL program.

Eventually, he made it - and out of a starting class of 200 was one of only 23 to graduate.

Quickly finding his place as a sniper, Brandon served all over the world - including in Afghanistan in the very early weeks after 9/11, as part of the military force hunting Bin Laden.

Brandon also redeveloped the sniper training program to enormous success, and worked hard to create a learning environment that taught more trainees more successfully than ever before.

If you want the long version of that journey, with loads of excellent story telling from Brandon - start by listening to the earlier podcast he and I did, and then perhaps open up some of his excellent books - The Red Circle, Among Heroes, The Power of Thought, The Killing School & his latest book - Total Focus: How to make better decisions under pressure.

His books are great reads - clearly written by a man who understands effective teaching techniques, and the power of a great story.

Brandon is a gifted writer, and superb story teller - and I couldn’t be more grateful that he gave up an evening out in NY where he lives to spend an hour on a Skype call with me back in Sydney.

If you like what you hear - follow Brandon on twitter @BrandonTWebb  and let him know you heard him here.

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Mel Thomas is the founder of The KYUP! Project.

You can find her on twitter @kyupproject

Mel Thomas is a writer, speaker, media commentator and mother of two girls.

She has more than 15 years martial arts experience in Hapkido, the Korean art of self-defence.

Mel created KYUP! Project, a self-worth and self-protection program to break the cycle of violence against women and children.

You see Mel was born into the cycle of violence, and that cycle continued within her as she grew up and became a young woman.

In fact it was only a fortunate turn of events that broke that cycle which I will leave her to tell you about.

Here’s the big trigger warning:

We talk about domestic violence a lot in this conversation.

If that’s tough for you to hear, I understand - maybe skip this week and we’ll see you next week.

If you need help, in Australia please call 1800 RESPECT 1800 737 732.

If this conversation reframes an incident in your past as something more sinister than you’d initially labelled it, don’t hesitate to reach out and get help.

We go deep on this one, it gets gritty for a while there’s a few tears, but we do turn the corner to leave you uplifted I promise.

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Morgan Koegel is the CEO of OneGirl.org.au

They’re a non-profit that are on a mission to educate one million girls across Africa. They believe that every girl has a right to an education and work predominantly across Sierra Leone and Uganda.

Morgan has had an interesting career that’s also included working in prisons in Victoria where she helped again with transforming lives through education.

These two things alone are incredible reasons to hear Morgan’s story - however, there’s something else quite pertinent.

Morgan is the adult child of a Same Sex Marriage.

She has to Mums and we talk at length about her experience, what she felt as a child growing up and how she feels now.

If you’re worried about how things might turn out for the children, if you’re concerned for the welfare of other people’s kids who aren’t born yet - have a listen to how Morgan describes her perspective on the situation.

I hope it sheds some light on things for you.

So draw a glass of clean and safe water from the tap, maybe even visit a flushing toilet during this podcast, and revel in the privilege that we have as living in a modern society as you listen to Morgan talk about how she’s trying to bring girls across the world opportunity that they otherwise might never have, and enjoy this chat with Morgan Koegel.

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Donita Menon is the Grief and Bereavement coordinator at the Leukaemia Foundation Australia, her job is to talk both with people diagnosed, and with families before and after the death of a loved one.

She has a brilliant story and I can’t wait for you to hear it.

It is fortuitous that we spoke on this day, as we’d had the podcast scheduled in for months in advance - My Mum was in partial remission and was still living independently when we booked it in. But by the time we came around to recording this - as you may know mum has passed away.

We didn’t have a therapy session - but what you’ll hear is a conversation about death, dying and living that is very real for both Donita and myself.

Thanks for listening and enjoy this conversation with Donita Menon.

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Brendan Maclean is an Australian singer/songwriter/performer/unicorn who first came on this show about three years ago but suffered at the hands of the great file loss of 2015.

He has been kind enough to return and boy do we have a lot to talk about.

Brendan’s about to have a new EP come out in August 2017 and a new album in the works for early 2018 so a great time to have him on.

Find him on twitter and Insta for more @macleanbrendan.

This is a conversation for anyone who’s let fear hold them back from expressing themselves.

And expressing himself is something Brendan does with exceptional ability.

His live energy is something to behold - as is his recorded work which you can find at brendanmaclean.Bandcamp.com.

A fair amount of this conversation revolves around the music video that Brendan put out in the last few months - the video for the song House Of Air.

I must warn you with all the warnings I can warn you with.

If you choose to go and watch this video yourself you will see rather graphic depictions of many sex acts between two men.

You’ll see close up shots of genitals and you’ll even see penetration.

If you want to see such a thing, it’s up to you to watch it - I’m not going to say watch it or don’t. But if you do - be aware that you’ll see what you think you’re going to see when you hire professional gay porn actors to make a film in the style of a visual accompaniment to a written thesis observing the habits and cultures of a subset of gay men.

In this conversation you’ll hear me watch the video - which you can see at houseofair.info - and I try my best to give benign descriptions of what I’m seeing.

But again - only watch this video if you’re interested in seeing something that freaked a lot of people out.

I thought the video was great, it is so perfect, and really does what it sets out to do - I’m so happy that Brendan is the kind of guy to make this kind of film.

I know I certainly am not brave enough to create art like that - and I’m thrilled he was in my house and able to talk about it with me.

Having said that, Brendan got really raw about his adventures in the world of art and performing and it’s an honour that he chose to share these things with me.

I urge you to support Brendan in any way you can - financially or through spreading the word about his work.

We’re lucky to have him.

Let him know you heard him on online - handle is @macleanbrendan

Please enjoy this conversation with Brendan Maclean.

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Bruce Jeffreys is an entrepreneur from Sydney Australia. He is a cofounder of two successful businesses - GoGet and Dresden optics.

This is a brilliant conversation about creating a disruptive business, and the lessons learned from just bloody going ahead and starting while figuring it out as you go.

It’s a great chat with a fascinating man - who’s heart is in a great place and aligns his businesses with his passion.

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Sophie Hardcastle is an artist, author and all-around adventurous soul from Sydney Australia.

She shot to fame when she published her first book - Running Like China, a memoir of a life interrupted by madness.

It chronicles her struggle with coming to terms with her own mental illness and life with a brain that operates differently than others.

Her second book is a young adult novel called Breathing Underwater.

Sophie is also an exceptionally talented artist, currently studying at Sydney College of Art - and she’s just been awarded a $100,000 scholarship to continue her studies for a year at Oxford University.

She’s a remarkable, thoughtful, funny, and strikingly smart young woman and I’m so happy she came around to share her story with me this week.

You can follow her on Instagram sophie_hardcastle, let her know you heard her on the show.

A trigger warning up top - we do discuss self-harm in this episode so about twenty minutes after we start the interview you’ll hear us talking about the northern beaches - if you skip forward until you hear me talking about my hearing damage, you’ll have emerged safely on the other side.

Come enjoy a cup of coffee around my beautiful Parker Table, in the super-comfy Eames chairs - with Sophie Hardcastle.

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Nathan Cavaleri is an Australian musician, who you can follow at nathancavaleri.com or on Instagram at Nathan_Cavaleri.

Nathan first came to the attention of Australia when he was still a kid - he had been diagnosed with leukaemia and the Starlight Foundation sent him over to the UK to Jam with the lead guitar player of the biggest band in the world at the time - Mark Knopfler from Dire Staits.

Nathan was a prodigious guitar player, and the footage quickly captured the hearts of Australians - soon enough Nathan - this incredibly talented and charismatic ten year old - was on stage with some of the world’s greatest musicians. From Jimmy Barnes in Australia to Booker T & The MG’s, BB King - even Michael Jackson.

Nathan was an absolute superstar - a household name.

But what happened next is where the real story starts.

As Nathan explains on his blog at Nathan Cavaleri.com he went through some dark times, and today he shares some of those dark times with me.

I really can’t thank Nathan enough for this - I always feel it’s a great gift to us when someone opens up about their struggle, as it can help those struggling to know they’re not alone.

So before we go any further if there’s anything you hear in this chat that resonates or makes you feel unstable, please don’t hesitate to call lifeline on 13 11 14.

Ok, put the kettle on and enjoy an afternoon chat with wonderful human, incredible guitar player and fellow cavoodle owner - Nathan Cavaleri.

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