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Professor Leon Petchkovsky Phd. is a retired Professor of Psychiatry, the Director of the Pinniger Clinic in Robina, and is currently writing a book about Nurturance as it relates to Developmental Neuroscience and Psychology. If that sounds like a lot, it is, he's 76, and very clever.

This is a great conversation about what can go right and wrong in the development of a human mind, some ways to fix it, and why proper Nurturance is one of the most crucially important missing elements in our modern society today.  Also, he shares some very fun stories about working with Indigenous communities across Australia, and losing his identity to a few monstrous Ketamine trips during his research.

To see more of what Leon has done, and is working on, please visit his website here.

The cover photo here was taken from this article, and is an aerial view of Yuendumu, NT.

Thank you as always for listening!!!!

This podcast is made possible by Burleigh Heads and Broadbeach Physiotherapy, Heart Start Fitness Muay Thai and YOU, the listener, at patreon.com/lorna bremner.

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Elliot is a pure, professional Martial Artist – inside the gym and out. He is currently signed to One Championship Fight Series, with an impressive 58 professional fights so far in his career. He's a 4 x CMT Champion, got a slew of belts around his waist and has had the honour of fighting (and beating) a world-class Thai fighter at Lumpinee Stadium, the Mecca for our sport.

This is a great conversation about cultivating a strong mindset, facing and understanding doubt, hardship and pain, and what it feels like to put someone to sleep with your foot. Despite being one of the deadliest and scariest people I've sat down with, Elliot is an incredibly humble and smart human being and I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation.

To follow Elliot's career and see more of what he gets up to, please check out his Facebook Here, his Instagram Here, and you can visit his gym, Team Compton Training Centre here, and on Facebook Here.

Thank you as always for listening!!!!

This podcast is made possible by Burleigh Heads and Broadbeach Physiotherapy, Heart Start Fitness Muay Thai and YOU, the listener, at patreon.com/lorna bremner.

•  – @duxcarvajal
•  – W.L Fight Photography
•  – @artbyemperor
• RVCA Gym, California
•  – @artbyemperor
• Elliot and his wife
•  – @duxcarvajal
• Elliot and his Dad
• Strapped!

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In this episode I discuss my mental brain patterns during all the silly adventures we went on over the Mayventure Challenge. I discuss why we fantasise about getting touched by a lady at the grocery store instead of our own partners, how I panicked on a mountain top, and how I invented a stupid fantasy about getting pegged by a cowboy that would have ruined my life, but then still got mad when it didn't come to fruition.

Thank you as always for listening!!!!

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Phillip is a social / political commentator, author, and currently works as a Hypnotherapist in Coffs Harbour. On our Mayventure travels this month, we stopped in to visit him in his office to discuss all things metaphysical, social, and a little bit political, in order to discuss a lot of ideas about better ways of being in the world.

If you'd like to see more of what he gets up to, please visit his business website here, his Youtube Channel here, and you can read some of his articles here.

Also, quick disclaimer: At the end Phillip mentions the Great Australian Party (GAP) who propose a return to the Australian Constitution (establishing minimal government) and takes a conservative economical, right wing, stance. I don't personally subscribe to them as a political party, but I also know so little about Australian politics that I can't speak on the matter with any confidence. I think a discussion about the merits or deficits of the GAP would have been good, but there wasn't time to get into that during this podcast, so it sort of just stops there, hanging in the air. 

Since I myself am an immigrant in this country, any speak of “Patriots” and “Nationalism” tends to make me wary… Personally, I think we make progress by looking forward, not backward when dealing with politics, and the Constitution was written by white people who invaded a country and fucked over a whole bunch of people who already lived here. Technically, we're all immigrants, and often “patriotism” can be scarily linked to the ol' White People Rule and Fuck Everyone Else policy, which is clearly shit. 

I certainly didn't get that impression from Phillip himself, and discussing new ideas (that I may not always agree with) is the whole point of the podcast!

Thank you as always for listening!!!!

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Emmy and Marcus are 2 of the 4 members of the Brisbane Punk Band, The Cutaways. This is a lovely, raw conversation about music, identity, and how those things are so closely intertwined.

Emmy discusses her experiences as a trans-woman in the Punk community and the world at large while I get overly emotional about her music, we discuss how music and drugs are a lovely vacation from ourselves, and I enlighten the pair of them to the incredible world of transgender Muaythai.

To hear their music and follow what they get up to, their website is here, facebook here, instagram here, and you can find them on Spotify here.  

Thank you as always for listening!!!!

This podcast is made possible by Burleigh Heads and Broadbeach Physiotherapy, Heart Start Fitness Muay Thai and YOU, the listener, at patreon.com/lorna bremner.

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I went to a Kink and Fetish party and this is what happened there. This episode includes a few interviews from some of the guests, and a bit of an overview about the whole event. Needless to say, there was so much shit going on it would take me 12 podcasts to really get to the nitty gritty of the whole thing, but this is a good first attempt.

Thank you to everyone at Haven 33, who were kind enough to let me film and record at your party. I don't have the footage up yet but will put it here when I can, so if you'd like to see what the place looks like there is a video I did with Priestess Desire for Episode 50 here.

Links:

Thank you again to Haven 33 for the hospitality!

• Rope Show
• My costume
• Stiletto Stomping
• Wax Vagina Mould
• Me, at the party
• Photo Credit Shibari Backlit
• Priestess Desire
• Medical
• Priestess Desire

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In this episode I'm talking about how to get yourself untangled from the tentacles of life, good and bad, through examining a phrase one of my trainers taught me in Muaythai. I discuss the ways that we can lose ourselves in Cults and bullshit, how this works in fighting, and how I think it's probably ok that I fell off the sobriety wagon last week in Bali.

Reference LINKS:

1. https://www.facebook.com/sylviemuaythai/
2. Dieselnoi vs Sagat (Old school, Muay Khao)
3. Saenchai (Muay Femeu)
4. Albert Tu'ua (This is not the fight I'm talking about, that one was at Destiny on April 13th 2019, but its still a good example of how good Albert Tu'ua is)

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Rohan is a Filmmaker, and is the creator of the first (and only) Aussie Punkrock Podcast way back in 2009 but has stopped doing the podcast to now focus on making films. In 2016 he released a full-feature documentary called “The Other Option” about the Punk scene in Southeast Asia, and he's currently working on some boring corporate bullshit to learn the art of Cinema before going back to make another one.

This is a great conversation about the nature of doubt and creativity and how closely they are linked, how to be better at what you're trying to do, and how I deal with the horrific hot shame of making a terrible social media decision.

You can find the D.I. Wireless Podcast here, and you can see more of his videos on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/DIWireless

Thank you as always for listening!!!!

This podcast is made possible by Burleigh Heads and Broadbeach Physiotherapy, Heart Start Fitness Muay Thai and YOU, the listener, at patreon.com/lorna bremner.

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Holy shit what a world… this is a wonderful conversation, much more normal than you would imagine actually, between a naive prude and a powerful Mistress. Priestess Desire is a professional Dominatrix and right before we recorded this podcast, she was kind enough to give me a tour of her office. I don't think I've had a podcast yet where I struggled to have something to say – but having an entire alternate dimension opened up before my eyes put me in quite a state…

Luckily, Priestess is one of the loveliest people I've ever met, as was everyone I met at Haven 33, who were kind enough to let me film their Dungeon, so it turned out just fine in the end. If you'd like to see the video from this episode, you can find it here.

Also, if you'd like to see more of what Priestess gets up to, you can follow her on instagram here, or check out her website, PriestessDesire.com. Also she mentions two other websites during the podcast:

Thank you again to Haven 33 for the hospitality.

• Shibari at Haven 33 – image by shibaribacklit
• shibari – image by serinacrinis
• image by shibaribacklit
• Haven 33

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Dusty is one of a kind; he grew up in the turmoil of Apartheid South Africa, then escaped to England to do drugs and sell electricity to poor people, then cleaned up his act by becoming the drugs himself and channelled all that chaos and trauma into one of the best live performances you'll ever see. And he's also an incredible artist, because, why not.

Dusty recently performed his new show, “The Lying King”, at the Adelaide Comedy Festival, Brisbane Comedy Festival, and Gold Coast Laughs Festival, which is an eclectic mix of nonsense that he's collected and perfected by saying whatever the fuck comes into his head in front of crowds of people over the last 14 years.

If you'd like to see Dusty perform live or see more of his work, you can find everything at DustyRich.com. He also MC's weekly at The Arc at Nobbys through Based Comedy, and  also has a (usually) weekly show at Eddies Grub House in Coolangatta. 

This podcast is made possible by Burleigh Heads and Broadbeach Physiotherapy, Heart Start Fitness Muay Thai and YOU, the listener, at patreon.com/lorna bremner.

• Dusty's Artwork
• Performing at The Arc
• Dusty Rich
• Gold Coast Show
• Wednesday night at The Arc at Nobbys
• GC Laughs Festival Gala

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