Coach And The Doctor

Coach and the Doctor are on the road in this week's episode, recording live from the Bayside Disability Expo.

Our first guest is Spencer Ratliff  who shares his story of starting Able Foods, a specialist disability ready made meal provider that takes the guess work out of healthy eating.

Following Spencer, we speak to Annie O'Reilly from Building Mindfulness, which is the practice of using LEGO to build your mindful journey. She tells us where her love for LEGO stemmed from and how LEGO can help being present and living in the moment.

Lastly Sean Dempsey, the CEO of Plan Partners, talks about their work as Plan Managers and as the hosts of the Bayside Disability Expo.

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This week’s CATD episode is jam packed with incredible conversations.

First up we have Senator Jordon Steele-John who updates us on how things are looking under the new federal government, and the changes he wants to see in the NDIS.

Then we speak to Associate Professor Des Graham, President of MS Australia, who shares all about MS, and the barriers facing people who live with Multiple Sclerosis and getting support from the NDIS.

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This week’s CATD is a podcaster heavy one! Firstly we speak to the host of ‘A Lot To Talk About’ Bradley Dryburgh about all things Cystic Fibrosis and the year that changed the trajectory of his life forever.  

Then we have Mandy Hose and Kate Jones, the hosts of ‘Too Peas in a Podcast’ - where they laugh (a lot) and cry as they chat to each other and friends about parenting their awesome disabled and neurodiverse children.

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First up on this episode of Coach and the Doctor is the very passionate mental health advocate Matt Runnalls, who tells us all about what inspired him to create the not for profit mental health foundation Mindfull Aus and his book 'Nobody Can Save Me'.

Next we speak to the wonderful Melanie Dimmitt about her podcast 'NDIS Know-How', her experience as a mother of two young children - one with a profound physical disability, one medically boring - and her lifestyle magazine 'The Blend' that she created for the tube feeding community.

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On this episode of Coach and the Doctor, we are joined by two fascinating guests. Up first is Katie Tonacia OAM to talk PTSD, the AFP, and Picking Up The Peaces - the organisation she founded to raise awareness and understanding about Post Traumatic Stress and associated conditions for frontline first responders.

Following Katie, we are joined by Beau Vernon, a motivational speaker who shares his experience of going through a life changing accident at 23 that left him quadriplegic. 

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On this week's episode of Coach and the Doctor, we firstly speak to Steve G, the head coach at G Training and Fitness in Alice Springs, who tells us about his trauma informed youth boxing program, and about some of the challenges facing the community in Alice Springs.

Following Steve, we are joined by Professor Lucas Walsh, who worked on Monash University's latest Australian Youth Barometer report, and he shares with us some of the discoveries they made about young Australians.

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First up on this week's episode is Mark Heeney, the Executive Director of Housing Strategy at Mind Australia/ The Haven Foundation, speaking about independent living services in Australia for people with psychosocial disability. 

Following Mark, we talk to Oliver Willford from OCD Australia, who shares about his own lived experience with OCD, and demystifies a commonly misunderstood disorder.

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We are back from our summer break with an incredible episode of Coach and the Doctor. 

Our first guest for 2023 is Dr. Aimee Gayed from the Black Dog Institute, speaking to us about mental health in the workplace and the global guidelines on mental health at work that the team developed with the World Health Organisation.

Next up is Knox Gibson, freshly back in Australia after shooting the Hunger Games prequel in Germany. We talk to Knox about the accident that changed his life and all things acting and working on a Hollywood blockbuster!

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First up, we speak to the incredible Elly Desmarchelier, a disability right campaigner, writer and speaker, who has recently been seen on The Project, Q&A and The Drum, who talks all this NDIS with The Coach and The Doctor.

Following Elly, we are joined by Sam Willoughby, a champion BMX rider who had a life changing accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. He shares with us his story, his love for his wife Alise and the new documentary about his life RIDE, that has just been released.

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This week we speak to Anna Spargo-Ryan, the inaugural winner of The Horne Prize for her essay “The Suicide Gene”, who has just released a brand new non fiction book, A KIND OF MAGIC about anxiety, our minds, memory, time, love and optimism. 

Then we have Andrew Whitehouse, a Professor of Autism Research who speaks to us about his work, the diagnosis process and its link to the NDIS, and the internet series sensation "60 Second Science" which you can watch on the CliniKids Facebook page, or via the link below!

https://fb.watch/hmg5tAq4QY/

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