FAILOSOPHY

Christine Anu is a Torres Strait Islander, Mum, Singer, Dancer, Actor, Radio Host and community leader who has lived a life so varied it had to be split into TWO parts for our Failosophy chat. Christine has acted in TV, Hollywood films, danced and toured around the world, she has been a champion of culture and language and overcome many a challenge...

Part 2 picks up where Christine was just about to make one of the biggest life-changing decisions of her career, and it all started with a chance meeting at a NAISDA dance exhibit.

FYI: You will need to have listened to Part 1 of Episode 5 for a better context to Part 2.

SONGS:

Opening: The Clash Rudy Cant Fail

Closing: Christine Anu Monkey and the Turtle

Christine Anu is a Torres Strait Islander, Mum, Singer, Dancer, Actor, Radio Host and community leader who has lived a life so varied it had to be split into TWO parts for our Failosophy chat. Christine grew up in Brisbane, moved to the Torres Strait before turning 10, had a mixed education and started her career in arts as a dancer before a chance meeting started a singing career that has lasted decades. Christine has acted in TV, Hollywood films, danced and toured around the world, she has been a champion of culture and language and overcome many a challenge...

SONGS:

The Clash Rudy Cant Fail

Warumpi Band My Island Home

Failosophy explores the links betweeen success and failure with Gareth Ward, Member for Kiama, Minister for Families, Communities and Disability Services. Gareth was born with albinism and is legally blind, and has overcome plenty of hurdles to be a successful politician, a community leader and helping those affected with hardship and disability in NSW.

SONG: Rudie Can't Fail by The Clash

SONG: The Catastrophe Steel City All Stars (Wicked good Wollongong SKA band)

This is the Poem that Mark Carnegie references during Episode 3, when talking about a different way of looking at failure and understanding the levels on which it can affect us. And the importance of resilience to overcome the fear, if we focus on our resilience we can only become stronger for it.

Mark Carnegie, founding partner of M.H.Carnegie and an investor with a social conscience. I met Mark in 2019 to discuss an opportunity to work together on a podcast that explored the world's political, financial and social situation to see what kind of political policies and corporate action are out there creating a safer world for us. Little did we know that 3 months later the world, and our podcast, would be stopped by a global pandemic.

In this episode we discuss Mark's attitude towards failure, how he values the challenge and his view on the resilience required to overcome them. And as always, tangents, lots of tangents that we go on because of Mark's incredible knowledge of history and literature.

Best of all we get a clear picture of Mark Carnegie's Failosophy.

SONG: Rudie Can't Fail by The Clash

SONG: Mad World by Garry Jules

Dylan Maley is a Clinical Dietitian with experience in Private Practice, Mental Health, Acute Hospitals, Disabilities, and Food Service. Dylan and I have been friends since University, and I have always admired his tenacity and hunger for learning. Dylan is the kind of person who will always find out the answer if he doesnt know it, and if he doesnt know how to do something, he will find a way to learn it. Not only is he a dietician helping people create a healthy life through diet and food (my words not his), Dylan is an amazing musician, chef, footy player and all round nice guy.

Dylan's Failosophy is short and sharp - allow yourself to be crap! It's ok to not be the best at everything, educate yourself and never give up.

INTRO SONG: Rudie Can't Fail by The Clash

OUTRO SONG: The Righteous Mind by Throwing Snow

Failosophy is a podcast series that revisits the significant moments of failure that shaped the lives of our guests. We want to know why most society's fear failure, and we here at Failosophy HQ want to better understand how success is measured in different cultures.

I have met so many amazing people, from all generations and all walks of life, and this podcast series is the start of what I hope to be a long journey in exploring the philosophical links between success, failure and a happy life, the outcome is for us ALL to create and celebrate our very own FAILOSOPHY... (and yes, I left the mistake in there deliberately... a Dad joke of sorts)

HELEN KAMINSKI is an Australian artist, hatier, Mum, Grandmother and friend... And when I thought of actually sitting down to finally do this podcast, she was one of the first people I thought of, not just because of the global fashion corporation named after her, but because I knew Helen to be a deep thinker, extreme reader and truth talker... Here I am sitting with Helen, on my parents farm in the South Coast bush and we decided to hit record after I told her about my Failosophy... and true to form, we cover art, business, nature, love, drugs and politics... and in the essence of Failosophy, I failed to bring more then one microphone lead... we also sat outside in the bush, so please excuse the very chirpy cicadas that feature throughout... but without knowing it, they actually become part of this weeks Failosophy lesson... NATURE helps heal...

SONG: Rudie Can't Fail by The Clash