It's about nothing!

It's about nothing!

By Nicholas DuckSociety & Culture
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It's about nothing! episodes

  • It's about what motivates you to get in shape

    Cam and Nick discuss fitness, health, and diets with Body Transformation expert Fred Liberatore. What motivates someone to get in shape? Is it better to work out in the morning or when you feel like it? What does it take to win a body building competition?

    Fred runs a fitness studio https://realfit.com.au/ and his professional website is personaltrainer.net where you can learn more about how he transforms bodies (and the mind)!

    1 hr 31 min
  • It's about why things never change

    Our guest, Marvin Oka is a strategic, international consultation with over 30 years experience leadership, strategy and culture. He uses applied neurobehavioral modelling to help understand and bring about organisational changes and transformations.

    On our podcast, with Dr Nick Duck and Cam Hawker we discuss why some organisations never seem to change, even when the people start leaving. And then we discuss the conditions for real change, where the system itself changes.

    Marvin runs coaching in this field with his programs that can be accessed at  behaviouralmodelling.com


    1 hr 43 min
  • It's about why we blame people

    Does blaming people help improve the world?  When is someone responsible for their actions when we live in highly complex environments with multiple causes?

    Our special guest today is Senior Research Fellow, Dr Gemma Read talking about blame. Gemma is also a systems thinking specialist. Everything around us, including our bodies, are complex systems. What exactly are we here for? What is the purpose of the planet as a whole?

    1 hr 37 min
  • It's about lockdowns causing mental health issues

    We've been hearing a lot about the increase in mental health issues due to COVID-19 and lockdowns. Are suicides increasing? Is everyone unhappy with the lockdown?

    Dr Ramsay Dixon, Clinical Psychologist, joins Cam Hawker and Dr Nicholas Duck to discuss all things mental health. 

    1 hr 35 min
  • It's about the qualities of great leaders

    Today we discuss leadership and well-being with our guest Dr Adrian Medhurst!

    What does the handling of the pandemic tell us about leadership? What can leaders do to promote a more resilient workforce? And does focussing on resiliency really address the true causes to impaired well-being?


    1 hr 35 min
  • It's about aged care and death

    Dying is a curse that only worries the living. Today we invite a specialist engineer and Human Factors expert, Mark Andrew, to discuss the problems with death, dying and aged care. Is there a better way than just outsourcing the problem to aged care homes given that we might all be in one eventually!

    1 hr 24 min
  • It's about predicting the future

    Welcome to our first Podcast hosted by Cam Hawker and Dr Nicholas Duck. 

    This podcast discusses why it's so hard to predict the future even with statistical models. We invited Associate Professor Simon Moss to discuss the limitations with predictive models and how we need to trust human intuition and experience to guide decision-making.

    1 hr 46 min

About It's about nothing!

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It's about nothing! Well, even nothing is something. This podcast, hosted by Cameron Hawker and Dr Nicholas Duck looks at the psychology of work, politics, entertainment, and life.Cam Hawker is a…

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