Max's Island

Max's Island

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Max's Island episodes

  • No-one's an island but sometimes it's good to pretend.
    Max’s island has been a fantastic creative project and in this episode to
    launch the new season … there are excerpts from each of the 1st five
    episodes. It’s a great way to start the year with a timely reminder of the
    interesting stories we all have within our lives.
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  • It wasn't boring ... I'm great company!
    Steve Standing is a talent. Whilst in the day he’s a St Georges Tce lawyer,
    he’s best known around town as a local singer songwriter who has released
    two albums.
    2015 - Each Waking Hour
    2019 - Little Rebellion
    Writing songs is a passion for him and some of his great hits … including
    the song used for Max’s Island Podcast - “Island” - had their beginnings in
    lyrics written whilst he was on the Bibbulmun Track.
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  • A Student of Life ... who really likes to dance.
    Kat believes that her experiences have been instrumental in her designing
    “white space” into her life. In her words…
    … the ‘shoulds’ keep me busy and what my design challenge has been,
    is how can I create more space and more band width for the things that
    really matter.”
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  • "I saw a kinesiologist ... and that was incredible"
    Drinking is a huge part of the culture in the professional fashion industry
    she is in and now being able to have fun whilst doing what she enjoys
    without alcohol, is her life.
    In her words … ”it’s about reframing … when you change the way you look at
    things … what you look at changes”
    For more of Yvette’s incredible journey, check out her blog at
    #fromloathingtolove or at http://yvettegray.com/
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  • “I’m a planner…I like to write things down!”
    “I’m a planner…I like to write things down!”
    BUT ‘Happenstance’ has been a big contributor to the life experiences of
    Mariam Mukaty ... who is an internationally experienced change-maker and
    ironically a person with a penchant for detailed planning, both in business
    and life in general.
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  • It was a boy's club in Chicago!
    Cathryn Wilkinson says … “The day my life really made a huge change was the
    day I got retrenched (from an advertising agency in Melbourne) … everything
    changed!”
    After that day she took half of her redundancy pay (left half with her Mum
    for safe keeping) and began a lifetime in advertising on 4 continents
    around the world.
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  • Part 2 - Belinda’s Brave Walk
    “I want to introduce an assisted dying law so that no-one with a terminal
    illness has to die the way my mum did”
    Belinda Teh
     Belinda has just completed a walk from Melbourne to the steps of
    Parliament House in Perth … over 3 million steps, to raise awareness for
    the passage of Voluntary Assisted Dying Legislation through WA parliament.
     Part2:
    Belinda believes the best way to prevent others from suffering in the same
    way is for WA to introduce Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation.
     Go to www.gogentleaustralia.org.au
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  • Belinda’s Brave Walk – Part 1
    “I want to introduce an assisted dying law so that no-one with a terminal
    illness has to die the way my mum did”
    Belinda Teh
    Belinda has just completed a walk from Melbourne to the steps of Parliament
    House in Perth … over 3 million steps, to raise awareness for the passage
    of Voluntary Assisted Dying Legislation through WA parliament.
    Part 1:
    Belinda’s mum Mareia experienced a horrific death which modern medicine and
    caring specialists could not save her from.
     Go to www.belindasbravewalk.org.au
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We’re told to always be in the present moment … we’re told to set goals and achieve them … we’re told that life’s short and to live every moment as if it where our last. Arrrgh, what does all this…