Mel Bampton Presents...How Human

Yes I know! How great are Kate's! As luck would have it, three Kate's of grand intrigue were delivered to yours and my podcast doorstep to share their incredible stories, their lessons, their challenges and their own unique gems of wisdom they've collected along the way.

This third Kate in the grand trilogy of Kate's, is the fierce and radiant Kate Constantine. Once a jetsetting superhero capturing the brilliance - and tolerating the bullshit - of many an International celebrity, Kate was a woman at the top of the capitalist game. Running a company worth millions, feeling the sense of achievement and seemingly dominating this human life, until one fine day, Kate collapsed. Turning her world into a nightmare of unbearable chronic pain and changing everything.

This is the familiar story of arriving only to discover it's the wrong fucking destination. A tale of everything crashing down and in the rubble finding love, passion and home.

Kate Constantine is a fierce and passionate Gadigal woman, a wife, Fun Mum, a joy bringer, a creator and so much more. Find her art at https://www.konstantinaaboriginalart.com/about

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The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Dirt biking women. Snowboarding accidents. Living life to the extreme. Loving intensely. Losing beyond compare.  Tragedy germinating beauty, power and being fully alive.

This episode is going to get you right in the belly.  Everything about it, is at the level of OOF. There is a MASSIVE story in here that will shock you, it will change you and hopefully it will inspire and move you in ways that inject you back into living just that little bit more deeply. 

This conversational dive went somewhere I didn't see coming, so breathe deep, let Kate Hardman and all of her big, bombastic, dynamic strength with all of her direct lived experience, guide you to feel into what she has to share, to not turn away from it but learn from it, let yourself lean into it, to live even more in every moment. This human life is so short, sometimes shorter than we ever see coming.

PS - Rita, this episode is for you. What an incredible big sister you have.

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Follow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:

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Catch some of Mel's presentations:

The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Get ready for one of the most beautiful episodes you'll hear.  

A story about unexpected connections, grieving, reconciling in the most delicate and powerful of ways, about the potency of the Mother Daughter connection, of creativity as a flow-through channel for agitation and tension, and the magic of small nuances, turns of phrase and seeing the world with bright eyes and a colourful spirit.

This is Kate Stroud. A delightful creature, a unicorn in human form.  An artist, a visual story teller, a maker and visual translator. This is the story of a daughter, healing a mother wound through creativity and through death, of finding herself through her voice, science and art. It is a truly beautiful tale, with a truly beautiful, contemplative and creative being.

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Follow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:

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• Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'

Catch some of Mel's presentations:

The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Have you ever experienced such a deep belief in where you thought you should be in your life, who you should be but it didn't come to pass? When something didn't go your way, how did you peace with the new outcome?

Sherrie Laryse spent a lifetime knowing that her life would contain a certain something; and that that something was part of her life's purpose. But life itself (or Wendy as Sherrie likes to call it) had a different plan.

This is an adventure across decades of wanting, of seven years of trying and the process of readjusting to a new self-identity, wading through oceans of disappointment. It's a guidebook to changing your own mind when the mind is suffering, when it's snagged tightly onto something that will not come to fruition. This is a learning of how to let go, for your own good, of knowing when to stop trying, and of how to not just reach peaceful acceptance but harness all of that flailing energy and transform it into a new life purpose.

Sherrie Laryse is an Author, Emotional Intelligence Teacher, hardcore meditator, Science Yogi, Neuroscience student and first and foremost, she is a Mum. With a twist.

Contact Sherrie at www.sherrie.com.au
Find her book On Path here.

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Follow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:

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Catch some of Mel's presentations:

The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

 As this podcast has gone along, it's reason for existing has morphed, refined and changed; each new guest creating a different reason for it's existence. A thread that's kept coming up is the obsession with celebrity - our fascination with putting certain people, doing certain things, up on pedestals above all others. Often giving people who are not so fabulous glory and money, whilst good people sit in the background quietly  making the world a better place. Leveling the scales in some tiny way is a big part of this podcast's purpose - walking past the sparkles of fame and grabbing the hands of the humble.

The person you are about to meet has a special place in my life, his trust in my capabilities sent me hurtling me down a trajectory that overflowed with adventure, excitement and incredible conversations and granted that young woman I was from the western suburbs, Access All Areas. The man who gave me my job at triple j.

For many years he hosted Triple j heavy music program Three Hours Of Power, weekend breakfast and triple j drive . He’s Greek, loves his music, has the best laugh, even better hair and is the father of triplets.

In 2021, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (latest report as of October 2021) there were 4,248 multiple births representing 1.5% of all births (309,996) in Australia. This comprised 4,185 pairs of twins and 63 sets of triplets and higher order multiples. So how do you learn to raise three babies all at once and navigate the enormity of becoming an instant family of 5 – particularly after many tiring and pain-staking years on a difficult road of conception – and do it all with love, laugher, grace, groundedness and patience? 

What do you sacrifice and what do you choose to make your life mean instead? This is the story of a man who truly put family first, a lovable character and a humble music industry legend. The iconic Costa Zouliou.

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Follow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:

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Catch some of Mel's presentations:

The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Now this is a chat that is simply not long enough! Jen Cloher easefully extends into all the parts of life that make my heart sing, sometimes that song is sad, tender or joyful but meaningful conversation for me feels like growth and this chat has it in spades.

It was perhaps 15 years ago or more that I first met Jen Cloher, somewhere on  my triple j timeline and I remember even then being captivated by this person who I perceived to be almost delicate, elfin-like yet who exuded a strength that was coming from somewhere deeper than just their own two feet. To speak with Jen now as they move into the stateliness of being an empowered human heading toward fifty is an honour and a pleasure. Jen has this year released their fifth album and to describe it, I don’t want to fumble with my own explanation but instead use these beautifully crafted words from Jen’s website:

'I Am The River, The River Is Me, Cloher’s fifth album, is verdant and rich; it luxuriates in stillness, and carries itself with cool, unfussy confidence. It suggests that home is not found in a place or a politic, but in the community you keep: Inspired by Cloher’s powerful matrilineal line of wāhine Māori, I Am The River, The River Is Me is not urgent, or hurried, but it is vital, made with the care and ease of someone who knows that their past began before birth, and will continue long after they’re gone.'
 
Make a cup of tea for this one, soften your chest and open the windows of your mind because a chat with Jen Cloher is a balm for the soul.

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Follow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:

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• Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'

Catch some of Mel's presentations:

The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Can you imagine growing up one of 9 siblings?? Perhaps you are from a big family, how about then adding in a whole bunch of foster siblings too? How do you think such a household would shape you? 

Have you ever considered fostering children but have fears that hold you back?

Meet Naarah Rodwell, CEO of CASPA SERVICES, an out of home care organisation with an incredible reputation for cutting through the beauracratic bullshit and putting kids first. Naarah is laser like in her focus – advocating for societies undeniably most vulnerable – the little people who desperately need big people to care about them and for them.  This is the story of how being one of 9 children in a household of foster children, shaped Naarah Rodwell into who she is today: a glorious warrior of a woman who has chosen to put herself on the frontline of this countries hardest stories. 

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Catch some of Mel's presentations:

The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

You know those humans that seem able to defy the time space contiunuum somehow and fit more life into the clock than most? Almost like their bodies are a vaster universe in some way than others, overflowing with a quantity of energy that allows them to do so many big beautiful things that have a meaningful impact in this one human life. Meet Carly Findlay, a glorious woman who’s taken the experience of living with a facial difference and turned it into an arrowhead of change. Embracing life with both hands, Carly’s bio is just too good to simply not read as it is – so relax your shoulders, soften the corners of your eyes, open your ears, your heart and let the wonderfulness just float on in...

Carly Findlay OAM is an award-winning writer,  speaker and  appearance activist.   Her first book, a memoir called Say Hello, was released in Australia in January 2019. She also compiled and edited Growing Up Disabled in Australia with Black Inc Books. Carly works part time as Melbourne Fringe’s Access and Inclusion Coordinator. She writes on disability and appearance diversity issues for news outlets including the CNN, ABC, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, and SBS. She was named as one of Australia’s most influential women in the 2014 Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards. She has appeared on ABC TV’s You Can’t Ask That and Cyberhate with Tara Moss, and has been a regular on various ABC radio programs. She has spoken at the Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Writers Festival, the University of Western England and Melbourne University – to name a few. She organised the history-making Access to Fashion – a Melbourne Fashion Week event featuring disabled models. She has a Masters of Communication and Bachelor of eCommerce. Carly identifies as a proud disabled woman. She lives in Melbourne, Australia. 

Get more of Carly's vivacious, colourful, sharp and funny presence at https://carlyfindlay.com.au/ and find her on insta at @carlyfindlay

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Follow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:

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Catch some of Mel's presentations:

The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Generational trauma is threaded through us all like silver webs that catch bits of debris and snag us up in more ways than we can ever really know. It's just part of being human. How can we prevent passing some of the not so good stuff along, not just to offspring but to anyone who crosses our path?

Meet Damien Schofield – a big fit fella with an enormous heart. Like far too many Generation X-ers Damien grew up down the generational line of a young man deployed, without any choice, to fight in the Vietnam War. A war that saw Australian political policy draft young men from an unlucky dip to go and fight in a war that changed those young men forever, coming home with no systemic support, a role that then often landed heavily on partners and children. This is the story of one man’s refusal to not only participate in generational pass the parcel himself but put an end to that cruel game altogether. When the music stopped on Damien, instead of passing that parcel along, he decided to turn into fuel for campfires, for children and their parents to sit around and create connection. Damien Schofield is the creator of the phenomenal Younger Heroes initiative and bloody legend well worth tuning into.

Find Damien at https://theyoungerheroes.org/ or the socials @theyoungerheroes

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Follow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:

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• Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'

Catch some of Mel's presentations:

The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Luke Henery is an absolute legend; a slayer of so many tired old paradigms, simply by being himself.

Bassist for Violent Soho now DZ Deathray, Luke is a punk rock unicorn, startlingly kind, generous and so full of heart. 

For good and for bad, h ow did growing up the church influence who he would become? What did the pandemic look like on a day to day basis for artists trapped beneath the wreckage of a decimated industry? Is it possible to wear the hat of a rock lord and still be a doting Dad and supportive husband? 

In this episode, we dive headlong into the big ocean of life as a touring musician, the backstory from the 'burbs, the church to Australian rock legend and renowned photographer.

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Follow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:

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• Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'

Catch some of Mel's presentations:

The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety