My Warm Table ... with Sonia

Mike House is one of Australia’s leading survival instructors and leadership coaches.  He has survived several life-threatening situations in the ocean, raging white water and tropical jungle.  

Mike shares the leadership lessons learnt when in extreme situations; why we should step out of our comfort zones; learn rhythmic breathing to find calm; and why we should never leave our vehicles if stranded. 

Duration: 54 minutes.

Links:

Mike House

Book: Unshakeable

Ebook: Why did they leave the vehicle?

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·      Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.

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·      Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  

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My Warm Table, translated into Italian is Tavola Calda. These were the words my Papa used to describe a table of good friends, good food and good conversation. I always aim to create a tavola calda in my life and I hope this podcast encourages you to do so too!

Sr Anne Tormey is a Catholic Nun. She has been a Sister of Mercy for 60 years, devoting her life to the complexities of social justice issues such as modern day slavery and human trafficking while becoming a great reader, thinker, empathiser and encourager of the human spirit.

Sr Anne shares her faith, calm and wisdom and leads us in a moment of meditation.  She shares her many reflections on the great Mystics of centuries past, who offer us windows of truth where we can find meaning and stillness in today’s busy and often troubled world. 

Duration: 25 minutes.

Links:
Sisters of Mercy    Vatican Council 2     Church in the Modern World
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin   Rumi     Eckhart Tolle   CS Lewis    Thomas Merton
Meister Eckhart  Catherine of Siena   Julian of Norwich   Hildegard von Bingen
Etty Hillesum

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• Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.
• Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  Reflection music: excerpt from Hildegard von Bingen – Voices of Angels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6qFCYRQKVA

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My Warm Table, translated into Italian is Tavola Calda. These were the words my Papa used to describe a table of good friends, good food and good conversation. I always aim to create a tavola calda in my life and I hope this podcast encourages you to do so too!

Professor Camilla Basch Andersen is a professor of law at the University of Western Australia and the founder of Comic Book Contracts which is revolutionising how we engage with big business and become more clear on the behaviours, expectations and services we are signing up to. 

Do you meticulously read and understand the fine print in every one of the contracts that you sign?  Have you maybe clicked the ‘Yes’ button and inadvertently agreed to give away your first born child?! They do say the devil is in the detail!   

 Contracts are a part of everyday life and possibly more common that you are aware of … from buying a bus ticket, subscribing to free wifi, shopping online and of course the obvious ones like buying a house or travel insurance.   Imagine if contracts were really easy to understand, more accessible to the average person, and maybe even fun! 

Duration: 45 minutes.

Links:

Website: Comic Book Contracts
LinkedIn: Professor Camilla Baach Andersen  
Aurecon
Proactive Think Tank
Bankwest
WA Individualised Services
Alternative Contracting

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·      Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  

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My Warm Table, translated into Italian is Tavola Calda. These were the words my Papa used to describe a table of good friends, good food and good conversation. I always aim to create a tavola calda in my life and I hope this podcast encourages you to do so too!

As a young boy growing up in Manchester UK, Dr Kieran Hennelly watched the sunkissed, exotic, adventures of the Australian flying doctors on TV. 

He never imagined that would be his life and vocation, living and working in the WA Kimberley and saving many lives while leading the medical crews and operations of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS)WA. 

Kieran shares his journey of finding his place in the world among rugged terrains, breathtaking landscapes and heart stopping emergencies. 

 
Duration: 37 minutes.

Links:
Royal Flying Doctor Service 

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Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com 

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My Warm Table, translated into Italian is Tavola Calda. These were the words my Papa used to describe a table of good friends, good food and good conversation. I always aim to create a tavola calda in my life and I hope this podcast encourages you to do so too!

Lucy Cooke, tech start up entrepreneur is the CEO of SpaceDraft – an innovative and groundbreaking Perth tech start up which will revolutionise how we communicate across time and space, bringing to life and underpinning ideas for Web 3.0, gamification, virtual reality and even providing a new avenue of communication for the neuro-divergent. 

SpaceDraft is a visual logistics plotting startup that provides a creative planning tool for any virtual or physical service.

Hard work, resilience and passion go hand in glove in the start up community and Lucy has this in spades. She’s a pioneer in her field and an inspiration to many, including young women hoping to tread their own career paths in technology.  Lucy shares the story of SpaceDraft and how it is poised to make an impact on a global scale. 

Duration: 38 minutes.

Links:

Website: SpaceDraft

Sign up and create your own SpaceDraft: https://launch.spacedraft.com/register

SpaceDraft on social media:  Facebook  Instagram Twitter LinkedIn

If Innovation Could Talk interview with Lucy Cooke

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Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com 

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My Warm Table, translated into Italian is Tavola Calda. These were the words my Papa used to describe a table of good friends, good food and good conversation. I always aim to create a tavola calda in my life and I hope this podcast encourages you to do so too!

Professor of Neurotrauma, (Melinda) Lindy Fitzgerald is on a mission to improve outcomes for people who have experienced traumatic injury to their central nervous system.

Lindy and her team at Connectivity Traumatic Brain Injury Australia have developed a free online concussion short course to help you and I identify and manage concussion to prevent long term issues. 

It's a relevant and important chat – for the sporty, the aged, those suffering repeated injury from domestic violence or really anyone who sustains a knock to the head. 

Duration: 36 minutes.

Links:

Connectivity Traumatic Brain Injury

Free Concussion short course

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·      Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.

·      Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  

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My Warm Table, translated into Italian is Tavola Calda. These were the words my Papa used to describe a table of good friends, good food and good conversation. I always aim to create a tavola calda in my life and I hope this podcast encourages you to do so too!

Catherine Kolomyjec is studying at Stanford University’s Centre for Compassion and Altruism Research to become a Global Ambassador for Applied Compassion.  She talks to us about her journey in social work, helping to resettle Bosnian refugees in Norway, sending hundreds of postcards to stranded sailors off the coast of WA during COVID lockdown and many more inspiring acts of kindness. 

Our table is set for a smart conversation with heart about kindness and compassion. These are core values of this podcast and so I’m delighted to be joined by Catherine - Perth’s own kindness guru -  who is spending every one of her micro moments connecting people and encouraging acts of kindness to create a more compassionate society.  She tells us it’s good for our heart and our brains … and our world.  

“The definition of compassion is a deliberate decision to lean into another person’s suffering and a commitment to doing something about it.” – Catherine Kolomyjec   

Duration: 34 minutes. 

Links: Catherine Kolomyjec LinkedIn Kindness Project Stanford University Centre for Compassion and Altruistic Research Little Box of Happiness Soul Gestures Periscope Crew Amnesty International Santa Maria College Book: Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart by James R Doty  

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Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.

Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.

Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com   

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My Warm Table, translated into Italian is Tavola Calda. These were the words my Papa used to describe a table of good friends, good food and good conversation. I always aim to create a tavola calda in my life and I hope this podcast encourages you to do so too!

Nestled in Victoria Park, Perth WA is a one-of-a-kind, world leading brain rehabilitation centre.  Janet Wagland, CEO of Brightwater Oats Street, tells us about the innovative teamwork at the centre which means clients can learn to take back their lives.

 We learn what an Occupational Therapist does and how Janet’s talent for competitive rifle shooting has seen her travel the world and represent Australia. 

 “Because if we don't have a crack and take a bit of a risk and try something different and fail and learn from that in the way we operate ourselves, how can we possibly expect people who we're supporting to go through rehabilitation related to their brain injury to do exactly that? We asked them to trust us to have a go to try something different.” Janet Wagland 

 You’ll hear:

Brightwater Care Group (2:00)

What is acquired brain injury? (5:00)

Young stroke (6:00)

Oats Street Centre history (8:00)

Graduation program and criteria (12:00)

Working as a team (16:30)

Wrap around service (18:30)

Innovation and world interest (23:00)

Student placements at Oats Street (24:00)

What is an Occupational Therapist? (25:30)

Janet’s warm table growing up (35:10)

Competition rifle shooting (37:00)

Duration: 40 minutes.

Links:

Brightwater Oats Street

Swansea Street Market

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Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.

Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.

Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com  

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My Warm Table, translated into Italian is Tavola Calda. These were the words my Papa used to describe a table of good friends, good food and good conversation. I always aim to create a tavola calda in my life and I hope this podcast encourages you to do so too!

Mark Berridge is an author, speaker and lived adversity expert talking about his book A Fraction Stronger.  It’s a book Mark never imagined he would write. Mark’s high powered corporate career came to an abrupt end in March 2019 following a very serious cycling accident.  It fractured his identity and triggered a personal battle to regain his mobility and reimagine a different life with new meaning.   

A Fraction Stronger is an inspirational book about facing adversity with a positive spirit, intentional actions and a can-do attitude. It’s a blueprint on how we can embrace uncertainty and liberate possibility. 

After an idyllic childhood in Western Australia Mark now lives in Brisbane and this conversation was recorded over the internet.  Our warm table experience extended to a cup of tea across the ether!  

“But sometimes the pathway is broken, and it's dark, and it's hard. And it doesn't have to have light only from above, it can have light from below. And that was what was really making me think about this idea of embers, the coals and the fire, the stuff that might help you find that pathway.”  – Mark Berridge  

You’ll hear:
Early life in WA (1:10)
The accident (3:00)
Ambiguity (7.30)
Persuasion (10:00)
Rebuilding identity (14:00)
Embers (19:40)
Excerpt from the book (29:00) 
Duration: 38 minutes. 

Links:
Mark Berridge
Book: A Fraction Stronger  
Audio book now available at:  Authors Direct       Kobo         Chirpbooks

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Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.

Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.

Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soundstripe.com   

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My Warm Table, translated into Italian is Tavola Calda. These were the words my Papa used to describe a table of good friends, good food and good conversation. I always aim to create a tavola calda in my life and I hope this podcast encourages you to do so too!

Life/Work balance and changing careers after 50 requires a growth mindset.  It can be scary but Career Counsellor Lois Keay-Smith reassures us that our skills and experiences can lead to more fulfilling careers and greater joy in life.  We also explore careers after cancer or serious illness through her Churchill Fellowship research project. 

If you're thinking of a new start in your later years - then this is the episode for you!

You’ll hear:

• What is a career counsellor? (2:00)
• Tricky transitions (3:10)
• Career transitions for elite sportspeople (5:10)
• Inward journey to find a new career fit (8:00)
• Future of work (9:10)
• The crossroads of career changes (11:30)
• Crafting the story of your career and life in a resume (13:00)
• LinkedIn (16:50)
• Working from home (25:30)
• Neurodiversity (28:00)
• Work after 50 and 60 (29:10)
• Belonging and sabbaticals (32:10)
• Going back to a previous workplace (35:00)
• Reinventing after an accident (37:00)
• Churchill Fellowship and careers after cancer (40:00)
• Lois’ Warm Table (50:30)

Duration: 56 minutes.

Links:

Lois’s business: Career Wisdom

Book: Make Your Move by Lois Keay-Smith 

Churchill Fellowship Report: Careers Beyond Cancer by Lois Keay-Smith 

Lois' LinkedIn - connect with her here

Book: The 100 Year Life by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott

Book: A Fraction Stronger by Mark Berridge

Canteen a charity for young people affected by cancer 

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• Sincere thanks to Jay (Justin) Hill for his expert sound mastering and patience! Jay, together with the incredible Eva Chye, have inspired me through their passion project If Innovation Could Talk – a YouTube vlog also promoted through LinkedIn. If you have your own ideas for a podcast or video, feel free to reach out to them through the LinkedIn page.
• Thank you to all my generous guests for their time in sharing their expertise and experiences around My Warm Table.
• Music: ‘Sweet Soweto’ by Cast Of Characters. Copyright licence for use via soun<

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My Warm Table, translated into Italian is Tavola Calda. These were the words my Papa used to describe a table of good friends, good food and good conversation. I always aim to create a tavola calda in my life and I hope this podcast encourages you to do so too!