I have to start this week with a warning. There’s some language in this episode and some adult concepts thrown in so if you have little ears around or you’re driving the kids to school perhaps wait until they’re not around to listen. I’ve got a big one for you this week. Samuel Johnson from Love Your Sister www.loveyoursister.org Of course Sam’s well known for a host of things not least of which is being a Gold Logie winner for his role as Molly Meldrum in the tele-movie Molly. He starred in a series called The Secret Life of Us and has been in Home and Away. Blue Heelers and a host of other things. We didn’t talk about any of that. One thing that has struck me when doing some research into Sam was this incredible sense of self-assurance you feel when you hear him speak. Always raw and honest. I wanted to experience that. Like most of Australia I know and love Sam through his work to do something about Cancer through the journey he’s been on with his sister Connie who passed away last year. I saw a post by Sam on the Love Your Sister facebook page about his latest book – Dear Santa. Something told me to reach out and ask Sam if he’d be willing to come onto the show. I have to be honest I didn’t really expect a reply but Sam responded almost immediately and said yes. I was excited and a little nervous. I mean I love this show. I love what I do. I like to think I’m pretty good at this without having had any formal training etc. I’m just a bloke having a chat with people and having an opinion on the world which I like to share in the hope that even one person might feel moved to believe in themselves more, push their boundaries a little and chase a dream that perhaps they’ve always had but didn’t have the courage to truly believe in it. All of a sudden I was going to be sitting down with a professional, although Sammie refutes this, but someone that has been in movies, tv shows, worked on-air on Radio with Nova and someone that has a massive personality. I felt out of my league going into this but I went into excited none-the-less. That’s a key of this show right? Feel the discomfort and say yes anyway. You’ll work it out. Researching past interviews etc with Sam I found he didn’t believe in planning ahead, he didn’t believe in legacy there were so many things that I knew would challenge me but I also found the way he stated his position and stood by his beliefs quite intriguing. So I was ok with being challenged. What I found throughout this chat is an incredibly real bloke. No pretence. No BS. A passion and a purpose to change something as serious as cancer. Someone intent on living his life fully and not by anyone else’s rules. Did he challenge me? Of course. I would have expected nothing less. Did I enjoy it? Immensely. 

 

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