You’re about to hear a story from a regular guy who had an upbringing which lead to his own lived experience with mental health and family tragedy. And how that personal experience has shaped his journey to become the person he is today. One of contribution, community and passion to help other people, and men in particular with their own experience with mental health and life in general.

Some of what we touch on in this conversation could be confronting for some people ; as we do discuss some very real challenges that my guest had in his life and his experience with suicide.

Should any of today’s episode cause any triggers for you; please reach out to the people around you to chat OR you can call lifeline immediately on 131114.

Please enjoy this powerful story.

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Say Hi to Heather Yelland!

Heather is a leading authority in Values Based Leadership and is a respected thought leader in the international arena of consulting, business and corporate innovation and coaching. Having worked with such iconic brands as Macquarie Group, Mars, Nestle, Westpac, as well as New Zealand’s largest NGO, major departments of the New Zealand Government and over 30,000 individuals worldwide, Heather specialises in growing people.

Find out more about Heather and her projects with these links

https://theelevationcompany.com/

https://www.greensupercamp.com.au/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatheryelland/

Anna Osherov is the Founder of the Holistic Business Hub in Melbourne; a facilitator for Project Gen Z and is the energy behind the B1G1 Connection gatherings; in Melbourne empowering local businesses to engage with the Business for Good movement.

Have you ever felt the frustration of knowing YOU HAVE MASSIVE VALUE to give but people aren't listening?

Connect with Anna at these links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaosherov/

https://www.facebook.com/anna.osherov.1

Simon is a campaigning and community education expert who is obsessed with creating ways for global citizens to contribute to ending extreme poverty by 2030. As a Co-Founder of Global Citizen, he has aided the creation and development of the Global Citizen platform and Festival, and overseen the more than 100 campaign victories that the organisation has been a part of.

To join or learn more about Global Citizen head to https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/au/

Tim Wade delivers keynote speeches, facilitates retreats and is engaged to conduct interactive training sessions for clients globally. Specialty areas: Leadership, Management Development, Change Management and Performance Improvement

With a generous approach to providing value and delivering great insight, this chat is both interesting and challenging. 

During the chat Tim outlines a bunch of resources for you which you can access via this link.. 

https://tim.sg/191108seventeen

check out Tim at www.timwade.com for more info and bookings etc.

In this episode we connect with Meriel Chamberlin from Full Circle Fibres. 

Meriel is a Textile Technologist, Product developer and Supply Chain Manager. Self confessed textile nerd, working in the global textile industry since studying Textile Science at University of Manchester, 1998. Her work experience includes UK, Global and Australian performance, and retail brands, working with supply chains in Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.

Liz Manning

Responsible Business Manager- Intrepid Travel

With 14 years experience in Travel and Sustainability, Liz is responsible for overseeing the key social and environmental initiatives of the world’s largest adventure travel company. These include the development of community and conservation projects that are often integrated into Intrepid’s tours, creating benefits for local communities and enhanced travel experiences for customers. Liz will be speaking to SDG 8- Decent Work and Economic Growth and how travel can be a force for good.

Glen Carlson is the co-founder Dent Global, who run structured accelerator programs that produce entrepreneurs that stand out, scale up and make a positive impact in the world.

Best known for the award winning ‘Key Person of Influence’ program, acknowledged by INC.COM as “One of the top personal branding conferences in the world”.

In the last 7 years, Dent has expanded to the UK, USA, Singapore and Australia, published over 800 books for our clients, and built an epic full time team of 50 across 12 time zones.

With 3 acquisitions under their belt in the technology, media and publishing, Dent has become a ‘one stop shop’ for business owners that want to accelerate their entrepreneur journey.

You can see more about Dent here https://www.dent.global/

Glen is the co-founder Dent Global, we run structured accelerator programs that produce entrepreneurs that stand out, scale up and make a positive impact in the world. 

Dent is best known for the award winning ‘Key Person of Influence’ program, acknowledged by INC.COM as “One of the top personal branding conferences in the world”.

In the last 7 years, they've expanded to the UK, USA, Singapore and Australia, published over 800 books for our clients, and built an epic full time team of 50 across 12 time zones.

With 3 acquisitions under the belt in the technology, media and publishing, Dent has become a ‘one stop shop’ for business owners that want to accelerate their entrepreneur journey.

Glen has been featured in INC.com, the Fin Review, Sky Business News, Entrepreneur.com and my Dent podcast is consistently in the top 100 business podcasts in Australia and people watch over 2000 hours of business tips on his Facebook each week.

An inspiring and sometime alarming conversation with Casey Lyons. One of the co-founders of LIVIN. 

LIVIN are a charity organisation based on the Gold Coast who are working the break the stigma that surrounds Mental health in Australia and ultimately impact the statistics in this country. 

LIVIN deliver their LIVIN Well workshop in schools and workshops around  the country; along with operating a terrific merchandise shop the delivers their message to thousands around the world. LIVIN are also heavly involved in community run events around the country to connect and make a difference with all Australians and mental health in general.

If Mental Health and/or this podcast create any triggers for yoyu please reach out to lifelilne on 13 11 14 or your GP or famil and friends to talk to someone. Remember #itaintweaktospeak

See more on LIVIN at www.livin.org