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My next guest, Nigel Marsh is a guest I've wanted on the podcast for years. He is a masterful and soulful speaker that make your cheeks hurt from laughter and in the same sitting, make you rethink how you construct your entire life choices. So you can see the draw, wanting to have him on the show. Nigel is best known for his creative pursuits. As well as the author of four books – "Fat, Forty and Fired" (my personal fav, the one that introduced him to me) "Overworked and Underlaid", "Fit, Fifty and Fired-Up" and "Smart, Stupid and Sixty" – he is also the co-founder of Earth Hour, the founder of the Sydney Skinny and host of award-winning podcast The Five Of My Life. With 6 million views on his work life balance TED Talk

There has been a resurgence of people looking at the philosophers like Plato, Socrates, Marcus aralias, Aristotle and its gaining traction in mainstream media. So naturally, it sparked my curiosity as to why we are finding such an affinity to the old philosophers and how they are still so relevant today in the 21st century.

So to help my understand the resurgence I sat down with Dr Matthew Sharpe. Matthew is a Professor and Researcher in social theory, critical thinking, and the history of ideas as well as an independent author. He is a professor at Deacan university and Think Inc

Dr Branch is a International researcher, teacher, trainer, consultant, speaker, and educational administrator. He's an Expert in consumer behaviour, marketing research, international marketing and much more. Experience in more than 100 universities, government agencies, and both for-profit and not-for-profit organisations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. We discuss his life, growing up, living and visiting in over 84 countries! We discuss his engineering career that lead him into marketing, a completely different career and a PhD. We talk meeting his wife, moving to America and where he views himself and his skill as "Mr International" in both marketing and business. We discuss what's changed (spoiler alert, if anything in fact has changed) and if we as the human beings consuming marketing how we are responding to it!

It is with a sad and heavy heart, that we re-release episode 54 on Monday as a remastered version into episode 151. We do this in tribute and to honour the incredible woman, Anna Mussi, who tragically passed away in a car accident late June of 2022. Anna, who was the manager of Rhino Revolution, has a lasting legacy that we at the Media company wanted to remember and celebrate.

Dr Ayesha and I talk about her childhood, her parents and grandparents being giants in the medical profession, how watching them surfing from Alzheimer's was a contributing factor to the desire to study the brain. It certainly was a point of interest for her personally on how the brain works, the functionality and if we can do anything about cognitive decline or if hereditary contributors meant if a person was to eventually suffer from the same fate or not. This is a personal conversation and a good look at the why behind a medical professional

This episode is a meaning FILLED conversation! I live for discussions like this, real, tangible, heartfelt and full of realities, actions, thoughts of change and inspiration. Conversations around the messiness of life, the vulnerabilities, uncomfortability and of course the incredible lessons we learn.

Masculinity, parenthood, being your authentic self, sports culture, expectation, not caring what people think of you, arrogance and confidence. If you can relate to any of these topics, my conversation with my next guest Max Dimarco is for you. Max married a fantastic woman who had an 18month year old when they met, we talk about that time in his life, leaving professinal sport and the mental health of shifting out of that. We talk about culture for young men and his blueprint from his parents in chaging into the man he is today.

For weeks we have been teasing the "Ready or not, Change is Coming" global climate podcast series. Today I speak with my co-producer and director of the project the incredible Katiuscia Fara We discuss the why behind this mission, the details of the series and of course the exciting documentary that will start filming next year! This project is unbelievably exciting and has collaborations with some of the worlds largest most prolific leaders on the subject!

Dr Anika Molesworth is a farmer, scientist and storyteller. She is widely recognised for her work in agriculture and food systems and generating climate change awareness, and is author of Our Sunburnt Country.

Anika is a recognised thought-leader of agro-ecological systems resilience and international farming development. With a passion for rural communities and healthy ecosystems, she is committed to help create sustainable and vibrant rural landscapes now and for the future.