The Joe Walker Podcast

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September 26, 2017 #21: Beating My Ice Addiction - Dave Oliver
Dave Oliver is Australia’s first openly gay premiership rugby coach. Throughout his school and sporting career spanning the first 30 years of his life, he hid his homosexuality from his teammates, friends and family. This pressure eventually drove Dave to try Methamphetamine (Ice) one evening after the end of a long work day at his pub in Cowra. Over the next 18 months Dave entered a downward spiral as he tried to manage his pub, maintain his ice addiction and deal with his sexuality. This cycle was only broken when one Sunday afternoon his mates drove from Sydney to Cowra and intervened.
We sat down with Dave to hear what it is like to live with an ice addiction and the lengths he went to, just to get some gear. Dave has recently founded ‘Recovery Now’, a movement he hopes will encourage others to speak out and tell their story.
41 min
September 20, 2017 Changing The Constitution Is As Easy As - Anne Twomey
Professor Anne Twomey is one of Australia's leading constitutional law experts. She has practiced as a solicitor at...
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31 min
September 13, 2017 Columbia MBA Professor Teaches You How To Find Strategic Insight In Any Scenario - William Duggan
Would you like the ability to reliably experience those "breakthrough moments"? We've found your guru. William Duggan teaches...
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52 min
September 05, 2017 Why I Was Really Fired By Google - James Damore
Former Google Senior Software Engineer now martyr to political correctness and hero of the alt-right, James Damore is...
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48 min
September 04, 2017 #18: Why I Was Really Fired by Google - James Damore
Former Google Senior Software Engineer now martyr to political correctness and hero of the alt-right, James Damore is the softly-spoken yet controversial author of the 'Google memo', the infamous 10-page document in which he criticised the company's gender diversity policies. James is in favour of removing barriers to the tech sector for women, but he felt Google was going too far in its efforts for equal representation. The memo, titled 'Google's Ideological Echo Chamber: How Bias Clouds Our Thinking About Diversity and Inclusion', which he posted after attending a day-long diversity conference in July, went viral within Google, before being leaked to the media in August. Google's CEO Sundar Pichai subsequently fired James for breaching the company's Code of Conduct.
James is a self-described 'classical liberal' who was studying a PhD in Systems Biology at Harvard before being head-hunted by Google in 2013. In this interview, we discuss James' unique worldview, some of the discriminatory practices at Google, the day of his firing, and the secret black-list against employees kept by left-leaning Silicon Valley tech firms.
48 min
August 30, 2017 The Two Reasons Why Gays Shouldn't Marry (According To The Coalition For Marriage) - Monica Doumit
Australia is in the midst of debating whether to legalise same-sex marriage, with a national postal vote underway....
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44 min
August 29, 2017 #17: The Two Reasons Why Gays Shouldn't Marry (According to the Coalition For Marriage) - Monica Doumit
Australia is in the midst of debating whether to legalise same-sex marriage, with a national postal vote underway. The Jolly Swagmen are firm supporters of marriage equality, but we felt it was time to talk to someone on the other side to see what all the fuss is about. Monica Doumit is a lawyer and Coordinator at Catholic Talk, with a Masters in Bioethics. She is now the spokesperson for the Coalition for Marriage - the movement fighting to make sure marriage equality doesn't happen. So what are their best arguments against changing the Marriage Act? Here we find out.
44 min
August 23, 2017 Procrastination, Perfectionism, And Diagnosing Donald Trump - John Tsilimparis
John Tsilimparis MFT is a celebrity psychologist based in LA, where he runs his own private clinic in...
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33 min
August 22, 2017 #16: Procrastination, Perfectionism, And Diagnosing Donald Trump - John Tsilimparis
John Tsilimparis MFT is a celebrity psychologist based in LA, where he runs his own private clinic in Brentwood. He has appeared on Larry King Live and The View, and is perhaps most famous for his book, the self-development/psychology classic Retrain Your Anxious Brain. He is an expert in helping his clients to become more effective people.
Battling a brutal time difference and a broken call recorder, the Sydney-based Swagmen swallow John's advice whole and eschew perfectionism for pragmatism. Even if the sound quality is scratchy, we had to release this episode to bring you advice gems including: mental tricks for barrelling through procrastination plateaus, how to calm your nerves before delivering a speech, and why American psychotherapists have finally begun diagnosing Donald Trump (plus what his mental problems actually are). Listen in and become more productive!
33 min
August 16, 2017 Can We Avoid Nuclear Catastrophe? - Gareth Evans
Gareth Evans AC, QC was Australia's greatest ever Foreign Minister. Holding that position from 1988-96, he also held...
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1 hr 11 min