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Hi, Welcome to the What I’ve Learnt podcast

I am Luke, one of the producers for the show. As a producer I live my work and helping Deborah and our team share so many wonderful stories.

From food to fashion and art to music we’ve got you covered.

In this episode, we are highlighting some of our favorite moments from this past September...

Featured with in this episode are:

Nikki Gemmell:  A best-selling author of thirteen novels and four works of non-fiction. Her first renowned work is the 2003 novel The Bride Stripped Bare, an explicit exploration of female sexuality thrust the new author Nikki into the headlights and limelight.

Nigel Featherstone: Australian author of "My Heart is a Little Wild Thing". A story about family, love and the cost of freedom,  serving as a reminder that we all deserve to pursue our dreams.

Barbara Kamler: Melbourne-based author of "Love, Regardless", an enthralling gallery of poetic portraits celebrating love that endures. Featuring a unique mode of storytelling, whereby interviews with fourteen couples are poetically crafted into rhythmic, syllabic verse. 

So, sit back, relax and enjoy


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Barbara Kamler 

Author 

Love, regardless—

the second collection from Melbourne-based author poet Barbara Kamler—is an enthralling gallery of poetic portraits celebrating love that endures. 

It features a unique mode of storytelling, whereby interviews with fourteen couples are poetically crafted into rhythmic, syllabic verse. 

For each couple, each poem explores the intimacy of first connecting and the various complications negotiated along the way – crushing pressures of sexual or racial norms, the challenge of chronic illness or disparate histories, and demands of extended family, geographic distance or migration. Yet these are sanguine stories that transcend the trials of the everyday, making real the possibility of mutual love and joy over a lifetime.

On my recent trip to India I read it cover to cover in a few hours I kept reading my husband excerpts as so many gems about love and it’s many conundrums. 

I adored it’s raw and sometimes confronting tales of love lost and found and everything in between.

The stories are truly immersive and brutally honest sometimes uncomfortable but often about loyalty courage dedication and enduring connection.


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Nigel Featherstone

“The day after I tried to kill my mother, I tossed some clothes, a pair of hiking boots, a baseball cap and a few toiletries into my backpack, and left at dawn.”

Patrick has always considered himself a good son. Willing to live his life to please his parents, his sense of duty paramount to his own desires and dreams. But as his mother’s health continues to deteriorate and his siblings remain absent, he finds the ties that bind him to his mother begin to chafe. After an argument leads to a violent act he travels to a familiar country retreat to reflect on what his life could be – and through a chance encounter with a rare animal and an intriguing stranger starts to wonder if perhaps it is not too late to let his heart run wild.

A story about family, love and the cost of freedom, My Heart is a Little Wild Thing serves as a reminder that we all deserve to pursue our dreams.

I first saw the engaging Nigel on a panel at the Byron Writers Festival he had us all in the palm of his hand enthralled by the voracity intensity and authenticity of an author who is an articulate force of nature.

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Nikki Gemmell is the best-selling author of thirteen novels and four works of non-fiction. They have been translated into 22 languages. Her distinctive writing has gained her critical acclaim in France, where she’s been described as a “female Jack Kerouac“. The French literary magazine Lire has included her in a list of what it called the fifty most important writers in the world – those it believes will have a significant influence on the literature of the 21st century. 

Her first renowned work is the 2003 novel The Bride Stripped Bare, an explicit exploration of female sexuality thrust the new author Nikki into the headlights and limelight.

As well as publishing her powerful and much anticipated books Nikki regularly pens a weekly column for The Australian newspaper.

Stirring the pot while raising some of the key issues particularly affecting women her column Is like a big beautiful sometimes scary mirror reflecting many home truths and female issues.

Four books by Gemmell, Shiver, 

Cleave, The Bride Stripped Bare and The Book of Rapture, made the longlist of “Favourite Australian Novels” as chosen by readers of the Australian Book Review.

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Hi, Welcome to the What I’ve Learnt podcast

I am Luke, one of the producers for the show. As a producer I live my work and helping Deborah and our team share so many wonderful stories.

From food to fashion and art to music we’ve got you covered.

With spring just around the corner, we wanted to highlight some amazing moments of the podcast from June to August...


Featured with in this episode are:
Jack Delosa: He is a 5X AFR Young Rich Lister, 2X best-selling author and the founder of Australia’s largest business coaching and training provider for entrepreneurs, The Entourage, which has a community of 650,000 members. 

Daniel Jaime: A BaiLa dance teacher bringing inspiration to active women to exercise through the fusion of dance and fitness while having fun, getting results and connecting with others.

Madonna King: An Australian journalist, author and media commentator.  Author of  'L Platers: How to support your teen daughter on the road to adulthood.'

Dr Maree Bilandzic: A senior research officer at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne. Focused on Ovarian cancer research and has a strong focus on the most significant challenges to cancer management chemoresistance and metastatic disease.

So, sit back, relax and enjoy


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Jack Delosa builds businesses.

He is a 5X AFR Young Rich Lister, 2X best-selling author and the founder of Australia’s largest business coaching and training provider for entrepreneurs, The Entourage, which has a community of 650,000 members.

Since 2010, The Entourage has helped their members add over $2 billion in value to their businesses.

Under his leadership, The Entourage has been awarded the 4th Best Place to Work in Australia, and the Top 50 in Australasia, by Best Places To Work.

Jack is also a high-profile investor, having invested into companies spanning biotechnology, luxury real estate, finance, ecommerce, food retail, recruitment and even aviation, including one company that became what’s known in Silicon Valley as a ‘unicorn’; a business that goes from $0 to $1 billion within ten years.

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Hi, Welcome to the What I’ve Learnt podcast

I am Luke, one of the producers for the show. As a producer I live my work and helping Deborah and our team share so many wonderful stories.

From food to fashion and art to music we’ve got you covered.

In this episode, we are highlighting some of our favorite moments from this past July...

Featured with in this episode are:

Madonna King: An Australian journalist, author and media commentator.  Author of  'L Platers: How to support your teen daughter on the road to adulthood.'

Daniel Jaime: A BaiLa dance teacher bringing inspiration to active women to exercise through the fusion of dance and fitness while having fun, getting results and connecting with others.

Dr Peter Dann: Renowned zoologist at Phillip Island having devoted a lifetime to the conservation and understanding of, the Little Penguin.

So, sit back, relax and enjoy


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Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330

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Australia’s State of the Environment Report was finally released recently – and its findings are a staggering picture of loss and devastation

But there are those heroes who have devoted their time to improving and protecting our wildlife.

“I’ve met people who don’t like Christmas and cats and babies,” says Peter Dann. “But I’ve never met someone who doesn’t like penguins.”

An environmental trailblaiser Dann estimates he has watched the penguins come ashore at Phillip Island more than 1000 times, and has been fascinated every single time.

Renowned zoologist Dr Peter Dann is retiring after a 42 year career at Phillip Island having devoted a lifetime to the conservation and understanding of Australia's only penguin species, the Little Penguin.

Peter was instrumental in saving Phillip Island’s last remaining penguin colony from extinction through a series of world-first initiatives and long term research. It is now the world’s largest Little Penguin colony, safe from land-based threats. In 1984 the bird population was between 12,000 – 14,000. Now, it is around 40,000, It took 25 years to complete the buyback.

Over the past four decades, Peter has excelled in the academic field, contributing enormous knowledge for not only penguins, but also broader seabird conservation, land management solutions, ecotourism, marine modelling, climate change, and developing a revolutionary method of treating oil-affected wildlife in the field.

Peter has contributed significantly to the ornithological community through representation on many committees including Birds Australia. He has published over 200 papers and book chapters and edited a book on penguin ecology and management ensuring a major legacy for ecology in Australia and the world.


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Hi, Welcome to the What I’ve Learnt podcast

I am Luke, one of the producers for the show. As a producer I live my work and helping Deborah and our team share so many wonderful stories.

From food to fashion and art to music we’ve got you covered.

In this episode, we are highlighting some of our favorite moments from this past June...

Featured with in this episode are:

Dr Maree Bilandzic: A senior research officer at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne. Focused on Ovarian cancer research and has a strong focus on the most significant challenges to cancer management chemoresistance and metastatic disease.

Dr Niki Vincent: The Victoria’s first Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner being  responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Gender Equality Act 2020 and s an active ambassador for Time for Kids – a respite foster care organisation.

Darcy Spinks: one of the recent winners of the Victorian Miss Universe pageant,  who is competing for the title of Miss Universe Australia 2022. She launched a digital marketing and events agency called “two evolve” and soon launching her new business in September this year focusing on ethically sourced clothing label called "Ambition".

So, sit back, relax and enjoy


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Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330

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I created BaiLa as a result of a drastic change in my life, coming from the other side of the world with no expectations, no safety net, no English or people who could help me find my way on this side of the planet.

BaiLa became the only way I could communicate with people and express my passion, personality and the best way to share what I love most Dance & Fitness!!

Coming to a foreign country wanting to succeed was one of the biggest challenges of my life, often people say “it’s all too hard”, but for me the harder it looks the more I want to do it. 

It was an usual day in 2011 ready to teach my dance class, when I came into the Group Fitness room, and I could see an endless crowd of people waiting for me. Feeling so excited to see how many people were there, gave me the idea to use my hands to lead them,

At the time I could not speak a word of English even though my Mum was an English teacher, funny right!!...

So I said to myself, I can't say much but I can count till 10, then was when I called Salsa Number 1 and the entire room was moving in unison.

I released I was on to something, then I said

That’s why I made the decision and started calling numbers when I was dancing, so people could understand and follow my lead, then the funny noises I used to make to cue my next step chiqui, chiqui, puku, puku, turned into something more, and that was the universal language of a numbered system that could be followed by anyone anywhere in any culture., Thinking isn’t the way to do BaiLa, Dancing is...

BaiLa is the release of your own self-expression inspired by the music.

BaiLa has become people’s most wanted dance workout of every week. You will experience the way you always wanted to feel when you workout:

•Vitality
•Energized
•Free and Self expressed
•Feeling a part of our community 
•Happy
•Support
•Sense of Family
•Fun
•Contributing
•New possibilities
•Love for life

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