The You Project

“What do you do?” “Oh, I design and build cities?” I thought being a podcaster, speaker and author was cool. Turns out, not a cool as I thought. We have so many ‘different kinds of smart’ on our show and I’m forever grateful that I get to meet and connect with such brilliant people. Lucinda Hartley is a globally recognised urban strategist, serial entrepreneur and sought-after keynote speaker on the topics of cities, technology and social change. Lucinda’s work over the past decade has focused on leading innovative strategies to improving the social life of cities, now implemented in more than 10 countries. She is best known as the cofounder of urban tech company Neighbourlytics. Her work has been featured by Google, Smart Company, Qantas and UN-Habitat. She was named as one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Australian Financial Review and one of Melbourne's Top 100 most influential people by The Age. Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Golinski is a much-loved Australian celebrity chef and on December 26, 2011, Matt's wife Rachel and his three daughters died when their Tewantin home was engulfed by fire in the early morning. Matt, who tried desperately to save his family, suffered severe burns to forty percent of his body, spent eight weeks in a coma, four months in hospital and has spent a decade healing and recovering, physically, mentally and emotionally. Despite Matt’s tragic story, this was a conversation largely about hope, family, the power of love and of course, food! Enjoy. mattgolinski.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You wouldn’t think a conversation about trauma could be uplifting, entertaining and even fun, but this chat with Dr. Sarah Woodhouse (trauma expert, research psychologist, author and coach) is all that and more because not only is she a high level academic with a great understanding of the science, but she’s also endured her own trauma journey and come out the other side with amazing compassion, insight, energy and humour. Among other things, we discuss eating disorders, bullying and sexual abuse (all part of Sarah’s story), post-traumatic growth, the trauma spectrum (there’s a range), vicarious trauma, what trauma does to our body, healing and recovery, what causes a trauma response, the stress-anxiety-trauma relationship and why swearers are smarter than non-swearers (it’s science Bro). Enjoy. sarahwoodhouse.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a fascinating conversation about human optimisation. Specifically, getting ‘better’ as we get older, challenging pre-existing norms and beliefs around physical potential for over forties, life-long learning, skill development, optimal cognitive performance at any age, self-limiting thinking, flow states, behavioural neuroscience and lots more. BIO: Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. He is the author of ten bestsellers (out of fourteen books), including The Art of Impossible, The Future is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, Bold and Abundance. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, translated into over 40 languages, and has appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, TIME, and the Harvard Business Review.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Major General Mick Ryan (recently retired) is a highly skilled leader and strategist with thirty-five years of experience as an officer in the Australian Army, having deployed in many countries and been in the middle of much conflict and combat. In this episode, the MG and I speak about preparing for competition and combat in war, sport and life, how to train people for the most brutal and violent of roles in the most extreme of circumstances, why failure can be more empowering and valuable than success, the growing number of women in the military, who makes the best soldiers and why, his new book (War Transformed) and lots more. Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of TYP, Author, Coach and Business Bloke Jim Sheils and I speak about how some of us are simultaneously great at the career stuff but kinda-crap at the important stuff; you know.. family, life, communication, connection, parenting, health, happiness. As someone who went through a period of prioritising business and neglecting the important stuff, this was an insightful and meaningful chat for me. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two Tommy eps in two days. This time we discuss my internal struggle with posting tough-love whiteboard messages (on social media) that (1) I believe are relevant and potentially transformative (2) are often misinterpreted and (3) can simultaneously inspire, inform and polarise. We also talk about the idea of teaching our kids ‘how’ to think rather than ‘what’ to think, what anti-aging actually means, self-awareness and self-regulation around technology and lots more. Enjoy. vidpod.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tommy is back at TYP Central and this time talk about why we seek approval from people who don’t care about us (I’ve done it), why we’re so insecure, my walking backwards update (and why it’s so good), being barefoot in the supermarket (apparently it’s not okay), why we’re so crap at asking for help, my dodgy lower back and how I’m fixing it, the pandemic of poor posture and lots more. Enjoy.  vidpod.com.au  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I was recently on young Tiff’s show (Roll With the Punches) and we had a great freestyle, organic chat and so this episode of TYP is what us young kids call, a co-share. Among other things, we spoke about her (and many other people’s) propensity to push the metaphoric flush button before they finish weeing (blokes will get it). That is, impatience. And frustration. And unrealistic expectations of how long things like growth, skill, success and mastery can take. Try selling patience and perseverance to a society obsessed with quick-fixes and instant gratification. It was a fun and broadly relevant chat. Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Gillespie and I went into this episode with a planned topic and two minutes into our chat, he started talking about some other fascinating sh*t and our plan went out the window. At least you know this conversation is totally organic and unscripted. Yes, we’ve touched on psychopaths before but this time we did a deep dive into the psychology, sociology, anatomy and neurology of not only psychopaths but also, psychotics (not the same), sociopaths and narcissists. Among other cool stuff, David explains how psychopaths are lacking a certain type of spindle neuron (that most of us have), which drives their total lack of empathy, how their brain is literally anatomically different to the majority and why they consider empathy to be a weakness. Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.