The You Project

This episode turned out to be a fun, fascinating and lengthy Q & A extravaganza (with listener questions), which is why it’s a three part-er. We explore a range of interesting and broadly relevant questions and topics, including addictive personalities, feeling helpless, quietening the inner critic, how we define ourselves, how to disagree politely, why people-pleasing doesn’t work, sleep science, working out post-fifty, finding your ‘why’, giving unwanted advice, what being ‘open-minded’ really means, trying to change others, dealing with toxic people and lots more. Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode turned out to be a fun, fascinating and lengthy Q & A extravaganza (with listener questions), which is why it’s a three part-er. We explore a range of interesting and broadly relevant questions and topics, including addictive personalities, feeling helpless, quietening the inner critic, how we define ourselves, how to disagree politely, why people-pleasing doesn’t work, sleep science, working out post-fifty, finding your ‘why’, giving unwanted advice, what being ‘open-minded’ really means, trying to change others, dealing with toxic people and lots more. Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode turned out to be a fun, fascinating and lengthy Q & A extravaganza (with listener questions), which is why it’s a three part-er. We explore a range of interesting and broadly relevant questions and topics, including addictive personalities, feeling helpless, quietening the inner critic, how we define ourselves, how to disagree politely, why people-pleasing doesn’t work, sleep science, working out post-fifty, finding your ‘why’, giving unwanted advice, what being ‘open-minded’ really means, trying to change others, dealing with toxic people and lots more. Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark LeBusque from the ‘Simply, Practically Human’ podcast and I got together (with Melissa) and had a natter (that’s a Mary word) about all the stuff that can impact our overall health, which doesn’t get much of a mention. We put aside the typical ‘food, exercise and lifestyle’ conversation to focus on the potential health benefits of things like laughter, music, connection, purpose, goals, animals, hugs and nature and the health risks of things like loneliness, isolation, retirement and the feeling (or reality) of not being needed, valued, wanted and/or loved. Deep human connection can be therapeutic, healing, immune system boosting, mind altering (for the better) and anxiety reducing. This is an important topic. Enjoy.  The Simply Practically Human PodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In his best-selling book ‘Taming Toxic People: The Science of Identifying and Dealing with Psychopaths at Work & at Home’, David Gillespie goes deep into explaining the mind, brain and behaviour of psychopaths and how ‘Neurotypicals’ (hopefully you and me), can successfully navigate situations, circumstances and relationships (of all types) with them. This episode is a Q & A follow up to our previous chat (ep. 719) with David on the subject. Enjoy. davidgillespie.orgTaming Toxic PeopleThe Psychopath Inside (by James Fallon)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Well, this was an unexpectedly enjoyable, fun and entertaining conversation with a new friend. If you like learning with laughter, I think you’ll enjoy this. Dr Adam Fraser is a peak performance researcher who helps people strive to achieve better performance in everything they do. He has worked with elite athletes, sporting teams, special forces soldiers, business leaders and now (in the high point of his career), The You Project! Among other things, Adam and I chatted about stepping away from Zoom to talk with actual audiences, high performance without the collateral damage, managing negative thoughts and emotions, why struggle is important, the psychology of courage, being addicted to easy, his time working with the royal family in Kuwait, leadership and managing humans, imposter syndrome, the stories that hold us back, Kevin the Inner Critic and Brian the Blamer (it will make sense when you listen). Enjoy. dradamfraser.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professor Mark Febbraio is a Senior Principal Research Fellow of the NHMRC, and the Head of the Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory within the Drug Discovery Program at Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University. And while that all sounds very fancy, he’s also a Mate of mine who was a regular on my radio show (The Science of Sport) for five years. It was good to catch up with the Prof. and we freestyled around a bunch of topics including, under and over-training, morning heart rate, challenging dogma in science, recovery, personalised nutrition and exercise prescription, double-blind placebo trials, dodgy science vs. good science, spontaneous healing, quick-fixes and miracle drugs that aren’t. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professor Mark Febbraio is a Senior Principal Research Fellow of the NHMRC, and the Head of the Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory within the Drug Discovery Program at Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University. And while that all sounds very fancy, he’s also a Mate of mine who was a regular on my radio show (The Science of Sport) for five years. It was good to catch up with the Prof. and we freestyled around a bunch of topics including, under and over-training, morning heart rate, challenging dogma in science, recovery, personalised nutrition and exercise prescription, double-blind placebo trials, dodgy science vs. good science, spontaneous healing, quick-fixes and miracle drugs that aren’t. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Elise Elliott is smart, funny, cheeky, creative and despite meeting her for the first time for this chat, I felt like I was catching up with an old friend. Her twelve year-old daughter describes her (quite accurately) as a ‘kidult’, part child, part grown-up and her energy is infectious; kind of like a virus but healthier. Elise is a journalist, radio presenter and writer, who’s currently working as motoring writer (she’s a rev-head) and is a regular presenter on Melbourne’s 3AW. This was fun. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dan Monheit is the co-founder and strategy director of Hardhat; one of Australia’s most innovative creative agencies. Like me, Dan is fascinated with human behaviour, decision making, optimal learning, story-telling and more specifically, the science of selling stuff. This was another interesting chat with yet another inspirational human. Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.