The Mind Mate Podcast

Adam Rozenbachs - Stand up comedian, writer, broadcaster, actor, voiceover artist - has steadily risen to become one of Australia's funniest and most consistent performers, writers and broadcasters.

Anxiety and depression are often considered taboo topics. In this podcast Siobhan and I talk about our personal experiences with both. These are interesting times for us all and with greater awareness of the psyche we will be better equipped to deal with the uncertainty of the global situation.

My grandma is an exceptional woman. She is 89 years old and one of the most social, intelligent and positively minded individuals I have ever met. She has kept a healthy diet for nearly her whole life and constantly is on the pursuit of learning. She has been through, and seen it all – from the war too challenging break ups and trauma - yet she still stands! I deeply admire my grandma and am also lucky enough to call her a friend. She is someone who might think we can all learn from about how to live and enriching, meaningful and abundant life. Thank you Grandma, love you loads!

Oli's journey has been absolutely incredible. He lost his parents within nine months of each other and went through a serious depression. He began to experiment with drugs and found it very difficult to leave his room on many days. Then he was diagnosed with skin cancer and that completely changed his life, that was his rock bottom and the moment that set him on a more conscious journey to help others detailing his experience as he went along. Oli is the co-founder of impactful athletics, and online recovery program business aimed at helping people move through traumatic experiences as they use high intensity exercise to cope with the pain. Oli is an incredible individual and his story will change your life.

Relationships certainly aren't what they used to be. Romanticism is beginning to waiver as authenticity begins to and continues to rise. People want to know the truth. In this conversation Siobhan and I break down how we mediate our relationships in our quest to live humbly, with the attainment of individual and collective fulfilment as our personal and interpersonal goals.

Float tank experiences, psychedelics and positive energy—here we go!

From an evolutionary, neuropsychological and spiritual perspective Behind The Curtain: Cultivating Conscious Awareness explores the concept of ‘Identity’: why it’s malleable, why we lose it, what happens when we do and how to build a new one. Tom utilises anecdote, narrative, mythology, robust psychological research as well as spiritual ‘truths’ and evolutionary frameworks to explain what it means to be human, in so far as we can conceptualise ourselves. Behind The Curtain aims to solve perhaps the most fundamental question itching beneath the surface of every existentialist’s skin: “What is the meaning of life?” Across multiple levels of analysis, Tom believes the answer to that question comes down to cultivating meaning within our own lives. Tom’s contention is that meaning is constructed, not found, through what an individual decides to give the most meaning to—what he or she chooses to value above all else. Thereby through the formation of a value hierarchy, purposeful action manifests itself and existential—let alone nihilistic—angst is reduced. Tom shares his personal experiences and journey: his pain, anxiety, mental health issues and recovery as a way of exploring the personal and collective psyche. He hopes to convey the importance of clarity and goal-directed behaviour—life jackets that help keep individuals afloat whilst swimming within the sea of life’s infinite potential for action. Ultimately, the best way to find a path is to create one.

Craig Harper is one of Australia’s leading presenters, writers and educators in the areas of health, high-performance, resilience, self-management, leadership, corporate change, communication, stress management, addiction and personal transformation. Craig has been an integral part of the Australian health and fitness industry since 1982 and in that time has worked as an Exercise Scientist, Corporate Speaker, Consultant, University Lecturer, AFL Conditioning Coach, Radio Host, TV Presenter, Writer and successful Business Owner. In 1990 Craig established Harper’s Personal Training, which evolved into one of the most successful businesses of its kind and inhabited the Australian fitness landscape for almost a quarter of a century. Craig currently hosts a successful Podcast called ‘The You Project’, is partnering with the Neuroscience Team at Monash University, exploring the spectrum of human thinking and behaviour, with a specific focus on addiction and its treatment. He’s also completing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, exploring the role of motivation in creating lasting change.  Craig can be heard weekly on various radio stations around Australia and hosted his own weekly show on Melbourne radio called ‘the Science of Sport’ for a decade. For two years he was the host of Foxtel’s Living Life Now and for three years Craig filled an on-air role on Network Ten’s ‘9AM’ morning show as their resident Fitness Expert and Performance Coach. Craig currently fills an on-air role as a presenter on a lifestyle show called ‘Get a Life’, airing on Foxtel. As well as having written for the Herald Sun newspaper, numerous magazines and authoring seven books, Craig was also the director of Health and Wellness for Dayhab; one of Australia’s leading addiction treatment facilities for three years.  As an Exercise Scientist, Craig has worked with many professional athletes and teams including St. Kilda F.C., Melbourne Vixens, Melbourne Phoenix, Port Melbourne F.C., Nissan Motorsport and a long list of Olympians and world-class athletes competing in a broad range of sports. While still working with teams and individuals on a regular basis, these days Craig delivers more than one hundred corporate presentations annually.

From Zach's Website - https://www.intothedarkblue.com/ Join us as we pair what it means to be masculine in today's world with carefully curated adult beverages. A pub-talk, of sorts, where open and honest dialogue can shed light on men's mental health issues. Promoting positive masculinity whilst attempting to find correlations between the drink and the stigma, if any.  Here, where you come from matters. How you're moving forward matters, too. Somewhere in between, before, and after makes up this Dark Blue. It's a bit of the unknown coalescing into how we shape the things we think we know. Are you man enough to journey Into the Dark Blue?

Jason Khalipa is a former American professional CrossFit Games athlete and 2008 CrossFit Games champion. Khalipa also received the Spirit of the Games award at the 2009 CrossFit Games and is the founder of NCFIT.