Best Patrick Bonello Podcasts (2025)

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#2068 AI Slop & Ozempic Face - Patrick Bonello 53:50

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14d ago53:50

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The resident geek is back enlightening, amusing, educating and terrifying us (in equal measure) with the “what’s happening” and the “what’s coming” of technology, social media, cybersecurity and super creepy Al-enabled teddy bears. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Craig Harper

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#2076 The Psychology of 'Cool' - Caleb Williams 52:14

3d ago52:14

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Caleb Warren is a Professor of Marketing at the University of Arizona and this was a fun chat about what makes something or someone cool, and how coolness intersects with branding, marketing, popularity, humour, culture, social desirability and more. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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#2075 Eating Disorders & Body Image - Dr. Catherine Houlihan 51:57

4d ago51:57

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Dr. Catherine Houlihan is a Clinical Psychologist, Senior Lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast and the Clinic Director at the UniSC Psychology Clinic. Her area of expertise is treating and researching eating disorders and body image concerns and this was a relevant (for many), meaningful and insightful conversation. There's also one ano…

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#2074 I Hate Myself - Dr. Blaise Aguirre 1:01:56

7d ago1:01:56

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Well, I don't actually hate myself but according to Dr. Blaise Aguirre from Harvard Medical School (no less!), plenty of people do. Also, it's the title of his new book. Well, the whole title is "I HATE MYSELF: Overcome Self-Loathing and Realise Why You're Wrong About You." This was great chat with someone who is truly a world-renowned expert and p…

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#2073 Reading the Room -Bobby Cappuccio 48:21

8d ago48:21

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Being able to "read the room" is an integral part of effective communication, connection, problem solving, rapport building, conflict resolution, leadership and any kind of personal or professional interaction; one on one or one on group. Bobby, Tiff and I talk about this in the context of our work - being in front of group - but it's also a broadl…

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#2072 How to Uncure Cancer - David Gillespie 33:49

9d ago33:49

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There's a vaccine given to new-born bubs to protect them against Hepatitis B because if they are unvaccinated and happen to get Hep. B when they're young, it often leads to life-long health problems and in too many instances, liver cancer. Well with that in mind, there's been recent conversations about a potential link between this particular vacci…

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#2071 A Reflection On Bondi - Harps 14:57

10d ago14:57

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You may or may not want to hear where my thoughts are at in the aftermath of the horror that was Sunday. This is not a ‘commentary’ on events but rather, a brief reflection on the psychology, ideology and sociology that drives such behaviour. Love, Harps. xx See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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#2070 Is What I'm Doing Working? - Dr. Lillian Nejad 1:03:47

11d ago1:03:47

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Dr. Lillian Nejad is back and we discuss what happened at Bondi on Sunday (we recorded less than 24 hours later). Obviously, we offer no “solutions” or magic pills (there aren’t any) but we felt it was an important conversation to have. Even for ourselves. For the second half (maybe a little more) of the show we chatted about “destination disappoin…

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#2069 The Success Charade - Ian Williams 1:07:46

12d ago1:07:46

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This episode is what the cool podcast kids call a co-share. I was recently on “The Artistry of Humanity” with Ian Williams and we had a great chat about being simultaneously rich and broke, the external illusion of success versus the internal reality of chaos and misery, the biology of stress and lots more. Enjoy. artistry-of-humanity.com See omnys…

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#2067 Fraudulent Scumbags - Prof. Stacey Wood 45:47

15d ago45:47

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This was a timely, fascinating and relevant-for-right-now chat with Stacey Wood, Ph.D. - Professor of Psychology at Scripps College in California. We spoke about the way deception, fraud and manipulation "works" from a psychological, emotional, sociological, practical and legal perspective. Turns out that - when it comes to scamming vulnerable peop…

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#2066 A TYP Wedding? - Scott Douglas 38:29

17d ago38:29

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Love is in the air at TYP Central and no, it doesn't involve me but it does involve someone you all know well and potentially one of your favourite regulars. Okay, l've said too much but f**k it, I'm excited. This episode will go down in TYP history. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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#2065 The Self-Created Sh*t-Fest - Kelly Smith 46:53

18d ago46:53

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In this instalment of TYP, Kelly, Tiff and I chat about the propensity we humans have to obsess about, and waste energy on, problems that don't currently (and may never) exist. And also... the subsequent self-created psychological and emotional sh*t-fest that comes with it. In general terms, we talk about trying to manage our subjective experience …

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#2064 Social Osmosis - Harps & Tiff 43:50

19d ago43:50

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Social osmosis is (for this conversation) the way attitudes, beliefs, emotions, values, behaviours, language and norms seep into us simply by being around people - without us choosing, trying, or even noticing. It's not a 'real' term (in psychological literature) but it's a real part of the human experience. It’s a Craig-ism. I guess it's kind of l…

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#2063 Concept Creep - Prof. Nick Haslam 55:24

20d ago55:24

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Some of you know I often talk about "intelligence" being context and/or task dependent. Well, if this instalment of TYP was a room, I was definitely (and happily) the dumbest in the room. Professor Nick Haslam is a world-renowned social psychology researcher whose interests include dehumanisation, stigma, psychiatric classification, and mental heal…

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#2062 Happiness Is Not Our Natural State - Emma Slade 1:01:07

21d ago1:01:07

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Wow! This chat is one of my favourites of 2025, with a TYP Freshy - a brand new guest, Emma Slade (Lopen Ani Pema Deki) who is the first Western woman to be fully ordained in the Drukpa Kagyu lineage of Bhutan (meaning Emma is a Buddhist nun). This was a refreshing, insightful, and thought-provoking conversation with an amazing woman who totally re…

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#2061 Finding Purpose in the Mayhem - Bobby Cappuccio 56:55

22d ago56:55

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In the middle of the mayhem that is (can be) the human experience, how we find our purpose? Or, does it find us? Or do we choose it? Create it? Is it a constant? Does it change over time? And by the way, what does "purpose" (in this context) even mean? Tiff, Bobby and I explored all of these questions and lots more, in very conversational TYP insta…

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#2060 Reversing Cognitive Decline - Dr. Denise Furness 47:26

23d ago47:26

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TYP Fave Dr. Denise Furness is back and this time we chat about reversing cognitive decline, improving sleep, why women have more trouble sleeping than blokes, the value (or not) of Melatonin, the part of your brain that literally grows when you do hard stuff, spiders as big as your hand (really) that live at Dr. Denise's house, the danger that my …

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#2059 Is AI a Sociopath? - David Gillespie 37:32

25d ago37:32

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This was a fun - if somewhat combative episode of TYP - where Gillespo and I didn’t see eye to eye on everything (shocker) but definitely had fun exploring the pros and cons, benefits and threats, knowns, and unknowns of Al. Especially as we move into a version of humanity that will be (already is?) intertwined with a rapidly evolving form of intel…

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#2058 Self-Sabotage - Harps 32:19

26d ago32:19

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This episode is a freestyle, thinking-out-loud, deep dive into the very common practice of self-sabotage (over-thinking, avoidance, people-pleasing, procrastination, perfectionism, self-loathing, time-wasting) from a world-class self-saboteur. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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#2057 Resilient Kids - Dr. Sam Casey 33:58

27d ago33:58

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Founder of the Play Prescription Method and Institute, Dr. Sam Casey is back helping us understand the do's and don'ts of educating, guiding, protecting and empowering kids towards critical thinking, independence, resilience and healthy self-esteem. Among other things, we explore this question - when does protecting kids become "getting in the way"…

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#2056 Will Pens Be A 'Thing' In Ten Years? - Patrick Bonello 53:08

28d ago53:08

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Remember the old days? When we used to write with a pen? On paper? And use a ruler? This time on TYP Patrick, Tiff and I chatted about the possible evaporation of students writing with pens, the pros and cons of the impending social media ban for kids under sixteen (yes, there are cons), Google putting datacentres in space to cope with the Al avala…

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#2055 WTF Is Anxiety Anyway? - Dr. Jodi Richardson 39:22

1M ago39:22

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Is anxiety a 'life sentence'? Does it serve a positive purpose? Is it a different experience for different people? We all use the same word but are we actually talking about the same thing? Should we learn to co-exist with it - without letting it hijack our life - or should we work to eradicate it? Maybe neither? Is it an emotion, a physical reacti…

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#2054 Real Food vs. Supplements - Kate Save 49:20

1M ago49:20

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Kate Save (accredited Exercise Physiologist and Dietician) joins Tiff and I to discuss a brand-new study (randomized controlled trial, October, 2025) comparing whole food with a supplement-based very-low-energy diet and it's the first time l've ever heard Kate fired up! Apart from chatting about the study results, we also discuss the multitude of p…

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#2052 Brain Literacy - Harps (PT2) 36:19

1M ago36:19

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This slightly different TYP episode is the conclusion to our mildly educational conversation about the 1.3kg supercomputer that lives in your head. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Craig Harper

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#2051 Learning vs. Memorising - Kelly Smith 47:58

1M ago47:58

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Is memorising a fact or piece of information to pass a test or meet a requirement actually learning, or is it just filing another thing in our cognitive hard-drive that will never the see light of day in a practical, behavioural sense? Does learning need to equate to doing, or can it be just about knowing stuff that we'll never operationalise? In t…

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#2050 Hard Conversations & Feedback - Bobby Cappuccio 1:05:24

1M ago1:05:24

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As someone who has employed hundreds of people, trained thousands, coached a bunch, lectured at University and answered more questions than I can remember, I can say with some confidence that people love to receive feedback - as long as it's feedback they love. Let's just say that the claim "I love getting feedback" is often not supported in the re…

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#2049 The Fertility Crisis - David Gillespie 37:25

1M ago37:25

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According to Gillespo, us blokes are producing less and less swimmers, fertility levels are plummeting and in the not-too-distant future, couples ability to be able to produce offspring could be dependant on some kind of medical intervention. It's a good thing l'm a hundred years past my use-by date. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i…

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#2048 Anti-establishment Medicine - Dr. Jeff Gross 33:22

1M ago33:22

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Dr. Jeff is back and this episode is one of the more meandering, informal, getting-to-know-you (type of) chats I've had with the Doc, and I loved it. We spoke about self-experimentation, biofeedback, personalised medicine, biohacks, the future direction of it all, the need for some 'anti-establishment' thinking and why Big Pharma (and the like) def…

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#2047 Brain Literacy - Harps (PT1) 32:56

1M ago32:56

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This episode is a deep dive into the single most powerful, confusing and occasionally uncooperative thing you own - your brain. In this episode we strip away the jargon and talk in normal-people language about how your 1.3kg prediction machine actually works - why it reacts before you think, why you repeat patterns, what stress does to your operati…

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#2046 Exercise in a Pill - Dr. Bill Sullivan 58:28

1M ago58:28

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What if some of the physical benefits of exercise could be delivered in a capsule? It sounds like sci-fi, but two new scientific studies suggest we might be inching closer to that reality. In this fascinating episode, Tiff and I sit down with geneticist, author and science communicator Professor Bill Sullivan Jr. to unpack the growing field of exer…

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#2045 One Size Doesn't Fit All - Harps & Tiff 35:40

1M ago35:40

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This time Tiff and I explore the differing concepts of "the best" (diet, workout, job, lifestyle, strategy, protocol) and "our best," highlighting that what's optimal for one person will be sub-optimal, or even dangerous, for another. Is there really a "best" diet? Or fitness program? Is there a (single) best way to grow a business? Build a brand? …

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#2044 Rock, Paper, Scissors - Patrick Bonello 57:37

1M ago57:37

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Patrick's back at TYP Central opening the 'Tech' door - and few doors that should stay shut to be honest - but nonetheless, information was shared, stories were told, laughter was had, education was scarce, inspiration missed out altogether and Tiff did her best to wrangle the two overaged teenagers into some kind of cohesive, intelligible and mean…

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#2043 Please Don't Say "Moist" - Bobby Cappuccio 49:58

1M ago49:58

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If you're ever chatting with Tiff or Bobby, whatever you do, don't use the ‘M' word. It sets them off. I'm not even joking. I used it to describe a cookie that wasn't dry or brittle but apparently, it's an unacceptable adjective. To describe anything. Ever. Other than not-dry cookies, we chatted about the old-school self-help pioneers that greatly …

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#2042 Understanding Trauma - Scott Douglas 48:19

1M ago48:19

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As a Paramedic, Scott Douglas has seen some sh*t. Been in the middle of mayhem he'll never forget. Seen things that he can't unsee. And while those events, experiences and situations are in the past, the consequences still live in the now. As they do for many people. Maybe you? This instalment of TYP is not a solution or prescription but it is a co…

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#2041 The Five Pillars of Fulfilment - Ian Williams 49:11

2M ago49:11

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lan Williams is good man helping other good - but often struggling - men to manage their physical, mental and emotional health, which is why he created an app called 'Good Men Helping Good Men.’ lan and I are definitely kindred spirits, which is why I felt like I was chatting with an old Mate, even though we only just met. Oh, and in case you're wo…

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#2040 The Consequences Of Thought - Harps 44:41

2M ago44:41

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Your brain isn't responding to the world. It's responding to what it thinks the world is. In this episode, we explore the physiological consequences of thinking - how belief, expectation, interpretation, and meaning can literally change the body. Not metaphorically. Biologically. You'll hear about the knee surgery that "worked" even though the surg…

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#2039 Plan With Your Head, Lead With Your Heart - Kerryn Vaughan 39:29

2M ago39:29

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Kerryn Vaughan is definitely not your shy little-wallflower type. She's more a punch-you-in-the-face and then give you a hug... type. She encourages, supports, educates (and maybe scares) people to think better, do better, be better and create better results. She does that as a Speaker, Author, Podcaster and Coach and we sure had a fun (and somewha…

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#2038 What T.F. Is The 'Self' Anyway? - Harps & Tiff 33:05

2M ago33:05

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Psychologists, Theologians, Philosophers, Stoics, Scientists and a Bogan from Latrobe Valley have been trying to identify, understand and get-to-know the 'self' for millennia. With absolutely no qualifications or credibility, Tiff and I continue the exploration in - what can only be described as - a convergence of pseudo-science, psychology, humour…

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#2037 The Toddler Milk Scam - David Gillespie 30:58

2M ago30:58

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For years, "Stage 3" toddler milk has been the food industry's most brilliant, cynical, and profitable loophole. It was a legal way to hook parents on a brand, all while selling them a sugary, unnecessary product. Now, that loophole is snapping shut. In Australia, it just destroyed a 30-year regulatory agreement. And in the US, it's the target of a…

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#2036 Personal Development (The Verb) - Harps & Tiff 47:22

2M ago47:22

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Personal development, self-help, human optimisation - they are all 'doing’ processes. Away from the products, programs, books, podcasts and workshops, personal development is something we do, not something we buy. Sometimes that 'doing' is messy, terrifying, uncomfortable and slow, but also... exactly what's required to achieve our goals and fulfil…

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#2035 It's Been A Sh*t Week - Harps 34:53

2M ago34:53

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I don't often say this but to be honest, it was a pretty sh*t week on Planet Craig. That's just the simple, practical truth. Lots of people that I care about (including my dad) going through some really tough stuff. Of course I'm not alone in this, it's a common occurrence for many of us but I thought I'd chat about my crap week and share my though…

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#2034 Beautifully Imperfect - Dr. Sam Casey 39:55

2M ago39:55

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I posted a whiteboard message on my Insta this week titled: "A Bit F**ked. A Lot Human." Dr. Sam reached out to tell me that the message resonated with her and that she wanted to unpack it with me on TYP, so that's what we did. drsamcasey.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Craig Harper

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#2033 Full Moons, Home Robots & Falling In Love With AI - Patrick Bonello 55:39

2M ago55:39

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Are people building emotional attachments to Al? Are some of us in a (kind-of) 'relationship' with ChatGPT? Can biology connect with technology in that way? Do people really get weird around full moons? How long until humanoid (human-like) robots are in our homes? Why are ultra-HD TV's a waste of money? How can we improve our memory and recall? Wha…

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#2032 Creating New Habits - Bobby Cappuccio 58:27

2M ago58:27

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Research tells us (actual *research, not bro science) that it takes anywhere between 18 - 254 days to change a habit. Of course, that's not 'absolute' but it is the typical range. The giving up of ‘the old' and the hardwiring of ‘the new' is a multidimensional process. That is, there are a bunch of moving parts and variables. There's no three-step …

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#2031 The Neurotic Shrink - Dr. Mark Cross 55:10

2M ago55:10

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Hi Team, today we're revisiting one of my favourite eps with the fascinating, funny and compassionate, Dr. Mark Cross. I loved our chat and personally, learned a bunch. He is the first openly gay man to win ‘Father of the Year’, he is a highly-respected Psychiatrist, Successful Author, Media Presenter and has lived experience of one of the conditio…

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#2030 My New Favourite Singer - Fran the Singer 49:02

2M ago49:02

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So, I happened across an amazing voice on Instagram (@franthesinger) and like a total anonymous loser, I reached out on the IG message thingy and said something clumsy and not-cool to the very-cool singer from New York like "hey Fran, you're ace, do you want to be on my podcast?" To my total surprise and delight, she said "yes." I absolutely loved …

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#2029 The 'Hard' Scale - Harps & Kelly 1:00:37

2M ago1:00:37

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What's hard anyway? Is it a universal standard? Or is it a subjective evaluation, experience or attitude? Could my 'hard' be your 'easy'? Could your 10 out of 10 'hard' become a 'not hard at all' over time? Does hard exist as an independent thing or is it just a personal story we tell ourselves? In this chat with Kelly, we unpack the psychology, em…

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#2028 Managing Mayhem - Bobby Cappuccio 51:06

2M ago51:06

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Ever wondered why some people thrive in high-pressure situations while others crumble under everyday stress? In this episode Tiff, Bobby and I explore the paradox of how we respond to different levels of crisis in - what can seem to be - an over or under reaction. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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#2027 Transhumanism - Dr. Jeff Gross 44:01

2M ago44:01

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Imagine having tech implanted in your head that connects your brain to the internet - meaning you could have both Y.I. (You Intelligence) and A.I. in your head at the same time. Well, it's coming. Apart from that terrifying prospect, Dr. Jeff, Tiff and I talk about reversing ageing, creating human tissue in the lab to treat injuries, grounding (fee…

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#2026 New Breast Cancer Research - David Gillespie 32:31

2M ago32:31

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To be honest, I felt a little unqualified (and I am) to have this chat exploring the potential relationship between women who do or don't breastfeed, and how that might affect their chances of being affected by breast cancer. Nonetheless, it was an important and fascinating conversation which was prompted by some very recent research. Enjoy. See om…