Episodes

Today I riff with Brisbane dynamo Melanie “Mel” Loy —founder of Hey Mel Comms & Training, co-owner of a gym, President of IABC Queensland, and host of Less Chatter, More Matter . We bounce across crisis comms, workshop design...

Today’s walk-and-talk episode is all about a brilliant story that came out of a Work Fame webinar I ran this week. One of the participants shared how, in her very first week at a big multinational, she got asked to get a CEO’...

So… five minutes before I hit record today, I did something I’ve never done before: I pre-ordered a piece of tech that hasn’t even been made yet. Yep, I dropped $299 USD on a pair of Halo glasses from a startup called Brillia...

Tonight’s episode wasn’t meant to be this one. I was planning to reflect on my Virgin Australia workshop (and my friend Sally Prosser’s brilliant cameo on voice skills)… but then dinner happened. I’ve got this little ritual: ...

Today’s episode is a wild update on something I experimented with a few weeks back: my “job interview with the enemy.” If you missed it, I shared how I jumped on a tool called Tavi.ai that lets you do job interviews with AI a...

I was driving the other day, catching up on some old Alan Weiss recordings (yep, I upload them into my own private podcast feed so I actually listen to them instead of letting them die in a Dropbox folder). One simple but pow...

I’m joined by Mark McKeon —ex-AFL player, high-performance coach with Collingwood, creator of The Go Zone and Everyday Counts . We dig into the real-world parallels between elite sport and facilitation: preparation, energy ma...

If you’ve been hanging around here a while, you’ll know I love sport. Playing it, watching it, analyzing it—I’m in awe of what athletes and high-performing teams pull off under pressure. That’s why I was so excited to chat wi...

Hey, thanks for tuning in today! Yesterday I shared my crazy little experiment with you—what would happen if I gave myself just 12 hours to see if a brand-new event idea had legs? No venue, no speakers, no fancy marketing—jus...

Today’s episode is a first: I’m recording this while riding my exercise bike (training for Nepal waits for no one!). I wanted to share what’s happening in real time with Con Con . At this stage, it’s still a fictional event—b...

Truth be told, I had no idea what I was going to talk about when I hit record. So, I did what I often do when I’m stuck: I asked ChatGPT to give me 10 episode title ideas. Instead of choosing one, I decided to read them out l...

Today I’m answering a great question from a friend: “Do you decide to write a book and then pick the topic, or do you already have the topic and then decide to write?” For me, the answer was simple — I just wanted to be an au...

What this one’s about: I riff on a killer Diary of a CEO roundtable (Codie Sanchez, Alex Hormozi, Daniel Priestley) and share a study on grooming, attractiveness and pay—plus my $150 Mecca “makeup school” hack I used before a...

We’re all doing great work… but is it working? Today I chat with Kevin M. Yates, the global L&D detective who measures whether learning fulfills its purpose. He shows us how to move beyond smile sheets and activity metrics to...

Guest: Nikki Bush — human potential & parenting expert, bestselling author of Future-Proof Yourself , Certified Speaking Professional, and the first woman inducted into the Professional Speakers Association of South Africa Ha...

I shared fresh stories from last night’s IABC Queensland event where I road-tested my Work Fame concept—no slides, just prompts, energy, and a few spicy truths about standing out. In this episode The serendipity start: rockin...

I’ve just left Day 1 of the Queensland Association of Special Education Leaders conference (QASEL) at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. I’m speaking on Day 3 (“The Dark Arts of Engagement”), so I snuck in early to ...

I recorded this one from the couch—with the heater blasting and my iPad out—while rejigging workshop sequences. Today I confess something small-but-useful I was wrong about: Strava . For years I resisted it (I thought you nee...

Today I broke my own rules from The 2-Hour Workshop Blueprint … then remembered why they exist. I tried to type a workshop outline straight into a doc at the café (hello, friction and tab-opening). So I shut the laptop, order...

Today I’m handing the mic to my friend (and brand wizard) Jason Knight . If you’ve ever looked at my site and thought, “Whoa—this is… different,” you’ll love this one. Jason and I share a long backstory—from L&D days to Red C...

Today, I’m chatting to someone who also shares my love for the Clifton Strengths tool. It’s all well and good to find a tool you love, that echoes back what you think + feel about yourself but more importantly? It’s what you ...

Today I poured a long black (Alan poured a martini) and we got spicy about feedback: smile sheets, unsolicited opinions, and why being liked is overrated compared to being respected . Alan shares why he was often hired to dis...

This week my book The 2-Hour Workshop Blueprint has been popping like Jenny Blake’s “serendipity popcorn” — in places and moments I didn’t plan In this episode The word that flattens a room (and what to do instead) Why assets...

As many of you know, Bangkok is my favourite city in the world. I love it so much my car number plate even says Bangkok . So when I saw Bangkok Airways—Thailand’s boutique airline—making headlines this week, I knew I had to s...