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5050
by Tamaracallaghan
Tamara (Tam-rah) Callaghan Cooke (or just Tam!) Uses the wisdom of the great thinkers to discuss the whole of life. Talking about not just the pretty shiny parts, but also the challenges and setbacks, and how these very things, when faced courageously, can most lead to growth, joy and success.
Episodes
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Kylie Zeal - From LinkedIn Message to First Draft: How a Book Coach Changed My Story
Tam Callaghan sits down with book coach Kylie Zeal, her former coach and now friend, for the first of two conversations. Kylie spent around a decade as an executive coach before moving into book coaching, and she works with writers on both fiction and nonfiction. They start with how they met. Tam...
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Are We Ok? — A Love Letter for Jebediah's 30 Years from Tam Callaghan
Tam went to see Jebediah: Are We OK?, the new documentary marking the band’s 30th anniversary, and came away wanting to say thank you. This episode is part movie review, part love letter to a band that soundtracked some of the happiest years of her young life in Perth. She remembers seeing them...
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Tanya Hallett - Privilege, Luck & Empathy: Why Curiosity Beats Judgment
Tam Callaghan sits down with Tanya Hallett from TIPT (Trauma-Informed Practice Training) for a conversation that starts with a Year 9 student working 30 hours a week to help his single mum pay bills, and ends somewhere most leadership conversations never reach. Tanya has spent most of her…
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Anger, Hurt and Courage: Lessons from the AFL Grand Final
Tam Callaghan watched a beloved former West Coast Eagles player give an honest, vulnerable interview about why he left the club. Then she read the comments. And something clicked. This episode starts with sport and ends somewhere much deeper. Tam uses the Tom Barras interview and the flood of...
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Tanya Hallett - De-escalating Difficult Situations
Tanya Hallett from TIPT (Trauma-Informed Practice Training) returns for a new series with Tam Callaghan, this time focused on one of the most practical skills a manager or colleague can have: de-escalation. Tanya brings a background that's unusual for a corporate trainer — years in classrooms…
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Keyboard warriors, Karen's and Karma - Using compassion as protection
Being right is the self-esteem of the desperate. That's the line Tam Callaghan landed on after thinking about one of the most requested topics she's received: why do people become keyboard warriors, and what do you do about it? Inspired by a conversation with a popular online creator who…
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Kate Fandry - Breaking the Lid: Grief, Neurodiversity, and Finding Self-Love
Part two of Tam Callaghan's conversation with Kate Fandry picks up where they left off, diving into the diagnosis itself, what it felt like to finally have an answer, and the grief that often comes with a late diagnosis even when it's a relief. Kate shares the moment she told her mum over lunch...
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Stopping the Apology: Embracing Myself Publicly
This episode is a spontaneous, real-time reflection on the creator's ongoing journey. They record their thoughts about their process, what they've learned, and where they want to go next. They realize they've been stuck in a cycle of apologizing and over-sharing struggles, and decide to shift...
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Kate Fandry - Late-Diagnosis ADHD: From Burnout to Breakthrough
Tam Callaghan sits down with her friend and former colleague Kate Fandry for a wide-ranging, deeply honest conversation about late ADHD diagnosis, what it actually feels like to finally have an explanation for a lifetime of experiences, and how Kate is channelling everything she's learned into a...
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How Gratitude Transforms Your Life: A Simple Practice to Shift Everything
Part two gets practical. In this episode Tam Callaghan walks through the gratitude practices she actually uses, including a twist on the classic three-things exercise that most people miss, and why acknowledging your own role in creating the good in your life is just as important as noticing it....
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Kate De Jong - The Wisdumb Way: Become a Unicorn of Self-Awareness
Tam sits down with her friend and colleague Kate de Jong to talk about Kate's upcoming book, The Wisdumb Way: A Simple Path to Emotional Intelligence Through the Power of Paradox, co-written with EQ expert James Brydon and relationship counsellor Mauro Davide. The conversation starts with a...
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Gratitude: The Backwards Path to More Joy
Tam Callaghan knows you've heard the word gratitude too many times. She felt the same way. This episode is her making the case that it's worth pushing through that resistance, and explaining why it actually works, not in a spiritual bypassing way, but in a genuinely practical, neurological,...
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Tanya Hallett - Money in the Bank: Building Trust to Stop Workplace Bullies
In part two of their conversation on workplace bullying, Tam Callaghan and Tanya Hallett from TIPT get into the harder question: once you know there's a problem, what do you actually do? They pick up where part one left off, starting with the 'money in the bank' concept and why goodwill built...
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Tanya Hallett - What is Workplace Bullying – really - when Managers Become Bullies
Workplace bullying pt 2: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-krwy4-1b1acb6 Narcissistic Bullies: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-arzzg-1af7f01 Tanya Hallett from TIPT returns to talk about workplace bullying, one of the most common and costly issues she deals with, and one of the most misunderstood. In...
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The Upside Down: Choosing Pain and Finding Compassion
Tam Callaghan had a realisation that made her feel a bit silly at first, and then completely changed how she understood her own anxiety. She was choosing it. Not consciously, but choosing it all the same. In this episode she unpacks the idea that anxiety can sometimes be a way of avoiding...
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I Thought This Would Feel Better — The Surprise Aftermath of Courage
Tam Callaghan did the brave thing. She wrote the letter, had the hard conversation, cleared up a long-standing issue with someone important to her, and got the resolution she'd hoped for. And then she waited to feel great. It didn't quite work out that way. In this episode Tam shares what…
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Tanya Hallett - The Narcissistic Bully: How to escape their trail of destruction
They're charming to leadership, devastating to their team, and almost impossible to catch. In this episode, Tam Callaghan sits down with workplace expert Tanya Hallett to talk about narcissistic bullies at work: what they actually are, why organisations keep missing them, and what to do if you're...
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The Wind Beneath Your Wings: Worth, Ego and Kindness
Do you want to be Bette or Barbara? If you know the movie Beaches, you know the question. Bette Midler's character is the star, the one in the spotlight. Barbara Hershey's is quieter, less visible, deeply loving and deeply loved. In this episode, Tam Callaghan has been wrestling with which one…
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Alvin Quah - How to be truly valuable
Authenticity gets thrown around constantly in workplaces, but what does it actually mean to bring your real self to work without oversharing, burning bridges, or pretending the bottom line doesn't exist? Tam Callaghan sits down with celebrity chef, LinkedIn writer and longtime friend Alvin Quah…
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The Terrifying Freedom of Not Knowing
What do you do when there's no plan, no clear path, and no idea if what you're doing is heading anywhere? In this episode, Tam Callaghan gets honest about the extended period of unknowing she's been living through and what she's learning from it. This one covers the ego structures we build to...
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Daily Serve Nutrition's Jess Burvill - From Supermarkets to 171K Followers
Tam Callaghan sits down with her friend and accredited dietitian Jess Burvill, the person behind the wildly useful Instagram page Daily Serve Nutrition, to talk about how a career in advertising, a mid-life study pivot, and a clear no-judgment voice turned into one of Australia's fastest-growing...
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You're Angry at You!
Tasha Broomhall from Blooming Minds returns to share the findings from her PhD research into how workers and leaders are experiencing Australia's psychosocial safety regulations, and the results are eye-opening. Leaders across organisations, including very senior ones in large companies, are…
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Tasha Broomhall - Psychosocial Safety at Work: From Simple to Systems-Based Solutions
T Tasha Broomhall from Blooming Minds returns to share the findings from her PhD research into how workers and leaders are experiencing Australia's psychosocial safety regulations, and the results are eye-opening. Leaders across organisations, including very senior ones in large companies, are...
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All of you is welcome - How Acceptance Ends Inner Battles
What if the parts of yourself you most want to get rid of are actually trying to help you? In this episode, Tam Callaghan explores parts therapy and why resisting any part of yourself, whether it's striving, jealousy, impatience, or anxiety, makes it louder, not quieter. Drawing on her own...
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Stephan Bodian - Infinite Awakening: The Pathless Path to Presence and Love
Tam Callaghan sits down with author, meditation teacher and former Zen monk Stephan Bodian to talk about his new book Infinite Awakening, a guide to non-dual wisdom for people walking what he calls the pathless path, those who have found their way to awakening outside of monasteries, ashrams, or...
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What You Resist Persists
What you resist persists. It's one of those lines that's easy to nod at and genuinely hard to live. In this episode, Tam Callaghan gets into why avoiding painful emotions doesn't make them go away, and what it actually looks like to stop fighting what's there. Drawing on Acceptance and Commitment...
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Tammy Tansley - Can we be the L word at work?
What happens when a difficult situation at work gets avoided, passed around, or quietly buried? Tam Callaghan sits down with executive coach, mediator and author Tammy Tansley to talk about one of the most common and costly patterns in workplaces: the failure to address problems early. Tammy has...
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Are YOU successful? - Western Expectations vs Your Heart
Are you actually successful, or are you just measuring yourself against a standard someone else handed you? In this episode, Tam Callaghan gets into one of the most loaded words in the Western world and asks the question most of us are quietly afraid to sit with. Tam introduces Barbara, the name...
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Betty Ramsay & Helen Callanan - To make gentle the effect of death
In this episode Helen and Betty continue the conversation about end‑of‑life doulas: how they train, what the role actually looks like, and why continuity of care matters. They share deeply human stories of vigils, home deaths, palliative care, and supporting families through active dying and...
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Being Okay With No: Extended Version
What would change in your life if hearing "no" didn't scare you? In this episode, host Tam Callaghan shares one of the most powerful mindset tools she's picked up in nearly two decades of coaching, and gets refreshingly honest about the moment she realised she hadn't fully been living it herself....
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Helen Callanan - Living until the Last Breath: Redefining End‑of‑Life Care
Helen Callanan, founder of Preparing the Way, explains the role of end‑of‑life doulas and why she frames the work around living with illness rather than dying from it. She discusses non‑medical support that restores choice, capacity and control, the importance of collaboration with palliative and...
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Ask vs Guess Culture: Why Hints Can Break Relationships
Exciting new direction for the podcast: this episode introduces the concept of Ask vs Guess culture—how some people ask directly while others prefer hints—and why those differences create confusion and upset. Through real examples and personal stories, the host explains both perspectives and…
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Alvin Quah - Untethered, Uncharted, and Unfolding
Tamara visits her longtime friend Alvin Quah in his Sydney apartment for a warm, candid conversation about career change, creativity and identity. They discuss Alvin’s journey from the pharmaceutical world and MasterChef to writing, public speaking and embracing redundancy as a turning point.…
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Friday 50/50: A message from Tam – moving from Snake into Fire Horse.
Tam reflects on a transformative 2025: finding self-worth, challenging painful beliefs, and learning from a silent retreat. She outlines 2026 plans: adding her name to the podcast, changing co-host roles, moving into private coaching (ICU), and bringing clearer, more intentional episodes. Expect...
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Jonah Primo - 'Waking Up' and his meaningful, musical life
Jonah Primo joins the podcast to discuss his work with Sam Harris and the Waking Up app, his journey overcoming chronic pain through mindfulness, and his podcast The Overexamined Life. He also talks about music, creativity, gratitude, and choosing an expansive way of living. Throughout the…
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Friday 50/50: Merry Christmas: Year-End Reflections, Guests and Good Wishes
This Christmas edition of Friday 50/50 wraps up the year with festive stories, holiday plans and reflections on December’s pressures and pleasures. Tam and Danielle thank the guests Tam has interviewed, celebrate podcast milestones, and share personal anecdotes about parties, family and downtime....
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Friday 50/50: ICU Coaching Launch, ADHD & New Beginnings
Tam and Danielle catch up on life changes: a glowing makeup masterclass, plans for a Mediterranean cruise to see the solar eclipse, and moving into a new home. Tam also announces a personal coaching project called “ICU (I See You)” with creative pricing ideas and on-call options. The episode…
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Friday 50/50: From Grasping to Responding, the courage to live one's truest joys
In this episode Tam and Danielle explore a private discovery of human design — Tam learning she’s a projector and a 3-5 profile who learns by trial and error and is seen as a problem-solver. That insight sparks a shift from frantic striving to a calmer practice of responding to opportunities. We...
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From Koyasan to the Coaching Room: Small Practices, Big Shifts
Coach Usha Raman shares stories from her travels (including a serene tea ceremony at Koyasan) and practical ways busy people can anchor calm through meditation and simple daily rituals. She explains core coaching tools—anchoring, NLP, timeline therapy, language and identity work—and how small,...
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Friday 50/50: Big Bloomers, from authors to appendices
Tam and Danielle chat candidly about aging with pride, resilience and the funny realities of medical mishaps, sharing stories about family, reinvention and the idea of "big bloomers"—women who grow more vibrant with time. They also dive into the writing life: a whirlwind 70,000-word draft,...
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Quieting the Noise: ADHD, Action Over Planning, and Daily Incremental Change
Andy Cooke, Tam’s husband and business partner joins Tam to share his personal experience being diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder, the doubts and resistance around medication, and how a low dose of dexamphetamine changed his ability to act. They explore time blindness, shame, the tension...
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Friday 50/50: Finding Your Own Voice
Tam and guest Friday 50/50 host, Andy Cooke, engage in a candid, humorous conversation about authenticity, vulnerability, and the fear of putting yourself out as an expert. They touch on Elizabeth Gilbert, parasocial relationships, public speaking, preparation versus improvisation, and how…
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Friday 50/50: From Teens to Life Dreams
Tam speaks to leadership-minded teenagers and shares funny behind-the-scenes moments from a quiz, DISC profile and Q&A with students. She describes coaching breakthroughs that led to daily walks, a values revelation about expression and a renewed, scared-but-curious pull toward public speaking,...
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Friday 50/50: The Guest House of Emotions: Living Fully by Welcoming Pain
In this episode the hosts honour poet Andrea Gibson by reading "Love Letter from the Afterlife" and reflect on grief, death awareness, and how those experiences can bring comfort. They share personal stories about loss and the ways memory and presence shape how we live. The conversation shifts to...
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Mini Media Houses & Magical Ripples: Carlii Lyon on Courage, Brand & Balance
Carlii Lyon joins Tamara to discuss her journey from PR and representing major figures to building a brand rooted in wellness, authenticity, and purpose. She shares lessons on courage, intentional authenticity, making space for serendipity, and balancing motherhood with career reinvention. They...
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Friday 50/50: From Jealousy to Joy: The Meditation That Changed Everything
In this episode Tam shares a deeply personal week of breakthroughs: confronting jealousy, using meditation to turn fear into genuine joy for a friend's success, and reconnecting through honest gratitude. She reflects on parenting, vulnerability, and the power of viewing setbacks as "progress…
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Part 2 - From Moodle to AI - love, connection and humanity's possible future with Martin Dougiamas and Usha Raman
Part 2 continues a candid conversation with Martin Dougiamas and Usha Raman, about relationships, marriage and moving from Singapore to Australia, exploring how background shapes gratitude and life choices. Tam and Usha discuss practices like daily gratitude, loving-kindness meditation, and the...
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From Moodle to AI - love, connection and humanity's possible future with Martin Dougiamas and Usha Raman - Part 1
Join us on Tam's 50-50 podcast as we dive into an inspiring conversation with Martin Dougiamas, founder of Moodle and head of research, and his wife Usha Raman, a life coach specialising in mindfulness and emotional intelligence. In part one of this two part interview, Martin shares his journey...
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Friday 50/50: The Inaugural PodCoach
In this episode, we dive into the theme of impatience and the struggle to find peace in the unknown. Inspired by Carlii Lyon's reflections on impatience and progress, we explore how judgments of movement can differ from reality and the importance of trusting the timing of life events. Join us as…
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42 Seconds to Influence: Insights from AFLW's Michelle Cowan
Join us in this engaging conversation with Michelle Cowan, the head of AFLW at West Coast Eagles. In this episode, Michelle shares her inspiring journey from being a sports-loving kid in Cambelda to leading one of the most dynamic teams in AFLW. Hear about her passion for coaching, the evolution…
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Tamara (Tam-rah) Callaghan Cooke (or just Tam!) Uses the wisdom of the great thinkers to discuss the whole of life. Talking about not just the pretty shiny parts, but also the challenges and setbacks, and how these very things, when faced courageously, can most lead to growth, joy and success.
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