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julesFM - What If....
by Jules Mundy
JulesFM - This Can Look Different is a podcast for people who stopped chasing success and started defining it.Hosted by Jules, the show features thoughtful conversations with people who have questioned the version of success they were handed, and chosen to reshape it on their own terms. Guests include creative leaders, thinkers, professionals, and public figures who have stepped off the expected path or redefined success using internal metrics like fulfilment, freedom, impact, and integrity.These conversations go beyond the highlight reel to explore the real moments of change, the pivots, pressure, identity shifts, and quiet decisions made when the old script no longer fitted.Because success doesn’t always look the same.And this can look different.
Episodes
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It Started With a Window.
This week's episode is a little different. For the first time, I'm stepping out from behind the questions to share one of my own. Over the past year, I've had the privilege of sitting with remarkable people from all walks of life. While every conversation has been unique, they've all left me with...
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Ep 93 Suzie Betts - After the Conversation, Jules Thoughts
Sometimes the thing you're meant to contribute to the world finds you... not the other way around. That's the thought that sticks with me the most after my conversation with Suzie Betts. In this reflection, I explore why the problems we can't ignore, the questions we keep asking and the ideas…
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Ep 92 What Really Matters - Suzie Betts Part 2
Finding an idea is one thing. Having the courage to keep believing and backing yourself is another. In Part Two, Suzie Betts opens up about the realities of building Boob Protect, from funding challenges and learning on the fly to staying motivated when success doesn't arrive overnight. She also...
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Ep 91 - Suzie Betts - Every Active Woman Should Know About This. Part 1
What if one unexpected moment changed not only your life, but the lives of thousands of women? In this episode, Jules sits down with Suzie Betts, founder of Boob Protect, to explore the personal journey that began with the discovery of a breast lump and led her to uncover an issue that had been...
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Ep 90 'I Still Call Myself Unemployed' - Vithyaa Thavapalan Takeaway
Vithyaa Thavapalan , Jules Thoughts She still calls herself unemployed. This is a woman who built the first fire investigation company of its kind in the world owned by a woman of colour. Who started a national community for South Asian women. Who's changed industry practice around domestic...
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Ep 89. 'I'm the proof it's possible' - Vithyaa Thavapalan Part 2
What if the community you needed didn't exist, so you built it yourself. In this episode, Part 2 with Vithyaa, also known as Vee, we talk about The self-doubt she carried. The notes on her phone about every small win, every quiet achievement, that she reads back to herself when the doubt gets…
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Ep 88. Rebelling Was the Best Thing I Did - Vithyaa Thavapalan Part 1
What if your parents, your family and everyone around you told you that what you wanted to do with your life was never going to work, that it went against everything your culture expected of you. And what if you did it anyway. Vithyaa Thavapalan asked herself exactly that question, took that step...
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Ep 87. What If Happiness Isn't the Goal? My Takeaways from Dr Happy.
What does it actually mean to be happy and are we even chasing the right thing? This episode is my personal reflection on my conversation with Dr Tim Sharp aka Dr Happy, clinical psychologist, founder of the Happiness Institute, and one of Australia's leading positive psychology experts. I share…
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Ep 86. - What If The Thing That Broke You Was Building You - Airleigh Frigo
What if the season that broke you was always the one building you? This is me thinking out loud after two conversations with Airleigh Frigo - Australian aerial skier, Olympian, and one of the most honest and self-aware people I've spoken to on this show. For me, there were a number of things that...
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Ep 85 - Airleigh Frigo | Part 2 The Season for Her Soul
What does success look like when the scoreboard stops being enough? In Part 2, Airleigh Frigo gets to the heart of what changed everything - not a podium finish, but four months of injury and rehab that quietly shifted her entire perspective. It was there, sidelined and still, that she discovered...
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Ep 84. — Airleigh Frigo | Part 1 The Flip or Go Home Moment
Airleigh Frigo didn't grow up dreaming of being an aerial skier. She grew up as a gymnast - and it was a flyer on a noticeboard at her local club that changed everything. In Part 1, Jules talks with Australian Olympic aerialist Airleigh Frigo about the unlikely path that took her from the...
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Ep.83 Everything Was Leading Here (Jules' Thoughts)
Follow it. Trust it. Watch it unfold. Dave Griffin knew two things at eight years old - he wanted to tell stories, and he wanted to play AFL. What happened next is a masterclass in trusting the journey even when it doesn't look the way you planned. One game with the Sydney Swans. Running onto the...
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Ep. 82 | Dave Griffin: I was Overwhelmed Reading my Author Bio (Part 2)
If you could define your ideal life… what would it look like? In Part 2 of our conversation with Dave Griffin, we go deeper into the inner world of a storyteller who writes to emotionally challenge people and hopes, in doing so, to impact them in a way he was also impacted as a child by the power...
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Ep. 81 | Dave Griffin: " Feeling Petrified" (Part 1)
Dave is the perfect example of how success can look different for everyone. While he has been pursuing his career as a GM in a large footwear company, he has been quietly finding alignment for his passion to play on the MCG firstly, and then secondly as an author. His story shows how when you…
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A new perspective - Jules' Thoughts
In this episode of JulesFM, I’ve been reflecting on the conversations I’ve had so far. I have heard and learnt from some incredible guests and their insights are fantastic. But it’s not the success stories themselves that I have been most interested in, it’s the trade-offs behind them. What it…
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Ep. 80 | Dr Sharp - aka Dr Happy: The Importance of Self Compassion (Part 2)
In Part 2 of my conversation with Tim Sharp — aka Dr Happy, we continue exploring what it really means to live well, beyond the metrics, milestones, and “when I get there” thinking. Tim shares his belief that from a very young age, we all have a sense of what energises us and where our natural...
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Ep. 79 | Dr Sharp - aka Dr Happy: How to CHOOSE happiness (Part 1)
In Part 1 of my conversation with Tim Sharp, aka Dr Happy, we talk about happiness from a place that’s often missing from the conversation. Tim shares how his interest in happiness began not through ease, but through struggle working as a clinical psychologist alongside anxiety, depression, and…
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Ep. 78 | 7 Day Challenge to realign
Three Questions to Realign Your Life This Week This episode is a little different. There’s no guest, and I’m not sharing answers as an expert. I’m very much still working this out in real time which is exactly why I wanted to record it. Lately, I’ve noticed how easy it is to feel slightly off...
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Ep. 77 | Know Your Worth
After every conversation on julesFM, I take time to pause and reflect, not on everything that was said, but on a few ideas I’m consciously choosing to carry forward. In this takeaway episode, I share what I’m taking from my conversation with Elyse, shaped by her long career, lived experience, and...
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Ep. 76 | Elyse Villani: Becoming Better Without Becoming Someone Else (Part 2)
In Part 2, Elyse shares the advice that she received late in the game that changed everything in the second half of her career. We talk about the moment she realised cricket doesn’t define her worth, and how reconnecting with why she started playing became an anchor through her journey. This...
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Ep. 75 | Elyse Villani: Staying in The Game (Part 1)
Elyse Villani is a cricketing great. Across a career spanning more than 19 years, she represented Australia on the world stage and built a reputation for resilience and leadership, showing that success in elite sport doesn’t have to follow a single script. In Part 1, Elyse takes us inside a…
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Ep. 74 | What Failure Teaches Us About Alignment
In this episode, Jules reflects on something that’s come up again and again in conversations with Olympians, entertainers, founders, leaders, and in her own life. Success can feel awesome and it can confirm that what you’re doing is working. But it rarely changes you. The moments that shape us…
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Ep. 73 | Recording from a different place
In this Weekly Wins & Recap episode, Jules shares a candid update on her voice‑over journey and why where she is at now feels like genuine progress, not just momentum. After being asked to deliver a relaxed, conversational read (in an English accent), Jules walks through the real work behind the...
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Ep. 72 | It’s Not About Sounding Good
This episode starts with world records and ends somewhere a little more reflectively. On Friday night, I stood in a crowd singing ‘You’re the Voice’ surrounded by friends, strangers, nostalgia, and a surprising sense of ease. No one was trying to sound good. No one was being assessed. And…
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Ep. 71 | Showing Up Authentically
Authenticity isn’t a performance. It’s a release. In this episode, Jules shares what turns out to be one of the biggest learnings she has made on this journey so far and that is the power and freedom of being authentically yourself. A misbelief she had was that being authenticity meant doing…
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Ep. 70 | Black Box Thinking - What Failure Really Teaches Us
In this solo episode, I share my thoughts on a book that genuinely shifted something in me: Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed. It’s an awesome exploration of how two industries, aviation and medicine, handle mistakes in completely opposite ways… and what that reveals about learning, growth, and...
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Ep. 69 | Janine Allis: The Mindset Boost (Jules' Thoughts)
In this recap episode, Jules reflects on her conversation with Janine Allis, founder of Boost, author, Survivor favourite, and a woman dedicated to helping others live with purpose. Jules highlights Janine’s next‑level authenticity, her down‑to‑earth humour, and the powerful reminder that showing...
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Ep. 68 | Janine Allis: Choosing to SOAR (Part 2)
In Part 2 of this conversation, Jules explores Janine Allis’ powerful VERB and SOAR framework, the mindset model she lives by. While everyone drifts into VERB at times, the reactive, resistant, or negative state, Janine explains why choosing to become a SOAR thinker — solution‑focused…
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Ep. 67 | Janine Allis: The Mindset That Changes Everything (Part 1)
In Part 1 of my conversation with Janine Allis, founder of Boost Juice, part‑owner of Retail Zoo, Shark Tank judge, author, Survivor legend, and CEO of the Business Academy we dive, into the unexpected lessons that have shaped her life, from what she learnt working with David Bowie (including a...
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Ep. 66 | How comparison keeps us stuck
In this episode, Jules talks about the illusion of being ‘behind’ and how it only exists when we compare our path to someone else’s. Someone with different experiences, circumstances, timing, opportunities, challenges, and lessons. When you really think about it, how could you possibly be behind…
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Ep. 65 | Matt’s Nunn: Lessons From the Ground Up (Recap)
Matt Nunn, CEO of Nunn Media, has built his success from the ground up. Along the way he’s learnt a great deal about backing himself, staying consistent, and showing up for the hard work. In this recap episode, Jules reflects on Matt’s journey through a different lens — the lens of someone on the...
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Ep. 64 | Matt Nunn: Never Quit (Part 2)
Part 2 with Matt Nunn, CEO and Founder of Australia's largest independent Media Agency goes deeper into the traits that really drive success, and why it’s never just skill or mindset, but how the two work together. He shares why values like respect, humility, and communication matter just as much...
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Ep. 63 | Matt Nunn: The Power of Perspective (Part 1)
Matt Nunn is the owner of Australia's largest independent advertising agency, Nunn Media, a company he grew from the ground up. In this episode, part 1, we dive into Matt’s early journey, from aspiring PE teacher to self‑taught advertising professional, business owner, and eventually partner with...
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Ep. 62 | Rejection is Protection
In this episode, Jules explores the idea that “rejection is protection”. A reminder that closed doors aren’t always failures, but redirections. She reflects on why clarity rarely arrives in the moment, how “wrong turns” often shape us in the best ways, and how her own career shift revealed the...
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Ep. 61 | Emma Murray: Practical Mindset Shifts You Can Use Every Day (Recap)
In this recap episode, I’m sharing the biggest lessons I took away from my conversation with Emma Murray, mindset coach to some of Australia’s best athletes, and explaining how I feel her wisdom and understandings can benefit everyone. Emma’s insights on mindset and mindfulness weren’t just...
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Ep. 60 | Emma Murray: Moving From Fear to Action (Part 2)
Emma is a high-performance mindfulness coach who works with elite athletes, executives, and students to help them stay calm, focused, and clear under pressure. In this episode, we go deeper into the role mindset plays in achieving success, and why it’s not enough to just think positively. You…
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Ep. 59 | Emma Murray: Performing Under Pressure - Skills That Actually Work (Part 1)
Today’s episode is Part 1 of my conversation with Emma Murray — a high-performance mindset and mindfulness coach who helps people perform well under pressure. Emma works with corporate leaders, students, performers, and elite athletes — including Oscar Piastri, Richmond Football Club, and Dusty...
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Ep. 58 | The Wins That matter
Every January I reflect on what I didn’t achieve in the year past and then set new goals and resolutions to make them happen in the year to come. This year, I did it differently. I pressed pause on the “not there yet” soundtrack and looked at the wins I’d overlooked: Learning an entirely new...
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Ep. 57 | Vikki Petraitis: Curiosity, Courage & The Power of Showing Up - Jules' thoughts
Across two episodes, Vikki Petraitis has given us a masterclass in persistence, self-belief, and creative courage. From saying yes before you’re ready to setting goals that matter, her story is proof that success isn’t about copying others, it’s about finding your own thing and committing to it.…
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Ep. 56 | Vikki Petraitis: Beyond True Crime - on Curiosity, Courage & Saying Yes Before You’re Ready (Part 2)
Turning Passion into Progress. In Part 2, we go deeper into what makes Vikki tick. How does someone achieve epic success without falling into self-doubt or losing motivation? Vikki shares her approach to persistence, goal-setting, and why saying yes to things you don’t yet know how to do can…
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Ep. 55 | Vikki Petraitis: Beyond True Crime - on Curiosity, Courage & Saying Yes Before You’re Ready (Part 1)
In Part 1 of this inspiring conversation, Vikki Petraitis—one of Australia’s most respected true crime authors—shares the story behind her incredible career. With over 20 books, a hit podcast, and millions of readers worldwide, Vikki’s success wasn’t built on chasing fame or following a formula....
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Ep. 54 | 2026 Here we go!
Thrilled to be back with fresh episodes of JulesFM! Get ready for incredible stories of courage, creativity, and achievement, told by extraordinary guests who will inspire you to make 2026 your best year yet. Tune in for conversations that spark ideas, fuel dreams, and remind you what’s possible.
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Ep. 53 | Sam Mitchell: Learning From Winning: What the Greats Do Differently (Recap)
In this recap episode of JulesFM, I reflect on my conversation with Sam Mitchell — premiership player, premiership coach, and one of the most thoughtful leaders in the AFL. We often see Sam as the finished product — calm, composed, successful. But what stayed with me most was how much of his...
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Ep. 52 | The 4-Word Principle That Will Change Your Life
What if the secret to an easier life tomorrow is choosing something hard today? In this episode of Jules.FM, I dive into one of the most powerful principles I’ve ever applied in my own life. It’s only four words, but they can change everything—your health, your career, your confidence, your…
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Ep. 51 | Sam Mitchell: The key to unlocking peak performance for you and your team (Part 2)
Leading from the Inside Out: How Sam Mitchell Brings Out the Best in His Players In Part 2 of my conversation with Sam Mitchell, we move from his playing career into his evolution as a coach. Sam shares how great coaching starts with understanding people — meeting each player where they are,...
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Ep. 50 | Sam Mitchell: The key to unlocking peak performance for you and your team (Part 1)
Overcoming Doubts: Sam Mitchell's Path to AFL Success Sam Mitchell is a legend in the AFL world, from champion player to an inspiring coach. In this part 1 conversation Sam shares his journey from aspiring footballer to professional player. He discusses the challenges he faced, including…
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Ep. 49 | The Mindset Shift That Separates High Performers from Everyone Else
In this episode, Jules explores a principle that can completely change how you approach your goals: Think like a number one — but act like a number two. It’s the mindset shift that blends confidence with humility, belief with discipline, and ambition with hunger. Jules breaks down how “thinking...
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Ep. 48 | Michael Klim: How to Reinvent Yourself When Life Forces You to Start Again (Recap)
In this recap episode, Jules shares the biggest lessons she took from her powerful two-part conversation with Michael Klim — lessons about curiosity, courage, and what reinvention really demands from us. We all know Michael as a world champion: 21 world records, Olympic gold, and the…
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Ep. 47 | Michael Klim: How to find your winning edge (Part 2)
In Part 2 of my conversation with Michael Klim, we dive into the moment that changed everything — his CIDP diagnosis — and the profound journey of reinvention that followed. This is Michael beyond the medals and world records. It’s the story of an athlete forced to rebuild his identity, rethink…
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Ep. 46 | Michael Klim: How to find your winning edge (Part 1)
In Part 1 of my conversation with Michael Klim, we explore how he discovered his winning edge — and how you can find yours. Michael shares how curiosity, tiny improvements and backing his own style helped him rise to the top of world swimming, even when he didn’t fit the traditional mould. This...
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JulesFM - This Can Look Different is a podcast for people who stopped chasing success and started defining it.Hosted by Jules, the show features thoughtful conversations with people who have questioned the version of success they were handed, and chosen to reshape it on their own terms. Guests include creative leaders, thinkers, professionals, and public figures who have stepped off the expected path or redefined success using internal metrics like fulfilment, freedom, impact, and integrity.These conversations go beyond the highlight reel to explore the real moments of change, the pivots, pressure, identity shifts, and quiet decisions made when the old script no longer fitted.Because success doesn’t always look the same.And this can look different.
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Jules Mundy
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