Mel Bampton Presents...How Human

This is a story about that inner turmoil that plagues so many of us. It’s the sinister chisel of self-doubt that both breaks us down but also propels us, it’s the quest of answers in a life that comes with no guidebook, the hurts that can swallow us whole or see us striving to do our best.  This is the story of Johnny Abegg, a once-aspiring pro-surfer, turned independent filmmaker, metamorphosised into the Founder of Surfers For Climate. He is a quiet and powerful changemaker, who recently released his most personal and introspective film - Fragments of a Half Life.This is the tale of a beautiful legend, who’s turned his internal musings into visuals that help us all find our way. A beacon of manhood at a time when manhood is plagued with uncertainty and false prophets.Come on a journey through the waves of Tasmania, into the surfing World Qualifying Series and an unexpected pivot, that's become a mechanism for understanding life.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Live music, liberation, and the meaning of success - this conversation with Ben Ely is a deep dive into what truly matters. From the raw energy of Livid Festival and Brisbane’s underground music scene to Regurgitator’s intergenerational impact, we explore how creativity, relationships, and personal growth shape a musician’s journey.In this episode, I sit down with Ben for the first time since 2008’s The Great Australian Album Series, reflecting on the changes, challenges, and revelations of the years in between. We talk about gentle sobriety, co-parenting, and the human drive to create music—why it’s more than just sound, but a tool for survival.If you’ve followed my work over the past 30 years, you know I like to go deep, fast—so let’s get straight to it.Themes you'll hear: 🎵 The cultural rebellion of Brisbane’s live music scene 🎵 Sobriety's impact on all aspects of life 🎵 The key to Regurgitator’s long-lasting impact 🎵 Redefining success beyond fame and industry hype 🎵 The intersection of creativity, co-parenting, friendship and sobriety 🎵 Why music is essential to human survivalFollow & Connect: 📍 Follow Ben Ely Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

This is a conversation for men about men, but it is also very much a conversation for all people, no matter how you identify, because we're all in this gigantic exquisite shitshow together. It is about the gap many of us are feeling and starting to acknowledge in this juncture of our attempts at equality and in it, Ryk Goddard offers a fascinating approach to reducing the world's suffering, through, wait for it, sex for men. And don't aim to make any preconceived notions about this conversation, because they will be incorrect. Ryk Goddard has an extraordinary mind. I met him for 6 minutes in Hobart and I was immediately fascinated by the sophisticated nuances in the way his brain ticked.   Ryk Goddard is a comedian, an MC, a presentation skills coach, he’s from a theatre background and he is the mind the world needs right now. You can find Ryk here Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Is there any more difficult terrain to navigate as a human being, than heartbreak? That wretched feeling when you know something has to end, it’s crushing, you feel your whole world tilting sideways and you know that things will never be the same – whether that’s because of an event, someone has crossed a line that there’s no going back from or because of the slow corrosion of a relationship dying over time.How good would you say you are at breaking up?  What feelings does the very thought of a breakup initiate in your body? Are you in the pain of separation right now – at the start, the thick heavy going middle or the time of grief that comes with the spaciousness of the definitive end? How are you holding up? Are you separating as well as you'd like?  In this episode of How Human, we’re looking at How To Break Up Well. Nikki Parkinson is a Divorce and Separation Doula, Coach, Strategist, Parenting Coordinator, with 30 years of experience in Family Law, she’s spoken at TEDx on these topics but her biggest learning curve was her own divorce. Nikki. During one of the hardest times of our lives, can we go into it - despite all of the hurt - with the goal of doing it well and achieve a wonderful outcome?Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

How does a small child recover from losing their Mum? Not just survive, full of self-destruction and fear, but learn great joy, even gratitude for the darkness that once was your universe?How do you come back from the shame of things you once did as a result of that sense of abandonment, to truly love yourself as an equally precious part of the same 'one big organism'? I first met Clay Macdonald 22 years ago when The Beautiful Girls released their debut album Learn Yourself. Clay was one half of the band’s rhythm section, along with drummer Mitch Connoly and I was presenter of Triple J Drive at the time with Charlie Pickering. There was definitely a certain, let’s say, free spiritedness, that struck a chord with my punk anarchy. Over the years we’ve popped up in each other’s lives at the most seemingly random but of course, serendipitous times – charity surf comps, in the forest in the Northern Rivers and more recently on a relatively remote beach, several weeks in a row. I became fascinated by the man that Clay had become, living very simply was one part of it, the other was this effervescent, contagious joy that glimmers out of his entire being . How do you find that in a world that’s geared toward fear, toward self-doubt? How do you take that corrosive poison out of your heart and turn it into self-love? Meditating for two hours every morning, and stopping for 3 consious breaths every 3 hours is part of Clay’s secret, but there was so much more to Clay’s inspiring metamorphosis than I saw coming. Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Hannah Darling is abundant in life's extremes. She is poetry in motion and an alchemist turning despair, hardships and challenges into things of great beauty.From shining on the stage in the Australian series The Voice, to loving someone in the chaos of heroin addiction. She has seen the pointy fringes of life's edges first-hand. Hold onto your hearts friends, there’s a bumpy, beautiful ride ahead. Hannah Darling writes incredible songs, full of delicate stories that manage to pound at the door of your heart – and - she has a beautiful voice. Her gift comes to life in sound. A strange irony for her Mum, who was born a CODA – child of deaf adults – who became Mum to a singer. Hannah Darling, along with her Mum, navigates two worlds – a world heaving with soundscapes and a world where sound is absent. But that’s just a portion of Hannah’s tale - she grew up in a house of brothers - of drug addiction – it’s very worst consequence and it’s most unforeseen outcome. Hannah’s   fragility alchemises into strength through a trait that perhaps is the most absolute definition of human – the capacity to turn suffering into art.  in the deaf community, Hannah and her Mum run festivals, events and immersive, nurturing, uplifting retreat experiences. Their aim – to fill the void between the most basic supports and the things that make a human life really worth living.Follow Hannah's self=proclaimed 'ordinary life' here.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

What is the superpower of grace and how can it help us as humans to overcome enormous tragedy?Madeleine West has seen the best and the worst of the human experience. She is an actor, becoming a household face in the iconic Australian shows Neighbours and Underbelly, a mother of 6, author of the book Six Under Eight and a staunch environmentalist. In 2002 Madeleine suffered terrible injuries when she was hit by a bus and whilst unconscious she was robbed. In 2022, Madeleine revealed that she was a child sexual abuse survivor and she sought justice against Peter White, her childhood neighbour who had abused her for 5 years. In making public her experience, 6 other victims came forward and Peter White was imprisoned for his crimes. How does someone learn how to keep getting up after being knocked down? What is in the human mind that enables one person to dust themselves off and rise with grace, and someone else to fall into a pit of darkness? In this episode Maddy and I talk about serious injuries, child sexual abuse, being in command of your own mind, the discipline of grace and what part of the brain determines us as being  human.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

As a mother, a foster carer, a therapist and a fairly compassionate human being, I often watch the world in horror, as judgements are made about others disregarding the path they walked in their childhood. Often we express outrage at child abuse but when the effects of that abuse play out in that child during adolescents and into adulthood, suddenly all compassion dries up – we get convenient amnesia to make way for righteous outrcries – forgetting the horrors that person may have been raised in. For my guest today, the conditioning that was set in motion during their horrifically violent childhood wasn’t to be an abuser but a criminal. Every cell in his being was conditioned for crime, patterns violently forced upon him by his career criminal father. Along the way there were other harmful habits but the one that wove most deeply into Ron Isherwood was crime. His last stint in prison began in 2002 when he was sentenced to 18 years for conspiracy to import cocaine. Through it all, there was a strange and powerful thread in Ron, one in vast contrast to his upbringing – the desire to help others. And now, with his patterns of crime dissolved, helping others is his fulltime gig. Ron is the creator and founder of The Truth About Addiction and the author of Born Into A Lie Of Crime. This tale is of movie-esque proportions, full of grit and wisdom. So sit back and take it all in. This is not your everyday conversation.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Over the past 15 years, since changing my career, my geography, my habits and my name, I've been on a great quest to learn about what makes us humans tick.  On this episode, I go solo to share some of the significant things I've learned about change along the way. What it means to make big life changes - do they really matter?Why change is both so hard, as well as unavoidable.What is the cage that keeps us all trapped in these loops of suffering?And how do we fly free?Join me for this juicy little snapshot into the human mind to understand yourself, and the people around you, a little better.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

This episode takes yet another plot twist, with an indepth and intimate chat between two yoga teachers, together for 13 years, having raised 6 children between them and at times, holding on for dear life.In this episode I invited in my own wingman, Shane Turner, and we put ourselves - and our relationship - under the microscope to reveal our own patterns, the conditioning that we developed through our own parent's relationships and the ones we've developed during our time together. We talk about the good, the icky and the problematic (or should I say pivotal?).Relationship challenges, parenting patterns, the impact of the grim reaper, tools to withstand the tough times, the thrill of sharing someone else's clothes and so much more.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Dr Lauren Tober is a psychologist, a Senior Yoga Teacher and the creator of the Mental Health Aware Yoga Teacher Training. What I love about Lauren’s work is how she integrates evidence based data with that that is beyond the measure of science – the subtlties of the deeper self that yoga interacts with – in a clinical setting. She finds a way to expand beyond the confines of modern psychology through the breadth of yogic knowledge, utilising a vast palette of tools to access the needs of the individual human mind.   In this conversation we chat about what patterns are from a psychology perspective and how that compares with how yoga looks at patterns aka samskaras, we get into the nitty gritty of one of the peskiest narratives known to humankind – the good old inner dialogue of ‘I’m not good enough’ and you'll hear a secret confession of my own about what I thought of my fans back in the triple j days.If you want to explore more of Dr Lauren Tober's life-affirming offerings, head to www.laurentober.com  Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

In this episode, we’re jumping straight into the nitty gritty of an illicit drug with the worst publicity, with a former high level sportsperson who was well on his way to an incredible career as a pro basketballer before meth amphetamines took him over and diminished all other aspects of his world. Jack Nagle is the founder of Real Drug Talk, he’s a recovery advocate and a real voice in the conversation of addiction which has been fraught over the years with approaches that have caused more harm than good, more shame than freedom and stigma that's still stuck to this very day. Jack is a deadset legend, a profoundly authentic and necessary voice in this space and a man who took himself to the furthest edges of meth use, only just living to tell the tale.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

This episode is very different. Not looking so much at the patterns that we're stuck in but instead how big events can change us at our deepest levels.This is a story of one man being taken to his depths through intense loss, of a man who is still very much learning how to swim in the waters of a grief that most days he cannot see the edges of. Yet somehow, with the potential of the human mind, and the enormity of the human spirit, he is doing it. Through the love of his daughter Poppy, the voice of his partner Sara, the vivaciousness of Lil and the fortitude of his own heart, he is doing it.Through the immense grace of Mark Bayley, this episode takes us into the often hidden world of big grief - losing a loved one type grief or loved ones as is the case for Mark - and in doing so highlights the importance of such conversations, of facing the reality that in being human, grief is inescapable. How can we learn to grieve better?How can we prepare ourselves for inescapable grief?How can we be more deeply present for others in times of vast despair?And if you haven't yet met Mark's phenomenal partner Sara Tindley through her episode in season 1, perhaps take a listen to that first here.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

What is the correlation between alcohol patterns and extreme sports? What part does self-identity play in trying to kick a harmful booze habit? And when you do go sober and you’re faced with the clarity of your own historical dickhead behaviour, how do you balance the books and feel not just accepting of who you were but good about yourself going forward? In this episode, we are focusing on one of the most culturally accepted and statistically harmful substances of all time – alcohol. A known grade 1 carcinogen, the number one aggravating factor in violent assaults and partner homicide, socially accepted and legal. Why does it get it’s hooks so deep in so many of us and why is it so hard to extract from our lives, long after it’s begun to cause us – and those around us – harm? Jenny Valentish, is creator and host of the podcast Spirit Levels and author of the fiction Cherry Bomb, her brilliant memoir Woman Of Substances and her guidebook to understanding extreme recreational choices, Everything Harder Than Everyone Else.Find Jenny at https://jennyvalentish.com/ and listen to Spirit Levels here.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Sometimes patterns present in identifiable habits - small and large. Sometimes patterns are written into the very fabric of our being; they have become a part of the way we view the world without us even realising we are looking through a filter.In this episode we are looking at what has become known as colonised conditioning. A term coined by Native Americans to describe the way European systems function, often in direct contrast to natural systems, how this has impacted our ways of thinking about place and how this colonised way collided with existing Indigenous systems to the great detriment of not just Indigenous people but to everyone, through the disconnection with and destruction of the natural world.But what does that really look like in the context of everyday life? What does it feel like in our bodies, how is it permeating our understanding of everything and how can the human mind be decolonised?Ella Noah-Bancroft is an extraordinary Bundjalung writer, speaker, creator, advocate and activist for living more harmoniously with the natural world, she is a voice for returning to the old ways in a modern context and remembering how to collaborate instead of decimate.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Welcome to the DISSOLVING PATTERNS series of Lissie Turner Presents... where Lissie takes you deep into the wiring of the human mind, through the unhealthy, unhelpful and harmful patterns that make us suffer. Through common negative patterns around food, alcohol, social media, sex, gaming, money, drugs, politics, religion and more, as well as through the deepest most pervasive patterns around love, ego, desire, disdain and fear, Lissie will take you on a journey through the most subversive threads of the human neural tapestry to find out not only how you tick but more importantly, who you are and how to human better. Welcome to episode 1.Who first told you about sex? What restrictions and reservations do you have about yourself as a sexual creature? Are there certain things that are taboo for you? Why?How have you come to believe what you believe about the very loaded subject of sex? From that first birds and the bees conversation (if you even had one), to your friendship group, to religion, culture, pop culture and societal expectations, there are few fundamental necessities for life as fraught with as many opinions, rules and patterns as SEX.In this episode, Lissie catches up with Somatic Counsellor, Sexologist and Sex Educator, Jo Brown from Jo Brown Mojo, to talk about all things doing it and doing it 'right'.If you'd like to get in touch with Jo, you can find her on instagram at @jobrownmojo Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Recently at Splendour In The Grass, the Lissie Turner Presents... podcast took to the Forum stage for the season finale, with not one but two phenomenal guests.Take a listen as we dive deeply into unexpected connections that can rock our world, boiled egg throwing, life-changing lasagne, low carbon skills, love that ambushes, action born from eczema born from anxiety, rainbows out of dolphin holes and so much more.Yael Stone is an actor and environmental action-ist - Founder of Hi Neighbour and star in Orange Is The New Black, Blaze, Firebite, One Night, Bay Of Fires and so much more. Joey Kellock is the lord of 1800 Lasagne, a neurodivergent, culinary genius, a quick-witted, big hearted legend.Episode out Thursday 10th August.⚡Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Matt O’Brien is a unicorn: a warm loving friendship facilitating creature of magical proportions, with a billowing mane and an equally impressive moustache.In pubs, festivals and venues all around the country, Matt creates ways for people to connect. Deeply. Through fun and clever initiatives he breaks down awkward social barriers and enables complete strangers to become best friends, instantly.Matt is the Brand Marketing Manager at Heaps Normal but it is in his role as the Founder of a sublimely powerful and utterly adorable social enterprise called Tell Your Friends You Love Them where he is cracking people open in the best of ways. So how does a young man from the country affect the very fabric of our social conditioning? And what ignited this fire to support all of us to be with people in a deeper and more genuine way? These are curiosities I’ve been musing over since I went to an amazing little festival called Boogie in Tallorook Victoria, earlier this year.Who is this beautiful man behind the love? Let’s find out together.If you would like to explore more of the Glory That Is Matto, check him out in all of these glorious places:Matto @rippingshredness_swbTYFYLT: @tellyourfriendsyoulovethem https://www.tellyourfriends.love/Heaps Normal: @heapsnormalwww.heapsnormal.comSupport the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Okay. This episode is very different. It is both very personal but also prolific. I would really, really like you to tune into this one...In 2018 an extraordinary little foundation that I had been in awe of at a very close level for nearly a decade – for their small all-female team of brilliant scientists, their incredible support of innovation, capacity to fundraise and of course, the integrity and commitment they had to environment – received a whopping $443 000 000 from the federal government. What should have been an incredible moment for the reef, became an all out brawl.  There was the suspicion that came from the lack of tender process, the fact that the money was coming from the Liberal Govt not known for it’s support of environment and of course the uproar from other larger organisations in the marine space that demanded to know why this little not for profit was getting money they of course wanted. At the heart of it was this passionate team who had up until that moment simply been in their lane doing everything they could to protect the reef, right up until the moment they received the email that told them the news. On that team, was my number one mentor, one of my dearest and absolute favourite humans in the world: the Executive Director of Projects & Partnerships, Theresa Fyffe.   If you've known me personally in the last 25 years,  you’ll have heard me speak about her with immense admiration for her integrity, sickening work ethic and mind-boggling commitment to her crusade of making the world a better place. If you knew me pre the last 25 years, you’ll know we used to smack the shit out of each other.  This is an interview with a personal twist BUT Theresa is one of the most tenacious and curious intellects I’ve ever known, her story travels from the western suburbs of Brisbane to falling pregnant at 16, becoming one of the youngest heads of a university department in QLD history, to East Central Africa, Saudia Arabia, to addressing the UN in front of thousands to take the plight and protection of the Great Barrier Reef worldwideGet your snorkel on and take a deep breath, you’re going to need it, as we dive into the story of one little western suburbs kid who could. Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Yes, I know what you’re thinking. Why has Lissie chosen to chat with this very rugged looking bloke? Well hopefully by now you’ll trust me enough to know that if they’re a guest on this pod, there’s something a little bit rich and special lurking not far beneath the outer crust. Luke Andrews or Blue as his red hair has demanded he be called in this country, is like that in so many ways. At his heart a very soft, thoughtful and kindness driven human, who puts being in service at his centre but on the surface, that may look a little different. As a former Special Forces soldier, who’s entire adult life, until recently, has been defined by that very strong identity, Blue on the surface is all braun, muscle and short back and sides but underneath lurks a funny, light-hearted and deeply caring human. Blue is one of the Founding Directors of the Krait Foundation, helping retired Special Forces Soldiers find their feet in their new future and an all-round legend.If you're wanting your spirits lifted about humans, especially big strong ones who are geared for kindness, settle in and enjoy the excellent company of Blue, and if you want to find out more - check out https://tkf.org.au/Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Yes I know! How great are Kate's! As luck would have it, three Kate's of grand intrigue were delivered to yours and my podcast doorstep to share their incredible stories, their lessons, their challenges and their own unique gems of wisdom they've collected along the way.This third Kate in the grand trilogy of Kate's, is the fierce and radiant Kate Constantine. Once a jetsetting superhero capturing the brilliance - and tolerating the bullshit - of many an International celebrity, Kate was a woman at the top of the capitalist game. Running a company worth millions, feeling the sense of achievement and seemingly dominating this human life, until one fine day, Kate collapsed. Turning her world into a nightmare of unbearable chronic pain and changing everything.This is the familiar story of arriving only to discover it's the wrong fucking destination. A tale of everything crashing down and in the rubble finding love, passion and home.Kate Constantine is a fierce and passionate Gadigal woman, a wife, Fun Mum, a joy bringer, a creator and so much more. Find her art at https://www.konstantinaaboriginalart.com/aboutSupport the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Dirt biking women. Snowboarding accidents. Living life to the extreme. Loving intensely. Losing beyond compare.  Tragedy germinating beauty, power and being fully alive.This episode is going to get you right in the belly.  Everything about it, is at the level of OOF. There is a MASSIVE story in here that will shock you, it will change you and hopefully it will inspire and move you in ways that inject you back into living just that little bit more deeply. This conversational dive went somewhere I didn't see coming, so breathe deep, let Kate Hardman and all of her big, bombastic, dynamic strength with all of her direct lived experience, guide you to feel into what she has to share, to not turn away from it but learn from it, let yourself lean into it, to live even more in every moment. This human life is so short, sometimes shorter than we ever see coming.PS - Rita, this episode is for you. What an incredible big sister you have.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Get ready for one of the most beautiful episodes you'll hear.  A story about unexpected connections, grieving, reconciling in the most delicate and powerful of ways, about the potency of the Mother Daughter connection, of creativity as a flow-through channel for agitation and tension, and the magic of small nuances, turns of phrase and seeing the world with bright eyes and a colourful spirit.This is Kate Stroud. A delightful creature, a unicorn in human form.  An artist, a visual story teller, a maker and visual translator. This is the story of a daughter, healing a mother wound through creativity and through death, of finding herself through her voice, science and art. It is a truly beautiful tale, with a truly beautiful, contemplative and creative being.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Have you ever experienced such a deep belief in where you thought you should be in your life, who you should be but it didn't come to pass? When something didn't go your way, how did you peace with the new outcome?Sherrie Laryse spent a lifetime knowing that her life would contain a certain something; and that that something was part of her life's purpose. But life itself (or Wendy as Sherrie likes to call it) had a different plan.This is an adventure across decades of wanting, of seven years of trying and the process of readjusting to a new self-identity, wading through oceans of disappointment. It's a guidebook to changing your own mind when the mind is suffering, when it's snagged tightly onto something that will not come to fruition. This is a learning of how to let go, for your own good, of knowing when to stop trying, and of how to not just reach peaceful acceptance but harness all of that flailing energy and transform it into a new life purpose.Sherrie Laryse is an Author, Emotional Intelligence Teacher, hardcore meditator, Science Yogi, Neuroscience student and first and foremost, she is a Mum. With a twist.Contact Sherrie at www.sherrie.com.auFind her book On Path here.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

 As this podcast has gone along, it's reason for existing has morphed, refined and changed; each new guest creating a different reason for it's existence. A thread that's kept coming up is the obsession with celebrity - our fascination with putting certain people, doing certain things, up on pedestals above all others. Often giving people who are not so fabulous glory and money, whilst good people sit in the background quietly  making the world a better place. Leveling the scales in some tiny way is a big part of this podcast's purpose - walking past the sparkles of fame and grabbing the hands of the humble.The person you are about to meet has a special place in my life, his trust in my capabilities sent me hurtling me down a trajectory that overflowed with adventure, excitement and incredible conversations and granted that young woman I was from the western suburbs, Access All Areas. The man who gave me my job at triple j.For many years he hosted Triple j heavy music program Three Hours Of Power, weekend breakfast and triple j drive . He’s Greek, loves his music, has the best laugh, even better hair and is the father of triplets. In 2021, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (latest report as of October 2021) there were 4,248 multiple births representing 1.5% of all births (309,996) in Australia. This comprised 4,185 pairs of twins and 63 sets of triplets and higher order multiples. So how do you learn to raise three babies all at once and navigate the enormity of becoming an instant family of 5 – particularly after many tiring and pain-staking years on a difficult road of conception – and do it all with love, laugher, grace, groundedness and patience? What do you sacrifice and what do you choose to make your life mean instead? This is the story of a man who truly put family first, a lovable character and a humble music industry legend. The iconic Costa Zouliou.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Now this is a chat that is simply not long enough! Jen Cloher easefully extends into all the parts of life that make my heart sing, sometimes that song is sad, tender or joyful but meaningful conversation for me feels like growth and this chat has it in spades.It was perhaps 15 years ago or more that I first met Jen Cloher, somewhere on  my triple j timeline and I remember even then being captivated by this person who I perceived to be almost delicate, elfin-like yet who exuded a strength that was coming from somewhere deeper than just their own two feet. To speak with Jen now as they move into the stateliness of being an empowered human heading toward fifty is an honour and a pleasure. Jen has this year released their fifth album and to describe it, I don’t want to fumble with my own explanation but instead use these beautifully crafted words from Jen’s website:'I Am The River, The River Is Me, Cloher’s fifth album, is verdant and rich; it luxuriates in stillness, and carries itself with cool, unfussy confidence. It suggests that home is not found in a place or a politic, but in the community you keep: Inspired by Cloher’s powerful matrilineal line of wāhine Māori, I Am The River, The River Is Me is not urgent, or hurried, but it is vital, made with the care and ease of someone who knows that their past began before birth, and will continue long after they’re gone.'  Make a cup of tea for this one, soften your chest and open the windows of your mind because a chat with Jen Cloher is a balm for the soul.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Can you imagine growing up one of 9 siblings?? Perhaps you are from a big family, how about then adding in a whole bunch of foster siblings too? How do you think such a household would shape you? Have you ever considered fostering children but have fears that hold you back?Meet Naarah Rodwell, CEO of CASPA SERVICES, an out of home care organisation with an incredible reputation for cutting through the beauracratic bullshit and putting kids first. Naarah is laser like in her focus – advocating for societies undeniably most vulnerable – the little people who desperately need big people to care about them and for them.  This is the story of how being one of 9 children in a household of foster children, shaped Naarah Rodwell into who she is today: a glorious warrior of a woman who has chosen to put herself on the frontline of this countries hardest stories. Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

You know those humans that seem able to defy the time space contiunuum somehow and fit more life into the clock than most? Almost like their bodies are a vaster universe in some way than others, overflowing with a quantity of energy that allows them to do so many big beautiful things that have a meaningful impact in this one human life. Meet Carly Findlay, a glorious woman who’s taken the experience of living with a facial difference and turned it into an arrowhead of change. Embracing life with both hands, Carly’s bio is just too good to simply not read as it is – so relax your shoulders, soften the corners of your eyes, open your ears, your heart and let the wonderfulness just float on in...Carly Findlay OAM is an award-winning writer,  speaker and  appearance activist.   Her first book, a memoir called Say Hello, was released in Australia in January 2019. She also compiled and edited Growing Up Disabled in Australia with Black Inc Books. Carly works part time as Melbourne Fringe’s Access and Inclusion Coordinator. She writes on disability and appearance diversity issues for news outlets including the CNN, ABC, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, and SBS. She was named as one of Australia’s most influential women in the 2014 Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards. She has appeared on ABC TV’s You Can’t Ask That and Cyberhate with Tara Moss, and has been a regular on various ABC radio programs. She has spoken at the Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Writers Festival, the University of Western England and Melbourne University – to name a few. She organised the history-making Access to Fashion – a Melbourne Fashion Week event featuring disabled models. She has a Masters of Communication and Bachelor of eCommerce. Carly identifies as a proud disabled woman. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.  Get more of Carly's vivacious, colourful, sharp and funny presence at https://carlyfindlay.com.au/ and find her on insta at @carlyfindlaySupport the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Generational trauma is threaded through us all like silver webs that catch bits of debris and snag us up in more ways than we can ever really know. It's just part of being human. How can we prevent passing some of the not so good stuff along, not just to offspring but to anyone who crosses our path?Meet Damien Schofield – a big fit fella with an enormous heart. Like far too many Generation X-ers Damien grew up down the generational line of a young man deployed, without any choice, to fight in the Vietnam War. A war that saw Australian political policy draft young men from an unlucky dip to go and fight in a war that changed those young men forever, coming home with no systemic support, a role that then often landed heavily on partners and children. This is the story of one man’s refusal to not only participate in generational pass the parcel himself but put an end to that cruel game altogether. When the music stopped on Damien, instead of passing that parcel along, he decided to turn into fuel for campfires, for children and their parents to sit around and create connection. Damien Schofield is the creator of the phenomenal Younger Heroes initiative and bloody legend well worth tuning into.Find Damien at https://theyoungerheroes.org/ or the socials @theyoungerheroesSupport the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Luke Henery is an absolute legend; a slayer of so many tired old paradigms, simply by being himself.Bassist for Violent Soho now DZ Deathray, Luke is a punk rock unicorn, startlingly kind, generous and so full of heart. For good and for bad, h ow did growing up the church influence who he would become? What did the pandemic look like on a day to day basis for artists trapped beneath the wreckage of a decimated industry? Is it possible to wear the hat of a rock lord and still be a doting Dad and supportive husband? In this episode, we dive headlong into the big ocean of life as a touring musician, the backstory from the 'burbs, the church to Australian rock legend and renowned photographer.Artwork Photo by  Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Research on the link between climate change events and PTSD, Major Depression Disorder and Complex Grief has been documented since at least 2018 - have you noticed this existential trauma seeping into you? But what if you’re an Environmental Scientist like Floss Sturgiss? And every part of you is geared toward preventing species from becoming extinct; when you’re on the frontline of seeing the balance of nature collapsing as a direct result of utterly preventable choices, on a daily basis? How do you keep a calm head on your shoulders and carry an open heart in your chest?   This episode takes you into the beautiful and wild landscapes of Australia, the climate change events ravaging them – fires, floods, mass extinctions – and one woman’s enormous passion to dedicate her life to alter the trajectory we’re all on, unless we all start putting caring for Country at the very top of our to-do lists. This is a story of not coping, of learning how to cope, of how to do the big things, of an initiation by fire and the wisdom that appears perfectly on cue.  Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

From communist Russia to capitalist paradise to sub tropical oasis, through cold greys and glowing freedoms, through systemic trauma, pain, elation and finding the middle ground. Anya Gerashenko is a discreet poet, a lover of language, a survivor of oppression, a renegade, a fermenting icon and an exquisite story teller. You’re going to cry, you’re going to laugh, so consider yourself forewarned. Anya welcome to the podcast. Follow her at https://www.instagram.com/peaceloveandvegetables/Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Corporate roles and leadership positions are often fraught with heavy handedness and a very real sense of power imbalance; with characters who perpetuate this idea that to be at the top, you have to fight and fear your way there. Then there are those people - like the guest in this episode - who with big smiles and caring words, brush that myth into the fire.Understated, unassuming, extreme talent. That's how I think of Meagan Loader. A woman who has helped shape Australia's musical landscape through her roles at triple j, Double j and FBi Radio, building wonderful relationships across organisations that make up the nation's musical weave and by nurturing many a radio broadcaster to fame. How does someone become so tender and how can it work in your favour in the role of BOSS?Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Can you think of a person in your life who just seems able to genuinely see and experience the joy in everything? Who isn’t riddled with anguish, doubt or fear and who makes you feel better just simply by being there? An osmosis of good vibes – a combination of lightness, openness, attentiveness, safety and love. Like they just really like who you are and in that glow of how they perceive you, you start to like yourself a little more too? A person who reminds you that humans can be aok.In this episode I present to you one of those rare unicorns – a man who’s experienced gut-wrenching heart exploding pain and transformed it into a most enthusiastic love for this crazy human adventure. Gwyn Williams is a teacher in different forms, the creator of the ever-expanding modality of zenthai shiatsu and the possessor of one of the best laughs on planet earth. Drop the shoulders and relax into the profundity of this mischievous mystical man.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Comedian, writer, Greens candidate for Richmond, disruptor, survivor, storyteller – the list of nouns to describe the roles that Mandy Nolan has not just dabbled but swum in completely, goes on like a roll call of ways to create a meaningful and impactful existence. Always appearing endlessly full of vigour and yeses, Mandy is one of those people who seems able to bend time and address everything injustice that fuels her fire. Her massive story of childhood domestic violence, parental death, the ripple effects, entering politics and growing older un-gracefully, is utterly captivating.This an invitation to just let go, open the windows of your mind,  allow yourself to free fall into the rebellious, bold brain of the majestic Mandy Nolan and see what floats in.  Find out more about Mandy at www.mandynolan.com or at her insta: @mandy.nolanSupport the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Jingi Wallah! Welcome back to Lissie Turner Presents... the podcast that explores the richness of extraordinary, every day humans. That unpicks and unpacks the tricky stuff - life, death, love, getting kids off to school on time, adulting, childhood, personal tragedies and triumphs, the little and the big wisdoms that rise to the surface as we rollick along this wild human adventure.In this episode, Lissie presents the bouncy, sparkly, kind, optimistic, fun and forgiving Patience Hodgson. Most famously known as the lead singer of Brisbane band The Grates, her backstory involves a tiny, TINY island, a punch-up, freedom, rock n roll love, divorce and the navigation of life's most boring structures with a most unboring mind.Catch a vibe of Patience in her previous incarnation as the spectacular frontwoman of The Grates here.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

This luscious, wisdom-filled season finale, is a pastiche of the entirety of this debut season of Lissie Turner Presents... A mind-blowing collection of story snippets, a treasure chest brimming with gems, an unbelievably awesome cast of outstanding humans and heartaching, life-affirming, life-changing, inspirational tales chopped up into bite-sized chunks of chewy goodness.As far as pods go, you'd be hard pressed to find an episode as diverse, as colourful, as informative and as stellar as this one - a showcase of excellence and a very loud reminder, that you're life is YOUR life and it is there to be lived to it's fullest, no matter what comes your way.Featuring:Ironman Liz BlatchfordMermaid Domi AbrahamGrief Specialist Vashti WhitfieldLesbian Recruitment Officer Kiki DeLuxPirate Ship Builder Polly ArmstrongAuthor and Body Builder Jenny ValentishYoni Mapper Karlyn DigitalisSunrise Enthusiast Danni CarrFreedom Fighter Safa FatayerjiWorld Record Holder Jamie MilneProfessor of AI Dr Catriona WallaceAyurvedic Extraordinaire Katie RoseMiracle Walker Ben TillmanThe Strongest Woman In The World Sara TindleySerendipity Shawoman Holly RhodesSober Awkward-ist Victoria VanstoneCultural Advisor Oli CostelloLittle Giant Abelia HissinkMan of Many Colours Ash GrunwaldSupport the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

A believer in nuances and a great supporter of the capacity of every day humans to love and care for each other, Ash Grunwald is a contemplative creature, on a never-ending odyssey to get to the heart of this wild human life.His journey has it's roots in South Africa, in authoritarianism gone wrong, of strong-willed parents, in late rebellion and a powerful drive to be a decent human being. Spending his life either in the ocean, on stages all around the world or in the company of the people he loves the most - his wife and two glorious daughters - on Bundjalung Country, Australia.In this episode Lissie lovingly dissects her good friend's story, his mind, his worries, his aspirations and his most philosophical musings on life, death and the maintenance inbetween.www.ashgrunwald.comSupport the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

One afternoon during a rather lovely but uneventful book club, someone that I had known in various incarnations – my son’s school teacher and fellow lover of books – very lightly dropped her own story like a bomb into a calm sea - hitting the surface of this casual gathering and then as if in slow motion, commanded with such steadiness by this woman in control of it’s affect, it’s splashback rose out of that quiet setting high into the air and sent waves of disbelief, grief and awe through a little Byron Bay book club. In this episode, that story is shared. And in it a message of connection for survivors, a warning to abusers and a reminder for all of us, that we just never ever know what could be sitting deep in the heart of anyone, no matter how it seems on the surface. This is a conversation about how we surmount that huge obstacle of silence and a reflection for me personally on how in this episode, I do not even broach the massive part of the conversation around how the heinous behaviour of perpetrators, that's so very rampant, is stamped out.  That we will address down the track. This story belongs to Abelia Hissink, the fighter, the survivor, the author of her own adult story. The Mother, Wife, Teacher and all round excellent human being.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

In this very special episode I nerd out with Cultural Advisor and Co-Founder of Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation, Oli Costello, about trees and landscapes but if that's not your bag, well that's even more reason to hang in there! This chat goes deep and wide. Into connection, to hard times, finding our ways to keep putting one foot in front of the other on this crazy adventure called life. Read on!Each and every one of us is a melting pot of everything that has come before. A million golden threads extending back through time, connecting us to everyone in our ancestral lines and in more subtle ways, to everyone who crossed each and every one of their paths.What does that feel like when two threads extend back, not that long ago, to seemingly opposing sides? Where do you land when you carry the stories of both Aboriginal and of convict? What does that present within a human who is the product of such a weave and where do you turn the energy of that combined ancestral trauma? Bundjalung legend Oli Costello's ancestral threads, carry the weight of British oppression on both sides. Those who were stolen from their families and homeland of Britain and those who's lands and people were stolen by the British here in what came to be known through colonisation as Australia.Oli turned to Country for answers and learning, and in it he found fire. Fire to heal, to find identity, to reconnect with place, to channel life's complexity into reviving landscapes. This is the story of the many golden threads of @olicostelloSupport the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Aftermath. What we find ourselves in after a big night out on the booze. When things are messy, unclear and we're wondering how many pieces of our dignity and our connections are we going to have to clean up. Aftermath. The time after a tsunami. Trying to find people. Place. Seeing things that will never leave us. Aftermath. The early years of sobriety. Processing a lifetime's worth of sordid memories. Cleaning up the self, for the self. Finding all the things we thought we'd lost about ourselves and saying goodbye to the things we never needed.If you're sober, you may already have heard of this warm, funny, witty woman. The creator of the Sober Awkward (@soberawkward) podcast and champion of a life without alcohol. Former trashbag, now international treasure @drunkmummysobermummy, Mamma, Author, blog writer (www.drunkmummysobermummy.com), speaker, creator of the Cuppa Community (www.cuppa.community) professional sobrietist, the glorious Victoria Vanstone.And if you'd like to hear Lissie's power-packed sober sermon at the recent Messages From The Bottle: Stories of Sobriety show, click here.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

What happens when you’re on a very straighty one eighty trajectory climbing the conditioned tiers of Christion upbringing, devoted wife, mother and Corporate CEO and then for the first time you take magic mushrooms at a festival in Portuagal and you have your mind blown out of the crown of your head, along with everything that was programmed into you to that point, and suddenly all you thought life was, is no longer holding true? For Trauma-Informed Educator, Holly Rhodes it set in motion an odyssey of grand exploration - uprooting everything in her luxurious very corporate London life to find out what the hell happened in that pyschedelic experience and found herself going so deep into different spiritual studies, to living life between her new found place in the Kimberley region of northern Australia as well as with the phenomenal Aboriginal Women Elders of Balgo, who schooled her about life, the universe and everything, in one of the most remote Indigenous communities, with some of the most powerful law and knowledge keepers, in the world. This is a story of going where you never thought your life could go, to places and people you didn’t even know existed, by giving yourself permission to simply step through those doors one after another as they open up in front of you and find a purpose that no school counsellor ever offered up as possibility. Special and vital acknowledgment to the Law Women of Kapululangu and Auntie Alison and the Mutitjulu Law Women for the work they do with the women's culture camps. If you're interested in the next one 28th March - 1st April 2023, you can email [email protected] for more info & the application form. More amazing camps planned in The Kimberley next year! Holly Rhodes is a therapist who incorporates ceremonial healing, integrative therapies, community development and spiritual healing. She weaves a wealth of knowledge and experience into cultural immersions with Australia’s First Nations women. Holly spent over 4 years intensively training and finally initiated in Peru as a Currandera working with sacred plant medicines, she continues to offer traditional cultural experiences to Peru. For the past 9 years she has been intermittently living with and supporting the first contact Aboriginal Law Women of the Western Desert in Western Australia with their traditions, law and culture. She currently co-ordinates Women’s Culture Camps at Uluru with senior Elders who hold traditional Law ceremonies, in addition to deep for healing for participants. Holly studied her own European culture through a degree in Art History and English Literature at Roehampton University in London. S She is a Founder of the Strong Leeyan Collective, an initiative to support the development of Wellbeing and Empowerment hubs throughout the Kimberley where people can heal and educate themselves to be empowered in living more sustainably. Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Some of life's deepest and most important conversations are so often never had. Instead they languish behind the constructed veil of taboo or impoliteness, the most profound wisdoms left unshared. Leaving us all languishing in our own contemplative isolationSara Tindley has had a year none of us could conceive - thick with the heaviest blanket of grief, forced to acknowledge her own mortality, a catastrophic flood, all whilst being deeply engaged in motherhood, partnerhood, in the grand satisfaction of farming and the significance of writing songs to make sense of it all. In just a year,  lives completely changed - the loss of a daughter, a re-diagnosis and the most catastrophic of floods. This conversation is a profoundly rare opportunity to hear wisdom from inside the place we are all walking toward. It's a conversation of enduring the pains of human life and of the beauty and poetry that grows alongside.If you're in the Northern Rivers, book your ticket for this remarkable woman's album launch Thursday 10th of November at Lismore's @theatrestarcourt And to witness the brilliance of Sara's gifted daughter Lily Bell-Tindley, watch the exquisitely moving Australian film Lou, in which she stars.@saratindley and her brand new record Greetings From Lake St Clair. Starring on this episode of Lissie Turner Presents...Dive deeper into the incredible world of Sara and www.saratindley.comSupport the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Are you navigating the great minefield of the blended family? Rich no doubt in treasure but with booby traps set everywhere by young and old alike, being the mamma in a blended family takes a skill, a centredness and a suppleness like no other family construct.Katie Rose has spent more than 25 years exploring eastern philosophy in yoga and in ayurveda, a passion that was inexplicably present within her even as a small child; a child captivated by thoughts of India, a country she'd never been to before nor knew much about at all. Yet so drawn to it she was, that at aged 16 she set off from the conservative hamlet of her upbringing and embarked on the adventure that would open up the door to the rest of her life's purpose. Using ALL of the tools from her years of study, Katie's unexpected life as a Mother of 5, has turned out to be her greatest ashram. This is an inspirational tale of global adventure distilled down to the most important one of all - that of being someone's mother, someone's partner and the discovery that every spiritual aspect has application and evolution within the home. This is the story of a contemporary woman overflowing with ancient knowledge, who has reached the great aspiration of - for the most part - liking herself.You can find Katie Rose and all of her glorious, life-affirming offerings at www.bhaktirose.com.auSupport the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Ben Tillman did not hold back on starting adult life. At aged 20 with no idea about business, he and his mates started a cafe that would morph into an art gallery, a bar, a music venue and eventually a festival called Yours and Owls.  All of this kicking off around the same time as losing his father to a self-destructive spiral that would for a time feed his own. In 2012 Ben would jump behind the wheel of car with his two mates after a night on the booze, a split second decision to risk the short drive home. Within moments the car was upside down. And Ben, whilst conscious and in no pain, could not move his body. This is the story of the already bold life that proceeded that accident and of the phenomenal decade that came after. This is the school of finding acceptance for what is, whilst simultaneously, enthusiastically steering change.  This is the odyssey of one man discovering the potency of subtle tools for grand results and the affect of his mind on his healing.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Did you know right now in the world there is an organisation called The Responsible Metaverse Alliance and that it exists to ensure the safety of people within the virtual world? Have you heard of transhumanism and what the greatest danger to humanity is in relation to artificial intelligence? Did you know that in the unregulated Metaverse, there is a sexual assault issue?Unless you yourself are deeply embedded in the world of technology and AI, this episode is going to explode your mind. This is the story of a future that is already here. Of artificial intelligence, of a Universe that exists with visuals but no matter, yet creates a visceral and emotive response, it’s the mind-blowing reality of the Metaverse, it’s dangers and it’s opportunities and at the centre of it all, one woman on a mission to get ahead of it’s immensely rapid expansion and create a safe Metaverse foundation for all, it’s the incredible tale of a woman journeying through real planet earth deserts and jungles on her own adventure of self-discovery through pychedelics. Dr Catrina Wallace is the Founder of the Responsible Metaverse Alliance and the Executive Chair of Boab AI - Artesian Capital's AI Accelerator and VC fund, she has been recognised by the Australian Financial Review as the Most Influential Woman in Business & Entrepreneurship and was the Founder of Ethical AI Advisory, now part of the Gradient Institute, where Catriona is a Director.   She is the co-author of the book Checkmate Humanity: the how and why of Responsible AI. Catriona was the Founder of Artificial Intelligence ASX Listed company Flamingo AI, which exited in 2020. Flamingo AI was the second only woman led (CEO & Chair) business ever to list on the Australian Stock Exchange. Beneath all of that Dr Catrina Wallace is a Woman, a Mother and a Medicine Woman in training – but perhaps not the kind of medicine you think. Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

The tale of Maori Scottish legend Jamie Milne, holds nothing ordinary. From the circumstances of his conception to the breaking of a world record with nauseating endurance, and every small and large action in between.From a most unusual upbringing, that saw Jamie at the helm of his household from a very tiny age, to foster homes, heart-shattering rejection, a coming of age in the military, to ultra marathons, mind-boggling feats of physical pain and a piss-yourself laughing sense of humour. This is the gritty story of a glorious human.Jamie Milne is the Founder of JMT Mind Gym, based on the Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia, he's a leading Corporate and High Performance Coach, a champion in his community and the captain of this adventure. So buckle up, it's a bumpy ride that'll have you laughing till you cry and crying 'til it hurts.Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Kidnapped. Not once but twice. Years of her childhood diverted to lonely confusion and a lasting feeling of displacement. This is the story of two adults trying to find leverage for their own dreams and of the children at the beating heart. Three siblings who carry the ongoing burden as adults now themselves, of trying to reconcile their different incarnations of the same devastating story. The story of one child taken.This is a beautiful tale of how humans can not just endure but bloom into the most glorious people, even when carrying the heaviest loads. This is a conversation on perspectives and more than anything else, on the importance of listening.Safa Fatayerji is a brilliant, warm human being, an adult full of heart and love, who is trying to make sense still of what she experienced as a child, motivated and inspired by her childhood to find her own spectacular place of belonging..Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Sitting in story around the metaphorical campfire with this vivacious, tenacious, brilliant babe, is a rich and glorious treat. Always.Danni Carr, Founder of How I Quit Alcohol and Earth Bottles, my sister in sobriety, bold, brave and beautiful through and through, is an absolute firecracker of self-exploration. She's a Mamma, Sober Coach, eternal student and wife of Ash Grunwald. Committing to powerful daily routines to move through the remnant pain of a drug-addicted Mother, to losing her life's longest love, finding it again in unexpected places, to being in conscious relationship with her husband Ash and the courage to pour all of herself into all of the things, Danni Carr is the representation of a person who has landed in her own skin, embodied in honest reflections of self, of change and owner of one of the world's most adorable giggles.This woman is one of my life's favourites. Take a listen and you'll hear why. Support the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

What happens when two recovering bogans get-together to discuss making peace with someone after they've died, growing up in South East Qld ghettos and a career as an intrepid vaginal cartographer? A fucking brilliant chat, that's what.Karlyn Digitalis is an Erotic Educator, Yoni Mapping Therapist and a Breath/Body Work Trauma Specialist. She grew up tough in the SE Queensland town of Toowoomba, learning how to find peace from life's fear, finding the free-spirited subculture that would ignite her self-discovery, move across the world to land right back at home - the home of her own body.If you've ever wondered what the hell Yoni Mapping is or how to alchemise your inner bogan into a driving life power, then tune in and to the glorious, deliciously likeable, Karlyn Digitalis.And if you want to contact with Karlyn, or find out more about her upcoming offerings and workshops find her on insta @the_erotic_alchemist or at https://linktr.ee/Karlyn_DigitalisSupport the showFollow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:Instagram: @melbampton_Leave a review on Apple Podcast: 'Mel Bampton Presents...How Human'Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'Catch some of Mel's presentations: The Uncensored Truth About OvariesMessage From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety