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Subtle Disruptors
by Adam Murray
Podcaster telling the stories of those who are quietly having an amazing positive impact on our world.
Episodes
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Lachlan Mosley: The rippling benefits of grass-roots community sport - SD97
There is no doubt Lachlan Mosley with be a life member of RJFC. He has done amazing work, most of which is invisible, to create a thriving club that helps young people develop, brings a diverse community together, and to simply get kids having fun playing sport.
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Joel Hines: The subtle disruption of thresholds, stories, and re-memberings - SD96
There are moments in our life when we cross a threshold. A place where, once we pass through, we can no longer go back. The experience cannot be unexperienced. Another person now stands in the place of the one that was here in the moment before. These moments can happen in seconds, or they can...
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Jess Price: Moving slowly and building things - SD95
How does one even begin to think about the kind of worlds that might exist in 2075? Those working in the world of foresight specialise in this kind of thing, and although we didn't talk about it directly in this conversation, I think it is one of the emerging skillsets of this episode's guest…
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Dennis Armfield: The gifts of our limiting beliefs - SD94
The moment is surreal on many levels. This week’s guest retired from AFL football soon after I started this podcast. As an avid Carlton supporter I had admired him from afar for, among other things, his whole-hearted approach to every contest in every game. I remember reading what he was saying…
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Hoang Anh Cat: A tale of egg tarts, monkey magic & why girls don’t have to be bad at maths - SD93
As we walked around Melbourne's Hoa Nghiem Buddhist Temple, I start to develop a new perspective for my friend, and this week's guest, Hoang Anh Cat. This is not a new thing for my relationship with Cat - it seems that every time I spend time with her I become aware of a new part of her. Whether…
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Desmond John: The subtle disruption of appreciating local, historical, context - SD92
I am blown away by the memory of this week's guest. Desmond John has an ability to recall stories about people and place that fills me with admiration. I find myself wondering how he does this. And my conversation with him gave me a few hints. We sat in one of his favourite places: a lounge area…
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John Chambers: Changes, macro and micro, that create value for all of us - SD91
Positive change is what John Chambers is enabling through his life's many aspects: start-ups; helping corporates innovate in a way that suits them best; working with people to help them grow; seeking ways to grow awareness and connection with Aboriginal Australians.
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Ian Banyard: Getting lost in nature to find our true nature - SD90
Nature can provide inspiration to many of us, but it’s been particularly significant to Naturepreneur, Ian Banyard, who been discovering how reconnecting with the natural world is key to saving both ourselves and our planet.
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Athalia Zwartz: Enabling external change through internal work - SD89
In many ways, this podcast series is about creating change in a way that is accessible to all of us, and which is aggregate has an amazing impact. This episode encapsulates this beautiful, both through the guest Athalia Zwartz, and the organisation she is part of, Initiatives of Change
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Sieta Beckwith: Falling in love with the earth again - SD88
There is something that we have forgotten. Something that came naturally to us when we were kids. Something that came naturally to our ancestors. Through carefully listening to ourselves and to others, we can find a way back to loving the earth again.
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Melanie Knight: Expression, connection, creativity and conviction - SD87
What happens when we slow down and write a letter? Not just to us in the act of writing it, but after posting it for the person who receives it? Melanie Knight creates settings where we can reconnect with analogue forms of communication, and rekindle our creativity.
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The three Adams (Ashton, Jones and Murray): The multiplying effect of an aligned duo - SD86
Some of the best work I have ever done has been working in tandem with somebody I connect with, have values aligned with, and most of all have a lot of fun with. The two Adams have found this in each other, with it manifesting in an excellent podcast called 'What you will learn'.
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Candice Smith: Creating environments that enable our best thinking - SD85
How much of the best thinking we have to offer, and that others have to offer, is being missed by the environments we create for our discussions? Candice Smith embodies what it means to tap into our collective best thinking.
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Jason T Smith: Divulging power for greater impact - SD84
New models of organisation are emerging, where things like self-direction, autonomy, and bringing your whole self to work are highly valued and shown to bring rewards. Back In Motion Health Group is one of these organisations.
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Luke Hockley: Drawing deeply to enable self-love, belonging, insight, and action - SD83
"The performer is a member of the group, who is nominated by the group, to stand up on behalf of the group and say something of value." Luke Hockley embodies these aspects of being a performer and curates moments that draw this out of others as well.
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Katerina Gaita: Conversations that create a ’climate for change’ - SD82
Katerina helps to move people towards a deeper understanding of how climate change will affect them through listening and conversation.
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Oscar Trimboli: Deep listening - slowing down to go faster - SD81
Oscar Trimboli is helping organisations and individuals see that in order to do the most important and valueable thing, we need to learn how to slow down and listen.
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Lina Patel: Playing at the edge of what's possible and what's permitted - SD80
Lina Patel plays well with edges: between joy and ferocity; between what is permitted and what is possible; and between power and purpose.
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Gilbert Rochecouste: The subtle disruptor of the City of Melbourne
Gilbert Rochecouste has played an enormous, behind the scenes role in shaping Melbourne to be the city it is today.
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David Holmgren: Principles of permaculture for a retrofitted suburbia - SD78
For forty years David Holmgren has been part of a worldwide movement of subtle disruption through co-originating permaculture. His latest book is a handbook on how to apply permaculture principles to the living arrangements most of us occupy today: suburbia.
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Garry Williams: Subtle disruption through trying, failing and learning - SD77
Garry Williams has navigated his way out of the corporate world, through General Assembly, Inspire9, FuckUp Nights Melbourne, and now working to help nurture Melbourne's innovation community at the University of Melbourne.
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Bec Brideson: Connect to women for business success - SD76
Women are becoming the dominant driving force of many economies. From education, to salaries, to being the decision maker on purchase: women are turning the tables. But business is slow to catch on, with many brands still connecting to the masculine over the feminine. Bec Brideson is helping to...
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Jordan Osmond: ‘Living the change’ - SD75
Stories of impending doom can have a numbing and resigning impact. But there are changes we can all make that will not only help create a movement that averts environmental crisis, but can enable us to live more connected, flourishing and well lives.
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Megan Davis: Tapping into narrative to compel and connect - SD74
Most organisations have a mission statement, vision statement, values, and now even a purpose. But as useful as they are in setting the direction of an organisation, they can be very difficult to recall without having them in front of you. They tend to become dry bits of information in and of...
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Sheree Rubinstein: Creating a space for female founders to thrive - SD73
There is a gender imbalance amount female entrepreneurs and business founders. One Roof is a coworking community designed specifically to help correct this, designed with intentionality to meet the needs of women in business leadership.
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Kyrstie Barcak: Growing just one thing - SD72
Kyrstie Barcak: Growing just one thing - SD72 by Adam Murray
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Josh McLean: The ancient craft of tanning - SD71
Leather tanning is an ancient craft, which uses ancient tools and is embedded with ancient rituals and wisdom. Josh McLean is one of the people around the world preserving tanning, and using it as a way to help us reconnect with who we are.
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Amy Churchouse: Subtle disruption of neighbourhood connection - SD70
In an age where we are told that technology is helping us connect in one way, and disconnect in another, The Good Karma network is helping neighbours connect in person, and help each other, using tech tools accessible to all of us.
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Rachel Murray: Subtle disruption of whole-hearted living - SD68
Rachel is embodying many of the themes running through this show: abundant living with frugality; connecting with other whole-heartedly; work on and with nature; and focusing on personal wellbeing.
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Xiao Han Drummond: Subtle disruption of our personalised echo chamber - SD67
Xian Han has decided to take on the momentous trend of ever increasing personalisation we all experience in our digital world. She has founded Refni, a start-up aimed to help people become aware of, and expand the boundaries of, their filter bubble.
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Nathan Loutit: Harnessing the uni/industry borderlands to design the future - SD66
Stepping into the workplace of Nathan Loutit is like stepping into the future: 3D printers everywhere; walls with which you can touch and move images around. The future is happening now, and the Centre for Design Innovation and Swinburn is helping industry to harness it.
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Jaddan Comerford: Consciously creating music for, by and with people - SD65
Jaddan Comerford created a record label 16 years ago, just before the plunge in the music industry. Over that time he has helped shape an organisation that puts people at the centre of its every aspect.
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Matt Devine: Living off, and in contrast to, the grid - SD64
Matt Devine and his family are living off-grid in a way that enables them to connect to the land, connect with each, and become net contributors to this ecosystem we are all part of.
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Ruby Lee: Subtly disrupting the human/organisation relationship - SD63
Are the restrictions on expression, and involvement in activities outside of work, actually good for the organisations that impose them, or the people that are part of them? Ruby Lee thinks not, and is a living example of how removing them can help both individuals and organisations flourish.
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Penny Locaso: Getting comfortable with discomfort - SD62
Penny Locaso is on a mission to help 1 million women find happiness in life and work.
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Patrick Jones: Artist as neo-peasant family - SD61
Patrick Jones and his family live in a fascinating way - one he describes as one response to the context we find ourselves living in now. A context where we seem to see technology as our saviour and the earth as our foe. Where things like slowing down, reusing what we have, and connecting to the...
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Eddie Harran: Bringing awareness and agency to our temporal conceptions - SD60
Eddie stopped me in my intellectual tracks: he was right...as I observed my words time was the topic I seem to talk the most about. And here he was telling me that reconceiving and redesigning time was within my power.
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Gabrielle Dolan: Stories and feelings over slides and facts - SD59
Special things can happen when we tell stories. Why do they seem to be prohibited from the workplace? A first hand experience of the power of story telling within the NAB planted the seed for a new career for this week's guest.
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Jeffrey Slayter: Alternative paths to expanding consciousness - SD58
Although he followed a path of personal and spiritual development my guest for this week found that something was still missing. Something that only seemed to open up to him through the assistance of the Sharmantic and consciousness expanding plants.
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Rachel Service: Permission to be joyful - SD57
Achievement through work was the only concept of success and joy that Rachel Service had. Burning out, and some compassionate friends, helped her to see the myriad of other ways she could experience joy in her life. Something she now helps others see as well.
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Samuel Alexander: Activism, education, and imagination for an alternate future - SD56
The impression of Samuel Alexander that lingers most is his empathy for our planet and his fellow humans, his willingness to challenge what it means to flourish as a human, and the alignment of what he talks and writes about with the way he lives.
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Caitlyn Cook: Sexuality with mindfulness, liberation and fun - SD55
Caitlyn has a way of taking things that can be awkward, inaccessible and intangible, and making them safe, fun and empowering. Crucial when it comes to talking about mindfulness and play and sexuality.
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Barry Spencer: Subtly disrupting the Latin alphabet - SD54
Barry is one of the people that has helped open my eyes to the joy, wonder, and possibility of following my curiosity and being open to whatever the outcomes may be. His practice of this is through experimentation with the letter forms of the Latin alphabet, something he started doing 10 years…
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Bronwyn King: Stopping our unconscious investment in tobacco - SD53
This century it is estimated there will be 1 billion tobacco related deaths globally. Many of us unknowingly support this through the investment of our superannuation in tobacco related industries. Dr Bronwyn King is going about denormalising this practise.
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Corey Wastle: Bringing the why to the question of financial planning - SD52
Can the world of financial planning be subtly disrupted? Corey Wastle and Verse Wealth do just this by getting underneath the spreadsheets and numbers and starting with asking why.
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Summer Edwards: Empowering women in their relationship with work - SD51
There is nothing about the way Summer lives that takes as accepted the status quo. From working on three projects concurrently, to empowering mothers to find flexibility and responsibility in their work, and to writing about bringing slowness and sustainability to fashion, Summer is the epitome…
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Andrew Macleod: Working for good within the systems we find ourselves - SD50
Its easy to critique a system from the sidelines without knowing too much about it. But what about really understanding that system, and then finding ways to use the system for good? This is the work of Andrew Macleod.
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Emma Sharley: The subtle disruption of a corporate career - SD49
While simple in the steps that need to be followed, leaving the familiar confines of the corporate world is not typically an easy task. And once the move has been made, there are some many potential voices to listen to about what to do next. How to filter out the noise?
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David Packman: The opportunity of crisis - SD48
The feather, the brick or the steam-train. Life seems to give us progressively more obvious hints that something needs to change. Often it isn't until the crisis that we see the opportunity.
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Jessica Ivers: The reluctant vegan - SD47
Jess had one of those moments when a question asked of her challenged fundamental aspects of the way she was living.
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Podcaster telling the stories of those who are quietly having an amazing positive impact on our world.
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