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The Understanding Boys Podcast
by Dr Ray Swann
Welcome to the Understanding Boys Podcast, a series of conversations exploring what makes a good man.This series is brought to you by Brighton Grammar School, an all-boys school in Melbourne.
Episodes
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Kylie Rogers
Kylie Rogers is one of Australia's leading commercial and media executives. Her current role is Executive General Manager, Customer and Commercial at the Australian Football League (AFL). Her previous roles include National Commercial Director and National Head of Generate at Network Ten, and...
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Maree Crabbe
Film director and producer Maree Crabbe has worked with young people and issues affecting young people for more than 20 years. She has developed and delivered programs that focus on sexual violence prevention and sexual diversity and has contributed to public conversations through interviews on...
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Genevieve Brammall
Genevieve is best known in her role as National Head of PR and Talent Relations for News Corp Australia. She has also worked on a number of advisory boards including the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Melbourne Press Club, as well as helping out at local sports clubs her children are...
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Kim Kane
Kim Kane is an award-winning Australian author of 25 books for children and teenagers. Kim's books have been published throughout the world and translated into a number of languages. Before she began writing for children, Kim practised commercial law for a decade. Kim is an advocate for…
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Sarah Meachem
Dr Sarah Meachem is an academic research scientist and health research advocate in the area of male reproduction. Sarah's research has a clinical relevance for men's health in the better management of male infertility and her work is recognised globally. She is the author of over 80 publications...
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Roshena Campbell
Roshena Campbell is a barrister and Melbourne City Councillor who is passionate about contributing to Melbourne's re-emergence as a vibrant and thriving city. She has expertise in commercial law and corporate governance and has represented some of Australia's largest companies and state and local...
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Martine Oglethorpe
Martine Oglethorpe is a digital wellbeing and online safe educator, speaker and writer. For over 10 years, Martine's blog, The Modern Parent, has been a trusted resource for parents on the challenges faced by families in the cyber world and has recently authored a new book, The Modern Parent –...
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Daisy Turnbull
Daisy Turnbull is a teacher, director of wellbeing, counsellor and now inspiring author of two books, 50 Risks to Take With Your Kids – A guide to building resilience and independence in the first 10 years and the follow up 50 Questions to Ask Your Teens – A guide to fostering communication and...
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Matt and Robyn Cronin
Matt and Robyn Cronin endured great loss when their son Pat was killed by one coward punch. Since April 2016, Matt and Robyn have dedicated their lives towards research, awareness, and education in ending the coward punch through the Pat Cronin Foundation. The foundation provides free…
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Zac Seidler
Dr Zac Seidler, is a clinical psychologist, researcher and leading men's mental health expert. Zac is the Director of Mental Health Training at Movember and Senior Research Fellow with Orygen at the University of Melbourne, Dr Seidler has dedicated his academic and professional career to men's...
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Jacquie Hey
Jacqueline Hey is the Chair of the Board of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and is also serving on the Board of Qantas Airways, is a School Council member at Brighton Grammar School and a member of Chief Executive Women. Between 1987 and 2010, Jacquie held several executive positions with Ericsson,...
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Paul Roos
In a career spanning 30 years, Paul Roos has been an Australian Rules Football player (Fitzroy, Sydney Swans), Head Coach of the Sydney Swans and Melbourne Football Club, media broadcaster and men's wellness advocate. In 2005, he guided the Sydney Swans to the AFL Premiership, breaking a 72-year...
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Jennifer Keyte
Join us for our latest podcast with Jennifer Keyte an accomplished journalist and broadcaster who we all recognise as the news anchor on Network Ten's, Ten Eyewitness News. Jennifer is one of Melbourne's most trust and respected presenters with decades of experience. She brings sophistication and...
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Dennis Barbour
Dennis Barbour is the President/CEO of Partnership for Male Youth, Washington, DC which was formed to fill a gap in the health care system for adolescent and young male adults. Dennis attended Georgetown University and Washington College of Law, where he graduated with a JD. He has decades of...
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Jon Muir
Jon Muir OAM a recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to mountaineering, a Centenary Medal and the Australian Geographic Society's Adventurer of the year. He started climbing full-time as a teenager and since then, he has gained ground-breaking solo records in climbing the...
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Margie Danchin
Join us as Dr Margie Danchin talks to us about balancing work life as a parent, raising healthy boys and about vaccination, health and impact of the global pandemic. Associate Professor Margie Danchin, an immunisation expert who is a Clinician Scientist at the Murdoch Children's Research…
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Alex Rathgeber
Alex Rathgeber is an Award-Winning Australian actor, best known for his work as Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, the Tin Man in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Wizard of Oz and his UK performance of Raoul in the 21st Anniversary cast of The Phantom of the Opera in the West End. Originally from Horsham,...
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Emma Murray
Emma Murray is one of Australia's leading mindfulness practitioners and high-performance mind coaches. As a former national-level athlete and with a Bachelor of Communications, majoring in Psych, Emma has always been passionate about the mind and performance. Emma works with elite athletes in all...
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Hunter Johnson
Hunter Johnson is co-founder and CEO of The Man Cave, a charity that focuses on and teaches emotional intelligence to young men (boys aged 12-16) across Australia. He also leads STUFF™, a men's personal care brand that champions healthy masculinity. With a background in emotional intelligence,...
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Kylie King
Dr Kylie King, PhD is a Senior Research Fellow at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University. Dr King has a decorated career as a psychologist, with her main focus in suicide prevention research (male focus). Her work centres around developing, implementing and…
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James Tomkins
James Tomkins, OAM, is one of Australia's most established and decorated rowers, having competed in 6 Olympic Games and countless other World Championships and Rowing Cups. He is also the only rower in history to win world titles in every sweep oar event. In 1997 James received an Order of...
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Matt Englar-Carlson
Dr Matt Englar-Carlson's work focusses on educating and training professionals about male mental health needs as well as how to work more effectively with boys and men. Matt is a professor of counselling and the Director of the Center for Boys and Men at California State University, Fullerton and…
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Daniel Petre
Father of three, Daniel Petre, talks about his book 'Father Time', an Australian classic. About being a dad and about being mindful as parents, on how to attain balance in a working life, especially as someone who had great success in the corporate world as well philanthropy. Daniel Petre, a...
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Monty Badami
Dr Monty Badami looks through an anthropological lens to explore how we can help boys find their place in the world and offers some useful tips that you can use at home. Dr Surmant (Monty) Badami holds a PhD in anthropology and is the founder and CEO of Habitus, a social enterprise that uses...
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Robert Blum
Dr Robert Blum is currently managing a global research project looking at the impact of gender and gender norms in society. In this episode Dr Blum talks about gender norms, the impacts on boys (and girls) while telling some incredible stories from his lifelong experience working with adolescents...
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Megan De Beyer 2
In this week's episode, we're joined by psychologist and international parenting expert, Megan De Beyer. Based in Cape Town, Megan travels the globe promoting positive parenting through workshops in which she guides mothers and helps them navigate the challenges of teenage years. Megan's mission…
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Arne Rubinstein
Dr Arne Rubinstein is an internationally recognised expert in Rites of Passage, adolescent development and parenting. With over 30 years' experience as a medical doctor, counsellor, mentor, speaker and facilitator, Dr Arne has helped over 100,000 people globally with his program to support young...
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Jacqui True
Dr Jacqui True is Professor of International Relations at Monash University where she is Director of the Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre. She is also a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, an Editor of European Journal of International Security, and a former Australian...
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Stephen Day
Major General Stephen Day, DSC, AM, is a highly decorated soldier who has held senior positions in the Australian Army. General Day's established reputation as a distinguished and compassionate leader has seen him formally recognised by the Australian Government, the governments of France and the...
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Will Pucovski
In this episode we are joined by Will Pucovski, a professional cricketer playing at State level and having been selected to the Australian squad. Will chats to Ray about his professional life, his work as a cricketer and what it has taught him. Will also shares four key questions that he wished…
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Micah
In the final episode for series 2, our podcast is turned on its head in an interesting twist with Micah Swann. Micah interviews our host Dr Ray Swann, who shares his insights into why the podcast was started, what he has learned and who he looks up to. Ray also shares some book recommendations,...
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Angie
We spoke to Angie as Melbourne came out of lockdown. She shares her thoughts about people and rules, how schools have handled COVID-19 and what it's been like in school during this period, including what it has shown her about herself. We hope you enjoy this episode. In this series we speak to...
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Angus
In speaking with Angus, he talks about what makes him happy about being the eldest child, about online boundaries and parental controls as well as some of the male stereotypes and portrayals of men that he encounters. We hope you enjoy this episode. In this series we speak to young people about...
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Kaya
This recording was made during the time of lockdown in Melbourne Australia and we explore a little about what's been happening with Kaya, a reflective person with great ideas and a real enthusiasm for life. She has a great story to tell too. We hope you enjoy this episode. In this series we speak...
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Taj
In an enjoyable conversation speaking with Taj, he talks about what he wants to do with his life and what he's learned about himself while being in high school. He shares his view about boys, and why he thinks they test themselves and boundaries. There's a fantastic story from him too about being...
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Juliet
In this series we speak to young people about life and their stories. What do these boys and girls think it is to be a good man these days and if they had a story to tell an adult, who'd listen, what would that story be? In these short interviews we explore these questions and much, much more. In...
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Aubrey
In this series we speak to young people about life and their stories. What do these boys and girls think it is to be a good man these days and if they had a story to tell an adult, who'd listen, what would that story be? In these short interviews we explore these questions and much, much more.…
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Ross Featherston
Ross Featherston is the eighth headmaster of BGS. Since his start in 2014, he has brought about positive change in every domain of the school. He is loved by parents, staff and the boys. Ross talks with us about his wisdom and understanding on how to raise boys, he gives us some takeaways, and...
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Raelene Plozza
Raelene Plozza is an Instructional Coach and Head of Literacy at Brighton Grammar School, where she also teaches a very motivated Year 8 English class. Raelene trained as a Primary teacher and later completed a Masters in Literacy, with her research focused on motivating adolescent boys to read....
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Andrew Lauterstein
Andrew Lauterstein is a triple Olympic medallist and World swimming champion, making him one of Australia's most successful international level swimmers of his time. Since his retirement from professional swimming, Andrew is now a successful business owner of a swimwear company and swim centre.…
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Damien Bolton
Professor Damien Bolton is an academic, a researcher, and a surgeon. He holds numerous positions, as Professor, Head of Department at the Austin Hospital, to an honorary fellow of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. He's published hundreds of papers, book chapters, reviews, and supervised...
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Nathan Lovett Murray
Nathan Lovett-Murray, former AFL footballer and now Indigenous Mentor at Brighton Grammar School, has had an interesting career. He was listed by the Essendon Football Club in 2003 where he helped to establish the first Reconciliation Action Plan for an AFL Club. He also found the time to launch...
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Dawn O'Neil AM
Dawn O'Neil AM received her Order of Australia for services to the community and to Mental health. A thought leader, she is currently the Ambassador of the 'Breathing Space Executive in Mental Health & Wellbeing Program' at Fisher Leadership. Dawn was the chair and founding member of homelessness...
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David Leser
David Leser is well known for being a journalist, feature writer and public interviewer. He's an Australian author of seven books, most recently 'Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing', a twofold investigation following the #MeToo movement, patriarchy and toxic masculinity. David embarked on this...
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Judy Chu
Dr Judy Chu is a lecturer in Human Biology at Stanford University. At Harvard for her doctorate, she researched boys' gender socialisation, relationships and development during early childhood and adolescence. Judy is the co-author of When Boys Become Boys, which offers a new way of thinking…
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Trevor Hendy AM
Trevor Hendy AM is a household name. A former Ironman Australia and professional lifesaver, Trevor Hendy AM, is now a life coach, mentor, author and wholistic personal trainer. Trevor's journey from lifesaver to sought after motivational speaker is an interesting one - he has won six Australian...
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Dianne Vella-Brodrick
Professor Dianne Vella-Brodrick is Head of Research at the Centre for Positive Psychology at The University of Melbourne. Dianne's research interests include the development and evaluation of wellbeing programs, particularly positive education and performance optimisation. Dianne's current…
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Jim Lawrie
In today's podcast we speak with musician – singer/songwriter Jim Lawrie. For the past decade Jim has made a name for himself as an emerging independent artist. Jim Lawrie's songs explore a range of ideas and emotions from love, loss to the joy and wonder of life. Today's podcast will be a little...
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Michael Reichert
Dr Michael Reichert is a world renowned psychologist and author of several books including 'How to Raise A Boy' which aims to help boys grow into strong and compassionate men. Based in Philadelphia, Michael runs a practice specialising in work with boys, men and their families and is involved in…
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Megan De Beyer
Megan De Beyer is a psychologist, parenting expert and mindfulness coach. Based in Cape Town, Megan travels the globe promoting positive parenting through her parent workshops, in which she guides mothers and helps them to navigate the challenging teenage years. Megan's mission is to educate...
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Welcome to the Understanding Boys Podcast, a series of conversations exploring what makes a good man.This series is brought to you by Brighton Grammar School, an all-boys school in Melbourne.
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The Understanding Boys Podcast is created and hosted by Dr Ray Swann.
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