Best Scott Newgent Podcasts (2024)

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Sarah Sentilles - Stranger Care: Loving What isn’t Ours 1:07:30

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In the depths of Sarah Sentilles' heart, was a primal longing to become a mother. This yearning was buried beneath the desires & pressures of others. Sarah’s husband, Eric, believed the world was already brimming with children in need of loving homes. Everyone else, it seemed, whispered doubts into Sarah's ears. Parenthood, they said, would be the …

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Akhim Dev - The Children in the Pictures: Hunting Paedophiles 1:25:14

5M ago1:25:14

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Dear friends, brace yourselves for an episode unlike any other. In truth, it’s a conversation that’s been incredibly difficult to prepare for, but one that must be shared. Tonight, as your children lie safely in their beds, enveloped in love & protected from harm, it’s crucial to remember that this isn’t the reality for countless children across th…

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Ginger Gentile - Erasing Family: Loving Your Children More Than You Hate Your Ex 53:01

5M ago53:01

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Filmmaker & Changemaker - Ginger Gentile is on a mission to save children from the trauma of high-conflict divorce. Drawing on her own journey as a child torn between two parents, Ginger’s first documentary, ERASING DAD (Borrando a Papa), was instrumental in getting the Argentinian government to pass mandatory co-parenting laws. Her follow up featu…

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Colin Campbell - Finding the Words 1:20:11

5M ago1:20:11

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When Colin Campbell’s two teenage children - Ruby & Hart - were tragically killed by a drunk driver, he and his wife Gail, were plunged headlong into a grief so devastating they felt they might lose their minds. One second, they’re going on a family drive to their new holiday home. The next, their entire world had been extinguished. In his remarkab…

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Jane Epstein - Complicated Courage: Sibling Sexual Abuse, The Silent Epidemic 1:11:28

5M ago1:11:28

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Imagine the unimaginable: a young girl, only six years old, enduring years of sexual molestation at the hands of her own brother. It's a chilling reality that many find difficult to comprehend. Yet, this form of abuse, known as child-on-child or sibling sexual abuse, accounts for an appalling 40% of all sexual abuse cases against children. Yes, you…

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Scott Newgent - The Truth About Transitioning Children from a Transman 1:10:53

5M ago1:10:53

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My next guest, formerly Kellie King, was a formidable woman who seemed to have it all. A trailblazing sales executive, devoted mother of three, & a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community. But at the age of 42, Kellie's world was turned upside down. Urged by her devout Catholic partner & seconded by a health professional, Kellie begins to question her…

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Dr Ingrid Clayton - Believing Me 1:16:29

5M ago1:16:29

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As a clinical psychologist & trauma therapist, my next guest, Dr Ingrid Clayton always strived to help others overcome their pain. But, little did Ingrid know that she, too, carried hidden wounds that she’d yet to fully comprehend. A fractured self-esteem, substance abuse disorder, perfectionism, & a series of dysfunctional relationships might have…

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Dr Dinesh Palipana - How Losing Everything Set Me Free 1:09:24

5M ago1:09:24

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Sometimes, you’re lucky enough to meet someone who’ll change your life in inconceivable ways. My next guest (and now forever friend – whether he likes it or not) is one such human. Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM is a Doctor, Lawyer, Disability Advocate & Researcher. And that’s just the start. He’s also a philosopher & his astonishing memoir: Stronger: How …

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Delia Ephron - A Second Chance at Life & Love 54:16

1+ y ago54:16

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For Hollywood royalty, New York Times bestselling author, screenwriter, and playwright - Delia Ephron - life has always offered a rich supply of copy. Bad hair, heartache, chocolate pudding – almost anything could be mined for a book, a screenplay, or a newspaper column. Then when Delia was 72, a time you might reasonably expect the flow of good ma…

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Jeff Schoep - From Radical to Redemption 1:16:48

1+ y ago1:16:48

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This is a very unique episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS. We’ve all heard stories of people who lived broken, crime filled lives, who have an epiphany & completely turn their lives around, harnessing the wisdoms & insights they learnt along the way, to educate & rehabilitate others. But what if the person in question is a one-time Nazi whose raison d’etre f…

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Professor Jessica Stern - Denial 1:11:38

1+ y ago1:11:38

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Have we got an extraordinary guest for you today and to be honest, unless this intro runs for the next hour all by itself, I am going to have to truncate the bio of this remarkable human being. I hope she will forgive me… Professor Jessica Stern is one of the U.S’s foremost experts on terrorism. She served on President Clinton’s National Security C…

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Rebecca Woolf - All of This 1:01:11

1+ y ago1:01:11

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After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage – successful writer & blogger Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband, Hal. Two weeks after telling Hal she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died. With inordinate courage & candour, Rebecca chronicles …

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Adam Frankel - Family Secrets 1:05:25

1+ y ago1:05:25

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My next guest Adam Frankel grew up idolising his wonderful father and his father’s father, following in their footsteps to become a successful speechwriter. After graduating from Princeton University and the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, Adam joined Barack Obama’s fledgling presidential campaign…

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Hillary Whittington - Raising Ryland 1:19:10

1+ y ago1:19:10

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When Hillary Whittington discovers she’s expecting a baby girl, she and her husband, Jeff, are deliriously overjoyed. Pink & white nursery – check; endless supplies of dresses and bows – check. Then, only months after Ryland is born, Hillary and Jeff realise something isn’t quite right. When they call out, Ryland doesn’t respond. After consulting w…

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Annie Whitlocke - The Death Doula 1:13:23

1+ y ago1:13:23

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My beautiful guest today is Annie Whitlocke. Annie is a death doula. A What you ask? 40 + years on the planet and this entire profession was completely unknown to me… that is until now. Like many of you I suspect, the only context in which I’d heard of any kind of Doula was a person who provides emotional, physical and instructive support to mother…

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Gretchen Carlson - Being Fierce 1:00:19

1+ y ago1:00:19

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In 2016, highly respected & award-winning US journalist and former Fox News anchor, Gretchen Carlson, moved from covering the headlines to becoming one herself. The violin prodigy, former Miss America, Stanford Graduate and acclaimed journalist successfully sued the late CEO & Fox News founder, Roger Ailes for sexual harassment, claiming that she’d…

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Mel Dzelde - Terminally Happy 1:05:31

2+ y ago1:05:31

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There are many episodes on BRAVE JOURNEYS where I have cried, but not today. Today is about celebrating life, love & finding unbridled gratitude & joy in the ordinary. If I told you that my next guest is terminally ill with Stage 4 cancer & has also been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, it would be reasonable to assume this is a deeply sad epi…

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Kate Nason - Everything’s NOT Perfect 1:02:02

2+ y ago1:02:02

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What would you do if your worst private heartache was on the front page of every newspaper around the world? Kate Nason knows… Seven years into her marriage, Kate discovers her husband was cheating on her with multiple women. Then, the unimaginable happens. It’s January of 1998 & Kate wakes to the news that one of her husband’s mistresses was havin…

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Kenneth Feinberg - What's a Life Worth? 46:48

2+ y ago46:48

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My next guest, Kenneth Feinberg, literally stopped me in my tracks. Ken is a prominent attorney, a world-renowned MEDIATOR and the one time chief of staff of the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy. But when we all stood still on 9/11 after one of the most horrific terrorist attacks the world has ever seen, Ken stood up and wanted – indeed asked - to …

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Rebecca Faye Smith Galli - Rethinking Possible 57:57

2+ y ago57:57

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Inspiration comes in many shapes and forms. One of them, without any shadow of a doubt, is my next guest, the truly inspirational Rebecca Faye Smith Galli. Just nine days after her divorce was finalised, Becky, a then 38-year-old mother of four, two of whom with special needs, wakes up at 2am with strange, shooting sensations in her legs. By 9pm, s…

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This Time. I will Rise UP 20:52

2+ y ago20:52

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It's Been 7 Years Since I Began Medical Transition - What Would I Say Now To The Mental Health Professionals That Pushed Me To Medically Transition? Watch Video Here This Time, I Will Rise Up. "This should be a required video for every person who is questioning, believes they are transgender, and that medical transition will help them!" - Justine "…

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Carolyn Moor - The Modern Widows Club 1:04:53

2+ y ago1:04:53

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By her own account, Carolyn Moor had it all. She & her architect husband Chad, had two gorgeous little girls, their own business & a house they designed & built in Orlando. On Valentine’s Day 2000, they talked over a romantic dinner & fantasized about what dreams would come next. While they were driving home, a car struck theirs. Chad tragically di…

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Leslie Morgan Steiner - The Naked Truth 1:16:01

2+ y ago1:16:01

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TRIGGER WARNING!!! Leslie Morgan Steiner is a New York Times best-selling author, columnist for The Washington Post, consultant and thought leader on women’s leadership, work-life balance, inspirational parenting, overcoming adversity and surviving violence against women. She is a graduate of Harvard and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Bus…

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Dr. Lucy Hone - Resilient Grieving: What Abi Taught Us 56:22

2+ y ago56:22

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My next guest, Dr Lucy Hone is a global authority and celebrated Ted Speaker in the area of resilience. Lucy is an Adjunct Senior Professor at the University of Canterbury, a co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, a published academic researcher and best-selling author and blogger for Psychology Today. Having been train…

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Veronica Gorrie - Black & Blue 49:25

2+ y ago49:25

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TRIGGER WARNING!!! Proud Gunaikurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie, had spent a lifetime in fear of the police… and with good reason. Ronnie's grandmother, Linda, was stolen from her family as an eight-year-old in 1941, along with her three siblings. And Veronica’s beloved father John was forcibly taken at birth from his then 16-year-old mother Linda & pl…

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Stephanie Giese - All I Ever Knowed: A Mother’s Fight for her Adopted Son’s Mental Health 1:13:38

2+ y ago1:13:38

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TRIGGER WARNING!!! My next guest, Stephanie Giese is a mother of five, a celebrated writer, a prolific blogger - recognised as one of HuffPost’s most viral bloggers of the decade & was named a BlogHer Voice of The Year - a former teacher and a tireless advocate for children and families living with mental illness. Stephanie and her husband Eddie ar…

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Stephen Jon Thompson - Unbroken 1:05:49

2+ y ago1:05:49

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Stephen Jon Thompson is a distinguished leader and Tech Executive whose job it is to find the most elite talent in artificial intelligence for the world’s most cutting-edge technology & consumer companies - Including; Nike, Amazon, LinkedIn, Apple & Google. So, it might be reasonable to assume Stephen was born into a beautiful family, with a silver…

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Laura Cathcart Robbins - The Only One in The Room 1:06:27

2+ y ago1:06:27

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Laura Cathcart Robbins is an acclaimed culture writer, storyteller extraordinaire & now beloved host of The Only One in the Room Podcast. Laura’s survived post-natal depression; struggled through debilitating addiction and divorced her high-profile, Hollywood juggernaut, ex-husband. And when life felt very much rock bottom, Laura met her long-time …

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Dr Michelle Stevens - Scared Selfless 1:18:52

2+ y ago1:18:52

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MAJOR TRIGGER WARNING!!! From the age of eight, Dr Michelle Stevens was brutally tortured and enslaved, raped, and pimped out to countless men by a sadistic paedophile; a man who passed himself off as her father. After suffering more than ten years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, Michelle escaped and with superhuman strength, Michelle cho…

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Jono Lancaster - Love Me, Love My Face 1:11:47

2+ y ago1:11:47

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Are you in for a treat BRAVE JOURNEYS family? Today’s guest is a bona fide superstar. But that’s not why I love him. And I really do love him. 36 hours after Jono Lancaster was born with Treacher Collins syndrome - a rare genetic disorder that effects the development of the cheek bones, jaw, chin and ears - his parents abandoned him in the hospital…

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Dr. Mark Cross - The Anxious Shrink 1:12:21

3y ago1:12:21

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Doctor Mark Cross has worked in psychiatry for three decades and specialises in treating young people, complex PTSD, women’s mental health & anxiety disorders. Mark’s also a senior Lecturer at the University of NSW & a conjoint lecturer at Western Sydney University. He sits on the Board of SANE AUSTRALIA - whose mission is to improve the health of …

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Susan Burton - Empty 56:39

3y ago56:39

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Susan Burton is the one-time producer & now editor of the Pulitzer Prize winning weekly public radio show and podcast - This American Life - heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations across America; with another 2.5 million people downloading the podcast each week. Susan’s radio documentaries have won numerous awards, including an Overs…

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Eilene Zimmerman - Missing the Warning Signs: A Story of White Collar Addiction & Tragedy 57:46

3y ago57:46

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Eilene Zimmerman noticed that the man who’d loomed large in her life for nearly 30 years - her ex-husband and father of her two children – PETER – seemed increasingly out of sorts. He’d been looking progressively thin, seemingly preoccupied, couldn’t shake flu like symptoms and was becoming a more and more unreliable parent to their kids. Eilene as…

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Fiona Darroch - Who Am I? Fertility Fraud 58:33

3y ago58:33

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Never before in the history of humankind has it been possible for a woman to give birth to an infant who is genetically unrelated to her. Never before has it been possible for a woman to be the genetic parent of children to whom she has not given birth. Never before has it been possible to bring children into the world in more than 30 ways. Never b…

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Joe Hyman - Praying the Gay Way: Surviving Conversion Therapy 1:07:42

3y ago1:07:42

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When Joe Hyman left his parents at the airport for a year away at a religious seminary, he was carrying so much more baggage than just his suitcase. His then hidden gay identity, dragged behind him wherever he went. A few months before leaving for his gap year abroad, Joe found what’s known as a conversion therapist online, falsely peddling a so-ca…

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Jen Waite - Married to a Psychopath: My Husband’s Double Life 1:02:15

3y ago1:02:15

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What happens when the love of your life — your husband, your best friend, the father of your 3 week old baby - who’s gorgeous, funny, tall, exotic, and wonderfully attentive; the person you’ve basically banked your whole life on, turns out to be a psychopath? This was the agonising question facing my next guest - JEN WAITE – as captured flawlessly …

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Kirra Pendergast - Cyber Bully Survivor, Savaged to Breaking Point, is Now Saving our Kids on Social 1:15:36

3y ago1:15:36

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If you’re a parent, pulling your proverbial hair out at the life force that is social media – you really don’t want to go anywhere for the next hour. My next guest, Kirra Pendergast, will tell you exactly like it is; she won’t pull any punches; she won’t sugar coat a thing; but she also won’t make you feel like a lousy, negligent parent for not kno…

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Sabrina Butler Smith - Put on Death Row for a Crime She Didn’t Commit 59:36

3y ago59:36

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Believe me when I say this is one of the most egregious cases of a miscarriage of justice you’ll ever hear. SABRINA BUTLER SMITH’s story can only be described as your very worst nightmare. At 17, Sabrina was a young, single mother to two children including her beautiful baby boy, Walter. When Walter was nine months old, Sabrina came home after a jo…

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Virgie Tovar - Fat, Free & Me 1:03:13

3y ago1:03:13

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If you’ve ever second guessed yourself, hated yourself or harmed yourself because you weren’t a certain number on a scale. If you’ve ever been humiliated because of your size or praised when you shed kilograms in a hope to fit in and be good enough. If you’ve ever deluded yourself that living a life of deprivation makes you somehow more virtuous, m…

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Jason B Rosenthal - My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me 1:03:06

3y ago1:03:06

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If you’ve ever wanted to know what deep, profound, abiding, altruistic, passionate, inspirational love looks like – this is the episode for you. Jason Rosenthal enjoyed a wonderful but quiet life. He was happy to have his extraordinary wife – Amy Krouse Rosenthal - the celebrated children’s book author, memoirist, filmmaker and all-round glorious h…

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Fred Guttenberg - As Long as There are Helpers, There’s Hope 57:55

3y ago57:55

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Sometimes you come across a person whose story breaks your heart, but whose will and determination for good – despite, or perhaps in spite – of the horrors they’ve faced, will ensure that they’ll leave the world better than they found it. Fred Guttenberg’s story will make you press pause on this episode and go and love the ones you love harder than…

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Gemma Carey - It Took Me 20 Years to Know it Wasn’t My Fault 50:50

3y ago50:50

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When Professor Gemma Carey was 12 years old, a man twice her age would sneak into her bedroom on a weekly basis and sexually assault her. When Gemma was seventeen, she took the perpetrator to court without anyone else knowing and had him placed on the child sex offender’s register. Perhaps most startling is that for 20 years, Gemma’s mother had kno…

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Dr. Matt Morgan - Meeting People on the Worst Day of Their Lives 1:08:32

3y ago1:08:32

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Dr Matt Morgan is an intensive care specialist, scientist, teacher, self-professed geek and now best-selling author. But to me, Matt’s a profound philosopher, helping the world make sense of what it means to live, to survive, to give your all, & to show up when you don’t think you can. He thought I wanted I to chat to him about his worldwide bestse…

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Caro Llewellyn - It’s Here & It’s Now 1:00:30

3y ago1:00:30

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Caro Llewellyn was living a dream life in her adopted home of New York, directing an international literary festival and even calling Salman Rushdie “boss”. Then one ordinary day, running in Central Park, she lost all sensation in her legs. Two days later she was diagnosed with MS. But Caro wasn’t a stranger to life’s blows. Her father Richard cont…

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Greg Fleet - These Things Happen 1:00:52

3y ago1:00:52

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Greg Fleet - or Fleety to comedy lovers around the world - has been one of Australia’s most successful comedic exports for almost four decades. For much of that time, he also lived with a devastating heroin addiction. The rap sheet of his many deceptions during the haze of his habit, included touring an incredibly successful show about his miraculo…

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Joselin Linder - To Catch a Killer Gene 49:44

3y ago49:44

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When Joselin Linder was a teenager, her beloved dad, Dr William Linder, became mysteriously sick in his 40s. His doctors, as well as medical professionals across the US and around the world, watched his body slowly decline. But there were no answers. By age 49, he was dead. One of the world’s leading genetics research teams - at the Seidman Lab at …

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Mark Lukach - My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward 1:07:58

3y ago1:07:58

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Mark Lukach courageously shares the story of how his future changed unexpectedly at 27 years of age, when his wonderful wife Giulia - with no history of mental illness - was first hospitalised on a psych ward after a devastating mental health crisis. Mark first wrote about Giulia in the New York Times "Modern Love" column (Tam’s all-time favourite …

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Dr. Nicole Brooks - When Tragic Loss = Finding Your Calling 42:13

3+ y ago42:13

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Dr Nicole Brooks is pure sunshine. A beaming smile and down to earth nature that belies the gravity of the work she does… day in, day out. You see, at 15 years of age Nicole, lost her beautiful mum, Susie, to cancer. And she’s taken that tragedy and profound loss and converted it into devoting her life to cancer research and improving the lives and…

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Clive Stafford Smith - A Life on Death Row 1:10:08

3+ y ago1:10:08

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Where should I start with today’s guest – apart from confessing that he’s a lifelong hero of mine? Clive Stafford Smith is one of the world’s most distinguished Human Rights lawyers and the Founder of ‘Reprieve’ - a UK based legal NGO that defends marginalised people who are facing human rights abuses, often at the hands of powerful governments. Cl…

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Isabelle Oderberg - Hard to Bear 59:30

3+ y ago59:30

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For Isabelle Oderberg, professional success was a given. A trailblazing journalist who’d spent 15 years pioneering digital journalism and going toe to toe with Rupert Murdoch at expansive boardroom tables. But on the personal front, success, was not, well… so assured. When Isy decided at 34 that she wanted to become a mother, she had no partner to …

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