Live Life In Sneakers

On this special episode of the podcast I'm joined by former English football player, Rio Ferdinand. As you’ll hear in our conversation, Rio has long been a fierce advocate for mental health, busting the toxic culture in football and penning a heartfelt memoir following the death of his wife, Rebecca, in 2015. Rio is continuing that work through a partnership with WeAre8, a new social media platform with a charity focus, that comes with a zero tolerance for hate. As part of that collaboration, Rio is set to head back to Australia this month to champion their message. In our chat, I ask Rio about how he’s personally dealt with disappointment and pressure during his years playing for Manchester United and the English national team, and why he now feels compelled to change the culture of sport and social media.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An icon of the 90s and 00s, Fabio Lanzoni [yes, THE Fabio] made his name as a romance novel cover star, model and spokesman, however his greatest achievement has been an ongoing sense of youth and happiness.Fabio shares his secrets to longevity, clears up rumours that he sleeps in a hyperbaric chamber, how he maintains those luscious locks and how he's parlayed a decades-long career into his dream life by unlocking balance.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jacinta McDonell is an icon in the Australian health and wellness industry, rising to fame when she co-founded Anytime Fitness in Australia in 2008 with her brother. Since then she has gone on to become the Founder of W1LL and the Board Director and Founder of A Founders Path. Giving back to the community is imperative to Jacinta, and lead her to founding the Human Kind Project which has raised over $2 million enabling businesses to build brand equity while creating social change. The accolades have deservedly followed. Jacinta was inducted into the Fitness Hall of Honour and has been a Telstra business woman finalist. She’s even received the call up to Necker Island with Sir Richard Branson. Jacinta’s success stems from a deep empathy, something she believes is key in building and scaling a business.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of the podcast I chat to Professor Henry Brodaty, the co-director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. CHeBA's mission is to enhance the evidence base in relation to the prevention, early detection and treatment of age related disorders in particular brain diseases, and to improve the health care of individuals affected by brain diseases such as dementia. In this chat Professor Brodaty goes deep. It’s an extremely intellectual conversation but he explains exactly what dementia is, how it forms and what steps we can take to avoid developing it and to slow our own cognitive decline. Sit back and enjoy this literal brain food, courtesy of the University of New South Wales and CHeBA.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Living through back-to-back historic events can be truly exhausting, yet existing in an era of 'firsts' can have it's benefits; case and point, new rom com Bros from the brain of comedic force Billy Eichner. For those who haven’t read about the film, Bros is the first film backed by a major movie studio to be written by a gay man, about a gay couple, with a predominantly LGBT+ cast. On this episode of the podcast, the first of our fourth season (!!), I sat down with the star of Bros, Luke Macfarlane, to discuss the impact of representation, and lack thereof, in media today. Luke himself has been a pioneer for LGBT+ actors, coming out in 2008 while staring on the hit TV show Brothers and Sisters. It’s been a long 14 years since, but he’s finally a leading man in major motion picture – and he has absolutely crushed it. Bros is a laugh-a-minute, cry-a-half-hour hit, edging your emotions without ever forgetting it's primary goal, to make you laugh. In our chat, Luke shares a little bit about his own personal journey in getting to this point in his career, what he hopes the world takes away from this ambitious project, and the harmful toll cultures surrounding body image can present. Bros is in cinemas now, and as always, if you enjoyed this episode, please don’t forget to rate, review and subscribe and tell your friends to have a listen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.