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The You Project
The You Project is a 30-90 minute dose of inspiration and education hosted by Craig Harper with great stories, ideas, strategies and lessons from high-performers in sport, business, science, media and health.
Episodes
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#991 Being An Introvert Can Be Exhausting - Julie Stevanja
This was an interesting and fun chat with an introvert who lives in a world (situation, business, career) requiring her to do ‘extrovert-y’ things, like…
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#990 Work (Dis)satisfaction - Anna Feringa
What are the variables which influence (and dictate) whether you’re closer to the ‘zero’ or the ‘ten’ on the not-yet-created ‘Harper Work Satisfaction Scale’…
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#989 What Is Intelligence - David Gillespie
At some stage of our journey, most of us are taught that intelligence is a thing that’s measured by completing a specific test, getting a ‘score’ and then…
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#988 Diet & Mental Health - Dr. Drew Ramsey
Dr. Drew Ramsey is a psychiatrist, author and farmer. He is one of psychiatry’s leading proponents of using dietary change to help balance moods, sharpen brain…
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#987 Aliens, Asteroids & Dark Matter - Prof. Alan Duffy
Professor Alan Duffy is a Cosmologist, Astronomer and Astrophysicist working on dark matter, galaxy formation and cosmology. He’s also Director of the Space…
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#986 Meccano, Table Tennis & The Dalai Lama - Harps & Patrick
For this episode, Patrick stepped away from his tech desk and we spoke less about technology (not at all, in fact) and more about the psychology, biology…
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#985 Conspiracies, Skeptics & Echo Chambers - Dr. Michael Shermer
Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founder of Skeptic magazine and the Executive Director of The Skeptics Society. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Why…
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#984 Knowledge & Action - Harps & Tiff
We are potentially living in the most ‘knowing’ era ever. Well, at the very least, we (the masses) have access to more information (about everything) than any…
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#983 Welcome To The Grief Club - Janine Kwoh
Janine Kwoh is an artist, creator, author and story-teller, whose partner died when they were both 28 and who subsequently, has spent the last six years trying…
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#982 What Is Self-Compassion? - Dr. Kristin Neff
Kristin Neff, Ph.D. is a pioneer in the study of self-compassion, being the first person to operationally define and measure the construct almost twenty years…
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#981 Out Of The Darkness - Gregory Smith
Gregory Smith’s childhood was the stuff of nightmares. I won’t go too deep here but the snapshot is neglect, violence, abuse and misery. At 10, his mother left…
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#980 Free-Range Deborah - Deborah Hutton
I asked former international model Deborah Hutton if the window for my modelling career may have come and gone, and she informed me that, there was no window…
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#979 Reasons vs. Excuses - Mark LeBusque
I was recently on the ‘Simply Practically Human’ podcast with Mark LeBusque and as always, we waxed lyrical about all things mindset, behaviour, performance…
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#978 Melissa Jumps Off Stuff - Melissa Wu
Melissa Wu jumps off stuff. Specifically, diving platforms and boards. She is a current member of the Australian Diving Team, competing in the women’s 10m…
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#977 How Psychopaths Think - David Gillespie
David Gillespie is one of Australia’s most prolific (and successful) Authors, he’s a Lawyer, a Champion of equal-opportunity education, a tireless Researcher…
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#976 Cancer Is F**cked - Johnny Ruffo
Cancer is f*ked but Johnny Ruffo is not. He is a weapon. Funny. Talented. Resilient. Courageous. Realistic. Most of you know his back story as a singer…
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#975 Is Retirement Bad For Your Health? - Andrew Dowling
Andrew Dowling is the founder and CEO of @stitchdotnet and WipeOutLoneliness.org. He is an internationally-recognised social entrepreneur who has been featured…
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#974 The Neuroscience Of Sleep - Prof. Russell Foster
Professor Russell Foster (from Oxford University, no less) is one of those rare breeds of high-level academic with an amazing ability to break down the…
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#973 The Human Lie Detector - Steve van Aperen
Don’t try to bulls**t Steve van Aperen; it won’t end well for you. Not gonna lie (pun intended), I was a little self-conscious and tried very hard to cut back…
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#972 Lab-Grown Burger Anyone? - Patrick Bonello & Tor Roxburgh
Would you eat lab-grown meat? How can a Doctor of Chinese Medicine diagnose a problem with your liver by looking into your eyes or a dodgy back by poking the…
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#971 The Power Of Education - Doug Taylor
This episode is a chat with Doug Taylor, the boss of The Smith Family and he, and the organisation he leads, are good people, doing good things. The Smith…
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#970 Lucid Dreaming - Charlie Morley
“The essence of Buddhism: (1) don’t be a dick (2) be kind to people (3) train your mind” – Charlie Morley (Buddhist Teacher). I didn’t want this episode to…
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#969 Finding The Right Expert - Dr. Lillian Nejad
Doctor Lillian has slid back into the TYP Studio and she’s in fine form. She’s always great but I think this chat was her MVP TYP performance so far (acronym…
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#968 Cryptography For Dummies - Dr. Craig Costello
This was one of those conversations that I’m probably too stupid to be in but I guess when you’re the host, it’s unavoidable. And while I didn’t contribute…
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#967 Extreme Doctoring - Dr. Lachlan McIver
Dr Lachlan McIver is a medical doctor, writer, activist and musician, specialising in rural & remote medicine, tropical medicine and public health and in his…
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#966 What Is Social Enterprise? - Kim McDonnell
This is an interesting chat about the ever-present challenge of businesses wanting to make money, do some good in the world (for the planet and people) and…
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#965 The City Builder - Lucinda Hartley
“What do you do?” “Oh, I design and build cities?” I thought being a podcaster, speaker and author was cool. Turns out, not a cool as I thought. We have so…
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#964 Loss & Love - Matt Golinski
Matt Golinski is a much-loved Australian celebrity chef and on December 26, 2011, Matt's wife Rachel and his three daughters died when their Tewantin home was…
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#963 What is Trauma? - Dr. Sarah Woodhouse
You wouldn’t think a conversation about trauma could be uplifting, entertaining and even fun, but this chat with Dr. Sarah Woodhouse (trauma expert, research…
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#962 Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks - Steven Kotler
This is a fascinating conversation about human optimisation. Specifically, getting ‘better’ as we get older, challenging pre-existing norms and beliefs around…
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#961 Combat In War, Sport & Life - Mick Ryan
Major General Mick Ryan (recently retired) is a highly skilled leader and strategist with thirty-five years of experience as an officer in the Australian Army…
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#960 The Work-Life Home-Life Problem - Jim Sheils
In this episode of TYP, Author, Coach and Business Bloke Jim Sheils and I speak about how some of us are simultaneously great at the career stuff but…
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#959 Growth Over Comfort - Tommy & Harps
Two Tommy eps in two days. This time we discuss my internal struggle with posting tough-love whiteboard messages (on social media) that (1) I believe are…
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#958 Asking For Help - Tommy & Harps
Tommy is back at TYP Central and this time talk about why we seek approval from people who don’t care about us (I’ve done it), why we’re so insecure, my…
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#957 Hurry Up And Slow Down - Harps & Tiff
I was recently on young Tiff’s show (Roll With the Punches) and we had a great freestyle, organic chat and so this episode of TYP is what us young kids call, a…
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#956 The Mask Of Sanity - David Gillespie
David Gillespie and I went into this episode with a planned topic and two minutes into our chat, he started talking about some other fascinating sh*t and our…
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#955 Efficiency, Effectiveness & Flow - Dr. Stan Beecham
Dr. Stan Beecham is a ‘good ol’ boy’ from Georgia (in the US). He is a Sport Psychologist, High-Performance Coach, Author and as I discovered in this chat…
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#954 Influencers, True-crime & Play School - Dr. Jodi Richardson
TYP Favourite Dr. Jodi is back sharing the love and this time we open a plethora of conversational doors, talking about the accuracy of our memory of events…
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#953 Life Is A Marathon - Hugh Brasher
Hugh Brasher is the Director of the London Marathon (one of the biggest marathons on the planet), philanthropist, wildly successful entrepreneur, motorcycle…
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#952 Rob Mills Is Surprisingly Good - Rob Mills
Yes, the title sounds like a piss-take but it’s actually the title of Rob’s cleverly-named stage show, which came into being after a stream of reviews…
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#951 Virtual Jobs & Industries - Harps & Patrick
Patrick is back and this time we talk about control freaks, deep fakes, the nerd conference he attended, his recent trip to Amsterdam, the irrelevance and…
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#950 How Many Sets, Reps & Steps - Russ Jarrett
“What’s a good weight, time, distance, speed, result (for this activity, exercise, movement) for somebody at my age?” I’ve been asked a version of that…
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#949 How The Internet Is Changing Us - Todd Sampson
Todd Sampson is an adventurer, award-winning documentary-maker, television presenter and businessman. He is the former national CEO of Leo Burnett and…
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#948 My Mate Coggers - Gorgi Coghlan
Gorgi Coghlan is a ripper. Real, vulnerable, philosophical, smart, driven, compassionate, perfectionistic (self-admitted) and great to talk with. She has…
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#947 Understanding Your Brain - Dr. Alex Koefman
It seems The You Project is having a run on Neurosurgeons at the moment. Last week it was Dr. Charlie Teo and this week, Dr. Alex Koefman is back at TYP…
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#946 Social Media But Better - Sue Fennessy
Sue Fennessy is a serial technology entrepreneur, innovator, creator, thought-leader and disruptor. She’s also cheeky, funny, curious and like me, periodically…
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#945 How To Break Up With Friends - Dr. Hannah Korrel
Dr. Hannah Korrel is a Neuropsychologist, Educator, Speaker and Author (the name of her book is today’s episode title) with a skill to make what-can-be…
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#944 Mind, Body, Tech - Patrick Bonello & Tor Roxburgh
Patrick and Tor are back and this time it’s a little less tech-talk and a lot more chat in the research, medical and health space. Among other things, we talk…
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#943 What's Your Body Saying? - Dr. Cam McDonald
Dr. Cam is back and as always he was brilliant! Following on from our last episode, we got him back to answer some listener questions. We go real deep, so you…
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#942 The Compassionate D*ckhead - Dr. Julian Abel
Firstly, the reason for the title becomes clear during the chat. Dr. Julian Abel is awesome. I wish he lived in Melbourne, because we would definitely be…
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#941 The Good & Bad Of Drugs - Nima Alavi
Nima is back and this time we discuss the perils of Paracetamol and how it can kill people when abused (it’s scary), cognitive decline that comes with age and…
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#940 804 Days In An Iranian Prison - Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert is an Australian academic who was arrested at Tehran’s International Airport in Iran in September of 2018 for a crime that she didn’t…
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#939 From Mechanic To Neurosurgeon - Dr. Charlie Teo AM
Growing up, Dr. Charlie Teo wanted to be either a rubbish collector (because they’re fit), a bouncer (because he was a martial artist) or a mechanic (because…
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#938 Biology & Identity - Dr. Cam McDonald
Dr. Cam McDonald is back and this time we dive into personalised learning, how our physiologically changes as we head into spring (here in Oz), the…
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#937 The Bogan Philosopher - Geoff Jowett
The animal-loving, deep-thinking, nature-loving, story-telling Aussie bogan philosopher is back, waxing lyrical about all-things life, happiness, meaning…
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#936 F*ck Off Doc - Dr. Ingrid Nielsen
Dr. Ingrid Nielsen is one of my favourite guests because every time we connect, she inspires me to do better, think better and be better. She’s 75 going on 22…
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#935 Performing Under Pressure - David Knoff
David Knoff is an Antarctic Expedition Leader, Author and Leadership expert who specialises in remote leadership, hostile environment diplomacy and resilience…
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#934 The Money Coach - Vanessa Stoykov
This was a fun chat with a fun lady who knows a vast amount about wealth creation and management talking with a bloke who is financially inept. It’s not that I…
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#933 Extreme Living - James Castrission
James Castrission is an Adventurer, Keynote Speaker, Leadership Consultant and Author. He holds two Guinness World Records for his extreme accomplishments. In…
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#932 What Is Value? - Tommy & Harps
Videographer, Creator, Podcaster, Adopted Son (I have a few) and one of my favourite peeps to do coffee and chat with, Tommy Jackett is back at TYP. This chat…