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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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#391 Friends & Frenemies
Curiously, sometimes friendships don’t feel very ‘friendly’. You know what I’m talking about. We’ve all been in relationships that felt more like some kind of…
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#390 The Loudest Guest
Like (nearly) all of our guests, Dr. Amy Silver is ace. Great communicator, story-teller and educator and she has a capacity to explore (what can be)…
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#389 The Happiness Conversation
Is happiness the same as joy? Or ecstasy (the feeling, not the drug)? Is excitement a version of happiness? What about contentment? The absence of anxiety?…
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#388 Becoming a High Performer (Part 2)
This episode is part two of our conversation about high-performance. Enjoy. 🙂 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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#387 Becoming a High Performer
When we hear the term ‘high performance’ what often springs to mind is the uber-successful, high-profile, annoyingly-talented superstars of business, academia…
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#386 The Bloke Who Builds the World's Safest Trampolines
Steve Holmes’ company (Springfree Trampolines) makes the world’s safest trampolines and the evolution of their brand and business is a story of creativity…
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#385 The Third Place
For this episode of TYP, I sat down (cyber-sat) with gym owners, Russell Jarrett and Brad Cunningham and the three of us waxed lyrical (whatever that means)…
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#384 Eternal Curiosity
What happens when we die? What’s on the other side? Is there another side? Maybe this is the only one? According to my training partner (the Crab) who died for…
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#383 Biohacking
Lisa Tamati is one of the world’s best ultra-endurance athletes, a coach, podcast host, author, speaker and as it turns out, she’s also biohacker (somebody who…
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#382 The Calm in the Chaos
At nineteen, I was an insecure man-child bench-pressing my way to nowhere in particular but at the same age, Ricardo Martinez was working at the coal face of…
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#381 Jokes with Dr John
The last episode we did with Dr John Demartini almost saw me pull a cognitive hammy, just trying to stay in the conversation. We knew you’d love him as much as…
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#380 Triggers, Tipping Points and Tightropes
Former Secondary Teacher, Exercise Physiologist, Author (Anxious Kids and Anxious Mums), Speaker, Mental Health Consultant, Wellbeing Coach and life-long…
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#379 Is Retirement a Good Idea?
Is the idea of retirement better than the reality of it? Are people happier when their career is over? Is it a bad idea for some people? Should it be a…
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#378 Chemobrain
Cancer Survivor, Cancer Related Cognitive Impairment sufferer (Chemobrain), Advocate, Legal Warrior, Fighter of Injustice, Medical Detective, Feather Ruffler…
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#377 Off The Grid
Mark Kluwer, former tradie living in suburban Melbourne, now lives off the grid amidst 70 acres of nature; a facility he’s called Elevated Springs in country…
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#376 Can Obsession be Healthy?
It turns out that Dr. Ingrid (our resident Psychiatrist) might have a few obsessive issues of her own. She may even be something of a perfectionist. How dare…
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#375 Lifting Stuff: Beginners to Advanced
I recently sat down with Russell Jarrett from The Australian Fitness Podcast and we discussed the ins and outs of strength training. Along the way we explored…
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#374 The Common Path to Uncommon Success
John Lee Dumas (JLD) is the founder and host of one of the world’s most successful business podcasts; Entrepreneurs On Fire, an award-winning show where he has…
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#373 A Conversation About Autism
Dr. Gemma Foxall (PhD.) is a University Lecturer, Researcher, Advocate, Speaker, Consultant and Service Provider supporting children aged 0-16 years old…
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#372 The Busy Badge
This conversation with Bianca Chatfield was quite different to our previous TYP encounters. It seems that our high-performing (ex)Elite Athlete, TV Host…
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#371 Richard Beddie: CEO, Exercise NZ
I’ve never spoken less in a podcast and I enjoyed every minute of it. Fortunately, everything Richard Beddie (the boss of Exercise New Zealand) had to say was…
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#370 You, Me and OCD
Brad McEwan is an interesting fella, great communicator, deep thinker and semi-regular on TYP. Of course, he’s well-known for his decades of work as a Sports…
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#369 Steph Tisdell
Steph Tisdell is a comedian, actor, storyteller, deep thinker and half a lawyer, who, like most of us, is working through her sh*t, navigating the complexities…
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#368 The Science of Resilience
In this episode of TYP, Paul Taylor and I do a deep dive into his PhD research, which is all around performing under pressure, keep our sh*t together in the…
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#367 The Self Help Antidote
Apart from being one of the smartest people I know, a brilliant communicator, renowned speaker, published author, expert in human behaviour and genius at…
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#366 The Boxer and the Nurse
To say Ron and Sharyn Smith have had (are having) an interesting life together doesn’t come close to doing their story justice. Peaks, troughs, alcohol, drugs…
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#365 The Whole TYP Crew
Melissa, Tiff and I have never done a podcast together and to say this episode wasn’t what I thought it might be, is an understatement. While it didn’t go…
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#364 How to Find a Good PT (and other stuff)
For this episode, I momentarily stepped back in to Personal Trainer, Exercise Scientist and Fitness Educator mode, with Tiff firing a barrage of questions at…
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#363 The Alternate Classroom
Joelene Lavrick was a classroom teacher who now works with primary school-aged children (in person and online in seventy-four countries!) to improve their…
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#362 The Dogs that Saved Geoff
I always love connecting with Geoff Jowett but this chat was extra raw, real and revealing. Geoff shares about his depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive…
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#361 Chicken Soup and Inspiration
Mark Victor Hansen is an American inspirational and motivational author and speaker, best known as the founder and co-creator of the ‘Chicken Soup for the…
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#360 Embracing the Suck
Lisa Tamati is an extreme ultra endurance athlete with 25 years competing in the world's toughest endurance events, running in more than 140 ultra marathons…
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#359 Pete Shepherd
I love Pete Shepherd because he’s a Coach who doesn’t sound ‘Coachy’. He’s just an interesting dude who loves going deep, loves people, is empathetic, has a…
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#358 Behind the Scenes at Craig HQ
If Melissa and I got together to combine a staff meeting and brainstorming session (for 2021) with a podcast… it would be this episode. In it, we unpack the…
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#357 The Unintentional Conversation
Melissa and I sat down to explore a particular topic and for some weird reason, we didn’t even get to it. At all. I blame her. Sometimes a particular podcast…
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#356 Professor Erin Cotter-Smith
Associate Professor Erin Cotter-Smith is an Epidemiologist with extensive experience teaching and researching within the multidisciplinary fields of…
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#355 Could You Repeat That Slowly?
Dr. John Demartini is one of the world’s most prolific Authors, Speakers, Educators and Mentors in areas as diverse as personal development, relationships…
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#354 Intelligence
In this episode of TYP, we discuss.. Different kinds of Intelligence. The limitation of IQ tests. Where our beliefs come from. Changing beliefs. Unconscious…
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#353 When the Motivation Fades
I’ve spent much of my career talking with individuals, teams and organisations about the function, value, limitation and science of motivation, when it comes…
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#352 Forget the Plan
Sometimes no plan is the best plan. When Bobby and I talk, any semblance of a plan, particular topic, direction or predetermined theme, go out the window. This…
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#351 The Strongest Woman I Know (literally)
Liz Craven is a freak. In a good way. Pound for pound (kilo for kilo), she’s one of the strongest women in the world. You might find the fact that she has…
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#350 From Year 11 Failure to Mica Flight Paramedic
Matt Shepherd’s journey from being a disinterested student who hated study and failed year eleven, to Mica Flight Paramedic (the highest qualification in…
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#349 Medicine, Connection and Compassion
This was a surprise episode for me. What I thought might be a typical (but interesting) conversation with a highly qualified and skilled Emergency Physician…
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#348 You and Your Time
This started off being a very practical conversation with Tiff about all-things.. time. The way we use it, waste it, allocate it, experience it and even, bend…
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#347 Deadly Paths
Peter Seymour joined the New South Wales Police Force in 1980 as an eighteen-year-old and spent twenty-four years in Police; four years in uniform, twelve as a…
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#346 New Year Revolution (Anna Feringa)
Well, we made it. This episode of TYP is our final Instalment of our 10-part ‘New Year Revolution’ series and this time I sit down with workplace mental health…
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#345 New Year Revolution (Danielle Grant)
This episode of The You Project is instalment nine of our 10-part ‘New Year Revolution’ series (we’re on the home straight) and this time, Exercise…
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#344 New Year Revolution (Geoff Jowett)
This is instalment eight of our 10-part ‘New Year Revolution’ series and this needs bloke zero introduction. As always, Geoff is funny, inspiring and direct…
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#343 New Year Revolution (Steph Prem)
This episode of The You Project is instalment seven of our 10-part ‘New Year Revolution’ series and this time, Winter Olympian, Pilates Queen, Studio PP Owner…
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#342 New Year Revolution (Jason Cunningham)
This episode of The You Project is instalment six of our 10-part ‘New Year Revolution’ series and our resident business-money bloke Jason Cunningham is back…
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#341 New Year Revolution (Dr. Ingrid Nielsen)
This episode of The You Project is instalment five of our 10-part ‘New Year Revolution’ series. This time I sit down with our favourite Psychiatrist, Dr…
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#340 New Year Revolution (Carly Taylor)
This episode of The You Project is instalment four of our 10-part ‘New Year Revolution’ series. This time I sit down with Carly Taylor and as always, we…
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#339 New Year Revolution (Tony Doherty)
This episode of The You Project is instalment three of our 10-part ‘New Year Revolution’ series. This time I sit down with down with Fitness Industry Pioneer…
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#338 New Year Revolution (Part 2)
This is the second instalment in my 10-part ‘New Year Revolution’ series. This episode is the completion of my ‘21 life-shaping questions worth considering for…
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#337 New Year Revolution (Part 1)
This episode is the first instalment in my 10-part ‘New Year Revolution’ series. In it, I explore twenty-one life-shaping questions worth considering for 2021…
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#336 Blown up by a Bomb
Sergeant Michael Lyddiard was 12 years into a planned 20-year career with the Australian Army when his world was shattered by two kilograms of insurgent…
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#335 The Healing Power of a Mum's Love
I like to think I’m kind-of tough but really, I’m not. And this becomes apparent when I talk with someone like Josh Komen who, while in training for the…
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#334 Gambling, Addiction, Murder, Fame and Healing
💬”When I was eight, I was staying in a one-bedroom apartment with my dad and he was shot dead, sleeping next to me.” 💬”I lost six and a half million gambling.”…
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#333 Food: The Good, the Bad and the Crazy
Miranda Leeden is a Food Scientist and Clinical Nutritionist and just like me (and many of you), she’s had her own challenges with body image, emotional…
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#332 The World is Your Classroom
It sounds cheesy but it’s true; the world really is our classroom, every moment is an opportunity to learn and every person is a potential teacher when we step…