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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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#331 Person, Persona, Performer
Andrew May is a younger, prettier version of me. Like me, he has spent much of his working life in the high-performance space with elite sporting teams…
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#330 Epiphanies, Life Lessons and Labouring
Russell Robertson played 228 games for the Melbourne Football Club, is one of four players in the club's history to have led the goalkicking in four or more…
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#329 Rushing to Nowhere in Particular
“How have you been?” … “Busy” … “Me too”… “Crazy huh?” … “Yep, flat out” … “Soooo busy”. Ever been in the middle of one of those exchanges? We might just be…
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#328 Science, Self and Spirituality
I can’t tell you how much I loved this conversation with Ashok Gupta. ‘ is a Sanskrit term for a teacher, guide, expert or master and while Ashok wouldn’t call…
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#327 Abuse, Vulnerability, Courage and Healing
The other day I was on young Tiff’s Podcast (Roll with the Punches) and we somehow took a conversational left turn and went down a rabbit hole that neither of…
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#326 Dave Hughes
Dave Hughes is an Aussie icon, best known for his work on the telly, radio and comedic stage. And while I love Hughesy the performer, the bloke I got to chat…
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#325 Lessons from Prison
TYP fave Mick Hall is back unpacking more of his fascinating journey. In this episode, we talk about ‘time’ as a subjective experience (on the Mick scale, 6…
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#324 Tracy Bartram: Fame, Addiction, Recovery, Hope
Like many people, Tracy Bartram spent a significant part of her high-profile life denying, deflecting, avoiding, role paying and ‘pretending’ her life was…
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#323 Post Traumatic Stress Injury
Michael Sugrue began his law enforcement career in the U.S. Air Force as a Security Forces Officer in 1998. He specialised in Law Enforcement, Global Force…
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#322 How to Create an Effective Plan
Off the back of my last podcast (Stop Wishing and Start Planning), a few people asked if I could expand on the concept and share something of a ‘how to’, when…
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#321 Wish Less. Plan More.
Many people think they have a plan but they don’t. They have a story, an intention and some ideas about how they want things to ‘turn out’. What they don’t…
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#320 How I Eat And Train
I’m always being asked about how I train, eat and more broadly, stay in shape. I don’t think it’s a particularly fascinating conversation (neither will many of…
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#319 Senator Jacqui Lambie
I consciously don’t have too many expectations or plans going into podcasts but this free-range chat with Jacqui Lambie (Lambo, to me) was real, raw, funny…
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#318 Paul Taylor
I was recently on Paul Taylor’s podcast (The Mind Body Brain Project) and we had a great chat about all-things human performance, resilience, happiness…
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#317 Mark Seymour (Hunters & Collectors)
Mark Seymour is an amazing singer, songwriter, musician, story-teller, Aria winner and Aussie music legend. He's also a charming, smart, thoughtful…
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#316 The Woman Who Wants to be an AFL Coach
Lisa Alexander is one of the winningest Coaches in Australian sport at an elite level, having coached the Australian Netball Team (The Diamonds) more times…
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#315 Easy to Say, Hard to Do
Think better. Choose better. Do better. Create better. It’s not a complicated strategy but neither is it an easy one. And therein lies the challenge. This…
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#314 Making a Few Bucks and Staying Sane
I was recently on Jason Cunningham’s podcast (Save My Business) and not surprisingly, we spoke about the trials and tribulations of building and running a…
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#313 Live, Laugh, Love, Learn
Journalist, broadcaster, business owner, entrepreneur, deep thinker, Tai Chi teacher, ex-city slicker, long-time mate of mine and now proud resident of Ballan…
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#312 Strength Training And Brain Health
Dean Mawby is back and among many fascinating things, we talk about the latest research (and the practical application of that research) focusing on the…
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#311 Fitness, Health, Recovery, Performance and Function
While gym owners in Melbourne (and beyond) dust off their kettlebells, oil their bikes, deep clean their facilities and plug in their treadmills, some of us…
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#310 The Limitation of Personal Development
I’m always amused when people try something (program, intervention, process) for five minutes and then say to me “oh, I tried that but it didn’t work". Kind of…
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#309 Lies, Morality and Ethical Conundrums
Two TYP favourites are here for one special episode and we're excited. This is the first time we’ve had Paul Taylor and Bobby Cappuccio in the same cyber-room…
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#308 Paralympian Michelle Errichiello
Michelle Errichiello was twenty-four years old, minding her own business and putting out some bins when a car careered off the road, pinned her against a wall…
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#307 Razor Ray: The Best Worst Job
Imagine going to work and being verbally abused and insulted by thousands of people while you do your job. And I don't mean cyber abuse, I mean actual humans…
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#306 Mind and Body: Healing and Hope
To say this episode was a pleasant surprise, would be a massive understatement. It is now one of my favourite TYP experiences. I loved the conversation, loved…
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#305 Hackers, Suckers & Cyber Crime
Bastien Treptel was just 14 years old when he started hacking into accounts and stealing money, but since turning his life around (after the Feds came knocking…
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#304 Darren Hodge
Darren Hodge is a MICA Flight Paramedic, Author and Educator who has spent more than a quarter of a century serving the community, navigating complicated…
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#303 Religion, Spirituality, Faith and Belief
This solo episode is the result of numerous requests for me to share my thoughts and experiences in and around religion and spirituality. To be honest, I don’t…
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#302 Making Sh*t up as We Go
I was recently on The Daily Talk Show with Tommy and Josh and as I’m essentially lazy, I thought I’d use their show description. “Craig Harper is back and…
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#301 Bad Bosses and Toxic Workplaces
Michelle Gibbings is bringing back the happy to workplace culture. The author of three books and a global keynote speaker, she's on a mission to help leaders…
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#300 Performing Under Pressure
299 episodes later, our first ever TYP guest is back for our 300th show. 323 games, 4 x All-Australian, 3 x Best & Fairest, St. Kilda Team of the Century and…
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#299 Dr. Dinesh Palipana
Medical Doctor, Lawyer, Disability Advocate, Researcher, TED Speaker and Order of Australia recipient Dinesh Palipana does life from a wheelchair because half…
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#298 The Bloke who Catches Crooks and Pulls Trains
Grant Edwards is a recently-retired Australian Federal Police Commander, with over 34 years of service protecting vulnerable people around the world. He is a…
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#297 My Forty-Year Apprenticeship
I feel like my entire working (learning) life has been an ongoing training process. An apprenticeship, of sorts. And while I know (intellectually) that I have…
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#296 Being a Contrarian
The wise-beyond-his-years Pete Shepherd is back at TYP Central and without doubt, this is my favourite conversation with him. We got lost in a number of…
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#295 Dr. Jodi Richardson
Dr. Jodi Richardson is back at TYP Central and we continue our conversation around managing our mind, emotions, body and of course, life. Jodi is both…
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#294 Flow (what, why, how)
The You Project favourite Braniac Bobby Cappuccio is back and this time we go deep exploring the science, process, practice and value of… flow. That beautiful…
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#293 Post-Dream Anxiety (and other stuff)
What about when you wake up from a stressful, anxiety-producing dream, only to realise that you were just… dreaming? It’s not real. Well, the anxiety is real…
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#292 Chronic Fatigue and other Debilitating Conditions
I first met Toby Morrison when he was a teenager suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The once-elite junior athlete spent four years battling exhaustion…
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#291 Don't Wait for Your Hill to Change
This brief podcast is one of the thirty sections from my online audio program and it’s certainly a message and metaphor which generally resonates with people…
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#290 The Lady Who Lost 138 kgs
When we recorded this chat (Saturday Oct. 10, 2020), Anna Kambranis weighed 68 kgs. On January 3, 2018, Anna weighed in at 206.5 kgs for her first workout. For…
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#289 Creating New Habits
Since I was the eighteen year-old gym instructor working all day, every day with humans who wanted to look, feel, function and perform differently, I’ve been…
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#288 PALEO: A Guide to Getting Started
The Paleo Warrior is back and she’s not pulling any punches, sparing any feelings or giving too many f**ks about ruffling feathers or feelings. And by ‘too…
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#287 YOU: Public, Personal, Private, Secret and Fantasy
In this brief episode, I talk about the five versions of you (and me) and the way we choose to reveal (or not) those ‘people’ to the world, depending on…
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#286 Menopause, Mano-pause and Middle-Age (part 2)
Exercise Physiologist Unna Goldsworthy (B.Ex.Sci, M.App.Sci) is back and this time we go deep with listener questions to continue our chat on all things…
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#285 Catastrophes, Courage, Comebacks and Championships
Jacqui Cooper is a five-time Olympian in freestyle skiing (aerials), world champion, five-time world cup champion, mum of three, corporate speaker…
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#284 2,633,256,000 Seconds
2,633,256,000 Seconds. If you’re a statistically ‘typical’ Australian woman, that’s about how many seconds your heart will beat for. Us typical dudes on the…
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#283 Common Exercise Mistakes, Misconceptions and Fallacies
Exercise Scientist, Gym Owner and Conditioning Coach Russ Jarrett (M.Ex.Sci) is back at TYP HQ and to be honest, this episode doesn’t require an overview…
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#282 Self-Awareness and Self-Regulation
Successfully navigating life and its many components (physical, mental, emotional, personal, professional, practical, spiritual) is the ever-present human…
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#281 Agoraphobia, Anxiety, Addiction, Overwhelm and Art
*Before I give my normal show synopsis, I want to tell you that this is one of my all-time favourite TYP chats (top 3 out of 281). To say that Dylan (Keys) was…
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#280 The Fruit Salad Episode
It’s fair to say that Paul and I covered a lot of territory in this episode, hence the title. We explored everything from implantable brain tech that gives us…
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#279 People Stuff (a New Book)
Zoe Routh knows about people. And stuff. Which is why her new book is called… People Stuff. In this episode of The You Project, Craig and Zoe chat about the…
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#278 How I Organise my Ideas and Downloads
For years, I’ve been keeping an electronic journal where I jot down thoughts, realisations, ideas, anecdotes, questions and topics. It lives in the form of a…
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#277 Busy Head Syndrome
TYP favourite Geoff Jowett is back and as always, the boys have fun going deep talking about stillness, turning down the internal noise, living the simple life…
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#276 Coaching Humans
Lisa Alexander is one of the winningest coaches in Australian Sport and after nine years at the helm of our national netball team (the Diamonds 2011-2020)…
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#275 Lies, Taboo and Bullsh*t
Marketing genius, thought leader, story teller and straight-shooter Simon Hammond is back to chat with us about the key themes and messages in his new book…
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#274 Menopause, Man-opause and Middle-Age
Exercise Physiologist, Educator and all-round Grouse Chick, Unna Goldsworthy is back and this time, hormones, emotions, exercise, hot flushes, body…
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#273 Managing in the Mayhem (a workshop)
A few weeks ago, I decided to run a free workshop for people who were hurting and struggling and for those needing a little inspiration, encouragement and…
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#272 Laughter, Bare Feet and Slumpy Posture
This was one of the funniest chats I’ve had on TYP with a great Mate, who also happens to be one of the most down-to-earth, intuitively intelligent and gifted…