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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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#91 Gavin Crosisca: Football, Addiction, Redemption, Hope
For fourteen years, Gavin Crosisca was simultaneously a professional footballer (in the AFL) and an addict. An addict playing 246 senior games with…
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#90 Sam Wood: The Inconvenient Path
In this Episode of TYP, Craig sits down with Sam Wood (again) and the boys talk all things personal development, mindset, getting in shape, business, health…
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#89 Medicinal Cannabis, Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Medicine
Professor Ian Brighthope is a seeker, pioneer, rebel, educator and in many ways, a square peg in a profession of round holes. In this fascinating chat about…
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#88 From Intention to Action
This episode is a share-cast. Craig was recently on the Daily Talk Show with Josh and Tommy and as always, the boys covered plenty of territory in what turned…
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#87 How to Think Differently
Our mind is the platform from where we observe, process and give meaning to, the world around us. It is our operational headquarters. It is the window through…
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#86 The Real Superman
Rounding off this week's theme of amazing people and their incredible journeys back from the brink, on this episode Craig chats with Terry Mitropoulos: A brain…
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#85 The River (a Podcast-ette)
This is not so much a podcast as it is, Craig thinking out loud for a few minutes. It’s something he thought might resonate with his fellow seekers, searchers…
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#84 Craig Gets Schooled by a Teenager
Craig has finally met his match. She’s funnier, cheekier, chattier, smarter and says fuck more than him. She’s also nineteen years old. Her name is Ciara…
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#83 The Guy Who Got Blown Up
John Portelli wasn’t expected to live. On December 1, 2017 he was driving a work vehicle with gas bottles in the back. Those gas bottles exploded, tearing the…
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#82 Your Life in One Year
This episode has been stolen from Craig’s ‘Renovate Your Life’ audio program (one of thirty sections) and in it, he talks about the idea of visualising what…
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#81 Are You Wasting Your Potential and Possibilities?
The youngsters call this a ‘share cast’. On it, Craig is interviewed by Russell Jarrett from the Australian Fitness Podcast and discusses staying productive…
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#80 Who's Programming You?
This is a coaching session that most people will find relevant, if not, invaluable. Possibly, a little confronting. In this episode, Craig talks about…
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#79 Craig and his Mum
Getting Mary (who is somewhat private and averse to any kind of limelight) on to TYP is one of Craig’s greatest achievements. It’s fair to say ‘The Old Darl’…
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#78 The Unconventional Doctor
Doctor Kal Fried (pronounced Freed) is back on TYP sharing his medical wisdom, stories and insights around health, healing and hysteria. He and Craig go even…
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#77 Story Time with Harps
In this episode, Craig shares stories from his journey as a fitness industry pioneer. For those of you who don’t know, he opened Australia’s first Personal…
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#76 Resilience
Nick Farr is co-founder of Resilience Builders and is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most accomplished high altitude athletes and leadership development…
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#75 Passion, Purpose and Path (Part 2)
Wow, that’s a lot of P’s in one title. Here’s another… Paul O’Brien (Leadership Coach, Ex Police Inspector, Author and Endurance Cyclist) is back on TYP and…
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#74 with Tony Doherty
Fitness industry pioneer, Tony Doherty has been innovating, creating, contradicting the norm and calling a spade a fucking shovel for three decades. He has a…
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#73 The Gentle Giant
Craig sits down with Australia’s best bodybuilder, Josh Lenartowicz, and the boys talk about prepping for the Mr. Olympia, the mind in bodybuilding, dealing…
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#72 The Controversial Pastor
For some people, Pastor Rob Buckingham is not ‘Christian enough’. And more than likely, some of those same people will get mad at him for chatting with the…
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#71 Helping Others to Help Ourselves
The other day Craig sat down with Maritza Barone on her Podcast (‘Things You Can’t Un-Hear’) and continuing on with his current pattern of laziness, he’s…
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#70 Success, Service, Happiness and Other Stuff
Craig recently chatted with Jarrod L'estrange on ‘The Super Dad Show’ and because he’s essentially lazy, he said to himself… ‘self, why don’t I put a different…
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#69 Damon Hayhow: Fitness Industry Rebel
Damon Hayhow has been a Trailblazer, Lateral Thinker, Challenger of Convention and Shit Stirrer in the Australian Fitness industry for more than a decade…
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#68 Craig's 15 Self-Management Rules
In this episode of TYP, Craig talks about the way he manages himself (physically, mentally, emotionally, practically). He doesn't always succeed (of course)…
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#67 Dr. Feelgood
This episode, Craig sits down with media presenter, author, speaker, sex-pert and highly regarded health commentator, Doctor Sally Cockburn (yes, her real…
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#66 Emotional Kryptonite
In this episode, Craig explores the way we sabotage ourselves emotionally and along the way, derail our own potential, purpose and happiness. He also discusses…
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#65 The Shrink is in the House
Craig sits down with leading Sport Psychologist, Jacqui Louder to discuss everything from anxiety, loneliness, self-awareness, identity and seeking parental…
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#64 Understand You First
This is an unplanned and impromptu mini Podcast that Craig recorded in a moment of inspiration after writing about the impossibility of ‘being objective’. It…
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#63 Renovate Your Body
In this episode Craig shares his thoughts on BMI, using scales, rapid weight loss, body composition, fitness cults, testing, finding the best program…
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#62 Anti-Aging, Biomedicine, Epigenetics (and other sciencey shit)
This episode, Craig chats with Professor Sharon Ricardo (head of Biomedicine at Monash University) about living longer, stronger, happier and healthier. He…
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#61 My Real Job
In this episode Craig talks about his peaks and troughs, lessons and light bulbs, highlights and lowlights as a professional speaker. He also shares key…
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#60 Passion, Purpose and Path
Navigating life can be a tricky (and sometimes, overwhelming) task. And in the middle of that responsibility, there’s the equally important challenge of…
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#59 with Bianca Chatfield
Champion Netballer, TV Host, ‘Block’ competitor, Leadership Coach, Corporate Speaker and You Project regular, Bianca is back chatting with Craig about…
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#58 Melissa Makes Craig Cry
In this episode Craig gets raw, real and vulnerable sharing insights, stories, lessons, triumphs and fuck-ups from his own journey. Lots of light bulb moments…
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#57 The Money Episode
Network Ten’s Jason Cunningham (and TYP’s unpaid money expert) is back to help us navigate the murky waters of generating, spending, saving, investing and…
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#56 Becoming a Life-Long Learner
Craig is a life-long learner. The eternal student. Not the best student, but a committed and enthusiastic one, nonetheless. In this conversation with Dr…
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#55 Discomfort Vs. Threshold
What’s the differences between being kind-of uncomfortable (but still capable of much more) and working to our absolute threshold? What’s actually possible…
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#54 Nicole Livingstone: 3 x Olympian, AFLW CEO
Apart from representing Australia at 3 Olympic games, being awarded an Order of Australia Medal, working in the media for decades, being on the board of…
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#53 Are You an Addict?
Are you an addict? After this fascinating conversation with Mick Hall, Craig thinks he might be. The lads explore the emotional, psychological, physiological…
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#52 10 Steps for Getting Sh*t Done
In this freestyle coaching session, Craig goes off like a self-help frog in a sock and outlines the model he uses (personally) to turn his ideas, intentions…
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#51 Mindful Eating
The Team from Oncore Nutrition are back and in this episode, the girls talk with Craig about becoming more mindful, conscious and aware regarding our eating…
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#50 From Catching Crooks to Protecting the Pope
Gary Wilson is a former member of the elite Special Operations (Anti-Terrorist Group) in the Victoria Police. He has been part of the bomb squad, the…
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#49 Office Boy to Richmond F.C. CEO in Six Years
At 18, Cameron Schwab was an office boy at Melbourne Football Club and six years later (at 24), he was the CEO of one of Australia’s most famous sporting…
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#48 The Failure Episode
What is failure? Is it a number? A certain metric? A particular result? Is it the same for everyone or is it different things for different people, depending…
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#47 Your Relationship with Food
If you're like Craig, then you and food have had an interesting relationship over the years. In this episode, he explores the emotional, irrational…
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#46 BUSY-NESS vs. EFFICIENCY
Do you ever feel like you’re busily achieving not much at all? Lots of action but very little traction? Lots of effort and energy for very little return?…
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#45 PAIN: Perception, Profit and Propaganda
According to Doctor Kal Fried, we’re getting it wrong. Well, a lot of it. Pain, that is. Kal is a Sports Physician who tells a different story about the way…
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#44 A Three-Way with Tommy and Josh
Craig recently caught up with Tommy and Josh from the Daily Talk Show in front of a live audience at his Melbourne HQ. The conversation might have gotten a…
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#43 with Dr. Richard Huysmans
On this episode of TYP, Craig chats with Dr. Richard Huysmans about all things learning, upskilling, research, business development, career change, academia…
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#42 20 Questions for Humans (part 2)
In this episode, Craig intended to explore the remaining Ten questions from his new book. He didn’t do it. Mainly because he’s super chatty and has no idea of…
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#41 20 Questions for Humans (part 1)
In this episode, Craig delivers a ‘virtual workshop’ (with some help from Melissa) around some of the key themes, ideas, messages and of course, questions, in…
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#40(b) Stepping into Your Power and Potential (a brief coaching session)
This is more of a Podcast-ette. Towards the end of a podcast a few weeks ago, I soap-boxed the f**k out of everyone with a ten-minute impromptu, evangelical…
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#40 with Nathan Burke
AFL Legend and all-round good bloke, Nathan Burke, is back to talk Leadership, High Performance, Mental Toughness, Emotional Intelligence, Effective Coaching…
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#39 with Lucy Holmes
TV presenter, breakfast radio host, singer, performer, world’s best Kylie Minogue impersonator (as voted by the real Kylie), mum and self-proclaimed…
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#38 with Danny Frawley
This is a fascinating chat about the dichotomy of a high profile person’s internal and external realities; the internal sh*t-fest in the middle of an external…
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#37 The Exercise Episode
In this Episode, Craig steps into Exercise Scientist, Conditioning Coach and Personal Trainer mode and talks all things fitness, exercise, function…
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#36 Avoiding the Cracks, Tapping the Wall, Lucky Numbers and Checking the Locks (again)
This time on TYP, TV Presenter, Journalist and trainee Podcaster, Brad McEwan, swaps places with Craig, with Brad hosting and Craig occupying the guest chair…
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#35 WTF is Preventative Nutrition?
Bacon will kill you. Well, kind of. Maybe. This podcast was a sad moment for Craig the bacon lover, who discovered that one of his favourite meats could kill…
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#34 Cutting Through the Bullshit
Haters, Saboteurs, Self Doubt and Wasted Potential. What started out as a simple Q and A, turned into a high intensity inspiration session as Craig whipped…
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#33 Over-Thinking, Anxiety, Depression, Vulnerability and Catastrophising.
Let me say up front that this conversation is way more fun than it sounds! A week or so back, I was on a new podcast called ‘The Mental Health Project’ with a…