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Human Cogs Podcast

What if the stories we hide are the ones that shape us most? Human Cogs is the podcast that rips the veneer off everyday life to reveal the raw human truths that lie underneath our everyday lives. Hosted by award-winning entrepreneur, startup investor and ABC journalist and presenterMadeleine Hanger (Grummet), alongside psychologist and media commentator Sabina Read, each episode unpacks big ideas, untold truths and the messy magic of being human. From life’s darkest moments to its most

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Ep. 53 Sushi Das on seeking truths, "deranged...

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2022/02/01

Sushi Das is an award-winning British Australian journalist of more than 25 years, spending much of her career at The Age, where she held a series of senior reporting and editing positions. She is the winner of two Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards including Best Columnist (2005) and currently works as a freelance columnist and as a researcher for RMIT ABC Fact Check. A brilliant writer and storyteller, Sushi is the author of Deranged Marriage - an affectionate, often hilarious, memoir of growing

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Ep. 52 Yves Rees on radical self-inquiry, gender...

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2022/01/17

What happens when, aged 30, you understand you’re transgender? This was the question that confronted Dr Yves Rees, an award-winning author, historian and regular contributor to ABC Radio and The Conversation, whose life was upended by gender transition in 2018. Then known as a woman called Anne, Yves was forced to grapple with the knowledge that they were not, in fact, a woman at all. In this episode, Yves shares the events that led to their transition including completing a PhD, ending a

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Ep. 51 Melissa MacGowan on menopause myths, deep...

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2022/01/04

Many of us hear the word menopause and may think it’s not meaningful or relevant in our own life – regardless of our gender, career path or life stage. As an accomplished business executive who travelled the world working in often male-dominated industries, Melissa MacGowan was once probably the same. Until the symptoms of undiagnosed peri-menopause wreaked havoc in her own life. Melissa is now a passionate business coach who supports female leaders to banish burnout and manage the many and complex

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Ep. 50 Adam Schwab on the highs and lows of building...

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2021/12/28

Adam Schwab is a former corporate lawyer, company founder, angel investor and the co-founder of Luxury Escapes, a global travel company. He has also written for Crikey and SmartCompany since 2005 and is the author of Pigs at the Trough: Lessons from Australia’s Decade of Corporate Greed. From being a self-described glorified filer at a top-tier law firm, to great accomplishments as an entrepreneur, Adam credits his hard work, grit and precision, honed as a law student, as key ingredients in

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Ep. 49 George McEncroe on challenging rigidity of...

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2021/12/14

George McEncroe is a tech entrepreneur, writer, standup comedian, educator, and force of nature. The single mother of four hates orthodoxies, has a roll up your sleeves ‘can do’ mantra, and has spent her life giving everything a crack to dial up the carpe diem in her every day so she doesn’t die wondering. In this episode, we hear about some of the formative experiences that have shaped the adult George is today, including the trauma of losing her beloved sister to suicide, weathering a marriage

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Ep. 48 Jocelyn Brewer on tech addiction, online...

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2021/11/30

Jocelyn Brewer has, in her words, a job of the future. A psychologist and ex-teacher who helps individuals and organisations be well connected and mentally fit, she has been working with adolescents, families and adults for a decade, and understands the complexity of busy modern life, the increasing role of technology in our work and how healthy digital and screen habits need to be consciously shaped by us all. But rather than see exponential technology and social media as a dark force in our

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Ep. 47 Craig Hopper on navigating deep grief, the...

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2021/11/16

On an ordinary day in August 2018, Craig Hopper woke up living the dream, got ready for the day, kissed his three kids goodbye and went off to work. Meanwhile, his wife dropped their youngest at school and set off as a fit 46-year-old on her regular morning run. What happened next changed their lives forever. Craig’s wife suffered a massive heart attack and was found by a passing cyclist unresponsive, unconscious and without a pulse. It took 24 hours to get her heart started again, 10 days in a

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Ep. 46 Rachael Neumann on fierce ambition, learning...

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2021/11/01

Rachael Neumann is an uber impressive high flyer who has experienced countless successes around the globe in the ever-changing and complex worlds of venture capital investment and business. But business wasn’t the focus of our fabulous and high-octane chat. Instead of deep diving into her latest hot startup deal, Rachael shared some of the formative experiences that have shaped the inner narrative which has fuelled her fierce drive and ambition based on growth and acquisition, which has often come

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Ep. 45 James "Fish" Gill on seeing beauty in...

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2021/10/19

In this episode, Sabina takes to the mic solo without her articulate co-host Mads to meet James “Fish” Gill, a Heart Coach, Yoga Teacher, and Transformational Facilitator. Fish shares his own learnings and teachings about how to see the beauty in conflict, the power of curiosity in relationships, and why certainty is almost always a red flag. From giving himself permission to feel joy, even while coaching others who are experiencing deep pain, to finding ways to acknowledge and validate himself, we

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Ep. 44 Kirsty Costa on losing a pregnancy, premature...

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2021/10/05

Did you know that the average age of menopause is 51, menopause that occurs between 40 and 45 is called 'early menopause', and menopause that happens before age 40 is called 'premature menopause’? October is Menopause Awareness Month. So we're opening up important conversations on Human Cogs to explore all of the usual sleepless, sweat-soaked challenges that menopause brings, and also to sit inside the lives of remarkable humans who invite us into the complex experience of an unexpected early

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Ep. 43 Scott Watters on outliers, stepping into the...

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2021/09/21

For those of you into AFL, footy finals fever just swept the nation as we aired this episode of Human Cogs. So who better to get on the show than an ex AFL player and ex coach, to explore the game of football, and the game of life. There are lots of things we assume about people who are outliers. People who have gone beyond the everyday, achieved extraordinary success, and who completely and undeniably stand out from the rest of us. Scott Watters is one of those people. From his Huckleberry Finn

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Ep. 42 Nicole Dyson on empowering young people,...

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2021/08/16

Nicole Dyson is an award-winning educator, has represented Australia as a delegate for the G20 Young Entrepreneur’s Alliance, and is the trail-blazing founder of Future Anything, which has worked with 1000’s of students and schools across Australia delivering entrepreneurial education to unleash the potential of young people. Nicole trained as a teacher in the USA, UK and Australia and has held leadership positions at Queensland’s top-performing public schools, where she has repeatedly led the

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Ep. 41 Brad Feld on venture capital startup...

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2021/07/27

Brad Feld is the author of eight best-selling books on venture capital investing and entrepreneurship, has been an early-stage investor for more than 30 years, and is pretty much a global legend when it comes to startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems, and what makes their flywheels spin. Currently Managing Director at Foundry Group a US-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies, Brad also co-founded Techstars, and has been a major force in the global

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Ep. 40 Kai Lovel on being an outlier, opting out of...

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2021/07/13

From a young age, Kai Lovel has been curious. After school each day, he’d race home to take apart old computers, build robots, gorge on YouTube tutorials, and feed his insatiable appetite for the why and how of things.He realised pretty quickly that he was drawn to the internet. And each week would research and test a new online platform or app, build websites for the fun of it, digital sales funnels for the hell of it, and systems for the challenge of it.Kai channelled those passions into projects

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Ep. 39 Rochelle Pattison on questioning societal...

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2021/06/29

How many of us meander and stumble along in “a life that is expected of us?” For Rochelle Pattison, that meant pursuing a successful career in law and finance, getting married and having kids. Growing up as a young boy in a regional NSW town, Rochelle knew that she was different, but believed she had to hide that difference. As a teenager, she worked hard, and excelled at sport, music and academia while boarding at an all-boys boarding school in Melbourne. So, when her Dad pulled her aside to tell

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Ep. 38 Lucy Thomas on Project Rockit, kindness as a...

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2021/06/15

People throw around words like kindness and empathy like empty packets. They don’t deeply feel those values, really know the lived truth of them or take them and use them to give comfort or a safe cradle to the people around them. But Lucy Thomas does. As the Co-founder and Co-CEO of the phenomenally successful social enterprise Project Rockit, her vision is of a world where kindness and respect thrive over bullying, hate and prejudice, and where all young people are free to realise their unique

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Ep. 37 Dr Paul Denborough on mental health system...

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2021/05/31

The final report of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System was tabled in a special sitting of the Victorian Parliament in March 2021. The landmark final report outlines changes to create a future mental health and wellbeing system that provides holistic treatment, care and support for all - and a system that is finally co-designed by those who have lived experience of mental illness, so the services have the community, families and consumers at the centre of it. The Victorian

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Ep. 36 Osher Günsberg on finding flow, seeing his...

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2021/05/18

Many of you will have seen Osher Günsberg’s smiling face whizzing past on billboards, or on TV, or have heard his voice on the radio airwaves, sizzling with musicality and a truckload of energy. An author, television and radio presenter, musician, journalist and podcaster – his podcast Better Than Yesterday has been downloaded 4.3 million times – Osher is one of Australia’s most recognisable media personalities and has been a guest in the living rooms of Australians for decades. However, behind the

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Ep. 35 Danielle Snelling on motherless daughters, why...

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2021/05/04

Motherless Daughters Australia co-founder Danielle Snelling was 23 when her mother Rosa died. The experience left Danielle feeling isolated and misunderstood. When she connected with Eloise Baker-Hughes, who was also grieving the loss of her mum, they uncovered a shared understanding and validation in each other’s stories. Together they founded @motherlessdaughtersau with the aim of connecting some of the 3.7 million Australian women who have lost their mum. In this conversation with Human Cogs

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Ep. 34 Julia May on elevating self and others, the...

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2021/03/30

Julia May believes that visibility — to self and others — is not about vanity but about building influence and impact. An ex-journalist, who spent five years as a foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald before holding senior roles at Reuters and The Times of London, Julia has now found her sweet spot and nexus for real impact as the Founder of Visibility Co - a leadership consultancy. As a parent to two young daughters, her vision is that, when they are grown, the world will have been

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