Bryn Edwards at The WA Real

Despite our best efforts to ‘wipe our feet’ of our personal life on the doorway before we go into work, the reality is that this does not occur and that we take all of us to work – the good bits, the untidy bits, the contradictory bits; whether we like it all not. But when the typical workplace is only set up to deal with a small part of All That We Are, how does this play out? What is the impact on the individual? This is the fo...

More and more of us are undertaking amazing challenges in life – such as an Ironman triathlon, marathon, climbing Everest or for me very recently, swimming 20km in the ocean to Rottnest Island.

These are amazing, life affirming feats that require a lot of time, focus and energy. There is a wealth of information relating to leading up to and during the event, but there’s been very little focus on what happens afterwards and the jour...

Many will tell you the importance of reducing stress, lowering anxiety and calming your nervous system, but how is that journey experienced in real life and what are some of the points along the way as you unwind where you’ve come from?

In this brutally honest conversation, I reflect on my journey over the past 3 years of practising Trauma Release Exercise Tremoring with Richmond Heath, Founder of TRE Australia. Together we explore...

This week I enjoyed another great deep conversation into philosophy with Dr. Alan Tapper.

Alan has lectured philosophy at Curtin University, informed policy and has also been instrumental in leading philosophy being taught in schools.

This is another great journey into philosophy, starting during the Age of Enlightenment and Rationality working to present day, discussing the how this period influences our modern day and illuminatin...

This week I welcome back Mike Dyson onto the podcast, who talks about his continued work with men through his company Good Blokes Co.

It's been three years since Mike was on the podcast last, in this conversation he shares with us many of the patterns and consistencies that he sees across his work.

He talks about the ‘Man Box’, which seems to be a crappy version of masculinity that is passed down generation by generation, that in...

This week I had a great conversation with Perth-based comedian Bonnie Davis, who is better known for her alter ego, the comedic character Famous Sharron - who is famous for absolutely nothing at all.

In this conversation, you get a really great insight into the amount of work and the process that goes into being a comedian and developing a character like Famous Sharron.

We hear about the history and the development of this characte...

This week I explore theology and our relationship with something bigger than ourselves with Dr. Jim Cregan, former lecturer of theology and Notre Dame University in Fremantle.

Jim explains what the study of theology is and delineates it from institutionalised and organised religion.

Jim explains how considering the questions that theology raises helps us to orientate ourselves in life and society and, as a consequence, develop stro...

When considering interior design, many of us will be aware of different styles whether it's in our home or the spaces we move through. We may be familiar with overseas styles such as the Hampton style, European.

But ask yourself, what does an Australian style of interior design actually look like?

Or let’s go deeper - what would the style of design that's influenced by the land and the deep culture here in Western Australia looked ...

Following on from the highly acclaimed episode #164 with Nick Duffell about the reality and dynamics of Boarding School Syndrome, this week I traced the impact in Australia with Christine Jack.

Christine has spent 35 years in teacher education and educational history, authoring the book ‘Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives’.

In this conversation Christine tracks how the concept of boarding school came from England to Austr...

This week I explored grief - the very natural but overlooked process that affects all of us - with Victoria Volk who specialises in coaching and supporting people who are struggling with loss.

As Victoria puts forward, grief is so often narrowly associated with death, however it is much much wider than that as it is the result of any loss and so we incur grief more widely than we realise.

Victoria shares the six common myths relati...

Measuring your heart rate variability, or HRV, may be one of the most important measures that is easily accessible to you in terms of our health, fitness, and overall life longevity, but what exactly is heart rate variability? and how can you measure it?

That's exactly what I explored this week with Coach Joel Jamieson who has over 20 years of working with heart rate variability while training Olympic athletes, MMA fighters, Navy S...

We are all aware of the negative impacts that are happening to our surrounding environment and nature.

But how do we begin to acknowledge that within ourselves?

How do we begin to navigate our emotions to avoid overwhelm, so that we can get to a place where we can actually do something about it?

And just what can we do?

This is exactly what I explored with Shona Hunter, Community Organiser for the WA Forest Alliance.

Shona brings a...

This week I enjoyed a far-ranging yarn with Tyson Yunkaporta – member of the Apalech Clan, Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledge at Deakin University and author of the book Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (which he’s suggests you shouldn’t buy but borrow from a friend).

In this conversation we cover a lot of ground including the impact of an extraction economy, the rise and fall of civilisations and where we...

How can you make sense of the problems that face us when our capacity to make sense of the problem is the problem itself?

This week I explored sense making and the media with David Fuller, founder of the Rebel Wisdom Channel who is also a former BBC and Channel4 journalist.

David talks about how sense making is the fundamental issue that faces all of us - our inner capacity, both individually and collective, to make sense and meani...

This week, survival expert and instructor Mike House returns back to the podcast to talk about resilience.

Spurred to investigate resilience by the recent impacts of COVID and specific requests of clients, Mike carried out an extensive research study into resilience through interviewing a range of leaders which he’s collated in his book (Un)Shakeable.

In this conversation, we dive into just how the differing personal definitions of...

 This week I had the great pleasure of speaking with Anthony James, who is the host of the Regen Narration Podcast which focuses on the regeneration of life on this planet. This conversation was the meeting of two ‘meta-nodes’ discussing much from across the range of people that we have both talked to on our respective podcasts.

The topic of systems came up - those that are serving and those that are not serving us. Anthony spoke a...

If you regularly attend or participate in an ‘alternative healing modalities’ or are drawn to searching further ‘within’ then the content of this episode is important for you to take on board.

This week, we go further into the world of spiritual and psychological emergencies with a presentation of the findings from a recent qualitative research project that explored the experiences of people here in Western Australia that have been...