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2 episodes with irish australian
2 episodes with irish australian
2 episodes with irish australian
Recorded February 13th, 2025. Pay Attention!: Literary Studies, Neurohumanities and the ‘Distraction Economy' Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Prof Ronan McDonald (University of Melbourne, Australia) in conversation with Prof Christopher Morash (School of English, TCD) and Prof Shane O'Mara (TCIN, TCD). ‘Attention studies' is burgeoning in academic and popular fora, not least because there is a common perception that we live in an era of digital distraction. Drawing on insights from neuroscience, this project considers the relationship between reading and attention in literary studies. It considers how reading orientates our mind, between various affective states that compel or distract: between willed concentration, raptured enchantment or receptive, wide-minded noticing. Opening up a cross-disciplinary conversation between literary studies, psychology and neuroscience, it seeks to provide new purpose and direction for literary studies. About Ronan McDonald: Ronan McDonald holds the Gerry Higgins Chair in Irish Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is widely published in Irish literary studies, with a particular interest in Irish modernism and Irish-Australian literature. He also has a research interest in the history of criticism and the value of the humanities. His books include Tragedy and Irish Literature (2002), The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett (2007) and The Death of the Critic (2008). Recent edited collections include The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Flann O'Brien and Modernism (2014). He is series editor of Cambridge Themes in Irish Literature and Culture. Current projects include an ARC Discovery Project with Prof Katherine Bode and Maggie Nolan, ‘Close Relations: Irishness in Australian Literature'. and a ARC Discovery Project, with Professor Simon During, on 'English: The History of a Discipline, 1920-70'. He is currently working on a book on ‘attention' in literary studies. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub
Journalist Aisling Moloney brings us along on her move to Australia and tries to find out why thousands of young people from across Ireland are making the move Down Under.The 28-year-old from Dungarvan in Co Waterford emigrated to Sydney in 2024, after several years of living and working in Dublin as a journalist with RTÉ and as Political Correspondent with the Irish Daily Mail.At the beginning of her journey, she meets a busker at Byron Bay, born to Irish parents who left for Australia's sunny shores in the 1960s. Fintan, the musician grew up on a hippie commune. Aisling then speaks to young people on the Rainbow Walkway on Coogee Beach in Sydney about the draw of Australia and their experience of life in Sydney.After hearing about how living so far away from home can be hard for many, she speaks to Central Coast GAA Club and visits 'The Doss House' and 'Frank Macs' where Irish gather in search of that feeling of home.She then makes the trip to Perth to visit her sister Eimear, who has lived there for 13 years and is married with three children.In the second part of this documentary, Aisling hears about some of the more difficult aspects of Australia, which include the experience of regional work and the difficulty of finding work in general.She also hears some stories of reinvention, how some people make the move to earn big bucks, and how people deal with bereavement while living so far away from home.We also get a taste of that lifestyle that people love in Australia, and come along to two of Aisling's favourite activities since arriving in Sydney, swimming and beach yoga."Home or Away - Living the Irish Australian Dream with Aisling Moloney" is presented and produced by Aisling Moloney. Editor and Executive Producer is Aoife Kearns.
Our own Brooke Fox is very talented, but ACCENTS are not her strong suit. That's why in today's Phone Tap we're putting her dialects to the test.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Our own Brooke Fox is very talented, but ACCENTS are not her strong suit. That's why in today's Phone Tap we're putting her dialects to the test.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Growing up, actor Pia Miranda would spend her weekday afternoons watching footy and drinking green cordial with her Irish-Australian grandparents. On weekends, she'd be baking and enduring exorcisms with her Sicilian Nonna. The Looking for Alibrandi star chats with Lizzy Hoo about how her grandparents' stories shaped her life, holding onto tradition, and how attitudes to Italians in Australia have changed over the generations.
Irish Australian journalist Brianna Parkins believes that's the reason who we don't buy into the more Oirish merchandise so loved by tourist on these shores. But she wonders why we seem to like paddywhackery on some occasions, but not others. She penned this essay.
Heather Bourbeau's award-winning poetry and fiction have appeared in The Irish Times, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. She has been featured on KALW and the San Francisco Public Library's Poem of the Day, and her writings are part of the Special Collections at the James Joyce Library, University College Dublin. Her collection Some Days The Bird is a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey (Beltway Editions, 2022). Her latest collection Monarch is a poetic memoir of overlooked histories from the US West she was raised in (Cornerstone Press, 2023).Related ResourceTeaching guide for Monarch (PDF)
Heather Bourbeau's award-winning poetry and fiction have appeared in The Irish Times, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. She has been featured on KALW and the San Francisco Public Library's Poem of the Day, and her writings are part of the Special Collections at the James Joyce Library, University College Dublin. Her collection Some Days The Bird is a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey (Beltway Editions, 2022). Her latest collection Monarch is a poetic memoir of overlooked histories from the US West she was raised in (Cornerstone Press, 2023).
Our own Brooke Fox is very talented, but ACCENTS are not her strong suit. That's why in today's Phone Tap we're putting her dialects to the test.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Our own Brooke Fox is very talented, but ACCENTS are not her strong suit. That's why in today's Phone Tap we're putting her dialects to the test.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Heather Bourbeau's award-winning poetry and fiction have appeared in The Irish Times, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. She has been featured on KALW and the San Francisco Public Library's Poem of the Day, and her writings are part of the Special Collections at the James Joyce Library, University College Dublin (Ireland). Her journalism has appeared in The Economist, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. Her collection Some Days The Bird is a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey (Beltway Editions, 2022). Her latest collection, Monarch, is a poetic memoir of overlooked histories from the US West she was raised in (Cornerstone Press, 2023). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support
Derek Healy was born in Ireland where he grew up, went to school and, as he would point out, learned a lot about life. After college he entered the world of finance by selling credit card serves for Bank Of America in Ireland. He honestly talks about his mindset and inner attitudes which, as you will hear, were not so good for some time. He later sold other financial products. After the world financial collapse, as he calls it, of 2008 he traveled around Europe for a bit until he finally decided to make a bold move in 2010. Derek moved to Australia where his brother was living. Again, he worked in finance. Now, he owns his own businesses and has started the hummingbird sales academy. He teaches not only sales, but he also teaches mental attitudes and he shows/leads his clients and students by example to develop better mindsets and life perceptions. Derek also is the creator of the S.T.O.I.C code, a transformative framework, empowering individuals and entrepreneurs, to achieve unparalleled success. You will get to learn all about both the academy and this innovative code by the time our time ends. By any standard, Derek is unstoppable, and he will tell you why this is so. My time with Derek flew by, for me, surprisingly fast. I hope you will treasure Derek's words and lessons as much as I. About the Guest: Derek Healy is a business development expert, investor, speaking and coach. Derek is an Irish Australian immigrant, who has travelled the world trying to find his purpose, He is the founder of the hummingbird sales academy and creator of the S.T.O.I.C code, a transformative framework, empowering individuals and entrepreneurs, to achieve unparalleled success. He is involved in many exciting start ups and is soon to be wed. Derek philosophy centres around core values of integrity, empathy, neuroscience, stoicism and a commitment to lifelong learning. His message if infused with inspiring stories, positivity, gratitude and overcoming adversity Ways to connect with Derek: Instagram: d_real_derekhealy Website: hummingbirdsalesacademy.com About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes **Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. **Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, hello, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset. Today, we get to chat with Derek Healy. Derek has an interesting story to tell a wicked sense of humor. But if we were to really talk about there, he's a business development expert, investor, speaker and coach, my gosh, yeah. But you know, I don't know what he does in his spare time. We're really glad to have him though to be with us today. He's got I know a lot of interesting and relevant things to talk about. So we're gonna get to all of it. So let me just say, Derek, welcome to unstoppable mindset. How are you? **Derek Healy ** 01:57 I am wonderful, Michael. And thank you very much. What a warm introduction. And I really appreciate your time looking forward to having a conversation. Me **Michael Hingson ** 02:06 to will tell me a little bit about maybe the early. Derek, let's start out and get the early part out of the way so we can find out all your early secrets. Absolutely. **Derek Healy ** 02:15 Well, I'll try and keep this as clean as possible. I know that I want to keep this kid friendly. So I will. What Irish, Irish originally, I'm not you can I'm sure you can hear that in the accent. I've been over here in Australia for 1314 years. And as the locks are fading, it seems the accent is getting slightly, slightly stronger again. But started off in Ireland. Relative relatively simple Irish upbringing, surrounded by sport, surrounded by humor, surrounded by bad weather. And then obviously, a pint or two in between. And it brought me over to this wonderful land traveled all over the world. Of course, like most Irish, like most Irish, we invade many countries, but we do it with a sleeping bag and a lunchbox. **Michael Hingson ** 03:08 Did the bad weather get better when you had a pint? Say again? Say again? Did the bad weather get better when you had a pint? **Derek Healy ** 03:17 Well, I think I honestly think that's nearly Irish. The Irish are known for the weather, and they're known for their drink. And I think if it weren't disappeared, Ireland would disappear. They come hand in hand. It's a package deal. So yeah, it's a package deal. But one of my first football teams is down that down the country football teams. And our dressing room was in the back of a pub. It was the old storehouse of a pub. So that's how integrated alcohol and into the Irish community if you like, **Michael Hingson ** 03:51 understand, I've been to Ireland. I've only been once but I was there for about 12 days. As I recall, we were promoting my book vendor dog. And so I was invited over by the Irish guide dog school. And so we did a number of speeches that they had planned for us thoroughly enjoyed the time love the music, of course. Needless to say, as we talked about earlier on the way over on our flight, I was tuning around the various airplane music channels and I heard this Irish music and I was listening to it and heard it was a group called the Mary plough boys. And I learned about them they performed at the castle rockin we were in Dublin a bit and I was hoping to go hear them but unfortunately the one night we had available they weren't performing that that night so I didn't get to go hear them so I have to contend myself with my CDs. **Derek Healy ** 04:45 There you go. What I'm sure that it the door is not closed, the door is not closed, it will be open and they will present themselves soon enough I presume. One **Michael Hingson ** 04:55 way or another we will definitely work it out. So II. So you you were in Ireland, Ireland for a long time. When did you leave Ireland? I **Derek Healy ** 05:05 left Ireland. It. It must have been around it actually it was it was around the global financial crisis, the global financial crisis. And that hit everyone, as you know. And it's interesting. When I look back at it the similarities to now, if you like, from an economic standpoint, and especially in Australia, right now, there's a lot of how would you say, there's a lot of talk in the corridors about how bad things are. And if I think back in Ireland, I don't even think the global financial crisis was as bad for everyone. I think it was more. Everyone was saying it. So people would just get on board and say, yeah, things really are bad. Like, so **Michael Hingson ** 05:46 what mindset what year was that? **Derek Healy ** 05:48 That was 2008 to 2010. So we were we were in Ireland, and the usual stuff, a lot of employers would make their would use that, that opportunity to get rid of a lot of people called Cass. But then obviously, at the same time, a lot of those people would increase the crisis price of living. So things were different things were relatively hard on the surface for a lot of Irish people. But to be honest with you, that that year, that two years that are all that was happening, myself and my friends have never traveled as much we traveled all over Europe. Again, none of us were working. But we found a way to do it. So as you can sort of adjust to the way of life even though things are tough. You actually can do more, when you have less than when you have more than you're doing appreciate us. **Michael Hingson ** 06:36 Yeah. There. There are, of course, lots of hostels and other things around Europe that made it a little bit easier for people who didn't have a lot of money to be able to travel hostels, **Derek Healy ** 06:46 and we weren't quite one thing about the Irish, we're able to talk our way into trouble and out of it at the same time, there you go. So there was times that we were over there traveling Europe, we weren't going to stay, we had no money, myself and a friend of mine, we were nearly going to have to sleep at a train station in Romania somewhere. And then we found these two ladies. And they said right, you can come back with us. And they they let us stay with them for a while like it was it was just an adventure. It was beautiful. But all all all good things must come to an end. So I needed to get my foot down and start earning some money, build a bit of a life. And here Australia opened the opportunity for me. How did **Michael Hingson ** 07:24 that happen? So what brought you to Australia? What made that all happen? **Derek Healy ** 07:28 It's interesting. I've never really been in my younger years, I was never really a planner. Like I never looked at a book and said, I'm interested in going here, here, here, here here. I suppose if I if I take a back step, I think one of the worst things that you can have is almost talent. Because if you're talented, it doesn't push you to the next level, you sort of rest on your laurels a bit. And that was the same with all my travel adventures. I've traveled all over the world. And it was never worth planning. It was always worth let's see where this takes me. And with Australia was much the same. I had a brother out here. And he was doing quite well. That was all the invitation I needed. And I said I wasn't going out necessarily to be with him. But I said, Australia that will do. It was like Tron it was like throwing a dart at a dartboard. And I said, Australia, but I could have very well ended up in Arizona or Nevada, or even California and I could be having this live with you if the if the if the star is aligned differently. But I'm in Australia, **Michael Hingson ** 08:26 what were you doing before you encountered the world financial crisis in 2008? Well, **Derek Healy ** 08:34 funnily enough, I was in the financial industry. So I was with my first ever, how would you say a job out of college was with Bank of America, which was an amazing learning experience water company to work for, I have to say, I don't know what it's like now. But when I was there in Ireland, it was an amazing adventure. Sober was always corporate sales, whether it be property recruitment, or even the financial side of things. **Michael Hingson ** 09:04 Right. Right. **Derek Healy ** 09:05 So a good solid background in corporate selling, if you like, How long were you there? In Bank of America. It was my fault. That was my first. That was my first real job if you like, and it was I accom I had just left college. And through a number of bad decisions in college, I had my mind almost went snap and that was from drug or alcohol or just over enjoyment. So about three or four years of just over enjoying oneself. My mind had gone snap so I was suffering from a little bit of depression. And my mother, I remember my mother had promised the interview and I was driving across country. This is only about 20 years old. 1920 years old. I was driving across country 7am Ice called winter's morning in Ireland. And I pulled up I didn't even know what Bank of America was I pulled up to this complex housing nearly 1000 people. And it was quite intimidating. But look before it before I was about to leave the car I was there, I looked back at her looking for some sympathy, please don't make me come in here, I got the raise of an Irish mother's hand was like, Get get in there. So I went. So I went, I went in, had initial training with the guys. It was my first you're in this environment, you're coming from college and Bank of America is very corporate, you've got the suit, you've got the tie, you've got all of that. So I learned from that, even dressing up. It's like getting into it getting ready for a football game, you get in you get involved, you get ready. And it's like gore time. So even that was a beautiful learning experience. For me just even entering that building for the first time. What year was that? That would have been maybe 2004 2005 something. So **Michael Hingson ** 11:03 yeah, I understand exactly what you're saying it's a whole different environment, then we're, you know, we tend to be used to when we're students, and suddenly you're, you're thrown into this whole different thing that unfortunately, college doesn't help prepare you for necessarily. **Derek Healy ** 11:22 No, it doesn't. It doesn't, it doesn't. And it's it's folly. If you look at leadership's the beauty of mentorship or leadership is you're being mentored or you're being led by people that have done it before. And they can give you real life examples of what to look out for and what to expect. And perhaps the people in certain universities, they're training you for something that isn't real, if that makes sense in training you from from books or from other people's experiences, and they're not able to articulate it or paint the picture correctly. And that, that opens up a lot of uncertainty when people enter the working world. So yeah, it is quite a big culture shock. I'm yet to find someone actually, that can say that college or university prepared them for the real world, I'm yet to meet someone, I'm not sure if you can actually introduce me to someone that can that can attest that. Well, I **Michael Hingson ** 12:22 think something a little different. I think with light here, I went to the University of California at Irvine, which is a research institution, it was a it was a new campus at the time when I went there, but one of the things that generally, we were told was that the junior college or community colleges, and even the Cal State system, which were four year colleges tended to be much more teaching oriented, and I think tended to probably have more people who were a little bit closer to what you would find in a lot of industry and so on. And some of the people came from there, as opposed to most people at the universities, and it isn't a criticism, it's a different world. But most people from the universities are in a much more theoretical world, or maybe in a scientific environment experimental but still, you're right. They don't come from an environment where they think about teaching people to be prepared with for what comes outside of the university, and all those other kinds of things. **Derek Healy ** 13:40 And I think, again, I'm not sure of the university systems right now. But there's a lot of talk about, like safe places, if you like or even even censoring the way people talk or the way people debate. And I think debate is such a beautiful, beautiful thing. And in the years that I've worked 20 years in the corporate space, and I've trained and mentored hundreds of people. But the one thing I've learned with the people that are unsuccessful is the people that are unable to deal with adversity, and they're unable to bounce back from disappointment, or they're unwilling to push themselves into uncomfortable states situations and stay there. That's the difference between success and failure. I think and, unfortunately, what seems to me the trend is universities are sheltering people specifically from those areas of growth. **Michael Hingson ** 14:36 And even there's probably some merit to that. Yeah. **Derek Healy ** 14:40 Which is, so it'll be interesting to see. It's all a big experiment. It's all a big game. So we'll see in 1015 years, what the what the results are, **Michael Hingson ** 14:48 and whether anyone makes a real change. Or the other side of it is the universities do what they do and that's okay. For one one group of people, but still I hear what you We're saying that If college is really supposed to prepare us for life, then there are certainly other things that need to be brought into the curriculum somehow **Derek Healy ** 15:09 into it. That's so true. That's so true. But another thing actually did Jesus on the university side of things. In Ireland, we've got relatively free education system, which is an amazing that we are doing that because education is so so important. But the problem with that is it becomes it, whether it be an industry or not. The problem with that is, when you're unsure of what to do, you're nearly pushed towards University. So even when a lot of my friends were going to university, no one knew what they wanted to do, and very few are doing what they went to university for. But it seems like it's like the next logical step to go towards. And that's not always right, either. It's more following. I don't think university should be going where you don't know what you want to do, you should you should, you should need to have a vision you should need to have because as we know, if you make a decision, whether it be right or wrong, at least you've made a decision. So when you make a bad decision, you can recollect and then turn that into a good decision. And that's even a learning process. But if you're just literally going to university, because everyone else is I don't think that's necessarily your decision. And therefore I don't think the results can be achieved. **Michael Hingson ** 16:21 I think, I think there are too many people probably who, putting it in quotes, go to find themselves. And that's unfortunate if they really feel that they have to do that. They haven't been prepared or maybe haven't gotten what they need from their parents. And I will say there are some who do find themselves. But there are a lot of people who still come out with with a lot of challenges. And it's very unfortunate that it isn't just the academic knowledge, I would like to see people get from college university, but rather some of the other life knowledge that people could bring. And I wish there were more of that. I think you're right. **Derek Healy ** 17:03 I think so too. I think so. But the problem is, though, Michael, if you are lost, you might, you're going to find yourself. But sometimes someone might find you and then you are literally, they'll find you before you find yourself and then you just become their train of thoughts. We're all programmed at the end of the day, but we need to make sure the programming is correct. And it's in our best interest. **Michael Hingson ** 17:26 I know that when I went to university, I wanted to be a teacher, I always wanted to teach, I wanted to do something in the science world. But the other side of all of this discussion is that something happened along the way that caused me to need to shift well not need to but shift exactly what I was doing instead of going toward teaching and I had a secondary teaching credential. But I had been offered an opportunity to work to help make a new piece of technology available to blind people. And I was hired to coordinate a project for 18 months where literally, we put product around the country for people to use. So I was the person who would literally live out of suitcases in hotels for 18 months writing curriculum, writing procedures, teaching people to use the technology and eventually writing a final report. And I suppose you could say that as a result of that like writing training curriculum, I really did start to teach, although it was a little different than what I thought. And then it's and then I went to work for that same company. And after about eight months, I instead of doing the kind of work that I had been doing, was told that I had to be laid off because I wasn't a revenue producer, unless I was willing to go into sales. And what I what I learned, so you'll appreciate this. What I learned though, I took a Dale Carnegie sales course, and what I learned and still believe absolutely firmly today that the best real salespeople are teachers. You're teaching people about your product, you don't you, you can't force somebody to buy unless they really want to, and you might be able to break down their will. But that isn't the best way to sell. The best way to sell is to teach advice and counsel. And when you do that, it will reward you in so many ways. And I saw so many examples of that over time. So I ended up teaching anyway. **Derek Healy ** 19:30 That was Wow. Wow. And you hit the nail on the head the best. When I went into leadership first similar story it was it forced me I was always able to do bring in generate revenue. But when I had to teach people how to generate revenue, it made me a better revenue generator. Yep. Because you need to articulate in a different way you need to influence the people that you're surrounded by. It's a different cell if you like it But yeah, Michael, I hit the data, you are in sales. In the end, you are in sales. You so there you go. Well, **Michael Hingson ** 20:07 the other. The other side of it is that the more you teach people, and you leave it open for them to be able to ask questions and explore with you, the more you're forced to learn, because invariably, they're going to ask you questions you hadn't thought of Exactly. Which is so much fun. And I learned early on when I was getting my teaching credential, that when people ask you questions that you don't know the answer to, don't try to fake them out. Be honest, be honest answer. I don't know. And then go find the answer. I had that happen to me when I was teaching a freshman algebra class, and there was an eighth grader who was accelerated and he was in the class. And he asked the question, I don't even remember what it was. But it was a simple question. I just couldn't think of the answer. And I thought for a second, I said, you know, Marty, I don't know. But I'm gonna go find out and we will get the answer all up on the board tomorrow, and you're gonna write it on the blackboard? Well, when I came in, and he came in, he said, Mr. Hanson, I got the answer. I said, I do too. Let's compare notes. And we did. And he wrote it up on the board. And, and 10 years later, I met him at a fair, and his, now he wasn't an eighth grader anymore. He had this deep bass voice. And he said, Hey, Mr. Harrison, do you know me? And I said, No, I'm Marty, that guy with the question. 810 years ago, this just amazing. But isn't that amazing? It's such a lesson. **Derek Healy ** 21:42 Wow, that that's it's amazing. The things that make such a big difference is small things that, yeah, it's the small things, but it makes a big difference. **Michael Hingson ** 21:51 They make such a big difference. And after I did that, and told him, I didn't know my master teacher, who was also the football coach for the high school came up and Mr. Redmond said, you know, you told him Do you didn't know. And that was the best thing you could do. Because if you tried to blow smoke, they would have caught you. They would never have respect for you, you're gonna have their respect from now on. And you know, that was so true. And it's the only way to do it. **Derek Healy ** 22:17 Absolutely. But I think apart from the fact that you went on the journey with him to find the answer, and you, you didn't, as you said, try and blow smoke, but you're shown vulnerability. And by showing some sort of vulnerability, we can nearly make a connection to that. Even it was funny, I was in a meeting there recently with a another friend, a business partner of mine, if you like, and we bought at the meeting. And I came in, had the meeting. And in my opinion, everything was perfect. Like the appearance was perfect. The way I spoke, nothing was out a turn, every answer was given perfectly coherently, etc. And my friend, his body language was a little bit off, he was slightly slumped. He wasn't looking at the person I was looking dead in the eyes. He was when I observed what he was doing. It didn't look perfect. But before the end of the meeting, the two guys that were sitting across the room, the question came up like what what's your thoughts? The guys directed to my friend? And they said, I'm feeling exactly he's, it's like he's inside my mind. They totally resonated with him. And I had to assess it. At the end of it. I was there. I was perfect in that meeting. Why were they why did they resonate with my friend who wasn't perfect, and they resonated with it, that didn't resonate with me. And I assessed it was that the guys we were talking to Warren perfect. And the fact that I was trying to be perfect, it not annuity alienated them. And they connected on an emotional level with my friend because he wasn't trying to be perfect. Nothing about him was perfect, but they resonated better with them. So sometimes, when we try to be that perfect individual, it's almost create a suspicion to the counterpart. And Shawn vulnerability is more human. **Michael Hingson ** 24:08 And it shows you for what you really are not trying to be something that you're not necessarily at all. I when I speak. I love to speak in person when I can, I will speak virtually, but when I speak in person, I get to hear the audience. And I know there there are a lot of people who say, Well, you can't see the audience. I don't need see the audience. I can hear the audience. And one of the things that I have learned to do when I speak is to put different phrases or different things in sometimes a joke, sometimes just a comment, or sometimes a question that I want people to just somehow respond to. And I listened for the reactions and that has taught me over the years and now tells me how well I'm doing really connecting with the audience. And if I decide that I'm not really connecting, I will change something to connect, because I want to be with them. And I want them to be with me. I believe that as a speaker, I never talk to an audience, I talk with an audience. And it has to be that way, for the best speeches. And so I don't read speeches I customize. And sometimes I've had to do it as I go, I've got great stories about that. But the bottom line is that it's all about connecting. And when you can connect, it makes a whole huge difference. **Derek Healy ** 25:36 That's amazing. So you're putting out little feelers if you like, just get the energy from the audience. And you, you can almost gauge that what type of audience you are going to be speaking to just by the prompts that you put out, if you're like, oh, **Michael Hingson ** 25:51 absolutely can Yes, that's it. Now, having said that, they're all going to try to fool me from now on, but nevertheless, you know, **Derek Healy ** 26:00 the, I recently heard a story, something about I can't remember that term, but it's you may have even heard of us. It was many, about 100 years ago, there used to be a horse, and it was a job as a German trainer, and he had a horse. And he used to go around to fairs. And the whole thing was that he claimed that the horse could speak could understand language. So he used to bring the horse into the fair, and they'd be surrounded by people. And then he would, he would get the horse to spell out certain names, certain words. So he'd asked the question to the audience. And the question could be, what color is this apple, and then the horse would go over and eat spell out red apple, like going over to the thing, he was able to do multiplication tables, he was able to do division. He was it was world famous this horse. So then a couple of scientists came over and they were they're trying to find obviously, some holes in the story. And they wanted to see if it was, if the horse could actually do that. So they went to the guy, they got the guy out of the room, so that they thought that was it. They whispered to the horse, what they need, what they need, what they go to multiply seven by seven as an example. And all the stadium was there, the guy would whisper into his ear, and then the horse, walk over and do 49. But then, by the end of it, they were there. How could it be? So what they did is they got rid of the audience. And then the horse was no longer able to spell multiply or divide. And it turned out that the horse when that question was presented to the audience, and the horse would be going over to the number or the letter, the audience anticipation, the horse would feel the anticipation, the horse would anticipate, he would anticipate, and it was by the feeling that the audience was given that the horse was able to hone in on this. So Michael, you are that horse? So you are a bit better than that is that is what you're doing. You're and you're getting the full feeling from the audience. **Michael Hingson ** 28:05 Yeah, I hear a lot of information which makes which makes it amazing. That is amazing. So what was your first job with Bank of America? What did you start doing? **Derek Healy ** 28:16 Oh, my word. So we went in no **Michael Hingson ** 28:18 keeping besides being a closed model. **Derek Healy ** 28:20 Yeah. The keep in mind, when I got my first job in Bank of America, I was I was leaving college and I was suffering severely from depression severity from depression. Now, if anyone is whether it be yourself or anyone else that knows anything about depression, it doesn't just remove all of your confidence, but it literally shakes you to the core. It's it's a terrible affliction, or anyone. And my first job was actually working in Bank of America in the credit card division. So when I had just finished my train, and I walked into that sales floor, there was about 300 Absolute lunatics. There was I walked in there, the energy in that place. There was over on the left hand side when I walked in, there was two girls running down the full length of the corridor having an egg and spoon race for money. There was someone over the other side throwing darts at balloons that were filled with money like it was, this place was just insanity. It was it was craziness. And there was so much confidence in the place and that was my first job with those and I remember being brought straight to my cubicle. And just so I didn't have to make eye contact with anyone and speak to anyone over straight on the phone, making making cold calls cold call cold call and push that as pushed out as literally banging out 100 Maybe 150 calls a day and that's no joke. This is I hear you 15 years ago is a lot different than it is now in terms of outposts in terms of whatever on a dialer. But as I started as the skill started developing, and as the conversations I started having with these individually was every conversation every sale I made. It was like it was rebuilding a stone wall of confidence that I had knocked down through the years before. And it was an amazing just almost metamorphosis of someone that came in with the most own confidence on the shell, I probably looked okay. But internally, I was broken. But through that through dealing with that adversity, and through learning those new skills, it, it changed who I was, it changed who I was. And I still have those same skills today. But and learned a lot from that experience. But call center finance, called credit card, the hardest thing you could ever do in the situation I was in, and I loved every second of it, loved every second of it, **Michael Hingson ** 30:48 I worked my first job. Well wasn't my first job. But in late 1980s into 1990, I went to work for a company. And they're the ones that eventually asked me to go to New York to open an office because I was selling from the west coast to the financial markets, Wall Street. And we were doing it all by phone. So I think my record was about 120 calls a day. Normally, it wasn't that high because I spent time with customers explaining things about products. So for me, when I had 120 calls a day, I knew that in some senses, maybe I planted seeds, but wasn't as productive at getting sales as I was when I had fewer calls because fewer calls meant I was actually interacting more with customers, which is the way I looked at it. Our bosses wanted as many calls a day as possible. And that wasn't as practical as it should have been. But we over achieve goals. So it was okay. **Derek Healy ** 31:47 Yeah, and I think that, that that is a train of thought in sales is it's a numbers game. And to a certain extent that is true, but it's about the value you're having with the customers. That's where the true change can happen. Yeah, **Michael Hingson ** 32:02 a lot of people didn't have anywhere near the number of calls, even on a good day, if you will, from a sales standpoint. Because people tended to be way too distracted. spend too much time talking and, and not on the phone. And I love being on the phone. It was a lot of fun. Yep, exactly, **Derek Healy ** 32:21 exactly. I wonder. You say that's a lot of fun, you can easily convince yourself that it's a lot of fun. And that's that's the trick as well, you need to it's a lot of people avoid getting on the phone, because they're, I don't know, it's it's their mindset of I don't want to get on the phone. So I **Michael Hingson ** 32:39 don't want to talk to people, I'm afraid to talk to people, they might ask me something to show me up, which is of course getting back then to our whole discussion. From before, it's okay, if you get a question you don't know. And that happened to me a number of times, which also helped me learn a lot, technically. But when people ask questions, if I didn't know, I would just say, Look, you know, I am not sure. Let's finish this conversation and with other things that we have to do. Tell me when I can call you back, I'll have an answer. And I worked always to have an answer that was so important. And I do that today. **Derek Healy ** 33:16 I like yeah, it's important. **Michael Hingson ** 33:20 So how long would you do credit card stuff, **Derek Healy ** 33:24 did it for two years, you know, a year, give or take, give or take, give or take two years, which is it can be a long time. But I found while I was there. Obviously you've you've I went from severely depressed, a broken individual to be one of the top performing executives right across Europe for Bank of America in terms of the outputs and the close rate, revenue I was generating. So I was riding high. But I always wanted that success. But I didn't even know what what really was successful. What I found during that whole, I suppose year and a half, two years that I was doing that I was still displaying the same sort of habits that brought me Depression years before, the only difference was, now I had a lot more money to partake in certain things. So you've you've you've still got the same How would you put them internal behaviors that bring you back down. And even though used on a on a on a conscious or an intellectual level, you may want that success, so to speak. But on an emotional level, you begin and continue to display behaviors that just brings you straight back down. You're not so Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And that's another thing I suppose in universities what they could teach you. They teach you skills, they teach you skills, but they don't teach you correct habits. And if a day to day and a life style in a lifetime, in a day to day, and even in an hour, your life is just made up of tiny little miniscule habits and thoughts. And people focus on the big things, I'm gonna have this house, or I'm gonna have this money, or I'm gonna have this life, but they take their eye off the ball on the tiny little miniscule things. And that's what makes all the difference. And I did that for two years. But again, all my tiny little decisions were combinated to poor outcomes. Whereas, and I think that's, that's something I learned, it took me a long time to implement certain changes that removed bad habits. Because again, talent sometimes is, is a man or a woman's biggest curse. And you can learn that no matter how bad things are, I can bounce back from us. And that nearly is one of your worst enemies. Whereas if you focus on just the small things you can control and the small habits, it allows for long lasting success. **Michael Hingson ** 36:01 So what did you do after credit cards, property, **Derek Healy ** 36:04 there's a bit of property. It was, this was pre GFC. So property was all the rage, and it was all where the revenue was. That was fun as well. That's when I first moved to the fine city of Dublin, Ireland. So I spent a number of years up there. And we were selling property in Spain. So it was all golf course, beautiful properties. I don't think many of them survived the global financial crisis. So there's a lot of green open land over there. I don't think many survived. But it's, yeah, it's funny. There's, there's always, if you want to go, if you want to make money, just just that money is raining everywhere. And if you want to make it, you just have to go and stand under where it's raining most. And at that time, it was property. But the rain eventually stops. So you need to know when to get out. So yeah, it was it was an interesting, great learning experience there as well. **Michael Hingson ** 37:08 Well, you have, but you have been doing work in the financial industry. And yeah, I'd love to hear more of the other things that you've done since but you've been in this business for almost 20 years. How? Let's say you've dealt with chinzy, you've done with millennials and Gen X and even baby boomers. What are the different groups? Like? How are how is how's all that evolved? And has it evolved in a good way from Boomers to Gen Zers? **Derek Healy ** 37:37 Yeah, wow. The like, in Australia now, when we first came to Australia, how we integrated so well, was our commitment to just and it wasn't even our commitment, how we generate, how we integrated so well, much like most immigrants, you just get stuck in, you just try and do your best. Sometimes it's just a poor food on your table. So you've got that mindset of pushing, pushing forward, that allows you immediately just one of the laws of the universe by pushing forward and doing your very best as much as you can, you're gonna get certain results from it. And we're, we were greeted with open arms by the Australians, what seems to happen with a lot of the younger generation that's coming through, they don't have that hunger to succeed, it's more of a they're entering a safe place. And it's, they're not prepared to step outside that safe place to to succeed. That's why I do I do believe travel does implement certain behaviors that can be so valuable to people. As long as you're not supported by your parents on your trip, you need to be there needs to be an opportunity for you to go very, very hungry. And that's going to be a lot of learning from that. So with that with a lot of the Gen z's. For the last 10 years, when I've been working in this industry in Australia, the feedback from the market is these people are a jellyfish generation, there's not as much they just no one just wants to get stuck in no one wants to do this. And I've heard that so often. But why doesn't someone do something about it then? Like why do we accept those certain things by people? Or why do we? Why? Yeah, why do we accept those certain behaviors from individuals? And a lot of times people will. People will do what they see. I think as leaders, we're leading Gen Z if you like, we need to be living a life that inspires those individuals that they want to follow. So if you've got a lot of people that aren't, you know, will say that jellyfish generation Gen Z's aren't, they don't want to make us well perhaps that we need to as leaders, we need to be living lives that they want to emulate. They want to follow because there is a lot of people that they just don't dare look, no one wants To do nothing, people want to be inspired, once they're inspired, they will push true. And I think what's lacking with Gen Z is inspiration, there is not enough people to inspire them to on a path that they want to follow, or they need to follow. So with Gen z's, I've worked a lot with them. It is challenging, because as I said, a lot of them don't want to step outside their comfort zone. And what I found to help them with that was for me to live from, from a leader and from a mentor, to live the best possible life I can with the best possible habits with the best possible mindset. And, and, but And of course, by leading from the front, and if you can do all of those things, no, you're not going to get 100% of the Gen Z's if you like. But what you are going to get, you're going to get the people that want to change, and you can't change people that don't want to change. But when you've got the opportunity to inspire certain individuals, you need to do it right. So do you think that **Michael Hingson ** 40:59 a lot of them feel more entitled, or they want to feel that they're entitled as opposed to have to earn? **Derek Healy ** 41:07 Well, there is that of course, like, yes, there's a certain level of entitlement that is a really entitlement, because again, a lot of times, they'll want to fool, okay, well, this is what it is to change yourself. Okay. So as an example, from a diet standpoint, it's not hard to have the perfect physique. To eat perfect to do things as close to perfect as you can. That's not hard. Conceptually, that's not hard. But to implement that, and to actually stand by your diet, to stand by your exercise routine, something as simple as this. It's a lot easier to not do that. The simple things are easy to do. But the simple things are easy not to do. That's the problem. And it's a lot easier to focus on external matters, as opposed to internal matters. And I think that's what it is, a lot of the Gen Z's if you like, it's easier to focus on things that are outside their control, and focus all their attention on that or even use that as a leverage than it is to focus on the simple things of the internal because that's, that's the easiest to do. And it's the easiest to not to do. And I think that's where the thing is, but I think that comes back to inspiration. When I've worked with individuals. They see the work ethic, they see the true desire to help these individuals. And that can inspire people. So I think as leaders, I think the Gen Z's yes, there might be entitled, but what about the leaders? What are the leaders do about that? **Michael Hingson ** 42:43 So course always the question, Well, what about the millennials and the Gen X's? **Derek Healy ** 42:49 The millennials, the Gen X's? Yeah. But again, they're the leaders that came before. They're the leaders that came before. And if I hear a lot of them, like I speak with them, I hope none of them are gonna listen to this after but I speak to them every day from a consultancy standpoint. And a lot of those individuals will complain about the people that are in their organization. But what are they doing about it? And exactly? What are they doing about it? How are you making a difference, you can ask, push people to change, you need to lead people to change. And I'll be speaking to these business owners, these millionaire business owners, they'll be able to shape their business will be rolling to a certain extent. But there'll be big holes in their business and in their own personal life. If that's the case, how are you meant to be inspired these individuals? So a lot of people even with from a business owner, they were looked at the Gen Z's or the or the Gen Y's or they looked at other individuals and say they are not doing what they're supposed to be doing. But that's deflecting from themselves. Are they truly doing what they are supposed to do to inspire? **Michael Hingson ** 43:53 Yeah, a lot of it has to absolutely do with inspiration, because people are going to relate to people they can look up to or that they can admire. And if leaders aren't doing that, then that's a problem. And one of the things that I've said many times is that bosses are not necessarily leaders and leaders are not necessarily bosses. One of the things that I did whenever I hired a salesperson, in our initial meetings after they joined, I would say, let me explain what are our roles here are, you're here to sell. I'm not here to tell you how to sell because I hired you assuming that assuming that you know how to sell. What you and I need to figure out is what I can best do to help you and add value to what you do to make you as successful as possible. And that's going to be different for every single person who I hire because they all have different talents and the people who got that leveraged me in many different ways and it worked out really well the people who didn't do Just plodding along as they usually do. And they didn't last very long. But the people who got it really put it to use. And we talked about, like what I thought I could add in a way of value to what they do in terms of being a sales guy, but also being technical and a physicist and being blind, I learned to listen very well, most of the time, my wife didn't always agree, but when, anyway, but but the bottom line is that the fact is, I would be able to add value to them. And they took great advantage of it, which I loved. Because they were more successful. That just we worked as a team, we created a team and it worked. **Derek Healy ** 45:44 That is it. We are very aligned with our concepts there. We are very, very, very aligned with our concepts. And yeah, I think, yeah, that too much of it's too much, too many people are being pushed from the back, as opposed to being led from the front. And you as a leader did the right thing there by finding how can I make you better, that's all I'm here to do is make you better. So that's beautiful. And look, **Michael Hingson ** 46:11 if we made mistakes along the way, admit it and fix it. There you go. But most of the time, it's easy. I think that's **Derek Healy ** 46:20 what a lot of times, that's an interesting one actually. Even getting back to school, like in school. I even remember for myself, you get asked a question. And sometimes you'd be afraid to try and answer the question because you could be wrong. So you nearly get this PTSD of being wrong. And perfection shouldn't. When you're afraid of being wrong, then you're afraid of making decisions. And if you're afraid of making decisions, you're going to welcome procrastination. making the wrong decision is in theory, it can be the right decision. Because once you make a wrong decision, it's easy to rectify your path and get on the right course. But you just need to make a decision, you need to make a choice. Yeah. So if you if you can harbor, that environment, where mistakes are good, as long as you rectify them very, very fast. Decisions are good. If you can, if you can harbor that type of environment. That's an environment where people are willing to learn. And that's that's where I've had success, I suppose in any of the any of the roles that I've been in. **Michael Hingson ** 47:31 Yeah. And I think it's important that we always learn. The best teachers are also good learners. **Derek Healy ** 47:38 Yes, yes. Some of the best, some of the mesh, which makes a **Michael Hingson ** 47:43 lot of sense. How do you measure your impact or the impact of what you do? **Derek Healy ** 47:49 The Well, look, if even if you just look at it from a from a sales standpoint, it's always numbers, you'll always just chase. KPIs are numbers, but it was funny. achieving certain numbers has never been, it's never been a hard thing. And you will achieve certain numbers, get achieve certain goals, but it gets to the stage where even those certain things there's not as much not adrenaline, but not enough dopamine that comes from achieving the goals. And I think when I assessed I assessed that a while back, why did I not feel? Okay, were after achieving this amazing goal, why do I not feel happy, it's just like you've achieved that now move on. And it wasn't till I started till I was mentored by actually, it was a former prisoner. And he introduced me to so much philosophy and learnings. And it wasn't about achieving these bigger goals or measuring certain success. We took a backer step, and we just focused on our internal so we, when I look at measuring success, I don't look at the bigger picture, I look at the smaller little things. So to build confidence. That's where success success is meant to give you give you confidence. But I like to do it the other way. I like to build confidence to gain success. So I'll start off by trying to be a measure of success and myself. Now what I mean by that is, I'll be up at 4am I'll be up at 4am I'll drink two liters of water. After two liters of water, I'll do a small bit of stretching and I'll read and I'll journal a small bit, then I'll go into a hard workout. Then I'll go in and I'll have a coffee after that. Then I'll go in and I'll try and inch out ensure that I've got no negative thoughts during that whole two hour process. So by the time that 630 comes or seven, I'll have achieved six to seven things that very very few people will have achieved. I will consider that success. I will consider and that will that success that I got by within two hours. Most people want to achieve in most people won't even achieve that simple thing in a week. By achieving that success, I'll consider that success. So I suppose if I, if I take it back, where I used to always go wrong, where a lot of people go wrong, they'll look at this big goal as a measure of success. And then when they don't achieve us, they feel inferior, or they feel whatever. Whereas I'll take it back. And I'll look at every moment of my day as an opportunity to be successful. And that pushes me forward, like a Concorde plane throughout the entire day. And then the bigger things don't matter, because I've achieved all the smaller things, and then just happened so that the bigger things present themselves, **Michael Hingson ** 50:46 and you've cleared your mind **Derek Healy ** 50:48 completely, completely. **Michael Hingson ** 50:50 So what is it you do today? What work do you do now? **Derek Healy ** 50:54 I do a number of different things. I'm involved in a number of different startups, Mike, well, one of the things that I've always I suppose nowadays, you'd call it ADHD, or you could call it something, but I love looking at shiny things. And I'm always over, over stimulated by opportunities. So I work with a number of different startups in the AI space. I coach people, I mentor people. And I'm one of the founding directors of the hummingbird sales Academy, which is a sales Academy specifically to instill confidence, values, and ambition in in individuals. So it's, it's sales, yes. And sales is something that we focus on and skills and communication that we focus on. But really, our sales Academy is focused on habits, and instilling mindset and habits and individual. And that's where we're getting success from our academy. **Michael Hingson ** 51:54 So is it a virtual academy? Or is it in person or? **Derek Healy ** 52:02 Right now? It's, it's, it's how would you call a blended learning if you like? So what we find is, obviously, if you go to a sales training or any sort, of course, immediately you come back from it, you're highly motivated. And this is the problem. Motivation can dip. So what we find is, even during our two day bootcamp, there's huge growth, huge motivation. There's people nearly doing push ups at the end of it, you don't I mean, just You're, you're ready for action, and that motivation can wane. Yeah, so we blend it in with with weekly coaching calls and conversations to go through things. We we have regular meetups. And of course, then there's the online training, and you need to follow the code for our coaching to work. It's all about mindset. So there is a lot of fitness that's blended in those diets that's blended in those, how would you put it, some people would look at it, and they'd say, Well, that doesn't sound too enjoyable. But the idea is you need to change your mindset and focus on things that aren't that enjoyable. Because once you focus on them, and you master them, and you trick your mind into thinking this isn't that enjoyable. But then you trick your mind into thinking, I love this. This is the best thing ever, exactly what I do on the phone, Michael, you totally enjoyed being on the phone. There's people that don't enjoy something as simple as that. But when you trick your mind, and you consistently do it in your mind tells you eventually that you love this. That's what our program is about. It's about looking at things that you that may not be enjoyable on paper. And it's doing them to a level that suddenly you begin to love the uncomfortable if you like. **Michael Hingson ** 53:43 And of course, a lot of the times that we don't enjoy something or we think it's not enjoyable. There's usually fear or something behind it, that we have to break through and recognize maybe it's not really what we thought. So **Derek Healy ** 53:56 well. There's two voices, there's two voices in our heads, the king and the queen. I could use other other terms, but we'll just use the king and the queen for the moment. And the king or the king wants to do was conquer. You know the king wants to do is conquer. He wants to go out there. He wants to eat only when he needs to eat. He wants to conquer. He wants to build he wants to grow. He wants to mentor. And then there's the Queen, and the Queen wants to relax. The Queen wants to lounge the Queen wants to enjoy the spoils of war, enjoy the spoils of the day. And every single morning, every single hour almost, you're encountered with the king and the queen. And you get to listen, who do you choose to listen to? And that's going to define your day. So when I'm up at 4am and it's pitch dark out and it's raining, and I'm doing pull ups, or I'm doing certain things that and I know there's very few people up. I'm listening to the king. But as soon as that alarm goes off at 4am and I I want to go back to sleep and live beside my beautiful lady. That's the Queen telling me to just sit back, relax, you, you've been working out, you've been doing it too hard, relax, have a little break. So you get to choose to listen to the two voices. So part of our academy is identifying those voices, and working on strategies on how to only listen to the person that's congruent with where you want to end up. **Michael Hingson ** 55:24 At any given time, at any given time, and get the two of them to communicate with each other, the King and Queen should be communicating. But you know, what do you do? That's **Derek Healy ** 55:32 it. And, and our idea was, I went on a couple of years ago, I went to Cambodia and I did a retreat, a silent retreat and meditations and all the rest of it. And it was one of the guys that I worked with. She had said, Derek, you're too Yang. You need to find your Yeah, your your find your Yang, man, your your your to Yang. So you're right, the king and the queen need to speak together. Maybe I don't listen enough. And that's that's also a detriment. So you're right. Maybe there needs to be the two of them need to speak together as well. **Michael Hingson ** 56:04 Yeah. Well, tell me what is you invented the STOIC code? Tell me about that. Yeah, 56:04 the STOIC code as I said, What am I one of my mentors, and even one of my mindset coaches to this day, he was an individual that spent over 10 years in the penitentiary system in America. And he, he identified he, he spoke so much on removing your future self, and purely focusing on your, your, your this very moment in time, and only focusing on this very moment in time. And when I, when I reflected on the success I've had and what pushed me back, I realized there was never really any framework, I had all the skills in the world. But there wasn't really a framework that I followed. Everything was pushing forward, but there wasn't enough. How would you say, the foundation I was building foundations, I was building beautiful, beautiful houses, beautiful lives, but on a foundation of sand. So the story, the story code, it's, it's a framework, it's a framework for communication, it's a framework for influence. And that influence is also on yourself. But it's essentially it's a, it's a it's a way to sell, it's a way to communicate, and it's a way to influence yourself. So the STOIC code, it's built on five principles of story tenacity, objective integrity, and community, our communication sorry. So we've all got a story to tell. And as humans, we only resonate with story. We don't resonate with facts, we don't resonate with features, we don't resonate with benefits, we resonate with story. So when we're communicating with our clients or with ourselves, we need to have a relevant story that is going to be able to have that metaphor that people can connect with. So in our framework, we work a lot on our own internal stories, and being able to identify our clients, external or internal stories that will help influence the communication channels, if you like, the tenacity and our framework is purely centered on unfortunately, it's it's hard work, it's welcoming, uncomfortable. Our objective in the story is understanding this, and this is where a lot of people fall down, they focus too much on the outcome, they will from a sales standpoint, they'll focus too much on closing the deal or reaching their commission or they focus too much on on getting the deal if you like and that certain behavior, that mindset is going to it's going to protect you from a position of weakness in my opinion. So the objective in our in our framework is you only focus on what you can achieve. Now you can focus on your activity, your mindset, your attitude, and you remove yourself from the end outcome of the of the deal if you like and it's fully even put in and then of course integrity goes without saying and the communication side of things is purely based on the communication standpoint your your body language or tone and everything every form of communication that's that's centered around influence. **Michael Hingson ** 59:28 Wow. And it's an incredible code and it makes perfect sense all the way around. Well, I have to ask one thing, there's a rumor about a wedding coming up. Hmm. **Derek Healy ** 59:41 I can't believe you got the invitation already. I only sent that out here the other day. You got it in the post. **Michael Hingson ** 59:49 I haven't gotten to it yet. But I heard a rumor from from a little hummingbird. **Derek Healy ** 59:53 Oh yeah. Yeah, I am. I am to be weird. This coming in this coming December I'm actually to be read. So yeah, it's it's going to be an exciting one. So we're doing it doing it in Malaysia. We're based in Australia here, but my partner is she's originally from Malaysia. So we'll do it on on home soil. In the olden days, perhaps we do a Home and Away leg. Boris? Well, I think I'll settle just for the home leg in Malaysia for this one. So, yeah, so it should be it should be an interest in an affair. It's my first wedding. And I can guarantee you, Michael, it'll be my last **Michael Hingson ** 1:00:36 one in my life. And it lasted 40 years, my wife passed away last November, which you're sad about. But I've got 40 years of marriage, and she's monitoring me from somewhere. So if I misbehave, I'm going to hear about it. **Derek Healy ** 1:00:49 And keep in mind, she is monitoring you. I've no doubt about it. There is no doubt about it. She's monitoring. Yes. So yeah. Well, **Michael Hingson ** 1:00:56 if people want to reach out to you learn more about the the hummingbird sales academy or just maybe seek your counsel and advice or just learn about you. How do they do that? 1:01:08 Absolutely. So you'll be able to get us at the hummingbirdsalesacademy.com Get us at the website, you'll get me on socials, we'll leave them in the links in description. Whether this be from a business standpoint and advice standpoint or just to connect, reach out, we can share a lot of value with each other. And I think connections making a human connection is so important. So anytime, if you're if you're listening to this, feel free to reach out and connect. Laughter. **Michael Hingson ** 1:01:37 Cool. Well, I appreciate it. I appreciate you. And I really appreciate the time that you have spent it's early in the day there. So it's what now about 10 o'clock in the morning. 1:01:49 It's just 10 o'clock. And I've it's been a pleasure sharing a coffee with you, Michael. I'm sorry. I couldn't put the kettle on for you here. My coffee with you. It's been a pleasure. Well, **Michael Hingson ** 1:01:59 I've enjoyed it very much. I hope that you've enjoyed it listening to us. To to Derek and we talk. We'd love to hear your comments. Please feel free to reach out to me Michaelhi at accessiBe A c c e s s i b e.com Or go to our podcast page www dot MichaelHingson m i c h a el h i n g s o n.com/podcast. Love to hear your thoughts love to hear your opinions. I know that Derek would love it if you'd reach out to him. And wherever you're listening, please give us a five star rating. We value those very highly. And we hope that you'll be kind enough to give us a rating like that. And one last time. Derek, I really appreciate you being here. And this has been a lot of fun. **Derek Healy ** 1:02:44 Absolutely, Michael, absolute pleasure. Enjoy. Thank you again and speak to you very very soon. **Michael Hingson ** 1:02:54 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we ask you and urge you to invite your friends to join us in the future. If you know of any one or any organization needing a speaker for an event, please email me at speaker at Michael hingson.com. I appreciate it very much. To learn more about the concept of blinded by fear, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com forward slash blinded by fear and while you're there, feel free to pick up a copy of my free eBook entitled blinded by fear. The unstoppable mindset podcast is provided by access cast an initiative of accessiBe and is sponsored by accessiBe. Please visit www.accessibe.com . AccessiBe is spelled a c c e s s i b e. There you can learn all about how you can make your website inclusive for all persons with disabilities and how you can help make the internet fully inclusive by 2025. Thanks again for Listening. Please come back and visit us again next week.
During this episode of greener fields Hannah chats with Nicola Holly, president of the Irish Australian Support Association of Queensland (IASAQ). Originally from Co.Kerry, Nicola has lived and worked in Brisbane for 13 years. During this very special conversation, Nicola chats the reality of long term emigration, her experience of Australian life, the incredible work that ISASQ do, historical Irish Australian emigration stories and so much more. During this episode Nicola also discusses her role as President of ISASQ, the importance of that Irish voice over the phone, how ISASQ have helped to create meaningful connections to home, the significance of recognising your story, the difference between travel and emigration and more. This truly is an incredibly special conversation about the reality of what life is like long term on the other side of the world, the vital work of different Irish communities abroad, the value of staying connected to Ireland and what it means to be Irish despite distance and difference, so make sure to check it out today. Instagram: @irishsupportqld @greenerfieldss @hannahnash01
Join us on a journey that started with three friends who spotted a gap in the hospitality universe and decided to fill it with passion, creativity, and a whole lot of heart. Meet Clayton Ries, one of the Directors, juggling roles from business operations to marketing to financial wizardry. He's the director with a knack for turning dreams into reality. But that's just the beginning! Enter Colin Fassnidge, the Irish-Australian culinary genius, author, and TV sensation. You might know him from My Kitchen Rules, where he's been the charismatic judge since 2013. And guess what? He's just about to rock the grand finale of the latest season! Now, picture this: Three buddies with a world of experience in events, entertainment, arts, and hospitality coming together with a vision. That vision? To bring electrifying, unforgettable social experiences to communities that have been yearning for a taste of the good life outside the city lights. Thus, Social Colin, the hospitality management and consultancy wonder, was born! What's the secret sauce, you ask? It's all about creating social hubs that weave quality produce with a sprinkle of that legendary hospitality magic. It's about crafting authentic, warm, and downright honest experiences that'll make you feel right at home. But here's the twist – Social Colin isn't your average hospitality player. They've got a superpower: listening. They delve deep into demographics and tap into the heartbeats of local communities to cook up the perfect recipe for success. And speaking of success, there's "The Castlereagh by Fassnidge" at The Castlereagh, part of the City Tattersalls Group, brought to you by Social Colin, and it's setting the town on fire! It's not just a place to eat; it's a culinary journey you won't want to miss. So, if you're hungry for inspiration, eager to explore the world of hospitality, or simply craving some good vibes, tune in to "Social Colin: Where Hospitality Meets Heart." Get ready to discover the secrets of building a business that not only thrives but also paves the way for lasting greatness. To learn more go to: https://www.byfassnidge.com/events https://thecastlereaghclub.com.au/
To celebrate Fathers Day in the US and northern hemisphere I am thrilled to welcome well known Irish / Australian singer Damien Leith to the show. Damien is a multi-talented artist that has made his mark in Australia as a singer/ songwriter, producer, author, playwright and tv/radio host personality and he is a dad of 3 children.Damien grew up in Ireland surroudned my music, but didnt get into singing until he was 17. He started a family band with his brother and 2 sisters and toured around Ireland. He came to Australia in 2003 after meeting his soon to be wife Eileen in Ireland, on the first leg of a round the world trip, and has never left!The talented family man first captured the attention and affection of Australians when he contested the 2006 edition of Australian Idol – a series he went on to win. Since then, his career skyrocketed, but he has remained charming, grounded and modest – securing him a place as a popular and well-loved Australian personality.Over the past 17 years Damien has enjoyed platinum-selling albums selling over 750,000 albums and won many prestigious awards including Arias, a Golden Guitar, Songwriter of the Year and many more. His Aria wins include number 1 chart awards for the albums WHERE WE LAND and THE WINNER'S JOURNEY, highest selling album, and highest selling single and number 1 chart award for the track, NIGHT OF MY LIFE. His music has been chosen to appear in commercials, movies and television shows.Damien was a celebrity contestant and finalist on the 2011 series of DANCING WITH THE STARS. Damien also loves creative writing, publishing two novels ONE MORE TIME (2007) and REMEMBER JUNE (2009). He also shares his expertise as a singer/songwriter and has created online courses to help artists improve their voice and songwriters to write, record and release their own music through his DAMIEN LEITH ACADEMY.When Damien is not touring and performing, he spends his time in his recording studio where he is a highly sought-after songwriter (published through Embassy Publishing) and producer. Writing for many artists, he won 2016 APRA/ASA songwriter of the year and 2017 APRA/AMCOS GOLDEN GUITAR winner for song of the year.This episode contains mentions of OCDDamien- website / showsPodcast - instagram / websiteIf today's episode is triggering for you in any way I encourage you to seek help from those around you, medical professionals or from resources on line. I have compiled a list of great international resources hereMusic used with permission from Damien.When chatting to my guests I greatly appreciate their openness and honestly in sharing their stories. If at any stage their information is found to be incorrect, the podcast bears no responsibility for guests' inaccuracies.
Are you curious about the differences between the construction markets in Ireland and Australia? This episode is for you! The Take-Off Podcast provides a recruiter's perspective on this topic! Join us as we explore the key distinctions between the two economies, and how they can affect your next job search. Learn what it takes to be successful across both markets with our experts who have experience in recruiting in both countries. Get ready to take off into the world of construction!
Originally from the west of Ireland, Anne Casey is a poet and writer living in Sydney, Australia. Over a 30-year career, she has worked as a business journalist, writer, magazine editor, media communications director and legal author. She is author of five books of poetry, including one co-authored with US poet, Heather Bourbeau. She has served as Vice President of Voices of Women Incorporated, a not-for-profit literary and performance arts initiative; guest editor of Not Very Quiet Journal; and as Senior Poetry Editor for the two literary journals of Swinburne University in Melbourne - Other Terrain Journal and Backstory Journal from 2017 to 2020. Anne has served on numerous editorial advisory boards and is a founding member of Irish-Australian women's arts ensemble, The Prankqueans. She is serving as a guest editor for the 'Archive' issue of Rabbit Poetry Journal (RMIT University) in 2023. Find much more at: http://www.anne-casey.com/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem about a memory from childhood using Frank's form in “Small Town Brewery Blues.” Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem about cultural myth you no longer believe in. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.
Heather Bourbeau's poetry and fiction appeared in 100 Word Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and SWWIM. She is the winner of La Piccioletta Barca's inaugural competition and the Chapman Magazine Flash Fiction winner, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her journalism has appeared in The Economist, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. Her collection Some Days The Bird is a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey (Beltway Editions, 2022). You can learn more about her here. Bourbeau's latest collection Monarch (Cornerstone Press, 2022) is a vivid memoir in poem-collection form, bringing forgotten people and events that shaped California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington from time immemorial to the present. Through her record-keeping and research, Bourbeau, an experienced journalist as well as poet, creates a regional history that counteracts the simple narratives we are told and taught. Combined with a 21-page bibliography and teaching guide, Bourbeau's Monarch invites us to move through the places we call home, particularly if they are in one of the four states featured, with more care and awareness of the past we may be erasing and the kind of future we'll create if we remaining in unknowing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Heather Bourbeau's poetry and fiction appeared in 100 Word Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and SWWIM. She is the winner of La Piccioletta Barca's inaugural competition and the Chapman Magazine Flash Fiction winner, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her journalism has appeared in The Economist, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. Her collection Some Days The Bird is a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey (Beltway Editions, 2022). You can learn more about her here. Bourbeau's latest collection Monarch (Cornerstone Press, 2022) is a vivid memoir in poem-collection form, bringing forgotten people and events that shaped California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington from time immemorial to the present. Through her record-keeping and research, Bourbeau, an experienced journalist as well as poet, creates a regional history that counteracts the simple narratives we are told and taught. Combined with a 21-page bibliography and teaching guide, Bourbeau's Monarch invites us to move through the places we call home, particularly if they are in one of the four states featured, with more care and awareness of the past we may be erasing and the kind of future we'll create if we remaining in unknowing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature
Heather Bourbeau's poetry and fiction appeared in 100 Word Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and SWWIM. She is the winner of La Piccioletta Barca's inaugural competition and the Chapman Magazine Flash Fiction winner, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her journalism has appeared in The Economist, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. Her collection Some Days The Bird is a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey (Beltway Editions, 2022). You can learn more about her here. Bourbeau's latest collection Monarch (Cornerstone Press, 2022) is a vivid memoir in poem-collection form, bringing forgotten people and events that shaped California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington from time immemorial to the present. Through her record-keeping and research, Bourbeau, an experienced journalist as well as poet, creates a regional history that counteracts the simple narratives we are told and taught. Combined with a 21-page bibliography and teaching guide, Bourbeau's Monarch invites us to move through the places we call home, particularly if they are in one of the four states featured, with more care and awareness of the past we may be erasing and the kind of future we'll create if we remaining in unknowing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry
Everyone's favourite Irish-Australian chef Colin Fassnidge joined us for this week's Rap Battle and went up against Fitzy, and did not hold back! Catch Colin on Channel Seven's Kitchen Nightmares, premiering on Sunday October 9.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In 1920, a young woman ran away from a Catholic convent and into the arms of the Protestant church across town. When she was discovered missing, the Catholic church reported her missing to police, and they went looking for her. What would come is a series of events that seem outlandish and stupid in the 21st Century. Declared insane for rebuffing a return to the Catholic convent, police chased her to Sydney from Wagga Wagga, and had her put on trial. Join Holly and Matthew as they look into the story of Brigid Partridge/Sister Mary Liguori, and her brush with fame, kidnapping and insanity. *To watch Dr. Jeff Kildea's lecture on Sister Liguori and the Irish Australian experience, head to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbiE6K1TZDEMain Theme music – Kevin MacLeod"Slow Ticking Clock" – Kevin MacLeodUsed under a Creative Commons license.
Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has big ambitions for bringing Irish-Australian tradies home. Plus, Anthony Albanese ends the Pacific Islands Forum on a high note. To find out more about The Front you can link here and for more from the newsroom at The Australian link here or search for The Australian in your app store. This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Hareem Khan and Kristen Amiet, and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. The multimedia editor is Lia Tsamoglou, and original music composed by Jasper Leak.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Meet Leanne Devine from Northern Ireland, hairdresser, salon owner, entrepreneur, an immigrant to Australia, mother of 2 young boys... loads of good stories to tell. Here we are:https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobmendo/51971388392/in/album-72177720296857670/Here's her wedding in Ireland:https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobmendo/albums/72157642519642125Meet Amanda McInnes, our sponsor and travel specialist at Travel Partners. You can use this short URL to reach her. https://bit.ly/AmandaTourist and she'll be your advisor on any travel in Australia or around the globe!These 18-minute episodes are what call 'bite-sized' meaning you can hear an entire episode while on a jog, or after a job, in your car driving back and forth to the shops... and you can comment, review, make it reach further and further, if you want. I certainly appreciate it. Support the show
Dianne O'Brien was born in the 1940s and grew up in an Irish-Australian family near Sydney. But when she was just 14, her world was torn apart: her beloved mother died, her father abandoned her and she discovered she was adopted. She was sent to a notorious children's home, where she gave birth to her first child, the result of a sexual assault. Years later, she went in search of her birth family and discovered she was Indigenous, part of the Stolen Generation and a descendant of celebrated Indigenous Australian politicians. Dianne eventually went on to become a leader in her own right in the community she was taken from so many decades before. Dianne has written a book about her life, Daughter of the River Country. A warning that this episode contains descriptions of physical and sexual violence. Presenter: Emily Webb Producer: Zoe Gelber Get in touch: outlook@bbc.com (Photo: Dianne O'Brien with her mother, aged two. Credit: Courtesy of Dianne O'Brien)
Dianne O'Brien was born in the 1940s and grew up in an Irish-Australian family near Sydney. But when she was just 14, her world was torn apart: her beloved mother died, her father abandoned her and she discovered she was adopted. She was sent to a notorious children's home, where she gave birth to her first child, the result of a sexual assault. Years later, she went in search of her birth family and discovered she was Indigenous, part of the Stolen Generation and a descendant of celebrated Indigenous Australian politicians. Dianne eventually went on to become a leader in her own right in the community she was taken from so many decades before. Dianne has written a book about her life, Daughter of the River Country. A warning that this episode contains descriptions of physical and sexual violence. Presenter: Emily Webb Producer: Zoe Gelber Get in touch: outlook@bbc.com (Photo: Dianne O'Brien with her mother, aged two. Credit: Courtesy of Dianne O'Brien)
In today's episode, I'm speaking with my client Orla, who was one of my first face-to-face PT clients here in Brisbane and more recently has completed the mini-cut program. Orla is a vegan and in this episode, we talk about how she navigated a fat loss diet as a vegan, protein sources and her experience of the mini cut program.Topics covered:Her health and fitness journeyWhy she joined the programVegan sources of protein How she structured her meals on a dietGetting results while still having a social life Navigating weekends awayWhat she's learned from completing the programThank you again for tuning into the podcast and I hope you enjoyed this chat with one of my Irish-Australian clients! I would greatly appreciate it if you would please subscribe to the channel, give the podcast a rating, leave a review and tell your friends about the podcast! Stay tuned for more podcast episodes every week!LINKS:Mini Cut program: more info here Register for January intake: empowerher.fitness/macros-mini-cut-options NUZEST Greens powder: https://nuzest.com.au?p=By30vd75v (20% off discount: EMPOWER20)Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/activelyaoife/Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/empowerher.fitnessJoin my FREE FaceBook Group here
Irish-Australian singer-songwriter Damien Leith joined the program to discuss how he is stepping back in time with his latest single Time Machine. Watch on YouTube The post Damien Leith's new single ‘Time Machine' appeared first on Mitchell's Front Page.
Melbourne's Deputy Lord Mayor has introduced two new design review panels. Does this form of advisory city-making actually work? Two experts join Blueprint to discuss the history and merits of this process. Plus, Annie Smithers whips up a meringue, and Colin Bisset takes you on a tour of the Korakuen Garden. And for Lost and Found, eminent Irish-Australian psychiatrist Patrick McGorry takes you to his childhood in Wales.
Nigel Browne is CEO of the Larrakia Development Corporation, a trustee of a charitable trust that engages in economic development in the greater Darwin region for the benefit of the 9 major family groups that comprise the Larrakia people, representing around 2600 people. Nigel's paternal grandmother was Nancy Moo, a part Chinese part Larrakia/Wulna woman; a combination that typifies the cultural connections in the Top End. His paternal grandfather was part Irish/Australian. His mother's parents were Dutch Indonesians. He carries an incredible combination of cultures. Nigel talks about growing up in Darwin in the 80s, getting a law degree, working as a prosecutor and eventually working in the private sector to benefit the Larrakia people. We discuss indigenous advancement, Australia Day (Nigel is Chair of the Australia Day Council in the Northern Territory) and what it means to be ‘proud'. This is Nigel's Territory Story. For Part 1, see episode 117. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/territorystory/message
Lizz Murphy talks to Di Cousens about her new book of poetry, The Wear of My Face. She is an Irish-Australian poet who lives outside Canberra in New South Wales. The matters that have concerned Murphy poetically in the past persist in this collection - especially social justice and the lives of women: girls, vulnerable to predation, but also older women, or poorer women, or women displaced. Murphy's interest in finding poetic inspiration in found texts and visual art is again apparent, and the collection includes an arresting ekphrastic series responding to photographs of refugee children by photojournalist Magnus Wennman. There are also a number of reflective poems in the collection that touch, tangentially, upon the health system, poems set in waiting rooms, or on the road to and from appointments, or in carparks - the liminal spaces where individuality is strangely set aside, but where poetry may be found.
Tim Hill came on the podcast this week, a blogger for 10K Ive seen Tim at a few events and we've become friends. We talked about some Irish Australian history, dabbled in the downfall of Monday night football, and we talk the infamous night at the Loon. Cheers
Humorous Bush ballad, about Irish people adapting their culture to their circumstances in 19th century outback Australia.My mother bought me an illustrated version (illustrations by Aussie artists who were daughters of the NZ/Aussie writer Ruth Park and Irish Australian writer D'Arcy Niland, come to think of it) when I was five years old, and read it to me animatedly.I was entranced by the sound of rhyming language in a familiar environment about landscape and identity.My clever Mummy taught me to read, early. I became a writer, journalist, comedian and broadcaster.From little things, big things grow.Read to our kids, in person and aloud, happily.
Esther Campion is an Irish-Australian author of three novels - 'Leaving Ocean Road', 'The House of Second Chances' and most recently 'A Week to Remember'.Released by Hachette Australia earlier this year, 'A Week to Remember' is a heartwarming story that has the warmth and satisfaction of a Maeve Binchy or Monica McInerney novel. Set between Ireland and Australia, it's a hopeful story about family, love and second chances that will delight readers and have them yearning to travel once more. I was delighted to have the opportunity to chat with Esther on the podcast recently.
Poets' Corner is WestWords' monthly encounter with celebrated Australian poets, curated by David Ades. Each month a poet is invited to read and talk about their poetry on a theme of the poet's choice. Nathanael O'Reilly is an Irish-Australian residing in Texas. His books include (Un)belonging (Recent Work Press, 2020); Preparations for Departure (UWAP, 2017), named one of the Books of the Year in Australian Book Review; Cult (Ginninderra Press, 2016); Distance (Ginninderra Press, 2015); Suburban Exile (Picaro Press, 2011); and Symptoms of Homesickness (Picaro Press, 2010). More than 200 of his poems have appeared in journals and anthologies published in twelve countries, including Antipodes, Anthropocene, Australian Love Poems, Cordite, fourW, FourXFour, Headstuff, Marathon, Mascara, Postcolonial Text, Skylight 47, Snorkel, Transnational Literature and The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2017. You can purchase Nathanael O'Reilly's books here: (Un)Belonging https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbXo0eTZrc3JpUDB5Y0pyeVRzQ3N1aHV0S0kxd3xBQ3Jtc0tuZnZ5SW5LdnhvWFZPanBfS2M0TlRMMkJ5VE5SZWZSV2FueUdFSnUzUlNRMUdfMVdpaDJfdy02d3pTdTBDYWQycVNJSlZGc09ESk5JazdzYlF4Ynd3U20zaXp5N3pxUEYteWtqbTlXYnJ3eFdqOGE4bw&q=https%3A%2F%2Frecentworkpress.com%2Fbooks%2Fproduct%2Funbelonging%2F (https://recentworkpress.com/books/pro...) Preparations for Departure https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0NiQWI2QlI2YjRLdTlraUk4eS1wQmJ6R1BLZ3xBQ3Jtc0tuS0FsdjlOdURCTEVfQTNjbWp6VEUwamlHRlZVelVNMkEzWDNNTGoyMkhpVHFSaU51aGZQdVFKUjZXX3ZUWklzSjBldXhwQ0dkYnB6d0E0OXRoMFMwTm55SDdHR0lDcEZJTEdpbUZZMk82SzNPOE9ybw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fuwap.uwa.edu.au%2Fproducts%2Fpreparations-for-departure%3F_pos%3D1%26_sid%3D20249f8b0%26_ss%3Dr (https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/prep...) ______ ABOUT WESTWORDS WestWords is a literature organisation whose mission is to provide support and resources for the writers, poets, artists, storytellers and creators of Western Sydney, in the form of events, workshops, residencies, school visits, fellowships, groups, consultations and mentorships. For more information, visit our website at https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVJPLUdMRjZIbEtITU94R0NPckMyMGcwS19qZ3xBQ3Jtc0trM1lfZTBxVDRMR29wZUJSRWpPSUNXV0piOEtnTF9YR1pwWjZJTXd3Q3ZiLUZRRUZaZ2ZtUG5Qc2xXY3IxdExSS3hHa2RhOHNid0I2SmZIM05ZNmctdHlrSmhQa1paRHkzMnk1YXExbm96cHRiN0ROVQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.westwords.com.au%2F (https://www.westwords.com.au/) WestWords is proudly supported by: * CREATE NSW –Arts, Screen & Culture * COPYRIGHT AGENCY Cultural Fund * The City of Parramatta * Blacktown City Council * Campbelltown City Council Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
On today's episode I am joined by the fantastic and funny Terence and Roisin from the Irish Support Agency. Since 1995 The Irish Support Agency have provided front-line support, to anyone in the Irish Australian community who finds themselves in circumstances of crisis or distress. They also run programs to help promote mental health and well-being, social inclusion and a sense of connection in our community. But so many people abroad do not know about them. So listen to this and educate yourself on their support, you never know when you will need their help. HELP US TO CONTINUE MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR THE IRISH AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY. If you need assistance contact them on: 1800 186 966 or visit the website https://www.irishsupportagency.org.au/
Limerick-based Irish-Australian sarod soloist and composer, Matthew Noone shares some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.
Martin O'Meara was an Irish man, an adopted Australian and hero of the First World War. He was a recipient of the Victoria Cross Medal, the highest honour awarded for gallantry in the face of an enemy that a British & Commonwealth soldier can receive.In this episode Sheila speaks to two of Martin's closest living relatives, Bill O'Hara, and Noreen O'Meara. We learn about Martin and the circumstances which led to him receiving the Victoria Cross Medal. Noreen and Bill tell Sheila about Martins' visits to Ireland in both 1916 & 1917 and the frosty reception that he received during the latter visit. Our guests then discuss Martin's breakdown in 1918 which resulted in him being committed to an Australian mental hospital, a situation which only exacerbated his condition. In the final part, Noreen and Bill talk about the efforts which have led to Martin being finally recognised in Ireland for the hero he was, and about the wisdom that we can take from his incredible story.See more at: https://www.thehutnearthebog.com/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Malarndirri McCarthy is a Senator for the Northern Territory. Born in Katherine, she comes from the Garrwa and Yanyuwa people on her mother’s side; and she has Irish-Australian heritage from her father’s side. Growing up, Malarndirri learnt to traverse between the two very different worlds of her parents and in the process learnt resilience and courage. After high school she accepted a position with the Australian Broadcasting Commission and was a newsreader in Darwin for many years. She then entered politics, first in the Territory parliament and then as a Senator representing the Territory in Canberra. This is Malarndirri’s Territory Story. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/territorystory/message
Published 12 July 2020We chat to Irish/Australian pro 'Gorgeous' Gordon Maguire..The man who is our logo!!!34 year sailing pro4 Whitbreads/Volvo Ocean Races 5 Laps of the planet4 Hobart winsWorld Champs in Farr 40s, Farr 30s, EtchellsFormer Irish Laser ChampionAnd a man once named by UK media as the daftest man in the UK!!He has some stories.#barkarate #barkarateconversations #sailingpodcast #gordon.maguire #doyle_sails #doyleoffshore #doyleonedesign #ichiban_001 #irishsailinglegends #irishsailing
Teresa Keating loved to run when growing up in Dublin and has harnessed that energy in the Irish Australian community. Everyone who is anyone knows Teresa with long tenures and immense contribution on the Lansdowne Club Board, as Executive of the Irish Funds, as Manager of the IDA. Few know of the journey from Dublin to working with the most influential people in Irish and Australian businesses and govenments. This conversation follows the joys and challenges of meeting life as it is and discovering your own confidence and power along the way. Enjoy
Adelaide director Sophie Hyde talks about her Irish/Australian co-production Animals, a film about turning points and the intensity of female friendships starring Alia Shawkat and Holliday Grainger. Lauren Carroll Harris looks at Shrill, a new comedy featuring SNL and Girls' star Aidy Bryant, and actor Ewen Leslie explains why Scorsese's Goodfellas is one of his favourite films.
Adelaide director Sophie Hyde talks about her Irish/Australian co-production Animals, a film about turning points and the intensity of female friendships starring Alia Shawkat and Holliday Grainger. Lauren Carroll Harris looks at Shrill, a new comedy featuring SNL and Girls' star Aidy Bryant, and actor Ewen Leslie explains why Scorsese's Goodfellas is one of his favourite films.
Adelaide director Sophie Hyde talks about her Irish/Australian co-production Animals, a film about turning points and the intensity of female friendships starring Alia Shawkat and Holliday Grainger. Lauren Carroll Harris looks at Shrill, a new comedy featuring SNL and Girls' star Aidy Bryant, and actor Ewen Leslie explains why Scorsese's Goodfellas is one of his favourite films.
Adelaide director Sophie Hyde talks about her Irish/Australian co-production Animals, a film about turning points and the intensity of female friendships starring Alia Shawkat and Holliday Grainger. Lauren Carroll Harris looks at Shrill, a new comedy featuring SNL and Girls' star Aidy Bryant, and actor Ewen Leslie explains why Scorsese's Goodfellas is one of his favourite films.
Failte, welcome to the September edition of the Celtic Club Melbourne Podcast on all things Melbourne Irish. This month, AFL International Talent Manager Kevin Sheehan discusses recruiting Irish men and women to the AFL, international rules and the role of sport in the Irish-Australian relationship. A new exhibition at the Old Treasury Building Museum, Wayward Women?, presents the stories of women who lived in Victoria during economic depression from 1894 to 1904 and transgressed society’s rules. Director and Chief Researcher Margaret Anderson discusses the Irish links of women featured. Wayward Women? is on at the Old Treasury Building Museum - 20 Spring Street, Melbourne - until June 2020. Find out more at https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/whats-on/exhibitions/wayward-women/ The latest episode of The Irish Passport podcast tackles arguments for and against constitutional change to allow all Irish citizens around the world to vote in Irish presidential elections, which will be the subject of a referendum this November. Listen at https://theirishpassport.com/podcast/s3-episode-6-irish-citizens-want-voting-rights/ Author Des Tobin will launch his latest book Just A Man Called Phonse about his father, soldier, salesman, fireman, theatrical producer and funeral director Phonse Tobin. Meet Des when he leads a Celtic Club History Circle discussion on Wednesday the 11th of September at 7.30pm at the Celtic at Metropolitan - 42 Courtney Street, North Melbourne. No bookings needed, all welcome. The next Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar Series will take place on Wednesday 17th of September, with Dr Jeanette Mollenhauer presenting "Dancing at the Southern Crossroads: The Story of Australian Irish Dance". This free public seminar starts at 6pm in the Jabiru Room at Newman College, University of Melbourne. Thanks for listening to the Celtic Club Melbourne Podcast, and don’t forget to share, rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts. You can contact us at celticclubmelbournepodcast@gmail.com
https://www.nickfabbri.com/bloom/patmcgorryProfessor Patrick McGorry AO is an Irish-Australian psychiatrist, leading international researcher, clinician and advocate for mental health reform. Many Australians will recognise him as the 2010 Australian of the Year and for his leadership of mental health organisations such as Orygen Youth Health and Headspace. Pat is Chair of the Expert Advisory Committee for the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System. In this conversation, Pat reflects on his early life and journey into medicine and psychiatry, his work in founding and leading pioneering youth mental health organisations, the scale of the mental health crisis in Australia, and the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System. It’s a wide-ranging interview with a deeply humane and intelligent individual who has spent a lifetime in service to society’s most vulnerable people, working to solve one of humankind’s greatest afflictions.E quindi uscimmo a rivedere le stelle.And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.
This week, we welcome Ronan Lee to speak about The Rohingya Crisis and the Role of Media in Conflict. Ronan is an Irish-Australian political advisor and completed his PhD at Deakin University researching Rohingya history and identity. Ronan has travelled extensively in Myanmar, first visiting the country to witness the political changes associated with its transition from direct military rule to a quasi-civilian government. He witnessed Myanmar’s 2010 general election and met with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi shortly after her release from house arrest. Ronan has provided comment for the BBC, Al Jazeera, TIME, and the Guardian and has written widely about Myanmar. Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-12-rohingya-crisis
This week, we welcome Ronan Lee to speak about The Rohingya Crisis and the Role of Media in Conflict. Ronan is an Irish-Australian political advisor and completed his PhD at Deakin University researching Rohingya history and identity. Ronan has travelled extensively in Myanmar, first visiting the country to witness the political changes associated with its transition from direct military rule to a quasi-civilian government. He witnessed Myanmar's 2010 general election and met with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi shortly after her release from house arrest. Ronan has provided comment for the BBC, Al Jazeera, TIME, and the Guardian and has written widely about Myanmar.Discover more about this interview on our website here.Twitter: @global_futuresInstagram: @global_futuresSubstack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 2. I caught up with Australian Writer, Producer and Director Lyndsay Sarah to hear her journey of shooting her first indie feature film and the challenges she faced. Check out Lyndsay's work herehttps://www.lyndsaysarahdoyle.com/projects Transcript for our hard of hearing/deaf listenersGareth:Hey everyone, welcome to Action Cut and Everything In-Between, Episode number 2. Today I'm speaking with, Lyndsay Sarah. She is an Irish-Australian writer, director and filmmaker. After spending 10 years in television, she's decided to make her first feature film.Gareth:Now, her background is similar to mine. She didn't go to film school, she didn't go to university. She's just self-taught. She's shot a number of successful short films. Room of Doors was one and that's on Amazon Prime. And then another short horror called Dirt, which is awesome. You've got to check both those out online. Without further ado, we'll jump right in.Gareth:Okay, Lyndsay, thanks for coming on the show. I really appreciate...Lyndsay Sarah:Oh, thank you.Gareth:... you giving your time today.Lyndsay Sarah:It's very precious, my time. But you're worth it Gareth.Gareth:Oh, thank you. You're just at the end of your feature film, Guilt. Where is it now? Post production?Lyndsay Sarah:We've currently finished the first draft, I'm going to say it's pretty much final edit because everybody seems to be happy with it. I haven't actually looked at all of it yet. But two of our producers have, and they're really happy. We're at the stage now where I'm going to have a little watch of it. If I have any notes or feedback or any kind of adjustments, then we'll all have a chat about that.Lyndsay Sarah:But it's pretty much the end of the edit, the picture lock, and then it will move off into scene mix and then grade. Then we'll score it and all the rest.Gareth:Awesome.Lyndsay Sarah:But it's good. It happened in such, sorry I interrupted. But, it happened in such a short period of time. Like blink and you'll miss it is how it kind of feels. And because this isn't obviously my day job, is not a filmmaker. I wish it was. You work, you go and do your job, you go and do other projects and then you kind of go, "Oh wow, we just made a full feature length movie." I don't feel like I really had the time or the space to soak it all up.Gareth:That's good.Lyndsay Sarah:But that means-Gareth:We'll get into that, I want to hear the story of it and how it all came about, as we go on. But give us a brief overview of Guilt. What's it all about?Lyndsay Sarah:I will. Okay. I'll give you a very brief, brief, brief. Basically the plot it's about a female serial killer who targets child sex offenders. Then she finds out that one of her past victims had actually been falsely accused, and therefore becomes conflicted about what to do with her latest victim.Gareth:Interesting.Lyndsay Sarah:That's it very shortly summed up.Gareth:Okay, nice.Lyndsay Sarah:How the story came to be?Gareth:Yes. I mean, take us back to how do you go from shooting short films like you did? You did some great shoots that I've seen. How do you go from that to deciding I'm going to make a feature?Lyndsay Sarah:Well, I was fortunate enough to meet my Guilt co-director and cinematographer and one of the producers, Karl and Janet who plays the lead role in Guilt. I met them through a mutual friend. I've known them longer than I've known my husband. We met at a pub one night and I didn't really know about them, but our mutual friend had told Karl about me and how I was a filmmaker. I'd made short films.Lyndsay Sarah:We just got to talking and we got to hanging out and then we said we'd work on a short project together. Karl had a couple of projects going, and so I went and helped on his set. Just helping around, just production assistant kind of thing. Then he came and shot one of my short films, that's on Amazon Prime and-Gareth:What's that's called?Lyndsay Sarah:That's called Room of Doors.Gareth:Cool. Check that out.Lyndsay Sarah:Room of Doors. Yes, it's a short reel. It's about four minutes long. It's quite fun. It went through the film festival circuit as well, and had a few screenings around the world. We shot that together and Janet actually played the supporting role in that short film.Lyndsay Sarah:We just kind of, we've been friends for a few years and helped each other out on different projects. Then I think all three of us were at the stage where we're just ready to step up and tackle a feature film. We're all pretty determined and serious about breaking into the industry and continuing to make content.Lyndsay Sarah:It was kind of just that it happened. We talked about it. Actually prior to making Guilt, Karl was going to produce another feature length, and he invited me on board to write the script. I wrote the script, and I think we were into the second draft of it. Then he turned around one day at my place and said, "Oh, but this won't be my first film. This will be after the first film."Lyndsay Sarah:I was like, "Oh, why are we writing this?" Like, "Let's go and come up with the first idea and then go and make that." We threw around some ideas. I already had some scripts kind of half written and going and I thought this might be good. Then we came with some other ideas and then Janet, actually came up with the idea of the character, the lead character in Guilt. That's sort of where it all came from.Gareth:Cool.Lyndsay Sarah:She wanted to play a female... well she's female, so yes, she's going to play a female. She wanted to play a serial killer that targeted paedophiles. And it kind of came out of there.Gareth:How long did the script actually take to write?Lyndsay Sarah:What's unique about the production of Guilt is that, we had this looming deadline because Janet had actually gotten her Green Card to move to America. When they issue the Green Card, they give you a date you have to be in the US. And that's non-negotiable.Lyndsay Sarah:We basically had, I think it was June, July, August, September, four months before she moved to America. It wasn't so much like I had that luxury of really writing the script and developing it. Then we all had the luxury of time to go into pre-production, all that kind of thing. We gave ourselves, actually I think it was five months. We had five months to basically write, go into pre production, shoot, and then Janet could leave anyway. But...Gareth:Rolling from script to shoot day one, how long do you think?Lyndsay Sarah:I wrote the script I think in two months. There was a bit of a gap there at time trying to work out our schedules before we actually went into pre-production. But, I think we had about two months from having a script we are happy with, to then organizing a feature film shoot. Then going into shoot. I think it was about two months. Organizing cast, crew casting, crewing locations, permits, blah, blah, blah, blah.Gareth:Yes, it's massive. I can't believe that you guys pulled it off in such a short amount of time.Lyndsay Sarah:Well, that's when I say blink and you'll miss it. That's how it feels.Gareth:Now that it's all shot on in the can, how does it feel? How's does it feel now watching it back, seeing kind of the final edit?Lyndsay Sarah:Well, I'm yet to see the final edit, but I've gotten to see a bunch of the scenes, the more prominent scenes. Yes, I don't know, I just feel time went so quickly and it's almost like everybody was in panic mode, and I didn't really get to lap it up and savor it. I don't quite have any kind of, I guess, emotional attachment.Lyndsay Sarah:When I do see the scenes I go, "Cool, that's awesome." But it feels like I'm watching another film that I wasn't a part of, if that makes any sense. Just because we didn't have that time to breathe and really savor it. But I mean, it looks cool and it's a really interesting story, and I think people will like it.Gareth:It's funny when I see the behind the scenes pictures of my film, kind of, I don't even remember shooting that, what happened that day. I think you just so into it on the day and so stressed and you're thinking about a million things, you don't have time to just sit back and enjoy it. Do you?Lyndsay Sarah:Well, you go into overdrive, I think. People like to know that you were on my set?Gareth:Yes. We can say that I actually helped out. Couple of days and I'm actually one of the SWAT team, as well for your filming action.Lyndsay Sarah:You took a few days?Gareth:Yes. I took a few days.Lyndsay Sarah:You deserve more credit than a couple of days. You're a big help. But what was I going to say about that is I've lost my train of thought... well, you're in overdrive and I kind of, you put your little hat on and you get to work and you don't really get to... I don't know. I don't remember half of it either.Gareth:Yes, in the moment it feels, but you're not actually...Lyndsay Sarah:In the moment?Gareth:In that moment, yes.Lyndsay Sarah:It's like the whole fight or flight thing. It's like you're just reacting. You're not quite, it's not like this whole. Be present, be in the moment. You're not like, What can I feel? What can I smell? What can I hear? You're not kind of savoring the moment. You just like we've got this whole shit load of stuff that needs to be done, and we need to go and do it. No time to waste.Gareth:That's it. What do you think you've learned then, from shooting your first feature? From what you've said so far, it sounds like time is a big thing. Give yourself probably a bit more time?Lyndsay Sarah:Time is a big thing. Yep. Prep work is a big thing. I'm super organized and so it's quite natural for me to organize something short periods of time and with little time. I think kind of probably in a sick way, I don't want to say get off on it, but I kind of enjoy that buzz. It's a bit of a thrill. The whole like, "Oh my God, we've only got a day to do this." It's like boom, boom, boom, boom. I really enjoy that.Lyndsay Sarah:But I would say that next time, I would want just want more time before having to get onto set. The thing is, when you're on set and you're filming, there's so many things that are out of your control. That's why you got to be super organized.Lyndsay Sarah:The most you can do prior to getting onto set is prepare and organize yourself, so that if anything does go wrong and set you're ready for it. I think what I would want next time around is definitely more time to spend with the script. I mean, we did a good job.Lyndsay Sarah:Myself and Janet developed that script together. We did a good job. I'd go away and I'd write and then I'd pop in a couple of weeks later to her and she'd have a read, then we'd have a chat. I'd go off again and write some more. I just would like more time to breathe in between each process. I think. Not kind of go write up the script, straight into pre-production, straight into shooting, straight into post. I've wanted to be like, "Ooh." You just, there's breathing room in between. Because I think you probably get to enjoy it more, maybe.Gareth:Yes, definitely. All right. What's your plan for distribution once it's all... done, you're happy with it. It's all ready to go? What's your distribution plans?Lyndsay Sarah:A couple of our team, Karl and Janet... did I mention who Karl was?Gareth:Yes, you mentioned in the beginning Karl and Janet.Lyndsay Sarah:Co-director cinematographer. Karl and Janet went off to the American film market, which you went to as well, end of last year. They kind of did their thing, organizing meetings and chatting with people and finding distributors who were interested in what we had. Now we didn't have a finished, polished film, then. This was just sort of like we had put some scenes together and we had some production stills, and the script was provided and all that kind of stuff. They had a ton of meetings and just found a bunch of people who are interested in seeing it when it was finished.Lyndsay Sarah:Now that it's going to be finished probably in a month or so. We then will get back in contact with those interested parties and send them a screener to have a look at. Then basically go from there. If you know people are still interested, then we'll set up some meetings and perhaps we'll fly over to the US, and meet with people in person.Lyndsay Sarah:If nobody's interested, that's fine. Fuck you. No, I'm kidding. We'll probably head back to the American film market this year in November with our finished product and kind of re-introduce it to the market now that it's finished and all polished and looking shiny.Gareth:Very nice. What advice do you think you'd give someone who was thinking about shooting their own feature film?Lyndsay Sarah:Well, first of all I would say shoot some short films. That's your playground. That's basically where you learn what not to do. It's also a great place to make some friends. To network, to meet some people that you could possibly potentially then go and make a feature film with.Lyndsay Sarah:You can stuff up on short films. It's not a huge risk and you're not losing a lot. I know it's still time, it's still energy it's still money. You still want to do it right, but it's not the end of the world if you stuff up.Lyndsay Sarah:Now, my short film, Room of Doors, that's on Amazon. I had actually shot that film six, eight months prior. I had made a terrible mistake with casting and didn't realize at the time until we're on set and all of a sudden this particular human being decided she didn't want to act anymore. She wasn't basically performing the way she did during the audition.Lyndsay Sarah:She basically stuffed me around for about three or four days. We basically went away after shooting as much as we could with her. And I sat in with the edit for about a month before I went, "Yes, this is terrible. I cannot cut around bad acting. I need to do this again." Yes, that set me back a few months of organizing and shooting and using everybody's time. It also set me back a couple of grand, a few grand.Lyndsay Sarah:But, I learnt heaps from doing that. How important it was to actually have the right people. You're not always going to get it right, and sometimes you think you have it right until you get to set. Then you kind of, it's out of your control and it's not like you can go. Okay, everybody go home after an hour.Lyndsay Sarah:It's like you've organized this whole shoot and you've got people and you've got locations, booking permits and you got catering and all the rest of it. And people have given up their time. Sometimes you just got to go with the flow.Lyndsay Sarah:Six, or eight months later, we shot that again and it actually came out much better, and obviously has done very well for itself, which I didn't think would happen had I gone ahead with editing the original. That's a little fun fact there. But once again, it was a short film. There's not much to lose.Lyndsay Sarah:You hear about these big huge budget productions that they make mistakes like that. Like Game of Thrones. The girl who plays the dragon girl Daenerys, they actually had cast somebody else prior to her and shot I think about three or four of her scenes for the first episode of the first season.Lyndsay Sarah:Until somebody from the network or somebody up there went, "This is the wrong choice. We need to recast this role." That's something like Game of Thrones and you see how explosive and expensive that production is. Imagine being that person who chose to cast her and then they had to go recast it. And that's when they get Emilia Clarke and re-shoot all those scenes all over again.Lyndsay Sarah:Now that's a big risk, not a short film. Not stuffing up on a short film. Go make a short film before you make a feature film, unless you've got money to blow.Gareth:That's it. Time management.Lyndsay Sarah:Yes.Gareth:Shoot a lot of short films, get the right people on board. I suppose that goes for crew as well. Doesn't it?Lyndsay Sarah:Prove us wrong.Gareth:Short films is a great way to see who you're going to bond with on set, because you spend so much time with these people, and a lot of the time with yours, I'm with mine. Where we've had to stay overnight as well in the location. You need to be able to have breakfast, lunch, dinner with all these people. You're spending a hell of a lot of time with them. You've got to make sure that you're jelling with everyone who's on your set.Lyndsay Sarah:Absolutely. Especially, when it's a short film, you're not very well known. There may not be money involved. It may be unpaid. Kind of, you can test people to see how much they're willing to give of their time and their energy to you when there's no money involved and there's no status involved.Lyndsay Sarah:If somebody goes, "Oh, sorry, if it was paid, I'd do it." You go, "Well, fuck you. When I do have money I wouldn't be hiring you." All those little things that you can learn along the way as well.Lyndsay Sarah:I was going to say something else about the short film. Well, if somebody has made short films and then they want to make feature, I'm hoping by the time they decide to go and make that feature, they've actually created strong bonds and connections through doing the short films.Lyndsay Sarah:Making a feature film is pretty much the same as making a short film times 20. If you've gotten it down part doing a short and you're confident and you're ready to go, it's the same thing. You've got to have a good script. Good actors, good crew. Be organized. Not hard a hustle, and take on multiple jobs yourself. Don't kind of go, "Well, I'm the director. That is it."Lyndsay Sarah:Learn to cook if you have to. Go do the location scouting, if you have to. Be your own first aid, whatever. Take on multiple jobs because you can't, especially if it's an indie project and you'd never done it before, and you don't have much money, you can't be hiring or even depending on other people all the time.Lyndsay Sarah:Especially, for a short film, if somebody says, "Yes, I'll come help for two days and I'll work for free, and I'll be a production assistant, that's different from a feature film and asking someone to give up three or four weeks of their life for free. People go to work. People got to live.Gareth:Yes. That's awesome.Lyndsay Sarah:I think that, that would be it. Just be super organized. Show a bit of humility, I think as well. You're never too good for a job. Just do all the jobs. Do them well. Lead by example. Create a comfortable, and safe and creative environment. I guess create what you would want to walk into. If you had been asked to come help on a feature film, just create that kind of environment.Gareth:Yes, absolutely.Lyndsay Sarah:I think that's it.Gareth:What about in terms of the actual script itself? What would you say to people to try and avoid. That's made life difficult with the actual shoot because a lot of indie features are going to be low budget. What's been some of the biggest problems to face, kind of with that side of things?Lyndsay Sarah:Well, I'm very much into performance and story based stories. Don't create some kind of CGI monster or alien or a spaceship or multiple car crash into a helicopter. Restrain yourself when it comes to what you go out and shoot. Because, if you can't make it look $1 million, I think it will affect how your film looks overall. And the production quality of your film.Lyndsay Sarah:We've all seen those bad low budget films with some kind of reptile that's not a real reptile, and they haven't had the budget to get the best in the industry. But in saying that, I mean if it's your dream to do like your first indie feature being about the Reptile Man, then just go make it happen for yourself.Lyndsay Sarah:I don't know, that's kind of stuff I'd avoid. I'm very much into performance based. You want to get yourself some good actors who aren't afraid to let loose and look a bit ugly. I know that all actors are self-conscious but not self-conscious where that's going to affect their performance.Lyndsay Sarah:Get a good story first. As long as it's a good story, I think that a lot of that low budget elements are forgivable. If you don't really have something interesting and unique that people haven't seen or heard before, I think it'd be very hard to stand out in the crowd of millions of other low budget indie films that are out there.Gareth:Yes, sure. When you're writing, do you come up against these things where you think, "Okay, now she's going to jump in a helicopter and fly away." And then you're like, "Oh no, hang on."Lyndsay Sarah:Well, the thing with me is I'm a writer first before I'm a filmmaker. The reason I got into actually making films was because I was told once, the best way to have your writing considered and taken seriously in the industry is to have had it produced. Which sounds a bit like a catch 22, how can I get it produced if it hasn't been produced? Does that make sense? You know what I'm saying?Gareth:Yes.Lyndsay Sarah:I decided to go write stuff and produce it myself. My writing always comes before my filmmaking. I'm never short on ideas, but what I then think is doable, I can pick out of all these different script ideas that I've come up with. I might be writing something that's like an action adventure, and it's happens around different parts of the world and there are big action explosion scenes.Lyndsay Sarah:I wouldn't stop myself just because I couldn't at this point in time make that film. I just keep writing it because I could then option it to Hollywood, and say will you buy this script? Then I would go and focus my filmmaking efforts on something that's a lot more achievable with the means that I have right now.Lyndsay Sarah:That's one of the pluses to being a writer-director-producer. Is that I can kind of decide what... I can still write, but it doesn't necessarily have to be for myself. See, because I've always been told, if you're writing something, never to think about the final destination of the script. Just write. Whatever comes out just right and let that sort of the story be told.Lyndsay Sarah:Develop the script and never mind what will happen to it at the end. Never mind about the business. Don't even think about the industry when you're writing the script. If somebody is a writer and filmmaker, or they've got something that they want to make, always put the script in the story first. Then the rest comes later.Lyndsay Sarah:If you finish it and you go right, "Well, that's not achievable with my means at all." Because of the explosions into five helicopters, then think of something else and write that instead. But, you should never avoid writing just because you don't want to hear that.Lyndsay Sarah:You don't want to say, "Oh, well, it's not going to be made. I can't make that. I just won't bother." That's why a lot of people don't get off their ass and go and make films, because they think it's too hard or it's not achievable. But it is, it just takes time. You just got to be patient. I don't think I gave any advice in that. Did I?Gareth:No. That was great. That was awesome. Yes.Lyndsay Sarah:All right.Gareth:Very good.Lyndsay Sarah:I was like, I don't think I've helped anybody.Gareth:No, that was very good. Listen, what's next for you now?Lyndsay Sarah:Me personally?Gareth:Yes. On your film making journey-Lyndsay Sarah:On my journey.Gareth:Guilt's going to be going into it's distribution and post production stage and all that. Kind of aside from that, are you working on anything else?Lyndsay Sarah:I am.Gareth:What's your future plans?Lyndsay Sarah:I'm always working on something. Like I mentioned before, I'm a writer, so I'm always writing. I'm also a aspiring author. I'm not just film related, I also want to write books. I'm always kind of dabbling in some novel ideas aimed at young adults. I was a big fan of The Hunger Games.Lyndsay Sarah:I'm sort of in that kind of sphere where I'd be trying to get young adults to get off Instagram, and read more books and use their imagination, and sort of, I love that kind of adventure. Sci-Fi fantasy genre in books. That's one of my things. I do a lot of writing and sometimes I'll be writing a script one day and then later on that night I'll start writing a chapter in a novel.Lyndsay Sarah:There's pros and cons to that as well. I might mention with having too many ideas, you need a lot of discipline to focus on one. Lots of writing. I hooked up with a... what would I call them? They're a theater type group in Sydney, and they asked me to write a theater production for them.Lyndsay Sarah:I've done a couple of, sorry, I'm about to burp. Cut. I've done a couple of... we're on to the third draft. Now with that it's going to be a musical. It's really cool. They've got aerial artists, and fire twirling and back-flipping and all this crazy kind of stuff. It's kind of like a Romeo and Juliet story.Lyndsay Sarah:It's based on this very ancient Persian poem about these two lovers who aren't allowed to be together, and it's got a sad ending. They also want to make it sort of comedic, as well. A bit of comic relief in there. I've been working on that, the past couple of months. We've just put it on hold for now, but I'll get back into that, soon-ish.Lyndsay Sarah:I probably will go into production with something next year, but I haven't decided which story yet. We've got a few scripts going at the moment that potentially could be my next one. I'm not kind of rushing into it, I've learned. I don't want to rush. I just really want to get the scripts into a really good place where, other people would be interested in coming on board and putting in some money.Lyndsay Sarah:I think, I'm going to spend this year... I mean, we're halfway through the year already. I think the rest of the year, which is a good enough time just to spend on really honing these story ideas and getting them to a good place. And then, I'll probably choose one that I think speaks the loudest to me and then start looking at going into production with that next year. If not, I'll sell it to someone else.Gareth:Nice. That's awesome. Now, I suppose you're going to be enjoying kind of the journey that Guilt takes now and watching how that-Lyndsay Sarah:I think so.Gareth:Travels and turns out.Lyndsay Sarah:Well, like I said, with the whole savoring the moment thing, because it feels like it all just happens so quickly and there was no savoring. I feel like, now with it going off into the world, and who knows what will become of it. But hopefully there will be that period where I get to then, sink into the moment and really enjoy it. Hopefully it gets some good reception, and I can enjoy that as well.Lyndsay Sarah:Take your time people. I feel I'm meditating talking about this, but it's so important to enjoy it. I think that's one of the main things I learned from doing it as well. I mean, you are on set with us. We had some pretty funny days where we're all just cracking up laughing and I remember, I just have double over with tears coming down my eyes.Lyndsay Sarah:I was just laughing so much. But apart from those hilarious moments, there was a lot of stress and I'm a very high stress person. But I think coming out of that I learned that... did I really enjoy the process? I enjoyed days on set and hanging out with the cast and crew. But the whole process, did I enjoy it fully to what I could have. I'd have to say, no.Lyndsay Sarah:I kind of forgot most of it, or was such in overthinking mode, that I didn't get to be present with it. That's definitely a big lesson I've learned. I want to enjoy my career. I don't want it to be, because it's such a hard industry. I'm going to walk from that now for a while. But anyway, sorry, you're stuck with me, so listen to me.Lyndsay Sarah:I think it's such a hard industry to break into, and there's so much competition and people can feel very alienated and they're all alone. And it's so big and it's so overwhelming and they'll never make it and they'll never be anybody.Lyndsay Sarah:It's a shame because it's so much fun making films and being on set and having a finished product and being like, yes, and feeling really proud of yourself. I want to enjoy my career because, if I'm not enjoying pursuing my career, then I'm not enjoying my life, am I? Because I want that to be my life.Lyndsay Sarah:I don't want to have this miserable high stressed life and existence and then look back in 50 years and be like, "Uh." I just remember being really stressed because I was so desperate to make it. There was no enjoyment. That's one of my big things, take home messages. Enjoy, it's supposed to be fun because it's creative. What other industry do you get to just make up stories and then play with each other on set, and have a lot of fun. No other industry exists like ours. There we go. I am the Dalai Lama.Gareth:Well, that's awesome. Look, if people want to find out more about you and get more wise wisdom, how can they find you and check out your work?Lyndsay Sarah:Sure. Well, I do have a website, but there's not that much about me. I think you're better off looking on Instagram for me. You can find me... I changed my Instagram handle. You can find me @ Ms, M-S. Lindsay, L-Y-N-D-S-A-Y. S. Sarah. S-A-R-A-H. That's me on Instagram.Lyndsay Sarah:I post lots of film stuff, but also just stupid stuff that I'm doing. And for Guilt, if people want to follow the progress of the film, they can find Guilt at guilt.feature.film.Gareth:They you go.Lyndsay Sarah:I'm running that little page. I mean, the more people who pop on and follow, obviously the better. But, I'll just keep posting pics from certain behind the scenes and it's progress.Gareth:Awesome.Lyndsay Sarah:Yep.Gareth:Well, listen. Thank you so much for today. I really appreciate you giving so much time.Lyndsay Sarah:Thank you.Gareth:It's been awesome to hear your story and best of luck with Guilt in a calm way to see how it goes being on set and stuff. I've seen a lot of the rushes and some of the scenes that are being put together. And it just looks awesome so far, I can't wait to-Lyndsay Sarah:Yay.Gareth:To see how its journey turns out and hopefully we'll get to catch you up in AFM this year because I'm thinking to go in as well.Lyndsay Sarah:Oh, look I saw when I go, and I'm so sad that I missed that last year. Actually it was such a shame that I missed out last year. I wanted to cry. I might have cried actually, that I did, but anyway, don't tell anyone. Oops.Lyndsay Sarah:Yes, it'll be great to go back and with a finished film and actually be like, "Right, this is everything now." You don't have to guess about what happens. You don't have to sort of, you're not too sure how we're going to cut it or finalize it. Or, what music choices we're going to make. This is it, this is how it looks. Please love us and buy it.Gareth:Perfect.Lyndsay Sarah:Thanks.Gareth:All right, Lyndsay. Well, thank you.Lyndsay Sarah:You're very welcome.Gareth:And everyone, thanks for listening and make sure you check out the links that Lyndsay mentioned earlier. And yes, let's all support indie film.Lyndsay Sarah:Yo hoo.
Blak Douglas is well known for his brightly coloured landscapes with their trademark seven-tiered sky but he’s also an accomplished portraitist. At the time of writing, his work hangs in the Art Gallery of NSW in both the Archibald and Wynne prizes which are arguably the most famous portrait and landscape awards in Australia. His paintings always have something to say about social justice, often with irony and humour playing an important part and with his Aboriginal identity central to his work. He’s won several awards and has been finalist in many others including three times in the Archibald prize and his work is held in various public collections including the National Gallery of Australia. His grandmother, Clorine Morthem, was one of the stolen generation, taken at 13 years of age and institutionalised in Cootamundra Girls home, something that has had repercussions down the generations. His father’s ancestors are the Dunghutti people from northern NSW and his mother was from an Irish Australian background. Although his name given at birth is Adam Hill, he took on the name Blak Douglas in recent years to reflect those two sides of his ancestry. I spoke with him in his Redfern studio which he shares with other artists and this conversation starts at an earlier time, when his parents first met. Press play under the feature photo above to hear the podcast episode. Scroll down to see a short video of Douglas in his studio. Current events Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, Art Gallery of NSW, 11 May to 8 September 2019 Show notes Blak DouglasBlak Douglas on Instagram Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operativeAunty Jean SouthUncle Roy KennedyAunty Elaine RussellAunty Esme TimberyHetti Perkins 'White shells, black heart', 2019, synthetic polymer paint and shells on canvas, 195 x 195cmFinalist Archibald Prize, 2019 'Six Finger Salary', 2009, synthetic polymer on cotton canvas, 100 x 130cmFinalist Wynne Prize 2009 'Uncle Roy Kennedy', 2018, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 195.5 x 195.5cmFinalist Archibald Prize 2018 'Smoke and mrrors (Uncle Max Eulo), acrylic on canvas, 214 x 214cmFinalist Archibald prize 2015 'Ashes, damper and kangaroo stew for dinner', 2019, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 94.5 x 124.5cm (collaboration with the late Elaine Russell)Finalist Wynne prize 2019 'Three strikes and you're out', synthetic polymer on canvas 150 x 200cm 'Upstanding Citizen', 2018, synthetic polymer on canvas, 120 x 100cm
Ned Kelly was a notorious Irish-Australian outlaw. He killed three police officers and was hanged in 1880, and buried close to another vile murderer, Frederick Deeming, who was once suspected of being Jack The Ripper. The hunt for the skulls of both men continues to this day. Movie star Charlie Chaplin died in 1978 at the age of 88, and was buried near his home in Switzerland. But not for long. Grave robbers stole his corpse and demanded a ransom from his wife. They didn’t count on Oona being quite so sassy.
Irish-Australian peace activist Ciaron O'Reilly was once described by Martin Sheen as his personal hero. Ciaron grew up in Australia and has spent his life in the Christian anarchist pacifist Catholic Worker movement. Ciaron was mentored by the renowned anti-war priests Frs. Daniel and Philip Berrigan and for over 40 years now he has focused on supporting homeless communities and campaigning on Aboriginal, East Timorese, prisoner and refugee struggles. Part of this campaigning is explored in his book Remembering Forgetting: A Journey of Non-violent Resistance to the War in East Timor. Ciaron has participated in numerous often controversial acts of civil disobedience – including the disabling of a B52 Bomber in New York on the eve of the 1991 Gulf War for which he served 13 months in U.S prisons. His actions also included disabling uranium mining equipment at the Australian Jabiluka mine site in 1998 and a U. S. Navy war plane at Shannon Airport during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In recent years he has been a friend, bodyguard and solidarity organiser for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and has been a leading light in organising support for US army whistleblower Chelsea Manning. Now in his late 50s, Ciaron shows no sign of slowing down in his activism. ........... About the podcast The Love and Courage podcast features interviews with inspirational people who are making a real difference in the world today. Guests are typically people passionate about social justice, and who have demonstrated courage and conviction in their lives. Host Ruairí McKiernan is leading Irish social innovator, campaigner, writer and public speaker. He is the founder of the pioneering SpunOut.ie youth organization, and helped set-up the Uplift and the A Lust For Life non-profits. In 2012 the President of Ireland Michael D Higgins appointed Ruairí to the Council of State, a national constitutional advisory body whose members include all current and former leaders of the country. Ruairí is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Fulbright fellowship, and he contributes regularly to the media on youth, health, community and social justice issues. ................. Subscribe, download, rate and review via iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, YouTube and please spread the word. If you are new to podcasts and have an iPhone, simply use the podcast app on your phone. On Android phones, using the Google Play App download an podcast app such as Podcast Republic and search for 'Love and Courage' and then click subscribe. Download each episode individually, subscribe for updates and sign-up for email announcements about new guests and episodes. ................. Web: www.loveandcourage.org Twitter: @loveandcourage Facebook: www.facebook.com/hopehitching Instagram: ww.instagram.com/ruairimc/ Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/ruairimckiernanDonate: https://www.ifundraise.ie/998_ruairi-mckiernan---social-innovations.html Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/loveandcourage Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1gCuceQXG7rmwRY9PAzBgg ................. Join the Love and Courage community This is independent community supported media. Once off and monthly patron support is hugely appreciated. Donate https://www.ifundraise.ie/998_ruairi-mckiernan---social-innovations.html. Funds help pay for production, post-production, transcribing, hosting, equipment upgrades, publicity, venue rental, and support for Ruairí's ongoing community, campaign and youth mentoring work. Once off supporters of €10 or over get names on the website and a Love and Courage badge. (Anonymous support is also possible). Once off supporters of €50 or more (or at least €5 per month) will get a Love and Courage t-shirt and badge, discounts on workshops and events, your photo and special credits online and on the podcast. Monthly patrons of €20 per month or more will get the above as well as a mention on the podcast credits (if you want). Patrons of €40 per month or more will get all of the above as well as quarterly phone call updates and invitations to special community gatherings. Bigger sponsorship opportunities may also be available. Monthly patrons also get extra info and personal email updates with behind the scenes news and insights. Questions: podcast@loveandcourage.org .................. Web: www.loveandcourage.org Twitter: @loveandcourage Facebook: www.facebook.com/hopehitching Instagram: ww.instagram.com/ruairimc/ Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/ruairimckiernanDonate: https://www.ifundraise.ie/998_ruairi-mckiernan---social-innovations.html Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/loveandcourage Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1gCuceQXG7rmwRY9PAzBgg
Lynn Gilmartin is an Irish Australian television presenter, best known as the anchor of the World Poker Tour on Fox Sports.
Mark Atkins is regarded as one of Australia's finest virtuoso didgeridoo players and is recognized internationally for his collaborations with some of the world's leading musicians, including Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Sinead O'Connor and minimalist classical composer Philip Glass. Atkins is of Irish/Australian heritage, as well as being a descendant of Western Australia's Yamitji people. We get a chance to hear him performing and weaving stories at a didgeridoo workshop- festival held in Woolloongabba, a suburb of Brisbane, alongside contributions from master didgeridoo player Stephen Kent and Aboriginal player Adrian Burragubba, who talks about the concepts of 'Dreamtime' and 'songlines'.
A documentary based on the 1983 bicenntenial conference on Irish-Australian links held in Kilkenny - examining the importrance of Irish pioneers, the social advance of the Irish, and intermarriage blurred distinctions. (Broadcast 1983)
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