In this episode, Gary and Neil are joined by Beyond Blue - Blue Voices Manager Jennifer Waltmon. This is a special episode as we see both sides of mental health. Our chat covers Jennifer’s own mental health story which is both hard-hitting and inspiring

Her work with the amazing charity Beyond Blue gives great insight into a practical pathway to anyone looking to get on to that first step of the healing ladder in their own mental health journey.

In this show, we speak with the hilarious, Michael Theo, star of Netflix's 'Love on the Spectrum'. Since the show, he's been on the Ellen Degeneres Show in the US, has his own talk on 'success' at TedX and has his own podcast, Mr A+.

In this ep we chat about so many amazing things Michael’s already achieved such as how Love on the Spectrum went, Michael's impersonations - The Jetsons, Jim Carey, the success and Michael's TEDx talk, talking gratitude and thanking yourself plus his own struggles with depression and suicide ideation.

On this week’s episode, we have the amazing psychotherapist and art therapist, Noula Diamantopolous She’s also the co-host of ABC and the BBC’s groundbreaking fly-on-the-wall documentary, Space 22.

The six-part series took a look at the impacts of art on the brain and how it could positively impact the mental health of its seven Australian participants. We chat about everything from the awful occurrence of bullying to Neuroplasticity, trauma and how to identify triggers, using your body to let your brain know everything is ok, adaptive responses to survive plus panic avoidance attack tips.

In our latest episode, we speak to men's empowerment coach, and proud dad of four, Matt Halston. We cover lots of ground around: being a dad, leaning into your feminine side, the primal and the divine, the hyper-masculine archetypes are supremely self disruptive vs the divine who are more along the highly spiritual route, support groups for men and lots more.

In this episode, Gary and Neil are joined by three of the participants on ABC Australia's groundbreaking fly-on-the-wall documentary on #mentalhealth, called Space 22. The six-part show focused on the impacts of #arttherapy on the brain and how it can help when managing your mental health.

Co-hosts Neil & Gary - both business owners themselves - speak about the highs and lows of running your own shop. Then, adding a mental health condition like stress, anxiety, or imposter syndrome, reality can soon set in. The pair relay some analogies to remember (many in fact) plus lots of tips and tricks on how to manage your #mentalhealth whilst running a business.

What’s all the fuss about this meditation stuff?

Andrew Marsh or 'Marshy' as he is known is a talented Vedic meditation instructor based in Sydney, with over 30 years of experience in a variety of meditation styles, teaching an amazing array of people, world champions, prominent personalities and Olympians. Marshy provides inspiring teaching and insight into the fundamentals of meditation, relaxation and life skills. His meditation courses and life mentoring sessions are designed for everyone to enjoy life on a new level, in an effortless and relaxed manner. His off-beat humour and larrikinism, combined with his passion for meditation, make him a remarkable teacher.

In this week’s episode, we speak to Caroline McKenna. Caroline is world renowned as the host of 'A County Down Under' podcast which has over 1 MILLION downloads.

Caroline has made a global impact when it comes to mental health through her Sunrise Socials project which is now on a number of continents worldwide.

We kick off season two and our first episode of 2022 with best-selling author of 'Make It Happen' and 'Higher Love', podcaster and blogger Jordanna Levin.

With her background in journalism, she has built a reputation for taking ‘big’ topics and making them relatable, digestible and downright entertaining. Through her wit, warmth and street-smart practicality she invites readers to get curious about the things that light them up.

It's our season one finale and what a way to end it. We sat down (in person) at the Coogee Pavilion in Sydney to chat with TV host and radio presenter and journalist, Osher Günsberg.

Famous for being the host of the reality TV series The Bachelor Australia, The Bachelorette Australia and also Bachelor in Paradise Australia. He's also an author, cyclist, and photographer and has his own podcast(s); DadPod and Better Than Yesterday.

In the aftermath of this year’s International Women’s Day, we sat down with Mettle cofounder, Bronwyn Bate, the domestic violence charity whose ethical gifts give back, based in Perth. Their social enterprise employs women who have experienced homelessness as a result of domestic and family violence.

We wanted to spark some conversation that is great to have in the lead up and during this day each year, but like many other issues, these are conversations that need to be had daily. And when we chatted to Bronwyn in the lead up to this interview, we were shocked by the figures and statistics she stated around the issue.

In this episode we interviewed Hugh Miles. Hugh is an adventurer that was unfortunate enough to have been a victim of the 'king hit' aka 'the cowards punch'. The attack had long lasting effects on Hughs mental health. Luckily, Hugh survived this attack and battled through this time in his life to create the amazing not for profit 'book to make you smile' - Pocket Smiles.

All sales of PocketSmiles are donated to the Black Dog Institute to support mental health education and awareness programs. Hughs story is a great one of how mental health can affect us in different ways and how we can change the world for the better by bringing awareness to the topic.

Lovemore N'dou is a three time world world boxing champion at the welterweight division, sparring partner of Floyd Mayweather Jnr, Lawyer, Business Owner, Author, and an academic (seven degrees!) and aspirations to becoming prime minister of South Africa.

In this episode, Lovemore explains how he went from growing up during the South African apartheid, watched his friend die in his arms as a teenager, was arrested for simply talking to a white girl as a supermarket, as well as overcoming other many racial and criminal injustices to becoming an elite athlete and successful lawyer. What a man.

Emma Doran is an Irish comedian. Quitting her day job, she took the plunge to be a full-time comedian, and oh, how it paid off. She's gone from copywriting about carpets and hairdressers for radio stations to blitzing the Irish comedy scene.

She's gone on to star on TV alongside some of Ireland's leading comedic acts such as Jason Byrne and Deirdre O'Kane. In this episode, Emma talks about her touch points with mental health, what the comedy circuit is like to navigate as a woman, as well a barrel of laughs and stories along the way.

In this episode, David regales growing up in Australia with his Irish roots and how some of the cultural aspects of being Irish hold both positive and negative impacts. But this tale is one of ultimate success. A family man, David is married with four children and now lives down the south coast from Sydney, living his best life.

This episode features founder of the Lung Club Ed Jennings. Ed is an endurance runner who has used his passion for running to create the lung club community. The group meets regularly to walk or run together as a way of improving mental and physical health.

Ed is a big mental health advocate and much of the works he does is around increasing awareness around the topic.

The episode discusses the benefits of exercise on the brain, the dark side of being addicted to exercise the power of community, resiliency and of course Eds on take on mental health.

This week's episode shares the incredible story of Hugo Toovey. Hugo is an army captain who has successfully beaten cancer twice.

He has since become a well recognised advocate for mens health through his organisation 25 Stay Alive.

This story is very inspirational and the impact Hugo is now having in the health space because of it is phenomenal.

This week's episode is with the hugely popular Darragh Byrne aka ' The Conscious King'.

Darragh is a leading mindset coach who is renowned for the remarkable psychological transformations he's made with his clients. Helping them live a happier, more fulfilled life simply by changing the way they think.

Darragh gives us some insight about his upbringing in Ireland, how his life drastically changed from 'living for the weekend' to living for the moment.

This week's episode we talk about 'anxious about being anxious' with the fascinating and chilled out integrative healer Chev Kelly.

Chev is quite literally changing lives through her amazing work with people struggling with mental health and as you'll learn she has a wide range of skill sets through her studies and experience in the health and wellness space.

Her area of expertise is trauma, and the link to past and family trauma, to our current behavioural traits but most importantly, how you can change them.

Cécile Caminade has her own podcast called ‘Asking for a Mate’, where she interviews Aussie blokes on all things from masculinity to emotions, and societal constructs. In fact, in this episode, we chat a lot about what ‘masculinity’ actually means, how certain ‘norms’ have been applied to it and how in many ways we might actually have to change our entire perspective on it.

Have we had it all wrong? Listen to find out.