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A Success Podcast For The Rest of Us. Listen and Subscribe to the Reaching For The Middle podcast to hear guests from all walks of life discuss success and failure in their career, relationships and life. They'll offer key advice, perspective, strategies for a better life, and a funny story or two. Guests Include a Career Coach, Police Officer, HR Director, TV Producer, Podcaster, Actor, Psychologist, Bodyguard, Psychedelic Treatment Coach, Journalist...Your fortnightly dose of inspiration, ...
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This episode of the Reaching For The Middle podcast is an experiment of generative AI technology. Using the platform ChatGPT the instruction was "Write a 5 minute Reaching For The Middle podcast episode about learning from the mistakes of our youth, and lessons we learned as adults". The unedited result was then converted from text to speech using …
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Michael and Krystal French, and their three boys sold their Queensland home, packed up, and loaded themselves and few meagre belonging into a caravan with the goal of travelling across Australia for a year. I caught up with them on the midway point of their journey, in Port Arthur Tasmania. We spoke about the Why’s, Where’s and How’s of their carav…
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Part two of my conversation with joyful Sr. Medical Education Officer, Jessica "Jess" Weatherall. We discuss post-natal depression, the joys and pains of parenting, surfing on the Gold Coast Australia, a trait not many people know about, training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) and how it brings out the feminist in her, and why people shouldn't be so int…
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Born and raised on the Gold Coast, Australia, Jess Weatherall is definitely living her best beach life. We spoke about her love of surfing, career as a Senior Medical Education Officer in the Emergency Department at Gold Coast Health, myths and misconceptions about doctors, being a late 'dating' bloomer, social media and self perception, the ups an…
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The Secret of My Success series, on the Reaching For The Middle podcast, highlights advice and success stories from past guests, new voices, and listeners, like you. They did the hard yards through life, so you don't have to. Or at least, you can find someone that relates to your personal journey. In this episode, past guest S1 Episode 5, Kevin Li …
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In Episode 12, Season 2 Reaching For the Middle host, James Donison, answers that age old question, How To Be Successful. This is also a call to action, for you. Will you take the leap? Buy the Host/Producer/Editor (that's all me :) a Coffee (donate a few dollars to fuel the production of the RFTM podcast. It’s not about money, but it helps to keep…
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Former Reaching For The middle guest, Dr. Cameron Norman, brings his expertise to this episode, providing five factors that contribute to workplace well-being. He'll also discuss Design Thinking and how it can assist organisations in providing a better workplace for their employees, increasing happiness and retention. Guest Dr. Cameron Norman is th…
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In this short BONUS clip, past guest, Geoff Wilson talks about his initial journey into plant medicine when faced with depression, and how he soon realised he was doing it all wrong. In Season 1 Episode 1 (July 2021) of RFTM Geoff and I decided to cut this clip from the episode in order to share the story later, in his book Evolve: The Parables of …
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Geoff Wilson was the very first guest on the Reaching For the Middle podcast; so to celebrate the season finale of his podcast, Parables of Plant Medicine, and the release of his book Evolve: The Parables of Plant Medicine (available on Amazon as an e-book), about his journey from depression to psychedelics that he feels saved his life . Guest Info…
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A bonus clip from Season 2 Episodes 6 and 7 with Pancho Fonseca. We talk about his mom's good fortune, drive, and how we used to view the age of 50 as "old". We also discuss our good friend AJ Scales, an Elite BJJ competitor, who runs a successful Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy in Regina, Saskatchewan in Canada. Mentions Complete Martial Arts and Fitn…
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Oksana Tkachenko is juggling a successful career and family life in Australia, with the constant worry of the horrors that are happening in her birth country of Ukraine. In part two of my conversation with Oksana, we discuss her ability to, seemingly, hold the weight of the world on her shoulders with a smile on her face. She'll explain the differe…
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With many of her family still in the Ukraine, and at the time of this writing, some trapped in a cellar in the Mariupol war-zone, Oksana Tkachenko is juggling her successful career, and family life in Australia, with the constant worry of the horrors that are happening in her birth country. In part one of a two part conversation with Oksana, we dis…
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This ones for all the dads and soon to be dads out there. It will also be an interest to the women in their lives who want an inside peek into our views on fatherhood and marriage. This is Part Two of my conversation with Pancho Fonseca. If you haven't listened to Part One yet, I suggest you go back an episode. You don't want to miss Pancho's 'Orig…
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In this episode of Reaching For The Middle, I'll speak with my childhood (and adulthood) friend, Pancho Fonseca about growing up in a lower socio-economic neighbourhood in Regina Saskatchewan, Canada, and how he managed to make so many friends, and still does to this day. We discuss how his family escaped Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship upri…
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In this second half of my chat with Writer/Comedian/Podcaster Paul Bae, we talk about his move from comedic TV Host back to working in the the education system, and how he discovered the secret to becoming a great high school teacher. Paul spoke about being flat broke and supported by his financially savvy wife, to finding his way to his real passi…
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A Success Podcast For The Rest of Us. Listen and Subscribe to the Reaching For The Middle podcast to hear guests from all walks of life discuss success and failure in their career, relationships and life. They'll offer key advice, perspective, strategies for a better life, and a funny story or two. Guests Include a Career Coach, Police Officer, HR …
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In part one of my two part chat with Writer/Comedian/Podcaster Paul Bae, we talk about his Korean roots in a ‘not so Korean’ suburb of Ontario, Canada. And how his families determination to make Korean friends led Paul to a stint as a Youth Pastor, getting married, and then divorced after turning to Atheism. Believe it or not, this is a success sto…
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Elaine Yong is a former Canadian news reporter (GlobalTV and CityTV Vancouver), and now the Communications Manager for the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. In Part 2 of 2, Elaine delves further into the nightmare of her 4-week-old daughter, Addison's heart transplant. We talk about her and husband, GlobalTV News reporter, Aaron McArthur's…
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LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE Elaine Yong is a former Canadian news reporter (GlobalTV and CityTV Vancouver), and now the Communications Manager for the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Elaine discusses her career and how she "faked it" until she really made it, family, failed relationships, hunky interns, and some amazing success stories along the …
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As it’s the first podcast of 2022, and since I didn’t do it in season 1, I thought it appropriate to tell all you fantastic listeners about the host, James Donison. That’s me! It’s a brief introduction to where I came from, how I went from Canadian Television to driving a tram on the Gold Coast, Australia, then back to my passion of video productio…
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SHARE and SUBSCRIBE to the Reaching For The Middle Podcast. In Part 2 of my conversation with Ashley (Ash) Gard we discuss: How he’s learning to overcome the pessimism that tends to float to the surface in the sometimes murky waters of personal protection, and how that got him to volunteer with the Queensland State Emergency Service (SES). Ash also…
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Share and Subscribe to the Reaching For The Middle Podcast, then listen to Ashley (Ash) Gard discuss how his childhood in a small New Zealand town, with parents who volunteered in victim services and a brother, who's a highly regarded bodyguard (third party protection), led Ash to a career in the military, achieve expert status in the Israeli fight…
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SUBSCRIBE. SHARE. RATE THE PODCAST. In this episode we’ll listen back to our Best of 7 guests. Of course, being only 7 guests thus far it’s more about the inspiring, and sometimes controversial, things they’ve said that resonated with myself and my fabulous listeners. I’ve chosen the theme ‘Perspective and Redefining Success’. If you’re new to the …
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Subscribe to the Reaching For The Middle Podcast. Megan Cameron works as a Line Producer for Unscripted Television in Vancouver, Canada. In this episode, Megan explains what she feels is the big difference between unscripted and Reality TV, and why her job preferences tend to side with the former. She talks about her slow rise into TV Production, a…
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Subscribe to the Reaching For The Middle Podcast. Melissa Stone makes an impact wherever she goes. Whether it be as a high level HR Director in Australia, or back home in Ireland coaching those of us in our careers that can’t seem to figure out how to get to that next level, or perhaps the passion for the role has floundered. In this episode, Melis…
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Subscribe to the Reaching For The Middle Podcast. Kevin Li is a Canadian TV Producer (Little Ram Productions) best known for the viral sensation reality show 'Ultra Rich Asian Girls'. You can watch full episodes on YouTube as well as 'Canadianize Me' (What it means to be Canadian), upcoming trailers for 'InFURencers' (social media influencer pets) …
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In this episode of Reaching for the Middle, Jeff Buck shows why he's the father that all men should be, and the father all kids deserve. We talk about how he gave up careers and pushed aside friendships in pursuit of a healthy relationship with his children. He talks about love, love lost, and his passion for cooking. This episode has many pearls o…
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Corporal Kelly Risling (Riz) is a member of Canada's esteemed RCMP police force, founder of the Unidentified Human Remains Unit, and Bourbon aficionado. Listen and Subscribe to the Reaching For the Middle Podcast to hear Corporal Risling's thoughts on police perceptions, politics and mismanagement in the RCMP, his experiences in the counterterroris…
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Subscribe to the Reaching For The Middle podcast now, then listen to Dr. Cameron Norman discuss the wisdom of midlife and the foolishness of youth, how the key to a successful life is to not plan it, the secret to true happiness and why he's not there yet, how he is, and isn't, coping with the solitude during the COVID pandemic, the pettiness of ac…
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He’s not only a dynamic thinker, Geoff Wilson is a BTTY Certified Change Coach, Instructor at Acorn Wealth, an online Creator, MMA Show Host and Commentator. Listen to the full podcast episode where host, James Donison, and Geoff Wilson discuss: His upcoming book on psychedelic treatments and his personal experimentation the psychedelics tie-in to …
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