The You Project

In this engaging discussion, Harps, an advocate for patience in our instant-gratification era, explores the critical importance of delayed gratification. He emphasizes how our culture encourages quick wins, steering us away from long-term fulfillment. Harps delves into how practicing restraint can lead to a more meaningful life, aligned with personal values. He highlights the challenges we face in resisting impulses and offers insights on why embracing this mindset is essential for achieving lasting success.

Jacqui Cooper, a five-time Olympian and world champion aerial skier, shares her journey through fame, personal struggles, and the complexities surrounding fertility and IVF in Australia. She opens up about the emotional turmoil athletes face post-retirement and the vital lessons learned from a challenging career on the slopes. The conversation also touches on the importance of authentic engagement when speaking publicly and the emotional rollercoaster speakers endure before taking the stage. Jacqui's insights blend sports, personal growth, and the power of community.

In the Olympic review that nobody needs, Gillespo and I chat about the Paris games, his underwhelming vehicle choice, his parenting model around technology in the home, the relationship between rising tech use, rising mental health issues and rising crime rates, New Zealand producing so many gold medals with such a small population (FYI, the population of California is 7.5 times that of NZ) and yes, the Aussies were spectacular too.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Every so often, I share an interview that l've done on someone else's podcast because I feel the conversation is worth sharing directly with my listeners and obviously, today is such a day. l've known Andrew May (host of Performance Intelligence) for more than twenty years, so you won't be shocked when I tell you that this conversation is a somewhat 'loose' affair, with a liberal smattering of objectionable language, stories and opinions but fortunately, there is also a healthy serving of science, strategy, high-performance and insight. Enjoy.www.andrewmay.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meggie Palmer spent fifteen years as a journalist and foreign correspondent in Europe, the USA and Australia, working for BBC World, CNBC, SBS Dateline, Channel 7, Channel 10, SKY, Vogue, Marie Claire and News Corporation. She is a founder, speaker, journalist, and proud Aussie who now calls New York City home. She founded ‘PepTalkHer’ and is on a mission to close the gender pay gap. She travels globally speaking and helping companies with retaining female leaders and diversity. Meggie is a human dynamo, a self-confessed workaholic, a fighter for equality, a problem solver, an outside-the-box thinker and a brilliant communicator, and I loved our chat.peptalkher.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is it human art or Al art? And if it is Al art, is it actually art? Was it written by a human or a Bot? Is it inspired creativity or 'programmed' creativity? Did he do the assignment or did ChatGPT do it? Is it a real photo or an image generated to look like a photo? Is the 'information' I'm getting through Al actual (accurate, objective) information or is it a 'story' about something, designed to influence the thinking of the researcher/reader in a certain way? Is it a legitimate opportunity, or is it a well-crafted scam? Is this a real link, or is it a pathway to my financial ruin? For better or worse, reality is becoming harder and harder to discern. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michael Katsidis has a fascinating story that I can't do justice in this brief synopsis but let me tell you that it involves elite sport (including world titles and Olympic representation), childhood dreams, passion, triumph, personal tragedy, drug addiction, prison, mental health and thankfully, recovery, redemption and second chances. I really enjoyed this chat with a kindred spirit. If you don't like swearing, you'll fucking hate this. Enjoy. Or avoid.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the pursuit of a better 'us' (what ever that means on an individual level), sometimes we need to turn down the emotion and turn up the planning, logic, structure and accountability. Less finger-crossing and hoping, and more strategy and science. This is a conversation about that. Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It sounds like something of a cliché' but Annabelle Chauncy OAM has literally built her life, her work and her not-for-profit (School for Life) on the principle of 'service above self.' For nearly all of her adult life, she has made the health, welfare and (specifically) the education of children and adults living in danger, disadvantage and poverty her mission and purpose. Annabelle is a courageous, compassionate and inspirational woman, doing amazing work and it was privilege to chat with her. schoolforlife.org.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Over the next five days, I’ll be unpacking five simple but effective ideas (strategies, practices, habits) that have consistently proven to be high-yield psychological and behavioural investments on, not only my own journey of falling down and getting up, but also for the thousands of people I’ve worked with on their own journeys. Today I’m talking about taking the right path. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.