The You Project
by Craig Harper
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#2260 Navigating Conflict - Tim Duggan
#2260 Navigating Conflict - Tim Duggan
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The You Project is a 30-90 minute dose of inspiration and education hosted by Craig Harper with great stories, ideas, strategies and lessons from high-performers in sport, business, science, media and health.
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- #2260 Navigating Conflict - Tim Duggan · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 2260Another enjoyable TYP outing with a super smart, stimulating and fascinating guest. Apart from the fact that he’s better looking and smarter, I think we’re quite similar. Enjoy…
- #2259 Exactly Where is the Mind - Associate Professor Kevin Mitchell · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 2259Some guests make me think harder than others. This guest had me holding on by my academic tippy-toes. *Associate Professor Kevin Mitchell is an Irish neurogeneticist…
- #2258 Not Good-Enough-Itis - Dr. Bex Bell · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 2258In this episode, I had a great chat with our TYP debutant Dr Bex Bell, exploring the complexity and joy of the human experience. As we do here. Here’s a bit about the Doc. *Dr…
- #2257 5 Things I Learned This Year (Pt 2) - Harps & Tiff · 1 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 2257In this rather verbose instalment of TYP, young Tiff and I conclude our chat about what 2026 has taught us, what we’re changing moving forward, how we’ll get it done and the…
- #2256 WTF Are Peptides? - David Gillespie · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 2256Over the last few years, the use of peptides in Australia (and globally) has gone through the performance-enhancing roof. While there are many advocates for their use, there are…
- #2255 5 Things I Learned This Year - Harps & Tiff · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 2255So Tiff and I decided to each share five things that we have learned, realised, come to understand, taken ownership of, or even, struggled with this year. However, having cohosts…
- #2254 The Nature of Nurture - Professor Jay Belskey · 60 min · Season 1 Episode 2254Jay Belsky is Emeritus Professor of Human Development at the University of California, Davis, and an internationally recognised scholar in developmental psychology. His research…
- #2253 Meaningful Suffering - Bobby Cappuccio · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 2253In his most famous book Man’s Search for Meaning, Austrian Psychiatrist, Neurologist, Holocaust Survivor and Author Victor Frankl said “in some ways suffering ceases to be…
- #2252 The Science of Dodgy Backs - Dr. Jeff Gross · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 2252Not only is our friend and TYP regular Dr. Jeff a world-renowned specialist in the areas of regenerative and longevity medicine, but he’s also a Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon…
- #2251 The Experiment Mindset - Tamsin Simounds · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 2251Tamsin Simounds is a leadership coach, keynote speaker, author, founder and now, guest on The You Project; surely the highlight of her career (lol). She has just released a new…
- #2250 You'd Think We'd Be Better - Patrick Bonello · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 2250Apparently, this is Patrick’s 135th appearance on The You Project. You’d think we would be pretty amazing by now but no, those 134 previous episodes don’t seem to have moved the…
- #2249 Permissive Parenting - David Gillespie · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 2249So the father of six (Gillespo) and the and the Bloke and the Hybrid (Tiff) with zero kids between them, had a chat about parenting, recent research on the relationship between…
- #2248 How Burnout Works - Dr. Olivia Ong · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 2248Dr. Olivia Ong is back at TYP Central and this time we endeavour to gain a deeper understanding of burnout - what it is, what it isn’t, who it affects, how it affects us, how to…
- #2247 Loneliness, Solitude & Social Connection - Prof. Robert Coplan · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 2247This was another genuinely fascinating conversation with Prof. Robert Coplan from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. It turns out that being alone is bad for some and great…
- #2246 Fears, Beliefs & Placebos - Prof. Bill Sullivan · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 2246Your mind could be the most powerful drug you will ever have at your disposal. A single thought can change your physiology. Lower or increase your heart rate. Produce stress…
- #2245 Self-Flying Planes - Patrick Bonello · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 2245Self driving cars, self driving trucks, driverless taxis and maybe in the not-too-distant future, self-flying passenger planes. F**k that. That’s a big fat “no thanks” from me…
- #2244 Procrastination - Dr. Fuschia Sorois · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 2244Dr. Fuschia Sirois is a psychologist and internationally recognised researcher specialising in procrastination, self-regulation, motivation, stress and wellbeing. She is a…
- #2243 The Friendship Litmus Test - Dr. Lillian Nejad · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 2243This was a fun chat with Dr. Lillian, where we explored the variables of human connection, building rapport, trust and functional relationships in different settings, situations…
- #2242 Adapt or Die - Harps & Tiff · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 2242Adapt or die; it’s the evolutionary requirement for the survival of any species isn’t it? And on a far less dramatic note, it’s also a prerequisite for you and I to flourish…
- #2241 New Addictions? - David Gillespie · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 2241For no particular reason, TYP and Gillespo have not been in the same room for a while but finally, the gang is back together. This is a slightly longer than normal chat (for us)…
- #2240 Knowing Is Not Doing - Ben Siong · 56 min · Episode 2240In Australia, Benjamin Siong is at the pointy end of fitness, strength, health, high-performance, education and human optimisation (my words, not his) and I valued the…
- #2239 The Resurrection of 982 - Professor Munjed Al Muderis · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 2239This might be my favourite episode of the year. Inspirational, educational and at times, confronting. I loved this chat. *Professor Munjed Al Muderis is an internationally…
- #2238 What Happens In The Brain As We Die? - Prof. Tarvez Tucker · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 2238In the context of my last few months, this was an interesting conversation to have with Professor Tarvez Tucker, whose latest book “The Brain at Twilight: The Neuroscience of Our…
- #2237 What Shouldn't We Expect - Bobby Cappuccio · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 2237What should and shouldn’t we expect of others? If anything? Do we expect others to be how we want them to be? Or do we expect them to be what they’ve been the last hundred times?…
- #2236 Nonsense in Psychiatry - Prof. Gordon Parker · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 2236Prof. Gordon Parker was almost too smart for me to interview. Nonetheless, I gave it a crack and we covered some hefty subject matter and explored a few things on the lighter…
- #2235 Science and Religion Had a Chat - Dr. Bill Sullivan · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 2235What role does genetics, upbringing, culture, experiences, environment and social context have on the way we think, behave and treat others? Is free will real or an illusion? To…
- #2234 Dr. Sam Casey · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 2234Dr. Sam Casey is back at TYP Central chatting with me about how kids and their grown-ups work. Always an interesting chat. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- #2233 An Analogue Conversation - Patrick Bonello · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 2233Patrick is back at the TYP desk and this time we diverge from the typical tech conversation and find ourselves ruminating on all things psychology, emotions, sociology, human…
- #2232 What Are Things Worth? - Bobby Cappuccio · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 2232The psychology of value, or perhaps more accurately ‘perceived value’ has been a curiosity of mine for years. Why would somebody pay $10,000 for a handbag? Is it 50 times better…
- #2231 The Science of Guilt - Dr. Jennifer Reid · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 2231Wow this was interesting. In nine years of the podcast, we have never had a conversation about guilt. And this was an eye-opener. Dr Jennifer Reid is a board-certified…
- #2230 Women's Mental Health - Prof. Jayashri Kulkarni · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 2230This was a highly informative, educational and eye-opening conversation with a brilliant woman who is a world leader in her field. Professor Jayashri Kulkarni AM is a…
- #2229 Fall Down, Get Up, Repeat - Bobby Cappuccio · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 2229This episode with Tiff and Bobby was another unfiltered, unplanned, hold onto your seat, dive into the human experience. If you’re not partial to the freestyle ramble don’t…
- #2228 Achievement vs Meaning - Dr. Olivia Ong · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 2228Dr. Olivia Ong is a Melbourne-based rehabilitation and pain medicine physician, author and speaker whose personal story has profoundly shaped her career. In 2008, while working…
- #2227 Is Education in Crisis? - Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 2227Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath is a Harvard-trained neuro-scientist and educator specialising in how the brain learns. As director of LME Global, he has worked with schools…
- #2226 Patting the Shark - Tim Baker · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 2226Medicine, meditation, punching sharks, elite athletes, self-healing, placebo’s, Sandman panelvans, great sporting comebacks, fighting cancer, the best all round sport for…
- #2225 Perv Glasses and Glassholes - Patrick Bonello · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 2225So the new glasses that can video record people without them knowing, seem to be drawing a lot of attention, conversation and debate. Understandably. Having said that, they do…
- #2224 Should You Become a Coach - Bobby Cappuccio · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 2224Tiff, Bobby and myself all coach people in various capacities, different contexts and for different reasons. But what is it that makes somebody a good coach? How much of it is…
- #2223 The Art and Science of Certainty - Professor Adam Kucharski · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 2223I loved this chat with Professor Adam Kucharski, although recording it in the evening probably wasn’t the optimal time for my brain (LOL). *BIO: Professor Adam Kucharski is a…
- #2222 Is Your Mind the Problem or the Solution? - Dr. Cam McDonald · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 2222Dr. Cam is back at TYP and this time we chat about the powerful relationship between our mind and our outcomes. We speak about the role of mindset and performance in relation to…
- #2221 Peptides: Bullsh*t or Medicine? - Dr. Jeff Gross · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 2221So many claims, so many counter-claims, so many sales pitches, so much information and misinformation, so much emotion and pseudoscience, but what is real and what is not? While…
- #2220 Who Is Responsible For Our Health? - Kate Save · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 2220Exercise Physiologist, Dietician, Entrepreneur and Educator Kate Save and I had a fun time agreeing and disagreeing on the current state of affairs in Australia, when it comes to…
- #2219 The Reward Trap - Dr. Özgür Bolat · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 2219Dr. Özgür Bolat is a Turkish educator, author and researcher specialising in learning, motivation, parenting and human development. With an academic background that includes…
- #2218 Metabolic Psychiatry - Dr. Matthew Bernstein · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 2218Tune the-f*ck in, this is a goodie. I love chatting with people who question the status quo in their field, who challenge convention, who think outside the box and who do so with…
- #2217 Kicking Down The Vulnerability Door - Christian O'Connell · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 2217This was one of my favourite chats this year. Two blokes throwing the vulnerability door wide open and it’s fair to say we went deep. I’m won’t say too much because I don’t want…
- #2216 Identity - Bobby Cappuccio · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 2216Who are we? Why are we the way we are? How do we see us? How do others see us? Where does our sense of self come from? What is our identity? And did we create it or did it create…
- #2215 Can AI F*ck Up Our Brain? - Patrick Bonello · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 2215Understandably, there’s a growing concern that AI could be the beginning of the end for our cognitive function, creativity, and IQ. My opinion is that we shouldn’t worry but we…
- #2214 The Evolving Addiction Landscape - Mick Hall · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 2214It seems that people are becoming addicted to more and more things. But are they actual addictions in the context of some of the more recognisable and familiar addictions (drugs…
- #2213 The Disease of Kings - David Gillespie · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 2213Gillespo is back on deck following a brief TYP sabbatical and this time he is exposing the truth about one of the biggest medical issues in Australia; kidney disease. I won’t…
- #2212 What Are My Results Saying? - Bobby Cappuccio · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 2212This episode is all about body awareness, mind awareness (metacognition), creating a personal operating system, the space between discipline and obsession, self-regulation and…
- #2211 Asked and Answered - Harps (PT2) · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 2211We’ve done a few Q&A sessions before, but this might just be my favourite. We explored vast territory with a lot of great and diverse questions from you, our listeners. A quick…
