Self-Proclaimed A1 Podcasts

An eclectic list of podcasts (regularly updated)

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As a ravenous consumer of podcasts, I’ve smashed out countless listening hours and soaked up plenty of good (and bad) content and information. So, I thought distilling the good into a neat package would be a fun exercise for me and a worthwhile one for you.

The podcasts below range across mindfulness and spirituality, business, psychology and philosophy, elite mindsets and life hacks, storytelling, sport and tech, comedy and entertainment, mental health and many esoteric ramblings, amongst others.

I’ve categorised, ordered and hyperlinked throughout to make it easy for you to find anything and everything you’re looking for. This will also be constantly updated, so I hope you enjoy it now, and in the future!

Consider it your Bible/Torah/Quran, except this sacred scripture is secular… and focused on podcasts.

Consider it your Bible/Torah/Quran, except this sacred scripture is secular… and focused on podcasts.

Alright, less indulgent rambling, more delivery of podcast goodness.

Without further ado…

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My top 10 Shows (in order)

1. The Rush Hour Melbourne Catch Up (my tragically trashy sport-comedy-news download — guilty pleasure and simply has to be my #1)
2. Triple M Rocks Footy AFL (guilty pleasure #2— can’t resist the Friday Huddle and Saturday Rub nourishing my inner footy bogan)
3. Dyl & Friends (deep chats and cheeky banter with sportspeople, celebrities and other notable guests around mindset and psyche)
4. The Imperfects (vulnerable discussions with guests on their mental health experiences, imperfections and struggles)
5. The Joe Rogan Experience (philosophising and long-winded tangents that are usually very enjoyable — he is the great and the powerful)
6. Aubrey Marcus Podcast (conversations with experts in mindset, relationship, health, business and spirituality)
7. Jeremy Carne (deep, playful, fun and funny conversations about the nature of our reality, experiences and truth)
8. How I Built This with Guy Raz (stories behind the world’s best known companies, innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists)
9. Spiritual Tradie (passion and wisdom filled conversations with teachers, healers and business owners)
10. The Tim Ferriss Show (deconstructs world-class performers, digging deep to find the tools, tactics and tricks that listeners can use)

Top 15 Episodes (in order)
*I imagine this is what it would be like if you tried to choose a favourite child

1. Triple M Rocks Footy AFL — Special: The Saturday Rub pays tribute to Danny Frawley (endless bittersweet tears of hilarity and sadness)
2. The Joe Rogan Experience — #1691: Yeonmi Park (heartbreaking story and phenomenal insight from a North Korean survivor / human rights activist)
3. Triple M Rocks Footy AFL — Triple M Footy’s 25 Moments in 25 Years (this is non-stop gold. Call me a footy bogan, what of itttttt…?)
4. The Man Enough Podcast — Alok Vaid-Menon: The Urgent Need For Compassion (1 hour of non-stop mic drop truth bomb ted talk moments)
5. The Joe Rogan Experience — #1309: Naval Ravikant (top 2 most quotable podcasts I’ve listened to, constant gems of wisdom, clarity and genius)
6. Dyl & Friends — Ben Crowe (top 2 most quotable podcasts I’ve listened to, grounded, relatable, practical, head-nodding throughout)
7. Spiritual Tradie — Jez We Carne: Jeremy Carne (a dynamic duo of whimsical and wonderful philosophical ramblings)
8. The Joe Rogan Experience — #1724: Jewel (trauma-filled childhood but defied all of the odds. Full of lived experience and heart-centred wisdom)
9. Jeremy Carne — #20: Spiritual evolution | Dan Tucker (reversed podcast host and guest, same duo, same whimsical and wonderful interaction)
10. Under The Skin with Russell Brand — #129: God vs Atheism with Ricky Gervais (two extremely different, funny and intelligent philosophisers)
11. Aubrey Marcus Podcast — #291: Reprogram Your Mind with Peter Crone (profound, poetic, powerful talk about liberating oneself from fear)
12. Jeremy Carne — #33: Understanding childbirth | Carla Dimattina & Jonni Pollard (vivid, eye-opening, thought-provoking, paradigm shifting)
13. Aubrey Marcus Podcast — AMP #295: Justin Wren (chilling storytelling and suicide attempts / shifting to his big heart doing big things for the world)
14. The Joe Rogan Experience — #1278: Kevin Hart (the guy gets shit done — super high energy, uplifting, motivating and inspiring)
15. How I Built This with Guy Raz — McBride Sisters Wine (phenomenal story of sisterhood and connection)

All episodes (no preferential order… But it’s in an orderly fashion)

Dyl & Friends
• #232: James Brayshaw
• Teach Me, Pls: Ryan Mannix (18/12/23)
• #198: Bradley Dryburgh
• #193: Brett Connelan
• #153: Samantha Gash
• #150: Nedd Brockmann
• #148: Tom Harkin
• #129: Richard Harris SC OAM
• #102: Nick Stone
• #96: Matt De Boer
• #95: Mark Wales
• Andrew Russell (22/12/20)
• Hugh Toovey (28/10/20)
• David Schwarz (05/05/20)
• Dr. Zac Seidler (01/04/20)
• Catching Up with Tommy (06/12/19)
• Daniel Gorringe (06/12/19)
• ‘Razor’ Ray Chamberlain (04/12/18)

The Imperfects
• Fern Brady (15/04/24)
• Sean Turnell (08/04/24)
• Sean Turnell (08/04/24)
• Mrs Claus — Santa’s Better Half (18/12/23)
• Gina Chick (27/11/23)
• Hamish Macdonald (20/11/23)
• Tim Minchin (09/10/23)
• Jack’s Gambling Story (28/09/23)
• Grant Denyer (14/08/23)
• Osher Günsberg (14/08/23)
• Dr. Emily: When Are You Triggered? (31/07/23)
• Ben Shewry Pt. 2 (05/06/23)
• Ben Shewry Pt. 1(29/05/23)
• Dilruk Jayasinha (03/04/23)
• Ben Crowe Pt. 2 (23/03/23)
• Ben Crowe Pt. 1(16/03/23)
• Samuel Johnson (13/03/23)
• Lael Stone (03/02/23)
• Nedd Brockmann (21/11/22)
• Kate Reid (07/11/22)
• Martin ‘Rac’ Heppell (11/07/22)
• Harry Garside (06/06/22)
• Martin ‘Rac’ Heppell (28/09/21)
• Dr. Billy Garvey (19/07/21)
• Jamila Rizvi (26/04/21)
• Ben Crowe (29/03/21)
• S2E5: Will McMahon
• S1E6: Ryan Shelton

The Joe Rogan Experience
• #1733: Snoop Dogg
• #1675: Quentin Tarantino
• #1666: Duncan Trussell
• #1545: W. Keith Campbell
• #1482: Jordan Jones
• #1480: Kevin Hart
• #1477: Tony Hawk
• #1402: Boyan Slat
• #1366: Richard Dawkins
• #1313: Duncan Trussell
• #1283: Russell Brand
• #1254: Dr. Phil
• #1227: Mike Tyson
• #1189: Alex Honnold
• #1171: Nick Yarris
• #1169: Elon Musk
• #1109: Matthew Walker
• #1021: Russell Brand
• #737: Lance Armstrong

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
• AMP #382: Aaron Rodgers
• AMP #382: Ben Nemptin
• AMP #361: Michael Meade
• AMP #309: Simon Sinek
• AMP #300: Boyd Varty
• AMP #287: Matthew McConaughey
• AMP #267: Peter Crone
• AMP #240: Peter Crone
• AMP #239: Naval Ravikant
• AMP #207: Porangui
• AMP #200: Joe Rogan
• AMP #181: Mark Manson
• AMP #128: Paul Chek
• AMP #86: Joe Rogan

Jeremy Carne
• #69: Optimising teenager’s mental wellbeing | Tamsyn Rose
• #65: Medical marijuana revolution | Adam Noodle
• #58: The humanity in awakening | Tess Shanahan
• #54: Building mental resilience | Hugh van Culyenburg
• #52: True friendship | Ryan Shelton
• #45: Enlightening comedy and politics | Friendlyjordies
• #30: The Art of Letting Go | Jonni Pollard
• #8: The power of listening | Luke Wallace
• #6: Understanding “God” regardless of belief | Jonni Pollard
• #1: Men’s vulnerability to resolve women’s inequality| Em Paulo

How I Built This
• Grindr: Joel Simkhai
• Allbirds: Tim Brown & Joey Zwillinger
• Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut
• Hinge: Justin McLeod
• Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
• Dropbox: Drew Houston
• Classpass: Payal Kadakia
• reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
• Lyft: John Zimmer
• Fubu: Draymond John
• Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson
• Dyson: James Dyson
• Dell Computers: Michael Dell
• LinkedIn: Reid Hoffman
• Ben & Jerry’s: Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield
• Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler
• Virgin: Richard Branson
• VICE: Suroosh Alvi

Spiritual Tradie
• Engine House: Ryan Klibansky (09/05/19)
• 1 Giant Mind: Jonni Pollard (25/11/18)
• Poole of Consciousness: Laura Poole (01/09/18)
• Reframing Reality: Saya Hayashi (11/07/18)
• Spiritual Tradie: Daniel Tucker (18/05/18)
• The Light Collective: Sian Pascale (06/03/18)
• Real Drug Talk: Jack Nagle (21/11/17)
• Love Yourself First: Scott Duncan (12/09/17)

The Tim Ferriss Show
• #648: James Clear
• #620: Dr. Gabor Mate
• #587: Terry Crews
• #546: David Blaine
• #494: Michael Phelps and Grant Hackett
• #462: Guy Raz
• #464: Tim Ferriss
• #444: Hugh Jackman
• #435: Kevin Hart
• #298: Dr. Gabor Mate
• #216: Arnold Schwarzenegger
• #60: Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Diary of a CEO
• 08/04/24: Ronda Rousey
• 12/02/24: Adam Grant
• 09/10/23: Brian Chesky
• 25/09f/23: Dr. Tara Swart
• 28/08/23: Rainn Wilson
• E262: Steve-O
• E260: Russell Brand
• E196: Peter Crouch
• E158: Michael Pollan
• E155: Bear Grylls
• E147: Chris Voss
• E106: Jimmy Carr

Under The Skin with Russell Brand
• #77: How To Be A Loving Man (with Karamo Brown)
• #56: Meeting A Mentor (with Tony Robbins)

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
• #120: George Calombaris
• #102: Robert Whittaker
• #101: Sam Mac
• #95: Dylan Alcott

Outside The Cave
• E2: Maria Thattil
• E1: Harry Garside

Inside The Cave
• S3E3: Al Green & Hunter Johnson
• S2E3: Al Green
• S2E2: Mitch Stent

Real Stuff
• E10: Michael Schneider
• E5: James O’Connor
• E1: Dyl Buckley & Dan Gorringe

How Other Dads Dad
• S2E14: Dr. Billy Garvey
• S2E13: Ben Crowe
• S2E8: Maggie Dent
• S2E7: Beau Miles
• S2E6: Scott Cam
• S2E4: Christian O’Connell
• S2E2: Martin ‘Rac’ Heppell
• S2E1: Joe Brumm
• S1E12: Dr. Billy Garvey
• S1E1: Rob Sitch

Better Than Yesterday
• #933: Robert Irwin
#815: Rachel Green
• #752: Alok Vaid-Menon
• #596: Johann Hari
• #586: 22 Ideas for 2022
• #394: Ryan & Josh aka The Minimalists
• #341: Rutger Bregman
• #297: Mark Manson
• #248–249: Osher Gunsberg Part 1 + 2

The Howie Games
• Artist Series 27: Jeremy Piven
• Episode 162: Shaquille O’Neal
• Episode 127: Dylan Alcott
• Episode 28: Sam Newman

Empowering Leaders with Luke Darcy
• Bob Murphy (11/10/23)
• #110: Craig McRae
• #87: Jules Lund
• #80: Andrew Gaze
• #61: Fergus Watts
• #39: Gus Worland
• #32: Scott Pape

A Bit of Optimism with Simon Sinek
• Leopoldo Lopez (05/03/24)
• James Clear (16/01/24)
• Steven Bartlett: Part 2 (29/08/23)
• Steven Bartlett: Part 1 (22/08/23)
• Molly Bloom (09/05/23)
• Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary (28/02/23)
• Brene Brown & Adam Grant: Part 2 (20/12/22)
• Brene Brown & Adam Grant: Part 1 (13/12/22)

Spaces Between with Al Jeffrey
• #31: Asher Packman
• #25: Paul Austin
• #22: Nina Simons
• #21: East Forest
• #4: Dr. Arne Rubinstein

Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu
• Marc Randolph (03/03/21)
• Matthew McConaughey (11/11/20)
• Robert Greene (18/12/18)

Unbeatable You with Brett Robbo
• #198: Jamin Heppell

Awaken with JP
• #21: Amber Sears

The Knowledge Project
• #46: Sophie Grégorie Trudeau
• #18: Naval Ravikant

The Long Distance Love Bombs
• #142: Dr. Jeremy Goldberg
• #109: Eldra Jackson III
• #97: Kendra Adachi
• #65: Jeff Brown
• #41: Travis Boehm
• #5: Travis Boehm

Making Sense with Sam Harris
• Ricky Gervais (13/07/19)
• Russell Brand (09/02/18)

The Conscious Locker Room Podcast
• #9: Jamin Heppell

Dare To Lead with Brene Brown
• Dr. Angela Duckworth (19/04/21)
• Simon Sinek (18/01/21)

Unlocking Us with Brene Brown
• Jay and Mark Duplass (13/05/20)
• President Barack Obama (11/12/20)
• Judd Apatow (23/06/20)

Finding Founders
• Max Hertan (08/01/20)

What Now? with Trevor Noah
• Nick Krygios (11/01/24)

Another Way
• #9: Josh Payne
• #1: Jamin Heppell

Game Changers
• S5E6: Lucy & Rosie Thomas

Dua Lipa: At Your Service
• Esther Perel (07/07/23)

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel
• Friendship — My Reliable Gift (25/11/21)
• A Romantic Revival (07/11/19)

UNSTOPPABLE with Kerwin Rae
• #108 — Marcus Smith
• #105 — Asher Packman
• #90 — Tom Cronin

Puka Up with Wayne Schwass
• S3E12: Shelley Laslett
• S3E11: Kris Pierce
• S3E5: Tom Harkin
• S3E1-E2: Prof. Lea Waters
• S1E13: Danny Frawley

Birdsong with Caiyuda Kiora
• #2: Asher Packman

Inspired Evolution
• #9: Luke Wallace

Conscious Convos
• #14: Mikey Lee

Oprah’s Master Class: The Podcast
• Oprah Winfrey, Part 1 & 2

Good Life Project
• Lea Waters

Voices of Esalen
• Psychedelic Integration, Pt: 4: Dr Ben Sessa

Duncan Trussell Family Hour
• #396: Russell Brand
• #360: Aubrey Marcus

Behind The Uniform
• Gus Worland (08/10/20)
• Commando Steve (24/09/20)

Young Blood
• #56: Nathan Bolton
• #42: Josh Moorhouse
• #39: The Life Of A Male Entertainer
• #36: With A Convicted Ex-Cop

It Ain’t Weak To Speak
• #35: Matt Runnalls

The Daily Talk Show
• #884: Hamish Blake Co-Hosts

The Knowledge Project
• #65: Shep Gordon

Life of Brian
• #23: James Brayshaw (27/02/24)

Parenthood
• Joel Hines (26/04/22)

Sports Geek
• Richard Bayliss (11/08/20)
• Luke Bould (04/02/20)
• Craig Hutchinson (14/01/20)
• Damien de Bohun (19/11/18)
• Matt Scully (10/09/18)
• Cameron Schwab (10/03/18)
• Tim Kelsey (13/01/18)
• Paul Marsh (29/10/17)

Trends with Marc McGowan
• Sam Robertson (03/07/19)
• Binuk Kodituwakku (05/06/19)

Non-Episode Specific Podcast Recommendations
• List Cloggers
• 1 Giant Mind with Jonni Pollard
• Serial (Season 1)
• The Juice Media Podcast
• Smartless

And some podcasts I’ve featured on…
• Inside The Cave
• Young Blood Men’s Mental Health
• MHFA Australia (2)
• MHFA Australia (1)
• Storytellers
• Water Cooler Weekly

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If you’ve made it this far… solid effort!

Hit me up if you’re keen to know more about any podcasts, episodes or guests, and if there’s anything you highly recommend, I’m all ears.

Happy listening 💕