Mel Bampton Presents...How Human
This podcast is all about exploring what it means to be human. What traits, qualities and experiences we share, no matter how different we are and in searching for and celebrating our differences, finding our similarities.
Do you ever find yourself plagued with uncertainty? Paralysed by self-doubt? Are you ever confused about what to do, how to behave, what to say or even what to feel? Being human is weird. It comes with no instruction manual, it’s riddled with contradictions and as we age we seem to get less and more wise, just when we think we’ve figured something out, everything changes, again.
This podcast is that missing handbook - in which we go deeper than just the details of the stories and by looking through different lenses, we find the things that truly make us…human.
My name is Mel Bampton, I’m a presenter, a speaker, an author and a therapist and in this series I’m bringing all those things together to help you agonise a little less by understanding a little more the things that are fundamentals, not flaws, of what it means to be one of this bizarre and curious species.
This is the podcast where you learn to become a little kinder to yourself by first and foremost understanding what you fundamentally are.
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Mel is the CEO of The Prana Project, Author of 'Off The Record', ex triple j presenter Mel in The Morning, creator of triple j's Like A Version and The Producer Series, creator of the acclaimed 21-Day Dissolving Patterns Program and Co-Founder of Living Hormoniously. Mel is an internationally Certified Yoga Therapist, an Educator and Speaker on topics ranging from music to mental health, communication to cognitive conditioning and anything inbetween.
Episodes
56 episodes
How To Sit In Being Enough with Johnny Abegg
This is a story about that inner turmoil that plagues so many of us. It’s the sinister chisel of self-doubt that both breaks us down but also propels us, it’s the quest of answers in a life that comes with no guidebook, the hurts that can swall...
How Meaningful Relationships Fuel Creativity with Regurgitator's Ben Ely
Live music, liberation, and the meaning of success - this conversation with Ben Ely is a deep dive into what truly matters. From the raw energy of Livid Festival and Brisbane’s underground music scene to Regurgitator’s intergenerational impact,...
How To Save The World Through Sex For Men with Ryk Goddard
This is a conversation for men about men, but it is also very much a conversation for all people, no matter how you identify, because we're all in this gigantic exquisite shitshow together. It is about the gap many of us are feeling and startin...
How To Break-Up Well with Nikki Parkinson
Is there any more difficult terrain to navigate as a human being, than heartbreak? That wretched feeling when you know something has to end, it’s crushing, you feel your whole world tilting sideways and you know that things will never be the sa...
How To Shift From Feelings Of Abandonment To Being Stoked on Self-Love with Clay MacDonald
How does a small child recover from losing their Mum? Not just survive, full of self-destruction and fear, but learn great joy, even gratitude for the darkness that once was your universe?How do you come back from the shame of things you...
How To Transform The Death Of A Sibling Into Salvation with Hannah Darling
Hannah Darling is abundant in life's extremes. She is poetry in motion and an alchemist turning despair, hardships and challenges into things of great beauty.From shining on the stage in the Australian series The Voice, to loving someon...
How To Use Grace As A Tool To Overcome Obstacles with Madeleine West
What is the superpower of grace and how can it help us as humans to overcome enormous tragedy?Madeleine West has seen the best and the worst of the human experience. She is an actor, becoming a household face in the iconic Australian sh...
How To Break Free From Criminal Conditioning with Ron Isherwood
As a mother, a foster carer, a therapist and a fairly compassionate human being, I often watch the world in horror, as judgements are made about others disregarding the path they walked in their childhood. Often we express outrage at child abus...
Mini Solocast EP: Rethinking Change
Over the past 15 years, since changing my career, my geography, my habits and my name, I've been on a great quest to learn about what makes us humans tick. On this episode, I go solo to share some of the significant things I've learned ab...
How To Identify Unhelpful Intimate Relationship Patterns with Shane Turner
This episode takes yet another plot twist, with an indepth and intimate chat between two yoga teachers, together for 13 years, having raised 6 children between them and at times, holding on for dear life.In this episode I invited in my ...
How To Pacify The Corrosive Narrative of 'I Am Not Enough' with Dr Lauren Tober
Dr Lauren Tober is a psychologist, a Senior Yoga Teacher and the creator of the Mental Health Aware Yoga Teacher Training. What I love about Lauren’s work is how she integrates evidence based data with that that is beyond the measure of science...
How To Bounce Back From Drug Use with Jack Nagle
In this episode, we’re jumping straight into the nitty gritty of an illicit drug with the worst publicity, with a former high level sportsperson who was well on his way to an incredible career as a pro basketballer before meth amphetamines took...
How To Prepare For Inescapable Grief with Mark Bayley
This episode is very different. Not looking so much at the patterns that we're stuck in but instead how big events can change us at our deepest levels.This is a story of one man being taken to his depths through intense loss, of a man w...
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What Is It About Booze with Jenny Valentish
What is the correlation between alcohol patterns and extreme sports? What part does self-identity play in trying to kick a harmful booze habit? And when you do go sober and you’re faced with the clarity of your own historical dickhead b...
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What Is A Colonised Mind with Ella Noah-Bancroft
Sometimes patterns present in identifiable habits - small and large. Sometimes patterns are written into the very fabric of our being; they have become a part of the way we view the world without us even realising we are looking through a filte...
Sex and Sexuality with Jo Brown
Welcome to the DISSOLVING PATTERNS series of Lissie Turner Presents... where Lissie takes you deep into the wiring of the human mind, through the unhealthy, unhelpful and harmful patterns that make us suffer. Through common negative patterns ar...
Yael Stone and Joey Kellock Live From Splendour In The Grass
Recently at Splendour In The Grass, the Lissie Turner Presents... podcast took to the Forum stage for the season finale, with not one but two phenomenal guests.Take a listen as we dive deeply into unexpected connections that can rock o...
Telling Your Friends You Love Them with Matt O'Brien
Matt O’Brien is a unicorn: a warm loving friendship facilitating creature of magical proportions, with a billowing mane and an equally impressive moustache.In pubs, festivals and venues all around the country, Matt creates ways for peop...
Teen Pregnancy, Environmental Passion, Political Warfare with Theresa Fyffe
Okay. This episode is very different. It is both very personal but also prolific. I would really, really like you to tune into this one...In 2018 an extraordinary little foundation that I had been in awe of at a very close level for near...
At The Heart Of The Special Forces with Luke Andrews
Yes, I know what you’re thinking. Why has Lissie chosen to chat with this very rugged looking bloke? Well hopefully by now you’ll trust me enough to know that if they’re a guest on this pod, there’s something a little bit rich and special lurki...
From Corporate Car Crash To Unbridled Creativity with Kate Constantine
Yes I know! How great are Kate's! As luck would have it, three Kate's of grand intrigue were delivered to yours and my podcast doorstep to share their incredible stories, their lessons, their challenges and their own unique gems of wisdom they'...
Losing A Sibling, Finding A Mum with Kate Hardman
Dirt biking women. Snowboarding accidents. Living life to the extreme. Loving intensely. Losing beyond compare. Tragedy germinating beauty, power and being fully alive.This episode is going to get you right in the belly. Eve...
Down The Mother Line with Kate Stroud
Get ready for one of the most beautiful episodes you'll hear. A story about unexpected connections, grieving, reconciling in the most delicate and powerful of ways, about the potency of the Mother Daughter connection, of creativit...
Wanting Kids But You Can't, Keeping The Mother Love Alive with Sherrie Laryse
Have you ever experienced such a deep belief in where you thought you should be in your life, who you should be but it didn't come to pass? When something didn't go your way, how did you peace with the new outcome?Sherrie Larys...
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How To Raise Triplets and Still Have Hair with Costa Zouliou
As this podcast has gone along, it's reason for existing has morphed, refined and changed; each new guest creating a different reason for it's existence. A thread that's kept coming up is the obsession with celebrity - our fascination wit...
