Bryn Edwards at The WA Real

#41 Mirek Kanik – Being a Modern Mystic

Go on a mystical journey with Mirek Kanik, psychotherapist and author of the book ‘I am a Modern Mystic’. In this conversation Merik begins by sharing his journey from a turbulent Poland in the early 80s to WA. He then goes on to explain mysticism, how the heart is at the centre of our everyday functioning much more than the brain and how being more heart-focused is the not only the foundation of relationships with ourselves and others but also gateway to a wealth of knowledge much greater than we perceive. Mirek also leads the listener through a simple and practical heart-focused meditation for all to repeat and practice.

#40 Phil O’Keeffe – Ticking off life’s bucket list: Solo Swim to Rottnest

In a slight mix up to the norm, Bryn follows the journey of avid WA Real listener Phil O'Keeffe at 3 different points during his journey to complete his first solo Rottnest Channel Swim crossing - start of training, midway and after the event. The solo swim was one of life’s ‘bucket list’ big achievements for Phil and it’s fascinating to hear how his focus develops throughout the journey and how the process of training quickly transcends the physical to the mental. Not everything turned out as planned for Phil, there's twists and turns on his journey and a nasty surprise where the sun doesn't shine. Whether you’ve completed your own bucket list life challenge or considering going for it, this provides some fantastic insights.

#39 Barry Magliardhiti – Master the Inner game, Dominate the outer game

In this powerful and focused conversation, acclaimed business coach Barry Magliardhiti, and founder of the Game Changers, provides a great insight into how he became a business coach and shares some of the learnings from his experience to master our inner game so we can dominate the outer game. Barry talks about limiting beliefs, how we’re shaped by our unconscious choices and survival of past experiences as well as how our external reality matches the way we chose to show up in life.  Bryn and Barry also go deep on what being happy in life means and the achievability of the ideal ‘work life balance’ and what that actually means on a workable basis. This conversation is packed with learnings that the listener can immediately consider in their own life to make meaningful changes.

#38 Leon Ruri – Haka for Life

Be gripped by the passion of Leon Ruri and his journey focusing on raising awareness of men’s mind health and suicide awareness. Starting with an idea that mobilised 200 men to perform the Haka on ANZAC day at Kings Pak in 2017, Leon has since founded the Charity Haka for Life to raise awareness for Men's Mind Health, Wellbeing and Suicide Awareness.

As well as sharing the story behind Haka for Life, Leon talks openly about his own journey with mental health, being stuck in his head and contemplation of suicide. He also explains how, through our upbringing, we get conditioned into remaining silent and not expressing ourselves and how this leads us through the gateway to depression and anxiety and even suicide.

#37 Professor Igor Bray – The Human side of Quantum Physics

Enjoy this beautiful and human conversation with Quantum Mechanic Professor Igor Bray, Head of Curtin University's Department of Physics and Astronomy. Igor shares his own story from leaving Russia at an early age to following his fascination with physics to the career he has today as one of the world’s leading quantum mechanics and his role with the Large Hydron Collider at CERN. Not sure what Quantum Mechanics is? Igor breaks the fundamentals down for the everyday man to understand, as well as sharing how he uses the principles of physics in his everyday life. Igor also explains why being in science in Perth right now is one of the most exciting places to be!!

#36 Sain Dzemail – What’s your vision?

Enjoy this truly gripping conversation with Sain Dzemail - youth worker, counsellor, mentor, and speaker. Sain get very open and vulnerable about how he got into youth work and how his journey lead to the creation of his social enterprise Insain and its visioning work with youth at risk. He also shares his fruit bowl theory relating to friends in your life and his Porsche story. There’s lots to learn not only from a parenting point of view but also the power of visioning and tapping into your own youth.

#35 Jan Rodda – Connecting with Nature

Join psychotherapist and passionate environmentalist Jan Rodda as she explores the relationship between the environment, man’s impact on the environment and the subsequent impact on man’s collective psyche. Jan talks about how we have lost our connection with land and how our suppression and denial of this often emerges as unfounded fear of nature. She also talks about the importance of being in nature and the positive effects of this as well as facing the shame of our impact on nature as the way to truly reconnect.

#34 Marina Kirk – Heart of Channelling

We go beyond the 5-sense physical as Bryn talks with channel Marina Kirk. Marina explains what channelling means to her, her journey with channelling, connecting with more of herself and her guides through her heart. Marina explains how we’re all channels and we all have guides – it’s a matter of being present and open to them. This episode does much to provoke the listener to expand consideration and awareness beyond the physical to interact with intelligence and energy much bigger than ourselves

#33 Steve McGill – Where does our energy come from?

Our access to energy is an everyday given and is at the starting point of the value chain of life, yet how often do you consider where we get our energy from? Bryn talks with Steve McGill, renewable energy expert, about the global energy industry, the makeup of the energy industry in WA, our own energy consumption and taking a look at the current status of renewable energy and future trends. This episode is a great way to get a fully informed view of the current state of play and understand how the transition from fossil fuel to renewable may already be upon us. There’s also a great overview on electric vehicles.

#32 Bill Saunders – A Real perspective on Mental Health Care

Bryn enjoys a very open and frank conversation about mental health care with retired clinical psychologist Bill Saunders. In this episode Bill covers why drugs should be legalised, why drugs aren’t legalised because of a moral argument rather than scientific reasoning, why most drugs aren’t addictive to the majority of users, why funding the police to control drugs use doesn’t work, underlying reasons why addiction does occur and its links to underlying childhood trauma and why this should be the target of proactive rehabilitation, the difference between psychiatry and psychology, why psychiatric meds don’t actually work, why mother-baby bond is so important to future success and resilience, the importance of psychotherapy. Plus a lot lot more on the state of mental health provision.