The You Project

#228 Learning by Doing

25 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I love talking with people who have turned their theoretical something into an actual something. Their idea into action. Passion into purpose. Intenti...

#227 The Science of Selling (Why We Buy Stuff)

23 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There’s that (kind of) famous saying that says ‘stop buying things you don’t need, with money you don’t have to impress people who don’t car...

#226 Goal Setting (a free workshop)

21 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of TYP, Craig puts on his coaching hat and shares a 12-step goal setting process that he’s been using with clients (and personally) ...

#225 Fasting, Longevity and Self-Experimentation

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rebel Dietician Vicky Kuriel is back and this time we go deep on the potential benefits of fasting (in all its forms), instinctive eating, social eati...

#224 Beyond the Shame

16 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

OMG, this was such a powerful and interesting conversation with a powerful and interesting woman who has found a way to not only survive, but thrive, ...

#223 Melissa Interviews Craig

14 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It’s about time Melissa got to sit in the big chair and ask some questions, push some buttons, do some probing and steer the TYP ship for an hour or...

#222 Disordered Eating to Eating Disorders

11 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Food.. such a small word, such a huge conversation. We humans are interesting creatures when it comes to our rules, rituals, stories and madness aroun...

#221 The Most Inspiring Woman I Know

09 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jane O’Brien is a special human and I don’t say that lightly. We have been friends and colleagues for years and she is the most inspirational woma...

#220 Use it or Lose It

07 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exercise Physiologist, High Performance Coach and Fitness Educator Russ Jarrett is back and this time, he and Craig talk about the benefits of declutt...

#219 From Inmate to CEO

04 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

TYP favourite Mick Hall is back and this time, he and Craig chat about his fascinating journey out of addiction, dysfunction, mayhem and crime into hi...

#218 Managing the Madness

02 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

At the time of recording this episode (June 2, 2020), Bobby Cappuccio and his wife Aimi were bunkered down in their Los Angeles home in the middle of ...

#217 Herding Cats

31 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ex Richmond (Melbourne, Fremantle) football club(s) CEO Cameron Schwab is back and this time, he and Craig talk about what it takes to succeed and wha...

#216 Unlearning

30 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that a great deal (maybe most) of human learning happens unconsciously and incidentally? Without any actual plan or intention to learn? A...

#215 Surviving the Sh*t Show

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a reason we get so much amazing feedback about Paul Taylor; he’s always interesting, funny, inspirational and periodically, inappropriate....

#214 Toxic Friendships

27 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What’s the deal with ‘friends’ who aren’t actually friendly? People who manipulate, undermine, resent and backstab their alleged friends. How ...

#213 Learning How to Learn

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Richard Huysmans is an academic, pracademic and for the last two months, home-schooling dad. He has spent his life learning how to learn effective...

#212 The Corona Mind

24 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Psychologist Jacqui Louder is back on TYP and she’s talking about some of the mental health challenges and consequences of the pandemic. Jacqui disc...

#211 Self-Awareness and Self-Understanding

23 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What is self-awareness? Why does it matter? How can we improve it? What impact does it have on everything from work, relationships and problem-solving...

#210 Re-Defining Success

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

TYP favourite, Geoff Jowett has reinvented himself over the last few years. The one-time high-flying, drug-taking, ego-driven, money-making entreprene...

#209 Change Your Life Forever (Another Free Workshop)

19 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What’s your life telling you? Are you living your purpose, passion and values or are you treading water in your own personal Groundhog Day? Spinning...

#208 Change Your Body Forever (A Free Workshop)

17 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is essentially a one hour coaching and teaching workshop. It’s not so much a conversation as it is, an exploration into what it takes to be the...

#207 Out of the Chaos and into the Calm

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jen Forster was a goal-setting, box-ticking, high-performer. She developed and owned successful businesses, gained an MBA, ran 100km races, built her ...

#206 Can Science and Spirituality Co-Exist?

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Apart from being the wife of AFL Hall-of-Famer Paul Roos, Tami Roos is a superstar in her own right, with a PhD in Parapsychic Science (it’s a thing...

#205 Stop F*cking Around (The Audio Version)

10 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This brief episode is essentially a coaching session (of sorts), where Craig unpacks the first ten principles (of thirty) from his most popular book. ...

#204 Love Languages, Decluttering & Spice Racks

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

One-time Journalist, TV Presenter and Sportscaster, these days Brad McEwan is immersed in the ‘helping people’ space and he’s great at it. As an...

#203 Learn, Laugh, Sweat

05 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Milton is a ripper. He’s the ex NRL player who went to the US, established a totally Aussie brand (Training Mate) in the middle of LA, started ...

#202 Dr. Cam is Back

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Cam McDonald is back and this episode is seriously fascinating. And valuable. There is so much great information in this chat, you’ll want to li...

#201 The Chick Who Throws a Stick

28 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

68.92 metres (226 feet). That’s how far Kathryn Mitchell threw her javelin to win the 2018 Commonwealth Games Gold medal. Or as I like to call it, f...

#200 Lisa Stephenson

26 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

These days, Lisa Stephenson is a successful Author, Entrepreneur, International Speaker, Corporate Consultant and Media Commentator but ten years ago,...

#199 Ten Steps to Almost Anything...

23 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I step out of my Corona hammock and put on my coaching hat for a brief personal development session to share ten fundamental ideas an...

#198 Bianca Chatfield & Pete Shepherd

21 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of the TYP, the very tall and charming Bianca Chatfield (6’2”), Melissa Cameron (6’0”) and Pete Shepherd (6’7”) sit down ...

#197 The Body Whisperer

19 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ian O’Dwyer is a body-whisperer. Well, that’s what I call him. More typically, he might be called a functional movement specialist but I’ve know...

#196 To Hell and Back

16 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first time I’ve actually cried in a podcast. In part, this is a conversation about despair, abuse, identity, body-image and mental illne...

#195 Keeping up with the Jones's

14 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The ex-drug-taking, rush-chasing, fast-talking, money-spending, self-destructing Geoff Jowett is back and thankfully, these days the manic entrepreneu...

#194 The Calm in the Chaos

12 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Craig and TYP favourite Bobby Cappuccio talk about the psychology, philosophy, sociology, physiology and practicality of self-managin...

#193 Harps Visits The Daily Talk Show

09 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode from the bunker is a conversation I had with Josh and Tommy from TSTD and among other things, we discuss my current technological learnin...

#192 High Performance, Leadership and Team Work

07 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Founder of ‘Leading Teams’, Ray McLean is one of Australia’s most respected, experienced and sought-after Facilitators, Speakers and Coaches in ...

#191 Unconventional Workout Ideas

05 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last fortnight, I’ve been exploring three key questions with people: (1) How do I avoid going crazy? (2) How do I avoid going broke? (3) Ho...

#190 Cameron Schwab: What's Important?

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Former Richmond, Fremantle and Melbourne FC CEO and TYP favourite, Cameron Schwab returns to chat with us about his recent cancer diagnosis and subseq...

#189 Reinventing Your Business / Career

31 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Like many others, Leanne Hamilton is a small business owner who is trying to navigate her new unexpected normal. With a very ‘hands-on’ service (a...

#188 Our New Financial Normal

29 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Not only has our current global challenge impacted us mentally, physically, emotionally and socially but obviously, there’s also been a massive impa...

#187 Paul Taylor: Instalment 4

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Irishman is back and this time he and Harps talk about lessons learned from his military experience, The Stockdale Paradox (it’s a thing), Accep...

#186 And Now Our Gym is Closed

24 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After 50,000 PT sessions, 35 years in the fitness industry, 30 years training athletes and 25 years owning gyms, Craig has a few ideas about optimisin...

#185 Boosting Your Immune System

22 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Podcast favourite Doctor Cam McDonald is back and this time he’s teaching us how boost our immune system, understand what our body is telling us, us...

#184 Staying Awkward with Pete Shepherd

20 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is an episode full of ideas, stories, inspiration, insights and strategies that will resonate with many. Personally, I loved it. I actually forgo...

#183 Navigating a New Normal

18 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

While it could have been a heavy conversation, it turned out to be one of the silliest and funniest chats Melissa and I have ever had. On air or off. ...

#182 Mark from MAFS and Bianca from The BLOCK

15 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I loved this chat. It was a fun episode with great stories, laughs and some genuinely interesting insights from Bianca Chatfield and Mark Scrivens. Am...

#181 Geoff Jowett Returns

12 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

TYP favourite Geoff Jowett is back and this time he and Craig talk about some of their core principles for living a meaningful, authentic and aligned ...

#180 Sam Wood

10 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Wood (Better Homes and Gardens, 28 by Sam Wood, The Wood Shed, The Bachelor) is back and this time he and Craig talk about everything from fitness...

#179 Bog Rolls, Brain Fades and Public Hysteria

08 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a Q and A session; listener questions and my answers, thoughts and ideas. It was a funny, interesting and thoughtful conversation (wit...

#178 Supercharge Your Memory

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tansel Ali is a 4 x Australian Memory Champion most famously known for memorising two Yellow Pages phone books in only 24 days. An international bests...

#177 Is Your DNA Your Destiny?

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Genetics. Epigenetics. Lifestyle. Diet. Sleep. Stress. Environment. Hormones. Relationships. Work. Play. Internal world. External world. Neuroscience....

#176 Troy and Zara Love

01 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Troy and Zara Love are story-tellers, coaches, entertainers, speakers and funny buggers, who have worked in radio, television, theatre and the corpora...

#175 Ayurveda, Consciousness and Ancient Wisdom

27 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Bunn is an interesting, thoughtful, measured and humble teacher. He also has a gift for demystifying, what can be, the mystical and confusing. Go...

#174 Tony Blauer, Know Fear

25 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Blauer has been in the martial art, self-defense, defensive tactics, and combatives industry for over four decades.Tony founded Blauer Tactical S...

#173 Managing Your Mind (good luck with that)

23 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jacqui Louder is one of Australia’s leading Sport Psychologists, a good friend of Craig’s and for a decade or so, was his co-host on ‘The Scienc...

#172 Gifts From Grief

20 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

At 17, Rachel Pope had her whole world thrown into chaos when her father was given weeks to live. He died at 47. Eight years later she tragically lost...

#171 So You Want to be a Speaker?

18 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Professional speaking is something I’m asked about often. How I got started. How I work. How it works. Getting work. Building a profile. What organi...

#170 Travis Bell, The Bucket List Guy

16 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Travis Bell is a globally recognised Speaker, Coach and Thought Leader who encourages, educates and empowers people around the world to live purpose-f...

#169 Fred Schebesta

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

At the ripe old age of 38, Fred Schebesta (creator of comparison website Finder) is on AFR’s Young Rich List with a personal fortune of $193 million...

#168 Fearlessly Failing

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Recently, I was on the Lola Berry Podcast (Fearlessly Failing) and I loved it. Lola has amazing energy, is genuinely curious, asked great questions an...

#167 Challenging the Status Quo

09 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this Episode of TYP, one of our favourites (Geoff Jowett) is back sharing the love, laughs, lessons and inspiration in his unique, blunt and funny-...

#166 How to Optimise Your Workouts

06 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode, I dust off my jockstrap and step temporarily back into Exercise Science mode to chat with Sport Scientist, Educator and Elite Condit...

#165 What Does 'Getting Conscious' Mean?

04 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Ali Walker is the author of ‘Get Conscious: How to Stop Overthinking and Come Alive’, she’s also a social scientist, media presenter, corpora...

#164 This Wasn't My Plan

02 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when life makes our dream a physical impossibility? What do we do? How do we respond? From the age of five, Shaun Spence dreamed of being...

#163 The Mental Health Episode

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I was interviewed by Tristan Simmons from The Mental Health Connection Podcast and we had such a fascinating chat that I decided to s...

#162 Taylor Adams

28 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Craig sits down with Collingwood young gun Taylor Adams and the boys go deep on the intricacies of high-performance (in sport and life...

#161 Rules, Rituals and OCD

26 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Bobby Cappuccio is back and in this episode, he and Craig discuss everything from Bobby’s rituals, rules and general OCD, to building self-belief, r...

#160 Andrew Jobling

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew is an Author, Speaker, Mentor, former AFL player (St.Kilda), Business Consultant, former School Teacher and ex business partner of mine. This c...

#159 Kate Save.. Dietician, Exercise Physiologist, Entrepreneur

21 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As well as creating and growing ‘Be Fit Food’ from idea into an eight million dollar (annual turnover) business in five years and winning Telstra ...

#158 The Hustle and Grind Myth

19 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I knew Geoff Jowett when he was a high-profile, high-flying, multi-millionaire doing all the hustling, media, drugs, booze, sex, spending and distract...

#157 Dr Hannah Macdougall

15 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Apart from being an elite athlete in two sports (swimming and cycling), two-time Paralympian, former world record holder, academic smarty pants, motiv...

#156 Nick Dal Santo

13 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Dal Santo is one of those blokes who was a very good AFL player (322 games, All-Australian, runner up in the Brownlow), is a polished media prese...

#155 My Favourite Whiteboard Lessons

09 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In January 2016, I decided to write one of my daily Facebook messages on my office whiteboard and post a photo of it, instead of my daily ritual of ty...

#154 Why Are We So Dissatisfied?

07 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Cecily Schwab is a Clinical Psychologist, Coach, Business Consultant and wife of one of our TYP Faves, Cameron Schwab. In this episode, Craig and Ceci...

#153 How Dare You Not Be Like Me

05 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As Podcasts go, this is super brief. Nonetheless, in under ten minutes, I manage to riff on confirmation bias, life in the echo chamber, loving people...

#152 The Episode About Everything

02 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I recently joined my adoptive sons on @thedailytalkshow for a nearly-two-hour chat and it’s fair to say we covered plenty of ground including: addic...

#151 5 Questions for Humans

26 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast is Craig reading, reflecting and riffing on the following five questions (from his book). 1. What’s my life telling me? 2. What are my ...

#150 Jules Lund

22 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jules Lund is a gun. In business and in life. You know when you’re keen to meet someone and when you finally connect, they’re even better in perso...

#149 Q&A: Food, Fitness and Function

18 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is a ‘Q and A’ session where Craig answers your ‘Getting in Shape’ (type) questions. He explores mindset, weights, cardio, finding the ri...

#148 Bobby Cappuccio: The Coach's Coach

15 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Bobby Cappuccio grew up in the middle of poverty, abuse, rejection, bullying and dysfunction on a range of levels. He was also given up for adoption, ...

#147 High Performance in Sport and Life

12 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I was recently interviewed by Isobel Ross from the ‘Peak Endurance’ Podcast. Isobel is one of Australia’s best Ultra Endurance Runners and while...

#146 Getting the People Stuff Right (in Business)

11 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is a teensy-weensy poddy (10:50) that I recorded for the good folk from the Business Essentials Program. It came up pretty well, so I thought I’...

#145 Strippers, Pole Dancers and Crooks

08 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kennetta Hutchens left school at year ten, was a stripper at twenty-one, was on Melbourne’s biggest billboard (wearing not much) at the same time, w...

#144 Two Metre Peter Returns

05 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Before the Big Fella and I started recording this episode, I gave him a piece of paper with a bunch of ideas and topics that I thought we might talk a...

#143 Boobs, Bras and Business

03 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For much of her life, Maxine Windram dealt with the mental, emotional, physical and social pain of big boobs (her term, don’t yell at me), embarrass...

#142 Paul Chek: Mindful, Mystical and Magical

01 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This Episode is anything but typical. There hasn’t been a TYP like it and there might not be another for a while. Paul and I explore all things phys...

#141 Paul Taylor

27 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The bloke with more degrees than a thermometer is back in the studio sharing his wit, charm, wisdom, directness and motivation in his unique and engag...

#140 Once Upon a F*ckin' Time

24 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a random mix of nine brief self-contained messages, ideas and stories all with a focus on thinking, doing and creating better. It’s ...

#139 Turning Your Idea, Skill or Passion into a Business

21 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

About twenty years ago, two young blokes flew from Sydney to see Australia’s biggest PT facility in action (mine) and to talk to me about creating t...

#138 16 Hours on a Bus for a Coaching Session

19 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Markezic is a TYP listener and wanna-be Coach, who endured sixteen hours on a bus (to and from Canberra), just to spend an hour asking me some...

#137 The Future of the Fitness Industry

17 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Like me, Ken Baldwin is a Fitness Industry dinosaur but unlike me, he’s still knee deep educating, training and inspiring Fitness Professionals to b...

#136 Sharelle McMahon

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sharelle McMahon is maybe the best athlete I’ve worked with, and that’s saying something. Fierce, gifted, passionate, courageous, well prepared, w...

#135 Lisa Alexander

12 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lisa Alexander is the Coach of one of Australia’s most successful sporting teams; The Diamonds (our National Netball Team). She is a Coach, Teacher,...

#134 Imposter Syndrome

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Speaker, Author and former Police Inspector Paul O’Brien returns to chat about a broad range of subject matter, including Imposter Syndrome, self-do...

#133 Personality Types, Consciousness and Overthinking

05 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Ali Walker is an author, social scientist and media presenter in the fields of sociology and social psychology. In this episode of TYP, Craig and A...

#132 12 F***ing Rules for Success

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A few years ago, I wrote a silly little list in about ten minutes. That list became the most read, commented on, shared, translated and plagiarised th...

#131 Changing Careers

29 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

John Young spent most of the last twenty years doing a job he didn’t really enjoy. At all. A little over a year ago, he decided to step out of the s...

#130 The Guy Who Died for 17 Minutes

27 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Thirteen days before I recorded this chat with the Crab (my training partner, Mark), he died. Well, for seventeen minutes anyway. It happened while we...

#129 Listener Invasion 3

24 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In instalment 3 of our ‘come and chat with Harps’ series, James travels all the way from Queensland for a little coaching, connecting, coercing an...