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  • #27 Lessons from the Holocaust for Today with Andrew Steiner
    Dec 21 2025

    Andrew Steiner was a young Jewish boy during World War II, living in Hungary. He recounts memories of living through the Holocaust, where 11 close family members and countless friends were amongst 6 million murdered by the Nazis.

    Andrew discusses the relevance of those events to the perilous times we are facing today in world history. We all have an extraordinary and innate power of one within us. Andrew himself was saved as a child by someone who harnessed that power. We must not remain silent when harm is going on around us. Indifference always helps the perpetrators.

    As a well-known artist, Andrew talks about the importance of art and the historical importance of recording events.

    Since 1990, Andrew has provided education about the Holocaust to secondary and tertiary students. The Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Andrew Steiner Education Centre, launched in 2020, is the culmination of Andrew’s life work towards a fairer, more just, and compassionate world.

    Show notes:

    You can find out more about the Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Andrew Steiner Education Centre and make a donation to this important work here:

    https://Tinyurl.com/AHMBrochure

    https://ahmsec.org.au/profile/andrew-steiner-oam/

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    54 min
  • #26 Puzzle Power: How Jigsaws Boost Wellbeing with D'Arne Healy
    Oct 2 2025

    D'Arne Healy shares surprisingly broad wellbeing benefits of jigsaw puzzles. Whether on your own or with others, puzzling can help with loneliness, conquering addiction, giving your brain a break and improving focus, just to name a few.

    D'Arne has created inclusive communities, both as Founder of the Australian Jigsaw Puzzle Association and more recently the Inter-School Puzzle Club. D'Arne shares some of the personal puzzling stories she has witnessed, spanning all ages of jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts.

    You'll be finding and starting a puzzle once you listen to this episode and be better for it.

    Show Notes

    How to contact D'Arne

    interschoolpuzzleclub.com

    LinkedIn: @d'arnehealy

    Instagram: @interschoolpuzzleclub, @australianjigsawpuzzle

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    39 min
  • #25 Rewiring your Brain to Change Your Life with Dr Vish Ramakonar
    Aug 21 2025

    Dr. Vish Ramakonar returns to the DDs to share the life altering change management work she learnt from Joe Dispenza, based on neuroscience. The program, "Change your mind, create new results" focuses on giving people strategies and tools to increase their resilience to navigate through challenging situations, create desirable change and ultimately, change their life.

    Dr. Vish discusses how we become victims to our environment, how stress can be addictive and how most of our beliefs and behaviours are based on subconscious programming. We can all rewire our brains to create a brighter blueprint of our future selves and who we want to become, rather than acting based on our patterns of the past. Dr. Vish also demonstrates one of the program's tools, a heart focused breathing exercise.

    Show Notes

    Books Vish recommends:

    • Becoming Supernatural – Dr Joe Dispenza
    • Breaking the habit of being yourself – Dr Joe Dispenza

    How to contact Vish

    www.drvishramakonar.com

    LinkedIn: @drvishramakonar

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    40 min
  • #24 Neuroscience, self-coaching and resilience with Tammy Tansley
    Jul 23 2025

    Co-founder of neuro nudges, Tammy Tansley discusses how her small business started. Neuro nudges are packs of 70 self-coaching cards in 7 categories that can help you to build resilience, regulate your emotions, improve your habits and become more self-aware. Each card asks a coaching question, gives you a behavioural nudge and provides background into the related neuroscience.

    Tools such as giving yourself space and time, relishing small moments of joy and the power of hope are all messages covered in this episode.

    Shownotes

    www.tammytansley.com.au

    www.neuronudges.com

    Discount code for listeners of the Double Ds: DDTEN

    Katherine's distillery in Tasmania: https://justbdistillery.com.au

    Andrew Hubermann - Huberman Lab Podcast

    www.hubermanlab.com

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    36 min
  • #23 From a personal mental crisis to creating psychological safety at work with Alastair Milne
    Jun 25 2025

    Alastair Milne opens up about his mental crisis five years ago – a journey that led him to spend three weeks in psychiatric care in hospital. Alastair shares how he recovered slowly and eventually started his consultancy, Curam Consulting, where he focuses on developing fearless teams and improving psychological safety in the workplace.

    Alastair discusses tools and strategies that help him today stay mentally well. He also outlines the steps he would undertake to start the healing process with a team that had been ruled by fear.

    Show notes

    If you need help or know someone who does:

    Call Lifeline: 131114 in Australia

    Please seek support from a medical professional or other person

    Home | curam consulting

    Awe by Dacher Keltner - Penguin Books Australia

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    52 min
  • #22 What Happened Next? Connection & Community with the Double Ds Previous Guests
    May 29 2025

    Join Double Ds Donna and Di for Part 2 of their first ever live podcast, as previous podcast guests answer the question, "What happened Next?" Hear from previous guests Susan Saleeba (#11), Tara Jeisman (#7), Nio Correa (#5), Steve Cox (#1) and hear about what happened following Wayne Sankey's episode (#8) about surviving the Boxing Day Tsunami. Themes include the power of sharing your story, self-reflecting, connection and community.

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    Public Speaking | Donna's Balcony Views

    Hybrid Warehouse

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    Darren's podcast is "Some Elbow Room"

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    25 min
  • #21 From Dream to Reality Starting our Podcast with the Double Ds Live Donna West and Di Murray
    May 21 2025

    Join the Double Ds, Donna West and Di Murray, as they do their first ever live podcast in front of an audience, to celebrate the first anniversary of the podcast.

    Hybrid Warehouse owner Darren Payne interviews the Double Ds about their first year and how they turned a dream into reality and started a podcast. Their reflections and lessons to date, how they find and prepare guests, the power of podcasting and sharing stories of courage and resilience, communities and connections formed and how their guests have inspired them in their own journeys.

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    Hybrid Warehouse

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    Darren's podcast is "Some Elbow Room"

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    29 min
  • #20 Take Time to Talk for Mental Wellness with Lachlan O'Donoghue
    Mar 26 2025

    Lachlan (Lockie) O'Donoghue, co-founder of 20Talk, a not-for-profit focusing on improving the mental wellness of young people, discusses the origins of 20Talk, following the suicides of two close friends in their early 20's.

    Lockie gives tips on how to approach a conversation with someone who may be struggling, what to do if you aren't coping with life and a methodology for creating a personal self-care action plan to build your wellness and resilience.

    Lockie also explains the charity event 20Hours and how disconnecting from devices for 20 hours straight is a transformative experience for participants.

    Show notes

    www.20talk.com.au

    Wheel of life workshops

    https://events.humanitix.com/mental-health-maintenance-training

    Wheel of life download

    Donna's Balcony Views - Build Resilience, Improve Wellbeing

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    48 min