Young Blood - Men’s Mental Health
86 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingYoung Blood - Men’s Mental Health is an award-winning podcast on a mission to make the mental health of young men a top priority…
Did you know suicide is the #1 killer of people aged 15-44 and accounts for three times as many deaths in men as it does women?
A major factor influencing these shocking statistics is men being made to feel isolated and like no one understands them…
That’s why we’ve created a platform for young men from all walks of life to share their stories and open up about what they really go through, because it’s shows we’re not alone.
We‘re inspiring men to take pride in their personal journeys, speak up and stand together in breaking the stigma that men don‘t talk…and we want you to join us!
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Episodes
News Not Noise with The Daily Aus
December 01, 2021 20:52 - 42 minutes - 39.7 MBSam Koslowski is co-founder of The Daily Aus, Australia’s leading social-first news service, delivering news geared towards a younger audience with an emphasis on positivity. Sam broke away from the the path he was on, feeling like he was playing a role that wasn’t right for him, working as a corporate lawyer and hating it. As someone with his own history of anxiety, the constant negativity and fear mongering of mainstream news was particularly noticeable to Sam and he realised those same f...
Porn to Purpose with Matt Sinkovitz
November 23, 2021 09:35 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBFor decades, Matt Sinkovitz had a porn addiction that hung over his life like a dark cloud, until he found the tools and the discipline to master his compulsion. Now Matt’s on a mission to help men everywhere end their damaging relationship with porn and get their lives back. He’s adopted Buddhism and uses meditation, mindfulness and purpose to help men break free of the habits that hold us back. He’s the host of the making peace with porn podcast and run’s a men’s support group of the s...
This Is The Revolution with Dr Zac Seidler
November 12, 2021 21:34 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBDr Zac Seidler is a psychologist, a leading mental health expert and the Director of Mental Health Training at Movember. Zac has dedicated his career to better understanding men’s mental health and building programs to reshape how clinicians approach working with men in distress. Zac and Movember’s goal is to reduce the male suicide rate by 25% by 2030. How we create a world with less suicide is highly complex - and it’s going to take research, preventative health strategies, crisis suppor...
Young Blood Philosophy - Don‘t Wait To Be Happy
November 05, 2021 05:24 - 1 minute - 965 KB"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little." - Epicurus
Brothers N Books with Dylan Conway
October 31, 2021 21:00 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBDylan Conway is the creator of 'Brothers N Books', an Instagram community based on sharing lived experience stories that’s on a mission to make reading cool. Dylan got hooked on books while he was stuck in hospital for over a year recovering from an unlikely condition. Reading gave Dylan something constructive to when he desperately needed it. Unable to work on his body like he always had, he levelled up his mental fitness instead and it’s changed his life. Brothers N Books invites followers...
Young Blood Philosophy - Our Days Are Few
October 25, 2021 02:53 - 51 seconds - 823 KB"We are always complaining that our days are few and acting as if there would be no end of them." - Seneca
Drugs, Guns and Redemption with Arman Vestad
October 24, 2021 01:30 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBArman Vestad is Young Blood’s first international guest, hailing all the way from Norway. He’s been a drug addict, a dealer and all round criminal who was in the game for a decade till he did time in prison after being caught supplying guns used in a murder… Arman was lost and hopeless till someone showed faith in him and gave him a chance to apply the skills he’d developed in the underworld to business. Since those dark days, Arman’s gone on to become a family man, a public speaker and...
Young Blood Philosophy - What You Give Your Attention To
October 17, 2021 20:00 - 1 minute - 956 KB"You become what you give your attention to" - Epictetus
Young Blood Philosophy - The Gem
October 11, 2021 05:08 - 51 seconds - 827 KBWeekly Wisdom "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Confucius
What To Do When You Don‘t Belong with Jahin Tanvir
October 10, 2021 00:13 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBHappy World Mental Health Day! This is a story for anyone who’s ever felt like a fish out of water with nowhere to go and no one to talk to... Jahin Tanvir is just starting his twenties and he’s already a multi award winning youth advocate, policy advisor and keynote speaker - a man living out his passion, giving a voice to those who deserve to be heard. A first generation migrant who came to Australia from Bangladesh in the early 2000s, Jahin was in his younger days, one of the o...
Sex, Porn and the Quest for Intimacy with Sexologist, Jordan Hackett
October 01, 2021 08:11 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBJordan Hackett is a Sexologist and Men's Sex Coach who specialises in helping men build intimacy and connection with themselves and their partners. Like many of us growing up; Jordan didn't know the first thing about how to communicate with girls and felt like he was missing out on a part of life he had a deep need to experience. After discovering porn as an outlet for his frustrations before his teenage years began, Jordan soon developed a reliance and found himself further away from the...
Beating Blood Cancer with Survivor, Michael Bowen
September 21, 2021 21:24 - 53 minutes - 49.6 MBToday is World CML (chronic myeloid leukaemia) Day. CML is a rare form of blood cancer that just over 300 Australians are diagnosed with each year. In 2019, Michael Bowen was one of them... He was on his way to work one day when he got an urgent call to come into the emergency department. Minutes later his life changed in an instant when he was suddenly hit with the diagnosis. The man of the house, supporting a young family, Michael's first thoughts were of his baby daughter, confro...
Ice, Heroin, Hell and Back with Jack Nagle
September 04, 2021 07:33 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBJack Nagle was a nice, middle class kid from a supportive, loving family. Not the background befitting the stereotype of the kind of people who destroy their lives on drugs…but that didn’t matter. Jack ended his teens and started his twenties as the most hardcore drug addict imaginable and the fact he’s lived to tell the tale defies all probability. Shooting up ice and heroin and swallowing fists full of prescription pills, he was brought back to life by paramedics after dealers le...
The Resilience Shield with Ex Special Forces Doctor Dan Pronk
August 23, 2021 12:01 - 58 minutes - 54 MBDan Pronk served 4 tours of Afghanistan as a Special Operations doctor, spending many days saving and losing fellow soldiers through more than 100 combat missions. Dan, his brother Ben and veteran, Tim Curtis, have just released their book, ‘The Resilience Shield’ - A mix of enthralling stories and practical instructions breaking down methods we can all use to build genuine resilience. Dan thrived in the most extreme high stress environments and found the rampant intensity of battle so ent...
Move Your Mind with Nick Bracks
August 10, 2021 19:53 - 59 minutes - 55.3 MBNick Bracks just published his first book 'Move Your Mind' - it's both his personal story of struggling with mental health throughout his life and a guide on how we can better equip ourselves to handle the challenges inevitably coming our way, all based on countless conversations with experts, advocates and every day people he's had over the past decade. The son of the former Premier of Victoria, Nick always put a lot of pressure on himself to be exceptional but unfortunately that went ...
Whatever It Takes with MMA Pro Shane Mitchell
July 10, 2021 23:16 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBShane Mitchell is one of Australia's most dangerous men in the octagon with a 12 and 4 professional Mixed Martial Arts record. In the cage he's known for his savage knockout power...not what anyone expected from a shy kid growing up without much confidence in Adelaide's northern suburbs... Shane's been a pro fighter since 2013 and now touching 30, he's still grinding to realise his dream of making it to the UFC. He's had to overcome more than his fair share of adversity on the hard...
Standing Proud for LGBTIQ with Matt Morris
June 26, 2021 00:34 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBMatt Morris is the chair of the South Australian Rainbow Advocacy Alliance, working for the rights of the LGBTIQ community. Matt realised he was bisexual/pansexual in his teens, but it took him years to work up the courage to come out. Fortunately his sexuality was accepted by his friends and family but that hasn’t been the case for others he knows. Matt’s always felt called to help those who really need it, he’s worked the phones for Lifeline in suicide prevention, advocated for...
Gamble (Ir)responsibly with Luke McLean
June 05, 2021 01:19 - 52 minutes - 48 MBWhen it comes to Aussie culture, punting has traditionally been right up there with having a cutla cold ones, watching the footy and chucking snags on the barby... In fact, 39% of Aussies gamble on a regular basis and Australia leads the world in gambling losses per capita, totaling around $25 billion per year. The pokies do the most damage overall, but in recent years the percentage of young men betting on sports and horse racing has also been increasing at an exponential rate. One of them...
The War Inside with Nathan Bolton
May 24, 2021 08:39 - 1 hour - 95.7 MBNathan Bolton is a former soldier who served two tours of Afghanistan as a Special Operations Engineer in the Australian Special Forces. His primary objective was to find and clear improvised explosive devices planted across the battlefield by the enemy and it led to him to coming within literally an inch of death. Surviving such horror caused Nathan significant trauma, but he didn't know it at the time. Having never learned to process his emotions, he'd instead been conditioned to bottle ...
To Lose A Brother with Mitch McPherson
May 11, 2021 00:48 - 45 minutes - 63.2 MBMitch McPherson lost his younger brother to suicide in 2013 and living through that tragedy was a major turning point that would come to define his future career. Mitch was a glazier by trade, but for the past 7 years he's been touring the country, sharing his lived experience story with thousands of people at hundreds of events, teaching everyone how to spot the warning signs when someone's at risk of suicide and inspiring organisations to change the way they think about mental health. Mi...
Beyond The Game with Dyl Buckley
April 21, 2021 03:07 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBDylan Buckley is a former AFL player who's life has gone down a path he never imagined... Since his school days, Dyl believed he was destined to play professional footy and that belief turned into a reality when he was swept into the league as a teenager. With his self worth totally wrapped up in his on-field performance, he found himself struggling to keep it together when he wasn't playing up to his standards and didn't know who he was beyond the game. Eventually he was de-listed by Carl...
Childhood Trauma Is No Joke with The Beautiful Bogan
April 10, 2021 09:04 - 43 minutes - 40 MBMarc Ryan is 'The Beautiful Bogan' and he’s not your typical standup comedian... He blends light hearted laughs with mental health advocacy - using his gigs as a platform to show people they’re not alone in the struggle. In between jokes, Marc shares the story of the abuse he suffered at the hands of a family member as a teenager and speaks openly about the trauma it caused him - damage he still deals with every day. Marc is a brave man who’s living for his kids and for his mission to let...
Boys to Men with Hunter Johnson
March 25, 2021 20:33 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBBack in 2014 Hunter Johnson and a mate created The Man Cave, a program that supports adolescent boys on their journey to becoming men. It was in response to the toxic culture they had all been exposed to over the years and wanting to change things for future generations. Since it started, the man cave has grown to reach more than twenty thousand boys across Australia and is now established as a driving force, ushering in a new era of positive masculinity. There’s no doubt the seeds being ...
Escaping The Jaws of Death with Surfer Chris Blowes
March 06, 2021 08:15 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBChris Blowes is one of the very few people on earth to literally escape the jaws of death... In 2015 Chris was surfing at Fishery Bay in Port Lincoln, South Australia when he came face to face with every surfers worst nightmare - a great white shark Surviving the horrific attack defied near impossible odds that that to this day Chris still can’t fully comprehend. The ordeal deeply affected his mates, his family and everyone who helped save his life that day - not to mention the impact on ...
We're All Brothers with SA Brothers
February 26, 2021 06:11 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBJohn Denholm is the founder of South Australia's huge volunteer run men's support network 'SA Brothers'. John started the group back in 2017 on the back of going through his own mental health struggles and coming to the realisation that the men around him needed a platform to support each other. He never intended for it to be a big deal, but with so much demand, the network quickly ballooned out to include more than 25,000 active members. John now carries the massive workload of keeping S...
Cracking Jokes Through Cancer with Comedian Michael Shafar
February 15, 2021 03:43 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBMichael Shafar is a glass half full kind of guy who's such a good comedian, he's been able to make his own harrowing battle with cancer funny. In 2017, Michael was busy making his mark as a stand up comic, when he made the costly decision to ignore one of his testicles growing to more than double the size of the other. By the time he went to the doctor, the testicular cancer had already spread throughout his body and he was only given a 50% chance of making it. But he was determined to...
The Business From A Broken Bottle with Hesh Fernando
February 08, 2021 09:21 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBHesh Fernando is the founder of Melbourne start-up 'The Model Man' - a business dedicated to improving the lives of businessmen and doing something about the corporate world's traditional lack of regard for men's mental health. Hesh runs 'The Model Man' alongside his dad; and interestingly, the difficult relationship he had with his father throughout his young life has played a big role in bringing them together on this journey now. As a kid, Hesh was full of rage brought on by experiencing...
Street Kid Diaries with Nathan Lymn
January 23, 2021 10:46 - 59 minutes - 55 MBIf you heard Nathan Lymn's story from someone else, you'd be forgiven for thinking he's making it up... His life so far has been such a random series of events that it's hard to imagine all this stuff could happen to one person - but it's all true. Nathan was a self described 'street kid' living a chaotic life in and out of crisis housing through teenagehood, due to his parents mental illness leaving them unable to care for him. He was faced with the threat of extreme physical violence ...
A Rough Life and Reasons To Be Here with Ben Stamatovich
January 12, 2021 00:12 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBBen Stamatovich is a man who's lived the kind of life many wouldn't survive... Growing up without either of his birth parents, Ben was sleeping rough on the streets from the age of 13 and stealing just to eat and stay warm, soon finding himself trapped in a cycle of homelessness that would dominate his young life. His resourcefulness, the will to survive and the hope that things would one day get better is all that kept him alive when the pressure of life brought him to his knees time and...
All Good Bro? with The Shaka Project's Sean Weir
January 04, 2021 10:03 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBSean Weir is the man behind The Shaka Project, a movement that shares Young Blood’s mission to ignite the tough conversations around men’s mental health. It’s based on a clothing line stamped with the shaka hand gesture, symbolising the wearers willingness to be open about their own mental health and be there for their mates. Sean started The Shaka Project thinking it’d just be for his home town, but the power of the project resonated so much, its quickly spread interstate and overseas. ...
All Good Bro? with The Shaka Project's Sean Weir
January 04, 2021 09:33 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBSean Weir is the man behind The Shaka Project, a movement that shares Young Blood’s mission to ignite the tough conversations around men’s mental health. It’s based on a clothing line stamped with the shaka hand gesture, symbolising the wearers willingness to be open about their own mental health and be there for their mates. Sean started The Shaka Project thinking it’d just be for his home town, but the power of the project resonated so much, its quickly spread interstate and overseas. ...
Beauty From Horror with Singer-Songwriter Ilan Kidron
December 21, 2020 23:54 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBIlan Kidron is an ARIA award winning singer-songwriter responsible for writing the hit anthems for aussie dance music pioneers, the Potbelleez and plenty of tracks for big name artists. Ilan has lived the dream, enjoying an action packed life on the road for many years that’s brought him great success. But he’s also had to endure immeasurable pain... Ilan’s wife took her own life in 2017, leaving he and his two children to pick up the pieces. Coping with such trauma while being a father h...
Thinking Outside The Pod On Homelessness with Justin Westhoff & Scott Rogash
December 07, 2020 23:54 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBJustin Westhoff is a former AFL star, but that’s not why he's on the podcast... For the past 5 years Westy and his business partner Scott Rogash have been working on a revolutionary concept that could completely change the lives of many people experiencing homelessness. They’re building compact, minimalist homes known as pods that can be placed together in vacant blocks of land to form micro-communities. But it goes much further than accommodation - these communities will be fully sustain...
I'm Still Here with Josh Moorhouse
November 21, 2020 03:56 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MB"The moment I attempted to take my life, I felt instant regret..." Josh Moorhouse is a social innovator, a speaker and a survivor; who's doing everything he can to get the most out of life - so it comes as a shock that just a few years ago he thought he wanted to die... Growing up, Josh always struggled with a deep-seeded feeling that he wasn't good enough - a lack of self worth that grew from persistent bullying. The only place he found solace was at the piano, where he focused all his t...
It Takes A Village with The Banksia Project
November 03, 2020 23:25 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBJack Jones is Program Director at The Banksia Project, a free men’s mental health service built on training up every day blokes to help the men in their local communities. Jack’s come a long way in a short time...In his early twenties, he was in crisis, suffering from clinical depression that drove him to be suicidal. Growing up he relied on his sporting prowess for the validation and associated his identity with being that person who was always there to help others - the problem was he di...
A Recipe For Disaster with Ex AFL Veteran Heath Black
October 21, 2020 23:32 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBHeath Black is a former AFL veteran who spent 12 years as a midfielder for the Dockers and the Saints. On paper it sounds like every player’s dream, but the reality is he struggled greatly with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, anxiety and ADHD, conditions he didn’t know he had until he was 30. Through the second half of his career, Heath suffered through constant anxiety attacks and lost his love for playing the game. Off the field his life unraveled as his mental illness intensified, going untr...
Stripping Away The Facade - The Life Of Male Entertainers with Kelvin Shone and Dan McDonald
October 13, 2020 03:50 - 1 hour - 74 MBKelvin Shone and Dan McDonald may be better known by their stripper names Jock Hardy and Taylor Mac, but there's a lot more to these guys than meets the eye. They've have been in the adult entertainment industry for 15 years combined and as you can imagine it’s been wild. But all that action comes at a cost... This line of work goes hand in hand with being objectified, degraded and pressured to perform in more ways than one. There’s a lot going on under the surface in this world and as ...
The Disability No One Sees with Taylor Harvey
October 05, 2020 23:32 - 43 minutes - 40 MBAt 8 years old Taylor Harvey was diagnosed with Transverse Myleitis, a rare neurological disease, that initially paralysed one of his legs. Doctors said there was a chance it could’ve left him quadriplegic, but through rehab he regained partial function in the damaged leg and eventually found himself back on the sports field - competing against the able bodied without even realising he had a disability. Through his teenage years, Taylor was frustrated by his lack of athletic progress and a...
Days In The Dark and All The Things To Be Grateful For with Krunk
September 15, 2020 11:34 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MB"I'd be in my room and it'd be blacked out. I didn't want to talk to anyone. I'd miss birthdays, I'd miss events...I just didn't want to see anyone, I didn't want to talk to anyone and I had to ask myself why am I feeling like this? I think I just had to face every single insecurity, every single fear about myself that I'd been putting off..." These aren't the words you might expect to hear from Elia Mitani aka Krunk, a DJ and producer known for big time bangers and bringing a whole lot of g...
The Conversation That Saved A Convicted Ex-cop with Matt Newlands
September 07, 2020 07:18 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBMatt Newlands is a former police officer turned ‘R U OK? Day’ ambassador and mental health advocate. During his decade in the force, Matt faced pain, distress and violence on a daily basis as he sought to protect the community. The job revealed an insight into the ugly side of humanity that only those who work in the emergency services can’t fully comprehend. It also led him to the worst day of his life and the unthinkable moment that will never leave him - being called to a suicide and fin...
What It Takes To Stop Gambling Your Life Away with Glenn Draper
August 25, 2020 08:06 - 1 hour - 60.6 MB“It’s all about the art of separation, just deviate away from those who drain your inspiration...” Those are lyrics Glenn Draper wrote for a friend who was trying to get off drugs. Years later he realised he was writing it to himself. These days Glenn’s a dedicated family man who won’t touch a drink - a total 180 from the wildly destructive life he once lived. Glenn is a recovering drug and gambling addict who used to pride himself on pushing the limits of excess. His relationship with gam...
My Life with Cystic Fibrosis with Flynn Gill
August 16, 2020 10:01 - 26 minutes - 24.9 MB17 year old Flynn Gill is one of less than 4,000 Australians living with cystic fibrosis - a genetic disorder that severely impacts the lungs and digestive system. Flynn was diagnosed with CF just a few weeks after birth and then with CF related diabetes (CFRD) at age 12. It’s a limitation that’s made his life complicated and often uncomfortable. COVID-19 has made things even tougher for Flynn, forcing him out of school and into isolation with the threat heightened for those with CF. Flyn...
Down Not Out with the 'Blokeologist'
August 06, 2020 11:55 - 48 minutes - 66 MBExercise physiologist and former rugby league player Joshua Tree was bullied, beaten and belittled throughout his young life and found himself in desperate need of health support that wasn't readily available. He managed to survive his darkest days and it inspired him to be that support for others... Now he's the ‘Blokeologist’ and if there’s one thing he knows, it’s blokes. Young Blood is all about looking after yourself - and when we talk about taking care of our health, that has to incl...
The Narrative Behind Youth Detention with Youth Justice Mentor Jye Cardona
July 23, 2020 02:16 - 55 minutes - 101 MBYouth detention is institutionalising young men from an early age - feeding a cycle of incarceration that repeats over generations. Although only around 5% of Australians aged 10-17 are indigenous, they account for around 50% of those being kept in youth detention nationwide - and in the Northern Territory it’s close to 100%... Jye Cardona grew up being conditioned to hate authority and watched his friends go in and out of the youth justice system. Now he works in detention centres runnin...
The Narrative Behind Youth Detention
July 23, 2020 01:46 - 55 minutes - 101 MBYouth detention is institutionalising young men from an early age - feeding a cycle of incarceration that repeats over generations. Although only around 5% of Australians aged 10-17 are indigenous, they account for around 50% of those being kept in youth detention nationwide - and in the Northern Territory it’s close to 100%... Jye Cardona grew up being conditioned to hate authority and watched his friends go in and out of the youth justice system. Now he works in detention centres runnin...
Changing The Game / Sexuality In Sport with Dave Oliver
July 14, 2020 22:24 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBDave Oliver has always lived and breathed rugby, a game known as one of the roughest and most hyper masculine on earth. He’s also gay and from the time he was a teenager until his early thirties, he hid his sexuality from everyone - horrified that he’d be found out and ridiculed by the community that means everything to him. Dave describes the burden he carried for the best part of two decades as 'toxic shame' - a form of self loathing that drove him to abuse drugs and self destruct. Dave’s...
Changing the Game - Sexuality In Sport with Dave Oliver
July 13, 2020 08:39 - 42 minutes - 78.3 MBDave Oliver has always lived and breathed rugby, a game known as one of the roughest and most hyper masculine on earth. He’s also gay and from the time he was a teenager until his early thirties, he hid his sexuality from everyone - horrified that he’d be found out and ridiculed by the community that means everything to him. Dave describes the burden he carried for the best part of two decades as 'toxic shame' - a form of self loathing that drove him to abuse drugs and self destruct. Dave’s...
Taking The Next Step with Simon Tyler and RIchie Welch
June 16, 2020 09:09 - 59 minutes - 82.4 MBIt's Men’s Health Week! And we’re shining a light on a male dominated industry suffering from higher than average rates of suicide. Men in construction have a history of struggling particularly badly with managing their mental health and as graduate psychologist and former construction worker Simon Tyler says, that’s due in part to the stereotypical hyper masculine culture that exists on work sites - now the focus of his PhD. Simon’s good mate Richie Welch has been in the construction gam...
The Power In Cultural Identity with Multicultural Mentor Alipate Carlile
June 12, 2020 23:28 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBHalf Fijian and half Australian, Alipate 'Bobby' Carlile grew up in Victoria confused about where he fit in... With no obvious cultural group to belong to, he felt like he was missing something; and he went looking for it in footy. From the moment he stepped on the field he started to gain the identity he longed for. As part of the team, it didn't matter what his background was, it only mattered that he could play the game... and Bobby proved himself a special talent, making it all the w...
Depression Doesn't Need A Reason with Luke Spajic
May 30, 2020 04:10 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBThere's a misconception that people only get depression when something terrible happens to them... But for some depression slowly takes hold for no obvious reason at all. What would you do if all the experiences and people that have always brought you joy suddenly didn't anymore? How would your view of yourself start to change if every inconvenience that never used to bother you started to cause overpowering frustration? And how would you find the strength to carry on if every minute of ...