Latest Fearnley Podcast Episodes
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Movember
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - November 18, 2020 01:54 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhen I was racing, every year I would treat myself to a cut-throat shave at a New York City barber on the 1st of Movember. Not for the 0.1 of a second aerodynamic advantage in the marathon two days later, but to kick-start my annual mo growth, helping to raise awareness and sometimes funds, for ...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Drew Duggan
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - November 11, 2020 05:29 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIt's Movember, a cause close to my heart and one I've supported for more than a decade. This week I get to talk with a Mo Bro and good mate, Drew Duggan, who has battled one of the key areas Movember supports - testicular cancer.
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Alicia Quirk
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - November 04, 2020 03:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsA sporting career is finite but there's life either side to consider for all athletes. For elite sportswomen wanting to start a family, it's even more complex. For an Olympian in a contact sport, next level. Welcome to the life of 2016 Rio Olympic gold medallist in women's rugby 7s, Alicia Quirk.
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: John Hartigan
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - October 28, 2020 02:46 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsI recently had former Managing Director of the ABC on the pod where we spoke about the current state of Australian media. This episode was an opportunity to hear from someone who has sat on the other side of the fence, John Hartigan, former Chair and CEO of News Limited. John has sat in many ...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Sister Diana Santleben
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - October 21, 2020 05:36 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsSometimes we need a voice to fight for a cause when we are silenced. Sister Diana Santleben has been that voice, a very loud one at that, for hundreds of refugees and other Australians throughout her life. A wonderful member of my community in Newcastle, Sister Di is a cracking Aussie.
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Mark Scott
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - October 14, 2020 02:51 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsMark Scott is one of Australia's best known public servants. As the managing director of the ABC for 10 years he oversaw the introduction of Australia's first 24 hour news channel and a big shift towards digital delivery of content. As the current secretary of the NSW Department of Education he ...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Kirk Pengilly
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - October 07, 2020 08:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe've all moved and grooved to the sounds of this week's guest, Kirk Pengilly of INXS. Kirk and I have crossed paths a few times over the years and it was nice to sit down and deep dive into his life as an 80s rock god. But I think Kirk is best described by my dad "he'd fit in at the Carcoar pu...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Craig Hamilton
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - September 30, 2020 00:34 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsCraig Hamilton has had a successful and varied career. He has worked as an underground coal miner, radio sports commentator and is a mental health advocate, speaker and author. As a Beyond Blue Ambassador, Craig provides an insight into what it is like to experience a mental health condition and...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Lawrie McKinna
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - September 23, 2020 05:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsLawrie McKinna has worn many hats and shirts! He arrived in Australia from Scotland in the 80s as a professional footballer, before moving into coaching and management in the national league and in China, with a sidestep into local government in between. Now in football administration as CEO of ...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Adam Spencer
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - September 09, 2020 04:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsVictories shared are the sweetest and Adam Spencer helped me share mine with thousands. I fondly remember shooting down Fifth Avenue in a chauffeured car after winning the New York Marathon, alone but thanks to Adam and ABC radio, talking to a city of millions back home. Author, presenter, mathe...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Kamalle Dabboussy
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - August 26, 2020 05:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThere are always challenges as a parent. For me, it can be that tough night, awake at 4 in the morning, seemingly tortured through lack of sleep, feeling like it will never end. When I first met Kamalle Dabboussy I was having one of those nights. Kamalle's pain though, is on a different level wi...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Georgie Gardner
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - August 19, 2020 06:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsGeorgie Gardner is a face and name known to most Australians. She's been in our living rooms for more than 25 years and is one of few news presenters and journalists to work across our three main commercial television stations. In 2019, she was part of the first all-woman main presenter duos on ...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Jordan O'Reilly
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - August 06, 2020 04:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJordan O'Reilly is the co-founder and CEO of Hireup, an online platform connecting Australians with disability with support workers who fit their needs and share their interests. Last year Hireup was named Google.org Impact Challenge winner & named Australia's 2017 fastest growing tech company...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Peter Fox
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - July 29, 2020 09:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsPeter Fox gave one of the most noteworthy interviews on Australian television in 2012. His description of systematic abuse and coverup of sexual crime against children, which he had witnessed as a police officer, was the tipping point in forcing the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses ...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Wil Anderson
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - July 22, 2020 08:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWil Anderson is an Australian comedian, writer, presenter, and podcaster. Wil's rise to prominence started in 2000 when he co-hosted the triple j breakfast radio show with Adam Spencer. Between 2001 and 2006, Wil hosted the comedy talk-show The Glass House & is currently the executive producer a...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Liesl Tesch
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - July 08, 2020 04:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsLiesl Tesch is one of those Australians who keeps challenging herself and coming out on top. School teacher, Paralympic medalist in two sports, world champion, Sydney to Hobart sailor, Member of Parliament, the list is long! I've known Liesl for 20 years and it was lovely to have a chat and refl...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Justin Hales
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - July 01, 2020 06:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJustin Hales wanted to revisit his childhood love of caravanning. When searching for the perfect van to hire, he couldn’t help but notice all of the un-used caravans and campers sitting on driveways around his neighbourhood. A stackload of entrepreneurial spirit, a passion for making camping hol...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Nat Heath
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - June 24, 2020 08:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNat Heath is a graduate of the Indigenous Marathon Project(IMP) and now Board Member of the Indigenous Marathon Foundation (IMF). Working in Indigenous mentoring and education his entire career, we speak about the importance of education and the difference it can make in lives. And we take time...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: David Rickards
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - June 17, 2020 04:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDave Rickards was a co-founder and CEO of Crazy Clints Bargain Stores in Australia from 1979 - 2001. Having sold this business in 2001, he along with his wife Kerry embarked upon a personal journey of giving. In 2010, they set up the DAK Foundation. Now they are one of Australia's most active p...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Cheryl Salisbury
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - April 15, 2020 02:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsCheryl Salisbury may not be a household name but she is a one of the giants of Australian Sport. Cheryl was captain of the Australian female national team, the Matildas. A fierce competitor on the field, Cheryl make her debut in 1994 and went on to play 151 games for the green and gold, a record...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Steve Mooney
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - April 06, 2020 08:30 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe last Tiny Island Podcast I recorded while I was on the road working, was literally recorded while I was on "The Road". Steve Mooney has picked me up and drove me across QLD for the last 3 years. Steve has an infectious energy about him. He's been in the chauffeur game for ten years and is ne...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Chad Carey
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - March 30, 2020 04:27 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsFrom the Amazon jungle to the Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia, Chad Carey along with Business partner Greg Carter have grown a travel business, discussed over a few beers into Chimu Adventures offering adventures across South America & stretching into voyages down to Antartica. We speak whilst cross...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Linda Hughes
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - March 23, 2020 09:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhile COVID19 turns our lives upside down, it's important to stop and learn from people who have learnt to thrive in what others perceive to be turbulence. Today we talk to Linda Hughes about constantly adjusting to what life throws in her direction while balancing the supports and complexity o...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Dr Erika Chapman Burgess
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - March 16, 2020 04:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDr Erika Chapman Burgess has a great Australian story of success, after a childhood which was a little complex. At times it was hectic beyond imagination. Erika was one of five who were all born on the same day. As an Indigenous quintuplet growing up in Glen Innes life was a bit different. But E...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: John Marsden
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - February 24, 2020 03:06 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAs a kid, John Marsden would retreat into books as a way to escape a tough childhood. As a school teacher John was frustrated by the lack of reading and good stories available to his students so took matters into his own hands. And has now written over 40 books. The majority of his books are...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Mark Hughes
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - February 17, 2020 04:17 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDuring winter in Newcastle you would be hard pressed to walk down the street without seeing a Mark Hughes Foundation beanie on a Novocastrian head. The unofficial uniform is a product of the foundation and its founder who played rugby league for Newcastle, NSW and in the English Super League...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Craig Johnston
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - February 10, 2020 02:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIf Craig Johnston's soccer career happens in today's digital age there wouldn't be a kid in Australia who didn't know his name and have the Liverpool 7 on their back. Instead he's a bit of an enigma on our shores but has one hell of a story of making it to the big time against all odds, fallin...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Sophie Roden
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - February 03, 2020 03:10 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsSophie Roden is a humanitarian worker and lawyer. At 17 Sophie would volunteer in rural Zambia, not too many years after she would choose to join the fight against Ebola in Liberia. One of the youngest guest on Tiny Island, Sophie has a great story to tell.
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Adam Goodes
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - January 27, 2020 02:52 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAdam Goodes is one of the true gentleman of Australian sport. His genuine character and desire to make our country better shines through in every action. Adam had a long career as one of the best Australian Rules footballers of his generation, won the Brownlow as best in the game a couple of...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Michael Turner
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - January 20, 2020 02:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhile individual athletes are on their own in the sporting arena, there's still a team behind them. This week I had the chance to sit down with Mick Turner, whose been part of my team through the ups and down for the last 20 years. From his living room in the middle of the night while I race a ...
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