The Understanding Boys Podcast

Welcome to the Understanding Boys Podcast, a series of conversations exploring what makes a good man. This series is brought to you by Brighton Grammar School, an all-boys school in Melbourne.

Kylie Rogers 04/06/2023

Kylie Rogers Kylie Rogers is one of Australia’s leading commercial and media executives. Her current role is Executive General Manager, Customer and Commercial at the Australian Football League (AFL). Her previous roles include National Commercial Director and National Head of Generate at Network Ten, and Commercial Director and Managing Director at Mamamia, Australia’s largest women’s media company, where she oversaw significant growth and profitability for the organisation in Australia and internationally. In this episode Kylie shares her experience working with purposeful organisations, gender equity in the workplace, and the types of conversations we need to be having with our boys. We hope you enjoy this episode. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/26462556

Maree Crabbe 03/01/2023

Maree Crabbe Film director and producer Maree Crabbe has worked with young people and issues affecting young people for more than 20 years. She has developed and delivered programs that focus on sexual violence prevention and sexual diversity and has contributed to public conversations through interviews on television and radio and articles in online and print media. Maree co-ordinates the program Reality Risk: Pornography, young people and sexuality which seeks to support young people and the broader community to critique the messages about gender and sex and to promote the understanding of relationships and sexuality that are based on respect, equality, mutuality, communication and consent. Maree is also co producer and co-director of the documentary films, Love and Sex in and Age of Pornography and The Porn Factor, both broadcast on SBS. She is also the author of In the Picture, a resource that supports secondary schools to address the influence of explicit sexual imagery Maree talks about the impact of pornography, and steps we can take to ensure we are raising healthy boys. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/26098653

Genevieve Brammall 02/16/2023

Genevieve Brammall Genevieve is best known in her role as National Head of PR and Talent Relations for News Corp Australia. She has also worked on a number of advisory boards including the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Melbourne Press Club, as well as helping out at local sports clubs her children are involved with. Join us for this authentic and genuine conversation with this amazing mum as she shares her stories about her own life and her learnings along the way. We hope you enjoy this episode. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/25948305

Kim Kane 02/01/2023

Kim Kane Kim Kane is an award-winning Australian author of 25 books for children and teenagers. Kim’s books have been published throughout the world and translated into a number of languages. Before she began writing for children, Kim practised commercial law for a decade. Kim is an advocate for children’s writing and sits on the board of the Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation. Kim’s books include the CBCA short-listed picture book Family Forest, and her time-slip children's novel When the Lyrebird Calls and the Ginger Green series. Kim is a mother of two sons and lives in Melbourne. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/25804599

Sarah Meachem 11/23/2022

Sarah Meachem Dr Sarah Meachem is an academic research scientist and health research advocate in the area of male reproduction. Sarah’s research has a clinical relevance for men’s health in the better management of male infertility and her work is recognised globally. She is the author of over 80 publications and has received awards for her vision for the nation’s health sector. Sarah completed her PhD at Monash University where she studied the hormone control of testis function. She is a Director of the Australian Institute of Policy and Science, a Manager for the co-badged PhD International Research Training Program between Germany and Australia and serves on the Advisory Group to the Board of the Australian Society for Medical Research and is the Chair of the national steering group. In this episode we talk to Sarah about her fascinating work in men’s health. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/25119387

Roshena Campbell 11/16/2022

Roshena Campbell Roshena Campbell is a barrister and Melbourne City Councillor who is passionate about contributing to Melbourne’s re-emergence as a vibrant and thriving city. She has expertise in commercial law and corporate governance and has represented some of Australia’s largest companies and state and local government bodies. Roshena holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from Monash University and a Masters of Laws from the University of Melbourne. She is a mother to three children. We hope you enjoy this episode. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/25043133

Martine Oglethorpe 08/25/2022

Martine Oglethorpe Martine Oglethorpe is a digital wellbeing and online safe educator, speaker and writer. For over 10 years, Martine’s blog, The Modern Parent, has been a trusted resource for parents on the challenges faced by families in the cyber world and has recently authored a new book, The Modern Parent – Raising a Great Kid in the Digital World. Martine has a background in secondary education, holds a Masters degree in Counselling and is a Mental Health Education Consultant at headspace. She is an accredited speaker with the Office of the eSafety Commission of Australia and has presented to parents groups, schools and teachers across Australia. If you have ever wondered if you should let your child watch Squid games, play Fortnite, get Tik Tok, Instagram, or play Call of Duty, then this episode is worth a listen. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/24160623

Daisy Turnbull 08/11/2022

Daisy Turnbull Daisy Turnbull is a teacher, director of wellbeing, counsellor and now inspiring author of two books, 50 Risks to Take With Your Kids – A guide to building resilience and independence in the first 10 years and the follow up 50 Questions to Ask Your Teens – A guide to fostering communication and confidence in young adults. The books are underpinned by research and her own experience as a teacher of teens. Daisy is an accredited Lifeline crisis support counsellor and regularly volunteers on the crisis support line and a mother of two children. We hope you enjoy this episode. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/24022011

Matt and Robyn Cronin 08/04/2022

Matt and Robyn Cronin Matt and Robyn Cronin endured great loss when their son Pat was killed by one coward punch. Since April 2016, Matt and Robyn have dedicated their lives towards research, awareness, and education in ending the coward punch through the Pat Cronin Foundation. The foundation provides free presentations to schools, clubs and community groups, helping young people create solutions to Be Wise, Think Carefully and Act Kindly. Hear Matt and Robyn’s inspirational story, and their fierce determination to honour Pat’s life by bringing about change so we can have a world free from the coward punch. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/23953806

Zac Seidler 07/21/2022

Zac Seidler Dr Zac Seidler, is a clinical psychologist, researcher and leading men’s mental health expert. Zac is the Director of Mental Health Training at Movember and Senior Research Fellow with Orygen at the University of Melbourne, Dr Seidler has dedicated his academic and professional career to men’s mental health and masculinity. His goal is to help reduce the staggering rate of male suicide worldwide. Through his research, Dr Seidler has advocated for a change in the way we think about treating men’s distress, with a focus on creating mental health services that account for masculinity. This has evolved into a fully funded project, Men in Mind, the world’s first training program for mental health clinicians to help them better understand and respond to men’s distress and suicidality. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/23811296

Jacquie Hey 06/16/2022

Jacquie Hey Jacqueline Hey is the Chair of the Board of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and is also serving on the Board of Qantas Airways, is a School Council member at Brighton Grammar School and a member of Chief Executive Women. Between 1987 and 2010, Jacquie held several executive positions with Ericsson, including Managing Director, in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Middle East. She was the first female Director of Cricket Australia from 2012 to 2020. Jacquie holds a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Economics from the University of Melbourne, a Graduate Certificate of Management from Southern Cross University, and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. We're pleased to welcome Jacquie to the podcast as she talks about her amazing life in business and as a mother. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/23444801

Paul Roos 06/03/2022

Paul Roos In a career spanning 30 years, Paul Roos has been an Australian Rules Football player (Fitzroy, Sydney Swans), Head Coach of the Sydney Swans and Melbourne Football Club, media broadcaster and men’s wellness advocate. In 2005, he guided the Sydney Swans to the AFL Premiership, breaking a 72-year drought, and was inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame. He was named All-Australian seven times and, in his prime, was rated the best footballer in Australia. In 2018, Paul founded the Roos Men’s Wellness and Leadership Club. He is currently the founder and director of Performance by Design, which builds high-performing cultures by helping role model leaders bring team behaviours to life. In this episode, we talk to Paul, who is the father of two sons, about his career and his learnings from it. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/23313713

Jennifer Keyte 05/12/2022

Jennifer Keyte Join us for our latest podcast with Jennifer Keyte an accomplished journalist and broadcaster who we all recognise as the news anchor on Network Ten’s, Ten Eyewitness News. Jennifer is one of Melbourne’s most trust and respected presenters with decades of experience. She brings sophistication and glamour to our screens delivering news on politics, crime, justice, general Australian and worldwide news demonstrating an illustrious career. Jennifer commenced her career in radio quickly establishing herself as a journalist where she moved to television first joining Network 10. She has worked alongside some iconic journalist across all three commercial television networks. In 1990 she became the first female solo primetime news anchor on Australian commercial television. In 2009, Jennifer was proud to receive the Walkley Award for Television News Reporting on behalf of the Seven News Melbourne team, for their coverage of the Black Saturday bushfires and in 2010, a TV Week Logie Award for Most Outstanding News Coverage for the Victorian Bushfires. Jennifer has two sons, James and Alexander and is an avid theatre enthusiast. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/23084642

Dennis Barbour 03/17/2022

Dennis Barbour Dennis Barbour is the President/CEO of Partnership for Male Youth, Washington, DC which was formed to fill a gap in the health care system for adolescent and young male adults. Dennis attended Georgetown University and Washington College of Law, where he graduated with a JD. He has decades of experience in the non-profit health field, as a CEO and adviser to national and international organisations, and more recently his work has focused on disease co-morbidities and how they relate to the need for interdisciplinary medical collaboration. Join us for our latest podcast where we talk with Dennis Barbour, a man dedicated to working with adolescents and young adult males to optimise their health and ensure that they thrive. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/22475162

Jon Muir 03/10/2022

Jon Muir Jon Muir OAM a recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to mountaineering, a Centenary Medal and the Australian Geographic Society’s Adventurer of the year. He started climbing full-time as a teenager and since then, he has gained ground-breaking solo records in climbing the south side of Mount Everest and navigating the Kedarnarth Peaks as well as walking to the South and North Poles without huskies or mechanical vehicles. In 2000 Jon paddled a kayak for 52 days along the east coast of Cape York Peninsula, living off the natural environment. In Jon’s fourth attempt in 2001, he and his dog Seraphine began a journey from Port Augusta in South Australia to Burketown on the Queensland North Coast, dragging a cart, taking 128 days on foot and covering 2500 kilometres, reaching Burketown. Jon is also the first person to complete a solo and unsupported walk across the Australian continent. In addition to achieving all this and more Jon and his wife Suzan are living in the forest surrounded by the Grampians National Park and living a sustainable life. We’ve tried to capture his enormous life in this episode, which we know you’ll enjoy. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/22399190

Margie Danchin 12/02/2021

Margie Danchin Dr Margie Danchin talks to us about balancing work life as a parent, raising healthy boys and about vaccination, health and impact of the global pandemic. Associate Professor Danchin, is an immunisation expert and Clinician Scientist at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute at The University of Melbourne and consultant paediatrician at The Royal Children’s Hospital. She's also a mum of four and says that striking a balance between career and family life is a challenge but possible. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/21349991

Alex Rathgeber 11/19/2021

Alex Rathgeber Alex is an Award-Winning actor known for his work in Anything Goes, The Wizard of Oz and The Phantom of the Opera. Alex graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and established an amazing reputation across many disciplines. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/21215897

Emma Murray 09/09/2021

Emma Murray Emma Murray is one of Australia’s leading mindfulness practitioners and high-performance mind coaches. As a former national-level athlete and with a Bachelor of Communications, majoring in Psych, Emma has always been passionate about the mind and performance. Emma works with elite athletes, corporate executives, students, and actors. In this episode she talks about being a mum and the challenges she has faced, and what we can gain by thinking about how we think about who we are. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/20414729

Hunter Johnson 09/02/2021

Hunter Johnson Hunter Johnson is co-founder and CEO of The Man Cave, a charity that focuses on and teaches emotional intelligence to young men (boys aged 12-16) across Australia. He also leads STUFF™, a men's personal care brand that champions healthy masculinity. With a background in emotional intelligence, facilitation and social entrepreneurship, Hunter has worked with thousands of young people across Australia and his work has led to speaking engagements at the United Nations. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/20347127

Kylie King 07/15/2021

Kylie King Dr Kylie King is Senior Research Fellow at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University. She is a psychologist with her main focus in suicide prevention research (male focus). Her work centres around developing, implementing and evaluating interventions that can have positive impacts on men’s mental health. In this episode Dr King talks about her family life, work and research and some of the factors leading to the prevalence of suicide (particularly in males). /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/19816163

James Tomkins 06/17/2021

James Tomkins James Tomkins OAM, is one of Australia’s most established and decorated rowers, having competed in 6 Olympic Games and countless World Championships and Rowing Cups. In 1997 James received an Order of Australia and was named Victorian Father of the Year by the Father’s Day Council of Victoria in 2008 and 2010. He's a father to three daughters whose passions include promoting the benefits that a positive and healthy lifestyle brings. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/19506098

Matt Englar-Carlson 06/03/2021

Matt Englar-Carlson Dr Matt Englar-Carlson’s is a professor of counselling and the Director of the Center for Boys and Men at California State University, Fullerton and co-developer of the of Positive Psychology Positive Masculinities model. In this episode he talks about what led him to his work, how he understands men and masculinity, about the profound impact his dad had on him and how in turn he is trying to be a great dad for his kids. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/19336751

Daniel Petre 05/13/2021

Daniel Petre Father of three, Daniel Petre, talks about his book ‘Father Time’, an Australian classic. About being a dad and about being mindful as parents, on how to attain balance in a working life, especially as someone who had great success in the corporate world as well philanthropy. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/19087631

Monty Badami 04/22/2021

Monty Badami Dr Monty Badami looks through an anthropological lens to explore how we can help boys find their place in the world and offers some useful tips that you can use at home. In this episode Monty offers some useful tips that can be used immediately to provide safe spaces to unpack the prejudices and ideas we have set within ourselves. He shares a beautiful story about his own experiences that led him to the work that he does. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/18816521

Robert Blum 03/25/2021

Robert Blum Dr Robert Blum (MD, MPH, PhD) is currently managing a global research project looking at the impact of gender and gender norms in society and in this episode talks about the impacts on boys (and girls) while telling some incredible stories from his lifelong experience working with adolescents and paediatric medicine. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/18460019

Megan De Beyer 2 03/03/2021

Megan De Beyer 2 We’re joined by psychologist and international parenting expert, Megan De Beyer. Based in Cape Town, Megan travels the globe promoting positive parenting through workshops in which she guides mothers and helps them navigate the challenges of teenage years. Megan’s mission is to educate parents to help foster connected and meaningful relationships with their children. Megan talks about her new book, the role of nature in a post-pandemic world, and some tips about managing your son’s anger. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/18181883

Arne Rubinstein 02/17/2021

Arne Rubinstein Dr Arne Rubinstein is an internationally recognised expert in Rites of Passage, adolescent development and parenting. With over 30 years’ experience as a medical doctor, counsellor, mentor, speaker and facilitator, he has helped over 100,000 people globally with his program to support young people in making a safe and healthy transition into adulthood. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/17991518

Jacqui True 02/04/2021

Jacqui True Dr Jacqui True is Professor of International Relations at Monash University where she is Director of the Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre. She is a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, an Editor of European Journal of International Security, and a former Australian Research Council Future Fellow. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/17812799

Stephen Day 12/17/2020

Stephen Day Major General Stephen Day, DSC, AM, is a decorated soldier with a reputation as a distinguished and compassionate leader. His leadership in East Timor earned him the Distinguished Service Cross, however, General Day says that it is the failures that have most shaped his leadership philosophy. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/17230340

Will Pucovski 12/02/2020

Will Pucovski In this episode we are joined by Will Pucovski, a professional cricketer playing at State level and having been selected to the Australian squad. Will chats to Ray about his professional life, his work as a cricketer and what it has taught him. Will also shares four key questions that he wished he knew as a young man. /episode/index/show/understandingboys/id/17042129

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