It was the poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou who once said ‘there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you’. 

Stories are what help us make sense of the world around us and of ourselves, of great tragedies and fates and fortunes, of buried histories and mysteries, of the untold secrets and human essence of things.

Journalist Corrie Perkin was born with stories in her blood. Her father, Graham Perkin - the famed journalist and editor of The Age newspaper - was a story that unfolded before her larger than life, as she grew up on a diet of breaking news, of ink and print, and the daily happenings of the world at large playing out in fervoured conversations at her kitchen table.

But her father’s tragic death when she was aged just 14, set Corrie’s story on a different arc, and changed her life in ways that today are still unfurling. 

In this conversation we talk about grief, how we each make sense of our lived stories, about Corrie’s decades working as a respected journalist, storyteller and champion of novelists and books, and mostly, about why in an increasingly fractured and distracted world, our words really do matter.

Guest: Corrie Perkin, Journalist, Podcaster and Director of the Sorrento Writers Festival
Sorrento Writers Festival: https://sorrentowritersfestival.com.au/
Book tickets: https://sorrentowritersfestival.com.au/artfuel/program
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sorrentowritersfestival
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sorrento-writers-festival/
Host: Mads Grummet
Producer: Audio Superstar Daryl Missen

Human Cogs is available on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts or via our website where you can also catch great conversations with previousguests :)

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It was the poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou who once said ‘there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you’. 
Stories are what help us make sense of the world around us and of ourselves, of great tragedies and fates and fortunes, of buried histories and mysteries, of the untold secrets and human essence of things.
Journalist Corrie Perkin was born with stories in her blood. Her father, Graham Perkin - the famed journalist and editor of The Age newspaper - was a story that unfolded before her larger than life, as she grew up on a diet of breaking news, of ink and print, and the daily happenings of the world at large playing out in fervoured conversations at her kitchen table.
But her father’s tragic death when she was aged just 14, set Corrie’s story on a different arc, and changed her life in ways that today are still unfurling. 
In this conversation we talk about grief, how we each make sense of our lived stories, about Corrie’s decades working as a respected journalist, storyteller and champion of novelists and books, and mostly, about why in an increasingly fractured and distracted world, our words really do matter.
Guest: Corrie Perkin, Journalist, Podcaster and Director of the Sorrento Writers Festival Sorrento Writers Festival: <a href="https://sorrentowritersfestival.com.au/">https://sorrentowritersfestival.com.au/ </a>Book tickets: <a href="https://sorrentowritersfestival.com.au/artfuel/program">https://sorrentowritersfestival.com.au/artfuel/program </a>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sorrentowritersfestival">https://www.instagram.com/sorrentowritersfestival </a>Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/sorrento-writers-festival/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/sorrento-writers-festival/ </a>Host: <a href="https://www.madeleinegrummet.com/">Mads Grummet </a><a href="https://www.madeleinegrummet.com/"></a>Producer: Audio Superstar <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmissen/">Daryl Missen</a> Human Cogs is available on<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/human-cogs-podcast/id1525840415"> Apple</a>,<a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/human-cogs-podcast#/"> Stitcher</a>,<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1okDf71XeRCI5RnfxhC6OD"> Spotify</a>,<a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub21ueWNvbnRlbnQuY29tL2QvcGxheWxpc3QvNjViYWY0NDctYTQ1ZC00YzE2LTg0ODMtYWJlYzAwNmEwYWM0L2FmZTc0NDMzLTA3N2ItNDA4Zi04NTIwLWFiZWMwMDZhYjJlZC9kMTdhNjM0NS0xM2EyLTQ0NjUtYmU4Zi1hYmVjMDA2ZGI1YjkvcG9kY2FzdC5yc3M?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAYQrrcFahcKEwiowqf95uvqAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAg"> Google Podcasts</a> or via our<a href="https://www.humancogs.com/guests"> website</a> where you can also catch great conversations with previous<a href="https://www.humancogs.com/guests"> guests</a> :)
Got some thoughts on today's episode you'd like to share? Join in the convo on Instagram<a href="https://www.instagram.com/human.cogs/"> @human.cogs </a>We'd love you to share the love! Please follow us or leave a quick review. It helps us get these stories out to more awesome peeps like you! Thanks, as ever, for listening. Go well. Be well. <a href="http://www.humancogs.com">www.humancogs.com</a>

Humans Cogs brings you stories that matter, untold truths and conversations about what's really going on in people's lives.

Hosted by award-winning entrepreneur, ABC journalist and presenter Madeleine Grummet and psychologist and media contributor Sabina Read, each episode features deep conversations with extraordinary guests who share dark secrets, advice on living and loving well and stories that will challenge what you think you know about yourself, and the world around you.

Human Cogs is a point of universal connection for us all, exploring the things that bring us together, and the things that tear us apart.


Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Humans Cogs brings you stories that matter, untold truths and conversations about what's really going on in people's lives. Hosted by award-winning entrepreneur, ABC journalist and presenter <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeleinegrummet">Madeleine Grummet </a>and psychologist and media contributor <a href="https://www.sabinareadpsychology.com.au/">Sabina Read</a>, each episode features deep conversations with <a href="https://www.humancogs.com/guests">extraordinary guests</a> who share dark secrets, advice on living and loving well and stories that will challenge what you think you know about yourself, and the world around you. Human Cogs is a point of universal connection for us all, exploring the things that bring us together, and the things that tear us apart. 
Listen wherever you get your podcasts. www.humancogs.com

Human Cogs Podcast

Humans Cogs brings you stories that matter, hard-won wisdom and raw conversations about what's really going on in people's lives.

Hosted by award-winning entrepreneur, journalist and investor Madeleine Grummet and psychologist and media contributor Sabina Read, each episode features raw conversations with extraordinary guests who lift the lid on their real lives to help you explore what you think you know about yourself, and the changing world around you.

Human Cogs is a point of universal connection for us all, exploring the things that bring us together, and the things that tear us apart.

Humans Cogs brings you stories that matter, hard-won wisdom and raw conversations about what's really going on in people's lives. Hosted by award-winning entrepreneur, journalist and investor <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeleinegrummet">Madeleine Grummet</a> and psychologist and media contributor <a href="https://www.sabinareadpsychology.com.au/">Sabina Read</a>, each episode features raw conversations with <a href="https://www.humancogs.com/guests">extraordinary guests</a> who lift the lid on their real lives to help you explore what you think you know about yourself, and the changing world around you. Human Cogs is a point of universal connection for us all, exploring the things that bring us together, and the things that tear us apart.

Human Cogs

Ep. 85 Corrie Perkin on the Fourth Estate, storytelling and why words do matter.

Annus horribilis is a Latin phrase that means "horrible year". It’s the antithesis of annus mirabiliswhich means "wonderful year".

Of course years don’t exist in those binaries but we all know that some years are better than others: some are defined by greatness, and others we just can’t wait to see the back of.

As this episode goes to air, Mads shares what this past year has been like for her, marred by deep grief and a few mortality jolts that have brought into sharp focus what really matters. 

Mads doesn’t count her experience as unique because this is just ordinary human life, of course, playing out as it ever has with its wonders and horrors in chorus. 

But it is true that for most of us, by the time you’ve clocked up a few decades of living, you’ll likely have had a front row seat to witnessing some people you deeply love die, dement, disappear or divorce.

How you choose to walk through those human hardships is the only choice you will ultimately have because life will continue to throw curveballs, which means you will need to deliberately choose - again and again - where you will focus your energy, who you will spend your precious time with and who you will need to let go.

Sarah Grynberg knows this walk well because she’s had to make some pretty hard personal choices recently to let a few old friends and habits go so she can create more space for serendipity in her life.

This has partly been prompted by what Sarah has learned in her professional life, as an internationally acclaimed mindset coach and speaker, and the host of A Life of Greatness podcast which to date has had millions of downloads.

On her podcast, Sarah interviews some of the world's greatest thought-leaders, sporting legends, famous entertainers and best-selling authors as they explain how they have overcome challenges, conquered self-limiting beliefs and unearthed what it means to achieve greatness in their own lives.

Of course, what a life of greatness looks like is very different for each of us. But as Sarah walks us through her own difficult journey to now, we hope you can all take a little tonic of greatness from this conversation. Enjoy.

Guest: Sarah Grynberg, Host of A Life of Greatness Podcast and internationally acclaimed Mindset Coach and Speaker
Host: Madeleine Hanger (Grummet)
Producer: Audio Superstar Daryl Missen

*****
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Annus horribilis is a Latin phrase that means "horrible year". It’s the antithesis of annus mirabilis<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_mirabilis"> </a>which means "wonderful year".
Of course years don’t exist in those binaries but we all know that some years are better than others: some are defined by greatness, and others we just can’t wait to see the back of.
As this episode goes to air, <a href="https://www.madeleinegrummet.com/">Mads</a> shares what this past year has been like for her, marred by deep grief and a few mortality jolts that have brought into sharp focus what really matters. 
Mads doesn’t count her experience as unique because this is just ordinary human life, of course, playing out as it ever has with its wonders and horrors in chorus. 
But it is true that for most of us, by the time you’ve clocked up a few decades of living, you’ll likely have had a front row seat to witnessing some people you deeply love die, dement, disappear or divorce.
How you choose to walk through those human hardships is the only choice you will ultimately have because life will continue to throw curveballs, which means you will need to deliberately choose - again and again - where you will focus your energy, who you will spend your precious time with and who you will need to let go.
Sarah Grynberg knows this walk well because she’s had to make some pretty hard personal choices recently to let a few old friends and habits go so she can create more space for serendipity in her life.
This has partly been prompted by what Sarah has learned in her professional life, as an internationally acclaimed mindset coach and speaker, and the host of <a href="https://sarahgrynberg.com/">A Life of Greatness</a> podcast which to date has had millions of downloads.
On her podcast, Sarah interviews some of the world's greatest thought-leaders, sporting legends, famous entertainers and best-selling authors as they explain how they have overcome challenges, conquered self-limiting beliefs and unearthed what it means to achieve greatness in their own lives.
Of course, what a life of greatness looks like is very different for each of us. But as Sarah walks us through her own difficult journey to now, we hope you can all take a little tonic of greatness from this conversation. Enjoy.
Guest: Sarah Grynberg, Host of <a href="https://sarahgrynberg.com/">A Life of Greatness</a> Podcast and internationally acclaimed Mindset Coach and Speaker<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/sorrento-writers-festival/"> </a>Host: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeleinegrummet/">Madeleine Hanger (Grummet)</a><a href="https://www.madeleinegrummet.com/"> </a><a href="https://www.madeleinegrummet.com/"></a>Producer: Audio Superstar <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmissen/">Daryl Missen</a> ***** LISTEN NOW 🎧 Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1okDf71XeRCI5RnfxhC6OD">Listen here</a> 🎧 Apple: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/human-cogs-podcast/id1525840415">Listen here</a> Got some thoughts on today's episode you'd like to share? Join in the convo on Instagram<a href="https://www.instagram.com/human.cogs/"> @human.cogs </a>We'd love you to share the love! Please follow us or leave a quick review. It really helps us get these stories out to more awesome peeps like you! Thanks, as ever, for listening. Go well. Be well. ▶️ <a href="http://www.humancogs.com/" data-test-app-aware-link="">www.humancogs.com</a>

Ep 89 Sarah Grynberg on shedding skins, letting old friends go and finding greatness.

Stan Grant is a man of remarkable intellect, profound story and deep faith.

On a late winter's afternoon recently, I meet Stan in a moment when he is on a difficult journey through a kind of lament - deeply contemplating the three big disciplines that have steeled his extraordinary life and work - physics, philosophy and theology. 

Stan says since the Voice to Parliament Referendum he’s been taking time to take stock, that he’s done too much time plucking the wings off butterflies - and that right now he’d rather write beauty into the world.

So he’s been working on a new book that is a meditation on time, on God, on the temporal nature of our being and on the complex state of our modern world.

There is plenty for Stan to sit with and sort through right now. 

As a journalist and correspondent who covered war for 40 years, he's seen the worst of what we can do to each other but he has also seen love endure in the most Godforsaken of places. So he knows first-hand the paradoxical contradictions of what it means to be a human in a world like ours.

Stan believes it's essential we all have something bigger than ourselves to believe in because if the human being is the limit, then we will only see the limits of the human.

And in a world so often consumed by the chaos of modernity, ongoing conflicts and the binaries of identity, Stan Grant is keenly focussed these days on kindling what we share rather than what divides us for, as Franz Kafka said, identity is a cage in search of a bird.

I'd love you to listen to this episode of Human Cogs podcast as we journey with Stan through his rivers and eddies of thought, where philosophy, theology and the mystical realm converge to offer a deeper understanding of Stan Grant the mortal, what might lie beyond this life, and how we humans can all - somehow - someday - find our place in the untold cosmos.

Guest: Stan Grant, Award-winning Journalist, Author, Writer, Poet and Vice Chancellor's Chair of Australian-Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University.
Host: Madeleine Hanger (Grummet)
Producer: Audio Superstar Daryl Missen

*****
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Stan Grant is a man of remarkable intellect, profound story and deep faith. On a late winter's afternoon recently, I meet Stan in a moment when he is on a difficult journey through a kind of lament - deeply contemplating the three big disciplines that have steeled his extraordinary life and work - physics, philosophy and theology. Stan says since the Voice to Parliament Referendum he’s been taking time to take stock, that he’s done too much time plucking the wings off butterflies - and that right now he’d rather write beauty into the world. So he’s been working on a new book that is a meditation on time, on God, on the temporal nature of our being and on the complex state of our modern world. There is plenty for Stan to sit with and sort through right now. As a journalist and correspondent who covered war for 40 years, he's seen the worst of what we can do to each other but he has also seen love endure in the most Godforsaken of places. So he knows first-hand the paradoxical contradictions of what it means to be a human in a world like ours. Stan believes it's essential we all have something bigger than ourselves to believe in because if the human being is the limit, then we will only see the limits of the human. And in a world so often consumed by the chaos of modernity, ongoing conflicts and the binaries of identity, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stan-grant-10b4808a/">Stan Grant</a> is keenly focussed these days on kindling what we share rather than what divides us for, as Franz Kafka said, identity is a cage in search of a bird. I'd love you to listen to this episode of Human Cogs podcast as we journey with Stan through his rivers and eddies of thought, where philosophy, theology and the mystical realm converge to offer a deeper understanding of Stan Grant the mortal, what might lie beyond this life, and how we humans can all - somehow - someday - find our place in the untold cosmos. Guest: Stan Grant, Award-winning Journalist, Author, Writer, Poet and Vice Chancellor's Chair of Australian-Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University.<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/sorrento-writers-festival/"> </a>Host: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeleinegrummet/">Madeleine Hanger (Grummet)</a><a href="https://www.madeleinegrummet.com/"> </a><a href="https://www.madeleinegrummet.com/"></a>Producer: Audio Superstar <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmissen/">Daryl Missen</a> ***** LISTEN NOW 🎧 Spotify: <a href="https://lnkd.in/gUBnf7gb" data-test-app-aware-link="">https://lnkd.in/gUBnf7gb</a> 🎧 Apple: <a href="https://lnkd.in/gfWstDme" data-test-app-aware-link="">https://lnkd.in/gfWstDme</a> Got some thoughts on today's episode you'd like to share? Join in the convo on Instagram<a href="https://www.instagram.com/human.cogs/"> @human.cogs </a>We'd love you to share the love! Please follow us or leave a quick review. It really helps us get these stories out to more awesome peeps like you! Thanks, as ever, for listening. Go well. Be well. ▶️ <a href="http://www.humancogs.com/" data-test-app-aware-link="">www.humancogs.com</a>

Ep 88. Stan Grant on life post-Voice To Parliament, lament and writing beauty into the world.

When you think of a health retreat, I wonder what thoughts and feelings come to mind? Yoga with a monk on a mountain, people healing their deepest wounds around grief, illness or weight issues, or perhaps it’s images of Nicole Kidman in 9 Perfect Strangers as depicted in the book and movie?

I’ve attended countless retreats in Australia and overseas, and every time I have made one or two changes that have catalysed bigger shifts in my life. I believe we need to update our beliefs that retreats are somewhere “broken” people go, and replace them with the idea that retreats provide an environment with all the ideal ingredients that help set us up for tuning into our own innate sense of knowing and wisdom that have the potential to invite us back to a sense of wholeness, rest and repair – emotionally, physically, psychologically and mentally.

In 2023, I spent six life changing days at Aro Hā Health Retreat in the glorious New Zealand mountains near Queenstown. In this episode, we are joined by Aro Hā’s co-founder and glorious human, Damian Chaparro. He shares the philosophy embedded in the program at Aro Hā as well as what a typical week looks like for guests. Damian shares his own younger year experiences of working tirelessly in an IT job with all the financial trappings, and too much alcohol, minus the meaning and fulfillment. And how as a life-long learner he continues to find ways to acknowledge all the parts that show up in him and how he has learned to listen to self and others with curiosity and acceptance.

We discuss the benefits of fasting, movement, nature and stillness, and what gets in the way of creating sustainable behaviour changes that we desire, yet so often sabotage. Damian also reveals some entertaining and heartfelt stories of connecting with his 80 year old mum after they both shared the plant-based psychedelic, ayahuasca (not at Aro Hā by the way!)

If you’re curious about dialling up wellbeing, or are wondering what a health retreat might be like for you, or if your body, mind and soul is looking for a reset, then this conversation is for you. I deeply believe the world would be a better place if we all had the opportunity to experience the magic of Aro Hā.  Here’s my chat with Damian.



Website: Aro Ha
Links: Instagram, Spotify, YouTube, Facebook, 

Hosts: Mads Grummet + Sabina Read
Producer: Audio Superstar Daryl Missen

Human Cogs is available onApple, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts or via our websitewhere you can also catch great conversations with previousguests :)

Got some thoughts on today's episode you'd like to share?
Join in the convo on Instagram @human.cogs

We'd love you to share the love! 
Please follow us or leave a quick review. It helps us get these stories out to more awesome peeps like you!

Thanks, as ever, for listening. Be well.
www.humancogs.com

When you think of a health retreat, I wonder what thoughts and feelings come to mind? Yoga with a monk on a mountain, people healing their deepest wounds around grief, illness or weight issues, or perhaps it’s images of Nicole Kidman in 9 Perfect Strangers as depicted in the book and movie?
I’ve attended countless retreats in Australia and overseas, and every time I have made one or two changes that have catalysed bigger shifts in my life. I believe we need to update our beliefs that retreats are somewhere “broken” people go, and replace them with the idea that retreats provide an environment with all the ideal ingredients that help set us up for tuning into our own innate sense of knowing and wisdom that have the potential to invite us back to a sense of wholeness, rest and repair – emotionally, physically, psychologically and mentally.
In 2023, I spent six life changing days at <a href="https://www.aro-ha.com/">Aro Hā</a><a href="https://www.aro-ha.com/"> Health Retreat</a> in the glorious New Zealand mountains near Queenstown. In this episode, we are joined by Aro Hā’s co-founder and glorious human, Damian Chaparro. He shares the philosophy embedded in the program at Aro Hā as well as what a typical week looks like for guests. Damian shares his own younger year experiences of working tirelessly in an IT job with all the financial trappings, and too much alcohol, minus the meaning and fulfillment. And how as a life-long learner he continues to find ways to acknowledge all the parts that show up in him and how he has learned to listen to self and others with curiosity and acceptance.
We discuss the benefits of fasting, movement, nature and stillness, and what gets in the way of creating sustainable behaviour changes that we desire, yet so often sabotage. Damian also reveals some entertaining and heartfelt stories of connecting with his 80 year old mum after they both shared the plant-based psychedelic, ayahuasca (not at Aro Hā by the way!)
If you’re curious about dialling up wellbeing, or are wondering what a health retreat might be like for you, or if your body, mind and soul is looking for a reset, then this conversation is for you. I deeply believe the world would be a better place if we all had the opportunity to experience the magic of Aro Hā.  Here’s my chat with Damian.
 
Website: <a href="https://www.aro-ha.com/">Aro Ha</a> Links: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/aroharetreats">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/12774158">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/AroHaWellnessRetreatGlenorchy">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/aroharetreats/">Facebook</a>, 
<a href="https://www.catbohannon.com/home/eve"></a>Hosts: <a href="https://www.madeleinegrummet.com/">Mads Grummet + Sabina Read </a>Producer: Audio Superstar <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmissen/">Daryl Missen</a> Human Cogs is available on<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/human-cogs-podcast/id1525840415"> Apple</a>,<a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/human-cogs-podcast#/"> Stitcher</a>,<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1okDf71XeRCI5RnfxhC6OD"> Spotify</a>,<a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub21ueWNvbnRlbnQuY29tL2QvcGxheWxpc3QvNjViYWY0NDctYTQ1ZC00YzE2LTg0ODMtYWJlYzAwNmEwYWM0L2FmZTc0NDMzLTA3N2ItNDA4Zi04NTIwLWFiZWMwMDZhYjJlZC9kMTdhNjM0NS0xM2EyLTQ0NjUtYmU4Zi1hYmVjMDA2ZGI1YjkvcG9kY2FzdC5yc3M?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAYQrrcFahcKEwiowqf95uvqAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAg"> Google Podcasts</a> or via our <a href="https://www.humancogs.com/guests">website</a> where you can also catch great conversations with previous<a href="https://www.humancogs.com/guests"> guests</a> :)
Got some thoughts on today's episode you'd like to share? Join in the convo on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/human.cogs/">@human.cogs </a>We'd love you to share the love! Please follow us or leave a quick review. It helps us get these stories out to more awesome peeps like you! Thanks, as ever, for listening. Be well. <a href="http://www.humancogs.com">www.humancogs.com</a>

Ep. 85 Corrie Perkin on the Fourth Estate, storytelling and why words do matter.

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