Playlist by Pure Grit - with Paula McGrath
Sooshi Mango
People think the Sooshi Mango boys have come out of nowhere but they’ve been doing comedy since they were school kids. Their talent, hard work and persistence has paid off and they’re now one of Australia’s funniest and most-loved comedy acts. The trio's rise in Australian comedy has been nothing s…
Kylie Moore-Gilbert – Part 2
This is one of the most personal and candid episodes of Pure Grit yet. Kylie Moore-Gilbert is a scholar from Cambridge University and she was a lecturer for Middle Eastern Studies, history and politics at Melbourne University. Her University sponsored her when she was invited to speak at a conferen…
Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Pat Farmer AM
PAT FARMER AM ULTRAMARATHON RUNNER, EX-MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, CONSULTANT, KEY NOTE SPEAKER, Author Pat Farmer is a multiple world record holder for endurance running. In his 30 year ultra marathon running career , has run from the North Pole to the South Pole taking 10 months 13 days with not one…
Steve Pullen on Pure Grit
Steve Pullen Is a former Australian Ironman Champion. He is now business owner and father. He started his professional career as an athlete at the young age of 17. I grew up seeing him not only in the Uncle Toby's Iron Man series and Nutri Grain Iron Man series but at 23 he was crowned Australian …
Karen Jacobsen AKA Siri
Karen Jacobsen was destined to be on stage as she dreamed of being just like Olivia Newton John as a young girl and she sure did moving to New York and becoming an award winning singer and songwriter. What she didn't expect was to go for an audition to record a text to speech voice system...that …
John Paul Young OAM
John Paul Young OAM is one of the most iconic artist in Australian music history, with over 4 million worldwide record sales, induction into the Aria Hall of Fame and he received an Order of Australia Medal . He co-hosted the most famous music show in Australia's history Countdown with Molly Meldr…
Dan Ewing
Dan Ewing is an Australian Actor a leading man like many other actors that have gone from Home and Away to Hollywood. Following likes of Chris Hemsworth, Heath Ledger, Ryan Kwanten Melissa George and Naomi Watts to name a few. Dan was Heath Braxton, a tattooed River Boy on the popular Australian…
Tanya Young
Tanya Young lives with an invisible disease and invisible pain. She was such a successful business woman with her business The Lash Angel then at the height of her success was struck down so young with what she thought was a sore back but her diagnosis was life changing and disabling. She was diagn…
Jenny Valentish
Jenny Valentish is a very successful journalist and author, a former editor of both Triple J's Jmag and Time Out Melbourne. She currently writes for the ABC, The Age, The Monthly and The Guardian. Jenny has done a lot of research into grit and resilience for her fourth book "Everything Harder Than…