I finally made it to the Principal’s office without copping a suspension!

I sat down with Murray Balfe, the man at the helm of Lisarow High School, to find out what life is really like on the other side of the desk. We get into the nitty-gritty of the mobile phone ban, how AI is actually being used in the classroom, and the surprising reason why some of the biggest "dropouts" can end up being the most successful people in the room.

Murray opens up about his own unconventional path to leadership, his secret thing he's massively into outside of school hours, and why he’s about to risk it all by performing a funk routine for charity.

It's a refreshing look at education from a man who believes that a final grade is the least interesting thing about a student.
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In this Quick Fix episode (a shorter bit from a full episode from a couple of years ago!) I'm hitting the pavement with Adam from Ruksak for a proper walk and talk. Adam opens up about his "decade of destruction" where business success came at the cost of a 16.3 cholesterol level and a shock cancer diagnosis. We chat about the reality of being a "health hacker," the struggle of managing fitness while medicated for anxiety, and why he decided to trade the corporate hustle for a year on the road with his family. It is a raw, honest look at what happens when your body finally decides to stop cheating death and demands a change.

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If you enjoyed this Quick Fix and want to hear more, just look up the full episode that has the same number as this one (Ep 83) and you can hear the whole thing!

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Natalie King is a Clinical Psychologist who has spent the last decade specialising exclusively in couples therapy, and she joins me to pull apart why we react the way we do when things get heated.

We explore the "Pursuer-Withdrawal" dynamic (when one person needs to talk it out right now while the other needs to walk away) and how our childhood "stuff" is usually the invisible hand at play. Natalie explains why fighting about the bins is rarely about the bins, why money is such a universal trigger, and the radical power of simply recognising what your partner is doing right.

Stick around for the end where Natalie shares her number one tip for prioritising your relationship as a living, breathing thing that needs constant tending.

You'll walk away with a much better understanding of your partner (and yourself) after this!

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