#45 with Justin Lehmann: 'As the Garden grows so does the Gardener'

Justin Lehmann owns a prestigious acting studio in Melbourne, and has been teaching for over two decades, particularly focused on the Meisner Technique. In his own words, the Meisner Technique is about the truth, not the bells and whistles often associated with Hollywood and big screen acting. Actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Sam Rockwell, Christoph Waltz, Diane Keaton, Naomi Watts and Chadwick Boseman are trained in the technique. A student of Bill Esper, Justin Lehmann is as transparent, open and honest as they come, and his instrument is beautifully honed. Within the first ten minutes of this episode, you will hear how Justin has recently become a father, and as a man who grew up with his living down the road but never really coming into contact with him, this has become his most important venture yet.

This is Part I of a two part episode with Justin Lehmann, which will be recorded in due course. Actors, creatives, directors and those who love the arts, this is a gift from an irrepressible teacher, actor and human being.

Check out Justin's studio here: https://www.justinlehmannstudio.com/

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At the end of the day, we are all just a work in progress.

A podcast with two of my former students/sensational human beings.

#44 with Allie & Viv: Youthful wisdom, reflections upon the halcyon days of year 8 homeroom and never talking about ATARs again with two of my incredible ex-students.

Featuring The 90 Second Nugget, The Art of The List, A Note to Self and of course, Weird Fishes.

Weird Fishes from around the 45 min mark.

Album: Gracie Abrams - The Secret Life of Us and Jamie T - Carry on The Grudge
Film: Love, Actually and Paddington II/Trainspotting (lol)
Book: The Midnight Library & Jesus' Son
Local Recommendation: An Bahn Mi (Ivanhoe) and Edenvale Farm

Out Thursday 6AM.

The Ebbs and the Flows is an emotional health movement focused on openness and transparency about the light and the shade of the lives we led and journeys we encounter. The Ebbs and the Flows is not a licensed mental health service and therefore if you are seeking mental health advice, assessment or treatment, you should seek expert advice with a GP, psychologist, psychiatrist or in a crisis, call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

For those struggling, or who know somebody who is, help is available:

@lifelineaustralia 13 11 14

@beyondblueofficial 1300 22 4636

1800-RESPECT (1800 737 732)

@headspace_aus 1800 650 890

@kidshelplineau 1800 55 1800

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1800 184 527

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At the end of the day, we are all just a work in progress.

Oscar O'Shea is a musician from Tasmania who quit his teaching degree to go all in on turning his music from a hobby into a passion. Along the way, he has encountered a struggle with his identity, and come to terms with depression and rather than detach from his pain, he has embraced the notion of learning every corner of the room. Welcome to Episode 43 of The Ebbs and The Flows.

This episode features discussions about Oscar's fledgling music career, his mental health, his love of Tasmania but his desire to travel and play as a solo artist but also as part of big bands. His EP was released in October and he is now on tour. His EP entitled Last Lights & Lost Meaning is a collection of work inspired by the expectations of society that directed O’Shea away from his deep truth. The EP is produced by John Castles after a chance meeting, and what has come out of it is a beautiful expression of twenty-something loss, grief and anxiety in the midst of radical change.

The episode features 'The Art of The List', 'The 90 Second Nugget', 'A Note To Self' and everyone's favourite 'Weird Fishes'. This is the fourth final episode until the hiatus!

Check out Oscar's work here: https://www.abc.net.au/triplejunearthed/artist/oscar-oshea/

Welcome to Episode 43.

At the End of the Day, we're all just a work in progress.

Looooooove, Willie Bee.

The Ebbs and the Flows is an emotional health movement focused on openness and transparency about the light and the shade of the lives we led and journeys we encounter. The Ebbs and the Flows is not a licensed mental health service and therefore if you are seeking mental health advice, assessment or treatment, you should seek expert advice with a GP, psychologist, psychiatrist or in a crisis, call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

For those struggling, or who know somebody who is, help is available:

@lifelineaustralia 13 11 14

@beyondblueofficial 1300 22 4636

1800-RESPECT (1800 737 732)

@headspace_aus 1800 650 890

@kidshelplineau 1800 55 1800

For advice specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people @13yarn 13 92 76

For LGBTQIA+ specific advice @qlife_aus

1800 184 527

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Substack: https://substack.com/@theebbsandtheflows

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At the end of the day, we are all just a work in progress.

Ned Balme is a newsreporter and journalist based in Queensland working for Channel Nine and a few years back was a punter for the University of Central Oklahoma. His story is winding and engrossing and his own struggle with his mental health has left a mark for the father he is his two children and how he reports the news.

Sadly, technical issues mean 'Weird Fishes' was wiped and unsalvagable, however the rest of this episode is a ripper. Covering The Art of the List around Ned's experience playing College Football in the United States of America, to the day his dad pulled a sickie to take a struggling young lad to the movies and a wholesome Father-Son chat, onward to Ned's experience on the ground during Queensland floods and cyclones, as well as for Brisbane's spate of success in the AFL, this was a brilliant chat to have with my cousin. His moving 'Note To Self' is an ode to a young man in a deep struggle with his mental health and direction, and he has so much value and wisdom to impart on young boys and men who may be feeling the same way.

Welcome to the final stanza of Ebbs' episodes (for the time being).

Ned Balme.

The Ebbs and the Flows is an emotional health movement focused on openness and transparency about the light and the shade of the lives we led and journeys we encounter. The Ebbs and the Flows is not a licensed mental health service and therefore if you are seeking mental health advice, assessment or treatment, you should seek expert advice with a GP, psychologist, psychiatrist or in a crisis, call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

For those struggling, or who know somebody who is, help is available:

@lifelineaustralia 13 11 14

@beyondblueofficial 1300 22 4636

1800-RESPECT (1800 737 732)

@headspace_aus 1800 650 890

@kidshelplineau 1800 55 1800

For advice specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people @13yarn 13 92 76

For LGBTQIA+ specific advice @qlife_aus

1800 184 527

The Ebbs and The Flows website: www.theebbsandtheflows.com
Substack: https://substack.com/@theebbsandtheflows

For The Ebbs and The Flows Instagram page head to https://www.instagram.com/theebbsandtheflows/

At the end of the day, we are all just a work in progress.

#40 with Michelle Gerdtz: ‘Reading The Play, building and fostering connection in vital parent/child relationships and a fork in the road leads to a pot of gold.’

Michelle Gerdtz is an administrator and General Manager in the Geelong and Barwon region. She has been the Chairperson at AFL Barwon for the past few years, but has always been invovled in community sport. Her passion for community connection and building relationships has become her career path, as she works as the General Manager at 'Read The Play', an organisation that sets out to build mentally strong communities, particularly with young people in the Geelong and Surf Coast region between the ages 12-18. Michelle is a gregarious, kind and community-minded person who gets her hand dirty for the greater good. This conversation is perfect for a parent with a young child, a person thinking about getting involved with their local club and all those wanting to learn more about the objectives of programs like 'Read The Play.'

This episode features all the segments you love, from The 90 Second Nugget to Weird Fishes, with a wonderfully timed 'A Note To Self' around dealing with rejection and coming to the realisation that the path is never set in stone, and the alternative might become a dream you had never considered.

Check out Read The Play at https://readtheplay.org.au/

For all of Michelle's Weird Fishes responses, check out our Instagram page @theebbsandtheflows

The Ebbs and the Flows is an emotional health movement focused on openness and transparency about the light and the shade of the lives we led and journeys we encounter. The Ebbs and the Flows is not a licensed mental health service and therefore if you are seeking mental health advice, assessment or treatment, you should seek expert advice with a GP, psychologist, psychiatrist or in a crisis, call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

For those struggling, or who know somebody who is, help is available:

@lifelineaustralia 13 11 14

@beyondblueofficial 1300 22 4636

1800-RESPECT (1800 737 732)

@headspace_aus 1800 650 890

@kidshelplineau 1800 55 1800

For advice specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people @13yarn 13 92 76

For LGBTQIA+ specific advice @qlife_aus

1800 184 527

The Ebbs and The Flows website: www.theebbsandtheflows.com
Substack: https://substack.com/@theebbsandtheflows

For The Ebbs and The Flows Instagram page head to https://www.instagram.com/theebbsandtheflows/

At the end of the day, we are all just a work in progress.

#39 Geoff Lemon The self feeding cycle of depression, the intersecting crisi-tunities cricket is facing and how a performing poet came to be a podcaster from a multifaced man with a flavoured milk obsession.

Geoff Lemon is a wildly talented artist, writer, podcaster and poet who not so much fell, but ground his way into a career in cricket writing and journalism. As co-host of the revered podcast 'The Final Word' with Adam Collins, Geoff has turned an obsession with cricket into a career, starting with White Line Wireless, all the way to covering tours as a freelance broadcaster and writer with The Guardian and many other publications. However, as you will learn, Geoff is someone who is diagnosed with clinical depression and his crisp critique and commentary around cricket pushes into many swirling topics such as geopolitics, masculinity and a depth of understanding of the world's ills but also the many wonders he cherishes and explores in his travels, but also back at home.

This episode features all the segments you love, from The Art of The List to Weird Fishes, with a long and engaging conversation about Geoff's career, the self-feeding cycle of depression, the conversation that has stuck with him the most and the intersecting 'crisi-tunities' cricket and the world are facing.

Check out 'The Final Word podcast' at www.finalwordcricket.com

For all of Geoff's Weird Fishes responses, check out our Instagram page @theebbsandtheflows

The Ebbs and the Flows is an emotional health movement focused on openness and transparency about the light and the shade of the lives we led and journeys we encounter. The Ebbs and the Flows is not a licensed mental health service and therefore if you are seeking mental health advice, assessment or treatment, you should seek expert advice with a GP, psychologist, psychiatrist or in a crisis, call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

For those struggling, or who know somebody who is, help is available:

@lifelineaustralia 13 11 14

@beyondblueofficial 1300 22 4636

1800-RESPECT (1800 737 732)

@headspace_aus 1800 650 890

@kidshelplineau 1800 55 1800

For advice specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people @13yarn 13 92 76

For LGBTQIA+ specific advice @qlife_aus

1800 184 527

The Ebbs and The Flows website: www.theebbsandtheflows.com
Substack: https://substack.com/@theebbsandtheflows

For The Ebbs and The Flows Instagram page head to https://www.instagram.com/theebbsandtheflows/

At the end of the day, we are all just a work in progress.

Fergus Linacre. Kingswood founding member. Award winning musician. Writer. Lover. Appreciater of life. Here is in the form you've never heard him before. Candid, considered, hilarious and telling. Fergus is a pretty special guy who has seen and experienced so much. The highest highs, some exceptionally deep lows around loss and grief, however he has a knack in embracing life as it is, and gains great joy from his relationships with his family, his mother, his bandmates and other music lovers. This is one of my all time favourite Ebbs chats. I thoroughly enjoyed recording, editing and putting this together and I really hope you'll come along for the wild ride - maybe accompanied by a neat Tennessee whisky.

A chat I thoroughly enjoyed, and reckon you will too. Check it out on most podcast platforms. Give us a follow, get in touch. All of the stuff.

Weird Fishes: (From about 1:02 mark)
Song/Album: I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty and Ella Fitzgerald sings the Cole Porter Songbook
Film: Stand By Me//Forrest Gump
Book: 'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac
Local Recommendation: Parco Canteen... but also The Gem in Collingwood on a Tuesday night

Check out Kingswood's website here: https://www.kingswoodband.com/

At the end of the day, we're all just a work in progress.

The Ebbs and the Flows is an emotional health movement focused on openness and transparency about the light and the shade of the lives we led and journeys we encounter. The Ebbs and the Flows is not a licensed mental health service and therefore if you are seeking mental health advice, assessment or treatment, you should seek expert advice with a GP, psychologist, psychiatrist or in a crisis, call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

For those struggling, or who know somebody who is, help is available:

@lifelineaustralia 13 11 14

@beyondblueofficial 1300 22 4636

1800-RESPECT (1800 737 732)

@headspace_aus 1800 650 890

@kidshelplineau 1800 55 1800

For advice specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people @13yarn 13 92 76

For LGBTQIA+ specific advice @qlife_aus

1800 184 527

The Ebbs and The Flows website: www.theebbsandtheflows.com
Substack: https://substack.com/@theebbsandtheflows

For The Ebbs and The Flows Instagram page head to https://www.instagram.com/theebbsandtheflows/

At the end of the day, we are all just a work in progress.