Please Blow My Mind

“If you fear the wrong fear then you’re going to end up falling down a hole.” — Lance Burdett Lance Burdett has expertise in responding to emergencies and communicating in challenging situations. Lance specialised in suicide intervention and on predicting violent behaviour as a crisis negotiator for the NZ Police. These skills are relevant and needed now in the panic that surrounds us in the Covid-19 pandemic. In this podcast, Lance offers some insights into ways to capture your fear and put back in the box. It is a podcast about Humanity, hope and building a new world after Covid-19. A few facts about Lance Burdett:

When Glenn was 16 he nearly died on the operating table after rupturing his spleen in a high school rugby match. Glenn was bleeding for close to two hours while waiting for an ambulance. 15 years later Glenn nearly lost his life again trying to rescue a woman caught in a house fire. Those two moments made Glenn realise how much he valued life and gave him an unwavering desire to make a positive difference in others lives every single day.

“Life can crush your spirit and Art is about reminding you that you have one.” — Wade Jackson on Please Blow My Mind Think back to those moments in life when things magically fell into place. Remember that time you told that joke and made everyone in the room fall over laughing or maybe the deep connection that you had when you first met your partner and while looking deep into each other's eyes you opened a portal for potential love. Still with me? How do these moments happen and how can they happen for you? The answer is buried deep within this podcast and within our guest, Wade Jackson as he takes us on his mind-blowing adventure into a world of self-creation, self-discovery and self-expression through improv and play. If you want to play better with others better, do follow Wade and the team at Covert Theatre - 51 Mackelvie Street in Ponsonby, Auckland - NZ’s spiritual home of improvised comedy. COVERT THEATRE www.coverttheatre.com SHOW NOTES 00:20 – Will intro the podcast featuring Wade Jackson 04:

Dr Rachel McInnes has a passion for fake news and pseudo-science, specifically what people believe in and why we fall for clickbait trends. If that’s not interesting enough, here are a couple of facts that most people don’t know about Dr Rachel McInnes: • Lived in a cave in the south of Spain. • Purchased her first home in London. • Once broke a rib playing rugby union FOLLOW RACHEL ONLINE mcinnes.associates SHOW NOTES 7:21 – Why do we need to pre-plan everything in life? 9:22 – Outsourcing the muckiness of Humanity to AI 11:56 – The keyboard warrior in us 13:15 – Monday, Friday, Monday, Friday, DEAD! 16:55 – How to remember anything by using a mind-technique 21:05 – Not sure what to support your child in a rapidly changing digital world 23:34 – How TV and Media Hypnotise us to be full of hopelessness 26:41 – Dr Rachel McInnes talks about hypnosis 29:26 – The trouble with fixing Humanity through Artificial Intelligence 37:26 – Belief and the afterlife 46:42 – Will talks about eating why he only going to ea

"You level up as a Human when despite your differences, you can coexist." — Andy Crowe on Please Blow My Mind Andy quit his dream job, twice! He was also voted 'most likely to be a mute' when he was in School. This is a podcast about daring to live your life in a way that encourages you to actually live. From unpurifying a world asking us to fall into line to having accidental discoveries in life that make it interesting and worth living - enjoy this very long-form deep conversation that happened directly after Will & Andy completed 100 burpees at 6am in the morning. Follow Andy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andymakes_/ Please consider supporting ‘Please Blow My Mind’ by donating $5 bucks per month for a verbal shout out on the podcast or $25 bucks a month to receive EXCLUSIVE Patreon supporter-only content: https://www.patreon.com/pleaseblowmymind Subscribe and watch the video version of ‘Please Blow My Mind’ on my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/PleaseBlowMyMind --- Send in a voice mes

"We're living a constant paradox. Scientifically we're living in a Universe that's full of stuff but is totally empty, it messes with you." — Daniel Habedank on Please Blow My Mind We know our bodies become overweight when we don't watch what we eat and find excuses not to move our bodies around. Ultimately we know where that ends up... nowhere good. Is it possible that just like our bodies become overweight, that our minds can as well? What would Mental Obesity look like and how would you know if you had it? In this episode my guest, Daniel Habedank joins me to ponder just how many of us might be suffering from carrying too much extra 'weight' around in our minds? We also get into a heated debate about what it means to fast our bodies or choose not to eat food when so many people around the world are starving and don't have the choice to eat. Follow Dan via his 'Sense and Zensability' Facebook page where you can find his scribbles and dribbles about his take on LIFE: https://www.facebook.com/DanZenInThe

The following conversation is a mind-blowing true story from a Kiwi Man named, John Maybury.  To give you a bit of background, one day I got a message from John asking if I would like my mind blown? I said, yes. He said, "Great, but I don't want to tell you my story until we are recording on the podcast." John also added that it involved him going to Jail in America with the prospect of a 25 to life sentence.  This is John's full mind-blowing story as told by both John and his life-saving friend, Jennifer.  Follow John on his website:  https://www.johnmaybury.com/ Please consider supporting ‘Please Blow My Mind’ by donating $5 bucks per month for a verbal shout out on the podcast or $25 bucks a month to receive EXCLUSIVE Patreon supporter-only content: https://www.patreon.com/pleaseblowmymind Subscribe and watch the video version of ‘Please Blow My Mind’ on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/PleaseBlowMyMind --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pleaseblowmymind/m

How many people in life think they've made it when they've got the mortgage, the fast car a flash suit and the latest iPhone? Vaughan Winiata had all of those things that society ensures us will make us happy but will all that plus more, found himself sitting at a board meeting with a racing heart full of anxiety googling, how to read a balance sheet?  So what went wrong? Vaughan followed all the rules and as it turned out that is part of the problem. "In terms of balance, it's a really big topic because as far as personal values are concerned my number on personal value is courage." — Vaughan Winiata Follow Vaughan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaughanwiniata/ Please consider supporting ‘Please Blow My Mind’ by donating $5 bucks per month for a verbal shout out on the podcast or $25 bucks a month to receive EXCLUSIVE Patreon supporter-only content: https://www.patreon.com/pleaseblowmymind Subscribe and watch the video version of ‘Please Blow My Mind’ on my YouTube channel: www.youtube.c

Dr. Lehan Stemmet is a scientist and multidisciplinary researcher with a background in biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology, psychology, and neuroscience. Lehan has studied the data and now shares the findings and insights with the focus of supporting everyday people on their own journey to better deal with stress and be more resilient in life. Follow Dr. Lehan Stemmet via his 'Deal With It' project:  http://dealwithit.co.nz/ Please consider supporting ‘Please Blow My Mind’ by donating $5 bucks per month for a verbal shout out on the podcast or $25 bucks a month to receive EXCLUSIVE Patreon supporter-only content: https://www.patreon.com/pleaseblowmymind Subscribe and watch the video version of ‘Please Blow My Mind’ on my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/PleaseBlowMyMind --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pleaseblowmymind/message

Te Omeka Morehu is a real-time experiment of what it means to have your mind blown. He seeks to blow his mind and body in search of a way to live that controls and incentivises the beast within all of us to work with us and not against us. From tinkering with ideas around creating a solid mental and physical mind and body to purposefully destroying those ideas and rebuilding them with new, old and forgotten knowledge. Te Omeka encapsulates the essance of 'Please Blow My Mind' and his voluntary willingness to blowing his mind and taking on the burden that comes with changing your mind - truly inspires me to be brave to create a podcast about going into the unknown, together. Follow Te Omeka on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/teomeka.morehu/ Follow Te Omeka on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/teomeka/ Please consider supporting ‘Please Blow My Mind’ by donating $5 bucks per month for a verbal shout out on the podcast or $25 bucks a month to receive EXCLUSIVE Patreon supporter-only cont

One of the very interesting things about creating a weekly podcast and facilitating long-form conversations is that you start to notice through-lines in Humanity. I've talked to plenty of people who will tell you that there is no God and I've also spoken to an equal amount that will tell you that there is. It seems to me that we are all talking about something, call it faith or spirituality, or belief or nothing - we are all talking about something.  I call it the unknown and I have started to leave a little bit open in my thinking to this unknown. It's weird to say that I leave a little bit to the unknown as most things are actually unknow. You don't know most people in the world, you don't know most things about most stuff but we do know enough to know that we don't know. My good pal, Greg Buckley and I love talking about the mystical and all the intricacies in life and this week I invite him on the podcast to talk about what it's like to have faith in today's world. I invite you to join us in a deep conv

At 6 years old when his parents separated, Hohepa Te Moana aka Heps had no idea how this defining moment would forever affect the rest of his life. Bouncing from house to house and sleeping wherever possible helped him forge an innate ability to create relationships with most he crossed paths with and maintain no judgments as everyone has their story.  Today Heps uses his past to cut a path to a future worth living by creating opportunities for social movements and hosting conversations on his podcast, Best Siiide, that gives you insights, connections and the realisation that it’s ok to be yourself. His guest's stories, anecdotes, philosophies, vulnerability, perspectives, and systems will have you gaining a whole new faith in humanity and ultimately - yourself. Follow Heps on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/hepsfx/ https://www.instagram.com/bestsiiide/ Subscribe to the 'Best Siiide' Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bestsiiide Please consider supporting ‘Please Blow My Mind’ by donating $5 bucks

Why do we do hard things? If you think about it, most of us will move heaven and earth

Guinness World Record holder, Gareth Edwards climbed to the peak of the abyss both mentally and physically when he flipped a tyre with his mate, Tom Moore for 24-hours non-stop. What most people focus on when someone does something mind-blowing like this is how it must feel to reach the pinnacle of excellence and the lessons and learning from pushing yourself to the edge. What everybody forgets to think about is what it’s like coming down off that peak and what awaits you when you get home. In this episode of Please Blow My Mind with Will Fleming, Gareth talks about the hole that was left open after the Guinness World Record attempt as well as some of the feelings he has had to work through to redefine meaning post-peak. This podcast will help you navigate your own feelings of what it means to aim for something really big and what happens when you actually make it and what to do after life returns to normal. Follow Gareth and his amazing journey in life, business and beyond here: https://www.instagram.com/bea

What does it mean to forgive? It really did suprise me when I read the definition, "to cease to feel resentment against". This about that for a second. I really is mind-blowing because the meaning has nothing to do with a person or thing that you are forgiving, it's about you and your ability to let go. So where does all of this fit when it comes to cancel culture, calling people out and time-stamping the online versions of us and locking them in a digital time capsule forever with no path to digital forgiveness. We are going deep in this episode, so please join me in the van for a quick drive and yarn because It's time to GO DEEP! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pleaseblowmymind/message

Dr. Paul Wood is someone who works on getting the little stuff right in life. On the day we recorded the podcast, Paul was trying to solve a huge problem - how to find and replace his family's broken fridge before all the food spoils? Might seem like a small thing but as we talk about in this podcast, it’s the small things in life that all add up to make the big things work. The lesson is, Paul Wood is just like you and me when it comes to day to day life BUT unlike most of us, Paul has stared directly into the darkness of life and on his return now offers his time sharing those lessons and learnings so we can take on those learnings to ultimately live more meaningful, hopeful lives. Dr. Paul Wood opens up and goes deep on the podcast by sharing his experience on living a life of adventure and taking the path of the unknown and trusting that you’ll find your way home even if you get lost along the way. This episode is sponsored by Float Culture: http://floatculture.co.nz/ Get 20% off your next float by using

Are we all being forced to become Dragonslayers? In this edition of GOING DEEPER, I zoom in on a podcast conversation that I had with Jimi Hunt about the learnings he gained around his need to fight for something. Jimi explained to me, after returning from a five-hour psychedelic mushroom adventure that included a fight a giant Anaconda, that the revelation from this experience was to... STOP FIGHTING. Is anyone in our modern world encouraging to stop fighting or is society today selecting for more of us to be dragon slayers?  And has anyone asked what happens when there are no more dragons to fight and what a world with no dragons even looks like? A scary thought is what all the Dragonslayers do in their pursuit of smaller and smaller dragons until finally, they are just swinging a razor-sharp sword through thin air? It's time to GO DEEP! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pleaseblowmymind/message

How is Jimi Hunt and fictional supervillain, Thanos connected? The truth is they have nothing in common but Jimi’s views on death might surprise you considering he’s one of the leading experts on Mental Health in New Zealand today. In this podcast, Jimi takes us on a journey deep within the mind as he shares with us the learnings from his travels to the psychedelic dimension and his fight with a giant anaconda for five hours all in the search for lessons on good mental health. Follow Jimi's on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejimihunt/ Visit Jimi's website: https://www.jimihunt.com/ This episode is sponsored by Float Culture: http://floatculture.co.nz/ Get 20% off your next float by using the promo code ‘MINDBLOWING’ at checkout. Subscribe and watch the video version of ‘Please Blow My Mind’ on my YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/PleaseBlowMyMind

Akerei Maresala-Thomson is a change maker. A survivor of sexual abuse, a former police officer who arrested over 700 people and now a tech entrepreneur who has created an app called MyRivr that connects people who need help with people who offer help all from their smartphone. Akerei has studied the Data and now wants to help empower Pasifika people to connect them with each other in real life and the digital realm to acknowledge their story, capture their data and empower communities to control their own narratives now and in the future. Follow MyRivr here: https://www.facebook.com/MyRivr/ Download MyRivr here: https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/myrivr/id1240771276 This episode is sponsored by Float Culture: http://floatculture.co.nz/ Get 20% off your next float by using the promo code ‘MINDBLOWING’ at checkout. Subscribe and watch the video version of ‘Please Blow My Mind’ on my YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/PleaseBlowMyMind

Joseph Fa’afiu wears many hats: Pastor, Community Leader, Storyteller, Family Man and so much more. One of hats or T-Shirts that Joseph also wears is one for HopeWalk. Joseph founded the grassroots suicide awareness and prevention movement called HopeWalk which leads walks globally in NZ, Australia, USA, Canada and the South Pacific all in the name suicide prevention. This year, in 2019 New Zealand has reached its highest-ever level, with 685 people giving up hope leaving all of us left behind thinking 'what the hell is going on?' and ‘What can I do?’   Will Fleming joins Joseph Fa’afiu on a very early brisk morning of 2019's South Auckland HopeWalk to have coffee, have a hug and a yarn about how something so dark like suicide can bring us together and reveal the light buried deep within each one of us.   Follow Joseph here: https://www.instagram.com/josephfaafiu/ Follow HopeWalk here: https://www.facebook.com/HopeWalkNZ/   This episode is sponsored by Float Culture: http://floatculture.co.nz/