Imagine waking up thinking about that all important morning coffee and based on your thoughts alone your coffee machine starts brewing. Or perhaps you start feeling just a little anxious right before a really important work meeting. But your headset responds by quietly adjusting your mood.This isn't science fiction. It's neurochnology. Neurochnologies are devices and systems that directly interact with your brain and your nervous system to measure, to monitor, and sometimes to influence its activity.This te ...

What if one of the best compliments in life anyone could ever give you is that your head looks like your bum. Well, for a lizard found nowhere else but here in Australia, this is the ultimate compliment. Meet the shingle back lizard.This is sock and he is the ultimate of headbum disguise. You see, if a predator was to come behind socks bump, he could turn around and defend himself. Now, these lizards are found in Australian outback under leaf litter and grass.And in my opinion, they're really clever because ...

When I was 8 years old, I pushed a little patch boat into the Pacific Island. The sail was old, the wood was also old, and the salt stung my eyes. Within the safety of the reef, I could hear the waves breaking against the hole.Slow, steady, ancient. And in that stillness, I felt something bigger than me. The ocean was endless.I didn't know it then, but I was starting to learn what my ancestors knew. That courage doesn't come from what you own, but from what you remember. We live in a world that tells us suc ...

Well, isn't it great when you can solve a problem by simply having a good night's sleep? Can you imagine though what it's like when you can never get the clarity that comes from a decent night's sleep? Ever. Never. Ever. Poor sleep steals our focus, our mental health, and our ability to solve problems. Sadly, that's a harsh reality for millions of people that are homeless. My friend Norm's story opened my eyes to this problem. His father had a successful joinery business until he had a stroke and lost it al ...

We open on a hot, steamy shower scene. This person doesn't know it yet, but they're about to have an idea. >> It's funny, isn't it.Showers seem to be the number one place that we all have ideas. Chances are, well, I hope you've had a shower, but chances are someone here today hopped in the shower midshampoo, minding your own business, out of nowhere pops an idea. There's probably been a great deal of excitement today.The thing is, between that initial excitement and the first failed attempt, most ideas don' ...

My brilliant idea began with a very productive evening of binge watching anime on Netflix. So, let me explain. I started a new job recently and I got home and I was watching this TV show called Cells at Work.It's about a red blood cell who has also started a new job to deliver oxygen and nutrients in the body. So, she is struggling to find her way around. She keeps getting lost and attacked by germs and she constantly needs to be rescued by this really cool looking white blood cell.So, as I'm watching this ...

How many of you today have thought about the true value of speaking. You simply have a thought, opinion, or need and within a millisecond it comes out of your mouth for the world to hear. Fast and limitless.Bang. It is out there. Picture seeing your little niece, Gracie, about to touch the stove.No, stop. Well, I don't have the ability to say those words. My only hope is that I can manage to push her over with love.Imagine if you only had a limited number of words you can express per day. And you cannot spe ...

Imagine Italy with no noners, no yey in Greece, piling food on your plate long after you're full, and no Aboriginal elders. Listen to that silence. It's deafening.Now imagine a western world where that kind of matriarch energy energy is missing. Because that's where we are today. When I was 28, I sent my mom a card for her 50th birthday and it said, "Congratulations, you are officially a crone." I'd been studying naturopathy and women's cycles and the lineage of wise women.And to me, crone meant elder, trut ...

I think that the solution to the housing crisis, the loneliness epidemic, and the cost of living crisis is actually at home with mom. No, I'm serious. I I reckon it's at home with mom.Across Australia, people are moving out. They're working longer hours to be able to afford it, and they're feeling really, really lonely. We keep trying to find new ways of living, but I think the best way isn't new at all.I actually think it's quite ancient. My work as a speaker and facilitator involves making good people gre ...

Have you ever experienced that discomfort of uncertainty. I learned it the hard way on this offshore sailing race I did where a massive wave slammed against our yacht and threw me overboard. And as I looked around and saw nothing but open ocean and the yacht sailing away, I felt what the brain does during uncertainty.It's that stress response, the heart pounding, gasping for air, self-criticism, you know, thinking I'm such an idiot for not wearing a life jacket. And the fear, will they be able to find me. W ...