Vanilla Club Podcast
At Vanilla Club, our idea of 'Simple Wellness' is both timely and timeless. We pride ourselves on a "back to basics" approach to life, love, and wellbeing
Vanilla Club Podcast delves into how everyday people - often those closest to trauma - find ways to heal and improve their mental and physical wellbeing amid stress, complexity, and even desperation.
Unlike mainstream wellness narratives that focus on optimising the lives of high achievers, we aim to share stories of resilience and resourcefulness from the "quiet achiever".
Episodes
18 episodes
18. Nicola Coalter: Aussies as the World's Worst Gamblers and The Psychological Reasons Why
Nicola on LinkedInNicola's DocumentaryPragmatic Practice
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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1:03:49
17. Priscilla Harvey - Living the Questions: Sobriety, Radical Love & Rediscovering Faith
Priscilla Harvey - Living the Questions on SubstackGet that Sweet Tea ready. So sweet you can stand a spoon up in it? Are you grinnin' like a possum eatin' a sweet tater'? Mmmm Hmmm.
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:33:57
16. Jenna Lee: Aboriginal Art, Mixed Heritage, Sea Cucumbers, and Anti-Fascism
Jenna Lee on IGJenna's websiteIn this episode, we explore the intersections of art, identity, and cultural heritage with Larrakia Indigenous arti...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:12:12
15. Bree Bullock: Integrity on the Line - Policing & Public Accountability
In this episode, we welcome Bree Bullock, Managing Associate at Armstrong Legal in Brisbane QLD, to help us understand when poor taste and loose lips can potentially trip into tangible legal consequences.Bree, a criminal law expert with ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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47:48
14. Expat Prep: Exiting Softly, Creating Options Hard
Expat Prep on SubstackGUS: If push came to shove, I was wondering how soon you might be able to take over the lab yourself. You, and an assistant.Gale thinks for a moment.GALE: ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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2:06:21
13. Dr. Hasinika Gamage: Gut Check - The Microbiome as Destiny
Dr. Hasinika Gamage is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Facilitated Advancement of Australia's Bioactives (FAAB) in the School of Natural Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. In this episode, we begin exploring the meta t...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:12:08
12. Sam Chua & Jules Yim Navigate Seapunk Imagination
Seapunk StudiosJoin me your host, Jason S.C. Fung, with guests Jules Yim, and Sam Chua as we explore the future of education, entrepreneurship, and culture through a global + specifically...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:29:06
11. Wendy Mak: AI Through the Lens of a Marketer and Influencer
Wendy Mak on InstagramVeera Brave GirlIn 2025, it's estimated that we see at least 4,000 ads, every single day. And the lines ar...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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53:24
10. Healing Yourself to Heal the World: A Deep Dive with Collapse-Aware Psychologist Gabrielle Feather
Gabrielle Feather - Holding Both on SubstackThis is one of the most intense interviews I’ve done. Surely.Please check out our new
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:15:05
9. The Perils of Convenience: Discussing Resiliency with Doer and Thinker Mike Jones of Resilient Tomorrow
Mike Jones - Resilient Tomorrow on Substack Anarcasper on SubstackVanilla Club on Substa...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:22:49
8. The Honest Sorcerer: The Poly-Crisis & Fragility of Modern Systems
The Honest Sorcerer on SubstackShow your support & buy him a coffee
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:40:14
7. Keith Tonkin - A Pilot's Perspective: Air India 171 and the Hidden Complexity of Air Travel
What really goes on behind the curtains of the wild, wild, world of air travel? In this wide-ranging episode, we're joined by aviation expert Keith Tonkin - former military and commercial pilot, now Managing Director of Aviation Projects. He st...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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51:09
6. Bunny Chow and Other Dispatches: K9 Reaper Takes Us On Virtual Patrol Amidst South African State Collapse
Follow K9 on X: https://x.com/k9_reaperThis was one of the most fun and engaging shows we have done on our lovely, fledgling, Vanilla Club Podcast. K9 Reaper, a volunteer, civil protection officer, neighbourhood watchman, and...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:51:05
5. Dr. Kathryn Robison - The Wide World of Space Policy: All The Things That Can Go Wrong... And Go Right Too
At Vanilla Club, we are all about simplicity. But on Vanilla Club Podcast, we venture out, asking the basic questions of real world experts, taking a desire for simplicity and contrasting it with worlds of complexity. Today we delve into the gr...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:21:32
4. Forrest Rain Oliveros: Masculinity in a World of Toxicity
In this week's episode, we were joined by Forrest Rain Oliveros at the Vanilla Club Plantation in Coorumba, Queensland. Ground Zero for Simple Wellness!The conversation begins directly with the sheer physicality of ballet, and the re...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:53:15
3. Prof. Stuart Khan: Bridging Gaps in Water Management and Sustainability
What does Australia, one of the driest inhabited continents on Earth, teach us about water challenges and solutions? A lot, as it turns out!At Vanilla Club, our motto is "Return to Simple." And there is nothing simpler than water. Episod...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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52:05
2. Alex Noble's "I Fight You Fight": from Tragedy to Heroic Reversal
What happens when tragedy strikes and you're faced with an unthinkable road to recovery?This eagerly anticipated second episode of the Vanilla Club Podcast dives into uncharted emotional territory with a none other than Alex Noble, who a...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:55:13
1. Dr. Alex Wodak - A Fireside Chat with the Mastermind of Harm Reduction: But is it the Simple Approach?
In our inaugural Vanilla Club episode we kick off with a very special guest, Dr. Alex Wodak. In a disarming, matter-of-fact style, he plunges us right into the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980's, pulling no punches about his role in applying civil d...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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2:26:46