Hear Me Raw with Lisa Messenger

This week on Hear me RAW I have my good friend, Jess Rowe. Jess is an accomplished journalist, television presenter and three-time best selling author. Her credits include co-hosting Studio 10 and The Today Show. She was also the news presenter for Weekend Sunrise, and for a decade Jess co-hosted Network Ten’s First at Five news.

She is a self confessed 'crap housewife', and has gathered a strong and loyal following with her...

Welcome to this weeks episode of Hear me RAW where I have the extraordinarily talented Jess Scully - curator, author and Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney. Jess was the founding director of Vivid Ideas and has curated creative sector events including one of my all time faves – TEDx Sydney. She has also hosted a number of my very own Collective Hub events over the past seven years.

In 2019 she was elected Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of S...

Have you been feeling messy? Discombobulated? Overwhelmed? Adrift? Unsure of what your future holds? Lacking purpose, confidence or abundance? 2020 is big right!! For all of us in different ways and at different stages. Do you want to gain the confidence to fill your highest purpose, be abundant and make an impact?

Well today's guest, Gabby Bernstein is the ultimate spirit junkie and someone who can truly help you unlock some of...

This week on Hear me RAW I have someone who has become a dear friend to me over the past seven or so years. David Bromley. David has become one of the most recognisable and innovative artists in Australia. Over the past 20 years David's work has fostered widespread acclaim and notoriety in Australia and internationally on every continent – despite him never boarding on a plane. This is a deeply personal moving and profound epis...

Rachael Finch is one of Australia’s most popular media personalities, capturing the hearts of the nation with her down-to-earth personality, natural beauty and enthusiasm for life. She is an advocate for leading a healthy and balanced lifestyle, and a bit of a poster girl for a wholesome and holistic life. She is a mum to gorgeous daughter Violet. And a super passionate and accomplished businesswoman with three businesses to her na...

Today, I am thrilled to have Anne Johnstone as my guest. This came about because I was recently a guest speaker at Ravenswood School for Girls where Anne is Principal. I was blown away by everything I experienced on the day and as I am super passionate about the mental health and wellbeing of children and teens, I wanted to find out more and share it with you. Let's face it, this is one of the most relevant and important topics...

Tim Duggan is a new media entrepreneur who has co-founded several digital media ventures, most notably Junkee Media – Australia's leading millennials digital publisher. We’ve been working in parallel for years on our media brands but almost crazily had never really connected. Now, both in our next iterations, we finally have the time and space to connect and reimagine.

Tim has recently launched his first book Cult Status, which ...

This week I’m doing something a little different. I’ve got two of the most fabulous Aussie larrikins I know on together. Why – well that’s how I met them many years ago and as long as I’ve known them they’ve been joined at the hip as a package deal.

Welcome to two of the nicest most humble down to earth (but rather big time actors) going around – Tim Ross (otherwise known as T Ross) and Ben Mingay. Ben Mingay is an actor, musician a...

Hello beautiful humans. I hope you are all doing well and thriving not just surviving. This week on Hear me RAW I have the gorgeous bubbly all round legend that is Lola Berry. Lola and I have known each other for a number of years and truth be told this was the second ep we actually recorded in December 2019… apols – I’ve just been a bit slow off the mark getting this one to you. I absolutely LOVED this interview and am so grateful...

This week on hear me RAW I welcome Michael Crossland. We first met when we shared the stage with Sir Richard Branson in 2019 and his story moved me immeasurably. We’ve since become firm friends. For this episode all I can say is, go grab yourself a big box of tissues before you start. In the next hour Michael will share his remarkably inspiring story of overcoming extreme adversity to achieve incredible outcomes in both his persona...

Jules Sebastian is an in-demand Sydney-based TV presenter, stylist, public speaker and philanthropist and very good friend of yours truly. She leads the lifestyle pack with an impressive & highly engaged following on Instagram & Facebook. She also presents a regular celebrity & successful leading interview series Tea with Jules on YouTube which has 3 million views. And, together with her husband Guy, she founded The Seb...

Jaye Edwards is founder of Edwards and Co. which houses Australia’s most innovative, fashion forward hair stylists, makeup artists and beauty experts in sunlit uber cool industrial warehouses.

Standing aside from rest, Jaye took a different approach by combining savvy and influential freelancers and has cemented his spot at the forefront of the industry.I respect him for taking an age old traditionally bricks and mortar profession a...

This week we’re breaking the mould and shaking it up. I hope by now you’ve listened to the episode I did with Bradley Trevor Greive titled Lessons of a semi indestructible literary action man. In true form, a couple of days after we’d recorded that, he penned an email saying lets do another one where I’ll roll through a bunch of sections and share specific tips, insights and stories of success and failure on becoming an internation...

This weeks episode of Hear me RAW is with one of the people I respect most on the planet – Bradley Trevor Greive or as I fondly call him BTG. Ex-paratrooper, New York Times mega best selling author, stage and TV producer, qualified cosmonaut, Polynesian rock lifting champion, conservationist, renowned wildlife expert, the voice of the seagull on Finding Nemo, you name it, the guy has done it. He has endured 20 major surgeries, six ...

This week my guest is the absolutely unforgettable, infectiously loveable powerhouse that is DJ Tigerlilly or Dara.

She describes herself as an every day Aussie girl - ocean loving, yoga doing, health and wellness enthusiast who is generally found in her activewear. She just also happens to be a super kick arse cool international DJ!Since becoming a DJ she has played to tens of thousands of people all over the world. She absolutely ...

Wendy El-Khoury is the Founder of Wedded Wonderland and Wonderland Media and is a passionate entrepreneur, international educator and keynote speaker in social media and digital strategy. She has personally built an active community of over two million across social media. Known as a creative mastermind, her publication, and agency drive b2b and b2c online activations, dynamic digital strategies, experiential events, and opportunit...

Michael Lane is an Australian entrepreneur and the Director of Success Resources, the world’s largest provider of educational events featuring world-class speakers such as Sir Richard Branson, Tony Robbins and Robert Kiyosaki and yours truly to name a few. Michael is a leader who is passionate about education. He is an expert in the touring business and a master at relationship building. With many of his businesses, he collaborates...

Megan Gale – the model, actress, TV presenter, philanthropist, and now entrepreneur. Warm, caring and vivacious, this woman brings inspiration in spades.

Born and raised in Perth, Australia, Megan began modeling during her final year of high school. In a career now spanning two and a half decades, Megan has modeled extensively in Australia and abroad both on and off the catwalk for a variety of clients, brands and events. After seve...

Can’t believe this is the third of our first release chats! In case you didn’t hear with our first two guests, just a quick note before we jump into this one. I mentioned the perfectly imperfect beginnings of this podcast (and all great projects), so please do bear with us through these first few episodes which were, thanks to COVID19, recorded on Zoom before I was able to go anywhere to buy a microphone! The audio is a little scra...