iyarn yarns
Connecting people, yarning through stories. Hosted by Lockie Cooke, founder and CEO of iYARN, this podcast brings together powerful conversations with changemakers, community leaders, researchers, and innovators across Australia and beyond. Each episode explores how culture, technology, and community insight intersect to drive meaningful change — particularly in health, wellbeing, and social innovation. Lockie is a non-Indigenous Australian who has worked in partnership with First Nations organisations for over 20 years. Through these long-standing relationships — and his connection with his cultural;ly adopted Aboriginal family in Ardiyooloon community in the North West of Western Australia — Lockie approaches each yarn with deep respect, cultural humility, and a shared commitment to strengthening self-determination and data sovereignty across Australia. Whether discussing Indigenous data sovereignty, wearable tech in remote communities, mental health, or creative grassroots initiatives, iyarn Yarns invites listeners into grounded and thoughtful conversations about connection, belonging, and purpose.
Episodes
In this special ABC Radio Sydney interview, Lockie Cooke, founder and CEO of iYARN, joins host Craig Reucassel to discuss how wearable technology is transforming healthcare access in remote Aboriginal communities across Australia.
Lockie shares how iYARN’s culturally informed digital platform is empowering researchers and healthcare professionals to collect real-time health data seamlessly — from heart rate and ECG scans to wellbei...
As a reformed rat racer, start-up survivor and private company workaholic, Joris Cuesta is referred to as the Plateau Hacker. With more than 15 years’ experience working within marketing, branding and management teams, Joris knows how to get leaders unstuck in their careers, redefine their edge and re-ignite the fire behind their performance.
Joris is obsessed with helping leaders in organisations overcome...
Tommaso D'Orsogna is an Australian swimmer and Olympic medallist from Perth, WA. He spent 8 years on the Australian swim team, competing at four World Championships, four World Short Course Championships, two Pan Pacific Championships, two Commonwealth Games and an Olympic Games in 2012. He spent nearly five years at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra moulding himself physically and mentally for peak performance. Whilst ...
Nick is the founder of The Push-Up Challenge and is known for his decisive and personable leadership style and his track record of motivating teams, workplaces and communities to deliver results. Building The Push-Up Challenge from its humble origins, Nick has led the event to attract around 50,000 participants and raise $2.5M for mental health in 2019. He has significant experience in organisational strategy, project delivery and...
Troy co-founded Nexba with friend Drew Bilbe in 2011. For Nexba's CEO-Global, his favourite thing is turning creative ideas into sustainable businesses. Troy’s experience as a marketing executive and paralegal inspired his interest in strategic brand management. He oversees everything connected with the strategic global expansion of Nexba.
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Jamie Clough is an inspirational entrepreneur. Onto his second business, in honey! He houses 60 million bees in Western Australia and he has a great vision for his business.
https://www.honeyforlife.com.au/
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Dr. Arne Rubinstein (mbbs, fracgp)
Founder & CEO, The Rites of Passage Institute.
Dr. Arne Rubinstein is an internationally recognised expert on Childhood Development and Rites of Passage. His programs have been attended by over 200,000 people in more than 20 countries around the world and are now a part of over 50 schools around Australia.
Dr Arne is a medical doctor and specialised first in Family Medicine and then spent 15 year...
Lockie chats to Olympian, sports advisor and thought leader Dan Collins about vulnerability and resilience.
From humble beginnings growing up in Blacktown, to competing on the world stage across four Olympic Games, Dan Collins’ ongoing pursuit for excellence is nothing short of convincing.
Since retiring from his Olympic quest for Gold in the sport of Kayaking, taking home both Silver and Bronze medals along with numerous World...
Will Kaye is a good mate and entrepreneurial professional with a demonstrated history of starting and running startup software and communications businesses.
Will Kaye is currently the Managing Director and co-founder of a digital asset management platform ‘HIVO’ and digital consulting agency ‘OKMG’.
With an education in law and commerce Will has an ability to understand, work and negotiate across a variety of industries which has ...
Lockie chats to Liv Gamble, who at 25 was Head of the Sports Department at a school with 1200 students.
Liv has worked at Santa Maria College for six years where she is house coordinator and Head of Sport. Liv teaches Health, PE, Outdoor Ed and PE Studies. She has also been coordinator of Punmu Immersion Tour to remote communities.
Liv originally studied at University of Western Australia (UWA), where she completed a Bachelor of Sc...
Lockie chats to our youngest yarner yet, Christian Zurakowski, all about growing up, leaving school and how to work things out as a Millennial.
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Dr Fong is a registered medical practitioner with over 35 years’ experience in a wide range of leadership roles in the private and public hospital systems.
He is currently Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Bethesda Health Care, Chair of the Western Australian Country Health Service Board, Professor of Healthcare Leadership at Curtin University, and a director of a number of health companies. He is the managing direc...
Jesse Phillips is an Australian sprint canoeist. He is a five-time national champion (2010-2014) in the men's kayak doubles (200 m), and a member of the Bayswater Paddle Sports Club, under his personal coach Ramon Andersson. Phillips has also studied towards a bachelor's degree in media at Murdoch University but deferred due to Olympic qualification and selection commitments.
Phillips qualified for the men's K-2 200 metres at the 2...
Len is a Noongar elder, professor and Australian Research Council chief investigator at the School of Indigenous Studies University of Western Australia.
Len is a Whadjuk/Balardong Noongar, the traditional owners of the Perth region of Western Australia. He has a background in literature and communications. His research includes Noongar interpretive histories and Noongar theoretical and practical research models.
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