NORMLESS

A long history, coming from a tough path Salahdin Trowell dramatically turned his life around. Shifting his focus from the streets to pursue his bodybuilding dream. Two weeks after his release from prison in 2017 Salahdin won his WNBF Pro Card, before taking 6th place at the Monster Mash, and then achieved 4th at the World Championships. After injuring his spine in 2021 Salahdin was wheel chair bound and lost everything before retu...

Luke Lewis and Jeremy Latimore are former professional rugby league footballers with over 500 games of experience between them at the top level. The pair who partnered in the forwards during their stints with the Cronulla Sharks have now joined forces on a new initiative called Fitness Mates Australia.

In this episode we discussed the careers of these NRL superstars and their new app set to take the fitness industry by storm. NORMLE...

Aidan Muir is a dietitian who works with a variety of clients, ranging from elite athletes through to gen pop clientele looking to improve their health and wellbeing. He manages a privately owned business called Ideal Nutrition which has a team of 9 Dietitians. Aidan joined the podcast for the performance series to discuss nutritional principles and strategies to elevate your performance and wellbeing.

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Hedley Thomas, The Australian's national chief correspondent, is an investigative journalist, author and true-crime podcaster. Hedley has won eight Walkley Awards including two Gold Walkleys. For his reporting through 2022, he received the Graham Perkin Award as Australia's journalist of the Year.

His first job in newspapers was a copyboy on the Gold Coast Bulletin in 1984. Hedley worked as a journalist covering tumultuous news even...

Born and bred in Melbourne, Patrick found a love of running through a charitable lens which then spread to all aspects of his life. He currently holds a marathon PB of 2:31 with ambitions to go faster. Outside of running Patrick is co-owner and Brand Manager of Melbourne based but internationally recognised running speciality store Up There Athletics. Patrick has a background in visual communication and design, harbouring an obsess...

Oceanpaddler founder Dean Gardiner is regarded by his peers as the best Australian downwind paddler of our time, his reputation founded on countless victories internationally at the world-renowned Molokai Challenge, at the ICF World Cup, world regattas and countless races in Australia.

A nine-time Molokai World Champion, Dean’s first Molokai was in 1989, and since then he has raced almost every one of the 53 km Hawaiian enduros.  Th...

Dean Summers grew up in the working-class suburb of Palmyra close to the port and beaches of Fremantle, Western Australia. As a kid, he, his two brothers, and sister swam competitively in the Fremantle Swimming club. He claims to have spent more time at the beach than at school.

At 16 Dean joined the merchant navy (which he refers to as the family business) and sailed out of Fremantle on his first ship, the MV Boogalla. The main foc...

Dane Pymble and Aadil Abbas are co-founders of Own Financial Planning, a goals based financial planning firm focused on helping time poor professionals and business owners gain clarity and confidence with their money.

Dane entered the world of finance in his early 20’s with no formal education, rather pouring his energy into reading every investment book he could get his hands on including those written by Warren Buffett.

An early ca...

Growing up on the block, Jeffrey Morgan grew up with a mother with an alcohol addiction and abusive father forcing him to run away from home at the age of 12.

Sleeping on one mattress between 13 other indigenous children and Adolescents, amongst syringes, bottles, living off MacDonald 3 times a day with no role models to support his development.

Despite early success in the junior ranks for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Jeff found hims...

One of Manly’s favourite sons, Matt ‘Ox’ Orford. Grew up on the Central Coast of NSW a humble young man. Short in stature, but true grit and tenacity to achieve his dream of becoming a professional rugby league footballer.

After 11 games with the Northern Eagles in 2000, Ox was signed to join Craig Bellamy’s Melbourne Storm in 2001 amongst the likes of Billy Slater and Cameron Smith Orford won player of the year in 2004 before linki...

After 15 years as Head Physiotherapist for the Manly Sea Eagles from 2003-2018,  Andre Rickenbach was in charge of managing the top 30 players with injury diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation for return to training and match play. This included the development of tailored prehab and rehab programmes.

Andre is a wealth of knowledge. In his time with the club he had the opportunity to develop strong relationships with the top sport...

Hailing from Sydney Australia, Dominic Di Tommaso is part of the elite team farang group of freerunners that also includes Jason Paul and Pasha Petkuns. Dom or ‘Dom tomato’ as he’s known, started freerunning back in 2007 following a background in ballet and figure skating and a full time job as a garbage man.

From collecting bins to free running (aka parkour) Dominic has since become undoubtedly the world’s most high profile parkour...

Since Gaj Ravichandra was a child, he has been fascinated by those who achieve greatness. He discovered through experience that mindset more than background or circumstance was one of the biggest determinants of personal and professional fulfilment for many people.

Armed with that insight, Gaj wanted to understand how he could empower others to reach their highest potential, so he chose to pursue Psychology. In doing so, he learnt t...

Growing up in Western Sydney Russell Manser was committed by the Children's Court Magistrate to the adult Long Bay Jail, despite having just turned 17 years old. A career criminal stealing cars by the age of 14, and a notorious Sydney bank robber throughout the 90's. Russell robbed 5 banks, including a $90,000 hit on Lane Cove's Commonwealth Bank Sydney. At this time he would have been able to purchase a home in Mount Druitt for $2...

Helping prisoners crack the code of reading, speech pathologist Rosalie Martin has developed a unique approach to literacy. For three years, Rosie has visited Tasmania’s Risdon Prison as a volunteer to deliver Just Sentences, a pilot project that is achieving astounding results. With specialist knowledge in the acquisition of language, and in the processing and production of speech sounds, Rosie is able to uncover hidden literacy p...

Welcome to the new series Normless Performance! In the first episode we are joined by returning guest Drew Harrisberg and Sam Scott. Drew shared his story of diagnosis with type 1 diabetes in episode 22 of the podcast, you can listen to it here.

Sam is an exercise physiologist with clinical and applied research experience in the field of obesity, diabetes, and continuous glucose monitoring technology. His academic work has been prim...

As the founder of Tasmanian based organisation SPEAK UP! Stay ChatTY, Mitch’s journey to raise awareness of suicide prevention and reduce the stigma around mental health began after his younger brother Ty took his own life in 2013. 

Mitch, the 2017 Tasmanian Young Australian of the Year and National R U OK? Day Ambassador has had a remarkable journey transitioning from an everyday tradie into a well-respected and purpose-driven publ...

Simon Rosenbaum is Scientia Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney. Simon’s research focuses on physical activity and mental illness with a focus on populations exposed to trauma. Simon has published >250 peer-reviewed publications and co-edited a textbook on exercise and mental illness. He is the President of the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress S...

After trialling magic mushrooms in Thailand for the first time at the age of 20, Andrew Hamilton was hooked. For many years Andrew had a monopoly on the sale of magic mushrooms across Sydney, selling the drug in capsule form was a hit amongst festival and partygoers.

Slowly becoming overweight, with an increasing addiction for cocaine and gambling. Andrew was arrested on Friday the 4th of June in 2021 for the commercial supply of ps...