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What a Stranger Told MePassionate Soundy Protects Ears Like Gold - Another stranger chatIn Episode 15 of What a Stranger Told Me, Jon meets Chris, a passionate sound engineer and tour manager for the ARIA-winning Indigenous duo Electric Fields, grabbing a quick chat in Glenelg before his dad's birthday dinner. This storytelling podcast uncovers honest moments from everyday lives. Fresh from headlining NAIDOC Week at Fed Square in Melbourne—sharing the stage with Isaiah Firebrace and The Violet Summers—Chris lights up talking about being a passionate sound engineer. He fell into the craft at 18, starting on church drums, and now lives for the moment the mix clicks. “You feel i...
2025-11-1411 min
What a Stranger Told MeSleep Coach Searches For Peace & Quiet - Another Stranger StoryIn Episode 13 of the What a Stranger Told Me podcast, Jon meets Anna—a sleep coach on a working holiday, helping CEOs, trauma-affected kids, and exhausted parents learn to sleep well again. This storytelling podcast uncovers honest moments from everyday lives. Escaping Sydney’s “head down, butt up” grind, she’s house-sitting in a client’s off-grid palace, surrounded by silence and stars. “Here, I I can breathe.” Anna’s mission is simple but urgent: sleep well to fix health, mood, and focus. She coaches high-performers for months—some on 10 meds, two hours a night, fearing heart attacks. One woman g...
2025-11-0712 min
What a Stranger Told MeA Frustrated Magician On Holidays - Real Stories From Real StrangersToday we catch up with a Sydney magician on day two of a two-week holiday—and he's feeling a little punchy. As always, the What Stranger Told Me podcast uncovers honest moments from everyday lives. Twenty years making kids gasp with colouring books and vanishing silks, he’s traded the stage for Cable Beach sun. “Just chilling,” he says. No tricks, no reveals - just a break from the grind. He’s self-taught, family-focused, and quick to bristle at secret-spillers. “People want wonder, not how-to.” A recent flop sent him back to the drawing board, but he covered it smo...
2025-10-3008 min
What a Stranger Told MeYoung Butcher Chooses The Simple (Slightly Hectic) Life - Another Stranger StoryToday you'll meet Rhys in Episode 10 of What a Stranger Told Me - a 20-year-old qualified butcher who’s already lived a lifetime in boots and blades. This storytelling podcast uncovers honest moments from everyday lives. Apprenticed at 16, he’s sharpened knives that shave hair, run bandsaws through hands, and tomorrow he’ll dress a cow from paddock to plate. “I love the whole side of it,” he says. Old-school butchers in their 40s and 50s took him under their wing—cruisy, no bullshit, just craft.Raised on AC/DC, Metallica, and Green Day, he traded city clubs for rod...
2025-10-2906 min
What a Stranger Told MeInside a Huge, Loving Country Family - Real Stories from StrangersLet's meet Emma—one of six siblings from a sprawling beef cattle clan, now bridging country roots with coastal life. The What a Stranger Told Me podcast uncovers honest moments from everyday lives. Growing up, family stretched beyond blood: a tight-knit rural community where everyone leaned in. “We relied on each other.” With 18 cousins and a matriarch nan at the centre, gatherings were loud, constant, essential.When nan passed, an auntie took the reins—now yearly reunions rotate from Tassie to Condobolin, keeping the bond alive. “We’re so lucky.” Emma spends hours each week on the phone, n...
2025-10-2907 min
What a Stranger Told MeTwo Cowgirls Cling To Their Country Roots - Real Stories From StrangersIn Episode 9 of What a Stranger Told Me, Jon pulls up a chair with Lucy and Eliza—two young women whose cowgirl roots run deep, even in the suburbs. This storytelling podcast uncovers honest moments from everyday lives. Raised on cattle properties across Queensland and New South Wales, they grew up mustering, riding, and breathing wide-open spaces. “It’s not the hat,” they say. “It’s in your blood.” Now one’s heading to boarding school in Toowoomba, surrounded by country girls just like her. The other’s studying animal care, dreaming of a future in equine vet nurs...
2025-10-2907 min
What a Stranger Told MeTough Guy Retires Wealthy at 36 - Another Story from a Real StrangerIt's time to meet a tattooed tough guy who retired wealthy at 36 after turning a tiny disability care business into a burgoning empire. This storytelling podcast captures raw stories from everyday people. From housing trust violence—drug-addict parents, 11 schools, out of high school by year nine—he dodged jail and chose hustle. With ADHD as fuel, he bought the landlord’s building over coffee, stacked debt, and hit NDIS gold. Now 50 clients live like kings: Thai chefs, 20+ staff, full-time care.Neighbours see ink and no 9-to-5, whisper “drug dealer.” He shrugs: “I retired at 36—judge that.” Eight near-dea...
2025-10-2911 min
What a Stranger Told Me(Part 2) Fear Mastered in a Haitian Tunnel - Real Stories from StrangersIn Episode 7 (Part 2) of What a Stranger Told Me, Jon's chat with the humanitarian filmmaker plunges deeper into fear, trauma, and triumph. This storytelling podcast captures raw stories from everyday people. Six years after crawling through a 50-metre tunnel in Haiti’s earthquake rubble—sawing rebar beside a dead body, headlamp smashed, guided only by camera flashes—PTSD hit him mid-run in the Solomon Islands. Streams of tears, flash images of death. “I realised I needed to back off.”He’d chased fear on purpose: machete crowds in PNG, child soldiers in Uganda, cholera zones. Each crisis a shield agai...
2025-10-2916 min
What a Stranger Told Me(Part 1) Machete Escape in PNG Chaos - Real Stories from StrangersIn Episode 7 (Part 1) of What a Stranger Told Me, Jon meets a former humanitarian filmmaker who's dodged so many 'bullets' that he's now enjoying a well-earned sea change. This storytelling podcast captures raw stories from everyday people. Once a San Francisco commercial photographer, heartbreak launched him into the world’s toughest corners—earthquakes in Haiti, child soldiers in Uganda, cholera in PNG. He freelanced for NGOs, filming crises to spark donations and volunteers.One standout: transforming a destitute Vietnamese village into a tourist hub. A weeping elder gave him a ring; a year later, the same...
2025-10-2912 min
What a Stranger Told MeA homeless granddad prepares for a family day out - Another real story from a strangerIn Episode 6 of What a Stranger Told Me, Tim meets Paul, an excavator operator who lives in his car, and has a warm heart and a ready smile, as he prepares for a day out with his granddaughter and Bluey! This storytelling podcast captures raw stories from everyday people. Living in his Holden Astra for years, Paul follows the work—from Debra to Port Macquarie—cooking on park benches, showering at Southbank, and charging his phone over a Starbucks coffee. He dreads the lonely nights curled on a mattress in the back, but daylight brings relief: walking amon...
2025-10-2908 min
What a Stranger Told MeA Lolly Lover’s Sweet Transformation - Real Stories from StrangersToday, meet Jackie, a mum transformed by weight loss surgery (40KG lighter!) and her newfound joy in mixed lollies. Ready for some stranger stories? Personal stories of love, resilience & daring unfold in this loveable podcast, as story-collectors Tim Reid & Jon Coghill wander the streets of Australia, microphone in hand, chatting to strangers. It's conversations... with everyday people. In Episode 5 of What a Stranger Told Me, Jon meets Jackie, a vibrant mum on a lolly mission, for a sunny Southbank chat that bursts with joy and renewal. This storytelling podcast ca...
2025-10-2908 min
What a Stranger Told MeA Young Waiter Battles Anxiety - Real Stories from StrangersNext, meet Alec, a 25-year-old on a bold rebuild from the depths of anxiety, for a riverside chat that radiates courage and hope. Ready for some stranger stories? Personal stories of love, resilience & daring unfold in this loveable podcast, as story-collectors Tim Reid & Jon Coghill wander the streets of Australia, microphone in hand, chatting to strangers. It's conversations... with everyday people. In Episode 4 of What a Stranger Told Me, Tim meets Alec, a 25-year-old on a bold rebuild, for a riverside chat that radiates courage and hope. This storytelling pod...
2025-10-2916 min
Dark Dialogue Podcast NetworkDark Dialogue - Shadow Chat Sessions: Mutual Munchies & Other Mayhem: Pandas, Portals, and the Kentucky Meat ShowerWelcome back to Shadow Chat Sessions, the show that digs into the bizarre, the unbelievable, and the downright stupid hiding in the shadows of the internet and history books alike.
This episode brings an all-you-can-eat buffet of chaos, starting with the story that had the zoo world buzzing — “Man Bitten by Panda at Zoo, Bites Panda Back in Rare Case of Mutual Munchies.” From there, we dive headfirst into one of rock’s strangest rumors in “Paul Is Dead”, crawl through the Paris Catacombs’ rumored portal to hell, and scroll into stupidity with The Selfie Burglar – Ashley Keast, Dennis Ha...
2025-10-2839 min
What a Stranger Told MePerimenopausal Mum Runs Away From Home - Real Stories from StrangersNext, a perimenopausal mum of three teenage boys who's escaped for mental health walks with girlfriends, feeling like an “alien in a house of men.” Ready for some stranger stories? Personal stories of love, resilience & daring unfold in this loveable podcast, as story-collectors Tim Reid & Jon Coghill wander the streets of Australia, microphone in hand, chatting to strangers. It's conversations... with everyday people. In Episode 3 of What a Stranger Told Me, Tim meets a vibrant mother of three teenage boys for a candid street-side chat that sparkles with resilience and empowerment. This storytelling podca...
2025-10-2709 min
What a Stranger Told MeDad finds hope in his daughter’s autism journey - Real Stories from StrangersNext, Ben, a devoted Dad, reveals his favorite times of the day – solitary mornings and joyful times with daughters aged five and two (plus a son in Heaven). Ready for some stranger stories? Personal stories of love, resilience & daring unfold in this loveable podcast, as story-collectors Tim Reid & Jon Coghill wander the streets of Australia, microphone in hand, chatting to strangers. It's conversations... with everyday people. In Episode 2 of What a Stranger Told Me, Jon meets Ben, a devoted father of two young girls, for a heartfelt street-side chat that radiates resilience and ho...
2025-10-2708 min
What a Stranger Told MeA Gothic Artist’s Tale of Honouring Life & Death - Real Stranger StoriesA young, Gothic artist on holiday honours life through dead animals, loves drawing and family. Ready for some stranger stories? Personal stories of love, resilience & daring unfold in this loveable podcast, as story-collectors Tim Reid & Jon Coghill wander the streets of Australia, microphone in hand, chatting to strangers. It's conversations... with everyday people. In this inaugural episode of the What a Stranger Told Me podcast, Tim heads of to seek some stranger stories, and strikes up a conversation with Ashton, a young Gothic-punk artist radiating individuality, right there on the street. This storytelling p...
2025-10-2710 min
The Rich Somers ReportPrivate Jet Podcast : How to Get Rich | Mikey Taylor, Karlton Dennis, Jack McColl E410Most people dream about flying private. The wealthy use it to buy back time.In this episode, Rich hops on a jet with friends and investors to talk about the real mindset and money habits that create financial freedom. From strategic risk-taking to surrounding yourself with winners, this unscripted conversation dives into how the rich actually think—and why their approach to time, focus, and energy is what separates them from everyone else.They cover:How to get rich by mastering leverage, not luckWhy networking on the right plane matters more than grinding in th...
2025-10-141h 24
What a Stranger Told MeWhat a Stranger Told Me [Trailer]Storytelling meets human connection in this loveable Australian podcast. Hosts Jon Coghill (Powderfinger) and Tim Reid (award-winning podcaster) travel around chatting with strangers of all ages & backgrounds - uncovering their raw, unique, and often very personal stories. Take a break from your everyday, and dive into lives of people you’d never otherwise meet. It's conversations ... with everyday people. ======= 🌎 Find out more at https://WhataStrangerToldMe.com ======= ☎️ Got a story you'd love to share (it might appear on an upcoming episode) - Call +61 489 272 286 (you've got a whopping 10...
2025-10-0101 min
Let's Get Digital with Carrie CharlesComplex Problems, Simple Solutions: The Wireless Industry with Dennis McColl of PracticalRFIn this episode of 5G Talent Talk, Carrie Charles speaks with Dennis McColl, founder of PracticalRF. Dennis shares his career journey, starting with his early fascination with wireless technology and his three-decade tenure at Verizon, where he transitioned from hands-on market-level roles to corporate policy development. He discusses his leap into entrepreneurship, driven by a desire to solve complex industry problems on his terms.Dennis outlines critical challenges in the wireless industry, including inefficiencies in operational expenses and contractor management, and highlights his commitment to finding cost-effective solutions. He emphasizes the need for stronger training programs for...
2025-01-0827 min
The Charlotte Ledger PodcastLeadership lessons from Hugh McCollHugh McColl Jr. is a Charlotte household name. As the former chairman and CEO of Bank of America, McColl was a major player in consolidating the banking industry in the 1980s and 1990s that has transformed Charlotte into the financial hub it is today. He was also apart of the group of influential Charlotte leaders that pushed to improve the arts and revitalize uptown.On September 17, 2024, McColl, 89, was interviewed in front of an audience at Queens University of Charlotte at an event called “Legacy of Leadership: A Conversation with Hugh McColl.” The Charlotte Ledger received permission from Quee...
2024-09-2732 min
Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership260: The Blueprint for Building Exceptional Nonprofit Teams (Will Sparks)260: The Blueprint for Building Exceptional Nonprofit Teams (Will Sparks)SUMMARYHow can you harness the power of organizational culture to drive optimal performance in your nonprofit? In episode 260 of Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership, Dr. Will Sparks, an expert in leadership and organizational culture, delves deep into the dynamics of culture, leadership, and team performance. Drawing from his extensive research and experience, Will unpacks the nuances of leadership influence and the role of executive tenure in shaping organizational culture. He explores the...
2024-05-0245 min
The Rich Somers ReportTravel Hacking Debunked & How to Convert Points into Epic Trips | Eli Facenda E149Rich sits down with Eli Facenda – Entrepreneur and Founder of Freedom Travel Systems, which helps other entrepreneurs maximize luxury travel points to unlock bucket list travel experiences. Eli has visited 42 countries in the last 5 years and is able to leverage credit card points to get on average around $100k of luxury travel per year.Rich and Eli start off by discussing being connected through Jack McColl, travel hacking, millennials as sharers, utilizing credit cards effectively, Eli’s craziest trip that he’s paid for using only points, first class international flights, AmEx’s travel platform & revenue pricing models...
2024-02-1550 min
Paradigm Shifts PodcastManage Your Leadership Shadow.. So It Doesn't Manage You with Dr. Will SparksHow do great leaders actualize their highest potential? Self-awareness is foundational for both leadership effectiveness and personal growth. As famed Swiss psychologist Carl Jung once said, “We don’t become enlightened by pretending to be perfect. Instead, we step into our brightest light and highest potential when we dare to face our shadow in the darkness.” In this episode, Dr. William Sparks, walks us through his leadership assessment tool and framework for better understanding our dominant motive needs. He’ll also walk us through some ways to manage our leadership shadows so they don’t manage us. Tune in to the very...
2022-11-2946 min
Misty 101Dennis Waterman, star of Minder, has diedDennis Waterman, star of Minder, has diedMan died after eating pizza ordered through DeliverooMorrisons returns with fresh McColl's offer as endgame loomsEgypt says several troops killed defending water pumping station east of Suez CanalNuclear war fear as Putin's space chief boasts Russia could wipe out NATO in 30 minutes'I was so weak I could barely wash my hair but 3 different doctors failed to realise I was seriously ill'
2022-05-0824 min
The Change ArtistS1E5 Self-Actualized Leadership with Dr. Will SparksIn a world where we are continually encouraged to play to our strengths, and terms like "limitations" and "problems" can be taboo, how do we think holistically about our behaviors and tendencies to drive better outcomes for ourselves, our teams, and our organizations? This week on the Change Artist, Dr. Will Sparks, the Dennis Thompson Chair & Professor of Leadership at the McColl School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte, shares his findings on self-actualized leadership and organizational effectiveness from years of research and 1:1 work with senior leaders and their teams from a variety of industries and functions.
2022-03-1424 min
The Webb Chatham ReportThe Webb Chatham ReportTopics: Day 406, Vaccines, Chatham County’s 250th anniversary, Pittsboro’s water and the Guardian article, Playset builders getting COVID, spring walks, taxes, buying concert tickets, mom, Jane, work, Apple ATT, doing podcast interviews, more taxes, sociopaths in the workplace, gardening, dirt, composting, getting shit in the ground, more dirt, overwintered pepper failure, writing GMHHAY, plex additions: License to Drive, Soul, The Astronaut’s Wife, Major League, Howard the Duck, Light of Day, Camille Claudel, Vinyl: Lost Horizons, Anna B Savage, Lost Horizons, Insides, Shellac, Cathode, Mogwai, Disco Jazz, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Discogs sales: Sebadoh, LL Cool J, Green...
2021-04-161h 04
The Scott Gibson Show71. "Don't Look in the Soup Pot"Episode 71 of The Scott Gibson Show...Live from The Death Bunker...wash your hands after listening to this show!The 51st Episode since the LOCKDOWN, another week of the pandemic but at least the end is close...or is it? This episode we talk about Scottish mad man and soup God, Dennis Neilson. I finally get round to watching the show Des and chat a little about his shenanigans. There's obviously some chat about the state of the world and the talk of a European passport for the vaccine, plus on a sad note we have two pretty poor...
2021-03-031h 03
Filmmaking Conversations Podcast with Damien SwabyEp 77: Former Film Professor, UNC Charlotte - JEFF JACKSONJEFF JACKSON is a novelist, playwright, visual artist, and songwriter. His second novel Destroy All Monsters was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in Fall 2018. It received advanced praise from Don DeLillo, Janet Fitch, Dana Spiotta, Ben Marcus, and Dennis Cooper. His novella Novi Sad was published as a limited edition art book and selected for “Best of 2016” lists in Vice, Lit Reactor, and Entropy. His first novel Mira Corpora, published in 2013, was a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and featured on numerous "Best of the Year" lists, including Slate, Salon, The New Statesman, and Flavorwire. His short fict...
2020-08-2651 minYour Path to Nonprofit Leadership14: Finding Your Nonprofit Leadership Shadow (Will Sparks)014: Finding Your Nonprofit Leadership Shadow (Will Sparks)SUMMARYWhat is your leadership shadow, and why should you worry about it? That’s exactly what Dr. Will Sparks and I discuss on this episode of The Path. He’s spent 20 years researching the characteristics of great leaders, and also the “shadow” side of their leadership styles which often hold them back in ways they’re not even aware. Will and I explore the practical aspects of his studies, and how nonprofit leaders can amplify their positive qualities but – more importantly – identify specific ways to identify...
2020-01-0953 min
ROCK MUSIC MEMORIESRock Music Memories 14...On my final show of 2016 i played music in tribute to the women in Rock...
I remembered Dennis Wilson (Beach Boys), Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) & Kirsty McColl...
2016-12-202h 00
Popcasting emisiones anterioresPopcasting085charles brown · please come home for christmas :: gene marshall · evelyn christmas :: burt bacharach · the bell that couldn’t ring :: dennis wilson · morning christmas :: the kinks · father christmas :: pet shop boys · it doesn’t always snow at christmas :: gaylads · we three kings :: heavy blinkers · chaplin’s xmas :: the sweet inspirations · every day will be like a holiday :: gorki’s zygotic mynci · christmas eve :: the pogues ft kirsty mccoll · a fairy tale of new york :: the waitresses · christmas wrapping
2015-05-0851 min
JAM On It PodcastOnaquest – Live at Slinky 14 – 06.29.13 – JAM On It PodcastThis JAM On It podcast features the live set from Onaquest who played from 8am-10am at our 14th anniversary Slinky Family Gathering on June 28-30, 2013. We’ll be posting all of the live mixes from that weekend for your to download, so keep an eye out. Thank you for the support.
Please share it, download it and play it a lot. Enjoy!
TRACK LISTING:
Audiojack – No Equal Sides : 20:20 Vision
Smash TV – Noise & Girls (German Brigante Remix) : Get Physical
Tam Cooper – Galactica (Jimpster rmx) : Simple Records
Maceo Plex – Galactic Cinema : ...
2013-08-131h 57
JAM On It PodcastOnaquest – Live at Slinky 14 – 06.29.13 – JAM On It PodcastThis JAM On It podcast features the live set from Onaquest who played from 8am-10am at our 14th anniversary Slinky Family Gathering on June 28-30, 2013. We’ll be posting all of the live mixes from that weekend for your to download, so keep an eye out. Thank you for the support.
Please share it, download it and play it a lot. Enjoy!
TRACK LISTING:
Audiojack – No Equal Sides : 20:20 Vision
Smash TV – Noise & Girls (German Brigante Remix) : Get Physical
Tam Cooper – Galactica (Jimpster rmx) : Simple Records
Maceo Plex – Galactic Cinema : ...
2013-08-131h 57JAM On It PodcastZack Hill – Live at Slinky 14 – 06.29.13 – JAM On It PodcastThis JAM On It podcast features the live set from VinylTribe’s Zack Hill who played from 2:30am-4:30am at our 14th anniversary Slinky Family Gathering on June 28-30, 2013. We’ll be posting all of the live mixes from that weekend for your to download, so keep an eye out. Thank you for the support.
Please share it, download it and play it a lot. Enjoy!
TRACK LISTING:
Vadim Svoboda – Supercharged (Part 1) – Makesense
Markus Homm & Philipp Gonzales – Cubic Sounds – Kiara Records
Florian Meindi – Flashmob – Flash
Hot Natured feat. Anabel Englund – Reverse Skydiving (Shadow Child Remix) – FFRR
Jam...
2013-08-131h 39JAM On It PodcastZack Hill – Live at Slinky 14 – 06.29.13 – JAM On It PodcastThis JAM On It podcast features the live set from VinylTribe’s Zack Hill who played from 2:30am-4:30am at our 14th anniversary Slinky Family Gathering on June 28-30, 2013. We’ll be posting all of the live mixes from that weekend for your to download, so keep an eye out. Thank you for the support.
Please share it, download it and play it a lot. Enjoy!
TRACK LISTING:
Vadim Svoboda – Supercharged (Part 1) – Makesense
Markus Homm & Philipp Gonzales – Cubic Sounds – Kiara Records
Florian Meindi – Flashmob – Flash
Hot Natured feat. Anabel Englund – Reverse Skydiving (Shadow Child Remix) – FFRR
Jam...
2013-08-131h 39