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Tend HER Wild Podcast158. Mary Jane Knight: Rising Free – A Journey for Healing
In today’s episode we speak with singer/songwriter Mary Jane Knight. Her life’s journey involves growing up in the church, with a father who was a pastor. It was in the church that she found her love of music and as a child was encouraged to sing by her grandmother. After getting a formal education in music she performed often in the church setting which began to feel like box. While navigating a divorce, Mary Jane chose to leave formal religion and is now authentically creating music in a way that feels true to her story of heali...2025-05-0241 min
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanHow Meaningful Relationships Fuel Creativity with Regurgitator's Ben ElyLive music, liberation, and the meaning of success - this conversation with Ben Ely is a deep dive into what truly matters. From the raw energy of Livid Festival and Brisbane’s underground music scene to Regurgitator’s intergenerational impact, we explore how creativity, relationships, and personal growth shape a musician’s journey.In this episode, I sit down with Ben for the first time since 2008’s The Great Australian Album Series, reflecting on the changes, challenges, and revelations of the years in between. We talk about gentle sobriety, co-parenting, and the human drive to create music—why it’s m...2025-04-0247 minMel Bampton Presents...How HumanHow To Save The World Through Sex For Men with Ryk GoddardThis is a conversation for men about men, but it is also very much a conversation for all people, no matter how you identify, because we're all in this gigantic exquisite shitshow together. It is about the gap many of us are feeling and starting to acknowledge in this juncture of our attempts at equality and in it, Ryk Goddard offers a fascinating approach to reducing the world's suffering, through, wait for it, sex for men. And don't aim to make any preconceived notions about this conversation, because they will be incorrect. Ryk Goddard has an extraordinary m...2025-03-191h 02Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanHow To Break-Up Well with Nikki ParkinsonIs there any more difficult terrain to navigate as a human being, than heartbreak? That wretched feeling when you know something has to end, it’s crushing, you feel your whole world tilting sideways and you know that things will never be the same – whether that’s because of an event, someone has crossed a line that there’s no going back from or because of the slow corrosion of a relationship dying over time.How good would you say you are at breaking up? What feelings does the very thought of a breakup initiate in your body? Are...2025-02-1936 minMel Bampton Presents...How HumanHow To Shift From Feelings Of Abandonment To Being Stoked on Self-Love with Clay MacDonaldHow does a small child recover from losing their Mum? Not just survive, full of self-destruction and fear, but learn great joy, even gratitude for the darkness that once was your universe?How do you come back from the shame of things you once did as a result of that sense of abandonment, to truly love yourself as an equally precious part of the same 'one big organism'? I first met Clay Macdonald 22 years ago when The Beautiful Girls released their debut album Learn Yourself. Clay was one half of the band’s rhythm section, alo...2025-02-0547 minMel Bampton Presents...How HumanHow To Transform The Death Of A Sibling Into Salvation with Hannah DarlingHannah Darling is abundant in life's extremes. She is poetry in motion and an alchemist turning despair, hardships and challenges into things of great beauty.From shining on the stage in the Australian series The Voice, to loving someone in the chaos of heroin addiction. She has seen the pointy fringes of life's edges first-hand. Hold onto your hearts friends, there’s a bumpy, beautiful ride ahead. Hannah Darling writes incredible songs, full of delicate stories that manage to pound at the door of your heart – and - she has a beautiful voice. Her gift come...2025-01-2244 min
Grace Vineyard Church Podcast12.01.25 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2025-01-1241 minMel Bampton Presents...How HumanHow To Use Grace As A Tool To Overcome Obstacles with Madeleine WestWhat is the superpower of grace and how can it help us as humans to overcome enormous tragedy?Madeleine West has seen the best and the worst of the human experience. She is an actor, becoming a household face in the iconic Australian shows Neighbours and Underbelly, a mother of 6, author of the book Six Under Eight and a staunch environmentalist. In 2002 Madeleine suffered terrible injuries when she was hit by a bus and whilst unconscious she was robbed. In 2022, Madeleine revealed that she was a child sexual abuse survivor and she sought justice against P...2025-01-0846 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast01.12.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-12-0133 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast27.10.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-10-2740 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast20.10.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-10-2041 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast13.10.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-10-1338 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast06.10.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-10-0640 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast29.09.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-09-2938 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast15.09.24 | Plains AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-09-1527 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast08.09.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-09-0837 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast01.09.24 | City PM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-09-0137 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast01.09.24 | Ashburton AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-09-0140 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast25.08.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-08-2536 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast11.08.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-08-1141 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast04.08.24 | Beach AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-08-0436 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast21.07.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-07-2140 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast30.06.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-06-3031 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast16.06.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-06-1633 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast19.05.24 | Pegasus AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-05-1925 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast12.05.24 | City PM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-05-1229 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast28.04.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-04-2827 min
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanHow To Break Free From Criminal Conditioning with Ron IsherwoodAs a mother, a foster carer, a therapist and a fairly compassionate human being, I often watch the world in horror, as judgements are made about others disregarding the path they walked in their childhood. Often we express outrage at child abuse but when the effects of that abuse play out in that child during adolescents and into adulthood, suddenly all compassion dries up – we get convenient amnesia to make way for righteous outrcries – forgetting the horrors that person may have been raised in. For my guest today, the conditioning that was set in motion during their horri...2024-04-171h 04Grace Vineyard Church Podcast31.03.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-03-3134 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast17.03.24 | City PM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-03-1738 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast10.03.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-03-1041 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast25.02.24 | Beach AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-02-2536 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast11.02.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-02-2037 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast21.01.24 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2024-01-2138 min
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanMini Solocast EP: Rethinking ChangeOver the past 15 years, since changing my career, my geography, my habits and my name, I've been on a great quest to learn about what makes us humans tick. On this episode, I go solo to share some of the significant things I've learned about change along the way. What it means to make big life changes - do they really matter?Why change is both so hard, as well as unavoidable.What is the cage that keeps us all trapped in these loops of suffering?And how do we fly free?Jo...2024-01-1714 min
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanHow To Identify Unhelpful Intimate Relationship Patterns with Shane TurnerThis episode takes yet another plot twist, with an indepth and intimate chat between two yoga teachers, together for 13 years, having raised 6 children between them and at times, holding on for dear life.In this episode I invited in my own wingman, Shane Turner, and we put ourselves - and our relationship - under the microscope to reveal our own patterns, the conditioning that we developed through our own parent's relationships and the ones we've developed during our time together. We talk about the good, the icky and the problematic (or should I say pivotal?)....2024-01-031h 13
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanHow To Pacify The Corrosive Narrative of 'I Am Not Enough' with Dr Lauren ToberDr Lauren Tober is a psychologist, a Senior Yoga Teacher and the creator of the Mental Health Aware Yoga Teacher Training. What I love about Lauren’s work is how she integrates evidence based data with that that is beyond the measure of science – the subtlties of the deeper self that yoga interacts with – in a clinical setting. She finds a way to expand beyond the confines of modern psychology through the breadth of yogic knowledge, utilising a vast palette of tools to access the needs of the individual human mind. In this conversation we chat about what pat...2023-12-271h 00
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanHow To Bounce Back From Drug Use with Jack NagleIn this episode, we’re jumping straight into the nitty gritty of an illicit drug with the worst publicity, with a former high level sportsperson who was well on his way to an incredible career as a pro basketballer before meth amphetamines took him over and diminished all other aspects of his world. Jack Nagle is the founder of Real Drug Talk, he’s a recovery advocate and a real voice in the conversation of addiction which has been fraught over the years with approaches that have caused more harm than good, more shame than freedom and stigm...2023-12-0656 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast03.12.23 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2023-12-0331 min
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanHow To Prepare For Inescapable Grief with Mark BayleyThis episode is very different. Not looking so much at the patterns that we're stuck in but instead how big events can change us at our deepest levels.This is a story of one man being taken to his depths through intense loss, of a man who is still very much learning how to swim in the waters of a grief that most days he cannot see the edges of. Yet somehow, with the potential of the human mind, and the enormity of the human spirit, he is doing it. Through the love of his daughter Poppy...2023-11-221h 10Grace Vineyard Church Podcast19.11.23 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2023-11-1932 min
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanWhat Is It About Booze with Jenny ValentishWhat is the correlation between alcohol patterns and extreme sports? What part does self-identity play in trying to kick a harmful booze habit? And when you do go sober and you’re faced with the clarity of your own historical dickhead behaviour, how do you balance the books and feel not just accepting of who you were but good about yourself going forward? In this episode, we are focusing on one of the most culturally accepted and statistically harmful substances of all time – alcohol. A known grade 1 carcinogen, the number one aggravating factor in violent assa...2023-11-1558 min
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanWhat Is A Colonised Mind with Ella Noah-BancroftSometimes patterns present in identifiable habits - small and large. Sometimes patterns are written into the very fabric of our being; they have become a part of the way we view the world without us even realising we are looking through a filter.In this episode we are looking at what has become known as colonised conditioning. A term coined by Native Americans to describe the way European systems function, often in direct contrast to natural systems, how this has impacted our ways of thinking about place and how this colonised way collided with existing Indigenous systems...2023-11-0836 min
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanSex and Sexuality with Jo BrownWelcome to the DISSOLVING PATTERNS series of Lissie Turner Presents... where Lissie takes you deep into the wiring of the human mind, through the unhealthy, unhelpful and harmful patterns that make us suffer. Through common negative patterns around food, alcohol, social media, sex, gaming, money, drugs, politics, religion and more, as well as through the deepest most pervasive patterns around love, ego, desire, disdain and fear, Lissie will take you on a journey through the most subversive threads of the human neural tapestry to find out not only how you tick but more importantly, who you are and how...2023-11-0142 minGrace Vineyard Church Podcast24.09.23 | City AM | Sarah-Jane Peez2023-09-2434 min
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanYael Stone and Joey Kellock Live From Splendour In The GrassRecently at Splendour In The Grass, the Lissie Turner Presents... podcast took to the Forum stage for the season finale, with not one but two phenomenal guests.Take a listen as we dive deeply into unexpected connections that can rock our world, boiled egg throwing, life-changing lasagne, low carbon skills, love that ambushes, action born from eczema born from anxiety, rainbows out of dolphin holes and so much more.Yael Stone is an actor and environmental action-ist - Founder of Hi Neighbour and star in Orange Is The New Black, Blaze, Firebite, One Night, Bay...2023-08-0956 min
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanTelling Your Friends You Love Them with Matt O'BrienMatt O’Brien is a unicorn: a warm loving friendship facilitating creature of magical proportions, with a billowing mane and an equally impressive moustache.In pubs, festivals and venues all around the country, Matt creates ways for people to connect. Deeply. Through fun and clever initiatives he breaks down awkward social barriers and enables complete strangers to become best friends, instantly.Matt is the Brand Marketing Manager at Heaps Normal but it is in his role as the Founder of a sublimely powerful and utterly adorable social enterprise called Tell Your Friends You Love Them wh...2023-07-051h 18