Risking Failure

It’s been a while. We know. We are still at it. We still love you. This episode was an interesting one. Is what you want, need, love, strive for, avoid, pursue, resent really just a made up story?

We’re back again for the second week in a row!! Hopefully this doesn’t feel like “Drudgery”… oh, no wait – that’s this weeks topic! Enjoy!

We’re back after a long break. We recorded this topic on “obsession” a while back, but we’ve both been so swamped that it’s embarrassingly even longer between recording and editing/launching. Thanks to all our wonderful Risking Failure listeners! We LOVE YOU!!!!

We talk about how when we get stuck on a problem or stage in life, how challenging it seems to be to see all the options. It’s like we’re blind to most of the outcomes and options available… Dobbo shares some interesting stories and observations about “bridging strategies” and how he’s seen some folks recently […]

Thanks for hanging in there waiting for the next episode! In this topic, we discussed outsourcing and the idea of hiring someone to do the stuff you hate doing if you’ve got the budget to pull it off. Laundry, folding clothes, doing lawns, data entry, taxes etc. If it brings you joy to get rid […]

The end of 2016… Another year over, and thanks for being a part of the project. Not a big year of recording. But that’s what happens when you get married, start new companies and all sorts of other craziness. Enjoy this wrap-up of 2016, reflections on what was, what could have been and should have […]

NOTE: What’s interesting to consider in this episode is that it’s recorded in 2016 when Donald Trump was first elected. NOT in 2020 after election day… What an exhausting election season in the USA… and what an outcome! This week as much as we tried to avoid politics (and we largely kind of did), we […]

This week we took a deep dive into an upcoming FREE event that Dobbo is launching on November 26th in Melbourne called “LIVE MORE”. If you’re not aware, it’s a day full of juicy topics, ideas, strategies and techniques to help you do a serious pattern interruption to your Modus Operandi We promise this isn’t a “pitch” […]

Our discussion this week is based on three recent observations:* People rarely change their mind on something significant (religion, football teams, politics etc.)* Freedom of mind is proportional to how invested you are in an idea.* What if everything you thought you were right about was wrong?

What would happen if you were living in a place where there’s no real need or sense of actual minute-by-minute time? What if you couldn’t tell if it’s 11am or 1pm? If you threw away your watch while living in a deserted location – what might happen? That was our discussion this week.

Do you ever notice how when you go to the dentist, it always seems to come down to “flossing”. And how every dentist, doctor, business advisor, teacher, designer, or leader in some other area of life has their version of “flossing”…Dobbo shares how a recent idea of “flossophy” has developed for him on the home front, […]

In this episode we talk about those demoralizing times when you think you’re doing awesome, great, things are “shaping’ up” and THEN all of a sudden while in the middle of some menial task (such as letting the dog outside), you realize – “Wait a minute… am I REALLY doing as good as I think […]

CONGRATULATION TO DOBBO & BRONAGH!!! – Married!!This week (on the back of an epic 4 weeks of no recording, 100% focused on marriage!), we discussed a very interesting interview hosted on another podcast/radio show from ABC Australia called “Conversations with Richard Feidler”. In a recent episode dated April 7th 2016 called “Remembering Bob Ellis”. In […]

It was bound to happen… A conversation on education… mostly inspired by Dobbo who speaks to students and school groups multiple times a week, and has done so for the past three decades. Hundreds and thousands of kids, thousands of discussions learning from and observing teaching approaches and generally working within the boundaries of the […]

Is it even possible to genuinely focus on more than one thing at a time? We heard someone (unusually high IQ) talking about being able to work on multiple things at one time and be completely engaged in them, which raised the question of whether that’s really even possible. And if we could have this […]

Looking back to 2015 – It’s hard to believe we recorded this given that the “Kondo” method exploded across the world to the point of becoming slightly annoying! But let’s just say we caught on to the craze a lot earlier than when it really hit the tipping point!! Time to think, consider, ponder and […]

In this episode we re-visit our year end conversation about… well “Year End & Year Beginning”. Rather than talk about goals and things we want to achieve, we’ve soaked into some ideas about what kind of themes we’d like to revisit or come back to and explore this year. The idea is that we’re going […]

In this episode, we chatted about a bunch of things that sometimes society considers to be “taboo”. We started in talking about social media and some observations on balancing the life we actually live, and the “online life” that provides feedback on our lived experience in a way that’s not always helpful or even wanted! […]

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!! It’s a wrap folks – 2015 is done and Chrissy & Holiday are here! How was your year? If the thoughts of more goals, achievement, success/failure and peak performance stuff at year end turns you off, then you’ll love this episode coz it really doesn’t have any of that stuff. In this […]

In part 2 of our conversation with Colin Dobson (Dobbo’s Dad), we dig deep into discussions on memories, sentiment and dive into a bit of “new age bullshit” as we test the boundaries of generation to generation!