Join Australians on their journeys around the world achieving amazing things. These daring dreamers left their families, friends, steel cities and tuna towns to make it in the world's biggest cities. It's a wild ride, stopping everywhere from the Australian outback to the multicultural melting pot of East London, so grab your headphones and celebrate the power of dreams!
'That was my shot': Deborah Riley, Emmy winning Production Designer on Game of Thrones
Deborah Riley grew up as a prodigious child in Brisbane with big dreams and a speech impediment. Learn how Batman changed the course of her life, why she 'didn't fit in'' at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney and how her career went down in flames before she became a set designer on the world's most popular television show. A great listen!
20 Oct 2020
Amelia Lester, NYC Magazine Editor: 'I had a visceral longing'.
Amelia Lester is a Harvard graduate, writer and former editor of The New Yorker and the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend magazine, Learn how a 6th birthday party in India spurred her curiosity about the world, her time with Mark Zuckerberg and The Facebook at Harvard, her stellar career at The New Yorker and other reputed publications and the differences between Australian and American work culture. A great listen!
2 Jul 2020
Damian Garozzo, former Dior Paris make-up artist: ''I knew this was the start of something bigger'
Damian Garozzo was the heir to a wholesale food business in Cairns when he discovered make-up in a Singapore pharmacy. Come with me as I discover how Damian made a magical life out of make-up, encountering celebrities, royalty and an angry French baker on the way. It's an awesome ride, ending with a touching tribute to those less fortunate.
12 Jun 2020
Jack Austin, LA fashion guru: '' I had a lot of people tell me this will never happen''
Jack Austin went from making dresses in Melbourne's suburbia to styling the world's biggest celebrities in LA. Learn how he crazy-ex stalked the hirer of America's number one fashion promotions company to fulfill his creative dreams...and who the nicest celebrity in Hollywood is.
2 Jun 2020
Leah Martin Brown, LA singer: ''I went in blind!''
Leah sold her car, slung her guitar on her back, bid her beautiful Australian beach town goodbye for the bright lights of LA - and hasn't looked back in six years. Get inspired by her hunger for hard rock, altruistic Aussie spirit and insatiable craving to reach the top of the music world.
31 May 2020
Pauline Egan, Supernatural actress: ''I threw my hands up to the higher power''
Pauline Egan grew up on a Queensland dairy farm and ended up being not only on popular US sc i-fi shows but also the toast of the Hollywood Film Festival. Along the way Pauline discovered that the answers to life, the universe and everything might actually lie in a toy car made of coke cans. Grab your headphones and get in on this touching, inspirational interview with the girl from the Queensland bush with a huge heart.
17 May 2020
Tegan Modra, London paramedic: ''Throw yourself into the unknown and you will thrive'"
A year ago, Tegan traded her close-knit coastal town for the stabbings, shootings and wailing sirens of the world's biggest ambulance service. Join me on her life - saving journey hunting for bodies in train tunnels, playing God and learning the true nature of happiness. This one's amazing - grab your headphones!
22 Apr 2020
Josh Pugh, Manhattan web entrepreneur: "Is this what I'm going to be doing tomorrow...and the rest of my life?"
Computer lover Josh Pugh had a lovely life in Adelaide; a business, great friends, supportive family and a cat called Aslan. One day however, Josh packed his bags to chase the American Dream in New York City. Be inspired by his 'just do it' digital company in Midtown and the popular expat website that started with a sandwich. If he can make it there, he'll make it anywhere!
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