Max's Island

About Max's Island

We’re told to always be in the present moment … we’re told to set goals and achieve them … we’re told that life’s short and to live every moment as if it where our last. Arrrgh, what does all this mean?? As one great lyricist wrote … “No-ones an island and sometimes it’s good to pretend” When was a time in your life you let yourself be ‘you’ and gave yourself the time to pretend? “Max’s Island” the podcast, exists so you can tell others WHY!

Publisher

Meet Max Power

Category

arts · arts · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Feb 2021

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

134 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   “Where’s the joy in your life?”

   Can you imagine spending 12 to 18 months delivering devastating job news to dedicated employees during a major industry downturn. That was the reality for our guest on this episode … Leonie Murray … who after 25 years in senior HR roles across the globe, found herself burnt out, heartbroken, and completely lacking joy in her work. It wasn't until her own executive coach confronted her with one life-changing question—“Where’s the joy in your life?”—that Leonie realised she had to make a drastic change.

2. 

   9 Sept 2026

   "the estate developed a stigma and that stigma was then extended to the people who live there and it persists"

   Kate takes us through a deeply impactful childhood … painted in three distinct panels. The first is architectural—a childhood spent inside a literal panopticon, a hexagonal state-housing block in 1980s Perth, surrounded by the inward-pressing, incomplete loops of a Radburn-designed suburb. The second is socially influenced—navigating the heavy stigma of a shifting welfare state as the child of a fiercely protective single mother, finding solace not in school, but in brutalist university libraries and piles of classic books. And the third is a rare beacon of agency—the Karawara 'Fun Factory,' a Danish-inspired adventure play-space where kids were handed raw, recycled materials and told to shape their own worlds.

3. 

   26 Aug 2026

   "I was interested in curiosity—curious about curiosity"

   We live in an increasingly complex world. In our post-pandemic reality, many of us have quietly slipped into survival mode—feeling exhausted, insular, and struggling to imagine alternative futures. So how do we break out of this cognitive fatigue? How do we reclaim our agency when our very attention is being systematically shaped by algorithms, devices, and those tiny red notification icons? Kate Rodgers believes the path forward lies in a force we often take for granted: curiosity.

Who has been a guest on Max's Island

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Alex Green
• Gaj
• Anjana
• Michael Ward
• Michael McBride

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 20 / 100

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Quality

41

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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