Over The Back Fence podcast inspires life-changing transformations
The Over The Back Fence (OTBF) podcast, hosted by Sydney friends and next-door neighbours Di Edwards and Nicola Dale launched 18 months ago with a mission to inspire “women of a certain age” to embrace new beginnings.
Among those inspired is listener Leanne Nicol, a former school principal who credits the podcast with sparking her shift into a new career as a certified coach.
“I was feeling unfulfilled in my work when I started listening to OTBF,” says Leanne, who has since become a certified Master Practitioner and founded Fierce Hearts, a flourishing coaching business. “After spending time with Di and Nicola, I signed up for a coaching qualification.”
Nicola and Di
“We’re incredibly proud to see OTBF making such a real difference,” says Nicola. “Knowing that our podcast is helping listeners and guests like Leanne embrace new paths and reach for their best lives—it’s the reason we started this.”
“Stories like Leanne’s show us that we’re building something meaningful,” adds Di. “It’s amazing to see how the connections we’re fostering can ripple out and create positive change.”
This week, Leanne returns as a special guest in a bonus episode of OTBF, sharing the full story of her transformation and the pivotal role the podcast played in helping her launch a career focused on empowering others. In this candid conversation, Leanne discusses her journey from feeling unfulfilled to creating Fierce Hearts, a business dedicated to helping others reach their potential.
Since launching in April 2023, their lineup of guests has included psychic and spiritual guide David the Medium; bestselling author Kathy Lette; Ronni Kahn, founder of the food rescue charity OzHarvest; renowned art dealer Tim Olsen; actress and singer Tottie Goldsmith; comedian and writer Wendy Harmer; hospitality entrepreneur and advisor Chip Conley; motivational speaker and author Lewis Howes; psychotherapist and relationship expert Terri Cole; and self-compassion researcher Dr. Kristen Neff.
Over The Back Fence was also a finalist in the best audio category at Mediaweek’s 2024 Next of the Best awards.
Michael Clarke, Aaron Finch lead big names as ESPN’s Around The Wicket returns
Returning to the crease for another summer of discussion and debate are former Australian cricket captains Michael Clarke, Aaron Finch and Lisa Sthalekar, along with Test and One-Day International Callum Ferguson, ESPN CricInfo Insider Alex Malcolm and host and journalist Neroli Meadows.
Special guests will also join the team throughout the summer, which is headlined by Australia facing India in a historic five-Test series for the Border-Gavaskar trophy.
‘Around The Wicket’ returns to ESPN on Wednesday November 6 at 6pm AEDT.
A first for its kind for ESPN in Australia and New Zealand, the program is a multi-platform extension of ESPN Cricinfo in the Australian and New Zealand markets and super serves cricket fans with absorbing insights and fascinating analysis with some of the biggest names to have played the game.
Around the Wicket’s marquee talent lineup brings big opinions, unique insight and game leading analysis across 14-weekly episodes throughout the summer of cricket.
The team will tackle the current One Day Series between Australia and Pakistan, the race for David Warner’s replacement at the top of the Australian batting order, plus set the stage for the opening Test of the series between Australia and India, which begins November 22 in Perth.
Around The Wicket will be available each week on ESPN, as well as ESPN Australia’s YouTube and as an audio podcast. Returning will also be a bonus digital only ‘PowerPlay’ segment, available across ESPN’s social media accounts.
Rules Don’t Apply: The Battle for Creativity: AI vs. Humanity with Futurist Brian David Johnson
As part of its presence at SXSW Sydney in 2024, The Growth Distillery hosted a series of 10 vodcasts (a podcast with video) hosted by Dan Krigstein and branded Rules Don’t Apply.
Second guest on the series was futurist Brian David Johnson. Krigstein, director of News Corp’s The Growth Distillery & The Growth Intelligence Centre, introduced his guest for the episode:
BDJ, as he is affectionately known, is a man that has made the future his business. From 2009 to 2016, he was the Intel Corporation Futurist in Residence. Currently, he is the professor and futurist in residence at Arizona State University Global Futures Lab and currently the director of ASU’s Threat Casting Lab.
He explained BJD is one busy person: He is prevalent in private practice across a huge range of groups including government, military, corporation, non-profit, and done a whole bunch of stuff with NATO as well. He holds 40 patents, is a best-selling author of both science fiction and non-fiction books including a threat casting textbook. Future You, War Wizards and Robots, and 21st Century Robot. He’s a frequent commentator on the BBC, Bloomberg, PBS, Fox News, the Discovery Channel, and has been featured in the Scientific American, Forbes, Inc., and Popular Science. He has also directed two feature films, is an illustrator and a commissioned painter.
Rules Don’t Apply: Unmasking Reality – Navigating Truth in the Age of AI with Noelle Russell
As part of its presence at SXSW Sydney in 2024, The Growth Distillery hosted a series of 10 vodcasts (a podcast with video) hosted by Dan Krigstein and branded Rules Don’t Apply.
The third guest in the series was Noelle Russell, the chief AI officer at the AI Leadership Institute.
Dan started the interview introducing his guest: Noelle is an award-winning technologist who specialises in helping companies with data, cloud computing, conversational AI, generative AI, and LLMs. She has led teams at NPR, Microsoft, IBM, AWS, Amazon Alexa and is a globally renowned champion for data and AI literacy.
She is the founder of the I Heart AI community teaching responsible AI for everyone. She has been awarded Microsoft’s MVP, Most Valuable Professional.
Noelle is frequently LinkedIn’s top voice in AI as well as LinkedIn’s top voice in executive coaching.
She manages all this as well as having six kids!