Our guest today on Moments of Clarity is Ros Ben-Moshe.

Ros is a Laughter, Wellbeing and Positivity author, academic and practitioner. She is Adjunct lecturer at the School of Public Health and Psychology at La Trobe University where she coordinates the Laughter, Resilience and Wellbeing online short course for professionals. Ros is author of The Laughter Effect – How to Build Joy, Resilience and Positivity in Your Life (2023) and “Laughing at cancer – How to Heal with Love, Laughter and Mindfulness”. Often called on for expert opinion in mainstream media, she has also written for publications including The Canberra Times, Huffington Post and Wellbeing magazine.

In today's conversation we discuss Ros's new book "The Laughter Effect" and many of the lessons Ros has learnt about laughter over the years. We hear about Ros' early life, career and the various pathways she took to get to the point she is at today. Ros talks about her cancer diagnosis and first hearing about Laughter Yoga, how we can work to reframe our situations, being grateful and how you do not have to be funny to laugh. It was a fantastic chat and we know you will learn a lot from it.

Thank you so much for listening to Moments of Clarity. Remember to subscribe, review and share episodes with your friends and family. You can also check out our website at www.moc-pod.com.

Links

https://ros-benmoshe.com/

https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/rbenmoshe

https://www.instagram.com/rosbenmoshe/?hl=en

https://au.linkedin.com/in/rosbenmoshemph-454a122a

https://twitter.com/RosBenMoshe

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/lifematters/could-laughter-make-us-happier-and-less-stressed-/102258166

https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/laughter-effect

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/they-say-it-s-the-best-medicine-so-here-s-how-to-bring-more-laughter-into-your-life-20230720-p5dpyl.html

Time Stamps

0:00 - 7:51 Introduction with Matt and Toby

7:52 - 43:34 Part 1 with Ros Ben-Moshe

43:35 - 63:49 Part 2 with Ros Ben-Moshe

63:50 - 65:05 Outro

Thank you to the team at Ex-Zero for our branding and design work and to Christian Prochilo for our music and sound editing.

Today's guest on Moments of Clarity is Arron Wood.

Arron Wood AM is Chief Policy and Impact Officer at The Clean Energy Council - the peak body for the clean energy industry in Australia. He is a former Councillor and former Deputy Lord Mayor for City of Melbourne. He is currently on the South East Water Corporation Board and was Chair of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.

Arron is founder of award-winning education program Kids Teaching Kids where over 140,000 students have participated in the peer education model since 1999. He was 3AW environment reporter for many years. Arron received The Centenary Medal for outstanding contribution to conservation, awarded by the Governor-General and completed a Churchill Fellowship to New York with the United Nations. As a past winner of the United Nations Individual Award for Outstanding Service to the Environment, Arron was also the 2001 Young Australian of the Year (environment). His commitment to the environment was covered on ABC’s Australian Story in a 2004 episode titled "Rising Son". In 2011, Arron published an autobiography titled 'Billabong Boy' which follows his journey from a boy who loved to explore his local billabong in Mildura on the Murray River to an international award-winning speaker, as well as his struggles to keep balanced while being an inspiration to those around him.

Today's episode also marks the beginning of Season 4. Thank you so much for listening to Moments of Clarity. Remember to subscribe, review and share episodes with your friends and family. You can also check out our website at www.moc-pod.com.

Links

http://arronwood.com/

https://au.linkedin.com/in/arronwood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arron_Wood

https://www.instagram.com/arronwood/

https://www.facebook.com/ArronWoodMelbourne/

https://twitter.com/ArronWood

https://www.cleanenergycouncil.org.au/about/our-team

Time Stamps

0:00 - 14:39 Introduction with Matt and Toby

14:40 - 42:13 Part 1 with Arron Wood

42:14 - 77:33 Part 2 with Arron Wood

77:34 - 78:51 Outro

Thank you to the team at Ex-Zero for our branding and design work and to Christian Prochilo for our music and sound editing.

• Social media and it's impact on activism, politics and society.
• Whether social media has democratised power or created a new paradigm of power.
• The difference between amateur and professional activists and how it leads to repression.
• The history of Jair Bolsonaro
• Brazilian politics more broadly

Links

Twitter @A_FleckBrandao https://twitter.com/a_fleckbrandao?lang=en

Interview on Ticker News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQKLzMHaf60

https://www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/about-us/our-people/higher-degree-research-students/alexandre-fleck-soares-brandao

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/anticonstitutional-populism/when-bolsonaro-and-the-judges-go-shopping-how-brazils-legal-elites-opened-the-door-for-bolsonaros-bad-populism/D520A6C9D7582479FE94CDB41E2A003F

Zeynep Tufekci - https://www.nytimes.com/column/zeynep-tufekci

Toby is currently reading "In the shadow of the Sword" By Tom Holland - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12376830

Time Stamps

0:00 - 15:37 Introduction with Matt and Toby

15:38 - 38:57 Part 1 with Alex Fleck

38:58 - 80:14 Part 2 with Alex Fleck

80:15 - 81:29 Outro

Thank you to the team at Ex-Zero for our branding and design work and to Christian Prochilo for our music and sound editing.

Thank you so much for listening to Moments of Clarity. Remember to subscribe, review and share episodes with your friends and family. You can also check out our website at www.moc-pod.com.