Mel Bampton Presents...How Human
This podcast is all about exploring what it means to be human. What traits, qualities and experiences we share, no matter how different we are and in searching for and celebrating our differences, finding our similarities.
Do you ever find yourself plagued with uncertainty? Paralysed by self-doubt? Are you ever confused about what to do, how to behave, what to say or even what to feel? Being human is weird. It comes with no instruction manual, it’s riddled with contradictions and as we age we seem to get less and more wise, just when we think we’ve figured something out, everything changes, again.
This podcast is that missing handbook - in which we go deeper than just the details of the stories and by looking through different lenses, we find the things that truly make us…human.
My name is Mel Bampton, I’m a presenter, a speaker, an author and a therapist and in this series I’m bringing all those things together to help you agonise a little less by understanding a little more the things that are fundamentals, not flaws, of what it means to be one of this bizarre and curious species.
This is the podcast where you learn to become a little kinder to yourself by first and foremost understanding what you fundamentally are.
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Mel is the CEO of The Prana Project, Author of 'Off The Record', ex triple j presenter Mel in The Morning, creator of triple j's Like A Version and The Producer Series, creator of the acclaimed 21-Day Dissolving Patterns Program and Co-Founder of Living Hormoniously. Mel is an internationally Certified Yoga Therapist, an Educator and Speaker on topics ranging from music to mental health, communication to cognitive conditioning and anything inbetween.
Mel Bampton Presents...How Human
How To Use Grace As A Tool To Overcome Obstacles with Madeleine West
What is the superpower of grace and how can it help us as humans to overcome enormous tragedy?
Madeleine West has seen the best and the worst of the human experience. She is an actor, becoming a household face in the iconic Australian shows Neighbours and Underbelly, a mother of 6, author of the book Six Under Eight and a staunch environmentalist.
In 2002 Madeleine suffered terrible injuries when she was hit by a bus and whilst unconscious she was robbed. In 2022, Madeleine revealed that she was a child sexual abuse survivor and she sought justice against Peter White, her childhood neighbour who had abused her for 5 years. In making public her experience, 6 other victims came forward and Peter White was imprisoned for his crimes.
How does someone learn how to keep getting up after being knocked down? What is in the human mind that enables one person to dust themselves off and rise with grace, and someone else to fall into a pit of darkness?
In this episode Maddy and I talk about serious injuries, child sexual abuse, being in command of your own mind, the discipline of grace and what part of the brain determines us as being human.
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Catch some of Mel's presentations:
The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety